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Spec. 100: 1038. Je. 27, ’08. 90w. (Review of v. 4.)
Spec. 101: 171. Ag. 1, ’08. 40w. (Review of v. 5.)
Spec. 101: 638. O. 24, ’08. 60w. (Review of v. 8.)
Stephens, Robert Neilson. Tales from Bohemia. $1.50. Page.
8–26830.
Twenty-five slight stories of Bohemian New York, many of which hark back to the stage. People are presented as clearly outlined wholes, with no attempt at analysis. It is the moving-picture impression which one gets minus the strain upon the optic nerve.
“They derive their interest from their air of truthfulness and from the author’s method of bringing out their psychological and dramatic values.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 672. N. 14, ’08. 200w.
Stephens, Winifred. French novelists of today; biographical, descriptive and critical; with portraits and bibliographies. *$1.50. Lane.
Critical studies of Maurice Barrès, Réné Bazin, Paul Bourget, Pierre de Coulevain, Anatole France, Pierre Loti, Marcel Prevost, and Édouard Bod. The book is intended as a guide for persons who wish to begin a study of French novels.
“A useful guide.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 297. D. ’08.
“The talent displayed in this volume of essays is somewhat disguised by certain minor defects. Miss Stephens’s volume has not been carefully revised in proof.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 68. Jl. 18. 940w.
“Very charming and suggestive little studies they are.” R. T. House.
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Dial. 45: 404. D. 1, ’08. 1800w.
“A handy source of information.”
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Nation. 87: 233. S. 10, ’08. 90w.
“Miss Stephens does not give way to excessive enthusiasm, her judgments are sound, her temper is even.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 274. My. 16, ’08. 1200w.
“Her book will be a safe guide for all who wish to take up a course in modern French fiction, while for those who wish merely to gain a better understanding of the French spirit it will be illuminative and informing.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 344. Je. 13, ’08. 220w.
“All Miss Stephens’s studies are more or less interesting. Her own ideas are not, perhaps wisely, very precisely defined.”
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Spec. 100: 904. Je. 6, ’08. 500w.
Stevens, Albert Clark., ed. Cyclopedia of fraternities. 2d ed., rev. to date. *$4 50. Treat.
7–36716.
“A useful volume describing the aims, emblems, character and personnel of more than six hundred secret societies in the United States, together with charts, plates, maps, and statistics of membership. In addition, it gives the history and genealogy of these interesting organizations, and shows their relations to one another.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“The amount of revision given to the second edition is slight, and most of the descriptive articles have not been brought down to a later date than that of the first edition, issued ten years ago. The section on labor organizations, as might be expected, is valueless. Notwithstanding such defects, it is a useful reference work for all interested in secret societies.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 722. My. ’08. 270w.
Stevens, Isaac N. Liberators: a story of future American politics. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
8–6664.
A story written by a western newspaper man which deals with the period immediately following the next presidential election, and treats of political questions which have an important bearing on the well organized feudal system prevailing in America. Among the principal characters are the son of a railroad magnate; his chum at Harvard, a young man who fights for the correction of governmental evils; a young widow, who devotes her energy and vast wealth to the same cause of assailing the feudal strongholds; and two charming Smith college girls.
“The novel carries a fine, pure atmosphere. It is one of the best exposures of corruption of government by public-service corporations that has appeared, and, being instinct with a lofty patriotic spirit, it is a vital work for the present hour.” B. O. Flower.
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Arena. 39: 716. Je. ’08. 4500w.
“We would urge our readers to get this cheap edition and circulate it freely. It will prove a real factor in hastening the great changes that must come soon if free government is to be the heritage of our people.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 232. Ap. 18, ’08. 150w.
“A political tale, somewhat heavily laden with serious argument but offering attractions to many readers.”
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Outlook. 88: 839. Ap. 11, ’08. 150w.
Stevens, William Chase. Plant anatomy from the standpoint of the development and functions of the tissues, and hand-book of micro-technic. *$2. Blakiston.
7–36113.
“A book which deals with the development and functions of plant tissues. Structure and function are so intermixed, and rightly, that there is no anatomical part of the book as distinct from the physiological.... The topics presented are chiefly those of entry and exit of materials, their movement in the plant body, and the processes of nutrition in the broadest sense.... The final chapters deal with the preparation of sections, use of the microscope, reagents and processes, the microchemistry of plant products (not always reliable), and the detection of adulterations (too short to be really useful).”—Bot. Gaz.
“Stevens is an excellent teacher; and the text and drawings have been prepared in large measure directly from the material under observation. It is to be regretted, however, that no trace of the modern vascular anatomy appears. The topics are presented simply, clearly, and in the main accurately. One unfortunate conception, embodied in chapter headings, and wrought into the text, is that of ‘circulation’ of water and foods in ‘circulatory tissues.’ This idea dies hard, and we are sorry it has a new lease of life in this book.” J. M. C. and C. R. B.
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Bot. Gaz. 46: 306. O. ’08. 550w.
“The arrangement is an excellent one for an elementary book, but it must be added that there is no attempt to rise beyond elementary facts. The general presentation of the subject-matter is marked by clearness and coordination.”
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Nature. 78: 219. Jl. 9, ’08. 380w.
343* Stevenson, Burton Egbert, comp. Poems of American history. *$3. Houghton.
8–33773.
A seven hundred page anthology including all of the most important and interesting poems relating to the history of America from its discovery down to the present day. The poems are grouped under the following heads: The Colonial period; The revolution; The period of growth; The civil war; and The period of expansion.
Stevenson, Burton E. Young train dispatcher. $1.50. Page.
7–24194.
The second volume of Mr. Stevenson’s “Railroad series” in which the hero Allan West ascends the rounds of the ladder from the position of office boy to that of train dispatcher. He doesn’t do it without honest hard work and intelligent alertness. Demonstrations of his quick wit are made in averting collisions, treating with his enemies, and dealing with midnight marauders. It is the kind of book that a courageous lad would call splendid.
Stevenson, William Barrow. Crusaders in the East: a brief history of the wars of Islam with the Latins in Syria during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. *$2.25. Putnam.
8–9075.
From the Eastern point of view, from the standpoint of victory, this history with due stress on chronology tells of the political relations between the states which the crusaders built up and the Moslem states. The author “draws attention to the disastrous schism between the Byzantine empire and the rest of Christendom which was one of the consequences of the Crusades, and he shows clearly, if only by implication, the eternal, though unrecognized, influence of sea power upon history.” (Spec.)
“The value of this short history ... consists first in the fact that the author has treated it from the unusual point of view, discarding the conventional scheme; and secondly in the minute attention which he has bestowed upon the difficult problems of chronology.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 69. Jl. 18. 600w.
“Mr. Stevenson has given himself no small trouble to verify all dates by both accounts, Christian and Moslem; the result is of value, but the discussion is apt to be arid. He has carried through a difficult task with great judgment; his notes, as already said, are a mine of information.” G. Le Strange.
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Eng. Hist. R. 23: 346. Ap. ’08. 450w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 92. F. 15, ’08. 130w.
“A real addition to the history of the crusades.”
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Sat. R. 106: 19. Jl. 4, ’08. 1350w.
“Treated from whatever point of view, the narrative of those two centuries is a tangled skein, and the author, by a severe policy of repression, has succeeded in keeping the main threads well in hand. The book is an excellent piece of workmanship, and will be especially welcome to those who recognise that a knowledge of Asiatic history is essential to the true comprehension of that of Europe.”
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Spec. 99: 1099. D. 28, ’07. 500w.
Stewart, Clinton Brown. Investigation of centrifugal pumps, pt. 1, a discussion of the theory of the centrifugal pump and tests of a six-inch vertical centrifugal pump. (Univ. of Wis. Bulletin no. 173. Engineering ser., v. 3, no. 6.) pa. 50c. Univ. of Wis.
8–3626.
Results attending an extended line of experiments on centrifugal pumping machinery being conducted by the department of hydraulic engineering of the University of Wisconsin. “The results are given in tables and diagrams and are accompanied by a discussion of the theory of such pumps and of the tests themselves. The book also contains a descriptive index of engineering literature on centrifugal pumps from 1840 to 1907.” (Engin. Rec.)
Engin. D. 4: 182. Ag. ’08. 170w.
Engin. N. 59: 209. F. 20, ’08. 150w.
Engin. Rec. 57: 357. Mr. 21, ’08. 200w.
* Stewart, Jane Agnes. Christmas book. *75c. Am. Bapt.
8–33162.
A book whose aim is to further the true Christmas spirit. Besides giving information concerning the origin of Christmas and the various methods of its observance it provides suggestions for games and home-made gifts.
“Is full of the Christmas spirit.”
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Dial. 45: 415. D. 1, ’08. 80w.
“Is probably the most complete book on the subject.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
Stewart, William Morris. Reminiscences of Senator William M. Stewart of Nevada; ed. by G: Rothwell Brown. *$3. Neale.
8–15703.
The reminiscences of Senator Stewart who “lived among frontiers-men, Indians, ranchmen, miners, judges, statesmen”; who “helped build a great western state, made laws, interpreted them, enforced them, and executed them”; and who “made at least a dozen fortunes,” the last one of which was amassed after he was eighty years of age. His reminiscences are recorded out of the fulness of a wide experience gained during twenty-nine years in the Senate while closely associated with the men who made the history of the country.
“We are regretful that Senator Stewart did not take his opportunity more seriously.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 330. Je. 13, ’08. 240w.
“A vigorous summing up of the life of a real man. It is an amazingly entertaining record, and the editor ... has done his part of the work admirably.” Adolphe Klauber.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 352. Je. 20, ’08. 2450w.
“There is a good deal that seems irresponsible and in questionable taste. There is a good deal of fun and there is a good deal of liveliness in the book.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 122. Jl. ’08. 80w.
Stimson, Frederic Jesup. American constitution: the national powers, the rights of the states, the liberties of the people. (Lowell institute lectures, 1907.) **$1.25. Scribner.
8–3494.
Eight lectures which aim to show that the constitution is not an “Antiquarian curiosity”; not a mass of dry rules, but the very substance of freedom; not obsolete, but in every part alive. They explain the human meaning of the constitution, the safeguards that it offers every one and the live issues that it still embodies. Mr. Stimson’s closing lectures are on Changes in the constitution now proposed and Interstate commerce, the control of trusts, and the regulation of corporations.
“This is a popular but satisfactory treatment of the subject.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 722. My. ’08. 150w.
“The subjects discussed are of deep interest to all thinking Americans. Though we do not agree with all the positions taken by the author, we regard the volume as an extremely important contribution to our political literature, and much which it contains is of the highest interest and value.”
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Arena. 39: 499. Ap. ’08. 900w.
344“The temper of the book is admirable, and we can only hope that it may be widely and intelligently read.”
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Educ. R. 35: 421. Ap. ’08. 650w.
“The historical part—that is about one-half—of Professor Stimson’s volume is utterly worthless.”
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Ind. 65: 266. Jl. 30, ’08. 220w.
J. Pol. Econ. 16: 317. My. ’08. 80w.
“One cannot detect in his remarks any factious purpose, only the conscientious exercise of the judicial function of ascertaining the law of the land, as declared and divided by the constitution, and applying it to the several subjects under consideration. Thoughtful citizens will find the discussion well worth while.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 66. F. 8, ’08. 700w.
“Our point of view of the constitution is not that of Professor Stimson. But the book is valuable, first, because it will put before the students of constitutional law with great clearness the theory of strict construction, and, second, because it points out, on the one hand, the historical origin of certain fundamental principles of American constitutions, and, on the other hand, certain real perils against which we need to be on our guard.”
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Outlook. 90: 312. O. 10, ’08. 640w.
“As a critique of contemporary government and administrative policies by a lawyer of distinction in many fields of legal research and practice, the volume is not without value: but since the whole argument rests on a particular interpretation of history, it is the philosophy, not the conclusions, which principally engage the interest of the student.” C: A. Beard.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 23: 340. Je. ’08. 1200w.
“In general, Mr. Stimson’s views are conservative and his exposition of the division of power between the states and the federal government judicious and helpful.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 511. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“The reading public will find it spirited, intelligible and suggestive: and if they trace errors here and there, there are none that are vital.” S. E. Baldwin.
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Yale R. 17: 235. Ag. ’08. 1200w.
Stimson, Frederic Jesup. Law of the federal and state constitutions of the United States; with an historical study of their principles, a chronological table of English social legislation and a comparative digest of the constitutions of the forty-six states. *$3.50. Boston bk.
8–15307.
A three-part study. The first is devoted to the origin and growth of the American constitutions; the second to constitutional principles as expressed in the English statutes of the realm and American constitutions; the third, to the state constitutions, annotated and compared with the federal constitution.
“This book is unlike the usual treatise on constitutional law, both in arrangement and manner of treatment.” C. L. Jones.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 639. N. ’08. 230w.
“In a broad sense Professor Stimson gives us a view of the political or constitutional life of the country—an almost indispensable thing to the investigator of today.”
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Ind. 65: 1001. O. 29, ’08. 640w.
“This grouping of constitutional law around common topics ... is a comparative study never before worked out so completely. Our debt to the compiler is accordingly large. There are occasional defects even in the seriatim analysis of the growth of particular constitutional usages.”
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Nation. 87: 215. S. 3, ’08. 780w.
“The law student, the journalist, men professionally engaged in political life, and others who have occasion to acquaint themselves with the details of American constitutional law will find this book a valuable aid in their study.”
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Outlook. 90: 312. O. 10, ’08. 120w.
“As a book of reference it is indispensable to every student of American politics.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 256. Ag. ’08. 110w.
“The politician, lawyer or student of American institutions should have it as a supplement to Mr. Bryce’s book.”
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Sat. R. 106: 209. Ag. 15, ’08. 260w.
* Stimson, Henry Albert. New things of God: sermons. **$1.25. Revell.
8–28071.
“Not truth absolutely new, but old truth freshly put and in new relations, is the substance of his message, illustrated from his large acquaintance with literature and life. Dr. Stimson feels and joins in the movement of modern thought, saying that ‘a new theology is the demand and the inevitable product of every age,’ but that after all, and in all change, religion is the same, ‘the response of the soul to God,’ Christ as ever the pilot of the soul, and one’s attitude toward him the test of character.”—Outlook.
“Characterized by several qualities most sermons lack: clearness, sanity, and practicality.”
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Ind. 65: 1248. N. 26, ’08. 80w.
“The sermons are thoughtful, practical, and inspiring to the reader.”
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Ind. 65: 1312. D. 3, ’08. 150w.
“These discourses are focused on the fundamental truths with a frequently inspirational effect.”
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Outlook. 90: 595. N. 14, ’08. 160w.
Stirling, Anna Maria W. Coke of Norfolk and his friends: the life of Thomas William Coke, first earl of Leicester of Holkham, etc., including many unpublished letters of noted men of his day, English and American, il. 2v. *$10. Lane.
8–13695.
Containing an account of his ancestry, surroundings, public services, and private friendships, and including many unpublished letters from noted men of his day. (Explanatory title.)
“This life is so thoroughly well done, so carefully ordered, so reasonable in its judgments, and so well written, that the reviewers all complimented their sex by supposing the biographer to be a man, and the present writer, if he had not been better informed by accident, would indeed have done the same.” G. S. S.
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Acad. 73: 207. D. 7, ’07. 2000w.
“Half, or two-thirds, of these fat volumes would have been better than the whole. But having passed this criticism, we hasten to say that the book is of distinct social and historical value, confirming, and sometimes supplementing, such works as the Greville, Creevey, and Albemarle papers. It is also remarkably entertaining, and should prove a profitable quarry for the anecdotist.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 681. N. 30. 1300w.
“We thank Mrs. Stirling for one of the most interesting memoirs of recent years.”
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Lond. Times. 6: 361. N. 29, ’07. 2700w.
“Altogether, the book may well engage the attention of him who wants to see English life of a century ago; and he will not fail to enjoy the character here revealed of what we, with a certain touch of fondness, are wont to style ‘a gentleman of the old school.’”
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Nation. 86: 379. Ap. 23, ’08. 500w.
“Her whole-hearted admiration for her distinguished ancestor has made it impossible for her to conceive that he was not in every way great, and so deep is her own interest in him that she imagines everything connected with him, no matter how remotely, must be of general interest.”
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Sat. R. 104: 670. N. 30, ’07. 1100w.
345“Mrs. Stirling has done her work handsomely, and has plainly been helped by the good will of the Coke family and all its ramifications. If the biography is unnecessarily long, it contains much new material that is well worth unrolling from its wrappers.”
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Spec. 99: 869. N. 30, ’07. 1400w.
* Stoddard, William Osborn. In the open. †60c. Harper.
8–32332.
Wholesome adventure and excitement commend these tales of the exploits and frolics of a group of breezy, healthy children who hunt, camp, fish, encounter Indians, fight prairie fires, and roam about for worlds to conquer.
Stoker, Bram. Gates of life. 75c. Cupples & L.
8–14957.
Miss Stephen Norman tries the working value of a theory that the wrecking of many lives can be avoided by a woman’s taking the initiative in the momentous question of marriage proposals. She offers herself and her estate to young Everhard, a dissolute man who makes light of the whole affair. Wounded pride takes its unlawful revenge on her real lover, but justly metes out punishment to Everhard who attempted to follow up his advantage from motives of graft.
“Surely Mr. Stoker is still capable of better things.” F: T. Cooper.
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Bookm. 28: 69. S. ’08. 150w.
“A blatant melodrama, all the trashier for the grandiloquent moralizings—in which the word ‘sex’ is unpleasantly frequent—which punctuate the surprising actions of his characters.”
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Nation. 87: 163. Ag. 20, ’08. 140w.
“There are novelty and variety in Bram Stoker’s novel.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 448. Ag. 15, ’08. 370w.
Story, Alfred Thomas. American shrines in England. *$2. Macmillan.
“A convenient summary of the English antecedents of a number of well-known Americans. Six chapters are devoted to a careful presentation of the evidence in regard to the Washington family, the last link in which was completed by the accidental discovery in the State department at Washington, in 1902, of the will of Mrs. Martha Hayward, née Washington. The ancestry and English home of Franklin, of Standish, of Winthrop and Penn, of Yale and Harvard, of the Lees and the Adamses, are discussed.”—Nation.
“For those who like this sort of thing the book is unquestionably valuable, and it is probably just as well to have somebody do it.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 759. D. ’08. 60w.
Stoughton, Bradley. Metallurgy of iron and steel. $3. Hill pub.
8–5613.
A college text-book as well as a reference work which “fills a distinct gap in English metallurgical literature, in that it provides a clear, up-to-date, description of the apparatus, furnaces and appliances used in the metallurgy of iron and steel.” (Engin. N.)
“Best single book on American practice for small libraries. Needed also by large libraries, because of its closeness to present methods.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 150. My. ’08.
“It is altogether a most complete and valuable work, as it gives the best methods of production and in addition records in a thorough and practical manner the most recent advances in the subjects of metallography, corrosion and the new alloys.”
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Engin. D. 3: 416. Ap. ’08. 550w.
“It is a first-class illustrated description of the present state of the iron and steel industry, entertainingly written, splendidly illustrated, a little too detailed to be called superficial, yet not minute enough to be tiresome to anyone wishing to learn something about iron and steel. The book contains many minor errors in its descriptions, such as ascribing views and explanations to the wrong metallurgist. It also contains some major errors in questions of theory and calculation.” J. W. Richards.
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Engin. N. 59: 437. Ap. 16, ’08. 600w.
Stratileseo, Tereza. From Carpathian to Pindus; pictures of Roumanian country life. il. *$3.75. Luce, J: W.
7–28495.
“The author of this volume has set herself to put before her readers a full account of the condition and character of the Roumanian peasantry, the inhabitants of the lower basin of the Danube, as well as of their natural surroundings.” (Ath.) “The book is more than a mere record of historical, ethnological, and sociological facts in regard to the Roumanian. It is a treasurehouse of folklore, legends, ballads, and songs often with the music attached.” (Nation.)
“The book will interest students of folk-lore and local customs as well as those who have visited or propose to visit, this somewhat neglected corner of Europe. The style, though lively, betrays in places that the writer is a foreigner.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 170w.
“She does not claim to be a politician and contents herself with descriptions of the Roumanian peasantry. These are very well done, with a light touch and with enthusiasm tempered by humour. She has made a careful study of folk-lore and tells some amusing stories.”
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Sat. R. 103: 372. Mr. 23, ’07. 250w.
Stratton, Alfred William. Letters from India; with a memoir by his wife, Anna Booth Stratton. *$3.50. Dutton.
8–36147.
A volume which reflects the force of “American scholarship, tact, and energy in touch with modern India.” (Outlook.) A Canadian, educated in Canada and the United States, for a time connected with the faculty of the Chicago university, the author eventually served in the combined capacities of registrar of Punjab university and principal of the Oriental college at Lahore, India. His letters are valuable “for what they tell us of university life in northern India, of the class of native scholars, and of certain inquiries into Sanskrit literature.” (Spec.)
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Ath. 1908, 1: 602. My. 16. 400w.
“They not only give a clear impression of a singularly conservative, lofty, and unselfish personality; they afford us a clear picture of an American scholar’s life in India, and also many interesting side-lights on social, educational, and political conditions in northwest India.”
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Outlook. 89: 864. Ag. 15, ’08. 600w.
“The letters are always interesting.”
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Spec. 100: 583. Ap. 11, ’08. 240w.
Streatfeild, Richard Alexander. Opera: a sketch of the development of opera with full descriptions of all works in the modern repertory; with an introd. by J. A. Fuller-Maitland. 3d ed. rev. and enl. *$1.25. Lippincott.
8–35265.
Brought to date by the inclusion of such operas as Puccini’s “Tosca” and “Madame Butterfly”; Charpentier’s “Louise”; Strauss’s “Salome”: Saint-Saëns’s “Hélène”; Giordano’s “Fédora” and “Siberia”; Debussy’s “Pelléas and Mélisande”; and other new operas.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 123. Ap. ’08. ✠
346“This very readable and trustworthy book may be commended to all lovers of music who wish to know something about the great works of the lyric stage.”
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Dial. 43: 385. D. 1, ’07. 50w.
“The most laudable thing about this volume is the combination of clearness and conciseness in the telling of operatic plots.”
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Nation. 86: 134. F. 6, ’08. 290w.
“He is as little without bias as may be expected of one who traverses so broad a field, and his view is clear as his style is entertaining.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 690. O. 26, ’07. 220w.
Streckfuss, Adolf. Lonely house; tr. from the German by Mrs. A. L. Wister. il. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–33203.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“Not remarkable for skill in character-drawing or probability of plot and event, but will hold the interest, and compares favorably with Mrs. Wister’s other translations.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 20. Ja. ’08.
“It is done with Mrs. Wister’s trained skill, thorough knowledge of German, and admirable taste.”
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Outlook. 88: 326. F. 8, ’08. 100w.
Strindberg, August. The father (a tragedy); tr. by N. Erichsen. *$1. Luce, J: W.
8–13718.
The first appearance in English of a drama written by “the most pessimistic of living pessimists.” “‘The father’ reveals an amazing combat between mother and father for the control of their daughter’s destiny, the mother ultimately gaining her point at the expense of her husband’s reason. When it appears that he is to have the upper hand, she drops a fatal seed of doubt as to who the child’s father actually is. Presumably she has always been a faithful wife, but the poison of suggestion has been implanted in the husband’s mind and he is eventually driven mad by the thought. As a study of misogyny and abysmal pessimism ‘The father’ probably has few equals in any language.” (N. Y. Times.)
“That it would exercise a powerful effect cannot be doubted, but it is unpleasant beyond expression. The present translation by N. Erichsen appears to preserve the general character of the original.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 295. My. 23, ’08. 250w.
Stringer, Arthur J. A. The under groove. †$1.50. McClure.
8–13274.
In a series of seven short stories an old offender against the law tells in the first person his experiences in New York while assuming the rather novel rôle of detective. With a facility born of long experience in practical criminality he makes use of the usual methods of perpetrating crime in order to ferret it out for his own private ends. The mental processes of the scientific burglar are analyzed so that the book is at once a thrilling story of adventure and a study of criminology.
“Lively reading.”
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Ind. 65: 268. Jl. 30, ’08. 100w.
“In themselves the eight stories, with one or two exceptions, would make good reading.”
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Nation. 86: 557. Je. 18, ’08. 300w.
“And if the whole thing moves with the lightness and spirit of the true adventure story, it none the less retains the importance of a sincere study in psychology.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 258. My. 2, ’08. 150w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 346. Je. 13, ’08. 190w.
“Would be far better if it had omitted the telepathic and hypnotic basis on which it is constructed.”
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Outlook. 89: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 50w.
Strong, Augustus Hopkins. Outlines of systematic theology, designed for the use of theological students. **$2.50. Am. Bapt.
8–30158.
An outline embracing the substance of Dr. Strong’s three-volume “Systematic theology,” a work which after twenty years has been revised and enlarged. The abbreviated work is at once a text-book for recitation, a minister’s hand-book, and a convenient guide for the busy layman.
Strong, Augustus Hopkins. Systematic theology: a compendium and commonplace book, designed for the use of theological students; new ed. rev. and enl. 3v. ea. $2.50. Am. Bapt.
7–37983.
Dr. Strong with his “open mind, broad sympathy and keen vision” has kept pace with the progress of the times and now presents his hand-book modernized. Volume 1 deals with The doctrine of God, volume 2, with The doctrine of man, and volume 3, The doctrine of salvation.
v. 2. Doctrine of man. Deals with anthropology or the doctrine of man. The origin, the nature and the fall of man are treated and the consequences of the fall—physical and spiritual death.
“It is the more to be regretted that the insight so clearly expressed in the passages cited should not have been allowed to determine the treatment in other parts of the volume.” W: A. Brown.
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Am. J. Theol. 12: 150. Ja. ’08. 2200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This volume like the first, contains an amazing wealth of quotation drawn from wide circles of thought; sometimes the passages are more cogent and convincing than his refutation of them.”
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Am. J. Theol. 12: 502. Jl. ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 2.)
Stroup, Ner Wallace. Fact of sin viewed historically and doctrinally. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
8–29856.
A discussion of the vital relation of the fact of sin to the divine plan of salvation.
Stuart, Eleanor. The postscript. †$1. McClure.
8–14333.
A slight story set in Italy in which an American girl, the widow of a count; a scheming Italian, bent upon besmirching the good name of the dead count; and a wronged woman are the principal characters. When all misunderstanding is cleared away the postscript which the wife adds to her former joy and trust in her husband is “I know in whom I have believed.”
“A tale of rather delicate workmanship, in which the characters are drawn with more than ordinary skill and charm and the plot is rather painful and melodramatic.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 223. Je. ’08.
“The heroine is a rather commonplace little person, and one feels that the writer somewhat exaggerates the importance of her experience.”
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Nation. 86: 558. Je. 18, ’08. 350w.
“Talent and care have evidently been expended on this novelette.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 308. My. 30, ’08. 100w.
Stuart, Gerald Villiers. Soul of Croesus. 75c. Cupples & L.
8–17792.
The fantastic story of a modern Croesus, whose father had bequeathed him an enormous fortune with the injunction to spend all. Warring against the merciless debauchery is the better personality, which thinks, philosophizes and exerts a strength that grows impotent 347when the whole army of lower personality imps come trooping back. The story from a subjective standpoint stimulates the reader’s thought and interest.
“There is a lot of trimming to the story that is extremely entertaining, and it is that which makes Mr. Villiers-Stuart’s book worth while.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 436. Ag. 8, ’08. 720w.
Stuart, Henry Longan. Weeping cross: an unworldy story. **$1.40. Doubleday.
8–23103.
The adventures in New England, about the middle of the 17th century, of an Irish bond servant “who had been first a Jesuit pupil, then a royalist soldier. He is sent to the hard mercies of the Pilgrims by Cromwell, indentured to a noble-minded master, but has the misfortune of being loved by that master’s daughter. The conflict between religion and passion that follows is analyzed with extreme keenness, but is hardly edifying in its bold realism, and is agonizing in its relation of mental and physical suffering.” (Outlook.)
“It is the matter rather than the manner we confess to finding distasteful.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 398. O. 3. 170w.
“The book is eminently worth reading.” F: T. Cooper.
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Bookm. 28: 142. O. ’08. 770w.
“It makes a vivid and robust tale, but its effectiveness is dulled by interminable passages of description and introspective analysis.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 45: 214. O. 1, ’08. 550w.
“A book which, for the present day and hour at least, must be set down as a novel of some importance. He has given fearlessly and honestly, without fear of offense, a record of sinful love that nevertheless does not lose its dignity nor its claim upon our sympathy and our esteem.” Philip Tillinghast.
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Forum. 40: 224. S. ’08. 1100w.
“Is not the ambitious success its author has aimed at, but it is a serious piece of work, creditably carried thru.”
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Ind. 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 70w.
“With more restraint of manner and maturity of thought, Mr. Stuart’s vivid fancy gives promise of work of real value.”
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Nation. 87: 213. S. 3, ’08. 250w.
“The story, although full of misery and tragedy, deserves commendation. Its literary merit is of a high order.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 490. S. 5, ’08. 200w.
“There is much that will offend the taste in the ultra-realism of the narrative. This is all the greater pity because the author has an imagination of unusual power, a style vivid and forceful, and an honest intention to present the tragic struggle between a man’s better nature and cruel temptation.”
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Outlook. 90: 134. S. 19, ’08. 160w.
“It is a fine tragedy, clothed in real eloquence and dignity.”
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Sat. R. 106: 488. O. 17, ’08. 260w.
Stubbs, Rt. Rev. William. Germany in the early middle ages, 476–1250; ed. by Arthur Hassall. *$2. Longmans.
8–19595.
“Contrary to one’s natural expectations, the volume is narrative rather than constitutional, but there are to be found in its pages several of those remarkable characterizations of medieval personages in which Stubbs was an undoubted adept. The chapters are so arranged as to form a tolerably complete account of Germany from the great migrations to the death of Frederick II in 1250, and the style, less severe and impersonal than the stately diction of the constitutional history, will make the book more acceptable to the general reader.”—Ind.
“The book offers little or nothing to the specialist, is not adapted to use in the class room, and will hardly hold the attention of the general reader, but it may be recommended as collateral reading to college classes in medieval history.” O. J. Thatcher.
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Am. Hist. R. 14: 167. O. ’08. 600w.
“Tho the lectures throughout impress one with the soundness and breadth of the learned historian’s studies, there is a certain ancientry in their doctrines and temper.”
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Ind. 65: 493. Ag. 27, ’08. 330w.
“Nor can we feel that this volume goes far toward supplying any lack that really exists.”
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Nation. 87: 388. O. 22, ’08. 660w.
“It is difficult to see what purpose is served by the publication of this volume. We regret that we must add that the editor has not made it easier to approve of the publication by the way in which he has performed his share.”
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Sat. R. 105: 661. My. 23, ’08. 1500w.
Sullivan, Thomas Russell. Lands of summer: sketches in Italy, Sicily, and Greece. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–13684.
Seven sketches which the author’s travel in the Mediterranean countries has inspired. They are spring-time with Theocritus, From Athens to Corfu, Midsummer in Tuscany, Bergamo and the Bergamasque Alps, The centenary of Alfieri at Asti, The wraith of a ducal city and Life on a Tuscan farm.
“It is slight and superficial, but is at least as good to read as, and much less pretentious than, the majority of ‘travel books’ written on these well-known lands.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 538. O. 31. 180w.
“An unusually pleasant volume for reading and possession.” H. E. Coblentz.
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Dial. 44: 347. Je. 1, ’08. 470w.
“The classical student may read him at home, with pleasure and some profit; the tourist will find him of some service on the spot.”
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Ind. 64: 1290. Je. 4, ’08. 80w.
“The work lacks distinction. As a whole it is scarcely less monochrome (but more attractive) than its sickly blue cover.”
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Nation. 87: 160. Ag. 20, ’08. 270w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 321. Je. 6, ’08. 130w.
“It is neither bad enough to infuriate nor important enough to arrest.” A. I. du P. Coleman.
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Putnam’s. 4: 746. S. ’08. 270w.
* Sunderland, Jabez Thomas. Origin and character of the Bible and its place among sacred books; new ed. rev. and enl. *$1.20. Am. Unitar.
8–33168.
Embodies the results of the latest investigations along the lines of origin, authorship, growth, real character, transitory elements and permanent value of the Bible. It contains illustrative tables, lists of best books for reading and study, and several entirely new chapters.
* Surette, Thomas Whitney, and Mason, Daniel Gregory. Appreciation of music. **$1.50. Baker.
A volume which “presents ‘in clear and untechnical language an account of the evolution of musical art from the primitive folk-song up to the symphony of Beethoven,’ illustrating the stages of this development by musical examples, and providing detailed analyses of many typical compositions. The volume has several portrait illustrations.”—Dial.
“A useful book for students, for music clubs and for the individual reader who has a fair knowledge of music.”
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Dial. 45: 46. Jl. 16, ’08. 90w.
“Teachers will no doubt find not a few useful hints in it, and the general reader also would do well not to ignore it. There are excellent things, notably in the chapters on Bach and Beethoven. The best thing in the book is the chapter on Beethoven’s humor.”
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Nation. 85: 548. D. 12, ’07. 840w.
348* Swett, Sophia Miriam. Princess Wisla. †$1.50. Little.
8–30702.
The story of a child that was rescued from drowning by an Indian woman, dyed with pokeberry ink to resemble an Indian child, and made into an Indian princess.
R. of Rs. 38: 768. D. ’08. 40w.
Swift, Edgar James. Mind in the making: a study in mental development. **$1.50. Scribner.
8–12179.
“As a sound-hearted and clear-minded social reformer, taking a common sense view of social problems,” (N. Y. Times.) the author makes a plea for a broader interpretation to education. “Mental plasticity, capacity for understanding and controlling new situations and for making them” should be the outcome of education. See Cumulative book index for contents.
“As a whole the volume embodies a systematic knowledge of children and sane ideas of their needs. The book is bound to have a wide and a wholesome influence, and largely because of this the reviewer wishes to call attention to what seems to be an unwise emphasis in the chapter entitled, ‘Criminal tendencies in boys.’” K. E. Dopp.
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Am. J. Soc. 14: 261. S. ’08. 570w.
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 242. O. ’08.
“The book’s chief defect is an evident lack of wide acquaintance on the part of the author with sociological and anthropological literature. This gives rise to many omissions and several slips.” C: A. Ellwood.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 640. N. ’08. 420w.
“One by one, the more concrete and the more comprehensive questions of the applying psychologist are reviewed in this collection of essays; and each brings a tangible addition to the insight that can assimilate data while it yet directs their accumulation and dominates their interpretation.” J. Jastrow.
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Dial. 45: 40. Jl. 16, ’08. 200w.
“Some of his psychological studies are particularly shrewd and practical, and the book as a whole deserves attention.”
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Educ. R. 36: 317. O. ’08. 60w.
“We can scarcely conceive that any teacher or thoughtful parent would not be interested in nearly all the essays, and no one engaged in educational or social improvement can rise from its reading without both stimulation and encouragement.” J. H. T.
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El. School T. 9: 162. N. ’08. 1000w.
Ind. 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 180w.
“A more significant book or a more attractive one has not lately been published because it presents facts clearly and accurately, its deductions are reasonable, its logic denotes a broad, well-cultured mind, its historical perspective is suitable, its style is good. He may go too far in some of his deductions, but the influence of his book ought to be beneficial beyond the field of pedagogy.” E: A. Dithmar.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 325. Je. 13, ’08. 1750w.
“As a plea for the personal element in education, and for the extension of the experimental method ‘in the interest of a soundly constructive pedagogy,’ this is an eminently luminous and influential work.”
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Outlook. 89: 390. Je. 20, ’08. 230w.
“Is of real value to both investigators in educational psychology and students of college grade. Concerning some of the conclusions which Professor Swift does definitely accept, ... it must be noted that other intelligent investigators possessed of the same facts as the author would still not proceed to his conclusions.” E: L. Thorndike.
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Science, n.s. 28: 212. Ag. 14, ’08. 680w.
Swift, Ivan. Fagots of cedar. $2. Ivan Swift, Harbor Springs, Mich.
8–240.
A collection of verses of the Michigan woods and lumber camps.
“Mr. Swift’s poems have much of the strong, virile, thought-suggesting quality of Whitman’s work.” A. C. Rich.
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Arena. 39: 495. Ap. ’08. 750w.
“At its best Mr. Swift’s verse is virile, rhythmical, and full of meaning, suggesting kinship with the school of Kipling and Henley.”
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Dial. 44: 138. My. ’08. 100w.
“The breath of the woods is in them and the perfume of the cedar, though there is nothing to suggest that they have come out of an ancient chest. On the contrary, they are what would be called up-to-date poems. While there is at times a touch of self-consciousness, there is throughout the evidence of genuine feeling.”
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Outlook. 89: 261. My. 30, ’08. 350w.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Age of Shakespeare. **$2. Harper.
8–27774.
Nine critical papers which deal with Shakespeare and the writers of his age. Marlowe, Webster, Dekker, Marston, Middleton, Rowley, Heywood, Chapman and Tourneur are in turn compared with Shakespeare; and the latter’s indebtedness to each is pointed out.
“Even those who have long been familiar with the greater number of these essays will read them with the certainty of lighting on matter well worth study, and will find fresh interest in tracing the few changes time has brought about in his judgment.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 674. N. 28. 1000w.
“The book is a good book, a serious and illuminating piece of criticism.” Montgomery Schuyler.
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Bookm. 28: 265. N. ’08. 1800w.
“Full of wonderful little flashes of delicate perception, epigrammatic summings-up that refuse to be forgotten, and then, at the turn of a page, a blast of turbulent adulation, a whirlwind of redundant hyperbole, full of sound and fury. Nevertheless, such as it is, it is a book indispensable to any one who is making a study of Mr. Swinburne the poet.” F: T. Cooper.
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Forum. 40: 405. O. ’08. 1950w.
“As a critical work, it cannot be taken seriously.”
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Lit. D. 37: 854. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
“As a whole the book must impress any sane reader as the cry of an enraged and baffled romanticism, of a romanticism that, like some wild beast at bay, snaps and snarls at common-sense.”
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Nation. 87: 445. N. 5, ’08. 1100w.
“Swinburne guides us to a study and comprehension of a form of literary art now extinct, and helps us to comprehend its beauty.” E: A. Dithmar.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 633. O. 31, ’08. 2000w.
“The essay on Dekker is perhaps the most delightful in the volume.”
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Sat. R. 106: 422. O. 3, 08. 1550w.
“The defects of his book would certainly have been avoided by an unsparing use of the comparative method. These essays are excellent from many points of view; but their crowning excellence is the force which is in them that compels whoever opens them to go back once more for light and refreshment to the works of the great Elizabethans.”
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Spec. 101: 502. O. 3, ’08. 1600w.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Duke of Gandia. **$1.25. Harper.
8–11735.
Rome in the latter part of the 15th century is the scene of this Borgia story told in poetry. It is a domestic drama, which depicts a tragedy in the life of Pope Alexander VI. The jealousy of the younger son which causes him to kill his elder brother, and the father’s ultimate reconciliation with the wrong-doer form the main basis of the plot. The characters of mother and daughter add lightness and human interest to the story.
“Here in this briefest and most actual of his plays—an act, an episode—he has concentrated 349much of this floating beauty, this overflowing imagination, into a few stern and adequate words, and made a new thing, as always, in his own image.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 469. Ap. 18. 1200w.
“Marvellous work, which no other poet now living could dream of equalling.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 45: 60. Ag. 1, ’08. 530w.
“Has one virtue that strikes the eyes. It is brief. Mr. Swinburne’s excessive use of Catholic symbol and phrase in the mouths of these inhuman creatures of blood and lust will be wantonly offensive.”
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Nation. 86: 339. Ap. 9, ’08. 450w.
“The book cannot hurt a poet of great renown, but the contemplation of its hideous subject cannot help anybody. It is a mistake.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 226. Ap. 18, ’08. 450w.
“Mr. Swinburne’s hand has not entirely lost its power.”
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Outlook. 89: 264. My. 30, ’08. 450w.
“‘The Duke of Gandia,’ which is perfect of its kind, proves once more the surety of an artistic instinct which can not only choose, but reject.”
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Sat. R. 105: 532. Ap. 25, ’08. 1600w.
“It is stamped with all his old mastery of craft.”
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Spec. 101: 20. Jl. 4, ’08. 430w.
Symons, Arthur. Cities of Italy. **$2. Dutton.
7–38637.
In studying Rome, Venice, Naples, Florence, Ravenna, Pisa, Sienna, Verona, Bologna, Bergamo and Brescia, Mr. Symons’s “intention has been that they should tell him their story, that they should ‘give up their own secrets,’ rather than that he should judge them according to his own eyes, ears and artistic prejudices.” (Spec.)
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“This is a beautiful and quiet book, full of delicate observation and fine criticism expressed in the sensitive prose we expect from Mr. Symons.... He has cared for [Italy] as it were by the way, as he might do for any work of art with which he found himself in sympathy—not more, but assuredly not less.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 185. F. 15. 1000w.
“It is a volume well worth while, and will be enjoyed by many readers; it will be most valuable and most enjoyable for those who have basked long enough in Italy’s smile and learned enough of her nature to compare impressions and to enter upon the little, lovable, silent controversies that add so much flavor to literature of this type.”
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Dial. 44: 136. Mr. 1, ’08. 330w.
“The book, as are most of the writings of this English poet and critic, is decidedly worth reading.”
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Ind. 64: 523. Mr. 5, ’08. 250w.
“The amateur, or, if you will, the dilettante spirit, pervades Mr. Symons.”
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Nation. 86: 264. Mr. 19, ’08. 450w.
“The secrets he surprises are always the artist’s secrets—never humanity’s. They are grown in the garden of culture, not in the wilderness of life.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 116. F. 29, ’08. 480w.
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Outlook. 88: 378. F. 15, ’08. 300w.
“It is a book of sensitive English prose, full of unexpected rhythms and words which rather evoke than describe the places of which they speak. The best chapters of the book are devoted to that tragic wilderness [the Campagna].”
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Sat. R. 105: 272. F. 29, ’08. 850w.
“If, as he desires, the personal note were absent, the book would be really delightful reading, and its presence is only occasionally irritating. Mr. Symons sees vividly and describes brilliantly. If his cities have not given him their inmost soul, their outward aspect is entirely his.”
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Spec. 100: 266. F. 15, ’08. 450w.
Symons, Arthur. Symbolist movement in literature. *$2. Dutton.
A new and revised edition of a work appearing eleven years ago. “The book presents studies, both biographical and critical, of the writers, chiefly French, whom Mr. Symons regards as the leaders of the Symbolist movement, and the value of the book lies chiefly in the facts and impressions which it gives of this little group of writers, the best known of whom by American readers are Verlaine, Mallarmé, and Huysmans. There is a chapter on ‘Maeterlinck as a mystic.’” (Outlook.)
“A body of delicate criticism.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 637. My. 23. 60w.
“One may quarrel with this frankly partisan historian at whatever turn one will; but his book remains exceptionally attractive and enlightening. We have before us not a searching philosophical treatise, but a delightful bit of literary history and æsthetic appreciation.” F. B. R. Hellems.
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Dial. 44: 374. Je. 16, ’08. 3200w.
“It is the most sympathetic study and the most illuminating interpretation that has yet appeared in English of that curiously interesting group of French writers.”
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Ind. 65: 211. Jl. 23, ’08. 200w.
Nation. 86: 330. Ap. 9, ’08. 100w.
“Students of literature have much to be grateful to Mr. Symons for, and this little collection of essays increases measurably their debt to him.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 168. Mr. 28, ’08. 600w.
“Whatever one may think of its doctrine, its charm of style and the interest of its contents will certainly recommend it. His little studies are relevant and illuminating. We think he is wrong, however, when in his conclusions he attempts to fuse his pessimism and mysticism.” Christian Gauss.
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No. Am. 188: 454. S. ’08. 400w.
“The book is valuable as an impressionistic study of one of the minor currents of the literary movements of the last generation.”
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