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Sabatier, Paul. Open letter to his eminence Cardinal Gibbons apropos of his interview on the separation of church and state in France; tr. by J: R: Slattery. *60c. Sherman, French & co.
8–14319.
The widely circulated statements of Cardinal Gibbons upon the struggle between church and state in France are “reprinted in this little volume in connection with the open letter in which M. Sabatier, in sympathy with progressive French Catholics, convicts him of gross misrepresentation. M. Sabatier emphasizes the central fact in the French question, that it is not Catholicism as a religion, but clericalism as a political opponent, with which the French government has a controversy.” (Outlook.)
“It is a volume that should be widely circulated.”
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Arena. 40: 383. O. ’08. 1700w.
“How unfair and incompetent the Baltimore prelate’s protest is M. Sabatier shows in this little book with acumen and convincing argument.”
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Ind. 65: 722. S. 24, ’08. 250w.
Outlook. 89: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 100w.
* Sabin, Alvah Horton. House painting, glazing, paper hanging, and whitewashing: a book for householders. $1. Wiley.
8–21778.
Deals with “the subjects of exterior and interior painting, varnishing, papering, kalsomining, white-washing and the painting of structural metal. Technical terms and long-winded descriptions are avoided, and the book should be read by every house user and owned by every house owner.”—Science.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 265. N. ’08. ✠
“Excellent little vademecum. Altogether there are few places at which the reader will not find just what he needs to guide his amateurish hands in the direction of efficiency.”
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Engin. N. 60: 320. S. 17, ’08. 500w.
“For anyone who contemplates either trying his own skill or over-looking the proceedings of a workman, Mr. Sabin’s book appears, as he claims in the preface, to ‘set forth fairly safe and sound practice.’” C. S.
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Nature. 79: 97. N. 26, ’08. 240w.
“A thoroughly reliable, readable book.” A. H. Gill.
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Science, n.s. 28: 843. D. 11, ’08. 80w.
* Sadler, Michael Ernest, ed. Moral instruction and training in schools; report of an international inquiry. *$1.50. Longmans.
A two-volume work containing a number of essays by educational men on the problem of moral training in the school. The first volume treats the roots of the problem and gives a series of accounts of what is already done in schools to promote moral education. The second deals with moral education in British colonies and in foreign countries as well as at home.
“Valuable volumes.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 393. O. 3. 1300w.
“Pedagogists, theoretical and practical, will find these two volumes well deserving of serious study.”
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Cath. World. 88: 401. D. ’08. 1450w.
“There is necessarily a good deal of overlapping in the book, and there is perhaps a trace of bias in favour of co-education; but it is judicious, sensible, full of interesting information and suggestive comment.”
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Sat. R. 106: 423. O. 3, ’08. 2200w.
Sager, Daniel Showers. Art of living in good health: a practical guide to well-being through proper eating, thinking, and living in the light of modern science. **$1.35. Stokes.
7–32393.
A health hand-book which has for its watch words, breathe deep, chew long, drink enough, eat little. It shows how self control, so necessary to simple living, results in long life and good health.
“The book is both inspiring and convincing.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 83. Mr. ’08.
“Contains a large amount of excellent information, and yet we think that it is not likely to be productive of unmixed good. Dr. Sager’s book has much of our present scientific dietetics, some of which is universally accredited, but some of which has not as yet been confirmed sufficiently to make it absolute.”
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Ind. 64: 259. Ja. 30, ’08. 150w.
314“If it is granted that Dr. Sager’s views are the right ones, there can be no doubt that his book will exert enormous influence toward good; while, also, even if many of his views are incorrect, they cannot harm his readers, since his recommendations are in the main such as are bound to conduce to good.” Michael Williams.
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N. Y. Times. 12: 725. N. 16, ’07. 2400w.
“We do not deny that there is something of value in the volume.”
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Spec. 101: sup. 481. O. 3, ’08. 320w.
Sainsbury, Ethel Bruce. Calendar of the court minutes of the East India company, 1635–1639; with an introd. and notes by W: Foster. *$4.15. Oxford.
8–16489.
“The documents calendared follow those included in the last volume of Miss Sainsbury’s ‘Calendar of state papers,’ East India series, and consist of the court minute books, January 5, 1635-December 30, 1639. But there is a gap caused by a lost volume of manuscript, July, 1637-July, 1639. These are re-enforced by abstracts of some of the documents from the East India series at the Public record office and of a few from the India office records and by entries on Indian affairs for these years from the Domestic series, ‘Calendar of state papers.’”—Am. Hist. R.
“This book is valuable for at least three reasons. It contains material for the domestic history of the East India company, 1635–1639; ... secondly, there is laid open here the outworking of the system of personal government under Charles I in years when that system was at its strongest; and thirdly, we have the intimate records of a corporation in days when shareholders stormed in vain at directors.” A. L. P. Dennis.
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 856. Jl. ’08. 700w.
“It is unnecessary to add, when Mr. W. Foster is editor, that the introduction and brief notes are in every way satisfactory.” H. E. Egerton.
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Eng. Hist. R. 23: 576. Jl. ’08. 660w.
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Nation. 86: 471. My. 21, ’08. 720w.
* Saintsbury, George E. B. History of English prosody from the twelfth century to the present day. v. 2. *$3.75. Macmillan.
v. 2. From Shakespeare to Crabbe.
This volume “begins with Shakespeare, and deals with the development and decadence of blank verse; the Elizabethan lyric and sonnet; the verse of Milton and the Caroline poets, of Dryden and of Pope and the eighteenth century generally, ending with Crabbe.” (Ath.)
“The book is full of admirable work in almost every way, but incorrigibly careless now and then, generally in unimportant things.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 673. N. 28. 2600w. (Review of v. 2.)
Dial. 45: 301. N. 1, ’08. 50w. (Review of v. 2.)
“As a book of reference for the student who wishes statistics, definitions, tabulations, and the like, the work is next to useless. On the whole, the book is wisely planned and executed, and makes good reading even of prosody.”
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Nation. 87: 464. N. 12, ’08. 2000w. (Review of v. 2.)
“He nowhere gives us a clear summary or explanation of the matter in dispute. It is a strange thing that one like Professor Saintsbury, who is filled to the brim with English literature, should indulge in such queer stylistic freaks.”
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Sat. R. 106: 670. N. 28, ’08. 1600w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
Saintsbury, George Edward B. Later nineteenth century. (Periods of European literature, v. 12.) *$1.50. Scribner.
7–36994.
The last volume of Mr. Saintsbury’s “Periods of European literature.” It deals with the whole literature of Europe at the present day, from the time of Browning and Hugo to that of Ibsen and Tolstoy including poetry, novels, periodical literature, essays and drama. He closes with a summary of the present volume and of the whole series.
“Professor Saintsbury is as off-hand, erratic, and suggestive as usual, and seems even more readable than in his earlier works.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 206. Je. ’08. ✠
“‘Flippant and unworthy’ are hardly more lenient than the epithets which any sensitive critic would be forced to apply to these pages.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 610. N. 16. 1450w.
“Modern literature, in fact, seems to be contemplated by Professor Saintsbury as a comprehensive inferno in regard to which it is the first duty of the critic to determine the places of the offenders in their respective circles.”
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Lond. Times. 6: 321. O. 25, ’07. 1850w.
“He is lavish of vehement opinions, but gives no evidence whatever of a common philosophy to which these opinions may be referred.”
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Sat. R. 104: 671. N. 30, ’07. 930w.
Saleeby, Caleb Williams. Conquest of cancer: a plan of campaign. **$1.75. Stokes.
7–37249.
An account of the principles and practice of the treatment of malignant growths by specific cancrotoxic ferments. In presenting the pancreatin treatment the author shows how Dr. Beard has given “the key to the enemy’s position, and that so soon as this advantage is pressed home the conquest of cancer will be an accomplished fact.” (R. of Rs.)
“We would well wish it otherwise, but see only the raising of false hopes and bitter disappointment for those who take Dr. Saleeby’s book seriously.”
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Ind. 64: 46. Ja. 2, ’08. 800w.
Nature. 78: 292. Jl. 30, ’08. 530w.
“His book, recording fresh data up to within a few weeks of publication, merits attention in America as a contribution to the practical study of the trypsin treatment.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 1. Ja. 4, ’08. 1320w.
R. of Rs. 37: 119. Ja. ’08. 100w.
“A large difficult book, teeming with guesswork and animosity. An ill-tempered and unbalanced book. The author’s heart has run away with his head, and he has allowed himself to be victimised by an obsession.”
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Sat. R. 105: 240. F. 22, ’08. 1800w.
Saleeby, Caleb Williams. Health, strength and happiness: a book of practical advice. *$1.50. Kennerley.
The guiding principle of Dr. Saleeby’s study is “The new asceticism,” whose doctrine is that the body must be an expression of the harmonies of mind, in place of the old asceticism which exploited the doctrine of antagonism between the interests of the mind and the body. He works out a scheme for bodily and mental health which accords with his basic principle.
“A finer contribution to the literature of popular science has not often been made.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 680. N. 14, ’08. 1150w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 747. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
Salisbury, William. Career of a journalist. il. *$1.50. Dodge, B. W.
8–9151.
The real story of the author’s life. “It tells of nine years’ experiences in five American cities, on papers of every shade of political opinion, on papers ‘yellow,’ and papers ‘conservative,’ 315and concludes with observations in four foreign capitals. It shows what journalism does for the people, and what it does not do for the people, what journalism and journalists are and what journalism and journalists are not, in the principal countries of the world.” Preface.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 240. O. ’08.
“Highly interesting and suggestive volume, which, because of its frankness and candor, its portrayal of American journalism in the nude, is more than an interesting record.” B. O. Flower.
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Arena. 40: 487. N. ’08. 5300w.
“His book may serve a useful purpose as a warning and example—while not necessarily discouraging to those having the qualifications and ambition for legitimate and honorable newspaper work.”
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Dial. 45: 45. Jl. 16, ’08. 300w.
“The title is misleading in that it omits the qualifying adjective ‘yellow,’ which is all-important in this case.”
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Ind. 64: 1199. My. 28, ’08. 900w.
“A vulgarly written account of vulgar experiences.”
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Nation. 86: 351. Ap. 16, ’08. 150w.
“The thing is frankly a book of yellow journalism and yellow journalists by one of themselves.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 226. Ap. 18, ’08. 1050w.
Sallows, James Francis. Blacksmith’s guide. $1.50. Technical press.
7–33978.
Valuable instructions on forging, welding, hardening, tempering, case hardening, annealing, coloring, brazing, and general blacksmithing. (Explanatory title.) “The treatment throughout is of a thoroughly practical nature, and the author describes clearly the methods which he has employed in obtaining eminently satisfactory results in the tempering of tools and machine parts—all without the use of expensive furnaces, pyrometers and other accessories.” (Tech. Lit.)
“The language of the book is good; the explanations are clear; the arrangement is pleasing, and no extraneous matter has been admitted.”
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Engin. N. 59: 298. Mr. 12, ’08. 370w.
“It is a little work that anyone having to do with the heat-working of steel will find of exceeding value.”
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Technical Literature. 2: 583. D. ’07. 140w.
Sanders, E. K. Forest playfellow: a story. †$1.25. Dutton.
The story of a little boy who “lived alone with his father in a great house near a forest. He was very lonely, and his father, who had travelled and fought, was too brave a man to understand his terrors. But one day in the mysterious forest he met another small boy with bright eyes and beautiful manners who showed him how to build bridges and gently cured him of his terrors.” (Lond. Times.)
“We are not blind to the merits of the work ... we know that a good deal of care has gone to the making of the story; it may appeal more to others than it has to us, who have found it a little dull.”
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Acad. 73: 271. D. 21, ’07. 110w.
“The charm to which we willingly surrender is neither in eeriness nor spiritual revelation; it is in portraiture. Regarded as a human being, the ghost is lovable; and Jock’s tutor, a minor character, is capitally drawn.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 651. N. 23. 160w.
“It is written entirely from the child’s point of view; but it is so sympathetic that a child might conceivably imagine after reading it that he was as good as his parents.”
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Lond. Times. 6: 373. D. 6, ’07. 400w.
“One may venture the hope that after sixty times six best sellers have shouted themselves into second-hand bookshops, ‘The forest playfellow’ will still stand on many a beloved shelf, shabby with much cherishing by old and young who have felt themselves lonely children.”
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Nation. 86: 196. F. 27, ’08. 100w.
“The story is daintily told, and, while dealing with the forever intangible influences that mold a child’s character, bringing him nearer or luring him from us, the writer contrives to make the small hero quite a flesh-and-blood little chap after all.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 93. F. 15, ’08. 230w.
Sanders, Lloyd Charles. Holland house circle. **$3.50. Putnam.
Devoted to the period between 1799 and 1840 when “there was hardly in England a distinguished man in politics, science and literature, who had not been a guest in the Holland house.” A description of the house itself is followed by a sketch of its early history, founders and leading lights; then by “brief chapters on the circle of statesmen, wits, men of letters and science, foreign diplomats and exiles who gave to Holland house a unique place in English history.” (Nation.)
“It is a rare pleasure in these days of slovenly book making to come upon a volume so well informed and agreeably written as this. Before the book passes into a second edition the author should revise his proofs, especially as regards French words. There is a capital index.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 429. O. 10. 1500w.
“He has taken Holland house only as the string on which he has threaded his pearls, and his pearls are the gems which he has selected from the large range of biographies, memoirs and collections of letters.”
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Ind. 65: 948. O. 22, ’08. 800w.
“The text has been carefully compiled.”
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Lit. D. 37: 678. N. 7, ’08. 300w.
“Despite its lack of artistic unity, the book affords good reading.”
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Nation. 87: 336. O. 8, ’08. 580w.
“Interesting book of gossip.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 525. S. 26, ’08. 1000w.
“No one who is a student of Georgian England can afford to miss this satisfactory and delightful record of personalities.”
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Outlook. 90: 886. D. 19, ’08. 1000w.
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Sat. R. 106: 579. N. 7, ’08. 500w.
“These chapters are easy reading, but the ordinary reader may fail to recognize the amount of erudition which has gone to the making of them. Our only criticism of the book is that the arrangement of the chapters seems to us to be without system, and that there are far too many misprints. Mr. Sanders has given us in a most readable form a history of the best society during a time when entertaining was still an art, and society was still largely a cousinhood.”
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Spec. 101: 504. O. 3, ’08. 1800w.
Sanderson, Rev. Edgar. Heroes of pioneering. **$1.50. Lippincott.
8–1437.
“True stories of the intrepid bravery and stirring adventures of pioneers with uncivilized man, wild beasts, and the forces of nature, in all parts of the world.” “Champlain and other French heroes, as well as the great Arab Abd el Kadr, are included in a list which contains full reference to the doings of Raffles; Brooke, ... Bass, Flinders, and Sturt in Australia; and recent pioneer work in Uganda, Rhodesia, and Nigeria. Among many romantic careers, that of John Jacob of Sind is perhaps the most striking.” (Ath.)
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Acad. 73: 245. D. 14, ’07. 200w.
“Of value mainly as true adventure tales.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 149. My. ’08. ✠
Ath. 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 110w.
Nature. 76: 635. O. 24, ’07. 30w.
“There are stories which cannot be told too often, and Mr. Sanderson tells them well.”
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Spec. 99: sup. 748. N. 16, ’08. 180w.
316Santley, Sir Charles. Art of singing and vocal declamation. **$1.25. Macmillan.
8–18037.
“A teacher of singing, must be, or must have been, a good singer.” So says Mr. Santley at the age of seventy-four, reflecting upon his years of teaching experience. He is a follower of Garcia, and from Garcia gained the inspiration to teach singing not surgery. His rational methods, which avoided too much analysis are summed up in this handbook for young singers.
“It will be appreciated by teachers as well as young students.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 241. O. ’08.
“The whole of the little volume will be eagerly read by teachers of singing, and especially by those who are at the outset of their career as students.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 771. Je. 20. 280w.
“It must be confessed that in his book on singing he displays a keener knowledge of the business end of his subject than of the æsthetic side.” L: M. Isaacs.
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Bookm. 27: 601. Ag. ’08. 950w.
“Interesting, first of all, but also helpful.”
Ind. 65: 321. Ag. 6, ’08. 200w.
“Containing much valuable advice.”
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Nation. 87: 19. Jl. 2, ’08. 700w.
“In general may be unhesitatingly commended.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 392. Jl. 11, ’08. 150w.
R. of Rs. 38: 384. S. ’08. 40w.
“The book abounds in good advice, but it is not so much from singer to singer as from the old man to the young, and much of it is sententious in form as well as trite in matter.” C. L. G.
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Spec. 101: 405. S. 19, ’08. 2150w.
Sargent, Arthur John. Anglo-Chinese commerce and diplomacy (mainly in the nineteenth century). *$4.15. Oxford.
8–9032.
Britain’s relations with China solely in their bearings on the interests of commerce. Contents: The rule of the company [East India]; The course of trade to 1834; From the opening of the trade to the treaty of Nanking: From the treaty of Nanking to the treaty of Tientsin; Course of trade from 1834 to 1864; The interpretation of the treaty of Tientsin and the convention of 1869; From the massacre of Tientsin to the Chifu convention; Course of trade from 1865 to 1884. Development of the policy of “Spheres of influence”; Course of trade from 1885 to 1894. Renewal of the anti-foreign movement and recent economic changes; Annotated bibliography of the more important official papers and note on the character of statistical information available for the Chinese trade.
“The exactness of statement and lucidity of style make the work especially valuable for those who, studying the present, wish to get a clear background for the picture of contemporary events. The book is the best summary view of the development and importance of English trade with China yet published.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 720. My. ’08. 400w.
“Lucid and convincing work.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 785. Je. 27. 720w.
“In spite of blemishes Mr. Sargent has performed a very useful service, and has provided his students with an excellent text-book.” P.
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Eng. Hist. R. 23: 620. Jl. ’08. 500w.
“A careful and scholarly study.”
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J. Pol. Econ. 16: 634. N. ’08. 80w.
“It is much to be able to say that he has succeeded in giving, within moderate limits, an instructive epitome of our efforts to open up intercourse with the great empire which has scarcely relaxed even yet in its resistance.”
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Sat. R. 105: 17. Ja. 4, ’08. 1700w.
Sargent, Charles Sprague. Trees and shrubs. 25 plates by C: E: Faxon, v. 2, pt. 1, **$5. Houghton.
“Includes descriptions and drawings of twenty-five species of ligneous plants, hitherto unknown or almost so. Six of the species are of cratægus and eight of viburnum. The remainder represent eight other genera.”—Dial.
Bot. Gaz. 45: 343. My. ’08. 130w.
Dial. 44: 139. Mr. 1, ’08. 50w.
“In all respects the continuation of his great work is on the high level of what has gone before. Charles Faxon’s delineations are perfect as to detail, and as to stereoscopic effect, and indicate the power of a line drawn by one who knows exactly what he sees.”
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Nation. 86: 199. F. 27, ’08. 240w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 230w.
Sargent, Herbert Howland. Campaign of Santiago de Cuba. 3v. **$5. McClurg.
7–29604.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“He describes and discusses the grand strategy and tactics of the campaign with great clearness, showing a strong grasp of his subject in all its aspects, naval, military, historical, geographical, statistical, etc. The works that have appeared heretofore, treating of the Spanish-American war, have been seriously defective in their numerical data. The work before us is about perfect in this respect.” John Bigelow, jr.
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 373. Ja. ’08. 1500w.
“In this book we have a remarkably lucid history of a very remarkable campaign. And there is probably no man on this continent better fitted—on all the counts—to chronicle it with such accurate completeness and balanced discrimination as the author.”
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Ind. 64: 51. Ja. 2, ’08. 380w.
Lit. D. 36: 766. My. 23, ’08. 70w.
“While the book must long remain a handy volume for reference, because of the many facts and figures it gives, it leaves the field still open to the historian who wishes to tell without fear or favor the true story of our ever-regretable West Indian war.”
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Nation. 86: 195. F. 27, ’08. 730w.
“A history and discussion of our part in the Cuban war that will be of quite as much interest to the layman as to the military specialist.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 308. My. 30, ’08. 500w.
“His account, in fact, is very painstaking, but without great penetration, and it is marred by some inflated writing—continual talk of a ‘hail of bullets,’ for example, which, after all, is only a metaphor—such as is best left to non-military writers.”
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Spec. 100: 63. Ja. 11, ’08. 810w.
Sarolea, Charles. Cardinal Newman and his influence on religious life and thought. (World’s epoch-makers). *$1.25. Scribner.
8–26235.
A dispassionate and objective study of some of the problems suggested by the writings of Cardinal Newman. Among the subjects treated are the following: The Oxford movement, Newman’s personality, Why was Newman converted to Roman Catholicism? The conflict between Newman and Manning, Pascal and Newman, Was Newman a liberal Catholic? Cardinal Newman and modernism.
“Dr. Sarolea’s work is non-partisan and shrewd. If his book fails—and it does, we think, in the end just fail—to be a first-rate contribution to religious history, it is owing to a weakness of psychological insight.”
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Nation. 87: 266. S. 17, ’08. 1450w.
Outlook. 89: 769. Ag. 1, ’08. 160w.
“Dr. Sarolea, who shows a remarkable 317knowledge of our language, treats the subject with an admirable detachment. Nowhere could we find a more impartial estimate, not of the man only, but of all the facts, mental and emotional, which condition the study of theology. We do not always accept Dr. Sarolea’s conclusions.”
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Spec. 101: sup. 480. O. 3, ’08. 240w.
Saunders, Edward. Wild bees, wasps and ants and other stinging insects. $1.25. Dutton.
Agr 8–399.
“A popular and readable account of a group of British insects which are known to entomologists as Hymenoptera aculeata.” It is written for amateurs. The author says: “The non-scientific public rarely recognizes more than the hive bee, the bumble bee, the wasp, and the hornet, whereas there are about four hundred different kinds.”
“Mr. Saunders’s facts are almost invariably trustworthy.”
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Nation. 86: 449. My. 14, ’08. 170w.
“The information given, though, of course, much condensed, is well arranged and thoroughly trustworthy, besides being expressed in an attractive manner.”
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Nature. 77: 220. Ja. 9, ’08. 280w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 80w.
“Mr. Saunders writes brightly and clearly; he is, moreover, an authority whose statements can be trusted.”
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Spec. 100: 647. Ap. 25, ’08. 150w.
Saunders, Margaret Marshall. My pets: real happenings in my aviary. $1.25. Am. Bapt.
8–30262.
Dedicated to boys and girls who are never satisfied with a story unless it is entirely true. There are twenty-eight chapters dealing with owls, robins, rabbits, guinea pigs, rats, gallinules, pigeons, canaries and other pets of the fur and feather classes.
“There is much sentimentalism mixed with some good hints as to food and general care, but the book as a whole, is merely a readable account of trivial happenings in aviary and cage.”
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Nation. 87: 319. O. 1, ’08. 150w.
Savage, Charles Albert. Athenian family: a sociological and legal study based chiefly on the works of the Attic orators. *$1.50. Wilson, H. W.
8–22086.
A monograph presented to Johns Hopkins university for the degree of Doctor of philosophy. The discussion is based chiefly on the works of Attic orators, and especially on the orations of Isaeus, Demosthenes and Lysias. Material has also been found in the works of Greek poets and philosophers. The dissertation includes the religious side of Athenian life, attitude of the state toward the family and the religious cult, the position of women, marriage, relations of parents and children, and the aspects of the Athenian inheritance system.
Savallo, Teresa de. House of the lost court. †$1.50. McClure.
8–8102.
A rambling old English country house, taken for a season by an American woman and her daughter, is the scene of this story full of surprises and mystery. The hero is a man supposed to be dead who dwells in the secret lost court. The hiding place is discovered by the imaginative heroine who takes him for a ghost. In a thoroly American fashion, practical and self-reliant, she finds the key to a domestic tragedy that had for nine years cast gloom and terror over the estate, and clears the way for a happy dénouement.
“It opens well, and develops leisurely, but with plenty of atmosphere.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 445. Ap. 11. 120w.
“Accepting the premises, the story is entertaining and pleasantly told.”
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Nation. 86: 264. Mr. 19, ’08. 300w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 267. My. 9, ’08. 50w.
“Is agreeably written, some of its characters are satisfactorily attractive, and one at least is satisfactorily odious.”
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Outlook. 89: 313. Je. 6, ’08. 150w.
Sawyer, George Henry Vaughan-. Grant’s campaign in Virginia, 1864 (the Wilderness campaign). (Special campaign ser. no. 8.) *$1.60. Macmillan.
8–18961.
A critical history of the Wilderness campaign giving details for the student of history written from the point of view of an impartial officer of the British India army.
“We have seldom seen a book disgraced by such glaring errors. Apart from them, this account of the campaign is really a good one, clear in arrangement, and impartial.”
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Nation. 87: 238. S. 10, ’08. 560w.
“Gives the Wilderness campaign in accurate detail as regards situations, movements, and strengths, and with the excellent maps and plans with which it is provided will be a useful guide to an officer desiring to ‘get up’ the campaign for examination purposes.”
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Spec. 101: 505. O. 3, ’08. 200w.
Sawyer, Walter Leon. (Winn Standish, pseud). Jack Lorimer’s champions. $1.50. Page.
7–23939.
This second volume of the “Jack Lorimer” series pictures the doings of the Millvale boys, in and out of the gymnasium, during the spring and summer following the events narrated in “Captain Jack Lorimer.” As the first book dealt with football, so the interest of this centers in base-ball. Its spirit is that of clean, non-professional athletics.
Schaff, Philip, and Herzog, Johann Jakob. New Schaff-Herzog encyclopedia of religious knowledge; based on the 3d. ed. of the Realencyklopädie. per. v. $3. Funk.
8–20152.
Embraces biblical, historical, doctrinal, and practical theology and biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical biography from the earliest times to the present day. This work is based upon the German “Realencyklopädie,” founded by Herzog, edited by Hank, and constitutes a twelve volume edition.
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Ind. 65: 1066. N. 5, ’08. 360w. (Review of v. 1.)
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Lit. D. 37: 327. S. 5, ’08. 750w. (Review of v. 1.)
“In completeness and thoroughness this work far excels the earlier editions of Schaff-Herzog; especially in historical and biographical subjects the treatment is more adequate.”
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Nation. 87: 314. O. 1, ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 1.)
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N. Y. Times. 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 100w. (Review of v. 1.)
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Outlook. 90: 364. O. 17, ’08. 380w. (Review of v. 1.)
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R. of Rs. 38: 256. Ag. ’08. 170w. (Review of v. 1.)
Schauffler, Robert Haven, comp. Through Italy with the poets. **$2. Moffat.
8–3507.
An anthology of the “best poetry about Italy, from Virgil and Horace to Arthur Symons and William Vaughan Moody.”
“Exhibits good judgment in its choice of poems, and makes a collection which every lover of Italy must prize. It will be particularly valued for bringing together many beautiful pieces of very recent composition, and for the 318classified arrangement which makes it useful for specific reference.”
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Dial. 44: 182. Mr. 16, ’08. 100w.
“The book is somewhat bulky for what its editor calls a ‘pocket friend’; and, as the arrangement of its contents is purely arbitrary, its serviceableness would have been enhanced had the compiler utilized for a good index the few pages occupied by his own and other mediocre verses.”
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Outlook. 88: 611. Mr. 14, ’08. 160w.
Schechter, Solomon. Studies in Judaism. 2d ser. $2. Jewish pub.
8–13665.
A collection of essays and articles by the President of the Jewish theological seminary of America, formerly professor of Hebrew, University college, London. The first two essays are on the Genizah. or hoard of Hebrew manuscripts at Cairo. Among other topics discussed are the Study of the Bible; Social life of the Jews in the age of Jesus, the son of Sirach; Study of the Talmud; Saints and saintliness; and Safed, a Jewish settlement in upper Galilee whose religious history in the sixteenth century is unique and interesting.
Ind. 65: 722. S. 24, ’08. 260w.
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Nation. 86: 512. Je. 4, ’08. 270w.
“While Rabbi Schechter is a thorough scholar, he is also capable of writing in a popular and delightful style, not devoid of humor.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 724. D. 5, ’08. 300w.
“These essays ... deserve the attention of the intelligent Christians.”
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Outlook. 89: 349. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.
Scheffauer, Herman George. Looms of life; poems. $1.25. Neale.
8–20495.
Buoyancy, possibility, and faith in the living present characterize these poems in which the author “tramples down the gods that held the past.”
Reviewed by E. L. Cary.
N. Y. Times. 13: 424. Ag. 1, ’08. 360w.
Schelling, Felix Emanuel. Elizabethan drama, 1558–1642: a history of the drama in England from the accession of Queen Elizabeth to the closing of the theatres, to which is prefixed a resume of the earlier drama from its beginning. 2v. **$7.50 Houghton.
8–5140.
A fresh handling of the material of the Elizabethan drama emphasizing the “extraordinary varieties of dramatic composition” rather than the commonplaces of history and biography. It is a connected history of the Tudor and earlier Stuart drama which takes into account the whole body of plays written and acted during this period, their authorship, relations, and the involved history of the state. Professor Schelling has aimed to ascertain the character of each play and to refer it to its type: to establish its relations to what had preceded and to what was to follow; and to learn when a given dramatic species appeared, how long it continued, and when it was superseded by other forms. Contents: The old sacred drama; The morality and earlier secular plays; The new romantic drama; The chronicle histories; and The domestic drama.
“The best compendium of what is known on the subject. Every library that can afford it should have it.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 206. Je. ’08.
“The most complete and serviceable work in its field.” H. W. Boynton.
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Bookm. 27: 272. My. ’08. 1500w.
“The book is an important one,—a notable contribution to American scholarship. But it is a book for the intelligent layman as well as for the scholar, and its reader will be spurred on to wider reading on one of the most fascinating fields of literature.” M. W. Sampson.
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Dial. 45: 11. Jl. 1, ’08. 2200w.
“He has done his work very well indeed, and it is an honor to American scholarship, worthy of comparison with the best that has been done in Germany or in Great Britain. It is not only well planned but well written, and its criticism is sober and sane; it is as free from the dithyrambic rhapsodizing of Swinburne as it is from the mere dry-as-dust enumeration of the ordinary Teutonic investigator. A word of protest may be permitted here against Professor Schelling’s trick of employing French words for which it would have been easy for him to find fit English equivalents.” Brander Matthews.
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Forum. 39: 521. Ap. ’08. 850w.
“In the matter of style the present work is decidedly stimulating; it carries the reader along more vigorously than does Ward’s work. The index is an admirable piece of work, as near perfection as anything of the sort is likely to be. The finding list of plays is also excellent; we note, however, the omission of the play of Thersites.”
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Nation. 86: 517. Je. 4, ’08. 1900w.
“He writes with distinction and grace, while his new work, in scope and purpose, differs materially from the many on the same subject which have preceded it.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 156. Mr. 21, ’08. 950w.
“If it were necessary to confine oneself to a single book for the study of this period—for the history of its rise, fruition and decay—that book would properly be Prof. Schelling’s ‘Elizabethan drama’” S. R. Cook.
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Putnam’s. 4: 237. My. ’08. 300w.
R. of Rs. 37: 759. Je. ’08. 100w.
“Professor Schelling’s scholarship is accurate and wide, and his critical judgments are always sound and sympathetic; his book is valuable chiefly as a magazine of well-ordered information. The enthusiastic reader will miss the glamour and the atmosphere which lend so much charm to J. A. Symonds’s book on the same subject; for Professor Schelling’s style is dry, and his whole treatment of his material is far too careful and precise to allow of any sign of excitement.”
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Spec. 100: 975. Je. 20, ’08. 1400w.
Schmucker, Samuel Christian. Study of nature. (Lippincott’s educational series.) $1.25. Lippincott.
8–20551.
An orderly, stimulating presentation of the subject of nature study. Under the three general heads, The theory, The materials and The course, the author presents the scope, aim, purpose, teacher’s preparation and schoolroom equipment; the near at hand material available at different seasons of the year, ranging from insects to stars; and a course of study for the first four grades, concluding with a chapter on Helpful books on nature study.
“Less comprehensive than Holtz’s ‘Nature study’ but very suggestive and detailed in the field covered.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 265. N. ’08.
“A very comprehensive and practical volume for teachers, and satisfactorily meets the criterion laid down by the author, that a good nature study book sends us out into the open to see for ourselves instead of making us content to study nature in the library.”
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Ind. 65: 317. Aug. 6, ’08. 120w.
“Its interest by no means is confined to teachers, but it will be found a handy book in any one’s library.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 449. Ag. 15, ’08. 130w.
Schofield, Alfred Taylor. Functional nerve diseases. (New lib. of medicine.) *$2.50. Dutton.
8–35862.
Includes hysteria and neurasthenia, migraine, chorea, tics, tetanus, vertigo, and exophthalmic goitre. “The book throws an interesting light 319upon the modern treatment of these diseases, which are the direct products of civilization, whilst it explains much of the success gained by the various systems, sciences, and cures which are in vogue at the present time.” (Ath.)
“The author’s style is often slovenly, and he has not always verified his references.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 421. Ap. 4. 270w.
“For the medical man the book is perhaps too unsystematic and rather diffuse, although often undeniably stimulating.”
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Nation. 87: 366. O. 15, ’08. 230w.
“Taken as a whole, the book is well written and full of useful information, and it will be found to contain many suggestions which will prove of value to the thoughtful student.”
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Nature. 79: 5. N. 5, ’08. 500w.
“A somewhat technical but decidedly interesting and valuable treatise.” H. A. Bruce.
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Outlook. 90: 705. N. 28, ’08. 40w.
“The practical parts of it are good, for they are the fruits of experience; but the whole is too diffuse to make a good text-book, and the best chapters are too technical for popular reading. A book which admittedly has one eye on a professional audience, and the other on the public can hardly escape squinting, and this one is no exception to the rule.”
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Sat. R. 105: 633. My. 16, ’08. 2450w.
Schon, Hans A. E. C. von. Hydro-electric practice: a practical manual of the development of water power, its conversion to electric energy, and its distant transmission. *$6. Lippincott.
8–23073.
An analytical treatment of hydro-electric practice for the promoter, investor and practitioner. The subject is treated in two parts: the first, Analysis of a hydro-electric project, is matter for the layman, and contains in untechnical form the commercial essence of the subject; the second, Designing and equipping the plant, is written for the student and practitioner.
“The text is direct and pertinent and all the diagrams and illustrations have a direct value.”
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Elec. World. 52: 1136. N. 21, ’08. 400w.
“Without wishing to detract from the value of the book, so far as it goes, it is correct to say that the title is misleading. The work is really an elementary treatise, covering only a limited part of the field of hydro-electric practice in the United States. With the limitations here stated the book has its value to the practitioner, but its principal use is to the beginner who desires to take up low head hydroelectric work in the Middle West or East.” F. C. Finkle.
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Engin. N. 60: 538. N. 12, ’08. 2200w.
Schouler, James. Ideals of the republic. **$1.50. Little.
8–30609.
A volume whose purpose is to trace out the fundamental ideas, social and political, to which America owes her progress and prosperity, and to consider the application of those ideas to present conditions. The chapters are: The rights of human nature; Types of equality; Civil rights; Political rights; Government by consent; Written constitutions; A union of states; The discipline of liberty; Three departments of government; Parties and party spirit; Servants of the public; The strife to surpass; and A new federal convention.
“Though he does not disguise the evils, the Doctor, trusting to the vitality of the nation, is optimistic about the future, trusting that Americans will again come to understand that there are better things in life than the satisfaction of an unbounded thirst for accumulation.”
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Cath. World. 88: 405. D. ’08. 620w.
“Especially interesting is his discussion of parties and party spirit, their function in a republic and their history in this country.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 668. N. 14, ’08. 300w.
Schultz, Alfred Paul. Race or mongrel. $2.50. Page.
8–22785.
A brief history of the rise and fall of the ancient races of the earth; a theory that the fall of nations is due to intermarriage with alien stocks; a demonstration that a nation’s strength is due to racial purity; a prophecy that America will sink to early decay unless immigration is rigorously restricted.
“He is entirely ignorant of anthropological principles, has no idea of recent advances made in ethnology, has no conception of the effect of geographical circumstances ... upon man, and is totally unfit to write upon his subject from a scientific standpoint.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 540. O. 3, ’08. 100w.
Schumann, Robert Alexander. Letters of Robert Schumann; selected and ed. by Karl Storck. *$3. Dutton.
8–8848.
Thru these letters so important and voluminous one “gets a proper insight into the character of the man; the development of his art, his ideals, the most interesting part he played in the eloquent drama of the romantic movement as well as the actual facts, the salient influences, and crisis of his career.” (N. Y. Times.)
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 207. Je. ’08.
“The translation is very good. Here and there, nevertheless, it is a little too free.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 459. Ap. 11. 250w.
“A not too pronounced flavor of the ‘sinnreich,’ the ‘gefühlvoll,’ the ‘schwärmerisch’ even, pervades the letters, in a pleasant way, and gives them an undeniable charm.”
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Dial. 44: 182. Mr. 16, ’08. 170w.
“Of all the great composers, Schumann and Wagner were the most interesting letter writers. His letters are not nearly so numerous as Wagner’s, and almost all of them are worth reading.”
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Nation. 86: 65. Ja. 16, ’08. 920w.
“Dr. Storck’s selections are judiciously made. His notes and introductions are valuable and illuminating, and the translation is, on the whole, excellent. The book is one that admirers of Schumann and students of the romantic movement will value highly.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 856. D. 21, ’07. 800w.
* Schurz, Carl. Reminiscences of Carl Schurz. v. 3. **$3. McClure.
v. 3. 1863–1869: with a sketch of his life and public services from 1869–1906, by Frederic Bancroft and William Dunning.
At the time of Mr. Schurz’s death he had completed the third volume of his Reminiscences to the middle of Grant’s administration. His manuscript is printed as he left it, and there has been added by Mr. Bancroft with the cooperation of Mr. Dunning, a hundred and forty page sketch embodying the salient features of his activity in public affairs, showing his relation to the history of the time, the intellectual characteristics and political aspirations that were conspicuous and potent in his career.
Schütze, Martin. Hero and Leander: a tragedy. **$1.25. Holt.
8–29016.
A poetic drama which creates a new setting for the legendary lovers. The author has furnished “a new story, new personages, and a new catastrophe, making Hero stab herself over the body of her drowned lover, instead of letting her leap into the sea.” (Nation.)
“It is a work showing some power of dramatic invention, literary facility, and occasional flights of poetic fancy, although the language in which these are expressed is likely to degenerate into unmistakable prose. If it is not a brilliant example of poetic tragedy, it is a capable, dignified, and interesting composition which would be a credit to any theatre producing it.”
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Nation. 87: 366. O. 15, ’08. 300w.
320Schwartz, Henry B. In Togo’s country: some studies in Satsuma and other little known parts of Japan. *$1.50. West Meth. bk.
8–22266.
The author’s observations have been made during fourteen years “in places which no tourist’s eye hath seen, and in paths where no globe trotter’s foot hath passed.” It is a study of the conditions that produced Togo, Oyama, and Kuroki; and since all three of these men whom the war brought into prominence, are natives of Satsuma, the author’s observations are largely confined to that province.
“He holds that nobody can understand modern Japan until he shall have acquired a fair knowledge of the old life of the nation, and the purpose of his book is to help the world to that acquisition. No doubt it will be helpful in that way.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 200w.
Schwed, Hermine. Ted in mythland. **$1. Moffat.
7–26321.
Ted runs away with the little bronze Mercury that had “led him on” from the mantelpiece heights. His adventures are told in this fairyland myth book.
“Even tho some might approve of the method, there is a lack of artistic handling in this book which forces both prose and poetry to become the vehicle, nor can we say much for the verses, which lack spirit.” M. J. Moses.
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N. Y. Times. 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 80w.
Scoble, Herbert T. Land treatment of sewage: a digest of the reports made to the Royal commission on sewage disposal by their specially-appointed officers. *$2. Van Nostrand.
W8–99.
“The results of a study of eight English farms in which the following points were noted: (1) The composition of the sewage and the preparation before passing on the land; (2) the nature of the soil and the sub-soil; (3) figures relating to acreage, population, etc.; (4) method of treatment of sewage and cropping the land; and (5) analysis of the quality of the effluent as compared with sewage and with stream.”
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Engin. D. 3: 306. Mr. ’08. 200w.
“Promises to be of interest and value to those to whom the original documents are not accessible, and, we may add, hardly worth the heavy purchase price ($12) for any American not deeply interested in the subject.”
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Engin. N. 59: 210. F. 20, ’08. 150w.
“A valuable reference book.”
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Engin. Rec. 57: 26. Ja. 4, ’08. 150w.
Scollard, Clinton. Voices and visions. *$1. Sherman, French & co.
8–13940.
“There are three series, the first devoted to poems of life and nature, in which the author’s felicity of phrase, his literary grace, and his command of tripping meters are perhaps at their best; the second to love poems, in which if there are no depths of passion there are refinement of feeling and beauty of imagery, and poems of the East, rich with Oriental color.”—N. Y. Times.
“Of ... pretty futilities ... is the book made up.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 45: 64. Ag. 1, ’08. 170w.
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Nation. 87: 35. Jl. 9, ’08. 140w.
“Mr. Scollard’s muse has always the true poetic lilt in her song, he has a pretty thorough acquaintance with the technique in verse, he has sentiment and fancy and a keen appreciation of the value of words.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 321. Je. 6, ’08. 220w.
Scott, Colin Alexander. Social education. *$1.25. Ginn.
8–17822.
A practical account of the life of the school from the standpoint of the social forces which are at work among the pupils. The actual activities of living children are studied, and much of the treatment deals with the question of self-organized group work with the aim of teaching principles of social democracy.
“Full of original and stimulating ideas.”
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Ind. 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 70w.
“The book will meet a need in teachers’ and parents’ meetings, reading circles, etc., and ought to have a wide circulation as a most effective means of helping to bring those who are within and outside the school to a better understanding of some of the possibilities of democratic education.” F. A. Manny.
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School. R. 16: 554. O. ’08. 1200w.
Scott, Ernest Findlay. Apologetic of the New Testament. (Crown theological lib., v. 22.) *$1.50. Putnam.
8–23276.
An examination of the form and substance of the New Testament writings as directly determined by the practical needs of the early church. “The early church had to defend itself against many foes. It had to prove the real Messiahood of its Master, whose conception of that office was different from the one current in Israel, and to make it clear that a crucified Messiah best fulfilled the predictions of prophecy. It also had to defend itself against Judaism, Paganism, and Gnosticism; and how this was accomplished is traced in Gospels, Acts, and Epistles. Then the claim of Christianity to be the final and absolute religion had to be made rational, which is done in the Epistle to the Hebrews and in the Fourth gospel.” (Hibbert J.)
“In this volume Mr. Scott has done excellent work. If we are to use the New Testament as an apologetic with the help of Mr. Scott, he ought to show what Christianity is apart from the doctrines by which it is presented to thought.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 190. F. 15. 300w.
“Mr. Scott writes convincingly on his subject.” W. Jones Davies.
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Hibbert J. 6: 939. Jl. ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Scott has a subject of great interest and importance, and his volume is a worthy companion of his work on the Fourth gospel.”
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Nation. 87: 73. Je. 23, ’08. 300w.
* Scott, James Brown. Texts of the peace conferences at the Hague, 1899 and 1907; with English translation and appendix of related documents; ed. with an introd.; prefatory note by Elihu Root. *$2. Pub. for the International school of peace by Ginn.
8–31994.
Aims to present to the English-speaking public the official French texts of the two conferences, accompanied by an official English translation and the diplomatic correspondence necessary to their understanding, together with an appendix of documents relating to, and explanatory of the various conventions of the two conferences. A preftory note by Elihu Root states the importance of the conferences, and an introduction by the editor supplies the necessary historical setting.
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Ind. 65: 1304. D. 3, ’08. 230w.
“Professor Scott’s volume makes a very useful companion volume to Prof. William J. Hull’s book on the two peace conferences.”
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Nation. 87: 575. D. 10, ’08. 220w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 712. N. 28, ’08. 150w.
321Scott, Sir James George. Burma: a handbook of practical information; with special articles by recognised authorities on Burma. il. *$2.50. Jacobs.
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“The practical information contained in this valuable handbook covers the customary topics: the country with its geography and climate, government, education and history, industries and culture, including religion, art, literature, and the Burmese music. A series of appendices give statistics of the different divisions and districts of the province, with lists of species of flora and fauna, metals, minerals, etc. Some three score illustrations, for the most part well chosen, add materially to the book.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“The book is full of interesting matter but so compact that it would hardly be chosen for merely entertaining reading.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 150. My. ’08.
“It is by far the most convenient and satisfactory manual of information about Burma.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 720. My. ’08. 300w.
“Is to be recommended not so much for its literary merit as for the accuracy, completeness, and careful arrangement of its information, although there are flashes here and there of the power of graphic description that made the author’s earlier works, under the pseudonym of ‘Shway Yoe,’ conspicuous. The one serious fault that might be found with Sir George Scott is his indulgence in the practice of disparaging all the statements made in Chinese histories on the subject of Burma. Some misprints are due, perhaps, to the author’s absence when the book was passing through the press.”
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Ath. 1907, 1: 662. Je. 1. 1200w.
“We think that the handbook, besides being indispensable to the tourist, is also well worth perusal by members of the non-travelling public who are anxious to know all that can be told about one of the most recent, and at the same time most interesting, possessions of the British Crown.”
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Nature. 75: 440. Mr. 7, ’07. 1500w.
“It looks as if it did what it professes to do. The arrangement is all that it should be.”
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Spec. 98: 297. F. 23, ’07. 150w.
Scott, John Reed. Princess Dehra. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–16520.
A mythical kingdom, a valiant American hero, a king’s daughter, the king himself, a villainous plotter and his accomplice constitute, in the main, the caste for this drama. When the king dies the American and the villain are left to settle the question of succession by dint of wit and sword. And this is the portion of the tale that provides thrills.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 304. D. ’08.
Reviewed by W: M. Payne.
Dial. 45: 89. Ag. 16, ’08. 130w.
Ind. 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 100w.
Nation. 87: 120. Ag. 6, ’08. 430w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 343. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“Effective but more or less conventional romance of love and adventure.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 365. Je. 27, ’08. 350w.
Scott, Ralph. Automatic block signals and signal circuits. *$2.50. McGraw.
8–7884.
American practice in the installation and maintenance of signals electrically controlled, and operated by electric or other power with descriptions of the accessories, now regarded as standard. (Explanatory title.) The book is intended for the signal and railway engineer, the electrician and the layman. The author’s method of presentation is descriptive. Fully illustrated.
“The book furnishes much accurate information concerning modern block-signal systems, logically arranged and expressed in simple language.”
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Elec. World. 51: 937. My. 2, ’08. 110w.
“The book is the only up-to-date work on the subject. It is an authoritative as well as comprehensive treatise on the subject.”
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Engin. Rec. 57: 357. Mr. 21, ’08. 340w.
Scott, Walter Dill. Psychology of advertising: a simple exposition of the principles of psychology in their relation to successful advertising. *$2. Small.
8–26213.
The author states that it is the human mind with which advertising deals; and so its only scientific basis is psychology which is simply a systematic study of those same minds which the advertiser is seeking to influence. He sets forth the principles at the root of advertising, and with a carefully planned series of concrete illustrations shows their relation to successful business.
Dial. 45: 299. N. 1, ’08. 280w.
Ind. 65: 1003. O. 29, ’08. 260w.
“A bright and suggestive work.”
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Lit. D. 37: 812. N. 28, ’08. 180w.
“Some very interesting observations on a matter of grave importance to business men are contained in ‘The psychology of advertising.’”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 525. S. 26, ’08. 300w.
“The book throughout is extremely suggestive.” W. K. Wright.
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Psychol. Bull. 5: 396. D. 15, ’08. 880w.
Scott, William. Riviera. *$6. Macmillan.
8–3125.
“Mr. Scott takes an eager interest in the people and their past, as well as in landscape, and he has ransacked local histories. He describes not only the natives but the swarm of foreigners who flock to the Riviera during the winter. Starting at Hyeres on the west, he follows the magic sickle of sea and shore round to Sarzana, pausing at many out-of-the-way places, making excursions up the valleys, or sitting down beside some ruin to recount its story or merely to chat.”—Nation.
“But with the praise of the pictures our praise of this book must end. We have, indeed, seldom seen anything so incongruous as the pages and pages, and chapters and chapters, of vapid criticism concerning hotel visitors, hotel dinners, and custom-house officers, and the excellent print in which it is enshrined.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 661. N. 23. 330w.
“Its illustrations depict both the gaiety and the quaintness of the region, its tropically luxuriant vegetation, its crags and castles, and its changeful blue sea. Altogether they give a complete and artistic picture of the region which some one has called the loveliest garden-spot of the earth. The text is filled with information, and it is hard to think of a phase of the subject that it does not touch upon.”
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Dial. 43: 378. D. 1, ’07. 250w.
“There is a certain insular point of view, a typical British condescension in some of his remarks. Mr. Scott is an agreeable guide, not wholly deficient in humor; and his sketches are often very fine.”
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Nation. 85: 567. D. 19, ’07. 250w.
Seashore, Carl Emil. Elementary experiments in psychology. *$1. Holt.
8–15310.
A pre-laboratory study designed to meet the requirements for a series of individual experiments in the first course of psychology. It is intended to supplement any good text book.
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Ind. 65: 320. Ag. 6, ’08. 40w.
“The purpose for which the book will be found especially adapted is that of providing a thoroughly 322good short laboratory course in institutions which cannot afford laboratory equipment. As a means to this end, it deserves the most cordial praise. Here and there points for criticism appear. It is easier, however, to mention these very trifling defects than to refer individually to the excellent and ingenious features of the book.” M. F. Washburn.
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Philos. R. 17: 666. N. ’08. 550w.
“The experiments are judiciously selected. And, what is better, they are described in terms which can scarcely fail to be thoroughly understood by the average undergraduate. Moreover the significance of the various forms of mental function is discussed in a manner which is calculated to stimulate the interest of the student. The reviewer can readily understand how it will prove to be a boon to many American psychologists.” J. W. B.
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Psychol. Bull. 5: 308. S. 15, ’08. 600w.
“It should be said with the brevity as well as with the emphasis characteristic of the book itself that it accomplishes its purpose with exceptional skill.” J. J.
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Science, n.s. 27: 985. Je. 26, ’08. 280w.
Seaver, Edwin Pliny, comp. Mathematical handbook. *$2.50. McGraw.
7–40023.
A reference book containing the chief formulas of algebra, trigonometry, circular and hyperbolic functions, differential and integral calculus and analytical geometry, together with mathematical tables.
“Contains a large amount of information in compact form for ready reference by the mathematician and engineer.”
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Elec. World. 50: 1128. D. 7, ’07. 180w.
“Will find a wide use among engineers and mathematicians.”
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Engin. D. 3: 73. Ja. ’08. 230w.
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Engin. N. 58: 657. D. 12, ’07. 390w.
“The book is a substitute for many textbooks in the engineer’s working library, and is far more complete than the mathematical chapters of the popular handbooks.”
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Engin. Rec. 57: 26. Ja. 4, ’08. 190w.
“A well selected and carefully arranged collection of formulas and tables.”
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Phys. R. 26: 544. Je. ’08. 70w.
Seawell, Molly Elliot. Last duchess of Belgarde. †$1.25. Appleton.
8–17998.
The sad story of the last duchess of Belgarde who worshipping her unworthy duke from a quiet corner fosters her determination to be faithful to him, who when the French revolution breaks in all its fury joins him in prison, and after a brief long-delayed honeymoon spent within prison walls goes to the guillotine with him.
“The tale is done in the author’s best style.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 223. Je. ’08.
“The characters, we may add, are mere paper dolls, the incidents few and not vivid. Yet despite the superficiality of plot and character, the tale has the merit of simplicity and lack of pretense.”
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Nation. 87: 36. Jl. 9, ’08. 270w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 344. Je. 13, ’08. 150w.
“A little classic so sweet and true in its sentiment, so firm and clear in its characterization, and so wholesome in its morality that it will do as much good as it will give pleasure.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 351. Je. 20, ’08. 500w.
“A slight, but perfectly wrought tale of the French revolution.”
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Outlook. 89: 532. Jl. 4, ’08. 50w.
Sedgwick, Anne Douglas. Amabel Channice. †$1.50. Century.
8–27496.
Married early in life to a man whom she does not love, Amabel Channice yields to an infatuation for an artist, flees with him, breaks the moral law, and, returning, cloisters herself in her husband’s lonely Charlock house. Her husband’s comprehension that responded to her great need, his protection of her and her illegitimate child arouse her love for him which gives place to contempt when she learns of his long life of continued dissoluteness. The woman’s conscience demands that she risk her last chance at happiness thru her son’s love by revealing to him her sin and the resulting smirch upon his life. The son’s nobility and magnanimity are the saving elements in a strong climax.
“An admirably written book in which there is nothing superfluous.”
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“She knows how to give spiritual definitions to all that is stupid and commonplace with an efficacy that is entirely too celestial to be veracious.”
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Nation. 87: 466. N. 12, ’08. 300w.
“The book rises to a climax tender and inevitable, wholly satisfactory.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 660. N. 7, ’08. 500w.
“The complications of the plot are perfectly fitted into each other, and the result, apart from the great interest excited by the human situation, is a distinct intellectual pleasure. Impresses the reader with a profound sadness, only lightened by the wonderful skill of the author’s style.”
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Outlook. 90: 748. N. 28, ’08. 200w.
“There is no denying that the novel leaves a painful impression on the reader’s mind.”
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Spec. 101: 785. N. 14, ’08. 200w.
Sedgwick, Henry Dwight. New American type, and other essays. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–12605.
Reflectively informing and written from a modern viewpoint, these essays are twelve as follows: The new American type, The mob spirit in literature, Mrs. Wharton, Certain aspects of America, Exile, Charles Russell Lowell, American colleges, A gap in education, Miss Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Nations and the decalogue, Mark Twain, and The coup d’état of 1861.
“Essays of popular character and more than ordinary charm, half serious, half humorous.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 207. Je. ’08.
“Taking the volume as a whole, it is typical of the better class of American essay writers.” F. M. Colby.
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Bookm. 27: 404. Je. ’08. 1200w.
“The writer’s ideals are high, and his style that of a critic ‘of natural gifts and educated taste, experienced in the humanities.’”
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Ind. 65: 492. Ag. 27, ’08. 480w.
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Nation. 86: 511. Je. 4, ’08. 150w.
“His essays are distinguished by clearness of vision, sanity, aptness of phrases, elevation of thought, insight—all the qualities that ought to distinguish essays, that, in fact, almost always do distinguish essays that reach the reviewers.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 251. My. 2, ’08. 900w.
“His mind has an edge, and his style bites at times like the point of the etcher’s needle. He pays the reader the respect of stating his own thought with the most uncompromising directness.”
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Outlook. 89: 810. Ag. ’08. 730w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
Putnam’s. 5: 109. O. ’08. 780w.
Seeberg, Reinhold. Fundamental truths of the Christian religion. (Crown theological lib.) *$1.50. Putnam.
A translation of a series of lectures given to German university students urging the modern critical method of studying the Bible and Christian doctrine.
“His sincerity is unquestioned, his learning extensive, his philosophic penetration of high order. His lectures, in their English version, scarcely do their author justice. It is doubtful 323if they will convey much meaning to one who is unfamiliar with current German theological discussion. Their treatment of large topics in metaphysics and theology is much too brief to be clear.”
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Nation. 87: 439. N. 5, ’08. 150w.
Reviewed by E. S. Drown.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 607. O. 24, ’08. 270w.
Seguin, Edward. Idiocy: and its treatment by the physiological method. $2. Teachers’ college, Columbia univ.
E8–718.
Containing a discussion of our present knowledge of idiocy, The method of treating idiots, The practice of the same, and An outline of the direction to be given to the scientific efforts of the friends of idiots and the apostles of universal education.
“It was a happy thought that led to the reprinting of this valuable thesis for many years out of print. All teachers of backward children should take advantage of this opportunity to secure the book.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 629. N. ’08. 90w.
Seignobos, Charles. History of medieval and of modern civilization to the end of the seventeenth century, tr. and ed. by James Alton James. *$1.25. Scribner.
7–29565.
Contains “selected topics of a nature to make the customs of each society clear, and explanations intended to make it understood how these customs were formed, modified and scattered.” “Many events are indeed briefly recalled, but only because of their special connection with the movement of civilization. The larger lines of political development are indicated, and a resumé is given of the essentials of medieval and early modern history with reference to institutions, customs, ideas, art and letters.” (Am. Hist. R.)
“It adds relatively little to what is to be found in our better manuals. Yet its matter is presented sometimes more truly than in our manuals and often much more effectively; and the translators have rendered, though not always with unswerving accuracy, on the whole with commendable success, both the sense and the style of the original.” E. W. Dow.
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 391. Ja. ’08. 440w.
“There is little that is novel in his treatment and the point of view taken is somewhat too French for Anglo-Saxon readers. Some of the failings of the book are probably due to the translator or adapter, whose English is rather stiff and wooden, and who owns to having made excerpts from M. Seignobos’s work.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 611. O. 12, ’07. 160w.
Selous, Frederick Courteney. African nature notes and reminiscences; with a “Foreword” by President Roosevelt. *$3. Macmillan.
8–21506.
An interesting side light on some phases of natural history. Observations made from experiences during thirty years of adventure in Africa have resulted in the theory that carnivorous beasts hunt their prey by scent rather than by sight. “President Roosevelt furnishes a foreword in which he heartily supports, from his own observations in the Rocky mountains, the views of the author as to the fallacy of much of the theory as to protective coloration of animals.” (Nation.) There are chapters on the hyena, the wild dog, the cheetah, the rhinoceros and the giraffe.
“Though authorities on natural history may arrive at different deductions, no one acquainted with the author will question the correctness of his facts.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 124. Ag. 1. 700w.
“It is an attractively written narrative.”
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Nation. 87: 165. Ag. 20, ’08. 530w.
“His remarkable sporting adventures are the more thrilling because of their obvious truth, and the quiet style of narration.” H. H. Johnston.
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Nature. 78: 217. Jl. 9, ’08. 1500w.
“While the entire volume, through which rings the love of the free, clean life of the wide open plains, may be described as a lifetime’s close and intelligent study of the habits and ways of wild creation, there runs through it a strain of adventurous excitement.”
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Sat. R. 105: 700. My. 30, ’08. 500w.
Seneca, Lucius Annæus. Tragedies of Seneca; tr. into English verse, to which have been appended comparative analyses of the corresponding Greek and Roman plays, and a mythological index, by Frank Justus Miller. *$3. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–40850.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
“The translation is accurate and close and succeeds in preserving the spirit at the same time.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 207. Je. ’08.
“The translation is not conspicuous for literary qualities.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 551. My. 2. 600w.
“On the whole this work, without being slavishly literal, is remarkably true to the content and spirit of the original, and is easily the most satisfying English version of the tragedies.” H. M. Kingery.
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Bookm. 27: 276. My. ’08. 1450w.
“His tabulated comparison of the tragedies with their Greek originals and his mythological index will be useful to students, and there is an excellent introductory essay by Professor Manly on Seneca’s influence on early English tragedy, of which the only complaint to be made is that it is too short.” J: W. Cunliffe.
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Class. J. 3: 336. Je. ’08. 500w.
“Professor Miller ... has succeeded in accomplishing the task of giving new life and interest to these products of the rhetoric of the early Roman empire.” David Magie, jr.
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Class. Philol. 3: 363. Jl. ’08. 1100w.
“Of course one who searches will find errors.” H. M. Kingery.
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Educ. R. 36: 419. N. ’08. 860w.
“Professor Miller’s translation is not merely scholarly: it is fluent and vigorous.”
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Ind. 63: 1568. D. 26, ’07. 560w.
Ind. 65: 311. Ag. 6, ’08. 200w.
“Professor Miller deserves high credit for making the best of these opportunities, and producing a book that is at once good reading in English and a faithful reproduction of the spirit of the original. His choruses are sometimes a trifle flat, missing the gravity of the original, but, in the longer narrative and ornamental passages of the dialogue he has been singularly successful.”
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Nation. 86: 110. Ja. 30, ’08. 610w.
“It is a model of what translation should be, faithful both in spirit and detail to its original, yet rendered into excellent English, and into verse that gives us the illusion of reading Seneca himself.” Christian Gauss.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 291. My. 23, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Miller’s version, though fluent and easy, is wanting in force, and often fails to catch the nervous energy of those terse, telling phrases in which Seneca delights.”
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Univ. Rec. 12: 119. Ja. ’08. 400w.
Serviss, Garrett Putnam. Astronomy with the naked eye: a new geography of the heavens; with descriptions and charts of constellations, stars, and planets. **$1.40. Harper.
8–14345.
This book by means of star-charts is intended to acquaint the casual observer with the appearance of the constellations, as viewed with 324the naked eye, with their histories and mythologies, and with the stories of their chief stars and star groups. The constellations are studied according to the months during which they approach the meridian, the north and south line of the sky. A separate chapter is given to the study of the planets.
“Compared with Martin’s ‘Friendly stars’ the present volume offers more information but lacks the charm of that book for reading.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 208. Je. ’08.
“It is an excellent guide to the study of the heavens, as a preliminary to that of scientific astronomy.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 407. O. 3. 200w.
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Dial. 44: 353. Je. 1, ’08. 230w.
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Ind. 64: 1403. Je. 18, ’08. 220w.
“The work is well and systematically done.”
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Lit. D. 36: 767. My. 23, ’08. 70w.
“Mr. Serviss is a clever writer, and the text is trustworthy ... but the material is assembled in heterogeneous fashion, and the index is very imperfect.”
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Nation. 86: 473. My. 21, ’08. 170w.
“It is the charm of Serviss’s attractive book that it blends all that is known of the stars and planets with all that has been imagined.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 288. My. 23, ’08. 750w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 344. Je. 13, ’08. 140w.
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R. of Rs. 38: 384. S. ’08. 30w.
Serviss, Garrett Putnam. Moon: a popular treatise. il. **$1.50. Appleton.
7–34594.
“The author presents in dialogue or conversational method a familiar and easily understood description of the important physical features of the moon. Technicalities are avoided, and there is nothing that would puzzle the reader of ordinary intelligence. The illustration is quite remarkable in its own way, for it consists of a series of lunar photographs showing the moon as it appears on successive evenings throughout an entire month, while the text describes the mountains, plains, and craters, as they are seen in the successive photographs.”—Outlook.
“While feminine characteristics are very obtrusive in the conversations, the reader may judiciously skip these, and find a wealth of accurate descriptive matter concerning the prominent features of the lunar landscape.”
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Dial. 44: 80. F. 1, ’08. 250w.
“The exquisite photographs—well reproduced—and the easily readable text of this volume should ensure it a welcome from all classes of readers, whether they be astronomers or not.” W. E. R.
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Nature. 78: 101. Je. 4, ’08. 220w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 17. Ja. 11, ’08. 180w.
“This form is in fact a very convenient and sensible one for the purpose in view, and Mr. Serviss has made use of it to advantage.”
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Outlook. 87: 544. N. 9, ’07. 160w.
“Mr. Serviss would have done better to stick to the ordinary method. Some readers, however, may prefer his device, and as far as we have tested the book it is quite trustworthy.”
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Spec. 101: 200. Ag. 8, ’08. 140w.
Seton, Ernest Thompson. Natural history of the ten commandments. **50c. Scribner.
7–36867.
Mr. Seton develops the theory that the decalogue is not arbitrary and for man’s use alone, but that it exists in the greater order of things and all highly developed animals obey its laws.
Am. J. Theol. 12: 673. O. ’08. 40w.
“Scoff as the reader may at the beginning, he is likely in the end to consider the idea a possible argument for moral evolution.” M. E. Cook.
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Dial. 43: 418. D. 16, ’07. 180w.
“Some scientists will criticise it as imaginative; that, in our view, is its virtue.”
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Outlook. 88: 42. Ja. 4, ’08. 90w.
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Sewell, Elizabeth Missing. Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell; ed. by her niece Eleanor L. Sewell. *$1.50. Longmans.
The record of a busy useful life that extended over ninety-one years. She identified herself thru life with literary interests, publishing volumes of travel, history and fiction, the best known of the last class being “Amy Herbert.” She became a pioneer worker in the movement of more thoro education for girls, founding St. Boniface school in the Isle of Wight.
“Her diary records much European travel. Her remarks on those she encountered are acute.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 576. N. 9. 1700w.
“The story of her youth gives some interesting glimpses of social and educational conditions in England during the early years of the last century.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 86. F. 15, ’08. 260w.
“Told in a somewhat fragmentary manner. On the whole, however, the picture is sufficiently complete.”
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Spec. 99: 617. O. 26, ’07. 350w.
Shaad, George C. Power stations and power transmission. $1. Am. school of correspondence.
7–37601.
A manual of approved American practice in the construction, equipment and management of electrical generation stations, substations and transmission lines, for power, lighting, traction, electrochemical and domestic uses. The volume is divided into two parts, one on the power station itself, and one on transmission.
“This book is free from those weaknesses of correspondence-school books which have been criticised in these volumes. It should be a very acceptable aid to those engineers who are called upon for such a great variety of work that they cannot become specialists in this particular branch.”
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Engin. N. 58: 541. N. 14, ’07. 540w.
Shallow, Edward B., and Cullen, Winifred T. Nature study made easy. *40c. Macmillan.
8–29747.
A series of lessons for the fourth grade of the New York city schools. While essentially a reading book the subject matter is suitable for nature study.
“There is a great deal of good and usable material in the book, but it is so badly confused with make-believe conversation, impersonation, emotionalism, and faulty science, that instead of making nature-study easy, it would seem to the reviewer that the book must join that mass of pseudo-nature literature which is really making it very hard for a real nature-study to take a place in the school curriculum.” O. W. Caldwell.
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El. School T. 8: 616. Je. ’08. 460w.
“The form of the book will lead many teachers to encourage reading more than observing. While it may for a time be useful for unprepared teachers, it is certainly not going to help much in solving the most pressing problems of nature study for city schools.”
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Ind. 65: 316. Ag. 6, ’08. 100w.
Shambaugh, Bertha Maud. Amana, the community of true inspiration. $3. State hist. soc. of Iowa, Iowa City, la.
8–19211.
The first detailed study of the Amana community of Iowa. Believing that “divine inspiration and revelation are just as real and potent to-day as in the time of Moses” these 325communists in both their church and their society are bringing into realization the oracular power of the Biblical prophets. “The people are graded into three spiritual orders. Celibacy is praised, marriage is permitted; but marriage reduces the pair temporarily to the lowest spiritual rank, and so does the birth of each child. There are no amusements, no school vacations, no politics. Daily prayer-meetings center all interest in the salvation of the soul.” (Outlook.)
“An extraordinarily interesting account of the life of this unique group.”
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Am. Hist. R. 14: 185. O. ’08. 350w.
“The author’s style is good; her account readable.” Carl Kelsey.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 636. N. ’08. 260w.
“The first thoro study of the community.”
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Ind. 65: 383. Ag. 13, ’08. 60w.
“Of peculiar present interest is this account.”
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Outlook. 89: 815. Ag. 8, ’08. 400w.
“A sympathetic and well-proportioned account of the social and spiritual growth of Amana.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 511. O. ’08. 120w.
Shamel, Charles H. Mining, mineral and geological law. $5. Hill pub. co.
7–42017.
A treatise on the law of the United States involving geology, mineralogy and allied sciences as applied in mining, real estate, public land, United States customs and other litigation; also the acquisition and maintenance of mining rights in the public domain and obtaining patents for mineral land under the United States mining laws. (Explanatory title.) It is designed for the lawyer as well as the practical man.
“A concise but thorough discussion of the scientific topics which are important in connection with mining litigation is given in the beginning of the work, and its value is supplemented by an excellent bibliography on these subjects.”
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Engin. D. 3: 305. Mr. ’08. 320w.
Engin. N. 59: 83. Ja. 16, ’08. 400w.
Sharp, Archibald. Balancing of engines: steam, gas, and petrol: an elementary text-book, using principally graphical methods; for the use of students, draughtsmen, designers, and buyers of engines. *$1.75. Longmans.
7–42489.
“This book discusses in detail the methods of obtaining good balances of the inertia forces of engines, and also briefly considers the question of uniform torque on the crank-shaft. The treatment is largely graphical, and the author has included original methods which he believes will greatly facilitate the computations of engine designers. Exercises for the use of students are appended to nearly all of the chapters.”—Technical Literature.
“As a whole, the book before us is admirably clear and well written. The most important contribution which Mr. Sharp makes is in his discussion of the kinetic energy of pistons and connecting rods.” L. S. Marks.
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Engin. N. 59: 80. Ja. 16, ’08. 960w.
Technical Literature. 2: 583. D. ’07. 100w.
Sharp, Dallas Lore. Lay of the land. **$1.25. Houghton.
8–27140.
“Fifteen brief talks on the small neighbors that share our home fields—the muskrat, the buzzard, the owl, the woodchuck, the hundred other small and large, but always busy, souls that have bodies to feed and must feed them chiefly when we are not looking—that is, not looking closely.” (Ind.) “The author retains enough of the scientific temper to keep him accurate and safe from undue romancing, but not enough to kill sentiment.” (Dial.)
“It will interest young people as much as adults.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 296. D. ’08. ✠.
“The volume might well have been named from its best chapter, ‘A cure for winter.’”
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Dial. 45: 297. N. 1, ’08. 370w.
“He is a born naturalist, a true lover of nature, and has the art which is not easily acquired—the art of Thoreau, of John Burroughs, of Gilbert White, of Selborne—of making interest where we poor, sightless creatures make a dead loss of our time.”
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Ind. 65: 1125. N. 12, ’08. 250w.
Sharp, Evelyn. Nicolete. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
The author introduces her readers to a “feckless but charming” family, inhabiting an old Tudor manor house. The father, an artist, belonging to “the fascinating, irresponsible order of beings,” and his beautiful wife bring up their seven children “on much love and a minimum of common-sense.” The sixth child, Nicolete, is the heroine of the story. She “combines the best qualities of both parents, but [is] destined by her loyalty and unworldliness to be perpetually victimized by her brothers and sisters.” (Spec.)
“Miss Sharp is one of the lucky people who write with charm, whatever their subject may be. Her children are always delightful, spontaneous, and really childlike, and, if many of her other characters are but grown-up children, they are none the worse for that.”
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Acad. 73: 849. Ag. 31, ’07. 230w.
“The narrative opens with some amusing sketches of child life, and is throughout bright and wholesome.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 204. Ag. 24. 170w.
“Various phases of London and suburban social life are described, all with a sure touch that reveals a wide knowledge and experience on the part of the author.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 92. F. 15, ’08. 300w.
“The book is readable, and more, right through, but the humour and freshness of the first part eclipse the somewhat long-drawn sequel, excellent though that sequel is as a study of an artistic temperament, hampered by environment and the possession of a conscience.”
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Spec. 99: 207. Ag. 24, ’07. 1320w.
Shaw, Albert. Outlook for the average man. **$1.25. Macmillan.
7–39228.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 84. Mr. ’08.
Reviewed by E. S. Bradford.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 460. S. ’08. 400w.
“His volume, although frankly remaining a series of talks rather than a book, has more unity than most collections of this sort; and it is hopeful and helpful.”
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Dial. 44: 109. F. 16, ’08. 420w.
“Its well-reasoned optimism is founded on wide knowledge and sincere human sympathy. Its analysis of present conditions, and its interpretation of them, are well-nigh authoritative.”
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Educ. R. 35: 206. F. ’08. 80w.
“Dr. Shaw’s work is judicial and dignified, tuned for presentation to academic audiences, but yet quite radical in tone and spacious in outlook.”
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Ind. 64: 418. F. 20, ’08. 180w.
J. Pol. Econ. 16: 50. Ja. ’08. 90w.
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Lit. D. 36: 164. F. 1, ’08. 330w.
Reviewed by Lyman Abbott.
Outlook. 88: 540. Mr. 7, ’08. 700w.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 23: 554. S. ’08. 200w.
“The five college addresses which make up this volume are all rich in suggestions derived from many years’ observation and experience.”
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326Shaw, Leslie Mortier. Current issues. **$2. Appleton.
8–8152.
Current political questions are discussed including the railway question, overcapitalization and watered stock, trusts, and the currency question.
“The book is of temporary interest.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 208. Je. ’08.
“Mainly of value as representing the views of one active in political life and at the head of the treasury during an interesting period in its administration.”
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J. Pol. Econ. 16: 634. N. ’08. 50w.
“For students of the political thought and movements of the last decade the volume has no little significance.”
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Nation. 87: 42. Jl. 9, ’08. 100w.
“What the book reflects is experience rather than learning, and a good native intellect rather than study.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 154. Mr. 21, ’08. 900w.
“Possesses beyond almost any other of our public men the gift of lucid exposition.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 507. Ap. ’08. 200w.
Shearer, John Bunyan. Scriptures: fundamental facts and features. 60c. Presbyterian com.
Seventeen Bible studies among which are included the following: The unities of the Scriptures; The object and scope of written revelation; The universal book; The canon; The supernatural in the Scriptures; Creation and the Creator; The relations of the Bible and science; Evolution; Geology; The six days of creation; The deluge; The Bible in liberal education and God in history. Nine chapters are devoted to the influence of Judaism on ancient religions, ancient philosophy, and ancient civilization.
Sheehan, Rev. Patrick Augustine. Lisheen, or, The test of the spirits. †$1.50. Longmans.
7–33595.
A young Irish landlord reads Tolstoi, applies the lesson, and discovers the condition of the Irish tenant must be improved. He deserts his station for a time and goes to work as a peasant on a small farm in Kerry. The hard fought battles of his self imposed apprenticeship to experience rather lose their force at the end in the magic of the “‘deus ex machina’ of a full purse.”
“Canon Sheehan is scarcely equal to his subject, but he must be accorded due praise for his descriptions of the monotonous existence led by the lowest classes in Ireland.”
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Acad. 73: 274. D. 21, ’07. 540w.
“The descriptions of peasant-life are admirable; the working out of the plot is not convincing.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 54. F. ’08.
“He has been tempted to add a secondary story, with disastrous results.”
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“This is all very well for a plot, but its handling is tame and ineffective.”
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Nation. 85: 591. D. 26, ’07. 420w.
“The story itself is rather awkwardly contrived, and the interest of its central theme is much weakened by the introduction of many chapters concerned with aristocratic society.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 74. F. 8, ’08. 150w.
“The pictures of peasant-life—by no means idealised—are admirable. The author must have discovered for himself, even though unconscious of his errors against reality and good taste, that in half his chapters he is building entirely upon guess-work.”
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Sat. R. 104: 673. N. 30, ’07. 540w.
Sheehan, Rev. Patrick Augustine. Parerga: a companion volume to Under the cedars and the stars. **$1.60. Longmans.
8–7172.
Meditations, some four hundred in number, arranged under the heading of the seasons, whose themes border on literature, metaphysics and practical life. “Though the subjects vary indefinitely, they are reflected in the same idealizing mirror of the writer’s mind. And of that mind the most insistent categories are a contempt for modern materialistic standards; a Solomon-like preference ... for the house of mourning over the house of laughter; a sense of the fact that the key to the world-riddle is kept by the spectre that holds the key to all the creeds; finally, that the flying years bring with them disillusionment—and resignation.” (Cath. World.)
“Imagination and feeling, literary criticism, moralizing on the mystery of things, keen but kindly observation of human nature, flow in an unstinted tide from this charming philosopher, as he flits from topic to topic with a sweep that embraces heterogeneity itself.”
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Cath. World. 87: 248. My. ’08. 340w.
“The book is far from being commonplace or dull.”
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Dial. 44: 314. My. 16, ’08. 450w.
“Dr. Sheehan is not at his best in literary matters. In meditations on nature and in certain aspects of human life he is more to be admired.”
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Spec. 100: 835. My. 23, ’08. 470w.
Sheldon, Henry Clay. Unbelief in the nineteenth century: a critical history. *$2. Meth. bk.
7–14561.
“A review of the various theories—philosophical, quasi-scientific, theological, ethical, critical—which since the time of Kant have more or less radically antagonized the beliefs of the church. These theories are first stated and then criticised. Both the statement and the criticism are presented in compact and lucid form, for a vindication of Christian belief. The author’s standpoint is conservative, but not extreme. He concludes that while the nineteenth century has rigorously tested Christian beliefs, and modified them to some extent, they have been fully vindicated in their fundamental features.”—Outlook.
“Mr. Sheldon writes in a clear style and shows wide reading in the broad field he covers. His exposition is clear and historical and his criticism such as is commonly urged by enlightened orthodox apologists. Professor Sheldon does not seem to realize the profound change that is demanded by our modern view of the world, and clings to elements that belong to a deistic interpretation of the universe.” W. C. Keirstead.
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Am. J. Theol. 12: 170. Ja. ’08. 690w.
“The entire discussion is fair-minded and instructive. The point of criticism to which it is most liable is in the use of ‘miraculous’ and ‘supernatural’ as equivalent terms—a common mistake, than which none is more fruitful of confused thought in current controversies.”
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Outlook. 87: 133. S. 21, ’07. 160w.
Sheldon, Mary Boardman. Coffee and a love affair: an American girl’s romance on a coffee plantation. †$1. Stokes.
8–21616.
A story among the mountains of Central America whither “one makes his way on the back of a good Sierra Nevada mule to a coffee plantation, where gasoline prevails not and the mail arrives by a banana boat every fourteen days.” (N. Y. Times.) “Here the reader cares more about the coffee than he does about the love affair—the descriptive parts and incidents of plantation life are really very good.” (Outlook.)
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 305. D. ’08. ✠
327“The coffee predominates, and the numerous interesting facts concerning it which are brought in under cover of a young American girl’s passion for traveling in strange countries and away from beaten tracks, commend the book as much to the masculine as to the feminine reader.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 458. Ag. 22, ’08. 240w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“An American woman ... tells her experiences with considerable liveliness, a little after the manner of ‘The lady of the decoration,’ but without that little book’s personal charm.”
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Outlook. 90: 134. S. 19, ’08. 80w.
Shelley, Henry Charles. Untrodden English ways. **$3. Little.
8–30034.
To the leisurely traveler or the stay-at-home tourist this volume is made valuable by chapters about St. Ives, the haunt of artists and authors: John Keble’s Hursley; By famous graves; Three memorable pulpits, John Cotton’s, Thomas Arnold’s and Henry E. Manning’s; Bunhill Fields, the “Campo santo of the dissenters”; and Westminster abbey’s collection of wax effigies which in centuries past have appeared in funeral processions.
“Mr. Shelley’s style is easy and readable, bespeaking intimate acquaintance with the subject in hand.”
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Dial. 45: 410. D. 1, ’08. 160w.
“A great amount of enthusiasm, reverence and love is bottled up in the book.”
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Ind. 65: 1180. N. 19. ’08. 50w.
“We advise these who are planning a voyage to England to procure and study this convenient handbook.”
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Lit. D. 37: 908. D. 12, ’08. 160w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 360w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 747. D. 5, ’08. 120w.
“This book will have special interest to those who love Devonshire.”
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Outlook. 90: 844. D. 12, ’08. 200w.
R. of Rs. 38: 739. D. ’08. 40w.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Letters from Percy Bysshe Shelley to Elizabeth Hitchener; with introd. and notes by Bertram Dobell. *$1.50. Dodd.
8–18715.
Some forty odd letters written by Shelley to the Sussex schoolmistress, Elizabeth Hitchener, who in the private life of the Shelleys was entitled “Portia.” or “Bessy,” but who in the end was denominated “the Brown Demon ... our later tormentor and schoolmistress.” The correspondence is published for the first time.
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 209. Je. ’08.
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Ath. 1908, 2: 302. S. 12. 640w.
“It is altogether a pathetic, interesting, absurd story; and though the letters contain nothing material to it which was not known before, it is satisfactory to have them complete.”
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Sat. R. 105: 339. Mr. 14, ’08. 1550w.
Spec. 100: 426. Mr. 14, ’08. 280w.
Sherrill, Charles Hitchcock. Stained glass tours in France. **$1.50. Lane.
8–856.
“Describes the notable windows to be seen and gives practical and full itineraries for reaching them. With a view to the convenience of the tourist and student, he divides the history of stained glass into three epochs: (1) The thirteenth century and earlier; (2) fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; (3) sixteenth century. Visits to the glass of these epochs are subdivided into a dozen tours. A table of itineraries groups the distances from Paris in kilometers. The illustrations show representative examples of the art.”—Int. Studio.
“A useful, interesting book for the intelligent sight seer.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 209. Je. ’08. ✠
“Had he taken only a little more trouble and been less diffident of his abilities, he could have produced a volume both fascinating and valuable, with little addition to its bulk.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 133. Ag. 1. 400w.
“Mr. Sherrill’s descriptions of the distinctive windows in each town are simple, non-technical, and interesting.”
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Dial. 44: 136. Mr. 1, ’08. 250w.
Int. Studio. 34: sup. 73. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“In system and accuracy of treatment the volume renders capital service as an introduction to the subject.”
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Nation. 86: 499. My. 28, ’08. 100w.
“He is a particularly pleasant guide.”
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Outlook. 89: 41. My. 2, ’08. 450w.
Sherzer, William Hittell. Glaciers of the Canadian Rockies and Selkirks. (Smithsonian expedition of 1904.) (Part of Smithsonian contributions to knowledge v. 34, no. 1692.) $1.75. Smithsonian inst.
8–4476.
“Gives the results of a systematic examination of the Victoria and Wenkchemna glaciers in Alberta and of the Yoho, Asulkan, and Illecillewaet glaciers in British Columbia. The study embraced the surface features of these glaciers, the nature of the ice movement, the temperature of the ice at various depths and its relations to the air temperatures, the amount of surface melting, the possible transference of material from the surface portion to lower portions, the rates of movement, the advances and recessions of the glacial extremities, and the structure of the ice. There is an accessory discussion of the physiographic changes of the region in Pleistocene and earlier times.”—J. Geol.
“An unsatisfactory flavor is given this by an effort, italicized as though important, to make plasticity mean something which plasticity does not usually mean, for no other apparent reason than to justify the retention of an old term which is likely to be either misleading or meaningless.” F. C. C.