Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Reviews of 1917 Books (continued 39)

“A not over sentimentalized picture of the life of a charming little girl of the sixties. ... It is not written for children, though they would enjoy parts of the story.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:62 N ‘17

+ Ind 92:447 D 1 ‘17 20w

“A real little classic. Elizabeth Bess is a heroine in whom little readers and older ones may well be interested. She is a human child, with a quick tongue, a wide-awake mind, an intense interest in everything about her.”

+ N Y Times 22:548 D 9 ‘17 440w

SCOTT, ERNEST. Short history of Australia. maps *$1.25 Oxford 994 17-14803

“A handy, clear, and well-written history, skilfully adjusting the narrative to the limits of a small volume without rendering it unattractive; equipped with a great many useful maps; and at the end a bibliography for each chapter. Index 15 pages.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“Prof. Ernest Scott occupies the chair of history in the University of Melbourne. His ‘Short history’ is a model of its kind. Based on firsthand knowledge of the sources, written in a clear, masculine style with an agreeable literary flavor, well proportioned, judicial in tone, equipped with such aids to the understanding as maps, plans, chronology, bibliography, and index, this admirable work will take its place at once as a prime authority on Australia.”

+ Nation 104:598 My 17 ‘17 1300w

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p626 D 21 ‘16 80w

SCOTT, JAMES BROWN, ed. Diplomatic documents relating to the outbreak of the European war; with an introd. 2v *$5 Oxford 940.91 16-18046

“Evidently it is the purpose of this work to furnish the student with the best and most comprehensive collection of the sources, but not to assist him further in the study of them, except that there is a large and excellent index. The documents are printed from the originals, when these are in English, and when in other languages from the official English translations. This collection is the most complete hitherto published, and contains besides the documents usually assembled the second ‘Austrian red book,’ concerning relations with Italy, most of the ‘Second Belgian gray book,’ the second ‘British blue book,’ relating to the rupture of relations with Turkey, the ‘Italian green book,’ and the second ‘Russian orange book,’ concerning relations with Turkey.”—Am Hist R

“Should be the standard collection on the subject for some time to come.” E: R. Turner

+ Am Hist R 22:657 Ap ‘17 400w

Pittsburgh 22:530 Je ‘17 50w

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Pratt p42 O ‘17 10w

“To the many books dealing with the outbreak of the war, the Carnegie Endowment for international peace has now added their contribution. For such a collection there is a real place. Some two years ago the British government, indeed, published a work similar in character, ‘Collected diplomatic documents relating to the outbreak of the European war’; so far as it went that seemed fully to meet all requirements; the volumes before us, however, are larger in their scope in that they include material which has appeared since then; for instance, the ‘Second Belgian grey book’ and the new edition of the ‘German white book.’ ... On the whole, it seems to us that it would have been wiser if the Carnegie institute had undertaken more immediate responsibility for the revision of the various translations.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p50 F 1 ‘17 850w

SCOTT, JOHN REED. Man in evening clothes. il *$1.50 (2c) Putnam 17-14179

In an amateur way, Colin Marjoribanks, an under-secretary of the British embassy in Washington, had been picking up valuable gems here and there, taking advantage of the carelessness of his women friends. From one he has obtained a fine pearl, from another an emerald necklace, from another several valuable rings. He is holding these until the time is safe for their disposal, when a professional jewel thief appears on the scene, “the man in evening clothes.” This unknown appears perfectly familiar with Colin’s little depredations and so holds him in his power. It is just at this time that the Hon. Patricia Packingham arrives from England, and the young secretary begins to see the error of his way. His efforts to get himself out of an awkward scrape come to a climax with a demand from the unknown thief that he act as a tool in robbing the British embassy. This forces confession, and forgiveness follows.

+ A L A Bkl 14:62 N ‘17

Boston Transcript p6 Je 13 ‘17 380w

“The story is entertainingly written and sufficiently ingenious, while the picture of Washington society is amusing.”

+ N Y Times 22:214 Je 3 ‘17 270w

“Stories of this trashy type do Mr Scott, who ordinarily is a diverting romancer, no credit.”

— Springf’d Republican p15 Jl 15 ‘17 230w

SCOTT, RHEA CLARKE. Home labor saving devices. il *$1 Lippincott 643 17-8895

The author, who is a rural extension worker, gives directions for the making at home or in school of labor saving devices, for the kitchen, dining-room, porch, poultry house, dairy, etc. The appendix includes: Fundamentals in woodworking; Suggested list of tools; List of publications for supplementary reading (chiefly government documents).

Agricultural Digest 2:505 Je ‘17 100w

+ A L A Bkl 13:385 Je ‘17

Ath p523 O ‘17 80w

Cleveland p112 S ‘17 30w

+ Ind 90:353 My 19 ‘17 30w

N Y Br Lib News 4:71 My ‘17

+ N Y Call p15 O 28 ‘17 210w

Pittsburgh 22:523 Je ‘17

Pratt p25 O ‘17 30w

+ Wis Lib Bul 13:155 My ‘17 50w

SCOTT, WILLIAM BERRYMAN. Theory of evolution. *$1 (2c) Macmillan 575 17-7196

This book, by the Blair professor of geology and palæontology in Princeton university, contains the Westbrook lectures delivered at the Wagner free institute of science, Philadelphia, in 1914. The author treats his subject with special reference to the evidence upon which the theory of evolution is founded. Contents: Present status of the question; Evidences for the theory—classification, domestication and comparative anatomy; Evidence from embryology and blood tests; Evidence from palæontology; Evidence from geographical distribution; Evidence from experiment—conclusion.

+ A L A Bkl 14:82 D ‘17

“The opening chapter gives a brief historical review of theories of evolution and a concise statement of the present status of the question. I have seen no better presentation of this body of data for both biologist and general reader than that given in this little book. My only criticism is that it is insufficiently illustrated, although the few illustrations used are well chosen.” H. H. Newman

+ Bot Gaz 63:325 Ap ‘17 130w

“The evidence for his thesis is presented honestly without forcing facts or ignoring flaws.”

+ Cath World 105:394 Je ‘17 280w

+ Cleveland p109 S ‘17 60w

+ Educ R 54:528 D ‘17 40w

+ Ind 92:260 N 3 ‘17 50w

“Then follows a chapter on evidences drawn from embryology, and also from the wholly unexpected field of blood-tests. This part of the volume will be of special interest to readers who have not kept themselves informed as to this remarkable advance in science. The chapter on evidence from palæontology maintains complete perspective, although there was some danger that the author’s studies in this particular direction might throw the sketch out of true.”

+ Nation 104:717 Je 14 ‘17 300w

N Y Br Lib News 4:60 Ap ‘17

“The layman in search of a summary of the present status of the theory of evolution will find in Professor Scott’s volume a straightforward, clear-cut and simple presentation of the most important single contribution to science in the nineteenth century. ... The book is valuable for its restraint and for the liberality of its view.” D: Rosenstein

+ N Y Call p14 Je 3 ‘17 700w

Pittsburgh 22:414 My ‘17 50w

St Louis 15:327 S ‘17 10w

+ — Springf’d Republican p6 O 29 ‘17 270w

SCOTT, WILLIAM ROBERT.^[2] Economic problems of peace after war; the W. Stanley Jevons lectures at University college, London, in 1917. *$1.40 (3½c) Putnam 304 (Eng ed 17-28670)

An indication of the course which progress may be expected to take after the war rather than a prediction of details. A study of emergency measures made “for the duration of the war” naturally gives rise to questions concerning the continuance of state and government control of activities, economic and industrial, after the war. Concerning commerce the writer reflects that warfare has extended into the third dimension and that it is possible, with the perfection of submarines and airships, commerce may do the same. But, he says, “there can be no single forecast of the future of commerce and industry in the first years of peace. ... It will take time to direct the new national spirit to industry and to utilize it to the full.” He believes that the economy practised during these days will become habitual; that the increased capital as a result of saving will aid in the reconstruction of industry when peace returns. Finally, he develops a new responsibility in industry. Industry is to be conceived not as an evolutionary process but as a problem, that of attaining a harmonious relation among men concerned in production.

“Professor Scott is more concerned to lay down broad principles than to attempt any very definite prediction of what the peace will bring us, and for that reason alone his book deserves attention.”

+ Spec 119:193 Ag 25 ‘17 120w

“The author takes what seems to us to be a sane but cheerful view of the future. If he is sometimes a trifle prosy and occasionally a 502little obscure, he has the excuse of the traditions of the great science of which he is a distinguished exponent.”

+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p314 Jl 5 ‘17 950w

SCOVELL, CLINTON HOMER. Cost accounting and burden application. *$2 Appleton 657 16-22873

“The principles and elements of cost are treated by Mr Scovell rather than any specific system of cost keeping. The determination and application of overhead charges or burden are given a prominent place. The five methods of applying burden are: Percentage on wages, percentage on labor and material, man-hour rates, old-machine rate, new-machine rate. ... Material and material cost with reference to the practice of machine shops are discussed in chapter 3. The succeeding chapter is on labor costs. The later chapters deal with cost accounting for special industries. ... The author states that every method and device mentioned in the book is in successful operation in some progressive industrial establishment.”—Engin N

“Probably the most important thing in the whole book, certainly the one about which there has been least written, is what the author calls ‘unearned burden.’ ... The work is to be recommended to managers, accountants, and students of cost accounting, chiefly for the fundamental principles discussed, and the very great number of suggestions offered.” M. M. FitzHugh

+ Am Econ R 7:137 Mr ‘17 850w

A L A Bkl 13:251 Mr ‘17

“The author would probably feel that his chief contribution lies in his treatment of unearned burden. ... The work at once is both scholarly and practical, and should rank high among the books in this country on the subject.” Spurgeon Bell

+ Ann Am Acad 71:225 My ‘17 400w

Engin N 77:108 Ja 18 ‘17 300w

“Closely related to the absence of accounting forms is the lack of any adequate presentation of the relations between cost accounting and the general accounting system of the business making use of cost accounts. The book falls short of establishing completeness as a treatise on cost accounting by reason of the conscious emphasis upon the order method of production and the corresponding neglect of the process method and of the so called continuous industries. The book contains particularly good chapters upon unearned burden, interest as an element of cost, the verification of burden estimates, and the budget system.”

J Pol Econ 25:639 Je ‘17 300w

N Y Br Lib News 4:24 F ‘17

“Author is a specialist in industrial accounting. He is of the modern school. ... The book is not a systematic treatise, suitable for students, but is a logical discussion of general principles. ... It should be read by practical accountants who wish to be informed as to the latest and best theory of their profession.” W: Kent

+ Pittsburgh 22:465 My ‘17 50w (Reprinted from Journal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers p369 Ap ‘17)

R of Rs 55:221 F ‘17 40w

+ Springf’d Republican p17 N 25 ‘17 40w

+ Wis Lib Bul 13:23 Ja ‘17 60w

SCUDDER, VIDA DUTTON. Church and the hour; reflections of a socialist church woman. *$1 Dutton 261 17-10459

This book “attempts a reconciliation between the faith of the church and the ideals of social reform by showing the identity of the two. The author, who is a professor in Wellesley college, looks upon the church as primarily a social organization and social force, and believes that the more the corporate ideal is stressed the nearer the church is to fulfilling its task in society. As to socialism, the author asserts that it is incomplete and impotent unless it take account of the fact that man has a soul. Intensely individualistic Christianity and anti-Christian socialism are believed by Miss Scudder to be powerless half-truths.”—Springf’d Republican

Cleveland p106 S ‘17 80w

“The great question is, Can a democratic society believe in the Christian God? The question is not settled, but it is one of the most important that we have before us to-day. Any intelligent discussion of it must be of value.” Ward Swain

Dial 62:523 Je 14 ‘17 900w

“Miss Scudder is less vague than most others who are lamenting the breakdown of Christianity with a sneer at the parson. Herself a Socialist, she has some ideas as to how the church might enforce principles of social justice and thus ensure international stability.”

+ Nation 104:635 My 24 ‘17 220w

N Y Times 22:223 Je 10 ‘17 370w

Pratt p8 O ‘17 10w

“Anyone who believes that socialism and Christian faith are antagonistic to each other will be interested in Miss Scudder’s argument in the chapter entitled ‘Two letters to The Masses.’ ... The book is well written though the material is at times somewhat fragmentary. Throughout the reader is attracted by the note of mysticism and the faith in humanity.”

+ Springf’d Republican p19 My 27 ‘17 270w

“Both at its heights of social hope and its depths of religious idealism this volume lacks a practical hold on the unity of a human life. It fails to show just how the church, which cannot be regarded as a separate body, can yet be so separate from the people constituting it that it can dwell apart on a higher level while they themselves must so largely live and labor on the ‘lower range of the natural life.’” Graham Taylor

– + Survey 38:370 Jl 28 ‘17 650w

SCUDDER, VIDA DUTTON.^[2] Le morte d’Arthur of Sir Thomas Malory and its sources. *$3.50 Dutton 398.2 17-31449

“The author is professor of English literature in Wellesley college, and the book is the outcome of fifteen years of study with her college classes. The volume is concerned with Arthurian romances intimately connected with England and deals with the sequence leading up to the ‘Morte d’Arthur’ of Malory. The development of the romances through the centuries is studied, with now and then a glance at the form they took on the continent, the author constantly comparing the sources from which Malory drew with his own treatment of characters and incidents and constantly finding in the romances the reflection of life and thought, and feeling during mediaeval times. ... The first half of the book is devoted to a consideration of the sources from which Malory drew his material, but the second part takes up Malory’s work and after a chapter on the man and his book goes on to examine, discuss and interpret the various elements of his ‘Morte d’Arthur.’”—N Y Times

“She has made a brilliant contribution to the subject of mediaeval romance merely by the comprehensiveness with which she has surveyed the results of modern investigation, the thoroughness with which she has mastered and digested them and the very readable style in which she has presented her narrative. Her book is a work of fine scholarship, but it is also written in so interesting a manner that it deserves the popular reading for which it is intended.”

+ N Y Times 22:549 D 9 ‘17 600w

“What she has done here is of permanent value and is presented with sincere literary effort.”

+ Outlook 117:654 D 19 ‘17 50w

SEAMAN, MRS AUGUSTA HUIELL. Girl next door. il *$1.25 (3c) Century 17-24404

The author of “The boarded-up house” and “The sapphire signet” has written a new story for girls which now appears in book form after serial publication in St Nicholas. The old 503house next door appears to be deserted, for its shutters are always closed. Marcia and Janet, however, early discover that there are signs of life about it, and their interest, already aroused at the first hint of mystery, is intensified when they learn that the place shelters a young girl. When they succeed in making friends with Cecily they expect the puzzle to solve itself, but they are only more mystified, for Cecily herself does not know why she has been brought to live in the strange house. And, stranger still, Miss Benedict, its veiled mistress, does not know who Cecily is or from where she has come. Genuine love for Cecily takes the place of curiosity as the motive that drives the two girls on to the solution of the mystery.

“An entertaining mystery story for girls.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:101 D ‘17

Reviewed by J: Walcott

+ Bookm 46:499 D ‘17 100w

+ Ind 92:447 D 1 ‘17 20w

“As real a mystery story as ever was written for grown-ups.”

+ N Y Times 22:547 D 9 ‘17 90w

SEARS, CHARLES HATCH. Edward Judson, interpreter of God. il $1 Am. Bapt. 17-14394

“One of his friends, the Rev. Charles H. Sears, has sketched the events and the motives of Dr Judson’s public life. Against the background of his childhood in Burma, his orphaned boyhood in America, and his life as student and teacher and pastor of a prosperous suburban church, stands out his heroic venture in founding an institutional church in downtown New York. Like his great father, Adoniram Judson, he had the spirit of the pioneer, and his was one of the first expressions of the social ministry of the modern city church for all sorts and conditions of men.”—Lit D

“Sympathetic portrayal of an unselfish life.”

+ Lit D 55:41 N 3 ‘17 160w

“This volume would have been of greater value to the public if its author had not been requested to treat Dr Judson’s life in its public rather than in its personal relations. For Dr Judson’s power was in his personality.”

+ — Outlook 116:451 Jl 18 ‘17 300w

Pratt p44 Jl ‘17 20w

SEDGWICK, WILLIAM THOMPSON, and TYLER, HARRY WALTER.^[2] Short history of science. il *$2.50 Macmillan 509 17-31086

Addressed to the student and the general reader this volume goes back to the origin of scientific knowledge, and of the scientific method which has not only revolutionized scientific study but has been widely applied to all kinds of human activity. The writers begin with the ancient Babylonians, Assyrians, Egyptians and Phoenicians whose monuments and inscriptions have furnished the material for the beginnings of scientific study. The development of the science of mathematics, astronomy and medicine and the contribution made by different nations occupies nine chapters. The second half of the text starts with the quickening influences of the age of discovery at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century and traces the progress of modern national, physical and mathematical science to the beginning of the twentieth century.

Boston Transcript p3 D 15 ‘17 300w

“A vast subject is treated with breadth of view and keenness of insight in this book. It strikes a happy balance between the technical works that are meant for the special student and the works that deal so largely with abstract theories that they fail to grip the general reader. A good example of the work of specialists who know how to make their subject interesting to non-specialists.”

+ Outlook 118:68 Ja 9 ‘18 70w

SEEBACH, JULIUS FREDERICK, and SEEBACH, MRS MARGARET REBECCA (HIMES). Singing weaver, and other stories. il *$1 (2c) Lutheran pub. soc. 17-21643

These “hero tales” for young people have been brought together in honor of the four-hundredth anniversary of the reformation. The authors say that they are true stories of some of the obscure, but none the less real heroes of that time. Contents: The singing weaver; Her little Bible; At the king’s bidding; The good little hen; Lady Philippine’s Easter gift; At the turn of the tide; His majesty’s potter; The price of a book; The courage of Grizel; The glorious return. The book has an effective frontispiece in color by Jessie Gillespie.

SEEGER, ALAN. Letters and diary. il *$1.25 (3c) Scribner 940.91 17-14031

Alan Seeger, the young American poet who, at the beginning of the war enlisted in the Foreign legion of France and died in a charge at Belloy-en-Santerre on July 4, 1916, tells of his service in the trenches, in the rear, and on the field, in fragments of a diary and in letters home and to the New York Sun, covering the period from September 27, 1914, to June 28, 1916.

A L A Bkl 14:20 O ‘17

“It is for America as well as for France that these letters speak. They come to the public eye at a most propitious moment. ... Alan Seeger was a fore-runner of the hundreds of Americans who will join hands with France and with all the allies of France for the salvation of humanity.” E. F. E.

+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 13 ‘17 1350w

Cleveland p101 S ‘17 50w

“The greater portion of the book is ordinary, quite like the many books from the hands of mere journalists. There is another, smaller, but far more important part of the volume that is also disappointing, and in inverse ratio to its size; it is the part, or parts, where the poet does write and where, therefore, his philosophy of life appears. Alan Seeger was narrow-minded. Seeger’s [view] is so largely a mere expression of his emotions that, annoyance becomes the dominant reaction as one reads. He was tired of ordinary existence, that existence which demands the best powers of mind and soul. Victor Chapman, in his ‘letters from France,’ says: ‘Remember Alan Seeger was an appalling wreck before the war.’” B. I. Kinne

– + Dial 63:206 S 13 ‘17 1250w

“Perhaps nearer to literature than anything that has come to us from the trenches. ... His pages are extraordinarily vivid and human and yet curiously impersonal. There is hardly an anecdote, hardly a mention of an individual. Idiosyncrasies of character, incidents of trench life were not his interest and yet you live trench life with him, and you breathe the very spirit of the war.”

+ Ind 90:514 Je 16 ‘17 1000w

“The real interest of this little book is in the psychological conditions which threw this young American into the war and made him glory in his experiences.”

Nation 104:758 Je 28 ‘17 1350w

“Throughout the record there is manifest a grace of mind and character that is both touching in its appeal and prohibitive of false sentiment. Sad as it is, the book is inspiriting.”

+ No Am 206:137 Jl ‘17 650w

Pratt p42 O ‘17 20w

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p612 D 13 ‘17 620w

SEEGER, ALAN. Poems: with an introd. by W: Archer. *$1.25 Scribner 811 16-24961

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

“A large part of the poems in this volume can reasonably well stand on their strictly literary merits. ... We like to think that if Rupert Brooke had lived he would have eliminated from his final volume some of the unnecessary gaucheries 504of expression, as well as some of the unworthy compositions which were rushed into print under the impulse of the sudden fame brought about by his death. The same thought occurs in the case of Alan Seeger.” H. F. Armstrong

+ — Dial 62:243 Mr 22 ‘17 750w

+ Ind 89:270 F 12 ‘17 220w

“Of his artistic capacity there can be no question. At twenty-eight he was master of a rich and flexible technique which I hesitate to call exceptional only because in our dædal and prodigious age exceptions are turning into rules before our eyes. The strains are Lydian, Lydian even in the rifle-pits; and to his ideals, which include Sidney, Byron, Napoleon, and Roosevelt, I am impelled to add, as analogue if not as exemplar, Sardanapalus.” O. W. Firkins

+ Nation 104:710 Je 14 ‘17 270w

Pittsburgh 22:507 Je ‘17 20w

The Times [London] Lit Sup p251 My 24 ‘17 120w

SEELY, HERMAN GASTRELL. Son of the city. il *$1.35 (2c) McClurg 17-25592

Sketches of boyhood, as maturity remembers it. Of stories of child life in the country there are many. The activities and interests of the city boy are more rarely pictured. But in this story of the city, apparently Chicago, the essential characteristics of boy nature are shown to vary little with the environment. Sport, love, and adventure are the matters that occupy this boy’s mind much as they did that of Tom Sawyer.

“The particular hero of Mr Seely’s telling holds the reader’s interest from start to finish.”

+ Boston Transcript p6 N 24 ‘17 150w

“The book is strongly reminiscent of the sentiments which inspire Briggs’s cartoons. ... There are quite a few passages where action lags and interest wanes. But the chief charm, and one that pervades the volume, is that older than Aristotle—recognition. Youth comes back with all its fond impulsiveness and sudden bitternesses, but still vivid and happily refreshing.”

+ — N Y Times 22:469 N 11 ‘17 300w

SEGAR, MARY G., comp. Some minor poems of the middle ages; glossary by Emmeline Paxton. *$1 Longmans 821 17-13422

“This is complementary to Miss Segar’s recent ‘Mediæval anthology,’ and should help to fill in the background against which the greater and better-known works stand out. ... Some of these pieces are widely known; others, and not least interesting, are unfamiliar. These do, as the preface claims, ‘Illustrate the mind and deeds of the time, and its manners and customs.’ Miss Segar writes an excellent introduction, and the glossary and notes smooth the way for any intelligent student.”—Ath

+ Ath p101 F ‘17 110w

+ Cath World 105:404 Je ‘17 110w

N Y Br Lib News 4:85 Je ‘17

St Louis 15:183 Je ‘17

SELLARS, ROY WOOD. Essentials of philosophy. *$1.60 (1½c) Macmillan 102 17-22306

This book, intended as an introduction to philosophy, concerns itself with those “general problems which confront all knowledge.” “He who has wrestled with these,” says the author, “can face the more empirical questions of the secondary philosophical subjects with equanimity.” He takes up first the problems of the theory of knowledge, second those of metaphysics or ontology. He says, “We shall, I believe, become convinced that the answer to ontological problems depends in a larger measure than has been acknowledged upon the answer given to epistemological problems. Only the final chapter will concern itself with values. The method we shall use may be called the genetic for want of a better name. ... The history of philosophy will always be kept subordinate to the main purpose, that of a clear and consistent statement of problems and their solutions, so far as solutions are realizable.” (Chapter 1) The author is professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan.

Ind 92:262 N 3 ‘17 50w

“This book, in the opinion of the reviewer, is one of the most acceptable introductory texts that has come under his notice. It is well fitted to the needs of the beginner, and it admits of all necessary expansion on the part of the teacher. It should find wide acceptance as a text.” A. G. A. Balz

+ J Philos 14:668 N 22 ‘17 500w

SELTZER, THOMAS, comp and ed. Best Russian short stories. (Modern lib. of the world’s best books) il *60c Boni & Liveright 17-20418

The compiler states that “the present volume is the most comprehensive anthology of the Russian short story in the English language. ... Korolenko’s ‘Shades’ and Andreyev’s ‘Lazarus’ first appeared in Current Opinion, and Artzybashev’s ‘The revolutionist’ in the Metropolitan Magazine.” (Introd.) Contents: The queen of spades, by A. S. Pushkin; The cloak, by N. V. Gogol; The district doctor, by I. S. Turgenev; The Christmas tree and the wedding, by F. M. Dostoyevsky; God sees the truth, but waits, by L. N. Tolstoy; How a muzhik fed two officials, by M. Y. Saltykov; The shades, a phantasy, by V. G. Korolenko; The signal, by V. N. Garshin; The darling, The bet, Vanka, by A. P. Chekhov; Hide and seek, by F. K. Sologub; Dethroned by I. N. Potapenko; The servant, by S. T. Semyonov; One autumn night, Her lover, by M. Gorky; Lazarus, by L. N. Andreyev; The revolutionist, by M. P. Artzybashev; The outrage, by A. I. Kuprin.

SETON, ERNEST THOMPSON. Preacher of Cedar Mountain; a tale of the open country. il *$1.35 (1c) Doubleday 17-12957

The story opens with an account of Jim Hartigan’s boyhood in a little town in Ontario. This part of his life comes to an end with his conversion at a crude revival meeting. He goes west as a missionary preacher and finds his field in the Black hills. He finds, too, the right woman, the one whose loving wisdom guides his after life. In that day horse racing was looked on by Jim’s church as one of the deadly sins, but a love for horses is in his blood, and it was inevitable that he should be drawn to the sport that flourished on the frontier. A big race between soldiers and Indians is one of the features of the story.

+ A L A Bkl 13:452 Jl ‘17

“Breathes a spirit of love of nature, and contains many beautiful word-pictures of landscapes.”

+ — Cath World 105:685 Ag ‘17 200w

– + Ind 91:189 Ag 4 ‘17 50w

“A vivid story.”

+ Lit D 55:34 Ag 18 ‘17 240w

“Mr Thompson Seton loses his distinction when he begins to write about human beings. ... Almost anybody might have written such a yarn; and it is perhaps to Mr Seton’s credit that he seems more interested in the horses than in the men and women of the story. ... But the author’s friends must hope that he will go back to his wolves and grizzlies.”

Nation 105:72 Jl 19 ‘17 230w

“As a story of character development it is very interesting. And it is also unusual. For there is no sentimentality in the tale of Jim’s evolution, and the things that happen to him are full of concrete interest themselves.”

+ N Y Times 22:177 My 6 ‘17 650w

“We predict a wide popularity for this story.”

+ Outlook 116:160 My 23 ‘17 90w

“One is not surprised to learn that a story of so much breadth and reality is for the most part historical, and many of its characters, including its hero, are drawn from life.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p507 O 18 ‘17 170w

505SETON, JULIA (MRS FRANKLIN WARREN SEARS).^[2] Destiny. *$1.35 (2c) Clode, E: J. 17-22566

A new thought novel which forestalls unsympathetic comment by claiming that “every book that is written has a meaning and a purpose; sometimes this meaning and purpose is plain; ... sometimes however, only God and the author really understand it.” The heroine is a young girl who is keen scented for a life of adventure. She grows irritable among the commonplaces of life with her country foster parents and her country lover. She longs for the world. Her opportunity comes, and with it encouragement to delve deep into all “sciences, psychologies, philosophies, and religions.” With the husband of her friend, who had opened the door to her new life, she enters the world beyond and “sees at work the laws of the inner relationship of spheres and consciousness.” Here the lay reader loses her, but soon finds her again as she emerges to the discovery that she is the soul mate of her friend’s husband. The reader is led to believe that the events swiftly following this development, the resistance, and final conquest, are wholly in keeping with the teachings of new thought.

“A highly moral book. And whatever it may lack, occasionally, in uniqueness of plot, or brilliancy of description and dialogue, is fully compensated for by its measureless compass of lofty spiritual values. To all disciples of new thought this last book of Dr Seton’s will be of singular interest.” D. F. G.

+ — Boston Transcript p10 O 6 ‘17 400w

“All the characters talk a very great deal, and the author indulges in unending dissertations.”

— N Y Times 22:388 O 7 ‘17 170w

“With all this wonderfully constructed background of the psychic, the hidden, the occult, Dr Seton has aroused in her readers a tense expectation. We proceed eagerly with the breathless hope of seeing Audrienne solve the mystery of life and love, disclose the secret which lies behind the beyond. It is frankly, therefore, a disappointment to be called upon to witness Dr St Elmo and our heroine clasped in each other’s arms amid the ‘deepest, darkest shrubbery,’ and to find the author herself commenting on the scene, ‘They had found all they had looked for; all they had longed for, far above the law of all mystical research.’” Joseph Mosher

— Pub W 92:1376 O 20 ‘17 650w

Seven years in Vienna (August, 1907—August, 1914); a record of intrigue. il *$1.50 Houghton 943.6 A17-1120

“Popular and gossipy, this traces the course of political events from 1907-1914 and the reason for Austria’s entrance into the war. Gives rather vivid characterizations of members of the royal family including the late emperor Francis Joseph and the murdered archduke and his wife, and describes many of the intrigues of the governing political party of Austria.”—A L A Bkl

A L A Bkl 13:396 Je ‘17

“Very early in his record of intrigue in the German and Austrian courts he reveals an intimate acquaintance with his subject and with the intricacies of court life and the people who direct and control it.” H. S. K.

+ Boston Transcript p8 Mr 24 ‘17 780w

“What he or she has to say of the inner workings of government machinery is entertaining enough, but unsupported by any basis of authority.”

Dial 62:487 My 31 ‘17 120w

“A farrago of backstairs tittle-tattle, newspaper clippings, and downright guesswork.”

— Nation 104:715 Je 14 ‘17 250w

N Y Br Lib News 4:77 My ‘17

“An interesting book, this, yet scarcely a valuable one. It is poorly written, poorly assembled, confused at times to a point of an inconsistency which is probably more apparent than real.”

– + N Y Times 22:270 Jl 22 ‘17 1050w

St Louis 15:134 My ‘17 20w

SEVERANCE, FRANK HAYWARD. Old frontier of France. 2v il *$7.50 (2c) Dodd 974.7 17-13293

Drawing on records in the archives of France, Canada and the United States, the author has brought together a mass of material bearing on the history of the Niagara region and adjacent lakes under French control. The work is intended as an authentic historical record. The author says, “If I have seldom turned aside from the mere recording of events, to remark on the policies of the powers which were rivals in the region, or on the consequences of their conduct, it is because I have felt that the truest exposition of these ambitions of courts, these failures or achievements of ministries, lay in setting forth as simply and clearly as possible, the things that were done.” Volume 1 covers the period from the early explorations to about 1751. In volume 2 the historical record is carried to the surrender of Fort Niagara, with supplementary chapters on the career of Chabert. The volumes are well illustrated, with maps, plans and facsimiles.

“No one is so well qualified as Mr Severance to tell the story of this region. With its topography and later history he has long been familiar, and he has evidently spent years collecting material for this work, laying under contribution manuscript sources in the archives of Paris, London and Ottawa, contemporary newspapers and pamphlets and familiar printed collections like the ‘New York colonial documents.’ The result is a work for the specialist and not for the general reader, one which will be found to disclose new facts and sources of information rather than to change fundamentally the reader’s conception of the character of the men and events under consideration. Within these self-imposed limitations the book is one of great value.” A. H. Buffinton

+ Am Hist R 23:180 O ‘17 800w

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“Mr Severance of the Buffalo historical society, and author of ‘Old trails on the Niagara frontier’ and other historical works, is fitted to write of the domination of the Niagara region by the French. ... His work presents an assemblage of historical facts which will be of inestimable value to the historian and the economist who deals with results as well as causes.” G. H. S.

+ Boston Transcript p6 My 23 ‘17 1100w

“Mr Severance is painstaking and accurate, with an apparently vastly absorbent, orderly intellect, and if only he might have quickened his subject with a more human touch, the reviewer could accord him unstinted praise.”

+ — Dial 63:458 N 8 ‘17 460w

SEVERN, ELIZABETH.^[2] Psychology of behaviour. *$1.50 (2c) Dodd 130 17-31920

The writer is a practitioner of psychotherapy and mental science. From the metaphysical rather than biological, the idealistic and suggestive, rather than materialistic and positive point of view, she analyses human motives and needs. The chapter on “Self” offers encouragement to the self-depreciating individual for it sets a high value on each self as an entity whose quality and idiosyncrasies distinguish it from every other particle in the universe and render it an essential part of the whole. The culture of self “is the only path to liberation and high behaviour,” says the author.

SEWARD, ALBERT CHARLES, ed. Science and the nation; with an introd. by the Right Hon. Lord Moulton. *$1.50 Putnam 504 17-21369

Thirteen essays by Cambridge university graduates, on the importance of pure science and its relation to applied science. “Lord Moulton points the general moral in an introduction—namely, 506that the facts and methods of science should receive more attention in our schools and universities.” (Spec) “Contents: The national importance of chemistry, W. J. Pope; Physical research and the way of its application, W. H. Bragg; The modern science of metals, pure and applied, W. Rosenhain; Mathematics in relation to pure and applied science, E. W. Hobson; The science of botany and the art of intensive cultivation, F. W. Keeble; Science in forestry, W. Dawson; Systematized plant-breeding, R. H. Biffen; An agricultural war problem, T. B. Wood; Geology as an economic science, Herbert H. Thomas; Medicine and experimental science, F. Gowland Hopkins; The ‘specific treatment’ of disease, G. H. F. Nuttall; Flies and disease, G. S. Graham-Smith; The government of subject peoples, W. H. R. Rivers.” (N Y Br Lib News)

“Each essay is written by a master of his subject, and the claims of the various sciences to recognition are presented in a most attractive and reasonable manner. The writers are making a simple and direct appeal to the general and educated public. There is no undue exploitation of any one science; there is no attempt to minimize the importance of the humanities; on the contrary, there is an earnest appeal for a proper balance of these two branches of civilization.”

+ Nation 105:274 S 6 ‘17 260w

“Individually the chapters are of the utmost interest to the general reader; they give him compactly and authoritatively a sound idea of the scope and value of contemporary work in chemistry, physics, botany, geology, medicine, mathematics, and anthropology. ... Yet the present reviewer who is a journalist very anxious for the advancement of science and very eager to serve it if he can, turns from this book with an uncomfortable sense that scientific men have still to develop a definite policy with regard to schools and colleges and higher education. ... Against the strangle-grip of the classic-worshipping mandarins on our higher English education such a book as ‘Science and the nation’ scarcely fights at all.” H. G. Wells

+ — Nature 99:141 Ap 19 ‘17 1350w

N Y Br Lib News 4:124 Ag ‘17

N Y P L New Tech Bks p19 Jl ‘17 110w

Spec 118:393 Mr 31 ‘17 170w

“The book opens with a contribution from Professor Pope to demonstrate that war on its present scale would have been impossible for Germany had not her chemists prepared the way. ... The feature common to nearly all the essays, but most clearly developed by Professor Bragg, is the insistence upon pure science, pursued for its own sake, as the fountain of all discovery, even in applied science. ... In addition to their discontent with the position of science in the economy of the nation, there are signs that the Cambridge essayists are not without some resentment at the treatment accorded to the scientific man himself, more at his lack of influence than as regards the actual rewards that he misses.”

The Times [London] Lit Sup p135 Mr 22 ‘17 2000w

SHACKLETON, ROBERT.^[2] Book of New York. il *$2.50 Penn 917.471 18-87

“Mr Shackleton is a trained observer of the picturesque and the historical, and in this volume he reveals a New York, or rather several New Yorks, that many life-long citizens of the poly-headed metropolis probably know little about. His book is at once historical, anecdotal, artistic, and informative in its appeal; above all, it seeks to capture the elusive spirit of the great city. The oldest houses and the newest palaces, the quaint corners and the splendid modern vistas, and the stories that lie behind them, all figure in Mr Shackleton’s narrative and in the many illustrations, from photographs and in pen-and-ink, which he has assembled. The photographs are reproduced in sepia and the pen-drawings are by Boyer.”—Lit D

A L A Bkl 14:165 F ‘18

+ Boston Transcript p6 D 26 ‘17 600w

+ Lit D 55:51 D 8 ‘17 100w

“Rather desultory, but always agreeable.”

+ — Outlook 118:67 Ja 9 ‘18 40w

SHARMAN, HENRY BURTON.^[2] Records of the life of Jesus. *$2.50 Assn. press 226 17-19831

A topical study of the actual career of Jesus whose first part makes comparative use of the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke and whose second part is based on the gospel of John. “Dr Sharman describes this book as ‘a super-harmony of the gospels.’ The book is an ambitious and scholarly attempt to put the gospels in a new setting and, at the same time, to avoid, as far as possible, any dislocation or distortion of passages. It is unique in that it permits (by printing consecutive passages in Roman type) the continuous reading of each gospel. The synoptics have been harmonized, while the gospel of John is given by itself with the fullest possible cross reference to the synoptics. Passages which are similar but not actually parallel are given in foot-notes.” (Publishers’ note)

“Easily the best harmony of the gospels that has been published up to the present time. The book is admirable, both for reader and student.” F. W. C.

+ Boston Transcript p2 D 15 ‘17 740w

SHARP, HILDA M. Stars in their courses. *$1.50 (1c) Putnam 17-7812

“To be the child of an unhappy marriage is to be heavily handicapped at the very outset of that strange, unequal game we call life,” says the author. This was the fate of her hero, Patrick Yardley. When he was five years old, his mother disappeared out of his life, and his father, a very rich, self-made man, transferred to the child the bitter hatred engendered by the mother’s faithlessness. He teaches the boy to love money and then disinherits him, leaving his fortune to Patrick’s cousin. Patrick becomes a wanderer. An inherited passion for gambling is indulged in far places of the earth and wild stories of his way of life come back to England. His return, his meeting with the girl who is engaged to his cousin, and the discovery that his father had made a later will are events of the second half of the story. “The stars in their courses fought against Sisera,” seems to be the source of the title.

“It hardly creates the illusion of reality. Miss Sharp has an excellent plot in which inherited gambling instincts, blackmail, and accident play a perfectly legitimate part. Her characters too, except, in their speech, are true to type. She has a clever way of expressing her view of her characters that makes her work amusing, but her melodramatic dialogue all but ruins her best effects.”

– + Dial 62:444 My 17 ‘17 130w

“Somehow the author has made an interesting story even tho she has employed almost all the hackneyed situations known to fiction.”

+ — Lit D 54:1089 Ap 14 ‘17 200w

“Several of the minor characters in this oldfashioned story are well drawn.”

– + N Y Times 22:69 F 25 ‘17 300w

– + Springf’d Republican p17 Jl 8 ‘17 300w

SHEAFFER, WILLIAM ADAM.^[2] Household accounting and economics. *65c Macmillan 657 17-3038

This practical work has chapters on: Personal accounts; Economics of the household; The family budget; How to keep the family accounts; How to open a bank account; Making payments by check; Envelope and card systems of keeping accounts; The household inventory and fire insurance protection, etc. The book is intended primarily as a text book for girls studying home economics, but the author points out that it furnishes valuable training for boys as well. It is also adapted to the use of the individual housekeeper or of 507clubs making a study of the subject. The author is head of the commercial department of West division high school, Milwaukee.

A L A Bkl 13:385 Je ‘17

+ Cleveland p 20 F ‘18 30w

“This book should be a welcome addition to the working library of the housekeeper.” J. S.

+ St Louis 15:332 S ‘17 14w

SHEAHAN, HENRY. Volunteer Poilu. il *$1.25 (3c) Houghton 940.91 16-22442

A book written by an American serving in France. The author says that in writing the book it was his ambition to do for his comrades, the French private soldiers, what other books have done for the soldiers of other armies. Contents: The Rochambeau s’en va-t-en guerre; An unknown Paris in the night and rain; The great swathe of the lines; La forêt de Bois-le-Prêtre; The trenches in the “wood of death”; The Germans attack; The town in the trenches; Messieurs les poilus de la grande guerre; Preparing the defense of Verdun; The great days of Verdun.

“It is not only of trench life that this little volume treats: many other phases are illuminatingly touched upon. It is all admirably written and holds the attention closely.”

+ Cath World 104:696 F ‘17 200w

“Admirably written sketches giving an excellent interpretation of the French private soldier in the trench and in action.”

N J Lib Bul p7 Ap ‘17 18w

Pittsburgh 22:427 My ‘17 20w

+ St Louis 15:45 F ‘17 20w

+ Wis Lib Bul 13:26 Ja ‘17 40w

SHEARME, JOHN. Lively recollections. il *1.50 (2c) Lane 17-16340

“The stories Canon Shearme tells of his boyhood days in Cornwall, his college days at Oxford, his early travels on the Continent, recreate the vanished Mid-Victorian life in delightful fashion. In the various towns to which, as curate, vicar and honorary canon, he was appointed, were among his neighbors and parishioners men famous in English politics, art and science, and his memories of them are particularly felicitous. In 1891, he was made vicar of Ryde on the Isle of Wight. At Osborne House, where he was often a dinner guest of Queen Victoria, and in whose chapel he sometimes preached, he met many royalties, whom he in turn makes known to us.”—Boston Transcript

“His sense of humor, never more keen than when he himself is the object; his happy gift as a raconteur; his fund of amusing anecdote combine to make his recollections exceptionally pleasing.”

+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 11 ‘17 300w

+ Outlook 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 40w

“This unpretentious book of reminiscences is truly delightful. His pictures of famous personalities have a fine flavor. Among them are Gladstone, Lord Tennyson, Elizabeth of Austria, Emperor Francis Joseph, Empress Eugenie, and Queen Victoria.”

+ R of Rs 56:329 S ‘17 100w

“Canon Shearme’s ‘recollections’ make very pleasant reading. The book is not long and it is quite light. We are all often asked to recommend such a book in these days, and the name is well worth remembering. His point of view is ... that of a scholar and a kindly, leisurely gentleman, who can talk to us very pleasantly about all sorts and conditions of people.”

+ Spec 118:678 Je 16 ‘17 230w

“All through the volume there is the atmosphere of the Anglican church; and much of the author’s recollections has to do with church life and clerical haps and mishaps.”

+ Springf’d Republican p6 O 9 ‘17 450w

SHELFORD, ROBERT WALTER CAMPBELL. Naturalist in Borneo. il *$5 Dutton 508.491 (Eng ed 17-15691)

“The author, who died in 1912, was curator of the Sarawak museum before settling down at the Oxford museum as assistant-curator under the guidance of Professor Poulton, who edits his book. It is apparent from the wide scope of his work, ranging from men and mammals to beetles, and from the vividness and exactitude of his observations, that Mr Shelford was a born naturalist, and would have done great things had he lived. As it is, the book is curiously interesting. ... The author’s numerous photographs are excellent.”—Spec

“Beside the interest of the manuscript, is that of the silent witness it bears to an unconquerable spirit which no physical ill could discourage, no amount of required personal effort could daunt. Unprefaced by the brief biography Dr Poulton of Oxford wrote, one would still feel the impulse of a rarely strong and appealing personality.” F. B.

+ Boston Transcript p6 Ag 1 ‘17 700w

“Significant as are the facts gleaned from the author’s study of the vertebrata of Borneo, it is in the field of entomology that he exhibits most strikingly the specialized worker’s intimate knowledge.”

+ N Y Times 22:290 Ag 5 ‘17 500w

“A fascinating and unusual book, the work of a well-trained and thoughtful observer in many fields of science. He was specially keen on the problems of mimicry as a means of survival in the struggle for existence, and throughout the book, before we come to the special chapter on the subject, he supplies a host of observations on the odd habits of the world of life from animals to plants. Occasionally the dry and polysyllabic style of science may be a little technical for the reader, but the book as a whole is well and clearly written and free from the clumsiness which is too common among scientific writers. It is also well illustrated.”

+ Sat R 123:136 F 10 ‘17 1250w

+ Spec 118:141 F 3 ‘17 100w

“At Kuching, in Sarawak, the Rajah Brooke established a museum which, it was wisely provided, was to be confined to Bornean subjects. With this limitation it has grown within its field to be an institution of great value; and it was as curator of the museum for some seven years that Mr Shelford gained his acquaintance with Bornean natural history. But the chief value of this book lies in its suggestiveness and biological speculations.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p17 Ja 11 ‘17 1100w

SHELTON, WILLIAM HENRY. Jumel mansion; being a full history of the house on Harlem Heights built by Roger Morris before the revolution; together with some account of its more notable occupants. il *$10 Houghton 974.7 17-216

“At the extreme upper end of Manhattan island, on a plot of land bounded by 160th and 162d streets, stands a historic building. It is known variously as the Roger Morris house, the Jumel mansion, and Washington’s headquarters, and it has been standing as a fine example of Georgian architecture since 1763. ... The records of this famous house and estate, with many biographical and personal records of its residents and others associated in one way or another with its history, have been gathered by Mr Shelton, its curator, and with many illustrations and facsimile plates and documents they have been made into a large quarto volume, stamped on the cover with a representation of the mansion. The book is appropriately entitled ‘The Jumel mansion,’ for that is its most popular designation and it is to the Jumels, and especially to Mme Jumel that it owes, in spite of its historical revolutionary significance, the greater part of its distinction.”—Boston Transcript

“By far the most striking historical contribution is the author’s excursus on the great fire of September, 1776, and the connection therein of Nathan Hale. The reviewer has observed no slips of consequence. One may question the proportion of space allotted to the law-suits and to the unsavory chronicles of the Bowen family.

508The volume is well illustrated, and is a creditable and attractive addition to the list of works on famous American houses.” E. K. Alden

+ Am Hist R 22:909 Jl ‘17 480w

“Throughout the book forms a valuable contribution to American topographical history.” E. F. E.

+ Boston Transcript p8 Ja 6 ‘17 1200w

“The author has examined a countless number of manuscripts, letters, and records, and as a result has produced a thorough history of one of the best known historical landmarks of Manhattan.”

+ Lit D 54:569 Mr 3 ‘17 250w

“A large and showy book on a trivial subject.”

Nation 104:605 My 17 ‘17 500w

“His book is charmingly written and most attractively presented.”

+ N Y Times 22:167 Ap 29 ‘17 1800w

SHEPARD, ODELL.^[2] Lonely flute. *$1.25 Houghton 811 17-11821

“Only rarely does a poet succeed in catching the inner significance of his own verse and crystallizing that impression into a title for his book of verses. This is what in a high degree Mr Shepard has done in his little volume of carefully selected poems. Most of Mr Shepard’s verse is quite plainly divided into what has to do with California and what with New England. The New England note is, however, by far the more potent. We should not need the hint given us by the poems upon Concord, to realize the influence upon him of Emerson.”—Boston Transcript

“The few dates scattered through the book convince us that these poems cover a number of years and are the chosen best of the poet’s output during these years. It is verse of high restraint, reflecting from first to last a lofty poetic ideal and a steadfast struggle toward the ideal.” D. L. M.

+ Boston Transcript p6 Ag 22 ‘17 1150w

Reviewed by Conrad Aiken

Dial 62:475 My 31 ‘17 630w

“There are many beautiful things in ‘A lonely flute’—high imagination, rich color, noble emotion. Mr Shepard is particularly successful when he writes of nature.”

+ Lit D 54:1512 My 19 ‘17 850w

“A refined and tranquil volume, of wavering promise.” O. W. Firkins

+ — Nation 105:400 O 11 ‘17 150w

SHEPARDSON, GEORGE DEFREES. Telephone apparatus; an introduction to the development and theory. il *$3 Appleton 654.6 17-4036

The author says that, while numerous books on telephony have been published, there is “a paucity of systematic, historical, and theoretical treatment.” It is to meet this deficiency that his book has been prepared. “The book presumes that the reader has a working knowledge of algebra, trigonometry, calculus and physics, including the laws governing direct and alternating currents.” Part 1 is devoted to Speech sounds, receivers, transmitters; part 2 to Signaling equipment; Part 3 to Sources of electromotive force and protection. Part 4 is given up to appendices devoted to the more advanced mathematical phases of the subject. The author is professor of electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota.

A L A Bkl 14:156 F ‘18

Cleveland p79 Je ‘17 40w

“The wealth of references given to the technical literature in discussing the principles and modes of operation of telephone apparatus would justify the publication of this book without any regard to the matter contained in the text. The text is, moreover, well arranged and amply illustrated for the treatment of the subject.”

+ Elec World 69:380 F 24 ‘17 150w

N Y Br Lib News 4:40 Mr ‘17

“Also reviewed in the American City, March, 1917.”

+ N Y P L New Tech Bks p9 Ap ‘17 100w

+ Pittsburgh 22:523 Je ‘17 30w

+ Science n s 46:462 N 9 ‘17 420w

SHEPHERD, WILLIAM GUNN. Confessions of a war correspondent. il *$1 (3c) Harper 940.91 17-17737

Mr Shepherd, as reporter for the United press association, covered the fall of Antwerp, is credited with being the only newspaper correspondent who saw the first battle of Ypres, was with the Austrians at Przemysl, and has visited the British, German and Italian fronts. In this book, he does not describe battles, but gives us a picturesque narrative of a war correspondent’s daily life. In the chapter entitled “The forty-two-centimeter blue pencil,” he states the case for censorship. In the last chapter, There are worse things than slaughter, he tells of the “moral and mental disintegration that is caused by military service in individual cases.” Other interesting chapters are The free-lance and the faker and The psychology of retreats.

+ A L A Bkl 14:55 N ‘17

“What Mr Shepherd does in this readable book is to ‘open the stage door and welcome his readers to the “behind-the-scenes” of war reporting.’”

+ Boston Transcript p6 Ag 8 ‘17 370w

+ Cleveland p101 S ‘17 70w

“Mr Shepherd’s story brings out well the three stages through which war correspondence has passed in the course of the present conflict, and he calls them the ‘free-lance days,’ the ‘dark ages,’ and the ‘stage of the new twentieth-century war correspondent.’ The book is an entertaining and apparently truthful account of a war reporter’s trials and triumphs.”

+ Dial 63:166 Ag 30 ‘17 290w

N Y Br Lib News 4:133 S ‘17 30w

“Those who have read Richard Harding Davis’s last story ‘The deserter,’ will be keenly interested to find in one chapter an account of the incidents on which the story was based. One [chapter] of particular interest tells about the spy mania that permeates Europe.”

+ N Y Times 22:344 S 16 ‘17 320w

Pittsburgh 22:683 O ‘17 30w

“A spirited narrative of experiences.” P. B.

+ St Louis 15:354 O ‘17 30w

SHEPPARD, ALFRED TRESIDDER. Quest Of Ledgar Dunstan. *$1.50 (1c) Appleton 17-21976

“This is the second volume in what may prove to be an extensive series about the same personage. In the earlier novel—‘The rise of Ledgar Dunstan’—we saw the boyhood of Dunstan, and followed him through the processes of growth and rebellion in the midst of a conventionally religious family. The present chronicle begins immediately after his marriage to Mary Beltinge of Beltinge. Dunstan, ‘of obscure middle-class origin, and a novelist whose name was just beginning to be known,’ ... lacks spine, effectiveness, precisely in the proportion that he does not lack a complacent self-sufficiency and a capacity for feeling, for suffering. It speedily becomes apparent to Mary that the marriage to Dunstan was a blunder, and in the course of their wedding trip in Brittany she coolly relinquishes him in favor of an American artist, one Lincoln, and virtually leaves the story. ... What concerns the novelist, thereafter, is to trace the progress of Dunstan’s despair, spiritual chastisement and final readjustment. ... For the really important business of the book, however, he introduces, and delineates at great length, an extraordinary character, a decayed genius who imagines himself the realization of the ancient idea of Anti-Christ.”—Boston Transcript

“Not the sort of novel to please vastly the casual story-reader. But obviously Mr Sheppard is not one of those novelists whose aim 509is popular success. He has achieved something finer and more difficult, for this book is an uncommonly subtle and well-sustained story of weak souls, and of the doctrines that brought one to destruction and the other to salvation.” F. I.

+ Boston Transcript p6 S 29 ‘17 950w

Dial 63:532 N 22 ‘17 200w

“The description of the insane asylum might be effective were it not so intolerably long; the same comment applies to the account of Ledgar’s night of horror in the old curiosity shop. ... Mr Sheppard is not without talent, but it is swamped by his verbosity.”

– + N Y Times 22:372 S 30 ‘17 230w

“Here is a remarkable novel, something quite outside the ordinary ruck of fiction, something different, distinctive, startling, thought-compelling, and cataclysmic. ... Mr Sheppard has evidently made a close study of various forms of mania, especially of religious mania, and his book is an impassioned plea for reform in our treatment of lunatics, which he asserts is the grossest scandal of our civilisation. ... We have had this kind of thing in fiction before, but never, perhaps, have we had so startling, so convincing, and so minute a study of the horror and ugliness of madhouse life.”

+ Sat R 123:553 Je 16 ‘17 950w

“An interesting and elaborate study of the personality of the hero.”

+ Spec 119:144 Ag 11 ‘17 40w

“If, in spite of many interesting passages, a book be devoid of beauty of diction, of force, of manners, proportion, and sobriety, can it be anything but a bad book? We are inclined to say that it cannot. But as, in exasperation, we pronounce this opinion, we find ourselves arrested by something. We recall the saying: ‘Who touches this book touches a man.’”

The Times [London] Lit Sup p296 Je 21 ‘17 480w

SHEPPARD, ALFRED TRESIDDER. Rise of Ledgar Dunstan. *$1.50 Appleton 16-22850

“This novel is of the type of J. D. Beresford’s ‘Early history of Jacob Stahl,’ following the life of its hero from boyhood to maturity. Ledgar Dunstan is a drifter, a somewhat spineless sort of person. Brought up very strictly by an austere Baptist father in a convention of ‘Thou shalt nots,’ he presently comes to London and finds himself without any code at all. He rejects that of his father and seems to lack sufficient energy and sufficient interest in living either to make or to adopt one for himself. Several persons leave him money, he is successful as a writer, and the book ends with a marriage into which he has slipped more because it was an easy and agreeable thing to do than for any other reason.”—N Y Times

“The book is ingenious and brilliant rather than sound and sincere.” H. W. Boynton

– + Bookm 44:644 F ‘17 450w

“A chaotic vehement mist of ideas hangs over the entire story. Mr Sheppard is so much addicted to thinking in ink that ‘The rise of Ledgar Dunstan’ comes near to striding the border that separates fiction from philosophy. ... When the author chooses to narrate, he can, and in a most telling manner. He has accuracy of touch and sympathy and insight. He has an experience which he must have gained from a varied life, a breadth of view which approaches the universal, and above all the saving grace of humor which prevents him taking himself with too deadly a seriousness. Thus ‘The rise of Ledgar Dunstan’ has a character and it has promise of a better sequel.” J. P. M.

– + Boston Transcript p6 D 13 ‘16 700w

– + Cath World 105:402 Je ‘17 200w

“Provides a good deal of material for the student of social conditions and not much for the lover of novel reading. ... We have here another example of the ‘literature of revolt,’ in which, however, the author wrestles with the question of religion in a constructive or positive way.” E: E. Hale

Dial 62:71 Ja 25 ‘17 950w

“Frankly, it is a bit puzzling. Nevertheless, let us hope that the sequel may fulfil the promise of what seems to be the author’s first book. It is interesting and has merit.”

+ — Dial 62:402 My 3 ‘17 280w

“His infancy, his boyhood, his younger manhood, are laid before us with that scrupulous (and ruthless) particularity which the ‘life’ novel prescribes. It is an admirable method, other things being equal—or rather, under one condition: that the human subject of our study shall be inherently worth our trouble. ... Ledgar Dunstan fails, in the present instalment of his story, to prove his worth for us.”

— Nation 104:270 Mr 8 ‘17 300w

“Generally the reader has an irritating feeling that Ledgar Dunstan ought to be both real and interesting, and is neither. ... Could two-thirds of this book be removed, we would have a novel not unworthy of attention; it is in no way a cheap and tawdry book—but it is an amateurish one.”

— NY Times 21:548 D 10 ‘16 350w

“The author has just enough of ability in depicting character and in presenting incidents and lively talk to give hopes for his future as a novelist, but this volume is in itself about as bad as it can be as regards construction, development, and proportion.”

— Outlook 115:74 Ja 10 ‘17 80w

“Mr Sheppard understands the formulas fairly well, and we concede to him perceptions and sympathies which, as is the case with most novelists, far outstrip his faculty for presentation. What he entirely fails to realize is the nature of the art of fiction. There can be no such thing as a novel without a purpose. ... A torrent of prattle devastates the book, and, as for the cracking of jokes, we are goaded, ravaged, desolated by them.”

— The Times [London] Lit Sup p548 N 16 ‘16 450w

SHERMAN, STUART PRATT. Matthew Arnold; how to know him. il *$1.50 Bobbs 17-13963

One chapter is devoted to Matthew Arnold’s character and career, and the remainder of the book is then given up to a study of his work. “Matthew Arnold is a charming but not an altogether conciliatory writer,” says the author in beginning his first chapter. “If you disagree with him, he does not encourage you to believe that you may be in the right.” The literary study is divided into the following chapters: Poems of the personal life; Poems of the external world; Literary criticism; Education; Politics and society; Religion. The author is professor of English in the University of Illinois.

“A good volume for any small library needing a separate work.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:16 O ‘17

“Professor Sherman approaches his task with a complete understanding of his subject, and in his brief volume he has written an exceptionally able and comprehensive introduction to a study of the work and influence of Matthew Arnold.” E. F. E.

+ Boston Transcript p6 My 9 ‘17 1400w

“An excellent appreciation of [Arnold’s] ability as poet and literary critic.”

+ Cath World 105:830 S ‘17 550w

“The reader will turn from the book with a distinct impression of Matthew Arnold as a person, and with a pretty clear concept of what he considered it necessary to believe regarding poetry, education, politics, and religion—if one would see life and see it whole. ... It is, however, an invitation to substitute knowledge about Arnold for acquaintance with him. ... I am not finding fault with the content, style, or spirit of the book. My criticism goes deeper, or else is beside the mark. I object to the general theory upon which the book is based; I attack Mr Sherman’s method.” M. C. Otto

+ — Dial 62:516 Je 14 ‘17 1700w

“The author was braced by diligence both in the collecting of minor material and in the weaving of it into a predetermined disquisitive pattern to square with an inherently unsympathetic 510attitude toward the poet and essayist. But tho the verse quotations from Arnold are not always of the best, certain contributory information of real worth (as in ‘Literary criticism’) may, here and there, be culled from the 314 pages.”

Ind 91:78 Jl 14 ‘17 70w

“Usually books of the ‘how to know’ order consist of a mass of facts with directions for study but with little aid to real insight. This, however, provides a reader with a sound basis for both appreciation and criticism. This is the more effective because the biographical chapter at the beginning is a real introduction to the man himself.”

+ Lit D 55:45 D 1 ‘17 270w

“He does not point out with the vividness of the here and now just how Matthew Arnold reconstructs, just how his message renews itself with each generation.” E. B.

+ — New Repub 12:360 O 27 ‘17 1200w

Pratt p47 O ‘17 20w

“Mr Sherman has the gift of style. He says exactly what he wishes to say, without hurry, without circumlocution, without bungling. [He] does admirable justice to Arnold’s life as a record of noble and unselfish endeavor; the life of a man who preached everywhere the duty of perfecting our natures, moral, intellectual, aesthetic, social, and religious. The book may be heartily commended to those who wish to understand why Arnold is still an important influence in the world. Mr Sherman skilfully and judiciously expounds the very helpful idea that the interest and charm of Arnold’s essays lie far more in their extraordinary power to stimulate interest, curiosity, and the aesthetic sense, than in the correctness of his estimates. His best message, here as elsewhere, is moral and religious.” H: B. Hinckley

+ Yale R n s 7:218 O ‘17 750w

SHERMAN, STUART PRATT.^[2] On contemporary literature. *$1.50 (2c) Holt 820.4 18-773

A collection of critical essays that have appeared in the Nation. The word contemporary is given a broad interpretation, admitting of the inclusion of Shakespeare. “Shakespeare is here,” says the author, “because I find him the most interesting and suggestive of living writers. His presence helps one to distinguish the values of his competitors. His humanism serves as a measure of the degrees of their naturalism.” Contents: The democracy of Mark Twain; The Utopian naturalism of H. G. Wells; The barbaric naturalism of Theodore Dreiser; The realism of Arnold Bennett; The aesthetic naturalism of George Moore; The skepticism of Anatole France; The exoticism of John Synge; The complacent Toryism of Alfred Austin; The aesthetic idealism of Henry James; The humanism of George Meredith; Shakespeare, our contemporary.

“Despite the limitations suggested by the titles, Professor Sherman gives a fairly complete view of each of his ten modern writers.” E. F. E.

+ — Boston Transcript p7 D 22 ‘17 770w

“Mr Sherman really offers us many acute and many weighty pages; there is a subterranean stream of humor from whose half-hidden courses one may occasionally sip a gratefully saline draught; and his introduction, which is really the essence of the book, begins on a charming, captivating note, and rises toward the end, where the war enters, to a tone of noble gravity. Yet one finds a little too much deference, however cloaked, for our farther East, and an unwillingness to give recognition to the fact that this spinning world must change.” H: B. Fuller

– + Dial 64:105 Ja 31 ‘18 1450w

“The essence of Mr Sherman’s criticism is American correctness, that bloodless correctness to which New England has given its wintry flavor. It is correctness rampant that makes Mr Sherman’s crest different from the ordinary heraldry; and the main delectation of his book is its conservative call to arms. Mr Sherman preaches a forlorn gospel when he begs us to cower behind the moral life of the race to peer at art.” F. H.

— New Repub 13:318 Ja 12 ‘18 2100w

“We have said that Mr Sherman is thoughtful, but we do not stand sponsor for much of his thinking. Much of it is muddled, or is cast in such a mold that all sense of perspective is lost. We cannot escape the feeling that Mr Sherman as critic plays second fiddle to Mr Sherman as echo of literary and popular opinion.” F. J. K.

– + N Y Call p15 Ja 26 ‘18 1150w

“Mr Sherman is a literary critic primarily, with the insight and the equipment, the disinterestedness and the sympathy with which the literary critic must needs be endowed if his work is to win respect; and yet, so closely is literature related to life that Mr Sherman, in dealing with three of the novelists of the moment, is compelled to be a moralist. ... In these three papers [on Wells and Dreiser and Moore] inspired by one purpose he rises above the criticism of literature to the criticism of life itself.” Brander Matthews

+ N Y Times 22:577 D 30 ‘17 1950w

+ Outlook 118:32 Ja 2 ‘18 90w

“It is precisely this uncompromising attitude that becomes so irritating to those of us who happen to look upon contemporary letters with a more open mind and a more indulgent spirit. Professor Sherman, with his invaluable background of classicism ... is a qualified and much needed preceptor of public aesthetics. But not content with this, he appoints himself custodian of the public morals. ... It would be ungracious not to mention in conclusion the almost flawless appreciation of Henry James.” F: T. Cooper

– + Pub W 93:219 Ja 19 ‘18 950w

R of Rs 57:216 F ‘18 210w

SHERWOOD, MARGARET POLLOCK. Familiar ways. *$1.25 (4c) Little 814 17-25113

Five of the fifteen essays in this volume appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, nine in Scribner’s Magazine, and one, “The comradeship of trees,” in the Vassar Alumnae Quarterly. “Our nearest,—and farthest,—neighbors” tells of the birds, and “The final packing” considers the luggage one may carry “through heaven’s gate.” Contents: The little house; Our Venetian lamp; House-cleaning; The vegetable self; The sabbatical year; It is well to be off with the old house before you are on with the new; Real estate; Our nearest,—and farthest,—neighbors; Plain country; Gardens, real and imagined; The comradeship of trees; Brother Fire; The threshold; Old trails; The final packing.

“Charmingly written, intimate essays.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:51 N ‘17

“Only here and there as we browse among the books of a season do we find one that has this exquisite quality about it—this intimate, revealing manner of changing the common experience into something of significance for us. To those who care only for the surfaces of literature, this book will also possess a charm in its delicate, effervescing humor.” D. L. M.

+ Boston Transcript p8 N 7 ‘17 1200w

+ Cleveland p134 D ‘17 50w

+ Dial 63:466 N 8 ‘17 50w

+ Ind 92:604 D 29 ‘17 50w

“No description can adequately indicate the charm and inspiration she puts into a few simple words. There are beauty and truth in her words, glorification of small duties, helps for the unavoidable burdens, and a spirit of comradeship and sympathy, for which we are all grateful.”

+ Lit D 55:52 D 1 ‘17 140w

“A chapter is better than a book full of this placidly charming but too frequently unideaed prose. The reader flags in the presence of revery that seldom brightens to the vividness of dream, and of a breath of poetical feeling that will not rise to a dream.”

+ — Nation 106:150 F 7 ‘18 350w

511SHESTOV, LEON. Penultimate words, and other essays. *$1.25 (2½c) Luce, J: W. 891.7

Leon Shestov is a Russian critic and essayist. The essays in this volume are taken from his “Apotheosis of groundlessness” and “Beginnings and ends.” The longest essay is that on Tchekhov, which takes up 60 of the 225 pages. Contents: Anton Tchekhov; The gift of prophecy [study of Dostoevsky]; Penultimate words; The theory of knowledge.

“In his book, Shestov attacks many philosophers and authors, devoting articles of varying length to Hegel, Schopenhauer and others—a destructive criticism, for he gives us no discoverable positive philosophy of his own in the place of those destroyed.” Nellie Poorman

— Dial 62:482 My 31 ‘17 260w

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p627 D 21 ‘16 100w

“Criticism with Shestov is not a hand-to-mouth business. He does not choose a subject and then begin to wonder what he can find to say about it. His criticism is philosophy expounded by means of a particular example, and rather hinted at than expounded. One feels that he has strong convictions, but is shy of proclaiming them.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p40 Ja 25 ‘17 1300w

SHIPLEY, ARTHUR EVERETT. Studies in insect life, and other essays. il *$3.50 Dutton 504 (Eng ed SG17-225)

“Dr Shipley for many years has taken an active part in promoting, directing, and sharing in zoological investigations with an immediate economic bearing.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) Contents: Insects and war; The honey-bee; Bombus, the humble-bee; On certain differences between wasps and bees; The romance of the depths of the sea; Sea fisheries; Sir John Murray: a great oceanographer; Grouse disease; Zoology in the time of Shakespeare; The revival of science in the 17th century; Hate.

“Essays as instructive as they are pleasing. ... The author is not afraid to introduce a touch of humour.”

Ath p99 F ‘17 50w

“Some of his sentences are remarkable for their entire lack of punctuation. Some of them are also extremely awkward, but on the whole it is lively reading and is a good book to put into the hands of a boy who likes the study of nature.”

+ — Boston Transcript p6 Jl 28 ‘17 530w

“They are all so written as to be intelligible to the lay reader and they are of more than passing interest.”

+ Dial 63:399 O 25 ‘17 260w

“The title is two-thirds inappropriate, and the addresses as written are of unequal value. ... The first and last essays, entitled respectively ‘Insects and war’ and ‘Hate,’ are the most original and the best written.”

+ — Nation 105:377 O 4 ‘17 450w

“It is Dr Shipley’s gift to write scientific essays artistically. ... He has humour and a light touch, and things are so interesting to himself that they become interesting to us. Not that we pretend to explain his style, which permits of luminous, dignified discourse on lice and fleas, as well as on fisheries and grouse.”

+ Nature 99:244 My 24 ‘17 400w

“The essay on ‘Hate’ is a discursive and rather superficial analysis of that emotion which makes good reading, but begins and ends nowhere in particular.”

N Y Times 22:348 S 16 ‘17 420w

“He winds up with an amusing essay on ‘Hate.’”

+ Spec 118:342 Mr 17 ‘17 150w

“Three essays on bees and wasps probably arose from Dr Shipley’s part in stimulating inquiry into the Isle of Wight bee disease.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p100 Mr 1 ‘17 750w

SHKLOVSKII, ISAAK VLADIMIROVICH (DIONEO, pseud.). In far north-east Siberia; tr. by L. Edwards and Z. Shklovsky. il *$3 Macmillan 915.7 17-3732

“The present volume is an exceptionally interesting contribution to our knowledge of Siberia. The author passed four years in the Kolyma region of the province of Yakutsk, and the result is a book containing a remarkable amount of information concerning the customs and mode of existence of the Yakuts, Chooktchi, Lamouts, and other natives of that depressing country, where life is a ceaseless struggle with cold, famine, and disease.”—Ath

“The book contains much interesting matter relative to the hut-life and manners of these little-known races; and there are light touches.”

+ Ath p48 Ja ‘17 400w

“It corrects several prevalent errors of the anthropologists and ethnologists.”

+ Dial 62:446 My 17 ‘17 250w

“There are many illustrations of places, people, weapons, and native drawings, all of which add to the pleasure that any one must take in this volume, and the map of Yakutsk makes it easy to follow the text understandingly.”

+ N Y Times 22:196 My 20 ‘17 350w

“One of the most fascinating books of travel published for many a long day.” Bishop Frodsham

+ Sat R 122:626 D 30 ‘16 1200w

“It is a little-known book written by a Russian Jew who was apparently banished to the region described, and it was published about a quarter of a century ago. The author is a journalist who has won distinction by reporting affairs in England in the Russian press. ... ‘In far north-east Siberia’ should be studied by all students of Siberia and of ethnography generally. For it is unique in its details.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p631 D 28 ‘16 750w

SHOREY, PAUL. Assault on humanism. 60c Atlantic monthly 375 17-18361

These essays in defense of classical studies by Professor Shorey have been reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly to form the first volume in the series of “Atlantic monographs,” to be published by the Atlantic Monthly company.

+ A L A Bkl 14:43 N ‘17

“Nothing could be less urbane, less rational and precise, than this strident polemic. ... The Atlantic has done a disservice in stirring the dead bones of this controversy to rattle again. ... Even the radical will regret that the polemics of the classical tradition should go out in so tasteless a splutter as this first of the Atlantic monographs.” Randolph Bourne

— Dial 63:148 Ag 30 ‘17 1500w

“The main virtue of Professor Shorey’s method is the consummate skill with which he carries the warfare into the camp of the enemy. Any one familiar with his powers of irony and sarcasm need not be told that he sets forth the illogical procedure and dishonest assumptions of the present-day pedagogues in a way to cause inextinguishable laughter on the slopes of Parnassus.”

Nation 105:98 Jl 26 ‘17 100w

“A brilliant defense of the classics.”

+ Pittsburgh 22:693 O ‘17 20w

“Prof. Paul Shorey upholds the standard of sound learning and literary culture—qualities which are in need of defenders in a land where the half-educated are at present more aggressive than the educated.”

+ Springf’d Republican p6 Jl 30 ‘17 680w

SHOWERMAN, GRANT. Country child. il *$1.75 (2c) Century 17-28802

This book of sketches forms a companion volume to “A country chronicle,” published last year. The small boy, whose sensations and emotions the author is able to recreate so vividly thru a remarkable memory for little things, is younger in this book. In the beginning he is a little boy in dresses,—as you will 512remember, little boys used to wear dresses in those days. The first half of the book, “A country child,” is an account of those early years. The second part, “Barefoot boys,” describes school days and the beginning of boy friendships. Delightful bits of local color are provided in conversations with the friendly German hired-hand, who, a generation ago, was so important a feature of life in every Wisconsin farm home.

A L A Bkl 14:98 D ‘17

“Never have the sights and sounds, the tastes and smells and tactile sensations of the farm been more realistically presented than in this book.”

+ Dial 63:592 D 6 ‘17 280w

“Strong in charm and appeal. ... The reader in retrospect is led to write his own story in his mind, and so gets a double enjoyment out of the book.”

+ Lit D 55:51 D 29 ‘17 170w

“The continuous use of the present tense grows pretty monotonous before the end of this second book; and by monotony the pictorial effect of the method is well-nigh lost.”

+ — Nation 106:118 Ja 31 ‘18 250w

N Y Times 22:469 N 11 ‘17 150w

+ Outlook 117:475 N 21 ‘17 20w

“Prof. Showerman seems to have reproduced a child’s mind with photographic accuracy, and the result is a success which is scientific but principally—as also ostensibly—from the literary standpoint.”

+ Springf’d Republican p6 D 13 ‘17 250w

SHULER, MARJORIE. For rent—one pedestal. $1 (4c) National woman suffrage pub. 324.3 17-7811

In a series of letters to a friend, a young college woman describes her conversion to woman suffrage and her experiences as a suffrage worker. It all begins with her dismissal from her first position as a teacher for political reasons. Recognizing for the first time the relation between politics and woman’s work, she becomes an ardent worker for the cause, and the writes with spirit and humor of all the adventures that she meets as canvasser, street speaker, etc.

“Sometimes one has a faint suspicion that the story is a disguised text-book on how to make a suffrage speech, how to run mass meetings and street meetings, and convert farmers at fairs, and on methods of distributing literature and advertising the cause—the public biscuit-making incident, for instance. But the sugar-coating hides the pill quite successfully.”

N Y Call p14 Ap 15 ‘17 240w

SHURTER, EDWIN DU BOIS. How to debate. *$1.35 Harper 808.5 17-24074

“This book treats of the various ways of convincing and persuading men. While intended as a text-book for high schools and colleges, it is also adapted to the needs of the lawyer, the preacher, the teacher, the citizen: in short, to any one who is called upon—and who is not?—to urge the acceptance of his ideas upon a hearer, or to refute ideas offered in opposition thereto.” (Preface) The book is an outgrowth of the author’s former work, “Science and art of debate,” published in 1908. Contents: Introduction—The advantages of debate; The proposition; Analysis of the question; Proof; Evidence; Arguments—constructive; Argument—refutation; The brief; Persuasion; Methods in school and college debating. Questions for debate, a specimen debate, rules of parliamentary procedure, bibliographies, etc., are given in appendixes.

“An excellent treatise.”

+ Cath World 106:398 D ‘17 130w

“The bibliography is not up to date.”

+ — Cleveland p133 D ‘17 60w

“Fifteen years of training students in the University of Texas to play the game have enabled the author to produce a very practical book. It is superior to its predecessors in that the old classic illustrations are supplemented by many modern instances showing that the old shifts still lead to success. ... But there is no evidence that the author is aware how much his theories have been modified by modern investigations in modern individual or social psychology.” C. R.

+ — N Y Call p15 S 30 ‘17 140w

SHURTER, EDWIN DUBOIS, ed.^[2] Winning declamations and how to speak them. $1.25 Noble, L. A. 808.5 17-6669

This collection of selections in prose and verse has been prepared by the professor of public speaking in the University of Texas, who says, “Practically every selection in this volume has been tried out in class work and in public contests. ... The declamations are intended for training the public speaker, and not the dramatic reader or mere entertainer.” The book is divided into two parts: For intermediate and grammar grades; and For high schools and colleges. An introduction discusses the art of public speaking and each selection is prefaced by brief suggestions for the speaker.

N Y Br Lib News 4:75 My ‘17

SHUTE, HENRY AUGUSTUS. Youth Plupy; or, The lad with a downy chin. il *$1.35 (2c) Houghton 17-23759

Plupy has figured in “The real diary of a real boy”; “Real boys”; “Plupy, the ‘real boy,’”; and “Misadventures of three good boys.” Judge Shute’s dedication reads as follows: “This book, which contains a fairly veracious account of the love affairs of a long-legged, gawky, sensitive, bashful, absurd, and ridiculous youth, is dedicated, with a sincere fellow-feeling, to all such youths. I see them daily passing my office. Their coat-sleeves are all-too-short, the legs of their trousers all-too-brief, their wrists and ankles, in startling contrast to their abnormally thin shanks and arms, seem over-developed. They are opulent in white eyelashes, blushes, mobile Adam’s-apples, affection, and honesty. Their voices are—well, beyond description. God bless them all.”

A L A Bkl 14:99 D ‘17

+ Cleveland p3 Ja ‘18 50w

“Capital reading—first-class for the fag-end of a weary day.”

+ Dial 63:647 D 20 ‘17 80w

“He is an entirely real boy and the various members of his family are real people.”

+ N Y Times 22:373 S 30 ‘17 250w

+ Outlook 117:100 S 19 ‘17 30w

“If the book seems to have been written for boys, one reader’s guess is that it will get a more sympathetic reading from a large number of men of mature years who will grin with personal reminiscence as Judge Shute holds the mirror for them as well as for himself.”

+ Springf’d Republican p17 N 11 ‘17 200w

SIDGWICK, CECILY (ULLMANN) (MRS ALFRED SIDGWICK). Salt of the earth. *$1.40 Watt 17-20666

Brenda Müller, the heroine, was of German parentage, but English training and sympathies. She visited her relatives in Germany several times, and some of them visited the Müllers in England. This ended in her marriage to her cousin, Lothar Erdmann, a typical Prussian officer, settled in Berlin. Brenda was unhappy among Lothar’s relatives and friends, who thought themselves the “salt of the earth,” and her husband proved unfaithful, but though she realized that she had made a mistake, she stood ready to pay the price. When the war broke out and Lothar was called to the colors, he forced Brenda to remain with his parents in Berlin, but later she followed him to Belgium, and eventually escaped to her parents in London. Lothar also went to London to direct Zeppelin raids, and was shot as a spy.

513“The English goodness and the German badness are exaggerated, so that the story is timely but lacks reality.”

– + A L A Bkl 14:62 N ‘17

“The novel is clever and readable, but we think that the patriotic feelings of the author have tempted her to colour too highly the characters of certain Germans introduced in the book. The uncle, in particular, is quite preternaturally objectionable.”

+ — Ath p482 O ‘16 100w

“The careful reading of this illuminating story is especially recommended to those American altruists who smugly assert that they are not at war with the German people, but only with the German government.” F. B.

+ Boston Transcript p6 S 8 ‘17 830w

+ — Cleveland p3 Ja ‘18 100w

“A chronicle of hate for Prussianism, well thought out and presented.”

+ Dial 63:353 O 11 ‘17 220w

“Brenda is a real person, intelligent, long suffering, striving to keep on decent terms with her husband’s impossible family. ... The descriptions are well done and vivid, the various members of the Erdmann tribe cleverly sketched.”

+ N Y Times 22:302 Ag 19 ‘17 610w

“In spite of the opportunities for sensationalism which the material offers, Mrs Sidgwick has told her story in a quiet and convincing way which makes for realism.” R. D. Moore

+ Pub W 92:1377 O 20 ‘17 480w

“Its action is so placed as to permit a frank exposé of the sinister activities of the Prussian military caste, and the poisonous effect of the propaganda of ‘welt politik’ upon the German masses. ... It is an entertaining story, narrated with spirit.”

+ Springf’d Republican p15 Ag 12 ‘17 550w

SIGURJONSSON, JOHANN. Modern Icelandic plays: Eyvind of the hills; The Hraun farm; tr. by Henninge Krohn Schanche. (Scandinavian classics, v. 6) $1.50 Am.-Scandinavian foundation 839.6 16-22079

“The author is introduced to the American public by the American-Scandinavian foundation as a representative of the renaissance of Icelandic literature. ... The stronger and later play, ‘Eyvind of the hills,’ is based on a romantic story of an eighteenth century outlaw who, having wearied of the loneliness of his mountain retreat, descends to the valleys and under an assumed name takes service as a farm hand. His mistress Halla, a well-to-do widow, falls in love with him; and rejecting the advances of Björn the bailiff, who has discovered that the supposed farm hand is the notorious outlaw, she flees to the mountains with her lover. ... The second piece, ‘The Hraun farm,’ is a modern story of pastoral Icelandic life; it has charm, but lacks the force and daring of ‘Eyvind of the hills.’”—Dial

A L A Bkl 13:303 Ap ‘17

+ Cleveland p36 Mr ‘17 140w

“Though these plays were produced in Copenhagen, and though one of them was originally written in Danish, they are thoroughly Icelandic in setting and spirit. ... Both plays are notable for their spontaneity and freshness; the strong clear wind of the north blows through them. They deserve a wide reading in Mrs Schanche’s excellent translation.” H. E. Woodbridge

+ Dial 62:68 Ja 25 ‘17 300w

“Written in prose, ‘Eyvind of the hills’ has that utter simplicity of vibrant strength that marks great poetry.”

+ Ind 92:488 D 8 ‘17 260w

+ Nation 104:682 Je 7 ‘17 900w

N Y Br Lib News 3:185 D ‘16

“‘Eyvind of the hills,’ which made its author famous, is a tragedy, written with much beauty and a fine simplicity. ... ‘The Hraun farm,’ is a charmingly written little idyll.”

+ Spec 118:176 F 10 ‘17 200w

SIMKHOVITCH, MARY MELINDA (KINGSBURY) (MRS VLADIMIR GREGORIEVITCH SIMKHOVITCH). City worker’s world in America. (American social progress ser.) *$1.25 (3c) Macmillan 331.8 17-15550

The aim of this book by the director of Greenwich house, New York city, is to describe simply and briefly the main facts concerning the life of the industrial population of an American city. The term “industrial family” as used in her study, is applied to wage-workers whose family income ranges from $1,500 down to the minimum of subsistence below which the family becomes a public charge. The question to which she gives attention is: “How does this important group of workers live? Not only what are the incomes and expenditures of this group, but what values lie in this group that we cannot afford to lose from the social whole, and what is society already doing or failing to do to protect these values and develop them for the sake of us all?” Contents: The industrial family; Dwellings; Standard of living; Education; At work; Leisure; Health; Poverty; Politics; Religion.

“With the facts that are presented, all persons who have been interested in the life of the working people are fairly well acquainted, but the arrangement and the interpretation are frequently original, and the synthetic treatment is a real contribution to social literature. ... The book is full of clever phrasing and keen interpretation.” F. H. Streightoff

+ Am Econ R 7:906 D ‘17 290w

Reviewed by E. L. Talbert

+ Am J Soc 23:547 Ja ‘18 300w

+ A L A Bkl 14:78 D ‘17

“The chapter on ‘Polities’ is particularly trenchant, and deserves not only to be read but to be studied by every teacher of civic affairs. On the ever-recurring question as to why municipal reform so often receives a setback in the great cities of this country there is a great deal of illumination in this chapter.”

+ Am Pol Sci R 12:157 F ‘18 100w

“The author has made conscious effort to write objectively of the life of her neighbors. The book will be of special value to the increasing number of those interested in the exploration of the new paths of community development already being trod in city neighborhoods.” Francis Tyson