The Cumulative Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Digests of reviews appearing in January—December 1905, magazines (continued 25)

— — + Nation. 80: 118. F. 9, ‘05. 1530w.

Stearns, Frank Preston. Cambridge sketches. **$1.50. Lippincott.

“Brief biographical sketches of impressive personalities, in the literary, artistic, scientific, and political life of New England.... Agassiz, Lowell, Holmes, Sumner, Andrew, Cranch, Bird, and Howe are but a few of those of whom he writes.... His little volume also includes Emerson’s eulogy of Major George L. Stearns, printed in the Boston ‘Commonwealth’ April 20, 1867.... Sketches of the Harvard of forty and fifty years ago; papers read at various literary centennial celebrations, and notes of life in Rome in the late sixties.”—Outlook.

Critic. 47: 286. S. ‘05. 90w.

“Contains many true things that are not new and doubtless do not aim at novelty, and also some new things that are not true, however unintentional their falsity. Its chapter on George L. Stevens, the author’s father, is its only noteworthy contribution to biography.”

— + Dial. 39: 69. Ag. 1, ‘05. 470w.

“The book is not without interest, but is decidedly untrustworthy.”

+ — — Nation. 80: 458. Je. 3, 05. 370w.

“Unfortunately, the book is overweighted with some critical literary generalities which are out of its modest scope and do not add to its readableness.”

+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 361. Je. 3, ‘05. 340w.

“Their significance is rather that of warm tributes of respect and admiration.”

+ Outlook. 80: 191. My. 20, ‘05. 140w.

+ Pub. Opin. 38: 957. Je. 17, ‘05. 90w.

* R. of Rs. 32: 639. N. ‘05. 90w.

Steindorff, Georg. Religion of the ancient Egyptians. **$1.50. Putnam.

“Dr. Steindorff undertakes to give—and does give—in a manner to enlighten minds not utterly scholarly an idea of the nature of religion of the ancient Egyptians, and especially he sets out to show how that religion grew and changed and finally decayed.... Legends are related and hymns quoted, and especial attention paid to deliberate attempts of certain rulers to impose new gods upon the people.... The third lecture deals with Egyptian temples and religious ceremonies. Lecture IV. is concerned with the Egyptian magic, and Lecture V. with graves and burials and the Egyptian religion outside of Egypt.”—N. Y. Times.

“Although it is somewhat slight, no fault can be found with Prof. Steindorff’s general arrangement of his subject or with the way he has treated it.”

+ Ath. 1905, 2: 435. S. 30. 220w.

* “The best brief presentation extant in English of the religion of Egypt.”

+ + + Bib. World. 26: 400. N. ‘05. 10w.

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 597. S. 9, ‘05. 250w.

+ Pub. Opin. 39: 540. O. 21, ‘05. 350w.

Stephen, Leslie. Freethinking and plain speaking. *$1.50. Putnam.

“This book ... contains nine chapters which ... were printed in book form some twenty years ago, but that publication for a number of years has been out of print.... Four of the essays deal with subjects connected with theology and religious belief in their bearing on human society; the others are casual or occasional papers called out by literary or historical events of the time.”—Outlook.

“They illustrate a side of the author’s character easily misunderstood. For here he states with the utmost freedom the views on religion which led thoughtless persons to call him an atheist.” Edward Fuller.

+ + Critic. 47: 244. S. ‘05. 770w.

“Together these papers make a capital introduction to the lamented author commemorated.”

+ + Nation. 80: 331. Ap. 27, ‘05. 90w.

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 292. My. 6, ‘05. 600w.

+ + Outlook. 79: 1013. Ap. 22, ‘05. 150w.

Stephen, Leslie. Hobbes. **75c. Macmillan.

This life of the great moral and political English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, is the last of Sir Leslie Stephen’s philosophical biographies. It is divided into four chapters, the first gives Hobbes’s relation to the political and intellectual movements of his time, and his personal characteristics. “The remaining three divisions of the book represent the parts of Hobbes’s philosophy: the World viewed as a material system, subject only to mechanical laws; Man, a body with organs, explicable by the same principles; the State, or body politic, voluntarily formed, and to be governed only by force, hence only by a sovereign power possessed of absolute—i.e., underived and unlimited authority.” (Ind.)

Reviewed by Frances Duncan.

Critic. 46: 280. Mr. ‘05. 1030w.

“The present work is hardly a contribution to professional philosophical criticism. But a better introductory book for the general reader could not be desired.”

+ Ind. 58: 208. Ja. 26, ‘05. 400w.

332“Never have we seen better done the task of writing about philosophy; sometimes there is the air of the blunt, intelligent outsider, but the substance is masterly and it is a true and even great philosopher who is speaking. Sir Leslie Stephen finds for his readers the gratification of many sentences pointed and turned after Hobbes’ own manner, with judgments of the same shrewd sort. There is not a dull ten minutes in the book.” G. C. Rankin.

+ + + Int. J. Ethics. 15: 391. Ap. ‘05. 990w.

“To many readers, as to the present writer, it will seem that the fairest of critics has, after full examination, pronounced judgment, and that his judgment is likely to be final.”

+ + + Nation. 80: 35. Ja. 12, ‘05. 2380w.

Stephen, Leslie. Hours in a library. *$6. Putnam.

A new edition of thirty-two critical essays on literary subjects including studies of Macaulay, Charlotte Brontë, Kingsley, Scott, Hawthorne, DeQuincey, Coleridge, Eliot, Crabbe, and others, and essays on the novels of Richardson, Balzac, and Disraeli, Dr. Johnson’s writings, The first Edinburgh reviewers, etc.

+ Ind. 59: 816. O. 5, ‘05. 170w.

+ + Nation. 80: 10. Ja. 5, ‘05. 160w.

“Not strongly bound. Far too many slips in proof-reading. These adventures among masterpieces are ... the adventures of a humorist. They would often seem inadequate to the Dryasdust, they would often baffle the literary mind. Like all strong men, Stephen had his blind spots and his hobbies; his criticism was ... by no means unbiased.” H. W. Boynton.

+ + — N. Y. Times. 10: 33. Ja. 21, ‘05. 2490w.

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.

“One of the most satisfying and pleasing collections of literary essays.”

+ + Outlook. 79: 349. F. 4, ‘05. 60w.

Stephens, Kate. American thumb-prints; mettle of our men and women. **$1.50. Lippincott.

Eight essays entitled: Puritans of the West; The university of Hesperus; Two neighbors of St. Louis; The New England woman; A New England abode of the blessed; An up-to-date misogyny; “The gullet science”; Plagiarizing humors of Benjamin Franklin.

“Miss Stephens has wide reading, genuine erudition, humour, and pungent sarcasm all at her command, and she uses them very tellingly.”

+ + Bookm. 22: 85. S. ‘05. 340w.

“Instinct with the indescribable and unmistakable buoyancy and vitality of the great West, combined with something of the rich scholarship more often associated with the older East. Possessing as she does a command of excellent English, she does not need to write in polyglot.”

+ + — Dial. 38: 420. Je. 16, ‘05. 470w.

“A volume of essays written in so personal and characteristic a style as to make the title quite appropriate.”

+ + Ind. 59: 639. S. 14, ‘05. 170w.

“They are written in a good English style, and we have found much in them that is worth recording.”

+ — Nation. 81: 12. Jl. 6, ‘05. 330w.

“A small volume of fresh and courageously written essays by a cultivated Western woman who is not afraid to say what she thinks, and who does think.”

+ + Outlook. 80: 835. Jl. 29, ‘05. 250w.

“A clever book of essays.”

+ R. of Rs. 32: 126. Jl. ‘05. 80w.

Stephens, Louise G. (Katharine, pseud.). Letters from an Oregon ranch. **$1.25. McClurg.

One of a quartet of middle-aged adventurers tells the experiences of the four in settling upon an Oregon ranch. The labors and discomforts are humorously chronicled, and the whole genial tale breathes its text,—that the novelty and excitement of new fields is rejuvenating to those whose youth is past. A dozen photographic views illustrate the volume.

* “A breezy, rather likable book.”

+ Critic. 47: 475. N. ‘05. 60w.

Dial. 39: 45. Jl. 16, ‘05. 130w.

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 405. Je. 17, ‘05. 400w.

Stephens, Robert Neilson. Flight of Georgiana. †$1.50. Page.

“There is nothing new or original about the story, but it has the lightness and grace characterizing predecessors from Mr. Stephens’s pen, and sword-play to spare. The scene opens at an English inn; the Pretender has failed to win the British crown; his adherents are fleeing for their lives, but, as they fly, pause to make love.”—Outlook.

+ Outlook. 81: 278. S. 30, ‘05. 60w.

Stephens, Thomas, ed. Child and religion. *$1.50. Putnam.

This volume in the “Crown theological library,” contains eleven essays by eleven prominent theologians. The titles are: The child and heredity; The child and its environment; The child’s capacity for religion; The child and sin; The conversion of children; The religious training of the child in the church of England; The religious training of children in the free churches; Baptists and the children; New church training; The religious training of children among the Jews; and The child and the Bible.

“Those who are grappling with practical problems will find in these essays written from various points of view much that is suggestive and helpful.”

+ Outlook. 81: 134. S. 16, ‘05. 170w.

+ Pub. Opin. 39: 540. O. 21, ‘05. 440w.

* “The editor has wisely put his best first—that on ‘The child and heredity’ by Professor Jones of Glasgow; it is an acute and interesting piece of writing. Of the other essays we cannot speak so highly.”

+ — Sat. R. 100: 533. O. 21, ‘05. 320w.

+ Spec. 95: 125. Jl. 22, ‘05. 290w.

Stephenson, Henry Thew. Shakespeare’s London. **$2. Holt.

A topographical description of London as Shakespeare saw it, compiled largely from contemporary sources, and profusely illustrated from old prints. It gives an introductory sketch of the Elizabethans, an account of the early growth of the city, and a picturesque presentation of St. Paul’s, the water front, the tower, the main highway, the strand, in fact, the London of the 16th century. The book closes with chapters upon theatres, taverns and tavern life in those boisterous days.

“The book may be emphatically recommended to teachers and students no less than to the general reader.”

+ + Critic. 47: 286. S. ‘05. 120w.

* “The volume is compact, and is intended more for the library than for the satchel.”

+ Ind. 59: 1111. N. 9, ‘05. 160w.

“The book is worthy to have a much fuller index.”

+ + — Nation. 81: 19. Jl. 6, ‘05. 1210w.

“Interesting and apparently correct in its statements.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 356. Je. 3, ‘05. 960w.

“Deserving of high praise from two points of view—in that the study of London in Elizabeth’s day has been carefully and accurately worked out, and in that the description is eminently readable and entertaining.”

+ + Outlook. 80: 247. My. 27, ‘05. 110w.

“He has succeeded so far beyond his original intention as to give an exceedingly interesting record of Elizabethan life and times.”

+ Pub. Opin. 38: 943. Je. 17, ‘05. 80w.

333“Good use is made of the descriptions left by contemporary writers.”

+ + R. of Rs. 32: 125. Jl. ‘05. 40w.

Stepniak, pseud. (Sergiei Mikhailovich Kravchinskii). Russian peasantry; their agrarian condition, social life and religion. *$1.25. Dutton.

“A new edition of a book originally published ten years ago by a Russian who knew the economic and social conditions in Russia at first hand, and who passionately looked forward to the changes now taking place. Owing to the death of Stepniak, the book is issued without revision.”—Outlook.

Acad. 68: 369. Ap. 1, ‘05. 70w.

“He knew the Russian peasantry as no other man save Tolstoy.”

+ + Acad. 68: 659. Je. 24, ‘05. 620w.

Nation. 80: 331. Ap. 27, ‘05. 90w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 310. My. 13, ‘05. 130w.

Outlook. 79: 1061. Ap. 29, ‘05. 60w.

* Sterling, Sara Hawks. Shakespeare’s sweetheart. †$2. Jacobs.

Anne Hathaway’s own story as told by herself is a manuscript which Master Jonson is supposed to have hid away in vault beneath the Mermaid. It is a pretty story, and might have been true, did we but know, for who shall say that the young wife of the gallant Will Shakespeare did not follow him to London in boy’s disguise, and take part in his plays undiscovered by all save the sharp-eyed queen? And who shall deny to them the joy of a great love? Still, charming as it is, the story is unsustained by history, and we have long been taught to believe that the suggestions for the plots of Shakespeare’s plays came to him from sources outside his own life experience.

* “On the whole the situation is handled skilfully, and the story is a charming bit of imaginative writing.”

+ Dial. 39: 447. D. 16, ‘05. 180w.

* + N. Y. Times. 10: 892. D. 16, ‘05. 260w.

Sterne, Laurence. Complete works; including life by Percy Fitzgerald; ed. by Wilbur L. Cross. 12v. subs. ea. $3.50. Taylor.

“The aim of the publishers is to produce a complete, exact, and definite edition. For this purpose they have obtained much of the material direct from the British museum, while reproductions of letters, and old portraits have been acquired from the descendants of Sterne’s patrons and friends in England.”—Bookm.

“In point of general criticism, perhaps, it is somewhat lacking, but in little else. It collects everything of Sterne’s. P. H. Frye.”

+ + — Bookm. 21: 638. Ag. ‘05. 2580w.

“Mr. Wilbur L. Cross has written an entertaining and lucid introduction that adds to the practical worth of the book.”

+ + Critic. 46: 384. Ap. ‘05. 70w. (Reviews vol. I.)

“Is a genuine definitive edition. The editorial work by Prof. Cross, whether of an introductory character or in the shape of notes, or in the correction of numerous errors or the exclusion of spurious material, is of a high order and speaks well for the gentleman’s scholarship no less than for his just appreciation of the duties of editor. The mechanical features of the edition are in keeping with the editorship. The York edition is the most satisfactory interpretation that we have hitherto seen of him.”

+ + + N. Y. Times. 10: 117. F. 25, ‘05. 1130w.

Sterner, Ira Ibson. Picture gallery of souls. $1. Badger, R: G.

Sonnets and short poems dedicated “to cosmo-psychic energy,” and arranged under the headings: Introduction to the public; Sinners and society; Sorrow and joy; Lessons from history; Philosophical poems; and Toil and genius.

Sterrett, James Macbride. Freedom of authority: essays in apologetics. **$2. Macmillan.

“The book is ... a defence of authority in religion.... The first chapter deals with the relation between authority and freedom; the second and third are a criticism of the positions of the late Auguste Sabatier, of Dr. Harnack and of the Abbé Loisy; the fourth treats of the historical method, and is a defence of the philosophical school against the purely empirical; the remaining four chapters contain Dr. Sterrett’s own conclusions as to the nature of authority and the guidance of the individual Christian.”—Acad.

“The book, as he himself says, is a series of studies rather than a sustained thesis, and, to tell the truth, it is somewhat scrappy and inconclusive.”

+ — Acad. 68: 852. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1380w.

“His work as a whole is able and it is written with an intensity and enthusiasm of conviction which make it eloquent.”

+ + — Ind. 59: 453. Ag. 24, ‘05. 610w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 345. My. 27, ‘05. 210w.

+ + Outlook. 80: 443. Je. 17, ‘05. 680w.

Stevens, Frank. Adventures in Pondland. $1.25. McClurg.

This book combines the charm of a fairy story with the accuracy of a natural history. Jackie and Vi, young nature lovers, are invited by Lemna the fairy queen of the pond, to visit her domain, and altho they go down to the depths of it, the water does not wet them. They make friends with the guardian of the pond, Mr. Natterjack the toad, they learn how to care for their pets, the frogs and goldfish, and they find out all about the life and habits of the pond-people, Master Dragonfly, the tadpoles, newts, spiders and all the rest. At the end of the summer they regretfully leave the pond to its long winter’s sleep.

* + Acad. 68: 1287. D. 9, ‘05. 40w.

* + Ath. 1905, 2: 576. O. 28. 60w.

* + Lond. Times. 4: 432. D. 8, ‘05. 30w.

* “The book ought to give young readers new interest in humble orders of life, and some idea of nature’s adaptation of means to end.”

+ Nation. 81: 450. N. 30, ‘05. 140w.

* + N. Y. Times. 10: 780. N. 18, ‘05. 260w.

* “This is an entertaining and instructive book, suitable for all children who have, if not a pond, at least a rain-water tub at command.”

+ Spec. 95: 694. N. 4, ‘05. 110w.

Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour. Works. per v. $1. Scribner.

A biographical edition of Stevenson which is published in handy volume form, in cloth or limp leather, with thin paper, and clear type. The literary feature of the edition is the series of introductions written by Mrs. Stevenson, each of which gives an intimate account of the circumstances under which the book was written, and throws new light on Stevenson’s life and work.

Dial. 38: 423. Je. 16, ‘05. 130w.

* “The text is of course complete and authoritative, and the general form of the volumes makes them much more convenient for actual reading purposes than either of the two expensive subscription editions.”

+ + + Dial. 39: 391. D. 1, ‘05. 100w.

“Good taste and a sense of what is interesting have co-operated in the prefaces with which Mrs. Stevenson has furnished the several volumes. There is nothing which one can reasonably wish had been omitted.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 436. Jl. 1, ‘05. 560w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 500. Jl. 29. ‘05. 140w.

Outlook. 80: 447. Je. 17, ‘05. 20w.

334“One wishes that the biographical prefaces were fuller and more like those furnished by Mrs. Ritchie to the Biographical edition of Thackeray.”

+ + — Outlook. 80: 935. Ag. 12, ‘05. 30w.

Outlook. 81: 335. O. 7, ‘05. 30w.

Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour. Child’s garden of verses. $2.50. Scribner.

Jessie Willcox Smith has happily illustrated this new edition of these exquisite and well loved verses. In her black and white text drawings and full-page colored pictures we find the same appealing charm which makes all wanderers in Stevenson’s child’s garden feel that truly

“The world is so full of a number of things,

I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.”

* + Dial. 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 140w.

* “The whole conception of the book is in perfect good taste.”

+ Ind. 59: 1389. D. 14, ‘05. 70w.

* + Lond. Times. 4: 408. N. 24, ‘05. 150w.

* “Happy the child who receives this book for a gift, as a source of instruction in taste both for poetry and for art.”

+ + Nation. 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 170w.

+ + + N. Y. Times. 10: 744. N. 4, ‘05. 580w.

“It would be difficult to imagine a piece of holiday book-making which might be more complete and perfect.”

+ + + Outlook. 81: 574. N. 4, ‘05. 90w.

* + + Outlook. 81: 707. N. 25, ‘05. 40w.

* + R. of Rs. 32: 766. D. ‘05. 170w.

Stewart, Charles David. Fugitive blacksmith. $1.50. Century.

Two stories which run along side by side; one concerning Finerty, the jovial Irishman and his family, the other the tale of the fugitive blacksmith, as told by his one-time partner, Stumpy, the tramp, in Finerty’s sand house in the railroad yards. The whole is in dialect, and the characters are both witty and interesting. The blacksmith, Bill, a fugitive from justice for the murder of a friend, Tilten, is hounded from place to place, meeting with many exciting adventures, and at last comes across the man he was accused of murdering. Here the devoted Stumpy loses sight of him but later discovers him in health and prosperity and shares his changed fortunes.

“A peculiarly fascinating story.”

+ — Acad. 68: 569. My. 27, ‘05. 390w.

“Stumpy’s story is well told and worth telling.” G. W. A.

+ Bookm. 21: 544. Jl. ‘05. 430w.

“A more diverting story has not appeared in many a long day.”

+ + Critic. 46: 478. My. ‘05. 290w.

“‘Fugitive blacksmith’ is no unworthy successor to ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn.’”

+ + + Ind. 59: 393. Ag. 17, ‘05. 180w.

“Any veteran might well be glad and proud to round off even the achievement of a lifetime with a study of human nature such as this story of Mr. Stewart’s ‘Blacksmith’ so interesting in fresh and unexpected ways, so rich in the fruits of keen and kindly observation, and the true artist’s appreciation of much that escapes the untrained eye. If it does not prove a worthily popular favorite it will be the fault of the popular taste and appreciation.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 179. Mr. 25, ‘05. 940w.

“Let no one be deterred from reading the book by dislike of Irish dialect. The first chapter once passed, the human and humorous interest increases rapidly, and it may be added that the dialect itself—to many readers a determent—is consistently and carefully managed. The story is jolly and original.”

+ Outlook. 79: 705. Mr. 18, ‘05. 90w.

“The whole suffused with humor and not lacking in pathos, and wholly original.”

+ + Outlook. 79: 773. Ap. 1, ‘05. 80w.

“Mr. Stewart may not be another Mark Twain, but he doesn’t need to be. He is good enough as he is.”

+ + Pub. Opin. 38: 591. Ap. 15, ‘05. 210w.

“The book is vivified by clever character sketches shrewdly illustrative of life in the grade of society described. The humor of the story is abundant and of a particularly natural sort.”

+ + Reader. 5: 621. Ap. ‘05. 520w.

Stewart, Wentworth F. Evangelistic awakening. *75c. Meth. bk.

“The object of this volume is to give a general view of the present evangelistic situation, to indicate some things that have led up to this condition ... to set forth some fundamental principles which need emphasis, and to outline what are to be, in the author’s judgment, the conditions of the future.”

“As far as it goes it is an excellent book.”

+ Outlook. 81: 333. O. 7, ‘05. 110w.

Stiles, Henry Reed. History of ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut, comprising the present towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington and of Glastonbury, prior to its incorporation in 1693, from date of earliest settlement until the present time. 2v. *$25. Grafton press.

“Two ponderous volumes, edited ... from the manuscript of the late Judge Sherman W. Davis. The second volume is entirely genealogical, but in the first, which is really a series of brief historical monographs, occur chapters on such interesting topics as Wethersfield’s share in the French and Indian war, Wethersfield’s share in the American revolution and maritime history.”—Am. Hist. R.

Am. Hist. R. 10: 720. Ap. ‘05. 70w.

Stimson, Henry Albert. Right life and how to live it. **$1.20. Barnes.

“Volume I. in the ‘Right life series.’ An introduction for the book has been written by Dr. Maxwell, superintendent of schools, New York city. The volume is intended for growing boys and girls, as well as to help teachers and parents. It does not, the author says in his preface, propose any new theory of light or advocate any new teaching which might be set aside. ‘It furnishes a harmonious and satisfactory interpretation of life.’”—N. Y. Times.

* “It is sufficiently philosophical in its nature and scientific in its method to meet the intellectual demands of its readers, and to provide a basis for character-building that will stand the strain and criticism of after-life.”

+ + Am. J. Theol. 9: 779. O. ‘05. 230w.

Reviewed by John Angus MacVannel.

+ + Educ. R. 30: 423. N. ‘05. 970w.

“It is clear ... its tone is distinctly hopeful, wholesome and manly.”

+ + Ind. 58: 616. Mr. 16. ‘05. 190w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 150. Mr. 11, ‘05. 260w.

“A helpful contribution toward the strengthening of a weak point in our educational system. The outlook is comprehensive, on one hand including the fundamental problems of thought simply put, and on the other dealing with the social problems of the day.”

+ + Outlook. 79: 654. Mr. 11, ‘05. 250w.

Pub. Opin. 38: 634. Ap. 22, ‘05. 210w.

Stodola, Aurel. Steam turbines; with an appendix on gas turbines and the future of heat engines. *$4.50. Van Nostrand.

This is an English version of the second revised German edition. It includes a treatise on “Gas turbines, and the future of heat engines,” an elementary introduction to the theory of steam turbines for the general reader, and a series of reports of the experiments on the many-stage impulse turbines of Zölly, Rateau, Stumpf, Gelpke, and others.

335“This work is by far the best of all relating to this subject in any language. A number of misprints of the German edition have been faithfully reproduced in this translation. The usefulness of the book has been considerably reduced by the faulty translation.” Storm Bull.

+ + — Engin. N. 53: 527. My. 18, ‘05. 710w.

+ + Nature. 72: 219. Jl. 6, ‘05. 770w.

Stokely, Edith Keeley, and Hurd, Marian Kent. Miss Billy. †$1.50. Lothrop.

A young philanthropist who “leaves a trail of sanitation, repairing, mending, soap, and jokes behind her.... Anything but perfect, she corrects her own faults briskly, even while she reproves the shortcomings of her neighbors, and steers safely between the priggishness of some heroines of her class and the dullness of those created to listen to the twisted English and logic of their beneficiaries.” (N. Y. Times.)

“Pleasant story.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 176. Mr. 18, ‘05. 190w.

“This is an ideal story for young girls—sprightly and full of fun, it teaches, nevertheless, a wholesome lesson in the matters of neighborly love and the overcoming of false pride.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 300. My. 6, ‘05. 480w.

“So pleasantly and humorously is the story told that one never for a minute imagines while reading it that the authors are ‘pointing a moral.’”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 391. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.

Story, Douglas. Campaign with Kuropatkin. *$3. Lippincott.

An English newspaper correspondent’s account of the campaign in the East, in which he pays handsome tribute to Russia, whose final triumph he considers as assured in spite of the “effective barbarism” of the Japanese soldiers. There are many illustrations taken in the field by the author.

“Instead of military history, we have a book of impressions, individual and general. Making allowance for its partisanship, this volume grows upon one. At first there is a sense of triviality and of irritation; later, a feeling of interest, if not of sympathy, arrives; there is nothing to arouse sympathy.”

+ + Nation. 80: 196. Mr. 9, ‘05. 1590w.

“An interesting work. Mr. Story might have added as a sub-title: ‘As much as I was able to see of it.’”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 109. F. 18, ‘05. 1670w.

Story of the Welsh revival. pa. **15c. Revell.

A number of newspaper accounts of the religious awakening in Wales, brought together for the use of those who look for a similar movement in this country.

Ind. 58: 897. Ap. 20, ‘05. 60w.

Stow, George W. Native races of South Africa. A history of the intrusion of the Hottentots and Bantu into the hunting grounds of the Bushmen, the aborigines of the country. *$6.50. Macmillan.

“The book is scarcely a treatise so much as an encyclopedia of information.... Including an excellent account of the Hottentot immigration and the first waves of the Bantu influx from the North, a sketch of the distribution of the semi-Hottentot tribes ... much information about the Hereros and the little-known races north and west of the Kalahari, as well as a history of the first wars of Moshesh, the Basuto king, and the doings of early filibusters.... But it is primarily a study of the Bushmen, and the tale of one of the cruelest wars of extermination ever waged,—a glimpse into an elder, almost prehistoric, world of naked savagery.”—Spec.

“A rather cumbrous mass of speculations, based on laborious and praiseworthy investigations.”

+ + Ath. 1905, 2: 134. Jl. 29. 1580w.

“For a historian who draws much of his material from native tradition, Mr. Stow is singularly free from speculation. On the social life and habits of the Bushmen, which is the most important part of his work, we know from the highest living authority, Miss Lucy Lloyd, that he is entirely to be trusted.”

+ + + Lond. Times. 4: 278. S. 1, ‘05. 1550w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 492. Jl. 22, ‘05. 350w.

“What he says of the Bushmen, then, can be accepted as probably correct, and as forming a prospectively valuable contribution to the ethnology of South Africa.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 513. Ag. 5, ‘05. 890w.

“In the main his generalizations strike us as accurate and logical. It is as a collection of the data for theory that it is to be prized. On this ground it seems to us a very valuable book.”

+ + Spec. 95: 225. Ag. 12, ‘05. 1490w.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s cabin, or, Life among the lowly. $1.25. Crowell.

This famous story is now issued as one of the flexible “Thin paper classics” series, with a photogravure frontispiece showing Uncle Tom and Eva as drawn by Charles Copeland.

Strang, Herbert. Kobo: a story of the Russo-Japanese war. †$1.50. Putnam.

“Kobo is a Japanese in good social position, who undertakes the perilous duty of a spy. Another prominent character is a young British employee in the Japanese naval service. The adventures and experiences of these and others make ... a vivid dramatic representation of individual doings and happenings in the national tragedy now being enacted in the Far East.”—Outlook.

— + Critic. 47: 190. Ag. ‘05. 50w.

+ + Ind. 58: 1483. Je. 29, ‘05. 80w.

“A thorough boy’s tale, on the order of the Henty books.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 276. Ap. 29, ‘05. 200w.

“A dashing, exciting story of the sort that boys are fond of.”

+ Outlook. 79: 503. F. 25, ‘05. 80w.

Stray leaves from a soul’s book. $1.50. Badger, R. G.

Twelve leaves which give soul-struggles and soul-compensations and show how thru the ages “my soul and I” have strayed and met again.

Streamer, Col. D., pseud. (Harry Graham). More misrepresentative men. **$1. Fox.

Col. Streamer adds to his already imposing list of misrepresentative men the names of Robert Burns, William Waldorf Astor, Henry VIII., Alton B. Parker, Euclid, J. M. Barrie, Omar Khayyam, Andrew Carnegie, King Cophetus, Joseph F. Smith and Sherlock Holmes. The volume is humorously illustrated, and is made unique by the author’s foreword which makes bold to claim that visions of the almighty dollar have power to awaken his muse, and the publishers answer which pampers him in his whim for substantial reward.

* + Dial. 39: 446. D. 16, ‘05. 60w.

“Shows no exhaustion of his satiric vein.”

+ Nation. 81: 340. O. 26, ‘05. 80w.

“We are willing to swear that these verses are as good as any the author has written.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 748. N. 4, ‘05. 220w.

* Street, George Edward. Mount Desert: a history; ed. by S: A. Eliot; with a memorial introd. by Wilbert L. Anderson. **$2.50. Houghton.

“Many who have visited the interesting island 336of Mount Desert, have wondered what the early history of that region might be.... The first colony in Mount Desert was established by the Jesuit priests at Somesville, in 1613, but was destroyed next year by the English. A century and a half passed before the first permanent settlers came from Massachusetts.... In recent years the island has become one of the favorite summer resorts on our Atlantic coast. The book is well illustrated with views of the island and contains also an excellent map.”—Ind.

* “Is the only history of the island ever written.”

+ Ind. 59: 1113. N. 9, ‘05. 130w.

* + Outlook. 81: 528. O. 28, ‘05. 15w.

Stringer, Arthur John Arbuthnott. Lonely O’Malley: a story of boy life. $1.50. Houghton.

“The story of a real boy, who knows all about the secrets of trap-making, and depends upon a vivid imagination for his games. Shunned at first by others of his age, when he comes a stranger to town, he wins his place as a leader by fighting the bully and conducting a wonderful pirate cruise.”—Outlook.

“Entertaining story.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 670. O. 14, ‘05. 540w.

Outlook. 81: 429. O. 21, ‘05. 50w.

Strong, Mrs. Isobel (Osbourne). Girl from home: a story of Honolulu. †$1.50. McClure.

About twenty years ago, when Kalakaua was king in Hawaii, a girl went to the islands and fell in love with a man worth eleven millions. The story tells of her experiences in which many characters, American, British, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, and Hawaiian, play a part.

“The book is best defined as an entertaining volume of travel, sugar-coated with an innocuous little romance, and enlivened with a vein of mild satire.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ — Bookm. 21: 600. Ag. ‘05. 240w.

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 342. My. 27, ‘05. 410w.

* Strong, Josiah. Next great awakening. 75c. Baker.

A tenth edition of a volume which makes it its object to show “that the next great spiritual awakening, so profoundly needed to Christianize the new civilization and to lift the nations to a higher plane,” will come when the social teachings of Jesus, so long obscured and forgotten, are “clearly recognized and faithfully preached.” The subject is treated under the headings: The supreme need of the world; The law of spiritual quickening; The kingdom of God; The social laws of Jesus; The social teachings of Jesus not accepted; and The social teachings of Jesus applied will bring social healing and spiritual quickening.

Strong, Josiah. Social progress for 1905. **$1. Baker.

Dr. Strong’s experiment in sending out a 1904 year book and encyclopedia of economic, industrial, social and religious statistics met with such hearty endorsement that he offers a second issue for the new year. It contains more material than the 1904 volume, is more comprehensive, and has profited by solicited suggestions and criticisms.

“As it is, however, no student and no library should be without it.”

— + + Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 597. S. ‘05. 180w.

“The second issue of the work shows a material advance over the first in usefulness. The amount of matter included is very large, and it is strictly up-to-date.”

+ + + Dial. 38: 326. My. 1, 05. 60w.

“It is, on the whole, an excellent volume. We note, however, a number of errors, partly due to bad proofreading and partly to faulty handling of the statistical tables.”

+ + — Ind. 58: 1191. My. 25, ‘05. 90w.

+ + N. Y. Times 10: 287. Ap. 29, ‘05. 150w.

“A clear improvement is made by the present volume upon its predecessor.”

+ + Outlook. 79: 1016. Ap. 22, ‘05. 120w.

“More complete and hence more valuable than ever.”

+ + + Pub. Opin. 38: 795. My. 20, ‘05. 170w.

* Strong, Josiah. Times and young men. 75c. Baker.

A new popular edition of a book which is an outgrowth of the writer’s personal experience and in which he sets forth his conception of life in the hope that “this volume may fix in the minds of the young men who read it convictions as to the right course of life so deep and immovable that they may be anchored to in the stress of storm.” The table of contents includes chapters upon: The great change in the physical world, and in the world of ideas; Three great laws which never change; The law of service, The law of self-giving or sacrifice, The law of love; The three great laws applied to the social problem, and to personal problems; and The inspiration of the twentieth-century outlook.

Strunk, William, ed. See Juliana.

Stuart, Ruth McEnery. River’s children, $1. Century.

This “Idyll of the Mississippi” is a series of connected sketches of the negro and creole delta dwellers, where “de ruling lady of dis low valley country, it is not de carnival queen; it is not de first lady at de governor’s mansion.... It is old lady Mississippi.” There is an account of a great flood where “the mother of trouble” received prayers and sacrifices from her superstitious worshippers; and the story of two old negroes who took charge of their “Marse Harold’s” little daughter until his return from the war; finding rest beneath the treacherous waters when they had secured for her a father and a happy future. Many negro songs and superstitions give the story color.

“Written with the charm, the humor, the grace, and the pathos so familiar to all who know the author’s earlier books.”

+ + Critic. 46: 190. F. ‘05. 30w.

“A sort of pagan worship of the great river Mississippi is the keynote of this somewhat desultory tale of Creoles and negroes in Louisiana.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 43. Ja. 21, ‘05. 210w.

“Mrs. Stuart’s humor, is, for once, overcast by pathos. ‘The river’s children’ is a pearl brought up by a diver, who knows the waters; one that will gain luster as receding years carry farther and farther back, the superstitions, the romance, the melodies that have gathered around the great river.”

+ + Reader. 5: 377. F. ‘05. 400w.

Stuart, Ruth McEnery. Second wooing of Salina Sue and other stories, †$1.25. Harper.

Six short stories of negro life in the far South, entitled, The second wooing of Salina Sue; Minervy’s valentines, Tobe Taylor’s April foolishness; Egypt; Milady; The romance of Chinkapin castle.

+ + Bookm. 22: 182. O. ‘05. 230w.

“All the sketches are written in her touching, witty style.”

+ + Ind. 59: 156. Jl. 20, ‘05. 320w.

“She knows well how to best bring to the surface the exquisite humor and pathos of plantation life.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 278. Ap. 29, ‘06. 530w.

“If Mrs. Stuart strikes no fresh notes in this latest volume, she shows no sign of flagging interest in her themes, or of decline in the naturalness and interest of her style.”

+ Outlook. 80: 143. My. 13, ‘05. 100w.

+ + Reader. 6: 362. Ag. ‘05. 290w.

+ + — R. of Rs. 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 50w.

337Stubbs, Rt. Rev. William, bishop of Oxford. Letters of William Stubbs, bishop of Oxford, 1825-1901; ed. by William Holden Hutton. *$4. Dutton.

A volume of letters which show the great bishop and learned historian to have been a man of genial personality and keen wit.

“It is to be hoped that, faithfully as Mr. Hutton has executed his task,—and his interspersed matter is illuminative and indispensable to the best enjoyment of the letters,—that a fuller, more formal biography of Bishop Stubbs may some day be written.” Percy F. Bicknell.

+ + Dial. 38: 236. Ap. 1, ‘05. 450w.

“His intercourse with leaders or his church and nation is revealed in these letters, in which his personal characteristics as a Christian pastor, an ecclesiastical statesman, a scholar, a wit, a friend, combine in the portrait of a strong, sincere, and faithful man.”

+ Outlook. 79: 246. Ja. 28, ‘05. 130w.

+ + + Nation. 81: 201. S. 7, ‘05. 3550w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 524. Ag. 5, ‘05. 900w.

* Sturge, Ernest Adolphus. Spirit of Japan. The Yurskusha, Tokyo. For sale by author, 101 Scott St., San Francisco.

A Californian’s book of verse devoted to the spirit, legends, historical events, flowers, trees, birds and scenery of Japan.

Sturgis, Howard Overing. Belchamber. †$1.50. Putnam.

Lord Belchamber, heir to an old name and to an old estate, is shy, sickly and good, quite out of place in his high position, in an idle and fashionable world, and wishes to renounce it for settlement work. His dissipated brother’s marriage to a vulgar variety actress recalls him to his duty, to his mother and to his name. He is caught by the first clever woman who sets her cap for him and marries her with tragic results.

“‘Belchamber,’ in short, has at once the faults and the freshness of the novelist who has told little but observed much; faults of construction and perspective ... and freshness of sensation and perception.” Edith Wharton.

+ + — Bookm. 21: 307. My. ‘05. 1970w.

“Admirably well-written book.” Witter Bynner.

+ + Critic. 46: 473. My. ‘05. 650w.

“There is nothing amateurish about either style or construction.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ — Dial. 39: 41. Jl. 16, ‘05. 130w.

“There is nothing hopeful or right in the book.”

— — Ind. 58: 1071. My. 11, ‘05. 200w.

“There is a sort of old-fashioned touch about some of it, and now and then a suggestion of Thackeray.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 390. Je. 10. ‘05. 690w.

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.

“Neither strength nor style is lacking in this quite remarkable analytical study.”

+ Outlook. 79: 906. Ap. 8, ‘03. 100w.

“It is a wonderfully well written book, so well written that the wonder grows that the author should have chosen such a malodorous subject.”

+ + — Pub. Opin. 38: 549. Ap. 8, ‘05. 110w.

“‘Belchamber’ is a disagreeable, morbid and decidedly clever novel of aristocratic English life.”

+ — Reader. 6: 472. S. ‘05. 280w.

Sturgis, Russell. Appreciation of pictures. **$1.50. Baker.

A purely artistical standard of judgment from which to grasp the great arts of design has been defined by Mr. Sturgis in his volumes devoted to sculpture, architecture, and now to pictures. In the present field the work of producing grows complex as “in the matter of picture-making there is the transference of actual form and of appearance of form, to a flat surface.” The subject is treated historically and from the critic’s standpoint, whereas Mr. Poore’s “Pictorial composition” in this same “Popular art series” treats pictures from the artist’s point of view. There are many illustrations reproduced from rare paintings.

* “The pictures are carefully and thoroughly explained, and much unconscious like or dislike of a picture is accounted for by the clear reasoning.”

+ + Critic. 47: 572. D. ‘05. 90w.

* “Is a good, helpful and instructive book by an authority whose long and careful study of the arts has equipped him with a wealth of knowledge.”

+ + Ind. 59: 1162. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.

* Int. Studio. 27: sup. 30. D. ‘05. 200w.

* “Mr. Sturgis’s book is much the more stimulating to one already possessing some knowledge of the subject; Mr. Caffin’s will perhaps be more useful to the beginner. Both will help in the spreading of some notion of what art is.”

+ + Nation. 81: 509. D. 21. ‘05. 220w.

* + Outlook. 81: 704. N. 25, ‘05. 80w.

* “Mr. Sturgis has filled the requirements of the situation fully.”

+ + Pub. Opin. 39: 666. N. 18, ‘05. 220w.

* R. of Rs. 32: 751. D. ‘05. 70w.

Sturgis, Russell. Appreciation of sculpture. **$1.50. Baker.

To provide a popular work which at the same the student was the prevailing idea in Mr. Sturgis’s “How to judge architecture.” In the same time maintained high standards of criticism for manner, he now offers a work on sculpture, in which he treats the subject in the light of both its architectural and monumental value, dwelling upon the history, the characteristics of the principal schools, and the criticism of standard works; all of which study presents principles of analysis and criticism to be employed in understanding other sculpture. The book is valuable for the student, the traveler and the general reader.

Reviewed by Wm. Walton.

+ + Architectural Record. 17: 189. Mr. ‘05. 2610w. (Abstract of book.)

“With the exception of the omission of some interesting technical explanations, which Mr. Sturgis better than most could have given us, the book is a very good and helpful one, and much more instructive as to the difference between good and bad works than the same author’s previous volume on ‘How to judge architecture,’ to which this is a companion.”

+ + — Ind. 58: 95. Ja. 12, ‘05. 560w.

“The book is one that will unfailingly bring to its readers both profit and pleasure.”

+ + Int. Studio. 25: sup. 16. Mr. ‘05. 270w.

Sturgis, Russell. Interdependence of the arts; Scammon lectures, The art institute of Chicago, 1904. *$1.75. McClurg.

Six lectures and 100 illustrations make up this book. Modern judged by ancient art is treated in lectures 1 and 2, first under Representation and sentiment, and second under Decorative effects. The other subjects are—The industrial arts in which form predominates, The industrial arts in which color predominates, Sculpture as used in architecture, and Painting as used in architecture.

“The writer’s views on these subjects are sound, if pedantic and not altogether new; they might have been placed in a form rather more readily understood, for one may turn many pages before he gains any idea of what the author is ‘getting at.’”

+ — Critic. 47: 283. S. ‘05. 110w.

* + + Int. Studio. 27: sup. 30. D. ‘05. 140w.

“Reads rather like the slightly revised report of extempore talks than like a formal treatise.”

+ + — Nation. 81: 150. Ag. 17, ‘05. 1160w.

+ + Outlook. 80: 838. Jl. 29, ‘05. 100w.

338* Sturgis, Russell. Study of the artist’s way of working in various handicrafts and arts of design. 2v. **$15. Dodd.

In this “treatise on the ways in which the artist’s conceptions are formed and take visible shape,” Mr. Sturgis “gives a brief description of the technique of all the arts practised by man or savage down to the nineteenth century ... and even includes in a chapter on the ‘Ignored fine arts’ some discussion of fireworks and illumination, costume, the dance and stage-setting.” (Int. Studio.) There are one hundred and nineteen illustrations.

* “Though the work is copious, each department is despatched succinctly without overburdening detail and not without occasional expression of personal judgments and speculation.”

+ + Int. Studio. 27: sup. 33. D. ‘05. 150w.

* “A comprehensive work.” C. de K.

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 742. N. 4, ‘05. 350w.

Sturmsee: man and man; by the author of Calmire. † $1.50. Macmillan.

The author’s economic theory is that the workingman gets as large a share of the wealth he helps to produce as he actually earns. His story deals with many characters in many classes of society but chiefly with a young German doctor who loves a princess, comes to America, begins at the bottom and becomes reform governor of a western commonwealth; and with the romance of an idle leader of cotillions, and the intense daughter of a plain, blunt manufacturer of tinware.

“In the hands of a great writer it might have been a great book, because the purpose in it is that of painting the manners of men. But then the author launches into deep waters where he is not at home.”

+ — Acad. 68: 822. Ag. 12, ‘05. 320w.

* “There is too much social philosophy in the book to interest the general reader of fiction. Yet, on the whole, ‘Sturmsee’ abounds in lessons of healthy conservatism and conveys much social information.”

+ — Cath. World. 82: 417. D. ‘05. 170w.

“It is not entirely without interest as a story, but it is essentially a book of discussions to which a conversational and picturesque form of exposition gives point and animation.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ + Dial. 39: 41. Jl. 16, ‘05. 980w.

“It is informed with learning and reflection, and its plan is studiously developed. Yet it would be a mistake to call it a novel.”

+ — Ind. 59:451. Ag. 24, ‘05. 170w.

“The people in the book ... have (for Utopians) an appeal remarkably human. And not merely human, but romantic. The author never gets down from his hobby. He is always intent to teach you wisdom and demolish economic fallacies.”

+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 370. Je. 10, ‘05. 4070w.

“Has handled his material well or ill according as his readers expect sociology or fiction, for there is something of both and not enough of either.”

— Pub. Opin. 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 140w.

Sudermann, Hermann. St. John’s fire; tr. by Grace E. Polk. $1. H. W. Wilson co.

One of three translations of strong new foreign plays appearing in America in the last three years, the other two being Edith Wharton’s translation of Sudermann’s “Joy of Living,” and Coleman’s translation of Maeterlinck’s “Monna Vauna.” The dramatist uses an old German peasant custom of lighting bonfires and dancing round them on St. John’s eve as an allegorical background for his play. The custom dates back to heathen times, and the author in working out his plot makes the fires symbolize the outburst in the human soul, after Christian centuries, of the wild yearnings and primeval passions of the unregenerate man.

Outlook. 80: 247. My. 27, ‘05. 20w.

R. of Rs. 32: 127. Jl. ‘05. 40w.

“Miss Polk’s translation is at once faithful to the spirit and letter of the original, and to the idiom of our own tongue. It is neither slavish nor careless.” Mary Gray Peck.

+ + + St. Paul Dispatch. 8. Ap. 29, ‘05. 810w.

Suess, Eduard. Face of the earth (Das antlitz der erde); tr. by Hertha B. C. Sollas, 5v. v. I. *$8.35. (*25s.) Oxford.

Volume I. of a five volume edition. “Vol. I., which contains four maps and fifty other illustrations, is divided into two parts. Part I. deals with ‘The movements in the outer crust of the earth’—floods, cyclones, seismic areas, dislocations, volcanoes, earthquakes, etc.; Part II. is devoted to ‘The mountain ranges of the earth’—the ‘Northern foreland of the Alpine system,’ ‘The trend-lines of the Alpine system,’ ‘The basin of the Adriatic,’ ‘The Mediterranean,’ the Great desert plateau, the Indian mountains, the mountains of South America, the Antilles, North America, and the mountains separating the continents.” (N. Y. Times.)

“The English version faithfully follows the original, and supplies adequate renderings of the German technical terms.”

+ + + Ath. 1905, 2: 82. Jl. 15. 400w.

“No work on geology since the day of Lyell’s ‘Principles’ has exerted so profound an influence upon geological thought as has Suess’s ‘Antlitz der erde,’ and no one has mastered the broad geographical facts that are associated with the science of the earth, the world-concept, in a manner at all comparable with his presentation.”

+ + Nation. 80: 134. F. 16. ‘05. 430w.

“Excellent translation of the first volume of the work.” J. W. G.

+ + + Nature. 72: 193. Je. 29, ‘05. 240w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 121. F. 25, ‘05. 90w.

Super flumina: angling observation of a coarse fisherman, **$1.25. Lane.

“A volume on the art of Isaak Walton.... Among the topics discussed by the ‘fisherman’ are ‘Dashing dace,’ ‘Perches and plants,’ ‘A charge of pike,’ and ‘The club of melancholy.’”—N. Y. Times.

“The book might be summarized briefly as a modern and more erudite revival of Izaak Walton, so gentle and so humane is its attitude towards the finny tribe, so liberal and comprehensive its learning.”

+ Dial. 38: 422. Je. 16, ‘05. 250w.

“Is a book to irritate the curious rather than to please the well-informed or to instruct the ignorant. There is a great deal in this book that the learned angler (the appeal is to no other) may enjoy in spite of its overload of learning.”

+ — Nation. 80: 269. Ap. 6, ‘05. 860w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 172. Mr. 18, ‘05. 130w.

Sutro, Emil. Duality of thought and language: an outline of original research. $1.50. Physio-psychic society.

“The author professes to have made the discovery that there are two voices in man, the one of the larynx and the other of the œsophagus; and that these two possess unique relation to the ‘soul’ element of speech. Tortuous and commonplace repetitions and variations of this theme make up the volume.”—Dial

“Has no claim to consideration except as an example of the confusion which may be the fruit of interest and enthusiasm unfortified by appreciation of what scientific investigation is or what it has accomplished.”

— Dial. 38: 22. Ja. 1, ‘05. 100w.

Nature. 71: 317. F. 2. ‘05. 95w.

339Sutro, Theodore. Thirteen chapters of American history, represented by the Edward Moran series of thirteen historical marine paintings. **$1.50. Baker.

Full-page reproductions of Edward Moran’s thirteen famous paintings with a descriptive essay upon each picture, an introduction and a brief biography. Portraits of the artist and his wife, as painted by their nephew, Thomas Sidney Moran, are also given.

“Thirteen excellent half-tone reproductions of scenes connected with the history of the United States by the late well-known marine painter, Edward Moran, coupled with an interesting descriptive essay and prefaced by a careful biography of the artist.”

+ + Critic. 47: 286. S. ‘05. 70w.

“One of the most important books of the late Edward Moran was the series of thirteen marine paintings descriptive of important events in American history. They constitute a collection of impressive beauty, aside from their function of illustrating some of the most striking phases of American history.”

+ + Dial. 39: 94. Ag. 16, ‘05. 130w.

“The text ... is rather injudicious in tone.”

+ — Nation. 81: 118. Ag. 10, ‘05. 220w.

“This series of historical pictures is thus of graphic interest to young and old. It has been a happy idea to reproduce them in a book and to accompany them with descriptive essays.”

+ + Outlook. 80: 839. Jl. 29, ‘05. 110w.

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 515. Ag. 5, ‘05. 330w.

R. of Rs. 32: 511. O. ‘05. 60w.

* Suyematsu, K., baron. Risen sun. **$3. Dutton.

In this collection of addresses, articles, and letters Baron Suyematsu gives to the western world “an impression of Japan both new and authoritative ... he ... has cleverly entitled the book, not ‘The land of the rising sun,’ but ‘The risen sun.’”(Outlook.)

* “‘The risen sun’ would gain in historical accuracy if a perhaps natural bias—or, should we say predisposition?—were eliminated.”

+ — Acad. 68: 1183. N. 11, ‘05. 210w.

* “Altogether Baron Suyematsu’s book is a valuable contribution to history.”

+ Ath. 1905, 2: 792. D. 9. 450w.

* “The book is a superb piece of polemic, with a refreshingly cool and judicial temper like Franklin’s and with eloquence that reminds us of Beecher.”

+ Ind. 59: 1479. D. 21, ‘05. 200w.

* Lit. D. 31: 625. O. 28, ‘05. 40w.

* “The book is somewhat disjointed, patently showing that it is not a unified production. But its text is alike interesting and valuable.”

+ — Outlook. 81: 891. D. 9, ‘05. 180w.

* “The Japanese sun is certainly risen, but when in future, distinguished authorities, such as Baron Suyematsu, relate the story of her progress they will better attain historical truth, if they give some credit where credit is so justly due.”

+ — Sat. R. 100: 596. N. 4, ‘05. 550w.

Swan, Helena. Girls’ Christian names their history, meaning, and association. $1.50. Dutton.

The author “has undertaken to give the origin of the baptismal names of women common in English-speaking countries, and to each name to add references as to its associations and history.” Her “method of treating a name is to give what she declares are its derivatives, then its derivation in the form of a statement; then to tell of the distinguished women who have borne it, and to give the titles of books wherein the name appears.”—N. Y. Times.

Nation. 81: 340. O. 26, ‘05. 310w.

“A book of considerable interest, though of no importance. She has evidently brought more enthusiasm than judgment to her task.”

+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 587. S. 9, ‘05. 610w.

+ Outlook. 80: 884. Ag. 5, ‘05. 15w.

Swedenborg, Emanuel. Four doctrines with the nine questions; tr. by John Faulkner Potts. Am. Swedenborg.

The first volume in a new translation of Swedenborg’s theological writings. “The four doctrines,” first published at Amsterdam in 1763, include the following: I., The doctrine of the New Jerusalem concerning the Lord, followed by the nine questions, relating to the Lord, the Trinity, and the Holy Spirit; II., The doctrine of the New Jerusalem concerning the Holy Scripture; III., The doctrine of life for the New Jerusalem from the ten commandments; IV., The doctrine of the New Jerusalem concerning faith. The volume is supplied with full tables of contents, and an index to Biblical texts.

Ind. 58: 845. Ap. 13, ‘05. 120w. (Review of vol. I.)

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 89. F. 11, ‘05. 170w.

“A new translation by a competent scholar. In paper, typography, and binding the volume is all that a library edition should be.”

+ + Outlook. 79: 002. F. 25, ‘05. 100w. (Review of vol. 1.)

R. of Rs. 31: 512. Ap. ‘05. 70w. (Review of vol. 1.)

Sweet, Frank Herbert. Hobby camp. $1. Pilgrim press.

Kitty, a stenographer with an artistic temperament, is given a vacation by her employers and spends it in Hobby camp with Mrs. Rounds, whose hobby is doughnuts; Zeke, her son, the hobby boy; two college fellows who collect bugs and things; and Mr. Bailey who is writing a woodsy book. They all have adventures, especially Zeke, but the most wonderful things happen to Kitty, for she finds recognition for her drawings and wins the love of a great bear and—someone who is not a bear.

* + N. Y. Times. 10: 838. D. 2, ‘05. 220w.

Swift, John N., and Birge, William S. No surrender. $1.50. Broadway pub.

The story of a “strange voyage in a strange country,” which narrates the stirring adventures of the purloined “Dona Inez,” under her piratical crew. These unlawfully minded seamen undergo almost every experience in the gamut of marine catastrophe while one of its former officers is speeding overland to head off disagreeable contingencies with the Chilean naval department.

Swift, Jonathan. Journal to Stella, together with other writings relating to Stella and Vanessa; with the notes of Sir Walter Scott. *$1.25. Scribner.

Swift’s well-known classic is the latest issue in the “Caxton series.” “The compact size, limp lambskin binding, light paper, large clear type, and photogravure frontispiece give an excellent example of modern progress in bookmaking.” (Critic.)

+ Critic. 46: 284. Mr. ‘05. 60w.

Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Love’s crosscurrents. $1.50. Harper.

A revived and rechristened work which some years ago appeared in the “Tatler.” “The situation which Mr. Swinburne presents to us is that of four cousins, brought up more or less together, two of whom are women and are married. With each is in love the brother of the other, and behind them all is the old Lady Midhurst, aunt of one pair and grandmother of the other, who plays the part of a shrewd and ill-natured Greek chorus.... The book is a study in calf-love, yet with something noble behind it; and the background is one of 340dreary country life, worldliness, and cynical old age.” (Spec.)

“A book so studded with quips and witticisms will always repay reading. There is no cleverness shown in bringing the dramatic episodes to a clear and sharp point, and the discrimination between one character and another is so slight as to be almost imperceptible.”

— + — Acad. 68: 726. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1490w.

“The prose is among the best that the poet has achieved. It would be hard to exaggerate the concision, the polish, and the perfect prose-rhythm of these letters. The letters as a whole are pungent satire on British morality, its sensual sentiment, and its capacity for whitewashing the moral sepulchre.”

+ + — Ath. 1905, 2: 165. Ag. 5. 2420w.

“It is pure comedy, both high-spirited and restrained, both caustic and tender.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.

+ + Critic. 47: 452. N. ‘05. 230w.

“We are not going to hail Mr. Swinburne as a great novelist on the strength of this performance, but may fairly call it a clever, almost brilliant piece of work in a difficult form.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ + — Dial. 39: 112. S. 1, ‘05. 580w.

“They will add nothing to Mr. Swinburne’s fame.”

+ — Ind. 59: 582. S. 7, ‘05. 100w.

“For our part, better than the story, better even than the incisive prologue, we love the dedication with its rioting periods and its kingly courtesies.”

+ — Lond. Times. 4: 225. Jl. 14, ‘05. 950w.

“As a love-story, the book is entirely ineffective. The style is not peculiarly Swinburnean, but it is naturally more vigorous, more telling than is common with writers of modern fiction.”

+ Nation. 81: 147. Ag. 17, ‘05. 510w.

“An agreeable kind of old-fashioned love story is involved in ‘Love’s cross-currents.’”

+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 465. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1050w.

+ — Outlook. 80: 838. Jl. 29, ‘05. 120w.

* R. of Rs. 32: 759. D. ‘05. 60w.

“While there is hardly a sentence which we cannot read with pleasure for its literary savour, its prim ironic elegance, there is not a page which we turn with the faintest thrill of curiosity.”

— Sat. R. 100: 184. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1090w.

“As a novel, indeed, the book has many faults. There are too many characters, and their relationships are too complex, for the brief introduction to give the reader any clear grasp of the situation.”

+ — Spec. 95: 157. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1130w.

Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Selected poems, ed. by William Morton Payne. Heath.

A volume in section VI. of the “Belles-lettres” series. The eighty poems selected are printed complete and classified under the headings: odes, poems of paganism and pantheism, selections from Songs before sunrise, lyrics, sonnets, personal poems, and metrical experiments, imitations, and parodies. An introduction, a chronological list of writings, an index of first lines and full notes are included.

“In form and method Mr. Payne’s introduction must be pronounced a model. The selection of poems could hardly be improved upon.”

+ + + Nation. 81: 96. Ag. 3, ‘05. 200w.

“It is as good an anthology of Swinburne as we can expect during the poet’s lifetime. The notes are exactly what the reader desires and needs.”

+ + + N. Y. Times. 10: 525. Ag. 12, ‘05. 3980w.

* Swing, David. Truths leaf by leaf, with a characterization by Newell Dwight Hillis, and introd. by Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus; also a poem by Dr. Gunsaulus; ed. by Sophie Burt Kimball. $1.50. S. B. Kimball, Chicago.

“When proceedings against David Swing for heresy resulted in his quitting the Presbyterian church, thirty years ago, and forming the Central Congregational church in Chicago, it was a clear gain both for preacher and people. His sermons, attractive in their breadth of view and depth of feeling, and distinguished by their literary quality, drew congregations with an unusually large proportion of men, and were regularly printed in his weekly paper, the ‘Alliance.’ The present volume draws its contents from ‘his most mature and last unpublished writings.’ Characterizations of the beloved preacher by his like-minded successors, Drs. Hillis and Gunsaulus, supply the personal element required for an adequate memorial.”—Outlook.

* “Beauty, spirituality, the value of high ideals in life and thought, fill these inspiring pages.”

+ Dial. 39: 314. N. 16, ‘05. 130w.

* + Outlook. 80: 887. Ag. 5, ‘05. 100w.

* Swingle, Calvin F. Modern locomotive engineering, with questions and answers. $3. Drake, F: J.

A plain practical treatise on the construction, care and management of modern locomotives. “The book is presented in an attractive form in flexible covers. The print is large; the illustrations, of which there are many, are clear, simple, and yet comprehensive.” (Engin. N.)

* “Mr. Swingle has combined between the covers of one book not only much that has been treated of in the many smaller books, but he has also presented considerable other valuable matter in an original and interesting manner.” Arthur M. Waitt.

+ + Engin. N. 54: 645. D. 14, ‘05. 1430w.

Sylvestre, Joshua, ed. See Christmas carols, ancient and modern.

Symonds, E. M. (George Paston, pseud.). * B. R. Haydon and his friends. **$3. Dutton.

“Haydon was a man much talked of in his day but little mentioned in our own. As a critic, despite his own sharply cut individuality, his egotism and vanity stood in the way of a proper perspective of men and things. As a painter he had undeniable power, and he used it with knowledge; he was a painter who thought.... The present well-printed volume ... helps more clearly to realize Haydon’s excellencies and limitations.”—Outlook.

* “Miss Symonds is rather too cold a biographer.”

+ — Acad. 68: 1099. O. 21, ‘05. 1550w.

* + Lond. Times. 4: 347. O. 20, ‘05. 1590w.

* Nation. 81: 509. D. 21, ‘05. 120w.

* “As a book about art, even about the art of a singularly arid time in an arid country George Paston’s Haydon has little value or interest to-day. For its ‘collections and recollections,’ George Paston’s volume is pleasant reading.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 850. D. 2, ‘05. 1470w.

* + + Outlook. 81: 887. D. 9, ‘05. 160w.

* “With such a subject, then, Mr. Paston could not write a dull book, and his ‘Life’ of Haydon does not contain a page that is not alive with a grim comedy or poignant with a yet grimmer tragedy.”

+ + Spec. 95: 715. N. 4, ‘05. 1290w.

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Taber, Harry Persons. Rubaiyat of the commuter: being quatrains concerning the affairs of every day. 25c. John Bridges, Briarcliff Manor, N. Y.

“The woes of the commuter, with the 30-second breakfast, the 8:16 train which occasionally goes at 8:32, the futile struggle with two bushels of Peter Henderson’s seeds and the neighbors’ chickens are too feelingly set forth to have been only imagined. The author explains his use of the particular form of verse that he has selected on the ground of its being an obsessive measure.”—Baltimore Sun.

+ Baltimore Sun. :8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 240w.

Taggart, Marion Ames. Nut brown Joan. †$1.50. Holt.

A story for girls. The heroine, a brown, lanky child of fourteen, dissatisfied with her world, develops into a most attractive young woman, the joy of her father, the relief of her invalid mother, and the confidante and help of her numerous brothers and sisters. There is much wholesome fun, there is trouble, incident, and, above all, real human nature.

“‘Nut-brown Joan’ is to be commended both for its literary merit ... and also for its thoroughly wholesome atmosphere. The volume holds a very practical lesson for young girls, and the lesson is excellently presented.”

+ + Cath. World. 81: 411. Je. ‘05. 170w.

“Points a moral at the same time that it tells a very entertaining story.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 463. Jl. 15, ‘05. 130w.

“A wholesome and pretty story.”

+ Outlook. 80: 94. My. 6, ‘05. 40w.

Tannenforst, Ursula, pseud. See Tilghman, Emily.

Tanner, Amy Eliza. Child: his thinking, feeling and doing. $1.25. Rand.

“A résumé of the child-study literature.... Such topics as these are treated: the problems of physical growth and abnormality; the feelings and ideas of sex; the mental processes; religious and moral ideas; emotions; interests; movements; imitation; language; rhythm; music; drawing and play. At the beginning of each chapter are definite suggestions for collecting data along the line of the chapter. The bibliographies at the close of each chapter are most ample.”—Psychol. Bull.

“For normal or college students who should have some groundwork in general psychology before studying child psychology, Miss Tanner’s book is inferior to that of Dr. Kirkpatrick; for general readers it will prove most serviceable.” Henry Davidson Sheldon.

+ + Dial. 38: 272. Ap. 16, ‘05. 150w.

“It is profuse in facts, though sparing in generalizations and conclusions, and can hardly fail to promote a more judicious study of the individual children with whom its readers may have to do.”

+ + Outlook. 79: 142. Ja. 14, ‘05. 80w.

“Without doubt, it is the most complete, systematic and painstaking work of its kind extant. It is certainly unique in its sphere, presenting in convenient and readable form a vast amount of information regarding child life. It should meet with great favor at the hands of those for whom it was written.” Irving King.

+ + + Psychol. Bull. 2: 32. Ja. 15, ‘05. 600w.

“There are special chapters that deserve special mention, some because of their merit, such as those treating of ‘Memory,’ ‘Imagination,’ ‘Conception,’ and ‘Reasoning,’ and the chapter on the various forms of ‘Movements’; and others, especially those chapters that deal with the so-called physical nature of the child, that might, with advantage, be replaced in the text or even rewritten.” D. P. MacMillan.

+ — School R. 13: 578. S. ‘05. 460w.

+ + School R. 13: 648. O. ‘05. 70w.

Tapp, Sidney C. Story of Anglo-Saxon institutions; or, The development of constitutional government. **$1.50. Putnam.

“While Mr. Tapp’s book runs along special lines, it is intended for the general reader as well as for the specialist. The writer’s purpose has been to demonstrate from historical facts that the Anglo-Saxon race is the only race that has ever had a true conception of republican institutions, or solved correctly the problem of self-government. It is only fair to say that Mr. Tapp has accomplished his purpose in this book.”—Critic.

Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 136. Ja. ‘05. 130w.

+ + Critic. 46: 384. Ap. ‘05. 70w.

* Tappan, Eva March, tr. Golden goose, and other fairy tales; tr. from the Swedish. †$1. Houghton.

Six fairy tales from Scandinavian sources told in simple language. “‘The golden goose,’ which gives the name to the book, is little Rose, the beautiful daughter of a king, whose stepmother, after much cruel treatment, has turned her into a goose.... There is the story of a giant, the roof of whose house was made of sausages; of the good little girl, and the bad in ‘The red and the black box.’ ... There is the simple-minded giant who killed himself, not to be outdone by a small boy, and other stories, all with excellent pictures in black and white, full pages and text, with interesting head pieces.” (N. Y. Times.)

* “Told in an interesting manner.”

+ Ind. 59: 1386. D. 14, ‘05. 40w.

* “Is a good addition to the useful work she has done for children in other fields.”

+ Nation. 81: 489. D. 14, ‘05. 140w.

* + N. Y. Times. 10: 870. D. 9, ‘05. 210w.

Tappan, Eva March. Short history of England’s literature. *85c. Houghton.

“An elementary text-book for high schools, by the head of the English department in the English high school at Worcester, covering English literature from its beginnings in the earliest periods down to the novel of the nineteenth century, with numerous illustrations in the form of portraits, facsimiles of manuscripts, pictures of objects of interest, and with an excellent map in colors.”—Outlook.

Outlook. 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 60w.

Tarbell, Ida Minerva. History of the Standard oil company. **$5. McClure.

An account of the origin, growth, and influence of this first and greatest of American trusts. The methods by which the corporation gained control of the petroleum output are disclosed, railroad and other interests bearing upon the trust’s development are carefully investigated. The oil regions themselves and the chief characters in this industrial drama are put vividly before us.

“‘The history of the Standard oil company’ is one of the most important contributions that has been made to the vital historical and conscience literature of our opening century. The absorbing interest of the work, the masterly marshaling of facts and the careful handling of details are only surpassed by the judicial spirit that is preëminent throughout the work.”

+ + + Arena. 34: 436. O. ‘05. 6230w.

“It is calm and dispassionate, and calculated to do quite as much if not more good than if it were pitched in a high and noisy key. Is to the present time the most remarkable book of its kind ever written in this country.”

+ + + Critic. 46: 287. Mr. ‘05. 120w.

“The book is a genuine contribution to that 342knowledge of the real inwardness of things industrial which Americans as a people so lack.” Frank L. McVey.

+ + + Dial. 38: 313. My. 1, ‘05. 2190w.

“Miss Tarbell’s success, for she has achieved a very distinct success, is in having made her story in its logical simplicity and directness as fascinatingly interesting as it is disagreeable. She has preserved her position as historian and has not abandoned it even temporarily for that of the prosecuting advocate.”

+ + + Ind. 58: 840. Ap. 13, ‘05. 600w.

“This book seems to have been written for the purpose of intensifying the popular hatred. The writer has either a vague conception of the nature of proof, or she is willing to blacken the character of Mr. John D. Rockefeller by insinuation and detraction.”

— — + Nation. 80: 15. Ja. 5, ‘05. 1970w.

“The value ... lies largely in the fact that the author has no thesis to sustain and is willing to let her readers draw their own conclusions. It is a model of condensed, graphic statement. The dramatic aspects of the story are not lost in the telling, while the arrangement of the materials is convenient for the purposes of the student and the legislator as well as for general reading.”

+ + + Outlook. 79: 394. F. 11, ‘05. 2190w.

“The author never gets excited, however exciting her story may become; she sets forth the facts, and to a considerable extent leaves inference and conclusions to her readers. It is, in effect, a liberal education in the fundamentals of the trust problem; it is the Blackstone of the literature that is growing up around this problem, in its entirety the most important of all in commercialized America.”

+ + + Pub. Opin. 38: 25. Ja. 5, ‘05. 1140w.

“Is an exhaustive and yet succinct presentation of the rise and development of a great American industry. Her book is in every sense a history—not an economic dissertation.”

+ R. of Rs. 31: 248. F. ‘05. 210w.

Tarkington, (Newton) Booth. Beautiful lady. †$1.25. McClure.

This is the story of a young Italian of high family and low purse, who was forced into shaving his head and using the bald poll as an advertisement for a Parisian ballet. It is also the story of “the beautiful lady” who saw him sitting ignominiously in a café and was sorry for him. Later the young Italian, by reason of his shaved head, secures a position as tutor to a young millionaire, and is able to save the girl who was sorry from an unfortunate marriage and at the same time to make his dashing benefactor happy.

“A mere trifle, but a delightful trifle, which, lacking the dramatic action of ‘Monsieur Beaucaire,’ equals it in the originality of its conception, in its pathos, and surpasses it in its whimsical humour.” Firmin Dredd.

+ Bookm. 21: 615. Ag. ‘05. 300w.

“Mr. Tarkington has made us see what might have been done; but he has failed to do it.”

— Critic. 47: 286. S. ‘05. 100w.

+ Ind. 59: 580. S. 7, ‘05. 100w.

+ + Lit. D. 21: 93. Jl. 15, ‘05. 440w.

“The sentiment in it is very pretty, and Mr. Booth Tarkington never writes other than gracefully.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 358. Je. 3, ‘05. 410w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.

* “He tells it, too, with the fine artistic flavor distinguishing his ‘Monsieur Beaucaire.’”

+ R. of Rs. 32: 760, D. ‘05. 70w.

* Tarkington, (Newton) Booth. Conquest of Canaan. †$1.50. Harper.

Canaan is a small Indiana town, a hot bed of personal grudge and prejudice and this story tells of how Joe Louden, returning to Canaan to practice law after years of hard study in New York, finds that his reckless youth and his departure from his home town under a cloud have neither been forgotten nor forgiven. But championed by Ariel Taylor, the one true friend of his boyhood, who has just returned from the study of art in Paris, he succeeds after a hard and upright struggle in conquering circumstances and the prejudices of his townspeople. The love story of these two strongly individual characters is unusual and well handled.

* “It contains some admirable chapters of life in a small, gossipy, spiteful town, and the characters, all of them, including the dog, are alive and interesting, but it is clumsily put together and weakly conventional in the concluding portion.”

+ — Ind. 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 150w.

* “For pure humor in an author, we commend the conversations of the old window owls in the National house.”

+ + Ind. 59: 1480. D. 21, ‘05. 900w.

* “There is no doubt that the book is the best that Mr. Tarkington has yet written.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 827. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.

* “‘The conquest of Canaan’ has not lost the note of refinement, but it has gained in solidity and distinctness of outline, it is an original story in point of plot; it is witty, spirited, romantic, and beautifully human in its spirit.”

+ + Outlook. 81: 708. N. 25, ‘05. 220w.

Tarkington, (Newton) Booth. In the arena. $1.50. McClure.

Six short stories of western politics, which deal with reformers and machine politicians, lobbyists, law-makers, office seekers, bosses and voters. The characters are real and vigorous types created by an author who has had practical experience in the game of politics.

“They have no special excellence of any kind, but they are very interesting and clever, and are written with a sound knowledge of the subject with which they deal.”

+ Acad. 68: 472. Ap. 29, ‘05. 460w.

“The material is ugly in every case except one; but the telling in each case is good. Mr. Tarkington writes with force and feeling, and has respect for the literary virtue of restraint.”

+ + Ath. 1905, 1: 589. My. 13. 210w.

“There is some very good workmanship in ‘In the arena.’ One lays the book aside with the conviction that the author’s estimate of the situation is a pretty true one, and that he made singularly good use of his experience in Indiana politics.” Perry Enders.

+ + Bookm. 21: 188. Ap. ‘05. 720w.

“Doubtless, unpretentious as they are, they are among Mr. Tarkington’s best work.”

+ + Critic. 46: 479. My. ‘05. 80w.

“There is the ring of truth and reality in these stories. The characters are human and interesting.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 101. F. 18, ‘05. 790w.

“Decidedly clever and human tales.”

+ Outlook. 79: 450. F. 18, ‘05. 40w.

“There is no doubt that it will afford much entertainment to those who do not resent a touch of pessimism in comedy.”

+ Sat. R. 99: 709. My. 27, ‘05. 230w.

Taylor, Alfred Edward. Elements of metaphysics. *$2.60. Macmillan.

“In the volume under review, Mr. Taylor has given us an exposition of the principles of metaphysics from a point of view which is in the main that of Mr. Bradley.... Mr. Taylor divides his work into four books, the first of which is devoted to a preliminary discussion of the problem, method and subdivision of metaphysics. This is followed by a discussion in Book II. of the general structure of reality.... The remaining books deal with the more special questions involved in the interpretation of nature and the interpretation of life.”—Int. J. Ethics.

“... A full recognition of the many merits of Mr. Taylor’s work, and of the value and suggestiveness 343of his treatment of various metaphysical topics. His book is certainly one which all who are interested in the present position of metaphysics ought to read.” James Gibson.

+ + Int. J. Ethics. 15: 251. Ja. ‘05. 1950w. (Statement of fundamental position of book.)

“Compact and well written book. It is the only English book in recent times treating metaphysical problems with some completeness that is arranged in such a concise and orderly fashion as to permit its being used as a text-book on this subject. It gives evidence not only of the author’s industry and earnestness, but of unusual vigor and acuteness of thought, as well as of a pleasing clearness and definiteness in mode of expression.” J. E. Creighton.

+ + + Philos. R. 14: 57. Ja. ‘05. 3090w.

“The strength of Professor Taylor’s book lies not in his constructive ontology but in his clear and masterly analysis of general metaphysical concepts ... and in the fact that the whole treatment is both modern and systematic.” G. T. W. Patrick.

+ + + Psychol. Bull. 2: 11. Ja. 15, ‘05. 1840w.

Taylor, Charles M., jr. Only a grain of sand; il. by Clare Victor Dwiggins. **$1. Winston.

Into the simple story of the life of one of the sands of the sea is deftly woven both satire and philosophy. It is an autobiography of a little grain that was carried from sea-depths to sea-shore and from there was taken to a dingy building where it passed through a fiery furnace and became a part of a graceful iridescent vase.

* Taylor, Henry Charles. Introduction to the study of agricultural economics. *$1.25. Macmillan.

“This is a discussion of economics as applied exclusively to agriculture.... It belongs to the series entitled ‘The citizen’s library of economics, politics, and sociology.’”—Outlook.

* “It discusses principles in a judicial spirit, and presents in concise form, facts that are of significance.”

+ + Outlook. 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 40w.

* “One of the excellent and useful volumes lately contributed to the ‘Citizen’s library.’”

+ + R. of Rs. 32: 637. N. ‘05. 130w.

Taylor, Marie Hansen (Mrs. Bayard Taylor). On two continents. **$2.75. Doubleday.

Mrs. Taylor was the daughter of the noted German mathematician and astronomer Hansen, and in this book of memoirs she speaks of her girlhood in Gotha, her meeting with her husband, their marriage, their travels, and of her husband’s literary and diplomatic career. Her book is chatty and entertaining in style, and her anecdotes of the Brownings, the Stoddards, Horace Greeley, the Cary sisters, Thackeray, and other famous men and women of letters with whom she and her husband came in contact are of particular interest.

* “Though she is rather apt to devote four or five pages to an incident for which half a page would be ample, she always rambles pleasantly.”

+ + — Ath. 1905, 2: 684. N. 18. 330w.

“Mrs. Taylor writes pleasantly and she has many interesting things to say.” Jeannette L. Gilder.

+ + Critic. 47: 344. O. ‘05. 1860w.

“Altogether, a more agreeable book of its kind could not well be imagined.” Percy F. Bicknell.

+ + — Dial. 39: 200. O. 1, ‘05. 2150w.

“In this book and in no other is to be found the most attractive and sympathetic record of one of the most interesting of all Americans.” L. L.

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 514. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1680w.

* “By temperament and association Mrs. Taylor is peculiarly qualified to depict the inner and outer forces that co-operated in the development of her gifted husband’s genius, and his reaction upon his environment.”

+ + Outlook. 81: 713. N. 25, ‘05. 350w.

* “It is of value, not, as one would at first suppose, primarily for its biographical material, but because of the exquisite simplicity of its diction and the charm of the author’s personality.”

+ + Pub. Opin. 39: 828. D. 23, ‘05. 240w.

* + R. of Rs. 32: 639. N. ‘05. 150w.

Taylor, Mary Imlay. My lady Clancarty. †$1.50. Little.

A child-wife’s loyalty to her Jacobite husband during his years of absence, and in spite of strong family opposition, furnishes the theme for a spirited romance. Then when he does return incognito he devotes himself to the re-wooing of Lady Betty, fights duels for her, is at the mercy of her whims and fancies, and a father’s Whig prejudices, but finally thru her courage in daring to beg clemency of the king is released from the tower.

“A trifle, but a rather pleasant one.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 163. Mr. 18, ‘05. 300w.

“A pretty romance.”

+ Outlook. 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 70w.

“The characterization is consistent and the relations of character are drawn ‘on scale,’ so that the effect of human display is harmonious. Considered critically, the story is not reasonable or natural any more than other romances of the exaggerated class to which it belongs.”

+ Reader. 5: 787. My. ‘05. 460w.

Taylor, Rev. S. M. Ministers of the Word and sacraments; lectures on pastoral theology, delivered in King’s college, London, Lent term, 1904. *$1.50. Longmans.

“Archdeacon Taylor prints here some lectures delivered to a class of students preparing for ordination.... His tone is that of a High churchman, but he condemns some of the most objectionable of extremist practices.”—Spec.

“They are full of good sense throughout.”

+ — Spec. 94: 410. Mr. 18, ‘05. 330w.

Taylor, Samuel Coleridge-. Twenty-four negro melodies, transcribed for the piano. $2.50. Ditson.

“There are twenty-four transcriptions of folk-melodies, both African and American, used as themes for compositions in the style of fantasias.”—R. of Rs.

“This is an extremely interesting work.”

+ + Dial. 38: 422. Je. 16, ‘05. 120w.

+ + Ind. 59: 393. Ag. 17, ‘05. 220w.

“He is well grounded in technique, and he expresses himself with freedom. Although in inventiveness his range seems so far rather limited, he is spontaneous and genuine in what he writes.”

+ + — Outlook. 80: 248. My. 27, ‘05. 280w.

“Mr. Coleridge-Taylor has preserved the distinctive traits of these melodies, but has given them form and structure.”

+ + R. of Rs. 31: 768. Je. ‘05. 80w.

* Tchaikovsky, Modeste. Life of Peter Il’ich Tchaikovsky; ed. and abridged from the Russian and German eds. by Rosa Newmarch. *$5. Lane.

This “volume contains many portraits and excellent views of scenes connected with Tchaikovsky’s life, with a striking portrait, and facsimiles of letters written by the musician. The editor has tried to preserve, in spite of the 344cutting of three volumes to one, the autobiographical character of the work, and has included the series of intimate letters which relates the romantic episode of Tchaikovsky’s life—his friendship of thirteen years for a woman with whom he never exchanged a personal greeting. An account of the composer’s visit to America ... is also included in the form of a diary, kept for the benefit of his relations.”—N. Y. Times.

* “Yet in its kind it possesses great value, not only as a contribution to the psychology of art, but as a most illuminating commentary on Tchaikovsky’s music. We may add that the translation is easy and fluent, and that the volume is well arranged and well illustrated.”

+ + Lond. Times. 4: 397. N. 17, ‘05. 590w.

* “The book is one of great interest to musical people.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.

* “But the present life, containing, as it does, an enormous amount of interesting material, still fails to hold one’s attention for the simple reason that it is too long and is padded out with stuff that ought not to be in any biography. On the whole, the book was more stimulating in its original condition; but in its present form it will serve a future biographer.”

+ — Sat. R. 100: sup. 5. N. 18, ‘05. 130w.

* “Must content ourselves with congratulating Mrs. Newmarch on the zeal and intelligence with which she has accomplished her task. Of the delicacy, the candour, and the affection shown by M. Modeste Tchaikovsky it is impossible to speak too highly.” C. L. G.

+ + + Spec. 95: 864. N. 25, ‘05. 1400w.

Tennyson, Hallam, 2d baron. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: a memoir by his son. **$4. Macmillan.

A new edition which includes in a single volume “all the material in the original issue. There are extracts from a number of unpublished letters and poems; some FitzGerald letters, others to Aubrey de Vere, Rawnsley, and other persons.... The book contains for the most part the account of Lord Tennyson’s life, gleaned either from his letters and poems or from the writings of his friends.... The impressions and general recollections of T. Watts-Dunton, F. W. H. Myers, F. T. Palgrave, the Duke of Argyll, and others, have been put in an appendix, which also contains some notes ... and a very full index besides these, the volume also has a chronology of the books and poems by the poet-laureate.” (N. Y. Times.)

Dial. 39: 246. O. 16, ‘05. 60w.

“The entire get-up is free from any suggestion of cheapening.”

+ + Nation. 81: 278. O. 5, ‘05. 70w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 625. S. 23, ‘05. 250w.

Outlook. 81: 428. O. 21, ‘05. 20w.

Thackeray, William Makepeace. Works. Cornhill ed.; ed. with biography, bibliography, and special introd. by W. P. Trent, and J. Bell Henneman. $37.50. Crowell.

The “Cornhill” Thackeray has achieved a well merited distinction above all recent issues of the great novelist’s works in that it includes material heretofore unclaimed for the author, but conclusively identified as his during recent months of research. There are two thousand pages thruout the various volumes which have never appeared in any set before. The editorial work in charge of Prof. Trent of Columbia college, and Dr. Henneman of the University of the South, includes special introductions to every volume, notes and critical comments of exceptionally high character, a complete bibliography based on the chronology of Thackeray’s life, and a full topical index to the entire set. Aside from the better known novels, are the essays, burlesques, Christmas stories, criticisms of letters and art, quips in Punch, drawings, poems and a new collection of typical personal letters. Among the three hundred and more illustrations are a series of photogravure portraits of the author, and many of Thackeray’s own quaint and whimsical drawings. The books with their substantial bindings, heavy paper and good type, deserve a prominent place among the great book achievements of the day.

“The edition is highly satisfactory, both for completeness and inexpensiveness.”

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“By far the most satisfactory edition of Thackeray we have seen in recent years.”

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Thackeray, William Makepeace. Henry Esmond. $1.25. Crowell.

Uniform with the “Thin paper classics” series this volume contains the history of Henry Esmond, Esq., with an introduction by J. B. Henneman, and a portrait of Thackeray as a frontispiece.

Thackeray, William Makepeace. History of Henry Esmond: ed. by Hamilton Byron Moore. 60c. Ginn.

An annotated edition of Henry Esmond planned to meet the needs of advanced high schools and elementary college classes. The text is that of the new “Dent edition.”

Thackeray, William Makepeace. Letters to an American family; with an introd. by Lucy D. Baxter and original drawings by Thackeray, **$1.50. Century.

Thackeray the man, with his habits, opinions, prejudices, genial friendship, love for home and his own, lending an active personal charm, fascinates the reader no less than Thackeray the better known objective master of the novel. These letters, all of them heretofore unpublished, were written to various members of a New York family in whose home the novelist was a frequent visitor during his two lecture tours in America. They include mainly, letters written from his lecture points, full of bright, frank comments upon American people and their ways. There are facsimiles of portions of letters, and of Thackeray’s own characteristic drawings.

“Not a line inconsistent with his published writings is to be found. ‘The style’ is emphatically ‘of the man’ himself. The so-called cynicism that sought to mask a tender heart and too expressive face, the great fondness for children and old friends, the gentleness and the whimsical humor,—all these traits and qualities are here revealed in letters as charmingly colloquial as were ever written. The introduction by Miss Lucy W. Baxter strikes just the right note as to revelation and reserve, and enables us to realize the charm of the ‘brown house’ in Second avenue which Thackeray found so potent.”

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“The charm of these letters, written in grateful affection to his friends ...”

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“The half-humorous, half-tender familiarity and freedom of these communications ...”

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“A number of easy conversational and very characteristic missives.”

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Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity fair. $1.25. Crowell.

“Vanity fair” has been compressed into one small volume of the “Thin paper classics” series, and appears in this handy form without sacrifice of clear type. It contains a frontispiece from a drawing by Frank T. Merrill.

345Thanet, Octave, pseud. (Alice French). Man of the hour. †$1.50. Bobbs.

Johnny-Ivan Winslow, the man of the hour, is the son of an Iowa plow manufacturer and a Russian princess whose altruistic dreams took shape in championing the Nihilists’ cause. Believing in the redemption of the toiler, this mother’s son throws himself and his money at the feet of struggling strikers, working in the midst of rioters with the best against the worst. The intensity of his subjective relation to his cause records only failure in the end, not because of his inability to stand at the helm, but because of the operation of a wrong principle. There is a steadfast Peggy in the tale whose magnificent faith in the triumph of Johnny over his Ivan theories is fully rewarded.

“This novel considered as fiction merits special notice. It is one of the best romances of the year. As a sociological study, it is impossible to speak in such favorable terms, for though there is much that is fine and true in its spirit, and though we believe that the author desires to be fair and just, she has signally failed at many points.”

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“While the story is not lacking in strength, nor in that finer character-drawing that the writer’s previous work has associated with her name, one feels more than once that the plot has been moulded to fit a preconceived thesis.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

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* “Miss French has given us a book of very genial and human sort, and brought to it a gift of shrewd and sometimes humorous observation, such as comes only after long practice in the art of fiction.” Wm. M. Payne.

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“The latter half of the book is stuffed with not very enlightening discussions of labor problems, and it ends in an absurdly conventional way.”

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* “Octave Thanet is at her best in depicting children. She loves them in any rank of life, and gets them on paper in all their whimsicality, their straight-to-the-mark directness, their consistent inconsistency.”