Chapter 5

groups the general plant problems—handling materials,

keeping cleaned up, fire protection, proper steam and water lines, keeping a good boiler house, etc. The final chapter discusses calorimetry and photometry, and an appendix gives miscellaneous useful tables.”—Engin News-Rec

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:47 N ‘17

“Simple and clear instructions for operating standard types of apparatus usually found in small or medium sized gas works.”

+ =Cleveland= p95 Jl ‘17 20w

“The growing use of manufactured-gas fuel in industrial plants and the increase in number of gas-works owned by manufacturing concerns have brought home to a wide circle of engineers outside the gas industry the lack of concise, easily read treatises on gas-works construction and operation. There has been of course the ‘catechism’ of the Gas institute, but this has not apparently been much utilized outside of the industry. Mr Russell’s book fills at least half the void, although not written with the industrial-plant engineers particularly in view.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:364 My 17 ‘17 180w

“It is stated that the operations described have all been successfully tried out upon a commercial scale. The most recent developments, however, in mechanical operation, mass carbonization, and water gas operation have been omitted.”

+ — =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p5 Ap ‘17 110w

=Pittsburgh= 22:464 My ‘17 40w

“Author is manager of the Emporia gas company.”

=Pratt= p20 Jl ‘17 50w

Russian court memoirs, 1914-16; with some account of court, social and political life in Petrograd before and since the war. il *$5 Dutton (12s 6d Jenkins, London) 947 (Eng ed 17-12739)

“The author writes as an avowed monarchist, and he completed his work long before the recent upheaval; but he was intensely alive to the dangers arising from the widespread belief in the existence of German influence in court circles, although he regarded the extent of that influence as being much exaggerated by popular rumour.” (Spec) “Among the topics discussed in the fifteen chapters that make up this volume are:—‘The Tsar and his family,’ ‘The Tsar and his generals,’ ‘The imperial court,’ ‘The Russian foreign office,’ ‘Society of Petrograd,’ ‘Russian women during the war,’ and ‘The press.’” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

“The book contains many good portraits.”

=Ath= p257 My ‘17 70w

“Filled with anecdotes, malicious and foolish, about the private life, public appearance, and toilette of these great ones. Gossip of this type collected and placed on the market enables us to gauge the intellect of the pseudonymous writer, and to ask with regret who are the members of the English public who appreciate the fare thus provided.”

— =Ath= p343 Jl ‘17 190w

Reviewed by Abraham Yarmolinsky

— =Bookm= 46:482 D ‘17 190w

“Some books are like the manna foddered to the Jews in the wilderness, good at night but spoilt the next day. Such is this anonymous book. The Russian revolution put it as completely out of date as if it had been written a hundred years ago.” N. H. D.

– + =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ‘17 650w

“The author makes us see why the Czarina was unpopular and how she has been misunderstood. As a court picture, the book is comprehensive; as a political prophecy it is of far less importance.”

+ — =Lit D= 55:39 S 29 ‘17 210w

“There is a good chapter on Russian women during the war. ... Our author claims that the Czar was in no way responsible for the war—that he did everything in his power to avert it. ... ‘Russian court memoirs’ is not a literary document. It is gossip, gossip that occasionally has a back-stairs flavor. As a journalistic report of a past era it is of intense interest. The book is sincere, faithfully told from the writer’s viewpoint—and the novelty of that viewpoint makes it all the more readable.”

+ — =NY Times= 22:396 O 14 ‘17 1150w

“There is a sympathetic sketch of the ex-Czar and his children, but the former Czarina is criticized for her association with wandering monks. The illustrations give added interest to these piquant pen sketches.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:328 S ‘17 200w

“He has a wealth of information and a good deal of pleasant anecdote about all the prominent figures in Petrograd society during the period he covers; but unfortunately his anonymity detracts, to some extent, from the value of his book as an historical document. We cannot give full credence to his version of the subtler influences at work beneath the surface of politics without knowing how much of what he says is genuine ‘inside’ knowledge, and how much is merely what was currently believed at the time.”

=Spec= 118:568 My 19 ‘17 220w

“Whatever may be the author’s social or other position in Petrograd, the information at his or her disposal is by no means of the back-stair variety. Not its least agreeable feature is the absence of any tendency to dogmatize or to prophesy.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p147 Mr 29 ‘17 850w

Russian year-book, 1916; comp. and ed. by N. Peacock. *10s 6d Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 314.7

“The sixth issue of this standard work of reference. It contains much new matter of value in connexion with the war—a résumé of the economic condition of Russia since the beginning of the war; the new Customs tariff in full detail; the 1916 budget, and much else; with a diary of the war on the Russian front.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p626 D 21 ‘16 50w

=RUTLEDGE, MARICE, pseud.= Children of fate. il *$1.35 (3c) Stokes 17-9707

A story of the European war and of Paris in war time. Two lovers, a young French architect and an American girl, are separated by the first call to arms. Pierre, a high-strung, sensitive youth, finds the idea of killing loathsome. To nerve himself up to the task before him, he is forced to make himself believe that he is engaged in a war between good and evil, that he is battling for civilization. Natalie encourages his belief, but even at the moment of parting she has begun to doubt it, and as time goes on she comes to feel more and more that war cannot save civilization, that war cannot end war, that militarism is a hydra-headed monster, that if one of its heads, Germany, be cut off today, another will have grown up tomorrow. But of this she can say nothing to Pierre who depends on her encouragement. Their second

## parting, after he has been wounded, brings on a crisis in which the

girl is forced to tell him the truth about herself and her convictions.

“One observes here the ‘certain condescension’ of complacent feminism toward the dull and errant male, and the somewhat shrill note of the special pleader. But whatever may be thought of this book in its character of tract or brief, its dignity and moving quality as a story are beyond question.” H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 45:315 My ‘17 400w

“The book is a piece of passionate special pleading but is well worth reading as such and as a story.”

+ =Cleveland= p89 Jl ‘17 170w

“This is a book of passionate sincerity, an honest plea, but a special plea; and it does not escape the partiality or even altogether the shrillness, of its order.”

=Nation= 104:490 Ap 26 ‘17 1150w

“This ardent pacifist lays the crime of war at the door of woman, holding that without her sanction the world would not have the deadly recurrent spectacle of the ‘maleness run riot’ (to use the phrase of another feminist), which is war.” H. W. Boynton

+ — =Nation= 105:600 N 29 ‘17 60w

— =N Y Times= 22:172 Ap 29 ‘17 120w

“While the book brings out vividly some of the more distressful phases of the great war, particularly as regards France, the very fact that France is fighting in defense of her life should preserve that country from the sentiments which the author put in the mouth of his heroine. ... The story is excellently and even powerfully written. It contains germs of thought that will flourish and grow stronger in more peaceful times.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 22 ‘17 600w

=RUYSBROECK, JAN VAN.= Adornment of the spiritual marriage; The sparkling stone; The book of supreme truth; ed. with an introd. and notes by Evelyn Underhill. *$1.75 Dutton 242

“The manuscript of these papers was translated from the Flemish by C. A. Wynschenk-Dom. It presents three of the most important works of the great Flemish mystic, John of Ruysbroeck. He was born in 1273 at the village of Ruysbroeck, between Brussels and Hals, and lived during his entire life in his native province Brabant.” (R of Rs) “As in other works of this kind, the author is concerned with the qualities of the divine nature and with absorption of those qualities into the nature of the devout man. ... ‘Ecstatic absorption in God,’ says Miss Underhill, ‘formed only one side of Ruysbroeck’s religious life. True to his own doctrine of the “balanced career” of action and contemplation as the ideal of the Christian soul, his rapturous ascents toward divine reality were compensated by the eager and loving interest with which he turned toward the world of men.’” (Springf’d Republican)

“An excellent rendering into English of three of the finest writings of Jan of Ruysbroeck, which have never been fully accessible in our own language. Miss Underhill, in an admirable preface, touches on his life and times, and sums up his teaching with great clearness and insight. Ruysbroeck was one of the great constructive mystics who represent and sum up the spiritual knowledge of their own and other times, transfusing and co-ordinating, in the light of their own rich experience and personality, the universal vision of God and of man’s relation to Him. ... The translator has done a great service in opening out to us the experience and teachings of one of the most lofty and spiritual minds of the Christian era.” G. K. S.

+ =Int J Ethics= 28:135 O ‘17 700w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:156 O ‘16

“For the student of spiritual philosophy this book is a treasure of undeniable worth.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:552 My ‘17 170w

=St Louis= 5:47 F ‘17

“Ruysbroeck is one of the better guides for the modern mystics.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 15 ‘17 400w

=RYAN, JOHN AUGUSTINE.= Distributive justice; the right and wrong of our present distribution of wealth. *$1.50 (1c) Macmillan 331 16-22456

In this volume Father Ryan, author of “The living wage,” “discusses the justice of the processes by which the product of industry is distributed, considering the moral aspects of distribution with reference to the four classes—landowners, capitalists, business men, and laborers. The rights and obligations of these four classes constitute the main subject of the work, while an effort is made to propose reforms that would remove the principal defects of the present system and bring about a larger measure of social justice.” (R of Rs)

“One might, perhaps, criticise other minor features of this excellent book, but such criticism would not detract from its great merit as a logical and lucid exposition of a most important subject, pervaded by a spirit of sweet reasonableness that charms even when it may not convince.” J. E. Le Rossignol

+ =Am Econ R= 7:377 Je ‘17 1950w

=A L A Bkl= 13:246 Mr ‘17

“One of the most important books that have appeared within the last decade. Many thoughtful Americans, already well acquainted with the socio-political theories and programs of socialists, of single-taxers, of syndicalists, and of classical economists, have been ignorant of the tendencies of Catholic social politics. Dr Ryan’s book is not a history of Catholic social politics—such a work is still to be written. Rather, it is a painstaking critique of the morality of private land-ownership and rent, of private capital and interest, of profits and wages; and its significance lies in the fact that the morality in question is the moral teaching of the Roman Catholic church and that the thoughtful American who reads it has no longer any excuse for being ignorant of the meaning of Catholic social politics.” C. J. H. Hayes

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:766 N ‘17 1750w

“Typical of his argument is an omission of any discussion of the population question, evidently upon the ground that numbers are not, or should not be, subject to human control. In fact, despite elaborate arguments, it is evident that the real questions at issue are all contained in his assumptions. The volume bears the nihil obstat and imprimatur of the church.” W. H. Hamilton

=Ann Am Acad= 72:239 Jl ‘17 230w

=Ath= p38 Ja ‘17 160w

“Not merely the layman, but even more acutely, the student of ethics and moral theology has long desired a competent treatise on the Catholic doctrine of property, applying the traditional principles of our authorities to present day problems and conditions. ... Hence this volume is a very valuable contribution to our ethics library.”

+ =Cath World= 104:545 Ja ‘17 350w

“The author is associate professor of political science at the Catholic university of America.”

=Cleveland= p38 Mr ‘17 80w

“The book is written from a Christian standpoint and makes use of the whole realm of literature bearing on the subject. ... And if it adds but little to the body of economic doctrine, but impregnates economic theory with an ethical ideal, it deserves most hearty commendation.”

+ =Dial= 62:110 F 8 ‘17 350w

“From the author of ‘The living wage’ one has learned to expect scholarship and sincerity, and sympathy for the tribulations of ordinary folks. Dr Ryan’s new book ‘Distributive justice,’ is nevertheless a genuine disappointment. The author has set himself the ungrateful task of demonstrating the justice of an industrial system and at the same time, the injustice of its operation.”

— =Ind= 90:435 Je 2 ‘17 220w

“In the main his views are those held by economists of liberal views. The essential elements of the present system of distribution—private ownership of land and capital—are defended against single taxers and socialists. The novel thing about Professor Ryan’s book is the unusual method by which he reaches his conclusions. Natural rights, chiefly as set forth by the Christian Fathers, form the base from which the argument proceeds, but there is a large admixture of purely economic considerations. The book will be useful as a careful résumé of the chief economic reforms which are at present under consideration. As a piece of philosophical inquiry it is curious rather than interesting.”

+ — =Nation= 105:269 S 6 ‘17 270

“The most comprehensive and dignified existing treatise on the ethics of economic reform.” A. S. J.

=N Y Br Lib= News 4:8 Ja ‘17

+ =New Repub= 10:79 F 17 ‘17 1050w

“Making use of Father Ryan’s favorite word, ‘justification,’ it may be said that his book affords ample justification to any person who succeeds in amassing property no matter what the human suffering was that the laborers endured.” Frank Macdonald

— =N Y Call= p14 F 11 ‘17 900w

“His book is solid, learned, well argued. His intent commands sympathy. Only the malicious and uncharitable could condemn or dissent without reserve. But after passing his four hundredth page he surmises that his readers will be ‘disappointed and dissatisfied’ that his labors have produced nothing better. His rules of justice and proposals for reform are confessedly complex, indefinite. ... It may be doubted whether books like these help progress much, for all their good intentions.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:65 F 25 ‘17 650w

=R of Rs= 55:108 Ja ‘17 90w

“John A. Ryan is associate professor of political science at the Catholic university of America.”

=Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 1 ‘17 520w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 D 28 ‘16 90w

=RYAN, MARAH ELLIS (MARTIN) (MRS S. ERWIN RYAN) (ELLIS MARTIN, pseud.).= Druid path. *$1.35 (1c) McClurg 17-4311

Six stories told in the spirit of old Irish legend. Only the last, a story of the recent revolution, is modern and in this also the author has succeeded in suggesting the atmosphere of the old tales of the heroes. The titles are: The druid path; The enchanting of Doirenn; Liadan and Kurithir; Dervail Nan Ciar; Randuff of Cumanac; The dark rose. The book has decorations and endpieces designed by Will Vreeland.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 7 ‘17 250w

“It is unusual to find in an American writer the quality which distinguishes the work of Fiona Macleod, but the same poetic mysticism which haunts those imaginative tales is to be found in ‘The druid path.’ The author has infused her characters with such reality that they become living men and women, whose passions lay violent hold upon the reader. ... The publishers have produced a book which is typographically worthy of the exceptional literary merit of the stories.”

+ =Dial= 62:106 F 8 ‘17 250w

+ =R of Rs= 55:664 Je ‘17 50w

S

=SABATINI, RAFAEL.= Snare. *$1.25 (1½c) Lippincott 17-29537

This novel pictures “an incident of Wellington’s campaign against the French in Portugal. Wellington was out to save Portugal, but there were traitors in high places secretly opposing his methods and playing the spy for the enemy. ... All depended on secrecy and unity of

## action. Suddenly the drunken blunder of a young English officer gives

the plotters their chance to upset the delicate balance. Their influence causes the Portuguese council of regency to demand that the culprit be made a scapegoat. He is at large, and it falls to his brother-in-law, O’Moy, British adjutant-general at Lisbon, to promise that he shall be shot when taken.” (Bookm) The disentangling of the coil of circumstances developing from this situation occupies the remainder of this romantic narrative.

“Mr Sabatini shows his quality by giving his personæ enough characterisation to lift the performance from the early status of the cheap thriller to the celestial plane of romance.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:206 O ‘17 300w

“An absorbing and well-characterized romance.”

+ =Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 100w

“Swift-moving, picturesque, and well told.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:274 Jl 22 ‘17 300w

+ =Outlook= 116:522 Ag 1 ‘17 70w

“Mr Sabatini vividly recreates local color and revivifies the distant scene. The characters are broadly sketched, particularly that of the ‘Iron duke.’ It is a story in which fact and fiction are delightfully blended and one that is entertaining in high degree from first to last.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 550w

“We sometimes forget how good a tale he has set forth in reflecting how much better it might become in the hands of a playwright of genius. It has all the essentials of a moving play.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p140 Mr 22 ‘17 600w

=SABIN, ALVAH MORTON.= Industrial and artistic technology of paint and varnish. 2d ed thoroughly rev il *$3.50 Wiley 667 17-115

“The book opens with a section of definitions and brief fundamental descriptions, such as how varnish is made; what linoxyn is; what pigments and paints are. This is followed by a discussion of the history of paints and varnishes, introducing the original quotations, Greek and Latin, about the earliest processes. The author leads up to the technology of varnish by a discussion of linseed oil; after finishing with varnish, he runs off into japans, driers, rosin, shellac and the other spirit varnishes, cellulose and celluloid coatings, etc. There is after this a most informing section on paint. ... The rest of the book is devoted essentially to the engineering application of paints and varnishes and materials intended to serve the same purpose of protection or ornamentation.”—Engin N

=A L A Bkl= 13:278 Mr ‘17

“The man who reads for entertainment as well as instruction will appreciate this book. It is a technical work in the true sense of the word; but it is written with the rare style of a classical scholar, and humor is not lacking. It is labeled a second edition, but it is virtually a new book—due to the development of the art and the changed affiliations of the author—he is now a paint and not a varnish man.”

+ =Engin N= 77:437 Mr 15 ‘17 450w

=SACHER, HARRY=, ed. Zionism and the Jewish future. maps *$1 (1c) Macmillan 296 17-95

The purpose of this volume is to “set before English-speaking readers the meaning and achievement of Zionism.” The introduction to the volume is written by Dr Charles Weizmann, who says that the Jewish problem, while it has different aspects in different countries, is essentially the problem of “fitting into the modern world a national group which has survived from ancient times without the ordinary attributes of nationhood.” Among the contributions to the book are: A century of Jewish history, by H. Sacher; Anti-Semitism, by Albert M. Hyamson; The Hebrew revival, by Leon Simon; The history of Zionism, by R. Gottheil; The Jews and the economic development of Palestine, by S. Tolkowsky. The work was prepared in Great Britain but the authors represent several countries, including Palestine.

=A L A Bkl= 13:286 Ap ‘17

“A book written from the Zionistic viewpoint and frankly propagandist, but presenting an excellent brief summary of the movement today.”

+ =Cleveland= p147 D ‘16 20w

“Its editor is a distinguished British journalist; among the contributors to its pages are civil servants of the British government, Jewish religious leaders, and American college professors.” H. M. Kallen

=Dial= 62:60 Ja 25 ‘17 750w

+ =Ind= 90:517 Je 16 ‘17 60w

=Pittsburgh= 22:221 Mr ‘17 60w

=St Louis= 15:47 F ‘17

Reviewed by the Earl of Cromer

+ =Spec= 117:187 Ag 12 ‘16 1350w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 16 ‘16 400w

“Weak from the point of view of propaganda, strong as literary efforts.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p447 S 21 ‘16 1700w

=SAFRONI-MIDDLETON=, A Vagabond’s Odyssey. il *$2.50 (1c) Dodd 910 (Eng ed 17-14533)

“This is another pleasantly written volume of unconventional travel, by the author of ‘Sailor and beachcomber,’ who describes it as the second instalment of his autobiography. The book is filled with variety, and brings before us with vividness and ‘sparkle’ some of the writer’s experiences and adventures in many lands—among them the United States, Samoa, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, Spain, and the south of France. During an earlier visit to Samoa the author became acquainted with Stevenson, of whom some reminiscences are included.”—Ath

=A L A Bkl= 14:56 N ‘17

+ =Ath= p104 F ‘17 130w

“This ‘Odyssey’ might have been written by a man who never stirred outside his study, so curiously unconvincing is the impression left on the reader’s mind. The moralizings, reflections, and would-be eloquent descriptions are shallow and tawdry.”

— =Nation= 105:611 N 29 ‘17 100w

“The South Seas made a vivid impression on the author, and the poet continually surges uppermost in him when he swings into one of his frequent descriptions of the land and its beauty. A valuable feature of Mr Safroni-Middleton’s book is found in its picture of Robert Louis Stevenson. It is neither long nor deep in analysis, but it is picturesque.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:369 S 30 ‘17 600w

“Mr Safroni-Middleton is rich in prejudices and one-sided views as well as good stories; but we can forgive him the former in view of the latter.”

+ =Sat R= 123:111 F 3 ‘17 1500w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p39 Ja 25 ‘17 1000w

Sainte Séductre; an inner view of the Boche at bay, by Exile X; American ed., rev. and ed., by R: Wilmer Rowan. *$1.25 Liberty pub. assn., 110 W. 40th st. N.Y. 17-16312

Sainte Séductre is a narrative in the form of a drama, with eight scenes or “Dialogues.” The scene is laid “somewhere in Germany,” at the headquarters of certain German commanders and in the huts of the starving Belgian and French exiles. “It revolves about a scheme originated by General von A—— to save Germany, already defeated, by the adoption of a pretended democratic form of government, which shall secure her friends among all the nations composing the final Council of peace.” (Boston Transcript)

“To bring about a better understanding of the internal conditions of Imperial Germany today; to bring especially to public opinion in the United States a warning too little heeded, if at all understood, and to emphasize that ‘at present it is the duty of every true American to acquaint himself thoroughly with each particular element of the “Teutonic peril”’ was this story of ‘Sainte Séductre’ translated, and revised to render it more compelling for American readers.” F. B.

=Boston Transcript= p6 S 5 ‘17 880w

“It offers material which ought to be borne in mind in whatever discussions of peace the future may see. The book was written in the white heat of intellectual conviction, rather than passion.”

+ =Dial= 63:281 S 27 ‘17 250w

=Outlook= 116:627 Ag 22 ‘17 130w

=SALES SERVICE COMPANY.=[2] Selling your services. *$1 (6c) Sales service co., 101 Park av., N.Y. 658 17-11356

Other titles for the book might be “How to secure a position,” or, more colloquially, “How to get a job.” The authors believe that, by following its suggestions, “the average man will improve his chances of getting a hearing and, finally, of securing the job for which he is best suited.” The chapters are very brief and each is devoted to some special item. Many sample letters of application are presented.

+ =Cleveland= p70 My ‘17 10w

+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:604 Je 21 ‘17 120w

“Well worth the reading of anyone seeking a position.”

+ =Engin Rec= 75:476 Mr 24 ‘17 60w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:464 My ‘17 60w

=SALTER, WILLIAM MACKINTIRE.= Nietzsche the thinker. *$3.50 (2c) Holt 193 17-25449

This book, by the author of “First steps in philosophy,” “Anarchy or government?” etc., is “a contribution to the understanding of Nietzsche.” Mr Salter limits himself to Nietzsche’s “fundamental points of view—noting only in passing or not at all his thoughts on education, his later views of art and music, his conception of woman, his interpretation of Christianity and attitude to religion.” (Preface) The book was in substance written before the present European war, and the author does not find Nietzsche “touching it in any special way” except as “a diagnostician of the general conditions which appear to have given birth to it.” Three introductory chapters cover Nietzsche’s relation to his time, his life and personal traits, some characteristics of his thinking, etc. The author then divides Nietzsche’s intellectual life into three periods, and considers it by period. Mr Salter believes that Nietzsche, far from reflecting the age, is “a force antagonistic to the dominant forces about us”; that “he has changed nothing, whether in thought or public policy”; and that “even in Germany ... his counsels and ideas have been far more disregarded than followed.” Nevertheless Mr Salter believes Nietzsche to be so important that perhaps in the near future “we shall be speaking of a pre-Nietzschean and a post-Nietzschean period in philosophical, and particularly in ethical and social analysis and speculation—and that those who have not made their reckoning with him will be as hopelessly out of date as those who have failed similarly with Kant.”

“It is evidently the result of wide reading and deep study of his subject; but unfortunately the attempt, not merely to restate Nietzsche’s thoughts, ‘but to rethink them, using more or less my own language,’ is not helped by some clumsy construction and faulty punctuation.”

+ — =Ath= p41 Ja ‘18 70w

“Scholarly exposition of Nietzsche’s doctrines.” C. H. P. Thurston

+ — =Bookm= 46:290 N ‘17 60w

“Interpretations of Nietzsche are many, but usually they are nine parts comment to one of exposition, whereas Mr Salter effaces his own opinions and lets Nietzsche explain himself by placing in logical relation to each other the thoughts which Nietzsche sprinkled at random over his works.”

+ =Ind= 92:56 O 6 ‘17 110w

“Mr Salter has done the English reading public a large service, for he has given them what is easily the best book in English and what will rank well among the best in other languages on a man, who before the war was much misunderstood and misrepresented and since the war has been flagrantly criticized and abused. ... In a way that may be said even to make further study and exposition unnecessary, at least for a long time, he has presented and explained the philosophy itself, but its importance as possibly contributing significantly to the philosophy of an era, and so its place in the history of philosophy, he has not duly considered.” A. H. Lloyd

+ — =J Philos= 15:103 F 14 ‘18 3450w

“Whatever merits the book may have must be dug for by studious readers who are more adept at these mystical numbers than we are. If Mr Salter has really intended a generalization, we can only regretfully say that he has not ‘got it across’ to us, though that may not be his fault, but our own stupidity. But for those who love interminable preaching there is surely here an inexhaustible mine from which to dig problematical nuggets of wisdom, which they can—if able—assort and assay for themselves.” J. W.

— =N Y Call= p14 N 4 ‘17 800w

=Outlook= 118:131 Ja 23 ‘18 730w

“It is—broadly speaking—an altogether new Nietzsche who emerges from the pages of this expository critique.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:217 F ‘18 110w

=SALTYKOV, MICHAEL EVGRAFOVICH (SHCHEDRIN, pseud.).= Family of noblemen; tr. by A. Yarmolinsky. *$1.50 (1c) Boni & Liveright

“Saltykov, author of ‘A family of noblemen,’ famous in Europe as a satirist, is one of the very recent [Russian authors] to claim attention. ... This novel was published in 1880. ... It deals with the lives and fates of the members of a family of the small landed gentry of Russia through three generations, beginning before the abolition of serfdom and covering space of time of perhaps twenty-five years. ... Saltykov surveys the disintegration of a family upon which hereditary traits, weak wills, paucity of interests, and vodka work destruction.”—N Y Times

“Russia has produced few books of a greater psychological depth and a more intimate realism. Unless all signs fail Saltykov has come to stay in English literature.” Abraham Yarmolinsky

+ — =Bookm= 46:485 D ‘17 270w

“In many ways ‘A family of noblemen’ is a masterly piece of work, especially through the first half. In the latter part the author’s method falls below the artistic standard he has set in the first half.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:538 D 9 ‘17 870w

=SAMSON, REBECCA MIDDLETON.= Schoolgirl allies. il *$1.35 (1½c) Lothrop 17-23653

The title suggests a war book, but the scene of this story for girls is laid in the Belgium of old days. “Tad” and “Sherry,” two American girls become pupils in the Pensionnat Van Pelt in Brussels. Their schoolmates are girls from many countries, including France, Russia and the British Isles. Sherry tells the story of their new experiences, and tells it with all a schoolgirl’s zest and love for exaggeration and dramatic effect.

“It is good to be reminded that there were once happy days in Belgium. ... The few pictures make us wish for more.”

+ =Ind= 92:447 D 1 ‘17 40w

“It is a long and interesting story, telling in detail the life of the girls of the pensionnat, so different from a school of the same class in this country.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:389 O 7 ‘17 250w

“The two American girls, Adelaide and Sherida, are well portrayed, and the different foreign girls at the school are carefully differentiated.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 1 ‘17 130w

=SANBORN, FRANKLIN BENJAMIN.= Life of Henry David Thoreau; including many essays hitherto unpublished, and some account of his family and friends. il *$4 (3c) Houghton 17-13644

Frank B. Sanborn was the last surviving member of the Concord group. His life of Thoreau was completed but shortly before his death in February, 1917. In his preface the author calls attention to the growing fame of Thoreau. “It now appears,” he says, “that a considerable part of the present fame of Concord in literature grows out of the life and writings of Henry Thoreau, whose writings had little circulation before his death in 1862.” There is more comment of this kind in the last chapter, where the author says, “My purpose in this volume has been to show how he coöperated in his own posthumous fame; how he built himself up in literature from boyhood, and that without becoming a pedant, or trying to form a school, or even a class. Along with this conception of him may go likewise what I personally feel, that there was a religious and a moral element in his nature which awaits the future for its full development.” Among the special chapters are two in which early essays are reprinted and others devoted to: Thoreau as friend, neighbor, and citizen; Thoreau as man of letters and of affairs; Thoreau as author in prose and verse. A catalog of Thoreau’s library is given in one of the appendixes.

=A L A Bkl= 14:24 O ‘17

“The extent of Mr Sanborn’s personal knowledge of Thoreau, his command of the resources of information about him, his possession of manuscripts and other records, placed ready at his hand a large amount of material for the making of a notable biography. But unfortunately Mr Sanborn possessed none of the skill of the biographer that would enable him to tell a well-ordered and coherent story of the progress of a man’s life. ... The result is, therefore, an excellent Thoreau biography in substance but not in form.” E. F. E.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 My 29 ‘17 1550w

“Sanborn had the gift that novelists envy, of presenting his hero living and real before the mind’s eye of his reader without blurring the figure by over-emphasis.”

+ =Cath World= 106:398 D ‘17 670w

“The volume is not well arranged and coherent, however, and the author’s style is stilted even in his lapses into familiar anecdote.”

+ — =Cleveland= p120 N ‘17 130w

“A feature of the book too important to be ignored is the illustrations, mostly reproductions of old family pictures, which to those who can interpret them are far better than pages of letterpress in giving an idea of the Thoreaus and their kin.” W: B. Cairns

+ — =Dial= 63:59 Jl 19 ‘17 1200w

+ =Ind= 91:476 S 22 ‘17 100w

=Lit D= 55:34 S 29 ‘17 290w

=Nation= 105:545 N 15 ‘17 80w

“No one else could have done the work in just the easy, familiar, and reminiscent manner that marks it, and that gives it a peculiar value.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:205 My 27 ‘17 1950w

“As compared with earlier memoirs—with Salt’s ‘Life’ of Thoreau, with Channing’s ‘Thoreau, the poet naturalist,’ and even with Mr Sanborn’s first biography of Thoreau, published in 1882—this new ‘Life’ by the late Frank B. Sanborn justifies itself as a needed and definitive work. So thorough has been the search for records and manuscripts that it is unlikely that there will ever be further discoveries of importance. It is a little to be regretted, perhaps, that the ‘life’ as a whole is not more consecutively interesting; yet the materials contained in it, if presented rather dryly and with many digressions, are handled with skill and uniform good taste.”

* + — =No Am= 206:308 Ag ‘17 1650w

“Mr Sanborn’s posthumous contribution to the world’s knowledge of his friend will probably furnish his own surest claim to remembrance in the future. It will certainly be indispensable to the student and lover of the rarely individual man of genius whom it seeks to portray.”

+ =Outlook= 116:301 Je 20 ‘17 1100w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:672 O ‘17 90w

=Pratt= p49 O ‘17 10w

=R of Rs= 56:104 Jl ‘17 90w

“Sanborn’s ‘Life’ is less satisfactory than Henry Salt’s, which has the virtue of proportion, emphasis, focus, definite purpose; is less satisfactory, in some respects, than the earlier book by Sanborn. Yet it is far from superfluous. Of little use to one who does not know Thoreau, it is a treasury of Thoreauisms to those who already know him well.” Norman Foerster

* + — =Yale R= n s 7:430 Ja ‘18 1400w

=SANBORN, HELEN JOSEPHINE.= Anne of Brittany. il *$2 Lothrop 17-25141

“A book which tells the life story of a duchess of Brittany who was twice crowned queen of France. Miss Sanborn, whose untimely death occurred while the book was in press, devoted much of her later life in securing knowledge of Anne of Brittany and her times. The introduction is by Professor Katherine Lee Bates, of Wellesley college. Twenty-seven full-page illustrations show us the Duchess Anne’s country and her famous castles.”—R of Rs

“The reader has a sense of personal intercourse, a quality as rare as it is uncommon in biography, and one whose appeal is irresistible.” F. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 O 13 ‘17 500w

“The descriptions of her gowns, jewels, and the quaint ceremonies and festivals of court and castle are very interesting, but it is the woman herself who absorbs the reader.”

+ =Cleveland= p12 Ja ‘18 90w

“Many illuminating glimpses of the age and the country are given in the course of the narrative.”

+ =Ind= 92:361 N 3 ‘17 40w

=Lit D= 55:51 D 8 ‘17 60w

+ =R of Rs= 56:550 N ‘17 70w

=SANDAY, WILLIAM, and WILLIAMS, NORMAN POWELL.= Form and content in the Christian tradition. *$2 Longmans 230 17-14538

“‘Form and content in the Christian tradition’ is ‘a friendly discussion’ between W. Sanday, Lady Margaret professor of divinity at Oxford, and N. P. Williams, chaplain-fellow of Exeter college, Oxford. ... Both men write as members of the Church of England. This will lessen the appeal of the book to many American Protestants, for the reason that the Protestant sects do not accept the ecclesiastical tradition which has developed along with what may be called the religious tradition. Their Christianity is derived from the Bible, not from the church. But on the theological side Mr Williams, who states the traditional view, will have many supporters in the Protestant sects; as, on the other hand, will Dr Sanday, who stands for the liberal interpretation of scripture which has been growing in favor in the past half century.”—Springf’d Republican

Reviewed by E. A. Cook

* =Am J Theol= 22:145 Ja ‘18 1150w

“It is impossible, however, for an Anglican to defend the infallibility of a church which rests solely on the insecure foundation of private judgment or opinion. We can pardon Mr Williams his fling at ultramontanism and the inquisition in view of his strong though courteous indictment of modernism or rationalism in the Church of England of our day.”

=Cath World= 105:260 My ‘17 220w

“This will be a most interesting book not only to the student of theology, but to the student of human nature. ... The usefulness does not seem to us to lie in any results arrived at, but in the statement and restatement by each side of their principles; and hardly less in the exhibition of the temper of mind which accompanies those principles respectively.”

+ =Spec= 118:209 F 17 ‘17 320w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 5 ‘17 1550w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p8 Ja 4 ‘17 1050w

=SANTAYANA, GEORGE.= Egotism in German philosophy. *$1.50 Scribner 193

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

“The passages just transcribed and the other passages cited hardly do justice to the brilliancy, the incisiveness, and the cruelty of this remarkable book. ... The work is really too sketchy and too abstract and its tone too biting and passionate to carry the conviction that is due the truths it expresses. ... It should be supplemented with John Dewey’s ‘German philosophy and the war.’ The two together will give a fairly adequate idea of the influence of philosophic thinking on the motives and institutions of men.” H. M. Kallen

=Dial= 63:64 Jl 19 ‘17 920w

“Very suggestive but somewhat irritating book.” A. Fawkes

=Int J Ethics= 27:380 Ap ‘17 650w

“The author would have been wiser, if he had depicted the supposed English or French characteristics discovered in German philosophy as well as the supposed German characteristics discoverable in English or French philosophy, as it is really possible to do. ... Sometimes he is virtually passing judgment on non-German philosophy no less or even more severely than on German philosophy. ... For the qualities responsible for the condemnation are common to both, or are outweighing in non-German philosophy.” Kojoro Sugimori

=Int J Ethics= 27:381 Ap ‘17 1000w

“The argument is obscure, and scarcely convincing. Mr Santayana’s characterization of the German national genius is witty, apt, and irresistibly quotable. In the judgment of the present writer it is substantially true; as true, perhaps, as any such sweeping generalization can hope to be. Nevertheless, there are omissions and exaggerations in the account that are so obvious as to suggest caricature rather than criticism.” R. B. Perry

– + =J Philos= 14:637 N 8 ‘17 1150w

+ =Lit D= 54:776 Mr 17 ‘17 370w

“Dr Santayana has long enjoyed the distinction of being the Shaw of the philosophers, supremely skilful as an artificer of phrases and diabolically clever. In this book he surpasses himself. It is fairly dazzling. ... It is true that the author continually yields to the besetting sin of the clever writer in sacrificing accuracy on the altar of wit. ... The reader should study the sketches in the same spirit in which he would examine a volume of sketches by a clever cartoonist. If he reads the book in this fashion, not taking it too seriously, he will be highly entertained, if sometimes irritated. Questions of accuracy, of fidelity, are irrelevant. ... As a discussion of German philosophy, this book must not be taken seriously.”

=Nation= 104:339 Mr 22 ‘17 1250w

“The philosophical views of Prof. G. Santayana need to be taken into account in considering his new book. For the work, besides being a trenchant attack on German thought, must be regarded to some extent a polemic in behalf of a particular point of view. Prof. Santayana, like the man in the street, distrusts metaphysical idealism.”

=Springf’d Republican= p15 F 4 ‘17 1100w

=SAPPER, pseud.= No Man’s Land. il *$1.25 (1½c) Doran 17-23333

This book is by the author of “Michael Cassidy, sergeant” and “Men, women and guns.” Part 1, “The way to the land,” describes the experiences of an officer bound for the front; Part 2 “The land,” and

## Part 3 “Seed time,” are made up of seventeen stories and sketches

telling us how the men in the trenches live, fight and die; in Part 4, “Harvest,” the author tells how British militarism has taught men the valuable lessons “of playing for the side and unselfishness,” but adds that “there must be some other method of teaching the lessons.” Some of the stories are grave, others gay. “Seed time,” the longest story in the book, describes the evolution of Reginald Simpkins, shopwalker, into an expert sniper. “‘The man trap’ relates how a too ingenious subaltern adapted a disused dug-out as a trap for over-curious Germans and caught in it his own general and colonel. ... ‘Bendigo Jones—his tree’ is a whimsical extravaganza on a post-impressionist sculptor, who, not having been exempted through the united efforts of his misguided friends, finds himself in the trenches.” (Spec)

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 26 ‘17 400w

“Told with restraint and standing out from the average war fiction for their exceptional literary quality.”

+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 30w

“It is grim, coarse, sentimental, beautiful, gay, solemn and trifling by turns, but, as a whole, undeniably convincing. ... You are half through the middle chapters before you realize how steadily all that has seemed careless and overdone is carrying on toward an overwhelming sense of the kind of soldier who is doing the fighting and paying the price. ‘No man’s land’ is a strange, ill-written, confused and vivid book, pulled out of the frightful turmoil of the present. It is not art, but material for art.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:380 O 7 ‘17 750w

“‘Sapper’ prefers to present what he knows in the guise of fiction, and yet he often seems to come nearer to the truth than the precise reporter with his field-glasses and his notebook. ... As in most war fiction, humour predominates. The soldiers do not treat the war as a joke, but they are incurably light-hearted, and their laughter helps them to face things too deep for tears. ‘Sapper’ as a jester is typical of a very large class of soldier-authors, but his literary quality is exceptional.”

+ =Spec= 119:169 Ag 18 ‘17 950w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 5 ‘17 360w

“Will add to the reputation that ‘Sapper’ has already made for himself as a writer of war sketches. ... Unlike Mr Wells, who regards war as an affair primarily of the scientific management of aeroplanes and tanks, ‘Sapper’ teaches that it is upon the craving of the fighting man to kill, no matter what the cost to himself, that the issue depends; and where Mr Wells detects no bright spots but spurs in the officer of the old school, he sees the supreme quality—the power to persuade others to follow him willingly to this killing. ... Without glossing over the horrible, ‘Sapper’ employs the restraint which makes the imagination of the reader its ally. ... His English is crisp without being loose.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p362 Ag 2 ‘17 520w

=SARGENT, PORTER EDWARD.= Handbook of American private schools; an annual publication. (Sargent’s handbook ser.) 3d ed il $2.50 P. E. Sargent, 50 Congress st., Boston 373

“The principal subjects considered are: Boys’ schools (arranged according to geographical position), military schools, girls’ schools, coeducational schools, schools and conservatories of music, schools of art, kindergarten training schools, schools of physical education, schools of expression and dramatic art, schools of the household arts, schools for the deficient, private schools of Canada, boys’ summer camps, girls’ summer camps. The editor supplies a bibliography of works in which principles are discussed. He also adds a list of newspapers and periodicals which treat more or less directly of educational subjects.”—Springf’d Republican

+ =Ind= 91:296 Ag 25 ‘17 70w

“The 1917 edition shows numerous traces of editorial revision, and, considering the inevitable limitations of such a handbook, will be found full of well-classified information. ... While it is impossible that all the information should be critical, the book is workmanlike in all respects and shows a praiseworthy degree of editorial ability.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19’17 180w

=SARKAR, BENOY KUMAR, and RAKSHIT, HEMENDRA KISHOR.= Folk-element in Hindu culture. *$5 Longmans 294 17-17531

Professor Sarkar’s “contribution to socio-religious studies in Hindu folk-institutions” “is based on a study of some of the folk-arts, folk-traditions, folk-songs, and folk-festivals of Bengal, and is mainly concerned with the relations between Shaiva-cum-Shâktaism and Buddhism, descriptive and historical, among the Bengali-speaking population of eastern India. Several chapters deal with the Gambhîrâ, Gâjan, and Sâhiyâtrâ festivities; others treat of diverse topics, such as physical austerities practised by the people, folk-dances in religious festivals, the socio-religious life of the people of Bengal under the Pâlas, the tantric lore of mediæval Buddhism, and Islam in popular Hinduism. The author arrives at some interesting conclusions, of which two of the most important are that ‘the masses and the folk have contributed to the making of Hindu culture in all its phases no less than the court and the classes,’ and that the caste-system ‘has never been a disintegrating factor in Hindu communal existence, and is most probably a very recent institution.’” (Ath) The author states that this work is to a certain extent complementary to his “Positive background of Hindu sociology.”

=Ath= p302 Je ‘17 200w

“It is a book for the specialist, and for him has unique value.”

=Lit D= 55:42 S 29 ‘17 300w

“Some inductions are questionable, but the work is to be commended if only for the mass of first-hand material here collected.”

+ — =Nation= 105:460 O 25 ‘17 350w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:118 Ag ‘17

“This is a very interesting and valuable book, being, so far as we know, the first detailed and accurate description in English of one of the many and varied rural festivities in which ‘gods’ days,’ as it were, take the place in Bengal of saints’ days in rustic Europe. Mr Sarkar treats exhaustively and with much enthusiasm and humour, of the religious festivities known in different parts of Bengal as the Gamphīrā, the Gājan, or the Sāhi-yātrā; ceremonial.”

+ — =Spec= 119:39 Jl 14 ‘17 850w

“The scheme indicated in the title is too pretentious; the materials which give the book its value are not skilfully presented; and, as regards the religious songs, only an artist like Rabindranath Tagore could preserve the poetical fervour of the originals. At the same time it possesses some merits which make it a useful contribution to the study of popular religion in India, and it is provided with good indexes of subjects, names and references. It owes much of its value to a collection of notes contributed by Mr Haridas Palit. It would have been well if this information had been more largely used.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p233 My 17 ‘17 1400w

=SAROLEA, CHARLES.= French renascence, il *$2 Pott (*5s Unwin & Allen, London) 844 17-12613

“In an introduction flaming with love of liberty and love of France, Dr Sarolea outlines the story ... of the awakening of France, in 1914. ... It is of some of the lives, which woven into the fabric of the nation have become inseparable from it, of whom Dr Sarolea writes in these brief essays. ... The studies he presents are of Montaigne, between whom and Nietzsche the author points a most interesting analogy; Pascal, with whom Cardinal Newman is contrasted—‘the two greatest names perhaps in the religious literature of the modern world’; Madame de Maintenon, Elizabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Orleans; ... Rousseau; Marie Antoinette, ‘before the revolution’; Mirabeau, Robespierre, Napoleon—the ‘real Napoleon’ and ‘Napoleon the socialist’; Balzac, Flaubert, Maeterlinck, Bergson and Poincaré.” Boston Transcript

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 16 ‘17 530w

— =Cath World= 105:248 My ‘17 370w

“An agreeable but insubstantial collection of occasional articles and book reviews. ... Dr Sarolea writes a clear and fluent, though quite undistinguished style, but it seems a pity that he should permit himself such oddities as ‘impunately’ and ‘presigeotus.’ ... One is grateful for the plain speech concerning the ‘Germanomania’ of the years before the war. ‘Even estimable mediocrities like Eucken were proclaimed original thinkers’ is a specimen.”

+ — =Dial= 62:316 Ap 5 ‘17 200w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:169 N ‘16

“These essays are exceedingly interesting and marked by genuine critical appreciation and discrimination. There is, for instance, matter of real novelty and value presented in the chapter on the private life of Napoleon I and in the one on Napoleon as a socialist.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:182 My 6 ‘17 150w

“Decidedly anti-German in tone.” M. J.

=St Louis= 15:183 Je ‘17 30w

“It seems a pity that Dr Sarolea, who wrote an excellent book on the Anglo-German problem, should have chosen to praise France in a volume which has rather a cheap air of paradox.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p195 Ap 27 ‘16 650w

=SASTRI, K. S. RAMASWAMI.= Sir Rabindranath Tagore: his life, personality, and genius. $2.50 Brentano’s (Ganesh & co., Madras, India)

“A comprehensive biography of Rabindranath Tagore by a fellow countryman gives a more complete interpretation of his genius than it is perhaps possible for an English critic or biographer to undertake. Mr Sastri writes of Tagore’s artistic and spiritual ancestry, and of his share in the new Indian renaissance now going on, and observes that if the European renaissance was the release of the human spirit per se, that of India is the liberation of the human spirit that is in harmony with the divine, and that the genius of the great Bengali poet focalizes the gathering of the forces that will give new birth to liberty.”—R of Rs

“In spite of its flowery style, its endless repetition and triple padding of quotation, his book forms a real addition to our knowledge of Tagore and the mental life of India.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:68 F 25 ‘17 500w

“Without offense to the spirit and the labors of Mr Ernest Rhys, who has written an admirable life of the Hindu poet, Mr Sastri’s work is in several respects a more satisfying exposition of the genius of Tagore and will be of great assistance to the student of his teachings.”

+ =R of Rs= 54:670 D ‘16 400w

“The enthusiasm of the Madrasi author for the work and teaching of the national poet of Bengal is manifest on every page. ... But the value of the study is marred by diffuseness and frequent repetition. Quotations, relevant and irrelevant, abound, and are often taken from obscure writers.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p382 Ag 10 ‘16 500w

=SATOW, SIR ERNEST MASON.= Guide to diplomatic practice. 2v *$9 Longmans 341.7 (Eng ed 17-14175)

This is the first of a series of Contributions to international law and diplomacy. L. Oppenheim, the general editor, says that the work is unique “with regard to the method of treatment of the subject, as well as the selection of the topics discussed and in the amount of original research which it embodies.” The book is meant to be of service alike to the international lawyer, the diplomatist and the student of history. “For this reason not only the legal side of diplomacy, but also its practical side had constantly to be kept in view, an outline of all the important congresses and conferences had to be included, and the different kinds of international compacts had to be treated in some detail.” Volume 1 consists of two parts, dealing with Diplomacy in general and Diplomatic agents. Volume 2 treats of International meetings and transactions, including chapters on Mediation and Arbitration. Lists of references are given in appendixes.

“A scholarly and exhaustive treatment.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:78 D ‘17

“It contains chapters which no serious student of international law can afford to neglect. These volumes are marred by many misprints.” L. B. Evans

+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 11:779 N ‘17 560w

“There are numerous guides diplomatiques and treatises on diplomatic law and practice in other languages but aside from Foster’s ‘Practice of diplomacy’ there is no other work in English which may be compared with this, either in its scope or purpose. It is packed with documentary and other illustrative material: specimen copies of letters of credence, full powers, instructions, extracts from notes, quotations from diplomatic manuals, etc., most of which are printed in the original language in which they were written, this on the principle that the attempt to translate them into English would in many cases impair their value.” J. W. Garner

+ + =Ann Am Acad= 73:240 S ‘17 550w

“These volumes, filled as they are with information upon subjects in reference to which there is a considerable amount of popular misconception, will not only be very valuable for reference, but also of interest to the general reader.”

+ =Ath= p249 My ‘17 200w

“A highly opportune, as well as in many respects remarkably interesting survey. ... The second volume is even more full of interest than the first; but it takes the historical reader over what is likely to be to him more familiar ground, a large portion of which has already been mapped out by previous writers and editors. I do not know why Sir Ernest Satow has not given a fuller list of collections of treaties, from the standard volumes of Koch and Schoell to the useful selection recently put together by Mr R. B. Mowat.” A. W. Ward

* + – =Eng Hist R= 32:418 Jl ‘17 5400w

“Sir Ernest Satow is one of the most distinguished English diplomatists of the last twenty-five years. He has had infinite experience, and unlimited opportunities for observation. He has written a guide to diplomatic practice which supersedes every previous work upon the subject. It is exact, it is exhaustive, it is scholarly.” H. J. L.

+ + =New Repub= 12:80 Ag 18 ‘17 1800w

+ =St Louis= 15:358 O ‘17 50w

“Sir Ernest Satow has written a learned and interesting book. ... Here is a British ambassador revealing to the public the mysteries of diplomatic practice as if it were an ordinary calling and explaining in great detail the niceties of diplomatic etiquette. ... It will be evident that Sir Ernest Satow has no sympathy with the demand for the reform of our diplomatic service which has been heard of late.”

=Spec= 118:673 Je 16 ‘17 2200w

“His experiences as representative of this country at various courts enables him to speak with precision and authority upon points as to which the books are silent or indefinite. Of the existing treatises, some—for example, de Martens’s and Comte Garden’s—are carefully compiled. But they do not always faithfully record the practice of the present day, which has cast off something of the formalism of past times and has not escaped certain democratic influences.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p206 My 3 ‘17 1800w

=SAWYER, RUTH (MRS ALBERT C. DURAND).= Herself, himself and myself. il *$1.35 (2c) Harper 17-25083

The scene is laid partly in America and partly in Ireland. “Herself,” Judith Drene, is the orphan daughter of a rich banker who, after losing most of his money, shot himself; “Myself,” Nora Kelley, is the Irish nurse who mothered her and brought her up; “Himself,” Dr John Fox, is the young Irish doctor, the “wise lad,” who came back from the war and married Judith in the ivy-covered church at Donegal.

“A simple, wholesome story.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:98 D ‘17

“A book of sentiment undisguisedly, but of sentiment upon a higher plane, guarded and mellowed by true humour in contrast with that feminine ‘brightness’ which characterises the novel of the ‘glad’ sort.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:340 N ‘17 100w

“There is even in this earliest part of the book a delightful vein of humor mingling with the sadness.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 6 ‘18 600w

+ =Cleveland= p133 D ‘17 60w

“Evidently intended for those who like an abundance of sugar in their fiction. ... The little tale is very much padded, but it has some dainty bits here and there. The first chapters, which deal with Judith’s childhood, are the best and quite prettily done. Later, the story grows monotonous.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:414 O 21 ‘17 270w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 190w

=SCANDLIN, HORACE WINTHROP.= Wicked John Goode. il *$1 (3c) Doran 364 17-11002

Thomas Mott Osborne writes an introduction to this book and Rev. J. G. Hallimond of the Bowery mission adds a word at the end vouching for the truth of the story Mr Scandlin has told. It is the story of a criminal and his reformation. John Goode was incorrigible at the age of ten. At eleven he ran away from home, and at once began his career of crime. He became familiar with every sort of institution from a so-called protectory to Sing Sing. Thru the instrumentality of Mrs Booth, he was set free, but, having no sense of honor, broke parole. Finally he was reclaimed, but not, as Mr Osborne significantly points out, by any of the agencies provided by society. From each of these institutions he emerged a worse man than he went in. He is now said to be one of the workers in the mission to which he owes his regeneration.

“Nothing but hard, cold and sometimes cruel facts are here recorded, if we accept the testimony of the two authorities that flank the narrative. There is, moreover, an inherent evidence in the very graphic recital that John Goode, the ex-convict, is no imaginary person. The book is a stirring appeal to reform our reformatory institutions. ... The Bowery mission, through its spiritual and industrial methods, is doing a unique work, and that work is here sketched.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 9 ‘17 280w

“Personally and socially, this is a suggestive and challenging book.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:167 Ap 29 ‘17 320w

=SCARBOROUGH, DOROTHY.= Supernatural in modern English fiction. *$2 (2c) Putnam 823 17-28912

Dr Scarborough’s study covers the nineteenth century, with particular attention to the fiction of the last thirty years. For her beginnings she goes back to Horace Walpole, “the father of the terror novel.” His “Castle of Otranto,” with Mrs Radcliffe’s “Mysteries of Udolpho” and Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” shortly following, was the first of a long line. Modern masters of the supernatural include, among others, Henry James, Mark Twain, H. G. Wells, Algernon Blackwood and Lord Dunsany. The author says, “I deal with ghosts and devils by and large, in an impressionistic way. I don’t know much about them; I have no learned theories of causation. I only love them, I only marvel at their infinite variety and am touched by their humanity, their likeness to mortals.” Contents: The Gothic romance; Later influences; Modern ghosts; The devil and his allies; Supernatural life; The supernatural in folk-tales; Supernatural science; Conclusion; Index. The bibliography, too long for inclusion in this volume, is to be published separately.

=Ath= p659 D ‘17 350w

“Able, comprehensive, and not seldom amusing survey. It is remarkable that there is no allusion to ‘A Christmas carol,’ though less notable works by Dickens are mentioned; and there might have been a reference to Marryat’s striking tale ‘The phantom ship.’”

+ — =Ath= p676 D ‘17 300w

“The last place one would look for a ‘bestseller’ would be among doctors’ theses; yet this book, which more than earned the degree of Doctor of philosophy at Columbia for its author, has such a general appeal that it may conceivably have a large sale.” W: L. Phelps

+ =Bookm= 46:611 Ja ‘18 700w

“Many names of many dealers in the supernatural appear and reappear in Dr Scarborough’s none too well ordered pages. We find references to Poe scattered through the book from its early to its later pages, and of this master of the weird and of many others it is impossible to gain a coherent understanding. ... She has made of her book a storehouse of treasure rather than a systematic history and study.” E. F. E.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p11 O 6 ‘17 950w

— =Dial= 63:590 D 6 ‘17 340w

“One of the few monographs in the field of literature which must have been a pleasure to write. ... The work is beautifully indexed, so that the reader can turn in an instant to his favorite horror.”

+ =Ind= 92:192 O 27 ‘17 150w

“It is one of the most interesting and valuable features of Dr Scarborough’s book that it includes such a host of pertinent examples of supernaturalism of all kinds and that it gives in almost every case some real criticism of the work of the different writers.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:467 N 11 ‘17 1800w

“Will prove entertaining and useful to the reader who wishes to go a-ghosting in the pages of novels.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:553 N ‘17 90w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p558 N 15 ‘17 50w

=SCHAUFFLER, ROBERT HAVEN=, comp. and ed. Our flag in verse and prose. il *$1.50 Moffat 808.8 A17-959

“Poems, songs and prose extracts under the following heads: Spirit and significance; Old Glory’s history; In praise of Old Glory; Patriotism; Flags; A Flag day story (A man without a country, by E. E. Hale). Contains also an account by Francis Scott Key 3d of the writing of ‘The Star spangled banner,’ a history of the origin and development of the flag and directions for Flag day drills and exercises.”—Cleveland

“He tells the familiar Betsy Ross story without questioning in any way its authenticity. Mr Schauffler’s selections cover a wide range. ... All the familiar songs about the flag are here. ... Mr Schauffler’s book will be a good one to place in the hands of every school teacher and pupil.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 8 ‘17 170w

=Cleveland= p87 Jl ‘17 30w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:123 Ag ‘17

“Contains the best that has been written in verse and prose to inspire patriotic devotion and to interpret the spirit and significance of the flag.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 100w

=SCHAYER, ERNEST RICHARD.= Good loser. *50c McKay 17-8204

“A tennis expert, out of the game permanently with a broken ankle, happens upon a small boy practising strokes against a barn. He lingers, keen with the discovery of budding talent, and trains the little fellow through the summer in the art and the ethics of the game, to be modest, honest and courageous. Then he enters Billy in the junior tournament in the White mountains and Billy makes good on his teaching and loses the championship by refusing to win on the judge’s error. Incidentally the teacher, and Billy’s father who is in business trouble, learn also how to be good losers.” (Springf’d Republican) The story appeared in the American Magazine, June, 1916.

“It is a short story, just a magazine article bound up in permanent form, but it has in quality what it lacks in quantity. And as for quantity, Mr Schayer tells his story, all that is necessary to tell, and stops. It is complete in its fifty-nine pages.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 1 ‘17 170w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:128 Ap ‘17 20w

=SCHEFTEL, YETTA.=[2] Taxation of land value. *$2 Houghton 336.2 17-235

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

“The best part of Miss Scheftel’s work, in the judgment of the reviewer, is the careful and complete account of the complicated land taxes of Australasia, Germany, and Great Britain. Her chapters on the Australasian experience constitute the most comprehensive discussion of this topic that has been given. The account of the German taxes on ‘unearned increment’ is based upon a thorough study of both primary and secondary German sources, and is easily the best account in English. ... The chapter on Municipal taxation in western Canada is less satisfactory, inasmuch as that topic has been much more exhaustively covered in Professor Haig’s report for the New York city committee on taxation of 1916. A few loose statements of economic theory are found. The index is inadequate for nearly five hundred pages of condensed facts.” A. N. Young

+ — =Am Econ R= 7:415 Je ‘17 700w

“Scholarly and thorough, the best work on the subject, but needed only in large or special libraries.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:292 Ap ‘17

“The newest and in many respects the best study of what is commonly known as the single tax. An excellent bibliography is appended.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:596 Ag ‘17 100w

“A judicious, well-balanced treatment of land-value taxation in those countries where the scheme has been chiefly tried. Study is also given to the fiscal, economic and social effects of such taxes. Although single taxers have generally welcomed the adoption of land-value taxation as a vindication of their doctrines, the author points out that ‘not only in method of assessment and levy, but also in their rationale great differences exist’ between the single tax and land-value taxes.” F. T. S.

+ =Ann Am Acad= 72:240 Jl ‘17 300w

“Miss Scheftel’s book is unquestionably an instance of work well done, and every reader will feel that it fully merited the $1,000 first prize awarded to it. Nor can there be any doubt that the contribution is one of real utility. What has been so laboriously brought together, and presented in such orderly and convenient shape, is a matter upon which many students of the land-tax question desire to be informed, and which is not easy of access in the scattered sources from which it has been gathered. The discussion, too, is not only intelligent, but thoroughly fair-minded.”

+ =Nation= 104:656 My 31 ‘17 600w

“The book is a veritable storehouse of information for those interested in the subject and a valuable help toward improvement in methods of taxation.”

+ =Survey= 39:298 D 8 ‘17 420w

=SCHEIFLEY, WILLIAM H.= Brieux and contemporary French society. *$2 (2½c) Putnam 842 17-28835

The author’s purpose is “to explain to American readers the social themes treated by Eugène Brieux in his dramas and their relation to French society.” In preparing the work, he has had two objects in view: “(1) a consideration of both the literary value and the purpose of each play of Brieux; (2) the testimony of other writers, either in critical or in creative work, regarding the conditions that gave rise to a particular play of Brieux and the extent to which it reflects the spirit of the time.” (Preface) The author considers it a matter for regret that American opinion of Brieux should so largely have been formed from “Damaged goods,” which he pronounces one of the dramatist’s poorest plays. Among the social problems to which special chapters are devoted are: The relation between parents and children; Charity, philanthropy, industrial beneficence; Marriage and the dowry; Divorce; Separation and the child; Venereal diseases. “Sincerity,” says the author in conclusion, “is Brieux’s predominant characteristic. ... Other good traits that stand out prominently in his dramas are faith, vigour, and courage.”

“Mr Scheifley does not put forward any pretensions to be a critic of letters; but he has a sound working estimate of the plays of Brieux.”

+ =Ath= p676 D ‘17 140w

=Cleveland= p4 Ja ‘18 50w

“The American public owes a large debt of gratitude to Mr Scheifley for his scholarly and sympathetic treatment of Brieux. He has shown admirably Brieux’s sincerity and versatility, and amply justified, for American eyes, the place accorded to the author in his native land.” B: M. Woodbridge

+ =Dial= 64:67 Ja 17 ‘18 1000w

“This volume of appreciative criticism is an incentive toward a more intimate acquaintance with Eugène Brieux.”

+ =Lit D= 56:35 Ja 26 ‘18 450w

+ =N Y Times= 22:578 D 30 ‘17 150w

“A comprehensive and detailed study.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:552 N ‘17 130w

“A sketch of French life which is well worth study. ... The book is, in the nature of things, superficial.”

+ — =Spec= 119:sup623 D 1 ‘17 1450w

“An able and penetrating survey of the various questions of social and economic life in France as they are reflected in Brieux’s dramas.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 22 ‘17 750w

“The book is marked by careful industry and attention given to the testimony of other writers.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p542 N 8 ‘17 110w

=SCHEVILL, FERDINAND.= Karl Bitter; a biography. il *$2 Univ. of Chicago press 17-16077

“In a thin volume of less than seventy text pages published under the auspices of the National sculpture society, the sculptor’s brother-in-law, Ferdinand Schevill tells ... the essentially romantic story of the young Austrian who, landing in New York in his twenty-second year with scarce a penny in his pocket, was, before three years had passed, executing the colossal scheme of sculpture upon the Administration building of the World’s fair at Chicago. He was killed by a reckless automobile driver before he had reached the age of forty-eight, having been director of sculpture at three expositions, a member of the Art commission of New York city, and twice president of the Sculpture society. Such a career is evidence enough of an unusual character as well as of unusual talents, and Mr Schevill makes us see the honesty, the energy, the tact, the great organizing ability, and the public spirit which accomplished so much—above all, he makes us see the intense Americanism of one who was an American by choice rather than by the accident of birth.”—Nation

“Remarkable by reason of the easy-flowing but at the same time stately and very formal style in which it is written. The career of Karl Bitter was a genuine romance. ... The biography contains a chronological list of his works and shows what an indefatigable worker he was.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 18 ‘17 950w

“Fine typography, beautiful paper, and illustrations that tell their tale combine in this treasure for lovers of art and books. The story of Bitter’s life and labors is here told simply, but appreciatively, even tenderly.”

+ =Lit D= 55:39 S 29 ‘17 250w

“Of his talent the thirty-odd illustrations of his works give a fairer opportunity of judging than could be had by anything short of a pilgrimage to the sites of the originals. Decorative art is art in service, and the art of Karl Bitter was always undertaken in the true social spirit.”

+ =Nation= 105:44 Jl 12 ‘17 370w

=Pittsburgh= 22:752 N ‘17 70w

“Worth reading, not merely as a record of facts but as a vital presentation of a life of unusual potency. Forty good halftone illustrations, including two portraits, add to the charm of the volume, and increase its value as a book of reference in the realm of American sculpture.”

+ =School Arts Magazine= 17:44 S ‘17 100w

=SCHIERBRAND, WOLF VON.= Austria-Hungary; the polyglot empire. il $3 (3½c) Stokes 943.6 17-25615

This book is written from the viewpoint of a man who has lived for four years in Austria, which he left only a few months ago, and who has a “sincere liking for and sympathy with the people of Austria-Hungary.” He claims “to be actuated by no conscious bias in dealing with the political, social and racial questions discussed.” He attempts “to afford the reader a sufficient outline of the process of growth and accretion active in creating the Austria-Hungary of today, of the natural resources of the land, and of the vital characteristics of the population; to point out the chief problems of the polyglot nation ... and to define the most feasible means of allaying or removing these difficulties, as these means have gradually shaped themselves in the minds of the thinking and potential elements of Austria-Hungary.” Nearly one-half of the book deals with the war or topics related to the war. A map is pasted on the inside of the back cover of the book.

Reviewed by G. I. Colbron

+ =Bookm= 46:726 F ‘18 2200w

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 150w

“Although on the whole less useful than Geoffrey Drage’s well-known ‘Austria-Hungary,’ it has the advantage of being considerably more recent and more readable. The chief value of the work lies in the fact that it furnishes almost the only intimate account that we have of what has been going on in the Hapsburg dominions since the war began. The volume would gain greatly by being to some extent documented. Important information is given and interesting judgments are passed with no citation of sources, authorities, or other means of corroboration.” F: A. Ogg

+ — =Dial= 63:637 D 20 ‘17 950w

“A happy mean between the scholarly survey and the journalistic war book. It discusses the problems of the country with unusual completeness of scope and moderation of tone, but there is an attempt to interpret the soul as well as the body, to give the meaning of facts as well as the facts themselves.”

+ =Ind= 92:259 N 3 ‘17 750w

+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 29 ‘17 380w

“Wolf von Schierbrand goes well with a little salt. He is an international journalist of repute, with the usual journalistic ambition to influence public sentiment, corrected more or less by the necessity of being interesting. But only an ill humored reader will grumble about it. Moreover, only an ill humored reader will be repelled by Wolf von Schierbrand’s German bias.” A. J.

+ — =New Repub= 13:351 Ja 19 ‘18 1600w

“No one who desires to know the people of Austria-Hungary as they seem to a person of another race with broad sympathies and cultivated human understanding can afford to ignore this instructive and eminently readable volume.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:492 N 25 ‘17 500w

+ =Outlook= 117:514 N 28 ‘17 110w

“The author may be congratulated for having produced a readable and interesting book, and one which should be welcomed by American readers.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 4 ‘17 390w

=SCHINDLER, KURT=, ed. Songs of the Russian people. pa $1 Ditson 784.8

“The lyrics, translated by Jane and Deems Taylor, are either set to the traditional melodies or to arrangements by modern composers, and are for mixed voices. Many of the ballads date back to mediæval times; all of them are sung to-day by the Russian peasants.”—Dial

“The translators seem to have kept as closely as possible to Russian feeling and diction.”

+ =Dial= 61:356 N 2 ‘16 350w

“Mr Schindler shows exactly the qualities an editor most needs. He has selected and discovered folk-songs and choruses almost unknown here, all of them of high quality. He has arranged and adapted freely, but we can trust his hand in whatever it does. He is at once musician and scholar and member of his own audience. When such an editor is found the publisher should grapple him to his soul.” H. K. M.

+ =New Repub= 7:258 Jl 8 ‘16 150w

=Pittsburgh= 22:317 Ap ‘17 30w

=SCHMIDT, WALTER KARL.= Problems of the finishing room. il $5 Periodical pub. co., Grand Rapids, Mich. 698 16-16704

An “authoritative manual for those employed in the finishing of woods by means of fuming, staining, varnishing, enameling, lacquering, etc. [It] treats of the preparation of the woods and describes in detail the processes required for the various kinds of finish. Directions are given for the selection, preparation and testing of the stains, oils, varnishes, glues and other materials used in wood finishing, and miscellaneous information relating to the work.”—Quar List New Tech Bks

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:190 D ‘16

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p6 Ja ‘17 90w

“The author writes from large experience as chemist and finishing expert.”

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Ap ‘17 90w

=SCHNITTKIND, HENRY THOMAS=, ed. Poets of the future. *$1 Stratford co. 811.08 (Eng ed 17-1047)

An anthology of college verse, selected from the undergraduate publications of sixty colleges. The preface says, “Our purpose in publishing this book, which will become an annual event, is two-fold. We want to encourage the best literature in the universities, and to show to the poetry lovers in this country what a wealth of gems of the purest ray has hitherto been inaccessible to the public.” In his introduction William Stanley Braithwaite expresses a belief that the anthology will have a deep interest for those unassociated with academic life, “for its expression flows from a deeper impulse, an impulse for the renewal of one’s fresh attachment with life at the source of dreams. In the poetry world it may well serve as the yearly spring of song.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:15 O ‘17

“The poetry that it contains fully justifies the effort expended upon the collection. Not a few of the pages of the book reveal more than one poet of the present that has astonished the reader with a note of deep maturity where at best a pleasant promise was expected. The selections have been made with unassuming catholicity.” I. G.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 8 ‘17 1800w

“Less than one third of the poems are by college women, and the larger women’s colleges, Smith, Vassar, Bryn Mawr and Wellesley, are not represented in the collection, although the literary periodicals of many of the smaller institutions, coeducational and otherwise, have been drawn upon for contributions.”

=Cleveland= p65 My ‘17 100w

“There is a freshness about the whole collection that is delightful.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:437 Ap ‘17 200w

=SCHNITZLER, ARTHUR.= Comedies of words, and other plays; Englished from the German with an introd. by Pierre Loving. *$1.50 Stewart & Kidd 832 17-13750

The so-called “comedies of words” included in this volume are three: The hour of recognition; The big scene; The festival of Bacchus. To these are added two other plays: Literature and His helpmate. The three comedies of words were published in 1915 and represent, the preface states, the most recent product from Schnitzler’s pen. The translator says, “Though they will scarcely enhance his reputation to any great extent, they continue in the tradition of his best work.” “Literature,” a witty farce, written in 1901, has been played by the Washington Square players of New York city.

+ — =Cleveland= p122 N ‘17 80w

“A translation of Schnitzler’s “einakters” has a more than timely interest. For fifteen years he has been one of the most-followed teachers to a large school of playwrights who have been supplying the intimate playhouses of Europe with realistic short pieces, and recently his influence has been extended to the young American dramatists whose one-act plays are being presented in our own Little Theatres. ... The first thing to strike the reader of these plays is that the plot of every one has a sexual basis. Taken alone each situation is perfectly possible; taken as a collection they are unnatural. ... We miss ‘the average man.’ To comprehend this characteristic of his work we must remember that Schnitzler is a practising physician, a specialist in psychology, a student of Freud. He is so keenly interested in pathological psychology that the normal human being does not interest him at all.” W. Haynes

* + – =Dial= 63:63 Jl ‘17 900w

— =Ind= 91:514 S 29 ‘17 60w

“In the normal drama Schnitzler’s art is fragile, not to say fleeting; in the one-act play it is compact, serried, tingling, spicular. No lover of address can afford to neglect these virtuosities; if they share the leisurely retrospect of Ibsen in the snugness of their packing they rival the master himself. ... The final judgment on Schnitzler will hardly be altered by the succinct vigor of these masterly vignettes. He lacks body and he lacks soul. In Schnitzler passion has the tenuity of sentiment, and guilt has the tastelessness of innocence. The translation is plebeian, but not unreadable.”

+ — =Nation= 105:225 Ag 30 ‘17 760w

“Mr Loving’s translation is never very good, mediocre most of the time, now and then very bad. ... A reason for buying this English version is that the original ‘Komödie der worte’ (Berlin: S. Fischer, 1915) cannot now be had in this country, except by a lucky accident. The only copy I’ve been able to lay my hands on is in the reference department of the New York public library.” P. L.

+ — =New Repub= 11:308 Jl 14 ‘17 1050w

“Schnitzler is Freud turned dramatist. His great power consists in his building plays not upon the broad basis of general and tested character values, but upon the psychology of our occasional lapses away from the average, our hidden emotional unleashings, sudden angers and momentary caprices.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:444 O ‘17 110w

“Mr Schnitzler keeps his literary fabric delicate, and his irony permits his readers to believe that he, too, is much amused by his characters, and is wisely refusing to idealize any of them, or to give them more importance than they deserve. The ‘littleness’ of the plays is thus justified to the artistic consciousness. The translation lacks elegance, but preserves the suggestiveness of the original dialog.”

=Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 5 ‘17 230w

=SCHOLTZ, MOSES.= Sex problems of man in health and disease; a popular study in sex knowledge. *$1 Stewart & Kidd 612.6 16-15024

“Five-sixths of the book covers clearly, scientifically and accurately diseases of sex organs in man. A small part only is given to anatomy, physiology and sex hygiene.”—A L A Bkl

“Has a high moral tone—the author heartily disapproves of a double standard. Of use to parents, teachers and workers with boys.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:11 O ‘17

“Written by one who has had wide experience in dealing with sex problems, it can be commended for its sanity.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7 Mr 11 ‘17 150w

=SCHROEDER, THEODORE ALBERT.= Free speech for radicals. enl ed $1.50 (2½c) Free speech league 323 16-1728

“This edition of ‘Free speech for radicals’ has doubled its size and the added parts are the most important.” (Foreword) Among the additions are a chapter on Methods of constitutional construction, an account of the San Diego free speech fight, and a reprint of a section from the Final report of the Commission on industrial relations.

“This book might appropriately be entitled ‘Free speech for I. W. W.’s and anarchists,’ for on the whole it undertakes the defense of this ‘most despised of all classes.’ In general, the writer treats his subject in a dispassionate manner and the book makes interesting reading, but the reader frequently is challenged to make active rejoinders to the many sweeping conclusions.”

– + =J Pol Econ= 25:1055 D ‘17 950w

=Nation= 103:381 O 19 ‘16 150w

“It is, perhaps, needless to say to our Socialist and radical readers that the questions of free speech and free press will, during the war, assume a most tremendous importance as a subject of discussion, public and legal. And in this connection we might mention that the voluminous and careful works of Theodore Schroeder, a special student of this matter and others pertaining to it, are, perhaps, the best, most accurate and authoritative literature procurable.” J. W.

+ =N Y Call= p14 Je 3 ‘17 280w

=St Louis= 15:47 F ‘17

“The book will chiefly interest students of anarchist and I. W. W. literature and development.”

=Springf’d Republican= p13 F 7 ‘16 70w

=SCHULER, PHILLIP F. E.= Australia in arms. il *12s 6d T. Fisher Unwin, London 940.91

This book deals with the formation of the Australian imperial expeditionary force, and their work in Egypt, on the Suez canal and at Gallipoli. The history is complete to the date of publication.

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:89 Je ‘17

“A capital account of the part played at Anzac by the Australian imperial force.”

+ =Sat R= 123:484 My 26 ‘17 200w

“There have been many books written about the Gallipoli campaign. ... Some of them have been masterly, some of them hasty, and a few frankly inaccurate. So far none have purported to be thorough histories of the whole undertaking, nor does Mr Schuler make this claim for his book. ... The author contents himself with chronicling the campaign from the Australian point of view. ... The maps and illustrations are excellent and new.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p566 N 30 ‘16 1100w

=SCHULTZ, JAMES WILLARD.= Gold cache. il *$1.25 (3½c) Houghton 17-24276

This book follows the author’s earlier stories, “With the Indians in the Rockies” and “On the war path.” Thomas Fox and his friend Pitamakan, with a third youth for companion, start southward on a search for gold. Lone Chief, who has come into Fort Benton with a handful of “buttons,” which prove to be twenty-dollar gold pieces, has started them on their way, saying that he had left four boxes of the supposedly valueless trinkets back in the pass, where he had accidentally come upon them. The quest takes the boys far down into the Apache country, and they have many adventures by the way.

“A good Indian story, well told, and possessing elements which will satisfy the normal boy’s taste for adventure in a wholesome manner.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 20w

=Ind= 92:448 D 1 ‘17 30w

+ =N Y Times= 22:565 D 16 ‘17 70w

+ =Outlook= 117:142 S 26 ‘17 20w

=SCHWAB, CHARLES M.= Succeeding with what you have. il *50c (6c) Century 174 17-3316

A series of short papers reprinted from the American Magazine. Mr Schwab writes of: Thinking beyond your job; How men are appraised; Seizing your opportunities; The college man in business; What your employer expects; My twenty thousand partners; Men I have worked with; Woman’s part in man’s success.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:286 Ap ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 21 ‘17 150w

+ =Cleveland= p67 My ‘17 40w

“Mr Schwab seems to have sized up what his normal readers want in the way of a ‘secret of success’ book and gives them maxims and hints well worth following.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Mr 18 ‘17 200w

=SCHWARZ, OSIAS L.= General types of superior men. *$2.50 Badger, R: G. 136 17-1805

“The writer is an immigrant from Rumania though evidently German by blood and tongue.” (Nation) His book is “a philosophico-psychological study of genius, talent and Philistinism in their bearings upon human society and its struggle for a better social order.” (Sub-title) “The point of view of the book is the need to society of both intellectual and moral geniuses.” (Springf’d Republican) There is a preface by Jack London, and an introductory letter by Dr Max Nordau.

“Jack London wrote of the book that it was ‘one of those immortal epoch-making works which appear only at very long intervals and which leave an indelible constructive impression in the mind of the world.’ Dr Nordau did not hesitate to declare that the work was ‘dogmatic, not scientific,’ that it contained statements which he, Nordau, ‘deemed dubious and that the analysis of hereditary influences in the formation of genius was hazy.’ The critic also doubted the author’s conviction that socialistic society would show none of the vices which the author pictured in civilized society.” H. S. K.

=Boston Transcript= p6 Je 2 ‘17 880w

“His control of English syntax is faulty. ... Beneath the radical prejudice and, it must be said, occasional naïve ignorance, one discerns an attitude not only introspective, but deeply reflective, a certain fine insight, and a genuine humanity, fairness struggling with prejudice.”

– + =Nation= 105:155 Ag 9 ‘17 250w

“The book is full of this sort of muddiness, and yet there is often, we willingly recognize, a striking suggestiveness. The chief merit of the book is in its passionate insistence on the imperativeness of making the most of really superior men.”

– + =Nature= 100:125 O 18 ‘17 340w

“It is a fine book for those fatigued minds that in the misty phrases of ‘social consciousness’ and the like try to disguise their basic terror before the individual intellect.”

+ — =New Repub= 13:27 N 3 ‘17 280w

=N Y Call= p15 S 16 ‘17 270w

“It is vastly stimulating reading and much can be gathered from its torrential attack upon Philistinism. ... Mr Schwarz’s ideas would have been promulgated to better effect if the material had been divided between two or more volumes.”

+ — =R of Rs= 56:331 S ‘17 200w

“An argument for socialism bolstered up with philosophical and ethical generalizations. ... Shows a certain amount of independent thinking ... but is scattering in aim, and extremely diffuse in expression.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 250w

=SCOLLARD, CLINTON.= Let the flag wave, and other verses written in wartime. 75c J. T. White & co., 70 5th av., N.Y.; for sale by Baker 811 17-17071

Among the “other verses” are: At the grave of Lawrence; America to her young men; Reeds of the Somme; Chant of the Hun; Mother England; and Kitchener of Khartum. The cream colored binding is not well suited to library use.

“In this sort of writing Mr Scollard’s high spirits and power to write convincingly stand him in good stead.”

+ =Lit D= 55:31 Jl 14 ‘17 700w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:108 Jl ‘17

=SCOTT, CHARLES ERNEST.= China from within; introd. by J. Ross Stevenson. il *$1.75 Revell 915.1 17-31762

“For many years a missionary of the Presbyterian church at Tsingtau, Dr Scott’s lectures delivered in the winter of 1914-15 at Princeton theological seminary have an authority sometimes lacking in the books recording the impressions and experiences of the ordinary traveller. For Dr Scott has not only journeyed over the greater part of China, including provinces seldom visited by aliens, but he has lived among the people, learning, as in no other way can be done their real life and the most pressing of their many needs. ... ‘An humble testimony by a student on the field to the ability and achievements of the Chinese,’ he himself calls his book.”—Boston Transcript

“His book is as interesting and valuable to the general reader as to those concerned with the problems of mission work.” F. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 17 ‘17 780w

“Little is said here about politics, revolutions or international relations. But real insight is given into the regenerative forces that are at work creating a manhood that some day will take high place in China’s development.”

+ =Ind= 93:200 F 2 ‘18 100w

“A careful study.”

+ =Outlook= 117:476 N 21 ‘17 60w

“Dr Scott presents a body of material concerning the inner life of the Chinese such as can hardly be found in any other published book.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:219 F ‘18 40w

=SCOTT, DIXON.= Men of letters; with an introd. by Max Beerbohm. il *$2 (2c) Doran 820.4

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

=A L A Bkl= 13:303 Ap ‘17

“One of the most serious losses due to the war has been the death of Dixon Scott. ... Scott was not merely an acute critic or interpreter, or that commonplace of to-day, the good impressionist. He was one of those who penetrate through the book into the mind of the author, and show how it works. Like Sainte-Beuve, he saturated himself so completely in the man he was studying that he endued his personality.”

+ =Ath= p85 F ‘17 1350w

“His judgments may challenge some readers: me they merely fascinate. ... I want a figure to intrigue my imagination, and Dixon Scott has offered me a gallery.” J. W. Linn

+ =Dial= 62:184 Mr 8 ‘17 950w

“Dixon Scott was an exceedingly clever young man, with a most remarkable specific literary talent. Reading his criticisms is like watching revolver practice by a crack shot: the explosiveness of the style and the swiftness of the devastation hide the monotony of the mood and method. His longest and most deeply felt effort was an essay on William Morris: his most elaborated, an essay on me. ... I have no space here to do more than point out the limitations of Dixon Scott’s view of art, and how the young literary voluptuary flourished at the expense of the critic of life. But I can guarantee the book as being not only frightfully smart in the wrong places, but, in the best of the right ones, as good as it is in the nature of the best journalistic criticism to be.” G. B. S.

* =New Repub= 10:78 F 17 ‘17 1900w

“Aesthetic excitement—that is his distinguishing note. ... It was Dixon Scott’s excellent gift that he could both brilliantly detect and unforgettably convey. ... Here is a genuine student of life: an observer both shrewd and sweet, gallant, full of charm and vigor; an interpreter of brilliant insight, of poetic imagination, of extraordinary craft. One is not easily reconciled to his sacrifice.” Lawrence Gilman

+ =No Am= 205:620 Ap ‘17 1450w

=Pratt= p37 O ‘17 10w

+ =Spec= 118:306 Mr 10 ‘17 60w

“To find a given writer’s medium, compare his normal with his sophisticated self, and complete the curve of variation from his theoretically possible achievement, is the task of criticism as it presents itself to Dixon Scott. The resulting method has the breathless fascination of hurdle-racing. One may disagree with his opinions and resent his premises, but one must recognize the dynamic energy of the thinking involved.” M. A. Jordan

+ + — =Yale R= n s 7:202 O ‘17 1300w

=SCOTT, MRS ELLEN (CORRIGAN).= Elizabeth Bess, “a little girl of the sixties.” il *$1.25 (2c) Macmillan 17-24271

Perhaps it is for its picture of New England life in the years immediately following the Civil war that this book for girls will be most valued and for that reason many older people will enjoy it. Elizabeth Bess is a winsome little girl of five, who lives in a bewildering world of older brothers and sisters and other grown people. There is one older brother whom Elizabeth does not remember very well, for she was only a baby when he went to war and he has been “missing” since Gettysburg. Elizabeth Bess knows what missing means. She knows that it does not mean dead, or lost forever, and she persists in her faith in the face of all the grown-up discouragement, even after Howell’s mother and sweetheart are ready to give up hope. And Bess’s perseverance is rewarded by the missing brother’s return.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

## particular direction might throw the sketch out of true.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The principles and elements of cost are treated by Mr Scovell rather than any specific system of cost keeping. The determination and application of overhead charges or burden are given a prominent place. The five methods of applying burden are: Percentage on wages, percentage on labor and material, man-hour rates, old-machine rate, new-machine rate. ... Material and material cost with reference to the practice of machine shops are discussed in