Chapter 1

) The author is professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“Rather desultory, but always agreeable.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 6 ‘17 1200w

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Reviewed by Conrad Aiken

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

+ =Lit D= 54:1512 My 19 ‘17 850w

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

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

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

## Part 4 is given up to appendices devoted to the more advanced

mathematical phases of the subject. The author is professor of electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota.

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

+ =Elec World= 69:380 F 24 ‘17 150w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:40 Mr ‘17

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

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

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

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

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 8 ‘17 370w

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

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“Those who have read Richard Harding Davis’s last story ‘The deserter,’ will be keenly interested to find in one chapter an account of the incidents on which the story was based. One [chapter] of

## particular interest tells about the spy mania that permeates Europe.”

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

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

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

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

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 29 ‘17 950w

=Dial= 63:532 N 22 ‘17 200w

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

– + =N Y Times= 22:372 S 30 ‘17 230w

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

+ =Sat R= 123:553 Je 16 ‘17 950w

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

+ =Spec= 119:144 Ag 11 ‘17 40w

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

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

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

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

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

– + =Bookm= 44:644 F ‘17 450w

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

– + =Boston Transcript= p6 D 13 ‘16 700w

– + =Cath World= 105:402 Je ‘17 200w

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

=Dial= 62:71 Ja 25 ‘17 950w

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

+ — =Dial= 62:402 My 3 ‘17 280w

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

— =Nation= 104:270 Mr 8 ‘17 300w

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

— =NY Times= 21:548 D 10 ‘16 350w

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

— =Outlook= 115:74 Ja 10 ‘17 80w

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

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

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

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

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

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:16 O ‘17

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

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 9 ‘17 1400w

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

+ =Cath World= 105:830 S ‘17 550w

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

+ — =Dial= 62:516 Je 14 ‘17 1700w

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

=Ind= 91:78 Jl 14 ‘17 70w

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

+ =Lit D= 55:45 D 1 ‘17 270w

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

+ — =New Repub= 12:360 O 27 ‘17 1200w

=Pratt= p47 O ‘17 20w

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

+ =Yale R= n s 7:218 O ‘17 750w

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

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

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

+ — =Boston Transcript= p7 D 22 ‘17 770w

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

– + =Dial= 64:105 Ja 31 ‘18 1450w

“The essence of Mr Sherman’s criticism is American correctness, that bloodless correctness to which New England has given its wintry flavor. It is correctness rampant that makes Mr Sherman’s crest different from the ordinary heraldry; and the main delectation of his

## book is its conservative call to arms. Mr Sherman preaches a forlorn

gospel when he begs us to cower behind the moral life of the race to peer at art.” F. H.

— =New Repub= 13:318 Ja 12 ‘18 2100w

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

– + =N Y Call= p15 Ja 26 ‘18 1150w

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

+ =N Y Times= 22:577 D 30 ‘17 1950w

+ =Outlook= 118:32 Ja 2 ‘18 90w

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

– + =Pub W= 93:219 Ja 19 ‘18 950w

=R of Rs= 57:216 F ‘18 210w

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

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

“Charmingly written, intimate essays.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:51 N ‘17

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

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 7 ‘17 1200w

+ =Cleveland= p134 D ‘17 50w

+ =Dial= 63:466 N 8 ‘17 50w

+ =Ind= 92:604 D 29 ‘17 50w

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

+ =Lit D= 55:52 D 1 ‘17 140w

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

+ — =Nation= 106:150 F 7 ‘18 350w

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

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

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

— =Dial= 62:482 My 31 ‘17 260w

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

“Criticism with Shestov is not a hand-to-mouth business. He does not choose a subject and then begin to wonder what he can find to say about it. His criticism is philosophy expounded by means of a

## particular example, and rather hinted at than expounded. One feels

that he has strong convictions, but is shy of proclaiming them.”

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

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

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

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

=Ath= p99 F ‘17 50w

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

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 28 ‘17 530w

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

+ =Dial= 63:399 O 25 ‘17 260w

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

+ — =Nation= 105:377 O 4 ‘17 450w

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

+ =Nature= 99:244 My 24 ‘17 400w

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

=N Y Times= 22:348 S 16 ‘17 420w

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

+ =Spec= 118:342 Mr 17 ‘17 150w

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

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

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

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

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

+ =Ath= p48 Ja ‘17 400w

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

+ =Dial= 62:446 My 17 ‘17 250w

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

+ =N Y Times= 22:196 My 20 ‘17 350w

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

+ =Sat R= 122:626 D 30 ‘16 1200w

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

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

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

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

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:43 N ‘17

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

— =Dial= 63:148 Ag 30 ‘17 1500w

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

=Nation= 105:98 Jl 26 ‘17 100w

“A brilliant defense of the classics.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:693 O ‘17 20w

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

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

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

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

=A L A Bkl= 14:98 D ‘17

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

+ =Dial= 63:592 D 6 ‘17 280w

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

+ =Lit D= 55:51 D 29 ‘17 170w

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

+ — =Nation= 106:118 Ja 31 ‘18 250w

=N Y Times= 22:469 N 11 ‘17 150w

+ =Outlook= 117:475 N 21 ‘17 20w

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

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

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

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

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

=N Y Call= p14 Ap 15 ‘17 240w

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

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

“An excellent treatise.”

+ =Cath World= 106:398 D ‘17 130w

“The bibliography is not up to date.”

+ — =Cleveland= p133 D ‘17 60w

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

+ — =N Y Call= p15 S 30 ‘17 140w

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

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

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:75 My ‘17

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

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

=A L A Bkl= 14:99 D ‘17

+ =Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 50w

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

+ =Dial= 63:647 D 20 ‘17 80w

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

+ =N Y Times= 22:373 S 30 ‘17 250w

+ =Outlook= 117:100 S 19 ‘17 30w

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

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

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

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

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

– + =A L A Bkl= 14:62 N ‘17

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

## particular, is quite preternaturally objectionable.”

+ — =Ath= p482 O ‘16 100w

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

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ‘17 830w

+ — =Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 100w

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

+ =Dial= 63:353 O 11 ‘17 220w

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

+ =N Y Times= 22:302 Ag 19 ‘17 610w

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

+ =Pub W= 92:1377 O 20 ‘17 480w

“Its action is so placed as to permit a frank exposé of the sinister

## activities of the Prussian military caste, and the poisonous effect of

the propaganda of ‘welt politik’ upon the German masses. ... It is an entertaining story, narrated with spirit.”

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

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

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

=A L A Bkl= 13:303 Ap ‘17

+ =Cleveland= p36 Mr ‘17 140w

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

+ =Dial= 62:68 Ja 25 ‘17 300w

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

+ =Ind= 92:488 D 8 ‘17 260w

+ =Nation= 104:682 Je 7 ‘17 900w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:185 D ‘16

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

+ =Spec= 118:176 F 10 ‘17 200w

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

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

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

+ =Am Econ R= 7:906 D ‘17 290w

Reviewed by E. L. Talbert

+ =Am J Soc= 23:547 Ja ‘18 300w

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:78 D ‘17

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

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:157 F ‘18 100w

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

+ =Ann Am Acad= 74:304 N ‘17 430w

“Those curious to know how the majority of their neighbors live will here find the loves, fears, joys and sorrows of the industrial family painted with a sympathy always vivid, yet refreshingly lacking in sentimentality.”

+ =Cath World= 106:264 N ‘17 350w

=Cleveland= p108 S ‘17 40w

“To the lay reader this is an uncommonly enlightening and suggestive book. ... It is written with eyes wide open to all the good that is in the possession of the town laborer and it is not engaged in the propaganda of any panacea or particular reform.”

+ =Ind= 91:74 Jl 14 ‘17 500w

“The attitude is one of warm-hearted intimacy with the class whose life is described, and considerable insight into that life is revealed. There is no doubt that the writer knows what she is talking about when she describes conditions.”

+ =Nation= 105:374 O 4 ‘17 260w

“Mrs Simkhovitch has imagination and fervor, as well as the power of creation. She has scored an indubitable success in bringing to bear on the subject a definite point of view, a well-formulated social ethics. She is on the borderline of socialism, but she will not take the next step.” D: Rosenstein

+ =N Y Call= p14 S 30 ‘17 1350w

=Pittsburgh= 22:690 O ‘17 40w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 9 ‘17 420w

“As a sketch of the right method of approach to community issues, it is a fresh and genuine contribution. To a great supporting circle of volunteers, contributors, kindred spirits, and to all the apprentices of social work, this book is among the few indispensable. Read with intervals of reflection, it will be like a professional course of the waters to many practiced members of the craft.” R. A. Woods

+ =Survey= 38:367 Jl 28 ‘17 1000w

=SIMMONS, WILLIAM HERBERT.=[2] Soap; its composition, manufacture, and properties. (Common commodities of commerce) il *85c (2c) Pitman 668 A17-1564

The author’s aim has been “to describe in as non-technical terms as possible, firstly, the relationship between fat, alkali, soap, and glycerine; secondly, the more important practical methods of soap manufacture; and, thirdly, the chief factors which determine the commercial value of soap.” (Preface) He points out that the use of glycerine in the manufacture of explosives has given rise to a new interest in its production and in its relations to fats and oils and the manufacture of soap. The final chapter is given to this subject.

=Pittsburgh= 22:759 N ‘17 40w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p420 Ag 30 ‘17 40w

=SIMONIS, H.= Street of ink. il *$3 Funk 072 17-17844

“H. Simonis, a director of the London Daily News, gives the public what is described as ‘an intimate history of journalism.’ Here, within the compass of 350-odd pages, are brief notes on about every daily and weekly paper of importance in England and on practically all of the principal [British] editors and publishers of today.”—Springf’d Republican

“A remarkably interesting and informing book. The writer’s fondness for illustrative anecdote contributes no little to the entertaining quality of his pages.”

+ — =Dial= 63:399 O 25 ‘17 190w

“Most entertaining and deftly drawn character sketches. The whole work teems with novel and captivating information imparted in a crisp, chatty style that makes it doubly readable.”

+ =Lit D= 55:36 S 29 ‘17 340w

“Such an encyclopedic effort, if successful, establishes naturally an excellent reference work. Mr Simonis’s effort is successful. He has a chapter on the press of France and the United States, another on ‘Some well known journals and journalists,’ one on ‘Old and new journalism.’”

+ =N Y Times= 22:313 Ag 26 ‘17 950w

=Pittsburgh= 22:772 N ‘17 50w

“Those who work for the press, on its literary or commercial side, know that the occupation is not so much of a mutual admiration society as Mr Simonis would have us believe, but they will read with amused interest his eulogistic notes on the various daily and weekly publications. He knows much more about the halfpenny papers and about their publishing and advertising staffs than about the weightier papers and the literary aspects of journalism as a whole. The numerous portraits in the book are, for the most part, not nearly so flattering as the letterpress.”

=Spec= 118:568 My 19 ‘17 320w

“Mr Simonis’s aim is to eulogize rather than criticize. Yet within the limits that he has set to his subject, he is a commentator who is shrewd as well as amiable. The wisdom of experience crops out in a hundred observations. Also, his information, wherever separable from opinion, is accurate.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 18 ‘17 1350w

=SIMS, NEWELL LEROY.= Ultimate democracy and its making. *$1.50 (1½c) McClurg 321.8 17-13223

The author, who is professor of sociology and political science in the University of Florida, tells us that he has used much of the subjectmatter of this book in lectures delivered in and about New York city and in a classroom course. His purpose is to clarify “the meaning and aims of democracy.” He deals with ancient, modern, and “ultimate” democracy. “As conceived by him democracy is essentially a matter of equality, with liberty and fraternity as necessary expressions. It existed in the pioneer days of America, but has declined under the inequalities forced by our rapid industrial growth and under our wholesale welcoming of alien populations. This decline, he believes, is only temporary. Democracy will again come into its own when a program of four necessary changes has been fulfilled—economic equality; a eugenics to prevent inefficiency; a new type of sovereignty in which ‘the popular will causes the whole social organism to function for the good of all its parts’; and finally, ‘social equilibration,’ a process of so equalizing the various energies of the race that occasions for disturbances like wars between classes or nations will disappear.” (Survey)

“To the perennial discussion of democracy, what it is and what it means, the book is a useful and in some ways a noteworthy contribution.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:793 N ‘17 60w

“Professor Sims has written a thoughtful and spirited survey of significant tendencies and aspirations in American democracy.” L. P. F.

+ =Ann Am Acad= 74:301 N ‘17 260w

“It is asserted, but not proven, that the working classes of all countries are devouring economics, sociology, and philosophy—a fairly broad but unsupported statement.”

=Boston Transcript= p6 My 23 ‘17 380w

“Professor Sims is well read in the moderns, notably Giddings, Croly, and Veblen. ... Few will read Giddings, Croly, or even Veblen all through, and here is a way to supply the deficiency. Professor Sims quotes excellently.”

=Dial= 63:352 O 11 ‘17 130w

=Ind= 91:294 Ag 25 ‘17 90w

“An expression of an aspiring but timid radicalism.” Max Lustig

+ — =N Y Call= p15 Jl 1 ‘17 800w

+ =N Y Times= 22:436 O 28 ‘17 60w

“The mass of facts, figures, and sociological deductions brought together by Dr Sims from many sources evinces the fact that democracy is still in the making. The inferences he draws from the exhibit are misleading.”

— =Outlook= 116:626 Ag 22 ‘17 120w

=Pittsburgh= 22:830 D ‘17 110w

“A very readable book. ... The type of social stability which he hails as an ultimate solution is perilously akin, we cannot help thinking, to the pax Romana of old.” H: Neumann

+ — =Survey= 38:441 Ag 18 ‘17 480w

=SINCLAIR, MAY.= Defence of idealism; some questions and conclusions. *$2 Macmillan 141 17-21850

“In this book the author, from the idealistic monist’s statement, deals with pragmatism; with humanism and pluralism generally; with the vitalism of M. Bergson, with Samuel Butler’s pan-psychism, and with the new realism of Mr. Bertrand Russell and others. A noteworthy

## chapter is devoted to the new mysticism; and there are highly

appreciative commentaries upon the writings of Sir Rabindranath Tagore. ... The book has no index.”—Ath

+ =Ath= p518 O ‘17 100w

“One cannot say that the logic is always sound. No; not always sound, but always keen, vigorous, lively, readable.” M. C. Otto

+ — =Dial= 63:582 D 6 ‘17 1000w

“A robust sense of the inevitableness of individuality runs through the book from beginning to end, and is the most obvious thing in it. ... The sympathetic reader will probably not fail to discern something of the sense of ‘a spirit home at last’ in the warm appreciation of the higher mysticism, and of Tagore. ... From various indications, one traces in her discussion of the new realists the marks of its being an afterthought; it is a very brilliant sudden sally, rather than the outcome of years of study. And indeed, if one were forced to offer a criticism of the work as a whole, it would be just this: that the book is not, to all appearance, the ripe result of a life study. No doubt the brilliant author would grow tired of philosophy long before she had given a lifetime to it. And that is perhaps the world’s gain. But at the same time, as we feel compelled to think, it is philosophy’s loss.” J. W. Scott

* + – =Hibbert J= 16:336 Ja ‘18 2050w

“Written with a most refreshing ease and freedom from technicality. Professional students cannot fail to regard such a book as a gratifying proof of the vitality of philosophy in this country.”

+ — =Nature= 100:342 Ja 3 ‘18 460w

“The charm of the book must be felt, indeed, by every reader who has the smallest drop of philosophy in his nature, and this charm is not in the least inconsistent with rigorous logic. Miss Sinclair has perhaps written more entertainingly about philosophy than any one since Plato; she has triumphed in the most difficult domain of literary art.”

+ — =No Am= 206:952 D ‘17 1250w

=Outlook= 117:308 O 24 ‘17 120w

“A notable contribution to modern philosophic speculation, well planned, well written, and well thought.”

+ — =Spec= 119:388 O 13 ‘17 1050w

“Miss Sinclair brings to bear upon these abstract studies the same keenness of insight that characterizes her studies of men. She is now delineating ideas, not persons. The book is not systematic, and it is not constructive, but it presents ideas, particularly critical ideas, which will set students to thinking.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 29 ‘17 850w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p407 Ag 23 ‘17 120w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p424 S 6 ‘17 2150w

=SINCLAIR, UPTON BEALL.= King Coal. *$1.50 (1½c) Macmillan 17-24400

What Upton Sinclair did for the stockyards in “The jungle,” he does for the unorganized coal mining camps in “King Coal.” There is a brief introduction by Georg Brandes, and a postscript of thirteen pages by the author giving his sources of information, etc. He tells us that most of the details of his picture were gathered in Colorado, which he visited three times during and just after the great coal strike of 1914-15. The greater part of the source material in print used was “sworn testimony, taken under government supervision.” The leading character in the book is Hal Warner, known as Joe Smith, a rich boy of twenty-one, still in college, who, as a result of arguments with an older brother as to the conditions in the coal mines, decides to work as a miner during his summer vacation that he may gain first-hand knowledge of the situation. He becomes first a mule tender and later a “buddy,” or miner’s helper. His rich and beautiful fiancée is lightly sketched in. “Red Mary,” a forceful young Irish girl at the camp, also falls in love with him, but the emotional is subordinated to the sociological interest in the story. “Joe” meets men of various nationalities, learns how the company has got into its clutch “all the legal, political and social safeguards of personal rights and social welfare”; and takes part in the fight for a check-weighman to guard against cheating, for various safety measures and for the right to form a union.

“It is not sensational, has some good characters ... and the whole is interesting and illuminating.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:63 N ‘17

+ =Ath= p596 N ‘17 140w

“‘King Coal’ is an absorbing story, as a story, and an exceedingly effective tract, as a tract. We do not doubt that its physical action is closely based on fact, but we do doubt whether, in making all his rich men fools or rascals, and all his poor men heroes or victims, he does not risk the defeat of his appeal to those of his audience who are unable to subscribe to the code of the screen.”

H. W. Boynton

+ — =Bookm= 46:338 N ‘17 190w

“Mr Sinclair is a born story-teller. He writes, to be sure, with a purpose, but he never lets this fact obtrude itself on the consciousness of the reader. His picture is so vivid, so full of color and breadth and movement, and so convincing that it has a value of its own quite apart from its propagandist purpose.” R. T. P.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 10 ‘17 1350w

+ =Cleveland= p133 D ‘17 90w

“The novel-reader who chances to appreciate a really novel design in a work of fiction will like ‘King Coal’ both for its originality and its independence. The limitation of the book is its tendency to predetermination, its lack of curiosity and interest in keen ascertainments and differentiations, its apparent belief in formulas.” E. F. Wyatt

+ — =Dial= 63:587 D 6 ‘17 1300w

“None of the characters seems real, but is created by the author to illustrate his points or fill in the picture. But the underlying thought burns brightly and the author’s meaning is as clear as day. He has the power to interest, which always attends sincere purpose and thoughtful presentation.”

+ — =Lit D= 55:42 O 27 ‘17 400w

“No reader of this record will doubt the honesty of the chronicler’s opinion or the accuracy of his chosen facts, or will fail to see that the facts have been chosen and assembled somewhat carefully, in the light of that opinion, to ‘compose’ as strongly and effectively as possible. ... This story has far more balance and restraint than the writer has hitherto mustered: ‘The jungle’ is a lurid tract by comparison. It is an absorbing narrative, and it contains at least one strong and living piece of characterization, in Mary Burke. ... But for the rest the writer’s animus is over-plain.”

– + =Nation= 105:403 O 11 ‘17 650w

“Upton Sinclair slaps melodrama and sociology together so honestly as to make it easy for you to believe that ‘practically all the characters are real persons, and every incident which has social significance is not merely a true incident but a typical one.’ ... Yet ‘King Coal’ is an exceedingly vivacious narrative, boyishly sincere.” R. B.

+ — =New Repub= 12:359 O 27 ‘17 1400w

“Since ‘The jungle’ had its phenomenal success, Mr Sinclair has written nothing so good as this novel. The book presents a striking likeness to ‘The inner door’ by Alan Sullivan. Both deal with upper class men leading working class lives, and both portray their conversion. Of the two books, Mr Sinclair’s work rings truer.” D: P. Berenberg

+ — =N Y Call= p14 O 7 ‘17 430w

“Artistically, this new novel is a better piece of work than ‘The jungle,’ more compact, better constructed, with swifter, a more centralized purpose, while its picture of life in a great coal camp yields nothing to that portrayal of existence among the employes of the Chicago stock yards in vivid coloring, in understanding of racial types, and in the sincere and convincing quality of its setting. ... The introduction by Dr Georg Brandes is a distinct disappointment. At the least, the publishers of the book might have rectified its English.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:354 S 23 ‘17 1200w

“So far as the manipulation of the vote is concerned, the documentary evidence given in an epilogue shows that Mr Sinclair is on strong ground. But viewed simply as a story it is vivid, exciting, and impressive.”

+ =Spec 119:681 D= 8 ‘17 630w

“The book is more than an exposure of certain outrageous industrial practices. It is an admirable study of human character and motives. For the most part the characters are genuine types.” J: A. Fitch

+ =Survey 39:257= D 1 ‘17 460w

“It is hard to interest oneself in his characters, for their actions are dictated to them by their creator for his own moral purpose. It is hard, too, to take Mr Sinclair’s facts as the basis for logical inferences, for they are mixed up inextricably with fiction—he insists on appealing to the mind and the emotions at once and the one appeal distracts attention from the other.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p493 O 11 ‘17 780w

=SINGMASTER, ELSIE (MRS HAROLD LEWARS).= Long journey. il *$1 (2c) Houghton 17-6324

The journey of a little band of German pilgrims to America is the theme of this story. From the village that has been sacked and left destitute by the French. John Conrad Weiser and his children start on the long journey to the new home where freedom and peace are promised to all. First there is the journey down the Rhine, then the long and hopeless wait in England for the ships that the English queen was to provide. To young Conrad, thirteen years old, this delay is almost unbearable after all his dreams of the new land. The sight on the London streets of three scarlet-blanketed Indians revives his hope, and it is indeed thru these new friends that the German immigrants are granted their wish, passage to America. Here there are more hardships to be undergone, until the final stage of the journey, along the Mohawk trail, brings them home.

“For upper-grade and high-school children.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:408 Je ‘17

+ =N Y Times= 22:172 Ap 29 ‘17 120w

“The narrative is simple, pathetic, and human.”

+ =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 40w

=Pratt= p52 O ‘17 10w

=St Louis= 15:378 O ‘17 30w

=SINGMASTER, ELSIE (MRS HAROLD LEWARS).= Martin Luther. il *$1 (3½c) Houghton 17-9137

Elsie Singmaster has written a popular life of Luther as a contribution to the literature of the four hundredth anniversary of the reformation. She says, “The volume contains no original material, but is intended to serve as an introduction to the longer, richer, and more scholarly records of a great life which abound and to the noble writings of the reformer himself.” Contents: Youth; Monk, teacher and preacher; The ninety-five theses and their effect; The primary works of the reformation and the diet of Worms; At the Wartburg and back in Wittenberg; Marriage and family life; The growing church; Last years and death.

“The author has used especially the work of Doctor H. E. Jacobs, Preserved Smith, and Heinrich Böhmer (p. 398) and quotes often from Luther’s own works.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:400 Je ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 23 ‘17 300w

— =Cath World= 105:258 My ‘17 500w

+ =Cleveland= p83 Je ‘17 60w

“Tho one could wish made more vivid the daily life of the plain folk of whom Luther was one, yet here is a swift, clear account of the causes of the great struggle, of the events of Luther’s life and his lovable personality, all to be read almost at a sitting.”

+ =Ind= 90:34 Ap 2 ‘17 70w

“The familiar tale is told with intelligence and in a simple and straight-forward fashion.”

+ =Nation= 105:515 N 8 ‘17 50w

“Miss Singmaster is herself the daughter of a Lutheran clergyman, and is an accurate student of the literature of her subject.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:667 Je ‘17 90w

“The book should be useful to those who have neither the time nor inclination to peruse the larger and heavier accounts of the German reformer’s career. It is really an excellent digest of them.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 27 ‘17 120w

=SIZER, JAMES PEYTON.= Commercialization of leisure. (Present day problems ser.) *75c Badger, R: G. 790 17-11342

“This little essay calls attention to a serious problem in modern life,—serious despite its leisurely aspect. It brings forth the important consideration that amusement and recreation are among the prominent and essential affairs of men. Amusement has become a huge business. Leisure is in itself a value approaching the highest good. A successful democracy must make leisure possible for the largest numbers. It must provide ways of using leisure which will advance as well as content human beings. The statement made by Mr Sizer shows how far from such a condition the actual relation stands.”—Dial

=Cleveland= p115 S ‘17 20w

“The organization of leisure and recreation by the community is ably pointed out as one of the essential duties of the true democratic state.”

+ =Dial= 63:461 N 8 ‘17 140w

“Mr J. P. Sizer wastes much fire on that perennial target, the Puritan, on the Y. M. C. A. and on other activities, but his description of present conditions and plans for improvement are sane and inspiring.”

+ — =Ind= 91:137 Jl 28 ‘17 40w

=SKINNER, ADA MARIA, and SKINNER, ELEANOR LOUISE=, comps. Topaz story book. (Jewel ser.) il *$1.50 Duffield 17-24878

Into this book have been gathered stories and legends of autumn, Hallowe’en and Thanksgiving. Indian myths, folktales from other lands, and modern stories and poems are included. The contents are arranged under the following headings: Autumn stories and legends; Among the trees; Woodland animals; Harvest fields; Cheerful chirpers; All Hallowe’en; A harvest of Thanksgiving stories. The frontispiece is by Maxfield Parrish.

=A L A Bkl= 14:174 F ‘18

“An excellent compilation. ... There is plenty of wholesome fare in it for both tots and shavers, and nothing, or next to nothing, of the artificial ‘dope’ too frequently offered as a substitute and successfully passed off in the confusion of the market-place,—as, for instance, in too much of the material in ‘John Martin’s annual,’ and in all elaborate commercial juvenilism, under whatever name.” J: Walcott

+ =Bookm= 46:494 D ‘17 80w

+ =Lit D= 55:57 D 8 ‘17 70w

+ =N Y Call= p14 Ja 5 ‘18 50w

=SKINNER, CONSTANCE LINDSAY.= “Good-morning, Rosamond!” il *$1.35 (1½c) Doubleday 17-11791

Rosamond, the very young widow of an elderly and wealthy collector of antiques, was held in subjection by the two elderly servants who revered their master’s memory and who insisted that she do the same. On the morning of the day that Jemima and Amanda were called to their mother’s bedside, their mistress flew to her room, put on her gayest gown, dropped a courtesy before her reflection in the glass and said “Good-morning, Rosamond.” She was determined that this was to be her one wonderful day, and she was youthful enough to hope that her day might bring a fairy prince, altho where he was to come from in staid and settled Roseborough, was an unanswerable question. But strange things, of which the arrival of the desired young man was not the least surprising, were to happen during the twenty-four hours of Rosamond’s day.

“A sparkling, lightsome, exciting and charmingly written story.” E. Gates

+ =Books and Authors= Je ‘17 400w

“Perhaps the book may be described, with reservations and qualifications, as a Nova Scotian ‘Cranford.’ ... The setting is designedly, perseveringly idyllic, but the action tends to lapse from comedy to melodramatic farce. ... An independent system of illustrations by Thomas Fogarty will challenge attention.”

=Dial= 62:443 My 17 ‘17 200w

“The story is told with consummate literary art. It is joyous and buoyant, scintillant and sarcastic, cynical and sympathetic.”

+ =Evening Ledger= [Philadelphia] My 5 ‘17 400w

“Constance Skinner, the poet of Indian life, has written a farce comedy in novel form.”

=Ind= 90:594 Je 30 ‘17 60w

“It is just a bit too preposterous to be as amusing as it might easily have been. It has been dramatized and, we fancy, is better as a play than a novel.”

=N Y Times= 22:183 My 6 ‘17 150w

“Miss Skinner tells a pleasing story of no importance, in the course of which she mildly satirizes life in a small community. The work is artificial and forced in places, but the dialog is bright and skilful.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 30 ‘17 230w

=SKINNIDER, MARGARET.= Doing my bit for Ireland. il *$1 Century 941.5 17-16337

A spirited, frankly partizan account of the Dublin insurrection of 1916, by a school-teacher who took an active part in the rising, was wounded, but escaped imprisonment, and came, some months later, to America. An appendix of nearly fifty pages gives the street songs in vogue in Dublin at the time of the insurrection.

=A L A Bkl= 14:21 O ‘17

“One of the chief virtues of Miss Skinnider’s simple recital is that it makes the Irish revolutionists live for us, especially their executed leaders, so that the Irish question presents itself as an essentially human problem, and the rights of small nations changes from a battle cry to a demand for constructive thought.”

+ =Dial= 63:218 S 13 ‘17 250w

“A courageous, romantic, naïve story.”

+ =Ind= 92:260 N 3 ‘17 70w

“A striking contribution not only to an understanding of the spirit which led to the Easter rebellion, but, since the writer is confessedly a suffragette, we think also to the strange and baffling spirit of the militant women. Neither so full nor so striking as other narratives lately published. The book is largely about the authoress herself, and its particular value lies in the glimpse it affords of the character of herself and her comrades in the cause. ... More than once she indicates that the stories of Belgian atrocities pale beside the work of the British during the terrible fortnight, but the examples afforded are not convincing.”

+ — =Nation= 105:150 Ag 9 ‘17 850w

“The little volume is intensely readable and well calculated to beguile an idle hour, though it hardly can be regarded as an authoritative narrative, the writer having, apparently, an overload of imagination and a rather scant supply of reasoning power.” Joshua Wanhope

– + =N Y Call= p14 Jl 1 ‘17 600w

+ =N Y Times= 22:262 Jl 15 ‘17 130w

=SKRINE, JOHN HUNTLEY.= Survival of Jesus. *$2 Doran 232 17-14227

“In the twenty-six chapters of this book the author discusses the nature of the man Christ Jesus, the atonement, and the theology of the future. Regarding telepathy, or thought-transference, as a fact, a vera causa, he considers its bearing upon religion, and puts forward a hypothesis of faith-transference or ‘faith-conference.’ Briefly, this hypothesis is that ‘Jesus in the days of His flesh made atonement for men, His contemporaries, by the impartment to them of the life unto God through the medium of a telepathy of spirit.’” (Ath) The author is a clergyman of the Church of England.

=Ath= p407 Ag ‘17 100w

“The book is beautiful to those who think they understand it, vague to others, and charming in a way to most.”

+ – =Bib World= 50:256 O ‘17 130w

“The author of this striking book has done a brave thing, and many who may not be able to follow his guidance will be grateful for his boldness.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p292 Je 21 ‘17 1150w

=SLADEN, DOUGLAS BROOKE WHEELTON.= Douglas romance. *$1.35 Brentano’s (Eng ed 16-19956)

“An historical novel of the present day, ‘The Douglas romance,’ derives its fantastic plot and its kaleidoscopic multitude of cleverly presented characters, men and women of unusual and interesting types, from those still fertile fields of romance, the theatrical world and the European war. It tells of the fortunes of the last heirs of the Scottish earldom of Douglas, the ultramodern descendants of the Black Douglas of ballad fame. ... The war is presented through the points of view of the heroine’s two lovers; one a hero of the trenches, the other the leader of a spectacular attack on a German stronghold. The vivid picture of London in war-time is not the least interesting part of the story.”—Boston Transcript

“Many aspects of theatrical life are shown, perhaps an unnecessary number of unpleasant ones. However, here as elsewhere throughout the book we are disposed to forgive much for the sake of the throng of characters of many types and classes.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 21 ‘16 270w

“The tale, from first to last, although lacking in subtle distinctions and delicacies, is interesting.”

+ — =N Y Times= 21:537 D 3 ‘16 260w

“Partly historical and partly romantic, with a dash of triviality. ... In the concluding chapters the author interjects some thrilling war pictures and scenes of heroism on the battlefield which saves the story from tedium.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p19 Mr 25 ‘17 270w

=SLOCUM, STEPHEN ELMER.= Elements of hydraulics. 2d ed rev and enl il *$2.50 McGraw 621.2 17-1800

“In the second edition the author has revised his text and added much of value. In Part 1, ‘Pressure of water,’ is added a chapter on strength of pipes under internal pressure. ... In the second part, ‘Flow of water,’ the author has revised considerably the chapter dealing with weirs. ... The chapter on the influence of bends and elbows on the flow has also been rewritten and much new matter added. ... The older chapter on backwater has been eliminated entirely and new matter substituted. ... The chapter on turbines and their appurtenances was unusually good in the first edition, but the author has nevertheless revised it and added much new matter. The paragraphs on water hammer have been rewritten and a chapter on surge tanks added. As in the former edition, the last pages are in the form of an appendix containing tabulated hydraulic data. Two new tables have been added, one on the discharge from wood-stave pipe and the other on submerged weir coefficients, so that there are now 22 tables covering 35 pages.”—Engin Rec

“The appearance of Professor Slocum’s second edition in a few months after the appearance of the first edition seems to indicate the success of his idea, which was to break away from academic presentations of pure theory in order to secure the interest of the student and to visualize the abstractions that once were too exclusively dealt with.”

+ =Engin N= 77:435 Mr 15 ‘17 160w

Reviewed by A. G. Hillberg

+ =Engin Rec= 75:234 F 10 ‘17 670w

=SLOSSON, EDWIN EMERY.= Six major prophets. il *$1.50 Little 920 17-13229

A companion volume to “Major prophets of to-day.” “Whoever dies without recognizing the prophet of his time dies the death of a pagan,” says a Mohammedan proverb. To escape this fate, Mr Slosson selected the twelve men of his own time to whom the title of prophet seemed most aptly to apply. He has visited and interviewed each of them and made a study of their works. The results are set forth in these two volumes for the benefit of others. The six men of the second volume are, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, G. K. Chesterton, F. C. S. Schiller, John Dewey and Rudolf Eucken. The original articles, which appeared in the Independent, have been amplified for book publication.

“Informal, good for study clubs. Annotated lists of suggested books.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:400 Je ‘17

=Boston Transcript= p6 My 2 ‘17 1250w

=Boston Transcript= p7 My 16 ‘17 650w

+ =Ind= 91:71 Jl 14 ‘17 270w

“Probably the essay on Eucken would have been different in tone had it been written today. Mr Slosson has preferred to let it stand as he originally wrote it for the Independent, a sort of ante-bellum view of German philosophy. If the present book is sometimes less pungent in style than Mr Slosson’s earlier expositions, he has still accomplished his purpose. He can be informative without even skirting dulness.”

+ =New Repub= 11:116 My 26 ‘17 400w

“To a marked degree he succeeds in writing interestingly for those readers who have no need to be informed. His intention, he points out, is exposition rather than criticism. But much of very keen and readable criticism his book does contain.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:355 S 23 ‘17 1400w

“Sparkling and ingratiating essays. Each discussion is made more illuminating by a brief bibliographic commentary.” Algernon Tassin

+ =Pub W= 91:1321 Ap 21 ‘17 600w

+ =R of Rs= 56:104 Jl ‘17 120w

=SLOSSON, PRESTON WILLIAM.= Decline of the Chartist movement. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics and public law) pa *$2 Longmans 342.4 16-25227

“Mr Slosson’s title, ‘The decline of the Chartist movement,’ does not quite adequately describe his book. Such a title suggests a study of the movement only from the failure of the great petition of 1848. Mr Slosson’s best work, it is true, is of the years that followed the fiasco of the Kennington Common mass-meeting of 1848. But his story of the movement as a whole is singularly complete and quite comprehensive. ... Clearness both of statement and of reasoning are also obvious when Mr Slosson is discussing to what extent greatly improved industrial conditions after 1848 accounted for the disappearance of the Chartist movement, and again when he is examining the advantages, direct and indirect, that accrued to the wage-earning classes of England in the last half of the nineteenth century from the Chartist agitation of 1837-1854.”—Am Hist R

“Dr Slosson writes with a breadth of view and grasp not always found in doctoral theses.” H. E. Mills

+ =Am Econ R= 7:606 S ‘17 380w

“If there were no other book on Chartism in existence, Mr Slosson’s study would serve most students of English political movements of the nineteenth century. It certainly would serve to the full those students who are already familiar with industrial and social conditions in England from the American revolution to the first decade of Queen Victoria’s reign. Clearness of presentation is the characteristic of Mr Slosson’s work.” E: Porritt

+ =Am Hist R= 22:651 Ap ‘17 310w

“Particularly of value as regards the treatment of the causes which led to the decline of the movement, and for its examination of some of the distinctly beneficent results that indirectly accrued to the working classes in England from a movement that many students of English history are inclined to regard as a complete failure. If it had stood alone—if it had not been accompanied by Mr Rosenblatt’s book, and Mr Faulkner’s study of the attitude of the churches toward Chartism and also of the attitude of the Chartists towards the Established church—Mr Slosson’s well-written and admirably arranged monograph would have filled the hiatus in the literature of political movements in England in the nineteenth century that had existed for nearly sixty years.” E: Porritt

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:340 My ‘17 650w

“Mr Slosson’s history of Chartism will rank with the best contributions of American scholars to the literature of English political movement in the nineteenth century, and also with many of the best contributions to this literature from the pens of English historians.” E: Porritt

+ =Ind= 89:232 F 5 ‘17 200w

“The relation of the movement to industrial depression is analyzed ably and in detail by both Mr Rosenblatt and Mr Slosson. This analysis is by far the most satisfactory feature of their works.”

=J Pol Econ= 25:635 Je ‘17 190w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 18 ‘17 140w

“On the whole, great accuracy and most scrupulous references to the sources mark all three volumes.” I. C. Hannah

+ =Survey= 38:288 Je 30 ‘17 250w

=SMART, WILLIAM.= Second thoughts of an economist; with a biographical sketch by T: Jones. *$1.40 Macmillan 330 16-15824

“In this little book, which marks the close of his most active and productive career, Professor Smart has undertaken a review of the salient facts of economic life as they appear when seen by the light of a warm enthusiasm for worthwhile living against the background of his more formal economics. He has returned to certain Ruskinian questionings and disparagings of industrialism and treats of these things with a freedom which he apparently felt one cannot exercise when one is preoccupied with being an economist. ... The book is, in fact, his philosophy of economic responsibility.”—J Pol Econ

“While noble in its tone aspiration, charming in its statement, and sound enough so far as it goes, it must be said that the book does not add to its author’s reputation.” H. E. Mills

+ =Am Econ R= 6:876 D ‘16 750w

+ =Ath= p318 Jl ‘16 1450w

“There is little in the book which was not pretty definitely present in his previous volumes. Its special interest consists in that it enables one to appreciate the influence of certain assumptions which controlled his thinking. ... The memoir seems to me exactly suitable and in place. All former students of Professor Smart will be grateful to Mr Jones for so admirable a sketch of one who was so kindly and so fascinating a man and probably also one of the very greatest teachers of economics the country ever produced.” M. W. Robieson

=Int J Ethics= 27:244 Ja ‘17 1650w

“Precisely because of this breadth of view, the book seems admirably adapted to introduce the subject of economics to beginners. Economic doctrines appear here vividly as very real things. Advanced readers will find its tone genially lucid rather than keenly penetrating, and humanitarian rather than iconoclastic.” J. M. Clark

+ =J Pol Econ= 25:402 Ap ‘17 900w

=Pratt= p8 Jl ‘17

=Sat R= 122:277 S 16 ‘16 450w

+ =Spec= 117:190 Ag 12 ‘16 430w

* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p279 Je 15 ‘16 900w

=SMIDOVICH, VIKENTII VIKENT’EVICH (VIKENTY VERESÁEV, pseud.).= In the war; memoirs; tr. by Leo Wiener. (Slavic translations) *$2 (1c) Kennerley 947 17-12165

An account of the Russo-Japanese war by a Russian surgeon who accompanied the troops. The narrative opens with the announcement of war, and is carried on in the following chapters: On the way; In Mukden; The battle of Sha-ho; The great stand: October to November; The great stand: December to February; The Mukden engagement; On the Mandarin road; Wandering; In expectation of peace; Peace; Home again. The translator associates the author’s name with that of Vereshchágin as a depicter of the grimness of warfare, calling the book, “the most complete analysis of the ingloriousness of war yet obtained.”

“It is a revolting picture from first to last, with such a morbid insistence upon the known cruelties and the heedlessness to human suffering that one feels compelled to doubt, at times, the motive of the author. ... The judicious reader will reserve the right to question not only the author’s motive in some of the cases but also the truth of some of the happenings to which he gives credence.”

— =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 25 ‘17 280w

“A vivid, artistically proportioned account written in the characteristically Russian spirit of patience and understanding. ‘No one but a Russian could have presented such a calm, dispassionate and utterly damning record of graft, incompetence and lack of morale. The book will serve to make the over-optimistic realize the magnitude of Russia’s problem in building up a democracy.’”

+ =Cleveland= p82 Je ‘17 80w

=Ind= 91:77 Jl 14 ‘17 50w

“Veresaev is well known as the author of the ‘Memoirs of a physician’ and of many stories and essays. A realist of Tolstoy’s school, he succeeds in drawing gripping pictures in a sincere and reserved manner. As a physician, Veresaev had a rather limited field of observation, but even through his narrow prism he was able to behold an appalling picture of human masses being abused, neglected, demoralized, and senselessly slaughtered, through the whim, carelessness, greed, and ignorance of their superiors.”

+ =Nation= 105:227 Ag 30 ‘17 320w

“What war can do to even the greatest of men is shown here in a realism which would be merely revolting if it were not for the note of bitterness and irony that gives an undercurrent of clear criticism to the sluggish and sickening stream of war’s horror.”

+ =New Repub= 10:sup20 Ap 21 ‘17 350w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:77 My ‘17

=SMITH, ALICE RAVENEL HUGER, and SMITH, DANIEL ELLIOTT HUGER.= Dwelling houses of Charleston, South Carolina. il *$6 Lippincott 975.7 17-29203

“This book is the story of Charleston told in pictures of its houses and streets and in word-sketches of the interesting, historical, and personal incidents associated with them. In order to convey the quality of the place as a whole, the authors selected those houses which best showed the distinctive evolution of architecture in Charleston, with all its details in the way of fireplaces, paneling, doorways, and furniture. In so doing they have called up a vivid picture of old Charleston life, its history, and the ways of its people generations ago. There are, in all, 128 illustrations from drawings by Alice R. Huger Smith, from photographs, and from architectural drawings of Albert Simons.”—Lit D

“The book has evidently been compiled with care, it contains drawings and documents of great interest, yet somehow it conveys a sense of opportunities unfulfilled, of curiosities unrewarded. This is because it is not so intelligent and authoritative architecturally as it is historically.”

+ — =Dial= 63:590 D 6 ‘17 650w

=Lit D= 55:51 D 8 ‘17 130w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:182 D ‘17 50w

“The very beautiful book about ‘The dwelling houses of Charleston’ carries between its covers a real treasure of interest, historical, biographical, and architectural.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:482 N 18 ‘17 80w

+ =Outlook= 117:575 D 5 ‘17 120w

“After all it is to architects and house lovers that his book will make its strongest appeal.” Ruth Stanley-Brown

+ =Pub W= 92:1386 O 20 ‘17 590w

+ =R of Rs= 57:103 Ja ‘18 120w

=SMITH, MRS BERTHA (WHITRIDGE).= Only a dog. il *$1 (10c) Dutton 940.91 17-5815

“Only a dog” is a little story of the war. The Irish terrier, who tells his own story, had had a happy home life with a French family until the Germans came. He escaped the fate that overtook his master’s family and found refuge with one of the British regiments. A kindly Tommy became his new master and to him the dog remains faithful even after death. A note says that the story is based on a true incident. The proceeds from the sale of the book are to be devoted to relief work.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ap 14 ‘17 130w

+ =Cath World= 105:126 Ap ‘17 110w

“‘Only a dog,’ in its tenderness and its simplicity, is exquisite.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:80 Mr 4 ‘17 400w

“By a Montreal writer.”

=Ontario Library Review= 1:121 My ‘17 90w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 20 ‘17 180w

=SMITH, EDGAR FAHS.= Life of Robert Hare, an American chemist (1781-1858). il *$5 (3c) Lippincott 17-18697

Robert Hare, inventor of the calorimotor and the oxyhydrogen blowpipe, who, “for half a century was considered an unimpeachable authority in chemical research” (Boston Transcript) was born in Philadelphia in 1781, and from 1818-1847 was professor of chemistry in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania. This life is written by Provost Smith of the University of Pennsylvania, himself a chemist, for students of chemistry. The story is “told largely by Hare himself in a series of unpublished letters, and in other documents which were practically buried in forgotten journals and pamphlets.” (Preface) The frontispiece is a colored reproduction of the oil portrait of Hare in the University of Pennsylvania. There are four other illustrations.

Reviewed by W. D. Bancroft

+ =Am Hist R= 23:437 Ja ‘18 410w

“Through what the author terms the second period of Hare’s activity (1818-1847), the book is extremely technical, requiring advanced chemical knowledge for its complete comprehension.” H. S. K.

=Boston Transcript= p6 Je 20 ‘17 700w

=R of Rs= 56:440 O ‘17 60w

=SMITH, ELVA SOPHRONIA=, comp. Mystery tales for boys and girls. il *$1.50 Lothrop 808.8 17-23758

Miss Smith of the Carnegie library of Pittsburgh has selected a number of the stories and poems of mystery that are suitable for older boys and girls. They are stories of “ghosts and haunted houses, hidden treasure and strange enchantment.” It is suggested that librarians and teachers will find the collection useful in meeting the demand for Hallowe’en stories. Among the selections are Poe’s “Gold-bug,” Lord Macaulay’s “Last buccaneer,” Keats’ “La belle dame sans merci,” Goethe’s “Erl-king,” Irving’s “The haunted house,” Scott’s “Alice Brand,” Coleridge’s “Ancient mariner” and Hawthorne’s “Gray champion.” Among more recent selections are a story by Selma Lagerlöf and a poem by Alfred Noyes.

“Good for Hallowe’en, an excellent collection for about the eighth grade.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:137 Ja ‘18

Reviewed by J: Walcott

=Bookm= 46:499 D ‘17 150w

“A combination of thrills and good literature.”

+ =Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 40w

+ =N Y Times= 22:441 O 28 ‘17 100w

“The selections are admirable, and boys and girls of a suitable age will find the book a most convenient means of acquainting themselves with some of the best imaginative writing in the English language.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 100w

=SMITH, EPHRAIM KIRBY.= To Mexico with Scott; letters of Captain E. Kirby Smith to his wife; ed. by Emma Jerome Blackwood; with an introd. by R. M. Johnston. il *$1.25 Harvard univ. press 17-22326

“In the war between the United States and Mexico (1845-1847), which followed on the annexation to the States of Texas and the dispute with Mexico as to the boundary of the new state, Captain Kirby Smith fought first under General Taylor and then under General Scott. His letters ... provide a close chronicle of events, with here and there a note on the habits of the people or the scenery.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“A valuable addition to the first-hand literature of the Mexican war. The reader of these, as of all other such documents, must ask himself here and there whether the writer was in a position to know the truth of what he believed and said, and by doing so will avoid accepting some errors.” J. H. Smith

+ =Am Hist R= 23:438 Ja ‘18 730w

“Good letters are the best of reading, and Captain Smith had the gift of letter writing. Now and then one gets a glimpse into the very depths of the soul of the man. Mr Johnston’s introduction is a valuable contribution to the book.” F. W. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 D 1 ‘17 460w

+ =Dial= 64:31 Ja 3 ‘18 210w

“The ‘Letters of Capt. Smith’ are full of interest and form an important sidelight of history. But they are unfortunate in their editor who has not proved himself a big enough man to keep his very questionable political ideas out of an historical work.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 12 ‘17 470w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p494 O 11 ‘17 80w

=SMITH, FRANK WEBSTER.= High school; with an introd. by J: Calvin Hanna. *$2 Sturgis & Walton 370.9 17-287

Believing that the high school is “the determining factor in American school life,” Mr Smith attempts to study the origins and tendencies of secondary education. “In the superintendence of public schools, in teaching and supervision in high school and academy, in the training of high school teachers in normal school and university department of education, and in supervision of and participation in the training of high school graduates for teaching in elementary schools, he has had opportunity to observe the work of the high school from various angles.” (Author’s preface) The first 292 pages cover the period from primitive times to the nineteenth century, including a chapter on “Jesus, teacher—new principles of education.” Two chapters are then given to the high school in the nineteenth century, one to the development of secondary education in the United States, and one to a review of the evolution of secondary education from different view points. The last three chapters treat of the high school of the twentieth century. A graphic summary is inserted just before the nine-page bibliography.

“The relation between the educational institution and the economic and social conditions is emphasized consistently, and there is brought together a wealth of illustrative material.”

+ =Ind= 90:253 My 5 ‘17 160w

+ =N Y Times= 22:297 Ag 12 ‘17 90w

=SMITH, SIR FREDERICK EDWIN.= Destruction of merchant ships under international law. *$1.75 Dutton 341.3 (Eng ed 17-17631)

“The British Attorney-General presents the perplexing question of merchant ships’ status in war time. He first discusses enemy merchantmen, and goes into the question of visit and search, seizure and destruction, examining the various points in the light of former decisions on similar cases. He then considers neutral merchantmen, and their position under the customary law. He bases his findings on the practice that obtained in the Russo-Japanese war, and was later modified by the discussion at the Second Hague conference, and the Declaration of London.”—Cath World

“Does much to clarify this very difficult problem, and gives a comprehensive, trustworthy basis for the many decisions that must be made at the close of the war.”

+ =Cath World= 106:112 O ‘17 130w

“In days when enemy ships are being fired upon in neutral waters, when new measures of naval warfare interfering with neutral rights are assumed to be legal in spite of unquestionable and unanimous authority directly to the contrary, when the rights of neutrals are entirely disregarded in the attempt of belligerents to exercise full military power, a book setting forth what was international law on one phase of belligerent operation, without considering the complications of the whole situation, is not very valuable; and when it is written by a man of the brilliance and standing of Sir Frederick Smith, one is inclined to regret the fact that more originality and vigor are not in evidence.”

– + =Nation= 105:222 Ag 30 ‘17 900w

=Pittsburgh= 22:836 D ‘17 40w

“It is well that there should be available such a sober and well-reasoned remembrancer of German sea crime as this little book, which the Attorney-General states is prepared largely from the notes of Dr Coleman Phillipson, who has already written admirably of the problems of international law arising out of modern warfare. ... There is no page which cannot be understood by the lay reader. ... It reduces a mass of international law almost to syllogistic form in language that is wholly free from pedantry and ambiguity.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p185 Ap 19 ‘17 570w

=SMITH, GERALD BIRNEY=, ed. Guide to the study of the Christian religion. *$3 Univ. of Chicago press 207 16-24312

“A dozen scholars, all excellent authorities in their respective fields, have joined in producing this ‘Guide’ under the general editorship of Professor G. B. Smith of the University of Chicago. Their primary purpose has been, to help students to understand the meaning of the various aspects of education for the Christian ministry. They have also wished to help pastors to keep in sympathetic touch with the latest scholarship. But so largely has the Christian religion been shaped by its history, so largely must the explanation of its various features rest on historical study, that nearly two-thirds of the book is historical in character.” (Am Hist R) Among the contributors are Shailer Mathews, J. M. P. Smith, E. D. Burton, S. J. Case, F. A. Christie, and George Cross.

“May well be invaluable to many an historical professor or student. ... The statements are clear, comprehensive, and judicious. The successive essays are kept remarkably uniform in method and in texture. Frequent brief bibliographies at the end of sections—perhaps two hundred of them—describe the books most useful to readers of the classes for whom the manual is designed. The book is well conceived and well executed.”

+ =Am Hist R= 22:694 Ap ‘17 280w

“‘A remarkably comprehensive work, surveying almost the entire field of the material of the curriculum of the theological seminary and showing the present-day general situation in theological education.’”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:286 Ap ‘17 (Reprinted from =Religious Education= 12:65 F ‘17)

“Of the thirteen authors ten of them are connected with the University of Chicago.”

=Boston Transcript= p7 Je 27 ‘17 450w

=SMITH, GRAFTON ELLIOT, and PEAR, TOM HATHERLEY.= Shell shock and its lessons. (Manchester univ. publications) *$1 Longmans 17-25982

“This brief book is described by the authors as a ‘simple non-technical exposition of the ascertained facts of that malady, or complex of maladies, for which we have adopted the official designation “Shell-shock.”’ ... The authors rely on data which came from France, Russia, and Germany, as well as our own army, and which fortify their own experiences and conclusions. They end with a chapter on the need for reform of the British attitude towards the treatment of mental disorder.”—Sat R

“Suggests methods for the treatment not only of this condition but of similar nervous conditions in time of peace. ... ‘The civilian should be offered the facilities for cure which have proved such a blessing to the war-stricken soldier.’”

=Nation= 105:276 S 6 ‘17 330w

“It would have been more accurate, we think, to have called it ‘war-shock,’ for the conditions described have been witnessed in cases that have not been to the front. The reviewer is scarcely in agreement with the authors, who adopt so wholeheartedly the exclusively emotional origin of shell-shock as against the physical origin. That shell-shock is entirely of psychic origin and can be overcome by psycho-therapeutics is too sweeping a statement.” Robert Armstrong-Jones

+ — =Nature= 100:1 S 6 ‘17 2050w

=Pittsburgh= 22:771 N ‘17 40w

“Though the book inevitably involves some knowledge of psychology, it is clearly written, and popular enough to refer to Sherlock Holmes, Bernard Shaw, and the author of ‘Erewhon,’ ... The various means of treatment are lucidly described, and the moral objections to psychological analysis are fairly considered. The corrections throughout the book of the casual views and suppositions of the public on mental cases of difficulty deserve a wide circulation.”

+ =Sat R= 124:70 Jl 28 ‘17 300w

=Spec= 118:40 Jl 14 ‘17 130w

“The authors do not agree with Dr Eder (of the Malta hospitals) and the extreme school of the psycho-analysts. Nor do they agree with the ‘materialistic’ school. They advocate the use of a common-sense combination of methods, and especially of persuasion by the physician and suggestion when the patient is in the waking state. Especially do they advocate a better education of the physician in psychology. The latter part of the book is devoted to this advocacy and to an indictment of our asylum system. The book is exceedingly interesting—and, best of all, optimistic. It is well written and quite untechnical.”

+ + — =Spec= 119:218 S 1 ‘17 1400w

Reviewed by Gertrude Seymour

=Survey= 39:170 N 17 ‘17 750w

“What the authors press for is clinics attached to general hospitals and to medical schools, to which patients in the early stages of mental disturbance may go without legal formalities and free from the stigma attached to an asylum. The Psychopathic hospital at Boston, Mass., and other similar institutions in the United States and elsewhere are quoted as examples to be followed.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p299 Je 21 ‘17 180w

=SMITH, HARRY BRADLEY.= Establishing industrial schools; with an introd. by C: A. Prosser. (Riverside educational monographs) *60c Houghton 371.42 16-20752

“Concrete and practical methods of determining what sort of industrial and trade schools are needed in our large industrial communities are considered by Harry Bradley Smith, director of industrial education in the New York state college for teachers. ... While the greater part of the work is devoted to the problems of the survey for vocational education, the author with commendable foresight has included in addition a closing chapter full of information and suggestions as to the steps to be taken and the best ways of getting such things as a proper course of study, advisory committees and trade agreements.”—Springf’d Republican

=A L A Bkl= 13:386 Je ‘17

“Contrives to be concise without being obscure, and matter-of-fact without being dry-as-dust.”

+ =Nation= 105:129 Ag 2 ‘17 230w

“The monograph is really a primer full of valuable information for any person interested in the new and difficult problem of getting the right kind of vocational education started in a community.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 29 ‘17 140w

=SMITH, JAMES HALDANE.= Economic moralism. il *$1.75 Macmillan 330 17-14559

“This is an ‘essay on constructive economics’ which may interest those who concern themselves with theoretical or economic utopias. ‘Economic moralism’ is equally opposed to capitalism and to socialism. It demands on one hand that all individuals shall be assured equal opportunity by the state—the organized people—owning and working the land and industries, and asserts that rent, interest, and profit are usury and have no ethical justification; and, on the other hand, it vigorously opposes the socialist principle of free supply of the wants of the individual at the public expense. The ‘moralist’ principle is that of collecting from each individual the cost of what is actually supplied to him.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

Reviewed by E. L. Earp

=Am J Soc= 23:414 N ‘17 500w

“If all his book had been as interesting to us as is this chapter [on interest] we should have been hard put to it to find a limit to our notice. ... In his second part he outlines plans for initiating and carrying out what he terms ‘economic moralism.’ We find ourselves so little in sympathy with his idea of coercive action by the state that we admit difficulty in judging his proposals on their intrinsic merits.”

=Ath= p272 Je ‘16 1100w

“The book is characteristic of the present tendency of economic theory. It contains many original contributions in thought and is interesting and suggestive throughout.” R. W.

=Boston Transcript= p7 My 2 ‘17 600w

“No references are given for any passages quoted: and much later and better work both in ethics and in economics is hardly given the place one would expect. For surely Herbert Spencer is easily shown to be deficient, without the principles of ethics being more clear on that account. And a far graver deficiency in Mr Smith’s book is that the principles of ethics are neither stated nor proved.” C. D. Burns

— =Int J Ethics= 27:249 Ja ‘17 350w

“On the whole, the work is ingenious as well as serious, and will prove interesting and stimulating to anyone interested in the constructive literature of extreme radicalism. Many of the assumptions in regard to human nature, its capacities and adaptabilities, and the like, are of the usual socialistic type and will appeal to nonsocialists as unwarrantable in the absence of more proof than is offered.” F. H. Knight

+ — =J Pol Econ= 26:99 Ja ‘18 600w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:106 Jl ‘16

“It is very creditable of him to think so hard; but he cannot make economic moralism intelligible.”

— =Sat R= 122:277 S 16 ‘16 500w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p226 My 11 ‘16 180w

=SMITH, JOHN TALBOT.= Parish theatre; a brief account of its rise, its present condition, and its prospects. *$1 Longmans 792 17-30252

A wide chasm exists between the damning of the theatre by Christians in 1850 and the staging of plays by church folk which led up to the branch of the amateur drama known as the parish theatre. The spanning of that chasm has been a part of the evolution that has developed a social conscience. In this small volume we are told specifically of the growth of the parish theatre, its aims and service. The parish play demands a parish hall, a pastor manager, or a substitute, the right kind of play and an audience. The institution to be built up must work “quietly and gaily in the shadow of the church towards the redemption of an art which commerce enslaves for the sake of profit, and the Puritan leaves in the gutter for the sake of righteousness!” A list of one hundred plays suitable for this kind of production is given.

“We predict a heavy demand for this practical and valuable little book. For a good many years Father Smith has been the foremost Catholic spokesman for the drama in America.”

+ =Cath World= 106:550 Ja ‘18 360w

=SMITH, JOHN THOMAS.= Nollekens and his times, and memoirs of contemporary artists from the time of Roubiliac, Hogarth and Reynolds to that of Fuseli, Flaxman and Blake. 2v il *$7.50 Lane 709.42 16-23956

Joseph Nollekens was a portrait-sculptor of the eighteenth century. He was born in 1737 and died in 1823. His biography written by his contemporary, John Thomas Smith, keeper of prints and drawings in the British museum, was published in 1828. Wilfred Whitten, who now edits the work, calls it “a great lucky-bag of detail for students of London topography and of the practice of the arts in London from Hogarth to Blake.” The author, he says, “is essentially a gossip.” His idea of literary form “is to let one thing lead to another, with unlimited licence to revert, to anticipate, and to go off at a tangent.” Eighty-five illustrations add to the interest of the two volumes.

“Appended to the biography is a volume of a similar type containing sketches of artists and other contemporaries. ... After the second edition, 1829, the book dropped out of sight until, in 1895, Edmund Gosse edited the portion of the book relating to Nollekens. The present edition, by Wilfred Whitten, covers the entire work and is enriched by very careful and very full notes.” J. T. Gerould

+ =Bellman= 22:274 Mr 10 ‘17 600w

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 9 ‘16 800w

“He has left us a vivid picture of an interesting age. Nollekens and his friends have long been known to connoisseurs of art and literature. It is to introduce them to a wider circle of readers that the present handsome edition has been issued, an edition copiously illustrated with rare drawings of old London and with reproductions of water-colors and engravings of worthies of the period.”

=Dial= 62:29 Ja 11 ‘17 350w

“Service to the antiquarian interested in ‘old London’ and in the Europe of that age is uniquely rendered by the rich foot-notes of the edition, involving much patient research.”

+ =Lit D= 54:263 F 3 ‘17 350w

“The average reader will balk at the enormous quantity of oddities—literary, artistic, and personal—which Smith many years ago collected, and will question seriously whether, instead of two large volumes one small volume would not have been all that was needed of this material.”

=Outlook= 115:74 Ja 10 ‘17 100w

“Of interest to all who love the flavor of a past age. While it is written with a pleasant touch of formality, its character is primarily that of gossip, but it is gossip like Pepys’s, that never grows dull.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 18 ‘16 650w

=SMITH, JOSEPH SHUTER.= Trench warfare; a manual for officers and men. il *$1.50 (6c) Dutton 355 17-16322

“Lieutenant J. S. Smith is an American who enlisted at the beginning of the war with a Canadian regiment. He has been at the front ever since, and so has seen and taken an active part in the entire development of the trench system. Two years ago he was given a commission in the British army and is now fighting ‘somewhere in France’ as an officer in a famous British regiment. He describes with full technical detail the principles, rules, and methods for the location and construction of the three complete lines or systems of trenches that are called for by the new plan of warfare, explains methods of drainage, and the making of obstacles and entanglements. There are sections also upon bombs and bombing which classify and describe all the kinds of bombs that are used at the front, upon gas warfare, sniping, care of rifles, duties of an officer, prevention of frostbite and trench feet, and other matters.”—N Y Times

=A L A Bkl= 14:43 N ‘17

+ — =Engin News-Rec= 79:127 Jl 19 ‘17 340w

“There is so much of value to the student officer condensed within a small space, that we can but note the chapters, location of trenches, trench drainage, and training as of particular importance. ... Numerous diagrams are helpful by way of clearer explanation.”

+ =Ind= 91:72 Jl 14 ‘17 130w

“An admirable little manual for the men to whom trench warfare is as yet only a name.”

+ =New Repub= 12:140 S 1 ‘17 500w

“The work seems to be strictly a technical war manual, and no doubt has considerable value for that purpose, for if American soldiers do go into the trenches in any numbers, this information will prove most valuable in saving many lives that would otherwise be lost in discovering the most efficient trench methods.” J. W. D.

+ =N Y Call= p14 Jl 1 ‘17 200w

“Although it is intended to be a practical handbook the non-military person who wants to know more about such matters as dugouts and revetments and grenades and tear bombs than it is possible to learn from the newspapers will find the book easy and interesting to read.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:264 Jl 15 ‘17 480w

“The information contained in this work must sooner or later be mastered by every American officer and private who is to serve in France.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:326 S ‘17 80w

=SMITH, LOGAN PEARSALL.= Trivia. il *$1.25 (5½c) Doubleday 824 17-28834

A book of thoughts and impressions, inspired by sights and scenes in rural England and in London. Some of the brief essays and sketches, which run to little over a page in length, were privately printed at the Chiswick press in 1902; others have appeared in the New Statesman and the New Republic. The author is an American who has lived much abroad. He has also written a life of Sir Henry Wottan, a book of short stories about Oxford, and a volume on the English language for the Home university library.

“Little essays, often provoking, like scraps of good talk overheard and lost—they give one a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:87 D ‘17

“I know of nothing since Lord Bacon quite like these ineffably dainty little paragraphs of gilded whim, these rainbow nuggets of wistful inquiry, these butterfly wings of fancy, these pointed sparklers of wit.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 O 20 ‘17 1400w

+ =Cleveland= p134 D ‘17 50w

“Some of the little sketches are rather too ‘precious’; occasionally there is a veritable descent to flatness.”

+ — =Dial= 64:155 F 14 ‘18 220w

“Some of the numbers are in the nature of prose poems, somewhat in the manner of the vers-librettists, but better than the run of such things. ... It is a pretty book in form, sad and wise in its contents, and sometimes exquisite.”

+ =Nation= 105:517 N 8 ‘17 140w

=SMITH, ONNIE WARREN.= Trout lore. il *$2 (5c) Stokes 799 17-10443

A series of papers on trout and trout fishing by the angling editor of Outdoor Life. The chapters were written originally for that magazine and are reprinted with slight revisions. The author says of the book, “This is primarily a popular description of the ways of the eastern brook trout, though nearly everything set down here as true of the eastern fish may roughly be applied to his western relatives.” Among the chapters are: A page of natural history; Nuptial dress and etiquette; Comparative merits of char and salmon trouts; Trout and the weather; Fly-fishing for trout; A dissertation upon the dry fly; Bait-fishing for trout; Trout of the little brooks; The trout of the lakes. There are twenty-four illustrations from photographs.

“Delightful illustrations from photographs.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:13 O ‘17

“An interesting feature of the book is the classification of trout according to habitat. In the chapter on ‘The trout in the pan’ are some promising recipes for brook-side cooking that tempt to experiment this spring.”

+ =Dial= 62:406 My 3 ‘17 250w

“He writes with charm upon an old theme, and fearlessly raises many debatable questions.”

+ =Nation= 105:491 N 1 ‘17 270w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:76 My ‘17

“Readable even for the rank amateur.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:666 Je ‘17 80w

=SMITH, WALTER ROBINSON.= Introduction to educational sociology. (Riverside textbooks in education) diags *$1.75 (1½c) Houghton 370.1 17-14234

The author, who is professor of sociology and economics in the State normal school at Emporia, Kansas, approaches educational problems from a new point of view. He says that in the past education has been too much of an isolated institution. “In the past our schools have drawn their inspiration more largely from their own traditions than from their social environment.” Books on education have been written from the psychological and individual rather than from the social and sociological viewpoint. His aim in this book has been “to make a preliminary application of the uses to be made of the group unit in educational theory and practice.” The book is divided into two parts: Sociological foundations, and Educational applications. Selected references follow each chapter.

“The treatment is sane. The style is clear. A wide influence is predicted for the book.” F. R. Clow

+ =Am J Soc= 23:271 S ‘17 630w

“As a textbook in educational sociology it will fill a much-needed place in the training of teachers in the broader aspects of the educational problem.” J. P. Lichtenberger

+ — =Ann Am Acad= 74:305 N ‘17 310w

“Dr Smith’s book is the most conspicuous contribution to the literature of this subject that has yet appeared. If one were to offer a criticism it would be that the work lacks philosophy.” R. L. Finney

+ — =Educ R= 56:169 F ‘18 1000w

“It seems to us the best single book now available as a textbook in social education or educational sociology.”

+ =El School J= 18:74 S ‘17 290w

=Ind= 91:296 Ag 25 ‘17 80w

“His sociological bibliography is not very extensive. ... The book has in it a great deal that is true and useful, and is well written, for the most part. Very likely it will help a number of educators to realize that education is not an isolated institution. But it does not drive compellingly to the point, as such a book must do, even though elementary, if it is going to attract attention to a novel point of view.”

+ — =Nation= 105:271 S 6 ‘17 430w

Reviewed by W. D. Lane

+ =Survey= 39:148 N 10 ‘17 600w

=SMUTS, JAN CHRISTIAAN.= War-time speeches; a compilation of public utterances in Great Britain. *75c (3c) Doran 940.91 17-23463

“As a former antagonist of those who are now its comrades in arms, General Smuts can criticize the British commonwealth—as he calls it in preference to empire—with something of detachment. ... Throughout his speeches he stresses the fact that Great Britain is a congeries of separate nations. He says the federal principle, as elaborated by us for instance, cannot work. Liberty and complete local sovereignty can alone hold the commonwealth together. Imperial conferences for foreign affairs, of an advisory order and preferably continuous, will bind each part of the commonwealth to every other part in a net light as air legally, constitutionally, yet tenacious as steel in actual practice.” (New Repub) These speeches were delivered in Great Britain in 1917 in connection with the session of the Imperial war cabinet and Imperial war conference.

“The speeches show the breadth and depth of view of General Smuts, but as reading matter some of the book is disappointing, because the repetition of expression which is often an asset in a speech is not so in printed form.”

+ — =Ath= p409 Ag ‘17 40w

“England has need to-day of a man of this type, one who is under the fringe of her robe, yet near enough the edge to feel and comprehend the just criticism of men on the outside. Smuts is direct, superbly logical, human and prophetic. That is a good deal to say of a man, but it is true in this case.” S. A.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 D 5 ‘17 470w

“The tone of the speeches is admirably fair.”

+ =New Repub= 13:sup16 N 17 ‘17 140w

=SNAITH, JOHN COLLIS.= The coming. *$1.50 (2c) Appleton 17-24695

“Accepted at its surface value, ‘The coming’ is a portrayal of what might be expected to happen if the Second Advent were to take place to-day in England. The scene is an English village, very insular and stereotyped in customs and opinions. In this village is a young carpenter of scanty education and frail health—in fact an epileptic, and reputed to be of weak mind. He hears inner voices, and relates how the spirit of Goethe has visited him at night and asked him to join in prayer for stricken Germany. All this so shocks the good vicar of the village that he feels it his duty to take action ... and has the man committed as a dangerous lunatic. ... While shut up in the insane asylum, the new Messiah writes his message to the world in the form of a drama entitled, ‘The door,’ which is accepted enthusiastically by a little American Jew, the head of a syndicate of fifty theaters, who, after reading the manuscript, is so miraculously wrought upon that for the first time in his life he is indifferent to profit and loss. The play is a phenomenal success; it is translated into all the European tongues; it brings all nations successively to a realization of the error of their ways; the Nobel peace prize is awarded to the author, but when the commission arrives to confer it he is already dead.”—Pub W

=A L A Bkl= 14:63 N ‘17

“The opening scene, with its atmosphere of wonder, is more impressive than the later action, which is too neatly contrived, and, in its madhouse episodes, borders perilously upon the ridiculous.” H. W. Boynton

– + =Bookm= 46:338 N ‘17 80w

“It is impossible to take ‘The coming’ seriously. ... It is an absurd commingling of farce and melodrama. It brings to the reader absolutely no conviction of its reality.” E. F. E.

— =Boston Transcript= p6 S 22 ‘17 1250w

“It is utterly unconvincing. The incidents are forced and strained, and the characters, who are vague throughout, seem mere lay-figures for the working of the plot. As a novel ‘The coming’ is an unsatisfying and unimportant performance, but as an indication of spiritual unrest it has significance.”

– + =Cath World= 106:411 D ‘17 300w

“The least favorable thing that can be said about ‘The coming’ is that the personages in whom the ideas are embodied are not sufficiently specific and individual. ... The essential ideas are good, and at present it is real service to have presented them in an attractive way.” J: Macy

+ — =Dial= 63:345 O 11 ‘17 1450w

“Mr Snaith’s sincere and interesting novel is somewhat weakened by this serious misconception of the personality of the Messiah.”

+ — =Ind= 92:259 N 3 ‘17 340w

“Unluckily for the effect of the story, it is too patently ingenious. This is not a theme for cleverness. It is a theme of unfathomed possibilities, but one thing, at least, is clear: they will never be realized, or approach realization, by such means as Mr Snaith has at his command.”

— =Nation= 105:456 O 25 ‘17 340w

=New Repub= 13:sup14 N 17 ‘17 180w

“In so far as Mr Snaith is an iconoclast, he is delightful; his satiric portrayal of the vicar as a representative of modern society is the artistry of a skilled workman. The book is flimsily constructed and cumbersomely written. It has all the disadvantages of a mongrel religious essay-novel. The warp of theology and woof of novel produces a cloth neither commendable as an intellectual contribution, much less as a thing of beauty.” H. J. Szold

+ – =N Y Call= p14 N 11 ‘17 700w

“Written in a style delicate, subtle, often beautiful. ... The exceedingly difficult subject is handled with delicacy and considerable skill.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:353 S 23 ‘17 1300w

“We should not quarrel, however, with anyone who chose to say that in this singular and touching book—that is in the main so shrewd, so witty, so astringent, so deeply pitiful, of so level a gaze, so true a vision—there are passages of an unpersuasiveness that are hard to forget.” Lawrence Gilman

+ — =No Am= 206:948 D ‘17 1350w

“As a piece of literary art the book is remarkable.”

+ =Outlook= 117:386 N 7 ‘17 110w

“To many readers there are numerous incongruities which cross the boundary of irreverence—the epilepsy, the patronizing and ever-recurrent phrase, ‘He’s a dear fellow,’ the conception of Divinity in the role of a playwright. Furthermore there is a lack of inspiration verging upon the commonplace in the conversation of the central character, with the exception of his frequent quotations from the Bible. ... In conclusion, one wonders whether the author himself realized how very pro-German his special brand of pacifism sounds.” Calvin Winter

— =Pub W= 92:802 S 15 ‘17 850w

=R of Rs= 56:555 N ‘17 350w

“Recognizing the difficulties of handling such a plot, one cannot deny that Mr Snaith has developed it with taste and restraint. The story does not, however, touch the high standards as a novel attained in the author’s previous stories. The influence on Mr Snaith of ‘The servant in the house’ and ‘The passing of the third floor back’ is apparent.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 13 ‘18 500w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p516 O 25 ‘17 590w

=SNEATH, ELIAS HERSHEY=, and others. Religious training in the school and home. *$1.50 Macmillan 377 17-24241

This manual for parents and teachers has been written in connection with the preparation of the two series of books known as “The golden rule series” and “The king’s highway series.” It may be used independently however. It is based on a similar manual, “Moral training in the school and home,” six new chapters having been added, certain portions omitted, and the remainder revised. Chapters discussing the importance of religious training and considering aims and method are followed by others devoted to: The bodily life [2 chapters]; The intellectual life; The social life [6 chapters]; The economic life; The political life: The æsthetic life. Suggestions for the children’s reading follow each chapter and at the close there is a bibliography for teachers.

“The book is good, but not so good as one has a right to expect from the scholarship and experience of the authors.”

+ — =Educ R= 56:173 F ‘18 50w

“In a useful way it correlates what has been written and said on the subject in recent years.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 21 ‘17 230w

=SNEDDEN, DAVID SAMUEL.= Problems of secondary education. (Riverside textbooks in education) *$1.50 (2c) Houghton 379.17 17-4796

“The conflicts regarding educational aims, characteristic of much of the current discussion, center largely about the high school. Professor Snedden considers these in ‘Problems of secondary education,’ a series of twenty-five ‘letters’ to superintendents, college presidents, principals and teachers. The restatement of aims in terms of concrete purposes of obvious value to men and women living today, and the adaptation of materials and methods to the attainment of these aims, constitute the text of these articles.”—Ind

=A L A Bkl= 13:430 Jl ‘17

“Where Dr Snedden is critical, one follows him in hearty agreement. He touches, with a gentle pertinence that even high-school teachers should understand, these sterile attitudes and outworn notions that must be made over. It is only when he becomes dogmatic that one finds fault. Dr Snedden’s conviction of the necessity of separating cultural and vocational education will certainly be shared by few educational progressives.” Randolph Bourne

+ — =Dial= 62:303 Ap 5 ‘17 1350w

“The book will be of real service to those concerned with the readjustments taking place in our educational systems.”

+ =Ind= 90:253 My 5 ‘17 90w

=Nation= 104:543 My 3 ‘17 270w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:73 My ‘17

=Pittsburgh= 22:434 My ‘17 60w

=Pratt= p12 Jl ‘17 50w

“What we need at this juncture is a clear statement of the aims that underlie the changes that are taking place. Dr Snedden’s ‘Problems of secondary education’ is a forceful and comprehensive statement of these aims. Not the least interesting part of this book is the introduction by Mr Cubberley, editor of the ‘Riverside textbooks in education.’” F. W. Johnson

+ =School R= 25:370 My ‘17 1150w

Reviewed by W: A. Aery

+ =Survey= 39:148 N 10 ‘17 110w

=SNELL, ROY JUDSON.= Eskimo Robinson Crusoe. il *$1 (4½c) Little 17-28598

The story of Kituk, a little Eskimo lad, who is cast adrift on an ice floe. Kituk is the proud possessor of three Eskimo dogs, and he has also as a pet a white bear that he has tamed. These four animal friends are with him when he finds himself drifting out into Bering sea, and in all his adventures they are his faithful companions and helpers.

“Here is the note of extravagance that little people love rather than the air of truth. But with its amusing illustrations of animals in

## action it will please those for whom it is intended.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 50w

=SNORRI STURLUSON.= Prose Edda; tr. from the Icelandic, with an introd. by Arthur G. Brodeur. $1.50 Am.-Scandinavian foundation 839.6 16-22078

“‘The prose Edda’ is a Scandinavian classic [of the early thirteenth century], and one of the greatest. It has found a very skilful and sympathetic translator in Dr Brodeur. His version contains all of the ‘Gylfaginning’ and all of the Skaldskaparmal (the poesy of the skalds). It is the first translation in English which contains all of the second part. Dasent renders only the narrative passages of this portion.”—Nation

“The Library of Congress enters this book under Edda Snorri Sturlusonar.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:303 Ap ‘17

“This should attract three classes of readers, students of Scandinavian history, myth and literature; lovers of folklore and the primitive simplicities in language and literature; and poets.”

+ =Ind= 89:118 Ja 15 ‘17 50w

“Not only in respect of completeness, but in respect of accuracy and spirit, Dr Brodeur’s translation ought to supersede the other English ones.”

+ =Nation= 104:683 Je 7 ‘17 90w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:182 D ‘16

=SNOW, WILLIAM LEONARD=, ed. High school prize speaker. *90c Houghton 808.5 16-20119

A book of selections adapted for use as readings. The preface says that they are selections that have taken prizes at the J. Murray Kay prize-speaking contests held annually at the Brookline (Mass.) high school. Among them are such old favorites as “The death of Steerforth,” “My double and how he undid me,” “How ‘Ruby’ played,” and “Lasca.” Among the newer selections are Robert Haven Schauffler’s “Scum o’ the earth,” Alfred Noyes’ “The highwayman,” and stories by Myra Kelly, Jack London, Joseph C. Lincoln and others.

“The collection, as a whole, is judicious, being diversified, and combining things old and modern.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 4 ‘17 120w

=Wis Lib Bul= 13:157 My ‘17 90w

=SOLANO, E. JOHN=, ed. Field entrenchments; a manual of trench warfare based on official manuals. il *$1 National military pub. co. 355

This book reprinted from the second (1915) London edition, is said to have been “written by an engineer officer attached to the Imperial general staff,” who prefers to remain anonymous. It covers Spadework for riflemen; Hasty fire-cover; Fire-trenches; Communications; Concealment; Obstruction, and Shelters. There are eighty-seven illustrations.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:113 Ja ‘18

“Copious illustrations, diagrams, and plans clarify the text.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:379 O 7 ‘17 150w

Soldier of France to his mother; letters from the trenches on the western front. $1 (2½c) McClurg 940.91 17-17991

An English edition of this work, translated by “V. M.,” was issued under the title “Letters of a soldier, 1914-1915,” with an introduction by A. Clutton-Brock. The translation for the American edition has been made by Theodore Stanton, who contributes an introduction, which is, he says, in part a paraphrase of the original French preface by André Chevrillon. The letters were written by a young French soldier who was in the war from its beginning up to April 6, 1915. Since that date he has been “missing.” An unusual spiritual comradeship existed between son and mother, and his letters to her reveal a soul sensitive to all the moods of nature and to loveliness in all forms. “Whatever happens, life has had beauty for me,” were his last written words.

=A L A Bkl= 14:55 N ‘17

“These letters contain many passages and ideas of unusual beauty.”

+ =Ath= p412 Ag ‘17 110w

“Though pantheistic in its tenor, there is nevertheless a strong, earnest religious note in these letters. Though written from day to day in the trenches they nevertheless form a progressive whole like the stanzas of a poem. And exceptionally commendable is the translation of Mr Stanton. He has succeeded in carrying beauty from French into English, a task not always successful.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 29 ‘17 470w

“Expressing the mental and spiritual reactions of a highly-strung nature, the letters are too abstract to be popular, but they form one of the most remarkable literary expressions of the war and are of the stuff which lasts.”

+ =Cleveland= p1 Ja ‘18 120w

“It must be a source of great comfort to the mother to feel that, after all, her son achieved in these letters something like complete artistic expression of his noble nature, to know of the wide recognition they have had in France, and to learn that now they are given in English to America, which needs their lesson and their inspiration.”

+ =Dial= 63:279 S 27 ‘17 380w

“Characterized by a grave and touching spirituality and an exceptionally deep filial affection.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:683 O ‘17 40w

“One feature of ‘Letters of a soldier’ is his adoration of his mother. ... He is, perhaps, typically French in his powers of artistic vision; but he is neither French nor English in the most striking side of his book. He belongs to the rare order of philosophers who can reach serenity in a world of horrors. ... He had got beyond the idea of personal success: ‘To a child in a game it is a fine thing to carry the flag; but for a man it is enough to know that the flag will yet be carried. And that is what every moment of great august Nature brings home to me!’ ... This is the most remarkable book of its kind we have seen lately.”

+ + =Sat R= 124:69 Jl 28 ‘17 440w

“All through his reasoning is different from that of the British soldier, though the results are the same. Mr Clutton-Brock says: ‘It would hardly be possible for any Englishman to ignore the war so resolutely, to refuse any kind of consent to it; or, if an Englishman were capable of such refusal, he would probably be a conscientious objector. We must romanticise things to some extent if we are to endure them; we must at least make jokes about them; but if a thing is bad to a Frenchman, it is altogether bad; and he will have no dealings with it. He may have to endure it; but he endures gravely and tensely with a sad Latin dignity, and so it is that this Frenchman endures the war from first to last.’ ... In the writer of these letters love of beauty passes insensibly into his religion. His power of wrapping himself round with serenity as with a cloak when he has gazed on a hill bathed in colour or on a flower growing in the mud is remarkable. If his religion is far from orthodox, it is real.”

+ =Spec= 119:117 Ag 4 ‘17 1200w

“All but two or three of the letters are addressed to his mother; and they are letters which, as Mr Clutton-Brock points out, no son would have been likely to write to his mother in any country but France. ... His letters tell very little of the actual operations of war. ... The interest of the book is independent of anything described or related. One reads it chiefly for the self-revelation of an unusual and fascinating personality. The writer is evidently one of the last men to whom soldiering would have appealed as a career. ... His natural outlook is almost as pacific as that of Mr Ramsay MacDonald.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p315 Jl 5 ‘17 630w

=SOLOGUB, FEODOR, pseud. (FEDOR KUZMICH TETERNIKOV).= Created legend; auth. tr. by J: Cournos. *$1.35 Stokes 17-24700

“A powerful, deeply symbolical, and most original story, which has as a background the abortive Russian revolution of 1905. The hero is a poet with a vision of a less chaotic and more beautiful world than that in which he lives, and the heroine dreams of a day of freedom.” (Ath) “In this book many strange things come, now one and now another, into view. There are political meetings and riots, with hideous tales of Cossacks and official brutality; there is an attack upon the heroine by tramps; there are school inspections; there are spies, seedy villains, and many kinds of ruffians. There are mysterious children, of whom it would be futile to ask whether they are ‘alive’ or ‘dead’; there is a grove of Hellenic culture and nudity in a forest. ... The unity lies beneath the events and beneath the characters. It lies in the ideas, the philosophy ... for the yearning dreams of genius.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

+ =Ath= p47 Ja ‘17 60w

“Some will say, with the police captain of the story, that Sologub writes every-day pornography, masquerading under high-sounding names. But even those who make such a foolish judgment will discover that Sologub did create a picture of Russia and Russian life, the outlines of which not even time can soften or cause to fade.” H. S.

+ =New Repub= 12:25 Ag 4 ‘17 1000w

“No greater contrast to ‘Tales of the revolution’ than ‘The created legend’ could be imagined. It is a symbolist novel; in it revolution is poetized, apotheosized, frequently, we regret to feel, sentimentalized. Many of the scenes in the tale are bathed in an atmosphere of delicate and clear beauty. Yet, every now and then we feel a decadence, a hint of decay, beneath the beauty. With all his fairy-tale simplicity, Sologub belongs to an older, a more sophisticated, a less healthful tradition than does Artzibashef.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:249 Jl 1 ‘17 550w

“‘The created legend’ is a little unfortunate in other respects than its ugliness. In his introduction Mr John Cournos tells us that the ‘legend’ embraces more books than this that he has newly translated, and that the original title of this member of the series is ‘Drops of blood.’ Moreover, the Russian means not ‘the created legend,’ but ‘the legend in the course of creation.’ ... There is more of magic in Sologub’s touch, perhaps, than in that of any among the modern Russian novelists whose work is becoming known in England. If this novel sometimes hurts with deliberate brutality it does more than heal the injuries.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p511 O 26 ‘16 1000w

Some imagist poets, 1917; an annual anthology. *75c Houghton 821.08 (15-8258)

Six poets are again represented in the third annual volume of imagist verse: Richard Aldington, H. D., John Gould Fletcher, F. S. Flint, D H. Lawrence and Amy Lowell. Amy Lowell’s contribution to the volume is the series known as “Lacquer prints,” adapted from the Japanese. John Gould Fletcher contributes a notable poem on Lincoln.

=A L A Bkl= 14:16 O ‘17

“In the ‘Imagist anthology’ the work might almost be interchangeable, and one closes the book with a purely composite sense of it. Not that the composite technique lacks its individuality, one has a distinct impression of imagism as a cult, but the majority of the poems might be signed by the same name for all the impression they convey of the personality, the differentiating self, of the writer.” J. B. Rittenhouse

+ — =Bookm= 46:438 D ‘17 900w

“Richard Aldington has a finer group of poems in this year’s anthology than the other two; this is also true of the poems by John Gould Fletcher and F. S. Flint. ... Imagism is an art-method which, expressing substance according to the degree of talent in the poet, is, though a younger, an accepted member in the verse forms of poetry. The survival of the ‘Some imagist poets’ anthology to a third annual issue is a good proof of its importance and influence.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Ap 14 ‘17 1350w

“The little group remains the same, whether in composition or in spirit. Nor is the offering of 1917 very different from that of 1916. ... The war is heard throughout the present volume: in Aldington’s ‘Field manœuvres,’ in Fletcher’s ‘Armies,’ a sombre yet vivid thing, and in Flint’s concern with ‘Searchlight’ and ‘Zeppelins.’” H: B. Fuller

+ — =Dial= 63:271 S 27 ‘17 850w

“I recommend in ‘Some imagist poets’ the courage of its brevity. For the rest, the work follows its type—oracular, crepuscular, spectacular.” O. W. Firkins

– + =Nation= 105:597 N 29 ‘17 60w

+ =R of Rs= 56:105 Jl ‘17 100w

“Mr Fletcher’s ‘Lincoln’ and one Whistler-like impression of ‘Moonlight’ make his selections foremost in the book. H. D. and F. S. Flint are least interesting. H. D.’s ‘Pygmalion’ has thought, but it is weakly expressed. D. H. Lawrence and Amy Lowell have added little to their reputations. Lawrence in ‘Terra nuvo’ adding mysticism to an apparent trial at the Dantesque. Amy Lowell is quite disappointing.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 850w

=SOMMERS, CECIL.=[2] Temporary heroes, il *$1.25 (2c) Lane 940.91 17-27944

Letters from the western front to “The only ‘Phyllis,’” written “from all kinds of places, mostly unpleasant, in all weathers, chiefly rain, and at all sorts of odd times.” The period covered is from February, 1915, to July, 1916, and the grim happenings of those months, such of them as fall within the experience of this Scottish trooper, are none the less grim because of the punch which is put into the narrative. Neither rain, mud, plagues of the trenches, nor the crumpling up by shell fire can down his wit and sturdy courage. It is the invincible hero of Ypres and the Flanders front whom we see here; yet he, too, had a vulnerable heel. For we leave him after sixteen months taking sketchy account of passing days, on a Red cross barge able only to reiterate, “Isn’t it a terrible war?”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:163 F ‘18

“Of books about the war there have been many, but few as likable as this modest collection of letters. Mr Sommers possesses a keen sense of humor; no bit of comedy escapes him, and he relates all sorts of tales, and gives them many clever touches of his own. Even when the joke is at his own expense he enjoys it. Long before the book ends the reader has come to have a very genuine liking for this young writer, a liking which is enhanced by the delightfully comic little sketches with which he has illustrated his letters.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:543 D 9 ‘17 570w

“There is little unrelieved tragedy in the book. The letters would be far less significant than they are if the writer had not the sensibility to recognize the full horror of what is taking place, but he observes it from an angle which lets the horror be seen in quaint patterns.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p439 S 13 ‘17 620w

=SONNECK, OSCAR GEORGE THEODORE.= Suum cuique; essays in music. *$2.50 Schirmer 780.4 17-406

Mr Sonneck is the editor of the Musical Quarterly (New York) and has been chief of the music division, Library of Congress, since 1902. “Among the topics treated by him in this volume of essays are ‘Music and progress,’ ‘MacDowell versus MacDowell,’ ‘A national conservatory: some pros and cons,’ ‘A survey of music in America,’ and ‘Signs of a new uplift in Italy’s musical life.’ Also included in this volume are several interesting biographical studies—‘The musical side of our first presidents,’ ‘Benjamin Franklin’s musical side,’ and ‘Was Richard Wagner a Jew?’”—R of Rs

“‘Suum cuique’ is not a particularly alluring title for a book of essays on music, but O. G. Sonneck knows how to hold the attention of all who open this volume.” H: T. Finck

+ =Nation= 105:546 N 15 ‘17 260w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:73 My ‘17 50w

+ =R of Rs= 55:219 F ‘17 80w

=SORLEY, CHARLES HAMILTON.= Marlborough, and other poems. *$1 Putnam 821

The author was a young poet and soldier who was killed on the western front in 1916. “Poetry seems to have been the natural expression of his mind, yet he hardly sought this expression until the last year of his life. In a certain mystic quality his poems are comparable to the early work of W. B. Yeats; in intense love of the very soil of his country, to the sonnets of Rupert Brooke; and in fatalism and ardent, heroic realization of the values of life and death to our own young poet so lately dead, Alan Seeger.” (R of Rs)

“This volume, as it stands, will, like the volumes of Rupert Brooke, afford convincing demonstration of what England is sacrificing in this war,—lives that would have shaped the thought and feeling of our country in the first half of the present century. It will bear testimony also to the type of men who, when the bolt fell in August 1914, hesitated not in offering their services to the nation.” G. D. Hicks

+ =Hibbert J= 14:659 Ap ‘16 1200w

=Pratt= p33 Ja ‘17

“The poetic work of Charles Hamilton Sorley, late of Marlborough college and sometime captain in the Suffolk regiment, has the double appeal of beauty and of pathos. It is astonishing that a boy of eighteen should have written poetry of so high an order filled with such precocious maturity of thought.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:210 F ‘17 450w

“The six months that he spent in Germany before the war inspired him with respect and tolerance for our enemies. For the rest, we may note his intense love of Downland and of Marlborough. The later verses are unrevised, and often rough and halting in metre, but they have vision and an unaffected originality of imagery.”

+ =Spec= 116:661 My 27 ‘16 400w

“The third edition contains ‘illustrations in prose’ which Sorley’s friends will not like to miss. ... He was a careful letter-writer, and his letters, though they were probably written quickly, add materially to the value and dignity of this memorial volume.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p580 D 7 ‘16 250w

=SOUINY-SEYDLITZ, LEONIE IDA PHILIPOVNA, baroness.= Russia of yesterday and to-morrow. il *$2 (3½c) Century 947 17-18377

“Baroness Souiny is by birth a Czech, a native of one of the Balkan States, and married a Russian baron and lived ever since in Russia until she came to America, soon after the beginning of the war.” (N Y Times) Her first chapter, Awakening Russia, and her last, Russia of to-morrow deal with the revolution of 1917, the difficulty of bringing the Russian peasants to a realization of what democracy means, and what the provisional government really is. Other chapters deal with: The military party; Aristocratic women in Russian life and politics; German influence in Russia; America and Russia; Russian art, dramatic literature and music, etc. That on America and Russia argues that “Russia and America have so much to give each other of ethical, spiritual and practical values that the alliance of which Russians dream and which the Americans once declined must come about.”

“More entertaining than authoritative.”

– + =A L A Bkl= 14:23 O ‘17

“A leisurely, chatty, well-meaning but unreliable, woefully incoherent book.” Abraham Yarmolinsky

– + =Bookm= 46:483 D ‘17 190w

“The baroness’s style sometimes suggests that she is herself subject to German influences. Her spelling was certainly made in Germany. ... She has little but good to say of Grigorii Rasputin, who ‘brought back the Czar to his people and the people to the Czar.’ The book, with its comments on literature, art and music, its descriptions of travel, its many entertaining anecdotes and trivialities and its sixteen full-page illustrations is well worth reading, but it must be read with caution, for it abounds in questionable judgments.” N. H. D.

=Boston Transcript= p6 Je 20 ‘17 800w

“Most interesting is the author’s reaction to the revolution. She makes it very plain that she has little faith in the lasting powers of the democracy. ... Among other word pictures is one of the monk, Gregory Rasputin. The Baroness sees him as a simple peasant, absolutely patriotic and religious, a ‘Russian Billy Sunday.’”

+ — =Dial= 63:214 S 13 ‘17 300w

=Ind= 91:30 Jl 7 ‘17 120w

“There is grace, charm, picturesqueness and ease in the literary manner of this book, but the volume is crowded with equivocations, contradictions and half-thoughts. The author’s point of view concerning the temper of the people and the future of the republic is disappointingly feudal. Her prejudices cling to her like barnacles.” D: Rosenstein

– + =N Y Call= p14 Ag 5 ‘17 2000w

“Her pages are very readable, but the more one reads, the more does one wonder, or doubt, if she is justified always in her generalizations. And those doubts increase when one reaches the chapters in which she deals with recent events and discovers her point of view.”

=N Y Times= 22:262 Jl 15 ‘17 650w

“Possibly a little hectic, wordy, and hastily put together for the reader’s entire satisfaction.”

– + =Outlook= 116:593 Ag 15 ‘17 120w

=Pittsburgh= 22:675 O ‘17 70w

“It is evident that the writer possesses an acquaintance with her people that is the fruit not only of long familiarity but also of intelligent study. In them she has faith.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 26 ‘17 300w

=SPENCE, LEWIS.= Myths and legends of Babylonia and Assyria. il *$3 (3c) Stokes 299 17-4995

It is the author’s belief that this book will appeal particularly to the modern reader who loves the romance of antiquity. His aim has been “to provide not only a popular account of the religion and mythology of ancient Babylonia and Assyria, but to extract and present to the reader the treasures of romance latent in the subject, the peculiar richness of which has been recognized since the early days of archæological effort in Chaldea.” The book has eight color plates by Evelyn Paul and thirty-two other illustrations.

“The title of the volume is just a trifle misleading. Although most of the myths and legends of the Babylonians and Assyrians are rather fully presented, the book is after all more largely a discussion of the religion of these two peoples. The author has given his readers a fairly good presentation of that religion, but it is doubtful whether the book is one whit more interesting than many books in the field that are the work of specialists, and it was just this that the volume was intended to popularize. ... The book abounds in inaccuracies, hardly pardonable even in one who is not a specialist. The author has depended too largely upon older writings and upon men like Sayce and Hilprecht, neither of whom is particularly reliable. The black-and-white illustrations are good, but those in color by Evelyn Paul are neither artistic nor historically true.” T. J. Meek

+ — =Am J Theol= 21:459 Jl ‘17 730w

=A L A Bkl= 14:23 O ‘17

“Mr Spence, our leading authority on Mexican archaeology and mythology, has here given a popular account of the religion and mythology of ancient Babylonia and Assyria, a subject which he knows well. With the general reader in view, he has endeavoured, not to separate the gold of romance from the darker ore of antiquarian research, but to blend romance and knowledge. The result, with a theme so rich in enchantment, is a picturesque and fascinating book, that, if it does not add to knowledge, will add extensively to the band of readers interested in comparative religion and ancient history. ... There is a first-class index.”

+ =Ath= p583 D ‘16 130w

=SPENCER, HERBERT.= Man versus the state. *$2 (2c) Kennerley 301 16-23151

Mr Beale, the editor, has prepared this edition of Spencer’s essays for publication in the belief that they are particularly applicable to conditions in America at the present time. The essays, he says, were written by Spencer “to warn the English people against the blight of officialism.” The same danger of “over-legislation” and “over-administration” now exists in America, he believes. The essays are published with critical comments by prominent Americans, among them Elihu Root, Henry Cabot Lodge, E. H. Gary, Augustus P. Gardner, Nicholas Murray Butler and William Howard Taft.

=Cleveland= p6 Ja ‘17 50w

“Particularly interesting are Elihu Root on ‘The new toryism’ and E. H. Gary on ‘Overlegislation.’ But it is no disparagement to any of these men to say that the clarity and dexterity in exposition that characterized Spencer put almost any man at a disadvantage whose writing is set side by side with these paragraphs dictated so long ago.”

+ =Nation= 104:166 F 8 ‘17 300w

“The underlying conception of this edition was an entirely admirable one; its execution has come very near to tragedy. ... Gathering about him in massed formation the heavy artillery of American conservatism—Mr Root, Dr Butler, Judge Gary, Mr Taft—Mr Beale has prefaced Spencer’s essays by a series of prose lyrics which, while they may gratify the few remaining adherents of the Spencerian philosophy, are otherwise valuable only as a somewhat inept expression of the ideals of the last age.” H. J. L.

— =New Repub= 10:142 Mr 3 ‘17 1650w

“For the man or woman who wishes to see clearly just what problems the United States is facing, and which must be worked out to our best national advantage, there is no better contribution to political thought than this volume of economic and sociological wisdom founded upon the broad philosophical foundation that ‘those forces that create and develop nations are not to be restricted by prohibitory acts of legislatures.’”

+ =R of Rs= 55:104 Ja ‘17 200w

=SPIEGEL VON UND ZU PECKELSHEIM, EDGAR, freiherr.= Adventures of the U-202; an actual narrative. *$1 (4c) Century 940.91 17-6334

The title-page tells us the author is commander of the U-202, and a copyright notice says that the book is published by arrangement with the New York World, but it is not stated whether the book is a translation or an original account, whether it was first written for German or for American readers. It gives an account of the routine on a German submarine, of the thrills and dangers encountered, of the methods of attacking enemy ships, of tracking them down or escaping from them, and finally describes the joyous homecoming of a U-boat crew.

“The author is possessed of complete knowledge of under-sea craft and its methods. His technical account of the U-boat in operation and of the life of those who man it, is worth reading.”

=Boston Transcript= p14 Ap 7 ‘17 200w

“References to the hated English are sometimes unnecessarily vituperative, as was only natural. The book is decidedly out of the ordinary, and will arouse even the jaded reader of war narratives.” P. F. Bicknell

=Dial= 62:306 Ap 5 ‘17 120w

“Presents us with a ‘peculiar’ sea-faring psychology. It crops out in the bombastic manner of our dare-devil hero and his stage-strutting crew. Compare this stuff with the modest, straightforward narrative of a real sailor such as Captain König of the ‘Deutschland!’ The book does not bear a single German official endorsement.”

— =Ind= 90:298 My 12 ‘17 60w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:58 Ap ‘17

“An exciting and thoroughly interesting book. It has in it a good deal of out-and-out information about submarines and submarine warfare. And it gives its readers many a thrill. It has its place in the public’s war library.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:182 My 6 ‘17 300w

=SPINDLER, FRANK NICHOLAS.=[2] Sense of sight. *$1.25 Moffat 17-23764

“The aim of this volume is to tell the story of the wonderful power of vision in plain English and in a readable way, and yet keep true to the scientific facts and theories. There is a chapter on visual illusions, and another analyzing the visual type of mind. The book closes with a chapter on Hygiene of the eye and of vision.” (Boston Transcript) This volume is one of the new series “Our senses and what they mean to us.” One other volume has also been issued, “The sense of taste,” by H. L. Hollingworth and A. T. Poffenberger.

“Though elementary, the book is enlightening; though detailed, it is comprehensive.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 24 ‘17 250w

“It rarely rises above meagre adequacy; and it is in a measure unfortunate that so important a subject fails of any distinctive handling. The arrangement of the chapters is admirable.”

– + =Dial= 64:116 Ja 31 ‘18 230w

“One is pleased to find so much useful information presented in comparatively few pages and couched in simple, popular language.” Medicus

+ =N Y Call= p15 N 4 ‘17 200w

=SPINGARN, JOEL ELIAS.= Creative criticism: essays on the unity of genius and taste. *$1.20 (5½c) Holt 801 17-15179

The first essay in this book, The new criticism, was published in 1911, after its delivery as a lecture at Columbia university. It was regarded at that time as quite iconoclastic in its ruthless destruction of time-honored standards. Added to it in this volume are three other essays: Dramatic criticism and the theatre; Prose and verse; and Creative connoisseurship. A note on genius and taste, a reply to a criticism of the first essay by John Galsworthy, is given in an appendix.

=A L A Bkl= 14:16 O ‘17

“What Mr Spingarn fails lamentably and completely to realize is that the conception of the drama as ‘a creative art born in the brain of the playwright’ and as something inextricably concerned with theatres and actors are not irreconcilable at all.” F. I.

=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 11 ‘17 1400w

=Ind= 91:184 Ag 4 ‘17 100w

=N Y Times= 22:248 Jl 1 ‘17 980w

+ =R of Rs= 56:103 Jl ‘17 180w

“Prof. Spingarn’s views should awaken as much debate on their reappearing as when first promulgated.”

=Springf’d Republican= p19 My 20 ‘17 800w

“He demolishes more decayed and genteel traditions than the Victorians can justly be taxed with; and in the face of new realities his enthusiasm is so keen and clear-sighted that we wish that he would give us a few examples of the art besides this spirited defence of it. We wish indeed that he had written a longer book; for the subjects he deals with are very complex, and many of the interesting things that he says would be still more interesting if they were discussed more fully.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p271 Je 7 ‘17 1100w

=SPRING, LEVERETT WILSON.= History of Williams college. il *$3 (4c) Houghton 378 17-15570

Professor Spring for twenty-three years held the chair of English literature at Williams college, and is now an emeritus professor. The opening of the college is described and the history is brought down to date, but “a detailed survey of the present administration is not attempted.” There are eighteen illustrations, nine of them pictures of college presidents, and nine appendixes, one of which gives “Williams volunteers, graduate and non-graduate, in the Civil war and their rank.”

“The general reader may find not a little to attract him in the descriptions of college life a century ago and in the biographical sketch of Mark Hopkins.”

+ =Ind= 91:296 Ag 25 ‘17 60w

+ =Lit D= 55:36 S 29 ‘17 270w

“It will hold its field alone, for no history of the college has appeared for many years, and its most exhaustive predecessor contains an intermixture of much historical matter upon Williamstown. The author has proportioned it in an unusual way. The history of the institution proper is held within bounds which leave abundant space for an account of the college life of the more eminent alumni of Williams, and to a certain extent of their later careers.”

+ =Nation= 105:435 O 18 ‘17 430w

“The author’s text might well have been more vivid.”

+ — =Outlook= 116:489 Jl 25 ‘17 110w

“A well-written and appropriately illustrated history. Any history of Williams must necessarily be largely given up to biographical sketches of personalities who as presidents and professors have built up the institution. Although always a small college, relatively speaking, Williams has, throughout its history, exerted an influence in the nation out of all proportion to its size.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:328 S ‘17 70w

“This is not a mere retelling of a story already twice told, but is an authoritative narrative, based upon painstaking researches, which have brought to light a considerable amount of new material having to do especially with the earlier years of the college. ... This well-proportioned, informing, and thoroughly readable book should be attractive to all interested in the early life of New England and in the history of American education.”

* + =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 22 ‘17 1500w

=SPRUNT, JAMES.=[2] Chronicles of the Cape Fear River, 1660-1916. 2d ed $4 Rosa P. Chiles, 142 A st., N.E., Washington, D.C. 17-10368

A revised and enlarged edition of a work that was privately printed by the author in 1915.

“The additions, amounting to exactly one hundred pages of text, are supplemented by six rare maps and a thoroughly adequate index of forty-four pages. The most important additions are ‘Wilmington in the forties,’ eight papers by John MacLaurin which originally appeared in the local newspapers; three reports on Wilmington trade, 1815, 1843, 1872; the sketch, by Miss Rosa Pendleton Chiles, of the distinguished French scientist Alyre Raffeneau Delile, vice-consul in North Carolina (1802-1806); and an extended history of Wilmington churches.” (Am Hist R)

“The book’s most interesting chapter remains ‘Blockade running,’ slightly extended. This volume constitutes a contribution, of permanent value, to the historical literature, not only of North Carolina, but also of the United States.” Archibald Henderson

+ =Am Hist R= 23:217 O ‘17 250w

“The book is more even than a rarely complete local history. It is a valuable contribution to general history, giving as it does a summary—admirable in its terseness and clarity—of the events in one of the most historical sections of the United States from the time of its exploration and settlement down through the Civil war to the present. A Confederate himself, Mr Sprunt’s personal experience in ‘blockade running’ gives authority to his descriptions of that science. Sketches of the old plantations, of quaintly interesting social customs, of historic localities and individuals, add to the value as well as to the interest of a book, whose vast detail is carefully marshalled and clearly presented.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 11 ‘17 440w

+ =Lit D= 55:42 S 29 ‘17 110w

+ =Outlook= 116:488 Jl 25 ‘17 110w

“Merely as a contribution to local history this volume is of more than ordinary importance, because of the unusual care that has been given to its preparation, and the excellent literary form in which it now appears.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:108 Jl ‘17 140w

=SQUIRE, JACK COLLINGS.= Tricks of the trade. *$1.25 Putnam 827 (Eng ed A17-1182)

“One of the most diverting books of parody in recent years. Its range is wide—from Pope to Davies—and almost as many styles of parodic writing are exhibited as there are styles of parodies. In the first half are ten imitations of the work of contemporary writers, mostly poets. In the second are ten duplex parodies.” (Dial) “Wordsworth rewrites ‘The everlasting mercy,’ Mr Masefield gives us his version of ‘Casabianca,’ Henry James revises the church catechism, Lord Byron takes liberties in the ‘Don Juan’ stanza with ‘The passing of Arthur,’ and, most brilliant of all, Gray rewrites his ‘Elegy’ in the cemetery of ‘Spoon River.’” (Spec)

+ =Ath= p101 F ‘17 50w

“These burlesques are frequently criticisms of no mean order.” Odell Shepard

+ =Dial= 63:20 Je 28 ‘17 350w

“Mr Squire has already proved himself a master of the art of travesty, and his ‘Tricks of the trade’ is a pure joy. For here we have no crude verbal mimicry, but an appropriation of the spirit of the original, with just that amount of exaggeration and perversion required to pillory its weakness. As a sustained ‘tour de force’ the burlesque on Mr Masefield, ‘the poet in the back streets,’ is perhaps the most deadly burlesque on the violence of the new ‘School of real human emotion’; but we are not so sure that the parody of Mr Belloc in his satirico-comic vein is not even cleverer, for it is a burlesque on a burlesque.”

+ =Spec= 118:339 Mr 17 ‘17 400w

“Although we may laugh we cannot deny that he tells us more about Mr Belloc, or Mr Wells, or Sir H. Newbolt than many serious and industrious articles where the gifts and failings of these writers are scrupulously weighed to an ounce. ... Of the parodies of modern writers, that of Mr Shaw seems to us the least successful.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p112 Mr 8 ‘17 800w

=STACPOOLE, FLORENCE.=[2] Advice to women. *$1.25 Funk 618.2 17-12840

This work on “the care of the health before, during, and after confinement, with hints on the care of the new-born infant and an appendix on what to get ready for a baby” has been revised from the fifth London edition to conform to American practice, by Lydia E. Anderson, president of the state board of nurse examiners, University of the State of New York. Two interesting chapters tell what modern science has done to lessen danger and suffering in childbirth.

“The work of an Englishwoman high in rank as a teacher of health, and especially of obstetrics, is here supplemented by the revisionary service of an American woman equally deserving confidence. It is a book for women, by women, for the common welfare.”

+ =Lit D= 55:33 Jl 14 ‘17 100w

=STACPOOLE, HENRY DE VERE.= François Villon: his life and times, 1431-1463. *$2 Putnam (Eng ed 17-26321)

“My object is to present to you François Villon, one of the strangest figures in all literature, and one of the greatest of French poets,” says the author. His method is to study Villon, the man, thru his writings. “Villon,” he says, “had the magical power of turning himself into literature.” First, however, he describes the France of Villon’s day.

“There is appreciative literary criticism yet the book moves like a story. ... Mr Stacpoole published a translation of Villon’s poems in 1914.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:343 My ‘17

=Ath= p51 Ja ‘17 80w

“Mr Stacpoole is as picturesque as his theme, as vigorous as the time he depicts, as romantic as his hero. We get a clear view of the fifteenth century in France from his pages, and as complete an understanding of Villon as is possible in the circumstances. If Villon still seems mythical when we close Mr Stacpoole’s book, it is because he will remain a character who is all the more appealing because of the glamour of romance that enshrouds him.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ‘17 1000w

“However much Mr Stacpoole may take from the French biographers in facts, the able criticisms are his own. ... Mr Stacpoole shows good critical taste in his estimate of the worth of the various ballads, and he includes good poetic translations of most of them, as well as free prose renderings of the legacies.” Nellie Poorman

* + =Dial= 62:307 Ap 5 ‘17 1300w

“Interest is added to Mr Stacpoole’s book by a series of very satisfying verse translations of some of Villon’s less-known poems.”

+ =Nation= 105:45 Jl 12 ‘17 270w

+ =N Y Times= 22:78 Mr 4 ‘17 300w

“This book tells us nothing save that Mr Stacpoole admires Villon in so far as he understands him, but that he does not understand very much. Mr Stacpoole had the opportunity of performing a valuable service. He might have translated M. Champion’s volumes, and so given a work of profound scholarship and exquisite taste the larger public which it deserves. ... Mr Stacpoole would, we suppose, say that his book was not written for those who already knew Villon—that it was, in fact, ‘un oeuvre de vulgarisation.’ If so, it was superfluous.”

— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p29 Ja 18 ‘17 750w

=STACPOOLE, HENRY DE VERE.= Sea plunder. *$1.30 (2½c) Lane 17-11465

Moral questions do not trouble Captain Blood and his friend Billy Harman. If the two German owners of the vessel Captain Blood commands want to cut a Pacific cable, that is their responsibility, not his. What the object of these two plotters really was is never learned, for the first message intercepted on the cut cable tells them that England and Germany are at war. As a matter of fact, they are not. This was one of the false alarms that preceded the real one of 1914. But for all that the message changed the course of this story. The second adventure of the book has to do with a wrecked Chinese ship, said to be carrying twenty thousand dollars in gold; the third takes the two adventurers back to the South seas.

=A L A Bkl= 13:452 Jl ‘17

+ =Dial= 62:444 My 17 ‘17 90w

“We do not know, now that Jack London is gone, where to match Mr Stacpoole’s absolutely simple, straightforward, and forcible way of telling a story of outlandish adventure.”

+ =Nation= 104:633 My 24 ‘17 250w

“A better group of sea yarns, or of yarns better told would be hard to find. ... Along with the wisdom of his seafaring men Mr Stacpoole drops bits of his own, notably his accurate characterization of the attitude of Ireland toward England.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:195 My 20 ‘17 450w

“Mr Stacpoole’s gift for telling a racy, thrilling adventure story is well established, and this product of his pen sustains his reputation.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 29 ‘17 350w

=STANARD, MARY MANN PAGE (NEWTON) (MRS WILLIAM GLOVER STANARD).= Colonial Virginia: its people and customs. il *$6 Lippincott 975.5 17-30734

“Historical and genealogical in character, this work is based neither upon history-books nor tradition, but upon sources that are not accessible to the ordinary reader—old diaries, old newspapers, and letters, shop-bills and inventories, and other documents throwing light on the personal and social life of the Virginians in colonial days. ... Mrs Stanard describes the relations between old Virginia and the mother country and the intricacies of Virginia class-relationships, and throws light upon hundreds of genealogical questions that have hitherto been in dispute.”—Lit D

“The labor of preparing so exhaustive a work as this must have been very great, and the author is to be commended for the excellent manner in which the interest is maintained to the very last.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 24 ‘17 1300w

“Altogether the book is one that will appeal to every one who is curious about our historic past. The ways of our forebears and the interest of the book are heightened by the large number of illustrations it contains.”

+ =Lit D= 55:51 D 8 ‘17 150w

“This is a handsome, well-illustrated, well-planned, and comprehensive volume.”

+ =Outlook= 117:615 D 12 ‘17 50w

“Mrs Stanard is known as an enthusiastic student of the Old dominion’s archives, and is the wife of William G. Stanard, secretary of the Virginia Historical society and editor of the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:103 Ja ‘18 170w

“Although perhaps the book contains little that is new, it brings scattered material together in graphic compilation.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 8 ‘17 200w

=STANLEY, ELEANOR JULIAN (MRS JAMES LONG).= Twenty years at court. il *$4.50 Scribner (Eng ed 17-21843)

Eleanor Stanley, whose private letters are here collected by Mrs Steuart Erskine, was maid of honor to Queen Victoria from 1842 to 1862. “A very few letters have been put into the book which are not by Miss Stanley.” (Spec)

“Perhaps nothing could better witness the fascination of these letters and wide appeal than the fact that a second edition has so quickly followed their publication a year ago. ... Clearest of all the pictures she presents are those of the simple home life of the English royal family.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Jl 21 ‘17 180w

“No one, we think, will read them without enjoyment—it is difficult to say why. ‘It went off pretty flat,’ said Fanny Burney describing an evening spent in the Georgian court circle. Most evenings at the early Victorian court might be said, by these accounts, to have gone off very flat indeed, and yet Miss Eleanor Stanley makes us want to hear about them.”

* + =Spec= 118:18 Ja 6 ‘17 2100w

“Sprightly, revealing and readable. ... In her pictures of people in the spheres of court and diplomacy there is much covert sarcasm. ... As Miss Stanley grows older she discloses a greater interest in politics, and her notes on political events generally get to the nub of the matter with few wasted words.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 850w

“Miss Stanley’s letters are authentic. ... On the whole the editing is well done, with a number of useful little footnotes giving the names, titles, and dates of the numerous great people who are mentioned. The reader, however, may justly complain of the want of an index; of the want of any reference, or of anything more than the merest hint, with regard to many of the great events of the time; and of the absence of the necessary few words of explanation which would have rendered intelligible certain letters that the ordinary reader of to-day cannot fully understand. ... As a historical document the book is disappointing.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p634 D 28 ‘16 980w

=STANTON, STEPHEN BERRIEN.= Hidden happiness. *$1.25 (4c) Scribner 170.4 17-7478

The short essays of this volume have something of an Emersonian flavor. “Remember, all is law. It governs every little act of life—every success, every failure. Things happen according to principles which we can put ourselves in accord with and win, or go counter to and lose. Control then thy destiny by obedience to them. I have no wish other than that of the universe—why should I?” This quotation indicates very fairly the author’s attitude. He writes of: Joy’s neutrality; Ambition; The eternal bulwarks; Influence; Pros and cons of companionship; The trumpet of to-day; The marrow of existence; Ultimate economy; Letter and spirit, etc.

“The volume bristles with sane and sensible advice, with fine bits of figurative writing and with unforgettable epigrams.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 27 ‘17 250w

“Aphorisms for sane and cheerful living. There is nothing original in Mr Stanton’s optimism or in his advice. But he states his confession of faith in the clearest and most vigorous terms.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:335 S 9 ‘17 470w

+ =Outlook= 115:760 Ap 25 ‘17 130w

=STEEL, MRS FLORA ANNIE (WEBSTER).= Marmaduke. *$1.40 (1½c) Stokes (Eng ed 17-26885)

The scene of this melodramatic tale is laid in Scotland and the Crimea in the “forties” and “fifties.” The leading characters are “the sardonic old rake, Lord Drummuir, who marries a ballet-dancer and reduces her to respectability, who keeps his children in perpetual tremors by his evil temper; his gallant soldier son, the Hon. Marmaduke Muir, always hard up and always trying to get money out of the old man; Marrion Paul, a girl of noble mind but supposed humble origin, who loves Marmaduke from childhood and becomes his guardian angel, and the faithful soldier-servant of the hero, who cherishes a hopeless passion for the heroine and talks broad Scotch with mildly comical effect. ... The book includes a fire, a battle, a shipwreck, two sensational escapes from drowning, a frustrated elopement, a carriage accident, and a house of shame.” (Sat R)

=A L A Bkl= 14:133 Ja ‘18

“A very improbable and old-fashioned, but not altogether unentertaining novel.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:484 N 18 ‘17 270w

=Outlook= 117:510 N 28 ‘17 40w

“Her first-hand knowledge of an eastern country, and a talent for describing men and places, give to such books as ‘On the face of the waters’ an interest which will outlast the author’s life. But ‘Marmaduke,’ is in a different category, being outside the sphere of personal experience. ... The habit, inveterate in both hero and heroine, of diving into seas and rivers from high places when they get the chance, with other features of this book, suggests the cinematograph.”

– + =Sat R= 124:30 Jl 14 ‘17 640w

“The story is not only Victorian in its setting, but its treatment recalls at times the exuberant sentiment of Smedley and the author of ‘Guy Livingstone.’”

+ — =Spec= 119:15 Jl 7 ‘17 500w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 420w

“It is a tale that engages the interest, in spite of much inaccuracy, much infelicity, much worn coin in Mrs Steel’s English prose.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p310 Je 28 ‘17 300w

=STEELE, DAVID MCCONNELL.= Going abroad overland; studies of places and people in the far West. il *$1.50 (3½ c) Putnam 917.8 17-5855

This book of travel is based on three journeys across the North American continent and back. The author, a Philadelphia clergyman, has written it “to acquaint the denizens of eastern districts with their neighbors, far removed but close allied, their fellow-citizens of the Far West.” Contents: Going abroad overland; Following the setting sun; The city of the holy faith; Grand Canyon, the Titan of chasms; A Sunday at Lake Tahoe; The city without a soul; In the land of the Dakotas; A week in Glacier national park, etc.

“Superior to the ordinary because of its keen observations, its accurate facts, its delightful style and its subtle humor.” G. F.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 24 ‘17 750w

“Part of the book appeared in weekly instalments in the Philadelphia press.”

+ =Cleveland= p98 Jl ‘17 50w

“Unique among such volumes as have yet appeared of American travel articles. Each chapter describes a scene or city, the whole illustrated by many photogravures. Readers are shown that they can really travel, can see and know and feel places and people foreign to their previous experience—all without leaving North America.”

+ =Ind= 90:439 Je 2 ‘17 60w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:30 F ‘17

“Not essential to small libraries but readable.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:123 Ap ‘17 80w

=STEINER, BERNARD CHRISTIAN.= Life of Henry Winter Davis. $1.50 Murphy, J: 16-14479

“Henry Winter Davis (1817-1865) is the last of the great congressional leaders of the Civil war period to find a biographer. ... The first three chapters, which are autobiographical, give an interesting picture of Davis’s boyhood and his life as a student at Kenyon college and at the University of Virginia. Dr Steiner himself covers the period from 1840 to 1865, treating in detail the various stages in his hero’s political career, as a Whig, a Know Nothing, a Constitutional Unionist and a Republican. New light is thrown upon a number of questions, especially upon the so-called Wade-Davis bill and the Wade-Davis manifesto, both of which, as Dr Steiner shows, were primarily the work of Davis and should more properly be described by the term Davis-Wade.”—Am Pol Sci R

“Should let in a strong light on some of the darkest places of politics in Maryland.” W: A. Dunning

=Am Hist R= 22:417 Ja ‘17 700w

“Dr Steiner’s book is extremely sympathetic. In fact, if there is any fault to be found at all, it would be that it is too sympathetic, or, in other words, that it is not sufficiently critical. ... When we consider, however, that the unfavorable aspects of Davis’s career have been fully represented by Nicolay and Hay, Gideon Welles, and others, we ought perhaps, after all, to be grateful for this excellent plea for the defense. ... All students of the Civil war and reconstruction will welcome the scholarly addition to the growing literature of that period.” W. R. Smith

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:167 F ‘17 550w

+ =Bul of Bibliography= 9:87 O ‘16 150w

=STEINER, EDWARD ALFRED.= My doctor dog. il *50c Revell 18-1116

“Over in the Carpathian mountains where Prof. Edward A. Steiner began his remarkable career, there is a strong belief among the peasants that certain dogs have the power of effecting cures where learned doctors are helpless. Dr Steiner—only he wasn’t wearing any title then, but was just a little curly-headed Hebrew lad—had such a dog. Perhaps he had forgotten it, or had overlooked its literary possibilities, until one day in a college settlement hospital in a city in America he came upon the same superstition, and it called up old memories. That evening around the fire-place in the college social room he told the story to the girls. Now he has told it again in book form as a tale within a tale.”—Springf’d Republican

“When the author forgets himself and his intrusive audience he gives a picture of the dirty, beautiful, simple village and its peasant population which is as engaging as it is convincing. But the frame of this picture is as distracting as it is foolishly ornate. After all, the story is the thing and not the story-teller’s sentimental associations or his ethical convictions.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:500 N 25 ‘17 180w

“Lovers of dogs and of dog stories will make a mistake if they do not read this little volume.”

+ =Outlook= 117:432 N 14 ‘17 50w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 8 ‘17 230w

=STEINER, JESSE FREDERICK.= Japanese invasion; a study in the psychology of interracial contacts. *$1.25 McClurg 325.7 17-7214

In his introduction Robert E. Park of the University of Chicago says, “This book is an attempt to study the phenomenon of race prejudice and national egotism, so far as it reveals itself in the relations of the Japanese and the Americans in this country, and to estimate the role it is likely to play in the future relations of the two countries. So far as I know, an investigation of precisely this nature has not hitherto been made.” The author, who spent seven years in Japan as a teacher in a mission college, writes of: Our first acquaintance with the Japanese; The Japanese attitude toward the West; The closing of the open door; The problem from the Japanese viewpoint; The Japanese “menace”; The isolation of Japanese in America; The reaction of the Japanese to American economic conditions; Organization and solidarity of Japanese immigrants; The problem of intermarriage; The Japanese in America as a race problem; The world significance of waking Asia. There is a bibliography of representative books and articles, followed by an index.

“This book is a very valuable contribution to the means for correctly estimating the present American-Japanese situation. The author displays a thorough knowledge of his subject and much skill and judgment in his handling of it.” H: P. Fairchild

+ =Am J Soc= 23:548 Ja ‘18 350w

“The work is well documented and has a fairly complete bibliography (14p.).”

=A L A Bkl= 13:378 Je ‘17

“The most valuable portions of Mr Steiner’s book are chapters discussing the attitude in various sections of the United States toward Japanese residents, the reaction of the Japanese to American economic conditions, the organization and solidarity of Japanese immigrants, and the problem of intermarriage.” F: A. Ogg

=Dial= 62:430 My 17 ‘17 1300w

“His treatment of the Californian situation is characteristic. He does not blame this government, state or national; he is interested in tracing and diagnosing a condition. He discusses the Japanese as human beings; not as the menacing abstractions which plague Californian imaginations. The last chapter, The significance of waking Asia, is a forceful and fitting close to an extraordinarily suggestive book.”

+ =Nation= 105:517 N 8 ‘17 540w

=New Repub= 11:117 My 26 ‘17 190w

=Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 8 ‘17 300w

“Sober, restrained, informing, useful.” H: R. Mussey

+ =Survey= 39:47 O 13 ‘17 870w

=STEINMETZ, CHARLES PROTEUS.=[2] America and the new epoch. *$1 (2c) Harper 330.9 16-21734

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

“Mr Steinmetz, who is by birth and training a German—of Prussia—eliminates, both in his historical surveys and in his study of America’s present condition and future possibilities, all consideration of spiritual forces. He interprets history, and therefore of course the present situation in the United States, solely in terms of material tendencies, material forces, material results.” F. F. Kelly

+ =Bookm= 45:180 Ap ‘17 450w

“Dr Steinmetz has that rare and suggestive vision of the Socialist who is at the same time a great inventive engineer and an active officer in one of our most advanced and successful industrial corporations. He is personally engaged in fashioning the corporation out of which he hopes the industrial state will be built. His socialism might be called a ‘corporation syndicalism,’ for what he outlines is a union of huge corporations into whose hands will be entrusted the productive work of the nation.” R. S. Bourne

+ =Dial= 62:134 F 22 ‘17 440w

=Ind= 90:85 Ap 7 ‘17 180w

“The economic interpretation of history is pressed to its uttermost limits. Along with much that is bizarre, the book contains illuminating passages. The author is at his worst when he deals in historical generalizations, but when he touches more concrete matters he is not infrequently acute and penetrating.”

+ — =Nation= 104:557 My 3 ‘17 310w

“A book that ought to command the most serious study and thought of every economist in America.” C. M. W.

+ =N Y Call= p15 Mr 18 ‘17 620w

“The book gains no little of its large value from this quality of personal testimony by a qualified observer who has experienced both systems. As such he has taken and presents a bird’s-eye view of world industries, and speaks industrially where all others are speaking in terms of politics, war, and diplomacy. It is a stimulating volume presenting points of view which ought not to be so novel.”

+ =N Y Times= 21:574 D 31 ‘16 800w

=STEINMETZ, CHARLES PROTEUS.= Theory and calculation of electric circuits. il *$3 McGraw 621.31 17-9822

“Doctor Steinmetz is America’s best known authority in the field of electrical mathematics. In revising his well known ‘Alternating current phenomena’ for the fifth edition, the great increase in size made it necessary to divide the work into three parts, of which the present work is the second. ‘In the following volume I have discussed the most important characteristics of the fundamental conception of electrical engineering, such as electric conduction, magnetism, wave shape, the meaning of reactance and similar terms, the problems of stability and instability of electric systems, etc., and have given a more extended application of the method of complex quantities, which the experience of these twenty years has shown to be the most powerful tool in dealing with alternating current phenomena.’ (Preface)”—N Y P L New Tech Bks

=Bul N Y Public Library= 21:484 Jl ‘17 100w

“An authoritative treatise.”

+ =Cleveland= p109 S ‘17 40w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:76 My ‘17

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p9 Ap ‘17 130w

=Pittsburgh= 22:659 O ‘17 30w

=STEMPEL, GUIDO HERMANN=, comp. and ed. Book of ballads, old and new. (English readings for schools) il 60c Holt 821.08 17-13306

These ballads are grouped under the headings: Old ballads; American ballads; New ballads. The four “American ballads” are reprinted from Lomax’s “Cowboy songs and other frontier ballads” (1910). The “new ballads” range from Campbell, Hood and Lady Nairne, to Kipling, Lowell, Masefield, Newbolt, Noyes, Whittier, etc. There is an introduction, mainly historical, followed by a “descriptive bibliography” of two pages. Appended are 102 pages of “notes and comment”; and a glossary.

“There are fewer of the old ballads, altho much the same ones as those chosen by Professor Hart [in his “English popular ballads,” 1916].”

=Ind= 91:230 Ag 11 ‘17 90w

“The introduction treats vexed questions of origins fairly and clearly. It strikes us as distinctly the best introduction to the subject we have seen.”

+ =Nation= 105:263 S 6 ‘17 80w

=STEPHENS, HENRY MORSE, and BOLTON, HERBERT EUGENE=, eds. Pacific ocean in history. *$4 (3c) Macmillan 904 17-5822

A volume containing papers and addresses presented at the Panama-Pacific historical congress held at San Francisco, Berkeley, and Palo Alto, California, July 19-23, 1915. A brief outline of the history and plan of the congress is given in the introduction. The body of the book is given up wholly to the papers and addresses of the general and special sessions. Among the subjects covered at some of the special sessions were: The Philippine Islands and their history as a part of the history of the Pacific ocean area; The north-western states, British Columbia, and Alaska in their relations with the Pacific ocean; Spanish-America and the Pacific ocean; Japan and Australasia. There is an index that seems to be unusually complete.

“Among the addresses those by H. Morse Stephens on the Conflict of European nations in the Pacific, by Rafael Altamira y Crevea on the Share of Spain in the history of the Pacific ocean, and by Theodore Roosevelt on the Panama canal are noteworthy. The paper by Professor Murakami, on Japan’s early attempts to establish commercial relations with Mexico, embodying his investigations in the archives of Spain, Italy, and Japan, is perhaps the most interesting of all the contributions.” W: R. Shepherd

+ =Am Hist R= 22:846 Jl ‘17 1000w

=A L A Bkl= 14:55 N ‘17

“For its condensed summary of historical facts the book should be of use to students.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 16 ‘17 70w

“The student of American history will find these papers of most absorbing interest.”

+ =Cath World= 105:399 Je ‘17 190w

“Much of the book is not of interest to the layman. But this is not true of the opening address of Professor Stephens, in which he discourses upon the conflict of European nations in the Pacific. His wide view of international relations of the past four hundred years may well enlarge the horizon of many a casual reader.”

+ =Dial= 63:646 D 20 ‘17 330w

“Sixteen of the twenty-nine contributions are by Californians—a fact which explains both the strength and the weakness of the volume. The unfortunate absence of South Americans, of Australians, and of Chinese, though some had been expected to appear, deprived the Congress and its printed record of any claim to represent the ‘Pacific ocean in history.’ Taken singly the average standard of the various papers is distinctly commendable.”

+ — =Nation= 105:541 N 15 ‘17 1500w

+ =R of Rs= 56:108 Jl ‘17 120w

=St Louis= 15:186 Je ‘17

“A useful service for those interested in world politics has been performed in the publication of the minutes and papers of the Panama-Pacific historical congress of 1915. ... All the strings of world diplomacy meet in the Pacific as they do nowhere else.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 22 ‘17 750w

=STEPHENS, WINIFRED.= Madame Adam (Juliette Lamber); la grande Française; from Louis Philippe until 1917. il *$4 Dutton (Eng ed 18-1178)

“The founder and editor for twenty years of La Nouvelle Revue, the mistress of a political salon, and the friend through more than half a century of leaders of French life and thought, a passionate advocate of self-government and of nationalism, Madame Adam is one of the most notable women of the Europe of to-day. She is here presented to us by one who has written and lectured a good deal about France and French history, and who has had the advantage of Mme Adam’s personal acquaintance and interest in the present work. Her main authority, however, is, of course, Mme Adam’s seven volumes of ‘Souvenirs.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“Of great interest, and particularly well worth reading at the present time.”

+ =Ath= p473 S ‘17 100w

=Outlook= 117:652 D 19 ‘17 120w

“A most comprehensive account of her varied and spectacular career.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:200 F ‘18 520w

“It was Madame Adam who first suggested and later engineered her country’s alliance with Russia.”

* =Sat R= 124:68 Jl 28 ‘17 1350w

“We are glad to see this interesting biography of Mme Adam, one of the most remarkable women of her time. She has played a considerable part in French journalism and politics from the days of the Second empire. She was the trusted friend of George Sand and Gambetta and many other eminent people, and she has been a protagonist of the woman’s movement in its largest sense, and of the Revanche for 1870, which is now at last to be realized. As founder and editor for twenty years of the Nouvelle Revue (1879-99), she did much to consolidate the Third republic and to stimulate that wonderful revival of French national spirit which has been manifested in this war.”

* + =Spec= 119:142 Ag 11 ‘17 1500w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p322 Jl 5 ‘17 110w

“Mme Adam’s own ‘Souvenirs’ end with the year 1880, and though they stand as the main authority Miss Stephens’s book is primarily valuable as filling up the gap of nearly forty years; and here the author has had important aid from Mme Adam herself, from Sir Sidney Colvin, and from other contemporaries. The book is also to be welcomed because it is admirably written ... with a gaiety and zest not often to be found in such generous measure among biographers.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p329 Jl 12 ‘17 1100w

=STEPNIAK, pseud. (SERGIEI MIKHAILOVICH KRAVCHINSKII).= New convert; a drama in four acts; tr. from the Russian by T: B. Eyges. $1 Stratford co. 891.7 17-9135

A play of the early days of the Russian revolutionary movement. The author, says Prince Peter Kropotkin in his introduction, “was one of the pioneers who decided to ‘go to the people.’ Disguised as a laborer, he mingled among the peasants in the villages. At the beginning of the so-called ‘terrorist’ movement he was one of its pioneers and heroes.” In the play it is a young girl of good family who follows this course. Her father casts her off and disowns her, but his love for her is so great that when he finds her in danger, he takes her into his house and tries to shield her. In so doing he is himself won over to the Nihilist cause, becoming the new convert.

“It is unfortunate that the translation abounds in foreign English and in all kinds of blunders. With a modicum of proper editing, it would be a very actable and interesting play.”

=Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ‘17 300w

“It is well worth reading at this time as a first-hand document of the pioneer labor for Russian liberty. But, if the truth must be told, it is not likely that this play will add to Stepniak’s literary reputation. ... Yet there is much beauty in the play, a warm sympathy pervades the whole and that big simplicity which emanates from all of Russia’s great men. An hour with ‘The new convert’ will be well spent.” T: Seltzer

+ — =N Y Call= p14 Ap 15 ‘17 470w

=R of Rs= 56:102 Jl ‘17 80w

=STERN, MRS ELIZABETH GERTRUDE (LEVIN).= My mother and I. *$1 (4c) Macmillan 17-16442

A story of the Americanizing of a young Jewess, whose father, a rabbi, and whose self-sacrificing little mother, came from a small town in Russian Poland to the ghetto of a city in the Middle West. The one cellar room which was their first home, the girl’s days in the grammar and high school, her discovery of “Little women” in a rag shop, and later of the public library, are simply but vividly pictured. She wins a scholarship and works her way through college, only to find life in the ghetto insupportable; and to leave home to study settlement work in New York. There she meets her husband, and after the birth of their son, the old mother takes her first long trip in 25 years to see her daughter as “an American woman at the head of an American home” and to experience “an infinite loneliness” because she cannot understand the new ways and the new people. “And yet,” writes the daughter, “if I am truly part of America, it was mother, she who does not understand America, who made me so.” The introduction is by Theodore Roosevelt.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:24 O ‘17

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 45:649 Ag ‘17 440w

“The remarkable charm of the book lies in the daughter’s faithful picture of the mother and in her appreciation of what the Americanization of the foreign-born means in pain and separation.”

+ =Cleveland= p100 Jl ‘17 90w

“Describes the loftier and rarer aspect of immigration.”

+ =Dial= 63:402 O 25 ‘17 90w

+ =Ind= 91:351 S 1 ‘17 240w

“What affects one just a little unpleasantly is the predominance of pride over tears in the countenance of the narrator as she shakes from her feet the dust of her father’s house and goes to dwell forevermore in the tents of the Americans. The completeness of her break with the ghetto left some precious things behind.”

– + =Nation= 105:224 Ag 30 ‘17 880w

“The note struck in Mrs Stern’s book appears to be a more sincere one than that sounded by Miss Antin, because, though the narrative is a personal one, the reader is not oppressed by the ego of the writer.” M. G. S.

+ =N Y Call= p15 S 9 ‘17 280w

“The book is well worth while. Not only because of the picture it gives of the Americanized second generation, ... but also because of the excellent style. ... The best thing in the book is the beautifully tender portrayal of the relation between the mother and daughter, a relation which is at once an idyl and a tragedy.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:255 Jl 8 ‘17 600w

=Pittsburgh= 22:744 N ‘17 50w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 10 ‘17 350w

“Perhaps an even more useful service of the book will be to open some blind young eyes to the true worth and value of their parents.” K. H. Claghorn

+ =Survey= 39:48 O 13 ‘17 330w

=STERN, FRANCES, and SPITZ, GERTRUDE T.= Food for the worker. *$1 Whitcomb & B. 613.2 17-13100

This book is devoted to the problem of how to provide sufficient nutritious food at a low cost. The authors say, “Our contribution towards answering the question is this series of menus, with food values and costs for a period of seven weeks.” The book is not adapted for use by the average untrained housewife in the type of family for which the menus are planned. It will be most useful in the hands of the visiting housekeeper or other social worker. In fact its preparation is due in part to the experience of one of the authors as a visiting housekeeper. Lafayette B. Mendel of Sheffield scientific school has written a foreword commending the book.

“Practical, usable, intelligently planned, for the aid of housewives catering on a working man’s income, and useful to the teacher, visiting housekeeper or social worker. Reprints ‘How to build a fireless cooker’ from Form 776 States relations service. Bibliography. (2p.).”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:12 O ‘17

+ =Cleveland= p20 F ‘18 20w

+ =Pratt= p26 O ‘17 20w

“Should fill a great need at the present time.” Graham Lusk

+ =Science= n s 46:18 Jl 6 ‘17 170w

“A direct contribution to the literature of both social service and home economics. Presents in small compass clear and scientific material that will be invaluable for anyone who is responsible for the feeding of families who through force of circumstances must keep to a limited food allowance. ... A book for the trained worker, but the untrained may find in it much to shed light upon their pathways.” W. S. Gibbs

+ =Survey= 38:373 Jl 28 ‘17 180w

=STERNE, ELAINE.= Road of ambition. il *$1.35 (1c) Britton pub. 17-13078

Big Bill Matthews is foreman in a steel mill when the story opens. He is a newly elected governor at its close. But unlike many another man who has trod the road to ambition, he does not find achievement bitter, for Bill’s aim is always to help his fellow men, and his way is made bright by the love of the woman who had been the lady of his early dreams. When he first saw Daphne Van Steer, he had no thought of anything but worship from afar. Then came the success of his invention, his fortune, his education in the ways of the world at the hands of May Larrabee, and eventually his marriage with Daphne. For her it was not a marriage of love, in the beginning—that came later.

“Just the book for the reader who likes a story with plenty of thrills and a happy ending.”

+ =Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 50w

“Elaine Sterne has written the sort of story which we are glad to have from an American novelist. Such a story could have been written more effectively by a man, but one is willing to pass over certain feminisms in the discussion of business for the sake of the story itself, which is engrossing.”

+ — =Dial= 63:280 S 27 ‘17 200w

“A first novel, and a promising one. It is ambitious, faulty, of course, but interesting, with some well written, natural dialogue, and a dramatic quality which, as often happens in the work of novices—and of experienced writers, too—occasionally spills over the line which separates the dramatic from the merely melodramatic. The opening chapters are the best.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:195 My 20 ‘17 350w

Reviewed by R. D. Moore

=Pub W= 91:1318 Ap 21 ‘17 370w

=STERRETT, FRANCES ROBERTA.= William and Williamina. il *$1.40 (2c) Appleton 17-25816

The heroine of this story, Williamina, a friendly little girl of ten, was found when a baby, by William Kirwin, in a rowboat, after a dreadful storm. Kirwin had gone to live in the country because of weak lungs, and, even when cured, seemed to have no desire to mix again with people. Williamina filled his life and he filled Williamina’s. Yet it was partly due to her that he finally returned to a busier and more conventional existence. Some of the other characters are: Helen Spafford, a school-teacher, who wants to try gardening; Mrs Macartney, who runs a chicken farm; Marietta White, who overworked at college and is taking an enforced rest; Imogene Grace Butters, the stout trained nurse; Mr Brewer, who has no use for “fool females”; Bob Brown, who is hurt in an automobile accident; Hunter Olney, the rich breakfast food man; and tall young Doctor Grey with his “shock of sandy hair.” There are three rather slight love affairs in the book, but the main interest centers in Williamina, who wishes that she and William “should always love each other and really belong to each other and live together happily forever and a day.”

“Williamina is amusing at times, and not quite so aggressively virtuous as some children in fiction.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:484 N 18 ‘17 250w

=STETSON, JAMES FRANCIS LYNDE, and others.= Some legal phases of corporate financing, reorganization and regulation. *$2.75 Macmillan 338.8 17-7837

“A volume of addresses delivered in 1916 by recognized leaders of the legal profession at the instance of the Association of the bar of the city of New York, to audiences drawn from practicing lawyers. Mr Stetson contributes a lengthy paper concerning the preparation of corporate bonds, mortgages, collateral trusts and debenture indentures. ... Mr Byrne supplies an exceptionally valuable treatise on the foreclosure of railroad mortgages in the United States courts. ... Mr Cravath treats of the reorganization of corporations; bondholders’ and stockholders’ protective committees; reorganization committees; and the voluntary recapitalization of corporations. ... Mr Wickersham deals with the Sherman anti-trust law. ... Mr Montague writes about the Federal trade commission and the Clayton act. Mr Coleman and Mr Guthrie discuss the public service commissions.”—Ann Am Acad

“It deals with particular problems in the peculiarly narrow and intensive manner of legal procedure. This is its great merit, but it is also the reason why the broader economic aspects of the problems treated are either totally disregarded or else disposed of with only a few phrases. Yet within their field of legal literature most of these essays are remarkably comprehensive; in fact, several of them, notably Cravath’s on reorganizations, are certainly unrivaled in the sphere of legal finance.” A. S. Dewing

+ =Am Econ R= 7:645 S ‘17 1150w

“If the volume contained nothing but Mr Byrne’s treatise, it would still be an important addition to legal literature.” J: L. Sullivan

+ =Ann Am Acad= 72:231 Jl ‘17 250w

=Cleveland= p92 Jl ‘17 30w

“Although stated to be designed primarily for the practical guidance of practicing lawyers, [these addresses] will be of interest and value to students of corporation problems, the trust problem, and public utilities. The three on corporation problems are by far the most interesting to the economist. With the exception of the last address on public utilities, the other addresses tend to be mainly descriptive, with little analysis.”

+ =J Pol Econ= 25:756 Jl ‘17 500w

“If ‘a priori’ reasoning is a peculiar weakness of lawyers, there is no trace of it in the legal field ploughed through in the first three essays. The practical corporation lawyer ... begins with a very concrete picture of the result he wishes to attain. He draws upon a wide practical experience to point out the simplest and surest way of bringing the result about. Very different is the situation in the field of public law described in the remaining four essays. Here we are not yet out of the domain of dogma, of question-begging phrases, of concepts that bear the appearance of self-evident truths, but dissolve into meaningless verbiage when we try to apply them to flesh and blood.” G. C. Henderson

=New Repub= 11:192 Je 16 ‘17 1350w

=STEVENS, RUTH DAVIS, and STEVENS, DAVID HARRISON=,[2] eds. American patriotic prose and verse. *$1.25 McClurg 811.08 17-28105

The selections in this book are arranged chronologically to conform with the history of our country. In addition to this strictly historical material, selections suitable for the patriotic holidays are included. Each selection is accompanied by a brief note, giving biographical and other data.

“Chiefly valuable for its timeliness, and while it is not without certain historical examples of the kind, it would have been more suitable if chosen with greater care and judgment.” W. S. B.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p9 D 5 ‘17 40w

=Cleveland= p134 D ‘17 40w

=STEVENS, WILLIAM HARRISON SPRING.= Unfair competition; a study of certain practices, with some reference to the trust problem in the United States of America. *$1.50 Univ. of Chicago press 338.8 17-9697

“‘Unfair competition’ is an expansion of the author’s two articles which originally appeared in the Political Science Quarterly for 1914. The new matter consists chiefly of added illustrations of cases of the different methods of unfair competition, the listing of a new heading called ‘Interference,’ and the expansion of the conclusion, where especial attention is given to the trust legislation of 1914 as it relates to this subject.” (J Pol Econ) “The text analyzes many types of unfair competition and gives the concrete and specific facts, as well as the principles involved. It is a valuable companion volume for the compilation by Davies.” (Int J Ethics)

“The chapter on ‘Exclusive arrangements’ is, in the writer’s opinion, the weakest chapter of the book, as these arrangements, while classified and considered separately, are adjudged equally objectionable. The book is replete with illustrations, is written in an interesting style, and will be welcomed by all interested in this important subject.” J. E. Hagerty

+ — =Am J Soc= 23:274 S ‘17 570w

=A L A Bkl= 14:114 Ja ‘18

“Dr Stevens has done a real public service by placing in convenient form an assembly of facts on this problem. The tone of the book is not that of an arraignment or accusation. The author shows neither indignation nor heat—he seeks in guarded language to establish the facts.” J. T. Young

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:783 N ‘17 450w

“It is patent that Stevens is not a proponent of large industrial combinations simply because they are large, and he carries the convictions of one who has investigated carefully the methods by which, fortunately or unfortunately, big business has grown. The logical soundness of some of his assertions is tinged by a super-vigilant search for recondite motives on the part of business; but he is not unfair.” Frank Parker

+ =Ann Am Acad= 74:295 N ‘17 350w

+ =Ind= 91:133 Jl 28 ‘17 160w

+ =Int J Ethics= 27:534 Jl ‘17 50w

“The volume is sound and timely and is the best presentation of the topic available. While the conclusions of Dr Stevens appear sound, additional weight would have been given them had he tried to set forth and refute in more detail the arguments sometimes advanced to justify the various methods of competition which he condemns.” C. W. Wright

+ =J Pol Econ= 25:629 Je ‘17 250w

=Pratt= p12 O ‘17 20w

=St Louis= 15:321 S ‘17 20w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 F 11 ‘18 300w

=STEVENSON, BURTON EGBERT.= King in Babylon. il *$1.50 (2c) Small 17-24692

“The story concerns a moving-picture producer and his determination to introduce imagination and art into his work. ... He built a plot about Henley’s lines, ‘I was a king in Babylon and you were a Christian slave.’ The production carried him and his company to Egypt, where a suitable setting was found in a royal tomb practically excavated by an American archaeologist. It is at this point that the seemingly supernatural enters the tale, giving an extraordinarily weird and gripping turn to the story.”—Dial

“The events are thrilling and well suggested, only the final act seems unreal.”

+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:134 Ja ‘18

“The author provides a rational explanation which is skillfully but not altogether convincingly worked out.”

+ — =Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 80w

“A thrilling story with a groundwork of common sense!... Instead of yielding to the easy trick of invoking the supernatural in order to gain his effect, the author skilfully erects a framework of logical explanation on which one may stand and enjoy the spectacular climax without danger of doing his intelligence injury.”

+ =Dial= 63:281 S 27 ‘17 180w

“Some readers may think the story rather long-drawn-out and tedious here and there. But it has the merit of originality in its treatment, if not in its main theme of reincarnation, and in general is of the thrilling stuff of which ‘best sellers’ are made.”

+ — =NY Times= 22:447 N 4 ‘17 610w

+ =Outlook= 117:184 O 3 ‘17 30w

“Appeared in McClure’s Magazine, v. 49, May-Oct. 1917.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:751 N ‘17 20w

“But the air of mystery and suspense surrounding the reincarnation theory is sustained until the very close, where a wholly plausible clue brings us breathlessly but safely back to sunlight on terra-firma.” Joseph Mosher

+ =Pub W= 92:2027 D 8 ‘17 280w

“Cleverly exploits the theory of reincarnation and blends the materialistic present with the mysteries and superstitions of antiquity.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 7 ‘17 300w

=STEVENSON, GEORGE.= Little world apart. *$1.25 (1c) Lane 17-7457

A novel made up of little things. Applethwaite is a country parish that constitutes a little world in itself. The great lady of the neighborhood, the vicar and his family, the farm folk and the serving maids all have a place in the story, so that at its close one feels very well acquainted with all Applethwaite. Into this little world comes a strange woman from the world outside to make friends with the vicar’s family and start tongues a-wagging. In its ending there is a touch of sadness, but the sadness is tinged with hope. Victoria is queen at the time of the story.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:171 F ‘18

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 3 ‘17 170w

“One does not read of Applethwaite for the sake of its plot or plots, but for the sheer joy of tarrying and gossiping there. Like ‘Cranford’ and ‘Old Chester tales,’ ‘A little world apart’ is ‘rich in veined humanity.’”

+ =N Y Times= 22:126 Ap 8 ‘17 450w

“A most delightful account of life in a country village in, presumably, the ‘eighties’ of the last century. The character drawing is most delicately finished, and the author has a fresh and discriminating sense of humor.”

+ =Spec= 118:210 F 17 ‘17 30w

“The author has a happy faculty of characterization, and it is to be regretted that he did not have a stronger center for his story.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 140w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p56 F 1 ‘17 450w

“Some very good character portraiture.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:222 Jl ‘17 40w

=STEVENSON, WILLIAM YORKE.= At the front in a flivver. il *$1.25 (2½c) Houghton 940.91 17-25614

The preface tells us that the author left a newspaper position in Philadelphia in 1916 to offer his services to France as driver of an ambulance. “He kept a rough diary which, as the occasion offered, he forwarded to his people. ... These notes are here published almost as jotted down.” The scene of his experiences was in the neighborhood of the Somme.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:90 D ‘17

“No heroics or exaggeration mar this simple humorous record.”

+ =Cleveland= p1 Ja ‘18 60w

“Freshly written.”

+ — =Dial= 63:589 D 6 ‘17 300w

+ =N Y Times= 22:453 N 4 ‘17 570w

=Pittsburgh= 22:827 D ‘17 50w

“A document the very robustness and downright sincerity of which are a real joy to those who honestly want to be made to see.” Philip Tillinghast

+ =Pub W= 92:1388 O 20 ‘17 200w

“A strong vein of humor adds many lightening touches to the narrative. But in spite of these there is nowhere a denial of the seriousness of the situation confronting the Allies in their fight with the enemy.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 30 ‘17 520w

=STEWART, BASIL.= On collecting Japanese colour-prints; being an introduction to the study and collection of the colour-prints of the Ukiyoye school of Japan. il *$2 (9c) Dodd 761 17-26875

The author states that because most books on Japanese prints have apparently been written from the historical or artistic point of view, they are of little use to the inexperienced collector. He has, therefore, written this book primarily for the beginner, and refers the reader who wishes fuller information to Ficke’s “Chats on Japanese prints” or Von Seidlitz’s “History of Japanese colour-prints.” “Mr Stewart gives a brief survey of the history and production of prints, mentioning only the better-known artists. In the cases of Hokusai and Hiroshige the various series, states, and editions are enumerated.” (Dial) “The illustrations are from the author’s collection, and are in keeping with the scope of the book. Both the blocks and the text are printed in a brown ink.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) There is a chapter on Japanese chronology as applied to the dating of prints.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:84 D ‘17

“It is an artistic book and will prove useful to students.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 24 ‘17 730w

“‘On collecting Japanese colour-prints’ is intended for the amateur who is starting a collection, and as such it is a satisfactory handbook.”

+ =Dial= 63:352 O 11 ‘17 120w

“Will be found especially useful in the detection of forgeries, imitations, and reprints. The translations of the script and signatures upon the prints illustrated are a praiseworthy feature of this volume.”

+ =Int Studio= 63:85 D ‘17 110w

“Mr Stewart has not anything really new to tell us, though his information is usually accurate and his views sound.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p294 Je 21 ‘17 650w

=STILES, PAULINE.= New footprints in old places. il *$2 (2c) Elder 914.5 17-25821

It is to Italy, and in particular to Rome, where the author spent a winter, that the greater part of this book of travels is devoted. Her travels date back to 1913 and 1914, August, 1914 bringing them to a close. Contents: En route to Rome; First days in our Roman home; Rome—The mother of nations; Roman holidays; Rome and a new year; We travel in the south; Spring comes to Rome; Last Roman days; We become Parisians; Touraine and Belgium; We encounter London; War and England. There are eighteen illustrations.

“Travel books written in diary form are usually avoided by the experienced reader; this one, however, is exceptionally well done, and is quite charming both in the joyous enthusiasm of its descriptive matter and in the well-printed photographic illustration.”

+ =Outlook= 117:519 N 28 ‘17 40w

“Miss Stiles is a good letter writer, and there is nothing stilted in her word pictures of the most familiar places. Add to that fact that she saw some places that are not in the beaten track, and had the privilege of being a guest in various Roman houses where the mere tourist never goes, and the charm of the book is enhanced. Typography, illustrations, binding, all combine to make this a travel book above the average.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 230w

=STILES, PERCY GOLDTHWAIT.= Human physiology; a text-book for high schools and colleges. il *$1.50 Saunders 612 16-15031

“The announcement in the preface, the ‘purpose is to present concisely the accepted facts with only a limited description of the experiments by which these facts have been established,’ gives an idea of the scope and nature of the book. ... Little of historical importance is mentioned, the omission being purposeful.”—Science

“The book before us is an excellent attempt to provide a text-book for high schools. But, good as it is as an elementary account of the present state of physiological science, it cannot be regarded as altogether successful. It is apt to be dull and didactic rather than stimulating. ... It would be an improvement if a part of the wealth of the book in facts were sacrificed for a more intensive treatment of some of them. ... The book is remarkably free from errors.” W. M. Bayliss

+ — =Nature= 99:101 Ap 5 ‘17 880w

“On the whole, the book fulfills its particular purpose better than any other with which I am familiar. Writing such a book is a

## particularly difficult task, and the author has succeeded better than

most. There are many new diagrams of unusual clearness.” F. H. Pike

+ =Science= n s 45:482 My 18 ‘17 670w

=STIMSON, FREDERIC JESUP (J. S. OF DALE, pseud.).= Light of Provence. *$1.25 Putnam 812 17-14539

This dramatic poem pictures troubadour life and the French court in the thirteenth century. The foreword states that the drama is entirely historical, though the character of Douce is partly imaginary and Adelais is compounded of Adelaide, Countess of Burlatz and Ermengarde, Countess of Narbonne. It also lists the authorities on which the drama is based. Mr Stimson seems to have worked over it for sixteen years and then kept it by him for twenty-one more before publishing it.

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:108 Jl ‘17

“The plot traverses troubadour life at its best. ... By far the best portion of the play is the best in which troubadour courtly love is described. ... Mr Stimson’s diction is always good,—at times it is exquisite. ... But the last portion of the poem is too sanguinary to harmonize with the opening scenes.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 14 ‘17 290w

“‘The light of Provence’ is ‘a dramatic poem,’ not a poetic drama; and as for historical accuracy, none but a pedant will demand it when the author knows his subject so well as to give the profounder accuracy of spirit. That is the great merit of this poem. The author has so ‘soaked’ himself in old Provence that, externally, he sees it and makes his reader see it as vividly as if it were now before the eyes.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p378 Ag 9 ‘17 870w

=STIMSON, FREDERIC JESUP (J.S. OF DALE, pseud.).= My story; being the memoirs of Benedict Arnold. il *$2 (1c) Scribner 17-28796

Author and publisher have given to this book every mark of a genuine autobiographical work, yet have made no pretense that it is other than a work of fiction. It purports to be the life story of Benedict Arnold, written by his own hand, with the purpose of justifying his career in the eyes of the British king. Events of his public and private life are closely followed. He is represented as a Tory by nature, an aristocrat with no understanding of the more democratic aims of the revolution. To see the colonies self governing under the British king, was from the beginning his ideal, and the alliance with the British which has branded him as traitor appears to have been

## partly motivated by a desire to bring about this end.

“There is artistic mastery in the way in which the bumptious assertions of loyalty to ‘my King’ are followed by apparently half-unconscious expressions of pride in the achievements of the Americans. ... Arnold’s love story is touched upon with a simple tenderness that adds to the tragedy of the whole. And the revelation of his gradual tempting is a masterly piece of work.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:465 N 11 ‘17 800w

“Arnold’s nature is admirably portrayed.”

+ =Outlook= 117:514 N 28 ‘17 120w

“Though presented in the guise of a novel, one of the most important as well as most graphic historical books of the year.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 18 ‘17 1300w

=STIRLING, YATES.= Fundamentals of naval service. il *$2 (1c) Lippincott 359 17-13524

This book “has been prepared to serve as a manual to those of our citizens who are interested in the United States navy and who may choose to serve their country on the water. ... The great increases in the personnel of the navy must be supplied in part from our inland states, where the navy and its work is little known; to the citizens of those states this book gives in a single volume information on naval matters possible to obtain only by the reading of many different volumes.” (Preface) The following special chapters have been contributed to the volume: The naval aeroplane, by Lieut. Comm. H. C. Mustin; Electricity in the navy, by Lieut. Comm. C. S. McDowell; First aid and hygiene, by Dr Ralph Walker McDowell.

“Short bibliographies at the head of the five parts into which the

## book is divided.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:430 Jl ‘17

+ =Ath= p522 O ‘17 360w

“A comprehensive up-to-date handbook.”

+ =Ind= 90:311 My 19 ‘17 40w

“Thanks to its clear print and thin Japan paper, ‘Fundamentals of naval service,’ despite its 564 pages, is a handy volume. As a piece of book work it reflects credit on its publishers. Commander Stirling’s facts are beyond question, and may be accepted; his opinions are his own. In professional matters they are sound, but we cannot always agree with him in those not professional, as, e.g., his advocacy of ship subsidies.”

+ =Nation= 105:323 S 20 ‘17 160w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:90 Je ‘17

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p15 Ap ‘17 100w

=Pratt= p15 O ‘17 50w

“The same excellent method by which Captain Andrews dealt with military affairs in a small volume, recently issued by the Lippincott Company, is followed in ‘Fundamentals of naval service,’ brought out by the same house.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:668 Je ‘17 80w

“Read by and published with the approval of the United States navy department, in which the author is an officer.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:182 Je ‘17 70w

=STOBART, MABEL ANNIE (BOULTON) (MRS ST CLAIR STOBART).= Flaming sword in Serbia and elsewhere. il *$1.75 Doran 940.91 (Eng ed 17-19162)

Mrs Stobart, who had spent four years “on the free veldt of the South African Transvaal,” returned to London and offered a Woman’s unit to the Belgian Red cross, went to Brussels and was captured, together with her husband, by the Germans, and condemned to death. They escaped to London, but were back in Belgium in three weeks. “Arriving in Antwerp three weeks before the bombardment Mrs Stobart lost all her hospital material there, offered her services to the French Red cross, established herself at Cherbourg, worked there for four months, and then, in February, 1915, resolved to volunteer for Serbia, starting from Liverpool on April 1. The unit numbered forty-five. ... Most of the book is devoted to this final adventure and its sequel: the terrible march over the Albanian mountains to Skutari and the sea—‘through snow, ice, boulders, unbroken forest, mud-holes, bridgeless rivers.’” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

“If we had to choose between ‘The Anabasis’ and Mrs Stobart’s ‘Diary of the Serbian retreat’ the vote would be preponderatingly in favor of the latter, not only as a piece of literature, but as an account of difficulties surmounted, of bravery unexcelled, of human agony described, of cheerfulness in the most depressing circumstances, of adaptability when there would seem to have been almost no escape, of feminine practicality that won the admiration of the most sceptical. Amid all the literature called forth by the Great war this epic account of the Katabasis of the Serbians and of the hospital unit conducted by Mrs Stobart will best deserve to be a classic in the millenniums to come. ... It is the most telling document against war that the war has produced, it shows the horror of it, and it shows the futility of it. ... The book sparkles with wit and has amusing passages, and it fills one with admiration for its stories of gallant deeds of heroism—not in the taking of life, but in saving life.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 5 ‘17 1200w

+ =Cleveland= p130 D ‘17 90w

“Her graphic narrative and observations come to us with the weight of the best authority.”

+ =Ind= 92:342 N 17 ‘17 130w

“Much more than the usual narrative of war relief work. Hating war and all its methods supremely, she has done not a little thinking about it, especially about woman’s relations with it. ... Mrs Stobart was the first woman in history to mobilize and command a field hospital in war.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:348 S 16 ‘17 400w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:827 D ‘17 70w

“Mrs St Clair Stobart has written an admirable book.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p636 D 28 ‘16 750w

=STODDARD, CHARLES WARREN.= Poems; collected by Ina Coolbrith. il *$1.25 Lane 811 17-21944

Miss Coolbrith states in her Foreword that in 1909, at Stoddard’s death, she volunteered to edit his poems “inclusive of the volume of verse published in 1867,” together with all that had appeared since, on the understanding that Mr Stoddard “had himself collected and arranged them for this purpose.” No such book was found among his effects, and as the files of local magazines and newspapers have been largely destroyed in the San Francisco fire of 1906, and no clue existed to non-local publications in which they might have appeared, Miss Coolbrith’s task has been a long, difficult one. Some of the poems in the volume are on the South Seas which Stoddard so loved, and some are on California. The book opens with tributes in verse by Joaquin Miller, George Sterling, Thomas Walsh, and Ina Coolbrith. The frontispiece is a portrait of the author.

“Forty years ago William Dean Howells said of Charles Warren Stoddard’s prose writings that they had in them ‘the very make of the tropic spray, which knows not if it be sea or sun.’ The same elusive charm, at once refreshing and languishing, opulently rich and inexpressibly delicate, characterizes Stoddard’s poetry. ... In these poems we catch glimpses of the inner man even more revealing than any given in his other books.”

+ =Cath World= 105:822 S ‘17 700w

“Miss Coolbrith was a co-worker with Stoddard and Bret Harte on the staff of The Overland Monthly, and, as she is, herself, a lyricist of unquestioned merit, and laureate of ‘The golden state,’ crowned at the recent exposition, she is well equipt to judge which poems of all that Stoddard wrote should be collected and preserved. The volume includes the best of his verse, the famous ‘Bells of San Gabriel,’ ‘Tamalpais’ and the sonnet ‘Yosemite.’”

+ =Ind= 92:66 O 8 ‘17 100w

“There is singularly little that is antiquated about these poems, though some of them were dated from the early 60’s. Stoddard was a supreme artist in verse as well as in prose, and was well in advance of his time in his entire sincerity and lack of literary pose.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:449 N 4 ‘17 600w

=STODDARD, THEODORE LOTHROP.= Present-day Europe: its national states of mind. map *$2 (3c) Century 940.91 17-14686

This book, the author states, is not a story of current events, but a study of “the war psychology of the various European nations.” It covers England, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Russia, the Balkan states, Turkey, Scandinavia, Belgium, Holland, Spain, and Portugal. The author believes that “the only satisfactory method of portraying thought and emotion is the use of direct evidence,” therefore, he has quoted freely from contemporary speeches, press-comment, pamphlets, etc. The narrative takes us to the opening months of 1917.

=A L A Bkl= 14:21 O ‘17

“Throughout his investigation Mr Stoddard seems to have preserved a scrupulously scientific attitude of mind. Indeed it is impossible to determine from his book whether his sympathies are with Germany or with the Entente. Those who wish an intelligent understanding of the problems that will arise around the international council table when the nations meet to settle the terms of peace will find ‘Present-day Europe’ both informative and suggestive.” R. T. P.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 6 ‘17 1200w

“The value of such a study depends on the judgment with which the excerpts are selected. Mr Stoddard’s judgment is excellent.”

+ =Nation= 105:434 O 18 ‘17 260w

“An extremely valuable work, valuable because its subject matter is in itself new, and has not been treated in the ordinary run of war literature. Of course, such a subject is extremely difficult to handle, and its accuracy cannot be more than loosely guaranteed. It is an approximation, but an approximation under the circumstances is the only thing possible.” Joshua Wanhope

+ =N Y Call= p14 Je 17 ‘17 570w

“There is a powerful lesson in this volume, and it comes directly from the people themselves.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:294 Ag 12 ‘17 500w

“Dr Stoddard’s book is most interesting not in those passages wherein the author attempts by means of numerous citations of conflicting views to body forth contemporary public opinion, but rather in the purely historical parts. ... The author seems unable to do what a writer in close spiritual contact with the nations concerned could certainly do—that is, to give his readers some sure clue to the nature and motives of the prevailing national feeling. The result is a confusing medley of views.”

— =No Am= 206:482 S ‘17 470w

“In the chapters dealing with the greater nations only natives are allowed to testify; thus in the chapter on England only Englishmen speak, and in the chapter on France only Frenchmen. Not all observers of the conditions precedent to the war, however, will agree with this author’s conclusion that ‘everywhere ... the spirit of unrest was setting the stage for the final catastrophe, and that the catastrophe was ‘inevitable.’”

+ =Outlook= 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 90w

=Pratt= p42 O ‘17 30w

+ =R of Rs= 56:107 Jl ‘17 250w

=STONE, GILBERT.= England from the earliest times to the Great charter. (Great nations ser.) il *$3 Stokes 942 (Eng ed 17-26257)

“The present volume, which is the first of a series, treats of the history of England from earliest times to Magna carta. In this period the English race was being evolved, and the English constitution, as we to-day know it, was slowly struggling into being. The volume, indeed, is concerned with the birth of the English state.” (Preface) The work aims to treat of the social history of the English people as well as of political events. The method adopted has been to insert chapters dealing solely with the condition of literature, art and society in certain periods. A list of important dates and an index complete the work. A book by the author on “Wales” was published in 1915.

“A solid and authoritative piece of work, drawn largely from secondary sources. ... It is well illustrated and good for reference, but is not very readable.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:308 Ap ‘17

“Mr Stone has chosen a fascinating and extensive period of great historical value; he treats it fully from various points of view, and the illustrations, which are plentiful and well selected, will be of great use to his readers.”

+ =Ath= p53 Ja ‘17 30w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:23 F ‘17

“Through the mazes of Anglo-Saxon history Mr Stone, like everybody else, follows the unfailing guidance of Mr Plummer. ... This is the only chapter in which his readers have reason to complain that he has failed to make use of recent advances in historical criticism. This part of the book is marked by a knowledge of Welsh history which few, if any, of Mr Stone’s rivals have possessed, and he is able to throw fresh light upon some obscure incidents and questions. ... He is, throughout, specially happy in his exposition of legal conditions and legal reforms, and these passages, and his chapters on manners and customs, are always fresh.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p620 D 21 ‘16 450w

=STONE, GILBERT=, ed. Women war workers. il $1.65 (3c) Crowell 940.91 (Eng ed 17-21956)

In her foreword to this book Lady Jellicoe says: “The truth is, this is not a ‘men’s war,’ as wars have been hitherto, but one in which both sexes must share the burdens and responsibilities.” In these accounts, contributed by representative workers among British women in the more important branches of war employment, we learn of work done in munitions, on the land, as postwomen, as bank clerks, as butcher-boys (“Delivering the goods”). The second part of the book, entitled “Works of mercy” discusses nursing at the front and in the V. A. D. (Volunteer aid detachments) hospitals, the cheering of the men by entertainments and constructive work for the disabled, etc., and welfare work among the women. Chapter 11 is a tribute to the women of Paris during the German advance and