“A painstaking study of feminine character.”
“The story is very readable, the descriptions of the life of fifty years ago in the little New Jersey town being full of charm.” Mary K. Ford.
“Strikes a deeper note and is altogether of more serious quality than most of his productions.” Wm. M. Payne.
“Mr. Smith is nothing if not emphatic in delineating the characters of his new story; indeed so emphatic is he that readers quite lose the pleasure of discovering for themselves what the book people stand for. The author’s best work is in suggesting the atmosphere of the narrative.”
“His craftmanship, perhaps, is even better shown in this work than in most of his other novels.”
“The story goes wider and deeper than any of its predecessors; if with less perfection of construction than the short stories, it is the most ripe of the novels.”
“Mr. Hopkinson Smith has never done better work than in his delineation of Lucy’s character. The master’s hand is to be discerned in every stroke.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.
“Is unpleasant from beginning to end.”
Smith, Francis Hopkinson.Wood fire in no. 3.†$1.50. Scribner.
“It is an entertaining collection, and has been put together in a creditable manner.”
“Mr. Hopkinson Smith is as good a storyteller as ever, and as loyal an adherent of the old school that told a story for the story’s sake.”
“Whether in jocund or in serious mood, the recital is always dramatic, always brought home with a touch of tenderness and comprehension It is the quality of brotherliness in the book that makes its greatest charm; the stories are not hewn out of the brain, but caught out of the heart.”
“A highly creditable piece of work, a book for an hour’s light reading, with a day’s extent of deeper meanings and shades for those who care to seek for them.”
“These winter’s tales ... make a very comfortable sort of book for a meditative hour.”
Smith, Frank Berkeley.In London town. **$1.50. Funk.
“A passing glance in the crowd—the impressions which might have been gained by any traveller who crossed the Channel, hired a hansom at Charing Cross, and lost himself in the throng.” Mr. Smith’s observations are of the impressionistic order, and they flash from his pen and brush in gay procession; a peep into the hotels, theatres and music halls, Piccadilly by night and day—in truth all phases of life in the great British maelstrom make up the rapidly flitting panoramic view.
“Just as breathless, sparkling, superficial, and amusing as his Parisian sketches.”
“A book notable for sprightliness.”
“The total effect of the book is flashy and un-English.”
“We cannot say that his book on London quite equals his Paris books either in smartness or in verity.”
Smith, Frederick Edwin, and Sibley, N. W.International law as interpreted during the Russo-Japanese war. *$5. Boston bk.
“It is not well written; it is padded with irrelevant matter, and it is everywhere wordy. On the other hand, the authors follow Prof. Holland, a good guide, display research, and when they strike out a line for themselves occasionally carry the reader with them.”
“Can hardly be regarded as a work of authority, as it is hastily and loosely written.”
“Here, as elsewhere, Messrs. Smith and Sibley, while not always freeing themselves from the innate bias of national allegiance, show a thorough acquaintance with their subject and the ability to treat it in a more than usually interesting way.”
Smith, Gertrude.Beautiful story of Doris and Julie. **$1.30. Harper.
Very young folks are told in this story all about Doris and Julie who lived in the tiny red house, how their father lost his money and had to go away from them to earn more and how Miss Alice, who lived in the big house next door, took them home with her to be her little girls and made their lives one beautiful fairy-story.
“Is quite as pretty and delightful as its title indicates, and as are the previous stories of this author of children’s books.”
“Is written in the author’s best style, a style that is the perfection of story telling for little folks of from five to ten.”
Smith, Goldwin.In quest of light. **$1. Macmillan.
Mr. Smith has gathered together in this volume his past few years’ contributions to the New York Sun on religious and philosophical subjects. He “discusses frankly what remains of our traditional belief and how much science has taken from us—to return it to us, he believes, in another form.” (R. of Rs.)
“In spite of its brevity and informality, the work is weighty.”
Smith, Goldwin.Irish history and the Irish question.**$1.50. McClure.
“An attempt to trace the general course of the history as it leads up to the present situation.” He gives an account of the relations from the earliest times, politically and historically of England and Ireland, and suggests means for bettering Ireland’s present-day conditions.
“As a sketch of Irish history this book is, on the whole, excellent. It will find a natural and worthy place on the shelf by the side of the author’s ‘United States’ and ‘United Kingdom;’ its general characteristics are much the same as those of the two earlier books, but it ought to be more serviceable because there is less that is good in brief compass on Ireland than on England or the United States.” Sidney B. Fay.
“The theme offers exceptional opportunities to Goldwin Smith, and in his brilliantly-written essay he does it full justice.”
“Unjust he may at times be, unjust alike to the Englishman and the Irishman, but if only for his summing up, his little treatise must be accounted a notable contribution to the literature on the Irish question.”
“The defects of Mr. Goldwin Smith’s new work as a serious historical study or as a thorough-going political analysis of the Irish question lie on the surface. There is no index; there are practically no quotations from or references to authorities, ancient or modern. The concluding chapter ... is not his own, but from the pen of an Irish barrister. It is enough to say of it that it would not be out of place in the columns of the most extreme and partisan of Nationalist newspapers.”
“Professor Smith’s account is concise to a degree that is actually misleading. Excessive compression may account for his very positive statements of facts not clearly known. The story is throughout strongly tinged with Mr. Smith’s own views, which are markedly anti-Irish and anti-Catholic.”
“Dr. Goldwin Smith has given us what is probably the most brilliant exposition of the Irish question in all its phases which has ever been written.”
Smith. Hannah Whitall (Mrs. Robert Pearsall Smith).Living in the sunshine. **$1. Revell.
Mrs. Smith would be a message bearer to people who “carry their religion as a man carries a headache. He does not want to get rid of his head, but at the same time it is very uncomfortable to have it.” And her message is one that shows “what grounds there are in the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ for that deep and lasting peace and comfort of soul which nothing earthly can disturb, and which is declared to be the position of those who embrace it.”
“This is an excellent book so far as it goes.”
Smith, Lewis Worthington.In the furrow. Baker-Trisler co., 420 Walnut st., Des Moines, la.
A score of musical verses upon a score of subjects such as: Gypsying, Southern stars, Italy, New England, Summer, The Japanese, The white czar, The violin.
“Altogether, this little book seems to be worth while.” Wm. M. Payne.
Smith, Marion Couthouy.Electric spirit, and other poems. $1.25. Badger, R. G.
There is something truly pleasing in these verses which sing of the conventional subjects of minor poetry; love, and life in the abstract.
“There is altogether a refreshing promise and performance in the little volume.”
Smith, Richard.Tour of four great rivers: the Hudson, Mohawk, Susquehanna, and Delaware in 1769. **$5. Scribner.
“The purpose of the tour, Francis W. Halsey tells the reader in his historical introduction to the work, was to make a survey of that tract of land now known as the Otega patent, in which Smith and some others were interested. The journey was made in company with Richard Wells of Philadelphia and several surveyors.” (N. Y. Times.) “He gives a careful account of what he saw and learned on the route, including much of Indian life, and the narrative is of great interest as a contribution to the geography and history of the time. Mr. Halsey’s introduction of sixty pages is a concise account of the pioneers of the four rivers, with maps, views, and other illustrations.” (Putnam’s.)
Smith, Ruel Perley.Rival campers afloat; or, The prize yacht Viking.$1.50. Page.
A continuation of the adventures of “The rival campers,” of the prize yacht Viking. Henry Burns and his companions have an exciting round of sea sport and adventure which terminates in the theft of their “Viking” and its recapture after an anxious chase.
Smith, Sydney Armitage-.John of Gaunt, king of Castile and Leon, duke of Aquitaine and Lancaster, earl of Derby, Lincoln and Leicester, seneschal of England. *$4.50. Scribner.
Reviewed by Benjamin Terry.
Smith, Vincent A.Early history of India. *$4.75. Oxford.
“Those who are the most intimately connected with these studies will be the first to congratulate him on the success with which he has accomplished a task of no ordinary difficulty, and the most ready to excuse such shortcomings as are inevitable in the work of a pioneer.” E. J. Rapson.
Smith, William Benjamin.Color line.**$1.50. McClure.
“To sum up: I would say that the book is all right as a plea for the continuance of the social separation between the races in the South, and would recommend those to read it who think there is no ground for maintaining a social and moral quarantine against the negro even where he exists in large numbers; but as an argument of the unimprovability of the negro race, the ultimate futility of negro education, and the early or remote extinction of the negro element in our population, it is weak, built upon fallacious reasoning, and unsound scientific theories.” Charles A. Ellwood.
“To indicate the gaps in the author’s argument—for, strangely, this impassioned appeal is addressed to the reason—would be a long task.”
Smyth, H. Warington.Mast and sail in Europe and Asia. **$6. Dutton.
An authoritative book about boats “and while ‘Mast and sail’ is the title, scantling and planking, model and lines, come in for a good share of description and discussion.” (Nation.) “It is refreshing to come across a book like this, breathing throughout an intimate knowledge of sailing-ships and sailors, displaying insight into, and sympathy with, the nature of the men who follow the sea on the coasts of many countries, and showing in every page powers of quick observation and ready understanding of all that makes for the efficiency of sailing craft.” (Nature.)
“Comprehensive and delightful book, over which all yachtsmen will linger, comparing and contrasting.”
“‘Mast and sail’ will repay the study of the boat sailor and yacht designer; it gives a broader view of the art and craft than more technical works, and yet is accurate and instructive to the initiated.”
“A book which is a perfect treasury of information on the subject treated, is well arranged, brightly written, and beautifully illustrated.” W. H. White.
“In its way is thoroughly notable, that is too technical perhaps to appeal to the general reader, but which carries for the follower of the sea, especially to the devotee of the sail, a burden of interest unsurpassed.”
“This is the most charming book of its kind we have seen.”
Smythe, William Ellsworth.Conquest of arid America. **$1.50. Macmillan.
The text of the first edition has been revised and a section added outlining the progress made during the five years since the book appeared. There is a four-part treatment: In the first the author discusses colonization and irrigation in a general way; in the second, some of the earlier irrigation ventures; in the third, the several arid and semi-arid states which remain to a greater or less extent undeveloped, and in the fourth, the genesis and evolution of the movement which has led to the intervention of the United States government in the task of reclaiming the desert parts of our country.
“The book is eminently readable, both in content, style and physical makeup.”
“Mr. Smythe writes as an enthusiastic Westerner, but supports his extremely optimistic declarations by an abundance of statistics, so handled, however, as to make his narrative easy reading from first to last.”
“As it stands, his book is invaluable to all who would make themselves fully acquainted with the internal territorial expansion of the past few years.”
Smythe, William Ellsworth.Constructive democracy: the economics of a square deal. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“No adequate notion of its many excellent qualities can be given in this brief space. It is enough to say that its style, vivified by a peculiar aptness of illustration, is attractive, and that it reveals a clear understanding of the problems with which it deals.”
Snaith, John Collis.Henry Northcote. †$1.50. Turner, H. B.
Northcote is a starving young advocate whose very conviction of the justice of power summons to him a genie in the shape of a solicitor who briefs him in a sensational murder case. The guilt of the woman whom he defends is beyond question but his hypnotic oratory secures her acquittal, when follows a reactionary period in which the sense of debasement at having sacrificed right to personal ambition makes him an easy prey to the woman’s wiles. He kills her in self defense, and sets fire to his garret to cover the deed. His composed confession is passed by for a “gruesome pleasantry,” and the reader is confident that this panoplied hero will sooner see the judge’s bench than the prison cell.
“It has no art—no architecture, we may say. But it has some striking scenes, is studded with admirable points of observation, and gives great hope of what might come from the author’s mind if he cared to exert it.”
“Compared to ‘Broke of Covenden,’ ‘Henry Northcote’ is more of a piece in general execution, more uniform, more confined to one violent minor key.” Charlotte Caxton.
“The book is Henry Northcote, and in so far as it bodies forth that strange modern mind, so strong and so weak, so pitiful and so arrogant, it is a very considerable and fine thing.”
“However reluctantly one must yield to such a book the admiration due to a thing of crude force.”
“A grim and gruesome tale, to be read to the finish if one once begins, because of its grip and its strangeness; always, however, with a shuddering protest.”
“It will furnish a number of first-class thrills, though it cannot be ranked with the author’s earlier book.”
“Has all the faults and none of the merits of its predecessor.”
Snell, Frederick John.Age of transition, 1400–1580. 2v. *$1. Macmillan.
The last volume in the “Handbooks of English literature” covers the period from Chaucer to Spenser: the first volume dealing with the poets; the second, with the dramatists and prose-writers.
“We find nothing—or very little—to quarrel with in Mr. Snell’s judgment, and the young students for whom the book is intended can take no harm from accepting his opinions.”
“From Mr. Snell’s careful accounts of books and writers one may correct many errors in the more enlivening work of less minutely exact historians.”
“A clear, reliable record of the details by one who has taken pains to study them first hand and has brought them into fair order for the reader or student desirous of orientating himself with respect to what is perhaps the least known epoch of our literature.”
“In this as in his former work he shows himself, in nearly all instances, thoroughly abreast of the most recent research, and has managed to prevent the dullness of the period from communicating itself to his treatment of it. On the whole, however, Mr. Snell’s ‘Age of transition’ is a reliable handbook, and may be recommended as a guide for the period that it treats.”
“Mr. Snell does his work carefully. His comment is not always fortunate.”
“Mr. Snell has done a piece of work which, useful, and indeed indispensable, as it is, has no great attractions for either author or reader.”
Snyder, Harry.Dairy chemistry. *$1. Macmillan.
“It is a text-book of dairying, but there is no rule-of-thumb; an appeal is made to reason; processes are advocated because found by experiment to be sound; the impression left on the student’s mind is, ‘This is the best to-day; there may be a better to-morrow.’”—Nature.
“There are unfortunately, a few misprints and inaccuracies, together with curious repetitions of the same statements, suggesting that the book has been edited from lecture notes compiled in card-catalogue form.”
Reviewed by Mabel Osgood Wright.
Sociological papers, by Francis Galton and others. *$3.60. Macmillan.
“It is to be regretted that a book which in so many respects is praiseworthy should suffer for an unnecessary lack of coherence in the arrangement of its contents and from careless proof-reading.” R. F. Hoxie.
Review by Michael S. Davis, jr.
Sociological society, London.Sociological papers, v. 2, by Francis Galton and others. $3. Macmillan.
“Among these papers are to be found one by Mr. Francis Galton on ‘Restrictions in marriage,’ a subject which evidently excited a great amount of interest, the contributions to the discussion, verbal and written, being far more numerous than we find anywhere else; ‘The school in some of its relations to social organisation and to national life,’ by Professor M. E. Sadler; and ‘The influence of magic on social relationships,’ by Dr. E. Westermarck, a most remarkable collection of facts on one aspect of primitive and savage life.”—Spec.
Reviewed by H. Stanley Jevons.
“Though hardly equal in interest to its precursor, the present volume contains some valuable contributions to sociology.” F. W. H.
“The contributors to this volume cannot indeed be charged with narrowmindedness; but in some rather ponderous pages there are syntheses which appear to prove nothing, and world-wide generalisations which attempt to prove too much. Dr. Galton, at any rate, is always practical.”
Soden, Hermann, baron von.History of the early Christian literature: the writings of the New Testament; tr. by Rev. J. R. Wilkinson; ed. by Rev. W. D. Morrison. *$1.50. Putnam.
“As one follows his pages he finds himself tracing the growth of a spiritual life of great interest and power, and his attention is held to the character and worth of that life rather than to technical questions concerning the literature in which it is embodied.”—Ind.
“There is much in von Soden’s book that is stimulating and suggestive, but oftentimes it is difficult to recognize the reasonableness or advantage of his hypotheses.” Warren J. Moulton.
“Written with sympathy and insight and in most attractive style.”
“Has eminent and substantial merits. It is free, and at the same time well balanced. It is lucid, and sufficiently untechnical to be helpful to the average Bible student.”
Sollas, William Johnson.Age of the earth, and other geological studies. *$3. Dutton.
A series of ten essays and addresses by the Professor of geology at Oxford. “In sufficiently popular form they present the latest hypotheses, researches and conclusions of the science on points of primary importance, together with some of secondary interest.” (Outlook.)
“The Professor discourses pleasantly and well, writing with command of much scientific learning, yet always readably, sometimes with brilliancy of diction, and occasionally with a touch of humor. Even the most abstruse subject fails to make him altogether dull.”
“The book is entirely readable, and will serve to bring workers in all manner of fields the views of one who holds that nothing terrestrial is foreign to the subject of geology.”
Somerset, Lady Isabella Caroline (Somers-Cocks).Under the arch. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“There is plenty of incident in this story. There are farewells at Waterloo to soldiers bound for South Africa, there is a battle with the Boers, there are passages in fashionable drawing-rooms where titled ladies, lovely as the dawn, prattle of husbands and lovers at the front.... Lady Henry’s personages pass through harrowing experiences, but we read and are not harrowed.... Only in the slums, strange to say do we breathe an air that is not exhausted. Lady Henry’s little ragamuffins speak and act naturally: it is to be regretted that they do not occupy a larger portion of her canvas.”—Sat. R.
“An absorbing narrative, throbbing with the life of to-day.”
“Lady Henry Somerset has a keener eye for situations than for character. It is all desperately artificial and conventional.”
“It is carefully and cleverly written, and the character-drawing is also well done.”
Sonneck, Oscar George Theodore.Francis Hopkinson, the first American poet-composer, and James Lyon, patriot, preacher, psalmodist: two studies in early American music. *$5. O. G: T. Sonneck, Lib. of Congress, Wash., D. C.
“A very important contribution to the history of American music and will undoubtedly have much influence on future works on this topic.” Louis C. Elson.
Soto, Hernando or Fernando de.Narratives of the career of Hernando de Soto in the conquest of Florida; ed. by E. G. Bourne. **$2. Barnes.
“It comes nearer than any previously published book to furnishing a complete collection of ‘sources’ for the first great expedition into the Southern United States.” E. H.
Spalding, Rt. Rev. John Lancaster.Spalding year book; comp. by Minnie R. Cowan. **75c. McClurg.
Spargo, John.Bitter cry of the children.**$1.50. Macmillan.
“A plain, unvarnished statement of the manner of life of the children of the poor, and of the results of such living on their health and their morals, and a carefully planned series of remedial suggestions.... Mr. Spargo’s book is in five sections, dealing, respectively, with the poor baby, the school child, the working child, remedies, and the transplanting to the country of tenement children. The first of these is entitled ‘The blighting of the babies,’ a study of the very little children of the poor.... Mr. Spargo’s chapter on ‘The school child’ is practically a continuation of his first chapter; it discusses the subject of starvation among the school children.... Chapter III of the book deals with ‘The working child.’ It is probably the most awful in the book.... The mill children, the glass factory boys, the mine boys, are studied.... Mr. Spargo’s remedies are many. As regards the babies, they include State or Federal supervision of infant food manufacture; meals for school children, medical inspection of schools, a minimum standard for working children established by Federal law.”—N. Y. Times.
“School teachers need this book, social workers, librarians, pastors, editors, all who want to understand the problem of poverty or education. It is not only readable, it contains illustrations and facts that are matters of record, absolutely proved.”
“Far inferior to the ‘Long day.’” Winthrop. More Daniels.
“Rather painfully interesting study.”
Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.
“No one fit to be called human can read it without the stirring of pulses that have never stirred before.”
“Mr. Spargo’s book ought to be epoch-making; it ought to mark the turning of the tide in the treatment of children. We can think of no one who, of full age, would not be benefited by reading the book.”
Spargo, John.Socialism; a summary and interpretation of socialist principles.**$1.25. Macmillan.
“A summary and interpretation of Socialist principles.... Mr. Spargo offers no apology for the faith that is in him, but attempts merely to state in popular language what socialism really means and what it does not mean. In short the man in the street will find in this little volume an up-to-date exposition of the socialism that is alive in the world to-day.”—R. of Rs.
“Until now there has not been any one book from which the inquirer could get any clear idea of the subject as a whole. This want Mr. Spargo has well supplied. His book is enjoyable as well as instructive, being comparatively free from the peculiar terminology which makes many Socialistic works unpalatable to the average reader, yet not sacrificing accuracy to popularity of expression.”
“The historical survey is both fragmentary and slight.”
Reviewed by Edward A. Bradford.
“Mr. Spargo’s book is less critical and more constructive than most treatises on socialism. It is a useful but a temporary contribution to current discussion.”
“Written frankly from the point of view of a convinced socialist.”
Spearman, Frank Hamilton.Whispering Smith.†$1.50. Scribner.
A railroad wreck forms the beginning of this story of adventure in the northwest, and also the beginning of a feud between Sinclair, foreman of the bridges, and McCloud, division superintendent. Sinclair, dismissed from his position, joins a band of outlaws who rob and pillage the railroad until Whispering Smith with his posse of men, after many wild and desperate encounters, finally captures them. It is essentially a story of action, but there is also a double love interest.
“The characters are railroad men and cattle-ranchers, and the action rapid and adventurous in a way that holds the attention from start to finish.” Mary K. Ford.
“It is extremely well done. It is even to be suspected that there is much to be learned from the book.”
“It is full of action and not without originality.”
“We all have a sneaking fondness for gunplay and bad men in our reading-matter, but we cannot always procure them with the approval of our literary consciences. Mr. Spearman’s new novel, ‘Whispering Smith.’ is going to be a great success because it satisfies both consciences and tastes in this matter.”
Spears, John Randolph.David G. Farragut. **$1.25. Jacobs.
“In its entirety, the biography of four hundred pages may be classed among the best books of its kind.”
Spelling, Thomas Carl.Bossism and monopoly. **$1.50. Appleton.
From the training of ultra-conservatism Mr. Spelling emerges with a “conviction of the need of the radical reforms which he advocates in his book. It is a sorry tale of graft, fraud, and oppression by big business, co-operating with political bosses, which he relates. He has looked over the whole ground and has found chicanery and robbery wherever this unholy alliance has been made. In the face of conditions, the seeming apathy of the people not unnaturally affects him with wonder. But he sees signs of a revolt and he expects remedial action. Municipal, State and Government ownership are the indicated remedies.” (Ind.)
“Tho desultory and disjointed in parts, it is well worth the serious consideration of all citizens interested in the welfare of their country.”
“A book quite well worth reading, but not at all easy reading.” Edward Cary.
Spender, R. E. S.Display: a tale of newspaper life. †$1.50. Lane.
“Mr. Spender imagines an editor at a loss for a sensation, arranging that his special correspondent should discover in the heart of Africa a survival or imitation of More’s ‘Utopia.’ An expedition of learned men is sent off to investigate, and their experiences seem to be suggested by the recent adventures of the British association in Africa.” (Sat. R.) “In point of fact the adventures do not amount to much. The author is merely spending his high spirits on the way in satire, criticism, and conversational sallies. He is evidently young and interested in life and thought—points very much in his favor.” (Ath.)
“On the whole his book is enlivening, but a trifle too elaborate.”
Spenser, Edmund.Faery queen: first book rewritten in simple language by Calvin Dill Wilson; decorated by Ralph Fletcher Seymour. $1. McClurg.
A handsomely decorated book in the series of “Old tales retold for young readers.”
“Mr. Wilson has performed the task creditably and has kept the spirit of the poem.”
Spenser, Edmund.Una and the red cross knight and other tales from Spenser’s Faerie queene, by N. G. Royde-Smith; 50 il. and col. front, by F. H. Robinson. $2.50. Dutton.
The story of Spenser’s poem told in prose with occasional interspersions of the verses.
“Well written, and illustrated in an imaginative style that will interest old and young readers equally.”
“A commendable and on the whole fairly successful attempt to retell some of the more spirited incidents in Spenser’s ‘Faerie Queene’ for children’s reading.”
Spielmann, Marion Henry, and Layard, George Somes.Kate Greenaway.*$6.50. Putnam.
“These facts are presented by the authors of the monograph clearly, sympathetically, and with just sufficient detail to impart the requisite vitality, and this is further enhanced by the fact that Mr. Spielmann’s share of the work is the tribute of a personal friendship.”
Reviewed by Royal Cortissoz.
“On the whole Miss Greenaway’s present biographers have dealt tactfully with the vast mass of material placed at their disposal.”
“This is a sympathetic biography.”
Spiers, R. Phene.Architecture east and west. *$4.50. Scribner.
“There are too many slips of the pen allowed to pass.”
Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott (Mrs. Richard S. Spofford).Old Washington. †$1.50. Little.
Washington in the days following the close of the civil war furnishes the setting for five delightful stories. They are “A Thanksgiving breakfast,” “A guardian angel,” “In a conspiracy,” “A little old woman,” and “The colonel’s Christmas.” The variations from the lavender-and-old-lace atmosphere to that of the stuffy hall-room sheltering impecunious gentle-folk, and that of the splendid reception halls, and even the senate chamber itself, suggest the characters which include Southern women, loyal mammies, struggling department clerks and politicians.
“Five stories, good as such, but better as pictures of life and society at the capital as it was after the Civil war, forty or more years ago.”
“As usual, the author draws too much upon the tears of her imagination; but she has done the best she could with the kind of material she selects.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
“There is a dewdrop quality about Harriet Prescott Spofford’s style that gives it a gentle sparkle and makes the reading of one of her stories pleasant diversion indeed.”
“Humor, tenderness, and an intimate acquaintance with the time characterize these tales.”
“Mrs. Spofford has caught and fixed this fragrant, rose-leaf odor as surely as have F. Hopkinson Smith or Thomas Nelson Page.”
Sprague, John Francis.Sebastian Ralé. $1. Heintzmann press, Boston.
A monograph on the environment, work and character of Father Ralé who devoted thirty years of his life to a little band of Indians on the banks of the Kennebec and who was slain in an attack upon his mission.
“We may sincerely congratulate Mr. Sprague, from the literary point of view, on having produced a monograph which is an excellent piece of historical work. We congratulate him still more warmly on the possession of the broadminded spirit, and the courage to manifest it.”
Spurgeon, Rev. Charles Haddon.Spurgeon’s illustrative anecdotes; arranged under subjects and topics by Rev. Louis Albert Banks. **$1.20. Funk.
For the benefit of preachers and teachers who have need of anecdotes with which to illustrate their sermons and religious talks the compiler has selected and classified some 500 of the stories which Spurgeon used so successfully. Their arrangement under such headings as Affliction, Ambition, Blessings, Christ, Conscience, Conversion, Duty, Faith, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Hope, Joy etc., etc. render them easy of access.
“The work is admirably classified and arranged so that any special subject can be readily found.”
“No doubt ministers of religion will find good use for the ammunition under each head, which has already been proved and found not wanting by the man from whose writings Dr. Banks has culled his material.”
Spyri, Johanna.Moni the goat boy, and other storiestr. from the German by Edith F. Kunz. *40c. Ginn.
There is a delightful simplicity about the three little stories which make up this volume; they breathe the love of children, of animals, and of mountain air. Moni, the goat boy, was happy when his conscience was wholly clear, he tended his goats, and sang to them, and did not want to become an egg boy because eggs could not love you or come when you called. Without a friend, tells of how stupid Rudi ceased to be stupid when friendship came to him, and The little runaway, is the story of the marvelous reformation of a saucy little boy.
Squire, Charles.Mythology of the British islands: an introduction to Celtic myth, legend, poetry, and romance.*$3.50 Scribner.
“It is well written and lucid, and leaves us with a clear idea of the scope of Celtic mythology. It is true that the author is inclined to assume too much, to treat as fact what the scholars he is following have merely conjectured.”
“It aims in short, to impart some such knowledge of Celtic mythology as most persons of cultivation are supposed to possess of the mythology of Greece and Rome, and so far as the substance of the ancient tales is concerned it accomplishes this purpose satisfactorily.”
Staley, Edgcumbe.Fra Angelico; with memoir by Edgcumbe Staley, and 64 full-page reproductions of his works in half-tone. $1.25. Warne.
A “Newnes art library” volume. “In five brief chapters Mr. Staley depicts as many phases and periods in the development of an altogether lovable artist—the son of the Mugello, the novice of Cortona, the monk of Fiesole, the theologian of Florence and the saint of Rome.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Both the text and the illustrations are of such an excellent duality that the volume shouldhave a firmly established place on the shelves of the student desiring a general view of the period.”
“A valuable addition to the ‘Newnes art library.’”
Staley, Edgcumbe.Guilds of Florence. **$5. McClurg.
The author says of this work “The cumulated energies of the Florentines had their focus in the corporate life of the trade-associations, and in no other community was the guild-system so thoroughly developed as it was in Florence. A complete and connected history of the guild has never been compiled. The present work is put forth, perhaps rather tentatively than exhaustively, to supply the omissions.” Beginning with chapters on Florentine commerce and industry, and, General history of the guilds, the guilds themselves are taken up under the sub-divisions of, The seven greater guilds, The five intermediate guilds, and The nine minor guilds, after which the life and work in the markets, the religion of the guilds, their patronage and their charity, are fully discussed. A bibliography, chronology, and index are provided and the volume is profusely illustrated after miniatures in illuminated manuscripts and Florentine woodcuts.
“It is with real regret that we find a work of so much intrinsic worth defaced by the inclusion of so much which is unnecessary and irritating to read.”
“It is the commonplace book of an industrious worker. The history of the Florentine guilds has yet to be written.”
“In it one finds, conveniently, the answer to so many questions that arise through a morning’s wanderings in narrow and alluring byways. Even its dry statistics of revenues and taxes help you to repeople the dead centuries by the sense of activity and enterprise which the mere figures convey.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“In treating of the minor corporations such as those of inn-keepers, saddlers, bakers, etc., this indefatigable author enters into the very life of the people, so that his book is not only to a great extent a history of art, of literature, of science, and of commerce, but of social manners and customs.”
“When he is bestowing information, which he does both copiously and clearly, his style is concise and business like, and he says well what he has to say. But when he is afraid of being dull—which real information never is—he is by no means so happy.”
“From the preface to the bibliography the book is crammed with mistakes.”
“A remarkably complete, scholarly, and copiously illustrated history.”
“Mr. Staley’s book is not precisely one to read through. It is a valuable work of reference, where every one who loves Florence and her history may find her medieval life reproduced from many sources difficult of access to the ordinary reader. The book would be worth having for its pictures alone.”
Staley, Edgcumbe.Raphael; with a short biographical sketch of Raphael Santi or Sanzio; with a list of principal works. $1.25. Warne.
“We could spare some of Mr. Staley’s rather sophomoric characterizations of the great painter.”
Stamey, De Kellar.Junction of laughter and tears. $1.25. Badger, R: G.
Half a hundred little poems which the author has dedicated to his wife and babe, and which picture the home and its interests in both sunshine and shadow.
Stamey, De Keller.Land of Schuyli Jing. $1.25. Broadway pub.
Fourscore little stories and poems which treat daintily of love, home, children, patriotism, religion, death, nature and other things.
Standing, Percy Cross.Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. *$1.50. Cassell.
This biography has been written under the sanction and practical co-operation of Alma-Tadema himself, a fact which establishes his career in an authoritative light. The sketch of his life emphasises the very tendencies that step by step produced the artist. The forces from within and without and the intrinsic idealism into which they have resolved themselves make a unity well worth careful analysis and study. The illustrations aim to show the gradual development of the power of expression, several of which have not been reproduced before.
“He has not succeeded in conveying any real idea of the personality of Sir Lawrence, or of the characteristics of his style.”
“Is especially valuable as being the story which the artist himself would have the world know.”
Standish, Winn.Captain Jack Lorimer; il. $1.50. Page.
Jack Lorimer who has become well known thru the pages of the Boston Sunday Herald now makes his bow as the hero of a lively football story published in book form. He is captain of the Melville high school eleven and his pluck, hard work and fair dealing win the day for him against the deep treachery that a
“Told with much go and spirit. The book is intended for boys midway of their teens and a little older.”
Stanley, Caroline Abbot (Mrs. Elisha Stanley).Modern Madonna.†$1.50. Century.
Upon the law in force until recent years in the District of Columbia, which gave to the father, power to will away the custody of his unborn child hinges the story of a cruelly wronged young wife. Margaret, after the tragic death of her husband who has proved faithless, finds that she must give her all, her baby Philip, into the hands of her husband’s brother, who has become alienated from her. But after a brave fight, in which her character develops in strength and tenderness, she wins both her boy and his uncle, and sees the cruel law repealed.
“An interesting and readable novel.”
“A tragical and melodramatic story of real power although without much literary grace.”
Stanwood, Edward.James Gillespie Blaine. **$1.25. Houghton.
“Mr Stanwood was perhaps better equipped for the work than any other writer in the country He excels ... in the kind of fairness that consists in treating respectfully the men and views one opposes.” William Garrott Brown.
“Even if Mr. Stanwood’s friendliness toward his theme carries him occasionally near to the limits of special pleading, he has in the large performed his task with marked success and skill.” M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
“He has written a very admirable condensed account of Mr. Blaine, and one which will be read with keen interest for its impartiality, insight and instructiveness.” H. T. P.
“Altho Mr. Stanwood has not the skill of a truly great biographer, yet the very logic of the events themselves, plainly and simply told, furnishes a stirring narrative.”
“The reader feels that the author is rather an apologist than a biographer, and even that he has not done full justice to Mr. Blaine’s astuteness as a politician. Certainly the appeal is rather to those whose interests are not primarily economic.” J. C.
“We are forced to say that this book can hardly fail to harm the general series to which it belongs.”
Starr, Louis.Hygiene of the nursery. $1. Blakiston.
The seventh edition of a manual which includes the general regimen and feeding of infants and children, massage, and the domestic management of the ordinary emergencies of early life.
Stauffer, David McNeely.Modern tunnel practice. *$5. Eng. news.
The change that has been made in the practice of tunneling by the introduction of high explosives, by the use of machine drills, by special appliances for handling the debris or protecting the roof of the tunnel and by the employment of electric power and light has made the present hand-book a necessity. The work is illustrated by examples taken from actual recent work in the United States and in foreign countries.
“The author of this book is to be congratulated both upon having produced what will prove to be a useful book of reference for engineers engaged in the arduous work of tunnelling, and also upon the fair and impartial manner in which he writes.”
Stead, Alfred.Great Japan; a study of national efficiency. **$2.50. Lane.
“The author possesses a pleasing style at once direct and lucid. The work is entitled to rank among the best books of the character that have appeared. It is a standard work worthy of a place in the libraries of all thoughtful people.”