“Sir Ernest Satow is one of the most distinguished English diplomatists of the last twenty-five years. He has had infinite experience, and unlimited opportunities for observation. He has written a guide to diplomatic practice which supersedes every previous work upon the subject. It is exact, it is exhaustive, it is scholarly.” H. J. L.
“Sir Ernest Satow has written a learned and interesting book. ... Here is a British ambassador revealing to the public the mysteries of diplomatic practice as if it were an ordinary calling and explaining in great detail the niceties of diplomatic etiquette. ... It will be evident that Sir Ernest Satow has no sympathy with the demand for the reform of our diplomatic service which has been heard of late.”
“His experiences as representative of this country at various courts enables him to speak with precision and authority upon points as to which the books are silent or indefinite. Of the existing treatises, some—for example, de Martens’s and Comte Garden’s—are carefully compiled. But they do not always faithfully record the practice of the present day, which has cast off something of the formalism of past times and has not escaped certain democratic influences.”
SAWYER, RUTH (MRS ALBERT C. DURAND).Herself, himself and myself. il*$1.35 (2c) Harper 17-25083
The scene is laid partly in America and partly in Ireland. “Herself,” Judith Drene, is the orphan daughter of a rich banker who, after losing most of his money, shot himself; “Myself,” Nora Kelley, is the Irish nurse who mothered her and brought her up; “Himself,” Dr John Fox, is the young Irish doctor, the “wise lad,” who came back from the war and married Judith in the ivy-covered church at Donegal.
“A simple, wholesome story.”
“A book of sentiment undisguisedly, but of sentiment upon a higher plane, guarded and mellowed by true humour in contrast with that feminine ‘brightness’ which characterises the novel of the ‘glad’ sort.” H. W. Boynton
“There is even in this earliest part of the book a delightful vein of humor mingling with the sadness.” D. L. M.
“Evidently intended for those who like an abundance of sugar in their fiction. ... The little tale is very much padded, but it has some dainty bits here and there. The first chapters, which deal with Judith’s childhood, are the best and quite prettily done. Later, the story grows monotonous.”
SCANDLIN, HORACE WINTHROP.Wicked John Goode. il*$1 (3c) Doran 364 17-11002
Thomas Mott Osborne writes an introduction to this book and Rev. J. G. Hallimond of the Bowery mission adds a word at the end vouching for the truth of the story Mr Scandlin has told. It is the story of a criminal and his reformation. John Goode was incorrigible at the age of ten. At eleven he ran away from home, and at once began his career of crime. He became familiar with every sort of institution from a so-called protectory to Sing Sing. Thru the instrumentality of Mrs Booth, he was set free, but, having no sense of honor, broke parole. Finally he was reclaimed, but not, as Mr Osborne significantly points out, by any of the agencies provided by society. From each of these institutions he emerged a worse man than he went in. He is now said to be one of the workers in the mission to which he owes his regeneration.
“Nothing but hard, cold and sometimes cruel facts are here recorded, if we accept the testimony of the two authorities that flank the narrative. There is, moreover, an inherent evidence in the very graphic recital that John Goode, the ex-convict, is no imaginary person. The book is a stirring appeal to reform our reformatory institutions. ... The Bowery mission, through its spiritual and industrial methods, is doing a unique work, and that work is here sketched.”
“Personally and socially, this is a suggestive and challenging book.”
SCARBOROUGH, DOROTHY.Supernatural in modern English fiction.*$2 (2c) Putnam 823 17-28912
Dr Scarborough’s study covers the nineteenth century, with particular attention to the fiction of the last thirty years. For her beginnings she goes back to Horace Walpole, “the father of the terror novel.” His “Castle of Otranto,” with Mrs Radcliffe’s “Mysteries of Udolpho” and Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” shortly following, was the first of a long line. Modern masters of the supernatural include, among others, Henry James, Mark Twain, H. G. Wells, Algernon Blackwood and Lord Dunsany. The author says, “I deal with ghosts and devils by and large, in an impressionistic way. I don’t know much about them; I have no learned theories of causation. I only love them, I only marvel at their infinite variety and am touched by their humanity, their likeness to mortals.” Contents: The Gothic romance; Later influences; Modern ghosts; The devil and his allies; Supernatural life; The supernatural in folk-tales; Supernatural science; Conclusion; Index. The bibliography, too long for inclusion in this volume, is to be published separately.
“Able, comprehensive, and not seldom amusing survey. It is remarkable that there is no allusion to ‘A Christmas carol,’ though less notable works by Dickens are mentioned; and there might have been a reference to Marryat’s striking tale ‘The phantom ship.’”
“The last place one would look for a ‘bestseller’ would be among doctors’ theses; yet this book, which more than earned the degree of Doctor of philosophy at Columbia for its author, has such a general appeal that it may conceivably have a large sale.” W: L. Phelps
“Many names of many dealers in the supernatural appear and reappear in Dr Scarborough’s none too well ordered pages. We find references to Poe scattered through the book from its early to its later pages, and of this master of the weird and of many others it is impossible to gain a coherent understanding. ... She has made of her book a storehouse of treasure rather than a systematic history and study.” E. F. E.
“One of the few monographs in the field of literature which must have been a pleasure to write. ... The work is beautifully indexed, so that the reader can turn in an instant to his favorite horror.”
“It is one of the most interesting and valuable features of Dr Scarborough’s book that it includes such a host of pertinent examples ofsupernaturalism of all kinds and that it gives in almost every case some real criticism of the work of the different writers.”
“Will prove entertaining and useful to the reader who wishes to go a-ghosting in the pages of novels.”
SCHAUFFLER, ROBERT HAVEN, comp. and ed. Our flag in verse and prose. il*$1.50 Moffat 808.8 A17-959
“Poems, songs and prose extracts under the following heads: Spirit and significance; Old Glory’s history; In praise of Old Glory; Patriotism; Flags; A Flag day story (A man without a country, by E. E. Hale). Contains also an account by Francis Scott Key 3d of the writing of ‘The Star spangled banner,’ a history of the origin and development of the flag and directions for Flag day drills and exercises.”—Cleveland
“He tells the familiar Betsy Ross story without questioning in any way its authenticity. Mr Schauffler’s selections cover a wide range. ... All the familiar songs about the flag are here. ... Mr Schauffler’s book will be a good one to place in the hands of every school teacher and pupil.”
“Contains the best that has been written in verse and prose to inspire patriotic devotion and to interpret the spirit and significance of the flag.”
SCHAYER, ERNEST RICHARD.Good loser.*50c McKay 17-8204
“A tennis expert, out of the game permanently with a broken ankle, happens upon a small boy practising strokes against a barn. He lingers, keen with the discovery of budding talent, and trains the little fellow through the summer in the art and the ethics of the game, to be modest, honest and courageous. Then he enters Billy in the junior tournament in the White mountains and Billy makes good on his teaching and loses the championship by refusing to win on the judge’s error. Incidentally the teacher, and Billy’s father who is in business trouble, learn also how to be good losers.” (Springf’d Republican) The story appeared in the American Magazine, June, 1916.
“It is a short story, just a magazine article bound up in permanent form, but it has in quality what it lacks in quantity. And as for quantity, Mr Schayer tells his story, all that is necessary to tell, and stops. It is complete in its fifty-nine pages.”
SCHEFTEL, YETTA.[2]Taxation of land value.*$2 Houghton 336.2 17-235
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“The best part of Miss Scheftel’s work, in the judgment of the reviewer, is the careful and complete account of the complicated land taxes of Australasia, Germany, and Great Britain. Her chapters on the Australasian experience constitute the most comprehensive discussion of this topic that has been given. The account of the German taxes on ‘unearned increment’ is based upon a thorough study of both primary and secondary German sources, and is easily the best account in English. ... The chapter on Municipal taxation in western Canada is less satisfactory, inasmuch as that topic has been much more exhaustively covered in Professor Haig’s report for the New York city committee on taxation of 1916. A few loose statements of economic theory are found. The index is inadequate for nearly five hundred pages of condensed facts.” A. N. Young
“Scholarly and thorough, the best work on the subject, but needed only in large or special libraries.”
“The newest and in many respects the best study of what is commonly known as the single tax. An excellent bibliography is appended.”
“A judicious, well-balanced treatment of land-value taxation in those countries where the scheme has been chiefly tried. Study is also given to the fiscal, economic and social effects of such taxes. Although single taxers have generally welcomed the adoption of land-value taxation as a vindication of their doctrines, the author points out that ‘not only in method of assessment and levy, but also in their rationale great differences exist’ between the single tax and land-value taxes.” F. T. S.
“Miss Scheftel’s book is unquestionably an instance of work well done, and every reader will feel that it fully merited the $1,000 first prize awarded to it. Nor can there be any doubt that the contribution is one of real utility. What has been so laboriously brought together, and presented in such orderly and convenient shape, is a matter upon which many students of the land-tax question desire to be informed, and which is not easy of access in the scattered sources from which it has been gathered. The discussion, too, is not only intelligent, but thoroughly fair-minded.”
“The book is a veritable storehouse of information for those interested in the subject and a valuable help toward improvement in methods of taxation.”
SCHEIFLEY, WILLIAM H.Brieux and contemporary French society.*$2 (2½c) Putnam 842 17-28835
The author’s purpose is “to explain to American readers the social themes treated by Eugène Brieux in his dramas and their relation to French society.” In preparing the work, he has had two objects in view: “(1) a consideration of both the literary value and the purpose of each play of Brieux; (2) the testimony of other writers, either in critical or in creative work, regarding the conditions that gave rise to a particular play of Brieux and the extent to which it reflects the spirit of the time.” (Preface) The author considers it a matter for regret that American opinion of Brieux should so largely have been formed from “Damaged goods,” which he pronounces one of the dramatist’s poorest plays. Among the social problems to which special chapters are devoted are: The relation between parents and children; Charity, philanthropy, industrial beneficence; Marriage and the dowry; Divorce; Separation and the child; Venereal diseases. “Sincerity,” says the author in conclusion, “is Brieux’s predominant characteristic. ... Other good traits that stand out prominently in his dramas are faith, vigour, and courage.”
“Mr Scheifley does not put forward any pretensions to be a critic of letters; but he has a sound working estimate of the plays of Brieux.”
“The American public owes a large debt of gratitude to Mr Scheifley for his scholarly and sympathetic treatment of Brieux. He has shown admirably Brieux’s sincerity and versatility, and amply justified, for American eyes, the place accorded to the author in his native land.” B: M. Woodbridge
“This volume of appreciative criticism is an incentive toward a more intimate acquaintance with Eugène Brieux.”
“A comprehensive and detailed study.”
“A sketch of French life which is well worth study. ... The book is, in the nature of things, superficial.”
“An able and penetrating survey of the various questions of social and economic life in France as they are reflected in Brieux’s dramas.”
“The book is marked by careful industry and attention given to the testimony of other writers.”
SCHEVILL, FERDINAND.Karl Bitter; a biography. il*$2 Univ. of Chicago press 17-16077
“In a thin volume of less than seventy text pages published under the auspices of the National sculpture society, the sculptor’s brother-in-law, Ferdinand Schevill tells ... the essentially romantic story of the young Austrian who, landing in New York in his twenty-second year with scarce a penny in his pocket, was, before three years had passed, executing the colossal scheme of sculpture upon the Administration building of the World’s fair at Chicago. He was killed by a reckless automobile driver before he had reached the age of forty-eight, having been director of sculpture at three expositions, a member of the Art commission of New York city, and twice president of the Sculpture society. Such a career is evidence enough of an unusual character as well as of unusual talents, and Mr Schevill makes us see the honesty, the energy, the tact, the great organizing ability, and the public spirit which accomplished so much—above all, he makes us see the intense Americanism of one who was an American by choice rather than by the accident of birth.”—Nation
“Remarkable by reason of the easy-flowing but at the same time stately and very formal style in which it is written. The career of Karl Bitter was a genuine romance. ... The biography contains a chronological list of his works and shows what an indefatigable worker he was.” N. H. D.
“Fine typography, beautiful paper, and illustrations that tell their tale combine in this treasure for lovers of art and books. The story of Bitter’s life and labors is here told simply, but appreciatively, even tenderly.”
“Of his talent the thirty-odd illustrations of his works give a fairer opportunity of judging than could be had by anything short of a pilgrimage to the sites of the originals. Decorative art is art in service, and the art of Karl Bitter was always undertaken in the true social spirit.”
“Worth reading, not merely as a record of facts but as a vital presentation of a life of unusual potency. Forty good halftone illustrations, including two portraits, add to the charm of the volume, and increase its value as a book of reference in the realm of American sculpture.”
SCHIERBRAND, WOLF VON.Austria-Hungary; the polyglot empire. il $3 (3½c) Stokes 943.6 17-25615
This book is written from the viewpoint of a man who has lived for four years in Austria, which he left only a few months ago, and who has a “sincere liking for and sympathy with the people of Austria-Hungary.” He claims “to be actuated by no conscious bias in dealing with the political, social and racial questions discussed.” He attempts “to afford the reader a sufficient outline of the process of growth and accretion active in creating the Austria-Hungary of today, of the natural resources of the land, and of the vital characteristics of the population; to point out the chief problems of the polyglot nation ... and to define the most feasible means of allaying or removing these difficulties, as these means have gradually shaped themselves in the minds of the thinking and potential elements of Austria-Hungary.” Nearly one-half of the book deals with the war or topics related to the war. A map is pasted on the inside of the back cover of the book.
Reviewed by G. I. Colbron
“Although on the whole less useful than Geoffrey Drage’s well-known ‘Austria-Hungary,’ it has the advantage of being considerably more recent and more readable. The chief value of the work lies in the fact that it furnishes almost the only intimate account that we have of what has been going on in the Hapsburg dominions since the war began. The volume would gain greatly by being to some extent documented. Important information is given and interesting judgments are passed with no citation of sources, authorities, or other means of corroboration.” F: A. Ogg
“A happy mean between the scholarly survey and the journalistic war book. It discusses the problems of the country with unusual completeness of scope and moderation of tone, but there is an attempt to interpret the soul as well as the body, to give the meaning of facts as well as the facts themselves.”
“Wolf von Schierbrand goes well with a little salt. He is an international journalist of repute, with the usual journalistic ambition to influence public sentiment, corrected more or less by the necessity of being interesting. But only an ill humored reader will grumble about it. Moreover, only an ill humored reader will be repelled by Wolf von Schierbrand’s German bias.” A. J.
“No one who desires to know the people of Austria-Hungary as they seem to a person of another race with broad sympathies and cultivated human understanding can afford to ignore this instructive and eminently readable volume.”
“The author may be congratulated for having produced a readable and interesting book, and one which should be welcomed by American readers.”
SCHINDLER, KURT, ed. Songs of the Russian people. pa $1 Ditson 784.8
“The lyrics, translated by Jane and Deems Taylor, are either set to the traditional melodies or to arrangements by modern composers, and are for mixed voices. Many of the ballads date back to mediæval times; all of them are sung to-day by the Russian peasants.”—Dial
“The translators seem to have kept as closely as possible to Russian feeling and diction.”
“Mr Schindler shows exactly the qualities an editor most needs. He has selected and discovered folk-songs and choruses almost unknown here, all of them of high quality. He has arranged and adapted freely, but we can trust his hand in whatever it does. He is at once musician and scholar and member of his own audience. When such an editor is found the publisher should grapple him to his soul.” H. K. M.
SCHMIDT, WALTER KARL.Problems of the finishing room. il $5 Periodical pub. co., Grand Rapids, Mich. 698 16-16704
An “authoritative manual for those employed in the finishing of woods by means of fuming, staining, varnishing, enameling, lacquering, etc. [It] treats of the preparation of the woods and describes in detail the processes required for the various kinds of finish. Directions are given for the selection, preparation and testing of the stains, oils, varnishes, glues and other materials used in wood finishing, and miscellaneous information relating to the work.”—Quar List New Tech Bks
“The author writes from large experience as chemist and finishing expert.”
SCHNITTKIND, HENRY THOMAS, ed. Poets of the future.*$1 Stratford co. 811.08 (Eng ed 17-1047)
An anthology of college verse, selected from the undergraduate publications of sixty colleges. The preface says, “Our purpose in publishing this book, which will become an annual event, is two-fold. We want to encourage the best literature in the universities, and to show to the poetry lovers in this country what a wealth of gems of the purest ray has hitherto been inaccessible to the public.” In his introduction William Stanley Braithwaite expresses a belief that the anthology will have a deep interest for those unassociated with academic life, “for its expression flows from a deeper impulse, an impulse for the renewal of one’s fresh attachment with life at the source of dreams. In the poetry world it may well serve as the yearly spring of song.”
“The poetry that it contains fully justifies the effort expended upon the collection. Not a few of the pages of the book reveal more than one poet of the present that has astonished the reader with a note of deep maturity where at best a pleasant promise was expected. The selections have been made with unassuming catholicity.” I. G.
“Less than one third of the poems are by college women, and the larger women’s colleges, Smith, Vassar, Bryn Mawr and Wellesley, are not represented in the collection, although the literary periodicals of many of the smaller institutions, coeducational and otherwise, have been drawn upon for contributions.”
“There is a freshness about the whole collection that is delightful.”
SCHNITZLER, ARTHUR.Comedies of words, and other plays; Englished from the German with an introd. by Pierre Loving.*$1.50 Stewart & Kidd 832 17-13750
The so-called “comedies of words” included in this volume are three: The hour of recognition; The big scene; The festival of Bacchus. To these are added two other plays: Literature and His helpmate. The three comedies of words were published in 1915 and represent, the preface states, the most recent product from Schnitzler’s pen. The translator says, “Though they will scarcely enhance his reputation to any great extent, they continue in the tradition of his best work.” “Literature,” a witty farce, written in 1901, has been played by the Washington Square players of New York city.
“A translation of Schnitzler’s “einakters” has a more than timely interest. For fifteen years he has been one of the most-followed teachers to a large school of playwrights who have been supplying the intimate playhouses of Europe with realistic short pieces, and recently his influence has been extended to the young American dramatists whose one-act plays are being presented in our own Little Theatres. ... The first thing to strike the reader of these plays is that the plot of every one has a sexual basis. Taken alone each situation is perfectly possible; taken as a collection they are unnatural. ... We miss ‘the average man.’ To comprehend this characteristic of his work we must remember that Schnitzler is a practising physician, a specialist in psychology, a student of Freud. He is so keenly interested in pathological psychology that the normal human being does not interest him at all.” W. Haynes
“In the normal drama Schnitzler’s art is fragile, not to say fleeting; in the one-act play it is compact, serried, tingling, spicular. No lover of address can afford to neglect these virtuosities; if they share the leisurely retrospect of Ibsen in the snugness of their packing they rival the master himself. ... The final judgment on Schnitzler will hardly be altered by the succinct vigor of these masterly vignettes. He lacks body and he lacks soul. In Schnitzler passion has the tenuity of sentiment, and guilt has the tastelessness of innocence. The translation is plebeian, but not unreadable.”
“Mr Loving’s translation is never very good, mediocre most of the time, now and then very bad. ... A reason for buying this English version is that the original ‘Komödie der worte’ (Berlin: S. Fischer, 1915) cannot now be had in this country, except by a lucky accident. The only copy I’ve been able to lay my hands on is in the reference department of the New York public library.” P. L.
“Schnitzler is Freud turned dramatist. His great power consists in his building plays not upon the broad basis of general and tested character values, but upon the psychology of our occasional lapses away from the average, our hidden emotional unleashings, sudden angers and momentary caprices.”
“Mr Schnitzler keeps his literary fabric delicate, and his irony permits his readers to believe that he, too, is much amused by his characters, and is wisely refusing to idealize any of them, or to give them more importance than they deserve. The ‘littleness’ of the plays is thus justified to the artistic consciousness. The translation lacks elegance, but preserves the suggestiveness of the original dialog.”
SCHOLTZ, MOSES.Sex problems of man in health and disease; a popular study in sex knowledge.*$1 Stewart & Kidd 612.6 16-15024
“Five-sixths of the book covers clearly, scientifically and accurately diseases of sex organs in man. A small part only is given to anatomy, physiology and sex hygiene.”—A L A Bkl
“Has a high moral tone—the author heartily disapproves of a double standard. Of use to parents, teachers and workers with boys.”
“Written by one who has had wide experience in dealing with sex problems, it can be commended for its sanity.”
SCHROEDER, THEODORE ALBERT.Free speech for radicals. enl ed $1.50 (2½c) Free speech league 323 16-1728
“This edition of ‘Free speech for radicals’ has doubled its size and the added parts are the most important.” (Foreword) Among the additions are a chapter on Methods of constitutional construction, an account of the San Diego free speech fight, and a reprint of a section from the Final report of the Commission on industrial relations.
“This book might appropriately be entitled ‘Free speech for I. W. W.’s and anarchists,’ for on the whole it undertakes the defense of this ‘most despised of all classes.’ In general, the writer treats his subject in a dispassionate manner and the book makes interesting reading, but the reader frequently is challenged to make active rejoinders to the many sweeping conclusions.”
“It is, perhaps, needless to say to our Socialist and radical readers that the questions of free speech and free press will, during the war, assume a most tremendous importance as a subject of discussion, public and legal. And in this connection we might mention that the voluminous and careful works of Theodore Schroeder, a special student of this matter and others pertaining to it, are, perhaps, the best, most accurate and authoritative literature procurable.” J. W.
“The book will chiefly interest students of anarchist and I. W. W. literature and development.”
SCHULER, PHILLIP F. E.Australia in arms.il*12s 6d T. Fisher Unwin, London 940.91
This book deals with the formation of the Australian imperial expeditionary force, and their work in Egypt, on the Suez canal and at Gallipoli. The history is complete to the date of publication.
“A capital account of the part played at Anzac by the Australian imperial force.”
“There have been many books written about the Gallipoli campaign. ... Some of them have been masterly, some of them hasty, and a few frankly inaccurate. So far none have purported to be thorough histories of the whole undertaking, nor does Mr Schuler make this claim for his book. ... The author contents himself with chronicling the campaign from the Australian point of view. ... The maps and illustrations are excellent and new.”
SCHULTZ, JAMES WILLARD.Gold cache. il*$1.25 (3½c) Houghton 17-24276
This book follows the author’s earlier stories, “With the Indians in the Rockies” and “On the war path.” Thomas Fox and his friend Pitamakan, with a third youth for companion, start southward on a search for gold. Lone Chief, who has come into Fort Benton with a handful of “buttons,” which prove to be twenty-dollar gold pieces, has started them on their way, saying that he had left four boxes of the supposedly valueless trinkets back in the pass, where he had accidentally come upon them. The quest takes the boys far down into the Apache country, and they have many adventures by the way.
“A good Indian story, well told, and possessing elements which will satisfy the normal boy’s taste for adventure in a wholesome manner.”
SCHWAB, CHARLES M.Succeeding with what you have. il*50c (6c) Century 174 17-3316
A series of short papers reprinted from the American Magazine. Mr Schwab writes of: Thinking beyond your job; How men are appraised; Seizing your opportunities; The college man in business; What your employer expects; My twenty thousand partners; Men I have worked with; Woman’s part in man’s success.
“Mr Schwab seems to have sized up what his normal readers want in the way of a ‘secret of success’ book and gives them maxims and hints well worth following.”
SCHWARZ, OSIAS L.General types of superior men.*$2.50 Badger, R: G. 136 17-1805
“The writer is an immigrant from Rumania though evidently German by blood and tongue.” (Nation) His book is “a philosophico-psychological study of genius, talent and Philistinism in their bearings upon human society and its struggle for a better social order.” (Sub-title) “The point of view of the book is the need to society of both intellectual and moral geniuses.” (Springf’d Republican) There is a preface by Jack London, and an introductory letter by Dr Max Nordau.
“Jack London wrote of the book that it was ‘one of those immortal epoch-making works which appear only at very long intervals and which leave an indelible constructive impression in the mind of the world.’ Dr Nordau did not hesitate to declare that the work was ‘dogmatic, not scientific,’ that it contained statements which he, Nordau, ‘deemed dubious and that the analysis of hereditary influences in the formation of genius was hazy.’ The critic also doubted the author’s conviction that socialistic society would show none of the vices which the author pictured in civilized society.” H. S. K.
“His control of English syntax is faulty. ... Beneath the radical prejudice and, it must be said, occasional naïve ignorance, one discerns an attitude not only introspective, but deeply reflective, a certain fine insight, and a genuine humanity, fairness struggling with prejudice.”
“The book is full of this sort of muddiness, and yet there is often, we willingly recognize, a striking suggestiveness. The chief merit of the book is in its passionate insistence on the imperativeness of making the most of really superior men.”
“It is a fine book for those fatigued minds that in the misty phrases of ‘social consciousness’ and the like try to disguise their basic terror before the individual intellect.”
“It is vastly stimulating reading and much can be gathered from its torrential attack upon Philistinism. ... Mr Schwarz’s ideas would have been promulgated to better effect if the material had been divided between two or more volumes.”
“An argument for socialism bolstered up with philosophical and ethical generalizations. ... Shows a certain amount of independent thinking ... but is scattering in aim, and extremely diffuse in expression.”
SCOLLARD, CLINTON.Let the flag wave, and other verses written in wartime. 75c J. T. White & co., 70 5th av., N.Y.; for sale by Baker 811 17-17071
Among the “other verses” are: At the grave of Lawrence; America to her young men; Reeds of the Somme; Chant of the Hun; Mother England; and Kitchener of Khartum. The cream colored binding is not well suited to library use.
“In this sort of writing Mr Scollard’s high spirits and power to write convincingly stand him in good stead.”
SCOTT, CHARLES ERNEST.China from within; introd. by J. Ross Stevenson. il*$1.75 Revell 915.1 17-31762
“For many years a missionary of the Presbyterian church at Tsingtau, Dr Scott’s lectures delivered in the winter of 1914-15 at Princeton theological seminary have an authority sometimes lacking in the books recording the impressions and experiences of the ordinary traveller. For Dr Scott has not only journeyed over the greater part of China, including provinces seldom visited by aliens, but he has lived among the people, learning, as in no other way can be done their real life and the most pressing of their many needs. ... ‘An humble testimony by a student on the field to the ability and achievements of the Chinese,’ he himself calls his book.”—Boston Transcript
“His book is as interesting and valuable to the general reader as to those concerned with the problems of mission work.” F. B.
“Little is said here about politics, revolutions or international relations. But real insight is given into the regenerative forces that are at work creating a manhood that some day will take high place in China’s development.”
“A careful study.”
“Dr Scott presents a body of material concerning the inner life of the Chinese such as can hardly be found in any other published book.”
SCOTT, DIXON.Men of letters; with an introd. by Max Beerbohm. il*$2 (2c) Doran 820.4
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“One of the most serious losses due to the war has been the death of Dixon Scott. ... Scott was not merely an acute critic or interpreter, or that commonplace of to-day, the good impressionist. He was one of those who penetrate through the book into the mind of the author, and show how it works. Like Sainte-Beuve, he saturated himself so completely in the man he was studying that he endued his personality.”
“His judgments may challenge some readers: me they merely fascinate. ... I want a figure to intrigue my imagination, and Dixon Scott has offered me a gallery.” J. W. Linn
“Dixon Scott was an exceedingly clever young man, with a most remarkable specific literary talent. Reading his criticisms is like watching revolver practice by a crack shot: the explosiveness of the style and the swiftness of the devastation hide the monotony of the mood and method. His longest and most deeply felt effort was an essay on William Morris: his most elaborated, an essay on me. ... I have no space here to do more than point out the limitations of Dixon Scott’s view of art, and how the young literary voluptuary flourished at the expense of the critic of life. But I can guarantee the book as being not only frightfully smart in the wrong places, but, in the best of the right ones, as good as it is in the nature of the best journalistic criticism to be.” G. B. S.
“Aesthetic excitement—that is his distinguishing note. ... It was Dixon Scott’s excellent gift that he could both brilliantly detect and unforgettably convey. ... Here is a genuine student of life: an observer both shrewd and sweet, gallant, full of charm and vigor; an interpreter of brilliant insight, of poetic imagination, of extraordinary craft. One is not easily reconciled to his sacrifice.” Lawrence Gilman
“To find a given writer’s medium, compare his normal with his sophisticated self, and complete the curve of variation from his theoretically possible achievement, is the task of criticism as it presents itself to Dixon Scott. The resulting method has the breathless fascination of hurdle-racing. One may disagree with his opinions and resent his premises, but one must recognize the dynamic energy of the thinking involved.” M. A. Jordan
SCOTT, MRS ELLEN (CORRIGAN).Elizabeth Bess, “a little girl of the sixties.” il*$1.25 (2c) Macmillan 17-24271
Perhaps it is for its picture of New England life in the years immediately following the Civil war that this book for girls will be most valued and for that reason many older people will enjoy it. Elizabeth Bess is a winsome little girl of five, who lives in a bewildering world of older brothers and sisters and other grown people. There is one older brother whom Elizabeth does not remember very well, for she was only a baby when he went to war and he has been “missing” since Gettysburg. Elizabeth Bess knows what missing means. She knows that it does not mean dead, or lost forever, and she persists in her faith in the face of all the grown-up discouragement, even after Howell’s mother and sweetheart are ready to give up hope. And Bess’s perseverance is rewarded by the missing brother’s return.
“A not over sentimentalized picture of the life of a charming little girl of the sixties. ... It is not written for children, though they would enjoy parts of the story.”
“A real little classic. Elizabeth Bess is a heroine in whom little readers and older ones may well be interested. She is a human child, with a quick tongue, a wide-awake mind, an intense interest in everything about her.”
SCOTT, ERNEST.Short history of Australia.maps*$1.25 Oxford 994 17-14803
“A handy, clear, and well-written history, skilfully adjusting the narrative to the limits of a small volume without rendering it unattractive; equipped with a great many useful maps; and at the end a bibliography for each chapter. Index 15 pages.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Prof. Ernest Scott occupies the chair of history in the University of Melbourne. His ‘Short history’ is a model of its kind. Based on firsthand knowledge of the sources, written in a clear, masculine style with an agreeable literary flavor, well proportioned, judicial in tone, equipped with such aids to the understanding as maps, plans, chronology, bibliography, and index, this admirable work will take its place at once as a prime authority on Australia.”
SCOTT, JAMES BROWN, ed. Diplomatic documents relating to the outbreak of the European war; with an introd. 2v*$5 Oxford 940.91 16-18046
“Evidently it is the purpose of this work to furnish the student with the best and most comprehensive collection of the sources, but not to assist him further in the study of them, except that there is a large and excellent index. The documents are printed from the originals, when these are in English, and when in other languages from the official English translations. This collection is the most complete hitherto published, and contains besides the documents usually assembled the second ‘Austrian red book,’ concerning relations with Italy, most of the ‘Second Belgian gray book,’ the second ‘British blue book,’ relating to the rupture of relations with Turkey, the ‘Italian green book,’ and the second ‘Russian orange book,’ concerning relations with Turkey.”—Am Hist R
“Should be the standard collection on the subject for some time to come.” E: R. Turner
“To the many books dealing with the outbreak of the war, the Carnegie Endowment for international peace has now added their contribution. For such a collection there is a real place. Some two years ago the British government, indeed, published a work similar in character, ‘Collected diplomatic documents relating to the outbreak of the European war’; so far as it went that seemed fully to meet all requirements; the volumes before us, however, are larger in their scope in that they include material which has appeared since then; for instance, the ‘Second Belgian grey book’ and the new edition of the ‘German white book.’ ... On the whole, it seems to us that it would have been wiser if the Carnegie institute had undertaken more immediate responsibility for the revision of the various translations.”