Chapter 127

6–7325.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The book is well up to date, and has been written with great care.”

“Prof. Smith has met the difficulties of his task with great skill, and has given us a very judicious and well-balanced selection of the facts of inorganic chemistry with a body of theoretical information little less than is to be found in a fairly advanced work on physical chemistry.” Arthur Smithells.

Smith, Mrs. Alice Prescott.Montlivet.†$1.50. Houghton.

6–33573.

“The end of the seventeenth century in Canada, English and French rivalries, Indian friends and foes, and a prisoner—such are the old materials for a new story into which Mrs. Smithinfuses life and freshness.” (Acad.) The story interest centers about Armand de Montlivet, a French trader, and an English prisoner, Mary Starling in disguise, whom Montlivet rescues.

“The story of these adventurous lovers is more than merely exciting, it is fascinating, and delightfully told.”

“An exceptionally interesting piece of work, one which may perhaps be described as similar to the romances of the late Mrs. Catherwood with an added infusion of virility.” Wm. M. Payne.

“The book has unusual merit.”

“Is rare if not unique among stories of warfare with Indians, for it contains no scenes of horror, and yet never allows a reader a moment’s rest from the dread of horrors to come.”

Smith, Arthur Henderson.China and America to-day: a study of conditions and relations. **$1.25. Revell.

7–26625.

In the course of the study America’s unpopularity in eastern Asia is shown to be due to her immigration laws which favor Japan and discriminate against China. “In the main the present volume is a discussion of China’s relations, present and future, with the United States, in which an exceedingly interesting historical sketch is given, incidentally of the Celestial empire.” (Lit. D.)

“We have here in brief space a vivid picture of old but rapidly changing conditions and relations.”

“The book is filled with interesting revelations of Chinese life and customs and promises to occupy an authoritative place among the many volumes recently published dealing with the problems of the Far East.”

Smith, Arthur Henderson.Uplift of China. 50c. Young people’s missionary movement.

7–38590.

A book for missionaries and for use in Sunday schools. It “gives a bird’s eye view of old China, the China that has persisted unchanged for so many thousand years, and of the forces now at work breaking up and changing the unchangeable and making a new China that is attracting the anxious and interested eyes of all the rest of the world.” (N. Y. Times.)

“One of the ablest missionaries in China has packed this volume with an amount of information about ‘old’ China and ‘new’ nowhere else to be found in the same compass.”

Smith, Bertram.Whole art of caravanning; being personal experiences in England and Scotland; with 6 il. from photographs. $1. Longmans.

“England and Scotland furnish the scenery, the stamping ground, the night’s lodging, and the caravan is nothing more or less than the covered wagon the gypsies use as house and home. The narrative sets forth the experiences of the author, Bertram Smith, traveling in the United Kingdom in such a wagon and camping in it when he had no mind to be moving or a particular reason for stopping. His object is to show how a holiday can be spent in this way, with what delight and satisfaction.”—N. Y. Times.

“Its title is perhaps a little over-ambitious, for it does not cover the ‘whole art’ to which he refers; and the reader who, with this guide, decides to spend a summer holiday in a caravan, will find that there are points he must elucidate for himself, though he will find a number of useful hints. The book is nicely illustrated from sketches and photographs: and the reminiscent vein in which it has been written is pleasantly humorous.”

*Smith, Bertram T. K.How to collect postage stamps. *$2. Macmillan.

A book for the advanced collector of stamps which gives information regarding values, rarities, forgeries, reprints and numerous other matters included in the field of philately.

“Excellently printed and amply illustrated.”

“For ... the timid lovers of manuals, why this is a very good little book, and it should turn out spurious gipsies by the score.”

Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomasina.Colonel’s conquest. †$1.50. Jacobs.

7–29156.

The story of a frivolous mother’s awakening to womanliness and mother love through the devotion of her little lame child. The book contains a lesson for grown up readers even tho written for the young.

Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomasina (formerly L. T. Meade).Hill top girl. †$1.50. Lippincott.

Mrs. Smith’s story “exhibits the familiar contrast between rich and poor, worldly and unworldly households. The humble folk dwell on the top of the hill, the great folk in the plain below, and this symbolizes their relative position from an ethical point of view. A sudden girl-friendship that springs up between the two houses is discouraged by the hill-top father Prof. Primrose; and the rebellion against his decree occupies the greater part of the story.” (Ath.)

“The fault of the over-accentuation appears throughout.”

“For American girls there will be all the charm of the unaccustomed in the ‘Hill-top girl.’”

Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomasina.Little school mothers: a story for girls. 75c. McKay.

7–21231.

A boarding-school story for girls whose chief interest centers about a contest which is designed to reveal the girl best fitted to become the school-mother of a motherless child.

*Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Tomasina (formerly L. T. Meade).Three girls from school. †$1.50. Lippincott.

A story which centers about a trio of English school girls. The most intellectual of the three learns that she must leave school for financial reasons; the wealthy one learns that by winning a certain prize her cherished hope of leaving school and traveling with an aunt in France will be realized; while the third, an unscrupulous minx, is a go-between who bribes the honest Priscilla to turn over her essay to the girl whose pleasure depends upon winning the prize, in consideration for which Priscilla is to remain in school. This dishonesty followed by a series of tricks to support it causes no end of complication and humiliation.

Smith, Elmer Boyd.Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith; told and pictured by E. Boyd Smith. **$2.50. Houghton.

6–42437.

Here the story of America’s first “international romance” is told in picture as well as in text. There are twenty-six colored plates “full of spirit and beauty, and not without sly touches of humor at the expense of everybody concerned.” (Dial.)

“Mr. Smith’s style is unique; all phases of it get full play in the new volume.”

“The pictures are vivid enough to render the text ‘rather a luxury than a necessity.’”

“Should have prominent place among picture books of the year. Its text is apparently historically correct.”

Smith, Francis Asbury.Critics versus Shakespeare: a brief for the defendant.Knickerbocker press.

7–8252.

A defense in which the author contends that every piece of literature claiming Shakespearian authorship was written by the great dramatist.

“We confess that we like Mr. Smith’s book. It strikes a wholesome note. He is wrong-headed, of course, but so are many of the greater commentators. Some of the evidence he discards is of great weight.”

“A vigorous and independent book. One may pick flaws in Mr. Smith’s book at points, but he speaks as a man who loves the plays as literature, and who brings to them a keen human sense of the conditions under which they are probably produced.”

“Mr. Smith’s book shows a good degree of scholarship and wide reading, but he makes some mistakes that a sophomore should be ashamed of.” Wm. J. Rolfe.

Smith, Francis Henry.Christ and science: Jesus Christ regarded as the centre of science, **$1.25. Revell.

6–32410.

“That Jesus Christ as a person is the center of the universe, and its creator ... is the thesis which these lectures at Vanderbilt university maintain.”—Outlook.

“We can only deeply regret that his laudable desire to honor the Master should lead to the erection of such a tawdry temple of fallacious analogy and science falsely so called, founded on the sands of verbal inspiration.” Charles R. Barnes.

“The argument for the main proposition is too thin to expose to close debate.”

Smith, Francis Hopkinson.Old-fashioned folk. Privately printed. R. E. Lee, 212 Summer st., Boston.

7–17373.

“A plea for the simple life of former times;” further it is “an arraignment of selfish independence and self-assertive vulgarity, written with fine scorn of the mere treasure heaper, and it includes a stern hint of what may come from imitating him, and from tolerating the practice by which he helps himself, in both senses of the phrase.” (N. T. Times.)

Smith, Francis Hopkinson.Romance of an old-fashioned gentleman. †$1.50. Scribner.

7–31210.

“In ‘The romance of an old-fashioned gentleman’ we have the wholesome, noble, self-controlled side of a situation continually presented from the opposite side. A man who can deny himself and his love is shown as a strong, well-developed character—a man who has learned the lesson of life so well that he is able to guide others. His crisis long past, though the hurt is never healed, he grasps in his strong hand a younger man when he faces bitter temptation, and leads him safely through it. The women in the story are the sort Mr. Smith knows as well as Howells knows his kind.”—Outlook.

“A charming story of simple plot and well defined characters.”

“The wide world is the scene of the rest of the story told in Mr. Smith’s colorful prose, but the portrait of the fair Southern holds its magic to the end.”

“‘The romance of an old-fashioned gentleman’ is both beautiful and true.”

Smith, Francis Hopkinson.Veiled lady, and other men and women, il. †$1.50. Scribner.

7–12697.

Stories that are intrinsically good, that reveal characteristics of the story-teller, that offer to writers bits of advice which have grown out of the author’s wide study and observation. and that delicately rail against fads and foibles tho they be artistic ones and indulged in by the descendants of “earls and high-daddies.”

“There is so little of the cynic and so much of the humanitarian in ‘the staid old painter,’ as he calls himself in this his latest volume of gentle tales, that we rejoice in the sentiment of an older fashion and the mellow mood of most of the stories.”

“For tho subjects are sufficiently various, a certain coordination and unity is furnished by the delightful human quality which links the stories one to another like a thread of gold. The illustrations, many of which are by the author, are a notable feature of the book.”

“It is not the beautiful veiled lady who is his real achievement, but the conglomerate little dragoman who carries in his pocket enough of the small change of heroism to be a stanch friend in need.”

“The truth is there is not very much to any of these stories except the water color effect of the backgrounds and the charm of the painter, engineer, good fellow visible and personally present in them.”

“A charming series of impressions of picturesque bits of life.”

“The best of his stories are mainly those of Venice and the east, but every one will repay the time spent in reading.”

Smith, Francis Hopkinson.Wood fire in no. 3. †$1.50. Scribner.

5–34173.

Descriptive note in December, 1905.

“It is the author’s way of thinking of them that makes them what they seem to be—charming.”

Smith, Frank Berkeley.In London town. **$1.50. Funk.

6–35588.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Mr. F. Berkeley Smith’s impressions of London town are not so much those of a lighthearted holiday-maker as of an alert, keen-eyed, and precociously sophisticated journalist.” Harriet Waters Preston.

Smith, George Armitage.Principles and methods of taxation. *$1.25. Dutton.

7–6425.

An account of the British system of taxation and the principles on which it is based.

“Mr. Armitage-Smith is a high authority on ‘The principles and methods of taxation,’ ... and his present volume ... is of value, and may be commended for educational purposes.”

Smith, Gertrude.Little Girl and Philip. **$1.30. Harper.

7–36981.

Printed in large type with eight full page illustrations in color by Rachael Robinson these fifteen stories about the lively little girl and the quiet little boy who lived next door to her will make a pleasing gift-book for all small folks who like to hear about other people’s grandmas and grandpas, their nice uncles, their pets, their plays and their pleasant surprises.

Smith, Goldwin.Labour and capital: a letter to a labour friend. **50c. Macmillan.

7–7165.

A monograph which urges upon labour conservative progression. “Progress,” writes Professor Smith, “seems more hopeful than revolution.” and altho he has faith in the ultimate realization of the socialist ideal, perfect brotherhood, he closes his consideration of the questions of labour and capital, with the declaration “There is no leaping into the millenium.”

“The interest of the letter lies in its formulation of the judgment of a historical student who is familiar with many aspects of life and is reasonably free from bias.” Charles Richmond Henderson.

“A series of interesting and suggestive reflections.”

“Written in a characteristically clear style.”

Smith, Rev. Haskett.Patrollers of Palestine. *$3. Longmans.

7–10989.

“The experiences of a lively party of tourist, men and women, who journey through the Holy Land, their conversation carried on by various characters such as The enthusiast, The pessimist, etc., form the subject matter of this posthumous book.”—Outlook.

“Though brightly written, is spoilt by the introduction of a good deal of humour which strikes us as often a little forced.”

“The present volume gives to all who are interested in present-day Palestine, as well as in its historical and religious significance, a certain intimate atmosphere hardly found in other works on that subject.”

“Whatever we may think of Mr. Haskett Smith’s geographical theories or his speculations on the miraculous, he has certainly drawn a graphic picture of the modern tourist in Palestine and the necessity of finding a guide who will ‘suffer fools gladly.’”

Smith, James Allen.Spirit of American government: a study of the constitution; its origin, influence and relation to democracy. **$1.25. Macmillan.

7–16497.

In which the author traces the influence of our constitutional system upon the political conditions which exist in this country to-day. He calls attention to the spirit of the Constitution, its inherent opposition to democracy, and the obstacles which it placed in the way of majority rule.

“Every page shows evidence of much investigation and reflection and earnest analysis. Nevertheless, we are certain that his argument will from start to finish prove not only unsatisfactory but exceedingly exasperating to those who believe and insist that a democracy must be safe, sane, and stable as well as adjustable. The fundamental fallacy vitiating the entire narrative is the author’s misconception of the nature of democracy, due primarily to his non-appreciation of the inexorable necessities of a sovereignty.” F. I. Herriott.

“It is refreshing to find amid the arid compilations and inconsequential manuals on American government that pour forth annually from the press a volume that is well written, vigorous and highly contentious in a scholarly fashion.”

“The work has a certain importance, or, at least, significance, owing to the fact that it expresses so frankly the idea underlying a movement which is now with us and which must run its course. What Professor Smith desires in government would correspond to the untrained, unhampered individual, the slave of impressions. He has no understanding of the true democracy, which aims at once at the liberty of the individual as also of the masses.”

Smith, Captain John.Generall historie of Virginia, New England and the Summer isles.2v. *$6. Macmillan.

7–18581.

An interesting work which the tri-centennial of Jamestown has called forth. “The rare works that make up this volume are here assembled in convenient form for the first time since their original publication in 1624–30. The edition will contain facsimile reproductions of all the maps and illustrations in the originals, including the rare portraits of the Duchess of Richmond and Pocahontas.” (Dial.)

“Nothing, too, could be more praiseworthy than the manner in which the work has been done. With scholarly conscientiousness, the publishers have presented an exact reprint of the original editions.” Lawrence. J. Burpee.

“These books are neither terse nor short, but they are rich in color and intimate interest and most entertaining and valuable reading.”

“Except for the scantiest of mention in the brief introductory statements of the publishers, the reader is left absolutely in ignorance of the fact that Smith’s veracity has been questioned. For this there can be no excuse.”

“It is one of the best stories of adventure in our language. The volumes before us are simply a reprint without notes, and, if we may make bold enough to say so, are all the better for that.”

Smith, Justin Harvey.Our struggle for the fourteenth colony: Canada and the American revolution. 2v. **$6. Putnam.

7–26025.

The story of how the thirteen colonies in asserting their own independence tried to force it upon Lower Canada. “It will appeal primarily to the specialist in American history, for few general readers of history would care to digest some twelve hundred pages to gain even a thorough understanding of a failure.” (N. Y. Times.)

“It is not likely that any facts of importance will be added to those which Mr. Smith has unearthed and worked into his mosaic. Yet we are so ungracious as to wish that this definitive work had been done differently. Here his eye is somewhat too close to the object for broad vision. And thus his defects in point of view make his attempt to fix this episode in general revolutionary history the weakest part of his book.”

“What is likely long to remain the authoritative history of our attempt to secure the adhesion of the ‘fourteenth colony.’ Prof. Smith has not only conducted a faithful piece of research; he has written an interesting book, though it could be compressed to advantage.”

“Traversing the subject as a whole, he shows himself an equally facile and entertaining historical writer. At times, to be sure, the effort to sustain the interest leads him into a floridity, and occasionally a levity, that distinctly detract from the dignity of his theme; while, on the other hand, his obvious passion for research induces him to include much petty detail that obscures rather than illuminates. But his work is so fresh, so original, and so informing that it deserves the heartiest of welcomes.”

“A dignified historical study—which, however, has not disdained to be interesting.”

“Mr. Justin Smith has worked on his subject with most laudable industry.”

Smith, Margaret Bayard.First forty years of Washington society: a portrayal by the family letters from the collection of J. Henley Smith; ed. by Gaillard Hunt, il. **$2.50. Scribner.

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