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Sabatier, Paul.Disestablishment in France. *$1.25. Scribner.

6–21194.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The book lacks unity but presents the material in a style both instructive and clear. It is especially valuable for its presentation of the causes underlying the contest.”

Sabin, Louis Carlton.Cement and concrete. 2d ed., rev. and enl. *$5. McGraw pub.

7–14245.

“The second edition has been enlarged from 507 to 572 pages, two pages of which have been added to the chapter on ‘Definitions and constituents,’ 12 pages to the chapter on ‘Manufacture,’ and the remainder to a new chapter on ‘Concrete building blocks; their manufacture and use,’ and to three appendices giving the standard specifications for cement.”—Engin. N.

“The book as it now stands is an admirable treatise on concrete as a material, but must be taken in connection with some reference book of design and construction to make a complete survey of the field of what may be called concrete engineering.”

Sage, William.By right divine. †$1.50. Little.

7–21363.

Two men contend for political supremacy in their state and for the love of the heroine, in this political romance. One is the old Senator, the boss of his state, and the girl he loves is his daughter. The other is a young man of rigid principles who has been elected governor, whose growing power with the people menaces the older man’s prestige, and whose manly courage bids fair to supplant him as first in his daughter’s heart. The contest is bitterly fought, until honesty and youth and love triumph.

“Though the element of improbability is at times present, the book as a whole is very true to life, and as a present-day political study it ranks with the best romances of recent years.”

“Mr. Sage handles his stock situation skilfully, and gives his story a certain freshness by various accessory devices.” Wm. M. Payne.

“It should be noted that all the love passages have a convincing, manly air, while an underlying sincerity runs through the book and makes it a most readable and wholesome novel of its class.”

Saglio, Andre.French furniture. (Library of applied arts.) *$2.50. Scribner.

W 7–141.

A general history of the subject from the time of the Gauls down thru the Empire. There are ninety full-page plates, reproduced from photographs.

“This volume has not many obvious faults, and constitutes a fairly accurate guide to a study which, however, requires knowledge of the French tongue.”

“He has wished perhaps to make a thoughtful and readable book. The result is that we are presented with an essay upon the decorative art of many periods of French history, without being enabled to grasp firmly the manufacture and the design of any one period.”

*Sakurai, Tadayoshi.Human bullets: a soldier’s story of Port Arthur; introd. by Count Okuma; tr. by Masujiro Honda and ed. by Alice M. Bacon. **$1.25. Houghton.

7–31244.

The actual experiences of the author who was a lieutenant in the Japanese army. One feels the personal responsibility which every soldier assumed for the outcome of the war, “the determination, the devotion to duty and the adaptability which won for the Japanese soldier such general sympathy and admiration in this country.” (Bookm.)

“Not only is the work ... the best that we have on fighting, but it also forms a valuable study of the relations between Buddhist and Shintu or official Japanese doctrine. The translation appears to be thoroughly competent.”

“A curious study in race psychology is afforded by this ‘soldier’s story of Port Arthur’. The book furnishes a striking picture of what war actually is, even under its most humane aspects. And at a time when the eyes of the whole world are on Japan, it is worth while to be told so authoritatively just what manner of fighting man the Japanese soldier is.” Ward Clark.

“Considering the great difficulty of finding English phrases to give the exact meaning of the original, the translation has been very well done, though occasionally the choice of words is not happy. No review of the work would be quite complete without some reference to the colored frontispiece, reproduced from a drawing made by the author with his left hand after he had lost his right in the war.”

“The essential interest and the real value of the little book is its record of the writer’s inner man, not merely of what his bone and flesh and blood and nerves did and suffered, but of his essential personality, perfectly exemplified that ‘as a man thinketh so he is.’”

Salaman, Malcolm Charles.Old engravers of England in their relation to contemporary life and art. *$2. Lippincott.

7–6389.

“In a brief compass the author cannot do more than glance at many of the two hundred and more engravers whom he mentions, but his description of the principal characters is adequate, and the whole army is marshalled before the reader in strict relation to the object of the book.”—Acad.

“This is a novel, interesting and almost romantic book. It clothes the dry bones of black-and-white prints with human attributes, and makes them live. The illustrations considering the low price of the book, are exceptionally good; in fact, some of them may be said to be remarkably beautiful.”

“His pages flash with coronets, and sentimental rapture.”

“The volume is indeed, a combination of good things well served. Gossip and portraiture and art are deftly interlaced, so that the reading of the pages is no less agreeable than instructive.” Charles Henry Hart.

“The ideal collector is he who has this instinct, supported by knowledge, but who has also felt the fascination of looking in at all the side-doors upon history which old prints open. Mr. Salaman is such an ideal collector, and so proves himself a true guide for the novice and a companion of the already wise.”

“The book makes interesting reading; and yet there is too much of a certain air of attempted jocosity. An earnest reader will ask for a more grave and orderly treatment.”

“If the old prints are worth anyone’s attention first of all because of their intrinsic merit as works of art, they are worth quite as much because they link us intimately with the past. A book has always been needed which should unite these two view points of art and life. At last it has come.”

“Mr. Salaman gives a lucid and sufficient account of the engravers, and one which moreover is quite readable and intelligible to the inexperienced public. For this reason his book should be of value.”

Saleeby, Caleb Williams.Worry, the disease of the age. **$1.35. Stokes.

7–16990.

“Dr. Saleeby apparently conceives worry as a sort of an entity, and he seems to hold to the old distinction of body and mind. Worry, for him, can be a cause, and one may gather is rather a cause than a mere result. And so he gives us instances of how worry can ruin one’s digestion, with it one’s temper as well, and make one thoroughly and really ill. This seems to the writer a curious reversal of the familiar relations of the cart and the horse.”—N. Y. Times.

“A new volume of double usefulness: from the practical side offering serviceable hints for what he considers the disease of the age, and from the theoretical setting in their proper, light the current notions as to the healthful relations of mind and body.” I. Woodbridge Riley.

“A profoundly serious medical consideration with much that is philosophical in the most practical and helpful way.”

“He has read widely, he has studied deeply, he has thought out things for himself, and these are the fruits. Dr. Saleeby is a true philosopher.” Carl Snyder.

“This is a good book on a grave subject, which it treats in an all-round discussion on causes and effects, physical and psychical, from scientific and practical, moral and religious points of view.”

“A noteworthy volume of sociological as well as scientific import.”

“A most capable and thoughtful series of essays.”

Salisbury, Rollin D.Physiography. (American science ser., advanced course.) *$3.50. Holt.

7–16499.

An important text-book achievement which provides a complete course for those “who have no purpose of pursuing the study of physical geography beyond its elements, but who are yet mature enough for work beyond the grade appropriate for the early years of the secondary schools.” It outlines the work covered in the University of Chicago in a twelve weeks’ course.

“The field is thoroughly and consistently explored.”

“Teachers of physiography will welcome this new book, not only on account of the large amount of fresh material and the fine illustrations that it contains, but also because it represents the accumulated experience and the method of a scientist whose skill as a teacher is well known and widely appreciated.” L. H. Wood.

“Professor Salisbury’s book meets a real want and the character of its compilation, based as it is, on many years of experience in teaching, gives the book a completeness far beyond any other physiography published up to this time.” George Burbank Shattuck.

Salmon, George.Human element in the gospels: a commentary on the synoptic narrative; ed. by Newport J. D. White. *$4.50. Dutton.

“By ‘the human element’ is meant, in distinction from divine revelations, ‘things that can be proved by ordinary historical testimony’—including, as Dr. Salmon assumes, the miraculous element in the gospels. His work is essentially devoted to an investigation of the sources of the gospel story, conducted with a purposed independence of traditional opinions.... ‘Editorial blunders’ are found in Matthew, and Luke is found to have ‘taken liberties with the earlier tradition’ of the resurrection. The Greek text only of the gospels, substantially that of Wescott and Hort, is given in parallel columns, beginning with the entrance of Jesus on his public career.”—Outlook.

“While the reader comes upon interesting and suggestive remarks, he meets with no real or consistent solution.”

“It is a striking fact that a scholar of the breadth and thoroness of Dr. Salmon, who gave so many years to this problem, apparently paid no attention whatever to the works of continental scholars.”

“The chief usefulness of Dr. Salmon’s book lies in the acumen with which he discusses particular passages.”

“The critical commentary upon it shows a cultured scholarship and freedom which prompt to agreement with the author’s regret that he had not undertaken the study till late in life.”

Salmon, Lucy Maynard.Progress in the household. **$1.10. Houghton.

6–38548.

Ten essays entitled Recent progress in the study of domestic service, Education in the household, The relation of college women to domestic science, Sairey Gamp and Dora Copperfield, Economics and ethics in domestic service, “Put yourself in his place,” Our kitchen, An illustrated edition, and The woman’s exchange.

“While the author does not offer any universal agent for a lightning change she does write with knowledge and ability, and her opinion should have weight with thoughtful women.”

Saltus, Edgar Evertson.Lords of the ghostland: a history of the ideal.*$1.25. Kennerley.

7–14564.

The history of the ideal, the genealogy of its overlords, Brahma, Armuzd, Amon-Râ, Bel-Marduk, Jehovah, Zeus, Jupiter and of the Christ himself, is here given in a spirit which lifts the veil without rending it.

“His treatment of each subject is a deft mingling of historical knowledge, philosophical method and poetic feeling.”

*Sanday, Rev. William.Life of Christ in recent research. *$1.75. Oxford.

7–33561.

“Certain recent lectures, reviews, and sermons of Professor Sanday’s have been combined into this volume. It presents a survey of the most important literature of the past twenty years upon the life and person of Christ with a special chapter on miracles.”—Bib. World.

“Professor Sanday’s well-known scholarly moderation characterizes the whole.”

“As a matter of fact, we have another preliminary essay—a survey of the chief tendencies and the more important conclusions of the criticism to which the evangelic narratives have been subjected in the last twenty years. No English writer is so well qualified as Dr. Sanday to make such a survey. Not only is he himself one of our most thorough and most cautious critics, but his appetite for German brochures is insatiable. The charm of the whole book lies in the receptiveness of its author’s mind.”

Sanders, Frank Knight, and Fowler, Henry Thatcher.Outlines for the study of Biblical history and literature; with maps and charts. (Historical ser. for Bible students, v. 9.) **$1.25. Scribner.

6–39458.

“Intelligent direction for systematic and discriminating study” is the aim of this book. It meets the needs of four classes of student: (1) the college student, (2) the graduate student in oriental history, (3) the student of theology, and (4) the general student of the Bible. The book covers both the Old and New Testaments, and is divided into four parts: (1) Hebrew literature and history, reaching from the beginning to the fall of Jerusalem (586 B. C.); (2) early Jewish history and literature (586–168 B. C.); (3) later Jewish history and literature (168 B. C.–135 A. D.); (4) early Christian history and literature.

“If there is one point in which the work does not come up to the standard laid down by the authors, it is that of answering the requirements of the graduate student. Otherwise, by a wise use of the literature assigned and a classification of the material thus procured there is little doubt that the book will prove very useful and helpful in filling the blanks in many students minds which should be occupied by Biblical history.” Ira M. Brice and John M. P. Smith.

“A valuable outline with useful bibliographies which would help small libraries in purchasing the best books on the subjects treated.”

“As is the case with most works in English covering both the Old and the New Testaments, the treatment of Old Testament subjects is much superior.”

“They give ample direction to the most recent works of Biblical scholars, with strict impartiality toward the supporters of divergent conclusions.”

Sanders, Wilbur E.; McDonald, Bernard; Parlee, Norman W.; and others.Mine timbering. $2. Hill pub. co.

7–19426.

A collection of papers which form a series of essays emphasizing many important details rather than a complete treatise on the subject.

Reviewed by E. J. McCaustland.

Sanderson, Edgar.Great Britain in modern Africa. $1.75. Scribner.

7–10993.

“A volume which gathers into easy compass the history and geography of all the present divisions and governments of Africa.... It treats of Germany, France, Portugal, and Italy in Africa, as well as of Great Britain. The only parts left untouched are the western countries in the Mediterranean.... It is a handbook of information concerning Africa, including statistics of imports and exports, revenue, population, and other matters.”—Nation.

“Mr. Sanderson’s history ... is told with vivacity and exact detail.”

“Mr. Sanderson’s account of recent events is admirably concise and comprehensive, and affords an excellent idea of the many-sided activity of Great Britain from the Cape to Cairo and from Nigeria to Uganda.”

Sanford, P. Gerald.Nitro-explosives: a practical treatiseconcerning the properties, manufacture, and analysis of nitrated substances, including the fulminates, smokeless powders and celluloid. 2d ed. *$4. Van Nostrand.

War 7–20.

A work which “for ten years has been a standard authority, and now is revised and brought up to date. It describes the processes of manufacture of nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gun-cotton, picrates, and fulminates, and gives the methods of analyzing them and testing their strength.”—Nation.

“The text is too much like the old, with some slight changes and explanations, and not at all enough reference to the progress in the manufacture of smokeless powders and insensitive blasting powders.” Charles F. McKenna

Santayana, George.Life of reason; or, The phases of human progress.5v. ea. **$1.25. Scribner.

5–5419.

“This book is so wanting in clearness of thought that I doubt whether it can be of much use to anyone. Throughout the book, Mr. Santayana makes a great many scattered remarks, which are certainly ‘suggestive,’ and perhaps (as he himself declares to be his object) ‘stimulating,’ but what he says seems to be always mixed with a great deal that is definitely erroneous, and always imbedded in a mass that is greatly wanting in clearness.” G. E. Moore.

“These later volumes, though containing much that would be interesting, if Professor Santayana had not already made us familiar with his point of view and characteristic method of treatment, are something of a disappointment. It is not easy to see exactly for what class of readers they are intended. Unfortunately the last volume ‘Reason in science’—the only one of the last three volumes in which the author enters a new field—is perhaps the most disappointing of all.” Ernest Albee.

Sargent, Dudley Allen.Physical education. *$1.50. Ginn.

6–37870.

An attempt “to place the training of the body upon the same educational basis as the training of the intellect.” There are chapters upon The physical training of the American people; Physical exercise and longevity; Physical education in colleges, in secondary, and in elementary schools; and ideals in physical education.

“A valuable contribution to the subject.”

“There is much of interest in the volume.”

Sargent, Herbert Howland.Campaign of Santiago de Cuba. 3v. **$5. McClurg.

7–29604.

A full summary in three volumes of the campaign of our army and navy at Santiago in 1898. It is compiled from official documents, contains twelve maps which show the scene of fighting, and above all is fearless in its “criticism of American arms and in its tributes to the feats of Spanish valor.”

“The first thorough and complete account of the war between the United States and the Spanish in Cuba.”

Saunders, Margaret Marshall (“Marshall Saunders”).Beautiful Joe; with an introd. by Hezekiah Butterworth. il. †$1.25. Am. Bapt.

7–28456.

A new and enlarged edition of this companion to “Black Beauty.” It is a dog’s autobiography which teaches a lesson of kindness not only to dogs but to the entire animal kingdom.

Savage, William G.Bacteriological examination of water-supplies. *$2.50. Blakiston.

Agr 7–1421.

By eliminating elementary matter, and by omitting a part of data early collected, the author has made his treatise one which covers only the pertinent phases of the subject.

“Among the many books which have been recently written on the bacteriology of water, this latest one ... is by all odds the best. Although it is a comparatively small book, it covers the ground more thoroughly than any other.” George C. Whipple.

“The chapter on the interpretation of results is particularly to be recommended. The medical officer of health, and the analyst, and the bacteriologist will find this book a trustworthy and useful guide.” R. T. Hewlett.

Sayce, Rev. Archibald Henry.Archaeology of the cuneiform inscriptions: Rhine lectures. *$1.75. Gorham.

The volume “opens with a brief, but excellent account of the method of decipherment of the cuneiform inscriptions, describes the nature of the inscriptions found, shows the relation of the Sumerians to Semitic people, that of the Egyptian to the Babylonian civilization, that of Palestine to Babylonia, the character of the Hittite people of Asia Minor, and describes the condition of Canaan before the Exodus.”—Ind.

“The whole forms a sufficiently compact and readable account. Both these faults (the habit of stating conjectures as facts, and of catching at any parallel, however wild, which seems to bear out preconceived conclusions) are very much in evidence in this volume, and go some way towards spoiling what is one of the most interesting books that Prof. Sayce has written.”

“Like all of Professor Sayce’s writings, it is very suggestive, broad in treatment, and the conclusions sometimes rest on insufficient evidence.”

“Great mass of information closely packed in this small volume.”

“The story ... is well worth reading; nothing in literary history surpasses it; Professor Sayce, who has himself had no small part in its evolution, tells it with admirable clearness. Of course, it is not by any mean finished.”

Schaff, Morris.Spirit of old West Point. **$3. Houghton.

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