“Very well worth reading on many accounts these essays are. But perhaps most of all as showing how a highly cultivated modern man and acute dialectician may still represent and embody an antiquated theory of politics.” Montgomery Schuyler.
*Salter, Emma Gurney.Franciscan legends in Italian art: pictures in Italian churches and galleries.*$1.50. Dutton.
Although this volume “consists largely of catalogues of pictures, frescoes, friezes, stained glass groups, and so forth, it is not designed chiefly as a historical study of the works of art with which it deals; its main interest is for the Franciscan student.... The representations of Francis, his followers and indeed all things Franciscan, and the influence of the Saint in early Italian art generally, are followed up and chronicled with a pertinacity and thoroughness which only the special student can appreciate.”—Acad.
*“We have found it rather dry reading from any point of view, but doubtless there are those who can profit by the information it conveys.”
*“Presents the first attempt ever made to bring together into English and in small compass the stories around the pictures of Franciscan saints.”
Salter, William.Iowa: The first free state in the Louisiana purchase.**$1.20. McClurg.
This is not the story of Iowa as a state, but an account of the incidents in American history which concern it, from 1673 to 1846, from its discovery to its admission as a state into the Union. Its varied history, under France, under Spain, in the Louisiana purchase, and the territories of Louisiana, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, and at last Iowa is followed. The book is illustrated with portraits and plans.
“The work is painstaking and careful but its scope is limited.”
“A vast amount of information is given in this condensed and readable shape.”
“The story is told in a style that is clear, but without distinctive merit of any kind. Neither new knowledge nor original treatment of old information is in evidence.”
“His narrative lacks the flowing interest one would naturally expect, being retarded both by a peculiar inclusiveness of treatment and a somewhat halting style.”
*Saltus, Edgar Evertson.Perfume of Eros; a Fifth avenue incident.†$1.25. Wessels.
“The perfume of Eros” was first published serially under the title, “The yellow fay.” It deals with some unlovely members of New York’s inner circle. Loftus, handsome and wealthy, picks up a tailor’s pretty little daughter and after solemnly promising to marry her establishes her in handsome apartments, takes her abroad and finally deserts her for the wife of his closest friend. The murder of Loftus on the eve of this elopement brings about a trial in which the characters who have thus far been good altho weak, perjure themselves and thereby smooth things over for the happiness of two of the weakest and wealthiest.
*“The story is interesting, especially if you regard it as a hooded satire.”
Sample, John Calvert.Properties of steel sections: a reference book for structural engineers and architects.*$3. McGraw pub.
A work related to the well-known “Osborn’s tables,” in ground covered. An essential difference is that, in the tables of properties of compound sections, Sample gives I and r, while Osborn gives I and r2.
“The book will be frequently found a convenient handbook where much designing in steel is to be done.”
Sanborn, Alvan Francis.Paris and the social revolution: a study of the revolutionary element in the various classes of Parisian life.**$3.50. Small.
“The author begins by describing the present-day anarchistic philosophy and its developments, and then goes on to tell how its propagation is carried on in Paris by speaking, by conferences, by the anarchist press, and by acts—the last including insurrectionists’ outbreaks and individual crimes.”—Outlook.
“The author has done a rare thing. He has portrayed the radicals of society as men and women moved by all human emotions and not as human caricatures.”
“There is plenty of picturesque material, and he makes the most of it. Ordinarily it would be no compliment to an author to say that his quotations are the best part of his book, but in this case it is, for they are so numerous, and well-chosen and are gathered from such diverse and often inaccessible sources as to form a valuable library of revolutionary literature.”
“It is a study of unusual thoroughness into the condition of Parisian life below the surface. The chapters are not as a rule, theoretical, but deal directly with actual life and observation, and in this way contain much that is picturesque and often even amusing.”
“An unusually earnest presentation of what modern anarchy stands for.”
Sanborn, Mary Farley.Lynette and the congressman. (†)$1.50. Little.
The setting of Miss Sanborn’s story is chiefly out-of-door Washington, where on long tramps and in a certain Madame de Chatres’ rose garden, the friendship between a charmingly naïve Southern girl and a Michigan congressman grows apace. There is somewhat of politics, there are slight peeps into social Washington, but the main story interest is restricted to the natural, spontaneous comradeship between two direct and unassuming people.
*“Things come to pass in a slow, mildly interesting, elaborate sort of way which interferes innowise with the gentle reader’s nap between chapters.”
Sandars, Mary F.Life of Honore de Balzac.**$3 Dodd.
The author has given the romantic career of a man of genius, whose loves and debts occupied much of his time, but who in his passion for labor, wrote his seventy-nine novels, accomplished a colossal amount of journalism and wrote several plays. Having achieved all this, he died in debt, unappreciated, and broken in hope, and afterwards came fame.
“An account of the events of Balzac’s career accurate in matters of fact, and written in a light, agreeable manner. It is not really worthy of the occasion.”
“So far this is the best and most complete life of the great French romancer.”
“Its form is attractive, its illustrations are good, and its sympathetic tone is alluring and generally well-balanced.” Annie Russell Marble.
“Miss Sandars explicitly disclaims all critical intentions. But her attitude toward her author implies a judgment. And that judgment, it seems to us, errs, if anything, in taking Balzac rather too seriously.”
“In Miss Sandars’s work is presented, for the first time, an exhaustive account of Balzac’s life. The story is told simply, directly, with sympathy, and not infrequent humor.”
“While sympathetic and unquestionably entertaining, adds little of importance to our knowledge of the subject. It is essentially a volume of literary ‘small talk’ ... all very diverting, to be sure, but hardly constituting a biography.”
“Miss Sandars has succeeded, where many have failed, in writing a readable and intelligent Life of Honore De Balzac. She has made little attempt to estimate the value and character of his writings, and therein she is wise, for such few specimens of criticism as she does present show neither sympathy nor understanding. Miss Sandars’s sketch is not without either coherence or verisimilitude.”
Sanday, Rev. William.Outlines of the life of Christ.**$1.25. Scribner.
“This volume is a reprint of the article ‘Jesus Christ,’ contributed to Dr. Hastings’s ‘Dictionary of the Bible.’ ... A notable feature is an improved map of the sacred sites, taken from various sources, and brought up to the latest stage of knowledge on the subject.”—Spec.
“His article on Jesus has been recognized as a careful piece of work, but it falls short where one most wants light, in the point of a clear, satisfying statement of Jesus’s own thought and belief.”
“Strongly conservative in his tendencies, but open-minded, and candidly conceding much to the fellow-critics whose conclusions he rejects.”
“Few scholars can approach the central subject of their religion with deeper learning, and with a happier combination of criticism and reverence than Dr. Sanday.”
Sanders, Henry Arthur,ed. Roman historical sources and institutions. (Humanistic series.)**$2.50. Macmillan.
“The University of Michigan devotes the initial volume of her ‘Studies’ to a collection of essays dealing with Roman historical sources and institutions.... Apart from Professor Dennison’s discussion of the singing of the ‘Sæcular’ hymn, all the papers are historical in theme.... Miss Mary G. Williams” contributes a “study of Julia Mamæa.... Dr. Duane R. Stuart investigates Dio Cassius’s use of epigraphic material.... Professor Drake ... traces the rise and decline of theprincipalitasin the pre-Diocletian army. Dr. G. H. Allen ... presents a valuable study of centurions as substitute commanders.... Professor Sanders ... collects all versions of the Tarpeia myth, following Krahner, and adds some allied stories,” and also gives a “discussion of the lost Epitome of Livy.”—Am. Hist. R.
“They display diligence and zeal. It is perhaps ungracious to object to their literary baldness and disjointedness; but none of the essays shows a facile pen.” Charles Upson Clark.
Sandys, Edwyn.Sporting sketches**$1.75. Macmillan.
Mr. Sandys, author, artist, naturalist, and sportsman, has brought together here “picturesque accounts of shooting and fishing, pleasant descriptions of out-of-door experiences, practical information for the camper, fisher, and hunter.” (Outlook.)
“Mr. Sandys stands between the genuinely literary sportsman, such as Henry Van Dyke, and the mere spinner of wildly improbable yarns. There is a swagger in his style that seems unduly artificial now and then.”
“The only trouble with the stuff is its essential artificiality.”
“Rarely are sporting sketches found of interest to so wide an audience as this book will attract.”
Sandys, John Edwin.Harvard lectures on the revival of learning.**$1.50. Macmillan.
Lectures which discuss various aspects of the revival of learning under the titles—Petrarch and Boccaccio, The age of discoveries, The theory and practice of education, The academies of Florence, Venice, Naples, and Rome, The homes of humanism, The historian of Ciceronianism, The study of Greek.
“A readable and scholarly work.”
“Dr. Sandys combines with a profound knowledge of books a light touch and an appreciation of the spirit of the place.”
“When we consider the mass of names and facts handled, the dexterity with which Dr. Sandys beguiles our attention is really extraordinary.”
“It is a sad pity that so much patient investigation should be so little clarified by a sense of proportion and historic insight.”
Sanford, Frank G.Art crafts for beginners.**$1.20. Century.
“To those who feel the need of some art expression, but who cannot attend an art school; to those who wish to follow the art of the craftsman; to those teachers upon whom demand is made for knowledge of the crafts—this little volume is addressed.” Instruction isgiven in design, thin wood carving, pyrography, sheet-metal work, leather work, bookbinding, simple pottery, basketry, and beadwork. The book is aided in its helpfulness to the beginner by the author’s working drawings, and reproductions of photographs.
“The treatment is terse, careful and suggestive. As a useful little manual for the teacher and as a practical guide for the amateur, this book should prove of great value.”
*Sangster, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth (Munson).Radiant motherhood,**$1. Bobbs.
This “book for the twentieth century mother,” gives good council for the mothers of children at various stages of development. It discusses baby days, religious training, school, outdoor life and pets, manners, home reading and play-mates. There are chapters upon When children marry: The grandmother: Motherhood in fiction: Motherhood in the Bible: and Questions for the mother’s clubs. There is much that is helpful in the volume and it is written in a spirit which approaches motherhood reverently, and makes of it a thing both noble and ideal.
Santayana, George.Life of reason; or, The phases of human progress.5v. ea.**$1.25. Scribner.
A five volume series. Vol. I, “Introduction, and reason in common sense,” and Vol. II, “Reason in society,” are already out. Vol. III, “Reason in religion,” Vol. IV, “Reason in art,” and Vol. V, “Reason in science,” are to follow. “Vol. I, ... ‘Reason in common sense,’ has chapters on ‘The birth of reason,’ ‘First steps and first fluctuations.’ ‘Discovery of natural objects.’ ‘On some critics of this discovery,’ ‘Nature unified and mind discerned.’ ‘Discovery of fellow-minds.’ ‘Concretions in discourse and in existence,’ ‘Relative values of things and ideas,’ ‘How thought is practical,’ ‘The measure of values in reflection,’ ‘Abstract conditions of the ideal.’ ‘Flux and constancy in human nature.’ Vol. II, ‘Reason in society,’ deals with love, the family, industry, government, and war; the ‘aristocratic ideal.’ democracy, ‘free’ society, patriotism, and ‘ideal’ society.” (N. Y. Times.)
“He can be brilliantly brief and weighty, and deliver long-drawn-out expositions with harmonious grandeur. He too brings us inspiration in a manner as delightful as it is distinguished.”
“The style is unfamiliar and singularly disconcerting to anybody who is anxious to get at the gist of Prof. Santayana’s message. Trope and epigram, flaming phrase and pervasive metaphor, so blur the outline of his meaning that impatience gives way at times to absolute exasperation.”
“For one, therefore, who is willing also to think, the work is essentially readable throughout. It is full of keen insight wedded to apt expression.” A. K. Rogers.
“It is, in fact, an eclectic philosophy, and. like other works of that sort, is likely to have more literary than scientific value. Professor Santayana’s style is highly polished, in parts too much so.”
“Ingenious, keen, and brilliant in a purely intellectual way, as all must confess Professor Santayana’s pragmatic treatment of the life of reason to be. those who are intent on a profounder moral pragmatism will, we fear, lay the volume containing it down with disappointment and regret.”
“Seldom has a materialistic philosophy been presented in finer literary garb than in this series of volumes, or with stranger contradiction of experimental facts.”
“He is always sufficiently independent without being in the least eccentric, and has much to say that is highly suggestive; but, in his praiseworthy attempt to avoid both dogmatism and polemics, on the one hand, and a too schematic and rationalistic method, on the other, he seems to the present reviewer constantly to run the risk of treating in a very general and somewhat superficial way some of the fundamental problems of philosophy.” Ernest Albee.
“The first volume seems to us to be disappointing. It seems to lack definiteness of both purpose and expression. The second volume on the other hand, seems to us to be somewhat original in substance and manner of treatment, and is certainly fruitful in suggestion as well as principle.” George S. Painter.
“He writes with a real command of language and power of imagery, and to most readers his brilliant illustrations and epigrams will be the chief attraction of his work. We should be the last to deny their charms, but at the same time the thought is apt to be a little confused by the splendour of its presentation.”
Sargent, Charles Sprague.Manual of the trees of North America.*$6. Houghton.
Information concerning the trees of North America (exclusive of Mexico) in a convenient form for the use of students and all those interested in trees and tree culture. The book includes a “Synopsis of families of plants,” an “Analytic key to families of plants,” a “Glossary of technical terms,” tend a complete index. There are six hundred and thirty trees described, each one accurately illustrated by the drawings of Charles E. Faxon. Professor Sargent has had thirty years’ experience in dealing with indigenous trees in the Arnold arboretum at Harvard, and the results of the knowledge thus acquired are here included, while Mr. Faxon has reproduced leaf-bud, leaf, flower, and fruit so ingenuously that each tree may be readily recognized at any season, and assigned to its proper group.
“A book which is indispensable to all students of American trees.”
“There is no reason why this manual should not become at once extensively used by all those interested in trees.” J. M. C.
“It is hard to see how a better or a different manual could be made. No serious student of American trees can do without it.”
“It will be especially valuable to students in the West and South, where the trees are not so well covered by other manuals.”
“This task of providing a handy book of reference in fieldwork fell naturally to the author and illustrator of the ‘Silva.’ Both have done their work well.”
“It cannot fail to be of the greatest value to students of botany and forestry.”
“The arrangement is such that reference is easy.”
“Is so written that with the least amount of trouble you may find to what family of species any particular tree belongs.”
“The book is one of permanent value not only to the student of forestry but to all who wish to identify the species and genus of trees in all parts of the country, so that the work really holds with regard to trees such a place as is held in another field by Gray’s ‘Botany.’”
“It is an excellent book to put in the hands of all who are interested in village and park improvement, while owners of country places will find it indeed a vade mecum.”
“This is a book for the reference library in all our high schools.”
“The book is thoroughly satisfactory, and must at once become a standard among systematic manuals.” Charles E. Bessey.
*Satchell, William.Toll of the bush. $1.50. Macmillan.
“A genuine picture of life in New Zealand.... A story—genial, kindly, void of bitterness, and perfectly free from platitudinous unreality. The author presents a charming heroine, two brothers (one colonial born, and one a ‘new chum’ from England), a delightful old colonist of the early days, and at least five other characters who are too well and faithfully limned to be called simple sketches.”—Ath.
*“It has a rounded completeness, a full and broad humanity, which are by no means characteristic of contemporary fiction. A story full of real characterization, and at the same time alive with action, movement, and even with adventure.”
*“There is about the whole book a freshness and flavor of the wilds that give it a most welcome individuality.”
*“There is an atmosphere of freshness and truth about the book that is most satisfying, and the interest is sustained to the end.”
*“It has a thrilling story and not a few vividly written and exciting incidents. It seems to us far the best of the recent tales which have come to us dealing with Australasia.”
*“It is worth reading chiefly on account of its minor characters such as Pine the Maori, and certain passages describing the wonderful depths of the bush. The hero and heroine and their love story, and with unnecessary complications, are tedious and commonplace, and the dialogue is for the most part stilted and rhetorical.”
*“The book is to be heartily commended as an able and original piece of work.”
Saunders, (Margaret) Marshall.Princess Sukey: the story of a pigeon and her human friends.*$1.25. Meth. bk.
Altho Princess Sukey, the thorobred pigeon, flutters thru the story, the plot is chiefly concerned with the little boy who saved her life and with his grandfather, a retired judge, whose heart becomes softened to all weak things thru her and who fills his silent house with young life, letting the poor and the orphaned find a place in his heart and his home.
“It might be a tract promulgated jointly by the societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals and children.”
Savage, Minot Judson.America to England, and other poems.**$1.35. Putnam.
The poem which gives the title to this book was read at a banquet given to Ambassador Reid on the eve of his departure for England. The volume contains other verses for special occasions and selections from the best hymns and poems of Dr. Savage.
*“Despite a considerable fervor of feeling and great readiness of phrase and metre, few of the pieces ... are of a sort to engage serious poetic criticism.”
*“The hymns lack the fervor in which the great hymns are rich. Mr. Savage has kept his product in this field entirely free from the zeal without reverence that is so often an offense both to taste and piety in modern hymnology. The memorial hymns show catholicity of appreciation.”
Savage, Minot Judson.Life’s dark problems: or, Is this a good world?**$1.35. Putnam.
“In this series of ten papers ... Dr. Savage re-examines some of the questions that have beset humanity as long as humanity has put itself on record. Can we, in the face of the evil that exists in this world, believe in the goodness and wisdom of things as they are? Are suffering and evil reconcilable with an almighty, all-wise, and all-good God?”—N. Y. Times.
“The questions he asks are those that have been put by such as have thought and felt deeply since the day of Job onwards, and he writes as a man might have done at the beginning of the Christian era.”
“The discussion is luminous, rational, and effective.”
Savoyard, pseud.SeeNewman, Eugene W.
Scaliger, Julius Caesar.Select translations from Scaliger’s Poetics, by Frederick Morgan Padelford. 75c. Holt.
This twenty-sixth volume in the “Yale studies of English” series includes “such chapters or portions of chapters as bear most vitally upon the fundamental problems of poetics.... The table of contents has been translated in full in order that the reader may gain an impression of the Poetics in its totality.”
Schafer, Joseph.History of the Pacific northwest.**$1.25. Macmillan.
“In this volume the stirring narrative of the pioneer settlements in the territory now embraced in the states of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho is told in detail, while the organization and political progress of the three state governments are briefly sketched. The author has wisely selected for amplification ... the processes by which the wilderness was subdued, homes multiplied, commerce extended to all parts of the world, and a great civilization developed in a portion of our continent that we once called remote and inaccessible.”—R. of Rs.
“A reading of it leaves the impression that it is the work of one who knows his field and whose conclusions may be relied upon.”
“He shows a fine grasp of the relative importance of events. The early period of its development is treated with great fullness and in style that fascinates the reader.”
Reviewed by Robert Livingston Schuyler.
“The treatment is clear and logical, the tone impartial, and the style direct and agreeable. The book, in fine, is a useful addition to the literature of its subject.”
Scherer, James A. B.Young Japan; the story of the Japanese people, and especially of their educational development.*$1.50. Lippincott.
“Dr. Scherer tells in detail the development of Japan as a nation, with much information concerning succeeding rulers and their reigns. He discusses every influence that has gradually led the Mikado’s empire to its present position among the nations of the world, and what this position has meant or means to the native literature, arts, or sciences. Anecdotes and legends are used to illustrate certain points.... It is profusely illustrated with reproductions of photographs taken by and for the author, and drawings by Japanese artists.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is a useful pendant to his former work, ‘Japan to-day,’ and is, in effect, a sort of short philosophic history of Japan, which, however, is not treated critically.”
“He does not, however, go very far behind the looking-glass.” Wm. Elliott Griffis.
“The style of the book is clear, straightforward, and marked by ease and poise. It is the book for the hour; for the chief problems about Japan just now concern her real purpose and moral force.” Wm. Elliot Griffis.
“A large portion of the book would make an excellent school-text book.” Adachi Kinnosuke.
“When he discusses Japanese history, Dr. Scherer is at once accurate and philosophical; and his descriptions of Japanese school, street, and home life in town and country afford instruction and entertainment.”
“It is perhaps the general view of the long education of the Japanese, though but slightly touching upon the philosophy which has nourished the leaders of modern thought and action.”
“The story is concise and interestingly written.”
“His work is based upon a pretty solid foundation, and will be found both entertaining and informing.”
*Schnabel, Carl.Handbook of metallurgy, tr. by Henry Louis. 2v.*$6.50. Macmillan.
A second English edition of this treatise on metallurgy which is a translation of the second German edition. As the preface states: “The work is divided into two volumes. The first embraces the metallurgy of copper, lead, silver, and gold.... The remaining metals are treated of in volume 2, and the most important among them being zinc, nickel and mercury.”
*“If the data were only up to date, the book would form an excellent text book for students of metallurgy.” Bradley Stoughton.
*“The merits and defects of the book remain much the same as the first edition. Prof. Louis is to be congratulated on the translation, which makes a valuable work available to British students.”
Schneider, Norman Hugh (H. S. Norrie, pseud.).Electrical instruments and testing; how to use the voltmeter, ammeter, galvanometer, potentiometer, ohmmeter, and the Wheatstone bridge. $1. Spon.
“This book is intended for practical use and also as an introduction to the larger work on electrical testing. The apparatus described is modern and universally adopted. The lists are such as occur daily in the work of the engine room, power house, or technical school.” It consists of practical explanations with numerous examples worked out and fully illustrated with diagrams and drawings.
Schneider, Norman Hugh (H. S. Norrie, pseud.).Model library, v. 1. $1. Spon.
This volume is divided into four books. The study of electricity and its laws for beginners, comprising the elements of electricity and magnetism as applied to dynamos, motors, wiring, and to all branches of electrical work. How to install electric bells, annunciators and alarms, including batteries, wires and wiring, circuits, bells, alarms, thermostats, annunciators, and the location and remedying of troubles. How to make use of them, giving full detailed instructions for the manufacture of dry cells of any shape and size. Electrical circuits and diagrams illustrated and explained, new and original drawings, comprising annunciators, alarms, bells, dynamos, batteries, etc. The whole is fully illustrated. There is also a complete general index.
Schoonmaker, Edwin Davies.Saxon’s drama of Christianity in the North. $1.50. Hammersmark.
“There are forty persons of the drama, besides fairies, gnomes, a dwarf, and a witch, classified as the ‘Saxon unit,’ the ‘Roman unit,’ the ‘Greek unit,’ and the ‘Supernatural.’ The distinctions between the classes are not sharply made, and unless the reader is thoroly informed or highly alert his mind will become more or less befogged in following the flight of the Saxons away from the Christians and the complicated relations among Oswald, Father Benedict, Sigurd, Selena, and Canzier.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is a long, confused drama in blank verse, where the ambition of the author is more praiseworthy than the result of it.”
“‘The Saxons’ has the advantage of an unhackneyed theme ... but the story is not very clearly told.”
Schultz, Hermann.Outlines of Christian apologetics for use in lectures: tr. from 2d enl. ed. by Alfred Bull Nichols.**$1.75. Macmillan.
After an introductory chapter treating of the problem of apologetics and its history, Dr. Schultz free from dogma and creeds discusses the nature of religion, postulates, and the reasonableness of the religious view of the world, philosophy of religion, religion in its historical phenomena, the nature of Christianity, the Kingdom of God, Christ, Jesus in history, &c. The volume is well annotated.
“Thoroughly scientific, and therefore failing to meet the requirements of orthodoxy, Professor Schultz’s apologetic is certainly evangelical in the best sense.”
Schumann, Robert Alexander.Fifty piano compositions. $2.50. Ditson.
Mr. Xaver Scharwenka has selected and edited the fifty compositions which are included in this addition to “The musician’s library,” and has also contributed an introductory study of Schumann. There is a bibliography in English, German and French.
*“While every amateur may miss this or that pet piece, the editor has succeeded remarkably in his choice of the half-hundred most precious nuggets.”
“As an interpretation this introduction is not equal to the introductions of some of the other volumes in this series.”
Schuster, Arthur.Introduction to the theory of optics.*$4. Longmans.
A text-book for teachers and students who are already acquainted with the phenomena of light as described in college books of general physics. “The first two-thirds of the volume are elementary; that is, they explain only polarization, interference, diffraction, the theory of optical instruments, and the peculiarities of the different crystalline media—phenomena that result simply from light’s consisting of transverse vibrations. The remaining third of the book contains the deeper theory of light, and is written on a novel plan, the idea being to direct students to the original memoirs without repeating their contents.” (Nation.)
“The reviewer feels that Professor Schuster, by clearness of exposition and the painstaking work spent in the preparation of such a timely and useful book, has put students and teachers of physics under no inconsiderable obligation.” E. F. N.
“Prof. Schuster has been completely successful within the limits which he has laid down for himself. We recommend the work heartily to all advanced students of physics, with only a hint of warning that the information should be supplemented from other sources.”
“A notable addition to the literature of optical theory, and one which will prove of value to every student.”
“Fills a very obvious gap. The treatment is marked throughout by the author’s well-known and admirable lucidity of style.”
Schwartz, Julia Augusta.Wilderness babies.†$1.50. Little.
Sixteen delightful stories which tell of sixteen equally delightful animal families. Young folks, when they have read them, will feel a truly friendly interest in: The one with a pocket: the opossum; The one that eats grass in the sea: the manatee; The biggest one: the whale; The one that lives in a crowd: the buffalo; and all the rest, elk, beaver, rabbit, squirrel, bear, fox, wolf, panther, seal, shrew, mole, and bat.
*“To make the stories quite perfect, it would be well that a naturalist should give them careful revision, so they may teach as well as charm the children, for whom they are written.”
*“The stories should not only prove attractive to children, but they should give them much interesting information about the children of the woods.”
Scollard, Clinton.Odes and elegies.*$1.35. G. W. Browning, Clinton, N. Y.
The dream note in poetry, the traditional, and the patriotic are all sounded again and again thru Mr. Scollard’s new group of verse. His seven pieces are The dreamers, Lawton, On a copy of Keats’s Endymion, Elegy in autumn, The march of the ideal, The stars of morning, and The Oriskany.
“A quality of dream-music, of dream-picture, is the most characteristic trait of his muse.”