“Mr. Scollard’s work sometimes seems labored, but he has imagination and lofty idealism for fairly steadfast companions, and they prompt him to an utterance which is usually worthy of his theme.” Wm. M. Payne.
“Well endowed with a poet’s ideality, possessed of a good mastery of difficult metre, and a good command, perhaps a too good command, of poetic diction.”
Scott, Eva.King in exile: the wanderings of Charles II. from June, 1646 to July, 1654.*$3.50. Dutton.
A preface sets forth the kernel of the volume—“These years were years of hope, when Royalists still stood in arms in the three kingdoms, when the intervention of Europe was confidently expected. But they were also years of hope deferred, years that saw the growth of divisions and dissensions in the Royalist ranks, the steady decay of morals among men capable of a splendid devotion, but not proof against all the misery it involved. And to many came the bitterest pang of all in the knowledge that these years had witnessed also the dishonor of their king.”
“So exhaustive has been her work that no future investigator will need to spend his time in digging where she has digged.”
“Miss Scott has given us a second book worthy of the reputation she gained by her first and we must not leave it without a special word of praise for her description of, and constant reference to, her authorities, and for the admirable index.”
“An adequate and rather minute account of eight years of vicissitudes.”
“She has not the tact to present the facts which she has mastered in an intelligible or artistic shape.”
Scott, Leroy.Walking delegate.†$1.50. Doubleday.
This novel, by an author who has been active in social settlement work on the East side, concerns New York labor unions and tells the story of the struggle between “Buck Foley” and the walking delegate who defeated him.
“There is genuine power in the book, and it holds the interest of the reader until the very last.”
“The characterization of the story is gripping, and the dialogue is better than the curate’s famous egg. The style is picturesque without being purple.”
“Impresses one from the start as a work of uncommon power and realism.”
“Tragedy, sentiment, and lively narrative give the book a real interest.”
“A book written without any pretence of style, yet crudely impressive by virtue of its picturesque speech and its close acquaintance with the conditions depicted.” Wm. M. Payne.
“The tale is an interesting, and even powerful narrative. The workingmen of the story are generally true types. But the author has somewhat overdone the matter of endowing them with faulty syntax and cheap slang.”
“Characters, incidents, conversations, setting are of the latest and seem impressively real. Itis a strong story notable even among good novels.”
“Mr. Leroy Scott has planted a literary standard in the field of American labor. Strictly speaking ‘The walking delegate’ is not a literary work, and, to judge by this example of his diction, Mr. Scott is not a stylist.” Stephen Chalmers.
“There is little doubt that ‘The walking delegate’ is one of the strongest books that the season has produced.”
“There is more genuine, living, human sociology in it than is to be found in half of the avowed studies of the relations of men in human society.”
“Both as a human document and as a work of art, ‘The walking delegate’ is a book of extraordinary worth.”
*Scott, Robert H.Voyage of the Discovery. 2v.**$10. Scribner.
An exhaustive account of a three year Antarctic expedition which sailed in 1901 and spent two years below the Antarctic circle, making a new farthest south record. The geographical and scientific discoveries made are given in detail, the adventures met with and the new lands, mountains, and glaciers seen, are elaborately described. For the benefit of future voyagers there is a minute account of management and equipment of the “Discovery.” The books are written by the commander of the expedition and are illustrated from photographs and sketches, many of which are in color.
*“Looking on the book as a whole we cannot but think that it would have gained by compression, and by a somewhat more definite marking of the main lines.”
*“We cordially congratulate the author and the publishers on having combined to produce a book which is in every way worthy of so remarkable an expedition.”
*“The freshness and novelty of the subject matter command an immediate hearing, and the charm of the narrative, the well balanced perspective, and above all the manly record of heroic endeavor here revealed bid fair to make Captain Scott’s modest account one of the classics of polar exploration.” Charles Atwood Kofoid.
*“Lieutenant Mulock’s maps deserve special praise for their beauty, their accuracy, and their fulness of detail, while it would be impossible to speak too highly of the 260 illustrations that are not only an adornment to the book, but enable us almost as much as does the text to realize the conditions amidst which this expedition spent over two years.”
*“Capt. Scott has written a book that will have a conspicuous place among the annals of polar effort, and it is worthy of it.” Cyrus C. Adams.
*“Captain Scott has a singularly happy style, free from the stiffness of Cook and the formality of Ross, yet terse, vigorous and direct. This book comes as near perfection as we ever expect a book of travel to be.”
*“Captain Scott has done a splendid piece of work; not the least part of it is the production of the ablest and most interesting record of travel to which the present century has yet given birth.”
Scott, Samuel Parsons.History of the Moorish empire in Europe. 3v.**$10. Lippincott.
“Two volumes cover the whole period of Moorish occupation in the peninsula, while the third containskulturgeschichtlichematerial of some interest and value. This is brought forward in the form of a series of essays on the arts, institutions, and influence of the Muslims, as well as on the Jews and the Moriscoes in Spain.”—Am. Hist. R.
“Mr. Scott’s three volumes are obviously the result of conscientious and comprehensive reading in some half-dozen languages, but their author lacks the historical temperament. His work, though not without a certain old-fashioned dignity of style, is too monotonous to be popular and too uncritical in its affirmations to content the trained student of history.” F. W. Williams.
“It cannot be said that on the whole the ‘History of the Moorish empire in Europe’ is either a safe or a well-balanced book.” A. C. Howland.
Scott, Sir Walter.Waverley novels.25v. $31.25. Crowell.
The world created by Scott in his Waverley novels and peopled with vitally real characters will never grow old-fashioned nor uninteresting. The Waverley novels hold the present day fiction reader no less than the student of literature who appreciates the significance of the Scott novel as the forerunner of historical romance. The present edition is made from newly set type; each story contains the author’s own introduction, besides notes, glossary and index to characters and scenes. There are excellent illustrations, many of them being reproductions of paintings by the Fine arts association of Scotland. The books are strongly bound, boxed and sold only in sets.
Scott, Sir Walter.Ivanhoe.$1.25. Crowell.
The issue of Ivanhoe as one of those attractive little pocket volumes, the “Thin paper classics” series will be welcomed by all lovers of Scott.
Scott, Sir Walter.Kenilworth.$1.25. Crowell.
That this thin pocket volume with the limp leather binding of the “Thin paper classics” series can contain Kenilworth complete and in readable type, will be to the reader both a surprise and a satisfaction.
Scott, Sir Walter.Kenilworth.$1.50. Crowell.
Uniform with the other volumes of the “Luxembourg” library, Kenilworth appears attractively bound in cloth with gold decorations, a photogravure frontispiece and seventeen full page illustrations.
Scott, William Fry.Structural designers’ handbook; giving diagrams and tables for the design of beams, girders, and columns, with calculations based on the New York city building code. $2. Eng. news.
“The purpose of this book, as set forth in the preface, is to shorten and possibly eliminate ‘much of the computation and drudgery which are necessary accompaniments of structural designing.’ ... The work provides, in a large measure, the essentials for the design of structures when not complicated by truss work or other unusual features. The time-saving is to be accomplished by the use of diagrams, which take up about one-third of the volume.” —Engin. N.
“The diagrams are well drawn, and considering the amount of information in some of them, are exceedingly clear. So far, too, as it has been possible to check them they have been found accurate and correct.” R. P. Miller.
Scruggs, William Lindsay.The Colombian and Venezuelan republics. $1.75. Little.
The new edition of Mr. Scruggs’ work contains in addition to former editions a chapter on the Panama canal, and the text of the latest canal treaty. “The author continues his history of the ‘Panama canal projects’ beginning with the failure of the De Lesseps Panama canal company and the organization of a new company to take over the franchise of the old one, pay its debts, and complete the canal on the new plan. He writes of the negotiations of the United States with Colombia in 1903, the rejection by the Colombian senate of the Hay-Herran treaty, and the final rejection of that treaty.” (N. Y. Times). Mr. Scruggs, by virtue of his twenty-seven years of residence in Colombia and Venezuela, is able to give first hand facts, and the results of his own observation.
“In his Panama chapter there is nothing of any critical value. He writes generally with fairness, but superficially.”
“It is to be regretted that in a book of this kind, an authority in its field, and so well-printed in every other respect, there should be, as the result of careless proof-reading or writing, so many errors of the exact sort to mar its particular excellence.” Stanhope Sams.
“His book is probably the most reliable and authentic of any by an American author. The chapter on Panama which Mr. Scruggs adds to his book contains nothing that is new either in the way of history or of conclusion.”
“A volume full of interesting and valuable information.”
Seaman, Louis L.From Tokio through Manchuria with the Japanese.**$1.50. Appleton.
The immediate purpose of Dr Seaman’s journey to the front with the Japanese army was that of inspecting the sanitary and medical work among them. His experiences and adventures incident to that undertaking are most interestingly narrated in the present volume. His chronicles thrill with the spirit of Banzai Nippon, the shout of patriotism in the “Land of the rising sun.” He shows the course of law and order that transforms a Japanese citizen into a patriot and warrior, and points to the masterly preparation for war, based on scientific principles, which Japan has made a national business. The book is valuable for its generous amount of general information.
“Breezy, readable in the first degree. It is spicy and, like red pepper, is calculated less to irritate than to stimulate.” W. Elliot Griffis.
“If Mr. Palmer’s book is taken as proof of Japan’s capabilities in destructive warfare, that of Dr. Seaman’s ‘From Tokio through Manchuria with the Japanese,’ is equally important as showing their constructive and conserving qualities.” Wallace Rice.
*“It is one of the most interesting and intrinsically instructive of the now numerous studies of the Russo-Japanese war.”
“The text is colloquial in manner.”
Seaman, Owen.Harvest of chaff.**$1.25. Holt.
A group of clever parodies which array Browning, Wordsworth, Tennyson and other poets of the Victorian era in an almost grotesquely modern light. The volume is a companion to “Borrowed plumes.”
“In many ways a riper book than any of the others. The humor of it, while quieter, is more subtle, and the phrase and versification of a more finished poetic style.”
Sebring, Arad Joy.Girdle of gladness. $1. Badger, R. G.
Fourteen short poems upon such subjects as, The twenty-third psalm, The power of the church, Supremacy of Christ, and Amen of Lord’s prayer.
“Other collections of verse, pleasant but not dynamic, ... comprising a dozen or more rather monotonous but sincere devotional poems.”
Sedgefield, Walter John, ed. SeeBattle of Maldon.
Seeberg, Reinhold.Text-book of the history*of doctrines; rev. 1904, by the author; trans. by C: E. Hay. 2v. $4. Lutheran pub. soc.
The first volume of Dr. Seeberg’s work treats “History of doctrines in the ancient church”; the second, “History of doctrines in the middle and modern ages.” The material from which the history is built has been drawn entirely from original sources.
Selincourt, Basil de.Giotto.*$2. Scribner.
“The significance of Giotto’s affinities with both the schools into which painting in Italy branched off during his lifetime is very clearly brought out by Mr. de Selincourt, who recognizes in his pictures—a great number of which are here reproduced—the richness of imagination that distinguished the Florentines with the feeling for grace of form so characteristic of the Siennese.... The useful little monograph closes with what is, perhaps, the ablest section of the book, a very acute analysis of Giotto’s influence over others.”—Acad.
“It may ... be fairly claimed that his new biographer has made the best of the meagre materials at his disposal and has also succeeded in realising to some extent the personality of the gifted master.”
“Mr. De Selincourt, we think, has approached the subject with conscientious impartiality and an open mind.”
“Here as hitherto the illustrations are frequent and sane, moderate in the critical and interesting in the biographical sections.”
“Our author succeeds in placing him for the student in the right relation to his people and his time.”
“Taken as a guide-book, it will serve its purpose perhaps as well as, if not better than, most of the volumes which have hitherto occupied themselves with an exposition of the master’s works, and as such will form even a welcome addition to the descriptive literature of its kind.”
“The connoisseurship lacks a familiarity with the latest and most approved authorities, and the criticism, where unconventional, is impressive only as an expression of untried emotions.”
“His criticism is sympathetic and illuminating.”
Senior lieutenant’s wager, and other stories. $1.25. Benziger.
“Thirty short stories by the foremost Catholic writers.” Some of them touch upon church matters from a Roman Catholic view point, in several a benign priest appears as good angel, but many are merely little love stories containing no question of faith.
Sergeant, Philip W.Courtship of Catherine the Great.*$2.50. Lippincott.
“Catherine’s love affairs, of course, went beyond all ordinary bounds of ‘indiscretion.’ ... It is useful to have in English a statement on this subject which covers the ground already traversed of Waliszewski and his followers on the continent.... By far the most important of the ten or twelve suitors whose affairs with the empress come into the present volume were Gregory Orloff, the chief actor in the plot of 1762, and the Prince Patiomkin.”—Nation.
“It is unfair to criticise too rigorously a book which is written ostensibly for amusement, and is, with all its shortcomings, amusing enough.”
“Of new information in his book there is virtually none.”
“The book however, granting its right to existence, is well put together.”
Setchell, William Albert.Limu. 25c. Univ. of Cal.
“This is the name applied to many species of seaweeds, especially those that are edible, by the native Hawaiians.... Professor Dr. Setchell gives the results of the investigations made by him several years ago, with a view to determining the specific identity of the different kinds of limu.”—Science.
Reviewed by Charles E. Bessey.
Seton, Ernest Thompson.Animal heroes: being the histories of a cat, a dog, pigeon, a lynx, two wolves and a reindeer.$2. Scribner.
The author assures us that “Every one of these stories, though more or less composite, is founded on the actual life of a veritable animal hero.” The first story describes four phases in the life of a slum cat whom luxury could not ween from her beloved junk-yard; Little Arnaux is a homing pigeon with a long record won by a fearless heart; Badlands Billy is the story of a wolf that won. Then follow stories of The boy and the lynx, Little warhorse, which is the history of a jack-rabbit; Snap, the bull-terrier who enters the story in a box marked “dangerous.” The Winnipeg wolf, and The legend of the white reindeer. Two hundred drawings by the author illustrate the volume.
*“The author’s power has increased as his style has become more simple and his allegiance to plain facts more indisputable.” May Estelle Cook.
“It is not necessary to say much more about Mr. Seton’s nice animals ... all bear the stamp of their creator, and all are more or less entertaining.”
Seton, Ernest Thompson.Woodmyth and fable.*$1.25. Century.
A book of booty gathered in the woods, quaint myths and fables, some of which are of Indian origin, while some have been whispered to the wood lover author-artist by Mother Nature herself. He has pointed them with clever morals, and illustrated them with dainty drawings. It is a book to pick up in odd moments, for in its prose and rime one can find beauty, sympathy, humor, and clever satire; and young folks can learn something of the discontented giraffe, the unmannerly porcupine, the stubborn land-crab, and other animals with human frailties.
“Mr. Seton has great facility and a very pretty wit in these matters—especially when self-illustrated.”
“It is a series of chips from the workshop of a man who does larger things,—the brilliant joking of a thinker off duty.” May Estelle Cook.
*“Is too scrappy to enhance his reputation among children who know him by his ‘Two little savages’ and his animal biographies.”
“This little volume is filled with pretty little suggestions which children will not only like, but which it will be good for them to read.”
“The stories are short and admirably adapted for children.”
*“Is most unsatisfactory. It is too difficult for children, too dull for grown-ups. Not even the most startling varieties of type can arrest the attention.”
Sever, George Francis, and Townsend, Fitzhugh.Laboratory and factory tests in electrical engineering.*$2.50. Van Nostrand.
“The range of the book and its adaptability to its intended use as a manual for laboratory and factory testing may be best judged from a brief summary of the contents. The first chapter deals with resistance tests, temperature coefficient, etc. Dynamo and motor operation (direct current) is the subject of the next four chapters. Then alternating currents are taken up in ten chapters.... In the closing chapter ... electrical measurements of physical nature are taken up, such as permeability and hysteresis measurements, potentiometer, test, calibration of commercial instruments, etc. This chapter also includes some storage-battery tests and incandescent-lamp tests.”—Engin. N.
“The text is very lucidly written, although at some points too concise for ease in reading. The present testing manual will prove a good study text for those who have not ample opportunity to become acquainted in detail with electrical machines by personal experience.”
Severy, Melvin Linwood.Mystery of June 13th.†$1.50. Dodd.
“Geographically, the plot is hatched in two places,—New Zealand and New Jersey. The main theme is the defrauding of a life insurance company by a man who claims to be his own brother, after having had himself ostensibly murdered, and having had said brother silenced by an awful threat.”—R. of Rs.
*“A tissue of preposterous absurdities, and, moreover, an exceedingly badly written book.”
*“Though overloaded with superfluous details and unnecessary complications, stands out as a ‘detective story’ belonging to the highest class,—after Poe’s.”
Shafer, Sarah Andrew.Beyond chance of change.†$1.50. Macmillan.
An idyll of childhood for both children and grown-ups. Rachel, the doctor’s little girl, who celebrates her eleventh birthday in the first chapter, is the real heroine, but her brothers and sisters and her village friends, big and little, play important roles in this drama of child days. There is Rachel’s tender conscience, which invariably awakes after the mischief is done and leads to confession and repentance of such dire deeds as stealing a doughnut and knocking the head off the china goat; there is the account of the wooing of Nora by Mike, with Rachel’s assistance; of the barely frustrated plan of the adventurous band who were about to set out for Idaho to find the cave of gold as described in “Idaho Ike; or, The boy billionaire”; and there are stories of a tea-party, a church social, a Fourth of July, and the dramatic pulling of a first tooth.
“Mrs. Shafer comprehends the divine ingenuity of the childish spirit.”
“Presents no problems and involves no tragedy, but is a delightful transcription of life in a little community in the central West before the fever and rush of recent years set in.”
Shahan, Very Rev.Thomas Joseph. The middle ages.*$2. Benziger.
A collection of essays intended to throw light upon church history of the middle ages. They are written from a Catholic view-point and contain a condensed treatment of “Catholicism in the middle ages,” “Results of the crusades,” “The Italian renaissance,” “Baths and bathing in the middle ages,” and kindred subjects.
“Even where no ecclesiastical considerations are involved, the author’s habit of facile generalization leads him into ... such eccentricities of judgment. The essays are pleasantly written and will prove agreeable reading to Catholics.” C. H. Haskins.
“They are always informing and suggestive. We suggest to Catholic higher schools and colleges, that they put these fine essays to constant use in the class-room of history.”
“A collection of exceedingly well-written historical essays, from the Catholic point of view. Dr. Shahan is well read, eloquent, and obviously sincere.”
Shakespeare, William.Hamlet, ed. by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke.**50c; limp lea.**75c. Crowell.
“Hamlet” is the latest play to appear in “First folio” edition of Shakespeare’s works. Accuracy of text, and a wealth of illuminative material are its distinguishing features. It includes a preface, introduction, literary frontispiece, notes discussing argument, sources, duration of action, date of composition, early editions, illustrations, glossary, variorum readings and selected criticisms.
Shakespeare, William.Love’s labour’s lost; ed. by Horace Howard Furness, sr. (Variorum ed.).*$4. Lippincott.
“The present text follows the first folio of 1623, and forty-six editions have been consulted in the textual notes. The editor provides an enormous list of books from which quotations have been taken first hand. The appendix, which is exhaustive in its elaboration, deals with the date of composition, source of the plot, English, German, French criticism, &c., &c.”—Westminster Review.
“The new volume shows no abatement in thoroughness, conscientious zeal, or scholarly discrimination. As before he supplies us with full apparatus for textual criticism and interpretation, a carefully condensed summary of previous scholarship in matters of date, sources, and the like, and the kernel of the contributions of all the more important aesthetic critics. In addition to all this, he writes a preface bristling with stimulating and provocative suggestions, and forming an original contribution of serious importance for the history of Elizabethan literature.” W: Allan Neilson.
“It fully maintains the high standard of its thirteen predecessors. As usual, the long preface is one of the best parts of the volume, for there we have the genial editor all to himself. The editor attacks his material with his usual vigor and vivacity.” W. J. Rolfe.
“The erudition packed away in the volume before us is incommensurable in terms of reviewing. We can only thank the editor for his untiring single-heartedness, for the lucidity with which he has disposed his huge material; above all, for the fine shrewd humor which lurks in every page.”
Shakespeare, William.Merchant of Venice.35c. Holt.
Uniform with the “Temple school edition,” this book is designed for student use. It contains besides the text of the drama, and introduction which gives the life of Shakespeare and an outline and history of the play, a glossary and copious notes. There are six drawings by Dora Curtis and many illustrations from contemporary prints.
Shakespeare, William.Sonnets; with introd. and notes by H. C. Beeching.*60c. Ginn.
“Primarily addressed to students. The text adopted is practically Malone’s revision of the edition princeps, the Quarto of 1609, all the variations, with the exception of differences in spelling and punctuation being noted. The sonnets have been divided into groups and carefully annotated. Dr. Beeching discusses all the most recent theories on the subject, besides criticising the work of other editors of the sonnets.”—N. Y. Times.
“We should be at a loss to point out another edition of the sonnets where text, introduction and commentary are more nicely adjusted to each other. Others may have done more in poetical illustration and psychological analysis; but none have produced a more satisfactory compendium of all that is really necessary to be known about sonnets, or afforded a more serviceable key to their numerous difficulties.”
*“Altogether the edition is so well-equipped that it is not likely to be superseded for many years. Advanced scholars will find it an excellent summary of rival views, almost entirely free from the strange temper and fantasy which are a feature of latter-day Shakespearean criticism.”
“On the bibliographical side Mr. Beeching’s book ... is inadequate. But what he has attempted, Mr. Beeching has done well.”
“The notes are clear and full, and the editor has created every explanation that is not his own to its original proposer.”
“Canon Beeching’s introduction ... is a scholarly and able contribution to the literature of the subject.”
*Shakespeare, William.Tragedie of King Lear; ed. by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke. 75c. Crowell.
The latest volume in the “First folio” Shakespeare.
*Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate.Man and the earth.**$1.50. Fox.
Thirteen chapters on such subjects as Earth and man, The future of power, The exhaustion of metals, The unwon lands, The problem of the Nile, The maintenance of the soil, The resources of the sea, The future of nature upon the earth, and The last of earth and man, have for their purpose the awakening of “a sense of the nobility and dignity of the relation man bears to this wonderful planet and the duty that comes therefrom.”
Shand, Alexander Innes.Gun room,*$1;*$1.25. Lane.
This little monograph “gets right at the heart of the man who loves a gun and his gunroom, the sort of book that is as conducive of reveries as it is to putting one alive to the possibilities of making of his gunroom the coziest and most comfortable sort of a den instead of a mere armory.”—N. Y. Times.
“Full of good advice for the man who loves his gun, his dog, and his tramp over moors and stubble in search of game. A companionable little book is this volume. Little in it that is technical, yet it is full of practical hints as to the care of a gun.”
*Sharp, Mary.Point and pillow lace: a short account of various kinds, ancient and modern, and how to recognize them.*$2. Dutton.
“Mrs. Sharp has chapters on Italian needle and pillow laces, French, Flemish, English, and Irish laces, made by hand and the machine. The closing chapter is a summary, and includes briefly-stated facts about laces. A glossary of technical and French, Flemish, Italian, and other foreign terms has been inserted. There are many pictures in the book showing the different styles of laces.”—N. Y. Times.
*“Is a much more comprehensive volume on the subject than was the Goldenberg publication of last year.”
Sharp, William.Literary geography,*$3.50. Scribner.
“A collection of papers dealing with characteristic features of the country, real or described, of a number of widely known writers. The numerous illustrations are very helpful to the text in giving the reader a clear picture of the lands made familiar to all readers of George Meredith, Stevenson, Dickens, Scott, George Eliot, Thackeray, Brontë, Aylwin, and Carlyle. There are also, descriptions of English lakes, the Thames, and the lake of Geneva. The articles have appeared in the Pall Mall magazine during the years of 1903 and 1904.”—Bookm.
“Of the topographical literature now so much in vogue, this book is one of the best examples. It is full of interesting matter, is well written, and the authors selected for the description (mostly novelists) are those about whom every one likes to know; the illustrations, often made from special photographs, are numerous and uncommonly beautiful.”
“Mr. Sharp’s anecdotes are numerous and amusing.”
“Most entertaining book, not by any means exclusively devoted to geographical matters, straying, on the contrary, into many by-lanes of criticism, reminiscence, and biography. The book is one most book-lovers will be glad to have and to read.”
Sharts, Joseph William.Hills of freedom. $1.50. Doubleday.
The first novel of a young Ohio barrister and Harvard graduate. The action takes place in the author’s native state during the period preceding the Civil war, and the chief characters are a veteran general of the Mexican war, bent upon match-making, and his ward and her nephew, a red haired heroine and a bow-legged hero. There are many interesting characters, and John Brown and the underground railway figure conspicuously.
“It is cast in the form of a comedy, in which the author caricatures irascible old age, love and youth with much clever wit.”
“It lacks the awkwardness of a maiden effort, and the seams and patches of a labored attempt. It is easy, spontaneous, and all of a piece. For succeed he does, in spite of predecessors and conventions. The author has a delicate touch, as well as a sprightly manner; not all of his effects are broad. The author has a pretty turn for epigram, which he uses with becoming discretion.”
Shattuck, George Burbank,ed. Bahama islands.**$10. Macmillan.
“This volume is the outcome of an expedition for which Dr. Shattuck served as director. His staff contained about twenty scientists, each a specialist in some direction; and the volume is accordingly largely made up of papers by these specialists on the geology, botany, animal and fish life, and soils of the island, together with a historical sketch and papers on the sanitary and medical conditions. The book ... is beautifully illustrated with photographs.”—Outlook.
“The work is done throughout in the most scholarly manner.”
“Each special student will find his own subject well handled.”
“Is a monograph of high and varied interest and general readability.”
“Its completeness and wealth of illustrations render it a more than usually striking and handsome example of American thoroughness.” R.L.
Reviewed by W. M. D.
Shaw, George Bernard.Irrational knot.$1.50. Brentano’s.
Mr. Shaw has given matrimonial orders and filled them out of the ordinary. There is an American-Irish electrician for the hero who views marriage calmly and impersonally, but determinedly pursues the woman he loves as he would the forces to be checked and chained for a new electrical machine. After marriage the atmosphere provided for the wife’s heart development is stifling and she seeks fanciedhappiness with a former lover. The machine philosophy of the wronged husband operates thus: “I can divorce you if I please ... You are free too. You have burnt your boats, are rid of fashionable society, of your position, your family, your principles ... and if you can frankly give a sigh of relief, and respect yourself for breaking loose from what is called duty, you are the very woman I want for my wife.”
“The figures might be cast-iron for anything they show of the flexibility and mutability of human life, and they are exhibited, not by one who clearly sees and thoroughly understands the springs of conduct and the objects of endeavour, but by a youth who in his revolt against old conventions has already rushed into grooves of his own.”