Stearns, Frank Preston.Cambridge sketches.**$1.50. Lippincott.
“Brief biographical sketches of impressive personalities, in the literary, artistic, scientific, and political life of New England.... Agassiz, Lowell, Holmes, Sumner, Andrew, Cranch, Bird, and Howe are but a few of those of whom he writes.... His little volume also includes Emerson’s eulogy of Major George L. Stearns, printed in the Boston ‘Commonwealth’ April 20, 1867.... Sketches of the Harvard of forty and fifty years ago; papers read at various literary centennial celebrations, and notes of life in Rome in the late sixties.”—Outlook.
“Contains many true things that are not new and doubtless do not aim at novelty, and also some new things that are not true, however unintentional their falsity. Its chapter on George L. Stevens, the author’s father, is its only noteworthy contribution to biography.”
“The book is not without interest, but is decidedly untrustworthy.”
“Unfortunately, the book is overweighted with some critical literary generalities which are out of its modest scope and do not add to its readableness.”
“Their significance is rather that of warm tributes of respect and admiration.”
Steindorff, Georg.Religion of the ancient Egyptians.**$1.50. Putnam.
“Dr. Steindorff undertakes to give—and does give—in a manner to enlighten minds not utterly scholarly an idea of the nature of religion of the ancient Egyptians, and especially he sets out to show how that religion grew and changed and finally decayed.... Legends are related and hymns quoted, and especial attention paid to deliberate attempts of certain rulers to impose new gods upon the people.... The third lecture deals with Egyptian temples and religious ceremonies. Lecture IV. is concerned with the Egyptian magic, and Lecture V. with graves and burials and the Egyptian religion outside of Egypt.”—N. Y. Times.
“Although it is somewhat slight, no fault can be found with Prof. Steindorff’s general arrangement of his subject or with the way he has treated it.”
*“The best brief presentation extant in English of the religion of Egypt.”
Stephen, Leslie.Freethinking and plain speaking.*$1.50. Putnam.
“This book ... contains nine chapters which ... were printed in book form some twenty years ago, but that publication for a number of years has been out of print.... Four of the essays deal with subjects connected with theology and religious belief in their bearing on human society; the others are casual or occasional papers called out by literary or historical events of the time.”—Outlook.
“They illustrate a side of the author’s character easily misunderstood. For here he states with the utmost freedom the views on religion which led thoughtless persons to call him an atheist.” Edward Fuller.
“Together these papers make a capital introduction to the lamented author commemorated.”
Stephen, Leslie.Hobbes.**75c. Macmillan.
This life of the great moral and political English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, is the last of Sir Leslie Stephen’s philosophical biographies. It is divided into four chapters, the first gives Hobbes’s relation to the political and intellectual movements of his time, and his personal characteristics. “The remaining three divisions of the book represent the parts of Hobbes’s philosophy: the World viewed as a material system, subject only to mechanical laws; Man, a body with organs, explicable by the same principles; the State, or body politic, voluntarily formed, and to be governed only by force, hence only by a sovereign power possessed of absolute—i.e., underived and unlimited authority.” (Ind.)
Reviewed by Frances Duncan.
“The present work is hardly a contribution to professional philosophical criticism. But a better introductory book for the general reader could not be desired.”
“Never have we seen better done the task of writing about philosophy; sometimes there is the air of the blunt, intelligent outsider, but the substance is masterly and it is a true and even great philosopher who is speaking. Sir Leslie Stephen finds for his readers the gratification of many sentences pointed and turned after Hobbes’ own manner, with judgments of the same shrewd sort. There is not a dull ten minutes in the book.” G. C. Rankin.
“To many readers, as to the present writer, it will seem that the fairest of critics has, after full examination, pronounced judgment, and that his judgment is likely to be final.”
Stephen, Leslie.Hours in a library.*$6. Putnam.
A new edition of thirty-two critical essays on literary subjects including studies of Macaulay, Charlotte Brontë, Kingsley, Scott, Hawthorne, DeQuincey, Coleridge, Eliot, Crabbe, and others, and essays on the novels of Richardson, Balzac, and Disraeli, Dr. Johnson’s writings, The first Edinburgh reviewers, etc.
“Not strongly bound. Far too many slips in proof-reading. These adventures among masterpieces are ... the adventures of a humorist. They would often seem inadequate to the Dryasdust, they would often baffle the literary mind. Like all strong men, Stephen had his blind spots and his hobbies; his criticism was ... by no means unbiased.” H. W. Boynton.
“One of the most satisfying and pleasing collections of literary essays.”
Stephens, Kate.American thumb-prints; mettle of our men and women.**$1.50. Lippincott.
Eight essays entitled: Puritans of the West; The university of Hesperus; Two neighbors of St. Louis; The New England woman; A New England abode of the blessed; An up-to-date misogyny; “The gullet science”; Plagiarizing humors of Benjamin Franklin.
“Miss Stephens has wide reading, genuine erudition, humour, and pungent sarcasm all at her command, and she uses them very tellingly.”
“Instinct with the indescribable and unmistakable buoyancy and vitality of the great West, combined with something of the rich scholarship more often associated with the older East. Possessing as she does a command of excellent English, she does not need to write in polyglot.”
“A volume of essays written in so personal and characteristic a style as to make the title quite appropriate.”
“They are written in a good English style, and we have found much in them that is worth recording.”
“A small volume of fresh and courageously written essays by a cultivated Western woman who is not afraid to say what she thinks, and who does think.”
“A clever book of essays.”
Stephens, Louise G. (Katharine, pseud.).Letters from an Oregon ranch.**$1.25. McClurg.
One of a quartet of middle-aged adventurers tells the experiences of the four in settling upon an Oregon ranch. The labors and discomforts are humorously chronicled, and the whole genial tale breathes its text,—that the novelty and excitement of new fields is rejuvenating to those whose youth is past. A dozen photographic views illustrate the volume.
*“A breezy, rather likable book.”
Stephens, Robert Neilson.Flight of Georgiana.†$1.50. Page.
“There is nothing new or original about the story, but it has the lightness and grace characterizing predecessors from Mr. Stephens’s pen, and sword-play to spare. The scene opens at an English inn; the Pretender has failed to win the British crown; his adherents are fleeing for their lives, but, as they fly, pause to make love.”—Outlook.
Stephens, Thomas,ed. Child and religion.*$1.50. Putnam.
This volume in the “Crown theological library,” contains eleven essays by eleven prominent theologians. The titles are: The child and heredity; The child and its environment; The child’s capacity for religion; The child and sin; The conversion of children; The religious training of the child in the church of England; The religious training of children in the free churches; Baptists and the children; New church training; The religious training of children among the Jews; and The child and the Bible.
“Those who are grappling with practical problems will find in these essays written from various points of view much that is suggestive and helpful.”
*“The editor has wisely put his best first—that on ‘The child and heredity’ by Professor Jones of Glasgow; it is an acute and interesting piece of writing. Of the other essays we cannot speak so highly.”
Stephenson, Henry Thew.Shakespeare’s London.**$2. Holt.
A topographical description of London as Shakespeare saw it, compiled largely from contemporary sources, and profusely illustrated from old prints. It gives an introductory sketch of the Elizabethans, an account of the early growth of the city, and a picturesque presentation of St. Paul’s, the water front, the tower, the main highway, the strand, in fact, the London of the 16th century. The book closes with chapters upon theatres, taverns and tavern life in those boisterous days.
“The book may be emphatically recommended to teachers and students no less than to the general reader.”
*“The volume is compact, and is intended more for the library than for the satchel.”
“The book is worthy to have a much fuller index.”
“Interesting and apparently correct in its statements.”
“Deserving of high praise from two points of view—in that the study of London in Elizabeth’s day has been carefully and accurately worked out, and in that the description is eminently readable and entertaining.”
“He has succeeded so far beyond his original intention as to give an exceedingly interesting record of Elizabethan life and times.”
“Good use is made of the descriptions left by contemporary writers.”
Stepniak, pseud. (Sergiei Mikhailovich Kravchinskii).Russian peasantry; their agrarian condition, social life and religion.*$1.25. Dutton.
“A new edition of a book originally published ten years ago by a Russian who knew the economic and social conditions in Russia at first hand, and who passionately looked forward to the changes now taking place. Owing to the death of Stepniak, the book is issued without revision.”—Outlook.
“He knew the Russian peasantry as no other man save Tolstoy.”
*Sterling, Sara Hawks.Shakespeare’s sweetheart.†$2. Jacobs.
Anne Hathaway’s own story as told by herself is a manuscript which Master Jonson is supposed to have hid away in vault beneath the Mermaid. It is a pretty story, and might have been true, did we but know, for who shall say that the young wife of the gallant Will Shakespeare did not follow him to London in boy’s disguise, and take part in his plays undiscovered by all save the sharp-eyed queen? And who shall deny to them the joy of a great love? Still, charming as it is, the story is unsustained by history, and we have long been taught to believe that the suggestions for the plots of Shakespeare’s plays came to him from sources outside his own life experience.
*“On the whole the situation is handled skilfully, and the story is a charming bit of imaginative writing.”
Sterne, Laurence.Complete works; including life by Percy Fitzgerald; ed. by Wilbur L. Cross. 12v. subs. ea. $3.50. Taylor.
“The aim of the publishers is to produce a complete, exact, and definite edition. For this purpose they have obtained much of the material direct from the British museum, while reproductions of letters, and old portraits have been acquired from the descendants of Sterne’s patrons and friends in England.”—Bookm.
“In point of general criticism, perhaps, it is somewhat lacking, but in little else. It collects everything of Sterne’s. P. H. Frye.”
“Mr. Wilbur L. Cross has written an entertaining and lucid introduction that adds to the practical worth of the book.”
“Is a genuine definitive edition. The editorial work by Prof. Cross, whether of an introductory character or in the shape of notes, or in the correction of numerous errors or the exclusion of spurious material, is of a high order and speaks well for the gentleman’s scholarship no less than for his just appreciation of the duties of editor. The mechanical features of the edition are in keeping with the editorship. The York edition is the most satisfactory interpretation that we have hitherto seen of him.”
Sterner, Ira Ibson.Picture gallery of souls. $1. Badger, R: G.
Sonnets and short poems dedicated “to cosmo-psychic energy,” and arranged under the headings: Introduction to the public; Sinners and society; Sorrow and joy; Lessons from history; Philosophical poems; and Toil and genius.
Sterrett, James Macbride.Freedom of authority: essays in apologetics.**$2. Macmillan.
“The book is ... a defence of authority in religion.... The first chapter deals with the relation between authority and freedom; the second and third are a criticism of the positions of the late Auguste Sabatier, of Dr. Harnack and of the Abbé Loisy; the fourth treats of the historical method, and is a defence of the philosophical school against the purely empirical; the remaining four chapters contain Dr. Sterrett’s own conclusions as to the nature of authority and the guidance of the individual Christian.”—Acad.
“The book, as he himself says, is a series of studies rather than a sustained thesis, and, to tell the truth, it is somewhat scrappy and inconclusive.”
“His work as a whole is able and it is written with an intensity and enthusiasm of conviction which make it eloquent.”
Stevens, Frank.Adventures in Pondland. $1.25. McClurg.
This book combines the charm of a fairy story with the accuracy of a natural history. Jackie and Vi, young nature lovers, are invited by Lemna the fairy queen of the pond, to visit her domain, and altho they go down to the depths of it, the water does not wet them. They make friends with the guardian of the pond, Mr. Natterjack the toad, they learn how to care for their pets, the frogs and goldfish, and they find out all about the life and habits of the pond-people, Master Dragonfly, the tadpoles, newts, spiders and all the rest. At the end of the summer they regretfully leave the pond to its long winter’s sleep.
*“The book ought to give young readers new interest in humble orders of life, and some idea of nature’s adaptation of means to end.”
*“This is an entertaining and instructive book, suitable for all children who have, if not a pond, at least a rain-water tub at command.”
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour.Works.per v. $1. Scribner.
A biographical edition of Stevenson which is published in handy volume form, in cloth or limp leather, with thin paper, and clear type. The literary feature of the edition is the series of introductions written by Mrs. Stevenson, each of which gives an intimate account of the circumstances under which the book was written, and throws new light on Stevenson’s life and work.
*“The text is of course complete and authoritative, and the general form of the volumes makes them much more convenient for actual reading purposes than either of the two expensive subscription editions.”
“Good taste and a sense of what is interesting have co-operated in the prefaces with which Mrs. Stevenson has furnished the several volumes. There is nothing which one can reasonably wish had been omitted.”
“One wishes that the biographical prefaces were fuller and more like those furnished by Mrs. Ritchie to the Biographical edition of Thackeray.”
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour.Child’s garden of verses.$2.50. Scribner.
Jessie Willcox Smith has happily illustrated this new edition of these exquisite and well loved verses. In her black and white text drawings and full-page colored pictures we find the same appealing charm which makes all wanderers in Stevenson’s child’s garden feel that truly
“The world is so full of a number of things,I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.”
“The world is so full of a number of things,I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.”
“The world is so full of a number of things,I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.”
“The world is so full of a number of things,
I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.”
*“The whole conception of the book is in perfect good taste.”
*“Happy the child who receives this book for a gift, as a source of instruction in taste both for poetry and for art.”
“It would be difficult to imagine a piece of holiday book-making which might be more complete and perfect.”
Stewart, Charles David.Fugitive blacksmith. $1.50. Century.
Two stories which run along side by side; one concerning Finerty, the jovial Irishman and his family, the other the tale of the fugitive blacksmith, as told by his one-time partner, Stumpy, the tramp, in Finerty’s sand house in the railroad yards. The whole is in dialect, and the characters are both witty and interesting. The blacksmith, Bill, a fugitive from justice for the murder of a friend, Tilten, is hounded from place to place, meeting with many exciting adventures, and at last comes across the man he was accused of murdering. Here the devoted Stumpy loses sight of him but later discovers him in health and prosperity and shares his changed fortunes.
“A peculiarly fascinating story.”
“Stumpy’s story is well told and worth telling.” G. W. A.
“A more diverting story has not appeared in many a long day.”
“‘Fugitive blacksmith’ is no unworthy successor to ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn.’”
“Any veteran might well be glad and proud to round off even the achievement of a lifetime with a study of human nature such as this story of Mr. Stewart’s ‘Blacksmith’ so interesting in fresh and unexpected ways, so rich in the fruits of keen and kindly observation, and the true artist’s appreciation of much that escapes the untrained eye. If it does not prove a worthily popular favorite it will be the fault of the popular taste and appreciation.”
“Let no one be deterred from reading the book by dislike of Irish dialect. The first chapter once passed, the human and humorous interest increases rapidly, and it may be added that the dialect itself—to many readers a determent—is consistently and carefully managed. The story is jolly and original.”
“The whole suffused with humor and not lacking in pathos, and wholly original.”
“Mr. Stewart may not be another Mark Twain, but he doesn’t need to be. He is good enough as he is.”
“The book is vivified by clever character sketches shrewdly illustrative of life in the grade of society described. The humor of the story is abundant and of a particularly natural sort.”
Stewart, Wentworth F.Evangelistic awakening.*75c. Meth. bk.
“The object of this volume is to give a general view of the present evangelistic situation, to indicate some things that have led up to this condition ... to set forth some fundamental principles which need emphasis, and to outline what are to be, in the author’s judgment, the conditions of the future.”
“As far as it goes it is an excellent book.”
Stiles, Henry Reed.History of ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut, comprising the present towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington and of Glastonbury, prior to its incorporation in 1693, from date of earliest settlement until the present time. 2v.*$25. Grafton press.
“Two ponderous volumes, edited ... from the manuscript of the late Judge Sherman W. Davis. The second volume is entirely genealogical, but in the first, which is really a series of brief historical monographs, occur chapters on such interesting topics as Wethersfield’s share in the French and Indian war, Wethersfield’s share in the American revolution and maritime history.”—Am. Hist. R.
Stimson, Henry Albert.Right life and how to live it.**$1.20. Barnes.
“Volume I. in the ‘Right life series.’ An introduction for the book has been written by Dr. Maxwell, superintendent of schools, New York city. The volume is intended for growing boys and girls, as well as to help teachers and parents. It does not, the author says in his preface, propose any new theory of light or advocate any new teaching which might be set aside. ‘It furnishes a harmonious and satisfactory interpretation of life.’”—N. Y. Times.
*“It is sufficiently philosophical in its nature and scientific in its method to meet the intellectual demands of its readers, and to provide a basis for character-building that will stand the strain and criticism of after-life.”
Reviewed by John Angus MacVannel.
“It is clear ... its tone is distinctly hopeful, wholesome and manly.”
“A helpful contribution toward the strengthening of a weak point in our educational system. The outlook is comprehensive, on one hand including the fundamental problems of thought simply put, and on the other dealing with the social problems of the day.”
Stodola, Aurel.Steam turbines; with an appendix on gas turbines and the future of heat engines.*$4.50. Van Nostrand.
This is an English version of the second revised German edition. It includes a treatise on “Gas turbines, and the future of heat engines,” an elementary introduction to the theory of steam turbines for the general reader, and a series of reports of the experiments on the many-stage impulse turbines of Zölly, Rateau, Stumpf, Gelpke, and others.
“This work is by far the best of all relating to this subject in any language. A number of misprints of the German edition have been faithfully reproduced in this translation. The usefulness of the book has been considerably reduced by the faulty translation.” Storm Bull.
Stokely, Edith Keeley, and Hurd, Marian Kent.Miss Billy.†$1.50. Lothrop.
A young philanthropist who “leaves a trail of sanitation, repairing, mending, soap, and jokes behind her.... Anything but perfect, she corrects her own faults briskly, even while she reproves the shortcomings of her neighbors, and steers safely between the priggishness of some heroines of her class and the dullness of those created to listen to the twisted English and logic of their beneficiaries.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Pleasant story.”
“This is an ideal story for young girls—sprightly and full of fun, it teaches, nevertheless, a wholesome lesson in the matters of neighborly love and the overcoming of false pride.”
“So pleasantly and humorously is the story told that one never for a minute imagines while reading it that the authors are ‘pointing a moral.’”
Story, Douglas.Campaign with Kuropatkin.*$3. Lippincott.
An English newspaper correspondent’s account of the campaign in the East, in which he pays handsome tribute to Russia, whose final triumph he considers as assured in spite of the “effective barbarism” of the Japanese soldiers. There are many illustrations taken in the field by the author.
“Instead of military history, we have a book of impressions, individual and general. Making allowance for its partisanship, this volume grows upon one. At first there is a sense of triviality and of irritation; later, a feeling of interest, if not of sympathy, arrives; there is nothing to arouse sympathy.”
“An interesting work. Mr. Story might have added as a sub-title: ‘As much as I was able to see of it.’”
Story of the Welsh revival. pa.**15c. Revell.
A number of newspaper accounts of the religious awakening in Wales, brought together for the use of those who look for a similar movement in this country.
Stow, George W.Native races of South Africa. A history of the intrusion of the Hottentots and Bantu into the hunting grounds of the Bushmen, the aborigines of the country.*$6.50. Macmillan.
“The book is scarcely a treatise so much as an encyclopedia of information.... Including an excellent account of the Hottentot immigration and the first waves of the Bantu influx from the North, a sketch of the distribution of the semi-Hottentot tribes ... much information about the Hereros and the little-known races north and west of the Kalahari, as well as a history of the first wars of Moshesh, the Basuto king, and the doings of early filibusters.... But it is primarily a study of the Bushmen, and the tale of one of the cruelest wars of extermination ever waged,—a glimpse into an elder, almost prehistoric, world of naked savagery.”—Spec.
“A rather cumbrous mass of speculations, based on laborious and praiseworthy investigations.”
“For a historian who draws much of his material from native tradition, Mr. Stow is singularly free from speculation. On the social life and habits of the Bushmen, which is the most important part of his work, we know from the highest living authority, Miss Lucy Lloyd, that he is entirely to be trusted.”
“What he says of the Bushmen, then, can be accepted as probably correct, and as forming a prospectively valuable contribution to the ethnology of South Africa.”
“In the main his generalizations strike us as accurate and logical. It is as a collection of the data for theory that it is to be prized. On this ground it seems to us a very valuable book.”
Stowe, Harriet Beecher.Uncle Tom’s cabin, or, Life among the lowly.$1.25. Crowell.
This famous story is now issued as one of the flexible “Thin paper classics” series, with a photogravure frontispiece showing Uncle Tom and Eva as drawn by Charles Copeland.
Strang, Herbert.Kobo: a story of the Russo-Japanese war.†$1.50. Putnam.
“Kobo is a Japanese in good social position, who undertakes the perilous duty of a spy. Another prominent character is a young British employee in the Japanese naval service. The adventures and experiences of these and others make ... a vivid dramatic representation of individual doings and happenings in the national tragedy now being enacted in the Far East.”—Outlook.
“A thorough boy’s tale, on the order of the Henty books.”
“A dashing, exciting story of the sort that boys are fond of.”
Stray leaves from a soul’s book. $1.50. Badger, R. G.
Twelve leaves which give soul-struggles and soul-compensations and show how thru the ages “my soul and I” have strayed and met again.
Streamer, Col. D., pseud. (Harry Graham).More misrepresentative men.**$1. Fox.
Col. Streamer adds to his already imposing list of misrepresentative men the names of Robert Burns, William Waldorf Astor, Henry VIII., Alton B. Parker, Euclid, J. M. Barrie, Omar Khayyam, Andrew Carnegie, King Cophetus, Joseph F. Smith and Sherlock Holmes. The volume is humorously illustrated, and is made unique by the author’s foreword which makes bold to claim that visions of the almighty dollar have power to awaken his muse, and the publishers answer which pampers him in his whim for substantial reward.
“Shows no exhaustion of his satiric vein.”
“We are willing to swear that these verses are as good as any the author has written.”
*Street, George Edward.Mount Desert: a history; ed. by S: A. Eliot; with a memorial introd. by Wilbert L. Anderson.**$2.50. Houghton.
“Many who have visited the interesting islandof Mount Desert, have wondered what the early history of that region might be.... The first colony in Mount Desert was established by the Jesuit priests at Somesville, in 1613, but was destroyed next year by the English. A century and a half passed before the first permanent settlers came from Massachusetts.... In recent years the island has become one of the favorite summer resorts on our Atlantic coast. The book is well illustrated with views of the island and contains also an excellent map.”—Ind.
*“Is the only history of the island ever written.”
Stringer, Arthur John Arbuthnott.Lonely O’Malley: a story of boy life. $1.50. Houghton.
“The story of a real boy, who knows all about the secrets of trap-making, and depends upon a vivid imagination for his games. Shunned at first by others of his age, when he comes a stranger to town, he wins his place as a leader by fighting the bully and conducting a wonderful pirate cruise.”—Outlook.
“Entertaining story.”
Strong, Mrs. Isobel (Osbourne).Girl from home: a story of Honolulu.†$1.50. McClure.
About twenty years ago, when Kalakaua was king in Hawaii, a girl went to the islands and fell in love with a man worth eleven millions. The story tells of her experiences in which many characters, American, British, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, and Hawaiian, play a part.
“The book is best defined as an entertaining volume of travel, sugar-coated with an innocuous little romance, and enlivened with a vein of mild satire.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
*Strong, Josiah.Next great awakening. 75c. Baker.
A tenth edition of a volume which makes it its object to show “that the next great spiritual awakening, so profoundly needed to Christianize the new civilization and to lift the nations to a higher plane,” will come when the social teachings of Jesus, so long obscured and forgotten, are “clearly recognized and faithfully preached.” The subject is treated under the headings: The supreme need of the world; The law of spiritual quickening; The kingdom of God; The social laws of Jesus; The social teachings of Jesus not accepted; and The social teachings of Jesus applied will bring social healing and spiritual quickening.
Strong, Josiah.Social progress for 1905.**$1. Baker.
Dr. Strong’s experiment in sending out a 1904 year book and encyclopedia of economic, industrial, social and religious statistics met with such hearty endorsement that he offers a second issue for the new year. It contains more material than the 1904 volume, is more comprehensive, and has profited by solicited suggestions and criticisms.
“As it is, however, no student and no library should be without it.”
“The second issue of the work shows a material advance over the first in usefulness. The amount of matter included is very large, and it is strictly up-to-date.”
“It is, on the whole, an excellent volume. We note, however, a number of errors, partly due to bad proofreading and partly to faulty handling of the statistical tables.”
“A clear improvement is made by the present volume upon its predecessor.”
“More complete and hence more valuable than ever.”
*Strong, Josiah.Times and young men. 75c. Baker.
A new popular edition of a book which is an outgrowth of the writer’s personal experience and in which he sets forth his conception of life in the hope that “this volume may fix in the minds of the young men who read it convictions as to the right course of life so deep and immovable that they may be anchored to in the stress of storm.” The table of contents includes chapters upon: The great change in the physical world, and in the world of ideas; Three great laws which never change; The law of service, The law of self-giving or sacrifice, The law of love; The three great laws applied to the social problem, and to personal problems; and The inspiration of the twentieth-century outlook.
Strunk, William, ed. See Juliana.
Stuart, Ruth McEnery.River’s children, $1. Century.
This “Idyll of the Mississippi” is a series of connected sketches of the negro and creole delta dwellers, where “de ruling lady of dis low valley country, it is not de carnival queen; it is not de first lady at de governor’s mansion.... It is old lady Mississippi.” There is an account of a great flood where “the mother of trouble” received prayers and sacrifices from her superstitious worshippers; and the story of two old negroes who took charge of their “Marse Harold’s” little daughter until his return from the war; finding rest beneath the treacherous waters when they had secured for her a father and a happy future. Many negro songs and superstitions give the story color.
“Written with the charm, the humor, the grace, and the pathos so familiar to all who know the author’s earlier books.”
“A sort of pagan worship of the great river Mississippi is the keynote of this somewhat desultory tale of Creoles and negroes in Louisiana.”