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=Rothschild, Alonzo.= Lincoln, master of men. **$3. Houghton.

Mastery over different types of men as well as over self serves as the
keynote to this eight-chapter biography. “‘A Samson of the backwoods’
gives an account of Lincoln’s early struggles and triumphs; ‘Love,
war, and politics,’ carries him to his leadership of the Whig party in
Illinois; ‘Giants, big and little’ narrates his rivalry with Douglas
from their young manhood to the day of Lincoln’s great triumph when
Douglas held his hat through the inauguration ceremonies; ‘The power
behind the throne’ is of course Seward, and ‘An indispensable man’ is
Chase; while ‘The curbing of Stanton’ conveys an altogether wrong
impression of Lincoln’s relations with his great war minister; ‘How
the pathfinder lost the trail’ tells the story of Fremont and his
lamentable failure as general and politician; ‘The young Napoleon’ is
General McClellan.” (Dial.)

* * * * *

=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 976. Jl. ’06. 70w.

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Cooper.

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his day.” John C. Reed.

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* * * * *

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=Rowell, George Presbury.= Forty years an advertising agent, 1865–1905. Printers’ ink pub.

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* * * * *

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=Rowland, Henry Cottrell.= In the shadow. †$1.50. Appleton.

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* * * * *

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+ =Ath.= 1906. 1: 758. Je 23. 190w.

Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ – =Bookm.= 23: 414. Je. ’06. 860w.

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“On the whole, we may say that if Mr. Rowland’s story is of the
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puppets.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 290. My. 5, ’06. 450w.

“There is a great deal that is unpleasant about the tale, and,
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+ =Sat. R.= 102: 305. S. 8, ’06. 270w.

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tragedy.”

+ – =Spec.= 96: 988. Je. 23, ’06. 1230w.

=Rowland, Henry Cottrell.= Mountain of fears. †$1.50. Barnes.

“In this particular volume Mr. Rowland has revealed himself as one of
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=Rowntree, B. Seebohm.= Betting and gambling: a national evil. *$1.60. Macmillan.

“There is probably no more useful work on the whole subject of betting
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+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 380. Ap. ’06. 1190w.

=Rowntree, Joseph, and Sherwell, Arthur.= Taxation of the liquor trade, v. 1. *$3.25. Macmillan.

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* * * * *

+ Ind. 61: 159. Jl. 19, ’06. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)

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+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 262. Jl. 27, ’06. 680w. (Review of v. 1.)

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=Rowson, Susanna Haswell.= Charlotte Temple: a tale of truth; with an historical and biographical introd. by Francis W. Halsey; reprinted from the first Am. ed., 1794. $1.25. Funk.

=Critic.= 48: 286. Mr. ’06. 60w.

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+ =Dial.= 40: 52. Ja. 16, ’06. 170w.

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=Rumbold, Sir Horace.= Final recollections of a diplomatist. $5. Longmans.

The fourth volume of Sir Horace Rumbold’s reminiscences covers the
period from 1885 to his retirement from diplomatic service in 1900.
During these years he was sent to three courts—to Athens, The Hague,
and Vienna.

* * * * *

+ =Acad.= 69: 1194. N. 18, ’05. 880w.

=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 465. Ja. ’06. 40w.

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 540. O. 21. 700w.

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+ – =Nation.= 82: 98. F. 1, ’06. 150w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 19. Ja. 13, ’06. 300w.

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+ + =Spec.= 95: sup. 900. D. 2, ’05. 2010w.

=Runkle, Bertha.= Truth about Tolna. †$1.50. Century.

Tolna, the golden-throated tenor, who is not what he seems to be,
gives to this novel of modern New York society a real individuality.
The whole action occupies but seven days. There are many people more
or less rich and more or less socially ambitious involved in the plot,
but they are merely vivacious adjuncts to the story of Tolna and his
love for Honor, the cold beauty who was his boyhood’s playmate, and or
Denys Alden, the man who, having lost his own voice, rejoices in the
triumphs of his protégé, living in his success until he even renounces
to him Marjorie, the girl he loves, only to find that her heart is
his, but not his to renounce.

* * * * *

“There is a degree of clever originality about Bertha Runkle’s new
book. ‘The truth about Tolna,’ of which her previous venture in
fiction, ‘The helmet of Navarre,’ gave scant promise.” Frederic Taber
Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 23: 285. My. ’06. 380w.

“This frothy story is moderately entertaining, but is not to be taken
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+ – =Dial.= 40: 367. Je. 1, ’06. 200w.

– =Ind.= 60: 1046. My. 3, ’06. 200w.

“Miss Runkle has conceived a very original plot, and shows much skill
both in tangling and untangling its threads.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 158. Mr. 17, ’06. 410w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.

“There are a dash and vigor about the handling of this novel of modern
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+ =Outlook.= 82: 718. Mr. 24, ’06. 100w.

“It can hardly be counted a successful piece of fiction.”

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“From the ‘Helmet of Navarre’ to ‘The truth about Tolna’ is a long
leap, but Miss Runkle has taken it with no signs of effort.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 378. Mr. 24, ’06. 270w.

– =R. of Rs.= 33: 758. Je. ’06. 130w.

=Ruskin, John.= Works; edited by E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. 37v. ea. $9. Longmans.

The thirty-seven volumes which make up this library edition contain
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letters are here published for the first time.” (Lond. Times.)

* * * * *

“The editors have striven with the most praiseworthy diligence to make
their edition complete and definitive. They have done a great work.”

+ + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 137. Ap. 20, ’06. 2000w. (Review of v. 1–22.)

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 709. O. 21, ’05. 480w. (Review of v. 8.)

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 235. Ap. 7, ’06. 820w. (Review of v. 20.)

=Russell, George William Erskine.= Social silhouettes. **$3. Dutton.

“An essay in ‘character’ writing, the author passing in review most of
the types that a clubman and Londoner meets with in the narrow
confines of his life—the eldest son, the journalist, the Bishop, the
don, the carpet-bagger, the invalid, the buck, and so forth.” (Lond.
Times.) “They catch those fleeting aspects of things which, once let
slip, are recovered with the utmost difficulty; and they establish
suggestive standards of comparison between the present and a
comparatively recent past. Mr. Russell knows Dickens, Thackeray, and
Disraeli by heart, nor has he neglected that most faithful of writers
Anthony Trollope.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“‘Social silhouettes,’ it is not unfair to remark, are a little
lacking in balance. Still, without attaining omniscience, Mr. Russell
has succeeded in hitting off the polite and professional world in
nearly every instance, and his stories are so cleverly handled that he
avoids wounding the feelings even of the most susceptible.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 440. O. 13. 800w.

“We lay the book aside with the conviction that Mr. Russell has not
observed enough, has not lived enough, for this kind of work. He has
met many men and heard many stories, but he lacks alike the seeing eye
and the searching phrase. Also the sense of the moment for he seems to
have stood still for many years.”

– =Lond. Times.= 5: 370. N. 2, ’06. 500w.

“The political portraits are drawn with a peculiarly expert hand.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 509. D. 13, ’06. 330w.

“The various short papers on English types are full of refreshing and
enlivening touches.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 813. D. 1, ’06. 1170w.

=Russell, T. Baron.= Hundred years hence; the expectations of an optimist. *$1.50. McClurg.

The mechanical, scientific and ethical progress which the author
predicts for the next hundred years promises to our descendants a
world of “almost unthinkable perfection.” No war, no coal, no
washer-women; all unelevating domestic labor will be eliminated;
dress, heat, travel, the air we breathe, the water, we drink, will be
perfected; and man, enlightened and developed, will live in a net-work
of invention so complicated that life itself will seem a very simple
thing.

* * * * *

“Even regarded as the baseless fabric of a vision, the book has a
certain fascination; but its forecasts are not without a foundation of
scientific probability.”

+ – =Dial.= 41: 283. N. 1, ’06. 330w.

“So far from being in advance of his age in his ideas, he has not
caught up with it. He has an open and unprejudiced mind and makes many
interesting suggestions.”

+ – =Ind.= 61: 940. O. 18, ’06. 300w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 653. O. 5, ’06. 280w.

“Far from astonishing us by a bold flight into the regions of
scientific impossibilities, which he seems to fear, he leaves us lost
in amazement at the feebleness of his imagination.”

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=Russell, W. Clark.= Yarn of Old Harbour town. *$1.50. Jacobs.

Harbor life, and life on the high seas one hundred years ago is
vividly pictured in this story of Lucy Acton who was kidnapped by her
lover and feigned madness for her own protection. The search made for
her by her father in his “Aurora,” the appearance of Admiral Nelson,
the rescue of Lucy, all making stirring reading, but after all is
done, instead of bringing her abductor to justice Lucy nurses him thru
an illness, forgets, forgives, and marries him.

* * * * *

“Although the plot and construction of the tale leave little to be
desired yet there is much superficial description, and many trifling
details are here introduced.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 723. N. 3, ’06. 240w.

“As a love story the book is not very successful, but as a picture of
sea and harbor life a hundred years ago it cannot fail to interest its
readers.”

+ – =Spec.= 95: 571. O. 14, ’05. 160w.

=Rutherford, Ernest.= Radio-activity. 2d ed. with much additional matter. *$4. Macmillan.

“The fact that the second edition is almost a new work, although the
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not a popular work. It is not easy reading to the layman: it is not
intended for him. It has a spaciousness of active scientific thought
which reaches far into the unknown. Authentic, it is rich in
suggestions to the investigator, be he chemist, physicist, engineer,
or physiologist.” (Engin. N.)

* * * * *

“It seems likely, therefore, that for some years to come successive
editions of Professor Rutherford’s work will remain the best source of
information for the reader in whom may be assumed a certain modicum of
technical information.”

+ + =Atlan.= 98: 418. S. ’06. 40w.

“No words are wasted. The terse diction of the masterpiece gives it a
literary charm that carries the competent reader on almost
precipitously, yet with discriminating caution.” Charles Baskerville.

+ + =Engin. N.= 55: 77. Ja. 18. ’06. 1290w.

“For the student. Professor Rutherford’s book is of the greatest
value.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 457. Ag. 23, ’06. 410w.

“Is the most complete and authoritative account of the recent
remarkable discoveries in this field by one who has made many of
them.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 1172. N. 15, ’06. 20w.

+ + =Nation.= 82: 61. Ja. 18, ’06. 1240w.

“We must once more congratulate Prof. Rutherford on the admirable
manner in which he has brought his book up to date.” R. J. Strutt.

+ + =Nature.= 73: 289. Ja. 25, ’06. 1100w.

“The new treatise gives evidence of the same skilful presentation and
arrangement as the old.” C. Barus.

+ + =Science=, n.s. 23: 262. F. 16, ’06. 240w.

=Ryan, Coletta.= Songs in a sun garden. **$1. Turner, H. B.

In Miss Ryan’s poems dreams seem so possible of realization that one
credits her with having found a demonstrable principle of life. Head,
heart and imagination are all active. “She is a young woman of strong
emotion, a child of the imagination, and if no conventional or
reactionary power curbs or holds in check her higher and finer
impulses, she will do much fine and vital work.” (Arena.)

* * * * *

“There is much imagination displayed in some of the lines—something
all too rare in present day verse. Many of the poems are also rich in
rhythmic and musical qualities that tend to sing the lines into the
mind of the reader.”

+ =Arena.= 35: 556. My. ’06. 1040w.

“‘A lover’s song’ is one of the few things afforded by this volume
that are reasonably acceptable.” Wm. M. Payne.

– + =Dial.= 41: 209. O. 1, ’06. 170w.

“They are in the main, bright and sweet, with individuality in their
tenderness and with a buoyant spirit of trust and good-will.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 180w.

=Ryan, John Augustine.= Living wage: its ethical and economic aspects. *$1. Macmillan.

The work of a Roman Catholic priest and teacher in St. Paul’s
seminary. “It is perhaps the first attempt in the English language to
elaborate what may be called a Roman Catholic system of political
economy.... Professor Ryan combines in this work economic and ethical
arguments with those derived from authority, and while Professor Ely
admits [in the introduction] that members of other religious bodies,
both Christian and Jewish, may reject this particular system of wages
because it is assumed to rest on the approved teachings of the Roman
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religious, and ethical foundations?” (R. of Rs.)

* * * * *

“The credit due to him for the conception of his task is doubled by
the manner in which he has executed it. Thoroughly acquainted with all
authorities on political economy, economics and ethics, he has done
his work in scientific fashion.”

+ + + =Cath. World.= 83: 688. Ag. ’06. 1560w.

“Mr. Ryan’s economics are stronger than his ethics.”

+ – =Ind.= 61: 517. Ag. 30, ’06. 550w.

“As an alternative to socialism, as an antidote to anarchism. as a
stimulator of thought the book seems to us well described in Dr. Ely’s
words—‘a meritorious performance.’” Edward A. Bradford.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 317. My. 19, ’06. 2290w.

+ – =Outlook.= 84: 91. S. 8, ’06. 560w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 768. Je. ’06. 210w.

“Many modern writers have dealt with the subject from the same point
of view. Few of them have had the courage of their opinions to the
same extent as Professor Ryan.”

+ – =Spec.= 97: 233. Ag. 18, ’06. 2260w.

=Ryan, Marah Ellis (Martin) (Mrs. S. E. Ryan).= For the soul of Rafael: a romance of old California. †$1.50. McClurg.

The heights of San Jacinto stand guard over the valley which furnishes
the picturesque setting of this tale. The ruined dome of an old
mission gleams among the clustered adobes of the Mexicans which are
“like children creeping close to the feet of the one mother: and
beyond that the illimitable ranges of mesa and valley.” The characters
are all the fine, aristocratic Spanish type, looking upon Americans as
“godless invaders.” Dramatic intensity marks each development in a
story of strong passions and a splendid renunciation.

* * * * *

“A picturesque and romantic story, which stands out vividly against
the careful and realistic brushwork of the background.” Frederic Taber
Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 24: 52. S. ’06. 320w.

“Mrs. Ryan’s new novel has so confused a way of introducing its
characters and setting forth their relationships that we are midway in
the volume before we have fairly straightened them out. Aside from
this defect of constructive technique, we may say that the work is one
of vivid dramatic quality and appealing romantic charm.” Wm. M. Payne.

– + =Dial.= 41: 39. Jl. 16, ’06. 210w.

“A somewhat crudely told melodrama.”

– =Ind.= 60: 1374. Je. 7, ’06. 200w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 307. My. 12, ’06. 200w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 341. My. 26. ’06. 200w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.

“A dramatic story of California.”

+ =Outlook.= 83: 334. Je. 9, ’06. 110w.

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=Sabatier, Paul.= Disestablishment in France; with preface by the translator Robert Dell, and the French-English text of the Separation law, with notes. *$1.25. Scribner.

This work “is partly an examination of the deep-seated causes (as
distinguished from the accidental circumstances) which led to the
denunciation of the Concordat, and partly an attempt to forecast the
religious consequences of that extreme anti-clerical measure. In his
treatment of the first half of his subject ... the author seems to us
both lucid and just.... The second half of his volume is of a more
speculative character. He fancies that he foresees ‘the advent of a
new Catholicism’ and ‘the rising of new sap in the old religious
trunk.’”—Lond. Times.

* * * * *

=Acad.= 71: 56. Jl. 21, ’06. 1820w.

“Not an important contribution to the literature of the ecclesiastical
controversy in France. The tone of the author is as polemical as the
style of the translator is journalistic.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 512. Ap. 28. 1180w.

“The translation of the pamphlet is well done by Mr. Robert Dell, who
also contributes an interesting explanatory preface.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 146. Ap. 27, ’06. 740w.

“Its chief defect, for those who are not among the admirers of the
writer’s earliest work is, as might be anticipated, its complete
failure to attain an historical point of view.”

+ – =Nation.= 82: 489. Je. 14, ’06. 140w.

Reviewed by Walter Littlefield.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 596. S. 8, ’06. 1350w.

+ =Outlook.= 83: 813. Ag. 4. ’06. 320w.

=Sabin, Edwin Legrand.= When you were a boy. †$1.50. Baker.

+ + =Critic.= 48: 479. My. ’06. 130w.

Saddle and song; a collection of verses made at Warrenton, Va., during the winter of 1904–1905. **$1.50. Lippincott.

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 40w.

=Sadlier, Anna Theresa.= Mystery of Hornby hall. 85c. Benziger.

A book for young people which contains the chivalric unearthing of a
mystery guarded by a human tigress and one involving the happiness of
a long wronged child.

=Sage, William.= District attorney. †$1.50 Little.

A son who dares to array his intellect, his honor and his ideals
against his father, a trust magnate with an iron hand, fights a
creditable battle for political, financial and domestic liberty.
Impersonal right is his might even tho it make useless the tools
without which his father is helpless. It is an interesting character
study backed by sound principle.

* * * * *

“Not since Robert Herrick’s ‘The common lot’ has there appeared a
finer study of present-day American life than ‘The district
attorney.’” Amy C. Rich.

+ + =Arena.= 36: 570. N. ’06. 390w.

“A book that not only shows careful workmanship, but is apt to set the
reader thinking rather seriously.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 24: 52. S. ’06. 460w.

=Critic.= 49: 287. S. ’06. 120w.

“We are inclined to think that the note of didacticism is at times a
little too effusively sounded: but to the book as a whole sincere
praise may be accorded.” Wm. M. Payne.

– + =Dial.= 41: 38. Jl. 16, ’06. 330w.

=Ind.= 61: 214. Jl. 26, ’06. 70w.

“Barring a touch of ‘preciousness,’ a proneness to euphuistic
smartness not quite foreign to more sincere artists, the style of Mr.
Sage would lend itself well enough to building up a story that might
touch the reader as a page out of life. But instead of this, it has
been employed to provide verisimilitude for a conventionally
sensational tale about conventionally unreal people.”

– + =Nation.= 83: 39. Jl. 12, ’06. 340w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.

“The author tells his story in a straightforward, manly fashion. His
book deserves a wide reading.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 431. Jl. 7, ’06. 400w.

=St. John, J. Allen.= Face in the pool. **$1.50. McClurg.

+ =Critic.= 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 50w.

=Saint Maur, Kate V.= Self-supporting home. **$1.75. Macmillan.

An interesting book which records an experiment made by an ambitious,
energetic woman. From city flat life she transplants her family to the
country, and shows how she makes a farm of twelve acres pay for itself
and provide comfortably for all needs. She gives the stages in her
farm development, with specific directions for each point gained, so
that the book is of value to every amateur farmer and gardener.

* * * * *

+ =Critic.= 48: 479. My. ’06. 80w.

“She writes with that tempered enthusiasm that is apt to be
convincing; and although she takes her subject seriously, she allows
herself occasional touches of humor.”

+ =Dial.= 40: 130. F. 16, ’06. 380w.

“Full of sound sense and practical advice.”

+ =Ind.= 60: 225. Ja. 25, ’06. 350w.

“The style of the author is simple and unaffected.”

+ =Nation.= 82: 105. F. 1, ’06. 460w.

“The book is no theoretical treatise or dream, but the earnest work of
a woman of charming personality, which she modestly strives to
conceal, who in sharing the fruits of her success with a public that
has need of the information given, does it a greater service than a
score of learned writers on social and political economy.” Mabel
Osgood Wright.

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 872. D. 9, ’05. 800w.

Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

+ =North American.= 183: 121. Jl. ’06. 240w.

“It has particular value for the beginner in that the author was a
city woman who had to learn by experience, so that she knows how to
help others to avoid the mistakes which she made.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 1038. D. 23, ’05. 160w.

“The author convinces us that she is intelligently at home in her
environment, and that what she says is the result of discrimination
and practical sense.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 93. Ja. 20, ’06. 140w.

“A simple, straightforward, delightfully written account.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 511. Ap. ’06. 70w.

“There is much instruction to be found in the book.”

+ =Spec.= 96: 229. F. 10, ’06. 140w.

=Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin.= Portraits of the eighteenth century, historic and literary; tr. by Katharine P. Wormeley, with a critical introd. by Edmond Scherer. 2v. ea. **$2.50. Putnam.

Miss Wormeley has not only translated but edited these Sainte-Beuve
essays in a manner to insure their popularity. There are portraits of
such historic and literary personages as the Duchess du Maine, Le
Sage, Montesquieu, Voltaire, the Earl of Chesterfield, Louis XV, Marie
Antoinette, Frederic the Great, Necker, Mme. de Lambert, Grimm,
Rousseau, Goethe, Prevost, Beaumarchais, Adrienne Lecouvreur and
others.

* * * * *

“It would certainly be impossible to mistake them for anything but
translations, and translations of a rather literal order.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 223. F. 24. 250w.

+ =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ’05. 60w.

=Critic.= 48: 379. Ap. ’06. 130w.

=Critic.= 49: 282. S. ’06. 90w.

“For delicacy, good taste, profundity of research, and brilliancy of
finish, his work remains unique, and well deserves the tribute of
adequate translation and sumptuous publication now being rendered it.”

+ + =Dial.= 40: 130. F. 16, ’06. 280w.

+ =Ind.= 60: 49. Ja. 4, ’06. 100w.

“For the most part accurately rendered, and disposed in such fashion
as to convey a general impression of the interesting pre-Revolutionary
epoch.”

+ + – =Nation.= 82: 10. Ja. 4, ’06. 110w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 836. D. 2, ’05. 220w.

“The translation by Katharine P. Wormeley is all that could be asked
in sympathy, exactness and choice of phrase.”

+ + =Reader.= 7: 449. Mr. ’06. 510w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 117. Ja. ’06. 130w.

– =Sat. R.= 102: 554. N. 3, ’06. 180w.

+ + =Spec.= 96: 948. Je. 16, ’06. 2240w.

=Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman.= History of English prosody, from the twelfth century to the present day. v. 1, From the origins to Spenser. *$2.50. Macmillan.

The first of a three volume work whose aim is to examine “through at
least 700 years of verse what the prosodic characteristics of English
have actually been, and what goodness or badness of poetry has
accompanied the expression of these characteristics.” Mr. Saintsbury’s
examination is based upon facts which he presents chronologically,
showing the simultaneous development of language and versification. He
says “In this book we do not rope-dance, but keep to the solid paths,
and where the paths are not solid we do not care to walk.”

* * * * *

“When the three volumes of which the work is to consist are published,
a blank in the history of our literature will have been filled. Few
people more competent than Professor Saintsbury could have been found
for the task.”

+ + + =Acad.= 70: 522. Je. 2, ’06. 1290w. (Review of v. 1.)

“One of the main qualities of Prof. Saintsbury’s book is what may be
called its practicalness. The main value of the book is that it is a
firm denial and, as it seems to us, complete disproof, of ‘the error
that the prosody of English is a fixed syllabic prosody.’”

+ + =Ath.= 1906. 1: 629. My. 26. 2910w. (Review of v. 1.)

“What saves him from pedantry is his fund of humor, of a peculiarly
literary quality, which is so closely allied, as all humor is, with
common sense.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 394. Ag. 16, ’06. 580w. (Review of v. 1.)

“There are many passages in Professor Saintsbury’s book which only
experts will be able to understand. He calls it a history, and he has
tried to make it one; but no one ever had a style less suited to the
telling of a plain story. Yet, anyone interested in the subject will
make a great mistake if he refuses to read the book because of the way
in which it is written; for it has one merit great enough to atone for
a thousand minor faults.”

+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 229. Je. 29, ’06. 2710w. (Review of v. 1.)

“The most extraordinary thing about this volume is that,
unintentionally as it would appear, the author has produced the one
English book now existing which is likely to be of real use to those
who wish to perfect themselves in the formal side of verse
composition.”

+ + – =Nation.= 83: 189. Ag. 30, ’06. 1560w. (Review of v. 1.)

“He writes in a breezy, somewhat pugnacious, frequently erratic style,
... and he manages to make even the dryer linguistic parts of his
subject interesting.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 360. Je. 2, ’06. 740w. (Review of v. 1.)

“Freshness of style and illustration makes It much more delightful
than most technical works.”

+ + =Outlook.= 83: 526. Je. 30, ’06. 150w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 100w. (Review of v. 1.)

“Needless to say, the great erudition we have come to expect from all
Professor Saintsbury’s work is apparent on every page.”

+ + =Spec.= 97: sup. 473. O. 6, ’06. 160w. (Review of v. 1.)

=Saintsbury, George=, ed. Minor poets of the Caroline period. 2v. v. 1, *$3.40. Oxford.

“The volume possesses so many points of interest that it is easy to
forget the portentous mediocrity which is really its dominant
feature.”

+ =Spec.= 96: sup. 115. Ja. 27, ’06. 1780w.

=Sakolski, A. M.= Finances of American trades unions. 75c. Johns Hopkins press.

Under the divisions, Revenue, Expenditure, and Administration, this
volume in the “Johns Hopkins university studies in historical and
political science,” gives the results of much careful investigation of
the financial phase of the leading American, national and
international trade unions.

=Saleeby, Caleb Williams.= Evolution the master key. *$2. Harper.

Instead of reducing “the many and ponderous volumes of the synthetic
philosophy to brief and popular form,” the author attempts to justify
his conviction “that the philosophy of universal and ordered change is
far more easily demonstratable to-day than ever before,” and he
proceeds with his demonstration “in the light of human knowledge in
the first lustrum of the twentieth century.” His discussion falls into
seven parts: General, Inorganic evolution, Organic evolution,
Suborganic evolution, Evolution and optimism, Dissolution, and
Evolution and the religion of the future.

* * * * *

“The work it is true exhibits certain defects perhaps unavoidable in
so comprehensive a scheme. Some of the chapters are too brief to do
anything like justice to the vast topics of which they treat.”

+ + – =Acad.= 70: 304. Mr. 31, ’06. 860w.

+ =Harper’s Weekly.= 50: 417. Mr. 24, ’06. 350w.

=Lit. D.= 32: 519. Ap. 7, ’06. 1090w.

“The grand range and sweep of his reasoning is remarkable. He deals,
and generally very ably though very briefly, with most of the
profoundest problems of science and philosophy.” F. W. H.

+ + =Nature.= 74: 122. Je. 7, ’06. 750w.

“Dr. Saleeby has mastered his subject and knows what he wants to
explain. He has a style lucid, incisive, exact, and boldly individual,
and, considering his scientific enthusiasm, a sense of humor
remarkably sane.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 193. Mr. 31, ’06. 1160w.

“Beyond his exposition of his great master, ‘an immortal,’ it does not
appear that Dr. Saleeby has contributed anything of importance upon
the subject of evolution.”

+ – =Outlook.= 82: 617. Mr. 17, ’06. 240w.

“Latest masterpiece of philosophy. Such recognition [of predecessors]
does not grate, but rather makes an agreeable impression—and this,
together with the use of the highest scientific ability and the purest
English, makes this work invaluable in every way.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 274. Mr. 3, ’06. 790w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 130w.

=Salter, Emma Gurney.= Franciscan legends in Italian art: pictures in Italian churches and galleries. *$1.50. Dutton.

“A very valuable manual.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 335. Mr. 17. 350w.

+ =Cath. World.= 82: 847. Mr. ’06. 210w.

“Pictures of the saint began to be made as early as the thirteenth
century, and are usually to be found in rather out-of-the-way places,
such as Greccio, Subiaco, Pescia, etc. Not the least valuable portions
of Miss Salter’s book are the few pages of ‘Practical hints’ for the
traveler, showing him how to reach these places.”

+ + =Dial.= 40: 199. Mr. 16, ’06. 250w.

“The author does not suffer from the modern disease—the fussiness of
expert knowledge; and the little book disarms criticism because it is
so unpretending.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 11. Ja. 12, ’06. 150w.

+ =Outlook.= 82: 569. Mr. 10, ’06. 110w.

“An entirely sound, useful, practical, much-needed work, which it
would be difficult adequately to praise, and impossible almost to
overestimate.”

+ + – =Sat. R.= 100: 849. D. 30, ’05. 1010w.

=Salter, William.= Iowa: the first free state in the Louisiana purchase. **$1.20. McClurg.

“The little book seems quite free from errors.” E. E. Sparks.

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 442. Ja. ’06. 510w.

=Saltus, Edgar Evertson.= Perfume of Eros; a Fifth avenue incident. †$1.25. Wessels.

“The book’s superficial smartnesses fail to conceal its lack of
serious intention.”

– + =Critic.= 48: 574. Je. ’06. 30w.

=Saltus, Edgar Evertson.= Vanity Square. †$1.25. Lippincott.

This “story of Fifth avenue life” written in the author’s clever vein
is the unpleasant account of a man satiated with all the joys that
wealth can buy, who has lost active interest in all things including
his charming wife and child. A woman of rare beauty comes into his
home to nurse his little girl, and then developes a most heinous plot
in which this beautiful viper tries to murder the wife by means of a
subtle poison, so that she may win the husband and his wealth. In the
excitement of this discovery and the events which follow, in their
selfish joy at their re-union and their re-found happiness, they allow
her to go unchallenged, and discover too late that she has made
another woman and another home her prey.

* * * * *

“Mr. Saltus has a strange taste in adjectives, and invents words that
are new to our dictionaries.”

– =Ath.= 1906, 1: 792. Je. 30. 220w.

“Is a smart and interesting story; no better, ethically, perhaps than
the ordinary ‘society novel’ but immeasurably better than most of that
kind in its literary graces.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 365. Je. 9, ’06. 860w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.

=Sanborn, Katherine Abbott (Kate Sanborn).= Old time wall papers. $5. Literary collector press, Greenwich, Conn.

An account of the pictorial papers of our forefathers’ walls, which
includes, also, a study of the historical development of wall-paper
making and decoration. Her treatment covers the following subjects:
From mud walls and canvas tents to decorative papers, Progress and
improvement in the art, Earliest wall papers in America, Wall papers
in historic homes, Notes from here and there, and Revival and
restoration of old wall papers.

* * * * *

“Should make a strong appeal to collectors of antiques as well as
those interested in primitive house decoration.”

+ + =Bookm.= 24: 177. O. ’06. 330w.

“Miss Sanborn has had a most interesting subject in old time wall
papers and she has treated it in a delightful manner.”

+ + =Critic.= 48: 383. Ap. ’06. 140w.

“Her book is likely to become a standard, and people who care for
antiques will wish to own it.”

+ + =Dial.= 41: 41. Jl. 16, ’06. 350w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 160. Mr. 17, ’06. 740w.

=Sanborn, Mary Farley.= Lynette and the congressman. †$1.50. Little.

“Just a love story—and a particularly nice one.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 40: 16. Ja. 1, ’06. 190w.

=Sanday, Rev. William.= Criticism of the fourth Gospel. **$1.75. Scribner.

Eight lectures on the Morse foundation delivered in the Union
seminary, New York, in October and November, 1904. Stress is laid upon
the internal argument for the authenticity of the fourth Gospel.

* * * * *

“The present volume bears the familiar marks that are characteristic
of all Canon Sanday’s work: learning, clearness, fairness to
opponents, judiciousness in judgment, conservatism.” Ernest D. Burton.

+ + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 115. Ja. ’06. 840w.

Reviewed by James Lindsay.

+ + + =Bibliotheca Sacra.= 63: 372. Ap. ’06. 630w.

Reviewed by James Drummond.

=Hibbert J.= 4: 442. Ja. ’06. 1880w.

“It seems a little strange that one so openminded as Professor Sanday
should be unable to distinguish between intentional fraud and innocent
pseudonymity, yet it is this inability which holds him to the
traditional opinion on the question under discussion.”

+ – =Ind.= 59: 987. O. 26, ’05. 720w.

+ =Ind.= 59: 1160. N. 16, ’05. 40w.

+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 314. S. 29, ’05. 1690w.

=Spec.= 96: 306, F. 24, ’06. 160w.

=Sanday, Rev. William.= Outlines of the life of Christ **$1.25. Scribner.

“The work is done with all the author’s painstaking care, scholarly
balance and fairness of mind; a mind ever open to new light, but
instinctively leaning to conservative positions.” W. Jones-Davies.

+ + =Hibbert J.= 4: 933. Jl. ’06. 1260w.

=Sandys, Edwyn.= Sporting sketches. **$1.75. Macmillan.

+ =Ind.= 60: 226. Ja. 25, ’06. 50w.

“As a sample of the better class of sporting literature Mr. Sandys’s
work would be difficult to beat.” R. L.

+ + =Nature.= 73: 149. D. 14, ’05. 390w.

=Sandys, John Edwin.= Harvard lectures on the revival of learning. **$1.50. Macmillan.

“As a book they are pleasing but slight, though there is enough that
is new and interesting to give the reader confidence in the future.”
P. S. A.

+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 200. Ja. ’06. 340w.

=Sangster, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth (Munson).= Fairest girlhood. **$1.50. Revell.

With a heart full of affection for them, Mrs. Sangster has written
once more a book for girls, for all sorts and conditions of girls, and
it contains helpful little talks upon; The new Penelope, The
old-fashioned schoolgirl, A liberal education, Health and beauty, The
dreamy girl, Our restless girls, Love’s dawn, Home-keeping hearts,
Heroines, Days of illness, The motherless girl, Friends and comrades,
Christian service, and kindred subjects.

* * * * *

“Mrs. Sangster is a modern woman, and therefore has a strong sympathy
for the modern girl and a real understanding of her needs and
aspirations as well as of her possible limitations.”

+ =Dial.= 41: 398. D. 1, ’06. 160w.

“While it is throughout sane and practical, every one of its two dozen
short essays is full of the spirit of that aspiration toward ideal
femininity which was always the dominating characteristic of Mrs.
Sangster’s literary work.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 90w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 80w.

“It deals with almost every phase of the life of girls, and is full of
helpful suggestions.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 793. N. 24, ’06. 120w.

=Sangster, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth (Munson).= Radiant motherhood. **$1. Bobbs.

“The book as a whole is rich in matter of vital interest and worth to
home-builders.”

+ + – =Arena.= 35: 106. Ja. ’06. 310w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 808. N. 25, ’05. 130w.

=Sangster, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth (Munson).= Story Bible. **$2. Moffat.

A group of sixty-two stories, forty-eight of which are from the Old
Testament, and fourteen, from the New. They are intended for children
as an introduction to the Bible itself.

* * * * *

“Like all of Mrs. Sangster’s writings, this book for children is
pervaded with the beautiful and gentle spirit of her personality. To
the more modern students of the Bible the book may seem inadequate.
The author has revealed no unusual insight in finding the central
theme of the stories told. Also from the point of view of present
educational thought the book is faulty.” Sophia Lyon Fahs.

+ – =Bib. World.= 28: 349. N. ’06. 300w.

=Critic.= 47: 577. D. ’05. 80w.

+ =Ind.= 59: 1387. D. 14, ’05. 30w.

=Sankey, Ira David.= Sankey’s story of the gospel hymns and of sacred songs and solos. *75c. S. S. times co.

The life story of Mr. Sankey followed by the words and music of four
of his most popular hymns forms the first part of the little volume
while the larger portion “is devoted to brief narratives of the
circumstances occasioning the compositions and the incidents connected
with the use of the very many of the ‘Gospel hymns’ so effective in
Mr. Sankey’s ‘singing the Gospel’ which Mr. Moody preached.”
(Outlook.)

* * * * *

+ =Bib. World.= 27: 480. Je. ’06. 20w.

“The book is of interest.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 289. My. 5, ’06. 250w.

+ =Outlook.= 82: 571. Mr. 10, ’06. 140w.

“The book is packed full of human interest.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 511. Ap. ’06. 150w.

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

“Those who seek an abode for an abundant and varied life will find in
his five volumes plans and elevations, together with many admirable
suggestions for beautiful features or details very suitable for such a
necessarily palatial residence as a developed modern mind requires.”
T. Sturge Moore.

+ + =Acad.= 69: 1313. D. 16, ’05. 650w. (Review of v. 1–5.)

“One cannot take leave of Professor Santayana without grateful
recognition of the excellencies of his style and marvelous lucidity
and untechnical character of his language.”

+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 161. Ja. ’06. 1490w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 128. Ag. 4. 1230w. (Review of v. 5.)

“The volumes on Art and Society are excellent. But his discussion of
Religion calls to mind the theory that no heretic has ever been
condemned for heresy.” George Hodges.

+ + – =Atlan.= 97: 416. Mr. ’06. 320w. (Review of v. 1–5.)

“Few readers will turn from its pages without consciousness of some
mental renovation, without a whetting of some blunted perception.” H.
B. Alexander.

+ + =Bookm.= 22: 527. Ja. ’06. 370w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

=Current Literature.= 40: 411. Ap. ’06. 1450w.

Reviewed by A. K. Rogers.

+ + =Dial.= 40: 87. F. 1, ’06. 2330w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)

“For the combination of fertility, sanity, and keenness of insight in
the criticism of life and human ideals, with a high degree of literary
charm, it would be difficult to point its equal in modern
philosophical literature.”

+ + + =Dial.= 40: 301. My. 1, ’06. 360w. (Review of v. 1–5.)

Reviewed by F. C. S. Schiller.

+ + – =Hibbert J.= 4: 462. Ja. ’06. 1410w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“He has well earned, therefore, the sustained interest which his
readers continue to take in his ideas and in his style from first to
last. And he has succeeded also in conveying a distinct impression of
his individual soul which cannot but charm and instruct even those who
differ widely from his views and dissent from the philosophic
solutions which he favors.” F. C. S. Schiller.

+ + =Hibbert J.= 4: 936. Jl. ’06. 1320w. (Review of v. 3–5.)

+ + + =Ind.= 61: 334. Ag. 9, ’06. 1140w. (Review of v. 1–5.)

“Brilliantly written and stimulating exposition of his philosophy of
life.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 1171. N. 15, ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 1–5.)

“It was to be expected that Professor Santayana’s volume on art would
be authoritative; and in the main this expectation is not
disappointed.” A. W. Moore.

+ + – =J. Philos.= 3: 211. Ap. 12, ’06. 6300w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

“Despite the discordant note of finalism, it still remains that
nowhere has the essentially _vital_ character of reason been more
clearly, forcefully and gracefully stated than in these volumes.
Moreover, the distinctive thing in Professor Santayana’s important
contribution is that this character of reason has been exhibited, not
in formal and dialectic fashion, but by scholarly appeal to the
various continual ‘fields’ of experience.” A. W. Moore.

+ + – =J. Philos.= 3: 469. Ag. 16, ’06. 1060w. (Review of v. 5.)

=Lit. D.= 32: 362. Mr. 10, 06. 950w.

“Its philosophy may be admirable, but it is unintelligible to one not
a trained metaphysician, and its style seems constantly on the verge
of a lucidity which as constantly proves elusive.”

+ – =Nation.= 81: 508. D. 21, ’05. 120w. (Review of v. 4.)