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“His work remains of high interest as a human document, and abounds in
memorable sayings and incitements to quotations.”

+ + – =Nation.= 82: 81. Ja. 25, ’06. 850w. (Review of v. 3.)

“If it fails wholly to please us it must be because we are too weak to
care for the truth, or too lazy to follow it. One can hardly fancy a
work on natural science more clear or more logical.” Bliss Carman.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 45. Ja. 27, ’06. 3870w.

“The fundamental misconceptions that have been noticed in the former
volumes stand out in this. Professor Santayana’s skeptical criticism
of scientific method and progress has the advantage of a charming
literary style.”

+ – =Outlook.= 82: 717. Mr. 24, ’06. 310w. (Review of v. 5.)

“It is a work nobly conceived and adequately executed.” John Dewey.

+ + – =Science=, n.s. 23: 223. F. 9, ’06. 1290w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)

+ – =Yale R.= 15: 338. N. ’06. 170w. (Review of v. 5.)

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

Believing that the training of the body should be placed upon the same
educational basis as the training of the intellect, Dr. Sargent has
published these papers as pioneer efforts toward the realization of
his ideals. The earlier physical condition of the American people is
described, and the urgent necessity for some form of physical training
is shown, then follow chapters which contain “the principle theories
which the author has employed in evolving a comprehensive system of
physical training.” The table of contents includes; Physical education
in colleges, The individual system of physical training, Athletes in
secondary schools, Military drill in the public schools, and Physical
training in the school and college curriculum.

=Satchell, William.= Toll of the bush. $1.50. Macmillan.

“Owes its undeniable charm partly to the skill with which the author
has utilised an unfamiliar and impressive background, and partly to
qualities of sympathy and humour together with breadth and freshness
of view.”

+ =Acad.= 70: 16. Ja. 6, ’06. 380w.

=Saunders, Margaret Baillie-.=Saints in society. †$1.50. Putnam.

The author’s first work accepted by Mr. Fisher Unwin for his “First
novel library.” “A poor young couple become suddenly rich and
experience all the debilitating effects of great wealth and a high
social position in consequence. The husband forsakes the noble ideas
of his younger days and finally dies unhappily. The widow founds a
baby farm, where she lives quietly until it is decent for her to
receive the lover whom she acquired, but held virtuously at bay,
during her husband’s lifetime.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

“Her story is interesting, and it is written with a kind of rough
power, but it does not come within a thousand miles of being
literature, while considered as a picture of modern English life it
appears to us to be frankly farcical.”

– + =Acad.= 69: 1105. O. 21, ’05. 550w.

“Mrs. Baillie-Saunders’s style is much the best thing about her novel.
It is picturesque and clear, and has vivacity.”

– =Ath.= 1905, 2: 642. N. 11. 320w.

“The author may be a little arbitrary—but the book interests and half
convinces.”

+ – =Critic.= 48: 510. Je. ’06. 330w.

“Was intended to be a good book.... But it is simply another case of
people being led into temptation instead of out of it.” Mrs. L. H.
Harris.

– =Ind.= 60: 1043. My. 3, ’06. 280w.

“A well conceived, but far too cursorily executed book.”

– + =Lond. Times.= 4: 350. O. 20, ’05. 450w.

“Here we have one more thesis novel, but despite the numbers of such
this bears itself with a distinction quite its own.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 226. Ap. 7, ’06. 380w.

“The author writes with superficial smartness, but fails to impress
her readers with the reality of her convictions or the artistic
command of her material.”

– =Outlook.= 82: 858. Ap. 14, ’06. 100w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 755. Je. ’06. 300w.

“Her work is an odd mixture of cleverness and absurdity, of
improbability and realism, or knowledge and ignorance.”

– + =Sat. R.= 100: 725. D. 2, ’05. 160w.

“It is to be hoped that if Mrs. Baillie-Saunders continues to write
she will acquire her experience at first hand, and will take rather
more pains in the construction of her story.”

– =Spec.= 96: 63. Ja. 13, ’06. 240w.

=Sauter, Edwin.= Faithless favorite, a mixed tragedy. Edwin Sauter, 1331 N. 7th St., St. Louis.

A play founded on old Saxon chronicles in which such historical
personages as King Edgar, Athelstane, Athelwold, Elfrida and Dunstan
figure. “It contains a deal of frank language and some bitterness.”
(N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 898. D. 16, ’05. 70w.

=Savage, Charles Woodcock.= Lady in waiting; being extracts from the diary of Julie de Chesnil, sometime lady in waiting to her majesty Queen Marie Antoinette. †$1.50. Appleton.

“The romance of a little French countess in the court of Marie
Antoinette.... Escaping ‘paying the debt’ that all her family paid
with their lives, the lady fled to America, where she won the
republican court at Washington as she had the aristocratic court of
France. We are gratified to know that her sweetness and beauty were
rewarded by happy love and a home in her own country at
last.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“Much familiar historical material is worked into the plot, but the
style is good.”

+ =Critic.= 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 70w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 322. My. 19, ’06. 480w.

“Is interesting, though not novel either in plot or style.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 717. Mr. 24, ’06. 90w.

=Savage, Minot Judson.= America to England, and other poems. **$1.35. Putnam.

“There are some notably good poems in the new volume.”

+ + =Reader.= 7: 563. Ap. ’06. 260w.

=Savage, Minot Judson.= Life’s dark problems; or, Is this a good world? **$1.35 Putnam.

“A distinct and powerful spiritual impulse is inevitable to the
Christian who will read these luminous pages.” Edward Braislin.

+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 571. Jl. ’06. 230w.

“The title of his book and the subjects considered suggest help and
comfort to the sorrowful and perplexed: but if that be the author’s
purpose, he has marred his work by slashing doctrinal controversy.”

+ – =Ind.= 59: 1541. D. 28. ’05. 190w.

=Scarritt, Winthrop Eugene.= Three men in a motor car. **$1.25. Dutton.

Mr. Scarritt, a former president of the Automobile club of America,
tells the story of a tour which three enthusiastic automobilists made
first thru England, thence to Paris, next to Lucerne by way of Basle,
Switzerland, to Geneva, and back to Paris thru Aix-les-Bains. The
illustrations show roads that an American only dreams of—the
too-good-to-be-true variety.

* * * * *

“The intrinsic value of the book lies in the specific information that
he gives to other automobilists as to how to ‘do’ Europe in a motor
car.” H. E. Coblentz.

+ =Dial.= 40: 363. Je. 1, ’06. 320w.

+ =Ind.= 60: 1379. Je. 7, ’06. 60w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.

+ =Outlook.= 83: 336. Je. 9, ’06. 60w.

“Will be most thoroughly appreciated and enjoyed by traveled
Americans.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 90w.

=Schafer, Joseph.= History of the Pacific northwest. **$1.25. Macmillan.

“Except for this neglect of the national point of view, Professor
Schafer’s book could scarcely be improved.” F. H. Hodder.

+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 949. Jl. ’06. 480w.

“The author’s tone and treatment are admirable, and we can highly
commend this most lucid history of the Pacific North-West.”

+ + =Spec.= 96: sup. 123. Ja. 27, ’06. 260w.

=Schauffler, Robert Haven.= Where speech ends. $1.50. Moffat.

In this music makers’ romance “all the persons concerned are members
of the great Herr Wolfgang’s symphony orchestra.... Franz, who is
introduced as a boy violinist, sick with desire to be a real boy
instead of a musical prodigy, grows up to be a very noble and serious
sort of a genius. The other boy, who had the passion for the flute,
also grows up, to play Jonathan to Franz’s David. And there is a girl.
The girl plays the harp and writes poems, and she is very lovely and
very good.... The other leading characters are a first violin, who is
a villain, and the conductor, the famous Herr Wolfgang. The remainder
of the orchestra is cast for comic parts.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“Nor can it honestly be said that Mr. Schauffler has given us a very
satisfactory analysis of the musical temperament.”

– =Critic.= 49: 93. Jl. ’06. 120w.

“The story is essentially one of incidents, loosely strung together,
charming in their freshness, and intimate in their revelation of the
musician’s everyday life. It makes reading of an altogether wholesome
and delightful sort.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 41: 242. O. 6, ’06. 480w.

“It has an unhackneyed theme ... worked out in a convincing, if
unskilful, way, and it tells an exceedingly pretty love story.”

– + =Lit. D.= 33: 138. Ag. 4, ’06. 100w.

“There is no story except in a mechanical sense. The author is like
his own young flutist—more absorbed than inspired.”

– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 358. Je. 2, ’06. 430w.

“A book not to be read very critically; its shortcomings are too
obvious.”

– =Outlook.= 83: 818. Ag. 4, ’06. 130w.

=Scherer, James Augustine Brown.= Holy Grail. **$1.25. Lippincott.

“The Holy Grail” is the “binding theme that unites this sheaf of
essays and addresses.” The first bears the title subject; the two
following sketch the work of Henry Timrod and Sidney Lanier
respectively, than whom “no men since the days of Galahad and
Percivale have more utterly lost themselves in the knightly quest;”
and the last three essays are “The crusaders,” “Liberty and law” and
“The century in literature.”

* * * * *

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 354. Je. 2, ’06. 530w.

=Putnam’s.= 1: 253. N. ’06. 110w.

=Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio.= Astronomy in the Old Testament. *$1.15. Oxford.

A scientific treatment of the scattered astronomical data of the Old
Testament by the director of the Brere observatory in Milan. “The
introduction discusses Israel’s learned men and its so-called
scientific knowledge; and its general view of the physical world as
seen in the book of Job. The firmament, the earth, and the abysses are
sketched in a figure, which seems to represent as nearly as can be
done, the Hebrew idea of the world. Indeed, it greatly aids the reader
in understanding many hitherto obscure passages regarding the abyss,
the depths of sheol, etc. With a master’s skill he treats stars and
constellations—dependent, however, in many places on the results of
Hebrew scholars for his word-meanings. The days, months, and the year
of the Jewish calendar are particularly instructive after his
discussion. While he recognizes some value in the Babylonian
astronomical data, he is distinctly conservative in his use of them.”
(Am. J. Theol.)

* * * * *

“We are disappointed to find that the Clarendon press should allow a
book of such intrinsic value to leave its presses without an index of
subjects and scripture texts. Such omission discounts its value in
these times.” Ira Maurice Price and John M. P. Smith.

+ – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 326. Ap. ’06. 210w.

“It is impossible to read this interesting little work without
admiring the wealth of learning with which the author has discussed
astronomical and chronological allusions in the Old Testament; and.
for the reasons given above, the English edition will be of value even
to those who have read the Italian.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 650. N. 11. 260w.

“Has been turned into very good English. The book with all its
discursiveness or rather by reason of it, is quite entertaining.”

+ =Nation.= 82: 246. Mr. 22, ’06. 1160w.

“All is most interestingly expressed, and the archæological and
historical references are most valuable.”

+ + – =Nature.= 74: 410. Ag. 23, ’06. 410w.

“Dr. Schiaparelli’s little book has been excellently translated, and
is likely to be accepted as the final authority on questions relating
to Hebrew astronomy.”

+ + =Spec.= 97: 23. Jl. 7, ’06. 470w.

=Schillings, C. G.= Flashlights in the jungle; tr. by F: Whyte from the Germ. with co-operation of the author. **$3.80. Doubleday.

Same; with title With flashlight and rifle; photographing by flashlight at night the wild animal world of equatorial Africa; tr. and abridged from the Germ. by Henry Zick. **$2. Harper.

A naturalist’s reproduction of the intimate life of animals “which no
human eye had ever before witnessed.” “The lion, elephant, giraffe,
rhinoceros, hippopotamus, zebra, and hyena, monkeys, antelope,
jackals, leopards, and many kinds of birds are the subjects. All of
them Mr. Schillings has hunted, photographed, studied, and killed,
often at the greatest risk.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 476. Ap. 21. 460w.

“His pluck, endurance, sincerity and enthusiasm are as real as his
pictures.”

+ + =Critic.= 48: 383. Ap. ’06. 350w.

“It is probably no exaggeration to say that this is the most
remarkable book of wild animal photography that has ever been printed,
but there our praise is inclined to stop. We can commend the laborious
efforts of Mr. Schillings in gathering his elaborate scientific data,
but we can hardly praise his narrative or descriptive skill.” H. E.
Coblentz.

+ + – =Dial.= 40: 232. Ap. 1, ’06. 780w.

“The translation [by F: Whyte] is a good one and appears to follow the
text closely. It is a portrait gallery of wild life for Africa, such
as is Wallihan’s ‘Camera shots at big game’ for the Rocky mountains.”

+ + =Ind.= 60: 221. Ja. 25, ’06. 720w.

=Ind.= 61: 1172. N. 15, ’06. 16w.

“The book ... is not a unified whole so much as a series of detached
monographs in which a great deal too much is taken for granted. The
work has obviously suffered in translation.”

+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 733. My. 12, ’06. 760w.

“His observations of their habits, full of careful insight as they
are, add a large number of substantial stones to the cairn of human
knowledge.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 36. F. 2, ’06. 520w.

“The finest series of reproduction of photographs from life of the
various animals encountered which have ever been produced.”

+ + =Nation.= 82: 183. Mr. 1, ’06. 1660w.

“Neither he nor his translator, Frederick Whyte, excels in narrative
or descriptive skill. The work ... is packed with information and
suggestion.”

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 31. Ja. 20, ’06. 1300w.

“The volume contains what is probably the most remarkable series of
photographs ever made of wild animals in their native haunts.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 717. N. 25, ’05. 80w.

“Aside from his photographs, Herr Schillings’s book is a valuable
account of exploration and of hunting big game; it is a sturdy
narrative, the dramatic value of which one does not have to be a
hunter to appreciate.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 602. N. 4, ’05. 140w.

“The translation seems to be well done, and the text is extremely
interesting from end to end.” Francis H. Herrick.

+ + =Science=, n.s. 23: 540. Ap. 6, ’06. 2480w.

“His book is a real contribution to our knowledge of wild beasts.”

+ + – =Spec.= 96: 343. Mr. 3, ’06. 900w.

=Schmidt, Ferdinand.= Gudran, tr. from the German by George P. Upton. *60c. McClurg.

Uniform with the other volumes of the “Life stories for young people”
series, this old German epic, which traces its origin to the
thirteenth century, is put into a simple prose form which brings the
romance of Gudran the courageous maiden of long ago, within the reach
of the less venturesome little maids of today.

=Schmidt, Ferdinand.= Nibelungs, tr. from the German by George P. Upton. *60c. McClurg.

The translator has used the old form of English expression in this
version of the Nibelungen Lied which gives it a quaintness in keeping
with the story of Siedfried, Kriemhild, Brunhild, Hagen and the rest.
The story has been slightly softened and some parts have been omitted
to make it conform in both size and style to the other volumes of the
“Life stories for young people” series.

=Schmidt, Nathaniel.= Prophet of Nazareth. **$2.50. Macmillan.

“It is Professor Schmidt’s aim in these chapters to show how the
creeds pictured Christ, how the mind of the modern world has moved
away from these dogmatic positions, that there was no Old Testament
anticipation of the appearance of such a person as Jesus of Nazareth,
that the term ‘Son of Man’ was not a Messianic title, that Jesus never
claimed to be the Messiah ... that his life as it can be reconstructed
was noble and simple, that his teaching was characterized by marvelous
insight into ethical and religious conditions and equally marvelous
ability to point to a sure remedy for many individual and social ills,
that ... the influence of Jesus has been the mightiest force for good
during all these centuries, that in our present problems with all
their variety and perplexity we need the leadership of Jesus.”—Int. J.
Ethics.

* * * * *

“Scholars may say that Schmidt leaves his proper subject in order to
deliver a sermon on modern life. But many a one, on whom lies heavy
the weight of the problems of the present age, will be grateful to him
for his burning words, and will feel that not for nothing has the
author sat so long at the feet of the prophet of Nazareth and heard
His word.” R. T. Herford.

+ – =Hibbert J.= 5: 221. O. ’06. 2020w.

“No American scholar has made a greater contribution to the
understanding of the creative days of the Christian religion.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 1165. N. 15, ’06. 110w.

“Broad and accurate as the scholarship is in the main, and much as one
admires the mastery which it displays, of many and varied fields of
learning, it nevertheless goes astray at the most crucial point, the
analysis and exegesis of the Synoptic Gospels.” George A. Barton.

+ – =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 110. O. ’06. 5400w.

+ – =Spec.= 97: 87. Jl. 21, ’06. 2020w.

=Schnabel, Clark.= Handbook of metallurgy, tr. by Henry Louis. 2v. *$6.50. Macmillan.

“It is the best book of its kind, and that is the best that can be
said of it.”

+ + + =Nation.= 82: 11. Ja. 4, ’06. 440w. (Review of v. 1.)

“The translation, as well as the original, bears the impress of
authority and direct knowledge.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 500. Ap. 21, ’06. 300w. (Review of v. 1.)

“As a whole, the book is reliable. The material is sufficiently
comprehensive to give a thorough review of present metallurgical
practices and the history of their development from early times.”
Joseph Struthers.

+ + =Science=, n.s. 23: 66. Ja. 12, ’06. 610w. (Review of v. 1.)

=Schoonmaker, Edwin Davies.= Saxons: a drama of Christianity in the North. $1.50. Hammersmark.

“‘The Saxons’ is one of the best reading dramas that has appeared in
years. The thought is elevated and it is presented with the dignity
that such a theme requires.”

+ + =Arena.= 35: 555. My. ’06. 580w.

=Schouler, James.= Americans of 1776. **$2. Dodd.

“‘An original study of life and manners, social, industrial, and
political, for the revolutionary period.’ It comprises in substance
occasional lectures given at Johns Hopkins university during the years
1901–1905.”—Am. Hist. R.

* * * * *

=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 746. Ap. ’06. 40w.

“The author of a standard history of the United States has here
supplemented his larger canvases with what one might be tempted to
call literary picture postals of colonial scenes.” Woodbridge Riley.

+ =Bookm.= 23: 627. Ag. ’06. 1260w.

“Other writers have in recent times attempted with varying success to
give us glimpses of the environment of our forefathers,—their homes,
their furniture, and their customs; but no one has approached the task
with the scholarly experience of Mr. Schouler.”

+ + =Dial.= 40: 299. My. 1, ’06. 500w.

“Not deterred by the ‘dignity of history,’ the author has seized the
straws floating upon the currents of colonial life and arranged them
in an entertaining way.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 221. Jl. 26, ’06. 450w.

“A most entertaining and distinctly valuable volume. Hardly a detail
escapes his eager scrutiny.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 770. My. 19, ’06. 720w.

“The author, indeed, makes no claim to originality of treatment, and
if there is from first to last no observations of a profound or
illuminating character, we have observed few misleading or erroneous
statements.”

+ + =Nation.= 82: 347. Ap. 26. ’06. 340w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 319. My. 19, ’06. 110w.

“A novel monograph which should find a place in the working library of
every student of American history and a wide circulation among the
educated public generally.”

+ + =Outlook.= 83: 904. Ag. 16, ’06. 1040w.

=Schuen, Rev. Joseph.= Outlines of sermons for young men and young women; ed. by Rev. Edmund J. Werth. *$2. Benziger.

“Building materials,” “simple sketches,” “outlines,” are the author’s
words for a series of chapters which he hopes will help the preacher
to build finished addresses for young men and women in Roman Catholic
leagues and sodalities. The young man’s aim, and amusements, the path
of iniquity, drunkenness, impurity, The Christian young woman’s crown,
the virtue of modesty, wolves in sheep’s clothing and kindred subjects
are treated.

=Schultz, Hermann.= Outlines of Christian apologetics for use in lectures: tr. from 2d enl. ed. by Alfred Bull Nichols. **$1.75. Macmillan.

=Am. J. Theol.= 10: 372. Ap. ’06. 280w.

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 696. Je. 9. 640w.

=Schupp, Ottokar.= William of Orange, tr. from the German by George P. Upton. *60c. McClurg.

This volume in the “Life stories for young people” series, furnishes
an elevating study for youth in the life of William the Silent and the
noble part he played in the history of the Netherlands. The whole
story of cruelty and bloodshed is given in a such way that the moral
is not lost.

=Schuyler, Livingston Rowe.= Liberty of the press in American colonies before the revolutionary war; with particular reference to conditions in the royal colony of New York. **$1. Whittaker.

“The very first amendment adopted for the Constitution of the United
States was that which forbids congress making any law abridging the
freedom of speech or of the press. What existed in this country before
that time in regard to the freedom of the press is told in a most
interesting and curious way in this monograph. The several chapters
take up the question as it existed in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and
the Southern colonies, while the conclusions reached in the final
chapter show that at the close of the period under discussion there
was really no liberty of the press as we now understand the
term.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“Authorities in print have mainly been consulted; dates are lacking in
places where they ought to appear, and where they could have been
given with a little further research; and the index is inadequate.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 267. S. 27, ’06. 520w.

+ =Outlook.= 82: 763. Mr. 31, ’06. 180w.

=Schuyler, William.= Under Pontius Pilate. †$1.50. Funk.

With a setting true to historical fact, and in the spirit of reverence
the author has traced the important events of the closing years of
Jesus’ mission. The story is in the form of letters written by a
nephew of Pontius Pilate to a friend in Athens. There are near-by
views of the disciples, of Mary Magdalene, of people whom Jesus
healed, of the Roman officials and of the mob. The book has the
atmosphere of dramatic intensity thruout.

* * * * *

“Aside from the intrinsic value of the narrative ... the interest of
the book lies in its unusual point of view and in the vraisemblance
which the author has contrived to impart to a contemporary account of
the momentous epoch.”

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 646. N. 3, ’06. 300w.

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 90w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 120w.

=Schwartz, Julia Augusta.= Elinor’s college career. †$1.50. Little.

The girl who came to college for fun, the one who was sent, the
daughter of wealth who came for the sake of atmosphere, and the
“shabby girl” whom the other three call a genius are roommates and
chums during their four years at college—presumably Vassar. Their
frolics and study make anything but tame pastime for the young reader
bent upon wholesome entertainment.

* * * * *

+ =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 20w.

“There is very little of the story element in the book, but the author
is skillful and vivid in her portrayal of student life and of the
characters of the young women, and the young girls who are looking
forward to a college career will find the book very readable.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 760. O. 27, ’06. 100w.

=Scollard, Clinton.= Odes and elegies. *$1.35. G. W. Browning, Clinton, N. Y.

“His rhythms are raised above mediocrity only by their almost unvaried
pomp. His style is in keeping; it is lacking in precision as much as
in restraint.”

– =Acad.= 70: 59. Ja. 20, ’06. 480w.

=Scott, Duncan Campbell.= New world lyrics and ballads. 60c. Morang.

“Mr. Scott has taken imaginative possession of the cool, pinegrown,
history-haunted Canadian country, and has sung of it in spare athletic
verse. His poetic background is not of the broadest, his ‘criticism of
life’ not perhaps of the deepest, but he rarely fails to give his
reader that delicious shock of surprise of strange and vivid beauty
that is the final test of Poetry as distinguished from
poetry.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“Includes several pieces in somewhat ruder measures than are
acceptable to a sensitive ear, but contains also a few poems as good
as any that the author has previously published.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ – =Dial.= 40: 127. F. 16, ’06. 370w.

“Are pieces of a keen poetic tang.”

+ =Nation.= 82: 326. Ap. 19, ’06. 80w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 100w.

=Scott, Eva.= King in exile: the wanderings of Charles II. from June, 1646 to July, 1654. *$3.50. Dutton.

“A thoroughly workmanlike piece of writing.” V.

+ + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 828. O. ’06. 150w.

=Scott, John Reed.= Colonel of the Red huzzars. †$1.50. Lippincott.

The mythical kingdom of Valeria becomes very real to the reader who
follows the fortunes of the young American army officer who becomes a
grand duke and a suitor for the hand of his new found cousin, the
beautiful princess royal. The story is full of love and intrigue, of
court life, masques and duels and one meets a king, a villain, an
adventuress, a dashing prince, a very human princess and many other
people both brave and clever in the course of the well devised plot.

* * * * *

“While the book is not without exaggeration and incongruity it at
least keeps above the level of the ‘opera bouffe.’” Frederic Taber
Cooper.

– + =Bookm.= 24: 51. S. ’06. 510w.

“The story is a capital one of its kind.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 41: 116. S. 1, ’06. 310w.

=Lit. D.= 33: 284. S. 1, ’06. 240w.

“Those with a taste for love, sword, and mystery in liberal mixture
will find this volume a pleasant toothful.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.

=Scott, Robert H.= Voyage of the Discovery. 2v. **$10. Scribner.

“Captain Scott’s account of the voyage of the ‘Discovery’ is the most
important narrative of adventure and investigation in the Antarctic
regions that has been produced in the last half century.” Albert White
Vorse.

+ + =Bookm.= 23: 292. My. ’06. 1780w.

“Despite blemishes, this story of effort will long endure as a
standard of high endeavor and heroic accomplishment.” General A. W.
Greely.

+ + – =Ind.= 60: 33. Ja. 4, ’06. 2590w.

“An intensely interesting story of the adventures of his party.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 140. Ja. 27, ’06. 1110w.

“The narrative of Captain Scott easily takes rank among the foremost
books of travel and discovery which a half-century has brought out,
and it will be read with the same pleasure that both old and young
like to associate with the reading of Livingstone and Kane.”

+ + + =Nation.= 82: 13. Ja. 4, ’06. 1710w.

“Is a most valuable contribution to the knowledge of what will
probably always be one of the most interesting parts of the Antarctic
continent. It is written in a charmingly easy and fluent style; the
narrative is modest and frank: and the story is always pleasant
reading.” J. W. Gregory.

+ + =Nature.= 73: 297. Ja. 25, ’06. 2610w.

“Probably the most complete account of the antarctic regions ever
published in English.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 125. Ja. ’06. 100w.

=Scott, Sir Walter.= Complete poetical works; with introd. by Charles Eliot Norton. $1.25. Crowell.

Uniform with the “Thin paper poets,” this pocket edition of Scott
contains besides the complete text full editorial helps.

=Seaman, Louis Livingston.= Real triumph of Japan; conquest of the silent foe. **$1.50. Appleton.

“Major Seaman expatiates further in this volume upon the same theme
exploited by him in his former account of his experiences with the
Japanese army—the success of the Japanese officials in preventing and
curing disease. The reasons for this remarkable record are the simple,
non-irritating food of the Japanese soldier, the obedience to orders
of the surgeons invariably displayed, and the thorough preparation and
constant vigilance of those in charge of the health of the army. Major
Seaman considers this a greater victory than that won on the field of
battle, and makes an earnest plea for similar measures in the American
army.”—Critic.

* * * * *

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 703. Je. 9. 360w.

“The book is deserving of more careful consideration than ‘From Tokio
through Manchuria with the Japanese,’ as it enlarges upon the reasons
for the statements made in that readable volume.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 480. My. ’06. 140w.

“The American patriot, the soldier in the ranks and his relative at
home, as well as the book-critic, can gladly commend this well-written
work and be thankful for it. It is a trumpet-blast of prophecy.”
William Elliot Griffis.

+ + =Dial.= 40: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 1130w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 132. Mr. 3, ’06. 650w.

“Is perhaps a rather more seasoned and mature judgment than the other
books.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 507. Ap. ’06. 150w.

“Dr. Seaman’s book is worth reading from end to end.”

+ =Spec.= 96: sup. 1017. Je. 30, ’06. 330w.

=Seawell, Molly Elliot.= Chateau of Montplaisir: 4 full-page il. by Gordon Grant. †$1.25. Appleton.

A poor Frenchman, Louis Victor de Latour inherits with no income the
dilapidated Chateau of Montplaisir. He is the object of interest to
one Victor Louis de Latour, a soap-boiler who offers 300,000 francs
for the privilege of sharing the glory of the name and placing the
family crest on his carriage. Among the gay group who are responsible
for a series of surprising situations is “the antique Comtesse de
Beauregard, with a predilection for youthful habiliments and
abhorrence for piety in men.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“This trivial tale is quite unworthy of the author of ‘Children of
destiny.’”

– =Critic.= 48: 574. Je. ’06. 80w.

“It is sparkling with humor and is full of amusing situations.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 255. Ap. 21, ’06. 190w.

“Pure merriment, absurd combinations, delicious impertinence, sparkle
throughout these pages.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 1004. Ap. 26, ’06. 90w.

=Seawell, Molly Elliot.= Loves of the Lady Arabella. †$1.50. Bobbs.

A midshipman upon one of his English majesty’s ships of the line who
takes part in a successful engagement with the French and thereby wins
promotion, tells the story of the beautiful Lady Arabella, ward of his
uncle Sir Philip Hawkshaw, whom he at first loves and then comes to
despise. A joy to the eye, Lady Arabella is a menace to the morals. A
lover of cards and a trifler with men, she throws her heart at the
feet of a man who will not have it, and all but swears away the life
of an impetuous youth whose love she has spurned and who tried to
elope with her, then later, to spite them both, she marries the head
of their house and thru her first-born succeeds in cutting them both
off from a fortune. Other characters, however, share the honors with
Arabella and there is a truly true love story which is not hers.

=Seawell, Molly Elliot.= The victory. †$1.50. Appleton.

“The scenes of the story are laid at the time of the Civil war. The
adopted daughter of a Virginia family is married to a son of the
house, who goes over to the union lines. She is very young and does
not know what real love is, although her husband adores her. While he
is away fighting, a French family moves into the neighborhood, and
their son and the girl learn to love each other. Both, however,
respect her marriage vows, and neither tells the other of the
attachment. The girl’s husband is killed in battle.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“While there is nothing particularly original in theme or style, the
story is well told and the characters are lifelike and interesting.”

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 686. N. 10, ’06. 160w.

“There is no fault to find with the real ‘atmosphere’ that Mrs.
Seawell succeeds in diffusing through her story or in the pictures
which she draws, one after another ... but the love story of the book
strikes us as of a very inferior and unattractive quality.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 700. O. 27, ’06. 650w.

“The book is full of humorous touches.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 797. D. 1, ’06. 190w.

“Makes a strong appeal to the lover of a good tale.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 683. N. 17, ’06. 160w.

Secret life: being the book of a heretic. **$1.50. Lane.

“In every life, says the author of this volume, there is some secret
garden where one ‘unbinds the girdle of conventions and breathes to a
sympathetic listener opinions one would repudiate on the house tops.’
Lacking a proper sympathetic soul a diary might serve. Upon this
theory the book is constructed. It is in the form of a diary, and
actually consists of a number of short essays on a number of subjects
such as The modern woman and marriage, The ideal husband, Amateur
saints, The fourth dimension, The beauty of cruelty, Are American
parents selfish? The pleasures of pessimism, The value of a soul
etc.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“Ostensibly, it is a diary in which a married woman, of middle age,
moving in a cultivated circle of American society, sets down the wild,
original, heretical ideas which she has elaborated during her travels
in Europe. Actually, it is a story of the spiritual adventures of a
commonplace mind of a chameleon nature vagrant among unrealised worlds
of thought.”

– =Acad.= 71: 394. O. 20, ’06. 1020w.

“However much we may differ from her expressions of opinion, their
frankness and sincerity combined with the author’s genuine culture and
love for literature and art in all forms make them worth reading.”

+ =Critic.= 49: 90. Jl. ’06. 140w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 180w.

Reviewed by Elizabeth Banks.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 420. Je. 30, ’06. 1630w.

“The excellent style, quaint humor, and shrewd philosophy certainly
deserve to have their author known.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 384. S. ’06. 50w.

=Sedgwick, Anne Douglas.= Shadow of life. †$1.50. Century.

If indeed it is in the shadow of things that this story pursues its
way, it is such a shadow as Ruskin attributes to disappointment, the
Titian twilight in which one sees the “real color of things with
deeper truth than in the most dazzling sunshine.” Gavin and Eppie are
two lonely children, hungering for happiness, who during a brief
summer in a Scottish country home exchange their weird confidences.
During sixteen years, Gavin is absent, then returns to find Eppie a
splendid young woman of such strength, sweetness and daring that she
seemed a “Flying victory” done by Velasquez. The romance that is
quickened to the point of vows is blighted by temperamental
differences. Gavin forces Eppie who loved life and battle to see that
he would suffocate her, that he was the negation of everything that
she believed in. The tragedy is one of helplessness.

* * * * *

“The book is an achievement, and an achievement on a high and unusual
plane.”

+ + =Acad.= 70: 454. My. 12, ’06. 310w.

“Even more compelling in its hold over the imagination of the reader
and in its searching analysis of the hidden springs of human action
than her previous work.” Amy C. Rich.

+ =Arena.= 36: 106. Jl. ’06. 200w.

“Withal, the thing has been done really well.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 417. Ap. 7, 260w.

“Has written ‘an impossible love-story’ with immense skill, delicacy
and grace.”

+ – =Critic.= 48: 464. My. ’06. 550w.

“The story is interesting, the scenery is charming, and the author
leads her characters thru it according to her despair, a despair which
she spreads over the reader’s mind with astonishing wisdom of words.”
Mrs. L. H. Harris.

+ – =Ind.= 60: 1041. My. 3, ’06. 650w.

“The author has employed a seductive, pseudo-mystical manner of
expression and made a deliberate effort to destroy every reason for
the hopes and affections which fill life with interest.”

– =Ind.= 61: 1159. N. 15, ’06. 30w.

“Mrs. Sedgwick works on a high plane, and many who care little for the
metaphysics of the book will value it for its graces of style and
grasp of character.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 104. Mr. 23, ’06. 420w.

“It is a book of great power and significance. The author’s grasp of
her material and her instinct for what is vital have kept her
characters thoroughly alive—even Gavin, in spite of himself—but the
novel would have gained in every way had not the drama been so often
obscured under the study of a soul.”

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 178. Mr. 24, ’06. 1490w.

Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

+ – =North American.= 182: 929. Je. ’06. 220w.

+ =Outlook.= 82: 757. Mr. 31, ’06. 460w.

+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 378. Mr. 24, ’06. 390w.

“Is unreal and unconvincing”

– =Spec.= 96: 624. Ap. 21, ’06. 280w.

=Sedgwick, Henry Dwight, jr.= Short history of Italy. **$2. Houghton.

A short history of Italy which covers a wide range of years—from 476
to the end of the nineteenth century. It “makes no pretense to
original investigation,” but aims to give a bird’s-eye view of Italian
history as a whole.

* * * * *

“Mere differences of view as to relative emphasis will keep no
fair-minded person from doing full justice to the author’s grasp, his
sober judgment, and his charm of manner.” Ferdinand Schwill.

+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 877. Jl. ’06. 740w.

“He shows good judgment in selecting the points of greatest interest,
and putting the emphasis there.” J. W. Moncrief.

+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 348. Ap. ’06. 260w.

“Mr. Sedgwick has done an exceedingly difficult thing better than it
was ever done—in English, at least—before, and about as well, one may
venture to affirm, as it ever can be done.”

+ + + =Atlan.= 97: 554. Ap. ’06. 490w.

“For the reading public rather than the scholarly world, the volume
combines brevity, conciseness and a grasp of essentials with accuracy
of fact and a pleasing narrative style.”

+ + – =Bookm.= 22: 645. F. ’06. 240w.

“It is hard to determine for what class of readers this book was
written.”

+ – =Critic.= 48: 382. Ap. ’06. 80w.

“It is not childish enough for children, it does not show sufficient
research to give it value to the student, and is far too casual in its
descriptions of many events ... to be useful to persons of little
knowledge, but much desire to learn history.”

– =Critic.= 49: 284. S. ’06. 70w.

“He has a good sense of proportion, and good ideas of historical
perspective; he writes in a vivid style, and possesses a keen sense of
humor which contributes not a little to the entertaining quality of
his book.”

+ + =Dial.= 40: 156. Mr. 1, ’06. 140w.

“Nevertheless, after making all necessary deductions, we conclude by
recommending the book to the public for which it was written. It has
no competitors in English.”

+ + – =Ind.= 60: 166. Ja. 18, ’06. 820w.

+ + – =Ind.= 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 20w.

“It is a mine of condensed information, imparted brilliantly and
trenchantly, and abounds in philosophic generalizations which at once
visualize and explain.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 171. F. 3, ’06. 380w.

“Mr. Sedgwick has little to fear from the abstract of Sismond’s
‘Italian republics’ (1832). good but antiquated, or from the Rev.
William Hunt’s ‘History of Italy’ (1875), a dry textbook.”

+ + – =Nation.= 82: 391. My. 10, ’06. 740w.

“It is a lively and interesting narrative that he has written.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 794. N. 25, ’05. 780w.

“The present volume has suffered from the necessity of
over-condensation.”

+ – =Outlook.= 81: 942. D. 16, ’05. 130w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 90w.

+ – =Spec.= 96: 589. Ap. 14, ’06. 110w.

=Seeley, Levi.= Elementary pedagogy. *$1.25. Hinds.

“The main purpose of the school is to furnish instruction,” says Dr.
Seeley, and he gives valuable information and advice to young teachers
along the lines of elementary processes.

* * * * *

“Adds one more to the list of educational works, already too numerous,
which are chiefly compendiums of the ideas of others with a modicum of
the writer’s own thought. In plan of organisation and continuity of
development, the book is distinctly weak.”

– – + =Bookm.= 24: 296. N. ’06. 160w.

“Dr. Seeley’s ideas are always sane and practical, and no one need
hesitate to follow him, always of course with intelligent choice and
adaptation.”

+ – =Dial.= 41: 90. Ag. 16, ’06. 470w.

“Dr. Seeley writes for young teachers what every parent may read with
profit. It is a well-digested manual of practical wisdom, well
assorted and packed.”

+ + =Outlook.= 83: 526. Je. 30, ’06. 180w.

=Seligman, Edwin Robert Anderson.= Principles of economics; with special reference to American conditions. *$2.25. Longmans.

Professor Seligman’s work is divided into four parts: Introduction;
Elements of economic life; Structure and process of economic life;
Conclusion.

* * * * *

“The author, like Adam Smith, possesses a cosmopolitan mind which
enables him in many cases to present more than one view and
explanation of the same matter. This cosmopolitan spirit which runs
through the work will commend it to a larger circle of readers. The
book deserves and will no doubt receive a wide circulation as a
supplementary college text.” Enoch Marvin Banks.

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 256. Ja. ’06. 1220w.

“The generic adverse criticism to be passed on the book is that the
author has not succeeded in dominating the almost perplexing variety
and richness of the material on which he has drawn.” Winthrop More
Daniels.

+ – =Atlan.= 97: 850. Je. ’06. 690w.

“So great are the solid merits of the new book, however, that there
can be no doubt of its ultimate success and wide adoption. Professor
Seligman’s clearness and conciseness of style has enabled him to
handle his great store of materials with conspicuous success.” R. C.
V.

+ + =Bookm.= 22: 531. Ja. ’06. 530w.

“After all this litigiousness of disposition on the part of the
reviewer—this overzeal in the discovery of material for dispute—it is
equally a pleasure and a duty to express hearty commendation and
cordial appreciation of this new treatise in its quiet, scholarly,
effortless dignity and grace of style, its surpassing felicity of
statement, its clarity and effectiveness of exposition, and, above
all, its winning catholicity of temper and sympathy.” H. J. Davenport.

+ + – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 143. Mr. ’06. 13420w.

“With all its merits, therefore, professor Seligman’s ‘Principles’
has, upon its theoretical side, serious shortcomings. As a book of
reference it should prove highly valuable—more so, in fact, than any
other recent work.”

+ + – =Nation.= 82: 390. My. 10, ’06. 1210w.

“His style is remarkably clear, easy, logical, and candid.” Edward
Cary.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 1. Ja. 6, ’06. 1040w.

“We commend this volume heartily to any thoughtful layman who desires
to get from a responsible authority some grounding in the essential
principles of industrial laws.”

+ + =Outlook.= 82: 274. F. 3, ’06. 300w.

“There are passages in Professor Seligman’s book where either the
reasoning is at fault or else the exposition so brief that it is
impossible to make out just what the reasoning is. Sometimes, too,
there is positive carelessness. The book is an encyclopedic plan, and,
as a textbook, suffers from covering so much ground.” Frank W:
Taussig.

+ – =Quarterly Journal of Economics.= 20: 622. Ag. ’06. 4100w.

“This book is interesting both as a restatement of economic theory,
and particularly as an exposition of actual conditions in this
country.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 124. Ja. ’06. 90w.

“A thorough, well-balanced treatment of the subject which he handles.”
G. W. Flux.

+ + – =Yale R.= 15: 93. My. ’06. 840w.

=Selincourt, Basil de.= Giotto. *$2. Scribner.

“Surveys the painter’s works with thoroughgoing system, and it is
rational in criticism.” Royal Cortissoz.

+ =Atlan.= 97: 280. F. ’06. 70w.

“His arguments are not always the soundest, nor is his criticism as
discriminating as it might be. Moreover, his treatment of the whole
subject lacks thoroughness. Should prove of much value to beginners in
the study of art, and may serve them better than would many a more
scientific but less enthusiastic work.”

+ – =Dial.= 40: 158. Mr. 1, ’06. 400w.

=Selkirk, Emily.= Stigma. †$1.50. Turner, H. B.

A Southern girl teaching in Arkansas and the Southern principal of the
school appear on the stage of this drama as champions of the negro
race. One of the chief actors is a mulatto girl whose “stigma” of
blood makes life unbearable, so she ends it. “Equal educational and
political advantages for black and white are urged, and from the text
furnished in ‘a crimson-backed novel by a Baptist preacher’ the
unequal standards obtaining in the South and all over the country are
strongly arraigned. There is unquestioned truth in the representation,
and it may be well to meet an appeal to public opinion in fiction by
fiction.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

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

“The story is extremely painful, and as a story is simple almost to
baldness.”

– =Outlook.= 83: 287. Je. 2, ’06. 100w.

“Miss Selkirk states one side of the question but ignores the other.”

– =Putnam’s.= 1: 127. O. ’06. 90w.

=Selous, Edmund.= Bird watcher in the Shetlands. **$3.50. Dutton.

A journal of observations minutely kept and presented with all their
whimsical digressions in an unclassified state. The “watcher” from his
“tiny sentry-box on a Shetland cliff” is alert but “many of the items
jotted down in the first part of the book are really big errors. But
he has thought fit to leave these mistakes, because they will prove a
help rather than a hindrance to the student, in whose mind the correct
observation will remain.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“There is a distinct development, in the present volume, of Mr.
Selous’s characteristic manner, as displayed in his two former books
on the same subject. But this time the observations are less copious,
though not less thorough, and the digressions more plentiful and
luxuriant.”

+ =Acad.= 70: 113. F. 3, ’06. 840w.

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 611. My. 19. 430w.

“The only real fault of the book—unless account is taken of some
obvious inaccuracies of style—lies in the illustrations, which are
taken from drawings altogether too much ‘made up,’ instead of from
photographs, as any American is bound to think they should have been.”

+ + – =Dial.= 40: 198. Mr. 16, ’06. 470w.

“It deserves its place alongside with the investigations and
vaticinations of Thoreau. In fact, it is one of the best books of its
class that we have happened upon these many months.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 399. Ag. 16, ’06. 600w.

“Altogether, the book commends itself for unusual suggestiveness and
interest.”

+ =Nation.= 82: 55. Ja. 18, ’06. 310w.

“He discourses, with digressions, delightfully upon his experiences.”

+ + – =Nature.= 73: 414. Mr. 1, ’06. 730w.

“You read his notes as he writes them, and begin presently to catch
his enthusiasm, and sharing in imagination his physical point of view
to share his mental attitude also—in part, at least.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 2. Ja. 6, ’06. 720w.

“With this somewhat whimsical humor the book abounds—but more
substantial and certainly of great value to the student are the
detailed records of observations, both birds and seals having been
minutely and most patiently studied.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 1085. D. 30, ’05. 300w.

“A sadly disappointing book.”

– =Spec.= 95: 1128. D. 30, ’05. 270w.

=Semple, Rev. H. C.= Anglican ordinations; theology of Rome and of Canterbury in a nutshell. 35c. Benziger.

A little book which addresses Catholics directly.

* * * * *

“A short, clear, temperately written essay from which anybody, in an
hour, may get up the facts and arguments of the case.”

+ =Cath. World.= 84: 399. D. ’06. 180w.

=Serao, Mathilde.= In the country of Jesus; tr. from the Italian by Richard Davey. **$2. Dutton.

“As the translator says in his brief note, Signora Serao writes from
the point of view of a very orthodox and fervent Catholic, who
unhesitatingly accepts not only the Gospels, but also the ancient
traditions of her church. She sails along the Nile, goes through
Cairo, sees the Pyramids, and goes on to Syria. She then takes in
Jerusalem, visiting all the places of interest, Galilee, and other
places visited by Christ or connected with his life and works.”—N. Y.
Times.

* * * * *

“The evident enthusiasm of the writer enlivens the whole story.”

+ =Dial.= 41: 211. O. 1, ’06. 90w.

+ =Ind.= 60: 1226. My. 24, ’06. 200w.

“It is not quite perfect. There are florid passages which we regret,
chiefly, perhaps, because the translator has not exercised a wise
discretion. There are also slight mistakes.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 454. D. 22, ’05. 1750w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 2, ’05. 260w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 111. F. 24, ’06. 190w.

“Mr. Davey’s translation is admirable for Anglo-Saxon readers, for he
admits that in his work he has lopped off certain extravagant
expressions. Extravagant or not, Mathilde Serao is seldom
uninteresting.”

+ + – =Outlook.= 81: 1039. D. 23, ’05. 100w.

“There is much in this book to charm the reader. But it is impossible
not to be struck by her curious ignorance of what one would suppose
every visitor to the Holy Land would be sure to know.”

+ – =Spec.= 96: 64. Ja. 13, ’06. 390w.

=Sergeant, Philip Walsingham.= Burlesque Napoleon: being the story of the life and the kingship of Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte. *$3. Brentano’s.

“An account of the flashy Jerome Bonaparte in court and camp and at
home. It is one of many books on members of the Bonaparte family
published of late years which are chiefly read with interest for the
sidelights that they may throw on Napoleon, and a good specimen of its
class.”—Sat. R.

* * * * *

“The book adds nothing to the sum of our knowledge of the period.”

+ – =Acad.= 69: 1183. N. 11, ’05. 310w.

“The narrative is well put together, and the style is not without
merit, though occasionally it is disfigured by slipshod expressions.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 262. Mr. 3. 740w.

“There is no lack of incident ... but it is poorly and thinly written,
and throughout the author seems to be in an attitude of apology for
having written it at all.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 62. F. 23, ’06. 330w.

“His literary powers are not sufficient to impart freshness or
interest to such a personage.”

– =Nation.= 82: 428. My. 24, ’06. 60w.

“It cannot be said that Mr. Sergeant is a lively raconteur.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 337. My. 26, ’06. 1450w.

=Sat. R.= 101: 117. Ja. 27, ’06. 120w.

=Seton, Ernest Thompson.= Animal heroes: being the histories of a cat, a dog, pigeon, a lynx, two wolves and a reindeer. $2. Scribner.

Reviewed by George Gladden.

=Bookm.= 23: 90. Mr. ’06. 450w.

“Except for the reindeer story, Mr. Seton has made certain advances
here even over his first work. He shows greater variety of treatment,
more flexibility of style, and less strain.”

+ + =Critic.= 48: 122. F. ’06. 140w.

“Read with a mind closed to doubt, however, they are hugely
entertaining and no better book could be asked for an evening’s
diversion.”

+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 532. Ap. 7, ’06. 90w.

“His methods are not sensational, his literary art is excellent, his
knowledge is wide.”