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“The author is not without the defects of her qualities; and while
these do not seriously mar the beauty of her work as a whole, they are
not unapparent to critical admirers of an author whose novels may be
said to make waste paper of most of the fiction of a season.”

+ – =Lit. D.= 33: 394. S. 22, ’06. 200w.

“While remarkable in quality, is immature. The interest of the story
never flags, but it has its thin places. The writer’s powers are well
in evidence, but not yet held firmly in hand.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 543. S. 1, ’06. 580w.

“While ‘Audrey Craven’ is not well rounded out and lacks breadth of
treatment and firm grasp on the reader’s attention, it shows very
clearly the intelligent quality and the subtle knowledge of character
that are applied in ‘The divine fire’ to a more complex play of motive
and action, and to a far more striking situation.”

+ – =Outlook.= 84: 43. S. 1, ’06. 120w.

“Lacks dramatic power and real human interest.”

+ – =World To-Day.= 11: 1221. N. ’06. 130w.

=Sinclair, May.= Divine fire. $1.50. Holt.

=Edinburgh R.= 203: 72. Ja. ’06. 610w.

=Living Age.= 248: 730. Mr. 24, ’06. 610w. (Reprinted from
Edinburgh R.)

=Sinclair, May.= Superseded. $1.25. Holt.

Little Miss Quincey, the pathetic old-maid teacher of mathematics, who
has withered away under her daily drudgery and has never known youth
or life, is the real heroine of this sad little story altho the
personality of Rhoda, beautiful and brilliant, overshadows and
eclipses her, and altho happiness, love and her beloved Mr. Cautley
all pass her by. For “Nature has made up for any little extra outlay
in one direction by cruel pinching in another.... Nature had indulged
in Rhoda Vivian and she was making Miss Quincey pay.”

* * * * *

“Is one of the books which ought not to be missed.” Frederic Taber
Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 24: 53. S. ’06. 290w.

+ =Critic.= 49: 207. S. ’06. 230w.

“There are real pathos in the book and considerable underlying humor.”

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 157. Ag. 4. ’06. 190w.

“She may be trusted at all events to be at once penetrating and
human.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 372. Je. 16, ’06. 200w.

“As a character study and in point of workmanship it is quite on a
level, however with ‘Divine fire,’ although it has neither the range,
substance, nor imaginative power of that story. A pathetic little tale
told with the most delicate feeling.”

+ =Outlook.= 83: 818. Ag. 4, ’06. 250w.

=Sinclair, May.= Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson.). $1.50. Dodge, B. W.

“There is novelty in the conception of Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson, as
strangely assorted a pair as ever foregathered between the covers of a
novel.... Nevill Tyson ... is a man of plebeian birth and cosmopolitan
education, a sentimental brute with a veneer of cleverness and
polish.... Thrust by accident into the position of an English country
gentleman, he commits the fatal error of marrying a pretty girl who is
universally regarded as a fool.... She loves her husband with a
devotion so complete as to blind him and others to its true nature.
For him she sacrifices first her child and finally her life. His
return for her devotion is to desert her, to accuse her of infidelity,
and to leave her again to die heart-broken while he finds a hero’s
death in Africa.”—Bookm.

* * * * *

“It is a clever, original, distinctive first novel.” Edward Clark
Marsh.

+ – =Bookm.= 23: 535. Jl. ’06. 900w.

“The sketch makes a vivid impression upon the reader’s mind, despite
its faults.”

– + =Critic.= 49: 287. S. ’06. 80w.

“The story, powerful as it is, is too ‘unpleasant’ to commend itself
to the wider reading public.”

– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 302. My. 12, ’06. 600w.

=Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr.= Jungle. †$1.50. Doubleday.

Chicago in its worst industrial phases is the scene of Mr. Sinclair’s
story. His hero is a sturdy Lithuanian who, with a little colony of
fellow countrymen, including the frail Ona whom he would wed, settles
in the Packingtown district. It is first as a wage-earner—the victim
of foremen’s immoral practices and of real estate sharks’
trickery—that Jurgis Rudkus struggles; worsted in his battle, and
yielding to exhaustion and hopelessness, he becomes a tramp, a common
thief, a highwayman, a beggar. Temporary respite comes with the
protection offered by a corrupt political machine whose bosses secure
him work. He looked out on “a world in which nothing counted but
brutal might, an order devised by those who possessed it for the
subjugation of those who did not.” Finally the “saving grace” of
socialism is balm for his industrial grievances, and here the author
expatiates upon the salutary virtues of socialism.

* * * * *

“Is one of the strongest and most powerful voices of protest against a
great wrong that has appeared in America.”

+ + =Arena.= 35: 651. Je. ’06. 5780w.

“It is a book that holds the attention by its vividness, earnestness,
and simplicity.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 446. Ap. 14. 240w.

“It is impossible to withhold admiration of Mr. Sinclair’s enthusiasm;
and yet many socialists will regret his mistaken advocacy of their
cause. His reasoning is so false, his disregard of human nature so
naive, his statement of facts so biased, his conclusions so perverted,
that the effect can be only to disgust many honest, sensible folk with
the very terms he uses so glibly.” Edward Clark Marsh.

– + =Bookm.= 23: 195. Ap. ’06. 990w.

– =Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 110w.

“Mr. Sinclair’s horrors are not typical, and his indecencies of speech
are not tolerable in any book that has claims to consideration as
literature. In all the essential qualities of good fiction this book
is conspicuously lacking.” Wm. M. Payne.

– – =Dial.= 40: 262. Ap. 16, ’06. 510w.

“Tho overdrawn from a literary standpoint and almost surely
exaggerated as to facts, is a powerful and harrowing narrative. ‘The
jungle’ may do some harm; also it will surely do much good.”

+ – =Ind.= 60: 740. Mr. 24, ’06. 1070w.

+ – =Ind.= 61: 1158. N. 15, ’06. 120w.

=Lit. D.= 32: 679. My. 5, ’06. 2030w.

=Lit. D.= 33: 595. O. 27, ’06. 120w.

=Lond. Times.= 5: 201. Je. 1, ’06. 820w.

“We are afraid Mr. Sinclair has not been divinely appointed to be a
deliverer of Labor lying prostrate. Somehow, in his tones the ear
continuously catches the false note. He has been at pains to ‘get up’
his facts thoroughly, and his realism is often striking. But he seems
to write not from the heart but from the head.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 128. Mr. 3, ’06. 3020w.

“Upton Sinclair’s style is probably the best expression of Zolaesque
that we have in English fiction.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.

Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

+ – =North American.= 182: 925. Je. ’06. 230w.

“Mr. Sinclair’s indictment of the employing classes would have been
more convincing if it were less hysterical.”

– =Outlook.= 82: 758. Mr. 31, ’06. 300w.

“Mr. Sinclair’s bias ... has led him to indiscretions of the head
rather than of the heart.”

– =Pub. Opin.= 40: 476. Ap. 14, ’06. 870w.

“When a story reveals so much of artistic penetration and power as
does ‘The jungle’ one keenly regrets what seems like unfairness in
point of view. The very brutality of the book is likely to cause it to
be talked about.”

+ – =Reader.= 7: 564. Ap. ’06. 200w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 759. Je. ’06. 700w.

+ =Sat. R.= 101: 661. My. 26, ’06. 330w.

“We are inclined to believe that more enlightenment is to be gained
from ‘The jungle’ than from Mr. Lawson’s ‘Frenzied finance.’”

+ =Spec.= 96: 793. My. 19, ’06. 950w.

=Sinclair, William A.= Aftermath of slavery: a study of the condition and environment of the American negro; with an introd. by T: Wentworth Higginson. **$1.50. Small.

“The over-zealous critic might point out many faults in the work. It
is not well-digested, there are some overstatements, and much padding
in the way of poetry and quotations from easily-accessible sources.
And yet the book is of great value. It is alive. It is throbbing.” W.
E. Burghardt Du Bois.

+ – =Dial.= 40: 294. My. 1, ’06. 520w.

“To the student of social problems the book is of great value, not as
a repository of facts, for the facts in it are badly warped, but
simply as a ‘human document.’ As voicing the sentiments, then, of the
class of influential negro radicals that book has a distinct value.”
Walter L. Fleming.

– + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 344. Je. ’06. 540w.

=Singer, Hans W.= Dante Gabriel Rossetti. *$1. Scribner.

The life and art of Rossetti receive enthusiastic treatment in this
volume which also contains an account of Pre-Raphaelitism and a list
of Rossetti’s principal works in both public and private collections.
Reproductions of a dozen of his best pictures are given with a
portrait of the artist-poet.

* * * * *

“The sketch, in the main, contains several interesting observations
and some facts, but little that is new. It merely attempts to
popularize knowledge.” Wm. T. Brewster.

+ – =Forum.= 38: 104. Jl. ’06. 330w.

“In Dr. Hans Singer he has at last found a sympathetic German critic.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 27: 182. D. ’05. 70w.

=Int. Studio.= 29: sup. 83. S. ’06. 230w.

“The little book is distinctly below the standard of the series.”

– =Nation.= 82: 468. Je. 7, ’06. 100w.

=Sat. R.= 102: 553. N. 3, ’06. 200w.

=Singer, Hans W.= James McNeill Whistler. *$1. Scribner.

“This volume in the “Langham series of art monographs” treats of the
absence of reverence in the American painter’s disputes with Ruskin,
Taylor, Oscar Wilde, Eden, and others; his ‘Gentle art of making
enemies,’ his ‘art,’ his principal paintings, etchings, lithographs,
etc.; Whistler’s Thames, Venice, and Dutch sets; his hostility to
critics and theory of criticism; ‘Ten o’clock,’ and Whistler’s theory
of art. Mr. Singer shows the artist’s ‘unpleasant traits’ in order to
enable the reader to better understand Whistler’s work as a painter of
pictures.... The half-tone illustrations are sixteen in number and
present the most familiar of Whistler’s paintings and sketches.” (N.
Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Is rather an inconsequent little book, for which not a great deal of
praise is to be said.”

+ – =Nation.= 82: 159. F. 22, ’06. 290w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 148. Mr. 10, ’06. 280w.

=Singleton, Esther=, comp. Holland as seen and described by famous writers. **$1.60. Dodd.

Miss Singleton’s “Holland” is a book of extracts compiled upon the
plan of her books on London, Paris, etc.—excerpts being taken from
prominent writers’ works. The book is divided into six parts, as
follows: The country and race, History, Descriptions, Manners and
customs, Painting and statistics.

* * * * *

“It gives us expert description and criticism.... is therefore an
admirable supplement to all the guide-books.”

+ + =Critic.= 49: 96. Jl. ’06. 130w.

=Dial.= 40: 302. My. 1, ’06. 40w.

+ =Outlook.= 82: 810. Ap. 7, ’06. 70w.

=Pub. Opin.= 40: 543. Ap. 28, ’06. 100w.

=Skae, Hilda T.= Life of Mary, Queen of Scots. *$1.25. Lippincott.

“So many and so elaborately controversial have been most of the
numerous works recently published upon Mary Stuart, that it is hardly
possible not to welcome as a relief a little volume like this, which
takes a very great deal—including Mary’s essential goodness—for
granted, and tells the familiar old story in the spirit and language
of romance.”—Spec.

* * * * *

=Critic.= 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 40w.

– =Dial.= 40: 266. Ap. 16, ’06. 190w.

“A narrative bringing out into strong relief the sentimental and
pathetic features is what she provides.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 633. S. 30, ’05. 390w.

“She has constructed a pleasant readable book which even Mariolaters
may find useful for reference purposes.”

+ =Spec.= 95: 697. N. 4, ’05. 200w.

=Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton.= Sicilian marriage. †$1.50. Pott.

“Mr. Sladen says: ‘To make my story exciting I have crowded it with
melodramatic events which really only come like angels’ visits.’ This
quotation is an adequate description of ‘A Sicilian marriage’ and a
characteristic example of Mr. Sladen’s style. His book is a fair
specimen of the guide-book novel, which sandwiches history with
love-scenes, and art-criticism with adventure.”—Sat. R.

* * * * *

“The characters are like the incidents, stereotyped and familiar.”

– =Acad.= 70: 16. Ja. 6, ’06. 260w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 288. My. 5, ’06. 300w.

“A love story of much interest.”

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

“Mr. Sladen evidently knows a great deal about Sicily, but has not a
very fortunate manner of imparting his information.”

– + =Sat. R.= 101: 84. Ja. 20, ’06. 100w.

“The story proper is not interesting, and the descriptions of the
antiquities of Sicily would be really much more readable without the
personages who move, rather stiffly, among the temples and museums.”

– =Spec.= 96: 305. F. 24, ’06. 130w.

=Slater, John Herbert.= How to collect books. $2. Macmillan.

“This volume will be found to contain a feast of good things for every
book collector.”

+ =Dial.= 40: 24. Ja. 1, ’06. 100w.

+ =Sat. R.= 100: 820. D. 23, ’05. 30w.

=Slater, John Rothwell.= Sources of Tyndale’s version of the Pentateuch. *50c. Univ. of Chicago press.

A monograph which discusses the circumstances under which Tyndale
gained his knowledge of Hebrew, the sources he used in his version of
the Pentateuch and to what extent his work was original, and the
influence his version exerted upon later translations and upon English
literature.

* * * * *

=Dial.= 11: 169. S. 16, ’06. 80w.

=Slattery, Margaret.= Talks with the training class; with introd. by Patterson Du Bois. 60c. Pilgrim press.

These talks designed for the teacher-training department in the
Sunday-school are based upon the study of what the great teachers of
the ages have given us, upon personal influence in actual teaching,
and upon careful observation of the work for others.

* * * * *

“It contains nothing novel in interpretation, or even in statement,
but is brief, concise, and suggestive.”

+ =Bookm.= 24: 74. S. ’06. 50w.

“The best manual for a training class we have seen.”

+ + + =Ind.= 61: 936. O. 18, ’06. 190w.

“The best modern psychology is brought to bear on religious
instruction, with as much thoroness, coupled with good sense, as
characterizes the best text-books on pedagogy.”

– – =Ind.= 61: 1167. N. 15, ’06. 80w.

=Slocum, Stephen Elmer and Hancock, Edward Lee.= Text-book on the strength of materials. *$2. Ginn.

Both the theoretical and experimental phases of the subject are here
presented making the work elementary enough for the use of students of
a junior grade in technical and engineering schools.

=Slosson, Margaret.= How ferns grow. **$3. Holt.

Following a chapter in the “Development of the fern leaf” the author
treats of eighteen individual fern species, and devotes a double-page
illustration to each. The papers deal chiefly with the subject of
cell-growth and kindred phenomena. “They scarcely touch upon the
development of the form and venation of the leaf in each species, and
in its individual aspects only, without reference to its relation to
such development in other fern species.”

* * * * *

“We may confidently recommend the book to fern students.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 306. S. 15. 480w.

“The book is more of a contribution than its elaborate form would
suggest.” J. M. C.

+ + =Bot. Gaz.= 42: 496. D. ’06. 160w.

“Miss Slosson has conscientiously followed her subject, and some of
her discoveries no doubt throw light upon the phytology of the group.”

+ + =Dial.= 41: 168. S. 16, ’06. 230w.

“While valuable particularly to technical botanists, the work will be
helpful to others.”

+ + – =Ind.= 61: 397. Ag. 16, ’06. 290w.

“It is to be regretted that through no fault of her own the
nomenclature is open to criticism, but aside from the matter of names,
the book can be heartily recommended.”

+ + – =Nation.= 83: 86. Jl. 26, ’06. 50w.

“This volume does not come within the popular scope but should have a
place on the shelves of the botanist’s working library.” Mabel Osgood
Wright.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 530. S. 1, ’06. 320w.

=Small, Albion Woodbury.= General sociology: an exposition of the main development in sociological theory from Spencer to Ratzenhofer. *$4. Univ. of Chicago press.

“He has no system of his own to project, and therefore does not assail
the work of other men with a devastating criticism. The book may be
recommended to all who are not afraid to trust their today’s thinking
as against their yesterday’s thought.” Edward Alsworth Ross.

+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 382. Ap. ’06. 860w.

“Viewed by individual sections or chapters, the volume contains much
of great value, particularly to the advanced student. Viewed as the
whole, the volume is less satisfactory. It will be of little service
to the beginner, for the style is involved and at times confusing.”
Carl Kelsey.

+ – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 444. Mr. ’06. 750w.

“The dejected feeling that Prof. Small’s book produces is mainly
because of one’s inability to convince one’s self that the author
believes that, there is any real truth or importance in this wordy
farrago.” Winthrop More Daniels.

– =Atlan.= 97: 852. Je. ’06. 1040w.

“As a book on general sociology this is a valuable contribution to the
literature on the subject. While the interpretation of human
experience is sufficiently emphasized, sufficient stress is not laid
upon the evolution of human society as a means of arriving at a
correct estimate of the present structure and activities.” Frank W.
Blackmar.

+ + – =Dial.= 40: 146. Mr. 1, ’06. 1960w.

“His volume is rather for the student, perhaps we might say the
advanced student, than for the interested but not especially prepared
thinker on sociological problems.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 273. F. 3, ’06. 420w.

Reviewed by Edward Alsworth Ross.

+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 140. Mr. ’06. 980w.

=Smet, Pierre-Jean de.= Life, letters and travels of Father Pierre-Jean de Smet, S. J.; ed. by Hiram Martin Chittenden and Alfred Talbot Richardson. $15. Harper, F. P.

“The new matter alone is nearly equal in volume to everything
heretofore published. [Major Chittenden’s] research work has been
thoro and fruitful.”

+ + + =Ind.= 60: 513. Mr. 1. ’06. 590w.

=Smiles, Samuel.= Autobiography. *$4. Dutton.

“This last word from one whose writings have had a world-wide
influence contains the features that gained instant popularity for its
predecessors and invested them with such weight—the homely and sound
philosophy, the appreciation of the possibilities of human nature, the
unfailing sympathy for all seeking to better their condition by honest
means, and the thorough readability.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“Judiciously edited.”

+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 684. N. 18. 420w.

+ =Ind.= 40: 931. Ap. 19, ’06. 340w.

“He tells it very well, with a practised pen guided by a sane
and balanced judgment. It is an excellent autobiography,
characteristically vigorous, cheerful, encouraging and
wholesome.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 28. Ja. 26, ’06. 1270w.

“His autobiography is a decidedly dull book. As an account of the man
Smiles, except in this matter of vanity, the book is quite valueless.”

– =Nation.= 82: 83. Ja. 25, ’06. 410w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 772. N. 11, ’05. 250w.

“His autobiography is, in fine, a delightful and significant human
document.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 938. D. 16, ’05. 330w.

=Sat. R.= 100: 551. O. 28, ’05. 1360w.

+ =Spec.= 96: 386. Mr. 10, ’06. 410w.

=Smith, Alexander.= Introduction to general inorganic chemistry. *$2.25. Century.

The work of one who understands the psychology of teaching. The first
four chapters deal in an introductory manner with the general
characteristics of chemical phenomena. The remainder of the text
treats elements and their compounds. “These chapters deal largely with
the simpler physical properties of matter and include a brief and
clear exposition of the utility of scientific method; following
closely are the usual methods of determining equivalents, use of
symbols and various simple calculations.”—Bookm.

* * * * *

“He has certainly earned the gratitude of all teachers of chemistry in
the clear and masterly manner in which he has presented his subject.”

+ + =Bookm.= 23: 568. Jl. ’06. 580w.

+ + =Nation.= 83: 204. S. 6, ’06. 180w.

“The book is doubtless the very best of its kind and will be found to
be particularly strong on explanations in connection with the
hypothesis of ions.” W. O. Walker.

+ + =School R.= 14: 612. O. ’06. 650w.

“Is certainly a good book for good students, and as such is to be
heartily welcomed.” H. L. Wells.

+ + =Science=, n. s. 24: 398. S. 28, ’06. 230w.

=Smith, Anna Harris=, ed. Longfellow calendar. **50c. Crowell.

A quotation from Longfellow for every day of the year.

=Smith, Charlotte Curtis.= Girls of Pineridge. †$1.50. Little.

All about an active band of girls, fast friends and loyal. Their
flower hunts, patch-work parties, cooking bees, etc. show what child
energy wholesomely directed can accomplish.

* * * * *

“The parrot ... that dovetails his remarks into the conversation so
that they are perfectly relevant spoils an otherwise natural story of
four wholesome little girls who are fond of nature and appreciate life
in the woods.”

– + =R. of Rs.= 34: 764. D. ’06. 60w.

=Smith, Rev. David.= Days of His flesh: the earthly life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. **$2.50. Armstrong.

“This book is intended to do for this generation what Farrar’s ‘Life
of Christ’ did for the generation preceding.”

+ =Bib. World.= 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 40w.

“It is clear, well-written, and not too much burdened by learned
digression.”

+ =Spec.= 95: 1086. D. 23, ’05. 320w.

=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Tides of Barnegat. †$1.50. Harper.

A strange commingling of irresponsibility and duty operates in Mr.
Smith’s new story with its artistic and dramatic touches. The loyal,
fine-spirited Jane Cobden gives up her doctor and with him her hope of
happiness to guard her will o’ the wisp sister’s sin and to mother the
child born out of wedlock. The sacrifice becomes a thing of splendid
heroism, and furnishes the motif of a story which reflects in its
characters the sturdy traits of shore folk, and in its out-of-door
atmosphere the freshness and varying moods of the sea.

* * * * *

“A painstaking study of feminine character.”

=Ath.= 1906, 2: 578. N. 10. 130w.

“The story is very readable, the descriptions of the life of fifty
years ago in the little New Jersey town being full of charm.” Mary K.
Ford.

+ =Bookm.= 24: 55. S. ’06. 970w.

“Strikes a deeper note and is altogether of more serious quality than
most of his productions.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ + =Dial.= 41: 243. O. 16, ’06. 140w.

“Mr. Smith is nothing if not emphatic in delineating the characters of
his new story; indeed so emphatic is he that readers quite lose the
pleasure of discovering for themselves what the book people stand for.
The author’s best work is in suggesting the atmosphere of the
narrative.”

+ – =Ind.= 61: 882. O. 11, ’06. 590w.

=Lit. D.= 33: 594. O. 27, ’06. 300w.

“His craftmanship, perhaps, is even better shown in this work than in
most of his other novels.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 70w.

“The story goes wider and deeper than any of its predecessors; if with
less perfection of construction than the short stories, it is the most
ripe of the novels.”

+ + – =Nation.= 83: 188. Ag. 30, ’06. 350w.

“Mr. Hopkinson Smith has never done better work than in his
delineation of Lucy’s character. The master’s hand is to be discerned
in every stroke.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 507. Ag. 18, ’06. 1520w.

=Outlook.= 84: 709. N. 24, ’06. 300w.

“Is unpleasant from beginning to end.”

– =Putnam’s.= 1: 109. O. ’06. 290w.

=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Wood fire in no. 3. †$1.50. Scribner.

“It is an entertaining collection, and has been put together in a
creditable manner.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 545. N. 3. 270w.

“Mr. Hopkinson Smith is as good a storyteller as ever, and as loyal an
adherent of the old school that told a story for the story’s sake.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 90w.

+ + =Ind.= 60: 225. Ja. 25, ’06. 170w.

“Whether in jocund or in serious mood, the recital is always dramatic,
always brought home with a touch of tenderness and comprehension It is
the quality of brotherliness in the book that makes its greatest
charm; the stories are not hewn out of the brain, but caught out of
the heart.”

+ + + =Lit. D.= 32: 254. F. 17, ’06. 410w.

“A highly creditable piece of work, a book for an hour’s light
reading, with a day’s extent of deeper meanings and shades for those
who care to seek for them.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 59. Ja. 13, ’06. 300w.

“These winter’s tales ... make a very comfortable sort of book for a
meditative hour.”

+ + =Reader.= 7: 567. Ap. ’06. 420w.

=Smith, Frank Berkeley.= In London town. **$1.50. Funk.

“A passing glance in the crowd—the impressions which might have been
gained by any traveller who crossed the Channel, hired a hansom at
Charing Cross, and lost himself in the throng.” Mr. Smith’s
observations are of the impressionistic order, and they flash from his
pen and brush in gay procession; a peep into the hotels, theatres and
music halls, Piccadilly by night and day—in truth all phases of life
in the great British maelstrom make up the rapidly flitting panoramic
view.

* * * * *

“Just as breathless, sparkling, superficial, and amusing as his
Parisian sketches.”

+ =Dial.= 41: 453. D. 16, ’06. 200w.

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 686. N. 10, ’06. 130w.

“A book notable for sprightliness.”

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 70w.

“The total effect of the book is flashy and un-English.”

– =Nation.= 83: 370. N. 1, ’06. 220w.

“We cannot say that his book on London quite equals his Paris books
either in smartness or in verity.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 627. O. 6, ’06. 560w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 639. N. ’06. 140w.

=Smith, Frederick Edwin, and Sibley, N. W.= International law as interpreted during the Russo-Japanese war. *$5. Boston bk.

“It is not well written; it is padded with irrelevant matter, and it
is everywhere wordy. On the other hand, the authors follow Prof.
Holland, a good guide, display research, and when they strike out a
line for themselves occasionally carry the reader with them.”

+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 329. S. 9. 890w.

“Can hardly be regarded as a work of authority, as it is hastily and
loosely written.”

+ – =Nation.= 82: 352. Ap. 26, ’06. 720w.

“Here, as elsewhere, Messrs. Smith and Sibley, while not always
freeing themselves from the innate bias of national allegiance, show a
thorough acquaintance with their subject and the ability to treat it
in a more than usually interesting way.”

+ + – =Outlook.= 81: 1080. D. 30, ’05. 1090w.

=Smith, Gertrude.= Beautiful story of Doris and Julie. **$1.30. Harper.

Very young folks are told in this story all about Doris and Julie who
lived in the tiny red house, how their father lost his money and had
to go away from them to earn more and how Miss Alice, who lived in the
big house next door, took them home with her to be her little girls
and made their lives one beautiful fairy-story.

* * * * *

“Is quite as pretty and delightful as its title indicates, and as are
the previous stories of this author of children’s books.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 50w.

“Is written in the author’s best style, a style that is the perfection
of story telling for little folks of from five to ten.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 768. D. ’06. 40w.

=Smith, Goldwin.= In quest of light. **$1. Macmillan.

Mr. Smith has gathered together in this volume his past few years’
contributions to the New York Sun on religious and philosophical
subjects. He “discusses frankly what remains of our traditional belief
and how much science has taken from us—to return it to us, he
believes, in another form.” (R. of Rs.)

* * * * *

=Cath. World.= 84: 105. O. ’06. 400w.

+ =Critic.= 49: 91. Jl. ’06. 70w.

“In spite of its brevity and informality, the work is weighty.”

+ =Dial.= 41: 85. Ag. 16, ’06. 60w.

=Nation.= 82: 494. Je. 14, ’06. 1480w.

=Outlook.= 83: 264. Je. 2, ’06. 700w.

+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 633. My. 1, ’06. 630w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 765. Je. ’06. 60w.

+ =Spec.= 96: 898. Je. 9, ’06. 1940w.

+ =World To-Day.= 11: 764. Jl. ’06. 130w.

=Smith, Goldwin.= Irish history and the Irish question. **$1.50. McClure.

“An attempt to trace the general course of the history as it leads up
to the present situation.” He gives an account of the relations from
the earliest times, politically and historically of England and
Ireland, and suggests means for bettering Ireland’s present-day
conditions.

* * * * *

=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 466. Ja. ’06. 30w.

“As a sketch of Irish history this book is, on the whole, excellent.
It will find a natural and worthy place on the shelf by the side of
the author’s ‘United States’ and ‘United Kingdom;’ its general
characteristics are much the same as those of the two earlier books,
but it ought to be more serviceable because there is less that is good
in brief compass on Ireland than on England or the United States.”
Sidney B. Fay.

+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 117. O. ’06. 1120w.

=Ath.= 1906, 1: 48. Ja. 13. 150w.

“The theme offers exceptional opportunities to Goldwin Smith, and in
his brilliantly-written essay he does it full justice.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 383. Ap. ’06. 360w.

=Dial.= 40: 330. My. 16, ’06. 480w.

“Unjust he may at times be, unjust alike to the Englishman and the
Irishman, but if only for his summing up, his little treatise must be
accounted a notable contribution to the literature on the Irish
question.”

+ + – =Lit. D.= 32: 331. Mr. 3, ’06. 760w.

“The defects of Mr. Goldwin Smith’s new work as a serious historical
study or as a thorough-going political analysis of the Irish question
lie on the surface. There is no index; there are practically no
quotations from or references to authorities, ancient or modern. The
concluding chapter ... is not his own, but from the pen of an Irish
barrister. It is enough to say of it that it would not be out of place
in the columns of the most extreme and partisan of Nationalist
newspapers.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 454. D. 22, ’05. 1310w.

“Professor Smith’s account is concise to a degree that is actually
misleading. Excessive compression may account for his very positive
statements of facts not clearly known. The story is throughout
strongly tinged with Mr. Smith’s own views, which are markedly
anti-Irish and anti-Catholic.”

+ – =Nation.= 82: 163. F. 22, ’06. 1320w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 905. D. 16, ’05. 420w.

“Dr. Goldwin Smith has given us what is probably the most brilliant
exposition of the Irish question in all its phases which has ever been
written.”

+ + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 254. F. ’08. 90w.

+ =Spec.= 96: sup. 1014. Je. 30. ’06. 400w.

=Smith. Hannah Whitall (Mrs. Robert Pearsall Smith).= Living in the sunshine. **$1. Revell.

Mrs. Smith would be a message bearer to people who “carry their
religion as a man carries a headache. He does not want to get rid of
his head, but at the same time it is very uncomfortable to have it.”
And her message is one that shows “what grounds there are in the
religion of the Lord Jesus Christ for that deep and lasting peace and
comfort of soul which nothing earthly can disturb, and which is
declared to be the position of those who embrace it.”

* * * * *

“This is an excellent book so far as it goes.”

+ – =Outlook.= 83: 93. My. 12, ’06. 160w.

=Smith, Lewis Worthington.= In the furrow. Baker-Trisler co., 420 Walnut st., Des Moines, la.

A score of musical verses upon a score of subjects such as: Gypsying,
Southern stars, Italy, New England, Summer, The Japanese, The white
czar, The violin.

* * * * *

“Altogether, this little book seems to be worth while.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 41: 207. O. 1, ’06. 350w.

=Smith, Marion Couthouy.= Electric spirit, and other poems. $1.25. Badger, R. G.

There is something truly pleasing in these verses which sing of the
conventional subjects of minor poetry; love, and life in the abstract.

* * * * *

“There is altogether a refreshing promise and performance in the
little volume.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 774. N. 24, ’06. 440w.

=Smith, Richard.= Tour of four great rivers: the Hudson, Mohawk, Susquehanna, and Delaware in 1769. **$5. Scribner.

“The purpose of the tour, Francis W. Halsey tells the reader in his
historical introduction to the work, was to make a survey of that
tract of land now known as the Otega patent, in which Smith and some
others were interested. The journey was made in company with Richard
Wells of Philadelphia and several surveyors.” (N. Y. Times.) “He gives
a careful account of what he saw and learned on the route, including
much of Indian life, and the narrative is of great interest as a
contribution to the geography and history of the time. Mr. Halsey’s
introduction of sixty pages is a concise account of the pioneers of
the four rivers, with maps, views, and other illustrations.”
(Putnam’s.)

* * * * *

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 574. S. 15, ’06. 430w.

+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 380. D. ’06. 190w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 511. O. ’06. 100w.

=Smith, Ruel Perley.= Rival campers afloat; or, The prize yacht Viking. $1.50. Page.

A continuation of the adventures of “The rival campers,” of the prize
yacht Viking. Henry Burns and his companions have an exciting round of
sea sport and adventure which terminates in the theft of their
“Viking” and its recapture after an anxious chase.

* * * * *

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 735. N. 10, ’06. 90w.

=Smith, Sydney Armitage-.= John of Gaunt, king of Castile and Leon, duke of Aquitaine and Lancaster, earl of Derby, Lincoln and Leicester, seneschal of England. *$4.50. Scribner.

Reviewed by Benjamin Terry.

+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 645. Ap. ’06. 1710w.

=Smith, Vincent A.= Early history of India. *$4.75. Oxford.

“Those who are the most intimately connected with these studies will
be the first to congratulate him on the success with which he has
accomplished a task of no ordinary difficulty, and the most ready to
excuse such shortcomings as are inevitable in the work of a pioneer.”
E. J. Rapson.

+ + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 136. Ja. ’06. 590w.

=Smith, William Benjamin.= Color line. **$1.50. McClure.

“To sum up: I would say that the book is all right as a plea for the
continuance of the social separation between the races in the South,
and would recommend those to read it who think there is no ground for
maintaining a social and moral quarantine against the negro even where
he exists in large numbers; but as an argument of the unimprovability
of the negro race, the ultimate futility of negro education, and the
early or remote extinction of the negro element in our population, it
is weak, built upon fallacious reasoning, and unsound scientific
theories.” Charles A. Ellwood.

+ – =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 570. Ja. ’06. 1790w.

“To indicate the gaps in the author’s argument—for, strangely, this
impassioned appeal is addressed to the reason—would be a long task.”

– =Outlook.= 83: 87. My. 12, ’06. 430w.

=Smyth, H. Warington.= Mast and sail in Europe and Asia. **$6. Dutton.

An authoritative book about boats “and while ‘Mast and sail’ is the
title, scantling and planking, model and lines, come in for a good
share of description and discussion.” (Nation.) “It is refreshing to
come across a book like this, breathing throughout an intimate
knowledge of sailing-ships and sailors, displaying insight into, and
sympathy with, the nature of the men who follow the sea on the coasts
of many countries, and showing in every page powers of quick
observation and ready understanding of all that makes for the
efficiency of sailing craft.” (Nature.)

* * * * *

“Comprehensive and delightful book, over which all yachtsmen will
linger, comparing and contrasting.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 146. Ap. 27, ’66. 1170w.

“‘Mast and sail’ will repay the study of the boat sailor and yacht
designer; it gives a broader view of the art and craft than more
technical works, and yet is accurate and instructive to the
initiated.”

+ + =Nation.= 82: 393. My. 10, ’06. 480w.

“A book which is a perfect treasury of information on the subject
treated, is well arranged, brightly written, and beautifully
illustrated.” W. H. White.

+ + + =Nature.= 73: 536. Ap. 5, ’06. 1030w.

“In its way is thoroughly notable, that is too technical perhaps to
appeal to the general reader, but which carries for the follower of
the sea, especially to the devotee of the sail, a burden of interest
unsurpassed.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 304. My. 12, ’06. 1520w.

“This is the most charming book of its kind we have seen.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 530. Ap. 28, ’06. 30Ow.

+ =Spec.= 96: 718. My. 5, ’06. 360w.

=Smythe, William Ellsworth.= Conquest of arid America. **$1.50. Macmillan.

The text of the first edition has been revised and a section added
outlining the progress made during the five years since the book
appeared. There is a four-part treatment: In the first the author
discusses colonization and irrigation in a general way; in the second,
some of the earlier irrigation ventures; in the third, the several
arid and semi-arid states which remain to a greater or less extent
undeveloped, and in the fourth, the genesis and evolution of the
movement which has led to the intervention of the United States
government in the task of reclaiming the desert parts of our country.

* * * * *

“The book is eminently readable, both in content, style and physical
makeup.”

+ + =Engin. N.= 55: 316. Mr. 15, ’06. 290w.

“Mr. Smythe writes as an enthusiastic Westerner, but supports his
extremely optimistic declarations by an abundance of statistics, so
handled, however, as to make his narrative easy reading from first to
last.”

+ =Lit. D.= 32: 259. F. 17, ’06. 100w.

+ – =Nation.= 82: 453. My. 31, ’06. 1740w.

“As it stands, his book is invaluable to all who would make themselves
fully acquainted with the internal territorial expansion of the past
few years.”

+ + =Outlook.= 82: 92. Ja. 13, ’06. 280w.

=Pub. Opin.= 40: 510. Ap. 21, ’06. 80w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 255. F. ’06. 110w.

=Smythe, William Ellsworth.= Constructive democracy: the economics of a square deal. **$1.50. Macmillan.

“No adequate notion of its many excellent qualities can be given in
this brief space. It is enough to say that its style, vivified by a
peculiar aptness of illustration, is attractive, and that it reveals a
clear understanding of the problems with which it deals.”

+ + =Ind.= 60: 516. Mr. 1, ’06. 280w.

=Snaith, John Collis.= Henry Northcote. †$1.50. Turner, H. B.

Northcote is a starving young advocate whose very conviction of the
justice of power summons to him a genie in the shape of a solicitor
who briefs him in a sensational murder case. The guilt of the woman
whom he defends is beyond question but his hypnotic oratory secures
her acquittal, when follows a reactionary period in which the sense of
debasement at having sacrificed right to personal ambition makes him
an easy prey to the woman’s wiles. He kills her in self defense, and
sets fire to his garret to cover the deed. His composed confession is
passed by for a “gruesome pleasantry,” and the reader is confident
that this panoplied hero will sooner see the judge’s bench than the
prison cell.

* * * * *

“It has no art—no architecture, we may say. But it has some striking
scenes, is studded with admirable points of observation, and gives
great hope of what might come from the author’s mind if he cared to
exert it.”

+ – =Acad.= 70: 480. My. 19, ’06. 420w.

“Compared to ‘Broke of Covenden,’ ‘Henry Northcote’ is more of a piece
in general execution, more uniform, more confined to one violent minor
key.” Charlotte Caxton.

+ – =Bookm.= 24: 272. N. ’06. 1600w.

“The book is Henry Northcote, and in so far as it bodies forth that
strange modern mind, so strong and so weak, so pitiful and so
arrogant, it is a very considerable and fine thing.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 170. My. 11, ’06. 660w.

“However reluctantly one must yield to such a book the admiration due
to a thing of crude force.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 418. N. 15, ’06. 680w.

“A grim and gruesome tale, to be read to the finish if one once
begins, because of its grip and its strangeness; always, however, with
a shuddering protest.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 751. N. 17, ’06. 320w.

“It will furnish a number of first-class thrills, though it cannot be
ranked with the author’s earlier book.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 140w.

“Has all the faults and none of the merits of its predecessor.”

– =Outlook.= 84: 531. O. 27, ’06. 40w.

=Snell, Frederick John.= Age of transition, 1400–1580. 2v. *$1. Macmillan.

The last volume in the “Handbooks of English literature” covers the
period from Chaucer to Spenser: the first volume dealing with the
poets; the second, with the dramatists and prose-writers.

* * * * *

“We find nothing—or very little—to quarrel with in Mr. Snell’s
judgment, and the young students for whom the book is intended can
take no harm from accepting his opinions.”

+ =Acad.= 69: 1271. D. 2, ’05. 260w.

“From Mr. Snell’s careful accounts of books and writers one may
correct many errors in the more enlivening work of less minutely exact
historians.”

+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 722. N. 25. 310w.

“A clear, reliable record of the details by one who has taken pains to
study them first hand and has brought them into fair order for the
reader or student desirous of orientating himself with respect to what
is perhaps the least known epoch of our literature.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 522. Ag. 30, ’06. 170w.

“In this as in his former work he shows himself, in nearly all
instances, thoroughly abreast of the most recent research, and has
managed to prevent the dullness of the period from communicating
itself to his treatment of it. On the whole, however, Mr. Snell’s ‘Age
of transition’ is a reliable handbook, and may be recommended as a
guide for the period that it treats.”

+ + – =Nation.= 82: 20. Ja. 4, ’06. 740w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 728. O. 28. ’05. 260w.

“Mr. Snell does his work carefully. His comment is not always
fortunate.”

+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 468. Ap. 14, ’06. 130w. (Review of v. 2.)

“Mr. Snell has done a piece of work which, useful, and indeed
indispensable, as it is, has no great attractions for either author or
reader.”

+ – =Spec.= 95: 1130. D. 30. ’05. 350w.

=Snyder, Harry.= Dairy chemistry. *$1. Macmillan.

“It is a text-book of dairying, but there is no rule-of-thumb; an
appeal is made to reason; processes are advocated because found by
experiment to be sound; the impression left on the student’s mind is,
‘This is the best to-day; there may be a better to-morrow.’”—Nature.

* * * * *

“There are unfortunately, a few misprints and inaccuracies, together
with curious repetitions of the same statements, suggesting that the
book has been edited from lecture notes compiled in card-catalogue
form.”

+ + – =Nature.= 74: 243. Jl. ’06. 540w.

Reviewed by Mabel Osgood Wright.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 448. Jl. 14, ’06. 180w.

Sociological papers, by Francis Galton and others. *$3.60. Macmillan.

“It is to be regretted that a book which in so many respects is
praiseworthy should suffer for an unnecessary lack of coherence in the
arrangement of its contents and from careless proof-reading.” R. F.
Hoxie.

+ – =Philos. R.= 15: 668. N. ’06. 590w.

Review by Michael S. Davis, jr.

+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 143. Mr. ’06. 940w.

=Sociological society, London.= Sociological papers, v. 2, by Francis Galton and others. $3. Macmillan.

“Among these papers are to be found one by Mr. Francis Galton on
‘Restrictions in marriage,’ a subject which evidently excited a great
amount of interest, the contributions to the discussion, verbal and
written, being far more numerous than we find anywhere else; ‘The
school in some of its relations to social organisation and to national
life,’ by Professor M. E. Sadler; and ‘The influence of magic on
social relationships,’ by Dr. E. Westermarck, a most remarkable
collection of facts on one aspect of primitive and savage life.”—Spec.

* * * * *

=Am. J. Soc.= 12: 426. N. 06. 280w.

=Ind.= 61: 522. Ag. 30, ’06. 300w. (Review of v. 2.)

Reviewed by H. Stanley Jevons.

=Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 131. O. ’06. 1850w. (Review of v. 2.)

“Though hardly equal in interest to its precursor, the present volume
contains some valuable contributions to sociology.” F. W. H.

+ =Nature.= 74: 29. My. 10, ’06. 320w. (Review of v. 2.)

“The contributors to this volume cannot indeed be charged with
narrowmindedness; but in some rather ponderous pages there are
syntheses which appear to prove nothing, and world-wide
generalisations which attempt to prove too much. Dr. Galton, at any
rate, is always practical.”

+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 210. Ag. 18, ’06. 760w. (Review of v. 2.)

=Spec.= 96: 837. My. 26, ’06. 300w. (Review of v. 2.)

=Soden, Hermann, baron von.= History of the early Christian literature: the writings of the New Testament; tr. by Rev. J. R. Wilkinson; ed. by Rev. W. D. Morrison. *$1.50. Putnam.

“As one follows his pages he finds himself tracing the growth of a
spiritual life of great interest and power, and his attention is held
to the character and worth of that life rather than to technical
questions concerning the literature in which it is embodied.”—Ind.

* * * * *

“There is much in von Soden’s book that is stimulating and suggestive,
but oftentimes it is difficult to recognize the reasonableness or
advantage of his hypotheses.” Warren J. Moulton.

+ – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 720. O. ’06. 910w.

“Written with sympathy and insight and in most attractive style.”

+ =Bib. World.= 28: 160. Ag. ’06. 120w.

+ =Ind.= 61: 1166. N. 15, ’06. 70w.

“Has eminent and substantial merits. It is free, and at the same time
well balanced. It is lucid, and sufficiently untechnical to be helpful
to the average Bible student.”

+ + =Outlook.= 82: 324. F. 10, ’06. 150w.

=Sollas, William Johnson.= Age of the earth, and other geological studies. *$3. Dutton.

A series of ten essays and addresses by the Professor of geology at
Oxford. “In sufficiently popular form they present the latest
hypotheses, researches and conclusions of the science on points of
primary importance, together with some of secondary interest.”
(Outlook.)

* * * * *

“The Professor discourses pleasantly and well, writing with command of
much scientific learning, yet always readably, sometimes with
brilliancy of diction, and occasionally with a touch of humor. Even
the most abstruse subject fails to make him altogether dull.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 473. O. 7. 1220w.

+ =Dial.= 40: 300. My. 1, ’06. 390w.

+ =Nation.= 82: 529. Je. 28, ’06. 250w.

“The book is entirely readable, and will serve to bring workers in all
manner of fields the views of one who holds that nothing terrestrial
is foreign to the subject of geology.”

+ =Nature.= 73: 513. Mr. 29, ’06. 1060w.

+ =Outlook.= 82: 519. Mr. 3, ’06. 150w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 40w.

+ =Spec.= 96: 424. Mr. 17, ’06. 1130w.

=Somerset, Lady Isabella Caroline (Somers-Cocks).= Under the arch. †$1.50. Doubleday.

“There is plenty of incident in this story. There are farewells at
Waterloo to soldiers bound for South Africa, there is a battle with
the Boers, there are passages in fashionable drawing-rooms where
titled ladies, lovely as the dawn, prattle of husbands and lovers at
the front.... Lady Henry’s personages pass through harrowing
experiences, but we read and are not harrowed.... Only in the slums,
strange to say do we breathe an air that is not exhausted. Lady
Henry’s little ragamuffins speak and act naturally: it is to be
regretted that they do not occupy a larger portion of her
canvas.”—Sat. R.

* * * * *

+ =Critic.= 48: 510. Je. ’06. 350w.

“An absorbing narrative, throbbing with the life of to-day.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 219. Ap. 7, ’06. 630w.

“Lady Henry Somerset has a keener eye for situations than for
character. It is all desperately artificial and conventional.”

+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 529. Ap. 28, ’06. 200w.

“It is carefully and cleverly written, and the character-drawing is
also well done.”

+ =Spec.= 96: 624. Ap. 21, ’06. 330w.

=Sonneck, Oscar George Theodore.= Francis Hopkinson, the first American poet-composer, and James Lyon, patriot, preacher, psalmodist: two studies in early American music. *$5. O. G: T. Sonneck, Lib. of Congress, Wash., D. C.

“A very important contribution to the history of American music and
will undoubtedly have much influence on future works on this topic.”
Louis C. Elson.

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 419. Ja. ’06. 550w.

=Soto, Hernando or Fernando de.= Narratives of the career of Hernando de Soto in the conquest of Florida; ed. by E. G. Bourne. **$2. Barnes.

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 183. Ag. 5. 180w.

“It comes nearer than any previously published book to furnishing a
complete collection of ‘sources’ for the first great expedition into
the Southern United States.” E. H.

+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 825. O. ’05. 690w.

=Spalding, Rt. Rev. John Lancaster.= Spalding year book; comp. by Minnie R. Cowan. **75c. McClurg.

+ =Cath. World.= 82: 849. Mr. ’06. 60w.

=Spargo, John.= Bitter cry of the children. **$1.50. Macmillan.

“A plain, unvarnished statement of the manner of life of the children
of the poor, and of the results of such living on their health and
their morals, and a carefully planned series of remedial
suggestions.... Mr. Spargo’s book is in five sections, dealing,
respectively, with the poor baby, the school child, the working child,
remedies, and the transplanting to the country of tenement children.
The first of these is entitled ‘The blighting of the babies,’ a study
of the very little children of the poor.... Mr. Spargo’s chapter on
‘The school child’ is practically a continuation of his first chapter;
it discusses the subject of starvation among the school children....