Chapter III: of the book deals with ‘The working child.’ It is probably (1)

the most awful in the book.... The mill children, the glass factory
boys, the mine boys, are studied.... Mr. Spargo’s remedies are many.
As regards the babies, they include State or Federal supervision of
infant food manufacture; meals for school children, medical inspection
of schools, a minimum standard for working children established by
Federal law.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“School teachers need this book, social workers, librarians, pastors,
editors, all who want to understand the problem of poverty or
education. It is not only readable, it contains illustrations and
facts that are matters of record, absolutely proved.”

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 196. Jl. ’06. 720w.

“Far inferior to the ‘Long day.’” Winthrop. More Daniels.

+ – =Atlan.= 97: 842. Je. ’06. 270w.

“Rather painfully interesting study.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 480. My. ’06. 180w.

Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.

+ =Dial.= 40: 298. My. 1, ’06. 200w.

“No one fit to be called human can read it without the stirring of
pulses that have never stirred before.”

+ =Ind.= 60: 868. Ap. 12, ’06. 1080w.

“Mr. Spargo’s book ought to be epoch-making; it ought to mark the
turning of the tide in the treatment of children. We can think of no
one who, of full age, would not be benefited by reading the book.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 127. Mr. 3, ’06. 1400w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.

+ =Outlook.= 82: 805. Ap. 7, ’06. 340w.

=Pub. Opin.= 40: 271. Mr. 3. ’06. 1090w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 509. Ap. ’06. 160w.

=Spargo, John.= Socialism; a summary and interpretation of socialist principles. **$1.25. Macmillan.

“A summary and interpretation of Socialist principles.... Mr. Spargo
offers no apology for the faith that is in him, but attempts merely to
state in popular language what socialism really means and what it does
not mean. In short the man in the street will find in this little
volume an up-to-date exposition of the socialism that is alive in the
world to-day.”—R. of Rs.

* * * * *

“Until now there has not been any one book from which the inquirer
could get any clear idea of the subject as a whole. This want Mr.
Spargo has well supplied. His book is enjoyable as well as
instructive, being comparatively free from the peculiar terminology
which makes many Socialistic works unpalatable to the average reader,
yet not sacrificing accuracy to popularity of expression.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 693. S. 20, ’06. 540w.

=Lit. D.= 33: 358. S. 15, ’06. 160w.

“The historical survey is both fragmentary and slight.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 76. Jl. 26, ’06. 320w.

Reviewed by Edward A. Bradford.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 628. O. 6, ’06. 2150w.

“Mr. Spargo’s book is less critical and more constructive than most
treatises on socialism. It is a useful but a temporary contribution to
current discussion.”

+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 92. S. 8, ’06. 540w.

“Written frankly from the point of view of a convinced socialist.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 253. Ag. ’06. 90w.

=Spearman, Frank Hamilton.= Whispering Smith. †$1.50. Scribner.

A railroad wreck forms the beginning of this story of adventure in the
northwest, and also the beginning of a feud between Sinclair, foreman
of the bridges, and McCloud, division superintendent. Sinclair,
dismissed from his position, joins a band of outlaws who rob and
pillage the railroad until Whispering Smith with his posse of men,
after many wild and desperate encounters, finally captures them. It is
essentially a story of action, but there is also a double love
interest.

* * * * *

“The characters are railroad men and cattle-ranchers, and the action
rapid and adventurous in a way that holds the attention from start to
finish.” Mary K. Ford.

+ =Bookm.= 24: 160. O. ’06. 1040w.

“It is extremely well done. It is even to be suspected that there is
much to be learned from the book.”

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 568. S. 15, ’06. 880w.

“It is full of action and not without originality.”

+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 127. O. ’06. 20w.

“We all have a sneaking fondness for gunplay and bad men in our
reading-matter, but we cannot always procure them with the approval of
our literary consciences. Mr. Spearman’s new novel, ‘Whispering
Smith.’ is going to be a great success because it satisfies both
consciences and tastes in this matter.”

+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 224. N. ’06. 260w.

=Spears, John Randolph.= David G. Farragut. **$1.25. Jacobs.

“In its entirety, the biography of four hundred pages may be classed
among the best books of its kind.”

+ + =Dial.= 40: 51. Ja. 6, ’06. 230w.

=Spelling, Thomas Carl.= Bossism and monopoly. **$1.50. Appleton.

From the training of ultra-conservatism Mr. Spelling emerges with a
“conviction of the need of the radical reforms which he advocates in
his book. It is a sorry tale of graft, fraud, and oppression by big
business, co-operating with political bosses, which he relates. He has
looked over the whole ground and has found chicanery and robbery
wherever this unholy alliance has been made. In the face of
conditions, the seeming apathy of the people not unnaturally affects
him with wonder. But he sees signs of a revolt and he expects remedial
action. Municipal, State and Government ownership are the indicated
remedies.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

“Tho desultory and disjointed in parts, it is well worth the serious
consideration of all citizens interested in the welfare of their
country.”

+ – =Ind.= 60: 687. Mr. 22, ’06. 240w.

“A book quite well worth reading, but not at all easy reading.” Edward
Cary.

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 61. F. 3, ’06. 870w.

=Spender, R. E. S.= Display: a tale of newspaper life. †$1.50. Lane.

“Mr. Spender imagines an editor at a loss for a sensation, arranging
that his special correspondent should discover in the heart of Africa
a survival or imitation of More’s ‘Utopia.’ An expedition of learned
men is sent off to investigate, and their experiences seem to be
suggested by the recent adventures of the British association in
Africa.” (Sat. R.) “In point of fact the adventures do not amount to
much. The author is merely spending his high spirits on the way in
satire, criticism, and conversational sallies. He is evidently young
and interested in life and thought—points very much in his favor.”
(Ath.)

* * * * *

+ – =Acad.= 69: 1230. N. 25, ’05. 250w.

“On the whole his book is enlivening, but a trifle too elaborate.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 12. Ja. 6. 190w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 178. Mr. 24, ’06. 210w.

+ – =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 5. D. 9, ’05. 360w.

=Spenser, Edmund.= Faery queen: first book rewritten in simple language by Calvin Dill Wilson; decorated by Ralph Fletcher Seymour. $1. McClurg.

A handsomely decorated book in the series of “Old tales retold for
young readers.”

* * * * *

“Mr. Wilson has performed the task creditably and has kept the spirit
of the poem.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 793. N. 24, ’06. 70w.

=Spenser, Edmund.= Una and the red cross knight and other tales from Spenser’s Faerie queene, by N. G. Royde-Smith; 50 il. and col. front, by F. H. Robinson. $2.50. Dutton.

The story of Spenser’s poem told in prose with occasional
interspersions of the verses.

* * * * *

“Well written, and illustrated in an imaginative style that will
interest old and young readers equally.”

+ =Dial.= 39: 450. D. 16, ’05. 50w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 894. D. 16, ’05. 290w.

“A commendable and on the whole fairly successful attempt to retell
some of the more spirited incidents in Spenser’s ‘Faerie Queene’ for
children’s reading.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 1040. D. 23, ’05. 70w.

=Spielmann, Marion Henry, and Layard, George Somes.= Kate Greenaway. *$6.50. Putnam.

“These facts are presented by the authors of the monograph clearly,
sympathetically, and with just sufficient detail to impart the
requisite vitality, and this is further enhanced by the fact that Mr.
Spielmann’s share of the work is the tribute of a personal
friendship.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 23. Ja. 6. 1270w.

Reviewed by Royal Cortissoz.

+ =Atlan.= 97: 277. F. ’06. 430w.

“On the whole Miss Greenaway’s present biographers have dealt
tactfully with the vast mass of material placed at their disposal.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 28: 275. My. ’06. 220w.

+ =Lit. D.= 32: 119. Ja. 27, ’06. 960w.

+ + =Nation.= 82: 15. Ja. 4, ’06. 2080w.

“This is a sympathetic biography.”

+ =Spec.= 96: 305. F. 24, ’06. 390w.

=Spiers, R. Phene.= Architecture east and west. *$4.50. Scribner.

“There are too many slips of the pen allowed to pass.”

+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 71. Mr. 2, ’06. 820w.

=Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott (Mrs. Richard S. Spofford).= Old Washington. †$1.50. Little.

Washington in the days following the close of the civil war furnishes
the setting for five delightful stories. They are “A Thanksgiving
breakfast,” “A guardian angel,” “In a conspiracy,” “A little old
woman,” and “The colonel’s Christmas.” The variations from the
lavender-and-old-lace atmosphere to that of the stuffy hall-room
sheltering impecunious gentle-folk, and that of the splendid reception
halls, and even the senate chamber itself, suggest the characters
which include Southern women, loyal mammies, struggling department
clerks and politicians.

* * * * *

“Five stories, good as such, but better as pictures of life and
society at the capital as it was after the Civil war, forty or more
years ago.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 477. My. ’06. 70w.

“As usual, the author draws too much upon the tears of her
imagination; but she has done the best she could with the kind of
material she selects.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.

+ – =Ind.= 60: 1219. My. 24, ’06. 60w.

“There is a dewdrop quality about Harriet Prescott Spofford’s style
that gives it a gentle sparkle and makes the reading of one of her
stories pleasant diversion indeed.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 228. Ap. 7, ’06. 380w.

“Humor, tenderness, and an intimate acquaintance with the time
characterize these tales.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 909. Ap. 21, ’06. 60w.

“Mrs. Spofford has caught and fixed this fragrant, rose-leaf odor as
surely as have F. Hopkinson Smith or Thomas Nelson Page.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 542. Ap. 28, ’06. 190w.

=Sprague, John Francis.= Sebastian Ralé. $1. Heintzmann press, Boston.

A monograph on the environment, work and character of Father Ralé who
devoted thirty years of his life to a little band of Indians on the
banks of the Kennebec and who was slain in an attack upon his mission.

* * * * *

=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 749. Ap. ’06. 80w.

“We may sincerely congratulate Mr. Sprague, from the literary point of
view, on having produced a monograph which is an excellent piece of
historical work. We congratulate him still more warmly on the
possession of the broadminded spirit, and the courage to manifest it.”

+ + + =Cath. World.= 84: 112. O. ’06. 490w.

=Outlook.= 83: 674. Jl. 21, ’06. 130w.

=Spurgeon, Rev. Charles Haddon.= Spurgeon’s illustrative anecdotes; arranged under subjects and topics by Rev. Louis Albert Banks. **$1.20. Funk.

For the benefit of preachers and teachers who have need of anecdotes
with which to illustrate their sermons and religious talks the
compiler has selected and classified some 500 of the stories which
Spurgeon used so successfully. Their arrangement under such headings
as Affliction, Ambition, Blessings, Christ, Conscience, Conversion,
Duty, Faith, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Hope, Joy etc., etc. render them
easy of access.

* * * * *

“The work is admirably classified and arranged so that any special
subject can be readily found.”

+ =Arena.= 36: 334. S. ’06. 80w.

“No doubt ministers of religion will find good use for the ammunition
under each head, which has already been proved and found not wanting
by the man from whose writings Dr. Banks has culled his material.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 483. Ag. 4, ’06. 230w.

=Spyri, Johanna.= Moni the goat boy, and other stories tr. from the German by Edith F. Kunz. *40c. Ginn.

There is a delightful simplicity about the three little stories which
make up this volume; they breathe the love of children, of animals,
and of mountain air. Moni, the goat boy, was happy when his conscience
was wholly clear, he tended his goats, and sang to them, and did not
want to become an egg boy because eggs could not love you or come when
you called. Without a friend, tells of how stupid Rudi ceased to be
stupid when friendship came to him, and The little runaway, is the
story of the marvelous reformation of a saucy little boy.

=Squire, Charles.= Mythology of the British islands: an introduction to Celtic myth, legend, poetry, and romance. *$3.50 Scribner.

“It is well written and lucid, and leaves us with a clear idea of the
scope of Celtic mythology. It is true that the author is inclined to
assume too much, to treat as fact what the scholars he is following
have merely conjectured.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 9. Ja. 6. 1010w.

“It aims in short, to impart some such knowledge of Celtic mythology
as most persons of cultivation are supposed to possess of the
mythology of Greece and Rome, and so far as the substance of the
ancient tales is concerned it accomplishes this purpose
satisfactorily.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 184. Ag. 30, ’06. 430w.

=Staley, Edgcumbe.= Fra Angelico; with memoir by Edgcumbe Staley, and 64 full-page reproductions of his works in half-tone. $1.25. Warne.

A “Newnes art library” volume. “In five brief chapters Mr. Staley
depicts as many phases and periods in the development of an altogether
lovable artist—the son of the Mugello, the novice of Cortona, the monk
of Fiesole, the theologian of Florence and the saint of Rome.” (N. Y.
Times.)

* * * * *

“Both the text and the illustrations are of such an excellent duality
that the volume should have a firmly established place on the shelves
of the student desiring a general view of the period.”

+ + =Critic.= 48: 470. My. ’06. 70w.

“A valuable addition to the ‘Newnes art library.’”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 313. My. 12, ’06. 200w.

=Outlook.= 83: 331. Je. 9, ’06. 50w.

=Staley, Edgcumbe.= Guilds of Florence. **$5. McClurg.

The author says of this work “The cumulated energies of the
Florentines had their focus in the corporate life of the
trade-associations, and in no other community was the guild-system so
thoroughly developed as it was in Florence. A complete and connected
history of the guild has never been compiled. The present work is put
forth, perhaps rather tentatively than exhaustively, to supply the
omissions.” Beginning with chapters on Florentine commerce and
industry, and, General history of the guilds, the guilds themselves
are taken up under the sub-divisions of, The seven greater guilds, The
five intermediate guilds, and The nine minor guilds, after which the
life and work in the markets, the religion of the guilds, their
patronage and their charity, are fully discussed. A bibliography,
chronology, and index are provided and the volume is profusely
illustrated after miniatures in illuminated manuscripts and Florentine
woodcuts.

* * * * *

“It is with real regret that we find a work of so much intrinsic worth
defaced by the inclusion of so much which is unnecessary and
irritating to read.”

+ – =Acad.= 71: 155. Ag. 18, ’06. 1520w.

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 201. O. ’06. 40w.

“It is the commonplace book of an industrious worker. The history of
the Florentine guilds has yet to be written.”

– =Ath.= 1906. 2: 555. N. 3. 1450w.

“In it one finds, conveniently, the answer to so many questions that
arise through a morning’s wanderings in narrow and alluring byways.
Even its dry statistics of revenues and taxes help you to repeople the
dead centuries by the sense of activity and enterprise which the mere
figures convey.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ + =Bookm.= 24: 371. D. ’06. 1420w.

“In treating of the minor corporations such as those of inn-keepers,
saddlers, bakers, etc., this indefatigable author enters into the very
life of the people, so that his book is not only to a great extent a
history of art, of literature, of science, and of commerce, but of
social manners and customs.”

+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: 91. N. ’06. 500w.

“When he is bestowing information, which he does both copiously and
clearly, his style is concise and business like, and he says well what
he has to say. But when he is afraid of being dull—which real
information never is—he is by no means so happy.”

+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 294. Ag. 31. ’06. 2010w.

“From the preface to the bibliography the book is crammed with
mistakes.”

– =Nation.= 83: 537. D. 20, ’06. 630w.

“A remarkably complete, scholarly, and copiously illustrated history.”

+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 380. D. ’06. 220w.

“Mr. Staley’s book is not precisely one to read through. It is a
valuable work of reference, where every one who loves Florence and her
history may find her medieval life reproduced from many sources
difficult of access to the ordinary reader. The book would be worth
having for its pictures alone.”

+ + =Spec.= 97: 367. S. 15, ’06. 1680w.

=Staley, Edgcumbe.= Raphael; with a short biographical sketch of Raphael Santi or Sanzio; with a list of principal works. $1.25. Warne.

“We could spare some of Mr. Staley’s rather sophomoric
characterizations of the great painter.”

– =Outlook.= 83: 331. Je. 9. ’06. 280w.

=Stamey, De Kellar.= Junction of laughter and tears. $1.25. Badger, R: G.

Half a hundred little poems which the author has dedicated to his wife
and babe, and which picture the home and its interests in both
sunshine and shadow.

=Stamey, De Keller.= Land of Schuyli Jing. $1.25. Broadway pub.

Fourscore little stories and poems which treat daintily of love, home,
children, patriotism, religion, death, nature and other things.

=Standing, Percy Cross.= Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. *$1.50. Cassell.

This biography has been written under the sanction and practical
co-operation of Alma-Tadema himself, a fact which establishes his
career in an authoritative light. The sketch of his life emphasises
the very tendencies that step by step produced the artist. The forces
from within and without and the intrinsic idealism into which they
have resolved themselves make a unity well worth careful analysis and
study. The illustrations aim to show the gradual development of the
power of expression, several of which have not been reproduced before.

* * * * *

“He has not succeeded in conveying any real idea of the personality of
Sir Lawrence, or of the characteristics of his style.”

– + =Int. Studio.= 26: 88. Mr. ’06. 80w.

“Is especially valuable as being the story which the artist himself
would have the world know.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 229. Ap. 7, ’06. 1020w.

=Outlook.= 83: 670. Jl. 21. ’06. 60w.

=Standish, Winn.= Captain Jack Lorimer; il. $1.50. Page.

Jack Lorimer who has become well known thru the pages of the Boston
Sunday Herald now makes his bow as the hero of a lively football story
published in book form. He is captain of the Melville high school
eleven and his pluck, hard work and fair dealing win the day for him
against the deep treachery that a

* * * * *

“Told with much go and spirit. The book is intended for boys midway of
their teens and a little older.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 683. O. 20, ’06. 90w.

=Stanley, Caroline Abbot (Mrs. Elisha Stanley).= Modern Madonna. †$1.50. Century.

Upon the law in force until recent years in the District of Columbia,
which gave to the father, power to will away the custody of his unborn
child hinges the story of a cruelly wronged young wife. Margaret,
after the tragic death of her husband who has proved faithless, finds
that she must give her all, her baby Philip, into the hands of her
husband’s brother, who has become alienated from her. But after a
brave fight, in which her character develops in strength and
tenderness, she wins both her boy and his uncle, and sees the cruel
law repealed.

* * * * *

“An interesting and readable novel.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 672. O. 13, ’06. 330w.

“A tragical and melodramatic story of real power although without much
literary grace.”

+ – =Outlook.= 84: 583. N. 3, ’06. 110w.

=Stanwood, Edward.= James Gillespie Blaine. **$1.25. Houghton.

“Mr Stanwood was perhaps better equipped for the work than any other
writer in the country He excels ... in the kind of fairness that
consists in treating respectfully the men and views one opposes.”
William Garrott Brown.

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 701. Ap. ’06. 1160w.

“Even if Mr. Stanwood’s friendliness toward his theme carries him
occasionally near to the limits of special pleading, he has in the
large performed his task with marked success and skill.” M. A. De
Wolfe Howe.

+ + – =Atlan.= 97: 113. Ja. ’06. 420w.

“He has written a very admirable condensed account of Mr. Blaine, and
one which will be read with keen interest for its impartiality,
insight and instructiveness.” H. T. P.

+ + =Bookm.= 22: 513. Ja. ’06. 1570w.

+ =Dial.= 40: 49. Ja. 16, ’06. 540w.

“Altho Mr. Stanwood has not the skill of a truly great biographer, yet
the very logic of the events themselves, plainly and simply told,
furnishes a stirring narrative.”

+ =Ind.= 60: 515. Mr. 1, ’06. 380w.

“The reader feels that the author is rather an apologist than a
biographer, and even that he has not done full justice to Mr. Blaine’s
astuteness as a politician. Certainly the appeal is rather to those
whose interests are not primarily economic.” J. C.

– =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 459. Jl. ’06. 170w.

“We are forced to say that this book can hardly fail to harm the
general series to which it belongs.”

– + =Nation.= 82: 141. F. 15, ’06. 2620w.

=Starr, Louis.= Hygiene of the nursery. $1. Blakiston.

The seventh edition of a manual which includes the general regimen and
feeding of infants and children, massage, and the domestic management
of the ordinary emergencies of early life.

=Stauffer, David McNeely.= Modern tunnel practice. *$5. Eng. news.

The change that has been made in the practice of tunneling by the
introduction of high explosives, by the use of machine drills, by
special appliances for handling the debris or protecting the roof of
the tunnel and by the employment of electric power and light has made
the present hand-book a necessity. The work is illustrated by examples
taken from actual recent work in the United States and in foreign
countries.

* * * * *

“The author of this book is to be congratulated both upon having
produced what will prove to be a useful book of reference for
engineers engaged in the arduous work of tunnelling, and also upon the
fair and impartial manner in which he writes.”

+ + =Nature.= 74: 409. Ag. 23, ’06. 1420w.

=Stead, Alfred.= Great Japan; a study of national efficiency. **$2.50. Lane.

“The author possesses a pleasing style at once direct and lucid. The
work is entitled to rank among the best books of the character that
have appeared. It is a standard work worthy of a place in the
libraries of all thoughtful people.”

+ + + =Arena.= 35: 285. Mr. ’06. 3950w.

“Viewed as a manual of plausible and often valuable information, the
book is a welcome addition to the library on Japan: but to take Mr.
Stead’s statements on their face value is to accept a fabric of
delusion.”

+ – =Nation.= 82: 496. Je. 14, ’06. 1210w.

+ – =Westminster R.= 164: 609. D. ’05. 1110w.

=Stealey, O. O.= Twenty years in the press gallery. $5. O. O. Stealey, 1421 G St., Washington, D. C.

A concise history of important legislation from the 48th to the 58th
congress; the part played by the leading men of that period and the
interesting and impressive incidents; impressions of official and
political life in Washington. There is an introduction contributed by
Mr. Henry Watterson in which he alludes to the seamy side of a
Washington correspondent’s experiences and to the side that makes the
life endurable.

* * * * *

=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 211. O. ’06. 80w.

“He has a sunny, gossipy, conversational way of writing that leaves no
wounds. And it is evident that he suppresses the unkind things he
might say. The chief defect of the book is the suppression of the
author’s personality. He tells too little of what he himself has seen
and known of public men.”

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 433. Jl. 7, ’06. 1060w.

=Steel, Mrs. Flora Annie Webster.= Book of mortals: being a record of the good deeds and good qualities of what humanity is pleased to call the lower animals. $3. Macmillan.

“Reproductions of great paintings of animals have been published in
attractive typographical form with a story written around them.” (R.
of Rs.) “The book is divided into three parts—‘What our fellow-mortals
are,’ ‘What animals have done for man,’ and ‘What our fellow-mortals
are doing.’ In the first part the author shows the similarity of the
ways of the ‘beasts that perish’ and those of mortals; Part 2, is
given over to a few animal legends and tales of animal symbolism which
have been interwoven with the history of the human race, while the
third division concerns itself with the ways in which, day by day,
hour by hour, they (our ‘fellow mortals’) make the life of each of us
pleasurable, profitable—nay, more! possible.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“The author’s is a hopelessly sentimental view, but she is very much
in earnest, and pleads her case with eloquence and with the address of
an advocate.”

– =Ath.= 1906, 1: 263. Mr. 3. 440w.

“There are both humor and kindliness in the writing of this book.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 274. F. 17, ’06. 170w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 70w.

“Perhaps the secret of the unsatisfactory and somewhat mystifying
effect of the work is due to the fact that she writes not like one but
as two distinct persons.”

– =Sat. R.= 101: 696. Je. 2, ’06. 1130w.

=Steffens, Joseph Lincoln.= Struggle for self-government: being an attempt to trace American political corruption to its sources in six states of the United States, with a dedication to the czar. **$1.20. McClure.

In this volume the author of “The shame of the cities,” “describes the
government in six of our states in the direction of a return to the
political cleanliness of former times. It is the general movement
against bossism, of which the elections of 1905 gave many cheering
indications. Mr. Steffens’ account of what has been accomplished in
Ohio, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Missouri is full of
encouragement to friends of popular government in other states.” (R.
of Rs.)

* * * * *

“It is unfortunate, however, that Mr. Steffens, with so commendable a
purpose, should adopt in his writing a tone of arrogance and a
disinclination to restraint in his use of the picturesque. It is
difficult at times to overlook this fault, and to keep in mind that
the author’s object is truth rather than sensationalism.”

+ – =Dial.= 41: 93. Ag. 16, ’06. 230w.

“If there is any serious fault to be found with this book it is a
fault of style rather than of substance.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 19. Jl. 5, ’06. 600w.

“A specimen of workmanlike journalism rather than literature. Its
value is of the moment, for there is no trace of the learning and
insight which distinguish and give permanent worth to treatises like
Bryce’s or De Tocqueville’s.” Edward A. Bradford.

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 487. Ag. 4, ’06. 850w.

“We wish Mr. Steffens’s words were as sound and persuasive as they are
courageous.”

– + =Outlook.= 83: 287. Je. 2, ’06. 460w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 126. Jl. ’06. 190w.

=Steindorff, Georg.= Religion of the ancient Egyptians. **$1.50. Putnam.

“The booklet gives about as good a picture of a complicated and wide
subject as could be given in such limited space, and some further
minor criticisms would not alter this judgment.” W. Max. Müller.

+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 868. Jl. ’06. 890w.

“It would be impossible to gain anything like a clear idea of the
individual Egyptian deities from Steindorff’s book, which is, perhaps
necessarily, sketchy and some what superficial.” L. H. Gray.

– + =Bookm.= 22: 359. D. ’05. 370w.

“As to the value of what Professor Steindorff has given us, there can
be but one judgment. It is interesting in manner, and constructed on
the best plan of advanced scholarship.”

+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 120. Ap. ’06. 380w.

“Prof. Steindorff’s lectures are comparatively comprehensive of all
the light we have on Egyptian religion, set forth in popular and
readable but distinctly scholarly terms.” Ira Maurice Pike.

+ + =Dial.= 41: 17. Jl. 1, ’06. 320w.

+ =Ind.= 61: 1166. N. 15, ’06. 30w.

“The most reliable, readable, and sane treatment of the religion of
Egypt which has appeared.”

+ + + =Nation.= 82: 105. F. 1, ’06. 290w.

=Steiner, Edward A.= On the trail of the immigrant. **$1.50. Revell.

Humanity and individual responsibility pulsate thru the pages of Mr.
Steiner’s earnest statement of the immigrant problem. The work is
offered as the result of careful study the author having been a
steerage passenger himself, first out of necessity, and later, for the
sake of a close range inquiry. He says that a new gigantic race is
being born between the Atlantic and the Pacific, a race whose
immigrant element is primitive, uncultured, untutored, with all the
virtues and vices in the making. “They are the best material with
which to build a nation materially; they are good stock to be used in
replenishing physical depletion: and capable of taking on the highest
intellectual and spiritual culture.” Yet he admits that they are a
serious problem.

* * * * *

“Dr. Steiner is a capital story-teller also, and enlivens his chapters
with anecdote and incident. The book cannot fail to afford excellent
material for the use of students of immigrant problems.”

+ + =Outlook.= 84: 795. N. 24, ’06. 270w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 754. D. ’06. 90w.

=Step, Edward.= Wild flowers month by month. 2v. *$4.50. Warne.

“Mr. Step has a deep knowledge of British plants, and this work is
full of interesting and instructive details as to how, when and where
they grow.... The author has not attempted (and wisely we think in a
book of this description which is intended for the general reader
rather than the botanist) anything like a full enumeration of the
flora of the British Isles.... We find that mention is made of some
five hundred different plants only.... The book deals chiefly with
plants whose flowers are conspicuous, as distinct from those with
inconspicuous blossoms.... One of the most interesting classes, and
the most fully described, is that of the British orchids.” (Acad.) The
volumes are profusely illustrated from photographs.

* * * * *

“While we have nothing but praise for the accurate and interesting
descriptions and entertaining particulars of the plants mentioned it
is impossible to say the same of the illustrations.”

+ – =Acad.= 69: 1196. N. 18, ’05. 1010w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 435. S. 30. 150w. (Review of v. 2.)

“The traveler, as well as the botanist, will welcome [it.]”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 406. Je. 23, 06. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“A book which contains much rather commonplace descriptive writing,
with a slightly professorial style and rather strained humorous
sallies.”

+ – =Spec.= 95: 471. S. 30, ’05. 340w. (Review of v. 1.)

=Stephen, Leslie.= Hobbes. **75c. Macmillan.

+ =Dial.= 40: 157. Mr. 1, ’06. 330w.

=Stephens, Robert Neilson.= Flight of Georgiana. †$1.50. Page.

“A spirited and fairly-well written romantic love-story.”

+ =Arena.= 35: 111. Ja. ’06. 200w.

+ =Ind.= 60: 111. Ja. 11. ’06. 350w.

+ =Reader.= 7: 229. Ja. ’06. 210w.

=Stephens, Thomas=, ed. Child and religion. *$1.50. Putnam.

Reviewed by Robert R. Rusk.

+ =Hibbert J.= 4: 455. Ja. ’06. 1860w.

“Offers much attractive and suggestive material.” M. Mackenzie.

+ =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 254. Ja. ’06. 640w.

=Stephenson, Henry Thew.= Shakespeare’s London. **$2. Holt.

“Few volumes will do so much to supply the student of Shakespeare with
what is necessary for visualizing not only the background of the life
of the poet, but also the background present to the minds of him and
his audience in many of his plays.” William Allen Neilson.

+ + – =Atlan.= 97: 702. My. ’06. 520w.

“We could wish that Professor Stephenson’s book might commend itself
as certainly to the lover of good letters as to the lover of history.
Its style is hardly worthy of its theme.” Charles H. A. Wager.

+ + – =Dial.= 40: 89. F. 1, ’06. 1330w.

“The curious matter is its own and best excuse for being, and the
rarity of the forty odd illustrations adds, also, to the book’s
value.”

+ =Reader.= 6: 719. N. ’05. 330w.

=Sterling, Sara Hawks.= Shakespeare’s sweetheart. †$2. Jacobs.

“The author has very much idealized the characters of both Shakespeare
and Anne Hathaway, but she has succeeded in writing a most delightful
tale.” Amy C. Rich.

+ =Arena.= 35: 108. Ja. ’06. 130w.

“The tale has been told in a quaint, old-fashioned atmosphere that
cannot but be pleasing.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 93. Ja. ’06. 80w.

“In many respects the story is a pleasing bit of fancy and can not but
win the reader.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 91. Ja. 20, ’06. 120w.

“The story is told in quaint literary style, and the author has fairly
succeeded in doing what she set out to do—in suggesting the rhythm of
Shakespeare’s own poetry.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 60w.

=Sterrett, James Macbride.= Freedom of authority: essays in apologetics. **$2. Macmillan.

“The author of these essays in apologetics is an impassioned pleader
for religious conformity. Professor Sterrett is in greater sympathy
with Loisy than with Protestant thinkers.” Nathaniel Schmidt.

+ =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 373. Ap. ’06. 1770w.

“If the book offers the technical philosopher little material and few
view-points that are new, yet here much that is not new receives
virile, suggestive, stimulating treatment. Its logic is robust, but to
a comprehensive survey it does not always appear discriminating and
convincing.” E. L. Norton.

– – =J. Philos.= 3: 239. Ap. 26, ’06. 2160w.

“It is not very well put together and sometimes declamation is offered
as a substitute for patient criticism. There is a good deal of mere
repetition. In my opinion, he propounds a much truer and sounder
philosophical standpoint for the interpretation of Christianity than
one finds in those whom he criticises.” J. A. Leighton.

+ + – =Philos. R.= 15: 338. My. ’06. 590w.

=Stevens, George Barker.= Christian doctrine of salvation. **$2.50. Scribner.

“The aim of this work is ‘to present a biblical, historical, and
constructive discussion of the doctrine of salvation.’ It is therefore
in the field of systematic theology, but approaches its problems
distinctly from the historical side, through biblical theology,
distinguishing between the different conceptions held by different
biblical writers, and between the temporary and the permanent in their
thought.”—Bib. World.

* * * * *

“There are several points in the book which, did space permit, might
furnish matter for criticism. But these do not seriously affect the
main argument.”

+ – =Acad.= 71: 9. Jl. 7, ’06. 1210w.

“This magnificent piece of work is entitled to a hearty reception, for
it not only abounds in rich and suggestive ideas, but it is also full
of religious inspiration.” George Cross.

+ + + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 747. O. ’06. 2390w.

“Prof. Stevens’s work is a notable addition to our modern theological
literature. It is marked by lucidity in its historical presentations
and acuteness in its criticisms; and there is evidence of the author’s
acquaintance with recent books on his subject.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 696. Je. 9. 660w.

=Bib. World.= 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 60w.

“The book is seen to be one of the best from Professor Stevens’s
hand.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 1167. N. 15, ’06. 70w.

“That volume is not suffused with feeling. It is without sentiment.
The problem of suffering culminating in the suffering of Jesus Christ
is discussed as a purely intellectual problem. In this, to our
thinking, is the chief defect of the volume.”

+ – =Outlook.= 82: 41. Ja. 6, ’06. 810w.

=Stevenson, Burton Egbert.= Affairs of state: being an account of certain surprising adventures which befell an American family in the land of windmills; il. by F. Vaux Wilson. †$1.50. Holt.

A Wall street capitalist and two daughters are established in a
poorly patronized hotel at a Dutch watering place. The inaction
of the sojourn palls upon the father and he assumes the
proprietorship of the place for one month. His American business
methods result in large patronage and among the guests are
diplomats who are bent upon settling the question of succession
to the duchy of Schloshold-Markheim. Love, intrigue and
misunderstanding produce a continuation of dramatic situations.

* * * * *

“The easy indifference of the early style and story may have been part
of the author’s plan. Whether it was or not, it contributes in no
small measure to the sudden surprise and delight of the big chapter at
the end.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 727. N. 3, ’06. 440w.

“Fails to hold the interest or stimulate the curiosity.”

– =Outlook.= 84: 839. D. 1, ’06. 10w.

=Stevenson, Burton Egbert.= Girl with the blue sailor. [+]1.50. Dodd.

“A young newspaper man, going upon his first real vacation since he
left college, gets involved with an old college chum and the college
chum’s bride upon their honeymoon, and entangled also with an
interesting family consisting of a pompous papa, and affected mamma,
and four charming unmarried daughters. All of them are guests at the
same mountain tavern. The girl in the blue sailor also comes there....
First are jests Inspired by the presence of the bride and groom, then
matchmaking plots, picnics, boating expeditions, sparkling
conversations with rather frequent quotations from Browning. In the
very midst of it the young newspaper man gets sent to South Africa,
where he makes an immense name as a war correspondent. After several
years he comes back after his reward.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

– =Critic.= 49: 287. S. ’06. 100w.

“A very college boyish and amateurish love story.”

– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 361. Je. 2, ’06. 220w.

“Slight but rather pretty summer romance.”

+ – =Outlook.= 83: 243. My. 26, ’06. 60w.

=Stevenson, Burton E., and Elizabeth B.=, comps. Days and deeds; a book of verse for children’s reading and speaking. **$1. Baker.

Significant poetry relating to American holidays and to great
Americans has been grouped in this volume for use in schools and in
the family. To this have been added a short anthology of the seasons,
and eight lyrics that every child should know, including “The
chambered nautilus,” Kipling’s “L’envoi,” “Abou Ben Adhem,” etc.

* * * * *

“This should prove a very useful book for schools.”

+ =Dial.= 41: 43. Jl. 16, ’06. 110w.

=Nation.= 83: 508. D. 13, ’06. 30w.

=Stevenson, Mrs. Margaret Isabella (Balfour).= Letters from Samoa, 1891–1895, ed. and arranged by Marie Clothilde Balfour. *$2. Scribner.

“The second and last instalment of these letters written by the mother
of Stevenson during her journeys to Samoa and her life in his
household there up to her return home after his death. All lovers of
the man will be interested in them from their connection with the last
years of his life, and no less for their personal charm and wit
combined with sterling commonsense. They show that mother and son were
in many respects alike—in their patience and fortitude in suffering as
well as in their intellectual qualities and tastes.”—Critic.

* * * * *

“This last batch of letters is always interesting, although Vailima
was but a little world and life there much of a muchness day after
day. Nor is anything described in these letters that is new to us.”

+ =Acad.= 70: 426. My. 5, ’06. 790w.

“Had the letters contained anything noteworthy, either for its own
sake, or as illustrative of Stevenson’s character or genius, they
would have been welcome.”

– =Ath.= 1906, 1: 419. Ap. 7. 340w.

+ =Critic.= 49: 91. Jl. ’06. 90w.

“Though the motive in publishing the book may have been the desire to
preserve some record of Mrs. Stevenson, it is quite certain that the
only motive in reading it will be the desire to press still further if
that is possible into the intimacies of her son’s life.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 103. Mr. 23, ’06. 650w.

“No more delightful book about Stevenson has been published since his
death, and it is a moral tonic as well.”

+ + =Spec.= 97: 371. S. 15, ’06. 300w.

=Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour.= Child’s garden of verses. $2.50. Scribner.

“Stevenson’s delicate cameos of childhood have found a most apt
interpreter who has a style of her own with a curious charm.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 798. D. 9. 90w.

“One of the most attractive forms in which this most delightful book
about children has appeared.”

+ + =Outlook.= 82: 46. Ja. 6, ’06. 40w.

=Stickney, (Joseph) Trumbull.= Poems. *$1.50. Houghton.

A posthumous volume of verse which includes “all of Stickney’s work
that is for any reason valuable.” There are six groups as follows:
Dramatic verses, Fragments of a drama on the life of Emperor Julian,
Later lyrics, A dramatic scene, Juvenilia, and Fragments.

* * * * *

“Promise rather than fulfillment is a mark of this work as a whole.”
Wm. M. Payne.

+ – =Dial.= 40: 125. F. 16, ’06. 370w.

“The book is edited with a wealth of piety and a rather conspicuous
poverty of taste. Had he lived and been able to attain to a mastery of
form and of syntax, he would undoubtedly have been a poet to reckon
with.”

– =Nation.= 81: 507. D. 21, ’05. 250w.

“We owe to the excellent judgment of his editors, no doubt that
nothing commonplace or unworthy has crept into this posthumous book of
his verse.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 277. Ap. 28, ’06. 420w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 40w.

=Stiefel, H. C.= Slices from a long loaf; logbook of an eventful voyage by five Pittsburg tourists down the beautiful Allegheny river, from Oil City to Pittsburg. $1.25. Bissell block pub.

“A minimum of information about some of the industries of the
Pittsburg district is here combined with the story of a boating trip
and with a retelling of some other stories, classical and otherwise.
The author explains his title by saying that the book like a loaf, may
be sliced into at either end or the middle, as fancy chooses.”—Engin.
N.

* * * * *

=Engin. N.= 54: 645. D. 14, ’05. 60w.

=Stimson, Frederic Jesup (J. S. of Dale, pseud.).= In cure of her soul. †$1.50. Appleton.

The complications created by a host of characters and a tangle of
events make for this novel a much-involved plot in which the hero who
married in haste, realizes his mistake, finds the woman whom he can
love “as a star,” but renounces her and turns from the giddy world to
sincere endeavor in the field of law and politics. The wife,
meanwhile, develops from a selfish petulant girl who loves the
admiration of other men and the ways of a flashy vulgar social set,
into a wife and mother worthy of the husband to whom she is re-united
on the eve of his greatest political victory. The whole is an argument
against divorce.

* * * * *

– =Bookm.= 23: 639. Ag. ’06. 510w.

“With certain marked faults of style and some looseness of
construction, Mr. Stimson’s new novel is none the less one of the few
genuinely valuable contributions to fiction of the year. Would that
its like were more common.”

+ + – =Critic.= 49: 287. S. ’06. 360w.

“In failing to work out this problem psychologically, the author has
missed a great opportunity, and to a certain extent disappointed us in
the expectations which might reasonably be based upon the title he has
chosen for his work.” Wm. M. Payne.

– + =Dial.= 41: 37. Jl. 16. ’06. 480w.

“Whether or not Mr. Stimson wrote his latest book keeping pace with a
serial, it has faults which a serial form imposes. The lessons of the
book are mainly noble ones developed with much generous interpretation
of motive, much poetic breadth of vision.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 59. Jl. 19, ’06. 490w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.

“Excision and compression would have added greatly to the value of a
striking book.”

– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 441. Jl. 7, ’06. 720w.

“It lacks a certain vitality which makes some stories popular, a
certain brilliancy of touch or definiteness of characterization which
carries other stories to great audiences; but it is a clean, clear,
strong piece of work.”

+ =Outlook.= 83: 801. Je. 30, ’06. 320w.

=Stodola, Aurel.= Steam turbines; with an appendix on gas turbines and the future of heat engines. *$4.50. Van Nostrand.

+ + =Nature.= 75: 50. N. 15, ’06. 100w.

=Stokely, Edith Keeley, and Hurd, Marian Kent.= Miss Billy. †$1.50. Lothrop.

“The story is pleasant and cheering, and it contains a lesson that we
all need.”

+ =Cath. World.= 82: 122. Ap. ’06. 150w.

=Stoker, Bram (Abraham).= Reminiscences of Sir Henry Irving. *$7.50. Macmillan.

Mr. Stoker, for many years Mr. Irving’s business manager, writes from
first-hand information. “Of Irving, as a man and manager—a personality
potent, intellectual, indomitable, ambitious, honorable, tender,
imperious, picturesque, and fascinating—he gives a most at-

* * * * *

“Here, at last, the man lives for us in the pages of his friend; here,
at last, we catch the sense of his greatness, which makes all the
gossip and chatter seem dustier and dryer than before. Three things in
the book are of importance: the account of Sir Henry’s views on his
art; the financial history of his management and his attitude towards
the contemporary dramatist.”

+ + – =Acad.= 71: 369. O. 13, ’06. 1090w.

“Mr. Stoker has failed to endow his sketch with life. The outline is
conventional where it is not vague, and the filling in shows a decided
want of the sense of proportion.”

– =Blackwood’s M.= 180: 613. N. ’06. 4360w.

“This tribute of love and admiration which his sorrowful lieutenant
lays upon his tomb is not the least of his honours.” I. Ranken Towse.

+ =Bookm.= 24: 367. D. ’06. 1120w.

=Current Literature.= 41: 659. D. ’06. 880w.

“His candid Reminiscences have opened the actor’s life and character
to the public. The wit, the wisdom, the anecdote, the talk by famous
men and about them, the strangeness and vivacity of many of the
incidents and eminence of many of the characters, combine to render
the work fascinating and instructive.” Ingram A. Pyle.

+ + + =Dial.= 41: 276. N. 1, ’06. 1540w.

“The book may often enough provoke a good-humoured smile, but it is of
first rate interest for the light it throws on one who was, in his
line, a great man, and none the less welcome because it incidentally
records the entirely honourable career of that man’s faithful friend.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 353. O. 19, ’06. 1310w.

“‘For my own part the work which I have undertaken in this book is to
show future minds something of Henry Irving as he was to me.’ So says
Bram Stoker, in his preface to these two bulky volumes of personal
reminiscences, and no one, after reading them, can deny that to this
extent at least he has fully and ably accomplished his purpose.”

+ + – =Nation.= 83: 334. O. 18, ’06. 1820w.

“It is not a biography at all, but it presents such a picture of Henry
Irving from the beginning of his career to his last performance, as
has not been hitherto accessible. As a gossip Mr. Stoker is always
amiable.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 674. O. 13. ’06. 1890w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 801. D. ’06. 130w.

“Other shortcomings there are in these volumes besides the failure to
make known to us the real Irving—Irving the man as distinguished from
Irving the actor. But, after all is said, this is a book to be
grateful for, a book that will be of deep interest to gentlemen of
‘the profession,’ and an important contribution to the history of the
English stage.”

+ – =Outlook.= 84: 713. N. 24, ’06. 860w.

“Within the limitations laid down for himself by the author, however,
the work is brimful of interest as a contribution not only to the
history of the technical advance of the stage during half a century,
but to that of its social rise as well.”

+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 382. D. ’06. 320w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 757. D. ’06. 280w.

=Stone, Gertrude Lincoln, and Fickett, Mary Grace.= Days and deeds of a hundred years ago. *35c. Heath.

Under the headings: Two heroes of a “Far old year” (1780), From
Massachusetts to Ohio (1787), The inauguration of Washington (1789),
The story of the cotton gin (1793), The Parkers’ moving and settling
(1798), The success of Robert Fulton (1807), A canal journey (1826),
Kindling a fire (1828), A railroad story (1830), The electric
telegraph (1844), are told stories of a hundred years ago which will
make those days seem real to the children of today.

=Stoner, Burton.= Squeaks and squawks from far-away forests: a sequel to Jim Crow tales; il. by C: Livingston Bull. $1. Saalfield.

All about the first, second and third floor dwellers in White oak
castle—which, unshorn of its romance, is a plain old oak tree. The
animals and birds that tenant it furnish bits of wisdom and
entertainment for juveniles.

=Strang, Herbert.= Brown of Moukden: a story of the Russo-Japanese war; il. by W. Rainey. †$1.50. Putnam.

Mr. Strang’s story is “an exciting narrative reciting the adventures
of an English youth—Jack Brown—the son of a British merchant doing
business in Moukden at the outbreak of the recent war between Russia
and Japan.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Herbert Strang may be congratulated on another first-rate book.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 720. N. 25. 100w.

+ =Critic.= 48: 574. Je. ’06. 80w.

“The fault of the story is that it is too long, and, to tell the
truth, is sometimes tedious. Yet there is more good matter in it than
in most of the kind.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 385. N. 10, ’05. 150w.

“A good story for boys.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 197. Mr. 31, ’06. 510w.

“An admirable piece of work.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 761. Mr. 31, ’06. 110w.

“Is certainly a success.”

+ =Spec.= 95: sup. 791. N. 18, ’05. 810w.

=Strasburger, Eduard.= Rambles on the Riviera; tr. from the German by O. and B. Comerford Casey. *$5. Scribner.

While in the main it is the botanist who studies his flowers for the
reader’s benefit, yet in more than plants does he use his powers of
observation. Descriptions of people, their surroundings, and the
changes that the seasons make in both are to be found in the book, as
well as intimate knowledge of the local flora. The illustrations
reproduce almost every plant presented in the text.

* * * * *

“One’s interest in his luxuriously printed and illustrated book is
primarily scientific.” Wallace Rice.

+ =Dial.= 41: 392. D. 1, ’06. 120w.

“As a writer, he is a true impressionist, making some times a single
line or a touch of color tell a long story. This record then, is an
attractive, as well as sound guide-book.”

+ + =Nation.= 83: 471. N. 29, ’06. 740w.

“This luxurious—one might truly say luxuriant—book is pre-eminently
the work of a scientific mind which would remove itself as far as
possible from reposeless, useless, pleasure-seeking modern life and
find rest and acquire knowledge in a contemplation of nature.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 770. N. 24, ’06. 670w.

“Does for the Riviera something of the service that Mr. Thomas’s
[‘Heart of England’] does for England.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 704. N. 24, ’06. 170w.

“Dr. Strasburger suggests a pursuit which would give novel zest to the
walks of the dilettante sojourner.”

+ =Sat. R.= 102: 711. D. 8, ’06. 910w.

=Streamer, Col. D., pseud. (Harry Graham).= More misrepresentative men. **$1. Fox.

+ =Critic.= 48: 384. Ap. ’06. 230w.

+ =Ind.= 60: 344. F. 8. ’06. 70w.

=Streatfeild, Richard A.= Modern music and musicians. $2.75. Macmillan.

In this volume the author has made studies of most of the greater
composers from the time of Palestrina to the present day, attempting
to trace the growth of the idea of a poetic basis in music.

* * * * *

“Our author—somewhat impulsive, and ... not always charitable—may now
and again irritate us, but there is more to be learnt from him than
from one who follows custom, and therefore displays little or no
individuality.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 702. D. 1. 850w.