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“The best that can be said for it is that no doubt it will yield a
number of amiable persons a certain harmless enjoyment; the worst,
that there is no reason why it should have been written at all.”

− =Acad.= 73: 194. N. 30, ’07. 230w.

“Mrs. Shorter’s characters are skillfully and sympathetically drawn.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 400. O. 5. 180w.

“[Only one] small blot on a story that within its little limits has
the qualities of a work of art.”

+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 317. O. 18, ’07. 330w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 50w.

=Shurter, Edwin DuBois=, ed. Masterpieces of modern oratory. *$l. Ginn.

7–3094.

A group of oratorical masterpieces which have been collected with a
view of offering them to students as models for study.

* * * * *

“Professor Shurter has made a good collection of orations, but he has
committed the usual editor’s fault of presenting them incompletely.”

+ − =Educ. R.= 34: 209. S. ’07. 70w.

“Hence we are inclined to place a high value on a book which contains
such well-chosen selections. Professor Shurter has done his task
well.” H. E. Coblentz.

+ =School R.= 15: 554. S. ’07. 740w.

=Sichel, Walter Sydney.= Emma. Lady Hamilton from new and original sources and documents, together with an appendix of notes and new letters. *$5. Dodd.

6–1105.

The important contribution which Mr. Sichel has to make to the story
of Lady Hamilton throws light chiefly upon her relations with Nelson.

* * * * *

“Mr. Sichel’s book is more than a biography of this remarkable woman;
it might almost be called a history. His net is all-embracing and his
capacity for taking pains is great.”

+ =Acad.= 69: 1259. D. 2. ’05. 880w.

+ − =Ath.= 1905, 2: 540. O. 21. 180w.

“There can be no doubt that the author’s treatment of the whole
subject is far more complete and authoritative than that of Mr. Cordy
Jeaffreson.” W.

+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 829. O. ’06. 300w.

“His volume is in large measure an apologia for Lady Hamilton, nearly
always ingenious, but sometimes a little too ‘precious’ in tone and
not very often quite convincing.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 4: 356. O. 27, ’05. 1970w.

“His pages continuously shock the reader acquainted with the period,
not by gross lapses, but by constant petty distortions that are too
minute to criticise, and that may be best summed up as indicating a
complete lack of the historical sense. It is essentially this that
robs the book of value.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 376. N. 1, ’06. 780w.

“He has collected an enormous amount of valuable material, which he
has arranged with picturesque effect, and a real dramatic sense. His
style is careless and diffuse, and in the attempt to be forcible and
expressive, he becomes strained and affected.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 100: 697. N. 25, ’05. 2260w.

“This is a marvel of industry, enthusiasm, and of special pleading.”

+ − =Spec.= 95: 978. D. 9, ’05. 2250w.

=Sidgwick, Arthur, and Sidgwick, Eleanor Mildred (Mrs. Arthur Sidgwick).= Henry Sidgwick—a memoir. *$4. Macmillan.

6–18307.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“To all who can feel the attraction of a noble mind spending itself in
the search for truth this biography must be of compelling interest.”
F. Melian Stawell.

+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 241. Ja. ’07. 1360w.

“It gives a reflected picture of the intellectual changes in British
thought from 1860–1900.” John Dewey.

+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 133. Mr. ’07. 1100w.

=Sidgwick, Cecily Ullmann.= Kinsman. $1.50. Macmillan.

7–4161.

Another amusing comedy founded upon a case of mistaken identity. A
young Englishman having closed out his interests in Australia comes to
England to visit his kinsman, Colonel Blois, whose heir he is. Upon
his arrival he meets his double who is a distant cousin and a
worthless cockney clerk. The clerk, believing that his cousin has been
drowned while in swimming, impersonates him to the confusion of his
well-bred relatives and the joy of the reader. But in the end
everything is straightened out and several love affairs come to a
happy ending. The whole is amusing and the character of the weak,
pleasure-loving clerk is exceedingly well drawn.

* * * * *

“An entertaining book, one of the best Mrs. Sidgwick has written.”

+ + =Acad.= 72: 143. F. 9, ’07. 260w.

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 110. Ap. ’07. ✠

“The story does not aim at a high standard of literary excellence, but
is wholesome and mildly amusing.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 221. F. 23. 140w.

“A distinctly amusing story, in which there is not for an instant any
doubt which are the real hero and heroine.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 25: 89. Mr. ’07. 370w.

“An exceptionally bright and entertaining work of fiction.” Wm. M.
Payne.

+ =Dial.= 42: 377. Je. 16, ’07. 350w.

“Is just conventional enough, foolish enough, pleasant enough, to be
an excellent thing of its kind.”

+ =Nation.= 84: 157. F. 14, ’07. 380w.

“An amusing, neatly built story, entertaining enough while it is being
read and of no consequence afterward.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 120. F. 23, ’07. 310w.

“Is rather rampant in fun, but is in that way decidedly amusing.”

+ =Outlook.= 85: 479. F. 23, ’07. 70w.

=Sat. R.= 103: 465. Ap. 13, ’07. 230w.

“Capital specimen of fantastic comedy, bordering at times on farce,
yet relieved in the case of Roger and Pamela with graceful and
chivalrous sentiment.”

+ =Spec.= 97: 219. F. 9, ’07. 800w.

=Siegfried, Andre.= Race question in Canada. *$3. Appleton.

7–22822.

Canada in its social, economic and political aspects. “Part 1,
considers the rival races and religions, and gives a full and
instructive view of the influences exerted by Roman Catholicism and by
Protestantism. In part 2, the political life of Canada is described in
ten chapters. The balance of power and influence forms the topic of
part 3, and part 4, treats of Canada’s external relations, and
endeavors to discuss the question of her probable future.” (N. Y.
Times.)

* * * * *

“His book is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of a subject
full of interest.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 619. O. 12, ’07. 200w.

“This volume written apparently for the French kinsmen of French
Canadians, is both interesting and illuminating for us.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 359. O. 19, ’07. 360w.

“This is an interesting book.”

+ =Spec.= 98: 724. My. 4, ’07. 230w.

=Sigerson, George.= Bards of the Gael and Gall: examples of the poetic literature of Erin, done into English after the meters and modes of the Gael. *$1.50. Scribner.

A second edition of this anthology of translated Gaelic poetry. “It
follows the plan of the first edition in giving in historical series
specimens of verses from the earliest known to that of recent times
and in essaying to present them in the spirit, form, and structure of
the originals. Several new versions have been introduced into this
edition to illustrate different periods and show different styles.”
(N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Taken as a whole, we may say that the pieces have been well
translated.... Had he omitted two-thirds of the pieces in the present
volume, he would have strengthened his case considerably. By winnowing
the chaff from the grain he might have convinced the average reader
that ancient Ireland had a literature equal to, if not greater than,
that of the Greeks.”

+ − =Acad.= 72: 135. F. 9, ’07. 1950w.

“A good index would have enhanced the value of the book”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 311. My. 11, ’07. 320w.

=Silberrad, Una L.= Good comrade. †$1.50. Doubleday.

7–30840.

An English story with part of its scene laid in Holland. Julia
Polkington the most self-respecting member of a family noted for
“shifty expedients” takes a place as “lady help” in a Dutch
bulb-grower’s family. Her aim is to get possession of a certain bulb,
sell it, and so pay a home debt. Her honor prevents her. But she does
steal from a Dutch chemist, by whom she is later employed, a valuable
explosive and turns it over to her father’s creditor, who tried to
secure it, and who is now her lover. The girl’s marriage finally
crowns the meagre happenings of a restless life.

* * * * *

“She has given a description of ‘bourgeois’ Holland which is both
vivid and true.”

+ + =Acad.= 73: 707. Jl. 20, ’07. 300w.

“The author appeals insistently to our intelligence and sympathy, and
has produced an exceptionally good novel.”

+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 630. My. 25. 150w.

“In spite of the fancifulness of the plot and the conventionality of
the hero the book is not a silly one.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 474. N. 21, ’07. 260w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

“Altogether it is such a book in its literary and artistic quality as
American novelists do not seem able to write—or, if they can write
such a book, which they are not able to get published. The get-up of
the book deserves a word of reproof. Its proof-reading is so
atrocious. errors frequently marring the sense, as to be a disgrace.”

+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 677. O. 26, ’07. 810w.

“The ethics of a man, who is represented as ‘possessing the code of
honor of a gentleman,’ seem peculiar. This is the only weak spot in
the story that maintains its hold on the reader throughout. The
character-painting is clever, the dialogue natural, and the humor
gentle and pleasing.”

+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 450. O. 26, ’07. 190w.

“Will do nothing to lower the high reputation which Miss Silberrad has
made in the ranks of the novel-writers of to-day.”

+ =Spec.= 98: 908. Je. 8, ’07. 180w.

=Sill, Edward Rowland.= Poetical works. $1.50. Houghton.

6–35717.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 15. Ja. 07.

=Simpson, M. W. Hilton-.= Algiers and beyond. **$3.50. Appleton.

The author’s narrative covers two expeditions into remote parts of
Algiers. “The first expedition extended into the Khabylie country, the
mountain region close to the coast, and after that to Biskra, within
the borders of the Sahara.... The second expedition was into the
region called Petit Sahara, and the author was for a time the guest of
the Khalifa of Roumania, Belcassem Ben Toumy by name, and a most
genial and agreeable personage.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Where he allowed his own mother-wit to guide him, the author’s
versions of what he saw are admirably shrewd and generally accurate.
He writes as a sportsman, and his information under this head is of a
useful and practical sort.”

+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 579. N. 10. 360w.

“What one may see and do in the back country of Algeria is very
agreeably set forth.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 450w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 40w.

“Likely to be helpful to the visitor to Algiers who wishes to extend
his acquaintance with that most interesting country.”

+ =Spec.= 98: 297. F. 23, ’07. 60w.

=Sinclair, May.= Audrey Craven. †$1.50. Holt.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The book is a competent study of ‘a small creature struggling with
things too great,’ and it makes the reader uncomfortable.”

+ − =Putnam’s.= 1: 640. F. ’07. 90w.

=Sinclair, May.= Helpmate. †$1.50. Holt.

7–25509.

While Walter and Anne Majendie are upon their honeymoon rumors reach
the wife of scandal attached to her husband’s name. Anne at once
enters the cloister of her own spiritual high mindedness thereby
securing for herself a “sort of spiritual divorce from him, while she
martyrised her body which was wedded to him.” Miss Sinclair delineates
intimately the cold virtue of the wife as by degrees it drives away
the half boyish, genuinely honest and wholly devoted husband who seeks
consolation in a little shop girl. Only after terrible suffering does
Anne realize that Walter has kept all his marriage vows except one,
and she had broken all of hers, except one. Her understanding comes as
a surprise, and permits the curtain to be rung down upon a happier
group than seems possible from the stand point of logic.

* * * * *

“It is a tribute to Miss Sinclair’s skill that she has not made Anne a
bore; she is interesting as well as unpleasant.”

+ + =Acad.= 73: 929. S. 21, ’07. 430w.

“Whether it has a place in a large library or not, there is no excuse
for the small library putting money into it, first because it has
appeared serially in the ‘Atlantic’ during the year and is, therefore,
accessible to those who desire it, and second, because it should be
consigned to the restricted shelves for which there is no need in the
small library.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 181. O. ’07.

“Unusually well-constructed and interesting.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 204. Ag. 24. 170w.

“This novel of Miss Sinclair’s is one of more than ordinary power and
with a more pressing raison d’être than have most novels, but it is
almost certain that those who might draw from it a profitable idea are
not the ones who will read it.” Dolores Bacon.

+ + =Bookm.= 26: 276. N. ’07. 1030w.

“We may say at once that it is not as remarkable a performance as its
predecessor, but we must quickly add that it is so far above the run
of novels as to afford a high degree of intellectual satisfaction.”
Wm. M. Payne.

+ + =Dial.= 43: 250. O. 16, ’07. 520w.

“The ‘Helpmate’ is one of the most truthful novels written in many a
day and therein lies its dignity and worth.”

+ + =Ind.= 63: 877. O. 10, ’07. 820w.

“Probably the most effective, the most humanly splendid story of the
year comes from May Sinclair.”

+ + =Ind.= 63: 1228. N. 21, ’07. 40w.

“Not that the book is in any sense a sermon. It is far too
artistically and honestly a novel, informed with sagacity of mind, and
admirably distinguished in expression.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 656. N. 2, ’07. 420w.

“A novel which, though abounding in cleverness, must, for various
reasons be held to have missed a success very nearly attained, must on
the whole be regarded as a brilliant failure. I have been tempted to
examine this failure—if so it be—in the light of the British
convention.” Eleanor Cecil.

− + =Living Age.= 255: 579. D. 7, ’07. 6950w.

“‘The helpmate’ stands or falls by its fidelity to the fact. In spite
of certain defects, we think it stands; and stands not only as a
document but as an emotional story. We admire the book immensely; we
admire its skill, its outspokenness, its reticence. Perhaps, most of
all, we admire Miss Sinclair’s sympathetic understanding and
tolerance, beyond that of most married novelists.”

+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 269. S. 6, ’07. 670w.

+ =Nation.= 85: 259. S. 19, ’07. 640w.

“The book contains unforgettable scenes, persons, phrases, and such a
picture of the hardness of a good woman as exists nowhere else in our
literature. If there are minor errors of judgment and lapses of
kindliness, there is nevertheless and always that large charity which
is the outward and visible sign of the inward and spiritual thing
which is Miss Sinclair’s most wonderful gift—the gift of
understanding.” H. I. Brock.

+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 510. Ag. 24, ’07. 1490w.

“It is a good book for some women to read and a dangerous book for
some men. A wider knowledge of life would have made ‘The helpmate’ a
great story.”

+ − =Outlook.= 87: 621. N. 23, ’07. 270w.

“We flatly refuse to believe in the final development of Anne into a
perfectly rational human being, but we strongly commend the novel as a
powerful study of temperament.”

+ + − =Sat. R.= 104: 370. S. 21, ’07. 310w.

=Sinclair, May.= Tysons. $1.50. Holt.

A new edition of Miss Sinclair’s analytically keen inquiry into the
relations of an ill-assorted pair.

=Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr.= Industrial republic: a study of the America ten years hence. **$1.20. Doubleday.

7–18298.

It is of America of ten years hence that Mr. Sinclair writes “not as a
dreamer or as a child, but as a scientist and a prophet.” His theory
of industrial suicide followed by resurrection has grown out of a
careful study of the sociological problems of the day. He predicts
that the industrial crisis will occur in 1912, following the
presidential election of that year, that after that will be
established an industrial republic with Utopian rule.

* * * * *

“It must be admitted that there is a great deal of prophecy, but
little science in this latest attempt to define socialism, while the
reader will be more interested in those portions of the book which
deal with the present and not the future.”

− + =Acad.= 73: 746. Ag. 3, ’07. 700w.

“In many respects his work is comparable with Mr. H. G. Wells’s ‘A
modern Utopia.’ More careless and less methodical with his data than
is Mr. Wells, his analysis of social evils is shrewder and clearer.
His faults are haste and carelessness, an over-indulgence in his own
intellectual caprices, a too unfaltering trust in the infallibility of
his own judgment.”

− + =Ind.= 63: 1060. O. 31, ’07. 840w.

− =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 572. N. ’07. 240w.

“Some socialists are more emotional than others, and Mr. Sinclair is
one of the more. He writes with great vigor and spirit, and makes his
story very interesting. His vision is neither accurate, nor deep, nor
broad, and he must be read with an elastic discount; he rakes the
worst together, and makes the most of it.”

− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 229. Jl. 19, ’07. 1810w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 451. Jl. 20, ’07. 530w.

“His grotesque interpretation of history; ... his utter destitution in
regard to knowledge of economics and political science; his vulgar and
slanderous allusions to men and institutions that he does not
like; ... his exploitation of writers and writing of the most
ephemeral interest and importance; ... all these traits, in which the
book abounds, deprive it and its author of any claim to the
consideration of serious-minded men earnestly bent on improving the
social and political conditions of the moment.”

− − =Spec.= 99: 231. Ag. 17, ’07. 1280w.

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

6–6264.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 27. Ja. ’07.

“If it were possible to cut out the slaughterhouse and merely give the
experience of the immigrant family struggling to find its level in a
cruel new country, it would at once be clear that Mr. Sinclair’s work
had reached a new plane of sincerity.” Mary Moss.

+ + =Atlan.= 99: 122. Ja. ’07. 530w.

Reviewed by Madeleine Z. Doty.

+ − =Charities.= 17: 480. D. 15, ’06. 280w.

=Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr.= Overman. 50c. Doubleday.

7–30837.

A slight story of some hundred pages. “Its narrator is a scientist who
went to the South seas in search of a lost brother and found him on a
tropic island where he had been living entirely alone for twenty
years. At first absorbed in the music he composed, his one earthly
passion, the brother had gradually been led, in his utter solitude, by
contemplation, feeling, and will, to heights of philosophy ever calmer
and wider, until at last mind and will together had enabled him to
break the bonds of flesh and to hold communion with the spiritual
world.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“It has a certain haunting suggestiveness, and enough crudities to
make it exasperating to the critical reader. Like most of Mr.
Sinclair’s work, it is keyed too high emotionally to be quite natural.
And, as usual, he is so concerned with the thing he wants to say that
it never occurs to him even to try to make his characters lifelike and
convincing.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 600. O. 5, ’07. 280w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

=Singleton, Esther.= Dutch and Flemish furniture. **$7.50. McClure.

A companion to Mrs. Singleton’s “French and English furniture.” “It
opens with the splendour of the Burgundian court, where art and luxury
first burst the fetters of stern mediævalism and where peace and
plenty reigned at a time when the lands around were in the grip of
battle or of civil war. It next plunges into the dark history of the
religious wars and the emergence of a burgher state of staid habit and
prudent outlay, though fully esteeming the domicile and eager for its
comfort and adornment. Between the scheme of life of Duke Philip the
Good and his nobles and that of the seventeenth-century Dutchman a
great gulf is fixed, and Mrs. Singleton in her detailed and exhaustive
work gives us ample material to realize the difference.” (Acad.)

* * * * *

“This book deals ably and amply with the story of domestic life and
its material adjuncts in the low countries.”

+ =Acad.= 72: 384. Ap. 20, ’07. 1530w.

“Her choice to deal with the philosophy of the subject and its organic
connexion with history has the disadvantage of rendering her book
unpractical for the ordinary collector or connoisseur.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 672. Je. 1. 660w.

“The author of the letterpress has a quite amiable enthusiasm for her
subject, has read a good deal about and round about it, and has
considerable, if rather vague and desultory, knowledge regarding it.
Unfortunately, she seems to possess little critical or co-ordinative
faculty; her facts are accumulated, not classified; she does not
appear to discriminate between their relative values, or to feel the
necessity of establishing much connexion between them.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 190. Je. 14, ’07. 560w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 10w.

“There are many interesting things in this volume. To the connoisseur
and collector it appeals by its descriptions and delineation of
various articles which are included under the term ‘furniture.’ The
general reader will be mostly attracted by the catalogues and the
narratives of individual owners, of what they possessed and cared
for.”

+ =Spec.= 98: 505. Mr. 30, ’07. 160w.

=Singleton, Esther.= Historic buildings of America as seen and described by famous writers. **$1.60. Dodd.

6–38380.

“By the methods used by Miss Singleton whereby she selects from the
best available writers accounts of the things she wishes to include in
her book, or failing this now and then writes a chapter herself, it is
possible to get a good description of the thing wanted if one is
persistent enough in search.”—Ind.

* * * * *

“Not a remarkable book but contains useful material.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 49. F. ’07. S.

“Miss Singleton has shown more than her customary ingenuity in
unearthing vivid descriptions of the buildings.”

+ =Dial.= 41: 460. D. 16, ’06. 240w.

+ =Ind.= 61: 1405. D. 22, ’06. 70w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 781. N. 24, ’06. 180w.

+ =Outlook.= 84: 704. N. 24, ’06. 50w.

=R. of Rs.= 34: 753. D. ’06. 40w.

* =Singleton, Esther=, ed. Historic landmarks of America as seen and described by famous writers. **$1.60. Dodd.

7–35639.

“The footprints of early settlers, explorers, Indian chiefs, and
soldiers in our various wars, have been followed, so that not only
cities but lakes, mountains, plains, and rivers are described.”
(Dial.) In the present volume the descriptions come from Washington
Irving, Daniel Webster, Francis Parkman, James Anthony Froude, Samuel
Rawson Gardiner, and others.

* * * * *

+ =Dial.= 43: 427. D. 16, ’07. 110w.

+ =Outlook.= 87: 618. N. 23, ’07. 170w.

“On the whole the selections are noteworthy, and well entitled to a
place in a collection of this character.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 757. D. ’07. 100w.

=Singleton, Esther.= Rome as described by great writers. **$1.60. Dodd.

6–40554.

“The selections in the Roman volume not only describe the most famous
buildings of the city and give glimpses of some of its beautiful
environs, but also include accounts of ancient Rome, of the rise of
modern Rome, of social life in the cosmopolitan city, of holy week,
the yearly carnival, and the weekly rag fair. ‘Rome revisited,’ by Mr.
Frederic Harrison, is the final selection—a sort of summary of all the
multiform impressions that have preceded it.”—Dial.

* * * * *

“The editing is not always careful, but in spite of this the book will
be enjoyed by readers who like short sketches and will be useful to
the librarian in reference work.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 73. Mr. ’07. S.

“The volume will make an excellent guidebook for tourists, and those
who have not seen Rome and do not expect to see it will enjoy the
vivid and interesting descriptions and gain much comprehensive
information, well distributed between topography, history,
architecture, and manners and customs.”

+ =Dial.= 41: 460. D. 16, ’06. 130w.

“Unfortunately the text is carelessly handled and misstatements in the
writers quoted are allowed to go uncorrected. The proof-reading, too,
is inexcusably careless. The book is not a credit either to editor or
publisher.”

− − =Nation.= 84: 153. F. 14, ’07. 420w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 787. N. 24, ’06. 120w.

“Miss Singleton makes an interesting and picturesque choice as to
authors.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 1080. D. 29, ’06. 160w.

* =Singleton, Esther.= White House. 2v. **$5. McClure.

Here are brought together things of interest concerning the social
life, relics, and traditions of the White House from the days of John
and Abigail Adams to those of Theodore Roosevelt.

* * * * *

=Dial.= 43: 431. D. 16, ’07. 140w.

+ =Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 90w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 728. N. 16, ’07. 130w.

=Sismondi, Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de.= History of the Italian republic in the middle ages. Entirely recast and supplemented in the light of subsequent historical research, with a memoir of the author, by William Boulting. $2. Dutton.

Mr. Boulting has brought this work up to date, and has divided it into
eight parts each representing a period of Italian history. These parts
are in turn subdivided, dealing separately with the separate
republics; Rome, Milan, Venice, Pisa, Genoa, Florence, and Siena.

* * * * *

“The bibliography is far from satisfactory, and the too frequent lack
of foot-notes, giving chapter and verse for the statements made in the
text, is much to be regretted. The index also needs enlargement and
revision. Yet, with all its faults of omission and commission, the
work remains a monument of painstaking compilation, and not even the
most modest English library which has a shelf for books on things
Italian can do without it.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 364. Ap. 18, ’07. 1630w.

“The reader may feel that he has the substance of Sismondi.”

+ − =Spec.= 98: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 100w.

=Skeat, Walter W., and Blagden, Charles Otto.= Pagan races of the Malay peninsula. 2v. *$13. Macmillan.

7–11553.

The pagans considered in this volume are divided into three races: the
Negritos, or Semang, occupying the Siamese provinces; the Sakai, and
the Jakun in the Straits Settlements and Federal Malay States. “Mr.
Skeat deals with questions of race, physical anthropology. material
culture, religion and magic, Mr. Blagden with the languages.” (Acad.)

* * * * *

“The present work is, in fact, an exhaustive survey of available
material; it will serve as a basis for future progress and smooth the
path of those who attack the numerous problems raised but not solved
by our authors.”

+ + =Acad.= 71: 660. D. 29, ’06. 1260w.

“The conscientious manner in which the authors have performed their
task will enable many future students to excuse themselves from
consulting the great mass of authorities out of which these volumes
have grown. A word of commendation is due to the excellent photographs
with which they are illustrated.”

+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 608. My. 18. 1140w.

“This book may, therefore, be regarded as a standard work, which is
never likely to be superseded. The value of photographs in
anthropological books has long been recognized, but we do not remember
any work of descriptive ethnology so lavishly illustrated as this, not
only with photographs, but with excellent line drawings of native
decorative art. The comparative vocabulary of the dialects collected
by Mr. Blagden is a monument of research.”

+ + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 13. Ja. 11, ’07. 620w.

“Though naturally not a work for the casual reader, it is full of
interesting incidents and vivid pictures of native life, rendered more
graphic by reproductions of photographs.”

+ + =Nation.= 84: 250. Mr. 14, ’07. 860w.

“Accurate though these statements be, they offer but slight indication
of how thoroughly the book is inspired with the experience and
critical knowledge of the authors, and how well the subjects dealt
with have been unified in their hands, a task the difficulty of which
may be judged in part by a consideration of the unsatisfactory nature
of much that has been written as well as by the length of the
bibliography which follows the preface.” C. G. S.

+ + =Nature.= 75: 415. Mr. 14, ’07. 2440w.

“Mr. Skeat’s knowledge of the country has enabled him to weld together
in a satisfactory manner a large number of facts previously published
by other observers, more especially those which are concerned with
material culture: but, unfortunately, the sections dealing with social
life and organisation are extremely imperfect.”

+ + − =Sat. R.= 103: 336. Mr. 16, ’07. 1560w.

“It ought to be studied not only by scientific readers—to whom it is
quite indispensable—but by all who have to deal with the wild races
whom it so fully and sympathetically describes.”

+ + =Spec.= 98: sup. 117. Ja. 26, ’07. 400w.

=Skinner, Robert P.= Abyssinia of to-day; an account of the first mission sent by the American government to the court of the King of Kings. *$3. Longmans.

7–7544.

The present volume is the outgrowth of an expedition to Abyssinia to
treat with Emperor Menelik on commercial relations between that
country and our own. The author’s notes “on this land of grave faces,
elaborate courtesy, classic tone and Biblical civilization, its
history, politics, language, literature, religion and trade, are full
of interest; there are also some valuable hints on the organization
and equipment of a caravan.”

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 129. My. ’07.

“He writes fairly well, though sometimes with an effort at ‘smartness’
which sits ill upon him. There is no index—but there is not much that
needs one.”

+ − =Ath.= 1906. 2: 824. D. 29. 1900w.

“Mr. Skinner had a very fascinating trip, spiced with a good dose of
personal danger; and he shares his enjoyment with whoever reads his
lively, entertaining account of his travels.”

+ =Cath. World.= 84: 408. D. ’06. 510w.

“The account of the journey is uninteresting, being largely taken up
with trivial details. Nor does the author describe in an entertaining
manner the lively incidents of the nine days at the capital.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 293. Mr. 28. ’07. 530w.

“Excellent book.”

+ =Outlook.= 85: 92. Ja. 12, ’07. 470w.

“This is in every way an excellent book; it is pleasantly written and
contains some profitable suggestions.”

+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 651. Ap. 27, ’07. 270w.

=Sladen, Douglas.= Secrets of the Vatican, the palace of the popes. *$5. Lippincott.

7–37968.

The “secrets” of the Vatican are merely its history. Mr. Sladen is
“guide, philosopher and friend” over the course chosen, and tells of
the building of the original palace, the reconstruction of the present
edifice, the Vatican libraries, its galleries and its gardens.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 40w.

“The book has a distinct value. It is well arranged, full of facts.”

+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. S. 28, ’07. 390w.

=Sladen, Douglas.= Sicily, the new winter resort. *$2. Dutton.

W 7–145.

“It is an enchantment to go to the island with him, his study of the
moods, sentiments and temperaments of its people is so subtle,
sensitive and penetrating.... Besides enabling us to enter into the
intimacy of Sicilian life, he furnishes us with bright and vigorous
descriptions of all that is most remarkable among the monuments,
curiosities, products and resources of every kind of the
country.”—Ind.

* * * * *

“So intimate and so thorough is Mr. Sladen’s familiarity with his
subject, and so careful his explanations, that the reader will not
easily discover any shortcomings in the book.”

+ + =Cath. World.= 86: 253. N. ’07. 190w.

“_The_ book for travelers in Sicily, packed with history and good
advice.”

+ + =Ind.= 62: 1358. Je. 6, ’07. 110w.

“Very practical book.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 195. Mr. 30, ’07. 230w.

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

6–29757.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=Am. J. Theol.= 11: 183. Ja. ’07. 80w.

=Slattery, Rev. Charles Lewis.= Master of the world: a study of Christ. **$1.50. Longmans.

6–45051.

“The book attempts to interpret Jesus Christ in the light of modern
scholarship, but at the same time to fuse with the primary sources of
information concerning him all the subsequent doctrines which have
grown up around his person.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“Too large an undertaking to allow of much success.”

− =Ind.= 62: 102. Ja. 10, ’07. 60w.

“The endeavor to make a clear, consistent, historical picture by
combining all New Testament documents as of equal weight, is a
considerable undertaking: and when Dean Slattery proposes to add to
his sources all the dogmas of the ages, and even ‘all the present
faith,’ one must admire his daring, rather than respect his historical
judgment.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 105. Ja. 31, ’07. 280w.

“Written from a conservative standpoint, the volume is free from
dogmatism, while leading up to the teaching of the Nicene creed.”

+ =Outlook.= 85: 46. Ja. 5, ’07. 170w.

=Slicer, Thomas R.= Way to happiness. **$1.25. Macmillan.

7–6629.

The chapter headings furnish a suggestion of the scope of the book.
The call to the way: the search; The way of the stoic: happiness by
self-control; the way of the Epicurean: happiness by pleasure; The way
of the altruist: one’s self and the other; The way of worship:
happiness by inspiration; The way the holy peace: happiness at home;
The way of freedom: happiness by liberty; The way to the heights: the
vision and the dream; The end of the way: blessedness and peace.

* * * * *

“Mr. Slicer seems not to have grasped the truth revealed in Professor
Hilty’s book, ‘The steps of life.’”

+ − =Cath. World.= 86: 402. Je. ’07. 130w.

“Teaches convincingly that happiness comes through our activities, not
through our passivities, and through living to the spirit rather than
to the flesh.”

+ =Dial.= 42: 231. Ap. 1, ’07. 200w.

“His English is tangled and involved, so that the meaning of many
passages is difficult to unravel.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.

− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 185. Mr. 30, ’07. 1140w.

“The missing note, if any, in the book is of sympathy and
encouragement for those that have lost heart and feel driven to the
wall.”

+ − =Outlook.= 85: 719. Mr. 23, ’07. 170w.

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

6–35989.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“It is, of course, granted that a mature and skilled reader, hardened
to petty defects, able to sift the good from the indifferent, can find
much of interest in the book, but why should we rest content until
only lucid, straightforward, truly scholarly and invigorating
textbooks be provided the student of that eminently rational
profession, engineering.” Lewis J. Johnson.

− + =Engin. N.= 56: 632. D. 13, ’06. 1900w.

“It should prove of great service to those who are actively engaged in
engineering design.”

+ =Nature.= 75: 484. Mr. 21, ’07. 610w.

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

6–23320.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=Nature.= 75: 298. Ja. 24, ’07. 150w.

=Small, Albion W.= Adam Smith and modern sociology: a study in the methodology of the social sciences. **$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.

7–32182.

A book written in the interest of a more conscious and systematic
partnership between economists and sociologists. It is a development
of the following argument: Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to
take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which
was implicit in Adam Smith’s moral philosophy, but which was surpassed
for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the
production of wealth.

* * * * *

“Dr. Small in his extremely suggestive book puts the case very
strongly, but while he clearly points out a number of trails, he does
not follow them to the end.” Garrett Droppers.

+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 558. N. ’07. 850w.

“In the main, however, we feel that Professor Small has failed to make
out his case, and has, indeed, exposed himself in places to obvious
and severe criticism.”

− + =Outlook.= 87: 788. D. 7, ’07. 410w.

=Small, Albion Woodbury.= General sociology. *$4. Univ. of Chicago press.

5–32452.

Descriptive note in December, 1905.

Reviewed by Robert E. Bisbee.

− =Arena.= 37: 332. Mr. ’07. 140w.

“In his great anxiety that the world should realise that there is only
one science, and that sociology is its name, we perceive some of the
anxiety, awkwardness, and spitefulness of epithet which are associated
with those who are endeavouring to force a protégé on to persons of
another class. Professor Small deserves severe treatment at the hand
of a reviewer, for, well meaning and well informed though he is, he
has allowed himself to speak of scientific thinkers in all branches of
thought with the contemptuous manner that is usually associated with
imperfect appreciation of real issues.”

− =Spec.= 96: sup. 1012 Je. 30, ’06. 1040w.

=Smalley, Harrison Standish.= Railroad rate control in its legal aspects: a study of the effect of judicial decisions upon public regulation of railroad rates. $1. Macmillan.

6–26074.

“This work consists of an introductory chapter on the public
regulation of rates, three chapters on the doctrine of judicial
review, two on the results of the doctrine, and a concluding chapter
specifying certain remedies. Under this head the writer suggests a
plan for compensation to the railroad for property taken.”—R. of Rs.

* * * * *

“He sets forth fully and clearly the doctrine of judicial review.”
William Hill.

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 638. D. ’06. 720w.

=R. of Rs.= 34: 383. S. ’06. 90w.

=Smedley, Anne Constance.= Conflict. †$1.50. Moffat.

7–9556.

“The key-note of the story is conflict.... Mary van Heyten is a born
fighter, from the moment when, alone and friendless, she wrests her
daily bread from a cruel world, to the day on which, still struggling
she is appropriated by a stronger nature than her own.... The book,
apart from the fact that it deals with an important problem of the
day, is an interesting character study.”—Acad.

* * * * *

+ =Acad.= 72: 297. Mr. 23, ’07. 200w.

“One would be tempted to call it distinctly clever, were it not that
this particular phrase conveys a patronising tone, which in the
present instance is undeserved.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ + =Bookm.= 25: 392. Je. ’07. 430w.

“Nearly all the men are hard, if not brutal. As to woman. Miss
Smedley’s opinion of her potentialities is nowhere in doubt. Yet she
does not obtrude it.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 85. Mr. 15, ’07. 740w.

“The present story is weakened by exaggerations—possibly it is a lack
of assurance in dealing with realities. There is a certain integrity
about the book; a definite idea and purpose. It is an attack on false
ideals of womanhood ... and while the plot presents no very convincing
solution, the story touches the interest because the writer had
something genuine to say.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 287. My. 4, ’07. 460w.

“Miss Smedley is decidedly clever; she has an eye for character, a
vivacious style and other valuable gifts, but her talent totters under
the burden of the abstract proposition she has undertaken to
demonstrate.” Vernon Atwood.

− + =Putnam’s.= 2: 617. Ag. ’07. 460w.

“The critic cannot but regret that a story with so promising an
opening should not attain to the level which seems to be promised by
the first few chapters.”

+ − =Spec.= 98: 579. Ap. 13, ’07. 160w.

=Smith, A. Croxton.= British dogs at work; with 20 full-page il. in colour by G. Vernon Stokes. *$3. Macmillan.

“A brief history is given in the first chapter of ‘Man’s first
friend.’ Then come discussions of kennels and their construction, how
to buy a dog, the feeding and rearing of the animals, their general
management, hounds at work, shooting dogs, the terriers, the science
of breeding, and a description of some of the common dog ailments.
Among the twenty dogs described and portrayed are the pointer, otter
hound, deerhound, English setter, Clumber and Sussex spaniels, Irish
setter, retriever, bulldog, and collie.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 857. D. 8, ’06. 340w.

“The author is so frank and modest about his work that he disarms
criticism.”

+ =Sat. R.= 102: 682. D. 1, ’06 140w.

“The illustrations in colour ... are full of life, pleasant in colour
and will delight an artist or a dog-lover. The text ... is very
readable, but not very thorough or practical.”

+ − =Spec.= 98. 216. F. 9, ’07. 180w.

=Smith, A. Elizabeth Wager-.= Primer of skat. *75c. Lippincott.

7–16502.

A thorogoing little handbook of a card game that “offers unlimited
opportunity for strategic play and well-balanced judgment.”

=Smith, Albert William, and Marx, Guido Hugo.= Machine design. $3. Wiley.

5–39881.

“The authors ... have devoted the first five chapters to discussions
of the general principles of kinematics which underlie the design of
all classes of machinery.... In the sixth chapter the question of the
proportions of machine parts as dictated by stress is taken up....
Fastenings, including rivets, and bolts and nuts, are then
considered.... The design of axles and shafts and of their
bearings ... is very fully treated in several chapters; and then
follow details of the design of couplings.... Fly-wheels and toothed
wheel gearing are taken up in the next two chapters.... In the
concluding chapter ... the proportions and best shapes for machine
frames are discussed.”—Nature.

* * * * *

“All the figures are clear, and the important points in the design
which they are intended to illustrate are easily followed. The book
should prove a useful text-book for engineering students in their
first and second years’ courses in machine design.” T. H. B.

+ =Nature.= 75: 172. D. 20, ’06. 490w.

=Smith, Alexander.= Dreamthorp: a book of essays written in the country, with biographical and critical introd. by John Hogben. *$1. Kennerley.

A new edition of Dreamthorp which revives a work first published in
1863.

* * * * *

“Those who are not familiar with Alexander Smith’s prose, with its
happy turns and occasionally daring tropes may put down the book as
worth buying and reading.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 800w.

=Spec.= 96: 719. My. 5, ’06. 60w.

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

6–7325.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The book is well up to date, and has been written with great care.”

+ − − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 294. Mr. 9. 430w.

“Prof. Smith has met the difficulties of his task with great skill,
and has given us a very judicious and well-balanced selection of the
facts of inorganic chemistry with a body of theoretical information
little less than is to be found in a fairly advanced work on physical
chemistry.” Arthur Smithells.

+ + − =Nature.= 75: sup. 4. Mr. 14, ’07. 900w.

=Smith, Mrs. Alice Prescott.= Montlivet. †$1.50. Houghton.

6–33573.

“The end of the seventeenth century in Canada, English and French
rivalries, Indian friends and foes, and a prisoner—such are the old
materials for a new story into which Mrs. Smith infuses life and
freshness.” (Acad.) The story interest centers about Armand de
Montlivet, a French trader, and an English prisoner, Mary Starling in
disguise, whom Montlivet rescues.

* * * * *

“The story of these adventurous lovers is more than merely exciting,
it is fascinating, and delightfully told.”

+ =Acad.= 71: 553. D. 1, ’06. 140w.

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 217. N. ’06.

“An exceptionally interesting piece of work, one which may perhaps be
described as similar to the romances of the late Mrs. Catherwood with
an added infusion of virility.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ + =Dial.= 42: 17. Ja. 1, ’07. 230w.

“The book has unusual merit.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 280w.

“Is rare if not unique among stories of warfare with Indians, for it
contains no scenes of horror, and yet never allows a reader a moment’s
rest from the dread of horrors to come.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 728. N. 3, ’06. 180w.

=Smith, Arthur Henderson.= China and America to-day: a study of conditions and relations. **$1.25. Revell.

7–26625.

In the course of the study America’s unpopularity in eastern Asia is
shown to be due to her immigration laws which favor Japan and
discriminate against China. “In the main the present volume is a
discussion of China’s relations, present and future, with the United
States, in which an exceedingly interesting historical sketch is
given, incidentally of the Celestial empire.” (Lit. D.)

* * * * *

“We have here in brief space a vivid picture of old but rapidly
changing conditions and relations.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 942. O. 17, ’07. 180w.

“The book is filled with interesting revelations of Chinese life and
customs and promises to occupy an authoritative place among the many
volumes recently published dealing with the problems of the Far East.”

+ =Lit. D.= 35: 490. O. 5, ’07. 640w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 449. Jl. 20, ’07. 2100w.

=Smith, Arthur Henderson.= Uplift of China. 50c. Young people’s missionary movement.

7–38590.

A book for missionaries and for use in Sunday schools. It “gives a
bird’s eye view of old China, the China that has persisted unchanged
for so many thousand years, and of the forces now at work breaking up
and changing the unchangeable and making a new China that is
attracting the anxious and interested eyes of all the rest of the
world.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 190w.

“One of the ablest missionaries in China has packed this volume with
an amount of information about ‘old’ China and ‘new’ nowhere else to
be found in the same compass.”

+ + =Outlook.= 86: 792. Ag. 10, ’07. 190w.

=Smith, Bertram.= Whole art of caravanning; being personal experiences in England and Scotland; with 6 il. from photographs. $1. Longmans.

“England and Scotland furnish the scenery, the stamping ground, the
night’s lodging, and the caravan is nothing more or less than the
covered wagon the gypsies use as house and home. The narrative sets
forth the experiences of the author, Bertram Smith, traveling in the
United Kingdom in such a wagon and camping in it when he had no mind
to be moving or a particular reason for stopping. His object is to
show how a holiday can be spent in this way, with what delight and
satisfaction.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“Its title is perhaps a little over-ambitious, for it does not cover
the ‘whole art’ to which he refers; and the reader who, with this
guide, decides to spend a summer holiday in a caravan, will find that
there are points he must elucidate for himself, though he will find a
number of useful hints. The book is nicely illustrated from sketches
and photographs: and the reminiscent vein in which it has been written
is pleasantly humorous.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 574. My. 11. 110w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.

* =Smith, Bertram T. K.= How to collect postage stamps. *$2. Macmillan.

A book for the advanced collector of stamps which gives information
regarding values, rarities, forgeries, reprints and numerous other
matters included in the field of philately.

* * * * *

+ =Ind.= 63: 1178. N. 14, ’07. 120w.

“Excellently printed and amply illustrated.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 540. D. 12, ’07. 40w.

“For ... the timid lovers of manuals, why this is a very good little
book, and it should turn out spurious gipsies by the score.”

+ =Spec.= 99: 206. Ag. 10, ’07. 160w.

=Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomasina.= Colonel’s conquest. †$1.50. Jacobs.

7–29156.

The story of a frivolous mother’s awakening to womanliness and mother
love through the devotion of her little lame child. The book contains
a lesson for grown up readers even tho written for the young.

=Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomasina (formerly L. T. Meade).= Hill top girl. †$1.50. Lippincott.

Mrs. Smith’s story “exhibits the familiar contrast between rich and
poor, worldly and unworldly households. The humble folk dwell on the
top of the hill, the great folk in the plain below, and this
symbolizes their relative position from an ethical point of view. A
sudden girl-friendship that springs up between the two houses is
discouraged by the hill-top father Prof. Primrose; and the rebellion
against his decree occupies the greater part of the story.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“The fault of the over-accentuation appears throughout.”

− =Ath.= 1906, 2: 652. N. 24. 160w.

“For American girls there will be all the charm of the unaccustomed in
the ‘Hill-top girl.’”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 120w.

− =Sat. R.= 102: 742. D. 15, ’06. 340w.

=Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomasina.= Little school mothers: a story for girls. 75c. McKay.

7–21231.

A boarding-school story for girls whose chief interest centers about a
contest which is designed to reveal the girl best fitted to become the
school-mother of a motherless child.

* =Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Tomasina (formerly L. T. Meade).= Three girls from school. †$1.50. Lippincott.

A story which centers about a trio of English school girls. The most
intellectual of the three learns that she must leave school for
financial reasons; the wealthy one learns that by winning a certain
prize her cherished hope of leaving school and traveling with an aunt
in France will be realized; while the third, an unscrupulous minx, is
a go-between who bribes the honest Priscilla to turn over her essay to
the girl whose pleasure depends upon winning the prize, in
consideration for which Priscilla is to remain in school. This
dishonesty followed by a series of tricks to support it causes no end
of complication and humiliation.

=Smith, Elmer Boyd.= Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith; told and pictured by E. Boyd Smith. **$2.50. Houghton.

6–42437.

Here the story of America’s first “international romance” is told in
picture as well as in text. There are twenty-six colored plates “full
of spirit and beauty, and not without sly touches of humor at the
expense of everybody concerned.” (Dial.)

* * * * *

“Mr. Smith’s style is unique; all phases of it get full play in the
new volume.”

+ + =Dial.= 41: 460. D. 16, ’06. 180w.

“The pictures are vivid enough to render the text ‘rather a luxury
than a necessity.’”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 180w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 253. Ap. 20, ’07. 50w.

“Should have prominent place among picture books of the year. Its text
is apparently historically correct.”

+ + =Outlook.= 85: 96. Ja. 12, ’07. 80w.

=Smith, Francis Asbury.= Critics versus Shakespeare: a brief for the defendant. Knickerbocker press.

7–8252.

A defense in which the author contends that every piece of literature
claiming Shakespearian authorship was written by the great dramatist.

* * * * *

“We confess that we like Mr. Smith’s book. It strikes a wholesome
note. He is wrong-headed, of course, but so are many of the greater
commentators. Some of the evidence he discards is of great weight.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 96. F. 16, ’07. 430w.

“A vigorous and independent book. One may pick flaws in Mr. Smith’s
book at points, but he speaks as a man who loves the plays as
literature, and who brings to them a keen human sense of the
conditions under which they are probably produced.”

+ − =Outlook.= 86: 570. Je. 13, ’07. 170w.

“Mr. Smith’s book shows a good degree of scholarship and wide reading,
but he makes some mistakes that a sophomore should be ashamed of.” Wm.
J. Rolfe.

+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 728. S. ’07. 170w.

=Smith, Francis Henry.= Christ and science: Jesus Christ regarded as the centre of science, **$1.25. Revell.

6–32410.

“That Jesus Christ as a person is the center of the universe, and its
creator ... is the thesis which these lectures at Vanderbilt
university maintain.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“We can only deeply regret that his laudable desire to honor the
Master should lead to the erection of such a tawdry temple of
fallacious analogy and science falsely so called, founded on the sands
of verbal inspiration.” Charles R. Barnes.