Chapter LVI: Part 3: is a very extended list of contributions to periodicals.... An (10)

+ + + =Ind.= 62: 155. Ja. 17, ’07. 780w.

=Staley, Edgcumbe.= Lord Leighton of Stretton. (Makers of British art.) *$1.25. Scribner.

“An attempt to give Lord Leighton of Stretton his true place in art
history, and at the same time designate a proper proportion to his
gentlemanly characteristics. By birth, fortune, and environment
Frederick Leighton was singularly placed for advancement in any
profession toward which he might have been attracted. The first 173
pages of the book form a narrative biography built around the work of
the artist from his early student sketches in Berlin and Florence to
the unfinished canvases left at his death.... The closing pages of the
book deal in a fragmentary, discursive, yet natural, manner with
Leighton’s versatility, nobility of purpose, courtesy, sincerity,
daily habits and patriotism.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“It happens that Mr. Staley’s praise is not only tiresome, but
generally meaningless, and without any clear perception of the real
quality of the work praised.”

− =Nation.= 84: 67. Ja. 17, ’07. 260w.

“The [narrative biography] is admirably told with sufficient anecdote
to appeal to the general reader, while the chronology of his
advancement is preserved for reference through the titles of his
pictures inserted as marginal notes.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 836. D. 1, ’06. 570w.

“He has written with such apparent indiscrimination.”

− =Outlook.= 84: 706. N. 24, ’06. 340w.

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

6–16206.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“If the moral is at times a little too obvious, and the language
rather that of the man in the street, the verses are at least the
author’s own, there is here no troublesome echo of greater poets.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 75. F. 9, ’07. 70w.

=Stanard, Mrs. Mary Newton.= Story of Bacon’s rebellion. $1. Neale.

7–20751.

Another bit of Jamestown history is told in this story of Nathaniel
Bacon who in 1676 led the poverty-stricken people of Virginia in
rebellion against Governor Berkeley and his grandees. The story is
well told and the motives, aims, and ideals of its hero have been
carefully sought out.

* * * * *

“Mrs. Stanard has been able to write a tolerably complete account of
the whole stirring episode. It cannot be said that every gap has been
filled out, neither is it altogether certain that the author’s
interpretations are always correct. The historical student may incline
to question whether the romantic in the episode has not sometimes
lifted the author’s feet off the solid rock of historical criticism.”

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 188. O. ’07. 280w.

=Ath.= 1907, 2: 154. Ag. 10. 140w.

“Mrs. Stanard has caught the spirit of the movement, and, fortified
with study of the original records and documents, has written a
thoroughly readable little account of the rebellion.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 487. Ag. 10, ’07. 150w.

“Mrs. Stanard has a way of raising opposition in her readers; but that
there is much to be said for her hero we do not doubt; in any case,
there is much that is picturesque and interesting in her story.”

+ − =Spec.= 99: 236. Ag. 17, ’07. 230w.

=Standage, H. C.= Agglutinants of all kinds for all purposes. *$3.50. Van Nostrand.

Here are scientifically discussed cements and agglutinants suited to a
great variety of trade purpose. The methods of preparing the compounds
are such as the author has found to give the best and surest results.

=Stanmore, Arthur H. G., 1st baron.= Sidney Herbert; Lord Herbert of Lea. 2v. *$7.50. Dutton.

7–28487.

Owing to the dearth of facts available for Lord Stanmore’s biography
he offers, as he says, a “bare recital of outer events” with “a sketch
of the times in which Lord Herbert lived.” “His career was hardly such
as to place him among the distinguished men of his generation, and
certainly was not such as to warrant his biographer’s assertion that
had he lived longer he would have been prime minister of England. His
chief claims to remembrance rest on his charming personality and on
his connection with the little group of Parliamentarians who banded
themselves together to keep alive Sir Robert Peel’s principles and
policies.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“Lord Stanmore has, on the whole, done his work well, but some readers
will object to the occasional intrusion of his own personality and
opinions.”

+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 726. D. 8. 3450w.

“It is good that the world should know what war means for the men who
are of the administrations responsible for a war; and except for the
Aberdeen memoirs, there are among English political biographies no
books which are more valuable from this point of view than the
biography of Sidney Herbert.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 822. O. 3, ’07. 790w.

“In many respects Sidney Herbert is singularly fortunate in his
biographer. He is only unfortunate in having had to wait so long. His
treatment of the Crimean war and its causes is such as might not
unfairly be called in these days a little old-fashioned.”

+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 413. D. 14, ’06. 2700w.

“The net impression would have been better made in one-third the
space.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 204. F. 28, ’07. 410w.

“It is as a history of the Peelites that biography is chiefly
interesting, and especially for the fresh light it throws, not on
Herbert, but on Gladstone, the most distinguished and the most able of
the Peelites. For the rest, we must admit, that we have found the work
formidable and rather dreary reading.”

+ − =Outlook.= 85: 332. F. 9, ’07. 260w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 756. Je. ’07. 90w.

“Very interesting memoir.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 18. Ja. 5, ’07. 2150w.

=Spec.= 97: 1043. D. 22, ’06. 2060w.

=Stanton, Coralie.= Adventuress. Frontispiece by Harrison Fisher. $1.50. McBride, T. J.

7–11588.

The story of Miriam Lemaire, a money lender, a society vampire, a
compelling criminal. The adventures of this woman, “who became a power
for good and evil, playing with men and even nations, as a cat plays
with mice” are recounted by the person, among all who appear on the
horizon of the tale, who suffered no ill at the hands of the
adventuress.

=Starbuck, Robert Macy.= Modern plumbing illustrated; a comprehensive and thoroughly practical work on the modern and most approved methods of plumbing construction; il. by fifty-five detailed plates made expressly by the author for this work. $4. Henley.

7–2755.

A plumbers’ handbook including the most practical up-to-date handling
of the questions of drainage, sewerage, and water supply.

* * * * *

“Exception must be taken to some of the author’s remarks. These
exceptions, however, affect only a small part of the book, and
probably most of them will do little harm, considering the class of
readers concerned. The main purpose of the book seems to be admirably
fulfilled.”

+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 308. Mr. 14, ’07. 420w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 50w.

“It will be found of value not only to master plumbers, craftsmen and
apprentices, but to architects, builders and all others who have
occasion to require clearly stated and excellently illustrated
information on the installation of sanitary appliances.”

+ + =Technical Literature.= 1: 225. My. ’07. 270w.

=Starke, Dr. J.= Alcohol: the sanction for its use scientifically established and popularly expounded by a physiologist; tr. from the German. **$1.50. Putnam.

7–12259.

A popular treatise on the relations of alcohol to living organisms,
especially to man. The subject is discussed from the medical and also
the physical standpoint. On the one hand the author concludes that
“There is nothing in medical experience which speaks against the
moderate use of good alcoholic drinks by the public, but much that
speaks in favor of it,” on the other, that the bodily cells of man are
not strangers to alcohol and to its elaboration, that it nourishes,
exerts a specific action on the nervous system, acts no less as a
nutrient and a specific than cereals and sugar, and that the
disposition to drink excessively has its origin in the peculiarities
and circumstances of the individual, and that alcohol does not of
itself possess the property of inducing excessive use.

* * * * *

“It bears the earmarks of prejudice and is written in popular style in
order to influence public opinion more effectively.”

− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 168. Jl. ’07. 110w.

=Current Literature.= 42: 449. Ap. ’07. 3120w.

“This common-sense volume will be a useful antidote to much of the
unscientific and incendiary literature on the subject that is in
circulation.”

+ =Educ. R.= 34: 208. S. ’07. 70w.

=Ind.= 63: 1119. N. 7, ’07. 130w.

“The translation, from a German original, is for the most part smooth
and clear, but the ‘Checking sensations’ of the sixth chapter are
somewhat obscure.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 476. My. 23, ’07. 170w.

=R. of Rs.= 36: 384. S. ’07. 110w.

“While this volume will scarcely meet with unanimous approval, it
might still be recommended as an antidote to the attenuated nonsense
of the ‘scientific temperance’ of the school books.” Graham Lusk.

+ − =Science=, n.s. 25: 787. My. 17, ’07. 180w.

=Starr, Frederick.= Truth about the Congo: the Chicago tribune articles. $1. Forbes.

7–20882.

An unbiased statement of the present social and political conditions
in the Congo Free State. The author, in the course of a year’s travel
of seven thousand miles, visited twenty-eight different tribes and
found conditions much better than he had expected. His account is well
illustrated by photographs of the natives.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 172. O. ’07. S.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 602. N. ’07. 160w.

+ + =Cath. World.= 85: 840. S. ’07. 990w.

=Nation.= 85: 281. S. 26, ’07. 120w.

“His book is a sane, calm statement of what he saw and understood on
his Congo trip.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 282. My. 4, ’07. 200w.

“He gives the public a clearer statement of the actual state of things
under the government of the Independent Congo State than has been
afforded by any publication since the beginning of the controversy
over alleged atrocities there.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 511. Ag. 24, ’07. 1330w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 757. Je. ’07. 60w.

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

6–7716.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Within the limitations imposed by the size of the book and with the
reservation noted above, the author has made a very creditable
compilation of the recent periodical literature on the subject, which
is presented in an acceptable manner and quite profusely illustrated.”
F. Lavis.

+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 526. N. 15, ’06. 1350w.

* =Stead, Richard.= Adventures on high mountains. **$1.50. Lippincott.

“Boys will find a wide range of adventure to choose from in this
volume, and should be able to form a comprehensive notion of the
dangers that beset pioneers and travellers in the robber region of the
Mexican mountains and the lofty peaks of Abyssinia.” (Spec.) “The
compilation, beginning with Napoleon’s feat in crossing the Great St.
Bernard, and, coming down to the eruption of Mont Pelée, includes many
notable feats of climbing, as those of Tyndall on the Weisshorn and
Mr. Whymper’s terrible experience on the Matterhorn, as well as
less-known adventures in every part of the world.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 100w.

“The illustrations alone are sufficiently attractive to induce one to
run through the 328 pages.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 40w.

“The book seems lacking in spirit, and yet Mr. Stead made the great
rivers most interesting to us; it is too obviously a compilation.”

+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 640. N. 2, ’07. 190w.

=Stead, Richard.= Adventures on the great rivers, romantic incidents and perils of travel, sport and exploration throughout the world. *$1.50. Lippincott.

6–45336.

An interesting collection of adventures “in which figure a long line
of heroes from the Abbé Huc down to the miners who rushed to
Klondyke.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

=Ath.= 1906, 2: 51. O. 27. 130w.

“A chronicle irresistible to any boy with a soul for wild adventure
and wilder beasts.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 40w.

“The author handles his material well. But his book would have been
better had he been more fully acquainted with the literature of the
topics he treats.” Cyrus C. Adams.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 160w.

“Boy readers will find a kaleidoscope of brilliant and picturesque
scenes from all lands collected for their benefit by Mr. Stead. And
from all of them they will learn some healthy lessons which, we think,
the author has striven to inculcate,—the value of coolness and
steadiness, tact and patience, and that, as books should educate as
well as recreate, is one of the good points of these twenty-nine
stories of adventure and exploration.”

+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 659. N. 3, ’06. 210w.

* =Stead, William Thomas.= Peers or people? the House of lords weighed in the balance and found wanting; an appeal to history. *$1. Wessels.

A three-part political monograph which urges that the hereditary
chamber of the British parliament be replaced by some sort of senate
which would be more responsive to popular will. The divisions of the
study are The lords versus the nation, What the House of lords has
done, and What must be done with the House of lords.

* * * * *

“There is far less of Mr. Stead than is usual in his political or
social monographs; and were all of Mr. Stead discarded, the
authorities he has drawn upon ... are brought together with much skill
and care; and these alone would greatly help to an understanding of
the problem.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 310. O. 3, ’07. 490w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 507. Ap. ’07. 120w.

=Stearns, Frank Preston.= Life and genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne. **$2. Lippincott.

6–37623.

A biography which aims to supply more critical comment than is found
in previous lives of Hawthorne. Eased somewhat on personal memories it
“contains much interesting matter, and shows marks of faithful and
loving labor; its citations and references and illustrations are
varied and sometimes illuminating.” (Dial.)

* * * * *

“He does not seem to understand that unstinted praise of everything
that Hawthorne wrote is not criticism.”

− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 603. My. 18. 370w.

“Its style is rambling and diffuse—a fault not offset by any keenness
of criticism in the chapters devoted to what he proclaims as the
distinctive feature of his work.”

− + =Dial.= 42: 45. Ja. 16, ’07. 360w.

“The author of this new ‘Life of Hawthorne’ comes to his task with
some advantages over the ordinary biographer and critic. To a keen
sympathy and with vivid admiration of the genius of our one great
romancer he adds some personal acquaintance with him and his
surroundings.”

+ =Ind.= 62: 446. F. 21, ’07. 390w.

“In spite of all that has been published in the note-books, in Horatio
Bridge’s memoirs, and in Julian Hawthorne’s biography, there are even
new facts to be found here, some of which are interesting and
valuable. But the best reason for reading the book lies in this—it
furnishes a perfect example or what a biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne
should not be.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 68. F. 2, ’07. 620w.

* =Stearns, Frank Preston.= Life and public services of George Luther Stearns. **$2. Lippincott.

7–38430.

A full biography of Major Stearns who was “the Sir Galahad of the
antislavery struggle.” It has been compiled partly from documentary
evidence and partly from family traditions. It furnishes interesting
sidelights on the civil war and its issues.

=Steel, Flora Annie.= Sovereign remedy. †$1.50. Doubleday.

6–26482.

“Two young men, a clerk from a Midland city and an uncomfortable
millionaire ... meet a beautiful girl, who has been brought up by a
philosophic grandfather in seclusion.... Both fall in love with her,
and she falls in love with the millionaire, Lord Blackborough, but,
being afraid of love, she marries the other, for whom she has only a
humdrum liking. Lord Blackborough continues to make ducks and drakes
of his fortune, while the other, Cruttenden, becomes the hard
commercial money-spinner. Aura, his wife, is at first fascinated by
domesticity, but she is soon repelled by the heartlessness of
prosperity, and begins to turn to her first love. She is killed
accidentally in his company, and he, too, mad with grief, dies in the
ward of a workhouse infirmary with the words of Eastern mysticism on
his lips.”—Spec.

* * * * *

+ − =Acad.= 71: 182. Ag. 25, ’06. 680w.

“Is essentially a good story, witty and poignant, and full of
interesting modern people; but it is almost intolerably sad.”

+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 181. Ag. 18. 550w.

“The chief fault to be found with ... ‘The sovereign remedy,’ is that,
out of a rather confusing number of characters, it seems impossible to
determine which one she herself was personally interested in, and
which she meant the reader to regard as the leading parts. This
confusion mars what would otherwise have been a book of considerable
strength.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ − =Bookm.= 25: 88. Mr. ’07. 560w.

“Mrs. Steel is so wise a woman and so admirable a writer that her work
always gives pleasure of a refined sort, but the present story offers
only a pale reflection of the power displayed in her novels of Indian
life.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 42: 225. Ap. 1, ’07. 260w.

“The book is a beautiful story, beautifully told. It emerges quite
evidently from a full mind, a wide experience and an appeased and
noble outlook upon life.”

+ + =Ind.= 62: 442. F. 21, ’07. 320w.

“There is a certain literary distinction in Mrs. Steel’s new story
which lifts it well above the novels of the hour.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 386. Mr. 9, ’07. 220w.

“The actual story told is so unimportant and uninteresting that a
novelist of her competence would hardly have written it without
ulterior motives; and one is driven, therefore to search for
symbolism, and to find it, though the relation between the symbol and
the thing symbolized is not invariably clear.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 271. Ag. 3, ’06. 500w.

“Lavishness, in fact, is the note of the whole story.”

− =Nation.= 84: 136. F. 7, ’07. 560w.

“A most unusual and interesting novel. Few are the occurrences to be
measured beside the sort of thing that really happens; few characters
are at all like any one meets in life. Much of the action, too, is
quite inexplicable. It is to the credit of Mrs. Steel’s art that as we
read we believe—the incredulities come with the backward look.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 78. F. 9, ’07. 670w.

“She comes to her task with a mind well furnished, with a habit of
skilled observation, and with the wide outlook of one who has in the
fullest way lived threescore years.” Louise Collier Willcox.

+ =No. Am.= 184: 861. Ap. 19, ’07. 840w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 766. Je. ’07. 30w.

“It is hard to say whether the frank improbabilities of the
story—though they are heaped together in the opening pages till they
look like an intentional signal—and the high-pitched (not to say
melodramatic) key of much of the action, are intended to emphasise the
strain of mysticism and the occult which runs through the book and to
put the reader in tune with immaterial influences, or—a thing scarcely
to be thought of in Mrs. Steel’s hands—are merely structural mishaps.
Again, it is difficult to decide whether the frequent reflections on
modern developments of social order are the prepossessions of a
reformer forcing their way through the story at almost every turn, or
are the main moral of which the fiction is only the vehicle.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 175. Ag. 11, ’06. 740w.

“The truth is that Mrs. Steel has attempted to write a tale of Eastern
mysticism in an irrelevant setting. She has moments of great power and
beauty, but they serve only to accentuate the weakness of the main
theme. One exception, indeed should be made, for the picture of the
revival in the village is done with remarkable skill.”

− + =Spec.= 97: 205. Ag. 11, ’06. 890w.

=Steele, Francesca Maria (Fanny) (Darley Dale, pseud.).= Naomi’s transgression. †$1.50. Warne.

A wealthy Australian Quaker at his death leaves his large fortune to
his daughter Naomi on condition that she marries her London cousin
Robin. If he refuses she is to have the fortune; if she refuses, it
goes to him. Naomi’s friend, Kitty Marvin, goes to London in her place
crudely impersonates the Quakeress and antagonizes Robin who becomes
engaged to another girl. When the deception is discovered the
complication is all that any weaver of plots could wish, and its
untangling is deftly accomplished.

=Stein, Evaleen.= Gabriel and the hour book. $1. Page.

6–25686.

“The story of a little Norman boy in the time of Louis XII., who went
daily to St. Martin’s abbey to help the monks who made the wonderful
illuminated books.... He worked with one of the monks who was the most
skilful of them all on an hour book which the king wanted as a gift to
his bride.... Finally a little prayer to the king which he put into
the book brought great good fortune.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 83. Mr. ’07. ✠

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 150w.

=Steiner, Bernard Christian.= Maryland during the English civil wars. pa. 50c. Johns Hopkins.

7–11189.

=pt. 2.= Beginning with the events of the year 1643 the second part of
this monograph takes up Maryland’s narrative and examines it in detail
down to the famous Act concerning religion enacted by the Assembly of
1649.

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

6–39003.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Most interesting as to the telling, accurate as to facts, based upon
personal experience and investigation.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 74. Mr. ’07. S.

“This volume is easily one of the most interesting, accurate and
important discussions of the immigrant yet produced in this country.”

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 224. Ja. ’07. 360w.

Reviewed by Arthur B. Reeve.

=Charities.= 17: 507. D. 15, ’06. 690w.

+ =Ind.= 62: 211. Ja. 24, ’07. 500w.

“Professor Steiner’s social studies of Jew and Slav are especially
valuable; and his reasoning throughout is clear and incisive. The
volume is written in popular style, but by no means lacks scientific
interest.”

+ + =Yale R.= 15: 467. F. ’07. 120w.

* =Stejneger, Leonhard Hess.= Herpetology of Japan and adjacent territory. $1. Supt. of doc.

7–35282.

With a number of changes in established nomenclature Dr. Stejneger has
treated the reptiles of Japan, the Liu Kiu, neighboring islands, and a
large portion of the mainland devoting particular attention to
geographical distribution.

* * * * *

“A valuable systematic monograph.”

+ =Nature.= 77: 92. N. 28, ’07. 40w.

“His manner of simplifying descriptions, interspersing paragraphs
helpful to the novice, besides giving some attention to habits,
produces a work of far broader use and interest than a strictly
technical compilation.” Raymond L. Ditmars.

+ + − =Science=, n.s. 26: 507. O. 18, ’07. 2160w.

=Stelzle, Rev. Charles.= Messages to working men. **50c. Revell.

6–20202.

A plea for the church as a means of economic and social betterment.
The “messages” aim to bring the workingmen and the church into closer
relation by solving through brotherly love the economic and social
problems which are in reality moral and religious questions.

* * * * *

“Mr. Stelzle delivers this message in a very pleasing manner. His
language is simple; his style spirited. He deals with familiar things
in a familiar way. The fatal error of the book is just in this air of
reality and sanity. It imparts this air to a statement and solution of
the problem altogether too simple.” R. F. Hoxie.

+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 181. Mr. ’07. 310w.

“Their outstanding characteristics are sound sense, a broad humanity,
and insistence on personal loyalty to Christ.”

+ + =Outlook.= 83: 911. Ag. 18, ’06. 130w.

=Stephen, Sir Leslie.= Essays of Sir Leslie Stephen, literary and critical. Authorized American ed. 10v. ea. *$1.50. Putnam.

=v. 6.= English literature and society in the eighteenth century.

The sixth volume in this series includes the Ford lectures for 1903,
which deal more with the literature of the period than with society.
“Society is only dealt with in just so far as the poetic and prose
writers expressed it, or in so far as it affected them.” (N. Y.
Times).

* * * * *

“The lectures ... do not exhibit Stephen at his best. The subject was
one with which he was thoroughly familiar; it afforded him opportunity
for many passages of shrewd comment and keen analysis. And yet the
whole is not so thoroughly knit together and so happily phrased as the
work of his prime.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 384. Ap 25, ’07. 170w.

“Sir Leslie Stephen ... has written them in a much more entertaining
style than that in which the average professor delivers the average
lecture.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 375. Je. 8, ’07. 480w.

* =Stephen, Sir Leslie.= Science of ethics; 2d ed. *$2.50. Putnam.

W 7–196.

Starting from the utilitarian theory, the author’s aim is to “lay down
an ethical doctrine in harmony with the doctrine of evolution.”

* * * * *

=Nation.= 85: 469. N. 21, ’07. 120w.

“Sir Leslie Stephen, not disdaining any homely illustration that
occurs to him, makes the study of ethics as delightful a pursuit as
Bagehot made economics or as Prof. James makes psychology.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 748. N. 23, ’07. 530w.

=Stephens, Robert Neilson, and Westley, G: Hembert.= Clementina’s highwayman: a romance. $1.50. Page.

7–27613.

The highwayman is a young lord whose fortune has been squandered in
his absence by a rascally steward. He takes a dare to be a highwayman
for a night for the spice of adventure there is in it, and gets
himself into no end of trouble. The situations growing out of the
wager make a lively little comedy of errors leading up to a romance
whose course is interrupted by an unconscionable eighteenth century
beau.

* * * * *

“Clementina is fascinating, her highwayman acts up to his part in fine
style, and, incidentally, the reader gains many a realistic glimpse of
the strenuous thing life was for even a plain citizen in the days of
George II.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 680. O. 26, ’07. 270w.

=Sterling, Sara Hawks.= Queens’ company: a story for girls. †$1.25. Lippincott.

7–31224.

The queens are the much loved teachers in a girls’ boarding school and
the company consists of a group of fun loving girls of boarding school
age. The story centers about the production of an amateur “As you like
it” and there is much wholesome human nature in the tale.

* =Sterns, Justin.= Song of the boy. 15c. Ariel press, Westwood, Mass.

The first note struck in the poem is that of “vivid glorification of
the joys of healthy youth—wrestling, skating, diving, rowing,
climbing, running, jumping, the subtler joys of the senses, the
pleasures of the fresh fancy and imagination, of young sympathy and
friendship.... Then other voices are heard. Death, the World, the
Flesh, the Devil, address themselves to the boy, suggesting the
pleasantness of the Primrose path and the wisdom of plucking roses
while one may. Finally Love speaks in the crucial strophe of the
poem.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“Shows a wholesome, fine poetic imagination.”

+ =Arena.= 38: 215. Ag. ’07. 590w.

“The piece has its faults; it would have gained by some revision and
excision by an occasional refining of phrase, but as a whole it is a
telling expression of the perennially pagan spirit of youth and of an
admirable promise.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 199. F. 28, ’07. 420w.

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

5–32666.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“We doubt whether, with all his learning and his keenness to press
home every point of vantage, he can be awarded many of the spoils of
victory. But in saying this we do not wish to deny the interest and
importance of his work from a historical point of view. It is a
learned study in some of the by-paths of religious thought and
belief.” W. H. Drummond.

+ − =Hibbert J.= 5: 691. Ap. ’07. 2550w.

=Stevens, Horace J.= Copper handbook, v. 6. $5. Stevens, H. J.

“This volume covers the entire subject of copper, its history,
biography, metallurgy, finances, and statistics.”—R. of Rs.

* * * * *

“In general, the descriptions are well written, and many of them are
not only readable but in some parts highly interesting.”

+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 640. D. 13, ’06. 190w.

“The frankness, honesty and sincerity of the comments on
copper-producing mines is perhaps the most valuable characteristic of
the book, although the typographical arrangement is unusually helpful
in making the contents accessible.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 511. Ap. ’07. 90w.

=Stevenson, Burton Egbert.= Affairs of state. †$1.50. Holt.

6–34368.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“It makes a pleasant comedy.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 42: 16. Ja. 1, ’07. 200w.

“It is easy reading, and the events are such as to hold the
attention.”

+ =Ind.= 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 90w.

“Novels of diplomacy must be very good to be tolerable, and Mr.
Stevenson has not the equipment necessary to make his treatment of
continental politics convincing.”

− =Sat. R.= 104: 306. S. 7, ’07. 130w.

=Stevenson, Burton Egbert.= That affair at Elizabeth. †$1.50. Holt.

7–34779.

A strange confusion in the relationship of a beautiful girl, who
disappears mysteriously on her wedding day, and the man whom she was
to have married is made clear in the course of this story by the young
lawyer, Lester, and Godfrey, the reporter. Both hero and heroine are
mistaken as to their real parents so that when the puzzle is but half
solved it leaves them brother and sister. This makes a doubly
thrilling tale which holds the reader’s interest through murder and
mystery to the last page.

=Stevenson, Richard Taylor.= John Calvin; the statesman. *$1. West. Meth. bk.

7–14592.

A volume in the “Men of the kingdom” series, which treats of Calvin
the man and the statesman, rather than of Calvin, the theologian.

=Stevenson, Robert Louis.= Sea fogs: with an introduction by Thomas R. Bacon. **$1.50. Elder.

7–33227.

The initial volume in a series to be known as “Western classics.” Here
Stevenson describes the rolling in of the sea fogs over the valley
until his mountainside became a lone sea-beach. It is a beautiful
picture all done in silver-gray.

=Stewart, Charles D.= Partners of providence. †$1.50. Century.

7–12003.

In the vernacular of the rover, Sam Daly recounts his “rolling-stone,
happy-go-lucky” experiences mainly on “Mississippi river steamboats
and the rafts and landings alongside from Cairo to New Orleans.” Sam’s
partners are his dog Rags and Clancy, the expert “tosser” of hot
rivets into a bridge-builder’s bucket. They run the round of chance,
sometimes are masters of fate, often a prey to it, but are ever
cheerful philosophers.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 137. My. ’07. ✠

“Mr. Stewart forces his tale, and lets it meander over a course as
long as his river, and as crooked.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 514. O. 26. 120w.

“Perhaps the worst fault of the book is that, paradoxically enough,
the spirit of pure fun holds sway too completely.” Ward Clark.

+ − =Bookm.= 25: 299. My. ’07. 990w.

“Has given a new boy to literature for Sam Daly is not a Tom Sawyer by
any means; he has a personality all his own, and a most attractive
one.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 221. Jl. 25, ’07. 330w.

=Lit. D.= 34: 678. Ap. 27, ’07. 210w.

“There is not a false note, a sentence out of key, or—rare finality in
books of popular humor—one second of doubtful taste.”

+ + =Nation.= 84: 362. Ap. 18, 07. 450w.

“The book is refreshing and delightful beyond adequate expression in
critical prose.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 193. Mr. 30, ’07. 790w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.

“It is a book to read, not hurriedly, but a bit at a time.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 475. Je. 29, ’07. 350w.

=Stickney, Albert.= Organized democracy. **$1. Houghton.

6–37188.

“The author has endeavored to present an impartial and dispassionate
statement of political affairs as they exist to-day, to call attention
to certain definite imperfections in the machinery of election, and to
suggest remedies looking to vital reforms, which would bring the
administration of government in line with the ideals of the founders
of the democratic state.”—Lit. D.

* * * * *

“His book is suggestive and valuable in parts. In other parts it is
full of repetition and lacking in clearness.”

+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 648. My. ’07. 630w.

“The suggestions of reform are for the most part fragmentary and not
sufficiently worked out to give the reader any adequate conception of
their value or lack of it.”

− =Ind.= 63: 161. Jl. 18, ’07. 360w.

=Lit. D.= 33: 728. N. 17, ’06. 490w.

“We fear that Mr. Stickney is too optimistic, and too little
appreciative of the difficulty in this country of achieving reforms by
wholesale; but his shrewd observations and obvious seriousness make
his book not uninteresting.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 229. S. 12, ’07. 220w.

=Still, Alfred.= Polyphase currents. $2.50. Macmillan.

W 7–56.

“A large part of the book deals with the functions and properties of
the power transmission line.... Concluding third of the volume is
devoted to the induction and to the synchronous motor, including the
rotary converter.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

“Mr. Still’s book contains little that is novel in material or
treatment. Its merit lies in a simple direct style and in the
systematic arrangement of topics. A reference text which will be very
useful to the operators of electrical machinery who desire to know
something of the theory of their machines but who are not prepared or
inclined to pursue the subject exhaustively.” Henry H. Norris.

− + =Engin. N.= 56: 522. N. 15, ’06. 640w.

“This is a sound and practical guide to the electrical engineer in a
field.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 120w.

=Stockton, Francis Richard.= Queen’s museum and other fanciful tales. $2.50. Scribner.

6–39760.

The “other fanciful tales” which follow “The queen’s museum” in this
volume are The Christmas truants, The griffin and the minor canon, Old
Pipes and the dryad, The bee-man of Orn, The clocks of Rondaine,
Christmas before last, Prince Hassack’s march, The philopena, and The
accomodating circumstance.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 23. Ja. ’07.

“So far excels any other that has come to our notice this year that it
is almost in a class by itself.”

+ =Bookm.= 24: 527. Ja. ’07. 100w.

=Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 30w.

+ =Outlook.= 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 60w.

=Stockwell, Chester Twitchell.= Evolution of immortality: suggestions on an individual immortality based upon our organic and life history. 4th ed., rev. and enl. *$1. West, J. H.

6–37617.

That there is no retrograde movement in nature, that individual
self-consciousness is eternal, that there is no sense developed
without some corresponding objective reality that calls it into
action, that all things are spiritual, are among the propositions
either suggested or demonstrated.

* * * * *

“It is a remarkable little book and worthy of the four editions into
which it has passed.” Robert E. Pisbee.

+ =Arena.= 37: 217. F. ’07. 390w.

“He has certainly succeeded in putting before the reader many
interesting thoughts.” W. A. Hammond.

+ =Philos. R.= 16: 211. Mr. ’07. 330w.

=Stoddart, Anna M.= Life of Isabella Bird (Mrs. Bishop). *$5. Dutton.

7–25137.

A biography of an indefatigable traveler, a writer, and
philanthropist.

* * * * *

“As biographer, the one mistake which, in our opinion Miss Stoddart is
inclined to make is that she underlines the religious side of her
subject’s character. But these passages are exceptional, and the
momentary quivering of the balance serves to draw attention to its
usual fine steadiness.”

+ + − =Acad.= 71: 629. D. 22, ’06. 750w.

“Miss Stoddart had a good subject for a biography in Isabella Bird,
and she has reflected her life both faithfully and ably. The result is
that she has written an excellent book.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 283. Mr. 9. 1100w.

“The most admirable feature of this biography is that it gives the
more personal side of Mrs. Bishop’s life during the forty-six years of
her travels.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 153. Jl. 18, ’07. 580w.

“If there is a fault it is a certain lack of perspective into which
the writer has been betrayed by devoted and admiring affection.”

+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 369. N. 2, ’06. 960w.

“She writes as a sentimentalist rather than a psychologist. The value
of her work lies chiefly in the account it gives of the scope and
results of Mrs. Bishop’s journeys.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 547. Je. 13, ’07. 1000w.

“The reader feels too strongly the point of view of the biographer;
suspects that some interesting material is thrown into uninteresting
form. The book as it stands is tedious reading.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 307. My. 11, ’07. 690w.

“A beautiful tribute to Mrs. Bishop’s character and a fine estimate of
her accomplishments.”

+ =Outlook.= 85: 902. Ap. 20, ’07. 500w.

“Miss Stoddart has been an almost too industrious biographer, yet this
was rara ‘avis’ in terris. We could have wished some cheap remarks
about ecclesiastical Christianity away, and one or two bits of
ignorance.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 303. S. 7, ’07. 740w.

“Her book cannot fail to be read with the interest and admiration
which it deserves.”

+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 114. Ja. 26, ’07. 1570w.

=Stoddart, Jane T.= Life of the Empress Eugenie. 3d ed. *$3. Dutton.

7–26628.

After careful research among state documents, reviews, newspapers, and
various authoritative works the author has presented some fresh
material which reveals Empress Eugénie in relation to court life
rather than in relation to “state policies.” “The reader has served up
to him small, detached chunks of history, isolated incidents,
descriptions of festivities, scenes at court, constant praise of
Eugénie’s beauty and charm, all mingled together without any attempt
to trace either a logical sequence of events, development of
character, or growth of purpose.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“This is the first volume in which a serious attempt has been made to
give a complete and authentic account of the remarkable woman.”

+ =Acad.= 71: 653. D. 29, ’06. 1660w.

“On the whole, we repeat, the book is excellent, and it contains very
few downright blunders; though naturally the cause of the Empress is
espoused.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 477. O. 20. 480w.

“Queen Victoria’s affection for Eugenie seems to have gone a long way
in determining the biographer’s point of view. It is a point of view,
however, that rather fails to emphasize than denies faults in its
subject.”

+ − =Ind.= 63: 634. S. 12, ’07. 230w.

“The author of the present volume has tried eagerly to do full justice
to her subject. But partly by reason of that very eagerness and partly
by reason of what is apparently native incapacity, her book is very
unsatisfactory.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 125. Mr. 2, ’07. 910w.

=Outlook.= 85: 763. Mr. 30, ’07. 270w.

Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.

=Putnam’s.= 2: 475. Jl. ’07. 140w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 507. Ap. ’07. 170w.

“It no doubt contains a good deal of information, more or less
accurate, of the eventful career of the Empress which may serve to
gratify the curiosity of those who would draw aside the veil,
irrespective of the feelings of the individual concerned.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 713. D. 8. ’06. 200w.

=Stoker, Bram (Abraham).= Personal reminiscences of Henry Irving. **$7.50. Macmillan.

6–36011.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“His life of Sir Henry has, however, a personal touch that no other
hand could give it and subsequent biographers will be obliged to
consult its pages freely.” Jeannette L. Gilder.

+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 508. Ja. ’07. 230w.

=Stone, Christopher.= Sea songs and ballads; selected by Christopher Stone; with introd. by Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge. *90c. Oxford.

7–12668.

“Sir Cyprian Bridge tells us of the ‘Fore-bitters’ or sailors’
ditties, sung from the stage of the forebitts in the old sailing days,
ditties of endless length, unaccompanied by any instrument, but not
destitute of melody, ditties suited to ‘a voice like a gale of wind,’
and invariably provided with a ship’s company chorus. These and the
chanties (pronounced shanties) of the merchant service are perhaps the
only genuine songs of the sea. The chanties are of three kinds, each
adapted to a special part of the vessels’ work—‘the capstan’ chanty,
the ‘halliard’ chanty, and ‘the sheet, tack, and bowline’ chanty.”
(Lond. Times.)

* * * * *

“The little volume should have a very large circulation and nowhere
will be more heartily welcomed than on the mess decks of our warships.
We have nothing but praise for the scholarly notes and the attractive
form of the volume.”

+ + =Acad.= 71: 633. D. 22, ’06. 670w.

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 130. My. ’07. S.

“All that is given here deserves preservation.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 827. D. 29. 330w.

+ =Dial.= 42: 190. Mr. 16, ’07. 60w.

=Lond. Times.= 6: 44. F. 8, ’07. 530w.

“A corpus of salty folks-poesie that is as instructive as
entertaining.”

+ =Nation.= 84: 201. F. 28, ’07. 230w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 100. F. 16, ’07. 480w. (Reprinted from Lond.
Times.)

=Sat. R.= 102: 684. D. 1, ’06. 110w.

=Spec.= 97: 940. D. 8, ’06. 140w.

=Stone, Melville E., jr.=, comp. Book of American prose humor. lea. $1.25. Duffield.

7–25552.

A collection of humorous and witty tales, sketches and anecdotes
written by the best known American writers.

Stories of strange sights retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical stories.) *65c. Century.

7–29585.

Curious phenomena and freaks of nature which make a wonderland of land
and sea are described for young readers in these chapters. In the
groups are the mirage, ocean storms, waterspouts at sea, volcanoes and
earthquakes, cyclones, the southern cross, etc.

* * * * *

“A most attractive series of tales.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 90w.

Stories of the Great Lakes, retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical stories.) *$65c. Century.

7–29582.

Here is outlined for young readers the fascinating story of the Great
lakes from the standpoint of their grandeur, significance in time of
war, and their vast commercial importance.

=Storm, Theodor W.= Immensee; translated from the German by George P. Upton. il. **$1.75. McClurg.

7–33212.

Mr. Upton’s aim has been, not so much to render a literal translation
of this excellent example of German lyric sentiment, as to give
English readers as perfect an English version as possible. The story
is prettily illustrated, generous use being made of the water-lily
which is the symbol of the vision of lost youth—the motif of
“Immensee.”

* * * * *

“Mr. George P. Upton, the translator, furnishes, besides a singularly
graceful rendering of the text, an interesting appreciation of Storm
and his work.”

+ =Dial.= 43: 381. D. 1, ’07. 90w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 90w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

+ =Outlook.= 87: 619. N. 23, ’07. 80w.

=Strachan, James.= Hebrew ideals; from the story of the patriarchs; part 2d, Genesis, chapters 25–50. (Bible class hand books ser.) *60c. Scribner.

“A series of brief exhortations based on some element of character in
the lives of the patriarchs or a short sermon with a keen edge.”—Bib.
World.

* * * * *

+ =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 184. Ja. ’07. 80w. (Review of pt. 2.)

=Bib. World.= 27: 399. My. ’06. 20w. (Review of pt. 2.)

“One lays down the book with much the same feeling as one has after
studying Holman Hunt’s ‘Light of the world’—beautiful, but a bit too
modern, and therefore unreal. The book from a literary point of view
is worth reading.” Clifton D. Gray.

+ − =Bib. World.= 29: 237. Mr. ’07. 560w. (Review of pt. 2.)

=Strang, Herbert.= Fighting on the Congo: the story of an American boy among the rubber slaves, il. †$1.50. Bobbs.

6–41714.

A story written for the purpose of revealing the horror of the rubber
traffic on the Congo, to show what has been the effect of the white
man’s rule. Young Jack Challoner in company with his uncle makes a
nobler fight than ever mediaeval crusaders undertook. The uncle dies
with this admonition “help the negroes of the Congo fight the corrupt
government that enriches itself on their blood; go to the
fountain-head and expose the hypocrisy of King Leopold.” Jack carries
on his battle with Samba at his side, Samba, whose woeful plight had
first brought home to his heart the terrible realities of the rubber
slavery. The tale abounds in thrilling adventure, bloodshed and
cruelty.

* * * * *

“The special literature of the subject has been mastered, and
indebtedness is acknowledged to Mr. and Mrs. Harris, the energetic
missionaries, for assistance to which is doubtless owing the
exceptional accuracy and minuteness of the descriptions of the Central
African scenery and animals. The young readers for whom the volume is
primarily intended are not likely to find fault with it on account of
the triteness of its characterisation.”

+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 732. D. 8. 220w.

“Whether a book for young people should be built upon a grave
political problem, the data for which are taken from one side only, is
a matter for serious doubt. The story is full of pathos and is
admirably told, with the same informing touches that we find in all
Mr. Strang’s books.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 5. D. 8, ’06. 230w.

=Strang, Herbert.= In Clive’s command: a story of the fight for India. †$1.50. Bobbs.

6–32681.

Many regard Herbert Strang as the one upon whom the mantle of Henty
fell. This is “an absorbing story which takes the reader back to the
capture of Gheria and the battle of Plassey, and, as a matter of
course, chronicles the brave deeds of an English lad.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“Better than Henty’s ‘With Clive in India’ both as to style and to
historical setting.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 143. My. ’07.

“Mr. Strang has imagination of a high order, which was singularly
absent in Henty’s stories. He has been true to the historic demands
while writing a story that palpitates with action and whose characters
are real, live personalities, and not manikins, such as were Henty’s.”

+ =Arena.= 36: 688. D. ’06. 230w.

“The narrative not only thrills, but also weaves skilfully out of fact
and fiction a clear impression of our fierce struggle for India.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 652. N. 21. 70w.

“A personal story of adventure that must be most fascinating to any
normal, healthy boy.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 120w.

“It is full of thrilling adventure, and mingles the historical and
romantic in acceptable proportion.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 841. D. 1, ’06. 50w.

“Mr. Herbert Strang improves with every season, which is saying much
when we remember how good his previous work has been.”

+ =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 5. D. S, ’06. 200w.

“The persons in the drama of his Indian life are vigorously drawn.”

+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 759. N. 17, ’06. 400w.

* =Strang, Herbert.= On the trail of the Arabs; a story of heroic deeds in Africa, il. †$1.50. Bobbs.

7–29572.

Mr. Strang returns to a period lying back of the present days of
rubber slavery which latter were treated in his “Fighting on the
Congo.” The present story deals with an earlier time and a different
region of the Great forest. “It is a picture of the last years of the
Arab domination, when the remnants of Tippu Tib’s hordes, in remote
fastnesses, pursued their evil traffic in humanity. The two pictures
are companions and contrasts; but they have this in common: they
attempt to show the native races at their best, as they may be and are
when oppression is replaced by sympathy.”

* =Strang, Herbert.= Rob the ranger: a story of the fight for Canada, il. †$1.50. Bobbs.

7–31414.

A story of Canada in the provincial days before the capture of Quebec.
It gives the exciting adventures of a boy in search of his father and
brother separated from him during a French-Indian raid. It is the
wilderness of the Hurons and Mohawks that furnishes the background of
the story.

* * * * *

=Ath.= 1907, 2:652. N. 23. 110w.

=Strang, William.= Etchings; with critical introductions by Frank Newbolt. *$2.50, Scribner.

It is the “characteristic work” of many moods that Mr. Newbolt has
brought together in this collection. “Mr. Newbolt’s introduction does
full justice to the fertility of Strang’s invention, to the great
range of his experience in technique, to his courage in ever tackling
fresh problems and difficulties instead of settling down steadily, as
artists are prone to do, to the repetition of some stock subject which
makes a sure appeal to the public taste and binds the artist in the
slavery of habit.” (Lond. Times.)

* * * * *

“Mr. Newbolt’s ... essay is written in an easy, unaffected style,
without partiality or any undue parade of the technical knowledge
which adds a special value to an etcher’s criticism of etchings.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 448. Ap. 13. 300w.

“The only fault that can be found with them is the colour of the paper
on which they are printed. It is too deep in tone, an unwise
concession to a popular prejudice against white paper for purposes of
this kind.”

+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6; 102. Mr. 29, ’07. 370w.

=Nation.= 84: 346. Ap. 11, ’07. 150w.

“It is a satisfaction to all art-lovers that a collection of the
Strang etchings has now been published, with an excellent prefatory
account of them and their creator by Mr. Frank Newbolt.”

+ + =Outlook.= 85: 814. Ap. 6, ’07. 130w.

=Strange, Edward Fairbrother.= Hokusai; the old man mad with painting. (Langham ser., an illustrated collection of art monographs, v. 17.), *$1. Scribner.

6–46317.

Not only gives “a resumé of what is known of the life of the great
Japanese artist and a discriminating guide to those qualities which
make the greatness of his art, but tends to give the reader a sounder
understanding of what art is than many a volume ten times its size and
ten times more pretentious.”

* * * * *

“He is one of the few who, having an authoritative knowledge of his
subject, has also the gift of presenting that knowledge in an
entertaining and stimulating fashion.”

+ + =Acad.= 72: 14. Ja. 5, ’07. 350w.

“Gives a clear enough picture of the place of that artist in the art
of Japan, but it is difficult to accept altogether the judgment which
ranks him with ‘the masters of the world’s art.’”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 186. F. 21. ’07. 210w.

“Excellent monograph.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 61. F. 2, ’07. 340w.

Strange stories of colonial days. †60c. Harper.

7–17360.

Among these 16 pictures of colonial life and adventure are stories of
early Indiana history, of King Philip’s wars, Bacon’s rebellion, the
treasure hunt of William Phipps in the late 17th century, stories of
pirates and buccaneers, of scouts and drummer boys. The authors
include Francis Drake, Hezekiah Butterworth, Robert Fuller, Rowan
Stevens and others.

* * * * *

“The stories will add light and color and interest to the school
history they too often—and quite reasonably—find dull.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 375. Je. 8, ’07 230w.

Strange stories of 1812. †60c. Harper.

7–18099.

Eleven stories by five different authors of the warfare which our
soldiers waged along the Canadian frontier against the British and
their Indian allies, of the massacre of Fort Dearborn, the exploit of
a young hero of the New York frontier, and also stories of our navy
and our privateers, of the chase of the Hornet and the victories of
the Constitution.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 210. N. ’07.

Strange stories of the civil war. †60c. Harper.

7–18097.

The history of the civil war is supplemented in this volume by stories
which, though cast in the form of fiction, present the atmosphere of
the times and give a vivid picture of some of the thrilling episodes
which actually took place. They include boyish tales of a midshipman,
a blockade runner, an adventure with guerillas, a raw recruit, how
Cushing destroyed the “Albemarle,” President Lincoln and the sleeping
sentinel, the battle of the “Monitor” and “Merrimac”, and Sheridan’s
ride and Lee’s surrender, as told by Robert Shackleton, John
Habberton, Captain Howard Patterson, L. E. Chittenden, General Fosythe
and others.

Strange stories of the revolution. †60c. Harper.

7–15588.