Chapter XLIV: Book 1: , The heavenly bodies; Book 2, The constellations; Book 3, Times (9)

Mr. Ruhl, a journalist who has made extended tours thru South America
sets down his impressions for the general reader’s enlightenment. He
furnishes authentic facts concerning economic, social, and political
conditions which exist there. “There is an appendix consisting of
statistics and other data and a good index. We ought to know more
about these ‘Other Americans,’ Mr. Ruhl insists, since half the
western world is theirs.” (R. of Rs.)

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 296. D. ’08. ✠

“As a social observer Mr. Ruhl may be commended.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 573. N. 7. 520w.

“Serves well a useful purpose.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 1180. N. 19, ’08. 30w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 562. O. 10, ’08. 470w.

“Mr. Ruhl discourses most entertainingly and informingly in this
volume.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 639. N. ’08. 220w.

=Ruhmer, Ernst.= Wireless telephony in theory and practice; tr. from
the German by James Erskine-Murray. *$3.50. Van Nostrand.

8–18757.

A complete and connected account in untechnical language, so far as
possible, of the subject of wireless telephony, its progress, and
prospects for future perfection. It outlines the theories and
apparatus of Bell, Tainter, Simon, Hayes, Duddell, and others who have
worked for practical ends in wireless telephony.

* * * * *

“The work is undoubtedly the most complete presentation of the subject
that is in print.”

+ =Engin. D.= 3: 419. Ap. ’08. 250w.

“The result has been that the greater part of the matter can be easily
grasped at a single reading and the rest can be understood by a little
study.”

+ =Engin. N.= 60: 83. Jl. 16, ’08. 730w.

“Those who wish to obtain a good knowledge of the subject will find
the information well presented.”

+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 308. Mr. 14, ’08. 240w.

“The matter is well presented, and it should prove interesting reading
to all who take an interest in the advances of electrical
engineering.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 401. Ap. 30, ’08. 70w.

+ =Nature.= 77: sup. 10. Mr. 5, ’08. 250w.

=Spec.= 100: 384. Mr. 7, ’08. 30w.

=Russell, Charles Edward.= Lawless wealth: the origin of some great
American fortunes. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.

8–16214.

Mr. Russell takes his reader over the course covered, often by hops
and bounds, by some of the financial magnates on the way to their
present millionaire goals. He shows that fortunes are not the
equivalent for public service rendered at the expense of ability,
energy and foresight, but that they are secured thru the appropriation
of public utilities to private greed. The author aims to arouse a
public that stands by and witlessly connives with the abnormal money
fiend by tolerating his practices.

* * * * *

“He is not as dispassionate as a judge nor as dry as an economist, for
on every page he shows the indignation of the prophet. Mr. Russell is
a muck-raker proud of his profession.”

− =Ind.= 65: 842. O. 8, ’08. 360w.

=J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 634. N. ’08. 80w.

“Whoever aspires to act as a public teacher should show reserve,
moderation, appreciation of the exact quality of the acts condemned,
and dispassionate consideration of the remedy. Of these qualities Mr.
Russell shows no trace.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 364. Je. 27, ’08. 1200w.

=Russell, Charles Edward.= Thomas Chatterton, the marvelous boy: the
story of a strange life, 1752–1770. il. **$2.50. Moffat.

8–12132.

This biography is the result of fourteen years of sympathetic study
and research among all classes of material where could be found a
crumb of information concerning this “marvelous boy” and “literary
forger” who committed suicide in his teens.

* * * * *

“Though Mr. Russell needs constant checking, however, whether he be
dealing with his hero as man or as poet, he has amassed facts which
are not only interesting but illuminating, and his book is worth
reading.” Montgomery Schuyler.

+ − =Bookm.= 27: 484. Jl. ’08. 1700w.

“Masson’s short and pathetic account ... is more effective than this
later, more elaborate, and undoubtedly better-informed work.”

− + =Dial.= 45: 66. Ag. 1, ’08. 400w.

“Mr. Russell is as extravagant in his praise of Chatterton’s poems as
he is undiscriminating in his estimate of his influence upon the
romantic movement.”

+ − =Ind.= 65: 205. Jl. 23, ’08. 800w.

“Fulsome praise such as this repels thinking and judicious minds.”

− =Lit. D.= 36: 766. My. 23, ’08. 300w.

“To any balanced judgment the extravagances and perversions and the
bad taste of the present biography will tend only to obscure for a
moment the profound pathos of Chatterton’s life and his due reward as
one of the inheritors of unfulfilled renown.”

− − =Nation.= 86: 378. Ap. 23, ’08. 1200w.

“A biography of such remarkable merit, historical and critical, that
it will instantly take a high place among the best productions of its
class. One must turn many a page in many a book to find a finer,
nobler, piece of writing than Mr. Russell’s preface, and the book
itself is in fitting sequence.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 225. Ap. 18, ’08. 1200w.

“Mr. Russell’s book is the most considerable and well worked out life
of Chatterton which has appeared.”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 350. Je. 13, ’08. 400w.

=Russell, William Thomas.= Maryland: the land of sanctuary. il.
$1.75. Furst.

8–316.

A history of religious toleration in Maryland from the first
settlement until the American revolution, authorities and sources
being given at every step.

* * * * *

“Very interesting historical study. Father Russell has treated his
subject with thoroughness and amplitude.”

+ + =Cath. World.= 87: 256. My. ’08. 850w.

=Rutter, Frank.= Path to Paris: the record of a riverside journey
from Le Havre to Paris. *$5. Lane.

The impressions of two Englishmen journeying along the Seine from
Havre to Paris on bicycles visiting Honfleur, Tancarville, Caudebec,
Jumieges, Rouen, Les Andelys, Giverny, Vetheuel, Mantes, St. Germain,
and other riverside cities and villages. The author’s artist companion
furnishes the 68 sketches in black and white.

* * * * *

“Mr. Rutter has the gift of writing agreeably, but he does not always
take the trouble to use it, and too often has recourse to ‘padding.’
Uneven as the book is, it has given us several hours of real pleasure
among familiar scenes.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 152. Ag. 8. 480w.

“Mr. Hanslip Fletcher has contributed some excellent drawings to the
volume, which is in all respects admirably got up.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 242. S. ’08. 200w.

“Mr. Rutter has written charmingly of the out-of-the-way matters that
came under his notice, and Mr. Fletcher, the artist, has made some
very good drawings to accompany the text. Somehow, though, we suspect,
Mr. Rutter of romancing a bit in a hit he makes at ‘two American
ladies.’”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 460. Ag. 22, ’08. 460w.

“He does his ‘ruining’ and his descriptions and moralisings and art
disquisitions with a light touch, and gives the tour an air of
personal originality. The effect of the whole, text and pictures, is
agreeable.”

+ =Sat. R.= 106: 119. Jl. 25, ’08. 200w.

“The writer has, it seems, a special interest in art, and has much
that is interesting to say on this subject, and, indeed, on other
matters. It is a pity that he should find a pleasure not only in
depreciating his own countrymen, but in drawing his depreciation from
a necessarily tainted source.”

+ − =Spec.= 101: 137. Jl. 25, ’08. 140w.

S

=Sabatier, Paul.= Open letter to his eminence Cardinal Gibbons apropos of his interview on the separation of church and state in France; tr. by J: R: Slattery. *60c. Sherman, French & co.

8–14319.

The widely circulated statements of Cardinal Gibbons upon the struggle
between church and state in France are “reprinted in this little
volume in connection with the open letter in which M. Sabatier, in
sympathy with progressive French Catholics, convicts him of gross
misrepresentation. M. Sabatier emphasizes the central fact in the
French question, that it is not Catholicism as a religion, but
clericalism as a political opponent, with which the French government
has a controversy.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“It is a volume that should be widely circulated.”

+ =Arena.= 40: 383. O. ’08. 1700w.

“How unfair and incompetent the Baltimore prelate’s protest is M.
Sabatier shows in this little book with acumen and convincing
argument.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 722. S. 24, ’08. 250w.

=Outlook.= 89: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 100w.

* =Sabin, Alvah Horton.= House painting, glazing, paper hanging, and whitewashing: a book for householders. $1. Wiley.

8–21778.

Deals with “the subjects of exterior and interior painting,
varnishing, papering, kalsomining, white-washing and the painting of
structural metal. Technical terms and long-winded descriptions are
avoided, and the book should be read by every house user and owned by
every house owner.”—Science.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 265. N. ’08. ✠

“Excellent little vademecum. Altogether there are few places at which
the reader will not find just what he needs to guide his amateurish
hands in the direction of efficiency.”

+ + =Engin. N.= 60: 320. S. 17, ’08. 500w.

“For anyone who contemplates either trying his own skill or
over-looking the proceedings of a workman, Mr. Sabin’s book appears,
as he claims in the preface, to ‘set forth fairly safe and sound
practice.’” C. S.

+ =Nature.= 79: 97. N. 26, ’08. 240w.

“A thoroughly reliable, readable book.” A. H. Gill.

+ − =Science=, n.s. 28: 843. D. 11, ’08. 80w.

* =Sadler, Michael Ernest=, ed. Moral instruction and training in schools; report of an international inquiry. *$1.50. Longmans.

A two-volume work containing a number of essays by educational men on
the problem of moral training in the school. The first volume treats
the roots of the problem and gives a series of accounts of what is
already done in schools to promote moral education. The second deals
with moral education in British colonies and in foreign countries as
well as at home.

* * * * *

“Valuable volumes.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 393. O. 3. 1300w.

“Pedagogists, theoretical and practical, will find these two volumes
well deserving of serious study.”

+ =Cath. World.= 88: 401. D. ’08. 1450w.

“There is necessarily a good deal of overlapping in the book, and
there is perhaps a trace of bias in favour of co-education; but it is
judicious, sensible, full of interesting information and suggestive
comment.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 423. O. 3, ’08. 2200w.

=Sager, Daniel Showers.= Art of living in good health: a practical
guide to well-being through proper eating, thinking, and living in
the light of modern science. **$1.35. Stokes.

7–32393.

A health hand-book which has for its watch words, breathe deep, chew
long, drink enough, eat little. It shows how self control, so
necessary to simple living, results in long life and good health.

* * * * *

“The book is both inspiring and convincing.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 83. Mr. ’08.

“Contains a large amount of excellent information, and yet we think
that it is not likely to be productive of unmixed good. Dr. Sager’s
book has much of our present scientific dietetics, some of which is
universally accredited, but some of which has not as yet been
confirmed sufficiently to make it absolute.”

+ − =Ind.= 64: 259. Ja. 30, ’08. 150w.

“If it is granted that Dr. Sager’s views are the right ones, there can
be no doubt that his book will exert enormous influence toward good;
while, also, even if many of his views are incorrect, they cannot harm
his readers, since his recommendations are in the main such as are
bound to conduce to good.” Michael Williams.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 725. N. 16, ’07. 2400w.

“We do not deny that there is something of value in the volume.”

− + =Spec.= 101: sup. 481. O. 3, ’08. 320w.

=Sainsbury, Ethel Bruce.= Calendar of the court minutes of the East
India company, 1635–1639; with an introd. and notes by W: Foster.
*$4.15. Oxford.

8–16489.

“The documents calendared follow those included in the last volume of
Miss Sainsbury’s ‘Calendar of state papers,’ East India series, and
consist of the court minute books, January 5, 1635-December 30, 1639.
But there is a gap caused by a lost volume of manuscript, July,
1637-July, 1639. These are re-enforced by abstracts of some of the
documents from the East India series at the Public record office and
of a few from the India office records and by entries on Indian
affairs for these years from the Domestic series, ‘Calendar of state
papers.’”—Am. Hist. R.

* * * * *

“This book is valuable for at least three reasons. It contains
material for the domestic history of the East India company,
1635–1639; ... secondly, there is laid open here the outworking of the
system of personal government under Charles I in years when that
system was at its strongest; and thirdly, we have the intimate records
of a corporation in days when shareholders stormed in vain at
directors.” A. L. P. Dennis.

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 856. Jl. ’08. 700w.

“It is unnecessary to add, when Mr. W. Foster is editor, that the
introduction and brief notes are in every way satisfactory.” H. E.
Egerton.

+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 576. Jl. ’08. 660w.

+ =Nation.= 86: 471. My. 21, ’08. 720w.

* =Saintsbury, George E. B.= History of English prosody from the twelfth century to the present day. v. 2. *$3.75. Macmillan.

=v. 2.= From Shakespeare to Crabbe.

This volume “begins with Shakespeare, and deals with the development
and decadence of blank verse; the Elizabethan lyric and sonnet; the
verse of Milton and the Caroline poets, of Dryden and of Pope and the
eighteenth century generally, ending with Crabbe.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“The book is full of admirable work in almost every way, but
incorrigibly careless now and then, generally in unimportant things.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 673. N. 28. 2600w. (Review of v. 2.)

=Dial.= 45: 301. N. 1, ’08. 50w. (Review of v. 2.)

“As a book of reference for the student who wishes statistics,
definitions, tabulations, and the like, the work is next to useless.
On the whole, the book is wisely planned and executed, and makes good
reading even of prosody.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 464. N. 12, ’08. 2000w. (Review of v. 2.)

“He nowhere gives us a clear summary or explanation of the matter in
dispute. It is a strange thing that one like Professor Saintsbury, who
is filled to the brim with English literature, should indulge in such
queer stylistic freaks.”

− + =Sat. R.= 106: 670. N. 28, ’08. 1600w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

=Saintsbury, George Edward B.= Later nineteenth century. (Periods of
European literature, v. 12.) *$1.50. Scribner.

7–36994.

The last volume of Mr. Saintsbury’s “Periods of European literature.”
It deals with the whole literature of Europe at the present day, from
the time of Browning and Hugo to that of Ibsen and Tolstoy including
poetry, novels, periodical literature, essays and drama. He closes
with a summary of the present volume and of the whole series.

* * * * *

“Professor Saintsbury is as off-hand, erratic, and suggestive as
usual, and seems even more readable than in his earlier works.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 206. Je. ’08. ✠

“‘Flippant and unworthy’ are hardly more lenient than the epithets
which any sensitive critic would be forced to apply to these pages.”

− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 610. N. 16. 1450w.

“Modern literature, in fact, seems to be contemplated by Professor
Saintsbury as a comprehensive inferno in regard to which it is the
first duty of the critic to determine the places of the offenders in
their respective circles.”

− =Lond. Times.= 6: 321. O. 25, ’07. 1850w.

“He is lavish of vehement opinions, but gives no evidence whatever of
a common philosophy to which these opinions may be referred.”

− =Sat. R.= 104: 671. N. 30, ’07. 930w.

=Saleeby, Caleb Williams.= Conquest of cancer: a plan of campaign.
**$1.75. Stokes.

7–37249.

An account of the principles and practice of the treatment of
malignant growths by specific cancrotoxic ferments. In presenting the
pancreatin treatment the author shows how Dr. Beard has given “the key
to the enemy’s position, and that so soon as this advantage is pressed
home the conquest of cancer will be an accomplished fact.” (R. of Rs.)

* * * * *

“We would well wish it otherwise, but see only the raising of false
hopes and bitter disappointment for those who take Dr. Saleeby’s book
seriously.”

− =Ind.= 64: 46. Ja. 2, ’08. 800w.

=Nature.= 78: 292. Jl. 30, ’08. 530w.

“His book, recording fresh data up to within a few weeks of
publication, merits attention in America as a contribution to the
practical study of the trypsin treatment.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 1. Ja. 4, ’08. 1320w.

=R. of Rs.= 37: 119. Ja. ’08. 100w.

“A large difficult book, teeming with guesswork and animosity. An
ill-tempered and unbalanced book. The author’s heart has run away with
his head, and he has allowed himself to be victimised by an
obsession.”

− =Sat. R.= 105: 240. F. 22, ’08. 1800w.

=Saleeby, Caleb Williams.= Health, strength and happiness: a book of
practical advice. *$1.50. Kennerley.

The guiding principle of Dr. Saleeby’s study is “The new asceticism,”
whose doctrine is that the body must be an expression of the harmonies
of mind, in place of the old asceticism which exploited the doctrine
of antagonism between the interests of the mind and the body. He works
out a scheme for bodily and mental health which accords with his basic
principle.

* * * * *

“A finer contribution to the literature of popular science has not
often been made.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 680. N. 14, ’08. 1150w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 747. D. 5, ’08. 160w.

=Salisbury, William.= Career of a journalist. il. *$1.50. Dodge, B.
W.

8–9151.

The real story of the author’s life. “It tells of nine years’
experiences in five American cities, on papers of every shade of
political opinion, on papers ‘yellow,’ and papers ‘conservative,’ and
concludes with observations in four foreign capitals. It shows what
journalism does for the people, and what it does not do for the
people, what journalism and journalists are and what journalism and
journalists are not, in the principal countries of the world.”
Preface.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 240. O. ’08.

“Highly interesting and suggestive volume, which, because of its
frankness and candor, its portrayal of American journalism in the
nude, is more than an interesting record.” B. O. Flower.

+ =Arena.= 40: 487. N. ’08. 5300w.

“His book may serve a useful purpose as a warning and example—while
not necessarily discouraging to those having the qualifications and
ambition for legitimate and honorable newspaper work.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 45. Jl. 16, ’08. 300w.

“The title is misleading in that it omits the qualifying adjective
‘yellow,’ which is all-important in this case.”

− − =Ind.= 64: 1199. My. 28, ’08. 900w.

“A vulgarly written account of vulgar experiences.”

− + =Nation.= 86: 351. Ap. 16, ’08. 150w.

“The thing is frankly a book of yellow journalism and yellow
journalists by one of themselves.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 226. Ap. 18, ’08. 1050w.

=Sallows, James Francis.= Blacksmith’s guide. $1.50. Technical
press.

7–33978.

Valuable instructions on forging, welding, hardening, tempering, case
hardening, annealing, coloring, brazing, and general blacksmithing.
(Explanatory title.) “The treatment throughout is of a thoroughly
practical nature, and the author describes clearly the methods which
he has employed in obtaining eminently satisfactory results in the
tempering of tools and machine parts—all without the use of expensive
furnaces, pyrometers and other accessories.” (Tech. Lit.)

* * * * *

“The language of the book is good; the explanations are clear; the
arrangement is pleasing, and no extraneous matter has been admitted.”

+ =Engin. N.= 59: 298. Mr. 12, ’08. 370w.

“It is a little work that anyone having to do with the heat-working of
steel will find of exceeding value.”

+ =Technical Literature.= 2: 583. D. ’07. 140w.

=Sanders, E. K.= Forest playfellow: a story. †$1.25. Dutton.

The story of a little boy who “lived alone with his father in a great
house near a forest. He was very lonely, and his father, who had
travelled and fought, was too brave a man to understand his terrors.
But one day in the mysterious forest he met another small boy with
bright eyes and beautiful manners who showed him how to build bridges
and gently cured him of his terrors.” (Lond. Times.)

* * * * *

“We are not blind to the merits of the work ... we know that a good
deal of care has gone to the making of the story; it may appeal more
to others than it has to us, who have found it a little dull.”

+ − =Acad.= 73: 271. D. 21, ’07. 110w.

“The charm to which we willingly surrender is neither in eeriness nor
spiritual revelation; it is in portraiture. Regarded as a human being,
the ghost is lovable; and Jock’s tutor, a minor character, is
capitally drawn.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 651. N. 23. 160w.

“It is written entirely from the child’s point of view; but it is so
sympathetic that a child might conceivably imagine after reading it
that he was as good as his parents.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 373. D. 6, ’07. 400w.

“One may venture the hope that after sixty times six best sellers have
shouted themselves into second-hand bookshops, ‘The forest playfellow’
will still stand on many a beloved shelf, shabby with much cherishing
by old and young who have felt themselves lonely children.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 196. F. 27, ’08. 100w.

“The story is daintily told, and, while dealing with the forever
intangible influences that mold a child’s character, bringing him
nearer or luring him from us, the writer contrives to make the small
hero quite a flesh-and-blood little chap after all.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 93. F. 15, ’08. 230w.

=Sanders, Lloyd Charles.= Holland house circle. **$3.50. Putnam.

Devoted to the period between 1799 and 1840 when “there was hardly in
England a distinguished man in politics, science and literature, who
had not been a guest in the Holland house.” A description of the house
itself is followed by a sketch of its early history, founders and
leading lights; then by “brief chapters on the circle of statesmen,
wits, men of letters and science, foreign diplomats and exiles who
gave to Holland house a unique place in English history.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“It is a rare pleasure in these days of slovenly book making to come
upon a volume so well informed and agreeably written as this. Before
the book passes into a second edition the author should revise his
proofs, especially as regards French words. There is a capital index.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 429. O. 10. 1500w.

“He has taken Holland house only as the string on which he has
threaded his pearls, and his pearls are the gems which he has selected
from the large range of biographies, memoirs and collections of
letters.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 948. O. 22, ’08. 800w.

“The text has been carefully compiled.”

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 678. N. 7, ’08. 300w.

“Despite its lack of artistic unity, the book affords good reading.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 336. O. 8, ’08. 580w.

“Interesting book of gossip.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 525. S. 26, ’08. 1000w.

“No one who is a student of Georgian England can afford to miss this
satisfactory and delightful record of personalities.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 886. D. 19, ’08. 1000w.

+ =Sat. R.= 106: 579. N. 7, ’08. 500w.

“These chapters are easy reading, but the ordinary reader may fail to
recognize the amount of erudition which has gone to the making of
them. Our only criticism of the book is that the arrangement of the
chapters seems to us to be without system, and that there are far too
many misprints. Mr. Sanders has given us in a most readable form a
history of the best society during a time when entertaining was still
an art, and society was still largely a cousinhood.”

+ − =Spec.= 101: 504. O. 3, ’08. 1800w.

=Sanderson, Rev. Edgar.= Heroes of pioneering. **$1.50. Lippincott.

8–1437.

“True stories of the intrepid bravery and stirring adventures of
pioneers with uncivilized man, wild beasts, and the forces of nature,
in all parts of the world.” “Champlain and other French heroes, as
well as the great Arab Abd el Kadr, are included in a list which
contains full reference to the doings of Raffles; Brooke, ... Bass,
Flinders, and Sturt in Australia; and recent pioneer work in Uganda,
Rhodesia, and Nigeria. Among many romantic careers, that of John Jacob
of Sind is perhaps the most striking.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

+ =Acad.= 73: 245. D. 14, ’07. 200w.

“Of value mainly as true adventure tales.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 149. My. ’08. ✠

=Ath.= 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 110w.

=Nature.= 76: 635. O. 24, ’07. 30w.

“There are stories which cannot be told too often, and Mr. Sanderson
tells them well.”

+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 748. N. 16, ’08. 180w.

=Santley, Sir Charles.= Art of singing and vocal declamation.
**$1.25. Macmillan.

8–18037.

“A teacher of singing, must be, or must have been, a good singer.” So
says Mr. Santley at the age of seventy-four, reflecting upon his years
of teaching experience. He is a follower of Garcia, and from Garcia
gained the inspiration to teach singing not surgery. His rational
methods, which avoided too much analysis are summed up in this
handbook for young singers.

* * * * *

“It will be appreciated by teachers as well as young students.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 241. O. ’08.

“The whole of the little volume will be eagerly read by teachers of
singing, and especially by those who are at the outset of their career
as students.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 771. Je. 20. 280w.

“It must be confessed that in his book on singing he displays a keener
knowledge of the business end of his subject than of the æsthetic
side.” L: M. Isaacs.

+ − =Bookm.= 27: 601. Ag. ’08. 950w.

“Interesting, first of all, but also helpful.”

=Ind.= 65: 321. Ag. 6, ’08. 200w.

“Containing much valuable advice.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 19. Jl. 2, ’08. 700w.

“In general may be unhesitatingly commended.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 392. Jl. 11, ’08. 150w.

=R. of Rs.= 38: 384. S. ’08. 40w.

“The book abounds in good advice, but it is not so much from singer to
singer as from the old man to the young, and much of it is sententious
in form as well as trite in matter.” C. L. G.

+ − =Spec.= 101: 405. S. 19, ’08. 2150w.

=Sargent, Arthur John.= Anglo-Chinese commerce and diplomacy (mainly
in the nineteenth century). *$4.15. Oxford.

8–9032.

Britain’s relations with China solely in their bearings on the
interests of commerce. Contents: The rule of the company [East India];
The course of trade to 1834; From the opening of the trade to the
treaty of Nanking: From the treaty of Nanking to the treaty of
Tientsin; Course of trade from 1834 to 1864; The interpretation of the
treaty of Tientsin and the convention of 1869; From the massacre of
Tientsin to the Chifu convention; Course of trade from 1865 to 1884.
Development of the policy of “Spheres of influence”; Course of trade
from 1885 to 1894. Renewal of the anti-foreign movement and recent
economic changes; Annotated bibliography of the more important
official papers and note on the character of statistical information
available for the Chinese trade.

* * * * *

“The exactness of statement and lucidity of style make the work
especially valuable for those who, studying the present, wish to get a
clear background for the picture of contemporary events. The book is
the best summary view of the development and importance of English
trade with China yet published.”

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 720. My. ’08. 400w.

“Lucid and convincing work.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 785. Je. 27. 720w.

“In spite of blemishes Mr. Sargent has performed a very useful
service, and has provided his students with an excellent text-book.”
P.

+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 620. Jl. ’08. 500w.

“A careful and scholarly study.”

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 634. N. ’08. 80w.

“It is much to be able to say that he has succeeded in giving, within
moderate limits, an instructive epitome of our efforts to open up
intercourse with the great empire which has scarcely relaxed even yet
in its resistance.”

+ =Sat. R.= 105: 17. Ja. 4, ’08. 1700w.

=Sargent, Charles Sprague.= Trees and shrubs. 25 plates by C: E:
Faxon, v. 2, pt. 1, **$5. Houghton.

“Includes descriptions and drawings of twenty-five species of ligneous
plants, hitherto unknown or almost so. Six of the species are of
cratægus and eight of viburnum. The remainder represent eight other
genera.”—Dial.

* * * * *

=Bot. Gaz.= 45: 343. My. ’08. 130w.

=Dial.= 44: 139. Mr. 1, ’08. 50w.

“In all respects the continuation of his great work is on the high
level of what has gone before. Charles Faxon’s delineations are
perfect as to detail, and as to stereoscopic effect, and indicate the
power of a line drawn by one who knows exactly what he sees.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 199. F. 27, ’08. 240w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 230w.

=Sargent, Herbert Howland.= Campaign of Santiago de Cuba. 3v. **$5.
McClurg.

7–29604.

Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.

* * * * *

“He describes and discusses the grand strategy and tactics of the
campaign with great clearness, showing a strong grasp of his subject
in all its aspects, naval, military, historical, geographical,
statistical, etc. The works that have appeared heretofore, treating of
the Spanish-American war, have been seriously defective in their
numerical data. The work before us is about perfect in this respect.”
John Bigelow, jr.

+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 373. Ja. ’08. 1500w.

“In this book we have a remarkably lucid history of a very remarkable
campaign. And there is probably no man on this continent better
fitted—on all the counts—to chronicle it with such accurate
completeness and balanced discrimination as the author.”

+ + =Ind.= 64: 51. Ja. 2, ’08. 380w.

=Lit. D.= 36: 766. My. 23, ’08. 70w.

“While the book must long remain a handy volume for reference, because
of the many facts and figures it gives, it leaves the field still open
to the historian who wishes to tell without fear or favor the true
story of our ever-regretable West Indian war.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 195. F. 27, ’08. 730w.

“A history and discussion of our part in the Cuban war that will be of
quite as much interest to the layman as to the military specialist.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 308. My. 30, ’08. 500w.

“His account, in fact, is very painstaking, but without great
penetration, and it is marred by some inflated writing—continual talk
of a ‘hail of bullets,’ for example, which, after all, is only a
metaphor—such as is best left to non-military writers.”

+ − =Spec.= 100: 63. Ja. 11, ’08. 810w.

=Sarolea, Charles.= Cardinal Newman and his influence on religious
life and thought. (World’s epoch-makers). *$1.25. Scribner.

8–26235.

A dispassionate and objective study of some of the problems suggested
by the writings of Cardinal Newman. Among the subjects treated are the
following: The Oxford movement, Newman’s personality, Why was Newman
converted to Roman Catholicism? The conflict between Newman and
Manning, Pascal and Newman, Was Newman a liberal Catholic? Cardinal
Newman and modernism.

* * * * *

“Dr. Sarolea’s work is non-partisan and shrewd. If his book fails—and
it does, we think, in the end just fail—to be a first-rate
contribution to religious history, it is owing to a weakness of
psychological insight.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 266. S. 17, ’08. 1450w.

=Outlook.= 89: 769. Ag. 1, ’08. 160w.

“Dr. Sarolea, who shows a remarkable knowledge of our language, treats
the subject with an admirable detachment. Nowhere could we find a more
impartial estimate, not of the man only, but of all the facts, mental
and emotional, which condition the study of theology. We do not always
accept Dr. Sarolea’s conclusions.”

+ − =Spec.= 101: sup. 480. O. 3, ’08. 240w.

=Saunders, Edward.= Wild bees, wasps and ants and other stinging
insects. $1.25. Dutton.

Agr 8–399.

“A popular and readable account of a group of British insects which
are known to entomologists as Hymenoptera aculeata.” It is written for
amateurs. The author says: “The non-scientific public rarely
recognizes more than the hive bee, the bumble bee, the wasp, and the
hornet, whereas there are about four hundred different kinds.”

* * * * *

“Mr. Saunders’s facts are almost invariably trustworthy.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 449. My. 14, ’08. 170w.

“The information given, though, of course, much condensed, is well
arranged and thoroughly trustworthy, besides being expressed in an
attractive manner.”

+ =Nature.= 77: 220. Ja. 9, ’08. 280w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 80w.

“Mr. Saunders writes brightly and clearly; he is, moreover, an
authority whose statements can be trusted.”

+ =Spec.= 100: 647. Ap. 25, ’08. 150w.

=Saunders, Margaret Marshall.= My pets: real happenings in my
aviary. $1.25. Am. Bapt.

8–30262.

Dedicated to boys and girls who are never satisfied with a story
unless it is entirely true. There are twenty-eight chapters dealing
with owls, robins, rabbits, guinea pigs, rats, gallinules, pigeons,
canaries and other pets of the fur and feather classes.

* * * * *

“There is much sentimentalism mixed with some good hints as to food
and general care, but the book as a whole, is merely a readable
account of trivial happenings in aviary and cage.”

− + =Nation.= 87: 319. O. 1, ’08. 150w.

=Savage, Charles Albert.= Athenian family: a sociological and legal
study based chiefly on the works of the Attic orators. *$1.50.
Wilson, H. W.

8–22086.

A monograph presented to Johns Hopkins university for the degree of
Doctor of philosophy. The discussion is based chiefly on the works of
Attic orators, and especially on the orations of Isaeus, Demosthenes
and Lysias. Material has also been found in the works of Greek poets
and philosophers. The dissertation includes the religious side of
Athenian life, attitude of the state toward the family and the
religious cult, the position of women, marriage, relations of parents
and children, and the aspects of the Athenian inheritance system.

=Savallo, Teresa de.= House of the lost court. †$1.50. McClure.

8–8102.

A rambling old English country house, taken for a season by an
American woman and her daughter, is the scene of this story full of
surprises and mystery. The hero is a man supposed to be dead who
dwells in the secret lost court. The hiding place is discovered by the
imaginative heroine who takes him for a ghost. In a thoroly American
fashion, practical and self-reliant, she finds the key to a domestic
tragedy that had for nine years cast gloom and terror over the estate,
and clears the way for a happy dénouement.

* * * * *

“It opens well, and develops leisurely, but with plenty of
atmosphere.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 445. Ap. 11. 120w.

“Accepting the premises, the story is entertaining and pleasantly
told.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 264. Mr. 19, ’08. 300w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 267. My. 9, ’08. 50w.

“Is agreeably written, some of its characters are satisfactorily
attractive, and one at least is satisfactorily odious.”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 313. Je. 6, ’08. 150w.

=Sawyer, George Henry Vaughan-.= Grant’s campaign in Virginia, 1864
(the Wilderness campaign). (Special campaign ser. no. 8.) *$1.60.
Macmillan.

8–18961.

A critical history of the Wilderness campaign giving details for the
student of history written from the point of view of an impartial
officer of the British India army.

* * * * *

“We have seldom seen a book disgraced by such glaring errors. Apart
from them, this account of the campaign is really a good one, clear in
arrangement, and impartial.”

− + =Nation.= 87: 238. S. 10, ’08. 560w.

“Gives the Wilderness campaign in accurate detail as regards
situations, movements, and strengths, and with the excellent maps and
plans with which it is provided will be a useful guide to an officer
desiring to ‘get up’ the campaign for examination purposes.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 505. O. 3, ’08. 200w.

=Sawyer, Walter Leon. (Winn Standish, pseud).= Jack Lorimer’s
champions. $1.50. Page.

7–23939.

This second volume of the “Jack Lorimer” series pictures the doings of
the Millvale boys, in and out of the gymnasium, during the spring and
summer following the events narrated in “Captain Jack Lorimer.” As the
first book dealt with football, so the interest of this centers in
base-ball. Its spirit is that of clean, non-professional athletics.

=Schaff, Philip, and Herzog, Johann Jakob.= New Schaff-Herzog
encyclopedia of religious knowledge; based on the 3d. ed. of the
Realencyklopädie. per. v. $3. Funk.

8–20152.

Embraces biblical, historical, doctrinal, and practical theology and
biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical biography from the earliest
times to the present day. This work is based upon the German
“Realencyklopädie,” founded by Herzog, edited by Hank, and constitutes
a twelve volume edition.

* * * * *

+ + =Ind.= 65: 1066. N. 5, ’08. 360w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 327. S. 5, ’08. 750w. (Review of v. 1.)

“In completeness and thoroughness this work far excels the earlier
editions of Schaff-Herzog; especially in historical and biographical
subjects the treatment is more adequate.”

+ + − =Nation.= 87: 314. O. 1, ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 100w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ + =Outlook.= 90: 364. O. 17, ’08. 380w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ + =R. of Rs.= 38: 256. Ag. ’08. 170w. (Review of v. 1.)

=Schauffler, Robert Haven=, comp. Through Italy with the poets.
**$2. Moffat.

8–3507.

An anthology of the “best poetry about Italy, from Virgil and Horace
to Arthur Symons and William Vaughan Moody.”

* * * * *

“Exhibits good judgment in its choice of poems, and makes a collection
which every lover of Italy must prize. It will be particularly valued
for bringing together many beautiful pieces of very recent
composition, and for the classified arrangement which makes it useful
for specific reference.”

− =Dial.= 44: 182. Mr. 16, ’08. 100w.

“The book is somewhat bulky for what its editor calls a ‘pocket
friend’; and, as the arrangement of its contents is purely arbitrary,
its serviceableness would have been enhanced had the compiler utilized
for a good index the few pages occupied by his own and other mediocre
verses.”

− =Ind.= 64: 524. Mr. 5, ’08. 120w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 98. F. 22, ’08. 130w.

+ =Outlook.= 88: 611. Mr. 14, ’08. 160w.

=Schechter, Solomon.= Studies in Judaism. 2d ser. $2. Jewish pub.

8–13665.

A collection of essays and articles by the President of the Jewish
theological seminary of America, formerly professor of Hebrew,
University college, London. The first two essays are on the Genizah.
or hoard of Hebrew manuscripts at Cairo. Among other topics discussed
are the Study of the Bible; Social life of the Jews in the age of
Jesus, the son of Sirach; Study of the Talmud; Saints and saintliness;
and Safed, a Jewish settlement in upper Galilee whose religious
history in the sixteenth century is unique and interesting.

* * * * *

=Ind.= 65: 722. S. 24, ’08. 260w.

− =Nation.= 86: 512. Je. 4, ’08. 270w.

“While Rabbi Schechter is a thorough scholar, he is also capable of
writing in a popular and delightful style, not devoid of humor.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 724. D. 5, ’08. 300w.

“These essays ... deserve the attention of the intelligent
Christians.”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 349. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.

=Scheffauer, Herman George.= Looms of life; poems. $1.25. Neale.

8–20495.

Buoyancy, possibility, and faith in the living present characterize
these poems in which the author “tramples down the gods that held the
past.”

* * * * *

Reviewed by E. L. Cary.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 424. Ag. 1, ’08. 360w.

=Schelling, Felix Emanuel.= Elizabethan drama, 1558–1642: a history
of the drama in England from the accession of Queen Elizabeth to
the closing of the theatres, to which is prefixed a resume of the
earlier drama from its beginning. 2v. **$7.50 Houghton.

8–5140.

A fresh handling of the material of the Elizabethan drama emphasizing
the “extraordinary varieties of dramatic composition” rather than the
commonplaces of history and biography. It is a connected history of
the Tudor and earlier Stuart drama which takes into account the whole
body of plays written and acted during this period, their authorship,
relations, and the involved history of the state. Professor Schelling
has aimed to ascertain the character of each play and to refer it to
its type: to establish its relations to what had preceded and to what
was to follow; and to learn when a given dramatic species appeared,
how long it continued, and when it was superseded by other forms.
Contents: The old sacred drama; The morality and earlier secular
plays; The new romantic drama; The chronicle histories; and The
domestic drama.

* * * * *

“The best compendium of what is known on the subject. Every library
that can afford it should have it.”

− =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 206. Je. ’08.

“The most complete and serviceable work in its field.” H. W. Boynton.

+ + =Bookm.= 27: 272. My. ’08. 1500w.

“The book is an important one,—a notable contribution to American
scholarship. But it is a book for the intelligent layman as well as
for the scholar, and its reader will be spurred on to wider reading on
one of the most fascinating fields of literature.” M. W. Sampson.

+ + =Dial.= 45: 11. Jl. 1, ’08. 2200w.

“He has done his work very well indeed, and it is an honor to American
scholarship, worthy of comparison with the best that has been done in
Germany or in Great Britain. It is not only well planned but well
written, and its criticism is sober and sane; it is as free from the
dithyrambic rhapsodizing of Swinburne as it is from the mere
dry-as-dust enumeration of the ordinary Teutonic investigator. A word
of protest may be permitted here against Professor Schelling’s trick
of employing French words for which it would have been easy for him to
find fit English equivalents.” Brander Matthews.

+ + − =Forum.= 39: 521. Ap. ’08. 850w.

“In the matter of style the present work is decidedly stimulating; it
carries the reader along more vigorously than does Ward’s work. The
index is an admirable piece of work, as near perfection as anything of
the sort is likely to be. The finding list of plays is also excellent;
we note, however, the omission of the play of Thersites.”

+ + − =Nation.= 86: 517. Je. 4, ’08. 1900w.

“He writes with distinction and grace, while his new work, in scope
and purpose, differs materially from the many on the same subject
which have preceded it.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 156. Mr. 21, ’08. 950w.

“If it were necessary to confine oneself to a single book for the
study of this period—for the history of its rise, fruition and
decay—that book would properly be Prof. Schelling’s ‘Elizabethan
drama’” S. R. Cook.

+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 237. My. ’08. 300w.

=R. of Rs.= 37: 759. Je. ’08. 100w.

“Professor Schelling’s scholarship is accurate and wide, and his
critical judgments are always sound and sympathetic; his book is
valuable chiefly as a magazine of well-ordered information. The
enthusiastic reader will miss the glamour and the atmosphere which
lend so much charm to J. A. Symonds’s book on the same subject; for
Professor Schelling’s style is dry, and his whole treatment of his
material is far too careful and precise to allow of any sign of
excitement.”

+ − =Spec.= 100: 975. Je. 20, ’08. 1400w.

=Schmucker, Samuel Christian.= Study of nature. (Lippincott’s
educational series.) $1.25. Lippincott.

8–20551.

An orderly, stimulating presentation of the subject of nature study.
Under the three general heads, The theory, The materials and The
course, the author presents the scope, aim, purpose, teacher’s
preparation and schoolroom equipment; the near at hand material
available at different seasons of the year, ranging from insects to
stars; and a course of study for the first four grades, concluding
with a chapter on Helpful books on nature study.

* * * * *

“Less comprehensive than Holtz’s ‘Nature study’ but very suggestive
and detailed in the field covered.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 265. N. ’08.

“A very comprehensive and practical volume for teachers, and
satisfactorily meets the criterion laid down by the author, that a
good nature study book sends us out into the open to see for ourselves
instead of making us content to study nature in the library.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 317. Aug. 6, ’08. 120w.

“Its interest by no means is confined to teachers, but it will be
found a handy book in any one’s library.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 449. Ag. 15, ’08. 130w.

=Schofield, Alfred Taylor.= Functional nerve diseases. (New lib. of
medicine.) *$2.50. Dutton.

8–35862.

Includes hysteria and neurasthenia, migraine, chorea, tics, tetanus,
vertigo, and exophthalmic goitre. “The book throws an interesting
light upon the modern treatment of these diseases, which are the
direct products of civilization, whilst it explains much of the
success gained by the various systems, sciences, and cures which are
in vogue at the present time.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“The author’s style is often slovenly, and he has not always verified
his references.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 421. Ap. 4. 270w.

“For the medical man the book is perhaps too unsystematic and rather
diffuse, although often undeniably stimulating.”

− + =Nation.= 87: 366. O. 15, ’08. 230w.

“Taken as a whole, the book is well written and full of useful
information, and it will be found to contain many suggestions which
will prove of value to the thoughtful student.”

+ =Nature.= 79: 5. N. 5, ’08. 500w.

“A somewhat technical but decidedly interesting and valuable
treatise.” H. A. Bruce.

+ =Outlook.= 90: 705. N. 28, ’08. 40w.

“The practical parts of it are good, for they are the fruits of
experience; but the whole is too diffuse to make a good text-book, and
the best chapters are too technical for popular reading. A book which
admittedly has one eye on a professional audience, and the other on
the public can hardly escape squinting, and this one is no exception
to the rule.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 633. My. 16, ’08. 2450w.

=Schon, Hans A. E. C. von.= Hydro-electric practice: a practical
manual of the development of water power, its conversion to
electric energy, and its distant transmission. *$6. Lippincott.

8–23073.

An analytical treatment of hydro-electric practice for the promoter,
investor and practitioner. The subject is treated in two parts: the
first, Analysis of a hydro-electric project, is matter for the layman,
and contains in untechnical form the commercial essence of the
subject; the second, Designing and equipping the plant, is written for
the student and practitioner.

* * * * *

“The text is direct and pertinent and all the diagrams and
illustrations have a direct value.”

+ =Elec. World.= 52: 1136. N. 21, ’08. 400w.

“Without wishing to detract from the value of the book, so far as it
goes, it is correct to say that the title is misleading. The work is
really an elementary treatise, covering only a limited part of the
field of hydro-electric practice in the United States. With the
limitations here stated the book has its value to the practitioner,
but its principal use is to the beginner who desires to take up low
head hydroelectric work in the Middle West or East.” F. C. Finkle.

+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 538. N. 12, ’08. 2200w.

=Schouler, James.= Ideals of the republic. **$1.50. Little.

8–30609.

A volume whose purpose is to trace out the fundamental ideas, social
and political, to which America owes her progress and prosperity, and
to consider the application of those ideas to present conditions. The
chapters are: The rights of human nature; Types of equality; Civil
rights; Political rights; Government by consent; Written
constitutions; A union of states; The discipline of liberty; Three
departments of government; Parties and party spirit; Servants of the
public; The strife to surpass; and A new federal convention.

* * * * *

“Though he does not disguise the evils, the Doctor, trusting to the
vitality of the nation, is optimistic about the future, trusting that
Americans will again come to understand that there are better things
in life than the satisfaction of an unbounded thirst for
accumulation.”

+ =Cath. World.= 88: 405. D. ’08. 620w.

“Especially interesting is his discussion of parties and party spirit,
their function in a republic and their history in this country.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 668. N. 14, ’08. 300w.

=Schultz, Alfred Paul.= Race or mongrel. $2.50. Page.

8–22785.

A brief history of the rise and fall of the ancient races of the
earth; a theory that the fall of nations is due to intermarriage with
alien stocks; a demonstration that a nation’s strength is due to
racial purity; a prophecy that America will sink to early decay unless
immigration is rigorously restricted.

* * * * *

“He is entirely ignorant of anthropological principles, has no idea of
recent advances made in ethnology, has no conception of the effect of
geographical circumstances ... upon man, and is totally unfit to write
upon his subject from a scientific standpoint.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 540. O. 3, ’08. 100w.

=Schumann, Robert Alexander.= Letters of Robert Schumann; selected
and ed. by Karl Storck. *$3. Dutton.

8–8848.

Thru these letters so important and voluminous one “gets a proper
insight into the character of the man; the development of his art, his
ideals, the most interesting part he played in the eloquent drama of
the romantic movement as well as the actual facts, the salient
influences, and crisis of his career.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 207. Je. ’08.

“The translation is very good. Here and there, nevertheless, it is a
little too free.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 459. Ap. 11. 250w.

“A not too pronounced flavor of the ‘sinnreich,’ the ‘gefühlvoll,’ the
‘schwärmerisch’ even, pervades the letters, in a pleasant way, and
gives them an undeniable charm.”

+ =Dial.= 44: 182. Mr. 16, ’08. 170w.

“Of all the great composers, Schumann and Wagner were the most
interesting letter writers. His letters are not nearly so numerous as
Wagner’s, and almost all of them are worth reading.”

+ + =Nation.= 86: 65. Ja. 16, ’08. 920w.

“Dr. Storck’s selections are judiciously made. His notes and
introductions are valuable and illuminating, and the translation is,
on the whole, excellent. The book is one that admirers of Schumann and
students of the romantic movement will value highly.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 856. D. 21, ’07. 800w.

* =Schurz, Carl.= Reminiscences of Carl Schurz. v. 3. **$3. McClure.

=v. 3.= 1863–1869: with a sketch of his life and public services from
1869–1906, by Frederic Bancroft and William Dunning.

At the time of Mr. Schurz’s death he had completed the third volume of
his Reminiscences to the middle of Grant’s administration. His
manuscript is printed as he left it, and there has been added by Mr.
Bancroft with the cooperation of Mr. Dunning, a hundred and forty page
sketch embodying the salient features of his activity in public
affairs, showing his relation to the history of the time, the
intellectual characteristics and political aspirations that were
conspicuous and potent in his career.

=Schütze, Martin.= Hero and Leander: a tragedy. **$1.25. Holt.

8–29016.

A poetic drama which creates a new setting for the legendary lovers.
The author has furnished “a new story, new personages, and a new
catastrophe, making Hero stab herself over the body of her drowned
lover, instead of letting her leap into the sea.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“It is a work showing some power of dramatic invention, literary
facility, and occasional flights of poetic fancy, although the
language in which these are expressed is likely to degenerate into
unmistakable prose. If it is not a brilliant example of poetic
tragedy, it is a capable, dignified, and interesting composition which
would be a credit to any theatre producing it.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 366. O. 15, ’08. 300w.

=Schwartz, Henry B.= In Togo’s country: some studies in Satsuma and
other little known parts of Japan. *$1.50. West Meth. bk.

8–22266.

The author’s observations have been made during fourteen years “in
places which no tourist’s eye hath seen, and in paths where no globe
trotter’s foot hath passed.” It is a study of the conditions that
produced Togo, Oyama, and Kuroki; and since all three of these men
whom the war brought into prominence, are natives of Satsuma, the
author’s observations are largely confined to that province.

* * * * *