Chapter XLVII: Book 1: , The heavenly bodies; Book 2, The constellations; Book 3, Times (12)

“A study of the problems which lie in that borderland between
education and penology. The disappearance of the old prison
discipline, the rise of the cottage system with its added
possibilities of classification, better physical and moral care,
vocational training both agricultural and industrial, the increased
use of libraries and other aids to character-building, and, finally,
the perfection of the parole system,—all are carefully discussed, both
historically and comparatively.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

* * * * *

“Although there are a number of small errors ... the book is eminently
worth while. It should be in the hands of every superintendent and
teacher of the juvenile reform schools of this country and could very
profitably be read by all educators who are also citizens.” T. J.
Riley.

+ + − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 568. Ja. ’08. 500w.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 509. Mr. ’08. 100w.

=Ind.= 65: 320. Ag. 6, ’08. 40w.

=Snedden, David Samuel, and Allen, William H.= School reports and
school efficiency. *$1.50. Macmillan.

8–10624.

A popular, untechnical book designed to show how school facts may be
presented. The authors believe that reasoning from fact to policy will
improve the latter, increase the efficiency of schools, further their
support and settle questions. The whole subject of reports is
undertaken to the end of showing the best methods of making reports,
answering questions and meeting the criticisms of the public.

* * * * *

“It is the only book of the kind accessible to superintendents.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 211. Je. ’08.

“So far the most satisfactory attempt to bring educational statistics
more into uniformity and put them on a basis which will enable them
better to serve the ends for which they are used.” C. A. Herrick.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 638. N. ’08., 340w.

“This book should do much to improve the conditions.” J. M. C.

+ =El. School T.= 9: 164. N. ’08. 440w.

“Will prove helpful to all who are interested in determining the
scope, outlay and results of American education.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 50w.

“The little volume is addressed naturally to school authorities and to
teachers primarily, but ultimately to the interested public.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 386. Jl. 11, ’08. 1050w.

=R. of Rs.= 37: 639. My. ’08. 150w.

“This is an educational work of unusual importance. The business man
and the social worker as well as the schoolman have reason to welcome
this book.” F. A. Manny.

+ + =School R.= 16: 694. D. ’08. 270w.

=Snow, Louis Franklin.= College curriculum in the United States.
$1.50. Teachers’ college, Columbia university, N. Y.

E 8–10.

Dr. Snow shows that the college curriculum is a growth and not an
accident. “His volume, containing 186 pages, is an elaborate study of
the development of the curriculum from the founding of Harvard to the
present day. Dr. Snow has laid under contribution a large mass of
books and documents, many of them not easily accessible.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“The thesis is fully annotated; and both text and notes contain many
curious and interesting facts gleaned from the history of higher
education in this country.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 209. S. 5, ’07. 250w.

=R. of Rs.= 37: 384. Mr. ’08. 50w.

=Snow, William Gage.= Principles of heating: a practical and
comprehensive treatise on applied theory in heating. il. $2.
Williams.

7–36224.

Deals almost wholly with steam and hot-water heating, and includes the
results of numerous tests made by the author on various heating
apparatus and systems, together with practical original tables and
charts useful in the solution of heating problems.

* * * * *

“A more suitable title for this book would seem to be ‘Notes on the
theory and practice of heating,’ since the volume is by no means
confined to principles, and most of the contents have the fragmentary
character of writings, reproduced, with little change, from the trade
press.”

+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 652. D. 12, ’07. 140w.

“The book is well indexed and the data contained are thus made readily
accessible.”

+ =Technical Literature.= 2: 334. O. ’07. 220w.

=Snyder, Carl.= American railways as investments; with an
introductory chapter on the methods of estimating railway values.
*$3.20. Moody corporation.

7–25023.

A detailed and comparative analysis of all the leading railways from
the investor’s point of view. “This book is written primarily with
reference to the investor who is seeking information regarding the
properties whose securities he may desire to purchase or to sell.”
(Ann. Am. Acad.)

* * * * *

“Mr. Snyder’s book is useful, but not indispensable.”

+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 510. Mr. ’08. 150w.

“A study of Mr. Snyder’s book should transfer many from the foolish to
the wise class—from the gamblers to the investors—with much advantage
to themselves and the public.” William Hill.

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 44. Ja. ’08. 780w.

“Mr. Snyder’s book comes as near to disclosing true values as any such
treatise has done.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 451. Jl. 20, ’07. 970w.

+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 186. Mr. ’08. 100w.

=Sociological society, London.= Sociological papers, v. 3. *$3.25.
Macmillan.

“While most of the papers deal either with the relations of sociology
to biology or with sociological aims and methods, two have an
historical interest. One of these, ‘The Russian revolution,’ by Mr. G.
de Wesselitsky, is mainly an historical sketch of the development of
autocracy in Russia; the other, an interesting paper on ‘The origin
and function of Religion,’ by Mr. A. E. Crawley, gives some of the
results of a survey of religious phenomena, which starts from a study
of certain savage peoples. The conclusion is reached that religion,
which may be defined as a psychic temper, has for its origin the vital
instinct, and for its sociological functions, ‘the affirmation and
consecration of life,’ the intensification of personality the keeping
of man in harmony with the earth and the raising of human nature to a
higher power.”—Am. Hist. R.

* * * * *

=Acad.= 73: 287. D. 28, ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 3)

=Am. Hist. R.= 13: 339. Ja. ’08. 160w. (Review of v. 3.)

=Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 285. Ja. ’08. 150w. (Review of v. 3.)

“The Sociological society’s third volume maintains its high level.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 40. Ja. 11. 500w. (Review of v. 3.)

“The volume before us is certainly the best which has been published
by this society and its appearance marks the steady progress, high
purpose, and future possibilities of social science in England.” H. O.
Newland.

+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 11: 269. Ja. ’08. 340w. (Review of v. 3.)

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 502. O. ’07. 90w. (Review of v. 3.)

“[All the papers] are vicariously redeemed by Professor Thomson’s
contribution. Fortunately he combines with a knowledge of biology an
insight into the social heritage of civilized society.”

− + =Nation.= 86: 177. F. 20, ’08. 620w. (Review of v. 3.)

“This volume is quite equal in interest to either of its
predecessors.” F. W. H.

+ + =Nature.= 76: 586. O. 10, ’07. 660w. (Review of v. 3.)

Reviewed by M. M. Davis, jr.

+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 152. Mr. ’08. 1400w. (Review of v. 3.)

“Again we have a series of papers, some very interesting and
suggestive, and others of the dull and heavy order.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 48. Ja. 11. ’08. 1080w. (Review of v. 3.)

“On the whole, the three volumes of papers now printed are a
disappointment.” A. G. K.

− + =Yale R.= 16: 436. F. ’08. 1020w. (Review of v. 3.)

* =Somerville, Charles.= Wolf, founded on the play, by Eugene Walter. †$1.50. Dillingham.

The novelization of Eugene Walter’s play in which the hero, a French
Canadian, avenges the death of his sister, betrayed and deserted by
the Wolf, an unprincipled engineer. The story is set in the Nipissing
country.

=Somerville, Edith A. Œ., and Ross, Martin, pseud. (Violet Martin).=
Further experiences of an Irish R. M. †$1.50. Longmans.

8–23093.

A series of stories giving “first-rate pictures of the humours of the
hunting-field.” “The richness and diversity of Hibernian idiom is
worthy of attention, independent of the threads of amusing
misadventure on which it is strung; the combination may be ephemeral,
but nobody can feel that the moments spent upon it are wasted.”
(Nation.)

* * * * *

“Have plenty of lively incident and are full of the drollery and
unexpectedness of the Irish nature.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 305. D. ’08.

“There is ... the same comedy, pungent as a turf fire, that insured to
Flurry Knox and his genial biographer upon their first appearance a
true Irish constancy and warmth of welcome for the future.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 340. O. 8, ’08. 130w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 522. S. 26, ’08. 80w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 200w.

“The authors have a rare tact in the handling of the farcical, and
never strain after effect. Their treatment of Irish peasant idiom is
perfect.”

+ =Sat. R.= 106: 490. O. 17, ’08. 230w.

“It is in their dialogue that the authors chiefly excel, above all in
reproducing the characteristic turn of phrase and intrepid imagery of
the Irish peasant.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 372. S. 12, ’08. 1100w.

=Sons= of the Puritans; by various authors. *$1.50. Am. Unitar.

8–30957.

Here are sketched the careers of eleven men, all serving the public
welfare, each of whom owed his success to “a certain moral idealism
which is a part of the Puritan inheritance.” The group includes George
F. Hoar, Morrill Wyman, Horace Gray, Charles F. Dunbar, Phillips
Brooks, Francis C. Barlow, Henry S. Russell, Roger Woolcott, William
E. Russell, Charles Eliot, and William H. Baldwin.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 673. N. 14, ’08. 160w.

=Sorel, Ernest.= Carbureting and combustion in alcohol engines; tr.
from the French by S. F. Woodward and John Preston. $3. Wiley.

7–36878.

The only book of its kind. It contains a treatment of the information
to date dealing with the physical and chemical properties of alcohol
and other commercial liquid fuels so far as concerns their use in
engines.

* * * * *

“It is not too much to say that this is the standard book on the
subject, and that a great number of years must elapse before it can be
neglected by any one who has to design an alcohol engine of maximum
efficiency.” L. S. Marks.

+ =Engin. N.= 59: 201. F. 20. ’08. 1200w.

+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 195. F. 15, ’08. 350w.

=Spargo, John.= Common sense of the milk question. **$1.50.
Macmillan.

8–12780.

A thoroughgoing treatise on the problem of the relation of the public
milk supply to the public health, particularly to the health of babies
who are wholly or almost wholly dependent upon it for food. The ills
of the milk problem are stated and remedial measures are discussed.

* * * * *

“If all socialists kept as close to reality as Mr. Spargo does in this
book they would improve their reputation for sanity.” C. R. Henderson.

+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 129. Jl. ’08. 90w.

“The book makes a valuable addition to dairy literature. While of
special interest to physicians and philanthropists, it is so written
that any reader of average intelligence can understand it.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 211. Je. ’08. ✠

“A reasonable, practical book.” H. R. Mussey.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 463. S. ’08. 280w.

“Every farmer should peruse this book. Every mother and nurse should
be acquainted with its contents. It is of more vital importance than
it is possible to express in this brief review.” R. E. Bisbee.

+ + =Arena.= 40: 468. N. ’08. 500w.

“The interested lay student of the milk question desiring to follow up
the subject will find the notes and authorities somewhat carelessly
put together. It would have been of service if more definite
references to state and national government bulletins had been made
and attention called to the fact that many of these which are
excellently adapted to enlighten the general public are to be had free
of cost.” G. N. Lauman.

+ − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 329. D. ’08. 440w.

“A busy doctor, farmer, milk dealer or reformer will find in ‘The
common sense of the milk question’ facts, arguments and program to
persuade, to convince, to inspire.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 721. S. 24, ’08. 340w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 289. My. 23, ’08. 150w.

“It would be well worth while to adopt the English custom of
publishing a shilling edition for general circulation; and it is to be
hoped that the author may see his way clear to render this real social
service.” J. E. Pope.

+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 731. D. ’08. 1000w.

“It is one of the merits of his book that it guides the reader to the
works of specialists which otherwise might be passed by without
consultation.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 756. Je. ’08. 170w.

=Sparrow, Walter Shaw.= Old England: with 80 illustrations in color
and halftone by James Orrock. **$6. Pott.

“This volume is meant to be something more than a collection of
picturesque buildings, landscapes, etc., which are described by pen
and set forth by pencil. It is an illustrated history in the broadest
sense of the word; not a chronicle of events, but a presentation of
the great influences which have made the country what it is.” (Spec.)
“The book is really a portfolio of Mr. Orrock’s work, and the idea of
Mr. Sparrow’s text is to show how the English story is told by the
pictures Mr. Orrock paints.” (Sat. R.)

* * * * *

“The pictures are the most valuable part of the book. It is much to be
wished that the writing of the letterpress had fallen into more
capable hands.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 340. S. 19. 970w.

“A handsome and valuable work in which the history of old England is
connected with her monuments both natural and man-made.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 562. O. 10, ’08. 350w.

“Though we have a great collection of facts there is an air of their
being dragged in for the sake of filling the space between one picture
and another; and a good deal of violent wrestling to get the matter
fitted to the picture. The pictures are much better than the usual
class of work of this kind.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 150. Ag. 1, ’08. 220w.

“Altogether, Mr. Sparrow has given us, with the very able help of Mr.
Orrock’s pencil, a most delightful volume.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 413. S. 19, ’08. 400w.

=Spears, John Randolph.= History of the United States navy. **$1.50.
Scribner.

8–5238.

A history that lies between Spears’ five volume “History of our navy”
and his “Short history of the American navy.” The whole story of the
navy is told, all the important naval battles are described, and facts
and conditions that have created public opinion in favor of, or
against, the employment of the navy are considered. Victories are
treated less in the spot-light sense and more in relation to the
character-development of the heroes.

* * * * *

“The present work is the most desirable for the ordinary library.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 150. My. ’08. ✠

Reviewed by R. G. Gettell.

=Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 463. S. ’08. 200w.

“Its special excellence is found, we think, in the author’s vivid and
graphic descriptions of the heroic deeds and great achievements of the
naval forces in critical moments.”

+ =Arena.= 39: 492. Ap. ’08. 200w.

“At times his judgment is immoderate. Some fault might also be found
with the author’s arrangement of his materials. But these are minor
defects in a generally creditable and useful book.”

+ − =Dial.= 44: 315. My. 16, ’08. 300w.

“On the whole, it is not quite clear why this book should have been
written.”

+ − =Ind.= 65: 99. Jl. 9, ’08. 510w.

“Mr. Spears ... has done the work in a workmanlike manner and made a
good book of its kind. Its value and interest are enhanced by the
illustrations, some portraits of ships or sailors, and some ‘scenes.’”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 130. Mr. 7, ’08. 120w.

“An uncommonly good book.”

+ =Outlook.= 88: 658. Mr. 21, ’08. 130w.

“The book as it stands is the best single-volume summary of American
naval history that has yet been written.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 507. Ap. ’08. 100w.

=Spears, John Randolph.= Story of the New England whalers. **$1.50.
Macmillan.

8–28292.

In popular form Mr. Spears, the recognized authority on the American
navy, tells the story of the whaling industry from its merest
beginnings in the middle of the seventeenth century on through the
period of its greatest commercial success in the middle of the
nineteenth century to the present days of decline. It is important
that every library should have this book.

* * * * *

“The book should appeal to all who find delight in brave and skilful
deeds, done in a peaceful cause.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 601. D. 17, ’08. 140w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 622. O. 24, ’08. 40w.

“No important phase of the subject has escaped him.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 637. N. ’08. 80w.

=Speer, Robert Elliott.= Master of the heart. **$1. Revell.

8–20734.

“A series of addresses that were first made to the young men and women
of the Northfield conferences. They are eminently practical and are
mainly devoted to an analysis of the spiritual relation of Christ to
his followers and an application of that relation and influence to the
every-day lives of modern men and women.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“They evidence great earnestness and sincerity of belief and have a
simplicity and sweetness of manner that give them more the character
of intimate talks with some young and troubled friend seeking for help
to see the right way than of set addresses.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 497. S. 12, ’08. 120w.

“No recluse, but a man who leads a strenuous life, sets forth here the
lesson which gives to life both peace and power in pursuit of divine
ideals.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 136. S. 19, ’08. 120w.

=Spender, John Alfred=, ed. Comments of Bagshot. **$1.25. Holt.

8–12973.

Epigrams of a contributor to the Westminster gazette, whose identity
was veiled under the name Bagshot. His range of comment is wide, and
he goes beneath the surface of such questions as friendship, religion,
bores, immortality and animal instinct, the secret of youth, the
poetry of the future, the “most disagreeable fact in the world,”
shyness, the dramatic temperament and the artistic, wealth, poverty,
war, pain, the needy and the greedy, woman’s morality, her logic,
gambling systems, literature and the middle-aged genius, etc.

* * * * *

“We suspect that if Mr. Bagshot had been an Athenian, he would have
run great risk of sharing the fate of Aristides. He is always so
eminently sane and correct in his judgments that it is hopeless to try
to argue against him, while all the time one is conscious of some
subtle danger to the republic in his views, or rather, his point of
view.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 319. Mr. 14. 350w.

“No one, unless hopelessly dull and unimpressionable, can fail to find
something refreshingly original in many of Bagshot’s opinions and
judgments of men and things.” P. F. Bicknell.

+ =Dial.= 44: 337. Je. 1, ’08. 500w.

=Ind.= 64: 1202. My. 28, ’08. 150w.

“A series of observations upon life, remarkable at once for insight,
enlightened common sense, and literary pungency.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 580w.

“Wit and wisdom are the qualities which distinguish the writer’s
style.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 384. S. ’08. 30w.

“His sayings are not all of equal merit, but there are few pages in
this book without something to set one on thinking; and there are some
of delightful excellence.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 48. Ja. 11, ’08. 1400w.

“Whether Bagshot is dealing with death and immortality, or riches and
socialism, he always contrives to be pungent and interesting and yet
urbane, for there is no attempt in the book either at flashy cynicism
or cheap epigram.”

+ =Spec.= 99: 1053. D. 21, ’07. 1200w.

=Spenser, Edmund.= Complete poetical works; ed. by R. E. Neil Dodge.
(Cambridge ed.) $3. Houghton.

8–11738.

A volume of Spenser uniform with the Cambridge edition, containing all
of Spenser’s poetical works arranged as nearly as possible in
chronological order and supplied with full editorial equipment.

* * * * *

“It may be commended as the best edition of the poet. The various
introductions are critically sound, and the notes are well informed
and useful.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 1: 241. O. ’08.

“All the special features, both editorial and typographical, which fit
this series so admirably for the use of readers and students alike are
once more exemplified in this noble tome.”

+ =Dial.= 44: 280. My. 1, ’08. 100w.

“We may commend this as the best edition of a poet still warmly
cherished by a select audience. So far as we have looked into the
notes, they are well-informed and useful.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 351. Ap. 16, ’08. 450w.

“Keeps well to the standard of these model editions of the poets.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 386. Jl. 11, ’08. 250w.

=Spingarn, Joel Elias.= Critical essays of the seventeenth century.
3v. v. 1 & 2, ea. *$1.75. Oxford.

8–26854.

Two of the contemplated three volumes, which Professor Spingarn will
contribute to the literature of formal criticism. “As for the essays,
letters, and poems reprinted, it can only be said that they cover
practically the whole field of seventeenth-century literary
discussion, with the exception of Dryden’s work, which Professor
Spingarn has wisely left to be consulted in Professor Ker’s edition.”
(Nation.)

* * * * *

“The disquisitions which Professor Spingarn has here collected reward
reading.” Brander Matthews.

+ =Forum.= 40: 121. Ag. ’08. 850w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“His introduction is not easy, nor altogether agreeable, reading.
There is a kind of bustling haste in its procedure, which might have
been relieved by better composition, without sacrificing the ideas. It
is, nevertheless, a highly valuable piece of work, showing in a single
page more real grasp of the subject than Saintsbury’s ‘History of
criticism’ displays in a chapter.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 568. Je. 18, ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“One may be thankful for Mr. Spingarn’s scholastic erudition.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 326. Je. 13, ’08. 240w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)

“Professor Spingarn’s introduction is an illuminating piece of work,
laying down the main lines of his subject with admirable charity, and
following them up with real force and insight and that rare kind of
erudition which never grows pedantic.”

+ =Spec.= 100: 706. My. 2, ’08. 1350w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

=Spivey, Thomas Sawyer.= Hoosier widow. il. $1.50. Neale.

8–5225.

The story records the experiences of a young and beautiful girl from a
village in Indiana who, marrying a man on his death bed, became a
widow without having been a wife. She goes to New York and meets a
young lawyer who is the victim of a disastrous marriage. Her
subsequent relations with him form the principal plot-interest in this
slight story, The other characters merely contribute to the happy
termination of the love episode.

=Spooner, Henry John.= Machine design, construction and drawing: a
text-book for the use of young engineers. *$3.50. Longmans.

8–34187.

“A book of detail. It consists of 32 chapters of practically all the
various mechanical details met with in ordinary design.” (Engin. N.)
“The work contains over 1,400 illustrations, mostly detail drawings
and sketches intended to show good British practice, and about 80
numerical tables.” (Engin. D.)

* * * * *

“The contents are quite up-to-date, and, aside from whatever
excellence it may possess as a text-book for engineering students, the
work will be found most convenient as a handy reference book of
machine details.”

+ + =Engin. D.= 4: 54. Jl. ’08. 300w.

“The definition of diametrical pitch found in the chapter on toothed
gearing is very bad. An excellent book of reference for this subject.
It is unique in its being so complete in so small a volume giving as
it does a few examples of complete machines and a thorough line of
details. It will surely be found of greater value in modern designing
than Reauleux’s ‘Constructor,’ after which it is apparently modeled.”
Amasa Trowbridge.

+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 653. Je. 11, ’08. 1000w.

=Sprague, Rufus Farrington.= True nature of value. *$1. Univ. of
Chicago press.

8–829.

Theories simply stated which are designed to assist students who are
struggling to ascertain the true principles regulating exchange values
and the various social problems that confront the world to-day. The
author shows that equity demands that compensation should be in
proportion to service rendered, a result secured wherever free
competition is established; but that greed results in monopoly which
demands compensation not on the equitable basis of utility of service,
but on the unequitable basis of the utility of the product itself.

* * * * *

“It shows unusual power and incisiveness, and sets forth conclusions
which are, in the main, sound. Business men are so accustomed to
taking short cuts by the use of metonymy, simile and metaphor, that it
is refreshing to find one who writes so clearly and with so much
regard for exact definition.” T. N. Carver.

+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 30. Ap. ’08. 330w.

“Mr. Sprague’s book is admirably ingenious, compact, and original in
thought, as it is admirably clear in point of exposition.” H. J.
Davenport.

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 117. F. ’08. 1120w.

=Stacpoole, H. De Vere.= Blue lagoon: a romance. †$1.50. Lippincott.

The story of two castaways, a boy and a girl, who alone on an island
grow into primitive beings, discovering for themselves the facts of
love and life.

* * * * *

“There is real poetic feeling as well as imagination in Mr.
Stacpoole’s story.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 155. F. 8. 120w.

“Is not a well-constructed book according to accepted standards; but
that does not rob it of the credit due to a successful attempt to do a
rather difficult and unusual thing.” F: T. Cooper.

− + =Bookm.= 27: 579. Ag. ’08. 260w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 343. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.

“Mr. Stacpoole too often despises grammar, but he possesses
imagination, and for once the title of ‘romance’ found in so many
modern stories is really justified.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 146. F. 1, ’08. 260w.

=Standage, H. C.=, ed. Decoration of metal, wood, glass, etc.; a
book for manufacturers, mechanics, painters, decorators, and all
workmen in the fancy trades. *$2. Wiley.

8–8483.

“In the early sections the bronzing of iron, tin, zinc, alabaster,
plaster of Paris, paper, and feathers is dealt with. Afterwards follow
directions for such miscellaneous processes as the platinising of
metals; plating with aluminium; the colouring of metals by immersion
in chemicals; silvering and gilding; tinning and galvanising; the use
of enamels and glazes; etching; varnishing, lacquering, and
japanning.”—Nature.

* * * * *

“A valuable reference volume.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 290. D. ’08.

“Contains information which should give it a wide field of
usefulness.”

+ =Engin. N.= 59: 441. Ap. 16, ’08. 60w.

“So far as can be judged from a recipe here and there, the methods
seem to be trustworthy. The book has no pretensions to being
scientific, and it is necessarily, perhaps, more or less of a medley.
Even so, the editing leaves something to be desired.” C. S.

+ − =Nature.= 78: 389. Ag. 27, ’08. 240w.

=Standard= handbook for electrical engineers. *$4. McGraw.

8–347.
(2d. ed. 8–17558.)

“Consists of twenty sections, ranging from 20 to 130 pages in length,
which have been prepared by engineers who are thoroughly conversant
with the subjects they write upon, and who know from practical
experience the sort of information that is most frequently required by
these having occasion to use such compilations.”—Engin. D.

* * * * *

“The entire field of electrical engineering has been more completely
covered in this book than in any similar book the writer has seen, not
excepting those published in England, Germany, France and Italy. It is
a book of which American engineers can well be proud.”

+ + =Elec. World.= 51: 58. Ja. 4, ’08. 820w.

“The co-ordinated presentation of the subjects treated renders it
especially desirable for students and those who have occasion to
require concise and clear statements in regard to electrical matters.”

+ + =Engin. D.= 3: 188. F. ’08. 470w.

“It would seem that the library of any practicing electrical engineer
should contain all the theoretical discussions which may be found in
this book, and these, too, in nearly as convenient and in a more
complete and satisfactory form.”

− + =Engin. N.= 59: 205. F. 20, ’08. 400w.

“A most valuable reference manual.”

+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 55. Ja. 11, ’08. 600w.

=Stansfield, Alfred.= Electric furnace: its evolution, theory and
practice. *$2. Hill pub.

8–35541.

Aims “to present as simply as possible, the principles on which the
construction and use of the electric furnace depend and to give an
account of its history and development.” Treats the history, various
types of electric furnace, efficiency, cost of electrical and fuel
heat, design, construction, operation and uses of the electrical
furnace.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 211. Je. ’08.

“Will be found valuable by metallurgists as being a complete and
thorough compendium of present day knowledge on the subject of the
electric furnace.”

+ =Engin. D.= 3: 529. My. ’08. 300w.

“The book is brought as well up to date as is possible in the case of
a subject undergoing such rapid development as the electric furnace.”
F. A. J. FitzGerald.

+ =Engin. N.= 59: 652. Je. 11, ’08. 360w.

=Stanton, Stephen Berrien.= Essential life. **$1. Scribner.

8–14659.

Twenty essays on the following subjects: The spirit in man; Time;
Individuality; Imagination; Happiness; Morality; Environment;
Spiritual companionship; Expression; Action; Spiritual capacities;
Attitude; Eternal youth; The centrality of the soul; The obscuration
of the present; Travel; Realities; Instrumental hands and orchestral
hearts; Wayside healing; Beauty; Life’s new lands.

* * * * *

“The suggestion everywhere is of Emerson, or an echo of an echo of
Emerson, and yet the writer is an original thinker, with a spicy charm
of his own.”

+ − =Ind.= 65: 614. S. 10, ’08. 200w.

“It bears the mark of ingenuousness, if not originality.” H. W.
Boynton.

+ − =Putnam’s.= 5: 107. O. ’08. 460w.

=Starr, Frederick.= In Indian Mexico: a narrative of travel and
labor. *$5. Forbes.

8–11833.

A popular account of the author’s experiences in the interests of
ethnology in the more remote Indian communities of Central and
Southern Mexico. “The purpose of the author’s trip was three-fold—to
measure the heads of 100 men and twenty-five women in each Indian
locality, taking fourteen measurements of each; to take pictures,
portraits showing Indian costumes, customs, occupations, types,
dwellings, landscapes, etc., and to make plaster casts of five
individuals in each of the different Indian tribes.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Many interesting sidelights are thrown on local conditions and
government and on the manner of life and thought of the natives, but
no effort is made to systematize any of this information. The book
contains ... no map—a most serious defect in a book of this
character.” A. B. Lewis.

+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 111. Jl. ’08. 300w.

“The field has been little worked so the book puts in convenient form
much information about the land and the people otherwise
inaccessible.”

+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 629. N. ’08. 80w.

+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 602. My. 16. 470w.

“That the narrative has literary faults, cannot be denied. The meagre
accounts of some tragic experiences serve to pique the reader’s
curiosity without gratifying it. But these faults are largely atoned
for by the general interest of the narrative.”

+ − =Dial.= 45: 18. Jl. 1, ’08. 360w.

“It is but a scrappy compilation from notebooks of hasty trips—far too
hasty, one would say, for the best scientific work. The value of the
book is not great.”

− =Ind.= 65: 43. Jl. 2, ’08. 500w.

“Combining the qualities of a trained ethnologist with a rare sense of
the picturesque, he has given us an altogether admirable book.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 71. Jl. 23, ’08. 220w.

“The work is a revelation in its descriptions of Indian life, showing
the contrasting degrees of intelligence and barbarity in various
Indian towns.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 300w.

=Stebbing, William.= Poets: Geoffrey Chaucer to Alfred Tennyson,
1340–1892; impressions. 2v. *$3.20. Oxford.

8–26221.

“In his first volume Mr. Stebbing deals with forty-two poets (Chaucer
to Burns), whose literary activity covered nearly five centuries, if
Chaucer began to write in 1360 and Samuel Rogers died in 1855; in his
second are included thirty, who take in a little more than a hundred
years from Wordsworth’s first effort in 1786 to Tennyson’s last in
1891.” (Spec.) The author “sets down his ‘impressions’ of about
seventy poets (including four Americans), interspersing the statement
of his ideas with copious extracts.” (Dial.)

* * * * *

“In the main Mr. Stebbing is a pleasant guide, his sympathy is
unbounded, and his sense of poetry is seldom at fault.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 284. Mr. 7. 200w.

“It makes a pleasant book to read, for it is the work of an ardent
lover of poetry, but it is too personal an expression to have any
marked critical value.”

+ − =Dial.= 44: 182. Mr. 16, ’08. 100w.

“Not an important work by any means, but one pleasant to read.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 489. My. 28, ’08. 200w.

“A student of this portion of English literature could not find a
better guide.”

+ + =Spec.= 100: 29. Ja. 4, ’08. 300w.

* =Stedman, Edmund Clarence.= Poems. $1.50. Houghton.

8–34145.

The poems contained in the “Household edition” of “Stedman’s Poetical
works” and in “Poems now first collected,” together with seventeen
later pieces have been grouped under eleven headings as follows: In
war time; Poems of Manhattan; Poems of New England; Poems on occasion;
Poems of Greece; The blameless prince; Poems of nature; The Carib sea;
Songs and ballads; Various poems; and Shadow-land. Index of titles and
index of first lines.

=Steele, Zadock.= Indian captive; or, A narrative of the captivity
and sufferings of Zadock Steele as related by himself; to which is
prefixed an account of the burning of Royalton. (Indian
captivities ser. v. 2.) *$2.50. Huntting.

8–30488.

A reprint of a work first published in 1818. The story of the burning
of Royalton, Vermont, in 1780 prefaces the tale of Zadock Steele’s
captivity in Montreal and on Prison island in the St. Lawrence, and
his escape back to Vermont.

* * * * *

“His narrative is direct and simple. It was worth while to reprint it
in the attractive little book.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 1313. D. 3, ’08. 130w.

“The narrative well deserved reprinting, and our only regret is that
so little pains was taken with the editing.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 94. Jl. 30, ’08. 440w.

=Steiner, Bernard Christian.= Life and correspondence of James
McHenry. *$6. Burrows.

7–24607.

The biography of a surgeon upon Washington’s staff and afterwards
Secretary of war under Washington and Adams. It throws new light upon
revolutionary personages whom Dr. Steiner knew intimately.

* * * * *

“Dr. Steiner is so warm an admirer of McHenry’s attractive personality
that he is a very sympathetic but by no means an uncritical
biographer.”

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 145. O. 08. 950w.

“The editor is at times indiscreet in his notes, some of which are
uncritical and some spiteful. By far the most valuable material in the
volume is the letters and drafts of state papers by Alexander
Hamilton. A volume of one-half the size, comprising McHenry’s own
letters and a selection of those from his correspondents, would have
conveyed a better impression of the man. The index is inadequate.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 79. Ja 23, ’08. 550w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 355. Je. 20, ’08. 70w.

“Many of the letters, to be sure, are purely personal, and but for the
delightful glimpses of the man’s private life might advantageously
have been omitted; but there are many of real historical value.”

+ − =Outlook.= 88: 377. F. 15, ’08. 370w.

“His correspondence, most of which now sees the light for the first
time, contains many important references to persons and events that
have long since become historic.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 253. F. ’08. 150w.

=Steiner, Edward A.= Mediator: a tale of the Old world and the New.
†$1.50. Revell.

7–29568.

“The story begins in Russian Poland and describes in a graphic way an
anti-Semitic persecution. In consequence of the danger and suffering
to which they are exposed, the principal characters emigrate to New
York, and the author gives a realistic account of their life in the
Jewish quarter. The book is evidently intended as an eirenicon to
compose the differences of Jew and Gentile.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“As a novel the story is not strong. It does not seem that this volume
begins to have the value of the author’s earlier book ‘On the trail of
the immigrant.’”

− + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 510. Mr. ’08. 150w.

“The realistic parts of the narrative contain many offences against
good taste; and these are the more to be regretted because the
conception of the author is original and he writes at times with
dramatic power.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 497. N. 28, ’07. 200w.

“The story has not a little imaginative power, and ‘rings true’ both
as a reflex of actual conditions and a stimulus toward better things.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 623. N. 23, ’07. 180w.

“A vein of sincere religious feeling runs through this interesting
book.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 128. Ja. ’08. 80w.

=Stelzle, Rev. Charles.= Christianity’s storm center. **$1. Revell.

7–27620.

“The author, skilled laborer, minister, superintendent of the
Department of church and labor of the Presbyterian church, is
interested in aggressive evangelism, and believes that the church
should so change its methods as to meet present needs. The problem is
not properly stated by asking, ‘Do workingmen go to church?’ but by
the query, ‘Does the church go to the workingman?’ The chapters bear
such titles as: ‘The trades union’; ‘The city slum’; ‘Social centers’;
‘The institutional church’; ‘Aggressive evangelism.’”—Ann. Am. Acad.

* * * * *

“The discussion is, however, extremely rambling and decidedly lacking
in logical order. Nevertheless, the book is of rather exceptional
merit. If the church fails to profit by such a book it speaks badly
for its own future influence.”

+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 510. Mr. ’08. 150w.

+ =Ind.= 64: 588. Mr. 12, ’08. 100w.

“Churchmen who would understand the conditions, threatening or
hopeful, that challenge or invite them to the field, should not
neglect this report.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 271. O. 5, ’07. 250w.

* =Stenton, Frank Merry.= William the conqueror and the rule of the Normans. (Heroes of the nations.) **$1.35. Putnam.

8–31143.

Carefully selected and judiciously elaborated details of William the
Conqueror’s life fill nine chapters of this history to which three
chapters have been added sketching the changes in constitutional
organization and social life which followed the events of 1066.

=Stephan, Walter George.= Drawing instruments, their use and abuse.
*$1. McGraw pub.

8–21049.

A student’s guide to the selection of instruments, their testing,
their use and abuse. Besides the regulation drawing instruments are
considered the slide rule, the section liner, the universal drafting
machine, the elliptograph, the pantograph, the planimeter and the
plane table.

* * * * *

=Engin. D.= 4: 184. Ag. ’08. 60w.

“It will prove interesting to all engaged in the actual work of
drafting, and is of special value to beginners.”

+ =Engin. N.= 60: 188. Ag. 13, ’08. 70w.

=Stephen, Leslie, and Lee, Sidney Lazarus=, eds. Dictionary of
national biography. 22v. ea. *$4.25. Macmillan.

A new edition occupying about half the shelf space of the former issue
and costing one-third the price. “The work was begun in 1885 and
completed in 1900 under the editorship of Leslie Stephen and Sidney
Lee, and its 31,000 separate articles cover practically all the
notable names in the history of English politics, religion,
literature, art and science, including many American.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

+ + + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 381. Mr. 28. 200w. (Review of v. 1.)

“It is really preferable, both on account of accuracy and the amount
of shelf-room required, to the original issue.”

+ + + =Dial.= 44: 217. Ap. 1, ’08. 100w. (Review of v. 1.)

=Ind.= 64: 640. Mr. 19, ’08. 120w.

“It is a pity, looking to the proven utility of the work, that the
three supplementary volumes issued in 1901 are to form the
supplementary volume of the reissue.”

+ + − =Sat. R.= 105: 410. Mr. 28, ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ + − =Sat. R.= 105: 504. Ap. 18, ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 2.)

+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 636. My. 16, ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 3.)

=Sat. R.= 105: 762. Je. 13, ’08. 120w. (Review of v. 4.)

“The new volume contains some notable contributions.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 106: 244. Ag. 22, ’08. 170w. (Review of v. 6.)

=Sat. R.= 106: 338. S. 12, ’08. 70w. (Review of v. 7.)

=Sat. R.= 106: 492. O. 17, ’08. 140w. (Review of v. 8.)

=Sat. R.= 106: 616. N. 14, ’08. 110w. (Review of v. 9.)

“The work is really indispensable to the student, and every public
library, not to speak of private purchasers, should be supplied with a
copy.”

+ + + =Spec.= 100: 423. Mr. 14, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)

=Spec.= 100: 677. Ap. 25, ’08. 120w. (Review of v. 2.)

=Spec.= 100: 872. My. 30, ’08. 30w. (Review of v. 3.)

=Spec.= 100: 1038. Je. 27, ’08. 90w. (Review of v. 4.)

=Spec.= 101: 171. Ag. 1, ’08. 40w. (Review of v. 5.)

=Spec.= 101: 638. O. 24, ’08. 60w. (Review of v. 8.)

=Stephens, Robert Neilson.= Tales from Bohemia. $1.50. Page.

8–26830.

Twenty-five slight stories of Bohemian New York, many of which hark
back to the stage. People are presented as clearly outlined wholes,
with no attempt at analysis. It is the moving-picture impression which
one gets minus the strain upon the optic nerve.

* * * * *

“They derive their interest from their air of truthfulness and from
the author’s method of bringing out their psychological and dramatic
values.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 672. N. 14, ’08. 200w.

=Stephens, Winifred.= French novelists of today; biographical,
descriptive and critical; with portraits and bibliographies.
*$1.50. Lane.

Critical studies of Maurice Barrès, Réné Bazin, Paul Bourget, Pierre
de Coulevain, Anatole France, Pierre Loti, Marcel Prevost, and Édouard
Bod. The book is intended as a guide for persons who wish to begin a
study of French novels.

* * * * *

“A useful guide.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 297. D. ’08.

“The talent displayed in this volume of essays is somewhat disguised
by certain minor defects. Miss Stephens’s volume has not been
carefully revised in proof.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 68. Jl. 18. 940w.

“Very charming and suggestive little studies they are.” R. T. House.

+ =Dial.= 45: 404. D. 1, ’08. 1800w.

“A handy source of information.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 233. S. 10, ’08. 90w.

“Miss Stephens does not give way to excessive enthusiasm, her
judgments are sound, her temper is even.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 274. My. 16, ’08. 1200w.

“Her book will be a safe guide for all who wish to take up a course in
modern French fiction, while for those who wish merely to gain a
better understanding of the French spirit it will be illuminative and
informing.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 344. Je. 13, ’08. 220w.

“All Miss Stephens’s studies are more or less interesting. Her own
ideas are not, perhaps wisely, very precisely defined.”

+ − =Spec.= 100: 904. Je. 6, ’08. 500w.

=Stevens, Albert Clark.=, ed. Cyclopedia of fraternities. 2d ed.,
rev. to date. *$4 50. Treat.

7–36716.

“A useful volume describing the aims, emblems, character and personnel
of more than six hundred secret societies in the United States,
together with charts, plates, maps, and statistics of membership. In
addition, it gives the history and genealogy of these interesting
organizations, and shows their relations to one another.”—Ann. Am.
Acad.

* * * * *

“The amount of revision given to the second edition is slight, and
most of the descriptive articles have not been brought down to a later
date than that of the first edition, issued ten years ago. The section
on labor organizations, as might be expected, is valueless.
Notwithstanding such defects, it is a useful reference work for all
interested in secret societies.”

+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 722. My. ’08. 270w.

=Stevens, Isaac N.= Liberators: a story of future American politics.
$1.50. Dodge, B. W.

8–6664.

A story written by a western newspaper man which deals with the period
immediately following the next presidential election, and treats of
political questions which have an important bearing on the well
organized feudal system prevailing in America. Among the principal
characters are the son of a railroad magnate; his chum at Harvard, a
young man who fights for the correction of governmental evils; a young
widow, who devotes her energy and vast wealth to the same cause of
assailing the feudal strongholds; and two charming Smith college
girls.

* * * * *

“The novel carries a fine, pure atmosphere. It is one of the best
exposures of corruption of government by public-service corporations
that has appeared, and, being instinct with a lofty patriotic spirit,
it is a vital work for the present hour.” B. O. Flower.

+ + =Arena.= 39: 716. Je. ’08. 4500w.

“We would urge our readers to get this cheap edition and circulate it
freely. It will prove a real factor in hastening the great changes
that must come soon if free government is to be the heritage of our
people.”

+ =Arena.= 40: 485. N. ’08. 600w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 232. Ap. 18, ’08. 150w.

“A political tale, somewhat heavily laden with serious argument but
offering attractions to many readers.”

+ − =Outlook.= 88: 839. Ap. 11, ’08. 150w.

=Stevens, William Chase.= Plant anatomy from the standpoint of the
development and functions of the tissues, and hand-book of
micro-technic. *$2. Blakiston.

7–36113.

“A book which deals with the development and functions of plant
tissues. Structure and function are so intermixed, and rightly, that
there is no anatomical part of the book as distinct from the
physiological.... The topics presented are chiefly those of entry and
exit of materials, their movement in the plant body, and the processes
of nutrition in the broadest sense.... The final chapters deal with
the preparation of sections, use of the microscope, reagents and
processes, the microchemistry of plant products (not always reliable),
and the detection of adulterations (too short to be really
useful).”—Bot. Gaz.

* * * * *

“Stevens is an excellent teacher; and the text and drawings have been
prepared in large measure directly from the material under
observation. It is to be regretted, however, that no trace of the
modern vascular anatomy appears. The topics are presented simply,
clearly, and in the main accurately. One unfortunate conception,
embodied in chapter headings, and wrought into the text, is that of
‘circulation’ of water and foods in ‘circulatory tissues.’ This idea
dies hard, and we are sorry it has a new lease of life in this book.”
J. M. C. and C. R. B.

+ − =Bot. Gaz.= 46: 306. O. ’08. 550w.

“The arrangement is an excellent one for an elementary book, but it
must be added that there is no attempt to rise beyond elementary
facts. The general presentation of the subject-matter is marked by
clearness and coordination.”

+ =Nature.= 78: 219. Jl. 9, ’08. 380w.

* =Stevenson, Burton Egbert=, comp. Poems of American history. *$3. Houghton.

8–33773.

A seven hundred page anthology including all of the most important and
interesting poems relating to the history of America from its
discovery down to the present day. The poems are grouped under the
following heads: The Colonial period; The revolution; The period of
growth; The civil war; and The period of expansion.

=Stevenson, Burton E.= Young train dispatcher. $1.50. Page.

7–24194.

The second volume of Mr. Stevenson’s “Railroad series” in which the
hero Allan West ascends the rounds of the ladder from the position of
office boy to that of train dispatcher. He doesn’t do it without
honest hard work and intelligent alertness. Demonstrations of his
quick wit are made in averting collisions, treating with his enemies,
and dealing with midnight marauders. It is the kind of book that a
courageous lad would call splendid.

=Stevenson, William Barrow.= Crusaders in the East: a brief history
of the wars of Islam with the Latins in Syria during the twelfth
and thirteenth centuries. *$2.25. Putnam.

8–9075.

From the Eastern point of view, from the standpoint of victory, this
history with due stress on chronology tells of the political relations
between the states which the crusaders built up and the Moslem states.
The author “draws attention to the disastrous schism between the
Byzantine empire and the rest of Christendom which was one of the
consequences of the Crusades, and he shows clearly, if only by
implication, the eternal, though unrecognized, influence of sea power
upon history.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

“The value of this short history ... consists first in the fact that
the author has treated it from the unusual point of view, discarding
the conventional scheme; and secondly in the minute attention which he
has bestowed upon the difficult problems of chronology.”

+ + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 69. Jl. 18. 600w.

“Mr. Stevenson has given himself no small trouble to verify all dates
by both accounts, Christian and Moslem; the result is of value, but
the discussion is apt to be arid. He has carried through a difficult
task with great judgment; his notes, as already said, are a mine of
information.” G. Le Strange.

+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 346. Ap. ’08. 450w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 92. F. 15, ’08. 130w.

“A real addition to the history of the crusades.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 106: 19. Jl. 4, ’08. 1350w.

“Treated from whatever point of view, the narrative of those two
centuries is a tangled skein, and the author, by a severe policy of
repression, has succeeded in keeping the main threads well in hand.
The book is an excellent piece of workmanship, and will be especially
welcome to those who recognise that a knowledge of Asiatic history is
essential to the true comprehension of that of Europe.”

+ =Spec.= 99: 1099. D. 28, ’07. 500w.

=Stewart, Clinton Brown.= Investigation of centrifugal pumps, pt. 1,
a discussion of the theory of the centrifugal pump and tests of a
six-inch vertical centrifugal pump. (Univ. of Wis. Bulletin no.
173. Engineering ser., v. 3, no. 6.) pa. 50c. Univ. of Wis.

8–3626.

Results attending an extended line of experiments on centrifugal
pumping machinery being conducted by the department of hydraulic
engineering of the University of Wisconsin. “The results are given in
tables and diagrams and are accompanied by a discussion of the theory
of such pumps and of the tests themselves. The book also contains a
descriptive index of engineering literature on centrifugal pumps from
1840 to 1907.” (Engin. Rec.)

=Engin. D.= 4: 182. Ag. ’08. 170w.

=Engin. N.= 59: 209. F. 20, ’08. 150w.

=Engin. Rec.= 57: 357. Mr. 21, ’08. 200w.

* =Stewart, Jane Agnes.= Christmas book. *75c. Am. Bapt.

8–33162.

A book whose aim is to further the true Christmas spirit. Besides
giving information concerning the origin of Christmas and the various
methods of its observance it provides suggestions for games and
home-made gifts.

* * * * *

“Is full of the Christmas spirit.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 415. D. 1, ’08. 80w.

“Is probably the most complete book on the subject.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 130w.

=Stewart, William Morris.= Reminiscences of Senator William M.
Stewart of Nevada; ed. by G: Rothwell Brown. *$3. Neale.

8–15703.

The reminiscences of Senator Stewart who “lived among frontiers-men,
Indians, ranchmen, miners, judges, statesmen”; who “helped build a
great western state, made laws, interpreted them, enforced them, and
executed them”; and who “made at least a dozen fortunes,” the last one
of which was amassed after he was eighty years of age. His
reminiscences are recorded out of the fulness of a wide experience
gained during twenty-nine years in the Senate while closely associated
with the men who made the history of the country.

* * * * *

“We are regretful that Senator Stewart did not take his opportunity
more seriously.”

+ − =Ind.= 65: 1313. D. 3, ’08. 300w.

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 603. O. 24, ’08. 300w.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 330. Je. 13, ’08. 240w.