Chapter LXXIII: Part 3: “Seed time,” are made up of seventeen stories and sketches (1)

telling us how the men in the trenches live, fight and die; in Part 4,
“Harvest,” the author tells how British militarism has taught men the
valuable lessons “of playing for the side and unselfishness,” but adds
that “there must be some other method of teaching the lessons.” Some
of the stories are grave, others gay. “Seed time,” the longest story
in the book, describes the evolution of Reginald Simpkins, shopwalker,
into an expert sniper. “‘The man trap’ relates how a too ingenious
subaltern adapted a disused dug-out as a trap for over-curious Germans
and caught in it his own general and colonel. ... ‘Bendigo Jones—his
tree’ is a whimsical extravaganza on a post-impressionist sculptor,
who, not having been exempted through the united efforts of his
misguided friends, finds himself in the trenches.” (Spec)

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 26 ‘17 400w

“Told with restraint and standing out from the average war fiction for
their exceptional literary quality.”

+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 30w

“It is grim, coarse, sentimental, beautiful, gay, solemn and trifling
by turns, but, as a whole, undeniably convincing. ... You are half
through the middle chapters before you realize how steadily all that
has seemed careless and overdone is carrying on toward an overwhelming
sense of the kind of soldier who is doing the fighting and paying the
price. ‘No man’s land’ is a strange, ill-written, confused and vivid
book, pulled out of the frightful turmoil of the present. It is not
art, but material for art.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:380 O 7 ‘17 750w

“‘Sapper’ prefers to present what he knows in the guise of fiction,
and yet he often seems to come nearer to the truth than the precise
reporter with his field-glasses and his notebook. ... As in most war
fiction, humour predominates. The soldiers do not treat the war as a
joke, but they are incurably light-hearted, and their laughter helps
them to face things too deep for tears. ‘Sapper’ as a jester is
typical of a very large class of soldier-authors, but his literary
quality is exceptional.”

+ =Spec= 119:169 Ag 18 ‘17 950w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 5 ‘17 360w

“Will add to the reputation that ‘Sapper’ has already made for himself
as a writer of war sketches. ... Unlike Mr Wells, who regards war as
an affair primarily of the scientific management of aeroplanes and
tanks, ‘Sapper’ teaches that it is upon the craving of the fighting
man to kill, no matter what the cost to himself, that the issue
depends; and where Mr Wells detects no bright spots but spurs in the
officer of the old school, he sees the supreme quality—the power to
persuade others to follow him willingly to this killing. ... Without
glossing over the horrible, ‘Sapper’ employs the restraint which makes
the imagination of the reader its ally. ... His English is crisp
without being loose.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p362 Ag 2 ‘17 520w

=SARGENT, PORTER EDWARD.= Handbook of American private schools; an annual publication. (Sargent’s handbook ser.) 3d ed il $2.50 P. E. Sargent, 50 Congress st., Boston 373

“The principal subjects considered are: Boys’ schools (arranged
according to geographical position), military schools, girls’ schools,
coeducational schools, schools and conservatories of music, schools of
art, kindergarten training schools, schools of physical education,
schools of expression and dramatic art, schools of the household arts,
schools for the deficient, private schools of Canada, boys’ summer
camps, girls’ summer camps. The editor supplies a bibliography of
works in which principles are discussed. He also adds a list of
newspapers and periodicals which treat more or less directly of
educational subjects.”—Springf’d Republican

+ =Ind= 91:296 Ag 25 ‘17 70w

“The 1917 edition shows numerous traces of editorial revision, and,
considering the inevitable limitations of such a handbook, will be
found full of well-classified information. ... While it is impossible
that all the information should be critical, the book is workmanlike
in all respects and shows a praiseworthy degree of editorial ability.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19’17 180w

=SARKAR, BENOY KUMAR, and RAKSHIT, HEMENDRA KISHOR.= Folk-element in Hindu culture. *$5 Longmans 294 17-17531

Professor Sarkar’s “contribution to socio-religious studies in Hindu
folk-institutions” “is based on a study of some of the folk-arts,
folk-traditions, folk-songs, and folk-festivals of Bengal, and is
mainly concerned with the relations between Shaiva-cum-Shâktaism and
Buddhism, descriptive and historical, among the Bengali-speaking
population of eastern India. Several chapters deal with the Gambhîrâ,
Gâjan, and Sâhiyâtrâ festivities; others treat of diverse topics, such
as physical austerities practised by the people, folk-dances in
religious festivals, the socio-religious life of the people of Bengal
under the Pâlas, the tantric lore of mediæval Buddhism, and Islam in
popular Hinduism. The author arrives at some interesting conclusions,
of which two of the most important are that ‘the masses and the folk
have contributed to the making of Hindu culture in all its phases no
less than the court and the classes,’ and that the caste-system ‘has
never been a disintegrating factor in Hindu communal existence, and is
most probably a very recent institution.’” (Ath) The author states
that this work is to a certain extent complementary to his “Positive
background of Hindu sociology.”

=Ath= p302 Je ‘17 200w

“It is a book for the specialist, and for him has unique value.”

=Lit D= 55:42 S 29 ‘17 300w

“Some inductions are questionable, but the work is to be commended if
only for the mass of first-hand material here collected.”

+ — =Nation= 105:460 O 25 ‘17 350w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:118 Ag ‘17

“This is a very interesting and valuable book, being, so far as we
know, the first detailed and accurate description in English of one of
the many and varied rural festivities in which ‘gods’ days,’ as it
were, take the place in Bengal of saints’ days in rustic Europe. Mr
Sarkar treats exhaustively and with much enthusiasm and humour, of the
religious festivities known in different parts of Bengal as the
Gamphīrā, the Gājan, or the Sāhi-yātrā; ceremonial.”

+ — =Spec= 119:39 Jl 14 ‘17 850w

“The scheme indicated in the title is too pretentious; the materials
which give the book its value are not skilfully presented; and, as
regards the religious songs, only an artist like Rabindranath Tagore
could preserve the poetical fervour of the originals. At the same time
it possesses some merits which make it a useful contribution to the
study of popular religion in India, and it is provided with good
indexes of subjects, names and references. It owes much of its value
to a collection of notes contributed by Mr Haridas Palit. It would
have been well if this information had been more largely used.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p233 My 17 ‘17 1400w

=SAROLEA, CHARLES.= French renascence, il *$2 Pott (*5s Unwin & Allen, London) 844 17-12613

“In an introduction flaming with love of liberty and love of France,
Dr Sarolea outlines the story ... of the awakening of France, in
1914. ... It is of some of the lives, which woven into the fabric of
the nation have become inseparable from it, of whom Dr Sarolea writes
in these brief essays. ... The studies he presents are of Montaigne,
between whom and Nietzsche the author points a most interesting
analogy; Pascal, with whom Cardinal Newman is contrasted—‘the two
greatest names perhaps in the religious literature of the modern
world’; Madame de Maintenon, Elizabeth Charlotte, Duchess of
Orleans; ... Rousseau; Marie Antoinette, ‘before the revolution’;
Mirabeau, Robespierre, Napoleon—the ‘real Napoleon’ and ‘Napoleon the
socialist’; Balzac, Flaubert, Maeterlinck, Bergson and Poincaré.”
Boston Transcript

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 16 ‘17 530w

— =Cath World= 105:248 My ‘17 370w

“An agreeable but insubstantial collection of occasional articles and
book reviews. ... Dr Sarolea writes a clear and fluent, though quite
undistinguished style, but it seems a pity that he should permit
himself such oddities as ‘impunately’ and ‘presigeotus.’ ... One is
grateful for the plain speech concerning the ‘Germanomania’ of the
years before the war. ‘Even estimable mediocrities like Eucken were
proclaimed original thinkers’ is a specimen.”

+ — =Dial= 62:316 Ap 5 ‘17 200w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:169 N ‘16

“These essays are exceedingly interesting and marked by genuine
critical appreciation and discrimination. There is, for instance,
matter of real novelty and value presented in the chapter on the
private life of Napoleon I and in the one on Napoleon as a socialist.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:182 My 6 ‘17 150w

“Decidedly anti-German in tone.” M. J.

=St Louis= 15:183 Je ‘17 30w

“It seems a pity that Dr Sarolea, who wrote an excellent book on the
Anglo-German problem, should have chosen to praise France in a volume
which has rather a cheap air of paradox.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p195 Ap 27 ‘16 650w

=SASTRI, K. S. RAMASWAMI.= Sir Rabindranath Tagore: his life, personality, and genius. $2.50 Brentano’s (Ganesh & co., Madras, India)

“A comprehensive biography of Rabindranath Tagore by a fellow
countryman gives a more complete interpretation of his genius than it
is perhaps possible for an English critic or biographer to undertake.
Mr Sastri writes of Tagore’s artistic and spiritual ancestry, and of
his share in the new Indian renaissance now going on, and observes
that if the European renaissance was the release of the human spirit
per se, that of India is the liberation of the human spirit that is in
harmony with the divine, and that the genius of the great Bengali poet
focalizes the gathering of the forces that will give new birth to
liberty.”—R of Rs

“In spite of its flowery style, its endless repetition and triple
padding of quotation, his book forms a real addition to our knowledge
of Tagore and the mental life of India.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:68 F 25 ‘17 500w

“Without offense to the spirit and the labors of Mr Ernest Rhys, who
has written an admirable life of the Hindu poet, Mr Sastri’s work is
in several respects a more satisfying exposition of the genius of
Tagore and will be of great assistance to the student of his
teachings.”

+ =R of Rs= 54:670 D ‘16 400w

“The enthusiasm of the Madrasi author for the work and teaching of the
national poet of Bengal is manifest on every page. ... But the value
of the study is marred by diffuseness and frequent repetition.
Quotations, relevant and irrelevant, abound, and are often taken from
obscure writers.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p382 Ag 10 ‘16 500w

=SATOW, SIR ERNEST MASON.= Guide to diplomatic practice. 2v *$9 Longmans 341.7 (Eng ed 17-14175)

This is the first of a series of Contributions to international law
and diplomacy. L. Oppenheim, the general editor, says that the work is
unique “with regard to the method of treatment of the subject, as well
as the selection of the topics discussed and in the amount of original
research which it embodies.” The book is meant to be of service alike
to the international lawyer, the diplomatist and the student of
history. “For this reason not only the legal side of diplomacy, but
also its practical side had constantly to be kept in view, an outline
of all the important congresses and conferences had to be included,
and the different kinds of international compacts had to be treated in
some detail.” Volume 1 consists of two parts, dealing with Diplomacy
in general and Diplomatic agents. Volume 2 treats of International
meetings and transactions, including chapters on Mediation and
Arbitration. Lists of references are given in appendixes.

“A scholarly and exhaustive treatment.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:78 D ‘17

“It contains chapters which no serious student of international law
can afford to neglect. These volumes are marred by many misprints.” L.
B. Evans

+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 11:779 N ‘17 560w

“There are numerous guides diplomatiques and treatises on diplomatic
law and practice in other languages but aside from Foster’s ‘Practice
of diplomacy’ there is no other work in English which may be compared
with this, either in its scope or purpose. It is packed with
documentary and other illustrative material: specimen copies of
letters of credence, full powers, instructions, extracts from notes,
quotations from diplomatic manuals, etc., most of which are printed in
the original language in which they were written, this on the
principle that the attempt to translate them into English would in
many cases impair their value.” J. W. Garner

+ + =Ann Am Acad= 73:240 S ‘17 550w

“These volumes, filled as they are with information upon subjects in
reference to which there is a considerable amount of popular
misconception, will not only be very valuable for reference, but also
of interest to the general reader.”

+ =Ath= p249 My ‘17 200w

“A highly opportune, as well as in many respects remarkably
interesting survey. ... The second volume is even more full of
interest than the first; but it takes the historical reader over what
is likely to be to him more familiar ground, a large portion of which
has already been mapped out by previous writers and editors. I do not
know why Sir Ernest Satow has not given a fuller list of collections
of treaties, from the standard volumes of Koch and Schoell to the
useful selection recently put together by Mr R. B. Mowat.” A. W. Ward

* + – =Eng Hist R= 32:418 Jl ‘17 5400w

“Sir Ernest Satow is one of the most distinguished English
diplomatists of the last twenty-five years. He has had infinite
experience, and unlimited opportunities for observation. He has
written a guide to diplomatic practice which supersedes every previous
work upon the subject. It is exact, it is exhaustive, it is
scholarly.” H. J. L.

+ + =New Repub= 12:80 Ag 18 ‘17 1800w

+ =St Louis= 15:358 O ‘17 50w

“Sir Ernest Satow has written a learned and interesting book. ... Here
is a British ambassador revealing to the public the mysteries of
diplomatic practice as if it were an ordinary calling and explaining
in great detail the niceties of diplomatic etiquette. ... It will be
evident that Sir Ernest Satow has no sympathy with the demand for the
reform of our diplomatic service which has been heard of late.”

=Spec= 118:673 Je 16 ‘17 2200w

“His experiences as representative of this country at various courts
enables him to speak with precision and authority upon points as to
which the books are silent or indefinite. Of the existing treatises,
some—for example, de Martens’s and Comte Garden’s—are carefully
compiled. But they do not always faithfully record the practice of the
present day, which has cast off something of the formalism of past
times and has not escaped certain democratic influences.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p206 My 3 ‘17 1800w

=SAWYER, RUTH (MRS ALBERT C. DURAND).= Herself, himself and myself. il *$1.35 (2c) Harper 17-25083

The scene is laid partly in America and partly in Ireland. “Herself,”
Judith Drene, is the orphan daughter of a rich banker who, after
losing most of his money, shot himself; “Myself,” Nora Kelley, is the
Irish nurse who mothered her and brought her up; “Himself,” Dr John
Fox, is the young Irish doctor, the “wise lad,” who came back from the
war and married Judith in the ivy-covered church at Donegal.

“A simple, wholesome story.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:98 D ‘17

“A book of sentiment undisguisedly, but of sentiment upon a higher
plane, guarded and mellowed by true humour in contrast with that
feminine ‘brightness’ which characterises the novel of the ‘glad’
sort.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:340 N ‘17 100w

“There is even in this earliest part of the book a delightful vein of
humor mingling with the sadness.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 6 ‘18 600w

+ =Cleveland= p133 D ‘17 60w

“Evidently intended for those who like an abundance of sugar in their
fiction. ... The little tale is very much padded, but it has some
dainty bits here and there. The first chapters, which deal with
Judith’s childhood, are the best and quite prettily done. Later, the
story grows monotonous.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:414 O 21 ‘17 270w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 190w

=SCANDLIN, HORACE WINTHROP.= Wicked John Goode. il *$1 (3c) Doran 364 17-11002

Thomas Mott Osborne writes an introduction to this book and Rev. J. G.
Hallimond of the Bowery mission adds a word at the end vouching for
the truth of the story Mr Scandlin has told. It is the story of a
criminal and his reformation. John Goode was incorrigible at the age
of ten. At eleven he ran away from home, and at once began his career
of crime. He became familiar with every sort of institution from a
so-called protectory to Sing Sing. Thru the instrumentality of Mrs
Booth, he was set free, but, having no sense of honor, broke parole.
Finally he was reclaimed, but not, as Mr Osborne significantly points
out, by any of the agencies provided by society. From each of these
institutions he emerged a worse man than he went in. He is now said to
be one of the workers in the mission to which he owes his
regeneration.

“Nothing but hard, cold and sometimes cruel facts are here recorded,
if we accept the testimony of the two authorities that flank the
narrative. There is, moreover, an inherent evidence in the very
graphic recital that John Goode, the ex-convict, is no imaginary
person. The book is a stirring appeal to reform our reformatory
institutions. ... The Bowery mission, through its spiritual and
industrial methods, is doing a unique work, and that work is here
sketched.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 9 ‘17 280w

“Personally and socially, this is a suggestive and challenging book.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:167 Ap 29 ‘17 320w

=SCARBOROUGH, DOROTHY.= Supernatural in modern English fiction. *$2 (2c) Putnam 823 17-28912

Dr Scarborough’s study covers the nineteenth century, with particular
attention to the fiction of the last thirty years. For her beginnings
she goes back to Horace Walpole, “the father of the terror novel.” His
“Castle of Otranto,” with Mrs Radcliffe’s “Mysteries of Udolpho” and
Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” shortly following, was the first of a
long line. Modern masters of the supernatural include, among others,
Henry James, Mark Twain, H. G. Wells, Algernon Blackwood and Lord
Dunsany. The author says, “I deal with ghosts and devils by and large,
in an impressionistic way. I don’t know much about them; I have no
learned theories of causation. I only love them, I only marvel at
their infinite variety and am touched by their humanity, their
likeness to mortals.” Contents: The Gothic romance; Later influences;
Modern ghosts; The devil and his allies; Supernatural life; The
supernatural in folk-tales; Supernatural science; Conclusion; Index.
The bibliography, too long for inclusion in this volume, is to be
published separately.

=Ath= p659 D ‘17 350w

“Able, comprehensive, and not seldom amusing survey. It is remarkable
that there is no allusion to ‘A Christmas carol,’ though less notable
works by Dickens are mentioned; and there might have been a reference
to Marryat’s striking tale ‘The phantom ship.’”

+ — =Ath= p676 D ‘17 300w

“The last place one would look for a ‘bestseller’ would be among
doctors’ theses; yet this book, which more than earned the degree of
Doctor of philosophy at Columbia for its author, has such a general
appeal that it may conceivably have a large sale.” W: L. Phelps

+ =Bookm= 46:611 Ja ‘18 700w

“Many names of many dealers in the supernatural appear and reappear in
Dr Scarborough’s none too well ordered pages. We find references to
Poe scattered through the book from its early to its later pages, and
of this master of the weird and of many others it is impossible to
gain a coherent understanding. ... She has made of her book a
storehouse of treasure rather than a systematic history and study.” E.
F. E.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p11 O 6 ‘17 950w

— =Dial= 63:590 D 6 ‘17 340w

“One of the few monographs in the field of literature which must have
been a pleasure to write. ... The work is beautifully indexed, so that
the reader can turn in an instant to his favorite horror.”

+ =Ind= 92:192 O 27 ‘17 150w

“It is one of the most interesting and valuable features of Dr
Scarborough’s book that it includes such a host of pertinent examples
of supernaturalism of all kinds and that it gives in almost every case
some real criticism of the work of the different writers.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:467 N 11 ‘17 1800w

“Will prove entertaining and useful to the reader who wishes to go
a-ghosting in the pages of novels.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:553 N ‘17 90w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p558 N 15 ‘17 50w

=SCHAUFFLER, ROBERT HAVEN=, comp. and ed. Our flag in verse and prose. il *$1.50 Moffat 808.8 A17-959

“Poems, songs and prose extracts under the following heads: Spirit and
significance; Old Glory’s history; In praise of Old Glory; Patriotism;
Flags; A Flag day story (A man without a country, by E. E. Hale).
Contains also an account by Francis Scott Key 3d of the writing of
‘The Star spangled banner,’ a history of the origin and development of
the flag and directions for Flag day drills and exercises.”—Cleveland

“He tells the familiar Betsy Ross story without questioning in any way
its authenticity. Mr Schauffler’s selections cover a wide range. ...
All the familiar songs about the flag are here. ... Mr Schauffler’s
book will be a good one to place in the hands of every school teacher
and pupil.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 8 ‘17 170w

=Cleveland= p87 Jl ‘17 30w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:123 Ag ‘17

“Contains the best that has been written in verse and prose to inspire
patriotic devotion and to interpret the spirit and significance of the
flag.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 100w

=SCHAYER, ERNEST RICHARD.= Good loser. *50c McKay 17-8204

“A tennis expert, out of the game permanently with a broken ankle,
happens upon a small boy practising strokes against a barn. He
lingers, keen with the discovery of budding talent, and trains the
little fellow through the summer in the art and the ethics of the
game, to be modest, honest and courageous. Then he enters Billy in the
junior tournament in the White mountains and Billy makes good on his
teaching and loses the championship by refusing to win on the judge’s
error. Incidentally the teacher, and Billy’s father who is in business
trouble, learn also how to be good losers.” (Springf’d Republican) The
story appeared in the American Magazine, June, 1916.

“It is a short story, just a magazine article bound up in permanent
form, but it has in quality what it lacks in quantity. And as for
quantity, Mr Schayer tells his story, all that is necessary to tell,
and stops. It is complete in its fifty-nine pages.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 1 ‘17 170w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:128 Ap ‘17 20w

=SCHEFTEL, YETTA.=[2] Taxation of land value. *$2 Houghton 336.2 17-235

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

“The best part of Miss Scheftel’s work, in the judgment of the
reviewer, is the careful and complete account of the complicated land
taxes of Australasia, Germany, and Great Britain. Her chapters on the
Australasian experience constitute the most comprehensive discussion
of this topic that has been given. The account of the German taxes on
‘unearned increment’ is based upon a thorough study of both primary
and secondary German sources, and is easily the best account in
English. ... The chapter on Municipal taxation in western Canada is
less satisfactory, inasmuch as that topic has been much more
exhaustively covered in Professor Haig’s report for the New York city
committee on taxation of 1916. A few loose statements of economic
theory are found. The index is inadequate for nearly five hundred
pages of condensed facts.” A. N. Young

+ — =Am Econ R= 7:415 Je ‘17 700w

“Scholarly and thorough, the best work on the subject, but needed only
in large or special libraries.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:292 Ap ‘17

“The newest and in many respects the best study of what is commonly
known as the single tax. An excellent bibliography is appended.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:596 Ag ‘17 100w

“A judicious, well-balanced treatment of land-value taxation in those
countries where the scheme has been chiefly tried. Study is also given
to the fiscal, economic and social effects of such taxes. Although
single taxers have generally welcomed the adoption of land-value
taxation as a vindication of their doctrines, the author points out
that ‘not only in method of assessment and levy, but also in their
rationale great differences exist’ between the single tax and
land-value taxes.” F. T. S.

+ =Ann Am Acad= 72:240 Jl ‘17 300w

“Miss Scheftel’s book is unquestionably an instance of work well done,
and every reader will feel that it fully merited the $1,000 first
prize awarded to it. Nor can there be any doubt that the contribution
is one of real utility. What has been so laboriously brought together,
and presented in such orderly and convenient shape, is a matter upon
which many students of the land-tax question desire to be informed,
and which is not easy of access in the scattered sources from which it
has been gathered. The discussion, too, is not only intelligent, but
thoroughly fair-minded.”

+ =Nation= 104:656 My 31 ‘17 600w

“The book is a veritable storehouse of information for those
interested in the subject and a valuable help toward improvement in
methods of taxation.”

+ =Survey= 39:298 D 8 ‘17 420w

=SCHEIFLEY, WILLIAM H.= Brieux and contemporary French society. *$2 (2½c) Putnam 842 17-28835

The author’s purpose is “to explain to American readers the social
themes treated by Eugène Brieux in his dramas and their relation to
French society.” In preparing the work, he has had two objects in
view: “(1) a consideration of both the literary value and the purpose
of each play of Brieux; (2) the testimony of other writers, either in
critical or in creative work, regarding the conditions that gave rise
to a particular play of Brieux and the extent to which it reflects the
spirit of the time.” (Preface) The author considers it a matter for
regret that American opinion of Brieux should so largely have been
formed from “Damaged goods,” which he pronounces one of the
dramatist’s poorest plays. Among the social problems to which special
chapters are devoted are: The relation between parents and children;
Charity, philanthropy, industrial beneficence; Marriage and the dowry;
Divorce; Separation and the child; Venereal diseases. “Sincerity,”
says the author in conclusion, “is Brieux’s predominant
characteristic. ... Other good traits that stand out prominently in
his dramas are faith, vigour, and courage.”

“Mr Scheifley does not put forward any pretensions to be a critic of
letters; but he has a sound working estimate of the plays of Brieux.”

+ =Ath= p676 D ‘17 140w

=Cleveland= p4 Ja ‘18 50w

“The American public owes a large debt of gratitude to Mr Scheifley
for his scholarly and sympathetic treatment of Brieux. He has shown
admirably Brieux’s sincerity and versatility, and amply justified, for
American eyes, the place accorded to the author in his native land.”
B: M. Woodbridge

+ =Dial= 64:67 Ja 17 ‘18 1000w

“This volume of appreciative criticism is an incentive toward a more
intimate acquaintance with Eugène Brieux.”

+ =Lit D= 56:35 Ja 26 ‘18 450w

+ =N Y Times= 22:578 D 30 ‘17 150w

“A comprehensive and detailed study.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:552 N ‘17 130w

“A sketch of French life which is well worth study. ... The book is,
in the nature of things, superficial.”

+ — =Spec= 119:sup623 D 1 ‘17 1450w

“An able and penetrating survey of the various questions of social and
economic life in France as they are reflected in Brieux’s dramas.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 22 ‘17 750w

“The book is marked by careful industry and attention given to the
testimony of other writers.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p542 N 8 ‘17 110w

=SCHEVILL, FERDINAND.= Karl Bitter; a biography. il *$2 Univ. of Chicago press 17-16077

“In a thin volume of less than seventy text pages published under the
auspices of the National sculpture society, the sculptor’s
brother-in-law, Ferdinand Schevill tells ... the essentially romantic
story of the young Austrian who, landing in New York in his
twenty-second year with scarce a penny in his pocket, was, before
three years had passed, executing the colossal scheme of sculpture
upon the Administration building of the World’s fair at Chicago. He
was killed by a reckless automobile driver before he had reached the
age of forty-eight, having been director of sculpture at three
expositions, a member of the Art commission of New York city, and
twice president of the Sculpture society. Such a career is evidence
enough of an unusual character as well as of unusual talents, and Mr
Schevill makes us see the honesty, the energy, the tact, the great
organizing ability, and the public spirit which accomplished so
much—above all, he makes us see the intense Americanism of one who was
an American by choice rather than by the accident of birth.”—Nation

“Remarkable by reason of the easy-flowing but at the same time stately
and very formal style in which it is written. The career of Karl
Bitter was a genuine romance. ... The biography contains a
chronological list of his works and shows what an indefatigable worker
he was.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 18 ‘17 950w

“Fine typography, beautiful paper, and illustrations that tell their
tale combine in this treasure for lovers of art and books. The story
of Bitter’s life and labors is here told simply, but appreciatively,
even tenderly.”

+ =Lit D= 55:39 S 29 ‘17 250w

“Of his talent the thirty-odd illustrations of his works give a fairer
opportunity of judging than could be had by anything short of a
pilgrimage to the sites of the originals. Decorative art is art in
service, and the art of Karl Bitter was always undertaken in the true
social spirit.”

+ =Nation= 105:44 Jl 12 ‘17 370w

=Pittsburgh= 22:752 N ‘17 70w

“Worth reading, not merely as a record of facts but as a vital
presentation of a life of unusual potency. Forty good halftone
illustrations, including two portraits, add to the charm of the
volume, and increase its value as a book of reference in the realm of
American sculpture.”

+ =School Arts Magazine= 17:44 S ‘17 100w

=SCHIERBRAND, WOLF VON.= Austria-Hungary; the polyglot empire. il $3 (3½c) Stokes 943.6 17-25615

This book is written from the viewpoint of a man who has lived for
four years in Austria, which he left only a few months ago, and who
has a “sincere liking for and sympathy with the people of
Austria-Hungary.” He claims “to be actuated by no conscious bias in
dealing with the political, social and racial questions discussed.” He
attempts “to afford the reader a sufficient outline of the process of
growth and accretion active in creating the Austria-Hungary of today,
of the natural resources of the land, and of the vital characteristics
of the population; to point out the chief problems of the polyglot
nation ... and to define the most feasible means of allaying or
removing these difficulties, as these means have gradually shaped
themselves in the minds of the thinking and potential elements of
Austria-Hungary.” Nearly one-half of the book deals with the war or
topics related to the war. A map is pasted on the inside of the back
cover of the book.

Reviewed by G. I. Colbron

+ =Bookm= 46:726 F ‘18 2200w

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 150w

“Although on the whole less useful than Geoffrey Drage’s well-known
‘Austria-Hungary,’ it has the advantage of being considerably more
recent and more readable. The chief value of the work lies in the fact
that it furnishes almost the only intimate account that we have of
what has been going on in the Hapsburg dominions since the war began.
The volume would gain greatly by being to some extent documented.
Important information is given and interesting judgments are passed
with no citation of sources, authorities, or other means of
corroboration.” F: A. Ogg

+ — =Dial= 63:637 D 20 ‘17 950w

“A happy mean between the scholarly survey and the journalistic war
book. It discusses the problems of the country with unusual
completeness of scope and moderation of tone, but there is an attempt
to interpret the soul as well as the body, to give the meaning of
facts as well as the facts themselves.”

+ =Ind= 92:259 N 3 ‘17 750w

+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 29 ‘17 380w

“Wolf von Schierbrand goes well with a little salt. He is an
international journalist of repute, with the usual journalistic
ambition to influence public sentiment, corrected more or less by the
necessity of being interesting. But only an ill humored reader will
grumble about it. Moreover, only an ill humored reader will be
repelled by Wolf von Schierbrand’s German bias.” A. J.

+ — =New Repub= 13:351 Ja 19 ‘18 1600w

“No one who desires to know the people of Austria-Hungary as they seem
to a person of another race with broad sympathies and cultivated human
understanding can afford to ignore this instructive and eminently
readable volume.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:492 N 25 ‘17 500w

+ =Outlook= 117:514 N 28 ‘17 110w

“The author may be congratulated for having produced a readable and
interesting book, and one which should be welcomed by American
readers.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 4 ‘17 390w

=SCHINDLER, KURT=, ed. Songs of the Russian people. pa $1 Ditson 784.8

“The lyrics, translated by Jane and Deems Taylor, are either set to
the traditional melodies or to arrangements by modern composers, and
are for mixed voices. Many of the ballads date back to mediæval times;
all of them are sung to-day by the Russian peasants.”—Dial

“The translators seem to have kept as closely as possible to Russian
feeling and diction.”

+ =Dial= 61:356 N 2 ‘16 350w

“Mr Schindler shows exactly the qualities an editor most needs. He has
selected and discovered folk-songs and choruses almost unknown here,
all of them of high quality. He has arranged and adapted freely, but
we can trust his hand in whatever it does. He is at once musician and
scholar and member of his own audience. When such an editor is found
the publisher should grapple him to his soul.” H. K. M.

+ =New Repub= 7:258 Jl 8 ‘16 150w

=Pittsburgh= 22:317 Ap ‘17 30w

=SCHMIDT, WALTER KARL.= Problems of the finishing room. il $5 Periodical pub. co., Grand Rapids, Mich. 698 16-16704

An “authoritative manual for those employed in the finishing of woods
by means of fuming, staining, varnishing, enameling, lacquering, etc.
[It] treats of the preparation of the woods and describes in detail
the processes required for the various kinds of finish. Directions are
given for the selection, preparation and testing of the stains, oils,
varnishes, glues and other materials used in wood finishing, and
miscellaneous information relating to the work.”—Quar List New Tech
Bks

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:190 D ‘16

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p6 Ja ‘17 90w

“The author writes from large experience as chemist and finishing
expert.”

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Ap ‘17 90w

=SCHNITTKIND, HENRY THOMAS=, ed. Poets of the future. *$1 Stratford co. 811.08 (Eng ed 17-1047)

An anthology of college verse, selected from the undergraduate
publications of sixty colleges. The preface says, “Our purpose in
publishing this book, which will become an annual event, is two-fold.
We want to encourage the best literature in the universities, and to
show to the poetry lovers in this country what a wealth of gems of the
purest ray has hitherto been inaccessible to the public.” In his
introduction William Stanley Braithwaite expresses a belief that the
anthology will have a deep interest for those unassociated with
academic life, “for its expression flows from a deeper impulse, an
impulse for the renewal of one’s fresh attachment with life at the
source of dreams. In the poetry world it may well serve as the yearly
spring of song.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:15 O ‘17

“The poetry that it contains fully justifies the effort expended upon
the collection. Not a few of the pages of the book reveal more than
one poet of the present that has astonished the reader with a note of
deep maturity where at best a pleasant promise was expected. The
selections have been made with unassuming catholicity.” I. G.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 8 ‘17 1800w

“Less than one third of the poems are by college women, and the larger
women’s colleges, Smith, Vassar, Bryn Mawr and Wellesley, are not
represented in the collection, although the literary periodicals of
many of the smaller institutions, coeducational and otherwise, have
been drawn upon for contributions.”

=Cleveland= p65 My ‘17 100w

“There is a freshness about the whole collection that is delightful.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:437 Ap ‘17 200w

=SCHNITZLER, ARTHUR.= Comedies of words, and other plays; Englished from the German with an introd. by Pierre Loving. *$1.50 Stewart & Kidd 832 17-13750

The so-called “comedies of words” included in this volume are three:
The hour of recognition; The big scene; The festival of Bacchus. To
these are added two other plays: Literature and His helpmate. The
three comedies of words were published in 1915 and represent, the
preface states, the most recent product from Schnitzler’s pen. The
translator says, “Though they will scarcely enhance his reputation to
any great extent, they continue in the tradition of his best work.”
“Literature,” a witty farce, written in 1901, has been played by the
Washington Square players of New York city.

+ — =Cleveland= p122 N ‘17 80w

“A translation of Schnitzler’s “einakters” has a more than timely
interest. For fifteen years he has been one of the most-followed
teachers to a large school of playwrights who have been supplying the
intimate playhouses of Europe with realistic short pieces, and
recently his influence has been extended to the young American
dramatists whose one-act plays are being presented in our own Little
Theatres. ... The first thing to strike the reader of these plays is
that the plot of every one has a sexual basis. Taken alone each
situation is perfectly possible; taken as a collection they are
unnatural. ... We miss ‘the average man.’ To comprehend this
characteristic of his work we must remember that Schnitzler is a
practising physician, a specialist in psychology, a student of Freud.
He is so keenly interested in pathological psychology that the normal
human being does not interest him at all.” W. Haynes

* + – =Dial= 63:63 Jl ‘17 900w

— =Ind= 91:514 S 29 ‘17 60w

“In the normal drama Schnitzler’s art is fragile, not to say fleeting;
in the one-act play it is compact, serried, tingling, spicular. No
lover of address can afford to neglect these virtuosities; if they
share the leisurely retrospect of Ibsen in the snugness of their
packing they rival the master himself. ... The final judgment on
Schnitzler will hardly be altered by the succinct vigor of these
masterly vignettes. He lacks body and he lacks soul. In Schnitzler
passion has the tenuity of sentiment, and guilt has the tastelessness
of innocence. The translation is plebeian, but not unreadable.”

+ — =Nation= 105:225 Ag 30 ‘17 760w

“Mr Loving’s translation is never very good, mediocre most of the
time, now and then very bad. ... A reason for buying this English
version is that the original ‘Komödie der worte’ (Berlin: S. Fischer,
1915) cannot now be had in this country, except by a lucky accident.
The only copy I’ve been able to lay my hands on is in the reference
department of the New York public library.” P. L.

+ — =New Repub= 11:308 Jl 14 ‘17 1050w

“Schnitzler is Freud turned dramatist. His great power consists in his
building plays not upon the broad basis of general and tested
character values, but upon the psychology of our occasional lapses
away from the average, our hidden emotional unleashings, sudden angers
and momentary caprices.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:444 O ‘17 110w

“Mr Schnitzler keeps his literary fabric delicate, and his irony
permits his readers to believe that he, too, is much amused by his
characters, and is wisely refusing to idealize any of them, or to give
them more importance than they deserve. The ‘littleness’ of the plays
is thus justified to the artistic consciousness. The translation lacks
elegance, but preserves the suggestiveness of the original dialog.”

=Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 5 ‘17 230w

=SCHOLTZ, MOSES.= Sex problems of man in health and disease; a popular study in sex knowledge. *$1 Stewart & Kidd 612.6 16-15024

“Five-sixths of the book covers clearly, scientifically and accurately
diseases of sex organs in man. A small part only is given to anatomy,
physiology and sex hygiene.”—A L A Bkl

“Has a high moral tone—the author heartily disapproves of a double
standard. Of use to parents, teachers and workers with boys.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:11 O ‘17

“Written by one who has had wide experience in dealing with sex
problems, it can be commended for its sanity.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7 Mr 11 ‘17 150w

=SCHROEDER, THEODORE ALBERT.= Free speech for radicals. enl ed $1.50 (2½c) Free speech league 323 16-1728

“This edition of ‘Free speech for radicals’ has doubled its size and
the added parts are the most important.” (Foreword) Among the
additions are a chapter on Methods of constitutional construction, an
account of the San Diego free speech fight, and a reprint of a section
from the Final report of the Commission on industrial relations.

“This book might appropriately be entitled ‘Free speech for I. W. W.’s
and anarchists,’ for on the whole it undertakes the defense of this
‘most despised of all classes.’ In general, the writer treats his
subject in a dispassionate manner and the book makes interesting
reading, but the reader frequently is challenged to make active
rejoinders to the many sweeping conclusions.”

– + =J Pol Econ= 25:1055 D ‘17 950w

=Nation= 103:381 O 19 ‘16 150w

“It is, perhaps, needless to say to our Socialist and radical readers
that the questions of free speech and free press will, during the war,
assume a most tremendous importance as a subject of discussion, public
and legal. And in this connection we might mention that the voluminous
and careful works of Theodore Schroeder, a special student of this
matter and others pertaining to it, are, perhaps, the best, most
accurate and authoritative literature procurable.” J. W.

+ =N Y Call= p14 Je 3 ‘17 280w

=St Louis= 15:47 F ‘17

“The book will chiefly interest students of anarchist and I. W. W.
literature and development.”

=Springf’d Republican= p13 F 7 ‘16 70w

=SCHULER, PHILLIP F. E.= Australia in arms. il *12s 6d T. Fisher Unwin, London 940.91

This book deals with the formation of the Australian imperial
expeditionary force, and their work in Egypt, on the Suez canal and at
Gallipoli. The history is complete to the date of publication.

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:89 Je ‘17

“A capital account of the part played at Anzac by the Australian
imperial force.”

+ =Sat R= 123:484 My 26 ‘17 200w

“There have been many books written about the Gallipoli campaign. ...
Some of them have been masterly, some of them hasty, and a few frankly
inaccurate. So far none have purported to be thorough histories of the
whole undertaking, nor does Mr Schuler make this claim for his
book. ... The author contents himself with chronicling the campaign
from the Australian point of view. ... The maps and illustrations are
excellent and new.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p566 N 30 ‘16 1100w

=SCHULTZ, JAMES WILLARD.= Gold cache. il *$1.25 (3½c) Houghton 17-24276

This book follows the author’s earlier stories, “With the Indians in
the Rockies” and “On the war path.” Thomas Fox and his friend
Pitamakan, with a third youth for companion, start southward on a
search for gold. Lone Chief, who has come into Fort Benton with a
handful of “buttons,” which prove to be twenty-dollar gold pieces, has
started them on their way, saying that he had left four boxes of the
supposedly valueless trinkets back in the pass, where he had
accidentally come upon them. The quest takes the boys far down into
the Apache country, and they have many adventures by the way.

“A good Indian story, well told, and possessing elements which will
satisfy the normal boy’s taste for adventure in a wholesome manner.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 20w

=Ind= 92:448 D 1 ‘17 30w

+ =N Y Times= 22:565 D 16 ‘17 70w

+ =Outlook= 117:142 S 26 ‘17 20w

=SCHWAB, CHARLES M.= Succeeding with what you have. il *50c (6c) Century 174 17-3316

A series of short papers reprinted from the American Magazine. Mr
Schwab writes of: Thinking beyond your job; How men are appraised;
Seizing your opportunities; The college man in business; What your
employer expects; My twenty thousand partners; Men I have worked with;
Woman’s part in man’s success.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:286 Ap ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 21 ‘17 150w

+ =Cleveland= p67 My ‘17 40w

“Mr Schwab seems to have sized up what his normal readers want in the
way of a ‘secret of success’ book and gives them maxims and hints well
worth following.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Mr 18 ‘17 200w

=SCHWARZ, OSIAS L.= General types of superior men. *$2.50 Badger, R: G. 136 17-1805

“The writer is an immigrant from Rumania though evidently German by
blood and tongue.” (Nation) His book is “a philosophico-psychological
study of genius, talent and Philistinism in their bearings upon human
society and its struggle for a better social order.” (Sub-title) “The
point of view of the book is the need to society of both intellectual
and moral geniuses.” (Springf’d Republican) There is a preface by Jack
London, and an introductory letter by Dr Max Nordau.

“Jack London wrote of the book that it was ‘one of those immortal
epoch-making works which appear only at very long intervals and which
leave an indelible constructive impression in the mind of the world.’
Dr Nordau did not hesitate to declare that the work was ‘dogmatic, not
scientific,’ that it contained statements which he, Nordau, ‘deemed
dubious and that the analysis of hereditary influences in the
formation of genius was hazy.’ The critic also doubted the author’s
conviction that socialistic society would show none of the vices which
the author pictured in civilized society.” H. S. K.

=Boston Transcript= p6 Je 2 ‘17 880w

“His control of English syntax is faulty. ... Beneath the radical
prejudice and, it must be said, occasional naïve ignorance, one
discerns an attitude not only introspective, but deeply reflective, a
certain fine insight, and a genuine humanity, fairness struggling with
prejudice.”

– + =Nation= 105:155 Ag 9 ‘17 250w

“The book is full of this sort of muddiness, and yet there is often,
we willingly recognize, a striking suggestiveness. The chief merit of
the book is in its passionate insistence on the imperativeness of
making the most of really superior men.”

– + =Nature= 100:125 O 18 ‘17 340w

“It is a fine book for those fatigued minds that in the misty phrases
of ‘social consciousness’ and the like try to disguise their basic
terror before the individual intellect.”

+ — =New Repub= 13:27 N 3 ‘17 280w

=N Y Call= p15 S 16 ‘17 270w

“It is vastly stimulating reading and much can be gathered from its
torrential attack upon Philistinism. ... Mr Schwarz’s ideas would have
been promulgated to better effect if the material had been divided
between two or more volumes.”

+ — =R of Rs= 56:331 S ‘17 200w

“An argument for socialism bolstered up with philosophical and ethical
generalizations. ... Shows a certain amount of independent
thinking ... but is scattering in aim, and extremely diffuse in
expression.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 250w

=SCOLLARD, CLINTON.= Let the flag wave, and other verses written in wartime. 75c J. T. White & co., 70 5th av., N.Y.; for sale by Baker 811 17-17071

Among the “other verses” are: At the grave of Lawrence; America to her
young men; Reeds of the Somme; Chant of the Hun; Mother England; and
Kitchener of Khartum. The cream colored binding is not well suited to
library use.

“In this sort of writing Mr Scollard’s high spirits and power to write
convincingly stand him in good stead.”

+ =Lit D= 55:31 Jl 14 ‘17 700w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:108 Jl ‘17

=SCOTT, CHARLES ERNEST.= China from within; introd. by J. Ross Stevenson. il *$1.75 Revell 915.1 17-31762

“For many years a missionary of the Presbyterian church at Tsingtau,
Dr Scott’s lectures delivered in the winter of 1914-15 at Princeton
theological seminary have an authority sometimes lacking in the books
recording the impressions and experiences of the ordinary traveller.
For Dr Scott has not only journeyed over the greater part of China,
including provinces seldom visited by aliens, but he has lived among
the people, learning, as in no other way can be done their real life
and the most pressing of their many needs. ... ‘An humble testimony by
a student on the field to the ability and achievements of the
Chinese,’ he himself calls his book.”—Boston Transcript

“His book is as interesting and valuable to the general reader as to
those concerned with the problems of mission work.” F. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 17 ‘17 780w

“Little is said here about politics, revolutions or international
relations. But real insight is given into the regenerative forces that
are at work creating a manhood that some day will take high place in
China’s development.”

+ =Ind= 93:200 F 2 ‘18 100w

“A careful study.”

+ =Outlook= 117:476 N 21 ‘17 60w

“Dr Scott presents a body of material concerning the inner life of the
Chinese such as can hardly be found in any other published book.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:219 F ‘18 40w

=SCOTT, DIXON.= Men of letters; with an introd. by Max Beerbohm. il *$2 (2c) Doran 820.4

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

=A L A Bkl= 13:303 Ap ‘17

“One of the most serious losses due to the war has been the death of
Dixon Scott. ... Scott was not merely an acute critic or interpreter,
or that commonplace of to-day, the good impressionist. He was one of
those who penetrate through the book into the mind of the author, and
show how it works. Like Sainte-Beuve, he saturated himself so
completely in the man he was studying that he endued his personality.”

+ =Ath= p85 F ‘17 1350w

“His judgments may challenge some readers: me they merely
fascinate. ... I want a figure to intrigue my imagination, and Dixon
Scott has offered me a gallery.” J. W. Linn

+ =Dial= 62:184 Mr 8 ‘17 950w

“Dixon Scott was an exceedingly clever young man, with a most
remarkable specific literary talent. Reading his criticisms is like
watching revolver practice by a crack shot: the explosiveness of the
style and the swiftness of the devastation hide the monotony of the
mood and method. His longest and most deeply felt effort was an essay
on William Morris: his most elaborated, an essay on me. ... I have no
space here to do more than point out the limitations of Dixon Scott’s
view of art, and how the young literary voluptuary flourished at the
expense of the critic of life. But I can guarantee the book as being
not only frightfully smart in the wrong places, but, in the best of
the right ones, as good as it is in the nature of the best
journalistic criticism to be.” G. B. S.

* =New Repub= 10:78 F 17 ‘17 1900w

“Aesthetic excitement—that is his distinguishing note. ... It was
Dixon Scott’s excellent gift that he could both brilliantly detect and
unforgettably convey. ... Here is a genuine student of life: an
observer both shrewd and sweet, gallant, full of charm and vigor; an
interpreter of brilliant insight, of poetic imagination, of
extraordinary craft. One is not easily reconciled to his sacrifice.”
Lawrence Gilman

+ =No Am= 205:620 Ap ‘17 1450w

=Pratt= p37 O ‘17 10w

+ =Spec= 118:306 Mr 10 ‘17 60w

“To find a given writer’s medium, compare his normal with his
sophisticated self, and complete the curve of variation from his
theoretically possible achievement, is the task of criticism as it
presents itself to Dixon Scott. The resulting method has the
breathless fascination of hurdle-racing. One may disagree with his
opinions and resent his premises, but one must recognize the dynamic
energy of the thinking involved.” M. A. Jordan

+ + — =Yale R= n s 7:202 O ‘17 1300w

=SCOTT, MRS ELLEN (CORRIGAN).= Elizabeth Bess, “a little girl of the sixties.” il *$1.25 (2c) Macmillan 17-24271