Chapter LXXIV: Part 3: “Seed time,” are made up of seventeen stories and sketches (2)

Perhaps it is for its picture of New England life in the years
immediately following the Civil war that this book for girls will be
most valued and for that reason many older people will enjoy it.
Elizabeth Bess is a winsome little girl of five, who lives in a
bewildering world of older brothers and sisters and other grown
people. There is one older brother whom Elizabeth does not remember
very well, for she was only a baby when he went to war and he has been
“missing” since Gettysburg. Elizabeth Bess knows what missing means.
She knows that it does not mean dead, or lost forever, and she
persists in her faith in the face of all the grown-up discouragement,
even after Howell’s mother and sweetheart are ready to give up hope.
And Bess’s perseverance is rewarded by the missing brother’s return.

“A not over sentimentalized picture of the life of a charming little
girl of the sixties. ... It is not written for children, though they
would enjoy parts of the story.”

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“A real little classic. Elizabeth Bess is a heroine in whom little
readers and older ones may well be interested. She is a human child,
with a quick tongue, a wide-awake mind, an intense interest in
everything about her.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:548 D 9 ‘17 440w

=SCOTT, ERNEST.= Short history of Australia. maps *$1.25 Oxford 994 17-14803

“A handy, clear, and well-written history, skilfully adjusting the
narrative to the limits of a small volume without rendering it
unattractive; equipped with a great many useful maps; and at the end a
bibliography for each chapter. Index 15 pages.”—The Times [London] Lit
Sup

“Prof. Ernest Scott occupies the chair of history in the University of
Melbourne. His ‘Short history’ is a model of its kind. Based on
firsthand knowledge of the sources, written in a clear, masculine
style with an agreeable literary flavor, well proportioned, judicial
in tone, equipped with such aids to the understanding as maps, plans,
chronology, bibliography, and index, this admirable work will take its
place at once as a prime authority on Australia.”

+ =Nation= 104:598 My 17 ‘17 1300w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p626 D 21 ‘16 80w

=SCOTT, JAMES BROWN=, ed. Diplomatic documents relating to the outbreak of the European war; with an introd. 2v *$5 Oxford 940.91 16-18046

“Evidently it is the purpose of this work to furnish the student with
the best and most comprehensive collection of the sources, but not to
assist him further in the study of them, except that there is a large
and excellent index. The documents are printed from the originals,
when these are in English, and when in other languages from the
official English translations. This collection is the most complete
hitherto published, and contains besides the documents usually
assembled the second ‘Austrian red book,’ concerning relations with
Italy, most of the ‘Second Belgian gray book,’ the second ‘British
blue book,’ relating to the rupture of relations with Turkey, the
‘Italian green book,’ and the second ‘Russian orange book,’ concerning
relations with Turkey.”—Am Hist R

“Should be the standard collection on the subject for some time to
come.” E: R. Turner

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“To the many books dealing with the outbreak of the war, the Carnegie
Endowment for international peace has now added their contribution.
For such a collection there is a real place. Some two years ago the
British government, indeed, published a work similar in character,
‘Collected diplomatic documents relating to the outbreak of the
European war’; so far as it went that seemed fully to meet all
requirements; the volumes before us, however, are larger in their
scope in that they include material which has appeared since then; for
instance, the ‘Second Belgian grey book’ and the new edition of the
‘German white book.’ ... On the whole, it seems to us that it would
have been wiser if the Carnegie institute had undertaken more
immediate responsibility for the revision of the various
translations.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p50 F 1 ‘17 850w

=SCOTT, JOHN REED.= Man in evening clothes. il *$1.50 (2c) Putnam 17-14179

In an amateur way, Colin Marjoribanks, an under-secretary of the
British embassy in Washington, had been picking up valuable gems here
and there, taking advantage of the carelessness of his women friends.
From one he has obtained a fine pearl, from another an emerald
necklace, from another several valuable rings. He is holding these
until the time is safe for their disposal, when a professional jewel
thief appears on the scene, “the man in evening clothes.” This unknown
appears perfectly familiar with Colin’s little depredations and so
holds him in his power. It is just at this time that the Hon. Patricia
Packingham arrives from England, and the young secretary begins to see
the error of his way. His efforts to get himself out of an awkward
scrape come to a climax with a demand from the unknown thief that he
act as a tool in robbing the British embassy. This forces confession,
and forgiveness follows.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:62 N ‘17

=Boston Transcript= p6 Je 13 ‘17 380w

“The story is entertainingly written and sufficiently ingenious, while
the picture of Washington society is amusing.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:214 Je 3 ‘17 270w

“Stories of this trashy type do Mr Scott, who ordinarily is a
diverting romancer, no credit.”

— =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 15 ‘17 230w

=SCOTT, RHEA CLARKE.= Home labor saving devices. il *$1 Lippincott 643 17-8895

The author, who is a rural extension worker, gives directions for the
making at home or in school of labor saving devices, for the kitchen,
dining-room, porch, poultry house, dairy, etc. The appendix includes:
Fundamentals in woodworking; Suggested list of tools; List of
publications for supplementary reading (chiefly government documents).

=Agricultural Digest= 2:505 Je ‘17 100w

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=Ath= p523 O ‘17 80w

=Cleveland= p112 S ‘17 30w

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=N Y Br Lib News= 4:71 My ‘17

+ =N Y Call= p15 O 28 ‘17 210w

=Pittsburgh= 22:523 Je ‘17

=Pratt= p25 O ‘17 30w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:155 My ‘17 50w

=SCOTT, WILLIAM BERRYMAN.= Theory of evolution. *$1 (2c) Macmillan 575 17-7196

This book, by the Blair professor of geology and palæontology in
Princeton university, contains the Westbrook lectures delivered at the
Wagner free institute of science, Philadelphia, in 1914. The author
treats his subject with special reference to the evidence upon which
the theory of evolution is founded. Contents: Present status of the
question; Evidences for the theory—classification, domestication and
comparative anatomy; Evidence from embryology and blood tests;
Evidence from palæontology; Evidence from geographical distribution;
Evidence from experiment—conclusion.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:82 D ‘17

“The opening chapter gives a brief historical review of theories of
evolution and a concise statement of the present status of the
question. I have seen no better presentation of this body of data for
both biologist and general reader than that given in this little book.
My only criticism is that it is insufficiently illustrated, although
the few illustrations used are well chosen.” H. H. Newman

+ =Bot Gaz= 63:325 Ap ‘17 130w

“The evidence for his thesis is presented honestly without forcing
facts or ignoring flaws.”

+ =Cath World= 105:394 Je ‘17 280w

+ =Cleveland= p109 S ‘17 60w

+ =Educ R= 54:528 D ‘17 40w

+ =Ind= 92:260 N 3 ‘17 50w

“Then follows a chapter on evidences drawn from embryology, and also
from the wholly unexpected field of blood-tests. This part of the
volume will be of special interest to readers who have not kept
themselves informed as to this remarkable advance in science. The
chapter on evidence from palæontology maintains complete perspective,
although there was some danger that the author’s studies in this
particular direction might throw the sketch out of true.”

+ =Nation= 104:717 Je 14 ‘17 300w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:60 Ap ‘17

“The layman in search of a summary of the present status of the theory
of evolution will find in Professor Scott’s volume a straightforward,
clear-cut and simple presentation of the most important single
contribution to science in the nineteenth century. ... The book is
valuable for its restraint and for the liberality of its view.” D:
Rosenstein

+ =N Y Call= p14 Je 3 ‘17 700w

=Pittsburgh= 22:414 My ‘17 50w

=St Louis= 15:327 S ‘17 10w

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 29 ‘17 270w

=SCOTT, WILLIAM ROBERT.=[2] Economic problems of peace after war; the W. Stanley Jevons lectures at University college, London, in 1917. *$1.40 (3½c) Putnam 304 (Eng ed 17-28670)

An indication of the course which progress may be expected to take
after the war rather than a prediction of details. A study of
emergency measures made “for the duration of the war” naturally gives
rise to questions concerning the continuance of state and government
control of activities, economic and industrial, after the war.
Concerning commerce the writer reflects that warfare has extended into
the third dimension and that it is possible, with the perfection of
submarines and airships, commerce may do the same. But, he says,
“there can be no single forecast of the future of commerce and
industry in the first years of peace. ... It will take time to direct
the new national spirit to industry and to utilize it to the full.” He
believes that the economy practised during these days will become
habitual; that the increased capital as a result of saving will aid in
the reconstruction of industry when peace returns. Finally, he
develops a new responsibility in industry. Industry is to be conceived
not as an evolutionary process but as a problem, that of attaining a
harmonious relation among men concerned in production.

“Professor Scott is more concerned to lay down broad principles than
to attempt any very definite prediction of what the peace will bring
us, and for that reason alone his book deserves attention.”

+ =Spec= 119:193 Ag 25 ‘17 120w

“The author takes what seems to us to be a sane but cheerful view of
the future. If he is sometimes a trifle prosy and occasionally a
little obscure, he has the excuse of the traditions of the great
science of which he is a distinguished exponent.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p314 Jl 5 ‘17 950w

=SCOVELL, CLINTON HOMER.= Cost accounting and burden application. *$2 Appleton 657 16-22873

“The principles and elements of cost are treated by Mr Scovell rather
than any specific system of cost keeping. The determination and
application of overhead charges or burden are given a prominent place.
The five methods of applying burden are: Percentage on wages,
percentage on labor and material, man-hour rates, old-machine rate,
new-machine rate. ... Material and material cost with reference to the
practice of machine shops are discussed in chapter 3. The succeeding
chapter is on labor costs. The later chapters deal with cost
accounting for special industries. ... The author states that every
method and device mentioned in the book is in successful operation in
some progressive industrial establishment.”—Engin N

“Probably the most important thing in the whole book, certainly the
one about which there has been least written, is what the author calls
‘unearned burden.’ ... The work is to be recommended to managers,
accountants, and students of cost accounting, chiefly for the
fundamental principles discussed, and the very great number of
suggestions offered.” M. M. FitzHugh

+ =Am Econ R= 7:137 Mr ‘17 850w

=A L A Bkl= 13:251 Mr ‘17

“The author would probably feel that his chief contribution lies in
his treatment of unearned burden. ... The work at once is both
scholarly and practical, and should rank high among the books in this
country on the subject.” Spurgeon Bell

+ =Ann Am Acad= 71:225 My ‘17 400w

=Engin N= 77:108 Ja 18 ‘17 300w

“Closely related to the absence of accounting forms is the lack of any
adequate presentation of the relations between cost accounting and the
general accounting system of the business making use of cost accounts.
The book falls short of establishing completeness as a treatise on
cost accounting by reason of the conscious emphasis upon the order
method of production and the corresponding neglect of the process
method and of the so called continuous industries. The book contains
particularly good chapters upon unearned burden, interest as an
element of cost, the verification of burden estimates, and the budget
system.”

=J Pol Econ= 25:639 Je ‘17 300w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:24 F ‘17

“Author is a specialist in industrial accounting. He is of the modern
school. ... The book is not a systematic treatise, suitable for
students, but is a logical discussion of general principles. ... It
should be read by practical accountants who wish to be informed as to
the latest and best theory of their profession.” W: Kent

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:465 My ‘17 50w (Reprinted from Journal of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers p369 Ap ‘17)

=R of Rs= 55:221 F ‘17 40w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 40w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:23 Ja ‘17 60w

=SCUDDER, VIDA DUTTON.= Church and the hour; reflections of a socialist church woman. *$1 Dutton 261 17-10459

This book “attempts a reconciliation between the faith of the church
and the ideals of social reform by showing the identity of the two.
The author, who is a professor in Wellesley college, looks upon the
church as primarily a social organization and social force, and
believes that the more the corporate ideal is stressed the nearer the
church is to fulfilling its task in society. As to socialism, the
author asserts that it is incomplete and impotent unless it take
account of the fact that man has a soul. Intensely individualistic
Christianity and anti-Christian socialism are believed by Miss Scudder
to be powerless half-truths.”—Springf’d Republican

=Cleveland= p106 S ‘17 80w

“The great question is, Can a democratic society believe in the
Christian God? The question is not settled, but it is one of the most
important that we have before us to-day. Any intelligent discussion of
it must be of value.” Ward Swain

=Dial= 62:523 Je 14 ‘17 900w

“Miss Scudder is less vague than most others who are lamenting the
breakdown of Christianity with a sneer at the parson. Herself a
Socialist, she has some ideas as to how the church might enforce
principles of social justice and thus ensure international stability.”

+ =Nation= 104:635 My 24 ‘17 220w

=N Y Times= 22:223 Je 10 ‘17 370w

=Pratt= p8 O ‘17 10w

“Anyone who believes that socialism and Christian faith are
antagonistic to each other will be interested in Miss Scudder’s
argument in the chapter entitled ‘Two letters to The Masses.’ ... The
book is well written though the material is at times somewhat
fragmentary. Throughout the reader is attracted by the note of
mysticism and the faith in humanity.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 27 ‘17 270w

“Both at its heights of social hope and its depths of religious
idealism this volume lacks a practical hold on the unity of a human
life. It fails to show just how the church, which cannot be regarded
as a separate body, can yet be so separate from the people
constituting it that it can dwell apart on a higher level while they
themselves must so largely live and labor on the ‘lower range of the
natural life.’” Graham Taylor

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=SCUDDER, VIDA DUTTON.=[2] Le morte d’Arthur of Sir Thomas Malory and its sources. *$3.50 Dutton 398.2 17-31449

“The author is professor of English literature in Wellesley college,
and the book is the outcome of fifteen years of study with her college
classes. The volume is concerned with Arthurian romances intimately
connected with England and deals with the sequence leading up to the
‘Morte d’Arthur’ of Malory. The development of the romances through
the centuries is studied, with now and then a glance at the form they
took on the continent, the author constantly comparing the sources
from which Malory drew with his own treatment of characters and
incidents and constantly finding in the romances the reflection of
life and thought, and feeling during mediaeval times. ... The first
half of the book is devoted to a consideration of the sources from
which Malory drew his material, but the second part takes up Malory’s
work and after a chapter on the man and his book goes on to examine,
discuss and interpret the various elements of his ‘Morte d’Arthur.’”—N
Y Times

“She has made a brilliant contribution to the subject of mediaeval
romance merely by the comprehensiveness with which she has surveyed
the results of modern investigation, the thoroughness with which she
has mastered and digested them and the very readable style in which
she has presented her narrative. Her book is a work of fine
scholarship, but it is also written in so interesting a manner that it
deserves the popular reading for which it is intended.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:549 D 9 ‘17 600w

“What she has done here is of permanent value and is presented with
sincere literary effort.”

+ =Outlook= 117:654 D 19 ‘17 50w

=SEAMAN, MRS AUGUSTA HUIELL.= Girl next door. il *$1.25 (3c) Century 17-24404

The author of “The boarded-up house” and “The sapphire signet” has
written a new story for girls which now appears in book form after
serial publication in St Nicholas. The old house next door appears to
be deserted, for its shutters are always closed. Marcia and Janet,
however, early discover that there are signs of life about it, and
their interest, already aroused at the first hint of mystery, is
intensified when they learn that the place shelters a young girl. When
they succeed in making friends with Cecily they expect the puzzle to
solve itself, but they are only more mystified, for Cecily herself
does not know why she has been brought to live in the strange house.
And, stranger still, Miss Benedict, its veiled mistress, does not know
who Cecily is or from where she has come. Genuine love for Cecily
takes the place of curiosity as the motive that drives the two girls
on to the solution of the mystery.

“An entertaining mystery story for girls.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:101 D ‘17

Reviewed by J: Walcott

+ =Bookm= 46:499 D ‘17 100w

+ =Ind= 92:447 D 1 ‘17 20w

“As real a mystery story as ever was written for grown-ups.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:547 D 9 ‘17 90w

=SEARS, CHARLES HATCH.= Edward Judson, interpreter of God. il $1 Am. Bapt. 17-14394

“One of his friends, the Rev. Charles H. Sears, has sketched the
events and the motives of Dr Judson’s public life. Against the
background of his childhood in Burma, his orphaned boyhood in America,
and his life as student and teacher and pastor of a prosperous
suburban church, stands out his heroic venture in founding an
institutional church in downtown New York. Like his great father,
Adoniram Judson, he had the spirit of the pioneer, and his was one of
the first expressions of the social ministry of the modern city church
for all sorts and conditions of men.”—Lit D

“Sympathetic portrayal of an unselfish life.”

+ =Lit D= 55:41 N 3 ‘17 160w

“This volume would have been of greater value to the public if its
author had not been requested to treat Dr Judson’s life in its public
rather than in its personal relations. For Dr Judson’s power was in
his personality.”

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=Pratt= p44 Jl ‘17 20w

=SEDGWICK, WILLIAM THOMPSON, and TYLER, HARRY WALTER.=[2] Short history of science. il *$2.50 Macmillan 509 17-31086

Addressed to the student and the general reader this volume goes back
to the origin of scientific knowledge, and of the scientific method
which has not only revolutionized scientific study but has been widely
applied to all kinds of human activity. The writers begin with the
ancient Babylonians, Assyrians, Egyptians and Phoenicians whose
monuments and inscriptions have furnished the material for the
beginnings of scientific study. The development of the science of
mathematics, astronomy and medicine and the contribution made by
different nations occupies nine chapters. The second half of the text
starts with the quickening influences of the age of discovery at the
end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century and
traces the progress of modern national, physical and mathematical
science to the beginning of the twentieth century.

=Boston Transcript= p3 D 15 ‘17 300w

“A vast subject is treated with breadth of view and keenness of
insight in this book. It strikes a happy balance between the technical
works that are meant for the special student and the works that deal
so largely with abstract theories that they fail to grip the general
reader. A good example of the work of specialists who know how to make
their subject interesting to non-specialists.”

+ =Outlook= 118:68 Ja 9 ‘18 70w

=SEEBACH, JULIUS FREDERICK, and SEEBACH, MRS MARGARET REBECCA (HIMES).= Singing weaver, and other stories. il *$1 (2c) Lutheran pub. soc. 17-21643

These “hero tales” for young people have been brought together in
honor of the four-hundredth anniversary of the reformation. The
authors say that they are true stories of some of the obscure, but
none the less real heroes of that time. Contents: The singing weaver;
Her little Bible; At the king’s bidding; The good little hen; Lady
Philippine’s Easter gift; At the turn of the tide; His majesty’s
potter; The price of a book; The courage of Grizel; The glorious
return. The book has an effective frontispiece in color by Jessie
Gillespie.

=SEEGER, ALAN.= Letters and diary. il *$1.25 (3c) Scribner 940.91 17-14031

Alan Seeger, the young American poet who, at the beginning of the war
enlisted in the Foreign legion of France and died in a charge at
Belloy-en-Santerre on July 4, 1916, tells of his service in the
trenches, in the rear, and on the field, in fragments of a diary and
in letters home and to the New York Sun, covering the period from
September 27, 1914, to June 28, 1916.

=A L A Bkl= 14:20 O ‘17

“It is for America as well as for France that these letters speak.
They come to the public eye at a most propitious moment. ... Alan
Seeger was a fore-runner of the hundreds of Americans who will join
hands with France and with all the allies of France for the salvation
of humanity.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 13 ‘17 1350w

=Cleveland= p101 S ‘17 50w

“The greater portion of the book is ordinary, quite like the many
books from the hands of mere journalists. There is another, smaller,
but far more important part of the volume that is also disappointing,
and in inverse ratio to its size; it is the part, or parts, where the
poet does write and where, therefore, his philosophy of life appears.
Alan Seeger was narrow-minded. Seeger’s [view] is so largely a mere
expression of his emotions that, annoyance becomes the dominant
reaction as one reads. He was tired of ordinary existence, that
existence which demands the best powers of mind and soul. Victor
Chapman, in his ‘letters from France,’ says: ‘Remember Alan Seeger was
an appalling wreck before the war.’” B. I. Kinne

– + =Dial= 63:206 S 13 ‘17 1250w

“Perhaps nearer to literature than anything that has come to us from
the trenches. ... His pages are extraordinarily vivid and human and
yet curiously impersonal. There is hardly an anecdote, hardly a
mention of an individual. Idiosyncrasies of character, incidents of
trench life were not his interest and yet you live trench life with
him, and you breathe the very spirit of the war.”

+ =Ind= 90:514 Je 16 ‘17 1000w

“The real interest of this little book is in the psychological
conditions which threw this young American into the war and made him
glory in his experiences.”

=Nation= 104:758 Je 28 ‘17 1350w

“Throughout the record there is manifest a grace of mind and character
that is both touching in its appeal and prohibitive of false
sentiment. Sad as it is, the book is inspiriting.”

+ =No Am= 206:137 Jl ‘17 650w

=Pratt= p42 O ‘17 20w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p612 D 13 ‘17 620w

=SEEGER, ALAN.= Poems: with an introd. by W: Archer. *$1.25 Scribner 811 16-24961

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

“A large part of the poems in this volume can reasonably well stand on
their strictly literary merits. ... We like to think that if Rupert
Brooke had lived he would have eliminated from his final volume some
of the unnecessary gaucheries of expression, as well as some of the
unworthy compositions which were rushed into print under the impulse
of the sudden fame brought about by his death. The same thought occurs
in the case of Alan Seeger.” H. F. Armstrong

+ — =Dial= 62:243 Mr 22 ‘17 750w

+ =Ind= 89:270 F 12 ‘17 220w

“Of his artistic capacity there can be no question. At twenty-eight he
was master of a rich and flexible technique which I hesitate to call
exceptional only because in our dædal and prodigious age exceptions
are turning into rules before our eyes. The strains are Lydian, Lydian
even in the rifle-pits; and to his ideals, which include Sidney,
Byron, Napoleon, and Roosevelt, I am impelled to add, as analogue if
not as exemplar, Sardanapalus.” O. W. Firkins

+ =Nation= 104:710 Je 14 ‘17 270w

=Pittsburgh= 22:507 Je ‘17 20w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p251 My 24 ‘17 120w

=SEELY, HERMAN GASTRELL.= Son of the city. il *$1.35 (2c) McClurg 17-25592

Sketches of boyhood, as maturity remembers it. Of stories of child
life in the country there are many. The activities and interests of
the city boy are more rarely pictured. But in this story of the city,
apparently Chicago, the essential characteristics of boy nature are
shown to vary little with the environment. Sport, love, and adventure
are the matters that occupy this boy’s mind much as they did that of
Tom Sawyer.

“The particular hero of Mr Seely’s telling holds the reader’s interest
from start to finish.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 24 ‘17 150w

“The book is strongly reminiscent of the sentiments which inspire
Briggs’s cartoons. ... There are quite a few passages where action
lags and interest wanes. But the chief charm, and one that pervades
the volume, is that older than Aristotle—recognition. Youth comes back
with all its fond impulsiveness and sudden bitternesses, but still
vivid and happily refreshing.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:469 N 11 ‘17 300w

=SEGAR, MARY G.=, comp. Some minor poems of the middle ages; glossary by Emmeline Paxton. *$1 Longmans 821 17-13422

“This is complementary to Miss Segar’s recent ‘Mediæval anthology,’
and should help to fill in the background against which the greater
and better-known works stand out. ... Some of these pieces are widely
known; others, and not least interesting, are unfamiliar. These do, as
the preface claims, ‘Illustrate the mind and deeds of the time, and
its manners and customs.’ Miss Segar writes an excellent introduction,
and the glossary and notes smooth the way for any intelligent
student.”—Ath

+ =Ath= p101 F ‘17 110w

+ =Cath World= 105:404 Je ‘17 110w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:85 Je ‘17

=St Louis= 15:183 Je ‘17

=SELLARS, ROY WOOD.= Essentials of philosophy. *$1.60 (1½c) Macmillan 102 17-22306

This book, intended as an introduction to philosophy, concerns itself
with those “general problems which confront all knowledge.” “He who
has wrestled with these,” says the author, “can face the more
empirical questions of the secondary philosophical subjects with
equanimity.” He takes up first the problems of the theory of
knowledge, second those of metaphysics or ontology. He says, “We
shall, I believe, become convinced that the answer to ontological
problems depends in a larger measure than has been acknowledged upon
the answer given to epistemological problems. Only the final chapter
will concern itself with values. The method we shall use may be called
the genetic for want of a better name. ... The history of philosophy
will always be kept subordinate to the main purpose, that of a clear
and consistent statement of problems and their solutions, so far as
solutions are realizable.” (Chapter 1) The author is professor of
philosophy at the University of Michigan.

=Ind= 92:262 N 3 ‘17 50w

“This book, in the opinion of the reviewer, is one of the most
acceptable introductory texts that has come under his notice. It is
well fitted to the needs of the beginner, and it admits of all
necessary expansion on the part of the teacher. It should find wide
acceptance as a text.” A. G. A. Balz

+ =J Philos= 14:668 N 22 ‘17 500w

=SELTZER, THOMAS=, comp and ed. Best Russian short stories. (Modern lib. of the world’s best books) il *60c Boni & Liveright 17-20418

The compiler states that “the present volume is the most comprehensive
anthology of the Russian short story in the English language. ...
Korolenko’s ‘Shades’ and Andreyev’s ‘Lazarus’ first appeared in
Current Opinion, and Artzybashev’s ‘The revolutionist’ in the
Metropolitan Magazine.” (Introd.) Contents: The queen of spades, by A.
S. Pushkin; The cloak, by N. V. Gogol; The district doctor, by I. S.
Turgenev; The Christmas tree and the wedding, by F. M. Dostoyevsky;
God sees the truth, but waits, by L. N. Tolstoy; How a muzhik fed two
officials, by M. Y. Saltykov; The shades, a phantasy, by V. G.
Korolenko; The signal, by V. N. Garshin; The darling, The bet, Vanka,
by A. P. Chekhov; Hide and seek, by F. K. Sologub; Dethroned by I. N.
Potapenko; The servant, by S. T. Semyonov; One autumn night, Her
lover, by M. Gorky; Lazarus, by L. N. Andreyev; The revolutionist, by
M. P. Artzybashev; The outrage, by A. I. Kuprin.

=SETON, ERNEST THOMPSON.= Preacher of Cedar Mountain; a tale of the open country. il *$1.35 (1c) Doubleday 17-12957

The story opens with an account of Jim Hartigan’s boyhood in a little
town in Ontario. This part of his life comes to an end with his
conversion at a crude revival meeting. He goes west as a missionary
preacher and finds his field in the Black hills. He finds, too, the
right woman, the one whose loving wisdom guides his after life. In
that day horse racing was looked on by Jim’s church as one of the
deadly sins, but a love for horses is in his blood, and it was
inevitable that he should be drawn to the sport that flourished on the
frontier. A big race between soldiers and Indians is one of the
features of the story.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:452 Jl ‘17

“Breathes a spirit of love of nature, and contains many beautiful
word-pictures of landscapes.”

+ — =Cath World= 105:685 Ag ‘17 200w

– + =Ind= 91:189 Ag 4 ‘17 50w

“A vivid story.”

+ =Lit D= 55:34 Ag 18 ‘17 240w

“Mr Thompson Seton loses his distinction when he begins to write about
human beings. ... Almost anybody might have written such a yarn; and
it is perhaps to Mr Seton’s credit that he seems more interested in
the horses than in the men and women of the story. ... But the
author’s friends must hope that he will go back to his wolves and
grizzlies.”

=Nation= 105:72 Jl 19 ‘17 230w

“As a story of character development it is very interesting. And it is
also unusual. For there is no sentimentality in the tale of Jim’s
evolution, and the things that happen to him are full of concrete
interest themselves.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:177 My 6 ‘17 650w

“We predict a wide popularity for this story.”

+ =Outlook= 116:160 My 23 ‘17 90w

“One is not surprised to learn that a story of so much breadth and
reality is for the most part historical, and many of its characters,
including its hero, are drawn from life.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p507 O 18 ‘17 170w

=SETON, JULIA (MRS FRANKLIN WARREN SEARS).=[2] Destiny. *$1.35 (2c) Clode, E: J. 17-22566

A new thought novel which forestalls unsympathetic comment by claiming
that “every book that is written has a meaning and a purpose;
sometimes this meaning and purpose is plain; ... sometimes however,
only God and the author really understand it.” The heroine is a young
girl who is keen scented for a life of adventure. She grows irritable
among the commonplaces of life with her country foster parents and her
country lover. She longs for the world. Her opportunity comes, and
with it encouragement to delve deep into all “sciences, psychologies,
philosophies, and religions.” With the husband of her friend, who had
opened the door to her new life, she enters the world beyond and “sees
at work the laws of the inner relationship of spheres and
consciousness.” Here the lay reader loses her, but soon finds her
again as she emerges to the discovery that she is the soul mate of her
friend’s husband. The reader is led to believe that the events swiftly
following this development, the resistance, and final conquest, are
wholly in keeping with the teachings of new thought.

“A highly moral book. And whatever it may lack, occasionally, in
uniqueness of plot, or brilliancy of description and dialogue, is
fully compensated for by its measureless compass of lofty spiritual
values. To all disciples of new thought this last book of Dr Seton’s
will be of singular interest.” D. F. G.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p10 O 6 ‘17 400w

“All the characters talk a very great deal, and the author indulges in
unending dissertations.”

— =N Y Times= 22:388 O 7 ‘17 170w

“With all this wonderfully constructed background of the psychic, the
hidden, the occult, Dr Seton has aroused in her readers a tense
expectation. We proceed eagerly with the breathless hope of seeing
Audrienne solve the mystery of life and love, disclose the secret
which lies behind the beyond. It is frankly, therefore, a
disappointment to be called upon to witness Dr St Elmo and our heroine
clasped in each other’s arms amid the ‘deepest, darkest shrubbery,’
and to find the author herself commenting on the scene, ‘They had
found all they had looked for; all they had longed for, far above the
law of all mystical research.’” Joseph Mosher

— =Pub W= 92:1376 O 20 ‘17 650w

Seven years in Vienna (August, 1907—August, 1914); a record of intrigue. il *$1.50 Houghton 943.6 A17-1120

“Popular and gossipy, this traces the course of political events from
1907-1914 and the reason for Austria’s entrance into the war. Gives
rather vivid characterizations of members of the royal family
including the late emperor Francis Joseph and the murdered archduke
and his wife, and describes many of the intrigues of the governing
political party of Austria.”—A L A Bkl

=A L A Bkl= 13:396 Je ‘17

“Very early in his record of intrigue in the German and Austrian
courts he reveals an intimate acquaintance with his subject and with
the intricacies of court life and the people who direct and control
it.” H. S. K.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 24 ‘17 780w

“What he or she has to say of the inner workings of government
machinery is entertaining enough, but unsupported by any basis of
authority.”

=Dial= 62:487 My 31 ‘17 120w

“A farrago of backstairs tittle-tattle, newspaper clippings, and
downright guesswork.”

— =Nation= 104:715 Je 14 ‘17 250w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:77 My ‘17

“An interesting book, this, yet scarcely a valuable one. It is poorly
written, poorly assembled, confused at times to a point of an
inconsistency which is probably more apparent than real.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:270 Jl 22 ‘17 1050w

=St Louis= 15:134 My ‘17 20w

=SEVERANCE, FRANK HAYWARD.= Old frontier of France. 2v il *$7.50 (2c) Dodd 974.7 17-13293

Drawing on records in the archives of France, Canada and the United
States, the author has brought together a mass of material bearing on
the history of the Niagara region and adjacent lakes under French
control. The work is intended as an authentic historical record. The
author says, “If I have seldom turned aside from the mere recording of
events, to remark on the policies of the powers which were rivals in
the region, or on the consequences of their conduct, it is because I
have felt that the truest exposition of these ambitions of courts,
these failures or achievements of ministries, lay in setting forth as
simply and clearly as possible, the things that were done.” Volume 1
covers the period from the early explorations to about 1751. In volume
2 the historical record is carried to the surrender of Fort Niagara,
with supplementary chapters on the career of Chabert. The volumes are
well illustrated, with maps, plans and facsimiles.

“No one is so well qualified as Mr Severance to tell the story of this
region. With its topography and later history he has long been
familiar, and he has evidently spent years collecting material for
this work, laying under contribution manuscript sources in the
archives of Paris, London and Ottawa, contemporary newspapers and
pamphlets and familiar printed collections like the ‘New York colonial
documents.’ The result is a work for the specialist and not for the
general reader, one which will be found to disclose new facts and
sources of information rather than to change fundamentally the
reader’s conception of the character of the men and events under
consideration. Within these self-imposed limitations the book is one
of great value.” A. H. Buffinton

+ =Am Hist R= 23:180 O ‘17 800w

=A L A Bkl= 14:125 Ja ‘18

“Mr Severance of the Buffalo historical society, and author of ‘Old
trails on the Niagara frontier’ and other historical works, is fitted
to write of the domination of the Niagara region by the French. ...
His work presents an assemblage of historical facts which will be of
inestimable value to the historian and the economist who deals with
results as well as causes.” G. H. S.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 23 ‘17 1100w

“Mr Severance is painstaking and accurate, with an apparently vastly
absorbent, orderly intellect, and if only he might have quickened his
subject with a more human touch, the reviewer could accord him
unstinted praise.”

+ — =Dial= 63:458 N 8 ‘17 460w

=SEVERN, ELIZABETH.=[2] Psychology of behaviour. *$1.50 (2c) Dodd 130 17-31920

The writer is a practitioner of psychotherapy and mental science. From
the metaphysical rather than biological, the idealistic and
suggestive, rather than materialistic and positive point of view, she
analyses human motives and needs. The chapter on “Self” offers
encouragement to the self-depreciating individual for it sets a high
value on each self as an entity whose quality and idiosyncrasies
distinguish it from every other particle in the universe and render it
an essential part of the whole. The culture of self “is the only path
to liberation and high behaviour,” says the author.

=SEWARD, ALBERT CHARLES=, ed. Science and the nation; with an introd. by the Right Hon. Lord Moulton. *$1.50 Putnam 504 17-21369

Thirteen essays by Cambridge university graduates, on the importance
of pure science and its relation to applied science. “Lord Moulton
points the general moral in an introduction—namely, that the facts and
methods of science should receive more attention in our schools and
universities.” (Spec) “Contents: The national importance of chemistry,
W. J. Pope; Physical research and the way of its application, W. H.
Bragg; The modern science of metals, pure and applied, W. Rosenhain;
Mathematics in relation to pure and applied science, E. W. Hobson; The
science of botany and the art of intensive cultivation, F. W. Keeble;
Science in forestry, W. Dawson; Systematized plant-breeding, R. H.
Biffen; An agricultural war problem, T. B. Wood; Geology as an
economic science, Herbert H. Thomas; Medicine and experimental
science, F. Gowland Hopkins; The ‘specific treatment’ of disease, G.
H. F. Nuttall; Flies and disease, G. S. Graham-Smith; The government
of subject peoples, W. H. R. Rivers.” (N Y Br Lib News)

“Each essay is written by a master of his subject, and the claims of
the various sciences to recognition are presented in a most attractive
and reasonable manner. The writers are making a simple and direct
appeal to the general and educated public. There is no undue
exploitation of any one science; there is no attempt to minimize the
importance of the humanities; on the contrary, there is an earnest
appeal for a proper balance of these two branches of civilization.”

+ =Nation= 105:274 S 6 ‘17 260w

“Individually the chapters are of the utmost interest to the general
reader; they give him compactly and authoritatively a sound idea of
the scope and value of contemporary work in chemistry, physics,
botany, geology, medicine, mathematics, and anthropology. ... Yet the
present reviewer who is a journalist very anxious for the advancement
of science and very eager to serve it if he can, turns from this book
with an uncomfortable sense that scientific men have still to develop
a definite policy with regard to schools and colleges and higher
education. ... Against the strangle-grip of the classic-worshipping
mandarins on our higher English education such a book as ‘Science and
the nation’ scarcely fights at all.” H. G. Wells

+ — =Nature= 99:141 Ap 19 ‘17 1350w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:124 Ag ‘17

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p19 Jl ‘17 110w

=Spec= 118:393 Mr 31 ‘17 170w

“The book opens with a contribution from Professor Pope to demonstrate
that war on its present scale would have been impossible for Germany
had not her chemists prepared the way. ... The feature common to
nearly all the essays, but most clearly developed by Professor Bragg,
is the insistence upon pure science, pursued for its own sake, as the
fountain of all discovery, even in applied science. ... In addition to
their discontent with the position of science in the economy of the
nation, there are signs that the Cambridge essayists are not without
some resentment at the treatment accorded to the scientific man
himself, more at his lack of influence than as regards the actual
rewards that he misses.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p135 Mr 22 ‘17 2000w

=SHACKLETON, ROBERT.=[2] Book of New York. il *$2.50 Penn 917.471 18-87

“Mr Shackleton is a trained observer of the picturesque and the
historical, and in this volume he reveals a New York, or rather
several New Yorks, that many life-long citizens of the poly-headed
metropolis probably know little about. His book is at once historical,
anecdotal, artistic, and informative in its appeal; above all, it
seeks to capture the elusive spirit of the great city. The oldest
houses and the newest palaces, the quaint corners and the splendid
modern vistas, and the stories that lie behind them, all figure in Mr
Shackleton’s narrative and in the many illustrations, from photographs
and in pen-and-ink, which he has assembled. The photographs are
reproduced in sepia and the pen-drawings are by Boyer.”—Lit D

=A L A Bkl= 14:165 F ‘18

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 26 ‘17 600w

+ =Lit D= 55:51 D 8 ‘17 100w

“Rather desultory, but always agreeable.”

+ — =Outlook= 118:67 Ja 9 ‘18 40w

=SHARMAN, HENRY BURTON.=[2] Records of the life of Jesus. *$2.50 Assn. press 226 17-19831

A topical study of the actual career of Jesus whose first part makes
comparative use of the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke and whose
second part is based on the gospel of John. “Dr Sharman describes this
book as ‘a super-harmony of the gospels.’ The book is an ambitious and
scholarly attempt to put the gospels in a new setting and, at the same
time, to avoid, as far as possible, any dislocation or distortion of
passages. It is unique in that it permits (by printing consecutive
passages in Roman type) the continuous reading of each gospel. The
synoptics have been harmonized, while the gospel of John is given by
itself with the fullest possible cross reference to the synoptics.
Passages which are similar but not actually parallel are given in
foot-notes.” (Publishers’ note)

“Easily the best harmony of the gospels that has been published up to
the present time. The book is admirable, both for reader and student.”
F. W. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p2 D 15 ‘17 740w

=SHARP, HILDA M.= Stars in their courses. *$1.50 (1c) Putnam 17-7812

“To be the child of an unhappy marriage is to be heavily handicapped
at the very outset of that strange, unequal game we call life,” says
the author. This was the fate of her hero, Patrick Yardley. When he
was five years old, his mother disappeared out of his life, and his
father, a very rich, self-made man, transferred to the child the
bitter hatred engendered by the mother’s faithlessness. He teaches the
boy to love money and then disinherits him, leaving his fortune to
Patrick’s cousin. Patrick becomes a wanderer. An inherited passion for
gambling is indulged in far places of the earth and wild stories of
his way of life come back to England. His return, his meeting with the
girl who is engaged to his cousin, and the discovery that his father
had made a later will are events of the second half of the story. “The
stars in their courses fought against Sisera,” seems to be the source
of the title.

“It hardly creates the illusion of reality. Miss Sharp has an
excellent plot in which inherited gambling instincts, blackmail, and
accident play a perfectly legitimate part. Her characters too, except,
in their speech, are true to type. She has a clever way of expressing
her view of her characters that makes her work amusing, but her
melodramatic dialogue all but ruins her best effects.”

– + =Dial= 62:444 My 17 ‘17 130w

“Somehow the author has made an interesting story even tho she has
employed almost all the hackneyed situations known to fiction.”

+ — =Lit D= 54:1089 Ap 14 ‘17 200w

“Several of the minor characters in this oldfashioned story are well
drawn.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:69 F 25 ‘17 300w

– + =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 8 ‘17 300w

=SHEAFFER, WILLIAM ADAM.=[2] Household accounting and economics. *65c Macmillan 657 17-3038

This practical work has chapters on: Personal accounts; Economics of
the household; The family budget; How to keep the family accounts; How
to open a bank account; Making payments by check; Envelope and card
systems of keeping accounts; The household inventory and fire
insurance protection, etc. The book is intended primarily as a text
book for girls studying home economics, but the author points out that
it furnishes valuable training for boys as well. It is also adapted to
the use of the individual housekeeper or of clubs making a study of
the subject. The author is head of the commercial department of West
division high school, Milwaukee.

=A L A Bkl= 13:385 Je ‘17

+ =Cleveland= p 20 F ‘18 30w

“This book should be a welcome addition to the working library of the
housekeeper.” J. S.

+ =St Louis= 15:332 S ‘17 14w

=SHEAHAN, HENRY.= Volunteer Poilu. il *$1.25 (3c) Houghton 940.91 16-22442

A book written by an American serving in France. The author says that
in writing the book it was his ambition to do for his comrades, the
French private soldiers, what other books have done for the soldiers
of other armies. Contents: The Rochambeau s’en va-t-en guerre; An
unknown Paris in the night and rain; The great swathe of the lines; La
forêt de Bois-le-Prêtre; The trenches in the “wood of death”; The
Germans attack; The town in the trenches; Messieurs les poilus de la
grande guerre; Preparing the defense of Verdun; The great days of
Verdun.

“It is not only of trench life that this little volume treats: many
other phases are illuminatingly touched upon. It is all admirably
written and holds the attention closely.”

+ =Cath World= 104:696 F ‘17 200w

“Admirably written sketches giving an excellent interpretation of the
French private soldier in the trench and in action.”

=N J Lib Bul= p7 Ap ‘17 18w

=Pittsburgh= 22:427 My ‘17 20w

+ =St Louis= 15:45 F ‘17 20w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:26 Ja ‘17 40w

=SHEARME, JOHN.= Lively recollections. il *1.50 (2c) Lane 17-16340

“The stories Canon Shearme tells of his boyhood days in Cornwall, his
college days at Oxford, his early travels on the Continent, recreate
the vanished Mid-Victorian life in delightful fashion. In the various
towns to which, as curate, vicar and honorary canon, he was appointed,
were among his neighbors and parishioners men famous in English
politics, art and science, and his memories of them are particularly
felicitous. In 1891, he was made vicar of Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
At Osborne House, where he was often a dinner guest of Queen Victoria,
and in whose chapel he sometimes preached, he met many royalties, whom
he in turn makes known to us.”—Boston Transcript

“His sense of humor, never more keen than when he himself is the
object; his happy gift as a raconteur; his fund of amusing anecdote
combine to make his recollections exceptionally pleasing.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 11 ‘17 300w

+ =Outlook= 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 40w

“This unpretentious book of reminiscences is truly delightful. His
pictures of famous personalities have a fine flavor. Among them are
Gladstone, Lord Tennyson, Elizabeth of Austria, Emperor Francis
Joseph, Empress Eugenie, and Queen Victoria.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:329 S ‘17 100w

“Canon Shearme’s ‘recollections’ make very pleasant reading. The book
is not long and it is quite light. We are all often asked to recommend
such a book in these days, and the name is well worth remembering. His
point of view is ... that of a scholar and a kindly, leisurely
gentleman, who can talk to us very pleasantly about all sorts and
conditions of people.”

+ =Spec= 118:678 Je 16 ‘17 230w

“All through the volume there is the atmosphere of the Anglican
church; and much of the author’s recollections has to do with church
life and clerical haps and mishaps.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 9 ‘17 450w

=SHELFORD, ROBERT WALTER CAMPBELL.= Naturalist in Borneo. il *$5 Dutton 508.491 (Eng ed 17-15691)

“The author, who died in 1912, was curator of the Sarawak museum
before settling down at the Oxford museum as assistant-curator under
the guidance of Professor Poulton, who edits his book. It is apparent
from the wide scope of his work, ranging from men and mammals to
beetles, and from the vividness and exactitude of his observations,
that Mr Shelford was a born naturalist, and would have done great
things had he lived. As it is, the book is curiously interesting. ...
The author’s numerous photographs are excellent.”—Spec

“Beside the interest of the manuscript, is that of the silent witness
it bears to an unconquerable spirit which no physical ill could
discourage, no amount of required personal effort could daunt.
Unprefaced by the brief biography Dr Poulton of Oxford wrote, one
would still feel the impulse of a rarely strong and appealing
personality.” F. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 1 ‘17 700w

“Significant as are the facts gleaned from the author’s study of the
vertebrata of Borneo, it is in the field of entomology that he
exhibits most strikingly the specialized worker’s intimate knowledge.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:290 Ag 5 ‘17 500w

“A fascinating and unusual book, the work of a well-trained and
thoughtful observer in many fields of science. He was specially keen
on the problems of mimicry as a means of survival in the struggle for
existence, and throughout the book, before we come to the special
chapter on the subject, he supplies a host of observations on the odd
habits of the world of life from animals to plants. Occasionally the
dry and polysyllabic style of science may be a little technical for
the reader, but the book as a whole is well and clearly written and
free from the clumsiness which is too common among scientific writers.
It is also well illustrated.”

+ =Sat R= 123:136 F 10 ‘17 1250w

+ =Spec= 118:141 F 3 ‘17 100w

“At Kuching, in Sarawak, the Rajah Brooke established a museum which,
it was wisely provided, was to be confined to Bornean subjects. With
this limitation it has grown within its field to be an institution of
great value; and it was as curator of the museum for some seven years
that Mr Shelford gained his acquaintance with Bornean natural history.
But the chief value of this book lies in its suggestiveness and
biological speculations.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p17 Ja 11 ‘17 1100w

=SHELTON, WILLIAM HENRY.= Jumel mansion; being a full history of the house on Harlem Heights built by Roger Morris before the revolution; together with some account of its more notable occupants. il *$10 Houghton 974.7 17-216