Chapter LXXVII: Part 4: is given up to appendices devoted to the more advanced (2)

“Upton Sinclair slaps melodrama and sociology together so honestly as
to make it easy for you to believe that ‘practically all the
characters are real persons, and every incident which has social
significance is not merely a true incident but a typical one.’ ... Yet
‘King Coal’ is an exceedingly vivacious narrative, boyishly sincere.”
R. B.

+ — =New Repub= 12:359 O 27 ‘17 1400w

“Since ‘The jungle’ had its phenomenal success, Mr Sinclair has
written nothing so good as this novel. The book presents a striking
likeness to ‘The inner door’ by Alan Sullivan. Both deal with upper
class men leading working class lives, and both portray their
conversion. Of the two books, Mr Sinclair’s work rings truer.” D: P.
Berenberg

+ — =N Y Call= p14 O 7 ‘17 430w

“Artistically, this new novel is a better piece of work than ‘The
jungle,’ more compact, better constructed, with swifter, a more
centralized purpose, while its picture of life in a great coal camp
yields nothing to that portrayal of existence among the employes of
the Chicago stock yards in vivid coloring, in understanding of racial
types, and in the sincere and convincing quality of its setting. ...
The introduction by Dr Georg Brandes is a distinct disappointment. At
the least, the publishers of the book might have rectified its
English.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:354 S 23 ‘17 1200w

“So far as the manipulation of the vote is concerned, the documentary
evidence given in an epilogue shows that Mr Sinclair is on strong
ground. But viewed simply as a story it is vivid, exciting, and
impressive.”

+ =Spec 119:681 D= 8 ‘17 630w

“The book is more than an exposure of certain outrageous industrial
practices. It is an admirable study of human character and motives.
For the most part the characters are genuine types.” J: A. Fitch

+ =Survey 39:257= D 1 ‘17 460w

“It is hard to interest oneself in his characters, for their actions
are dictated to them by their creator for his own moral purpose. It is
hard, too, to take Mr Sinclair’s facts as the basis for logical
inferences, for they are mixed up inextricably with fiction—he insists
on appealing to the mind and the emotions at once and the one appeal
distracts attention from the other.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p493 O 11 ‘17 780w

=SINGMASTER, ELSIE (MRS HAROLD LEWARS).= Long journey. il *$1 (2c) Houghton 17-6324

The journey of a little band of German pilgrims to America is the
theme of this story. From the village that has been sacked and left
destitute by the French. John Conrad Weiser and his children start on
the long journey to the new home where freedom and peace are promised
to all. First there is the journey down the Rhine, then the long and
hopeless wait in England for the ships that the English queen was to
provide. To young Conrad, thirteen years old, this delay is almost
unbearable after all his dreams of the new land. The sight on the
London streets of three scarlet-blanketed Indians revives his hope,
and it is indeed thru these new friends that the German immigrants are
granted their wish, passage to America. Here there are more hardships
to be undergone, until the final stage of the journey, along the
Mohawk trail, brings them home.

“For upper-grade and high-school children.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:408 Je ‘17

+ =N Y Times= 22:172 Ap 29 ‘17 120w

“The narrative is simple, pathetic, and human.”

+ =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 40w

=Pratt= p52 O ‘17 10w

=St Louis= 15:378 O ‘17 30w

=SINGMASTER, ELSIE (MRS HAROLD LEWARS).= Martin Luther. il *$1 (3½c) Houghton 17-9137

Elsie Singmaster has written a popular life of Luther as a
contribution to the literature of the four hundredth anniversary of
the reformation. She says, “The volume contains no original material,
but is intended to serve as an introduction to the longer, richer, and
more scholarly records of a great life which abound and to the noble
writings of the reformer himself.” Contents: Youth; Monk, teacher and
preacher; The ninety-five theses and their effect; The primary works
of the reformation and the diet of Worms; At the Wartburg and back in
Wittenberg; Marriage and family life; The growing church; Last years
and death.

“The author has used especially the work of Doctor H. E. Jacobs,
Preserved Smith, and Heinrich Böhmer (p. 398) and quotes often from
Luther’s own works.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:400 Je ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 23 ‘17 300w

— =Cath World= 105:258 My ‘17 500w

+ =Cleveland= p83 Je ‘17 60w

“Tho one could wish made more vivid the daily life of the plain folk
of whom Luther was one, yet here is a swift, clear account of the
causes of the great struggle, of the events of Luther’s life and his
lovable personality, all to be read almost at a sitting.”

+ =Ind= 90:34 Ap 2 ‘17 70w

“The familiar tale is told with intelligence and in a simple and
straight-forward fashion.”

+ =Nation= 105:515 N 8 ‘17 50w

“Miss Singmaster is herself the daughter of a Lutheran clergyman, and
is an accurate student of the literature of her subject.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:667 Je ‘17 90w

“The book should be useful to those who have neither the time nor
inclination to peruse the larger and heavier accounts of the German
reformer’s career. It is really an excellent digest of them.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 27 ‘17 120w

=SIZER, JAMES PEYTON.= Commercialization of leisure. (Present day problems ser.) *75c Badger, R: G. 790 17-11342

“This little essay calls attention to a serious problem in modern
life,—serious despite its leisurely aspect. It brings forth the
important consideration that amusement and recreation are among the
prominent and essential affairs of men. Amusement has become a huge
business. Leisure is in itself a value approaching the highest good. A
successful democracy must make leisure possible for the largest
numbers. It must provide ways of using leisure which will advance as
well as content human beings. The statement made by Mr Sizer shows how
far from such a condition the actual relation stands.”—Dial

=Cleveland= p115 S ‘17 20w

“The organization of leisure and recreation by the community is ably
pointed out as one of the essential duties of the true democratic
state.”

+ =Dial= 63:461 N 8 ‘17 140w

“Mr J. P. Sizer wastes much fire on that perennial target, the
Puritan, on the Y. M. C. A. and on other activities, but his
description of present conditions and plans for improvement are sane
and inspiring.”

+ — =Ind= 91:137 Jl 28 ‘17 40w

=SKINNER, ADA MARIA, and SKINNER, ELEANOR LOUISE=, comps. Topaz story book. (Jewel ser.) il *$1.50 Duffield 17-24878

Into this book have been gathered stories and legends of autumn,
Hallowe’en and Thanksgiving. Indian myths, folktales from other lands,
and modern stories and poems are included. The contents are arranged
under the following headings: Autumn stories and legends; Among the
trees; Woodland animals; Harvest fields; Cheerful chirpers; All
Hallowe’en; A harvest of Thanksgiving stories. The frontispiece is by
Maxfield Parrish.

=A L A Bkl= 14:174 F ‘18

“An excellent compilation. ... There is plenty of wholesome fare in it
for both tots and shavers, and nothing, or next to nothing, of the
artificial ‘dope’ too frequently offered as a substitute and
successfully passed off in the confusion of the market-place,—as, for
instance, in too much of the material in ‘John Martin’s annual,’ and
in all elaborate commercial juvenilism, under whatever name.” J:
Walcott

+ =Bookm= 46:494 D ‘17 80w

+ =Lit D= 55:57 D 8 ‘17 70w

+ =N Y Call= p14 Ja 5 ‘18 50w

=SKINNER, CONSTANCE LINDSAY.= “Good-morning, Rosamond!” il *$1.35 (1½c) Doubleday 17-11791

Rosamond, the very young widow of an elderly and wealthy collector of
antiques, was held in subjection by the two elderly servants who
revered their master’s memory and who insisted that she do the same.
On the morning of the day that Jemima and Amanda were called to their
mother’s bedside, their mistress flew to her room, put on her gayest
gown, dropped a courtesy before her reflection in the glass and said
“Good-morning, Rosamond.” She was determined that this was to be her
one wonderful day, and she was youthful enough to hope that her day
might bring a fairy prince, altho where he was to come from in staid
and settled Roseborough, was an unanswerable question. But strange
things, of which the arrival of the desired young man was not the
least surprising, were to happen during the twenty-four hours of
Rosamond’s day.

“A sparkling, lightsome, exciting and charmingly written story.” E.
Gates

+ =Books and Authors= Je ‘17 400w

“Perhaps the book may be described, with reservations and
qualifications, as a Nova Scotian ‘Cranford.’ ... The setting is
designedly, perseveringly idyllic, but the action tends to lapse from
comedy to melodramatic farce. ... An independent system of
illustrations by Thomas Fogarty will challenge attention.”

=Dial= 62:443 My 17 ‘17 200w

“The story is told with consummate literary art. It is joyous and
buoyant, scintillant and sarcastic, cynical and sympathetic.”

+ =Evening Ledger= [Philadelphia] My 5 ‘17 400w

“Constance Skinner, the poet of Indian life, has written a farce
comedy in novel form.”

=Ind= 90:594 Je 30 ‘17 60w

“It is just a bit too preposterous to be as amusing as it might easily
have been. It has been dramatized and, we fancy, is better as a play
than a novel.”

=N Y Times= 22:183 My 6 ‘17 150w

“Miss Skinner tells a pleasing story of no importance, in the course
of which she mildly satirizes life in a small community. The work is
artificial and forced in places, but the dialog is bright and
skilful.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 30 ‘17 230w

=SKINNIDER, MARGARET.= Doing my bit for Ireland. il *$1 Century 941.5 17-16337

A spirited, frankly partizan account of the Dublin insurrection of
1916, by a school-teacher who took an active part in the rising, was
wounded, but escaped imprisonment, and came, some months later, to
America. An appendix of nearly fifty pages gives the street songs in
vogue in Dublin at the time of the insurrection.

=A L A Bkl= 14:21 O ‘17

“One of the chief virtues of Miss Skinnider’s simple recital is that
it makes the Irish revolutionists live for us, especially their
executed leaders, so that the Irish question presents itself as an
essentially human problem, and the rights of small nations changes
from a battle cry to a demand for constructive thought.”

+ =Dial= 63:218 S 13 ‘17 250w

“A courageous, romantic, naïve story.”

+ =Ind= 92:260 N 3 ‘17 70w

“A striking contribution not only to an understanding of the spirit
which led to the Easter rebellion, but, since the writer is
confessedly a suffragette, we think also to the strange and baffling
spirit of the militant women. Neither so full nor so striking as other
narratives lately published. The book is largely about the authoress
herself, and its particular value lies in the glimpse it affords of
the character of herself and her comrades in the cause. ... More than
once she indicates that the stories of Belgian atrocities pale beside
the work of the British during the terrible fortnight, but the
examples afforded are not convincing.”

+ — =Nation= 105:150 Ag 9 ‘17 850w

“The little volume is intensely readable and well calculated to
beguile an idle hour, though it hardly can be regarded as an
authoritative narrative, the writer having, apparently, an overload of
imagination and a rather scant supply of reasoning power.” Joshua
Wanhope

– + =N Y Call= p14 Jl 1 ‘17 600w

+ =N Y Times= 22:262 Jl 15 ‘17 130w

=SKRINE, JOHN HUNTLEY.= Survival of Jesus. *$2 Doran 232 17-14227

“In the twenty-six chapters of this book the author discusses the
nature of the man Christ Jesus, the atonement, and the theology of the
future. Regarding telepathy, or thought-transference, as a fact, a
vera causa, he considers its bearing upon religion, and puts forward a
hypothesis of faith-transference or ‘faith-conference.’ Briefly, this
hypothesis is that ‘Jesus in the days of His flesh made atonement for
men, His contemporaries, by the impartment to them of the life unto
God through the medium of a telepathy of spirit.’” (Ath) The author is
a clergyman of the Church of England.

=Ath= p407 Ag ‘17 100w

“The book is beautiful to those who think they understand it, vague to
others, and charming in a way to most.”

+ – =Bib World= 50:256 O ‘17 130w

“The author of this striking book has done a brave thing, and many who
may not be able to follow his guidance will be grateful for his
boldness.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p292 Je 21 ‘17 1150w

=SLADEN, DOUGLAS BROOKE WHEELTON.= Douglas romance. *$1.35 Brentano’s (Eng ed 16-19956)

“An historical novel of the present day, ‘The Douglas romance,’
derives its fantastic plot and its kaleidoscopic multitude of cleverly
presented characters, men and women of unusual and interesting types,
from those still fertile fields of romance, the theatrical world and
the European war. It tells of the fortunes of the last heirs of the
Scottish earldom of Douglas, the ultramodern descendants of the Black
Douglas of ballad fame. ... The war is presented through the points of
view of the heroine’s two lovers; one a hero of the trenches, the
other the leader of a spectacular attack on a German stronghold. The
vivid picture of London in war-time is not the least interesting part
of the story.”—Boston Transcript

“Many aspects of theatrical life are shown, perhaps an unnecessary
number of unpleasant ones. However, here as elsewhere throughout the
book we are disposed to forgive much for the sake of the throng of
characters of many types and classes.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 21 ‘16 270w

“The tale, from first to last, although lacking in subtle distinctions
and delicacies, is interesting.”

+ — =N Y Times= 21:537 D 3 ‘16 260w

“Partly historical and partly romantic, with a dash of triviality. ...
In the concluding chapters the author interjects some thrilling war
pictures and scenes of heroism on the battlefield which saves the
story from tedium.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p19 Mr 25 ‘17 270w

=SLOCUM, STEPHEN ELMER.= Elements of hydraulics. 2d ed rev and enl il *$2.50 McGraw 621.2 17-1800

“In the second edition the author has revised his text and added much
of value. In Part 1, ‘Pressure of water,’ is added a chapter on
strength of pipes under internal pressure. ... In the second part,
‘Flow of water,’ the author has revised considerably the chapter
dealing with weirs. ... The chapter on the influence of bends and
elbows on the flow has also been rewritten and much new matter
added. ... The older chapter on backwater has been eliminated entirely
and new matter substituted. ... The chapter on turbines and their
appurtenances was unusually good in the first edition, but the author
has nevertheless revised it and added much new matter. The paragraphs
on water hammer have been rewritten and a chapter on surge tanks
added. As in the former edition, the last pages are in the form of an
appendix containing tabulated hydraulic data. Two new tables have been
added, one on the discharge from wood-stave pipe and the other on
submerged weir coefficients, so that there are now 22 tables covering
35 pages.”—Engin Rec

“The appearance of Professor Slocum’s second edition in a few months
after the appearance of the first edition seems to indicate the
success of his idea, which was to break away from academic
presentations of pure theory in order to secure the interest of the
student and to visualize the abstractions that once were too
exclusively dealt with.”

+ =Engin N= 77:435 Mr 15 ‘17 160w

Reviewed by A. G. Hillberg

+ =Engin Rec= 75:234 F 10 ‘17 670w

=SLOSSON, EDWIN EMERY.= Six major prophets. il *$1.50 Little 920 17-13229

A companion volume to “Major prophets of to-day.” “Whoever dies
without recognizing the prophet of his time dies the death of a
pagan,” says a Mohammedan proverb. To escape this fate, Mr Slosson
selected the twelve men of his own time to whom the title of prophet
seemed most aptly to apply. He has visited and interviewed each of
them and made a study of their works. The results are set forth in
these two volumes for the benefit of others. The six men of the second
volume are, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, G. K. Chesterton, F. C.
S. Schiller, John Dewey and Rudolf Eucken. The original articles,
which appeared in the Independent, have been amplified for book
publication.

“Informal, good for study clubs. Annotated lists of suggested books.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:400 Je ‘17

=Boston Transcript= p6 My 2 ‘17 1250w

=Boston Transcript= p7 My 16 ‘17 650w

+ =Ind= 91:71 Jl 14 ‘17 270w

“Probably the essay on Eucken would have been different in tone had it
been written today. Mr Slosson has preferred to let it stand as he
originally wrote it for the Independent, a sort of ante-bellum view of
German philosophy. If the present book is sometimes less pungent in
style than Mr Slosson’s earlier expositions, he has still accomplished
his purpose. He can be informative without even skirting dulness.”

+ =New Repub= 11:116 My 26 ‘17 400w

“To a marked degree he succeeds in writing interestingly for those
readers who have no need to be informed. His intention, he points out,
is exposition rather than criticism. But much of very keen and
readable criticism his book does contain.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:355 S 23 ‘17 1400w

“Sparkling and ingratiating essays. Each discussion is made more
illuminating by a brief bibliographic commentary.” Algernon Tassin

+ =Pub W= 91:1321 Ap 21 ‘17 600w

+ =R of Rs= 56:104 Jl ‘17 120w

=SLOSSON, PRESTON WILLIAM.= Decline of the Chartist movement. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics and public law) pa *$2 Longmans 342.4 16-25227

“Mr Slosson’s title, ‘The decline of the Chartist movement,’ does not
quite adequately describe his book. Such a title suggests a study of
the movement only from the failure of the great petition of 1848. Mr
Slosson’s best work, it is true, is of the years that followed the
fiasco of the Kennington Common mass-meeting of 1848. But his story of
the movement as a whole is singularly complete and quite
comprehensive. ... Clearness both of statement and of reasoning are
also obvious when Mr Slosson is discussing to what extent greatly
improved industrial conditions after 1848 accounted for the
disappearance of the Chartist movement, and again when he is examining
the advantages, direct and indirect, that accrued to the wage-earning
classes of England in the last half of the nineteenth century from the
Chartist agitation of 1837-1854.”—Am Hist R

“Dr Slosson writes with a breadth of view and grasp not always found
in doctoral theses.” H. E. Mills

+ =Am Econ R= 7:606 S ‘17 380w

“If there were no other book on Chartism in existence, Mr Slosson’s
study would serve most students of English political movements of the
nineteenth century. It certainly would serve to the full those
students who are already familiar with industrial and social
conditions in England from the American revolution to the first decade
of Queen Victoria’s reign. Clearness of presentation is the
characteristic of Mr Slosson’s work.” E: Porritt

+ =Am Hist R= 22:651 Ap ‘17 310w

“Particularly of value as regards the treatment of the causes which
led to the decline of the movement, and for its examination of some of
the distinctly beneficent results that indirectly accrued to the
working classes in England from a movement that many students of
English history are inclined to regard as a complete failure. If it
had stood alone—if it had not been accompanied by Mr Rosenblatt’s
book, and Mr Faulkner’s study of the attitude of the churches toward
Chartism and also of the attitude of the Chartists towards the
Established church—Mr Slosson’s well-written and admirably arranged
monograph would have filled the hiatus in the literature of political
movements in England in the nineteenth century that had existed for
nearly sixty years.” E: Porritt

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:340 My ‘17 650w

“Mr Slosson’s history of Chartism will rank with the best
contributions of American scholars to the literature of English
political movement in the nineteenth century, and also with many of
the best contributions to this literature from the pens of English
historians.” E: Porritt

+ =Ind= 89:232 F 5 ‘17 200w

“The relation of the movement to industrial depression is analyzed
ably and in detail by both Mr Rosenblatt and Mr Slosson. This analysis
is by far the most satisfactory feature of their works.”

=J Pol Econ= 25:635 Je ‘17 190w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 18 ‘17 140w

“On the whole, great accuracy and most scrupulous references to the
sources mark all three volumes.” I. C. Hannah

+ =Survey= 38:288 Je 30 ‘17 250w

=SMART, WILLIAM.= Second thoughts of an economist; with a biographical sketch by T: Jones. *$1.40 Macmillan 330 16-15824

“In this little book, which marks the close of his most active and
productive career, Professor Smart has undertaken a review of the
salient facts of economic life as they appear when seen by the light
of a warm enthusiasm for worthwhile living against the background of
his more formal economics. He has returned to certain Ruskinian
questionings and disparagings of industrialism and treats of these
things with a freedom which he apparently felt one cannot exercise
when one is preoccupied with being an economist. ... The book is, in
fact, his philosophy of economic responsibility.”—J Pol Econ

“While noble in its tone aspiration, charming in its statement, and
sound enough so far as it goes, it must be said that the book does not
add to its author’s reputation.” H. E. Mills

+ =Am Econ R= 6:876 D ‘16 750w

+ =Ath= p318 Jl ‘16 1450w

“There is little in the book which was not pretty definitely present
in his previous volumes. Its special interest consists in that it
enables one to appreciate the influence of certain assumptions which
controlled his thinking. ... The memoir seems to me exactly suitable
and in place. All former students of Professor Smart will be grateful
to Mr Jones for so admirable a sketch of one who was so kindly and so
fascinating a man and probably also one of the very greatest teachers
of economics the country ever produced.” M. W. Robieson

=Int J Ethics= 27:244 Ja ‘17 1650w

“Precisely because of this breadth of view, the book seems admirably
adapted to introduce the subject of economics to beginners. Economic
doctrines appear here vividly as very real things. Advanced readers
will find its tone genially lucid rather than keenly penetrating, and
humanitarian rather than iconoclastic.” J. M. Clark

+ =J Pol Econ= 25:402 Ap ‘17 900w

=Pratt= p8 Jl ‘17

=Sat R= 122:277 S 16 ‘16 450w

+ =Spec= 117:190 Ag 12 ‘16 430w

* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p279 Je 15 ‘16 900w

=SMIDOVICH, VIKENTII VIKENT’EVICH (VIKENTY VERESÁEV, pseud.).= In the war; memoirs; tr. by Leo Wiener. (Slavic translations) *$2 (1c) Kennerley 947 17-12165

An account of the Russo-Japanese war by a Russian surgeon who
accompanied the troops. The narrative opens with the announcement of
war, and is carried on in the following chapters: On the way; In
Mukden; The battle of Sha-ho; The great stand: October to November;
The great stand: December to February; The Mukden engagement; On the
Mandarin road; Wandering; In expectation of peace; Peace; Home again.
The translator associates the author’s name with that of Vereshchágin
as a depicter of the grimness of warfare, calling the book, “the most
complete analysis of the ingloriousness of war yet obtained.”

“It is a revolting picture from first to last, with such a morbid
insistence upon the known cruelties and the heedlessness to human
suffering that one feels compelled to doubt, at times, the motive of
the author. ... The judicious reader will reserve the right to
question not only the author’s motive in some of the cases but also
the truth of some of the happenings to which he gives credence.”

— =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 25 ‘17 280w

“A vivid, artistically proportioned account written in the
characteristically Russian spirit of patience and understanding. ‘No
one but a Russian could have presented such a calm, dispassionate and
utterly damning record of graft, incompetence and lack of morale. The
book will serve to make the over-optimistic realize the magnitude of
Russia’s problem in building up a democracy.’”

+ =Cleveland= p82 Je ‘17 80w

=Ind= 91:77 Jl 14 ‘17 50w

“Veresaev is well known as the author of the ‘Memoirs of a physician’
and of many stories and essays. A realist of Tolstoy’s school, he
succeeds in drawing gripping pictures in a sincere and reserved
manner. As a physician, Veresaev had a rather limited field of
observation, but even through his narrow prism he was able to behold
an appalling picture of human masses being abused, neglected,
demoralized, and senselessly slaughtered, through the whim,
carelessness, greed, and ignorance of their superiors.”

+ =Nation= 105:227 Ag 30 ‘17 320w

“What war can do to even the greatest of men is shown here in a
realism which would be merely revolting if it were not for the note of
bitterness and irony that gives an undercurrent of clear criticism to
the sluggish and sickening stream of war’s horror.”

+ =New Repub= 10:sup20 Ap 21 ‘17 350w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:77 My ‘17

=SMITH, ALICE RAVENEL HUGER, and SMITH, DANIEL ELLIOTT HUGER.= Dwelling houses of Charleston, South Carolina. il *$6 Lippincott 975.7 17-29203

“This book is the story of Charleston told in pictures of its houses
and streets and in word-sketches of the interesting, historical, and
personal incidents associated with them. In order to convey the
quality of the place as a whole, the authors selected those houses
which best showed the distinctive evolution of architecture in
Charleston, with all its details in the way of fireplaces, paneling,
doorways, and furniture. In so doing they have called up a vivid
picture of old Charleston life, its history, and the ways of its
people generations ago. There are, in all, 128 illustrations from
drawings by Alice R. Huger Smith, from photographs, and from
architectural drawings of Albert Simons.”—Lit D

“The book has evidently been compiled with care, it contains drawings
and documents of great interest, yet somehow it conveys a sense of
opportunities unfulfilled, of curiosities unrewarded. This is because
it is not so intelligent and authoritative architecturally as it is
historically.”

+ — =Dial= 63:590 D 6 ‘17 650w

=Lit D= 55:51 D 8 ‘17 130w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:182 D ‘17 50w

“The very beautiful book about ‘The dwelling houses of Charleston’
carries between its covers a real treasure of interest, historical,
biographical, and architectural.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:482 N 18 ‘17 80w

+ =Outlook= 117:575 D 5 ‘17 120w

“After all it is to architects and house lovers that his book will
make its strongest appeal.” Ruth Stanley-Brown

+ =Pub W= 92:1386 O 20 ‘17 590w

+ =R of Rs= 57:103 Ja ‘18 120w

=SMITH, MRS BERTHA (WHITRIDGE).= Only a dog. il *$1 (10c) Dutton 940.91 17-5815

“Only a dog” is a little story of the war. The Irish terrier, who
tells his own story, had had a happy home life with a French family
until the Germans came. He escaped the fate that overtook his master’s
family and found refuge with one of the British regiments. A kindly
Tommy became his new master and to him the dog remains faithful even
after death. A note says that the story is based on a true incident.
The proceeds from the sale of the book are to be devoted to relief
work.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ap 14 ‘17 130w

+ =Cath World= 105:126 Ap ‘17 110w

“‘Only a dog,’ in its tenderness and its simplicity, is exquisite.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:80 Mr 4 ‘17 400w

“By a Montreal writer.”

=Ontario Library Review= 1:121 My ‘17 90w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 20 ‘17 180w

=SMITH, EDGAR FAHS.= Life of Robert Hare, an American chemist (1781-1858). il *$5 (3c) Lippincott 17-18697

Robert Hare, inventor of the calorimotor and the oxyhydrogen blowpipe,
who, “for half a century was considered an unimpeachable authority in
chemical research” (Boston Transcript) was born in Philadelphia in
1781, and from 1818-1847 was professor of chemistry in the medical
department of the University of Pennsylvania. This life is written by
Provost Smith of the University of Pennsylvania, himself a chemist,
for students of chemistry. The story is “told largely by Hare himself
in a series of unpublished letters, and in other documents which were
practically buried in forgotten journals and pamphlets.” (Preface) The
frontispiece is a colored reproduction of the oil portrait of Hare in
the University of Pennsylvania. There are four other illustrations.

Reviewed by W. D. Bancroft

+ =Am Hist R= 23:437 Ja ‘18 410w

“Through what the author terms the second period of Hare’s activity
(1818-1847), the book is extremely technical, requiring advanced
chemical knowledge for its complete comprehension.” H. S. K.

=Boston Transcript= p6 Je 20 ‘17 700w

=R of Rs= 56:440 O ‘17 60w

=SMITH, ELVA SOPHRONIA=, comp. Mystery tales for boys and girls. il *$1.50 Lothrop 808.8 17-23758

Miss Smith of the Carnegie library of Pittsburgh has selected a number
of the stories and poems of mystery that are suitable for older boys
and girls. They are stories of “ghosts and haunted houses, hidden
treasure and strange enchantment.” It is suggested that librarians and
teachers will find the collection useful in meeting the demand for
Hallowe’en stories. Among the selections are Poe’s “Gold-bug,” Lord
Macaulay’s “Last buccaneer,” Keats’ “La belle dame sans merci,”
Goethe’s “Erl-king,” Irving’s “The haunted house,” Scott’s “Alice
Brand,” Coleridge’s “Ancient mariner” and Hawthorne’s “Gray champion.”
Among more recent selections are a story by Selma Lagerlöf and a poem
by Alfred Noyes.

“Good for Hallowe’en, an excellent collection for about the eighth
grade.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:137 Ja ‘18

Reviewed by J: Walcott

=Bookm= 46:499 D ‘17 150w

“A combination of thrills and good literature.”

+ =Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 40w

+ =N Y Times= 22:441 O 28 ‘17 100w

“The selections are admirable, and boys and girls of a suitable age
will find the book a most convenient means of acquainting themselves
with some of the best imaginative writing in the English language.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 100w

=SMITH, EPHRAIM KIRBY.= To Mexico with Scott; letters of Captain E. Kirby Smith to his wife; ed. by Emma Jerome Blackwood; with an introd. by R. M. Johnston. il *$1.25 Harvard univ. press 17-22326

“In the war between the United States and Mexico (1845-1847), which
followed on the annexation to the States of Texas and the dispute with
Mexico as to the boundary of the new state, Captain Kirby Smith fought
first under General Taylor and then under General Scott. His
letters ... provide a close chronicle of events, with here and there a
note on the habits of the people or the scenery.”—The Times [London]
Lit Sup

“A valuable addition to the first-hand literature of the Mexican war.
The reader of these, as of all other such documents, must ask himself
here and there whether the writer was in a position to know the truth
of what he believed and said, and by doing so will avoid accepting
some errors.” J. H. Smith

+ =Am Hist R= 23:438 Ja ‘18 730w

“Good letters are the best of reading, and Captain Smith had the gift
of letter writing. Now and then one gets a glimpse into the very
depths of the soul of the man. Mr Johnston’s introduction is a
valuable contribution to the book.” F. W. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 D 1 ‘17 460w

+ =Dial= 64:31 Ja 3 ‘18 210w

“The ‘Letters of Capt. Smith’ are full of interest and form an
important sidelight of history. But they are unfortunate in their
editor who has not proved himself a big enough man to keep his very
questionable political ideas out of an historical work.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 12 ‘17 470w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p494 O 11 ‘17 80w

=SMITH, FRANK WEBSTER.= High school; with an introd. by J: Calvin Hanna. *$2 Sturgis & Walton 370.9 17-287

Believing that the high school is “the determining factor in American
school life,” Mr Smith attempts to study the origins and tendencies of
secondary education. “In the superintendence of public schools, in
teaching and supervision in high school and academy, in the training
of high school teachers in normal school and university department of
education, and in supervision of and participation in the training of
high school graduates for teaching in elementary schools, he has had
opportunity to observe the work of the high school from various
angles.” (Author’s preface) The first 292 pages cover the period from
primitive times to the nineteenth century, including a chapter on
“Jesus, teacher—new principles of education.” Two chapters are then
given to the high school in the nineteenth century, one to the
development of secondary education in the United States, and one to a
review of the evolution of secondary education from different view
points. The last three chapters treat of the high school of the
twentieth century. A graphic summary is inserted just before the
nine-page bibliography.

“The relation between the educational institution and the economic and
social conditions is emphasized consistently, and there is brought
together a wealth of illustrative material.”

+ =Ind= 90:253 My 5 ‘17 160w

+ =N Y Times= 22:297 Ag 12 ‘17 90w

=SMITH, SIR FREDERICK EDWIN.= Destruction of merchant ships under international law. *$1.75 Dutton 341.3 (Eng ed 17-17631)

“The British Attorney-General presents the perplexing question of
merchant ships’ status in war time. He first discusses enemy
merchantmen, and goes into the question of visit and search, seizure
and destruction, examining the various points in the light of former
decisions on similar cases. He then considers neutral merchantmen, and
their position under the customary law. He bases his findings on the
practice that obtained in the Russo-Japanese war, and was later
modified by the discussion at the Second Hague conference, and the
Declaration of London.”—Cath World

“Does much to clarify this very difficult problem, and gives a
comprehensive, trustworthy basis for the many decisions that must be
made at the close of the war.”

+ =Cath World= 106:112 O ‘17 130w

“In days when enemy ships are being fired upon in neutral waters, when
new measures of naval warfare interfering with neutral rights are
assumed to be legal in spite of unquestionable and unanimous authority
directly to the contrary, when the rights of neutrals are entirely
disregarded in the attempt of belligerents to exercise full military
power, a book setting forth what was international law on one phase of
belligerent operation, without considering the complications of the
whole situation, is not very valuable; and when it is written by a man
of the brilliance and standing of Sir Frederick Smith, one is inclined
to regret the fact that more originality and vigor are not in
evidence.”

– + =Nation= 105:222 Ag 30 ‘17 900w

=Pittsburgh= 22:836 D ‘17 40w

“It is well that there should be available such a sober and
well-reasoned remembrancer of German sea crime as this little book,
which the Attorney-General states is prepared largely from the notes
of Dr Coleman Phillipson, who has already written admirably of the
problems of international law arising out of modern warfare. ... There
is no page which cannot be understood by the lay reader. ... It
reduces a mass of international law almost to syllogistic form in
language that is wholly free from pedantry and ambiguity.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p185 Ap 19 ‘17 570w

=SMITH, GERALD BIRNEY=, ed. Guide to the study of the Christian religion. *$3 Univ. of Chicago press 207 16-24312

“A dozen scholars, all excellent authorities in their respective
fields, have joined in producing this ‘Guide’ under the general
editorship of Professor G. B. Smith of the University of Chicago.
Their primary purpose has been, to help students to understand the
meaning of the various aspects of education for the Christian
ministry. They have also wished to help pastors to keep in sympathetic
touch with the latest scholarship. But so largely has the Christian
religion been shaped by its history, so largely must the explanation
of its various features rest on historical study, that nearly
two-thirds of the book is historical in character.” (Am Hist R) Among
the contributors are Shailer Mathews, J. M. P. Smith, E. D. Burton, S.
J. Case, F. A. Christie, and George Cross.

“May well be invaluable to many an historical professor or
student. ... The statements are clear, comprehensive, and judicious.
The successive essays are kept remarkably uniform in method and in
texture. Frequent brief bibliographies at the end of sections—perhaps
two hundred of them—describe the books most useful to readers of the
classes for whom the manual is designed. The book is well conceived
and well executed.”

+ =Am Hist R= 22:694 Ap ‘17 280w

“‘A remarkably comprehensive work, surveying almost the entire field
of the material of the curriculum of the theological seminary and
showing the present-day general situation in theological education.’”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:286 Ap ‘17 (Reprinted from =Religious Education=
12:65 F ‘17)

“Of the thirteen authors ten of them are connected with the University
of Chicago.”

=Boston Transcript= p7 Je 27 ‘17 450w

=SMITH, GRAFTON ELLIOT, and PEAR, TOM HATHERLEY.= Shell shock and its lessons. (Manchester univ. publications) *$1 Longmans 17-25982

“This brief book is described by the authors as a ‘simple
non-technical exposition of the ascertained facts of that malady, or
complex of maladies, for which we have adopted the official
designation “Shell-shock.”’ ... The authors rely on data which came
from France, Russia, and Germany, as well as our own army, and which
fortify their own experiences and conclusions. They end with a chapter
on the need for reform of the British attitude towards the treatment
of mental disorder.”—Sat R

“Suggests methods for the treatment not only of this condition but of
similar nervous conditions in time of peace. ... ‘The civilian should
be offered the facilities for cure which have proved such a blessing
to the war-stricken soldier.’”

=Nation= 105:276 S 6 ‘17 330w

“It would have been more accurate, we think, to have called it
‘war-shock,’ for the conditions described have been witnessed in cases
that have not been to the front. The reviewer is scarcely in agreement
with the authors, who adopt so wholeheartedly the exclusively
emotional origin of shell-shock as against the physical origin. That
shell-shock is entirely of psychic origin and can be overcome by
psycho-therapeutics is too sweeping a statement.” Robert
Armstrong-Jones

+ — =Nature= 100:1 S 6 ‘17 2050w

=Pittsburgh= 22:771 N ‘17 40w

“Though the book inevitably involves some knowledge of psychology, it
is clearly written, and popular enough to refer to Sherlock Holmes,
Bernard Shaw, and the author of ‘Erewhon,’ ... The various means of
treatment are lucidly described, and the moral objections to
psychological analysis are fairly considered. The corrections
throughout the book of the casual views and suppositions of the public
on mental cases of difficulty deserve a wide circulation.”

+ =Sat R= 124:70 Jl 28 ‘17 300w

=Spec= 118:40 Jl 14 ‘17 130w

“The authors do not agree with Dr Eder (of the Malta hospitals) and
the extreme school of the psycho-analysts. Nor do they agree with the
‘materialistic’ school. They advocate the use of a common-sense
combination of methods, and especially of persuasion by the physician
and suggestion when the patient is in the waking state. Especially do
they advocate a better education of the physician in psychology. The
latter part of the book is devoted to this advocacy and to an
indictment of our asylum system. The book is exceedingly
interesting—and, best of all, optimistic. It is well written and quite
untechnical.”

+ + — =Spec= 119:218 S 1 ‘17 1400w

Reviewed by Gertrude Seymour

=Survey= 39:170 N 17 ‘17 750w

“What the authors press for is clinics attached to general hospitals
and to medical schools, to which patients in the early stages of
mental disturbance may go without legal formalities and free from the
stigma attached to an asylum. The Psychopathic hospital at Boston,
Mass., and other similar institutions in the United States and
elsewhere are quoted as examples to be followed.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p299 Je 21 ‘17 180w

=SMITH, HARRY BRADLEY.= Establishing industrial schools; with an introd. by C: A. Prosser. (Riverside educational monographs) *60c Houghton 371.42 16-20752

“Concrete and practical methods of determining what sort of industrial
and trade schools are needed in our large industrial communities are
considered by Harry Bradley Smith, director of industrial education in
the New York state college for teachers. ... While the greater part of
the work is devoted to the problems of the survey for vocational
education, the author with commendable foresight has included in
addition a closing chapter full of information and suggestions as to
the steps to be taken and the best ways of getting such things as a
proper course of study, advisory committees and trade
agreements.”—Springf’d Republican

=A L A Bkl= 13:386 Je ‘17

“Contrives to be concise without being obscure, and matter-of-fact
without being dry-as-dust.”

+ =Nation= 105:129 Ag 2 ‘17 230w

“The monograph is really a primer full of valuable information for any
person interested in the new and difficult problem of getting the
right kind of vocational education started in a community.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 29 ‘17 140w

=SMITH, JAMES HALDANE.= Economic moralism. il *$1.75 Macmillan 330 17-14559

“This is an ‘essay on constructive economics’ which may interest those
who concern themselves with theoretical or economic utopias. ‘Economic
moralism’ is equally opposed to capitalism and to socialism. It
demands on one hand that all individuals shall be assured equal
opportunity by the state—the organized people—owning and working the
land and industries, and asserts that rent, interest, and profit are
usury and have no ethical justification; and, on the other hand, it
vigorously opposes the socialist principle of free supply of the wants
of the individual at the public expense. The ‘moralist’ principle is
that of collecting from each individual the cost of what is actually
supplied to him.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

Reviewed by E. L. Earp

=Am J Soc= 23:414 N ‘17 500w

“If all his book had been as interesting to us as is this chapter [on
interest] we should have been hard put to it to find a limit to our
notice. ... In his second part he outlines plans for initiating and
carrying out what he terms ‘economic moralism.’ We find ourselves so
little in sympathy with his idea of coercive action by the state that
we admit difficulty in judging his proposals on their intrinsic
merits.”

=Ath= p272 Je ‘16 1100w

“The book is characteristic of the present tendency of economic
theory. It contains many original contributions in thought and is
interesting and suggestive throughout.” R. W.

=Boston Transcript= p7 My 2 ‘17 600w

“No references are given for any passages quoted: and much later and
better work both in ethics and in economics is hardly given the place
one would expect. For surely Herbert Spencer is easily shown to be
deficient, without the principles of ethics being more clear on that
account. And a far graver deficiency in Mr Smith’s book is that the
principles of ethics are neither stated nor proved.” C. D. Burns

— =Int J Ethics= 27:249 Ja ‘17 350w

“On the whole, the work is ingenious as well as serious, and will
prove interesting and stimulating to anyone interested in the
constructive literature of extreme radicalism. Many of the assumptions
in regard to human nature, its capacities and adaptabilities, and the
like, are of the usual socialistic type and will appeal to
nonsocialists as unwarrantable in the absence of more proof than is
offered.” F. H. Knight

+ — =J Pol Econ= 26:99 Ja ‘18 600w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:106 Jl ‘16

“It is very creditable of him to think so hard; but he cannot make
economic moralism intelligible.”

— =Sat R= 122:277 S 16 ‘16 500w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p226 My 11 ‘16 180w

=SMITH, JOHN TALBOT.= Parish theatre; a brief account of its rise, its present condition, and its prospects. *$1 Longmans 792 17-30252

A wide chasm exists between the damning of the theatre by Christians
in 1850 and the staging of plays by church folk which led up to the
branch of the amateur drama known as the parish theatre. The spanning
of that chasm has been a part of the evolution that has developed a
social conscience. In this small volume we are told specifically of
the growth of the parish theatre, its aims and service. The parish
play demands a parish hall, a pastor manager, or a substitute, the
right kind of play and an audience. The institution to be built up
must work “quietly and gaily in the shadow of the church towards the
redemption of an art which commerce enslaves for the sake of profit,
and the Puritan leaves in the gutter for the sake of righteousness!” A
list of one hundred plays suitable for this kind of production is
given.

“We predict a heavy demand for this practical and valuable little
book. For a good many years Father Smith has been the foremost
Catholic spokesman for the drama in America.”

+ =Cath World= 106:550 Ja ‘18 360w

=SMITH, JOHN THOMAS.= Nollekens and his times, and memoirs of contemporary artists from the time of Roubiliac, Hogarth and Reynolds to that of Fuseli, Flaxman and Blake. 2v il *$7.50 Lane 709.42 16-23956

Joseph Nollekens was a portrait-sculptor of the eighteenth century. He
was born in 1737 and died in 1823. His biography written by his
contemporary, John Thomas Smith, keeper of prints and drawings in the
British museum, was published in 1828. Wilfred Whitten, who now edits
the work, calls it “a great lucky-bag of detail for students of London
topography and of the practice of the arts in London from Hogarth to
Blake.” The author, he says, “is essentially a gossip.” His idea of
literary form “is to let one thing lead to another, with unlimited
licence to revert, to anticipate, and to go off at a tangent.”
Eighty-five illustrations add to the interest of the two volumes.

“Appended to the biography is a volume of a similar type containing
sketches of artists and other contemporaries. ... After the second
edition, 1829, the book dropped out of sight until, in 1895, Edmund
Gosse edited the portion of the book relating to Nollekens. The
present edition, by Wilfred Whitten, covers the entire work and is
enriched by very careful and very full notes.” J. T. Gerould

+ =Bellman= 22:274 Mr 10 ‘17 600w

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 9 ‘16 800w

“He has left us a vivid picture of an interesting age. Nollekens and
his friends have long been known to connoisseurs of art and
literature. It is to introduce them to a wider circle of readers that
the present handsome edition has been issued, an edition copiously
illustrated with rare drawings of old London and with reproductions of
water-colors and engravings of worthies of the period.”

=Dial= 62:29 Ja 11 ‘17 350w

“Service to the antiquarian interested in ‘old London’ and in the
Europe of that age is uniquely rendered by the rich foot-notes of the
edition, involving much patient research.”

+ =Lit D= 54:263 F 3 ‘17 350w

“The average reader will balk at the enormous quantity of
oddities—literary, artistic, and personal—which Smith many years ago
collected, and will question seriously whether, instead of two large
volumes one small volume would not have been all that was needed of
this material.”

=Outlook= 115:74 Ja 10 ‘17 100w

“Of interest to all who love the flavor of a past age. While it is
written with a pleasant touch of formality, its character is primarily
that of gossip, but it is gossip like Pepys’s, that never grows dull.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 18 ‘16 650w

=SMITH, JOSEPH SHUTER.= Trench warfare; a manual for officers and men. il *$1.50 (6c) Dutton 355 17-16322

“Lieutenant J. S. Smith is an American who enlisted at the beginning
of the war with a Canadian regiment. He has been at the front ever
since, and so has seen and taken an active part in the entire
development of the trench system. Two years ago he was given a
commission in the British army and is now fighting ‘somewhere in
France’ as an officer in a famous British regiment. He describes with
full technical detail the principles, rules, and methods for the
location and construction of the three complete lines or systems of
trenches that are called for by the new plan of warfare, explains
methods of drainage, and the making of obstacles and entanglements.
There are sections also upon bombs and bombing which classify and
describe all the kinds of bombs that are used at the front, upon gas
warfare, sniping, care of rifles, duties of an officer, prevention of
frostbite and trench feet, and other matters.”—N Y Times

=A L A Bkl= 14:43 N ‘17

+ — =Engin News-Rec= 79:127 Jl 19 ‘17 340w

“There is so much of value to the student officer condensed within a
small space, that we can but note the chapters, location of trenches,
trench drainage, and training as of particular importance. ...
Numerous diagrams are helpful by way of clearer explanation.”

+ =Ind= 91:72 Jl 14 ‘17 130w

“An admirable little manual for the men to whom trench warfare is as
yet only a name.”

+ =New Repub= 12:140 S 1 ‘17 500w

“The work seems to be strictly a technical war manual, and no doubt
has considerable value for that purpose, for if American soldiers do
go into the trenches in any numbers, this information will prove most
valuable in saving many lives that would otherwise be lost in
discovering the most efficient trench methods.” J. W. D.

+ =N Y Call= p14 Jl 1 ‘17 200w

“Although it is intended to be a practical handbook the non-military
person who wants to know more about such matters as dugouts and
revetments and grenades and tear bombs than it is possible to learn
from the newspapers will find the book easy and interesting to read.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:264 Jl 15 ‘17 480w

“The information contained in this work must sooner or later be
mastered by every American officer and private who is to serve in
France.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:326 S ‘17 80w

=SMITH, LOGAN PEARSALL.= Trivia. il *$1.25 (5½c) Doubleday 824 17-28834

A book of thoughts and impressions, inspired by sights and scenes in
rural England and in London. Some of the brief essays and sketches,
which run to little over a page in length, were privately printed at
the Chiswick press in 1902; others have appeared in the New Statesman
and the New Republic. The author is an American who has lived much
abroad. He has also written a life of Sir Henry Wottan, a book of
short stories about Oxford, and a volume on the English language for
the Home university library.

“Little essays, often provoking, like scraps of good talk overheard
and lost—they give one a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of
daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:87 D ‘17

“I know of nothing since Lord Bacon quite like these ineffably dainty
little paragraphs of gilded whim, these rainbow nuggets of wistful
inquiry, these butterfly wings of fancy, these pointed sparklers of
wit.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 O 20 ‘17 1400w

+ =Cleveland= p134 D ‘17 50w

“Some of the little sketches are rather too ‘precious’; occasionally
there is a veritable descent to flatness.”

+ — =Dial= 64:155 F 14 ‘18 220w

“Some of the numbers are in the nature of prose poems, somewhat in the
manner of the vers-librettists, but better than the run of such
things. ... It is a pretty book in form, sad and wise in its contents,
and sometimes exquisite.”

+ =Nation= 105:517 N 8 ‘17 140w

=SMITH, ONNIE WARREN.= Trout lore. il *$2 (5c) Stokes 799 17-10443

A series of papers on trout and trout fishing by the angling editor of
Outdoor Life. The chapters were written originally for that magazine
and are reprinted with slight revisions. The author says of the book,
“This is primarily a popular description of the ways of the eastern
brook trout, though nearly everything set down here as true of the
eastern fish may roughly be applied to his western relatives.” Among
the chapters are: A page of natural history; Nuptial dress and
etiquette; Comparative merits of char and salmon trouts; Trout and the
weather; Fly-fishing for trout; A dissertation upon the dry fly;
Bait-fishing for trout; Trout of the little brooks; The trout of the
lakes. There are twenty-four illustrations from photographs.

“Delightful illustrations from photographs.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:13 O ‘17

“An interesting feature of the book is the classification of trout
according to habitat. In the chapter on ‘The trout in the pan’ are
some promising recipes for brook-side cooking that tempt to experiment
this spring.”

+ =Dial= 62:406 My 3 ‘17 250w