Chapter LXXVIII: Part 4: is given up to appendices devoted to the more advanced (3)

“He writes with charm upon an old theme, and fearlessly raises many
debatable questions.”

+ =Nation= 105:491 N 1 ‘17 270w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:76 My ‘17

“Readable even for the rank amateur.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:666 Je ‘17 80w

=SMITH, WALTER ROBINSON.= Introduction to educational sociology. (Riverside textbooks in education) diags *$1.75 (1½c) Houghton 370.1 17-14234

The author, who is professor of sociology and economics in the State
normal school at Emporia, Kansas, approaches educational problems from
a new point of view. He says that in the past education has been too
much of an isolated institution. “In the past our schools have drawn
their inspiration more largely from their own traditions than from
their social environment.” Books on education have been written from
the psychological and individual rather than from the social and
sociological viewpoint. His aim in this book has been “to make a
preliminary application of the uses to be made of the group unit in
educational theory and practice.” The book is divided into two parts:
Sociological foundations, and Educational applications. Selected
references follow each chapter.

“The treatment is sane. The style is clear. A wide influence is
predicted for the book.” F. R. Clow

+ =Am J Soc= 23:271 S ‘17 630w

“As a textbook in educational sociology it will fill a much-needed
place in the training of teachers in the broader aspects of the
educational problem.” J. P. Lichtenberger

+ — =Ann Am Acad= 74:305 N ‘17 310w

“Dr Smith’s book is the most conspicuous contribution to the
literature of this subject that has yet appeared. If one were to offer
a criticism it would be that the work lacks philosophy.” R. L. Finney

+ — =Educ R= 56:169 F ‘18 1000w

“It seems to us the best single book now available as a textbook in
social education or educational sociology.”

+ =El School J= 18:74 S ‘17 290w

=Ind= 91:296 Ag 25 ‘17 80w

“His sociological bibliography is not very extensive. ... The book has
in it a great deal that is true and useful, and is well written, for
the most part. Very likely it will help a number of educators to
realize that education is not an isolated institution. But it does not
drive compellingly to the point, as such a book must do, even though
elementary, if it is going to attract attention to a novel point of
view.”

+ — =Nation= 105:271 S 6 ‘17 430w

Reviewed by W. D. Lane

+ =Survey= 39:148 N 10 ‘17 600w

=SMUTS, JAN CHRISTIAAN.= War-time speeches; a compilation of public utterances in Great Britain. *75c (3c) Doran 940.91 17-23463

“As a former antagonist of those who are now its comrades in arms,
General Smuts can criticize the British commonwealth—as he calls it in
preference to empire—with something of detachment. ... Throughout his
speeches he stresses the fact that Great Britain is a congeries of
separate nations. He says the federal principle, as elaborated by us
for instance, cannot work. Liberty and complete local sovereignty can
alone hold the commonwealth together. Imperial conferences for foreign
affairs, of an advisory order and preferably continuous, will bind
each part of the commonwealth to every other part in a net light as
air legally, constitutionally, yet tenacious as steel in actual
practice.” (New Repub) These speeches were delivered in Great Britain
in 1917 in connection with the session of the Imperial war cabinet and
Imperial war conference.

“The speeches show the breadth and depth of view of General Smuts, but
as reading matter some of the book is disappointing, because the
repetition of expression which is often an asset in a speech is not so
in printed form.”

+ — =Ath= p409 Ag ‘17 40w

“England has need to-day of a man of this type, one who is under the
fringe of her robe, yet near enough the edge to feel and comprehend
the just criticism of men on the outside. Smuts is direct, superbly
logical, human and prophetic. That is a good deal to say of a man, but
it is true in this case.” S. A.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 D 5 ‘17 470w

“The tone of the speeches is admirably fair.”

+ =New Repub= 13:sup16 N 17 ‘17 140w

=SNAITH, JOHN COLLIS.= The coming. *$1.50 (2c) Appleton 17-24695

“Accepted at its surface value, ‘The coming’ is a portrayal of what
might be expected to happen if the Second Advent were to take place
to-day in England. The scene is an English village, very insular and
stereotyped in customs and opinions. In this village is a young
carpenter of scanty education and frail health—in fact an epileptic,
and reputed to be of weak mind. He hears inner voices, and relates how
the spirit of Goethe has visited him at night and asked him to join in
prayer for stricken Germany. All this so shocks the good vicar of the
village that he feels it his duty to take action ... and has the man
committed as a dangerous lunatic. ... While shut up in the insane
asylum, the new Messiah writes his message to the world in the form of
a drama entitled, ‘The door,’ which is accepted enthusiastically by a
little American Jew, the head of a syndicate of fifty theaters, who,
after reading the manuscript, is so miraculously wrought upon that for
the first time in his life he is indifferent to profit and loss. The
play is a phenomenal success; it is translated into all the European
tongues; it brings all nations successively to a realization of the
error of their ways; the Nobel peace prize is awarded to the author,
but when the commission arrives to confer it he is already dead.”—Pub
W

=A L A Bkl= 14:63 N ‘17

“The opening scene, with its atmosphere of wonder, is more impressive
than the later action, which is too neatly contrived, and, in its
madhouse episodes, borders perilously upon the ridiculous.” H. W.
Boynton

– + =Bookm= 46:338 N ‘17 80w

“It is impossible to take ‘The coming’ seriously. ... It is an absurd
commingling of farce and melodrama. It brings to the reader absolutely
no conviction of its reality.” E. F. E.

— =Boston Transcript= p6 S 22 ‘17 1250w

“It is utterly unconvincing. The incidents are forced and strained,
and the characters, who are vague throughout, seem mere lay-figures
for the working of the plot. As a novel ‘The coming’ is an
unsatisfying and unimportant performance, but as an indication of
spiritual unrest it has significance.”

– + =Cath World= 106:411 D ‘17 300w

“The least favorable thing that can be said about ‘The coming’ is that
the personages in whom the ideas are embodied are not sufficiently
specific and individual. ... The essential ideas are good, and at
present it is real service to have presented them in an attractive
way.” J: Macy

+ — =Dial= 63:345 O 11 ‘17 1450w

“Mr Snaith’s sincere and interesting novel is somewhat weakened by
this serious misconception of the personality of the Messiah.”

+ — =Ind= 92:259 N 3 ‘17 340w

“Unluckily for the effect of the story, it is too patently ingenious.
This is not a theme for cleverness. It is a theme of unfathomed
possibilities, but one thing, at least, is clear: they will never be
realized, or approach realization, by such means as Mr Snaith has at
his command.”

— =Nation= 105:456 O 25 ‘17 340w

=New Repub= 13:sup14 N 17 ‘17 180w

“In so far as Mr Snaith is an iconoclast, he is delightful; his
satiric portrayal of the vicar as a representative of modern society
is the artistry of a skilled workman. The book is flimsily constructed
and cumbersomely written. It has all the disadvantages of a mongrel
religious essay-novel. The warp of theology and woof of novel produces
a cloth neither commendable as an intellectual contribution, much less
as a thing of beauty.” H. J. Szold

+ – =N Y Call= p14 N 11 ‘17 700w

“Written in a style delicate, subtle, often beautiful. ... The
exceedingly difficult subject is handled with delicacy and
considerable skill.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:353 S 23 ‘17 1300w

“We should not quarrel, however, with anyone who chose to say that in
this singular and touching book—that is in the main so shrewd, so
witty, so astringent, so deeply pitiful, of so level a gaze, so true a
vision—there are passages of an unpersuasiveness that are hard to
forget.” Lawrence Gilman

+ — =No Am= 206:948 D ‘17 1350w

“As a piece of literary art the book is remarkable.”

+ =Outlook= 117:386 N 7 ‘17 110w

“To many readers there are numerous incongruities which cross the
boundary of irreverence—the epilepsy, the patronizing and
ever-recurrent phrase, ‘He’s a dear fellow,’ the conception of
Divinity in the role of a playwright. Furthermore there is a lack of
inspiration verging upon the commonplace in the conversation of the
central character, with the exception of his frequent quotations from
the Bible. ... In conclusion, one wonders whether the author himself
realized how very pro-German his special brand of pacifism sounds.”
Calvin Winter

— =Pub W= 92:802 S 15 ‘17 850w

=R of Rs= 56:555 N ‘17 350w

“Recognizing the difficulties of handling such a plot, one cannot deny
that Mr Snaith has developed it with taste and restraint. The story
does not, however, touch the high standards as a novel attained in the
author’s previous stories. The influence on Mr Snaith of ‘The servant
in the house’ and ‘The passing of the third floor back’ is apparent.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 13 ‘18 500w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p516 O 25 ‘17 590w

=SNEATH, ELIAS HERSHEY=, and others. Religious training in the school and home. *$1.50 Macmillan 377 17-24241

This manual for parents and teachers has been written in connection
with the preparation of the two series of books known as “The golden
rule series” and “The king’s highway series.” It may be used
independently however. It is based on a similar manual, “Moral
training in the school and home,” six new chapters having been added,
certain portions omitted, and the remainder revised. Chapters
discussing the importance of religious training and considering aims
and method are followed by others devoted to: The bodily life [2
chapters]; The intellectual life; The social life [6 chapters]; The
economic life; The political life: The æsthetic life. Suggestions for
the children’s reading follow each chapter and at the close there is a
bibliography for teachers.

“The book is good, but not so good as one has a right to expect from
the scholarship and experience of the authors.”

+ — =Educ R= 56:173 F ‘18 50w

“In a useful way it correlates what has been written and said on the
subject in recent years.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 21 ‘17 230w

=SNEDDEN, DAVID SAMUEL.= Problems of secondary education. (Riverside textbooks in education) *$1.50 (2c) Houghton 379.17 17-4796

“The conflicts regarding educational aims, characteristic of much of
the current discussion, center largely about the high school.
Professor Snedden considers these in ‘Problems of secondary
education,’ a series of twenty-five ‘letters’ to superintendents,
college presidents, principals and teachers. The restatement of aims
in terms of concrete purposes of obvious value to men and women living
today, and the adaptation of materials and methods to the attainment
of these aims, constitute the text of these articles.”—Ind

=A L A Bkl= 13:430 Jl ‘17

“Where Dr Snedden is critical, one follows him in hearty agreement. He
touches, with a gentle pertinence that even high-school teachers
should understand, these sterile attitudes and outworn notions that
must be made over. It is only when he becomes dogmatic that one finds
fault. Dr Snedden’s conviction of the necessity of separating cultural
and vocational education will certainly be shared by few educational
progressives.” Randolph Bourne

+ — =Dial= 62:303 Ap 5 ‘17 1350w

“The book will be of real service to those concerned with the
readjustments taking place in our educational systems.”

+ =Ind= 90:253 My 5 ‘17 90w

=Nation= 104:543 My 3 ‘17 270w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:73 My ‘17

=Pittsburgh= 22:434 My ‘17 60w

=Pratt= p12 Jl ‘17 50w

“What we need at this juncture is a clear statement of the aims that
underlie the changes that are taking place. Dr Snedden’s ‘Problems of
secondary education’ is a forceful and comprehensive statement of
these aims. Not the least interesting part of this book is the
introduction by Mr Cubberley, editor of the ‘Riverside textbooks in
education.’” F. W. Johnson

+ =School R= 25:370 My ‘17 1150w

Reviewed by W: A. Aery

+ =Survey= 39:148 N 10 ‘17 110w

=SNELL, ROY JUDSON.= Eskimo Robinson Crusoe. il *$1 (4½c) Little 17-28598

The story of Kituk, a little Eskimo lad, who is cast adrift on an ice
floe. Kituk is the proud possessor of three Eskimo dogs, and he has
also as a pet a white bear that he has tamed. These four animal
friends are with him when he finds himself drifting out into Bering
sea, and in all his adventures they are his faithful companions and
helpers.

“Here is the note of extravagance that little people love rather than
the air of truth. But with its amusing illustrations of animals in
action it will please those for whom it is intended.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 50w

=SNORRI STURLUSON.= Prose Edda; tr. from the Icelandic, with an introd. by Arthur G. Brodeur. $1.50 Am.-Scandinavian foundation 839.6 16-22078

“‘The prose Edda’ is a Scandinavian classic [of the early thirteenth
century], and one of the greatest. It has found a very skilful and
sympathetic translator in Dr Brodeur. His version contains all of the
‘Gylfaginning’ and all of the Skaldskaparmal (the poesy of the
skalds). It is the first translation in English which contains all of
the second part. Dasent renders only the narrative passages of this
portion.”—Nation

“The Library of Congress enters this book under Edda Snorri
Sturlusonar.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:303 Ap ‘17

“This should attract three classes of readers, students of
Scandinavian history, myth and literature; lovers of folklore and the
primitive simplicities in language and literature; and poets.”

+ =Ind= 89:118 Ja 15 ‘17 50w

“Not only in respect of completeness, but in respect of accuracy and
spirit, Dr Brodeur’s translation ought to supersede the other English
ones.”

+ =Nation= 104:683 Je 7 ‘17 90w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:182 D ‘16

=SNOW, WILLIAM LEONARD=, ed. High school prize speaker. *90c Houghton 808.5 16-20119

A book of selections adapted for use as readings. The preface says
that they are selections that have taken prizes at the J. Murray Kay
prize-speaking contests held annually at the Brookline (Mass.) high
school. Among them are such old favorites as “The death of
Steerforth,” “My double and how he undid me,” “How ‘Ruby’ played,” and
“Lasca.” Among the newer selections are Robert Haven Schauffler’s
“Scum o’ the earth,” Alfred Noyes’ “The highwayman,” and stories by
Myra Kelly, Jack London, Joseph C. Lincoln and others.

“The collection, as a whole, is judicious, being diversified, and
combining things old and modern.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 4 ‘17 120w

=Wis Lib Bul= 13:157 My ‘17 90w

=SOLANO, E. JOHN=, ed. Field entrenchments; a manual of trench warfare based on official manuals. il *$1 National military pub. co. 355

This book reprinted from the second (1915) London edition, is said to
have been “written by an engineer officer attached to the Imperial
general staff,” who prefers to remain anonymous. It covers Spadework
for riflemen; Hasty fire-cover; Fire-trenches; Communications;
Concealment; Obstruction, and Shelters. There are eighty-seven
illustrations.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:113 Ja ‘18

“Copious illustrations, diagrams, and plans clarify the text.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:379 O 7 ‘17 150w

Soldier of France to his mother; letters from the trenches on the western front. $1 (2½c) McClurg 940.91 17-17991

An English edition of this work, translated by “V. M.,” was issued
under the title “Letters of a soldier, 1914-1915,” with an
introduction by A. Clutton-Brock. The translation for the American
edition has been made by Theodore Stanton, who contributes an
introduction, which is, he says, in part a paraphrase of the original
French preface by André Chevrillon. The letters were written by a
young French soldier who was in the war from its beginning up to April
6, 1915. Since that date he has been “missing.” An unusual spiritual
comradeship existed between son and mother, and his letters to her
reveal a soul sensitive to all the moods of nature and to loveliness
in all forms. “Whatever happens, life has had beauty for me,” were his
last written words.

=A L A Bkl= 14:55 N ‘17

“These letters contain many passages and ideas of unusual beauty.”

+ =Ath= p412 Ag ‘17 110w

“Though pantheistic in its tenor, there is nevertheless a strong,
earnest religious note in these letters. Though written from day to
day in the trenches they nevertheless form a progressive whole like
the stanzas of a poem. And exceptionally commendable is the
translation of Mr Stanton. He has succeeded in carrying beauty from
French into English, a task not always successful.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 29 ‘17 470w

“Expressing the mental and spiritual reactions of a highly-strung
nature, the letters are too abstract to be popular, but they form one
of the most remarkable literary expressions of the war and are of the
stuff which lasts.”

+ =Cleveland= p1 Ja ‘18 120w

“It must be a source of great comfort to the mother to feel that,
after all, her son achieved in these letters something like complete
artistic expression of his noble nature, to know of the wide
recognition they have had in France, and to learn that now they are
given in English to America, which needs their lesson and their
inspiration.”

+ =Dial= 63:279 S 27 ‘17 380w

“Characterized by a grave and touching spirituality and an
exceptionally deep filial affection.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:683 O ‘17 40w

“One feature of ‘Letters of a soldier’ is his adoration of his
mother. ... He is, perhaps, typically French in his powers of artistic
vision; but he is neither French nor English in the most striking side
of his book. He belongs to the rare order of philosophers who can
reach serenity in a world of horrors. ... He had got beyond the idea
of personal success: ‘To a child in a game it is a fine thing to carry
the flag; but for a man it is enough to know that the flag will yet be
carried. And that is what every moment of great august Nature brings
home to me!’ ... This is the most remarkable book of its kind we have
seen lately.”

+ + =Sat R= 124:69 Jl 28 ‘17 440w

“All through his reasoning is different from that of the British
soldier, though the results are the same. Mr Clutton-Brock says: ‘It
would hardly be possible for any Englishman to ignore the war so
resolutely, to refuse any kind of consent to it; or, if an Englishman
were capable of such refusal, he would probably be a conscientious
objector. We must romanticise things to some extent if we are to
endure them; we must at least make jokes about them; but if a thing is
bad to a Frenchman, it is altogether bad; and he will have no dealings
with it. He may have to endure it; but he endures gravely and tensely
with a sad Latin dignity, and so it is that this Frenchman endures the
war from first to last.’ ... In the writer of these letters love of
beauty passes insensibly into his religion. His power of wrapping
himself round with serenity as with a cloak when he has gazed on a
hill bathed in colour or on a flower growing in the mud is remarkable.
If his religion is far from orthodox, it is real.”

+ =Spec= 119:117 Ag 4 ‘17 1200w

“All but two or three of the letters are addressed to his mother; and
they are letters which, as Mr Clutton-Brock points out, no son would
have been likely to write to his mother in any country but France. ...
His letters tell very little of the actual operations of war. ... The
interest of the book is independent of anything described or related.
One reads it chiefly for the self-revelation of an unusual and
fascinating personality. The writer is evidently one of the last men
to whom soldiering would have appealed as a career. ... His natural
outlook is almost as pacific as that of Mr Ramsay MacDonald.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p315 Jl 5 ‘17 630w

=SOLOGUB, FEODOR, pseud. (FEDOR KUZMICH TETERNIKOV).= Created legend; auth. tr. by J: Cournos. *$1.35 Stokes 17-24700

“A powerful, deeply symbolical, and most original story, which has as
a background the abortive Russian revolution of 1905. The hero is a
poet with a vision of a less chaotic and more beautiful world than
that in which he lives, and the heroine dreams of a day of freedom.”
(Ath) “In this book many strange things come, now one and now another,
into view. There are political meetings and riots, with hideous tales
of Cossacks and official brutality; there is an attack upon the
heroine by tramps; there are school inspections; there are spies,
seedy villains, and many kinds of ruffians. There are mysterious
children, of whom it would be futile to ask whether they are ‘alive’
or ‘dead’; there is a grove of Hellenic culture and nudity in a
forest. ... The unity lies beneath the events and beneath the
characters. It lies in the ideas, the philosophy ... for the yearning
dreams of genius.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

+ =Ath= p47 Ja ‘17 60w

“Some will say, with the police captain of the story, that Sologub
writes every-day pornography, masquerading under high-sounding names.
But even those who make such a foolish judgment will discover that
Sologub did create a picture of Russia and Russian life, the outlines
of which not even time can soften or cause to fade.” H. S.

+ =New Repub= 12:25 Ag 4 ‘17 1000w

“No greater contrast to ‘Tales of the revolution’ than ‘The created
legend’ could be imagined. It is a symbolist novel; in it revolution
is poetized, apotheosized, frequently, we regret to feel,
sentimentalized. Many of the scenes in the tale are bathed in an
atmosphere of delicate and clear beauty. Yet, every now and then we
feel a decadence, a hint of decay, beneath the beauty. With all his
fairy-tale simplicity, Sologub belongs to an older, a more
sophisticated, a less healthful tradition than does Artzibashef.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:249 Jl 1 ‘17 550w

“‘The created legend’ is a little unfortunate in other respects than
its ugliness. In his introduction Mr John Cournos tells us that the
‘legend’ embraces more books than this that he has newly translated,
and that the original title of this member of the series is ‘Drops of
blood.’ Moreover, the Russian means not ‘the created legend,’ but ‘the
legend in the course of creation.’ ... There is more of magic in
Sologub’s touch, perhaps, than in that of any among the modern Russian
novelists whose work is becoming known in England. If this novel
sometimes hurts with deliberate brutality it does more than heal the
injuries.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p511 O 26 ‘16 1000w

Some imagist poets, 1917; an annual anthology. *75c Houghton 821.08 (15-8258)

Six poets are again represented in the third annual volume of imagist
verse: Richard Aldington, H. D., John Gould Fletcher, F. S. Flint, D
H. Lawrence and Amy Lowell. Amy Lowell’s contribution to the volume is
the series known as “Lacquer prints,” adapted from the Japanese. John
Gould Fletcher contributes a notable poem on Lincoln.

=A L A Bkl= 14:16 O ‘17

“In the ‘Imagist anthology’ the work might almost be interchangeable,
and one closes the book with a purely composite sense of it. Not that
the composite technique lacks its individuality, one has a distinct
impression of imagism as a cult, but the majority of the poems might
be signed by the same name for all the impression they convey of the
personality, the differentiating self, of the writer.” J. B.
Rittenhouse

+ — =Bookm= 46:438 D ‘17 900w

“Richard Aldington has a finer group of poems in this year’s anthology
than the other two; this is also true of the poems by John Gould
Fletcher and F. S. Flint. ... Imagism is an art-method which,
expressing substance according to the degree of talent in the poet,
is, though a younger, an accepted member in the verse forms of poetry.
The survival of the ‘Some imagist poets’ anthology to a third annual
issue is a good proof of its importance and influence.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Ap 14 ‘17 1350w

“The little group remains the same, whether in composition or in
spirit. Nor is the offering of 1917 very different from that of
1916. ... The war is heard throughout the present volume: in
Aldington’s ‘Field manœuvres,’ in Fletcher’s ‘Armies,’ a sombre yet
vivid thing, and in Flint’s concern with ‘Searchlight’ and
‘Zeppelins.’” H: B. Fuller

+ — =Dial= 63:271 S 27 ‘17 850w

“I recommend in ‘Some imagist poets’ the courage of its brevity. For
the rest, the work follows its type—oracular, crepuscular,
spectacular.” O. W. Firkins

– + =Nation= 105:597 N 29 ‘17 60w

+ =R of Rs= 56:105 Jl ‘17 100w

“Mr Fletcher’s ‘Lincoln’ and one Whistler-like impression of
‘Moonlight’ make his selections foremost in the book. H. D. and F. S.
Flint are least interesting. H. D.’s ‘Pygmalion’ has thought, but it
is weakly expressed. D. H. Lawrence and Amy Lowell have added little
to their reputations. Lawrence in ‘Terra nuvo’ adding mysticism to an
apparent trial at the Dantesque. Amy Lowell is quite disappointing.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 850w

=SOMMERS, CECIL.=[2] Temporary heroes, il *$1.25 (2c) Lane 940.91 17-27944

Letters from the western front to “The only ‘Phyllis,’” written “from
all kinds of places, mostly unpleasant, in all weathers, chiefly rain,
and at all sorts of odd times.” The period covered is from February,
1915, to July, 1916, and the grim happenings of those months, such of
them as fall within the experience of this Scottish trooper, are none
the less grim because of the punch which is put into the narrative.
Neither rain, mud, plagues of the trenches, nor the crumpling up by
shell fire can down his wit and sturdy courage. It is the invincible
hero of Ypres and the Flanders front whom we see here; yet he, too,
had a vulnerable heel. For we leave him after sixteen months taking
sketchy account of passing days, on a Red cross barge able only to
reiterate, “Isn’t it a terrible war?”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:163 F ‘18

“Of books about the war there have been many, but few as likable as
this modest collection of letters. Mr Sommers possesses a keen sense
of humor; no bit of comedy escapes him, and he relates all sorts of
tales, and gives them many clever touches of his own. Even when the
joke is at his own expense he enjoys it. Long before the book ends the
reader has come to have a very genuine liking for this young writer, a
liking which is enhanced by the delightfully comic little sketches
with which he has illustrated his letters.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:543 D 9 ‘17 570w

“There is little unrelieved tragedy in the book. The letters would be
far less significant than they are if the writer had not the
sensibility to recognize the full horror of what is taking place, but
he observes it from an angle which lets the horror be seen in quaint
patterns.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p439 S 13 ‘17 620w

=SONNECK, OSCAR GEORGE THEODORE.= Suum cuique; essays in music. *$2.50 Schirmer 780.4 17-406

Mr Sonneck is the editor of the Musical Quarterly (New York) and has
been chief of the music division, Library of Congress, since 1902.
“Among the topics treated by him in this volume of essays are ‘Music
and progress,’ ‘MacDowell versus MacDowell,’ ‘A national conservatory:
some pros and cons,’ ‘A survey of music in America,’ and ‘Signs of a
new uplift in Italy’s musical life.’ Also included in this volume are
several interesting biographical studies—‘The musical side of our
first presidents,’ ‘Benjamin Franklin’s musical side,’ and ‘Was
Richard Wagner a Jew?’”—R of Rs

“‘Suum cuique’ is not a particularly alluring title for a book of
essays on music, but O. G. Sonneck knows how to hold the attention of
all who open this volume.” H: T. Finck

+ =Nation= 105:546 N 15 ‘17 260w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:73 My ‘17 50w

+ =R of Rs= 55:219 F ‘17 80w

=SORLEY, CHARLES HAMILTON.= Marlborough, and other poems. *$1 Putnam 821

The author was a young poet and soldier who was killed on the western
front in 1916. “Poetry seems to have been the natural expression of
his mind, yet he hardly sought this expression until the last year of
his life. In a certain mystic quality his poems are comparable to the
early work of W. B. Yeats; in intense love of the very soil of his
country, to the sonnets of Rupert Brooke; and in fatalism and ardent,
heroic realization of the values of life and death to our own young
poet so lately dead, Alan Seeger.” (R of Rs)

“This volume, as it stands, will, like the volumes of Rupert Brooke,
afford convincing demonstration of what England is sacrificing in this
war,—lives that would have shaped the thought and feeling of our
country in the first half of the present century. It will bear
testimony also to the type of men who, when the bolt fell in August
1914, hesitated not in offering their services to the nation.” G. D.
Hicks

+ =Hibbert J= 14:659 Ap ‘16 1200w

=Pratt= p33 Ja ‘17

“The poetic work of Charles Hamilton Sorley, late of Marlborough
college and sometime captain in the Suffolk regiment, has the double
appeal of beauty and of pathos. It is astonishing that a boy of
eighteen should have written poetry of so high an order filled with
such precocious maturity of thought.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:210 F ‘17 450w

“The six months that he spent in Germany before the war inspired him
with respect and tolerance for our enemies. For the rest, we may note
his intense love of Downland and of Marlborough. The later verses are
unrevised, and often rough and halting in metre, but they have vision
and an unaffected originality of imagery.”

+ =Spec= 116:661 My 27 ‘16 400w

“The third edition contains ‘illustrations in prose’ which Sorley’s
friends will not like to miss. ... He was a careful letter-writer, and
his letters, though they were probably written quickly, add materially
to the value and dignity of this memorial volume.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p580 D 7 ‘16 250w

=SOUINY-SEYDLITZ, LEONIE IDA PHILIPOVNA, baroness.= Russia of yesterday and to-morrow. il *$2 (3½c) Century 947 17-18377

“Baroness Souiny is by birth a Czech, a native of one of the Balkan
States, and married a Russian baron and lived ever since in Russia
until she came to America, soon after the beginning of the war.” (N Y
Times) Her first chapter, Awakening Russia, and her last, Russia of
to-morrow deal with the revolution of 1917, the difficulty of bringing
the Russian peasants to a realization of what democracy means, and
what the provisional government really is. Other chapters deal with:
The military party; Aristocratic women in Russian life and politics;
German influence in Russia; America and Russia; Russian art, dramatic
literature and music, etc. That on America and Russia argues that
“Russia and America have so much to give each other of ethical,
spiritual and practical values that the alliance of which Russians
dream and which the Americans once declined must come about.”

“More entertaining than authoritative.”

– + =A L A Bkl= 14:23 O ‘17

“A leisurely, chatty, well-meaning but unreliable, woefully incoherent
book.” Abraham Yarmolinsky

– + =Bookm= 46:483 D ‘17 190w

“The baroness’s style sometimes suggests that she is herself subject
to German influences. Her spelling was certainly made in Germany. ...
She has little but good to say of Grigorii Rasputin, who ‘brought back
the Czar to his people and the people to the Czar.’ The book, with its
comments on literature, art and music, its descriptions of travel, its
many entertaining anecdotes and trivialities and its sixteen full-page
illustrations is well worth reading, but it must be read with caution,
for it abounds in questionable judgments.” N. H. D.

=Boston Transcript= p6 Je 20 ‘17 800w

“Most interesting is the author’s reaction to the revolution. She
makes it very plain that she has little faith in the lasting powers of
the democracy. ... Among other word pictures is one of the monk,
Gregory Rasputin. The Baroness sees him as a simple peasant,
absolutely patriotic and religious, a ‘Russian Billy Sunday.’”

+ — =Dial= 63:214 S 13 ‘17 300w

=Ind= 91:30 Jl 7 ‘17 120w

“There is grace, charm, picturesqueness and ease in the literary
manner of this book, but the volume is crowded with equivocations,
contradictions and half-thoughts. The author’s point of view
concerning the temper of the people and the future of the republic is
disappointingly feudal. Her prejudices cling to her like barnacles.”
D: Rosenstein

– + =N Y Call= p14 Ag 5 ‘17 2000w

“Her pages are very readable, but the more one reads, the more does
one wonder, or doubt, if she is justified always in her
generalizations. And those doubts increase when one reaches the
chapters in which she deals with recent events and discovers her point
of view.”

=N Y Times= 22:262 Jl 15 ‘17 650w

“Possibly a little hectic, wordy, and hastily put together for the
reader’s entire satisfaction.”

– + =Outlook= 116:593 Ag 15 ‘17 120w

=Pittsburgh= 22:675 O ‘17 70w

“It is evident that the writer possesses an acquaintance with her
people that is the fruit not only of long familiarity but also of
intelligent study. In them she has faith.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 26 ‘17 300w

=SPENCE, LEWIS.= Myths and legends of Babylonia and Assyria. il *$3 (3c) Stokes 299 17-4995

It is the author’s belief that this book will appeal particularly to
the modern reader who loves the romance of antiquity. His aim has been
“to provide not only a popular account of the religion and mythology
of ancient Babylonia and Assyria, but to extract and present to the
reader the treasures of romance latent in the subject, the peculiar
richness of which has been recognized since the early days of
archæological effort in Chaldea.” The book has eight color plates by
Evelyn Paul and thirty-two other illustrations.

“The title of the volume is just a trifle misleading. Although most of
the myths and legends of the Babylonians and Assyrians are rather
fully presented, the book is after all more largely a discussion of
the religion of these two peoples. The author has given his readers a
fairly good presentation of that religion, but it is doubtful whether
the book is one whit more interesting than many books in the field
that are the work of specialists, and it was just this that the volume
was intended to popularize. ... The book abounds in inaccuracies,
hardly pardonable even in one who is not a specialist. The author has
depended too largely upon older writings and upon men like Sayce and
Hilprecht, neither of whom is particularly reliable. The
black-and-white illustrations are good, but those in color by Evelyn
Paul are neither artistic nor historically true.” T. J. Meek

+ — =Am J Theol= 21:459 Jl ‘17 730w

=A L A Bkl= 14:23 O ‘17

“Mr Spence, our leading authority on Mexican archaeology and
mythology, has here given a popular account of the religion and
mythology of ancient Babylonia and Assyria, a subject which he knows
well. With the general reader in view, he has endeavoured, not to
separate the gold of romance from the darker ore of antiquarian
research, but to blend romance and knowledge. The result, with a theme
so rich in enchantment, is a picturesque and fascinating book, that,
if it does not add to knowledge, will add extensively to the band of
readers interested in comparative religion and ancient history. ...
There is a first-class index.”

+ =Ath= p583 D ‘16 130w

=SPENCER, HERBERT.= Man versus the state. *$2 (2c) Kennerley 301 16-23151

Mr Beale, the editor, has prepared this edition of Spencer’s essays
for publication in the belief that they are particularly applicable to
conditions in America at the present time. The essays, he says, were
written by Spencer “to warn the English people against the blight of
officialism.” The same danger of “over-legislation” and
“over-administration” now exists in America, he believes. The essays
are published with critical comments by prominent Americans, among
them Elihu Root, Henry Cabot Lodge, E. H. Gary, Augustus P. Gardner,
Nicholas Murray Butler and William Howard Taft.

=Cleveland= p6 Ja ‘17 50w

“Particularly interesting are Elihu Root on ‘The new toryism’ and E.
H. Gary on ‘Overlegislation.’ But it is no disparagement to any of
these men to say that the clarity and dexterity in exposition that
characterized Spencer put almost any man at a disadvantage whose
writing is set side by side with these paragraphs dictated so long
ago.”

+ =Nation= 104:166 F 8 ‘17 300w

“The underlying conception of this edition was an entirely admirable
one; its execution has come very near to tragedy. ... Gathering about
him in massed formation the heavy artillery of American
conservatism—Mr Root, Dr Butler, Judge Gary, Mr Taft—Mr Beale has
prefaced Spencer’s essays by a series of prose lyrics which, while
they may gratify the few remaining adherents of the Spencerian
philosophy, are otherwise valuable only as a somewhat inept expression
of the ideals of the last age.” H. J. L.

— =New Repub= 10:142 Mr 3 ‘17 1650w

“For the man or woman who wishes to see clearly just what problems the
United States is facing, and which must be worked out to our best
national advantage, there is no better contribution to political
thought than this volume of economic and sociological wisdom founded
upon the broad philosophical foundation that ‘those forces that create
and develop nations are not to be restricted by prohibitory acts of
legislatures.’”

+ =R of Rs= 55:104 Ja ‘17 200w

=SPIEGEL VON UND ZU PECKELSHEIM, EDGAR, freiherr.= Adventures of the U-202; an actual narrative. *$1 (4c) Century 940.91 17-6334

The title-page tells us the author is commander of the U-202, and a
copyright notice says that the book is published by arrangement with
the New York World, but it is not stated whether the book is a
translation or an original account, whether it was first written for
German or for American readers. It gives an account of the routine on
a German submarine, of the thrills and dangers encountered, of the
methods of attacking enemy ships, of tracking them down or escaping
from them, and finally describes the joyous homecoming of a U-boat
crew.

“The author is possessed of complete knowledge of under-sea craft and
its methods. His technical account of the U-boat in operation and of
the life of those who man it, is worth reading.”

=Boston Transcript= p14 Ap 7 ‘17 200w

“References to the hated English are sometimes unnecessarily
vituperative, as was only natural. The book is decidedly out of the
ordinary, and will arouse even the jaded reader of war narratives.” P.
F. Bicknell

=Dial= 62:306 Ap 5 ‘17 120w

“Presents us with a ‘peculiar’ sea-faring psychology. It crops out in
the bombastic manner of our dare-devil hero and his stage-strutting
crew. Compare this stuff with the modest, straightforward narrative of
a real sailor such as Captain König of the ‘Deutschland!’ The book
does not bear a single German official endorsement.”

— =Ind= 90:298 My 12 ‘17 60w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:58 Ap ‘17

“An exciting and thoroughly interesting book. It has in it a good deal
of out-and-out information about submarines and submarine warfare. And
it gives its readers many a thrill. It has its place in the public’s
war library.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:182 My 6 ‘17 300w

=SPINDLER, FRANK NICHOLAS.=[2] Sense of sight. *$1.25 Moffat 17-23764

“The aim of this volume is to tell the story of the wonderful power of
vision in plain English and in a readable way, and yet keep true to
the scientific facts and theories. There is a chapter on visual
illusions, and another analyzing the visual type of mind. The book
closes with a chapter on Hygiene of the eye and of vision.” (Boston
Transcript) This volume is one of the new series “Our senses and what
they mean to us.” One other volume has also been issued, “The sense of
taste,” by H. L. Hollingworth and A. T. Poffenberger.

“Though elementary, the book is enlightening; though detailed, it is
comprehensive.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 24 ‘17 250w

“It rarely rises above meagre adequacy; and it is in a measure
unfortunate that so important a subject fails of any distinctive
handling. The arrangement of the chapters is admirable.”

– + =Dial= 64:116 Ja 31 ‘18 230w

“One is pleased to find so much useful information presented in
comparatively few pages and couched in simple, popular language.”
Medicus

+ =N Y Call= p15 N 4 ‘17 200w

=SPINGARN, JOEL ELIAS.= Creative criticism: essays on the unity of genius and taste. *$1.20 (5½c) Holt 801 17-15179

The first essay in this book, The new criticism, was published in
1911, after its delivery as a lecture at Columbia university. It was
regarded at that time as quite iconoclastic in its ruthless
destruction of time-honored standards. Added to it in this volume are
three other essays: Dramatic criticism and the theatre; Prose and
verse; and Creative connoisseurship. A note on genius and taste, a
reply to a criticism of the first essay by John Galsworthy, is given
in an appendix.

=A L A Bkl= 14:16 O ‘17

“What Mr Spingarn fails lamentably and completely to realize is that
the conception of the drama as ‘a creative art born in the brain of
the playwright’ and as something inextricably concerned with theatres
and actors are not irreconcilable at all.” F. I.

=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 11 ‘17 1400w

=Ind= 91:184 Ag 4 ‘17 100w

=N Y Times= 22:248 Jl 1 ‘17 980w

+ =R of Rs= 56:103 Jl ‘17 180w

“Prof. Spingarn’s views should awaken as much debate on their
reappearing as when first promulgated.”

=Springf’d Republican= p19 My 20 ‘17 800w

“He demolishes more decayed and genteel traditions than the Victorians
can justly be taxed with; and in the face of new realities his
enthusiasm is so keen and clear-sighted that we wish that he would
give us a few examples of the art besides this spirited defence of it.
We wish indeed that he had written a longer book; for the subjects he
deals with are very complex, and many of the interesting things that
he says would be still more interesting if they were discussed more
fully.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p271 Je 7 ‘17 1100w

=SPRING, LEVERETT WILSON.= History of Williams college. il *$3 (4c) Houghton 378 17-15570

Professor Spring for twenty-three years held the chair of English
literature at Williams college, and is now an emeritus professor. The
opening of the college is described and the history is brought down to
date, but “a detailed survey of the present administration is not
attempted.” There are eighteen illustrations, nine of them pictures of
college presidents, and nine appendixes, one of which gives “Williams
volunteers, graduate and non-graduate, in the Civil war and their
rank.”

“The general reader may find not a little to attract him in the
descriptions of college life a century ago and in the biographical
sketch of Mark Hopkins.”

+ =Ind= 91:296 Ag 25 ‘17 60w

+ =Lit D= 55:36 S 29 ‘17 270w

“It will hold its field alone, for no history of the college has
appeared for many years, and its most exhaustive predecessor contains
an intermixture of much historical matter upon Williamstown. The
author has proportioned it in an unusual way. The history of the
institution proper is held within bounds which leave abundant space
for an account of the college life of the more eminent alumni of
Williams, and to a certain extent of their later careers.”

+ =Nation= 105:435 O 18 ‘17 430w

“The author’s text might well have been more vivid.”

+ — =Outlook= 116:489 Jl 25 ‘17 110w

“A well-written and appropriately illustrated history. Any history of
Williams must necessarily be largely given up to biographical sketches
of personalities who as presidents and professors have built up the
institution. Although always a small college, relatively speaking,
Williams has, throughout its history, exerted an influence in the
nation out of all proportion to its size.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:328 S ‘17 70w

“This is not a mere retelling of a story already twice told, but is an
authoritative narrative, based upon painstaking researches, which have
brought to light a considerable amount of new material having to do
especially with the earlier years of the college. ... This
well-proportioned, informing, and thoroughly readable book should be
attractive to all interested in the early life of New England and in
the history of American education.”

* + =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 22 ‘17 1500w

=SPRUNT, JAMES.=[2] Chronicles of the Cape Fear River, 1660-1916. 2d ed $4 Rosa P. Chiles, 142 A st., N.E., Washington, D.C. 17-10368

A revised and enlarged edition of a work that was privately printed by
the author in 1915.

“The additions, amounting to exactly one hundred pages of text, are
supplemented by six rare maps and a thoroughly adequate index of
forty-four pages. The most important additions are ‘Wilmington in the
forties,’ eight papers by John MacLaurin which originally appeared in
the local newspapers; three reports on Wilmington trade, 1815, 1843,
1872; the sketch, by Miss Rosa Pendleton Chiles, of the distinguished
French scientist Alyre Raffeneau Delile, vice-consul in North Carolina
(1802-1806); and an extended history of Wilmington churches.” (Am Hist
R)

“The book’s most interesting chapter remains ‘Blockade running,’
slightly extended. This volume constitutes a contribution, of
permanent value, to the historical literature, not only of North
Carolina, but also of the United States.” Archibald Henderson

+ =Am Hist R= 23:217 O ‘17 250w

“The book is more even than a rarely complete local history. It is a
valuable contribution to general history, giving as it does a
summary—admirable in its terseness and clarity—of the events in one of
the most historical sections of the United States from the time of its
exploration and settlement down through the Civil war to the present.
A Confederate himself, Mr Sprunt’s personal experience in ‘blockade
running’ gives authority to his descriptions of that science. Sketches
of the old plantations, of quaintly interesting social customs, of
historic localities and individuals, add to the value as well as to
the interest of a book, whose vast detail is carefully marshalled and
clearly presented.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 11 ‘17 440w

+ =Lit D= 55:42 S 29 ‘17 110w

+ =Outlook= 116:488 Jl 25 ‘17 110w

“Merely as a contribution to local history this volume is of more than
ordinary importance, because of the unusual care that has been given
to its preparation, and the excellent literary form in which it now
appears.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:108 Jl ‘17 140w

=SQUIRE, JACK COLLINGS.= Tricks of the trade. *$1.25 Putnam 827 (Eng ed A17-1182)

“One of the most diverting books of parody in recent years. Its range
is wide—from Pope to Davies—and almost as many styles of parodic
writing are exhibited as there are styles of parodies. In the first
half are ten imitations of the work of contemporary writers, mostly
poets. In the second are ten duplex parodies.” (Dial) “Wordsworth
rewrites ‘The everlasting mercy,’ Mr Masefield gives us his version of
‘Casabianca,’ Henry James revises the church catechism, Lord Byron
takes liberties in the ‘Don Juan’ stanza with ‘The passing of Arthur,’
and, most brilliant of all, Gray rewrites his ‘Elegy’ in the cemetery
of ‘Spoon River.’” (Spec)

+ =Ath= p101 F ‘17 50w

“These burlesques are frequently criticisms of no mean order.” Odell
Shepard

+ =Dial= 63:20 Je 28 ‘17 350w

“Mr Squire has already proved himself a master of the art of travesty,
and his ‘Tricks of the trade’ is a pure joy. For here we have no crude
verbal mimicry, but an appropriation of the spirit of the original,
with just that amount of exaggeration and perversion required to
pillory its weakness. As a sustained ‘tour de force’ the burlesque on
Mr Masefield, ‘the poet in the back streets,’ is perhaps the most
deadly burlesque on the violence of the new ‘School of real human
emotion’; but we are not so sure that the parody of Mr Belloc in his
satirico-comic vein is not even cleverer, for it is a burlesque on a
burlesque.”

+ =Spec= 118:339 Mr 17 ‘17 400w

“Although we may laugh we cannot deny that he tells us more about Mr
Belloc, or Mr Wells, or Sir H. Newbolt than many serious and
industrious articles where the gifts and failings of these writers are
scrupulously weighed to an ounce. ... Of the parodies of modern
writers, that of Mr Shaw seems to us the least successful.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p112 Mr 8 ‘17 800w

=STACPOOLE, FLORENCE.=[2] Advice to women. *$1.25 Funk 618.2 17-12840

This work on “the care of the health before, during, and after
confinement, with hints on the care of the new-born infant and an
appendix on what to get ready for a baby” has been revised from the
fifth London edition to conform to American practice, by Lydia E.
Anderson, president of the state board of nurse examiners, University
of the State of New York. Two interesting chapters tell what modern
science has done to lessen danger and suffering in childbirth.

“The work of an Englishwoman high in rank as a teacher of health, and
especially of obstetrics, is here supplemented by the revisionary
service of an American woman equally deserving confidence. It is a
book for women, by women, for the common welfare.”

+ =Lit D= 55:33 Jl 14 ‘17 100w

=STACPOOLE, HENRY DE VERE.= François Villon: his life and times, 1431-1463. *$2 Putnam (Eng ed 17-26321)

“My object is to present to you François Villon, one of the strangest
figures in all literature, and one of the greatest of French poets,”
says the author. His method is to study Villon, the man, thru his
writings. “Villon,” he says, “had the magical power of turning himself
into literature.” First, however, he describes the France of Villon’s
day.

“There is appreciative literary criticism yet the book moves like a
story. ... Mr Stacpoole published a translation of Villon’s poems in
1914.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:343 My ‘17

=Ath= p51 Ja ‘17 80w

“Mr Stacpoole is as picturesque as his theme, as vigorous as the time
he depicts, as romantic as his hero. We get a clear view of the
fifteenth century in France from his pages, and as complete an
understanding of Villon as is possible in the circumstances. If Villon
still seems mythical when we close Mr Stacpoole’s book, it is because
he will remain a character who is all the more appealing because of
the glamour of romance that enshrouds him.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ‘17 1000w

“However much Mr Stacpoole may take from the French biographers in
facts, the able criticisms are his own. ... Mr Stacpoole shows good
critical taste in his estimate of the worth of the various ballads,
and he includes good poetic translations of most of them, as well as
free prose renderings of the legacies.” Nellie Poorman

* + =Dial= 62:307 Ap 5 ‘17 1300w

“Interest is added to Mr Stacpoole’s book by a series of very
satisfying verse translations of some of Villon’s less-known poems.”

+ =Nation= 105:45 Jl 12 ‘17 270w

+ =N Y Times= 22:78 Mr 4 ‘17 300w

“This book tells us nothing save that Mr Stacpoole admires Villon in
so far as he understands him, but that he does not understand very
much. Mr Stacpoole had the opportunity of performing a valuable
service. He might have translated M. Champion’s volumes, and so given
a work of profound scholarship and exquisite taste the larger public
which it deserves. ... Mr Stacpoole would, we suppose, say that his
book was not written for those who already knew Villon—that it was, in
fact, ‘un oeuvre de vulgarisation.’ If so, it was superfluous.”

— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p29 Ja 18 ‘17 750w

=STACPOOLE, HENRY DE VERE.= Sea plunder. *$1.30 (2½c) Lane 17-11465