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

Moral questions do not trouble Captain Blood and his friend Billy
Harman. If the two German owners of the vessel Captain Blood commands
want to cut a Pacific cable, that is their responsibility, not his.
What the object of these two plotters really was is never learned, for
the first message intercepted on the cut cable tells them that England
and Germany are at war. As a matter of fact, they are not. This was
one of the false alarms that preceded the real one of 1914. But for
all that the message changed the course of this story. The second
adventure of the book has to do with a wrecked Chinese ship, said to
be carrying twenty thousand dollars in gold; the third takes the two
adventurers back to the South seas.

=A L A Bkl= 13:452 Jl ‘17

+ =Dial= 62:444 My 17 ‘17 90w

“We do not know, now that Jack London is gone, where to match Mr
Stacpoole’s absolutely simple, straightforward, and forcible way of
telling a story of outlandish adventure.”

+ =Nation= 104:633 My 24 ‘17 250w

“A better group of sea yarns, or of yarns better told would be hard to
find. ... Along with the wisdom of his seafaring men Mr Stacpoole
drops bits of his own, notably his accurate characterization of the
attitude of Ireland toward England.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:195 My 20 ‘17 450w

“Mr Stacpoole’s gift for telling a racy, thrilling adventure story is
well established, and this product of his pen sustains his
reputation.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 29 ‘17 350w

=STANARD, MARY MANN PAGE (NEWTON) (MRS WILLIAM GLOVER STANARD).= Colonial Virginia: its people and customs. il *$6 Lippincott 975.5 17-30734

“Historical and genealogical in character, this work is based
neither upon history-books nor tradition, but upon sources that are
not accessible to the ordinary reader—old diaries, old newspapers,
and letters, shop-bills and inventories, and other documents
throwing light on the personal and social life of the Virginians in
colonial days. ... Mrs Stanard describes the relations between old
Virginia and the mother country and the intricacies of Virginia
class-relationships, and throws light upon hundreds of genealogical
questions that have hitherto been in dispute.”—Lit D

“The labor of preparing so exhaustive a work as this must have been
very great, and the author is to be commended for the excellent manner
in which the interest is maintained to the very last.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 24 ‘17 1300w

“Altogether the book is one that will appeal to every one who is
curious about our historic past. The ways of our forebears and the
interest of the book are heightened by the large number of
illustrations it contains.”

+ =Lit D= 55:51 D 8 ‘17 150w

“This is a handsome, well-illustrated, well-planned, and comprehensive
volume.”

+ =Outlook= 117:615 D 12 ‘17 50w

“Mrs Stanard is known as an enthusiastic student of the Old dominion’s
archives, and is the wife of William G. Stanard, secretary of the
Virginia Historical society and editor of the Virginia Magazine of
History and Biography.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:103 Ja ‘18 170w

“Although perhaps the book contains little that is new, it brings
scattered material together in graphic compilation.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 8 ‘17 200w

=STANLEY, ELEANOR JULIAN (MRS JAMES LONG).= Twenty years at court. il *$4.50 Scribner (Eng ed 17-21843)

Eleanor Stanley, whose private letters are here collected by Mrs
Steuart Erskine, was maid of honor to Queen Victoria from 1842 to
1862. “A very few letters have been put into the book which are not by
Miss Stanley.” (Spec)

“Perhaps nothing could better witness the fascination of these letters
and wide appeal than the fact that a second edition has so quickly
followed their publication a year ago. ... Clearest of all the
pictures she presents are those of the simple home life of the English
royal family.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Jl 21 ‘17 180w

“No one, we think, will read them without enjoyment—it is difficult to
say why. ‘It went off pretty flat,’ said Fanny Burney describing an
evening spent in the Georgian court circle. Most evenings at the early
Victorian court might be said, by these accounts, to have gone off
very flat indeed, and yet Miss Eleanor Stanley makes us want to hear
about them.”

* + =Spec= 118:18 Ja 6 ‘17 2100w

“Sprightly, revealing and readable. ... In her pictures of people in
the spheres of court and diplomacy there is much covert sarcasm. ...
As Miss Stanley grows older she discloses a greater interest in
politics, and her notes on political events generally get to the nub
of the matter with few wasted words.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 850w

“Miss Stanley’s letters are authentic. ... On the whole the editing is
well done, with a number of useful little footnotes giving the names,
titles, and dates of the numerous great people who are mentioned. The
reader, however, may justly complain of the want of an index; of the
want of any reference, or of anything more than the merest hint, with
regard to many of the great events of the time; and of the absence of
the necessary few words of explanation which would have rendered
intelligible certain letters that the ordinary reader of to-day cannot
fully understand. ... As a historical document the book is
disappointing.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p634 D 28 ‘16 980w

=STANTON, STEPHEN BERRIEN.= Hidden happiness. *$1.25 (4c) Scribner 170.4 17-7478

The short essays of this volume have something of an Emersonian
flavor. “Remember, all is law. It governs every little act of
life—every success, every failure. Things happen according to
principles which we can put ourselves in accord with and win, or go
counter to and lose. Control then thy destiny by obedience to them. I
have no wish other than that of the universe—why should I?” This
quotation indicates very fairly the author’s attitude. He writes of:
Joy’s neutrality; Ambition; The eternal bulwarks; Influence; Pros and
cons of companionship; The trumpet of to-day; The marrow of existence;
Ultimate economy; Letter and spirit, etc.

“The volume bristles with sane and sensible advice, with fine bits of
figurative writing and with unforgettable epigrams.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 27 ‘17 250w

“Aphorisms for sane and cheerful living. There is nothing original in
Mr Stanton’s optimism or in his advice. But he states his confession
of faith in the clearest and most vigorous terms.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:335 S 9 ‘17 470w

+ =Outlook= 115:760 Ap 25 ‘17 130w

=STEEL, MRS FLORA ANNIE (WEBSTER).= Marmaduke. *$1.40 (1½c) Stokes (Eng ed 17-26885)

The scene of this melodramatic tale is laid in Scotland and the Crimea
in the “forties” and “fifties.” The leading characters are “the
sardonic old rake, Lord Drummuir, who marries a ballet-dancer and
reduces her to respectability, who keeps his children in perpetual
tremors by his evil temper; his gallant soldier son, the Hon.
Marmaduke Muir, always hard up and always trying to get money out of
the old man; Marrion Paul, a girl of noble mind but supposed humble
origin, who loves Marmaduke from childhood and becomes his guardian
angel, and the faithful soldier-servant of the hero, who cherishes a
hopeless passion for the heroine and talks broad Scotch with mildly
comical effect. ... The book includes a fire, a battle, a shipwreck,
two sensational escapes from drowning, a frustrated elopement, a
carriage accident, and a house of shame.” (Sat R)

=A L A Bkl= 14:133 Ja ‘18

“A very improbable and old-fashioned, but not altogether
unentertaining novel.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:484 N 18 ‘17 270w

=Outlook= 117:510 N 28 ‘17 40w

“Her first-hand knowledge of an eastern country, and a talent for
describing men and places, give to such books as ‘On the face of the
waters’ an interest which will outlast the author’s life. But
‘Marmaduke,’ is in a different category, being outside the sphere of
personal experience. ... The habit, inveterate in both hero and
heroine, of diving into seas and rivers from high places when they get
the chance, with other features of this book, suggests the
cinematograph.”

– + =Sat R= 124:30 Jl 14 ‘17 640w

“The story is not only Victorian in its setting, but its treatment
recalls at times the exuberant sentiment of Smedley and the author of
‘Guy Livingstone.’”

+ — =Spec= 119:15 Jl 7 ‘17 500w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 420w

“It is a tale that engages the interest, in spite of much inaccuracy,
much infelicity, much worn coin in Mrs Steel’s English prose.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p310 Je 28 ‘17 300w

=STEELE, DAVID MCCONNELL.= Going abroad overland; studies of places and people in the far West. il *$1.50 (3½ c) Putnam 917.8 17-5855

This book of travel is based on three journeys across the North
American continent and back. The author, a Philadelphia clergyman, has
written it “to acquaint the denizens of eastern districts with their
neighbors, far removed but close allied, their fellow-citizens of the
Far West.” Contents: Going abroad overland; Following the setting sun;
The city of the holy faith; Grand Canyon, the Titan of chasms; A
Sunday at Lake Tahoe; The city without a soul; In the land of the
Dakotas; A week in Glacier national park, etc.

“Superior to the ordinary because of its keen observations, its
accurate facts, its delightful style and its subtle humor.” G. F.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 24 ‘17 750w

“Part of the book appeared in weekly instalments in the Philadelphia
press.”

+ =Cleveland= p98 Jl ‘17 50w

“Unique among such volumes as have yet appeared of American travel
articles. Each chapter describes a scene or city, the whole
illustrated by many photogravures. Readers are shown that they can
really travel, can see and know and feel places and people foreign to
their previous experience—all without leaving North America.”

+ =Ind= 90:439 Je 2 ‘17 60w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:30 F ‘17

“Not essential to small libraries but readable.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:123 Ap ‘17 80w

=STEINER, BERNARD CHRISTIAN.= Life of Henry Winter Davis. $1.50 Murphy, J: 16-14479

“Henry Winter Davis (1817-1865) is the last of the great congressional
leaders of the Civil war period to find a biographer. ... The first
three chapters, which are autobiographical, give an interesting
picture of Davis’s boyhood and his life as a student at Kenyon college
and at the University of Virginia. Dr Steiner himself covers the
period from 1840 to 1865, treating in detail the various stages in his
hero’s political career, as a Whig, a Know Nothing, a Constitutional
Unionist and a Republican. New light is thrown upon a number of
questions, especially upon the so-called Wade-Davis bill and the
Wade-Davis manifesto, both of which, as Dr Steiner shows, were
primarily the work of Davis and should more properly be described by
the term Davis-Wade.”—Am Pol Sci R

“Should let in a strong light on some of the darkest places of
politics in Maryland.” W: A. Dunning

=Am Hist R= 22:417 Ja ‘17 700w

“Dr Steiner’s book is extremely sympathetic. In fact, if there is any
fault to be found at all, it would be that it is too sympathetic, or,
in other words, that it is not sufficiently critical. ... When we
consider, however, that the unfavorable aspects of Davis’s career have
been fully represented by Nicolay and Hay, Gideon Welles, and others,
we ought perhaps, after all, to be grateful for this excellent plea
for the defense. ... All students of the Civil war and reconstruction
will welcome the scholarly addition to the growing literature of that
period.” W. R. Smith

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:167 F ‘17 550w

+ =Bul of Bibliography= 9:87 O ‘16 150w

=STEINER, EDWARD ALFRED.= My doctor dog. il *50c Revell 18-1116

“Over in the Carpathian mountains where Prof. Edward A. Steiner began
his remarkable career, there is a strong belief among the peasants
that certain dogs have the power of effecting cures where learned
doctors are helpless. Dr Steiner—only he wasn’t wearing any title
then, but was just a little curly-headed Hebrew lad—had such a dog.
Perhaps he had forgotten it, or had overlooked its literary
possibilities, until one day in a college settlement hospital in a
city in America he came upon the same superstition, and it called up
old memories. That evening around the fire-place in the college social
room he told the story to the girls. Now he has told it again in book
form as a tale within a tale.”—Springf’d Republican

“When the author forgets himself and his intrusive audience he gives a
picture of the dirty, beautiful, simple village and its peasant
population which is as engaging as it is convincing. But the frame of
this picture is as distracting as it is foolishly ornate. After all,
the story is the thing and not the story-teller’s sentimental
associations or his ethical convictions.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:500 N 25 ‘17 180w

“Lovers of dogs and of dog stories will make a mistake if they do not
read this little volume.”

+ =Outlook= 117:432 N 14 ‘17 50w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 8 ‘17 230w

=STEINER, JESSE FREDERICK.= Japanese invasion; a study in the psychology of interracial contacts. *$1.25 McClurg 325.7 17-7214

In his introduction Robert E. Park of the University of Chicago says,
“This book is an attempt to study the phenomenon of race prejudice and
national egotism, so far as it reveals itself in the relations of the
Japanese and the Americans in this country, and to estimate the role
it is likely to play in the future relations of the two countries. So
far as I know, an investigation of precisely this nature has not
hitherto been made.” The author, who spent seven years in Japan as a
teacher in a mission college, writes of: Our first acquaintance with
the Japanese; The Japanese attitude toward the West; The closing of
the open door; The problem from the Japanese viewpoint; The Japanese
“menace”; The isolation of Japanese in America; The reaction of the
Japanese to American economic conditions; Organization and solidarity
of Japanese immigrants; The problem of intermarriage; The Japanese in
America as a race problem; The world significance of waking Asia.
There is a bibliography of representative books and articles, followed
by an index.

“This book is a very valuable contribution to the means for correctly
estimating the present American-Japanese situation. The author
displays a thorough knowledge of his subject and much skill and
judgment in his handling of it.” H: P. Fairchild

+ =Am J Soc= 23:548 Ja ‘18 350w

“The work is well documented and has a fairly complete bibliography
(14p.).”

=A L A Bkl= 13:378 Je ‘17

“The most valuable portions of Mr Steiner’s book are chapters
discussing the attitude in various sections of the United States
toward Japanese residents, the reaction of the Japanese to American
economic conditions, the organization and solidarity of Japanese
immigrants, and the problem of intermarriage.” F: A. Ogg

=Dial= 62:430 My 17 ‘17 1300w

“His treatment of the Californian situation is characteristic. He does
not blame this government, state or national; he is interested in
tracing and diagnosing a condition. He discusses the Japanese as human
beings; not as the menacing abstractions which plague Californian
imaginations. The last chapter, The significance of waking Asia, is a
forceful and fitting close to an extraordinarily suggestive book.”

+ =Nation= 105:517 N 8 ‘17 540w

=New Repub= 11:117 My 26 ‘17 190w

=Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 8 ‘17 300w

“Sober, restrained, informing, useful.” H: R. Mussey

+ =Survey= 39:47 O 13 ‘17 870w

=STEINMETZ, CHARLES PROTEUS.=[2] America and the new epoch. *$1 (2c) Harper 330.9 16-21734

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

“Mr Steinmetz, who is by birth and training a German—of
Prussia—eliminates, both in his historical surveys and in his study of
America’s present condition and future possibilities, all
consideration of spiritual forces. He interprets history, and
therefore of course the present situation in the United States, solely
in terms of material tendencies, material forces, material results.”
F. F. Kelly

+ =Bookm= 45:180 Ap ‘17 450w

“Dr Steinmetz has that rare and suggestive vision of the Socialist who
is at the same time a great inventive engineer and an active officer
in one of our most advanced and successful industrial corporations. He
is personally engaged in fashioning the corporation out of which he
hopes the industrial state will be built. His socialism might be
called a ‘corporation syndicalism,’ for what he outlines is a union of
huge corporations into whose hands will be entrusted the productive
work of the nation.” R. S. Bourne

+ =Dial= 62:134 F 22 ‘17 440w

=Ind= 90:85 Ap 7 ‘17 180w

“The economic interpretation of history is pressed to its uttermost
limits. Along with much that is bizarre, the book contains
illuminating passages. The author is at his worst when he deals in
historical generalizations, but when he touches more concrete matters
he is not infrequently acute and penetrating.”

+ — =Nation= 104:557 My 3 ‘17 310w

“A book that ought to command the most serious study and thought of
every economist in America.” C. M. W.

+ =N Y Call= p15 Mr 18 ‘17 620w

“The book gains no little of its large value from this quality of
personal testimony by a qualified observer who has experienced both
systems. As such he has taken and presents a bird’s-eye view of world
industries, and speaks industrially where all others are speaking in
terms of politics, war, and diplomacy. It is a stimulating volume
presenting points of view which ought not to be so novel.”

+ =N Y Times= 21:574 D 31 ‘16 800w

=STEINMETZ, CHARLES PROTEUS.= Theory and calculation of electric circuits. il *$3 McGraw 621.31 17-9822

“Doctor Steinmetz is America’s best known authority in the field of
electrical mathematics. In revising his well known ‘Alternating
current phenomena’ for the fifth edition, the great increase in size
made it necessary to divide the work into three parts, of which the
present work is the second. ‘In the following volume I have discussed
the most important characteristics of the fundamental conception of
electrical engineering, such as electric conduction, magnetism, wave
shape, the meaning of reactance and similar terms, the problems of
stability and instability of electric systems, etc., and have given a
more extended application of the method of complex quantities, which
the experience of these twenty years has shown to be the most powerful
tool in dealing with alternating current phenomena.’ (Preface)”—N Y P
L New Tech Bks

=Bul N Y Public Library= 21:484 Jl ‘17 100w

“An authoritative treatise.”

+ =Cleveland= p109 S ‘17 40w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:76 My ‘17

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p9 Ap ‘17 130w

=Pittsburgh= 22:659 O ‘17 30w

=STEMPEL, GUIDO HERMANN=, comp. and ed. Book of ballads, old and new. (English readings for schools) il 60c Holt 821.08 17-13306

These ballads are grouped under the headings: Old ballads; American
ballads; New ballads. The four “American ballads” are reprinted from
Lomax’s “Cowboy songs and other frontier ballads” (1910). The “new
ballads” range from Campbell, Hood and Lady Nairne, to Kipling,
Lowell, Masefield, Newbolt, Noyes, Whittier, etc. There is an
introduction, mainly historical, followed by a “descriptive
bibliography” of two pages. Appended are 102 pages of “notes and
comment”; and a glossary.

“There are fewer of the old ballads, altho much the same ones as those
chosen by Professor Hart [in his “English popular ballads,” 1916].”

=Ind= 91:230 Ag 11 ‘17 90w

“The introduction treats vexed questions of origins fairly and
clearly. It strikes us as distinctly the best introduction to the
subject we have seen.”

+ =Nation= 105:263 S 6 ‘17 80w

=STEPHENS, HENRY MORSE, and BOLTON, HERBERT EUGENE=, eds. Pacific ocean in history. *$4 (3c) Macmillan 904 17-5822

A volume containing papers and addresses presented at the
Panama-Pacific historical congress held at San Francisco, Berkeley,
and Palo Alto, California, July 19-23, 1915. A brief outline of the
history and plan of the congress is given in the introduction. The
body of the book is given up wholly to the papers and addresses of the
general and special sessions. Among the subjects covered at some of
the special sessions were: The Philippine Islands and their history as
a part of the history of the Pacific ocean area; The north-western
states, British Columbia, and Alaska in their relations with the
Pacific ocean; Spanish-America and the Pacific ocean; Japan and
Australasia. There is an index that seems to be unusually complete.

“Among the addresses those by H. Morse Stephens on the Conflict of
European nations in the Pacific, by Rafael Altamira y Crevea on the
Share of Spain in the history of the Pacific ocean, and by Theodore
Roosevelt on the Panama canal are noteworthy. The paper by Professor
Murakami, on Japan’s early attempts to establish commercial relations
with Mexico, embodying his investigations in the archives of Spain,
Italy, and Japan, is perhaps the most interesting of all the
contributions.” W: R. Shepherd

+ =Am Hist R= 22:846 Jl ‘17 1000w

=A L A Bkl= 14:55 N ‘17

“For its condensed summary of historical facts the book should be of
use to students.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 16 ‘17 70w

“The student of American history will find these papers of most
absorbing interest.”

+ =Cath World= 105:399 Je ‘17 190w

“Much of the book is not of interest to the layman. But this is not
true of the opening address of Professor Stephens, in which he
discourses upon the conflict of European nations in the Pacific. His
wide view of international relations of the past four hundred years
may well enlarge the horizon of many a casual reader.”

+ =Dial= 63:646 D 20 ‘17 330w

“Sixteen of the twenty-nine contributions are by Californians—a fact
which explains both the strength and the weakness of the volume. The
unfortunate absence of South Americans, of Australians, and of
Chinese, though some had been expected to appear, deprived the
Congress and its printed record of any claim to represent the ‘Pacific
ocean in history.’ Taken singly the average standard of the various
papers is distinctly commendable.”

+ — =Nation= 105:541 N 15 ‘17 1500w

+ =R of Rs= 56:108 Jl ‘17 120w

=St Louis= 15:186 Je ‘17

“A useful service for those interested in world politics has been
performed in the publication of the minutes and papers of the
Panama-Pacific historical congress of 1915. ... All the strings of
world diplomacy meet in the Pacific as they do nowhere else.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 22 ‘17 750w

=STEPHENS, WINIFRED.= Madame Adam (Juliette Lamber); la grande Française; from Louis Philippe until 1917. il *$4 Dutton (Eng ed 18-1178)

“The founder and editor for twenty years of La Nouvelle Revue, the
mistress of a political salon, and the friend through more than half a
century of leaders of French life and thought, a passionate advocate
of self-government and of nationalism, Madame Adam is one of the most
notable women of the Europe of to-day. She is here presented to us by
one who has written and lectured a good deal about France and French
history, and who has had the advantage of Mme Adam’s personal
acquaintance and interest in the present work. Her main authority,
however, is, of course, Mme Adam’s seven volumes of ‘Souvenirs.’”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup

“Of great interest, and particularly well worth reading at the present
time.”

+ =Ath= p473 S ‘17 100w

=Outlook= 117:652 D 19 ‘17 120w

“A most comprehensive account of her varied and spectacular career.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:200 F ‘18 520w

“It was Madame Adam who first suggested and later engineered her
country’s alliance with Russia.”

* =Sat R= 124:68 Jl 28 ‘17 1350w

“We are glad to see this interesting biography of Mme Adam, one of the
most remarkable women of her time. She has played a considerable part
in French journalism and politics from the days of the Second empire.
She was the trusted friend of George Sand and Gambetta and many other
eminent people, and she has been a protagonist of the woman’s movement
in its largest sense, and of the Revanche for 1870, which is now at
last to be realized. As founder and editor for twenty years of the
Nouvelle Revue (1879-99), she did much to consolidate the Third
republic and to stimulate that wonderful revival of French national
spirit which has been manifested in this war.”

* + =Spec= 119:142 Ag 11 ‘17 1500w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p322 Jl 5 ‘17 110w

“Mme Adam’s own ‘Souvenirs’ end with the year 1880, and though they
stand as the main authority Miss Stephens’s book is primarily valuable
as filling up the gap of nearly forty years; and here the author has
had important aid from Mme Adam herself, from Sir Sidney Colvin, and
from other contemporaries. The book is also to be welcomed because it
is admirably written ... with a gaiety and zest not often to be found
in such generous measure among biographers.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p329 Jl 12 ‘17 1100w

=STEPNIAK, pseud. (SERGIEI MIKHAILOVICH KRAVCHINSKII).= New convert; a drama in four acts; tr. from the Russian by T: B. Eyges. $1 Stratford co. 891.7 17-9135

A play of the early days of the Russian revolutionary movement. The
author, says Prince Peter Kropotkin in his introduction, “was one of
the pioneers who decided to ‘go to the people.’ Disguised as a
laborer, he mingled among the peasants in the villages. At the
beginning of the so-called ‘terrorist’ movement he was one of its
pioneers and heroes.” In the play it is a young girl of good family
who follows this course. Her father casts her off and disowns her, but
his love for her is so great that when he finds her in danger, he
takes her into his house and tries to shield her. In so doing he is
himself won over to the Nihilist cause, becoming the new convert.

“It is unfortunate that the translation abounds in foreign English and
in all kinds of blunders. With a modicum of proper editing, it would
be a very actable and interesting play.”

=Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ‘17 300w

“It is well worth reading at this time as a first-hand document of the
pioneer labor for Russian liberty. But, if the truth must be told, it
is not likely that this play will add to Stepniak’s literary
reputation. ... Yet there is much beauty in the play, a warm sympathy
pervades the whole and that big simplicity which emanates from all of
Russia’s great men. An hour with ‘The new convert’ will be well
spent.” T: Seltzer

+ — =N Y Call= p14 Ap 15 ‘17 470w

=R of Rs= 56:102 Jl ‘17 80w

=STERN, MRS ELIZABETH GERTRUDE (LEVIN).= My mother and I. *$1 (4c) Macmillan 17-16442

A story of the Americanizing of a young Jewess, whose father, a rabbi,
and whose self-sacrificing little mother, came from a small town in
Russian Poland to the ghetto of a city in the Middle West. The one
cellar room which was their first home, the girl’s days in the grammar
and high school, her discovery of “Little women” in a rag shop, and
later of the public library, are simply but vividly pictured. She wins
a scholarship and works her way through college, only to find life in
the ghetto insupportable; and to leave home to study settlement work
in New York. There she meets her husband, and after the birth of their
son, the old mother takes her first long trip in 25 years to see her
daughter as “an American woman at the head of an American home” and to
experience “an infinite loneliness” because she cannot understand the
new ways and the new people. “And yet,” writes the daughter, “if I am
truly part of America, it was mother, she who does not understand
America, who made me so.” The introduction is by Theodore Roosevelt.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:24 O ‘17

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 45:649 Ag ‘17 440w

“The remarkable charm of the book lies in the daughter’s faithful
picture of the mother and in her appreciation of what the
Americanization of the foreign-born means in pain and separation.”

+ =Cleveland= p100 Jl ‘17 90w

“Describes the loftier and rarer aspect of immigration.”

+ =Dial= 63:402 O 25 ‘17 90w

+ =Ind= 91:351 S 1 ‘17 240w

“What affects one just a little unpleasantly is the predominance of
pride over tears in the countenance of the narrator as she shakes from
her feet the dust of her father’s house and goes to dwell forevermore
in the tents of the Americans. The completeness of her break with the
ghetto left some precious things behind.”

– + =Nation= 105:224 Ag 30 ‘17 880w

“The note struck in Mrs Stern’s book appears to be a more sincere one
than that sounded by Miss Antin, because, though the narrative is a
personal one, the reader is not oppressed by the ego of the writer.”
M. G. S.

+ =N Y Call= p15 S 9 ‘17 280w

“The book is well worth while. Not only because of the picture it
gives of the Americanized second generation, ... but also because of
the excellent style. ... The best thing in the book is the beautifully
tender portrayal of the relation between the mother and daughter, a
relation which is at once an idyl and a tragedy.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:255 Jl 8 ‘17 600w

=Pittsburgh= 22:744 N ‘17 50w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 10 ‘17 350w

“Perhaps an even more useful service of the book will be to open some
blind young eyes to the true worth and value of their parents.” K. H.
Claghorn

+ =Survey= 39:48 O 13 ‘17 330w

=STERN, FRANCES, and SPITZ, GERTRUDE T.= Food for the worker. *$1 Whitcomb & B. 613.2 17-13100

This book is devoted to the problem of how to provide sufficient
nutritious food at a low cost. The authors say, “Our contribution
towards answering the question is this series of menus, with food
values and costs for a period of seven weeks.” The book is not adapted
for use by the average untrained housewife in the type of family for
which the menus are planned. It will be most useful in the hands of
the visiting housekeeper or other social worker. In fact its
preparation is due in part to the experience of one of the authors as
a visiting housekeeper. Lafayette B. Mendel of Sheffield scientific
school has written a foreword commending the book.

“Practical, usable, intelligently planned, for the aid of housewives
catering on a working man’s income, and useful to the teacher,
visiting housekeeper or social worker. Reprints ‘How to build a
fireless cooker’ from Form 776 States relations service. Bibliography.
(2p.).”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:12 O ‘17

+ =Cleveland= p20 F ‘18 20w

+ =Pratt= p26 O ‘17 20w

“Should fill a great need at the present time.” Graham Lusk

+ =Science= n s 46:18 Jl 6 ‘17 170w

“A direct contribution to the literature of both social service and
home economics. Presents in small compass clear and scientific
material that will be invaluable for anyone who is responsible for the
feeding of families who through force of circumstances must keep to a
limited food allowance. ... A book for the trained worker, but the
untrained may find in it much to shed light upon their pathways.” W.
S. Gibbs

+ =Survey= 38:373 Jl 28 ‘17 180w

=STERNE, ELAINE.= Road of ambition. il *$1.35 (1c) Britton pub. 17-13078

Big Bill Matthews is foreman in a steel mill when the story opens. He
is a newly elected governor at its close. But unlike many another man
who has trod the road to ambition, he does not find achievement
bitter, for Bill’s aim is always to help his fellow men, and his way
is made bright by the love of the woman who had been the lady of his
early dreams. When he first saw Daphne Van Steer, he had no thought of
anything but worship from afar. Then came the success of his
invention, his fortune, his education in the ways of the world at the
hands of May Larrabee, and eventually his marriage with Daphne. For
her it was not a marriage of love, in the beginning—that came later.

“Just the book for the reader who likes a story with plenty of thrills
and a happy ending.”

+ =Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 50w

“Elaine Sterne has written the sort of story which we are glad to have
from an American novelist. Such a story could have been written more
effectively by a man, but one is willing to pass over certain
feminisms in the discussion of business for the sake of the story
itself, which is engrossing.”

+ — =Dial= 63:280 S 27 ‘17 200w

“A first novel, and a promising one. It is ambitious, faulty, of
course, but interesting, with some well written, natural dialogue, and
a dramatic quality which, as often happens in the work of novices—and
of experienced writers, too—occasionally spills over the line which
separates the dramatic from the merely melodramatic. The opening
chapters are the best.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:195 My 20 ‘17 350w

Reviewed by R. D. Moore

=Pub W= 91:1318 Ap 21 ‘17 370w

=STERRETT, FRANCES ROBERTA.= William and Williamina. il *$1.40 (2c) Appleton 17-25816

The heroine of this story, Williamina, a friendly little girl of ten,
was found when a baby, by William Kirwin, in a rowboat, after a
dreadful storm. Kirwin had gone to live in the country because of weak
lungs, and, even when cured, seemed to have no desire to mix again
with people. Williamina filled his life and he filled Williamina’s.
Yet it was partly due to her that he finally returned to a busier and
more conventional existence. Some of the other characters are: Helen
Spafford, a school-teacher, who wants to try gardening; Mrs Macartney,
who runs a chicken farm; Marietta White, who overworked at college and
is taking an enforced rest; Imogene Grace Butters, the stout trained
nurse; Mr Brewer, who has no use for “fool females”; Bob Brown, who is
hurt in an automobile accident; Hunter Olney, the rich breakfast food
man; and tall young Doctor Grey with his “shock of sandy hair.” There
are three rather slight love affairs in the book, but the main
interest centers in Williamina, who wishes that she and William
“should always love each other and really belong to each other and
live together happily forever and a day.”

“Williamina is amusing at times, and not quite so aggressively
virtuous as some children in fiction.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:484 N 18 ‘17 250w

=STETSON, JAMES FRANCIS LYNDE, and others.= Some legal phases of corporate financing, reorganization and regulation. *$2.75 Macmillan 338.8 17-7837

“A volume of addresses delivered in 1916 by recognized leaders of the
legal profession at the instance of the Association of the bar of the
city of New York, to audiences drawn from practicing lawyers. Mr
Stetson contributes a lengthy paper concerning the preparation of
corporate bonds, mortgages, collateral trusts and debenture
indentures. ... Mr Byrne supplies an exceptionally valuable treatise
on the foreclosure of railroad mortgages in the United States
courts. ... Mr Cravath treats of the reorganization of corporations;
bondholders’ and stockholders’ protective committees; reorganization
committees; and the voluntary recapitalization of corporations. ... Mr
Wickersham deals with the Sherman anti-trust law. ... Mr Montague
writes about the Federal trade commission and the Clayton act. Mr
Coleman and Mr Guthrie discuss the public service commissions.”—Ann Am
Acad

“It deals with particular problems in the peculiarly narrow and
intensive manner of legal procedure. This is its great merit, but it
is also the reason why the broader economic aspects of the problems
treated are either totally disregarded or else disposed of with only a
few phrases. Yet within their field of legal literature most of these
essays are remarkably comprehensive; in fact, several of them, notably
Cravath’s on reorganizations, are certainly unrivaled in the sphere of
legal finance.” A. S. Dewing

+ =Am Econ R= 7:645 S ‘17 1150w

“If the volume contained nothing but Mr Byrne’s treatise, it would
still be an important addition to legal literature.” J: L. Sullivan

+ =Ann Am Acad= 72:231 Jl ‘17 250w

=Cleveland= p92 Jl ‘17 30w

“Although stated to be designed primarily for the practical guidance
of practicing lawyers, [these addresses] will be of interest and value
to students of corporation problems, the trust problem, and public
utilities. The three on corporation problems are by far the most
interesting to the economist. With the exception of the last address
on public utilities, the other addresses tend to be mainly
descriptive, with little analysis.”

+ =J Pol Econ= 25:756 Jl ‘17 500w

“If ‘a priori’ reasoning is a peculiar weakness of lawyers, there is
no trace of it in the legal field ploughed through in the first three
essays. The practical corporation lawyer ... begins with a very
concrete picture of the result he wishes to attain. He draws upon a
wide practical experience to point out the simplest and surest way of
bringing the result about. Very different is the situation in the
field of public law described in the remaining four essays. Here we
are not yet out of the domain of dogma, of question-begging phrases,
of concepts that bear the appearance of self-evident truths, but
dissolve into meaningless verbiage when we try to apply them to flesh
and blood.” G. C. Henderson

=New Repub= 11:192 Je 16 ‘17 1350w

=STEVENS, RUTH DAVIS, and STEVENS, DAVID HARRISON=,[2] eds. American patriotic prose and verse. *$1.25 McClurg 811.08 17-28105

The selections in this book are arranged chronologically to conform
with the history of our country. In addition to this strictly
historical material, selections suitable for the patriotic holidays
are included. Each selection is accompanied by a brief note, giving
biographical and other data.

“Chiefly valuable for its timeliness, and while it is not without
certain historical examples of the kind, it would have been more
suitable if chosen with greater care and judgment.” W. S. B.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p9 D 5 ‘17 40w

=Cleveland= p134 D ‘17 40w

=STEVENS, WILLIAM HARRISON SPRING.= Unfair competition; a study of certain practices, with some reference to the trust problem in the United States of America. *$1.50 Univ. of Chicago press 338.8 17-9697

“‘Unfair competition’ is an expansion of the author’s two articles
which originally appeared in the Political Science Quarterly for 1914.
The new matter consists chiefly of added illustrations of cases of the
different methods of unfair competition, the listing of a new heading
called ‘Interference,’ and the expansion of the conclusion, where
especial attention is given to the trust legislation of 1914 as it
relates to this subject.” (J Pol Econ) “The text analyzes many types
of unfair competition and gives the concrete and specific facts, as
well as the principles involved. It is a valuable companion volume for
the compilation by Davies.” (Int J Ethics)

“The chapter on ‘Exclusive arrangements’ is, in the writer’s opinion,
the weakest chapter of the book, as these arrangements, while
classified and considered separately, are adjudged equally
objectionable. The book is replete with illustrations, is written in
an interesting style, and will be welcomed by all interested in this
important subject.” J. E. Hagerty

+ — =Am J Soc= 23:274 S ‘17 570w

=A L A Bkl= 14:114 Ja ‘18

“Dr Stevens has done a real public service by placing in convenient
form an assembly of facts on this problem. The tone of the book is not
that of an arraignment or accusation. The author shows neither
indignation nor heat—he seeks in guarded language to establish the
facts.” J. T. Young

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:783 N ‘17 450w

“It is patent that Stevens is not a proponent of large industrial
combinations simply because they are large, and he carries the
convictions of one who has investigated carefully the methods by
which, fortunately or unfortunately, big business has grown. The
logical soundness of some of his assertions is tinged by a
super-vigilant search for recondite motives on the part of business;
but he is not unfair.” Frank Parker

+ =Ann Am Acad= 74:295 N ‘17 350w

+ =Ind= 91:133 Jl 28 ‘17 160w

+ =Int J Ethics= 27:534 Jl ‘17 50w

“The volume is sound and timely and is the best presentation of the
topic available. While the conclusions of Dr Stevens appear sound,
additional weight would have been given them had he tried to set forth
and refute in more detail the arguments sometimes advanced to justify
the various methods of competition which he condemns.” C. W. Wright

+ =J Pol Econ= 25:629 Je ‘17 250w

=Pratt= p12 O ‘17 20w

=St Louis= 15:321 S ‘17 20w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 F 11 ‘18 300w

=STEVENSON, BURTON EGBERT.= King in Babylon. il *$1.50 (2c) Small 17-24692

“The story concerns a moving-picture producer and his determination to
introduce imagination and art into his work. ... He built a plot about
Henley’s lines, ‘I was a king in Babylon and you were a Christian
slave.’ The production carried him and his company to Egypt, where a
suitable setting was found in a royal tomb practically excavated by an
American archaeologist. It is at this point that the seemingly
supernatural enters the tale, giving an extraordinarily weird and
gripping turn to the story.”—Dial

“The events are thrilling and well suggested, only the final act seems
unreal.”

+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:134 Ja ‘18

“The author provides a rational explanation which is skillfully but
not altogether convincingly worked out.”

+ — =Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 80w

“A thrilling story with a groundwork of common sense!... Instead of
yielding to the easy trick of invoking the supernatural in order to
gain his effect, the author skilfully erects a framework of logical
explanation on which one may stand and enjoy the spectacular climax
without danger of doing his intelligence injury.”

+ =Dial= 63:281 S 27 ‘17 180w

“Some readers may think the story rather long-drawn-out and tedious
here and there. But it has the merit of originality in its treatment,
if not in its main theme of reincarnation, and in general is of the
thrilling stuff of which ‘best sellers’ are made.”

+ — =NY Times= 22:447 N 4 ‘17 610w

+ =Outlook= 117:184 O 3 ‘17 30w

“Appeared in McClure’s Magazine, v. 49, May-Oct. 1917.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:751 N ‘17 20w

“But the air of mystery and suspense surrounding the reincarnation
theory is sustained until the very close, where a wholly plausible
clue brings us breathlessly but safely back to sunlight on
terra-firma.” Joseph Mosher

+ =Pub W= 92:2027 D 8 ‘17 280w

“Cleverly exploits the theory of reincarnation and blends the
materialistic present with the mysteries and superstitions of
antiquity.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 7 ‘17 300w

=STEVENSON, GEORGE.= Little world apart. *$1.25 (1c) Lane 17-7457

A novel made up of little things. Applethwaite is a country parish
that constitutes a little world in itself. The great lady of the
neighborhood, the vicar and his family, the farm folk and the serving
maids all have a place in the story, so that at its close one feels
very well acquainted with all Applethwaite. Into this little world
comes a strange woman from the world outside to make friends with the
vicar’s family and start tongues a-wagging. In its ending there is a
touch of sadness, but the sadness is tinged with hope. Victoria is
queen at the time of the story.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:171 F ‘18

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 3 ‘17 170w

“One does not read of Applethwaite for the sake of its plot or plots,
but for the sheer joy of tarrying and gossiping there. Like ‘Cranford’
and ‘Old Chester tales,’ ‘A little world apart’ is ‘rich in veined
humanity.’”

+ =N Y Times= 22:126 Ap 8 ‘17 450w

“A most delightful account of life in a country village in,
presumably, the ‘eighties’ of the last century. The character drawing
is most delicately finished, and the author has a fresh and
discriminating sense of humor.”

+ =Spec= 118:210 F 17 ‘17 30w

“The author has a happy faculty of characterization, and it is to be
regretted that he did not have a stronger center for his story.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 140w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p56 F 1 ‘17 450w

“Some very good character portraiture.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:222 Jl ‘17 40w

=STEVENSON, WILLIAM YORKE.= At the front in a flivver. il *$1.25 (2½c) Houghton 940.91 17-25614

The preface tells us that the author left a newspaper position in
Philadelphia in 1916 to offer his services to France as driver of an
ambulance. “He kept a rough diary which, as the occasion offered, he
forwarded to his people. ... These notes are here published almost as
jotted down.” The scene of his experiences was in the neighborhood of
the Somme.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:90 D ‘17

“No heroics or exaggeration mar this simple humorous record.”

+ =Cleveland= p1 Ja ‘18 60w

“Freshly written.”

+ — =Dial= 63:589 D 6 ‘17 300w

+ =N Y Times= 22:453 N 4 ‘17 570w

=Pittsburgh= 22:827 D ‘17 50w

“A document the very robustness and downright sincerity of which are a
real joy to those who honestly want to be made to see.” Philip
Tillinghast

+ =Pub W= 92:1388 O 20 ‘17 200w

“A strong vein of humor adds many lightening touches to the narrative.
But in spite of these there is nowhere a denial of the seriousness of
the situation confronting the Allies in their fight with the enemy.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 30 ‘17 520w

=STEWART, BASIL.= On collecting Japanese colour-prints; being an introduction to the study and collection of the colour-prints of the Ukiyoye school of Japan. il *$2 (9c) Dodd 761 17-26875

The author states that because most books on Japanese prints have
apparently been written from the historical or artistic point of view,
they are of little use to the inexperienced collector. He has,
therefore, written this book primarily for the beginner, and refers
the reader who wishes fuller information to Ficke’s “Chats on Japanese
prints” or Von Seidlitz’s “History of Japanese colour-prints.” “Mr
Stewart gives a brief survey of the history and production of prints,
mentioning only the better-known artists. In the cases of Hokusai and
Hiroshige the various series, states, and editions are enumerated.”
(Dial) “The illustrations are from the author’s collection, and are in
keeping with the scope of the book. Both the blocks and the text are
printed in a brown ink.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) There is a
chapter on Japanese chronology as applied to the dating of prints.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:84 D ‘17

“It is an artistic book and will prove useful to students.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 24 ‘17 730w

“‘On collecting Japanese colour-prints’ is intended for the amateur
who is starting a collection, and as such it is a satisfactory
handbook.”

+ =Dial= 63:352 O 11 ‘17 120w

“Will be found especially useful in the detection of forgeries,
imitations, and reprints. The translations of the script and
signatures upon the prints illustrated are a praiseworthy feature of
this volume.”

+ =Int Studio= 63:85 D ‘17 110w

“Mr Stewart has not anything really new to tell us, though his
information is usually accurate and his views sound.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p294 Je 21 ‘17 650w

=STILES, PAULINE.= New footprints in old places. il *$2 (2c) Elder 914.5 17-25821

It is to Italy, and in particular to Rome, where the author spent a
winter, that the greater part of this book of travels is devoted. Her
travels date back to 1913 and 1914, August, 1914 bringing them to a
close. Contents: En route to Rome; First days in our Roman home;
Rome—The mother of nations; Roman holidays; Rome and a new year; We
travel in the south; Spring comes to Rome; Last Roman days; We become
Parisians; Touraine and Belgium; We encounter London; War and England.
There are eighteen illustrations.

“Travel books written in diary form are usually avoided by the
experienced reader; this one, however, is exceptionally well done, and
is quite charming both in the joyous enthusiasm of its descriptive
matter and in the well-printed photographic illustration.”

+ =Outlook= 117:519 N 28 ‘17 40w

“Miss Stiles is a good letter writer, and there is nothing stilted in
her word pictures of the most familiar places. Add to that fact that
she saw some places that are not in the beaten track, and had the
privilege of being a guest in various Roman houses where the mere
tourist never goes, and the charm of the book is enhanced. Typography,
illustrations, binding, all combine to make this a travel book above
the average.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 230w

=STILES, PERCY GOLDTHWAIT.= Human physiology; a text-book for high schools and colleges. il *$1.50 Saunders 612 16-15031

“The announcement in the preface, the ‘purpose is to present concisely
the accepted facts with only a limited description of the experiments
by which these facts have been established,’ gives an idea of the
scope and nature of the book. ... Little of historical importance is
mentioned, the omission being purposeful.”—Science

“The book before us is an excellent attempt to provide a text-book for
high schools. But, good as it is as an elementary account of the
present state of physiological science, it cannot be regarded as
altogether successful. It is apt to be dull and didactic rather than
stimulating. ... It would be an improvement if a part of the wealth of
the book in facts were sacrificed for a more intensive treatment of
some of them. ... The book is remarkably free from errors.” W. M.
Bayliss

+ — =Nature= 99:101 Ap 5 ‘17 880w

“On the whole, the book fulfills its particular purpose better than
any other with which I am familiar. Writing such a book is a
particularly difficult task, and the author has succeeded better than
most. There are many new diagrams of unusual clearness.” F. H. Pike

+ =Science= n s 45:482 My 18 ‘17 670w

=STIMSON, FREDERIC JESUP (J. S. OF DALE, pseud.).= Light of Provence. *$1.25 Putnam 812 17-14539

This dramatic poem pictures troubadour life and the French court in
the thirteenth century. The foreword states that the drama is entirely
historical, though the character of Douce is partly imaginary and
Adelais is compounded of Adelaide, Countess of Burlatz and Ermengarde,
Countess of Narbonne. It also lists the authorities on which the drama
is based. Mr Stimson seems to have worked over it for sixteen years
and then kept it by him for twenty-one more before publishing it.

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:108 Jl ‘17

“The plot traverses troubadour life at its best. ... By far the best
portion of the play is the best in which troubadour courtly love is
described. ... Mr Stimson’s diction is always good,—at times it is
exquisite. ... But the last portion of the poem is too sanguinary to
harmonize with the opening scenes.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 14 ‘17 290w

“‘The light of Provence’ is ‘a dramatic poem,’ not a poetic drama; and
as for historical accuracy, none but a pedant will demand it when the
author knows his subject so well as to give the profounder accuracy of
spirit. That is the great merit of this poem. The author has so
‘soaked’ himself in old Provence that, externally, he sees it and
makes his reader see it as vividly as if it were now before the eyes.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p378 Ag 9 ‘17 870w

=STIMSON, FREDERIC JESUP (J.S. OF DALE, pseud.).= My story; being the memoirs of Benedict Arnold. il *$2 (1c) Scribner 17-28796

Author and publisher have given to this book every mark of a genuine
autobiographical work, yet have made no pretense that it is other than
a work of fiction. It purports to be the life story of Benedict
Arnold, written by his own hand, with the purpose of justifying his
career in the eyes of the British king. Events of his public and
private life are closely followed. He is represented as a Tory by
nature, an aristocrat with no understanding of the more democratic
aims of the revolution. To see the colonies self governing under the
British king, was from the beginning his ideal, and the alliance with
the British which has branded him as traitor appears to have been
partly motivated by a desire to bring about this end.

“There is artistic mastery in the way in which the bumptious
assertions of loyalty to ‘my King’ are followed by apparently
half-unconscious expressions of pride in the achievements of the
Americans. ... Arnold’s love story is touched upon with a simple
tenderness that adds to the tragedy of the whole. And the revelation
of his gradual tempting is a masterly piece of work.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:465 N 11 ‘17 800w

“Arnold’s nature is admirably portrayed.”

+ =Outlook= 117:514 N 28 ‘17 120w

“Though presented in the guise of a novel, one of the most important
as well as most graphic historical books of the year.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 18 ‘17 1300w

=STIRLING, YATES.= Fundamentals of naval service. il *$2 (1c) Lippincott 359 17-13524