Chapter LXXX: Part 4: is given up to appendices devoted to the more advanced (5)

This book “has been prepared to serve as a manual to those of our
citizens who are interested in the United States navy and who may
choose to serve their country on the water. ... The great increases in
the personnel of the navy must be supplied in part from our inland
states, where the navy and its work is little known; to the citizens
of those states this book gives in a single volume information on
naval matters possible to obtain only by the reading of many different
volumes.” (Preface) The following special chapters have been
contributed to the volume: The naval aeroplane, by Lieut. Comm. H. C.
Mustin; Electricity in the navy, by Lieut. Comm. C. S. McDowell; First
aid and hygiene, by Dr Ralph Walker McDowell.

“Short bibliographies at the head of the five parts into which the
book is divided.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:430 Jl ‘17

+ =Ath= p522 O ‘17 360w

“A comprehensive up-to-date handbook.”

+ =Ind= 90:311 My 19 ‘17 40w

“Thanks to its clear print and thin Japan paper, ‘Fundamentals of
naval service,’ despite its 564 pages, is a handy volume. As a piece
of book work it reflects credit on its publishers. Commander
Stirling’s facts are beyond question, and may be accepted; his
opinions are his own. In professional matters they are sound, but we
cannot always agree with him in those not professional, as, e.g., his
advocacy of ship subsidies.”

+ =Nation= 105:323 S 20 ‘17 160w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:90 Je ‘17

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p15 Ap ‘17 100w

=Pratt= p15 O ‘17 50w

“The same excellent method by which Captain Andrews dealt with
military affairs in a small volume, recently issued by the Lippincott
Company, is followed in ‘Fundamentals of naval service,’ brought out
by the same house.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:668 Je ‘17 80w

“Read by and published with the approval of the United States navy
department, in which the author is an officer.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:182 Je ‘17 70w

=STOBART, MABEL ANNIE (BOULTON) (MRS ST CLAIR STOBART).= Flaming sword in Serbia and elsewhere. il *$1.75 Doran 940.91 (Eng ed 17-19162)

Mrs Stobart, who had spent four years “on the free veldt of the South
African Transvaal,” returned to London and offered a Woman’s unit to
the Belgian Red cross, went to Brussels and was captured, together
with her husband, by the Germans, and condemned to death. They escaped
to London, but were back in Belgium in three weeks. “Arriving in
Antwerp three weeks before the bombardment Mrs Stobart lost all her
hospital material there, offered her services to the French Red cross,
established herself at Cherbourg, worked there for four months, and
then, in February, 1915, resolved to volunteer for Serbia, starting
from Liverpool on April 1. The unit numbered forty-five. ... Most of
the book is devoted to this final adventure and its sequel: the
terrible march over the Albanian mountains to Skutari and the
sea—‘through snow, ice, boulders, unbroken forest, mud-holes,
bridgeless rivers.’” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

“If we had to choose between ‘The Anabasis’ and Mrs Stobart’s ‘Diary
of the Serbian retreat’ the vote would be preponderatingly in favor of
the latter, not only as a piece of literature, but as an account of
difficulties surmounted, of bravery unexcelled, of human agony
described, of cheerfulness in the most depressing circumstances, of
adaptability when there would seem to have been almost no escape, of
feminine practicality that won the admiration of the most sceptical.
Amid all the literature called forth by the Great war this epic
account of the Katabasis of the Serbians and of the hospital unit
conducted by Mrs Stobart will best deserve to be a classic in the
millenniums to come. ... It is the most telling document against war
that the war has produced, it shows the horror of it, and it shows the
futility of it. ... The book sparkles with wit and has amusing
passages, and it fills one with admiration for its stories of gallant
deeds of heroism—not in the taking of life, but in saving life.” N. H.
D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 5 ‘17 1200w

+ =Cleveland= p130 D ‘17 90w

“Her graphic narrative and observations come to us with the weight of
the best authority.”

+ =Ind= 92:342 N 17 ‘17 130w

“Much more than the usual narrative of war relief work. Hating war and
all its methods supremely, she has done not a little thinking about
it, especially about woman’s relations with it. ... Mrs Stobart was
the first woman in history to mobilize and command a field hospital in
war.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:348 S 16 ‘17 400w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:827 D ‘17 70w

“Mrs St Clair Stobart has written an admirable book.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p636 D 28 ‘16 750w

=STODDARD, CHARLES WARREN.= Poems; collected by Ina Coolbrith. il *$1.25 Lane 811 17-21944

Miss Coolbrith states in her Foreword that in 1909, at Stoddard’s
death, she volunteered to edit his poems “inclusive of the volume of
verse published in 1867,” together with all that had appeared since,
on the understanding that Mr Stoddard “had himself collected and
arranged them for this purpose.” No such book was found among his
effects, and as the files of local magazines and newspapers have been
largely destroyed in the San Francisco fire of 1906, and no clue
existed to non-local publications in which they might have appeared,
Miss Coolbrith’s task has been a long, difficult one. Some of the
poems in the volume are on the South Seas which Stoddard so loved, and
some are on California. The book opens with tributes in verse by
Joaquin Miller, George Sterling, Thomas Walsh, and Ina Coolbrith. The
frontispiece is a portrait of the author.

“Forty years ago William Dean Howells said of Charles Warren
Stoddard’s prose writings that they had in them ‘the very make of the
tropic spray, which knows not if it be sea or sun.’ The same elusive
charm, at once refreshing and languishing, opulently rich and
inexpressibly delicate, characterizes Stoddard’s poetry. ... In these
poems we catch glimpses of the inner man even more revealing than any
given in his other books.”

+ =Cath World= 105:822 S ‘17 700w

“Miss Coolbrith was a co-worker with Stoddard and Bret Harte on the
staff of The Overland Monthly, and, as she is, herself, a lyricist of
unquestioned merit, and laureate of ‘The golden state,’ crowned at the
recent exposition, she is well equipt to judge which poems of all that
Stoddard wrote should be collected and preserved. The volume includes
the best of his verse, the famous ‘Bells of San Gabriel,’ ‘Tamalpais’
and the sonnet ‘Yosemite.’”

+ =Ind= 92:66 O 8 ‘17 100w

“There is singularly little that is antiquated about these poems,
though some of them were dated from the early 60’s. Stoddard was a
supreme artist in verse as well as in prose, and was well in advance
of his time in his entire sincerity and lack of literary pose.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:449 N 4 ‘17 600w

=STODDARD, THEODORE LOTHROP.= Present-day Europe: its national states of mind. map *$2 (3c) Century 940.91 17-14686

This book, the author states, is not a story of current events, but a
study of “the war psychology of the various European nations.” It
covers England, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Russia, the
Balkan states, Turkey, Scandinavia, Belgium, Holland, Spain, and
Portugal. The author believes that “the only satisfactory method of
portraying thought and emotion is the use of direct evidence,”
therefore, he has quoted freely from contemporary speeches,
press-comment, pamphlets, etc. The narrative takes us to the opening
months of 1917.

=A L A Bkl= 14:21 O ‘17

“Throughout his investigation Mr Stoddard seems to have preserved a
scrupulously scientific attitude of mind. Indeed it is impossible to
determine from his book whether his sympathies are with Germany or
with the Entente. Those who wish an intelligent understanding of the
problems that will arise around the international council table when
the nations meet to settle the terms of peace will find ‘Present-day
Europe’ both informative and suggestive.” R. T. P.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 6 ‘17 1200w

“The value of such a study depends on the judgment with which the
excerpts are selected. Mr Stoddard’s judgment is excellent.”

+ =Nation= 105:434 O 18 ‘17 260w

“An extremely valuable work, valuable because its subject matter is in
itself new, and has not been treated in the ordinary run of war
literature. Of course, such a subject is extremely difficult to
handle, and its accuracy cannot be more than loosely guaranteed. It is
an approximation, but an approximation under the circumstances is the
only thing possible.” Joshua Wanhope

+ =N Y Call= p14 Je 17 ‘17 570w

“There is a powerful lesson in this volume, and it comes directly from
the people themselves.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:294 Ag 12 ‘17 500w

“Dr Stoddard’s book is most interesting not in those passages wherein
the author attempts by means of numerous citations of conflicting
views to body forth contemporary public opinion, but rather in the
purely historical parts. ... The author seems unable to do what a
writer in close spiritual contact with the nations concerned could
certainly do—that is, to give his readers some sure clue to the nature
and motives of the prevailing national feeling. The result is a
confusing medley of views.”

— =No Am= 206:482 S ‘17 470w

“In the chapters dealing with the greater nations only natives are
allowed to testify; thus in the chapter on England only Englishmen
speak, and in the chapter on France only Frenchmen. Not all observers
of the conditions precedent to the war, however, will agree with this
author’s conclusion that ‘everywhere ... the spirit of unrest was
setting the stage for the final catastrophe, and that the catastrophe
was ‘inevitable.’”

+ =Outlook= 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 90w

=Pratt= p42 O ‘17 30w

+ =R of Rs= 56:107 Jl ‘17 250w

=STONE, GILBERT.= England from the earliest times to the Great charter. (Great nations ser.) il *$3 Stokes 942 (Eng ed 17-26257)

“The present volume, which is the first of a series, treats of the
history of England from earliest times to Magna carta. In this period
the English race was being evolved, and the English constitution, as
we to-day know it, was slowly struggling into being. The volume,
indeed, is concerned with the birth of the English state.” (Preface)
The work aims to treat of the social history of the English people as
well as of political events. The method adopted has been to insert
chapters dealing solely with the condition of literature, art and
society in certain periods. A list of important dates and an index
complete the work. A book by the author on “Wales” was published in
1915.

“A solid and authoritative piece of work, drawn largely from secondary
sources. ... It is well illustrated and good for reference, but is not
very readable.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:308 Ap ‘17

“Mr Stone has chosen a fascinating and extensive period of great
historical value; he treats it fully from various points of view, and
the illustrations, which are plentiful and well selected, will be of
great use to his readers.”

+ =Ath= p53 Ja ‘17 30w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:23 F ‘17

“Through the mazes of Anglo-Saxon history Mr Stone, like everybody
else, follows the unfailing guidance of Mr Plummer. ... This is the
only chapter in which his readers have reason to complain that he has
failed to make use of recent advances in historical criticism. This
part of the book is marked by a knowledge of Welsh history which few,
if any, of Mr Stone’s rivals have possessed, and he is able to throw
fresh light upon some obscure incidents and questions. ... He is,
throughout, specially happy in his exposition of legal conditions and
legal reforms, and these passages, and his chapters on manners and
customs, are always fresh.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p620 D 21 ‘16 450w

=STONE, GILBERT=, ed. Women war workers. il $1.65 (3c) Crowell 940.91 (Eng ed 17-21956)

In her foreword to this book Lady Jellicoe says: “The truth is, this
is not a ‘men’s war,’ as wars have been hitherto, but one in which
both sexes must share the burdens and responsibilities.” In these
accounts, contributed by representative workers among British women in
the more important branches of war employment, we learn of work done
in munitions, on the land, as postwomen, as bank clerks, as
butcher-boys (“Delivering the goods”). The second part of the book,
entitled “Works of mercy” discusses nursing at the front and in the V.
A. D. (Volunteer aid detachments) hospitals, the cheering of the men
by entertainments and constructive work for the disabled, etc., and
welfare work among the women. Chapter 11 is a tribute to the women of
Paris during the German advance and chapter 12 contains most valuable
information on war organizations for the 600,000 new paid industrial
women workers and the enormous army of volunteers. These last include
those of Queen Mary’s needlework guild, those with the Vegetable
products committee (whose 40,000 women volunteers supply the fleet and
the naval hospitals with fresh vegetables), the workers at the
Soldiers and Sailors buffet (at the Victoria railway station, London),
and many others. The book lacks an index.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:55 N ‘17

“The facts throughout should receive all possible publicity, though
some of the deductions and thoughts regarding the future are rather
superficial and shortsighted.”

+ — =Ath= p357 Jl ‘17 120w

“Employers of women, also, will gather from representative worker
writers valuable hints for the preservation of their employees’ health
and strength.”

+ =Ind= 92:342 N 17 ‘17 160w

“The women war-workers of England, from V.A.D. nurse to munition
maker, have so often been held up in a semi-heroic pose that it is
refreshing to have in a volume written by the women themselves, a
purely human picture. A really eloquent, vivid, and closely knit
description of nursing at the French front is given by Grace Ellison.”

+ =Nation= 105:407 O 11 ‘17 390w

“The book not only offers entertainment, but has value and interest as
an offhand sketch of some of the results of the great war that may
have consequences of the greatest social importance.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:348 S 16 ‘17 510w

+ =Spec= 118:616 Je 2 ‘17 120w

=STONER, WINIFRED SACKVILLE.= Manual of natural education. il *$1 (2½c) Bobbs 370.1 16-20505

A note says that this book is meant to be used in connection with
“Natural education” and “Facts in jingles.” It is a book of methods
and devices. Among the chapters are: What is natural education; The
natural education book shelf; How to use the natural educational
tools; Training the physical part of the child’s trinity; Character
building; Requirements for natural educational schools.

“A valuable book for parents and teachers, for the ideas are not only
in line with those of other advocates of naturalism in education, such
as Rousseau and Mrs Johnson of Fairhope, Ala., but are practical,
although frequently expressed too concisely.”

+ =Cleveland= p149 D ‘16 50w

=Ind= 89:559 Mr 26 ‘17 40w

“There is really nothing added here to what she said in her first
book, nor, it may be added, has she given to the science of education
anything new. ... This book should be read by all mothers and
teachers, because they will get from it some of Mrs Stoner’s exuberant
enthusiasm for the noblest work in the world—the proper upbringing of
our children.” R. F. Zametkin

+ =N Y Call= p14 Mr 18 ‘17 330w

=STOURM, RENÉ.= Budget; Thaddeus Plazinski, tr., Walter Flavius McCaleb, ed. (Institute for government research. Studies in administration) *$3.75 Pub. by Appleton for the Institute for government research 336.44 17-19729

“This is the second volume published for the Institute for government
research, the first being ‘The financial administration of Great
Britain.’” (Survey) The translation is from the seventh edition of “Le
budget” (Paris, 1913). There is a foreword by the editor, who is
dissatisfied with the translation; an introduction by Charles A.
Beard, and an author’s preface. “The book is an extremely minute
historical and critical study of the French budget system, with some
consideration of the systems of other countries.” (Springf’d
Republican) Two introductory chapters are on The budget and The
budgetary prerogative. The author then divides the subject-matter into
four parts: part 1, Preparation of the budget; part 2, Voting the
budget; part 3, Execution of the budget; part 4, Control of the
budget.

“The best book on the subject in English. This translation is better
than the French original for American readers because of the careful
editing and notes.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:114 Ja ‘18

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:146 F ‘18 300w

=Cleveland= p107 S ‘17 50w

“No book has been more influential in bringing to their present high
efficiency the financial systems of the western European nations. ...
It will undoubtedly become a force in the gradual reshaping of public
opinion on more wholesome lines.”

+ =Dial= 63:459 N 8 ‘17 400w

“The translator has performed his difficult task fairly well, while
the editor has corrected a few mistakes made by the author in his
description of American budgetary procedure.”

+ =J Pol Econ= 25:856 O ‘17 60w

+ =Outlook= 117:143 S 26 ‘17 20w

“The editor of the series says in a frank and highly commendable
foreword that he is not satisfied with the translation, and his
judgment is borne out by an examination of the work. ... The very mass
of details all but obscures the underlying principles, but the
abstract and awkward translation may be partly responsible for this
impression. ... In its present form, the work will be of little
assistance to American political scholarship or to practical
politics.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 21 ‘17 150w

“For many years Stourm’s ‘Le Budget’ has been the standard work in
this field. Those who teach public finance in our colleges will
welcome it in English. ... Outside of academic circles it should be
widely read because it contains the best account of the evolution of
budgetary systems and sets forth in detail the problems encountered in
France, many of which have been not unlike our own. The difficult
tasks of translator and editor have been fairly well done.” H. A.
Millis

+ =Survey= 38:574 S 29 ‘17 100w

=STRAHAN, SPEER, and O’DONNELL, CHARLES LEE=, comps. Notre Dame verse. *$1 Notre Dame book store, Notre Dame, Ind. 811.08

“Some of the best of the poetry that has been written in past years by
the students of Notre Dame university has been gathered into a small
volume by Speer Strahan and Charles L. O’Donnell, C. S. C., and
published with the modest title ‘Notre Dame verse.’” (Lit D) “Some
famous names are included in the list of contributors. Charles Warren
Stoddard is here, with his inimitable ‘Lahaina,’ and his ‘Indiana’;
Maurice Francis Egan with an exquisite sonnet, ‘An eventide’; Father
Charles L. O’Donnell offers four beautiful selections, one a quatrain
of the sort that the lamented Father Tabb was wont to write; Speer
Strahan is also represented, whose verse is well known, ... and two or
three others, perhaps not quite so familiar.” (Cath World)

“It is the spirit of the writings herein gathered that appeals; the
uniform sense of high ideals, of nobility in aspiration that is
refreshing.”

+ =Cath World= 106:262 N ‘17 270w

“It is an admirable collection.”

+ =Lit D= 54:1176 Ap 21 ‘17 360w

Straight road. il *$1.50 (1c) Doran 17-13077

The familiar story of the woman alone is retold in this novel. Callie
Baird leaves her husband and goes out into the world to make a living
for her child. Her marriage had been doomed to failure from the first,
for it had been arranged by her mother after the ruthless breaking off
of a boy and girl love affair. She meets both harshness and kindness
at the hands of men and women. She comes into contact with more than
one man who looks on her as legitimate prey, but she finds the other
kind too, and finally there is a meeting with the old girlhood lover.
This happens under dramatic circumstances, while Callie is working as
a hop picker on a ranch owned by his father. The scene of the story is
California and the events related in the closing chapters bear a close
resemblance to occurrences at Wheatland a year or so ago.

“The anonymous novel which has been published serially in McClure’s
Magazine has aroused considerable comment already. ... There is no
doubt whatever that the magazine desires it to be understood that it
is the record of actual experience. It is just as absolutely true that
it is constructed with very apparent knowledge of novel
construction. ... It is by no means a great story, but it is very
strong in human interest. Its force comes from the frankness of the
personal confession in it.” D. L. M.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 My 19 ‘17 660w

“The story of the strike itself is told with conviction. And the
woman’s experiences before she becomes a hop-picker, her struggles to
earn a living and keep straight in a world dominated by the predatory
male, seem to be real adventures and not special pleading. It is a
book which any good craftsman would be willing to sign, and I cannot
see the reason for anonymity.” J: Macy

+ — =Dial= 63:112 Ag 16 ‘17 310w

“When the end of the book is nearly reached, there comes an
interesting episode. This is Callie’s short experience as a hop-picker
on the Las Palmas ranch.”

— =N Y Times= 22:163 Ap 22 ‘17 350w

“The principal characters are skilfully sketched and the heroine’s
little boy is delightful. If the story is impressionistic and
discursive, and the sex theme unpleasantly insistent, the incidents
are well conceived, and the writing brisk and interesting.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 20 ‘17 350w

=STRAUS, NATHAN.= Disease in milk; the remedy: pasteurization; the life work of Nathan Straus, by Lina Gutherz Straus. 2d ed, rev and enl il *$2.50 Dutton 614.3 17-13812

This book, first published privately some years ago, is now presented
in a revised and enlarged edition to commemorate the twenty-fifth
anniversary of Nathan Straus’s establishment of pasteurized milk
stations for the poor children of New York city. It tells what
pasteurization is and does, gives the history of the struggle for pure
milk in New York city and state and in Chicago, of milk work in Europe
and America, of Mr Straus’s work in Palestine, of his tuberculosis
preventorium for children, etc. Reprints of addresses, articles and
letters by Mr Straus in furtherance of pasteurization take up 196
pages. There are also formulas, tables of statistics, a discussion of
how far contaminated milk is to blame for infantile paralysis, and a
detailed description of how milk may be pasteurized at home. There are
many illustrations.

+ =Ind= 92:109 O 13 ‘17 70w

“It offers a compilation of facts and observations upon the subject of
diseases and milk and how to combat them which all who are interested
privately or publicly in the milk supply will be glad to have.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:257 Jl 8 ‘17 500w

“Altogether the book is an inspiring record of the courageous,
persistent and successful fight waged by Mr Straus.” Franz Schneider,
jr.

+ =Survey= 39:72 O 20 ‘17 130w

=STRAYER, GEORGE DRAYTON, and NORSWORTHY, NAOMI.= How to teach. *$1.30 Macmillan 371 17-4794

“This book includes a comprehensive summary of the psychological facts
and principles which underlie effective method, as well as a series of
specific suggestions to be observed in teaching. The scope of the book
is well represented by the following topics: ‘The work of the
teacher,’ ‘Original nature,’ ‘Attention and interest in teaching,’
‘The formation of habits,’ ‘How to memorize,’ ‘The teacher’s use of
imagination,’ ‘How thinking may be stimulated,’ ‘Appreciation,’ ‘The
meaning of play in education,’ ‘The significance of individual
differences,’ ‘The development of moral social conduct,’ ‘Transfer of
training types of classroom exercises,’ ‘How to study,’ and ‘Measuring
the achievement of children.’ ... Practically every chapter contains
illustrations based on actual classroom practices.”—El School J

=A L A Bkl= 14:8 O ‘17

“This book is thoroughly colored by the experimental work and
educational philosophy of Dewey and Thorndike. The point of view of
the former is elaborated in the chapter on ‘Thinking,’ and of the
latter in the chapters on ‘Original nature,’ ‘Habit formation,’
‘Transfer of training,’ and school tests. The chapter on ‘Measuring
the achievements of children’ can hardly be said to be a
representative statement of the testing movement.”

+ =El School J= 17:530 Mr ‘17 450w

“The most thorough and systematic treatment of the problems of general
methods which has appeared during the past year. On account of the
psychological background, which many of its discussions presuppose,
this book is much better adapted to the mature or experienced teacher
than to the beginner. It merits, however, a prominent place in the
working library of each teacher.”

+ =El School J= 17:756 Je ‘17 220w

=N Y Call= p15 S 16 ‘17 170w

=STREET, GEORGE EDMUND.= Unpublished notes and reprinted papers. il *$2.25 (3½c) Hispanic soc. of Am.; for sale by Putnam 726 17-8606

George Edmund Street was an English architect, associated with
Burne-Jones and William Morris. In her biographical introduction,
Georgiana Goddard King speaks of him as “a man who died more than
thirty years ago, who lived a Tory and a high churchman, who worked to
revive Gothic architecture in England.” He traveled extensively,
studying the architecture of France and Italy. It is with these
travels that the papers and notes in the present volume deal. An
appendix gives notes on churches of northern Germany.

“The whole volume will be a valuable addition to the library of anyone
interested in the subject of Gothic architecture in Europe or in the
work of Street himself.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 6 ‘17 750w

“This volume is virtually the only printed memorial of the man, who at
the time of his death, thirty-five years ago, was hailed as the
greatest of British architects, the designer of the great Courts of
justice in London, and the foremost exponent of the movement for the
revival of the Gothic architecture in England.”

=R of Rs= 55:215 F ‘17 100w

“The travel notes are of general interest though shot through with
architectural comment that makes chief appeal to the profession and
the ecclesiologist. It is a valuable book, but not a particularly
popular one.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 15 ‘17 250w

=STREET, JULIAN LEONARD.= American adventures. il *$3 (2c) Century 917.5 17-30047

In quite the same vein as “Abroad at home.” There is let loose in
these pages something of the hero-worshipper, a good deal of the sage
and poet and a preponderance of the traveler who has a keen scent for
historical and literary associations. Those who go a-journeying with
Mr Street will cover the principal cities from the Chesapeake to the
Mississippi. Traditions, great men, great deeds, memorials, scenery,
atmosphere—these are the matters that concern the writer as he hunts
out the strong, deep-rooted city entity. A suggestive foreword which
likens the relationship of the South and the North to that of a
pretty, sensitive wife to a big strong, amiable if somewhat
thick-skinned husband furnishes a novel thought.

“They are sympathetic, delightful descriptions, with much information
entertainingly treated.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:126 Ja ‘18

“The book suffers a little from an excess of reportorial matter. As in
his first book, Mr Street reveals a lively humour and a faculty for
looking at old things from new angles. In one respect, however,
‘American adventures’ is not up to the standard of ‘Abroad at home.’
In the earlier book the author wrote as if he were thoroughly at home
in the middle west, and enjoyed his visit there. The later volume
gives one an impression that Mr Street was not so much at home in the
South, that it was very new to him, and that he did not altogether
understand it.” A. M. Chase

+ — =Bookm= 46:335 N ‘17 250w

“As guests of the southern states the collaborators in pen and pencil
courteously draw a fair portrait, and, in consequence, ignore some
very fundamental facts not to the credit of southern civilization. How
much the ‘expense account’ of which Collier’s Weekly, with its known
southern attitude, assumed a part, had to do in influencing this easy
reportorial indifference, one can only guess.”

– + =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 9 ‘18 240w

+ =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 40w

“In a little foreword written with exquisitely fine feeling he speaks
of the North’s lack of understanding of the South and urges more
consideration for the feelings of that region. Mr Morgan’s
illustrations catch the spirit and charm of the scenes he portrays.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:482 N 18 ‘17 250w

“The work of a trained observer and a clever artist who set out to
‘make a book.’ The result is lively, interesting, but somewhat
‘newspaperish.’ It is a good book for stay-at-home travelers who would
like to go South for the winter but can’t.”

+ =Outlook= 117:433 N 14 ‘17 50w

“Written in the same mood of pleasant intimacy and irresponsible
self-enjoyment as ‘Abroad at home.’ ... The serious minded tourist,
who purposes to cover conscientiously the orthodox ‘sights’ of each
city he proposes visiting would do better to trust to the meagre help
of the inadequate American Baedeker. Mr Street would inevitably leave
this type of person so sadly full of disillusions. The reason is quite
simple: what he describes is less what exists in any given place than
what he happens to think he finds there—a large part of which he
brings with him.” Philip Tillinghast

+ — =Pub W= 92:1388 O 20 ‘17 400w

“Many of the papers have appeared serially in Collier’s, but they have
been amplified considerably for the present publication. Chief in
interest, perhaps, among the additions are the letters which were
called out from the South, either in contradiction or commendation,
after the first appearance of the work.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 24 ‘17 760w

=STREETER, BURNETT HILLMAN=,[2] and others. Immortality. *$2.25 (2c) Macmillan 218 17-31042

A companion volume to “Concerning prayer.” The title-page describes it
as “an essay in discovery, co-ordinating scientific, psychical, and
biblical research.” In the first two essays and the first section of
the third the attempt is made to set out in logical sequence the main
arguments for the belief in personal immortality. The rest of the
third essay, and essays four to six deal with the nature of the after
life, and discuss the meaning and value for modern thought, of
conceptions like resurrection, judgment, heaven and hell. Essays seven
and eight estimate judicially the elements of truth and error in
spiritualism and in the doctrine of reincarnation, more especially in
relation to the claims made on its behalf by modern theosophy. The
ninth essay is an epilogue to the whole collection.

=Ath= p42 Ja ‘18 90w

“The essays are unequal in value but, in the main, are fresh and
stimulating. The best, as also the most philosophic, thing in the book
is A. Clutton-Brock’s essay.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 28 ‘18 340w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p586 N 29 ‘17 200w

=STRONG, THERON GEORGE.= Joseph H. Choate. il *$3 (3½c) Dodd 17-28096

Mr Strong, who is the author of “Landmarks of a lawyer’s lifetime,”
divides his volume of nearly 400 pages into four sections: The New
Englander; The New Yorker; The lawyer; The ambassador. The book does
not pretend to be “a complete biography of Mr Choate, much less an
authorized biography, which would naturally refer to subjects,
domestic and social, to which the author does not allude.”
(Introductory note) Mr Strong has had access to very full scrapbooks
containing clippings from English and American newspapers kept by Mr
Choate when he was ambassador. Mr Choate also placed the beginning of
his reminiscences, consisting of family history carried only to the
date of his birth, in Mr Strong’s hands, and “in several conversations
gave him valuable information.” The book contains a number of
illustrations and is indexed.

“The author’s division of Mr Choate’s long and brilliant career into
four phases, each of which he treats separately, helps the reader to
appreciate the many-sided variety of his character and achievement.”
F. F. Kelly

+ =Bookm= 46:328 N ‘17 330w

=Boston Transcript= p6 D 8 ‘17 1300w

+ =Cleveland= p12 Ja ‘18 40w

“Mr Choate preserved ‘scrap-books’ which he turned over to Mr Strong.
The result is necessarily a somewhat scrappy work. Meanwhile, Mr
Strong must be thanked for bringing out of his storehouse of personal
recollections and of available records, things new and old to quicken
remembrance of the man whose personality was too vivid ever to be
brought to print.”

+ — =Nation= 105:489 N 1 ‘17 330w

“While Mr Strong disclaims the purpose of writing a biography of Mr
Choate that would be either authoritative or complete, he has made a
study that is full of interest, that covers fairly well the several
phases of his many-sided life, and that had, in some of its features,
the assistance and authority of Mr Choate himself.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:435 O 28 ‘17 970w

“Mr Strong’s book will prove to be a valuable contribution to
Americans for one thing alone if for no other. It collects Mr Choate’s
ambassadorial addresses. Nothing of the kind we know of in English
literature is more charming. The volume is a credit to its subject and
to its author.”

+ =Outlook= 117:574 D 5 ‘17 170w

“His life, though not an ‘official’ biography, and though containing
numerous errors of facts, gives one a good idea of the man and the
lawyer.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 320w

=STROUSE, SOLOMON, and PERRY, MAUDE ALICE.= Food for the sick. *$1.50 Saunders 613.2 17-28335

This manual for physician and patient has been compiled by an
associate attending physician and a dietitian at the Michael Reese
hospital in Chicago. The authors state that their own experience has
been supplemented by free use of current literature in textbooks and
magazines. They attribute the planning of the chapter on Diseases of
the heart to Dr Sidney Strauss and the outlining of that on Diseases
of the skin to Dr Phillip F. Shaffner. The need for the book would
seem to them to rest in the fact that “many diseases in which food
plays an important role in treatment do not progress favorably because
of the inability of the patient to grasp in terms of the kitchen what
the physician says in terms of the laboratory.” (Introd.) The plan of
the book therefore is to enable the patient and the physician to work
together by making clear to the patient the “why” and the “how” of the
diet needed. Each chapter is devoted to a single subject and the
disease or condition is discussed in such a way as to make plain the
reasons for the dietary rules which follow. Complete details for the
diet are then given, with instructions in preparing foods and many
menus. The first chapter is devoted to a description of the normal use
of food and to lessons in practical application of food tables in
building any kind of special menus. About one-fifth of the text is
given to the dietary treatment of diabetes mellitus.

=STRUTHERS, MRS LINA (ROGERS).= School nurse. il *$1.75 (3½c) Putnam 371.7 17-24218

This book has been written for school nurses. It is not designed as a
complete text book, but is full of helpful suggestions and directions.
A reading of the first chapters suggests that it might fill a need in
a wider field. Particularly, it seems that it might be of value to
women’s clubs that promote civic movements in their communities.
Contents: Introduction; History; Organization; Staff rules;
Administration; State regulations; School clinic; Out-door classes;
Diseases; Tuberculosis; Debilitated children; Common physical defects;
Carious teeth; The school nurse; Card system of reports. The book is
provided with various maps and charts but lacks an index. The author
has served as superintendent of school nurses in New York city and in
Toronto.

+ =Ath= p44 Ja ‘18 40w

+ =Cleveland= p10 Ja ‘18 40w

=El School J= 18:234 N ‘17 520w

+ =R of Rs= 56:555 N ‘17 70w

Reviewed by S. L. Jean

+ =Survey= 39:370 D 29 ‘17 420w

=STUART, FLORENCE PARTELLO.= Adventures of Piang, the Moro jungle boy. il *$1.35 (2c) Century 17-25285

It has been the author’s purpose to do justice to the Moro, the
highest type native to the Philippines. The volume is called “a book
for old and young” and it is evidently her hope that in addition to
the children who will enjoy the stories, many older people will read
it for the information it contains. It is based on her own experience
as a resident of the lower Philippines, supplemented with information
from authoritative sources. The book is made up of ten short stories,
some of which are reprinted from St Nicholas, What To Do, and Boys’
World. There are striking black and white illustrations by Ellsworth
Young.

=A L A Bkl= 14:174 F ‘18

+ =Cleveland= p133 D ‘17 50w

“These tales are packed full of information about the customs, beliefs
and way of living of the Moros. ... And the adventures are quite
exciting enough to rejoice the heart of any normal boy.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:380 O 7 ‘17 450w

“A book that will be valuable to readers of all ages. Boys, however,
will especially appreciate the adventures of the lively young Moro.
The illustrations are so telling and effective that they greatly add
to the charm of this book.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 1 ‘17 150w

=STUCK, HUDSON.=[2] Voyages on the Yukon and its tributaries; a narrative of summer travel in the interior of Alaska. il *$4.50 Scribner 917.98 17-30733

“This book of Archdeacon Stuck’s is quite complete in itself. But it
is written as a supplement and complement, the author points out, to
‘Ten thousand miles with a dog sled,’ and the two volumes form a
full survey of Alaskan travel through the year. The present volume
is devoted to the Yukon voyages, and the second to the
tributaries—‘side-streams,’ as the river men call them, though they
are anything but mere ‘streams’ as we use the word. He writes of the
Klondike rush for gold. He has a full account of the work of the
Canadian northwest mounted police in the Yukon territory. He writes
of the cities that grew up overnight in the ‘boom’ times, and of
their fate. He tells us of the rivers themselves, their history. He
has much to say of the Indians. He writes of the schools of Alaska,
and of the teachers, and of ‘compulsory English’ for the Indians.
His book has in it sociology and economics, history, description,
personal experience, and narrative.”—N Y Times

=A L A Bkl= 14:165 F ‘18

“When a vigorous, widely traveled and broadly read man like Archdeacon
Stuck writes about a subject with which he is thoroughly familiar by
years of contact, the result reasonably may be a diverting book; but
Bishop Stuck adds to these qualities the gift for picturesque phrase
and original thought.” W. A. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 26 ‘17 1150w

“‘Voyages on the Yukon and its tributaries’ is a notably interesting
presentation, informative, never pedantic; rich in description,
history, legend, yet never altogether objective, for it is tinged
warmly throughout with the author’s personal experience, opinion,
thought. It is in its personal quality that much of the absorbing
charm of the book, as a piece of writing, lies.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:581 D 30 ‘17 670w

“A thoroughly well made and extremely readable book.”

+ =Outlook= 117:615 D 12 ‘17 60w

=STUNTZ, HOMER CLYDE.= South American neighbors. 60c Missionary educ. movement 16-14106

“This book, although confessedly written ‘in the crowded hours of a
busy year,’ accomplishes very well the purpose of the author, namely,
to present for the use of mission-study classes the great problems
lying before our missionaries in the South American field. ...
Although necessarily brief and incomplete, the author very
interestingly reviews the resources of South America, its fascinating
history, the reasons for its slowness of development, some of the
great missionary pioneers, and the outstanding problems of religion,
education, and morals which are confronting statesmen and missionaries
alike. He shows the inadequacy of the prevailing religion, and brings
out clearly the paralyzing effects of the system of vast landed
estates and the low position assigned to woman in society. He presents
also some very interesting comparisons between North America and Latin
America in history, purposes and life.”—Am J Theol

“He raises many questions, political, educational, industrial,
religious—questions which many people have not realized, and which are
yet deserving of careful study.” L. T. H.

+ =Am J Theol= 21:158 Ja ‘17 260w

“To those whose knowledge of South America is meager this little
volume will serve as an excellent introduction. A good map and a
select bibliography are given at the end of the volume.”

+ =Bib World= 49:185 Mr ‘17 80w

=Survey= 37:587 F 17 ‘17 40w

=STURGIS, ESTHER MARY (OGDEN) (MRS RICHARD CLIPSTON STURGIS).= Random reflections of a grandmother. *$1 (5½c) Houghton 814 17-28913

A book of reflections and reminiscences from the pen of a woman who
has just discovered that grandmothering is a distinct occupation. She
is one of the modern up-to-date grandmothers, very different from the
person who used to sit in the chimney corner with her knitting, with a
soft white fichu over her shoulders and a priceless lace cap on her
silvery hair. It worries the writer somewhat that she cannot live up
to this picture, until it occurs to her that after all the modern
grandchild wouldn’t care for that kind of a grandparent. The
reflections touch on many subjects.

“She writes with the true valiant heartiness of the woman to whom the
world is a place for courage and laughter.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 O 6 ‘17 1450w

“A book of whimsical humor, of gay comment, and bright and lovable
criticism, a little book full of chuckles and common sense.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:462 N 11 ‘17 1000w

“There is a light touch for every chapter, and once or twice a
paragraph that brings a catch to the voice if one is reading aloud.
The book is well adapted for such reading and seems likely to receive
it.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 8 ‘17 220w

=STURTEVANT, EDGAR HOWARD.= Linguistic change. *$1 (2c) Univ. of Chicago press 409

This book, which has grown out of lectures to the author’s students in
Columbia university, is intended to serve as an introduction to the
historical study of language. It consists of the following chapters:
Introduction on the nature of language; Primary change of form;
Secondary change of form; Change of meaning; Change in vocabulary;
Change in syntax; Language and dialect; The trend of linguistic
development.

“It is a pleasure to call attention to a thoroly sound book for use by
university students who are taking seriously the study of philology
and linguistics. ... We know of no better way for the student of
linguistics to begin his acquaintance with that interesting subject
than by mastering Professor Sturtevant’s book.”

+ =Educ R= 54:529 D ‘17 80w

=SULLIVAN, ALAN.= Inner door. il *$1.35 Century 17-20669

“Sylvia Percival, twenty-two years old, is left sole owner of the
Consumer’s rubber company. Charming, delicately bred, shrinking from
all unpleasantness, Sylvia is quite content to leave affairs in the
willing hands of Pethick, the capable but unscrupulous manager of ‘the
works,’ and goes to France, to visit her cousins. On her return, she
is to marry Kenneth Landon, whom she loves, and who loves her. Soon
after Sylvia goes, Kenneth’s father loses everything, and young Landon
suddenly finds himself penniless. His great idea then comes to him. He
will go to work incognito in Sylvia’s factory. He will learn the
secrets of ‘the works,’ and emerge at the end of the year, a friend of
the operatives, and thus be able to help Sylvia more practically than
he else could have done in that work of uplift he has no doubt she
will be as anxious as he to carry on. He learns more quickly than he
could otherwise have done, because of his friendship with Sohmer, the
socialist leader and philosopher. He goes to board at the Sohmers. And
here Greta comes into his life: Greta, whose vivid personality is the
epitome of love’s need of ‘giving.’”—Adapted from Boston Transcript

=A L A Bkl= 14:63 N ‘17

“It is seldom that a novel presenting so keen a study of the eternal
warfare between labor and capital has so poignant a romantic interest.
Usually one or the other is sacrificed. ... The skill with which the
story is wrought is admirable. ... Among the most effective bits of an
always artistic method, are the contrasting descriptions and their
subtle influence upon Sylvia, of the grim Canadian town, where her
betrothed is waiting for her and the picturesque districts of the
Riviera, into whose delights she and her Parisian cousins are
initiated by the cosmopolitan of parts, Philippe Amaro.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 18 ‘17 620w

“The weak point in execution is the character drawing. Sylvia is
perhaps the most lifelike. Certainly, in spite of her open-eyed
selfishness, she is a much less unpleasant character than Greta.
Sohmer is simply unreal, either as a symbol or as a man. It is a pity
such defects detract from what might have been a novel of considerable
power.”

– + =Cath World= 106:410 D ‘17 400w

“The author has presented only the more obvious questions in the
conflict between labor and capital, the more obvious conflict between
real and fancied romance in the heart of his hero, and he has thrown
about them a sentimental glamour that no amount of forceful writing
can conceal. The book is a good example of the so-called better type
of American novel with which the general reading public is wont to
satisfy itself.”

+ — =Dial= 63:647 D 20 ‘17 140w

“The romance, which is depicted on a background of factory life, labor
grievances, and strikes, seems artificial and unnatural.”

– + =Lit D= 55:39 O 27 ‘17 240w

“‘The inner door’ is a door of revelation through which the youth of
the story passes from good-humored acceptance of the world as a
pleasant place to knowledge of it as a world of fellow-men. ... The
story has no striking novelty of material.”

=Nation= 105:248 S 6 ‘17 210w

“Those writers about labor who have not themselves been laborers or in
constant close touch with the labor movement invest their subject with
a glamour quite absent to the accustomed eye. ‘The inner door’ offends
deeply in this particular. ... The leader of the striking laborers is
a type of man that never could be anything in a modern labor union but
an eccentric ‘character,’ loved, perhaps, by his fellows, but never
followed where serious issues are at stake. The hero ... is another
impossible creation ... and his fiancée, the owner of the factory in
which he works, is in every way his complement. ... The capitalists in
the book are much better drawn than are their employés. Perhaps Mr
Sullivan knows them better. ... His plot and incident are fairly well
worked out.” D: P. Berenberg

– + =N Y Call= p14 Ag 12 ‘17 560w

“Although it is with Sohmer and his daughter that Mr Sullivan’s
sympathies evidently lie, he has done much better work in his sketches
of pretty, pleasure-hungry Sylvia, her relations, the Percivals, and
the delightful old Comtesse.”

+ — =NY Times= 22:279 Jl 29 ‘17 510w

=SUPPLE, EDWARD WATSON=, ed. Spanish reader of South American history; ed. with notes, exercises, and vocabulary. (Macmillan Spanish ser.) il *$1 Macmillan 468 17-2333

“The editor is instructor in Spanish in the Sheffield scientific
school at Yale.” (St Louis) “This book contains selections from
Latin-American authors dealing with episodes in their history, such as
the death of Atahuallpa the Inca; the campaigns of Bolivar and San
Martin, who drove out the Spaniard; and the sea fight off Iquique
between the Peruvians and Chileans in 1879. The text is carefully
annotated, with a vocabulary and maps.” (Spec)

=Ind= 91:234 Ag 11 ‘17 40w

=Pittsburgh= 22:694 O ‘17 10w

=St Louis= 15:325 S ‘17 10w

“Has clear maps and interesting illustrations.”

+ =School= R 25:303 Ap ‘17 20w

+ =Spec= 118:593 My 26 ‘17 90w

=SURETTE, THOMAS WHITNEY.= Music and life; a study of the relations between ourselves and music. *$1.25 (3c) Houghton 780.4 17-11124

A collection of essays on music, reprinted in part from the Atlantic
Monthly. The book as a whole makes a fine and vigorous plea that music
be accepted as a part of life rather than one of its ornaments or
decorations. In his conclusion the author sums up the matter: “The
relation between music and life is an intimate and vital relation. Any
person, young or old who does not sing and to whom music has no
meaning, is by just so much a poorer person in all that goes to make
life happy, joyous and significant. Any community which employs no
form of musical expression is by just so much inarticulate and
disorganized as a community. Any church that buys its music and never
produces any of its own loses just so much in spiritual power.”
Contents: What is music; Music for children; Public school music;
Community music; The opera; The symphony (two chapters).

“The chapters on ‘Public school music’ and ‘Community music’ are
noteworthy, and there is some helpful discussion of the possible
influence of music upon American life.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:388 Je ‘17

=Cleveland= p115 S ‘17 20w

=Cleveland= p125 N ‘17 60w

“Professor Surette is one of the most enthusiastic and successful
leaders in the community music movement.”

=Ind= 90:595 Je 30 ‘17 40w

“He fails dismally in his attempt to prove that the German classical
symphony is a coherent work of art instead of a mere suite of four
incoherent pieces. There is a sensible chapter on opera, but by far
the most valuable pages in this volume are concerned with Music for
children, Public-school music, and Community singing. On these things
Mr Surette speaks as an expert and an authority.” H: T. Finck

+ — =Nation= 105:546 N 15 ‘17 170w

=Ontario Library Review= 1:111 My ‘17 40w

“The chapter on music for children should interest all parents.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:445 O ‘17 100w

=St Louis= 15:177 Je ‘17

“He does not tear down without building up. Everywhere he offers
remedial measures.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 4 ‘17 500w

=SUTHERLAND, SAMUEL JAMES.= Reserve officers’ handbook. il *$1.25 Houghton 355 17-18055

The author is a captain in the Twenty-third infantry, U.S.A., who has
served as company commander at Plattsburg, as a member of the
examining board for reserve officers, and as lecturer to applicants
for commissions. He covers clearly and concisely administration and
organization, small arms firing, field service regulations,
topography, military law and miscellaneous topics, and reprints from
the “Infantry drill regulations” of the United States army such
extracts as are essential to the reserve officer, with corrections to
January 9, 1917.

+ =N Y Times= 22:264 Jl 15 ‘17 100w

=Pittsburgh= 22:695 O ‘17 10w

=Pratt= p15 O ‘17 40w

“Clear and concise.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:325 S ‘17 50w

=St Louis= 15:359 O ‘17 20w

=SWANSON, MARGARET.= Needlecraft in the school. il *$1.50 Longmans 646 E17-742

This manual on needlecraft is divided into three sections. The first
deals with sewing for children under 12 years and provides a section
on boys’ sewing. Section 2 outlines work for those over 12 and
includes millinery. Section 3 covers a course for the training college
student. The work is very fully illustrated, with several full page
pictures in color. Professor John Adams of the University of London
writes an introduction in which he says, “A striking characteristic of
the book is the appreciation of the child’s point of view. ...
Students of Mr Macdougall’s ‘Social psychology’ will find in these
pages many illustrations of the manipulation of instincts in the
interests of education.”

“Stimulating in spite of possible criticism.”

+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:156 F ‘18

“Miss Swanson hails from the Glasgow school of art, where needlecraft
flourishes as a vital force, and her name with that of Miss Macbeth of
the same institution has already appeared on another of Messrs
Longmans’ books on the subject, ‘Educational needlecraft,’ the scope
of which is different from that of the present volume.”

+ =Int Studio= 61:144 My ‘17 400w

“It has 130 pages with large clearly rendered illustrations, six of
which are in color. ... While some of the designs will not meet the
approval of American taste, others will, and all are suggestive.”

+ =School Arts Magazine= 16:356 Ap ‘17 60w

“The wide range of subjects which may be grouped under the name
‘needlecraft,’ and their educational use, are here put before the
reader in an interesting, we might well say an arresting, manner. ...
This book will be of use to amateur teachers as well as to
professional teachers and students.”

+ =Spec= 118:241 F 24 ‘17 150w