Chapter VI: discusses portal bracing, sway and lateral bracing and (10)

“The significance of Giotto’s affinities with both the schools into
which painting in Italy branched off during his lifetime is very
clearly brought out by Mr. de Selincourt, who recognizes in his
pictures—a great number of which are here reproduced—the richness of
imagination that distinguished the Florentines with the feeling for
grace of form so characteristic of the Siennese.... The useful little
monograph closes with what is, perhaps, the ablest section of the
book, a very acute analysis of Giotto’s influence over others.”—Acad.

“It may ... be fairly claimed that his new biographer has made the
best of the meagre materials at his disposal and has also succeeded in
realising to some extent the personality of the gifted master.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 521. My. 13, ‘05. 550w.

“Mr. De Selincourt, we think, has approached the subject with
conscientious impartiality and an open mind.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 152. Jl. 29. 2100w.

“Here as hitherto the illustrations are frequent and sane, moderate in
the critical and interesting in the biographical sections.”

+ + =Critic.= 47: 92. Jl. ‘05. 70w.

“Our author succeeds in placing him for the student in the right
relation to his people and his time.”

+ =Ind.= 58: 1365. Je. 15, ‘05. 100w.

“Taken as a guide-book, it will serve its purpose perhaps as well as,
if not better than, most of the volumes which have hitherto occupied
themselves with an exposition of the master’s works, and as such will
form even a welcome addition to the descriptive literature of its
kind.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 129. Ag. 10, ‘05. 700w.

“The connoisseurship lacks a familiarity with the latest and most
approved authorities, and the criticism, where unconventional, is
impressive only as an expression of untried emotions.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 342. My. 27, ‘05. 210w.

“His criticism is sympathetic and illuminating.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 883. Ag. 5, ‘05. 160w.

Senior lieutenant’s wager, and other stories. $1.25. Benziger.

“Thirty short stories by the foremost Catholic writers.” Some of them
touch upon church matters from a Roman Catholic view point, in several
a benign priest appears as good angel, but many are merely little love
stories containing no question of faith.

=Sergeant, Philip W.= Courtship of Catherine the Great. *$2.50. Lippincott.

“Catherine’s love affairs, of course, went beyond all ordinary bounds
of ‘indiscretion.’ ... It is useful to have in English a statement on
this subject which covers the ground already traversed of Waliszewski
and his followers on the continent.... By far the most important of
the ten or twelve suitors whose affairs with the empress come into the
present volume were Gregory Orloff, the chief actor in the plot of
1762, and the Prince Patiomkin.”—Nation.

“It is unfair to criticise too rigorously a book which is written
ostensibly for amusement, and is, with all its shortcomings, amusing
enough.”

+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 207. Ag. 12, 170w.

“Of new information in his book there is virtually none.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 120. Ag. 10, ‘05. 640w.

“The book however, granting its right to existence, is well put
together.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 374. Je. 10, ‘05. 280w.

=Setchell, William Albert.= Limu. 25c. Univ. of Cal.

“This is the name applied to many species of seaweeds, especially
those that are edible, by the native Hawaiians.... Professor Dr.
Setchell gives the results of the investigations made by him several
years ago, with a view to determining the specific identity of the
different kinds of limu.”—Science.

Reviewed by Charles E. Bessey.

=Science,= n.s. 21: 756. My. 12. ‘05. 130w.

=Seton, Ernest Thompson.= Animal heroes: being the histories of a cat, a dog, pigeon, a lynx, two wolves and a reindeer. $2. Scribner.

The author assures us that “Every one of these stories, though more or
less composite, is founded on the actual life of a veritable animal
hero.” The first story describes four phases in the life of a slum cat
whom luxury could not ween from her beloved junk-yard; Little Arnaux
is a homing pigeon with a long record won by a fearless heart;
Badlands Billy is the story of a wolf that won. Then follow stories of
The boy and the lynx, Little warhorse, which is the history of a
jack-rabbit; Snap, the bull-terrier who enters the story in a box
marked “dangerous.” The Winnipeg wolf, and The legend of the white
reindeer. Two hundred drawings by the author illustrate the volume.

* “The author’s power has increased as his style has become more
simple and his allegiance to plain facts more indisputable.” May
Estelle Cook.

+ + =Dial.= 39: 373. D. 1, ‘05. 240w.

* + =Ind.= 59: 1390. D. 14, ‘05. 30w.

“It is not necessary to say much more about Mr. Seton’s nice
animals ... all bear the stamp of their creator, and all are more or
less entertaining.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 710. O. 21, ‘05. 310w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 832. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.

* + =Outlook.= 81: 718. N. 25, ‘05. 100w.

=Seton, Ernest Thompson.= Woodmyth and fable. *$1.25. Century.

A book of booty gathered in the woods, quaint myths and fables, some
of which are of Indian origin, while some have been whispered to the
wood lover author-artist by Mother Nature herself. He has pointed them
with clever morals, and illustrated them with dainty drawings. It is a
book to pick up in odd moments, for in its prose and rime one can find
beauty, sympathy, humor, and clever satire; and young folks can learn
something of the discontented giraffe, the unmannerly porcupine, the
stubborn land-crab, and other animals with human frailties.

* + =Acad.= 68: 1287. D. 9, ‘05. 70w.

* + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 576. O. 28. 130w.

“Mr. Seton has great facility and a very pretty wit in these
matters—especially when self-illustrated.”

+ =Bookm.= 22: 87. S. ‘05. 200w.

+ =Critic.= 47: 478. N. ‘05. 250w.

“It is a series of chips from the workshop of a man who does larger
things,—the brilliant joking of a thinker off duty.” May Estelle Cook.

+ =Dial.= 38: 386 Je. 1, ‘05. 360w.

* + =Ind.= 59: 1390. D. 14, ‘05. 20w.

* “Is too scrappy to enhance his reputation among children who know
him by his ‘Two little savages’ and his animal biographies.”

— =Lond. Times.= 4: 432. D. 18, ‘05. 30w.

“This little volume is filled with pretty little suggestions which
children will not only like, but which it will be good for them to
read.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 346. My. 27, ‘05. 310w.

+ =Outlook.= 80: 94. My. 6, ‘05, 50w.

“The stories are short and admirably adapted for children.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 100w.

* “Is most unsatisfactory. It is too difficult for children, too dull
for grown-ups. Not even the most startling varieties of type can
arrest the attention.”

— =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 12. D. 9, ‘05. 30w.

=Sever, George Francis, and Townsend, Fitzhugh.= Laboratory and factory tests in electrical engineering. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.

“The range of the book and its adaptability to its intended use as a
manual for laboratory and factory testing may be best judged from a
brief summary of the contents. The first chapter deals with resistance
tests, temperature coefficient, etc. Dynamo and motor operation
(direct current) is the subject of the next four chapters. Then
alternating currents are taken up in ten chapters.... In the closing
chapter ... electrical measurements of physical nature are taken up,
such as permeability and hysteresis measurements, potentiometer, test,
calibration of commercial instruments, etc. This chapter also includes
some storage-battery tests and incandescent-lamp tests.”—Engin. N.

“The text is very lucidly written, although at some points too concise
for ease in reading. The present testing manual will prove a good
study text for those who have not ample opportunity to become
acquainted in detail with electrical machines by personal experience.”

+ + + =Engin. N.= 53: 182. F. 16, ‘05. 570w.

=Severy, Melvin Linwood.= Mystery of June 13th. †$1.50. Dodd.

“Geographically, the plot is hatched in two places,—New Zealand and
New Jersey. The main theme is the defrauding of a life insurance
company by a man who claims to be his own brother, after having had
himself ostensibly murdered, and having had said brother silenced by
an awful threat.”—R. of Rs.

* “A tissue of preposterous absurdities, and, moreover, an exceedingly
badly written book.”

— =Outlook.= 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 30w.

* “Though overloaded with superfluous details and unnecessary
complications, stands out as a ‘detective story’ belonging to the
highest class,—after Poe’s.”

+ — =R. of Rs.= 32: 763. D. ‘05. 90w.

=Shafer, Sarah Andrew.= Beyond chance of change. †$1.50. Macmillan.

An idyll of childhood for both children and grown-ups. Rachel, the
doctor’s little girl, who celebrates her eleventh birthday in the
first chapter, is the real heroine, but her brothers and sisters and
her village friends, big and little, play important roles in this
drama of child days. There is Rachel’s tender conscience, which
invariably awakes after the mischief is done and leads to confession
and repentance of such dire deeds as stealing a doughnut and knocking
the head off the china goat; there is the account of the wooing of
Nora by Mike, with Rachel’s assistance; of the barely frustrated plan
of the adventurous band who were about to set out for Idaho to find
the cave of gold as described in “Idaho Ike; or, The boy billionaire”;
and there are stories of a tea-party, a church social, a Fourth of
July, and the dramatic pulling of a first tooth.

=Critic.= 47: 94. Jl. ‘05. 140w.

+ =Dial.= 38: 394. Je. 1, ‘05. 150w.

“Mrs. Shafer comprehends the divine ingenuity of the childish spirit.”

+ + =Ind.= 58: 959. Ap. 27, ‘05. 190w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 137. Mr. 4, ‘05. 420w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 295. My. 6, ‘05. 230w.

“Presents no problems and involves no tragedy, but is a delightful
transcription of life in a little community in the central West before
the fever and rush of recent years set in.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 773. Ap. 1, ‘05. 80w.

=Shahan, Very Rev.= Thomas Joseph. The middle ages. *$2. Benziger.

A collection of essays intended to throw light upon church history of
the middle ages. They are written from a Catholic view-point and
contain a condensed treatment of “Catholicism in the middle ages,”
“Results of the crusades,” “The Italian renaissance,” “Baths and
bathing in the middle ages,” and kindred subjects.

“Even where no ecclesiastical considerations are involved, the
author’s habit of facile generalization leads him into ... such
eccentricities of judgment. The essays are pleasantly written and will
prove agreeable reading to Catholics.” C. H. Haskins.

+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 914. Jl. ‘05. 440w.

“They are always informing and suggestive. We suggest to Catholic
higher schools and colleges, that they put these fine essays to
constant use in the class-room of history.”

+ + =Cath. World.= 80: 674. F. ‘05. 350w.

“A collection of exceedingly well-written historical essays, from the
Catholic point of view. Dr. Shahan is well read, eloquent, and
obviously sincere.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 40. Ja. 21, ‘05. 220w. (Gives contents).

=Shakespeare, William.= Hamlet, ed. by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke. **50c; limp lea. **75c. Crowell.

“Hamlet” is the latest play to appear in “First folio” edition of
Shakespeare’s works. Accuracy of text, and a wealth of illuminative
material are its distinguishing features. It includes a preface,
introduction, literary frontispiece, notes discussing argument,
sources, duration of action, date of composition, early editions,
illustrations, glossary, variorum readings and selected criticisms.

=Dial.= 39: 20. Jl. 1, ‘05. 40w.

+ + =Nation.= 81: 75. Jl. 27, ‘05. 60w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 608. S. 10, ‘05. 150w.

=Shakespeare, William.= Love’s labour’s lost; ed. by Horace Howard Furness, sr. (Variorum ed.). *$4. Lippincott.

“The present text follows the first folio of 1623, and forty-six
editions have been consulted in the textual notes. The editor provides
an enormous list of books from which quotations have been taken first
hand. The appendix, which is exhaustive in its elaboration, deals with
the date of composition, source of the plot, English, German, French
criticism, &c., &c.”—Westminster Review.

“The new volume shows no abatement in thoroughness, conscientious
zeal, or scholarly discrimination. As before he supplies us with full
apparatus for textual criticism and interpretation, a carefully
condensed summary of previous scholarship in matters of date, sources,
and the like, and the kernel of the contributions of all the more
important aesthetic critics. In addition to all this, he writes a
preface bristling with stimulating and provocative suggestions, and
forming an original contribution of serious importance for the history
of Elizabethan literature.” W: Allan Neilson.

+ + + =Atlan.= 95: 231. F. ‘05. 1250w.

“It fully maintains the high standard of its thirteen predecessors. As
usual, the long preface is one of the best parts of the volume, for
there we have the genial editor all to himself. The editor attacks his
material with his usual vigor and vivacity.” W. J. Rolfe.

+ + + =Critic.= 46: 184. Mr. ‘35. 490w.

“The erudition packed away in the volume before us is incommensurable
in terms of reviewing. We can only thank the editor for his untiring
single-heartedness, for the lucidity with which he has disposed his
huge material; above all, for the fine shrewd humor which lurks in
every page.”

+ + + =Nation.= 80: 135. F. 16, ‘05. 1940w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 148. Mr. 11, ‘05. 550w.

+ + + =The Westminster Review.= 163: 110. Ja. ‘05. 330w.

=Shakespeare, William.= Merchant of Venice. 35c. Holt.

Uniform with the “Temple school edition,” this book is designed for
student use. It contains besides the text of the drama, and
introduction which gives the life of Shakespeare and an outline and
history of the play, a glossary and copious notes. There are six
drawings by Dora Curtis and many illustrations from contemporary
prints.

=Shakespeare, William.= Sonnets; with introd. and notes by H. C. Beeching. *60c. Ginn.

“Primarily addressed to students. The text adopted is practically
Malone’s revision of the edition princeps, the Quarto of 1609, all the
variations, with the exception of differences in spelling and
punctuation being noted. The sonnets have been divided into groups and
carefully annotated. Dr. Beeching discusses all the most recent
theories on the subject, besides criticising the work of other editors
of the sonnets.”—N. Y. Times.

“We should be at a loss to point out another edition of the sonnets
where text, introduction and commentary are more nicely adjusted to
each other. Others may have done more in poetical illustration and
psychological analysis; but none have produced a more satisfactory
compendium of all that is really necessary to be known about sonnets,
or afforded a more serviceable key to their numerous difficulties.”

+ + + =Acad.= 68: 61. Ja. 21, ‘05. 510w.

* “Altogether the edition is so well-equipped that it is not likely to
be superseded for many years. Advanced scholars will find it an
excellent summary of rival views, almost entirely free from the
strange temper and fantasy which are a feature of latter-day
Shakespearean criticism.”

+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 475. Ap. 15. 360w.

=Ind.= 58: 839. Ap. 13, ‘05. 280w.

“On the bibliographical side Mr. Beeching’s book ... is inadequate.
But what he has attempted, Mr. Beeching has done well.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 32. Ja. 12, ‘05. 290w.

“The notes are clear and full, and the editor has created every
explanation that is not his own to its original proposer.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 11. Ja. 7, ‘05. 620w.

“Canon Beeching’s introduction ... is a scholarly and able
contribution to the literature of the subject.”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 177. F. 4, ‘05. 1500w.

* =Shakespeare, William.= Tragedie of King Lear; ed. by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke. 75c. Crowell.

The latest volume in the “First folio” Shakespeare.

* =Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate.= Man and the earth. **$1.50. Fox.

Thirteen chapters on such subjects as Earth and man, The future of
power, The exhaustion of metals, The unwon lands, The problem of the
Nile, The maintenance of the soil, The resources of the sea, The
future of nature upon the earth, and The last of earth and man, have
for their purpose the awakening of “a sense of the nobility and
dignity of the relation man bears to this wonderful planet and the
duty that comes therefrom.”

* + + =Outlook.= 81: 890. D. 9, ‘05. 270w.

=Shand, Alexander Innes.= Gun room, *$1; *$1.25. Lane.

This little monograph “gets right at the heart of the man who loves a
gun and his gunroom, the sort of book that is as conducive of reveries
as it is to putting one alive to the possibilities of making of his
gunroom the coziest and most comfortable sort of a den instead of a
mere armory.”—N. Y. Times.

“Full of good advice for the man who loves his gun, his dog, and his
tramp over moors and stubble in search of game. A companionable little
book is this volume. Little in it that is technical, yet it is full of
practical hints as to the care of a gun.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 92. F. 11, ‘05. 390w.

* =Sharp, Mary.= Point and pillow lace: a short account of various kinds, ancient and modern, and how to recognize them. *$2. Dutton.

“Mrs. Sharp has chapters on Italian needle and pillow laces, French,
Flemish, English, and Irish laces, made by hand and the machine. The
closing chapter is a summary, and includes briefly-stated facts about
laces. A glossary of technical and French, Flemish, Italian, and other
foreign terms has been inserted. There are many pictures in the book
showing the different styles of laces.”—N. Y. Times.

* “Is a much more comprehensive volume on the subject than was the
Goldenberg publication of last year.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 1381. D. 14, ‘05. 120w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 727. O. 28, ‘05. 220w.

* + =Outlook.= 81: 705. N. 25, ‘05. 40w.

=Sharp, William.= Literary geography, *$3.50. Scribner.

“A collection of papers dealing with characteristic features of the
country, real or described, of a number of widely known writers. The
numerous illustrations are very helpful to the text in giving the
reader a clear picture of the lands made familiar to all readers of
George Meredith, Stevenson, Dickens, Scott, George Eliot, Thackeray,
Brontë, Aylwin, and Carlyle. There are also, descriptions of English
lakes, the Thames, and the lake of Geneva. The articles have appeared
in the Pall Mall magazine during the years of 1903 and 1904.”—Bookm.

+ =Critic.= 46: 480. My. ‘05. 100w.

“Of the topographical literature now so much in vogue, this book is
one of the best examples. It is full of interesting matter, is well
written, and the authors selected for the description (mostly
novelists) are those about whom every one likes to know; the
illustrations, often made from special photographs, are numerous and
uncommonly beautiful.”

+ + =Dial.= 38: 202. Mr. 16, ‘05. 280w.

“Mr. Sharp’s anecdotes are numerous and amusing.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 120. F. 9, ‘05. 570w.

“Most entertaining book, not by any means exclusively devoted to
geographical matters, straying, on the contrary, into many by-lanes of
criticism, reminiscence, and biography. The book is one most
book-lovers will be glad to have and to read.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 6. Ja. 7, ‘05. 1840w. (Survey of contents).

=Sharts, Joseph William.= Hills of freedom. $1.50. Doubleday.

The first novel of a young Ohio barrister and Harvard graduate. The
action takes place in the author’s native state during the period
preceding the Civil war, and the chief characters are a veteran
general of the Mexican war, bent upon match-making, and his ward and
her nephew, a red haired heroine and a bow-legged hero. There are many
interesting characters, and John Brown and the underground railway
figure conspicuously.

“It is cast in the form of a comedy, in which the author caricatures
irascible old age, love and youth with much clever wit.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 334. Ag. 10, ‘05. 90w.

“It lacks the awkwardness of a maiden effort, and the seams and
patches of a labored attempt. It is easy, spontaneous, and all of a
piece. For succeed he does, in spite of predecessors and conventions.
The author has a delicate touch, as well as a sprightly manner; not
all of his effects are broad. The author has a pretty turn for
epigram, which he uses with becoming discretion.”

+ + =Reader.= 5: 255. Ja. ‘05. 330w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 117. Ja. ‘05. 90w.

=Shattuck, George Burbank,= ed. Bahama islands. **$10. Macmillan.

“This volume is the outcome of an expedition for which Dr. Shattuck
served as director. His staff contained about twenty scientists, each
a specialist in some direction; and the volume is accordingly largely
made up of papers by these specialists on the geology, botany, animal
and fish life, and soils of the island, together with a historical
sketch and papers on the sanitary and medical conditions. The book ...
is beautifully illustrated with photographs.”—Outlook.

“The work is done throughout in the most scholarly manner.”

+ + + =Critic.= 47: 191. Ag. ‘05. 120w.

“Each special student will find his own subject well handled.”

+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 271. Ag. 25, ‘05. 710w.

“Is a monograph of high and varied interest and general readability.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 397. My. 18, ‘05. 240w.

“Its completeness and wealth of illustrations render it a more than
usually striking and handsome example of American thoroughness.” R.L.

+ + + =Nature.= 72: 154. Je. 15, ‘05. 1470w.

=Outlook.= 79: 1058. Ap. 29, ‘05. 90w.

+ + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 125. Jl. ‘05. 130w.

Reviewed by W. M. D.

+ + + =Science=, n.s. 21: 953. Je. 23, ‘05. 1900w. (Abstract of
contents.)

=Shaw, George Bernard.= Irrational knot. $1.50. Brentano’s.

Mr. Shaw has given matrimonial orders and filled them out of the
ordinary. There is an American-Irish electrician for the hero who
views marriage calmly and impersonally, but determinedly pursues the
woman he loves as he would the forces to be checked and chained for a
new electrical machine. After marriage the atmosphere provided for the
wife’s heart development is stifling and she seeks fancied happiness
with a former lover. The machine philosophy of the wronged husband
operates thus: “I can divorce you if I please ... You are free too.
You have burnt your boats, are rid of fashionable society, of your
position, your family, your principles ... and if you can frankly give
a sigh of relief, and respect yourself for breaking loose from what is
called duty, you are the very woman I want for my wife.”

“The figures might be cast-iron for anything they show of the
flexibility and mutability of human life, and they are exhibited, not
by one who clearly sees and thoroughly understands the springs of
conduct and the objects of endeavour, but by a youth who in his revolt
against old conventions has already rushed into grooves of his own.”

+ — =Acad.= 68: 1094. O. 21, ‘05. 1170w.

+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 539. O. 21. 420w.

“The publishers of the day may be forgiven for thinking that there was
no public then to appreciate or understand the ‘original morality’ of
Mr. Shaw at the age of twenty-four. We have got used to the ‘original
morality’ since then; we could understand a publisher’s refusing the
book now as being out of date.”

+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 350. O. 20, ‘05. 830w.

“It is much inferior in interest to ‘Cashel Byron’s profession’ and
considerably less repulsive than ‘The unsocial socialist’ and ‘Love
among the artists.’”

+ — =Nation.= 81: 368. N. 2, ‘05. 350w.

“It is hardly necessary to say that this new book contains much
brilliant wit, and the cunningly worded results of many acute
observations of men—and especially women—‘as they really are.’”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 682. O. 14, ‘05. 310w.

=Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 40w.

* + — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 320w.

* =R. of Rs.= 32: 759. D. ‘05. 90w.

* “It is possible that the same mysterious force which drove him
through the labour of writing it may have had some purpose which will
sustain others through the labour of reading it.”

+ — =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 8. N. 18, ‘05. 780w.

=Shaw, George Bernard.= On going to church: an essay; from “The Savoy.” 75c. J. W. Luce.

Mr. Shaw’s arraignment of the man addicted to stimulant is accounted
for in the observation “that all drugs from tea to morphia, and all
the drams from lager beer to brandy dull the edge of self-criticism
and make a man content with something less than the best work of which
he is soberly capable.” Mr. Shaw’s theory, supported by the sermons
read in enduring stone, maintains that going to church—not for the
services but to commune in the sanctuary—supplies the vital want in a
loftier sense than the drinking-shop, or the conventicle with its
brimstone-flavored hot gospel.

=Shaw, L. H. De Visme.= Wild-fowl; with chapters on Shooting the duck and the goose, by W. H. Pope; Cookery by Alex. Innes Shand. $1.75. Longmans.

This volume in the “Fur, feathers and fin series” is a “manly book
written from the sportsman’s standpoint ... and fathered by three
authors—L. H. De Visme, who supplies the narrative as well as the
biographies of ducks in general and particular. The chapters on
shooting the duck and goose are by W. H. Pope, while A. I. Shand winds
up the volume with twenty-odd pages upon wild fowl cookery. The
illustrations by Archibald Thorburn and Charles Wymper are unusually
fine; those of Thorburn, the British master of his craft, being not
only full of action and feeling, but pictures in the best sense.”—N.
Y. Times.

* + =Lond. Times.= 4: 373. N. 8, ‘05. 240w.

* “The whole volume is written in a direct and vivid manner that,
while convincing and instructive to the sportsman ... is also
excellent reading from a narrative standpoint.” Mabel Osgood Wright.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 872. D. 9, ‘05. 430w.

* + — =Spec.= 95: 869. N. 25, ‘05. 130w.

=Shearer, J. B.= Modern mysticism. *75c. Presbyterian com.

A discussion of the covenants of the spirit, as found in the
scriptures with special reference to the claims of modern mysticism.

=Sheehan, Rev. Patrick Augustine.= Glenanaar. †$1.50. Longmans.

“Glenanaar” is an Irish story, partly historical, whose motif is the
stigma which to the mind of the Irishman must be visited upon the kith
and kin of an informer—any one who has given evidence in a state
trial. The central figure of the tale is Daniel O’Connell who in
British parliament as well as in Glenanaar fought for the freedom of
his native country. A sprightly modern romance claims a good share of
interest in which an Irish-American, an Irish widow, her two daughters
and a parish priest figure prominently.

“The book is of course, written from the point of view of partisan,
but we confidently believe that even readers as strongly prejudiced on
the other side will be unable to resist its fascination.”

+ =Acad.= 68: 711. Jl. 8, ‘05. 330w.

+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 201. Ag. 12. 250w.

“Canon Sheehan has suffered from his wealth of imagination, and, by
condensing into one story materials that should have served to set
forth two, has injured the unity of his creation.”

+ + — =Cath. World.= 81: 832. S. ‘05. 1260w.

“It is deep-rooted in its racial element, interpreting Irish character
with an eye by no means blind to its faults, but always with
penetration and tender sympathy. The tale is somewhat disconnected in
sequence, but is sweet and wholesome, and withal, not lacking in
touches of humor.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ + =Dial.= 39: 113. S. 1, ‘05. 230w.

“Abounding Irish humor and delightful bits of character-sketching are
to be found in this novel.”

+ =Lit. D.= 31: 585. O. 21, ‘05. 540w.

“A vigorous and skilful piece of work.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 218. Jl. 7, ‘05. 270w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w.

“The well-told tale is so full of humor, pathos, and romance that it
cannot fail to win the interest of every reader.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 447. Jl. 8, ‘05. 370w.

“Is a story of Irish life filled with a delicate humor and pathos.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 221. Ag. 22, ‘05. 60w.

* =R. of Rs.= 32: 759. D. ‘05. 90w.

“Irish peasants—real, not stage Irishmen—are excellent company, and
Canon Sheehan is a good guide.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 282. Ag. 26, ‘05. 390w.

“The machinery of the story is, then rather cumbrous, but the
shortcomings of its structure and arrangement are not likely to affect
a reader who can appreciate eloquence, enthusiasm, and geniality.”

+ + — =Spec.= 95: 292. Ag. 26, ‘05. 880w.

=Sheldon, Anna R., and Newell, M. Moyca.= Medici balls. *$3.50. Doubleday.

The title is derived from the balls on the Medici coat of arms, which
was everywhere encountered by the authors during their wanderings. The
journeys consist of trips from Florence to the Mugello, Prato,
Chianti, Lucca, Pistoja, Brancoli, and Barga. There are over a hundred
photogravures of people, landscapes, buildings and works of art, an
index and a full list of illustrations.

“A charming portfolio of studies to be enjoyed by all.” Anna Benneson
McMahan.

+ =Dial.= 38: 351. My. 16, 05. 300w.

“Is narrated in a chatty, discursive fashion, with a due amount of
historical reminiscence and a vivid description of present
conditions.”

+ =Nation.= 80: 132. F. 16, ‘05. 220w.

“The excursions of the authors are of particular interest to the
lovers of Tuscany, because we are taken into rather untrodden
districts. The out-of-doors life of these districts is described for
us in pleasant detail.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 451. F. 18, ‘05. 120w.

=Sheldon, Charles Monroe.= Heart of the world: a story of Christian socialism. †$1.25. Revell.

“The story of an Episcopal minister, who wrote and published,
anonymously, a book entitled ‘The Christian socialist’ and on the
occasion of his consecration as a bishop renounces his office and the
pulpit because of the consecrating bishop’s charge to him to oppose
socialism and this book in particular.”—Ind.

“It abounds in thrilling situations and sensational episodes which
have nothing essentially to do with the story.”

— =Ind.= 59: 582. S. 7, ‘05. 100w.

“The principles and aims of Christian socialism are here presented
with dramatic effect in the form of a story.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 110w.

=Sheldon, Walter L.= Duties in the home and family. $1.25. Welch.

Lessons on household duties prepared for children ranging from ten to
thirteen years of age. The book has been added to the author’s “Ethics
for the young” series, and its “ethical keynote is the preservation
and strengthening of family ties not only in childhood and youth, but
thruout adult life.” (Educ. R.) “The motives and limits of conduct are
developed by questions and dialog and enforced by aphorisms, stories,
poems and illustrations.” (Ind.)

“This elasticity of treatment strikes us, by the way, as one of the
most useful characters of this eminently practical work. At the same
time, Mr. Sheldon’s ethics have a strong backbone.” Wilmon H. Sheldon.

+ + =Educ. R.= 29: 312. Mr. ‘05. 590w.

“The instruction is not sectarian or markedly religious, and could be
used in any school.”

+ =Ind.= 58: 673. Mr. 23, ‘05. 60w.

=Shelley, Percy Bysshe.= Complete poetical works, including material never before printed in any edition of the poems; ed. with textual notes and bibliographical list of editions by T: Hutchinson. *$2.50. Oxford.

“This new ‘Oxford Shelley’ gives all the poems and fragments of verse
that have ever appeared in print, including a surprisingly large
amount of material not to be found in any former edition. The text is
the result of a fresh and evidently very thoro collation of the early
editions, and the various readings are carefully recorded. All of Mr.
Shelley’s historical and illustrative matter, with most of the similar
matter worth preserving, is added, supplemented by the editor’s own
scholarly notes and a full bibliographical list of editions.”—Critic.

* “Mr. Hutchinson has performed a laborious task both earnestly and
ably, and we wish his edition the acceptance which it merits.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 368. Mr. 25. 840w.

“A marvel of editorship and book-making. It is likely to be the final
authoritative and exhaustive work of its class.”

+ + + =Critic.= 46: 384. Ap. ‘05. 100w.

“An authentic, complete, and accurately printed text.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 92. F. 2, ‘05. 220w.

+ + =Spec.= 94: 147. Ja. 28, ‘05. 100w.

=Shelley, Percy Bysshe.= With Shelley in Italy, ed. by Anna Benneson McMahon. **$1.40. McClurg.

The editor has selected and arranged the poems and letters of Shelley
which have to do with his life in Italy from 1818 to 1822. The
selections are grouped under the various years included in the time
covered. The volume is illustrated with over sixty full-page
illustrations from photographs of the Italian scenes and works of art
of which Shelley wrote and among which he lived self-exiled from
England during the last four years of his life.

* “Mrs. McMahan’s own writing fills less than a score of her pages,—a
fact testifying to her marked ability to speak briefly and to the
point.”

+ + =Dial.= 39: 443. D. 16, ‘05. 470w.

* =Ind.= 59: 1377. D. 14, ‘05. 30w.

* “The whole forms a delightful sort of poetic itinerary, whether for
persons who are actually in Italy, or for those who travel in
imagination only.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 446. N. 30, ‘05. 270w.

* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 769. N. 11, ‘05. 90w.

* “A very attractive and interesting book to all lovers of Shelley.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 943. D. 16, ‘05. 100w.

=Sheppard, Alfred Tresidder.= Red cravat. $1.50. Macmillan.

A novel of the Prussia of Frederick William, that fantastic monarch
whose giant grenadiers wore the badge of the red cravat. A tall young
Englishman is seized and thrust into the royal guards through the
influence of his rival for the hand of the beautiful English girl,
Lady Joan Chrystal. Later the unfortunate guardsman receives the
king’s orders to marry a certain peasant lass—but he doesn’t. The
characters are all very human but not at all modern.

“Compared to the general average of historical fiction, this novel
must be pronounced a decided success.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 684. Je. 3. 230w.

“The novel owes much to its setting, and, while a story of adventure,
seems made upon almost new lines from its leisurely style.”

+ =Nation.= 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 520w.

“It aims at something good; it partly achieves that something; yet it
drags. For it is overweighted with talk ... and errs by excess of
quaint fancy. The author has done himself most credit in his
characters. He has as obviously written the book to please himself.
But he will please many others, too, for whom a bit of learned fooling
along with some real human nature and some rude human humor does not
spoil even if it ‘scotches’ a good story.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 198. Ap. 1, ‘05. 450w.

“It is a fine stirring narrative, not without crudities, and there is
some good character-drawing, which redeems it from superficiality. The
style has spirit and charm, and Mr. Sheppard is a master of that kind
of allusive writing which is best suited to the historical romance.
The chief faults are diffuseness and an occasional sentimentality,
which were perhaps inevitable in a first book.”

+ — =Spec.= 94: 557. Ap. 15, ‘05. 180w.

=Sheringham, Hugh T.= Angler’s hours. $1.50. Macmillan.

Anecdotes of fishing expeditions, bits of advice and some philosophy
are found in these pleasing papers by a fisherman on British streams.

+ =Acad.= 68: 416. Ap. 15, ‘05. 380w.

“It is a long time since we had a book about angling in which
practical hints were so takingly varied with admirably penned pictures
of the delightful surroundings of the art.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 716. Je. 10. 620w.

“Mr. Sheringham wields the pen of a cultured gentleman.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 14. Jl. 6, ‘05. 490w.

“There is a pleasant and old-world flavour in his style. There is
instruction in his essays too.” L. W. B.

+ + =Nature.= 72: 220. Jl. 6, ‘05. 540w.

Reviewed by Mabel Osgood Wright.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 402. Je. 17, ‘05. 740w.

+ =Outlook.= 80: 390. Je. 10, ‘05. 30w.

“Mr. Sheringham’s book is delightful.”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 559. Ap. 15, ‘05. 220w.

=Sherman, Ellen Burns.= Taper lights, $1.10. Gordon-Flagg.

Eleven cleverly written essays upon such subjects as, The salt lake of
literature, being the salt tears shed by sympathetic readers, thruout
the ages; Just a few of the reasons why love grows cold; Between the
lines, meaning facial lines; The devil’s fancy-work; and The lifting
of veils in literature.

“This is a readable though not a striking book.”

+ =Ath.= 1905. 1: 558. My. 6. 450w.

* =Sherman, Waldo Henry.= Civics: studies in American citizenship. *90c. Macmillan.

“A book ‘for students who have at least reached high school age.’ ...
The volume is divided into two parts, ‘Studies in American
citizenship’ and ‘Collegeville.’ In the first, Land and government,
Civil organizations, Banks, Civic and municipal institutions, Justice,
etc. are treated. In the second, ‘Collegeville’ represents a township
and the various problems of American citizenship are solved in an
ideal fashion. The Declaration of independence and the constitution
are appended.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

* “The purpose is worthy indeed, and some of the methods of
presentation show that the author is concrete and understands how to
instruct. But he should not have undertaken to write this book before
thinking himself out clearly and fully. The sins against good English
are numerous, and seriously affect the educational purpose of the
book.”

+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 752. N. ‘05. 140w.

* “Highly practical in its bearings.”

+ =Dial.= 39: 279. N. 1, ‘05. 50w.

* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 641. S. 30, ‘05. 130w.

* “An excellent handbook for the training of young men for
citizenship.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 524. O. 28, ‘05. 60w.

=Shields, Charles Woodruff.= Philosophia ultima, v. 3. Scientific problems of religion and the Christian evidences of the physical and psychical science. **$3. Scribner.

“The late Professor Shields, of Princeton, obtained deserved
reputation as a highly appreciated academic preacher, and as a man of
literary genius.... The best part of his life was given to working out
the scheme of philosophy whose prolegomena in pamphlet form appeared
in 1861, and whose concluding volume is now issued. The goal of the
final philosophy is justly conceived by Professor Shields as combining
‘the perfectability of science and the demonstrability of religion.’
In the present volume the scientific problems of religion and its
scientific evidences are successively discussed.”—Outlook.

“He was a man of learning, in a certain obsolescent way, and the work
may be used to advantage by others than psychologists, for whom it
should be a document.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 340. O. 26, ‘05. 200w.

“As to the scientific evidence of religion, one must say that
Professor Shields’s argument so oscillates from strict to loose, and
from maximum to minimum claims, as to yield rather limited
satisfaction, except to a somewhat thin-spun conception of the term
‘scientific.’”

+ — =Outlook.= 81: 335. O. 7, ‘05. 290w.

* =Shirazi, J. K. M.= Life of Omar Al-Khay-yámi. **$1.50. McClurg.

“This account of the life of Omar from the Persian standpoint,
together with an explanation of his philosophy as understood by
admirers in his native land, has been modestly and carefully written.
The volume is well illuminated with Persian designs.”—Critic.

* + =Critic.= 47: 575. D. ‘05. 40w.

* “Mr. Shirazi’s English style is clear and simple, and his
presentation of his points exceedingly interesting.”

+ =Dial.= 39: 383. D. 1, ‘05. 220w.

* “The only real blemish on the book is the author’s anti-religious
bias, which he doubtless regards as ‘smart.’ His transliteration of
Persian names and book-titles shows little consistency. On the other
hand, he has evidently read deeply in Persian sources for the material
of his biography.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 470. D. 7, ‘05. 590w.

=Sholl, Anna McClure.= Port of storms. † $1.50. Appleton.

A young New York physician is loved by a dancer whom he has cured of
pneumonia, by a lovely young girl, and by a rich and cruel
enchantress, whose aim in life is social recognition. The little
dancer hides her secret and sensibly marries someone else, the
enchantress drives the hero into brain fever by deciding to marry a
leader of the coveted exclusive set, and the sweet young girl is left
to claim her doubtful reward.

“A strenuous story with a problem ending.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 263. Ap. 22, ‘05. 350w.

“An interesting analytical novel.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 1015. Ap. 22. ‘05. 20w.

=Shore, W. Teignmouth.= Dickens, $1. Macmillan.

An addition to Bell’s “Miniature series of great writers.”

“Mr. Teignmouth Shore knows his subject thoroughly; his admiration is
tempered by sound judgment, his praise is never exaggerated. The
book ... is marked by scholarship, critical ability and good taste.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 126. F. 11. ‘05 80w.

“The criticism is just on the whole.”

+ =Spec.= 94: 559. Ap. 15, ‘05. 80w.

* =Shorter, Clement King.= Charlotte Brontë and her sisters, **$1. Scribner.

A brief enthusiastic biography which supplements Mrs. Gaskell’s “Life”
and includes many of Charlotte Brontë’s letters which had not appeared
when that life was written. The depressing story of the whole Brontë
family is given, and there is much minute detail about the strangely
intertwined lives of the three sisters and the circumstances under
which their works were produced.

* “He is able to correct Mrs. Gaskell on many points. His style, too,
is of the sloppiest.”

+ — =Acad.= 68: 1149. N. 4, ‘05. 850w.

* “Written without prejudice, and with sincere love and admiration of
the famous sisters, Mr. Shorter’s book is a welcome addition to Brontë
literature.”

+ + =Critic.= 47: 575. D. ‘05. 110w.

* “But the little book cannot honestly be said to have much life or
interest about it. Its most original point is the view taken by Mr.
Shorter of the importance of M. Héger in the making of Charlotte
Brontë.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 381. N. 10, ‘05. 940w.

* “The task, on the whole, he has performed with much skill, with an
entire power of making even less enthusiastic readers share with him
something of ‘the glamour of the Brontës.’”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 724. O. 28, ‘05. 1340w.

* “Mr. Shorter, to put it briefly, tries to compress far too much into
one modest volume.”

+ — =Outlook.= 81: 714. N. 25, ‘05. 200w.

=Shorthouse, Joseph Henry.= Life, letters, and literary remains of J. H: Shorthouse; ed. by his wife. 2v. *$4.25. Macmillan.

The first of these volumes contains a critical introduction by the
Rev. J. Hunter Smith, a great variety of letters written by and to the
author of John Inglesant, and a detailed account of his quiet life
which was devoted to culture, literature, and the family chemical
works at Birmingham. The second volume contains his literary remains,
including three short stories and other hitherto unpublished writings.

+ =Acad.= 68: 437. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1760w.

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 683. Je. 3. 2840w.

+ + =Critic.= 47: 284. S. ‘05. 170w.

* + =Ind.= 59: 1163. N. 16, ‘05. 40w.

+ + =Nation.= 81: 169. Ag. 24, ‘05. 1760w.

“The book is a worthy and illuminating account of a man whose most
characteristic work is not destined soon to perish.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 324. My. 20, ‘05. 1570w.

=R. of Rs.= 32: 254. Ag. ‘05. 90w.

“On the whole the first of these volumes gives a fair sketch of the
man, though the growth and origin of the books, which should be the
most interesting things in the life are scamped.”

+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 22. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1440w.

+ =Spec.= 94: 713. My. 13, ‘05. 1870w.

=Shute, Henry Augustus.= Real boys. †$1.25. Dillingham.

The doings of Plupy, Beany, Pent, Puzzy, Whack, Bug, Skinny, Chick,
Pop, Pile, and some of the girls are here recounted. There are
snowball battles, fishing excursions, parties, races, fights and
adventures. The illustrations catch the spirit of the text.

“The matter is but a variation on the old topics, while the manner has
no startling touch of brilliancy; but the adventures of Plupy and his
friends cannot fail to make comfortable reading.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 478. N. ‘05. 60w.

* + =Lit. D.= 31: 754. N. 18, ‘05. 330w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 555. Ag. 26, ‘05. 340w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 140w.

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 89. S. 9, ‘05. 120w.

=Sichel, Edith.= Catherine de’ Medici and the French reformation. *$3. Dutton.

In this faithful biography the queen regent of France is shown in her
true colors and appears as an ambitious woman in whom was both good
and evil, not as the monster of cruelty which history has made
familiar.

“Well written, authoritative, and sincere, it is a model of biography.
Above all, the author has made a patient attempt to brush aside
superstitions, and to arrive at the truth. Now and again we are not
able to agree with Miss Sichel.”

+ + — =Acad.= 68: 439. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1650w.

“A high standard of literary ability pervades the volume in spite of a
few lapses.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 521. Ap. 29. 1890w.

“Miss Sichel’s essays are interesting, and the book as a whole marks a
distinct advance on the author’s ‘Household of the Lafayettes.’”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 167. Ag. 24, ‘05. 530w.

“An extremely interesting and comprehensive history of the first
two-thirds of the life of Catherine de’ Medici.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 326. My. 20, ‘05. 1690w.

“Is a subtle analysis and vivid presentation of the personalities and
ideas of the reigns of Henri II. and Francois II.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 245. My. 27, ‘05. 260w.

“An industrious and careful volume.”

+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 183. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1080w.

“A series of interesting and attractive historical studies.”

+ + + =Spec.= 94: 896. Je. 17, ‘05. 2090w.

=Sidgwick, Mrs. Alfred.= Professor’s legacy. †$1.50. Holt.

A German professor bequeaths his work on corals and his only daughter
to his favorite pupil, a young Englishman. The completing and
publishing of the unfinished work prove a simple task in comparison
with the undertaking to win a girl’s heart. To be sure this scholarly
individual pursues one steady course instead of resorting to many
devices, and it is due to a fault of method rather than purpose that
the end desired is deferred so long.

“Is one of the most interesting and well-told novels of the season,
and it should be one of the most popular.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 1130. O. 28, ‘05. 370w.

* + =Lond. Times.= 4: 383. N. 10, ‘05. 460w.

* “The tale as a whole is quite as entertaining as any of the earlier
romances of the same type.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 448. N. 30, ‘05. 320w.

* “Is a very readable little romance—a good companion for a railway
journey or a rainy afternoon.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 797. N. 25, ‘05. 450w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 130w.

* “The story is, all in all, well worth reading, although hardly
likely to become one of the great literary successes of the season.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 70w.

=Sidgwick, Henry.= Miscellaneous essays and addresses. *$3.25. Macmillan.

“The many-sided activity of the late professor of moral philosophy at
Cambridge is strikingly represented in this collection of essays and
addresses. Sixteen in number, they take for theme subjects of an
ethical, sociological, economic, educational, and purely literary
interest.... An idea of the varied contents of this helpful volume may
be conveyed by a few chapter titles: ‘Ecce Homo’ (a criticism of J. R.
Seeley’s ’Study of the life of Jesus’), ‘The poems and prose remains
of Arthur Henry Clough,’ ‘The scope and method of economic science,’
‘The economic lessons of socialism,’ ‘The relation of ethics to
sociology,’ ‘The theory of classical education.’”—Outlook.

Reviewed by F. Kettle.

+ + =Acad.= 68: 45. Ja. 14, ‘05. 820w.

“As an expression of the personality of Henry Sidgwick the collection
has interest and value; as an embodiment of the Cambridge spirit it
has enduring significance for all who care about tracing intellectual
tendencies. The expression throughout is accurate; nothing is said
more or less than is intended. The style is lucid, subtle,
stimulating, never unpleasant, now and again humorous; never
brilliant, persuasive, or charming. Stronger in criticism than
construction. Entirely without magnetic quality.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 75. Ja. 21. 2390w.

“The form of an essay or address is especially suitable to topics of
this kind, which belong to the border land between the sciences rather
than to the content of any one of them.” Herbert W. Horwill.

+ + =Forum.= 37: 250. O. ‘05. 1210w.

“What they give us is a series of side-lights on the development of a
mind of singular openness to contemporary influences.” J. H. Muirhead.

+ + =Hibbert J.= 3: 604. Ap. ‘05. 3500w.

“It includes a wide range of subjects—economics, education, and
literature—and it treats them all with a solidity, a fullness of
knowledge, a many-sidedness, and an occasional sparkle of dry light
which keep them alive and informing even when their immediate interest
has begun to shift or wane.”

+ + + =Nation.= 81: 185. Ag. 31, ‘05. 3870w.

+ + =Nature.= 72: 149. Je. 15, ‘05. 660w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 41. Ja. 21, ‘05. 290w. (Survey of contents).

“... These characteristics are palpably apparent—the intellectual
sincerity, the openmindedness, the faculty of acute analysis, the
precision of statement, the discriminating taste that were so
emphatically his.”

+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 246. Ja. 28, ‘05. 190w.

+ =Spec.= 95: 500. O. 7, ‘05. 570w.

=Sidgwick, Henry.= Philosophy of Kant, and other philosophical lectures and essays. *$3.25. Macmillan.

“The late Professor Sidgwick, a masterly critic, left unpublished
lectures and fragments which occupy the larger portion of this volume.
They discuss the philosophical teachings of thinkers so widely
contrasted as Kant, Thomas Hill Green, and Herbert Spencer. The
remainder of the volume consists of essays reprinted from ‘Mind’ and
the ‘Journal of philology.’ Of the lectures much the greater part is
devoted to a vigorous criticism of Kant, and these were finished to
their lamented author’s satisfaction while the others remain less
complete.”—Outlook.

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 266. Ag. 25, ‘05. 1360w.

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 280. S. 30, ‘05. 80w.

=Sidis, Boris, and Goodhart, Simon Phillip.= Multiple personality: an experimental investigation into the nature of human individuality. **$2.50. Appleton.

In the main this work is the analysis of a reactionary second
personality resulting from an accident befalling the Rev. T. C.
Hanna a few years since. When he returned to consciousness, he was
possessed of an entirely different self, “which may be understood
only by comparing it to the birth of a person possessed immediately
of matured mental and physical functions.” The phenomena of this
state, the return to his primary personality, and the struggle which
the physicians experienced in establishing him once more on the
mental basis of his former self—there being for some time a Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tendency to alternate between the two human
individualities—make a study as strange as it is interesting and
important to the scientific world.

“The close and accurate study of Mr. Hanna’s case throws a flood of
light on personality and cognate themes, and is a most valuable
contribution to the literature of psychopathy.” Albert Warren Ferris.

+ + + =Bookm.= 21: 185. Ap. ‘05. 1480w.

“The most original as well as most interesting portion of the volume
is given over to a painstaking account of a remarkable loss of
personality, in many respects the most complete on record.”

+ + =Dial.= 38: 20. Ja. 1, ‘05. 390w.

“Dr. Sidis finds corroboratory evidence in support of his view that
multiple consciousness is the law, not the exception.”

+ =Ind.= 58: 1419. Je. 22, ‘05. 720w.

“Truly one of the most fascinating of the fairy-tales of science, for
the observing and recording of which Dr. Sidis and Dr. Goodhart
deserve all credit.”

+ =Nation.= 80: 121. F. 9, ‘05. 940w.

“The volume deserves, as it doubtless will find, a useful place in the
psychologist’s equipment for the comprehension of the varieties and
the variations of personality.” J. J.

+ + =Psychol. Bull.= 2: 284. Ag. ‘05. 890w.

“Whatever its positive merits may be, the extraordinary jargon in
which it is written and the painful dogmatism of its authors go far to
obscure those merits.”

— — + =Spec.= 94: 613. Ap. 29, ‘05. 900w.

=Sienkiewicz, Henryk.= Quo vadis, a tale of the time of Nero. $1.50. Crowell.

This new volume in the “Luxembourg” series contains “Quo vadis” as
translated from the Polish by Dr. S. A. Binion and A. Malevsky, and
seventeen illustrations from drawings by Jan Styka.

=Silberrad, Una Lucy.= Wedding of the Lady of Lovell: and other matches of Tobiah’s making. $1.50. Doubleday.