Chapter VI: discusses portal bracing, sway and lateral bracing and (13)

“A helpful contribution toward the strengthening of a weak point in
our educational system. The outlook is comprehensive, on one hand
including the fundamental problems of thought simply put, and on the
other dealing with the social problems of the day.”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 654. Mr. 11, ‘05. 250w.

=Pub. Opin.= 38: 634. Ap. 22, ‘05. 210w.

=Stodola, Aurel.= Steam turbines; with an appendix on gas turbines and the future of heat engines. *$4.50. Van Nostrand.

This is an English version of the second revised German edition. It
includes a treatise on “Gas turbines, and the future of heat engines,”
an elementary introduction to the theory of steam turbines for the
general reader, and a series of reports of the experiments on the
many-stage impulse turbines of Zölly, Rateau, Stumpf, Gelpke, and
others.

“This work is by far the best of all relating to this subject in any
language. A number of misprints of the German edition have been
faithfully reproduced in this translation. The usefulness of the book
has been considerably reduced by the faulty translation.” Storm Bull.

+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 527. My. 18, ‘05. 710w.

+ + =Nature.= 72: 219. Jl. 6, ‘05. 770w.

=Stokely, Edith Keeley, and Hurd, Marian Kent.= Miss Billy. †$1.50. Lothrop.

A young philanthropist who “leaves a trail of sanitation, repairing,
mending, soap, and jokes behind her.... Anything but perfect, she
corrects her own faults briskly, even while she reproves the
shortcomings of her neighbors, and steers safely between the
priggishness of some heroines of her class and the dullness of those
created to listen to the twisted English and logic of their
beneficiaries.” (N. Y. Times.)

“Pleasant story.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 176. Mr. 18, ‘05. 190w.

“This is an ideal story for young girls—sprightly and full of fun, it
teaches, nevertheless, a wholesome lesson in the matters of neighborly
love and the overcoming of false pride.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 300. My. 6, ‘05. 480w.

“So pleasantly and humorously is the story told that one never for a
minute imagines while reading it that the authors are ‘pointing a
moral.’”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 391. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.

=Story, Douglas.= Campaign with Kuropatkin. *$3. Lippincott.

An English newspaper correspondent’s account of the campaign in the
East, in which he pays handsome tribute to Russia, whose final triumph
he considers as assured in spite of the “effective barbarism” of the
Japanese soldiers. There are many illustrations taken in the field by
the author.

“Instead of military history, we have a book of impressions,
individual and general. Making allowance for its partisanship, this
volume grows upon one. At first there is a sense of triviality and of
irritation; later, a feeling of interest, if not of sympathy, arrives;
there is nothing to arouse sympathy.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 196. Mr. 9, ‘05. 1590w.

“An interesting work. Mr. Story might have added as a sub-title: ‘As
much as I was able to see of it.’”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 109. F. 18, ‘05. 1670w.

Story of the Welsh revival. pa. **15c. Revell.

A number of newspaper accounts of the religious awakening in Wales,
brought together for the use of those who look for a similar movement
in this country.

=Ind.= 58: 897. Ap. 20, ‘05. 60w.

=Stow, George W.= Native races of South Africa. A history of the intrusion of the Hottentots and Bantu into the hunting grounds of the Bushmen, the aborigines of the country. *$6.50. Macmillan.

“The book is scarcely a treatise so much as an encyclopedia of
information.... Including an excellent account of the Hottentot
immigration and the first waves of the Bantu influx from the North, a
sketch of the distribution of the semi-Hottentot tribes ... much
information about the Hereros and the little-known races north and
west of the Kalahari, as well as a history of the first wars of
Moshesh, the Basuto king, and the doings of early filibusters.... But
it is primarily a study of the Bushmen, and the tale of one of the
cruelest wars of extermination ever waged,—a glimpse into an elder,
almost prehistoric, world of naked savagery.”—Spec.

“A rather cumbrous mass of speculations, based on laborious and
praiseworthy investigations.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 134. Jl. 29. 1580w.

“For a historian who draws much of his material from native tradition,
Mr. Stow is singularly free from speculation. On the social life and
habits of the Bushmen, which is the most important part of his work,
we know from the highest living authority, Miss Lucy Lloyd, that he is
entirely to be trusted.”

+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 278. S. 1, ‘05. 1550w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 492. Jl. 22, ‘05. 350w.

“What he says of the Bushmen, then, can be accepted as probably
correct, and as forming a prospectively valuable contribution to the
ethnology of South Africa.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 513. Ag. 5, ‘05. 890w.

“In the main his generalizations strike us as accurate and logical. It
is as a collection of the data for theory that it is to be prized. On
this ground it seems to us a very valuable book.”

+ + =Spec.= 95: 225. Ag. 12, ‘05. 1490w.

=Stowe, Harriet Beecher.= Uncle Tom’s cabin, or, Life among the lowly. $1.25. Crowell.

This famous story is now issued as one of the flexible “Thin paper
classics” series, with a photogravure frontispiece showing Uncle Tom
and Eva as drawn by Charles Copeland.

=Strang, Herbert.= Kobo: a story of the Russo-Japanese war. †$1.50. Putnam.

“Kobo is a Japanese in good social position, who undertakes the
perilous duty of a spy. Another prominent character is a young British
employee in the Japanese naval service. The adventures and experiences
of these and others make ... a vivid dramatic representation of
individual doings and happenings in the national tragedy now being
enacted in the Far East.”—Outlook.

— + =Critic.= 47: 190. Ag. ‘05. 50w.

+ + =Ind.= 58: 1483. Je. 29, ‘05. 80w.

“A thorough boy’s tale, on the order of the Henty books.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 276. Ap. 29, ‘05. 200w.

“A dashing, exciting story of the sort that boys are fond of.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 503. F. 25, ‘05. 80w.

Stray leaves from a soul’s book. $1.50. Badger, R. G.

Twelve leaves which give soul-struggles and soul-compensations and
show how thru the ages “my soul and I” have strayed and met again.

=Streamer, Col. D., pseud. (Harry Graham).= More misrepresentative men. **$1. Fox.

Col. Streamer adds to his already imposing list of misrepresentative
men the names of Robert Burns, William Waldorf Astor, Henry VIII.,
Alton B. Parker, Euclid, J. M. Barrie, Omar Khayyam, Andrew Carnegie,
King Cophetus, Joseph F. Smith and Sherlock Holmes. The volume is
humorously illustrated, and is made unique by the author’s foreword
which makes bold to claim that visions of the almighty dollar have
power to awaken his muse, and the publishers answer which pampers him
in his whim for substantial reward.

* + =Dial.= 39: 446. D. 16, ‘05. 60w.

“Shows no exhaustion of his satiric vein.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 340. O. 26, ‘05. 80w.

“We are willing to swear that these verses are as good as any the
author has written.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 748. N. 4, ‘05. 220w.

* =Street, George Edward.= Mount Desert: a history; ed. by S: A. Eliot; with a memorial introd. by Wilbert L. Anderson. **$2.50. Houghton.

“Many who have visited the interesting island of Mount Desert, have
wondered what the early history of that region might be.... The first
colony in Mount Desert was established by the Jesuit priests at
Somesville, in 1613, but was destroyed next year by the English. A
century and a half passed before the first permanent settlers came
from Massachusetts.... In recent years the island has become one of
the favorite summer resorts on our Atlantic coast. The book is well
illustrated with views of the island and contains also an excellent
map.”—Ind.

* “Is the only history of the island ever written.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1113. N. 9, ‘05. 130w.

* + =Outlook.= 81: 528. O. 28, ‘05. 15w.

=Stringer, Arthur John Arbuthnott.= Lonely O’Malley: a story of boy life. $1.50. Houghton.

“The story of a real boy, who knows all about the secrets of
trap-making, and depends upon a vivid imagination for his games.
Shunned at first by others of his age, when he comes a stranger to
town, he wins his place as a leader by fighting the bully and
conducting a wonderful pirate cruise.”—Outlook.

“Entertaining story.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 670. O. 14, ‘05. 540w.

=Outlook.= 81: 429. O. 21, ‘05. 50w.

=Strong, Mrs. Isobel (Osbourne).= Girl from home: a story of Honolulu. †$1.50. McClure.

About twenty years ago, when Kalakaua was king in Hawaii, a girl went
to the islands and fell in love with a man worth eleven millions. The
story tells of her experiences in which many characters, American,
British, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, and Hawaiian, play a part.

“The book is best defined as an entertaining volume of travel,
sugar-coated with an innocuous little romance, and enlivened with a
vein of mild satire.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ — =Bookm.= 21: 600. Ag. ‘05. 240w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 342. My. 27, ‘05. 410w.

* =Strong, Josiah.= Next great awakening. 75c. Baker.

A tenth edition of a volume which makes it its object to show “that
the next great spiritual awakening, so profoundly needed to
Christianize the new civilization and to lift the nations to a higher
plane,” will come when the social teachings of Jesus, so long obscured
and forgotten, are “clearly recognized and faithfully preached.” The
subject is treated under the headings: The supreme need of the world;
The law of spiritual quickening; The kingdom of God; The social laws
of Jesus; The social teachings of Jesus not accepted; and The social
teachings of Jesus applied will bring social healing and spiritual
quickening.

=Strong, Josiah.= Social progress for 1905. **$1. Baker.

Dr. Strong’s experiment in sending out a 1904 year book and
encyclopedia of economic, industrial, social and religious statistics
met with such hearty endorsement that he offers a second issue for the
new year. It contains more material than the 1904 volume, is more
comprehensive, and has profited by solicited suggestions and
criticisms.

“As it is, however, no student and no library should be without it.”

— + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 597. S. ‘05. 180w.

“The second issue of the work shows a material advance over the first
in usefulness. The amount of matter included is very large, and it is
strictly up-to-date.”

+ + + =Dial.= 38: 326. My. 1, 05. 60w.

“It is, on the whole, an excellent volume. We note, however, a number
of errors, partly due to bad proofreading and partly to faulty
handling of the statistical tables.”

+ + — =Ind.= 58: 1191. My. 25, ‘05. 90w.

+ + =N. Y. Times= 10: 287. Ap. 29, ‘05. 150w.

“A clear improvement is made by the present volume upon its
predecessor.”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 1016. Ap. 22, ‘05. 120w.

“More complete and hence more valuable than ever.”

+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 795. My. 20, ‘05. 170w.

* =Strong, Josiah.= Times and young men. 75c. Baker.

A new popular edition of a book which is an outgrowth of the writer’s
personal experience and in which he sets forth his conception of life
in the hope that “this volume may fix in the minds of the young men
who read it convictions as to the right course of life so deep and
immovable that they may be anchored to in the stress of storm.” The
table of contents includes chapters upon: The great change in the
physical world, and in the world of ideas; Three great laws which
never change; The law of service, The law of self-giving or sacrifice,
The law of love; The three great laws applied to the social problem,
and to personal problems; and The inspiration of the twentieth-century
outlook.

=Strunk, William=, ed. See Juliana.

=Stuart, Ruth McEnery.= River’s children, $1. Century.

This “Idyll of the Mississippi” is a series of connected sketches of
the negro and creole delta dwellers, where “de ruling lady of dis low
valley country, it is not de carnival queen; it is not de first lady
at de governor’s mansion.... It is old lady Mississippi.” There is an
account of a great flood where “the mother of trouble” received
prayers and sacrifices from her superstitious worshippers; and the
story of two old negroes who took charge of their “Marse Harold’s”
little daughter until his return from the war; finding rest beneath
the treacherous waters when they had secured for her a father and a
happy future. Many negro songs and superstitions give the story color.

“Written with the charm, the humor, the grace, and the pathos so
familiar to all who know the author’s earlier books.”

+ + =Critic.= 46: 190. F. ‘05. 30w.

“A sort of pagan worship of the great river Mississippi is the keynote
of this somewhat desultory tale of Creoles and negroes in Louisiana.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 43. Ja. 21, ‘05. 210w.

“Mrs. Stuart’s humor, is, for once, overcast by pathos. ‘The river’s
children’ is a pearl brought up by a diver, who knows the waters; one
that will gain luster as receding years carry farther and farther
back, the superstitions, the romance, the melodies that have gathered
around the great river.”

+ + =Reader.= 5: 377. F. ‘05. 400w.

=Stuart, Ruth McEnery.= Second wooing of Salina Sue and other stories, †$1.25. Harper.

Six short stories of negro life in the far South, entitled, The second
wooing of Salina Sue; Minervy’s valentines, Tobe Taylor’s April
foolishness; Egypt; Milady; The romance of Chinkapin castle.

+ + =Bookm.= 22: 182. O. ‘05. 230w.

“All the sketches are written in her touching, witty style.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 156. Jl. 20, ‘05. 320w.

“She knows well how to best bring to the surface the exquisite humor
and pathos of plantation life.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 278. Ap. 29, ‘06. 530w.

“If Mrs. Stuart strikes no fresh notes in this latest volume, she
shows no sign of flagging interest in her themes, or of decline in the
naturalness and interest of her style.”

+ =Outlook.= 80: 143. My. 13, ‘05. 100w.

+ + =Reader.= 6: 362. Ag. ‘05. 290w.

+ + — =R. of Rs.= 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 50w.

=Stubbs, Rt. Rev. William, bishop of Oxford.= Letters of William Stubbs, bishop of Oxford, 1825-1901; ed. by William Holden Hutton. *$4. Dutton.

A volume of letters which show the great bishop and learned historian
to have been a man of genial personality and keen wit.

“It is to be hoped that, faithfully as Mr. Hutton has executed his
task,—and his interspersed matter is illuminative and indispensable to
the best enjoyment of the letters,—that a fuller, more formal
biography of Bishop Stubbs may some day be written.” Percy F.
Bicknell.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 236. Ap. 1, ‘05. 450w.

“His intercourse with leaders or his church and nation is revealed in
these letters, in which his personal characteristics as a Christian
pastor, an ecclesiastical statesman, a scholar, a wit, a friend,
combine in the portrait of a strong, sincere, and faithful man.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 246. Ja. 28, ‘05. 130w.

+ + + =Nation.= 81: 201. S. 7, ‘05. 3550w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 524. Ag. 5, ‘05. 900w.

* =Sturge, Ernest Adolphus.= Spirit of Japan. The Yurskusha, Tokyo. For sale by author, 101 Scott St., San Francisco.

A Californian’s book of verse devoted to the spirit, legends,
historical events, flowers, trees, birds and scenery of Japan.

=Sturgis, Howard Overing.= Belchamber. †$1.50. Putnam.

Lord Belchamber, heir to an old name and to an old estate, is shy,
sickly and good, quite out of place in his high position, in an idle
and fashionable world, and wishes to renounce it for settlement work.
His dissipated brother’s marriage to a vulgar variety actress recalls
him to his duty, to his mother and to his name. He is caught by the
first clever woman who sets her cap for him and marries her with
tragic results.

“‘Belchamber,’ in short, has at once the faults and the freshness of
the novelist who has told little but observed much; faults of
construction and perspective ... and freshness of sensation and
perception.” Edith Wharton.

+ + — =Bookm.= 21: 307. My. ‘05. 1970w.

“Admirably well-written book.” Witter Bynner.

+ + =Critic.= 46: 473. My. ‘05. 650w.

“There is nothing amateurish about either style or construction.” Wm.
M. Payne.

+ — =Dial.= 39: 41. Jl. 16, ‘05. 130w.

“There is nothing hopeful or right in the book.”

— — =Ind.= 58: 1071. My. 11, ‘05. 200w.

“There is a sort of old-fashioned touch about some of it, and now and
then a suggestion of Thackeray.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 10. ‘05. 690w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.

“Neither strength nor style is lacking in this quite remarkable
analytical study.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 906. Ap. 8, ‘03. 100w.

“It is a wonderfully well written book, so well written that the
wonder grows that the author should have chosen such a malodorous
subject.”

+ + — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 549. Ap. 8, ‘05. 110w.

“‘Belchamber’ is a disagreeable, morbid and decidedly clever novel of
aristocratic English life.”

+ — =Reader.= 6: 472. S. ‘05. 280w.

=Sturgis, Russell.= Appreciation of pictures. **$1.50. Baker.

A purely artistical standard of judgment from which to grasp the great
arts of design has been defined by Mr. Sturgis in his volumes devoted
to sculpture, architecture, and now to pictures. In the present field
the work of producing grows complex as “in the matter of
picture-making there is the transference of actual form and of
appearance of form, to a flat surface.” The subject is treated
historically and from the critic’s standpoint, whereas Mr. Poore’s
“Pictorial composition” in this same “Popular art series” treats
pictures from the artist’s point of view. There are many illustrations
reproduced from rare paintings.

* “The pictures are carefully and thoroughly explained, and much
unconscious like or dislike of a picture is accounted for by the clear
reasoning.”

+ + =Critic.= 47: 572. D. ‘05. 90w.

* “Is a good, helpful and instructive book by an authority whose long
and careful study of the arts has equipped him with a wealth of
knowledge.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 1162. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.

* =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 30. D. ‘05. 200w.

* “Mr. Sturgis’s book is much the more stimulating to one already
possessing some knowledge of the subject; Mr. Caffin’s will perhaps be
more useful to the beginner. Both will help in the spreading of some
notion of what art is.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 509. D. 21. ‘05. 220w.

* + =Outlook.= 81: 704. N. 25, ‘05. 80w.

* “Mr. Sturgis has filled the requirements of the situation fully.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 666. N. 18, ‘05. 220w.

* =R. of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 70w.

=Sturgis, Russell.= Appreciation of sculpture. **$1.50. Baker.

To provide a popular work which at the same the student was the
prevailing idea in Mr. Sturgis’s “How to judge architecture.” In the
same time maintained high standards of criticism for manner, he now
offers a work on sculpture, in which he treats the subject in the
light of both its architectural and monumental value, dwelling upon
the history, the characteristics of the principal schools, and the
criticism of standard works; all of which study presents principles of
analysis and criticism to be employed in understanding other
sculpture. The book is valuable for the student, the traveler and the
general reader.

Reviewed by Wm. Walton.

+ + =Architectural Record.= 17: 189. Mr. ‘05. 2610w. (Abstract of
book.)

“With the exception of the omission of some interesting technical
explanations, which Mr. Sturgis better than most could have given us,
the book is a very good and helpful one, and much more instructive as
to the difference between good and bad works than the same author’s
previous volume on ‘How to judge architecture,’ to which this is a
companion.”

+ + — =Ind.= 58: 95. Ja. 12, ‘05. 560w.

“The book is one that will unfailingly bring to its readers both
profit and pleasure.”

+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 16. Mr. ‘05. 270w.

=Sturgis, Russell.= Interdependence of the arts; Scammon lectures, The art institute of Chicago, 1904. *$1.75. McClurg.

Six lectures and 100 illustrations make up this book. Modern judged by
ancient art is treated in lectures 1 and 2, first under Representation
and sentiment, and second under Decorative effects. The other subjects
are—The industrial arts in which form predominates, The industrial
arts in which color predominates, Sculpture as used in architecture,
and Painting as used in architecture.

“The writer’s views on these subjects are sound, if pedantic and not
altogether new; they might have been placed in a form rather more
readily understood, for one may turn many pages before he gains any
idea of what the author is ‘getting at.’”

+ — =Critic.= 47: 283. S. ‘05. 110w.

* + + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 30. D. ‘05. 140w.

“Reads rather like the slightly revised report of extempore talks than
like a formal treatise.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 150. Ag. 17, ‘05. 1160w.

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 838. Jl. 29, ‘05. 100w.

* =Sturgis, Russell.= Study of the artist’s way of working in various handicrafts and arts of design. 2v. **$15. Dodd.

In this “treatise on the ways in which the artist’s conceptions are
formed and take visible shape,” Mr. Sturgis “gives a brief description
of the technique of all the arts practised by man or savage down to
the nineteenth century ... and even includes in a chapter on the
‘Ignored fine arts’ some discussion of fireworks and illumination,
costume, the dance and stage-setting.” (Int. Studio.) There are one
hundred and nineteen illustrations.

* “Though the work is copious, each department is despatched
succinctly without overburdening detail and not without occasional
expression of personal judgments and speculation.”

+ + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 33. D. ‘05. 150w.

* “A comprehensive work.” C. de K.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 742. N. 4, ‘05. 350w.

Sturmsee: man and man; by the author of Calmire. † $1.50. Macmillan.

The author’s economic theory is that the workingman gets as large a
share of the wealth he helps to produce as he actually earns. His
story deals with many characters in many classes of society but
chiefly with a young German doctor who loves a princess, comes to
America, begins at the bottom and becomes reform governor of a western
commonwealth; and with the romance of an idle leader of cotillions,
and the intense daughter of a plain, blunt manufacturer of tinware.

“In the hands of a great writer it might have been a great book,
because the purpose in it is that of painting the manners of men. But
then the author launches into deep waters where he is not at home.”

+ — =Acad.= 68: 822. Ag. 12, ‘05. 320w.

* “There is too much social philosophy in the book to interest the
general reader of fiction. Yet, on the whole, ‘Sturmsee’ abounds in
lessons of healthy conservatism and conveys much social information.”

+ — =Cath. World.= 82: 417. D. ‘05. 170w.

“It is not entirely without interest as a story, but it is essentially
a book of discussions to which a conversational and picturesque form
of exposition gives point and animation.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ + =Dial.= 39: 41. Jl. 16, ‘05. 980w.

“It is informed with learning and reflection, and its plan is
studiously developed. Yet it would be a mistake to call it a novel.”

+ — =Ind.= 59:451. Ag. 24, ‘05. 170w.

“The people in the book ... have (for Utopians) an appeal remarkably
human. And not merely human, but romantic. The author never gets down
from his hobby. He is always intent to teach you wisdom and demolish
economic fallacies.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 370. Je. 10, ‘05. 4070w.

“Has handled his material well or ill according as his readers expect
sociology or fiction, for there is something of both and not enough of
either.”

— =Pub. Opin.= 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 140w.

=Sudermann, Hermann.= St. John’s fire; tr. by Grace E. Polk. $1. H. W. Wilson co.

One of three translations of strong new foreign plays appearing in
America in the last three years, the other two being Edith Wharton’s
translation of Sudermann’s “Joy of Living,” and Coleman’s translation
of Maeterlinck’s “Monna Vauna.” The dramatist uses an old German
peasant custom of lighting bonfires and dancing round them on St.
John’s eve as an allegorical background for his play. The custom dates
back to heathen times, and the author in working out his plot makes
the fires symbolize the outburst in the human soul, after Christian
centuries, of the wild yearnings and primeval passions of the
unregenerate man.

=Outlook.= 80: 247. My. 27, ‘05. 20w.

=R. of Rs.= 32: 127. Jl. ‘05. 40w.

“Miss Polk’s translation is at once faithful to the spirit and letter
of the original, and to the idiom of our own tongue. It is neither
slavish nor careless.” Mary Gray Peck.

+ + + =St. Paul Dispatch.= 8. Ap. 29, ‘05. 810w.

=Suess, Eduard.= Face of the earth (Das antlitz der erde); tr. by Hertha B. C. Sollas, 5v. v. I. *$8.35. (*25s.) Oxford.

Volume I. of a five volume edition. “Vol. I., which contains four maps
and fifty other illustrations, is divided into two parts. Part I.
deals with ‘The movements in the outer crust of the earth’—floods,
cyclones, seismic areas, dislocations, volcanoes, earthquakes, etc.;