Chapter 4: deals with classification and tabulation; chapter 5 (pp (3)

A story for boys. Gus Harvey is a New York boy adopted by the captain
of a fishing vessel from Gloucester. In spite of his New York bringing
up Gus is familiar with boats and he readily adapts himself to the
life of Cape Ann, his new home. He wins a yacht race, learns to build
a boat and with his chum salvages a wreck and captures a band of
burglars. There is a glossary of marine terms.

* * * * *

“Only for the boy who understands sailing and nautical terms. Nicely
printed and illustrated.”

+ =Booklist= 17:124 D ’20

“The story has the quality of an old skipper’s talk.” A. C. Moore

+ =Bookm= 52:262 N ’20 50w

=SMITH, CORINNA HAVEN (PUTNAM) (MRS JOSEPH LINDON SMITH), and HILL, CAROLINE R. (MRS WILLIAM HILL).= Rising above the ruins in France. il *$3.50 Putnam 914.4

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“Observations in the devastated regions of France, made since the
armistice, by two American women who have devoted themselves
wholeheartedly to the work for ‘the children of the frontier.’ By the
use of pen and camera these women undertake to show us in America
something of the destruction that the north of France has undergone
and something of the brave spirit with which the population has sought
to rebuild its devastated homes.”—R of Rs

* * * * *

“The authors’ pictures of the re-awakening of life are simply and
impressively sketched.”

+ =Ath= p645 N 12 ’20 160w

+ =Booklist= 17:109 D ’20

+ =Cath World= 112:693 F ’21 440w

“When they speak of conditions actually witnessed they speak with the
natural authority of sincerity and lucidity. The book takes a
particular value from the large number of photographs with which it is
enriched.”

+ − =Nation= 111:331 S 18 ’20 240w

“There is little of deliberate description, there are few adjectives,
no one incident or visualization is dwelt on long. But the book is a
glimpse of life and indomitable achievement—and that is an epic
thing.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:22 Jl 25 ’20 2100w

“It is no small praise of the narrative to say that, while by no means
purely descriptive, it matches the pictures in striking or appealing
presentation of fact.”

+ =No Am= 212:718 N ’20 980w

+ − =Outlook= 126:515 N 17 ’20 50w

“This incessant use of the historical present time gives their style
an air of pretentious artifice; their frequent use of direct discourse
gives it an air of fiction. So, except for the pictures and the
appendix, they have succeeded in producing only an effect of
make-believe in confusion.”

− + =Review= 3:236 S 15 ’20 200w

=R of Rs= 62:222 Ag ’20 70w

“It would be misleading to say that this record of wonderful
accomplishment is interesting throughout. Literary interest can hardly
be achieved unless the principle of progression and climax be adhered
to. Mrs Haven Smith, gives us a good many of those human touches which
one always looks for in such a book.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p736 N 11 ’20 420w

=SMITH, DAVID.= Life and letters of St Paul. *$6 Doran 220.92

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“The author’s point of view in this book is well expressed in the
preface: ‘Controversy is a foolish and futile employment; and I have
endeavored to portray St Paul simply as I have perceived him during
long years of loving and delightful study of the sacred memorials of
his life and labor, mentioning the views of others only as they served
to illustrate and confirm my own. And I would fain hope that I have
written nothing discourteous, nothing hurtful.’ One of the most
attractive parts of this volume is the translation of the epistles
into modern English. The text is accompanied by a running exposition
which takes note of the thought and purpose of these rich writings,
and sets them in their historical context in a way that the average
mind can understand. On the other hand, the scholar will find a great
deal of suggestion from the extensive footnotes, which discuss the
deeper questions of Biblical learning on subjects that are not always
familiar even to the general run of scholars.”—Bookm

* * * * *

“The warmth of its style is likely to make it more acceptable as an
aid to devotion than as a contribution to historical research.”

+ − =Ath= p442 Ap 2 ’20 150w

“This detailed, voluminous, and interesting life of Paul is by the
author of ‘In the days of his flesh,’ and bears all the marks of
unwearied scholarship, sympathetic interpretation, and exegetical
insight that we have learned to associate with the name of Dr Smith.”

+ =Bib World= 54:647 N ’20 450w

“Dr Smith has produced a work of genuine literature. He has a lucid
style, a finely poised imagination, deep historical insight, a rich
understanding of religious values, and a full grasp of the profoundest
scholarship. He has thus written a volume that unquestionably takes
rank with the great biographies of recent times. There is not a dull
page.” O. L. Joseph

+ =Bookm= 51:303 My ’20 1200w

=N Y Times= p29 O 17 ’20 80w

“This book is disappointing. The notes indicate that the author
possesses minute scholarship, but the text does not indicate that he
possesses spiritual insight.”

− + =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 130w

+ =Spec= 124:317 Mr 6 ’20 170w

“It is designed for the general reader rather than for the scholar,
and throughout it maintains an allusiveness to general literature and
history which will make it specially attractive to a wide circle of
readers.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p347 Je 3 ’20 700w

=SMITH, GEORGE GREGORY.= Ben Jonson. *$1.25 Macmillan

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“After many years Ben Jonson has been admitted to the sacred circle of
English men of letters, that series of little critical biographies now
numbering more than sixty names. In Mr Smith’s belated biography we
have in his two opening chapters a recital of about all that is known
of the circumstances of Jonson’s life, the rest of the book being
given to a study of his literary work, with chapters on ‘literary
conscience,’ the comedies, masques, tragedies and poems, and a final
survey of his influence.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

=Boston Transcript= p10 F 7 ’20 1450w

“Mr Smith, in his entirely laudable anxiety to write unlike Swinburne,
has written the greater part of his book with too much caution. The
biography is all crowded into the first fifty pages and the remaining
two hundred and fifty are left wholly free for criticism: the easiest
arrangement, perhaps, but in this case not the best. It is only in the
last two chapters, those on Jonson’s literary criticism and influence,
that Professor Smith, himself an authority on sixteenth and
seventeenth century poetical theory, comes into his own and does his
author the fullest justice.” Mark Van Doren

+ − =Nation= 110:206 F 14 ’20 1100w

“The new ‘Ben Jonson’ is generously written, but Mr Gregory Smith has
kept Ben’s secret. It was, of course, impossible to quote much in the
limits of space set by the conditions of the series; the more’s the
pity that it came out in a series at all. The book is too big for it;
it is so rich a harvest that one could wish the master of it had
pulled down his barns and built greater; cancelled his contract, and
made ‘Ben Jonson’ his magnum opus.”

+ =Nation [London]= 26:608 Ja 31 ’20 1950w

“Mr Smith is constantly on the defensive; he is often arrogant and
peevish in his attitude towards other critics. Under his handling
Jonson becomes not only dull but a source of dullness in other men, to
wit in Mr Smith himself.” S. C. C.

− + =New Repub= 23:342 Ag 18 ’20 500w

“Professor Smith has done full justice to Ben’s robust character
without minimizing [his] grave faults. His plays are analysed with
much ability, and their peculiar qualities are admirably explained and
illustrated with reference to the theory upon which they were
constructed. Insight and accuracy are the chief essentials in a short
account of Ben Jonson, and Professor Smith possesses both.”

+ =Spec= 124:279 F 28 ’20 550w

“For the critical study in the Men of letters series which Mr Gregory
Smith has just produced there is a place; it satisfies curiosity, it
supplies many just observations, it provides valuable matter on the
neglected masques; it only fails to remodel the image of Jonson which
is settled in our minds.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p637 N 13 ’19 2100w

=SMITH, GORDON ARTHUR.= Pagan. *$1.75 Scribner

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“This is a collection of twelve short stories. In ‘The pagan,’ from
which the book takes its title, there are three outstanding
characters: Ferdinand Taillandy, son of Maxime Taillandy, a wealthy
Parisian; his sister Marthe, and Peter Mason, a young American lawyer
whose firm practiced on both sides of the Atlantic. In the ‘Feet of
gold’ and ‘The end of the road’ the author draws further entertaining
pictures of the same Ferdinand Taillandy—‘poet, pagan and wanderer on
the face of the earth.’ The ‘City of light’ and ‘The bottom of the
cup’ are pathetic tales of two young sisters, daughters of a widow of
Evremont-sur-Seine, who, dazzled by the attractions of Paris, leaves
home, only to return broken and disillusioned. ‘Tropic madness’ is
decidedly humorous.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:246 Ap ’20

+ =N Y Times= 25:25 Jl 11 ’20 700w

=SMITH, HENRY LOUIS.=[2] Your biggest job, school or business. *$1 Appleton 174

20–21351

These heart-to-heart talks with boys contain “Some words of counsel
for red-blooded young Americans who are getting tired of school.”
(Sub-title) The author’s object is to give the boy the necessary
incentive to develop the will-power that will enable him to go thru
with an irksome task for the sake of his future. The essays are: The
American freight train; Quitting school for business; Grindstones: A
study in tool-sharpening; A neglected art; The key to success in
study; A widespread fallacy disproved; On getting rich; The cash value
of book-learning; First lesson of the world war: Value of morale; A
square deal for the home folks; College and university training; The
home half of college preparation.

=SMITH, HERBERT ARTHUR.=[2] American Supreme court as an international tribunal. *$3.50 Oxford 341.6

20–16853

“This small volume essays to draw an analogy between the Supreme court
of the United States, when sitting as a tribunal to try cases
involving sovereign states, and any international court that may
hereafter be established for such purpose. The author reviews the
various cases before the Supreme court in which one or both of the
litigants have been states of the union, stressing those cases in
which the jurisdiction of the court has been challenged, either
successfully or otherwise.”—N Y Evening Post

* * * * *

+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 D 31 ’20 180w

“Professor Herbert Smith has compiled a very useful book, deserving
close study at the present time.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p642 O 7 ’20 650w

=SMITH, JUSTIN HARVEY.= War with Mexico. 2v *$10 Macmillan 973.6

19–19605

“This exhaustive historical work may be regarded—although the author
does not so claim—as a sequel to his previous work, ‘The annexation of
Texas.’ Professor Smith devotes two opening chapters to the
consideration of the social, economic and political condition of
Mexico and the Mexicans, both before and since the revolt from Spanish
rule, which made it an independent state under the rule of Iturbide.
Next are considered the relations between Mexico and the United States
prior to the beginning of the war and the attitude of both powers on
the eve of war. The second volume is devoted chiefly to a description
of the war itself, the siege of Chapultepec, the capture of the
capital city, the naval operations and the final victory and the
signing of a treaty. Professor Smith has sought his material for this
exhaustive history in public documents and records of the two
governments, in collections of historical societies, and public and
private libraries, in manuscripts public and private ... and in
personal recollections of men still living, who took part in the
conflict.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“The reviewer is disappointed, because it seems to him that Dr Smith
has not accomplished once for all the results that his immense labor
and impressive grasp of the subject would have enabled him to do had
he written with more regard to the necessary limitations of his
readers. It would be a grievous error, however, to infer that he has
not produced a notable book. One may not always agree with the author,
but very few will be rash enough to neglect him.” E. C. Barker

+ − =Am Hist R= 25:729 Jl ’20 1400w

=Booklist= 16:309 Je ’20

“This book must be regarded as the definitive work on this important
episode in the history of the expansion of our country.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 4 ’20 1050w

“A thoroughgoing and accurate narrative.”

+ =Brooklyn= 12:106 Mr ’20 40w

“Elaborate, but not very plausible.”

+ − =Dial= 68:669 My ’20 70w

“The many engagements before final victory are described with a
particularity which proves the author to have acquired a general
understanding of military matters, with an appreciative grasp of the
technique of the battlefield that make his narrative markedly
convincing.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:300 Je 6 ’20 1000w

“Professor Smith has labored with a keen eye for the human and
picturesque qualities in his material. At the same time this is
fundamentally the work of a painstaking scholar.”

+ =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 100w

=R of Rs= 61:334 Mr ’20 180w

“Mr Smith has made a thorough examination of the available material,
and has built it into a monumental work which supersedes all previous
histories of the subject. His treatment of the military part is
admirable. His book is fully documented, and in every way a credit to
the American school of history.”

+ =Spec= 124:869 Je 26 ’20 350w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 3 ’20 70w

“The public is deeply indebted to Prof. Smith, who after years of
patient delving in the vaults of historical societies, in local
archives, in private collections, etc., has produced a scholarly and
well thought-out history.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p5 Mr 8 ’20 600w

“The episodes are sufficiently distant to have enabled the passions
and excitements to grow cold and for their comparative importance to
be weighed and allocated in a just position in the history of the
construction of the United States. The materials are adequate, even
abundant, and the author with commendable industry has fortified his
narrative with a wealth of corroborative annotation, and a formidable
bibliography of his subject. He has, moreover, compiled a really
useful index.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p350 Je 3 ’20 950w

=SMITH, LAURA ROUNTREE.= Like-to-do stories. il 55c Beckley-Cardy co.

A book of stories for boys and girls who are just beginning to read
for themselves. Each story has its moral, as some of the titles will
show: The little girl who liked to wash dishes; The little boy who
liked to bring in wood and water; The little girl who couldn’t tell
time; The little boy who was afraid of the dark; The little boy who
liked to hang up his coat and hat; The little girl who did a kindness
every-day.

=SMITH, LEWIS WORTHINGTON, and HATHAWAY, ESSE VIRGINIA.=[2] Skyline in English literature. il *$2 Appleton 820.9

20–20033

The object of the book is to present the story of English literature
in continuity by eliminating minor details and minor writers and
keeping the attention on the skyline. The authors hold that
territorial expansion and intellectual expansion go together and that
while English-speaking peoples hold the forefront of the world their
literature is the greatest in the world. The book is intended for high
school use and its contents are: The English language and the English
people; The Anglo-Saxon beginning; The Norman-French expansion; The
Englishman’s house in order; The Greco-Italian expansion; The world
expansion; Spiritual and social idealism: the overthrowing of masters;
Spiritual decadence: the return of the masters; The intellectual
expansion; the age of enlightenment; The spiritual expansion; idealism
and the rebirth of song; The beauty and fullness of life; The
industrial expansion; artists, workers, thinkers; Recent and
contemporary writers. There is a list of literary places in England
with map; a chronology, a glossary, an index and illustrations.

* * * * *

=Boston Transcript= p5 D 24 ’20 800w

=N Y Evening Post= p10 D 31 ’20 30w

=SMITH, LOGAN PEARSALL=, ed. Treasury of English prose. *$1.75 (3c) Houghton 820.8

20–5686

This collection of extracts from English prose begins with Chaucer in
the fourteenth century. From the sixteenth century there are extracts
from the “Book of common prayer,” from Sir Philip Sidney, Francis
Bacon and William Shakespeare. Beginning in the seventeenth century
with quotations from authorized versions of the Bible, there are,
moreover, such names as Izaak Walton, Sir Thomas Browne, John Milton,
Jeremy Taylor, and on through the eighteenth century, Swift, Addison,
Johnson, Burke and Gibbon. Some of the more modern writers presented
are Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, De Quincey, Shelley, Keats,
Carlyle, Emerson, Ruskin, Walter Pater, Henry James, George Bernard
Shaw, Joseph Conrad, H. G. Wells, and George Santayana.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:338 Jl ’20

“Not absolutely representative but includes some charming and
little-known prose gems by several famous poets.”

+ =Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 30w

“Mr Smith has let his ear preside at every choosing, so that his
volume is as rigorously cadenced as a collection of sonnets would be.
Here with some omissions is the most perfect music which English prose
has made.”

+ =Nation= 111:278 S 4 ’20 100w

“What Mr Pearsall Smith holds to be good prose is to us only a kind of
good prose; the kind that is alembicated and, as we say, poetical. It
is the prose of conceit, imagery, and eloquence which stands over
against the prose of narration, argument, or satire. So that it would
strike even one who had no critical opinion of English prose and very
little reading in it as somewhat strange that there is not one single
piece of narrative in all this book.”

+ − =Nation [London]= 26:398 D 13 ’19 2500w

“The contents are charmingly arranged and delightfully savory and
brief.”

+ =New Repub= 22:161 Mr 31 ’20 100w

“His treasury is a book of beauty, a book to keep at one’s bed’s head,
a book to dip into, to travel with, to reread.” P. L.

+ =New Repub= 22:253 Ap 21 ’20 1500w

“The anthology as it stands is now anything but representative.... The
selections from the Bible are entirely admirable. The passages from
Jeremy Taylor and Dr Donne are excellently chosen, and Mr Pearsall
Smith is to be congratulated upon his phrase from Traherne and upon
having recollected that Chaucer was not only the first English poet.
Indeed, much of the prose written by poets in this book will delight
and surprise most of Mr Pearsall Smith’s readers.”

+ − =Spec= 124:50 Ja 10 ’20 1000w

=SMITH, MABELL SHIPPIE (CLARKE) (MRS JAMES RAVENEL SMITH).=[2] Maid of Orleans. *$1.25 Crowell

19–15636

“M. S. C. Smith has published a new volume of the old story of ‘The
maid of Orleans,’ written particularly for girls, but by no means
confined to such a constituency. To the length of nearly 300 pages the
author relates the story of the girl and the voices that guided her in
her efforts to free France from a foreign foe and set her rightful
sovereign upon the throne.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“A commendable piece of work.”

+ =Cath World= 111:254 My ’20 120w

+ =Outlook= 124:28 Ja 7 ’20 70w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 N 30 ’19 180w

=SMITH, NORA ARCHIBALD.= Christmas child, and other verse for children. il *$1.75 Houghton 811

20–19659

Verses for children reprinted from the Ladies’ Home Journal, Outlook,
Youth’s Companion and other periodicals, including school and
educational journals. There are about twenty poems on Christmas themes
followed by others, with such titles as The fairy ring; Everybody’s
baby; The answer of the flag; Learning to knit; Easter blossoms; The
doll’s calendar.

* * * * *

“Miss Smith has the gift of sprightly versification, and her
experience as a kindergartner leads her to a knowledge of the theme
and the treatment that will please boys and girls.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 18 ’20 100w

=SMITH, ONNIE WARREN.= Casting tackle and methods. il *$3 (4½c) Stewart & Kidd 799

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