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Wack, Henry Wellington. In Thamesland being a gossiping record of rambles thru England from the source of the Thames to the sea, with casual studies of the English people, their histories, literary and romantic shrines. The whole forming a complete guide to the Thames valley. **$3. Putnam.
Mr. Wack and a friend voyaged down the Thames “from near its obscure source to Kingston-upon-Thames, a short distance above London, where tidewater is met with. Mr. Wack has quite a faculty for accumulating facts, and his ‘Thamesland’ is a veritable mine of history, interspersed with much observation of scenery and occasionally a facetious remark at the expense of the natives with whom they came in contact. The book, which is admirably illustrated and has a good map, will serve as a very useful and interesting guide to those who wish to take a similar voyage down the historic Thames or spend the days in wandering among the towns on its banks.”-Ind.
“This volume so frequently fails in accuracy that the reader who knows the river must be moved to impatience.”
– Ath. 1906, 2: 212. Ag. 25. 1070w.
Reviewed by Anna Benneson McMahan.
Dial. 41: 200. O. 1, ’06. 990w. + Ind. 61: 638. S. 13, ’06. 300w.
“He writes agreeably and has been careful in collecting his information.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 430. S. 29, ’06. 90w.
“The book is, in fact, one to make an Englishman shudder, and to depress even more the American who has been over the same ground.”
– Nation. 83: 350. O. 25, ’06. 280w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 382. Je. 15, ’06. 100w.
“We know of none at once so entertaining, so beautiful, and so comprehensive in its scope as this.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 450. Jl. 14, ’06. 230w. + Putnam’s. 1: 254. N. ’06. 240w.
“High-class guide-book.”
+ R. of Rs. 34: 255. Ag. ’06. 70w. + Spec. 97: 271. Ag. 25, ’06. 220w.
Wack, Henry Wellington. Story of the Congo Free State. **$3.50. Putnam.
– Am. J. Theol. 10: 196. Ja. ’06. 350w.
“The present volume, in its controversial part, is useful in presenting the other side, as against Dilke, Fox-Bourne and their supporters. Its elaborate collection of data not especially bearing on the ‘Congo question’ is the more immediately valuable to the student.” A. G. K.
– + Yale R. 14: 434. F. ’06. 680w.
Waddell, Charles Carey. Van Suyden sapphires. † $1.50. Dodd.
“Is decidedly one of the best stories of this class that has been put out in many a day.”
+ + Reader. 7: 562. Ap. ’06. 160w.
Waddell, Laurence Austine. Lhasa and its mysteries: with a record of the expedition of 1903–1905. *$3. Dutton.
“This is a new and cheaper edition of Colonel Waddell’s account of our recent expedition into Tibet. In its more expensive shape it passed through two editions, and the present one is a marvel of cheapness. Not very many of the illustrations of last year are omitted in this year’s reprint, and the type is the same.”-Nature.
“A volume which is almost, if not quite as handsome and complete as the expensive first and second editions.”
+ Acad. 70: 487. My. 19, ’06. 290w.
“Colonel Waddell’s book ... now appears in a cheaper edition, $3.00, which for most persons and libraries will be as satisfactory.”
+ Ind. 61: 883. O. 1, ’06. 80w. Lit. D. 33: 474. O. 6, ’06. 100w. + Nature. 74: 518. S. 20, ’06. 220w. N. Y. Times. 11: 757. N. 17, ’06. 270w. + Outlook. 84: 630. N. 10, ’06. 350w.
Waddington, Mary Alsop King. [Italian letters of a diplomat’s wife.] **$2.50. Scribner.
“For readers of whatever experience the letters are at their best when they have to do with the two latest occupants of the Quirinal, their queens, and their three contemporaries in the Vatican.” M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
+ Atlan. 97: 113. Ja. ’06. 260w.
Wade, Blanche Elizabeth. Garden in pink. **$1.75. McClurg.
“Is an exquisite and perfect bit of bookmaking but having said this it is difficult to add anything in praise of the book’s literary substance.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
– + N. Y. Times. 11: 168. Mr. 17, ’06. 430w.
Wade, Blanche Elizabeth. Stained glass lady: an idyl; with frontispiece and other drawings by Blanche Ostertag. †$2.50. McClurg.
Imaginative “Little boy” after “counting things” to keep awake during the big people’s sermon spies a beautiful young woman outlined against the stained glass window. In his youthful fancy she is fit to wear the crown suspended in the glass above her head. He calls her the “Stained-glass lady,” and there springs up between the two an idyllic friendship which is characterized by the child’s susceptibility to the poetic graces of the woman, and to the flower and sunlight atmosphere of her surroundings.
“A vivid descriptive touch, a whimsical humor, and a highly imaginative appreciation of nature combine to produce a unique and decided charm, which a slight affectation of style rather increases than diminishes.”
+ Dial. 41: 394. D. ’06. 220w.
“Such children as are blessed with imagination and a love of the beautiful will delight in ‘The stained glass lady.’”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 100w.
Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton (Blanchard). Indian fairy tales, as told to the children of the wigwam. $1. Wilde.
The folk-lore of the red people as it was handed down from generation to generation is found in this little volume for young readers who cannot but feel the charm of the mythical red heroes and of the things of the water, the air, and the stars themselves which figure in these stories of: The daughter of the stars, White Feather and the six giants, The magic moccasins, Hiawatha, Lex, Gloaskap, Manabozho, The fire plume and all the others.
+ Ind. 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton (Blanchard). Old colony days: stories of the first settlers and how the country grew, with il. by Sears Gallagher. [+]75c. Wilde.
The second volume in “Uncle Sam’s old-time stories.” Uncle Sam is the story-teller and follows the principal events of colonial days, showing with what courage, in spite of hardships and dangers, the settlers struggled for free homes. It is a juvenile book adapted to class-room needs.
“Would have been much more effective had the first settlers and the country’s growth been followed in a direct manner.”
– Ind. 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
Waggaman, Mary T., and others. Juvenile round table, third series. $1. Benziger.
A group of interesting stories with Catholic teaching.
Wagnalls, Mabel. Miserere. **40c. Funk.
A sad tale with a musical setting in which a young prima donna is the central spirit.
“A charming little story of music and music-lovers.” Amy C. Rich.
+ Arena. 36: 686. D. ’06. 70w.
Wagner, Charles. Justice; tr. from the French by Mary Louise Hendee. **$1. McClure.
Critic. 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 70w. + Reader. 7: 225. Ja. ’06. 240w.
Wagner, Charles. My impressions of America; tr. from the French by Mary Louise Hendee. **$1. McClure.
“The author of ‘The simple life’ has made a record of his personal experiences rather than a formal study of American institutions. His attitude is one of sympathy and appreciation, seldom running into criticism. The book is not without passages of the reflective and serious kind, but they are thrown in here and there as breaks in the narrative.”—Lit. D.
“From a literary point of view, it is about nil; as also from the point of view of the American who desires to see his country more clearly through the eyes of a stranger.”
+ – Dial. 41: 286. N. 1, ’06. 190w. Ind. 61: 825. O. 4, ’06. 100w.
“Mr. Wagner has offered to Americans a graceful and interesting souvenir of his recent visit.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 474. O. 6, ’06. 70w.
“Dr. Wagner is above all a keen observer. He notices little things as well as those of great dimensions, and writes of them simply and charmingly.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 633. O. 6, ’06. 450w.
“It is the spontaneous expression of a man who is wholly delightful as a companion and who writes as simply and as freely and in as friendly a fashion as he talks.”
+ Outlook. 84: 795. N. 24, ’06. 250w. R. of Rs. 34: 512. O. ’06. 50w.
Wagner, Richard. Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck; tr. by W. Ashton Ellis. $4. Scribner.
“Our author dwells at too great length on Wagner’s virtues and Minna’s failings.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 1: 711. Je. 9. 800w.
Wagner, (Wilhelm) Richard. Tannhäuser; a dramatic poem freely translated in poetic narrative form by Oliver Huckel. **75c. Crowell.
A companion volume to Mr. Huckel’s “Parsifal” and “Lohengrin.” This parable of the redemptive power of a pure and unselfish love loses neither dignity nor strength in the translation.
“This essay alone is worth more than the price of the work to lovers of the greatest musical genius of the nineteenth century.”
+ + Arena. 36: 685. D. ’06. 190w.
“There is a prose introduction, which is both historical and critical and the verse is smooth and flowing.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 724. N. 3, ’06. 90w. + Putnam’s. 1: 377. D. ’06. 90w.
Wagstaff, Henry McGilbert. State rights and political parties in North Carolina, 1776–1861. 50c. Johns Hopkins.
A monograph setting forth the political tendencies of North Carolinians between the war of independence and the war of secession.
Walcott, Earle Ashley. [Blindfolded.] $1.50. Bobbs.
San Francisco with its Chinatown and its water front, its wild life and its desperadoes, is the scene of this adventurous tale of two dual personalities. A young stranger arrives at the Golden Gate just in time to take up, blindfolded, the work of his murdered friend and double, and he is further blinded because of the strange resemblance which his friend’s benefactor bears to his friend’s enemy. Thru murders, brawls, wild scenes in the stock exchange, and strange adventurous missions he gropes courageously in the dark towards light, wealth and happiness.
“This is a mystery-romance displaying considerable ability on the part of the author in construction, plot and counterplot. It is fairly well written and is, we think, the best story of the kind that has appeared in recent months.”
+ + Arena. 36: 571. N. ’06. 350w. Lit. D. 33: 646. N. 3, ’06. 80w.
“In spite of the triteness of both fiction and machinery, it cannot be denied that the book holds our attention from start to finish by means of an interest born of suspense.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 656. O. 6, ’06. 350w. – Outlook. 84: 839. D. 1, ’06. 30w. World To-Day. 11: 1222. N. ’06. 80w.
Walker, Alice Morehouse. Historic Hadley: a story of the making of a famous Massachusetts town. **$1. Grafton press.
In this sketch of historic Hadley “truth has not been sacrificed to style. Painstaking effort has been made to search the town records, to scrutinize every historical document, and to weigh carefully famous traditions. The old dwellings, the highways and byways, the mountains, the river and the meadows, the ancient elms, heirlooms and antique relics have been questioned and they have broken their silence of centuries and told the story of by-gone days.”
Walker, James. Analytical theory of light. *$5. Macmillan.
“Not a text-book of physical optics, but of the analytical theory of light.... It is a book to which students who desire to know how far the mathematical side of the wave theory has been carried, what are its limitations, and in what directions advances are possible will usefully turn.”—Nature.
“Mr. Walker has added to the literature of the subject a book of real value.”
+ + – Nature. 73: 241. Ja. 11, ’06. 1290w.
“Is, perhaps, the most complete treatment of the subject so far attempted from the standpoint of the general wave theory.” C. E. M.
+ + – Science, n.s. 23: 385. Mr. 9, ’06. 220w.
Walker, Williston. John Calvin, the organizer of reformed Protestantism, 1509–1564. **$1.35. Putnam.
Uniform with the “Heroes of the Reformation.” The volume “lays special stress on Calvin’s training, spiritual development, and constructive work, giving secondary place to the details of his Genevan contests, or of his relations to the spread of the Reformation in the different countries to which his influence extended. Calvin, as Mr. Walker points out at the very beginning of his book, was of the second generation of reformers.” (Putnam’s.)
“It is an excellent piece of work. While by no means light reading, the book is clear and straightforward, and it makes the real man Calvin live before us his strange life, so far-reaching in its influence.”
+ + Dial. 41: 286. N. 1, ’06. 140w.
“It contains about all that the average scholar needs to care for. It is free from exaggerations of either praise or blame. The bias on the whole is for Calvin. Will be useful to any student of history, no matter what others he may have on the same topic; and it is competent by itself to meet the requirements of most of us. It gives the essential facts in a straightforward, unambitious style. And it has a very good index.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 775. N. 24, ’06. 1120w.
“The present biography is critical as well as sympathetic, carefully citing authorities, and candidly exhibiting both the lights and the shadows of a masterful character and career.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 384. O. 13. ’06. 150w. Putnam’s. 1: 383. D. ’06. 210w.
“A well-balanced, temperate historical character sketch.”
+ + R. of Rs. 34: 758. D. ’06. 90w.
Wallace, Alfred Russel. My life: a record of events and opinion. *$6. Dodd.
“It dwells in a somewhat too extended manner on unimportant personal details and facts relating to the family and friends of the author. This fault, however, is insignificant in comparison with the general excellence of the life story, which merits the widest reading.”
+ – Arena. 36: 202. Ag. ’06. 10,400w.
“The narrative has very little literary charm, ingenious or other. The annalist’s expression is often incorrect, and invariably clumsy. He has no organic mode of speech, and words are but rough counters with him.” H. W. Boynton.
+ – Atlan. 98: 279. Ag. ’06. 860w.
“Like one of his disembodied spirits, able to get outside of himself and write an autobiography as interesting as it is disinterested.” I. Woodbridge Riley.
+ + Bookm. 22: 626. F. ’06. 1670w.
“The record is planned on too large a scale. The reader who knows how to skip will find these volumes deeply interesting.”
+ + – Contemporary R. 88: 899. D. ’05. 2220w.
“In the past year which has been prolific of biographies and autobiographies there has been nothing more important or more entertaining than the autobiography of Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ + Critic. 48: 352. Ap. ’06. 1410w.
“There is a good deal of matter in the book which does not strike one as being particularly valuable or important; but on the other hand, the variety of subjects discussed, and the wide human interests of the author, cause it to appeal to a far larger circle than the usual biography of a man engaged in the investigation of technical matters.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ + – Dial. 40: 11. Ja. 1, ’06. 1710w.
“This autobiography is as self-revealing as Pepys’s or Rousseau’s.”
+ + + Ind. 60: 280. F. 1, ’06. 950w.
“This is certainly a very entertaining book, highly instructive in several distinct ways.”
+ + Nation. 82: 160. F. 22, ’06. 2960w.
Reviewed by J. A. T.
+ + + Nature. 73: 145. D. 14, ’05. 1890w.
Reviewed by Joseph Jacobs.
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 13. Ja. 13. ’06. 1700w. + + Outlook. 82: 371. F. 17, ’06. 2140w.
“His autobiography is a welcome and worthy record of an honourable and strenuous career.”
+ + Spec. 96: 61. Ja. 13. ’06. 1500w.
Wallace, Sir Donald Mackenzie. [Russia.] $5. Holt.
“The additions to the book will be of primary interest to the student of contemporaneous political, social, and economic conditions rather than to the historian.” F. G. D.
+ + Am. Hist. R. 11: 440. Ja. ’06. 320w. + + + Outlook. 83: 137. My. 19, ’06. 630w. + + Quarterly R. 204: 249. Ja. ’06. 3570w.
“The book continues to be, as it has been for nearly a generation, the best English book on Russia.” C. D.
+ + + Yale R. 15: 331. N. ’06. 330w.
Wallace, Lew (Lewis), general. Lew Wallace: an autobiography. 2v. **$5. Harper.
At the time of General Lew Wallace’s death his autobiography was practically complete. It is written with the personal note individualizing and vitalizing a career which tho it began in uneventful commonplaces grew to distinction in letters, politics, war and diplomacy. A certain simplicity of life and creed pervades the sketch and a magnificent sense of justice. Wallace’s boyhood and youth, in which are set forth the struggles to find himself, his young manhood, full of patriotism and his maturity in which the lawyer and politician figure, all attest to a devotion to life for the purpose of finding working principles.
“No more frank and informal record of personal experience has ever been written. In a way, no higher compliment can be paid to his story than to say that it is one of those grownup books which a boy would read with understanding and enjoyment.”
+ + + Harper’s Weekly. 50: 1866. D. 22, ’06. 1590w.
“An intimate and entertaining narrative.”
+ + Lit. D. 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 120w.
“Is interesting both for the career ... and for the light which it throws upon the conditions which made the writing of the first best seller possible.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 800. D. 1, ’06. 230w. + + N. Y. Times. 11: 889. D. 22, ’06. 1330w.
“General Wallace’s war experiences were full of romance, adventure and inspiration. He has not failed to let his kindly, mellow sense of humor play over his narrative.”
+ + R. of Rs. 34: 757. D. ’06. 150w.
Waller, Mary Ella. Through the gates of the Netherlands; with 24 photogravure pl. after Lanne, and others by A. A. Montferrand, reproduced in photogravure. **$3. Little.
An intimate sketch of Holland and its people which purports to be written by an architect’s wife during a sojourn with her husband in this land of dunes and dykes. It is a record, accompanied by various illustrations, of the essentials that have gone to make up the beauty, the glory, the struggle and the toil of this “brave little land.”
+ Dial. 41: 452. D. 16, ’06. 220w.
“The results of much close observation may be found in her account of the manner in which the Hollanders live, their habits of body and of thought, the picturesque details of the country, and the rest.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 120w.
“An attractive book which in graphic and readable qualities is decidedly above the average of such works.”
+ Outlook. 84: 940. D. 15, ’06. 120w.
Wallis, Louis. Egoism: a study in the social premises of religion. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
Reviewed by A. W. Small and Charles Rufus Brown.
Am. J. Soc. 11: 848. My. ’06. 1400w.
“The line of argument is interesting and stimulating, and calls for more thorough work before we can feel quite satisfied that the case is proved.” Ira Maurice Price and John M. P. Smith.
+ – Am. J. Theol. 10: 326. Ap. ’06. 250w.
“It is a sociological study of considerable value, the chief defect of which is the tendency to make assumed sociological conditions account for so much as to leave little for the religious genius of Israel to do.”
+ + – Bib. World. 27: 159. F. ’06. 60w.
“The best part of the book is the terse rapid survey of Israel’s internal development; and the writer does good service in calling attention again to sociological facts conditioning prophetic teaching. However, his generalizations are too sweeping; but this fact may be due to the brevity of the book.” Milton G. Evans.
+ – Bib. World. 28: 288. O. ’06. 240w. Lit. D. 32: 55. Ja. 13, ’06. 900w.
Walpole, Horace. Letters chronologically arranged and ed. with notes and indices, by Mrs. Paget Toynbee. 16v. ea. *$2; set, *$32. Oxford.
“In accuracy of text and diligence of annotation this edition satisfies a close criticism.”
+ + + Acad. 69: 1310. D. 16, ’05. 260w. (Review of v. 13–15.)
“As she began she went on, and the conclusion maintains her high level of editorial efficiency. It is certainly to be deplored that so important and laborious a work has not been crowned by a complete index. That supplied cannot be regarded as worthy of a great scheme. These volumes are his rosemary, and we cannot conceive that the world will ever forget them.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 1: 69. Ja. 20. 1860w. (Review of v. 13–16.)
“Mrs. Toynbee has done her author good service in other ways besides the collection of new letters. She has made many alterations in the chronology of Cunningham’s arrangement. She has also much amended the text. From every point of view Mrs. Paget Toynbee has done a monumental piece of work, creditable in the highest degree for accuracy and thoroughness.” Gamaliel Bradford, jr.
+ + + Atlan. 97: 330. Mr. ’06. 5560w.
“On the whole, her text would seem to be more accurate and more nearly intact than any of its predecessors.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + – Dial. 40: 320. My. 16, ’06. 1330w. (Review of v. 1–16.)
“This edition can scarcely be said to add anything of importance to our knowledge of Horace Walpole or of his times. Nor is the editorial work, though well done, by any means remarkable. Further, as completeness seems to have been the special object of the edition, its appearance has been premature.” William Hunt.
+ + – Eng. Hist. R. 21: 386. Ap. ’06. 1040w. (Review of v. 13–16.) + + N. Y. Times. 10: 898. D. 16, ’05. 170w. (Review of v. 13–15.) + + N. Y. Times. 11: 66. F. 3, ’06. 460w. (Review of v. 16.)
“Fully as interesting, in some respects indeed almost more interesting, than any of those which preceded them. Indices compiled even by the very competent assistants called in at the eleventh hour cannot produce the same accurate minuteness as that which undoubtedly Mrs. Toynbee would have given her readers.”
+ + – Sat. R. 101: 110. Ja. 27, ’06. 2190w. (Review of v. 12–16.)
Walsh, Walter. Moral damage of war. *75c. Ginn.
An “unsparing, detailed and specific arraignment of the war system.” The book is almost exclusively a résumé of the crimes and demoralization caused by the Boer war.
Dial. 41: 330. N. 16, ’06. 130w.
Walters, F. Ruffenacht. Sanatoria for consumptives. *$5. Dutton.
An unofficial descriptive catalog of sanatoria in various countries for the open-air treatment of consumption.
Nation. 82: 300. Ap. 12, ’06. 100w. N. Y. Times. 10: 552. Ag. 19, ’05. 230w.
“The information has been carefully and intelligently compiled.”
+ + Outlook. 81: 529. O. 28, ’05. 40w.
Walters, Henry Beauchamp. Art of the Greeks. $6. Macmillan.
An informing treatment of all phases of Greek art including architecture, sculpture, painting, pottery, coins, gems, gold and silverware, presented in the light of recent archaeological discovery.
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 742. D. 8. 380w.
“The tale is well told and loaded with additions that recent years have brought. The excellent form and the well-nigh perfect and abundant illustrations will make the book extremely popular. One rises from a reading of the book with wonder that so much has been put into such little space. One might almost say ‘Infinite riches in a little room.’”
+ + Ind. 61: 1289. N. 29, ’06. 1160w.
“Recommends itself among books on art subjects at this season of gifts by its substantial worth and its attractive make-up.”
+ + Int. Studio. 30: sup. 52. D. ’06. 340w. + – Nation. 83: 518. D. 13, ’06. 1070w.
“The book is written in a broad, dignified, and authoritative style, with a fine sense of suppression, which makes adverse criticism dangerous.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 837. D. 1, ’06. 350w. + Outlook. 84: 704. N. 24, ’06. 200w.
“An exhaustive handbook.”
+ + Putnam’s. 1: 377. D. ’06. 130w.
Walters, Henry Beauchamp. [History of ancient pottery, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman]; based on the work of Samuel Birch. 2v. *$15. Scribner.
“This is a difficult book to estimate justly. Such a work was much needed; and this has great merits, and will probably be read and valued widely. But it has bad defects, both of plan and of workmanship.”
+ + – Acad. 70: 55. Ja. 20, ’06. 2210w.
“Gives us after long waiting an adequate history of ancient pottery, of which vases are the chief item.” Rufus B. Richardson.
+ + – Ind. 60: 41. Ja. 4, ’06. 1770w.
Waltz, Elizabeth Cherry. Ancient landmark. †$1.50. McClure.
“The prologue to this entertaining story is a mistake.”
+ – Acad. 70: 140. F. 10, ’06. 280w.
“On the whole, we find variety in the types depicted, sordid and unpleasing as they mostly are.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 194. F. 17. 130w.
“As a ‘problem novel’ the book has no claim to originality, but the delicacy with which the subject is handled is unusual and refreshing.”
+ Sat. R. 101: 178. F. 10, ’06. 220w.
Wampum library of American literature; ed. by Brander Matthews. **$1.40. Longmans.
“Dr. Payne’s choice of critics and of critical work is admirable, and his characterization of our American contribution to criticism is, on the whole, exceptionally good.”
+ + Ind. 59: 215. Jl. 27, ’05. (Review of v. 2.)
War in the Far East, 1904–1905, by the military correspondent of the London Times; with 34 maps especially prepared by Percy Fisher. **$5. Dutton.
This book is a compilation of the comments printed in The London Times from day to day during the war between Russia and Japan, contributed by its able military correspondent, Mr. Emery. “The military expert of the Times holds a high position in Europe as a critic and student of war, and his comments, criticisms, predictions on events, the lessons he drew from them, were read the world over with close attention. The republication of the daily comments, with certain purely personal remarks omitted, is then very acceptable to other students both of history and of the science of war, though the volume is not, and does not pretend to be, a history of war in the ordinary sense.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The maps are more complete than those in almost any book of military history.”
+ + Ath. 1905, 2: 606. N. 4. 1590w.
“This book is magnificent, but it is not a story. Read it for what it purports to express and actually is, and it will be found to have hardly a peer in its class of literature, and probably will have no equal or successor for many years.” William Eliot Griffis.
+ + + Dial. 40: 194. Mr. 16, ’06. 1440w.
“Taken for what it professes to be, this book is of eminent value, but since each chapter was written within a short time after the battle it narrates ... the historian of the future, with the official records at his command, will doubtless find in it many errors of detail.”
+ + – Ind. 60: 516. Mr. 1, ’06. 300w.
“As a contribution to the literature of scientific warfare the volume is of high value. We cannot commend it as a narrative of the particular war under review, for it retains altogether too much of the speculative comment of the original, so interesting at the time, but so tedious after the event.”
+ – Lit. D. 32: 172. F. 3, ’06. 90w.
“Embellished as they now are by an admirable series of maps, they form by far the most scientific study of the war that has yet been published. It is, however, unfortunate that the spelling of names in the letterpress should not have been brought into accord with that adopted by the map maker.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 4: 353. O. 27, ’05. 2880w.
“This book contains many remarks on matters of strategy and military science that are of permanent value.”
+ – Nation. 82: 79. Ja. 25, ’06. 130w.
“Apart from its technical interest, it is noteworthy as showing how well its author could prophesy.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 890. D. 16, ’06. 410w.
“Whoever he may be, the ‘Times’ critic is a master of the art of warfare, and the possessor of a singularly vigorous and happy style, and his work is undoubtedly one of the most suggestive and illuminating battle-books in print.”
+ + – Outlook. 81: 943. D. 16, ’05. 250w. R. of Rs. 33: 114. Ja. ’06. 130w.
“Where military questions only are concerned fully bears out the expectations which other works of a similar nature would lead us to expect. And yet there is a good deal too much advertisement about it. We would add too that the comments on the military operations are in their broad features often excellent.”
+ + – Sat. R. 100: 686. N. 25, ’05. 2030w.
“It is a remarkable feat to have given us contemporary accounts of the battles themselves so accurate that when read in conjunction with the maps which show us each phase of these battles ... they may fitly serve as the best general introduction to closer and more detailed study. Even more remarkable still are the ‘appreciations’ which show us the workings of a mind wise before and not after the event.”
+ + + Spec. 96: 221. F. 10, ’06. 1110w.
Ward, Elizabeth Stuart (Phelps) (Mrs. Herbert D. Ward). Man in the case; il. by H: J. Peck. †$1.50. Houghton.
Joan Dare past the first flush of youth withdraws her promise to marry Douglas Ray the day following her betrothal. She enters upon a period of martyrdom which involves the mystery of the tale. “There is nothing sensational about the book but its title, although its theme is a village sensation. It contains some credible new New England villagers, and one old woman who is more than credible. It is, moreover, free from religious or erotic sentimentality.” (Nation).
+ + Ind. 61: 1116. N. 8, ’06. 380w.
“The love-story in her new novel is told with such perfect art that it recalls the great ones of literature: yet the materials and the setting are of the simplest and the interest is dependent upon the writer’s art alone.”
+ + Lit. D. 33: 646. N. 3, ’06. 230w.
“Mrs. Ward is to be congratulated upon having, in this little tale, escaped from the morbidness and mawkishness which have made much of her work, especially her recent work, a thing popular and to be abhorred by the judicious.”
+ + Nation. 83: 287. O. 4, ’06. 80w.
“The book is written with Mrs. Ward’s usual elevation of feeling and dignity of manner. It shows the same tense quality of imagination, sometimes becoming almost exaggeration, which have always marked her work. There is perhaps less of care and detail in the drawing of her characters, which affect one like unfinished sketches, than one used to find in her work.”
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 619. O. 6, ’06. 300w.
“She has never been more out of key with a wholesome way of dealing with life than in this story of a heroic and self-sacrificing woman.”
– Outlook. 84: 708. N. 24, ’06. 120w.
“Her best work next to ‘A singular life.’”
+ + – World To-Day. 11: 1221. N. ’06. 140w.
Ward, H. Snowden. Canterbury pilgrimages. *$1.75. Lippincott.
+ Dial. 40: 268. Ap. 16, ’06. 160w.
“From the point of view of the historian, Mr. Ward has written a very minute and interesting description of the life and death of Thomas à Becket and of the cult of St. Thomas.”
+ + Nation. 81: 525. D. 28, ’05. 490w.
Ward, Josephine Mary Hope-Scott (Mrs. Wilfrid Philip Ward). Out of due time. $1.50. Longmans.
“The present novel is not of the sort likely to satisfy the ordinary appetite for fiction, but it is well thought out, and represents the mental and religious struggle of a strong mind. Two women sacrificed themselves to a man who, as his sister said, did not pray—he only thought. The inroads of scientific knowledge upon such a soul can be imagined from the Catholic standpoint. The story is one of contest between theological fervor and emotionless intellect; the effect is somber, and the style somewhat ponderous.”—Outlook.
“Here is the simple, direct style—the outcome of natural distinction under fine culture—the serene, benignant attitude towards matters of controversy; the loftiness of thought that marked her former work. The book is on a high plane.”
+ Acad. 70: 382. Ap. 21, ’06. 440w. Ath. 1906, 1: 542. My. 5. 220w.
“As one is about to assign to this doubly fascinating volume a permanent place on the book shelf, embarrassment arises. We think its proper place is [in the useful apologetic literature of the day].” James J. Fox, D. D.
+ Cath. World. 83: 382. Je. ’06. 4720w.
“[We] have regretted that a book with such excellent and penetrating work in it should drop from the high level on which it begins.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 125. Ap. 6, ’06. 500w.
“The book is hampered by its argument, but it is, nevertheless, so full of humanity, of beauty, of literary value that to miss it would be to miss such a feast as does not come every day.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 338. My. 26, ’06. 1220w.
“In spite of her special motive, the author handles her material with tact and delicacy.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 130w. + – Outlook. 83: 286. Je. 2, ’06. 100w.
“The intense spirituality of the conception and the grace of the style render the book memorable.”
+ + Sat. R. 101: 760. Je. 16, ’06. 440w.
“The main interest of the book has nothing to do with fiction.”
+ – Spec. 96: 676. Ap. 28, ’06. 330w.
Ward, Lester Frank. Applied sociology: a treatise on the conscious improvement of society by society. *$2.50. Ginn.
The central thought of this discussion is that of a true science of society, capable, in the measure that it approaches completeness, of being turned to the profit of mankind. Movement, Achievement, and Improvement are the three subdivisions of the treatment.
“Right or wrong in its main contentions, the ‘Applied sociology’ is, together with the appropriate parts of the ‘Pure sociology,’ the most impressive treatment of the general principles of education since Spencer’s. Those who, like the writer, are puzzled to fit the facts to its doctrines and those who heartily accept it will equally enjoy it and equally admire it as a further example of the author’s great gifts as a thinker and as a writer.” Edward L. Thorndike.
+ + – Bookm. 24: 290. N. ’06. 3690w.
“The clearness, brilliancy and vigorous defense of some pronounced doctrine which we have learned to expect from Professor Ward are characteristics of this book. It concerns real facts, not verbal distinctions; it delights by its cleverness of thought and style. The one failure in clearness of this volume is its failure to distinguish between absolute and relative achievement and to assign the proper social value to each.” Edward L. Thorndike.
+ + – Science, n.s. 24: 299. S. 7, ’06. 1130w.
Ward, Mary Augusta Arnold (Mrs. Thomas Humphry Ward). Fenwick’s career; il. by Albert E. Sterner. *$1.50. Harper.
Mrs. Ward’s latest novel is based upon the story of the painter George Romney, whose thirty years’ separation from his wife for the sake of his art is reduced to twelve in the present story. The hero, John Fenwick, from the Westmorland hills, possesses a great uncouth, untrained genius for painting which longs for expression. In satisfying his ambition to go to London he subordinates wife, child, all heart things to his one great art passion. Out of his hesitation to admit the existence of a wife to his uncertain London friends and patrons grows an estrangement which is unconsciously aided by Eugenie de Pastourelles, the Eleanor of the story, a woman of great strength, but unfortunate in her marriage. As Mrs. Ward’s art demands the shifting of moral and ethical values to the right focus, with sure steady touch she extricates and arrays in order the confused forces.
“The criticism that one is almost compelled to pass upon the book is that the characters are somewhat wanting in life and full-bloodedness.”
+ – Acad. 70: 422. My. 5, ’06. 1470w.
“As to Fenwick himself the portrait lacks outline. It is thoroughly enjoyable, with charm as well as an idea of its own.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 1: 572. My. 11. 1330w.
“You read her latest volume with a wish that, having conceived so vital and typical a character as Fenwick, she might have been inspired to treat him less conventionally.” Mary Moss.
+ + – Bookm. 23: 533. Jl. ’06. 2890w.
“Mrs. Ward has certainly forgotten for the moment one of the prime principles of literary artistry—that sympathy can hardly be excited in the reader’s mind for unsympathetic characters.”
+ – Critic. 49: 50. Jl. ’06. 580w.
“Another positive merit of this novel is found in its comparative freedom from the prolixity that lies like a dead weight on most of its predecessors.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + Dial. 41: 36. Jl. 16, ’06. 710w.
“If there is any fault to be found with the book it is the emphasis which the author places upon refinement, sensibility and the society which these elements create.”
+ + – Ind. 60: 1432. Je. 14, ’06. 1020w. – + Ind. 61: 1161. N. 15, ’06. 90w.
“The book is justified by the artistic and well-rounded-out finale.”
+ + – Lit. D. 33: 123. Jl. 28, ’06. 850w.
“It shows all the old thoroughness, knowledge, good sense: a little more than the old tenderness and sympathy. It does not hit hard; it does not carry the reader on in a fever. It never surprises.”
+ + Lond. Times. 5: 158. My. 4, ’06. 1070w.
“It is only in construction that ‘Fenwick’s career’ seems to us better than the preceding novel.”
+ – Nation. 83: 15. Jl. 5, ’06. 630w.
“While ‘Fenwick’s career’ may fail of an instant appeal to ‘the general,’ we think it attains a height hitherto unreached by its author. She has poured into it her deepest thought, her ripest wisdom, and it stands to-day the noblest expression of her genius.” M. Gordon Pryor. Rice.
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 385. My. 5, ’06. 2330w.
“Mrs. Ward handles each delicate situation with her characteristic skill.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 150w.
“Is full of talent, but stops short of being a work of genius.”
+ Outlook. 83: 501. Je. 30, ’06. 240w. + + – Pub. Opin. 40: 660. My. 26, 06. 1380w. R. of Rs. 33: 762. Je. ’06. 70w.
“They should be set down as fundamentally inartistic and unedifying.”
– Sat. R. 101: 725. Je. 9, ’06. 1500w. + + Spec. 96: 757. My. 12, ’06. 1370w.
“It is a piece of sincere writing, gripping the reader without appeal to literary tricks or falsetto sentiment.”
+ + World To-Day. 11: 765. Jl. ’06. 120w.
Ward, Mary Augusta Arnold (Mrs. Thomas Humphry Ward). Marriage of William Ashe. †$1.50. Harper.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
+ Atlan. 97: 55. Ja. ’06. 230w.
Warden, Florence, pseud. (Mrs Florence Alice Price James). House by the river. $1. Ogilvie.
+ Pub. Opin. 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 150w.
“The lovers of sensational fiction ... no doubt will not be troubled by the utter improbability of the incidents and characters, nor annoyed by vulgarities of style, and crudities of description, and will be quite satisfied with the fare supplied by the ingenious author.”
– Sat. R. 100: 345. S. 9. ’05. 130w.
Wardman, Ervin. Princess Olga, †$1.50. Harper.
The invincible hero of Mr. Wardman’s story is an American who had received his hardy training in a Mexican mining district. He is sent by his New York company to further its interest in the Italian kingdom of Crevonia where plots and counterplots, conspiracies and assassinations, mark the riotous settlement of a disputed succession. Among the spies is Princess Olga whose charms the defiant American cannot resist. Her sense of duty to kingdom and her love for a bold man fight for mastery, with the world-old result that can eliminate the importance of kingdoms and courts.
“The story is compact of intrigue, adventure, and general nervous excitement; it is a capital production of its sort.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 40: 366. Je. 1, ’06. 240w.
“For a first novel, his is a finished and striking production.”
+ Lit. D. 32: 808. My. 26, ’06. 610w. N. Y. Times. 11: 270. Ap. 28, ’06. 520w.
Warman, Cy. [Last spike], and other railroad stories. †$1.25. Scribner.
“These short stories, by a well-known popular magazine writer, tell of adventures on railroad surveys, in railway locomotives and cars and elsewhere. Some of the best of the stories have the Canadian Northwest as their scene of action.” (Engin. N.).
+ Engin. N. 55: 313. Mr. 15, ’06. 40w.
“Many of them are good of their kind, and all of them have a certain stamp of mechanic strength.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 133. Mr. 3, ’06. 280w.
“The stories are readable and entertaining, but they lack that something which, for want of a better name is called ‘the literary touch.’”
+ – Outlook. 82: 909. Ap. 21, ’06. 100w.
“Breezy and realistic stories. Mr. Warman not only knows the language of railroading but he has also caught the spirit.”
+ Pub. Opin. 40: 315. Mr. 10, ’06. 150w.
Warne, Frank Julien. Coal-mine workers: a study in labor organization. **$1. Longmans.
This little volume is the direct outgrowth of Dr. Warne’s sympathetic study of the coal-miners’ situation in periods of peace as well as in times of strikes. It is a “treatise on the anatomy of the trade union.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Dr. Warne has done a valuable service in placing in compact and readable form a study of the United mine workers of America, one of the strongest labor unions in the world.” E. S. Meade.
+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 354. S. ’06. 550w.
“It might also be described as a miniature encyclopedia, so full of information is it and so readily does it answer the questions that occur to one regarding the miners and their employers.”
+ + Ind. 60: 930. Ap. 19. ’06. 200w.
“The author’s attitude is sympathetic, but not partisan, and he has made a distinct contribution to the knowledge of the controversy which once convulsed the nation.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 65. F. 3, ’06. 450w.
“In our judgment, this book deserves to be characterized as an authority, and, as far as we know, as the best authority, in the limited field of which it treats.”
+ + + Outlook. 82: 275. F. 3, ’06. 150w.
“The book is written in a scientific spirit, if one excepts a tendency at times to condone violence on the part of the union against nonunion men.”
+ – Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 567. S. ’06. 160w. + R. of Rs. 83: 254. F. ’06. 240w.
Warner, Beverley Ellison. Famous introductions to Shakespeare’s plays by the notable editors of the eighteenth century, ed. with a critical introd., biographical and explanatory notes. **$2.50. Dodd.
A compilation of the best known introductions including those contributed by Rowe, Pope, Theobald, Hamner, Warburton, Johnson, Stevens, Capell, Reed and Malone. A biographical sketch of each author prefaces his work, and the work is handsomely illustrated.
“Dr. Warner’s idea though a good one, has been anticipated, and his labor is largely wasted.” William Allen Neilson.
+ – Atlan. 97: 701. My. ’06. 420w.
“We note a few misprints.”
+ + – Critic. 48: 471. My. ’06. 200w.
“His own editorial matter is not of great value and there is no index. The English, too, is not always irreproachable.”
+ – Dial. 40: 332. My. 16, ’06. 420w.
“On the whole the make-up of the book leaves something to be desired. The matter is not very clearly distinguished for easy reference.”
– Nation. 83: 183. Ag. 30, ’06. 430w.
“Without Dr. Warner’s own lucid and learned introductions, and his invaluable footnotes, the new book would have been esteemed a veritable treasure. Dr. Warner’s editorial work makes it only the more valuable.”
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 180. Mr. 24, ’06. 520w.
“A very useful compilation.”
+ + Outlook. 83: 42. My. 3, ’06. 210w.
Warner, George H. Jewish spectre. **$1.50. Doubleday.
“A remarkably brilliant book which will have decided influence upon all open-minded readers. In literary skill the author stands comparison with his better known brother, Charles Dudley Warner.”
+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 241. Ja. ’06. 170w.
Warren, F. D. Handbook on reinforced concrete for architects, engineers and contractors. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
A handbook “treating upon a general form of design rather than upon any one particular or patented system.... The book is divided into four parts: Part I gives a general but concise resume of the subject from a practical standpoint, bringing out some of the difficulties met with in practice, and suggesting remedies. Under Part II is compiled a series of tests justifying the use of various constants and coefficients in preparing the tables under Part III, as well as bearing out the theory of elasticity. Part III contains a series of tables from which it is hoped the designer may obtain all necessary information to meet the more common cases in practice. Part IV treats of the design of trussed roofs from a practical standpoint.”
“The reviewer regrets that it is his duty to give his opinion that this book is fundamentally in error in so many ways that it is not worthy of a place in the working library of an engineer.” Arthur N. Talbot.
– – Engin. N. 55: 311. Mr. 15, ’06. 1780w.
Washington, Booker Taliaferro. Putting the most into life. **75c. Crowell.
A recent series of Sunday evening talks has been recast and enlarged for the general public. The discussion includes the physical, mental, spiritual and racial aspects of the case.
Washington, Booker Taliaferro. [Tuskegee and its people: their ideals and achievements.] *$2. Appleton.
+ R. of Rs. 33: 254. F. ’06. 250w.
Washington, George. Letters and recollections of George Washington; being letters to Tobias Lear and others between 1790 and 1799, showing the first American in the management of his estate and domestic affairs with a diary of Washington’s last days, kept by Mr. Lear; il. from rare old portraits, photographs, and engravings. **$2.50. Doubleday.
Washington is portrayed in the light of a “domestic man managing his own affairs; as a planter looking over crops, cattle, and overseers; and as a business man driving bargains, suing for bad debts, collecting rents, and making investments.” (Dial.)
+ Acad. 71: 416. O. 27, ’06. 1660w.
“The chief attraction of the present volume is manifestly meant to be Lear’s account of Washington’s death.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 434. O. 13. 1850w.
“Of editing there is practically none; and to the lack of it, as well as to careless proofreading, is due the perpetuation of the copyist’s misreadings of Washington’s spelling. The reviewer has been unable to find anything in the book that will justify the word ‘Recollections’ in the title. There is no index.” Walter L. Fleming.
– + Dial. 41: 237. O. 16, ’06. 1300w.
“They are valuable historically as showing the genius for detail which must have formed one of the strongest characteristics of Washington.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 284. S. 1, ’06. 220w.
“On the whole, then, these letters, though telling us little that is new, are full of interest, as any letters unfolding for us the intimate thoughts and workaday occupations of such a man must be.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 374. N. 9, ’06. 1440w.
“The work could have been rendered more readable by a few explanatory foot-notes, and more useful to the student by brief introductions stating where the originals of other than the Lear letters are to be found, and how far they have been used before.”
+ – Nation. 83: 285. O. 4, ’06. 1200w. + R. of Rs. 34: 512. O. ’06. 70w.
Washington, George. Washington and the West. **$2. Century.
+ + Critic. 48: 94. Ja. ’06. 70w. + + Dial. 40: 93. F. 1, ’06. 480w.
Watanna, Onoto (Mrs. Winnifred Eaton Babcock) (Mrs. Bertrand Babcock). Japanese blossom. **$2. Harper.
The dainty marginal drawings upon each page of this volume add much to the Japanese effect of the story of the strangely assorted family of Mr. Kurukawa. To retrieve his shattered fortunes this descendant of the Samurai goes to America leaving behind him four children and his wife, to whom shortly after his departure a baby boy is born. Later his wife dies and her father and mother care for the children while Mr. Kurukawa marries an American widow with two children and, after the birth of another baby, brings his new family back to Japan to unite it with his old family. The difficulties are easily seen but all are surmounted. The eldest son has rebelled against his new mother and joined the Japanese army, the father follows him, wins glory in the war and all ends happily.
+ Dial. 41: 398. D. 1, ’06. 130w. Ind. 61: 1400. D. 13, ’06. 30w.
“A charming idyl of Japanese home life in war times.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 728. N. 17, ’06. 50w.
“This story is a particularly pleasing one, with certain elements of novelty.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 160w. Outlook. 84: 678. N. 17, ’06. 70w.
Waters, N. McGee. Young man’s religion and his father’s faith. **90c. Crowell.
“This book, written with the eloquence of the man who is speaking instead of writing, will unquestionably help many readers over perplexities that now stand in the way of a practical application of religion to life.”
+ Outlook. 82: 523. Mr. 3, ’06. 180w.
“These topics are handled without any trace of cant or bias.”
+ R. of Rs. 33: 126. Ja. ’06. 60w.
Watson, Edward Willard. Old lamps and new, and other verse; also, By Gaza’s gate, a cantata. $1. Fisher.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
Dial. 40: 127. F. 16, ’06. 160w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 152. Mr. 10, ’06. 330w.
Watson, Esther. All the year in the garden: a nature calendar. $1. Crowell.
An apt quotation for every day in the year selected from out of door sentiments of our great poets and teachers.
Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott. Midsummer day’s dream. †$1.50. Appleton.
“A delightful bit of romantic foolery.... The sketch is a record of certain amorous adventures contingent upon an out-of-doors amateur rendering of the ‘Midsummer night’s dream.’ The principal motive is a mystery connected with the finding and trailing of a woman’s shoe. In the course of his search the hero is constrained to make love pleasantly if somewhat indiscriminately; and there is plenty of chance in ‘Titania’s glade’ for comfortable philandering. Titania is married and therefore immune from his attentions, which wander among Hermia, Helena, and several of the fairies.”—Nation.
“The whimsical tone of the book is so well maintained that all its absurdities of situation and incident take on an amiable glamour.”
+ Nation. 83: 228. S. 13, ’06. 210w.
“In addition to being amusing and cleverly done, the story is written very gracefully, with a touch of poetic imagination, that, like everything else in the book is not more than half serious.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 579. S. 22, ’06. 460w.
“The chief criticism that one is inclined to make is that the situation is dwelt upon a little too long and that the story would have left a better impression if it had been considerably shortened.”
+ – Outlook. 84: 337. O. 6, ’06. 100w.
Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott. Twisted eglantine. †$1.50. Appleton.
“Whatever its success may be, this book puts him in the front rank of living romancers.”
+ + Ath. 1905, 2: 330. S. 9. 590w.
“Mr. Marriott Watson has never given us a finer character-study than this of Sir Piers.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 40: 17. Ja. 1, ’06. 300w.
Watson, John (Ian Maclaren, pseud.). Inspiration of our faith: sermons. **$1.25. Armstrong.
“Somewhat of the same idea, that of ascending in personal Christ-like life to fellowship with the Father, and thence deriving the help necessary for the fulfillment of duty, runs thru a series of twenty-nine sermons by the Rev. John Watson, better known as ‘Ian Maclaren.’ Each sermon breathes that practical Christianity which has characterized Ian Maclaren’s fiction and theological writings alike.”—Ind.
“They have the supreme merit (rare in sermons) of being interesting.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 1: 297. Mr. 10. 90w.
“Strikingly beautiful as the language is, the volume will be prized by those who desire inspiring and helpful words for their devotional reading.”
+ Ind. 60: 223. Ja. 25, ’06. 80w. Lit. D. 32: 370. Mr. 10, ’06. 1060w.
“Here the ethical and the inspirational are happily blended, as elsewhere in his writings.”
+ Outlook. 81: 1040. D. 23, ’05. 190w.
Watson, William. Poems; ed. by J. A. Spender. 2v. *$2.50. Lane.
“It constitutes, for the present at least, a definitive edition of Mr. Watson’s work.”
+ + + Dial. 40: 24. Ja. 1, ’06. 60w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ + + North American. 182: 756. My. ’06. 290w. R. of Rs. 33: 121. Ja. ’06. 80w.
Wayne, Charles Stokes. [Prince to order.] †$1.50. Lane.
“To fiction readers, who do not care for the element of probability, and to whom artificiality is not objectionable, this book will be enjoyable as it is bright and full of action and excitement if one can become deeply interested in a story that is wanting in the important element of probability.”
+ – Arena. 35: 331. Mr. ’06. 630w.
Weale, B. L. Putnam. Re-shaping of the Far East; with numerous il. from photographs. 2v. **$6. Macmillan.
The author “tells us just as much of the history of the subject as we need to know, sketching the annals of China in particular from the earliest times, and then describing in greater detail the commercial relations of Europe and America not only with China, but also with Korea and Japan. Relations of journeys into the interior and along the coasts give a picturesque glimpse of present Far Eastern conditions. We are shown Sir Robert Hart’s Service at work, the Germans introducing their characteristic methods at Kiao-chau, Dr. Morrison watching the Legations through a glass door at Peking, and the Marconi mast standing ready to signal for help to Ta-ku. There follows a fairly elaborate history of the Russo-Japanese war, and a severe criticism of its operations; and we are told finally what the Chinese are thinking and intending, what Mr. Weale expects the future to bring forth, and what policy seems to him most likely to serve British interests. In fact, we have an embarrassing choice of topics which equally invite discussion.”—Lond. Times.
“Despite some loose history, exaggerated statements, and rather wild speculations, the work is the best account of twentieth-century China in existence, and affords useful, though far from infallible hints as to the possibilities of the next decade in the Far East.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 1: 193. F. 17. 1070w.
“One of the most readable and valuable books which have appeared in recent years.” John W. Foster.
+ + Atlan. 97: 543. Ap. ’06. 180w.
“For a work of undoubted weight, in the sense that it shows throughout a remarkably intimate acquaintance with the affairs of the East ... the style is a delight, though style is altogether too big a word to describe the absolutely nonchalant, personal, pungent way of the author with his book.” S. S. Trunsky.
+ + Bookm. 23: 656. Ag. ’06. 1120w.
“Is by no means a perfect work of its kind, but its indisputable merits far outweigh the faults which even the most captious critic could ascribe to it.” Frederick Austin Ogg.
+ + – Dial. 40: 317. My. 16, ’06. 2600w.
“Thruout, he shows a lamentable ignorance of American history and policy.”
+ – Ind. 60: 400. F. 15, ’06. 840w.
“Mr. Putnam Weale’s new book is hardly so interesting as his ‘Manchu and Muscovite.’ It is burdened by a belated account of the early months of the Russo-Japanese war, is somewhat discursive and would ... be improved by elimination and condensation.”
+ – Lit. D. 32: 623. Ap. 21, ’06. 640w.
“The author, combining the knowledge of the student with the knowledge of the man on the spot, presents the Far Eastern question exhaustively in almost every imaginable aspect. In spite of the manner in which the Russian ‘débâcle’ has upset some of his calculations, his book is the most valuable of recent contributions to the elucidation of Far Eastern problems.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 4: 438. D. 15, ’05. 1640w.
“In other words, Mr. Weale approaches the Chinese question from a strictly insular point of view. Yet his books may be highly recommended. All reserves made, there is nothing better on the Far Eastern question as it stands at this moment.”
+ + – Nation. 82: 79. Ja. 25, ’06. 1180w.
“Comprehensive and luminous discussion of the development of Far Eastern affairs.” George R. Bishop.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 80. F. 10, ’06. 3230w. Outlook. 84: 40. S. 1, ’06. 310w.
“Mr. Weale has given a complete and yet concise survey of the situation. His introduction is a historical prologue giving in a few score pages one of the best ideas of Chinese history that has ever been presented.”
+ + Pub. Opin. 40: 123. Ja. 27, ’06. 670w.
“By far the most valuable book that has appeared on the East for a number of years. Nowhere else can so much valuable information be found in so compact a form.”
+ + + Putnam’s. 1: 126. O. ’06. 270w.
“An absorbingly interesting work, including both description and history.”
+ + R. of Rs. 33: 253. F. ’06. 240w.
“Mr. Weale has unquestionably collected and marshalled a mass of information with ability and lucidity, and the result is a comprehensive survey of the situation outlined with a vigorous but light, albeit sharply-pointed, pen.”
+ + – Sat. R. 101: 174. F. 10, ’06. 2020w.
Webster, Jean. [Wheat princess.] †$1.50. Century.
“The conversations are realistic, and the characters individual.”
+ Critic. 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 60w.
Wedmore, Frederick. National gallery, London: the Flemish school. *$1.25. Warne.
This is the initial volume of a new series to be called the “Art galleries of Europe.” Mr. Wedmore gives a brief sketch of Flemish art, and emphasizes its two phases: the Mediæval phase dominated by Jan Van Eyck and Hans Menlinc, the Renaissance phase, by Rubens and Vandyke. There are fifty-five reproductions from Haufstaengl photographs.
+ + Acad. 70: 557. Je. 9, ’06. 90w.
“Mr. Wedmore’s introduction is not an altogether favourable specimen of his power as a writer on art. True, it contains some very apposite criticisms, but these are interspersed with somewhat captious digressions.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 707. Je. 9. 370w. + Ind. 61: 943. O. 18, ’06. 110w. Int. Studio. 29: sup. 83. S. ’06. 240w.
“Taken all in all, however, Mr. Wedmore’s paper is not a coherent dissertation on the Flemish school; it is too itemized, too scrappy, and too diversified to be of much value as a serious study. As a collection of notes, however, appended to artists’ names, it will save the student of the National gallery with Flemish proclivities much toil and trouble among art encyclopædias.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 508. Ag. 18, ’06. 350w. + Outlook. 83: 671. Jl. 31, ’06. 50w.
Wedmore, Frederick. Whistler and others. *$1.50. Scribner.
Mr. Wedmore’s volume of essays is prefaced by a chapter entitled “A candid word to the English reader” in which he makes serious charge against the Englishman as an art critic. Some observations on Venetian art, Goya, Richard Wilson, Romney, Laurence, Watts, Etty, and others may be passed over to find the real worth of the book in the papers on Whistler, Fantin and Boudin, English watercolour, The print collector. Constable’s English landscapes, and The Norwich school.
“His critical method is not exhaustive but suggestive, and no inventory of qualities could so stimulate the imagination as one of his pregnant summaries.”
+ + Acad. 71: 31. Jl. 14, ’06. 970w.
“The essays and fragments that make up the volume are in part reprinted from various periodicals. Some of them seem hardly of sufficient importance to warrant the more permanent form.”
+ – Dial. 41: 285. N. 1, ’06. 180w.
“Perhaps the best piece in the book is the study of Fantin and Boudin. We wish that some of the other articles had been undertaken in a like spirit of respect for his subject and respect for his reader.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 202. Je. 1, ’06. 1000w.
“It was, however, an error of taste to pad the volume out with trifling notes which may have served well enough to introduce a temporary exhibition or to characterize a single painting.”
+ – Nation. 83: 99. Ag. 2, ’06. 220w.
“The critic’s survey is characteristically candid and suggestive.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 706. N. 24, ’06. 60w.
“If you want the final word upon Whistler, Wedmore has not said it or thought it.”
– + Putnam’s. 1: 226. N. ’06. 670w.
Weeden, William Babcock. War government: federal and state, in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Indiana, 1861–1865. **$2.50. Houghton.
Using Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania. and Indiana as typical states, this study of the civil war period shows that “war government, federal and state, accomplished most potent and far-reaching results in the readjustment of the relations between states and nation, and between the people and the governing body.”
“The style, sometimes eccentric and inclined to digression, is always keen, pungent and fearless. The characterization of Lincoln is refreshingly free from conventionality either in praise or blame, and, with all its partisanship, the book has distinct value.” Theodore Clarke Smith.
+ – Atlan. 98: 705. N. ’06. 380w.
“With his conclusions many will disagree. In some places a rearrangement of the material might have made the book easier reading; but the vigorous style and independent judgment of the author are calculated to enlist one’s interest to the end.”
+ – Critic. 49: 189. Ag. ’06. 240w.
“The author’s dislike of those on the other side and his failure to appreciate their position, his inability to recognize and understand the principle of evolution in human affairs, and his twentieth century criticism of nineteenth century deeds, are defects that mar a work which otherwise might have been of considerable interest and value.”
– + Dial. 41: 167. S. 16. ’06. 530w.
“It is entertainingly written, and only the most ‘blasé’ of readers of Civil war matters can fall to find an engaging interest in its pages. It reveals moreover, a vast deal of research. But it can hardly be called a critical study of the relation of federal to state government during the Civil war.”
+ – Ind. 61: 639. S. 13. ’06. 210w.
“The subject is one deserving exhaustive exploration and it is therefore the more to be regretted that Mr. Weeden has not treated it with a firmer grasp and an unprejudiced mind.”
– + Lit. D. 33: 123. Jl. 28, ’06. 150w.
“The narrative, well fortified by references, is marred by a good deal of feeble and confused rhetoric.”
+ – Nation. 82: 511. Je. 21, ’06. 280w.
“It is an interesting and able work.” Wm. E. Dodd.
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 505. Ag. 18, ’06. 1320w.
“He has undertaken a most interesting task; but his spirit is so partisan and his style so turgid, discursive, and inaccurate that his book is of only very limited value.”
– + Outlook. 83: 288. Je. 2, ’06. 210w.
“Mr. Weeden’s book should do much to put needed emphasis on a somewhat neglected aspect of the war.”
+ + R. of Rs. 33: 764. Je. ’06. 280w.
Weedon, L. L. Child characters from Dickens. $2.50. Dutton.
There are eighteen stories in this group, including many of the children’s favorites, among them are those of Harvey and Norah, of “The holly tree,” Paul Dombey, Johnny and the Boofer Lady, Little Nell, the Marchioness, Polly, Little Dorrit, etc. Six colored plates and seventy half-tones “tell their part of the story so well that every character in the book can be told offhand.” (N. Y. Times.) “His illustrator, Mr. A. A. Dixon, has distributed good looks to everybody with the facility of a fairy of the olden time at a christening.” (Ath.)
Ath. 1905, 2: 796. D. 9. 60w. – Nation. 81: 489. D. 14, ’05. 250w. + + N. Y. Times. 10: 911. D. 23, ’05. 180w.
“This is a charming book. The tales are skillfully managed. A better introduction to Dickens could not be.”
+ + Spec. 95: 1091. D. 23, ’05. 50w.
Weikel, Anna Hamlin. Betty Baird: a boarding-school story; il. †$1.50. Little.
Betty Baird is the daughter of a scholarly Presbyterian minister who had trained his daughter thru her fourteen years on rather oldfashioned but thoro lines. Betty is sent to boarding school and, bright, nimble witted tho she is, she has many trying experiences among her snobbish, fashionable mates. The story follows her thru her three years of victories terminating in first honor at graduation.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 700. O. 27, ’06. 120w. + R. of Rs. 34: 767. D. ’06. 50w.
Weinel, Heinrich. St. Paul, the man and his work; tr. by Rev. G. A. Bienemann and ed. by Rev. W. D. Morrison. *$2.50. Putnam.
Professor Weinel of the University of Jena says in his preface: “This book forms a necessary supplement to my ‘Jesus in the nineteenth century,’ for it shows how the Gospel came to make that concordat with the ‘world’ i. e., with the ancient state and its religion and morality, which we call ‘church.’ I have tried to show how necessary, and how solitary this compromise was, by what pure motives it was animated, but also with what dangers it was pregnant for the Gospel itself.” Further the author says: “I have wanted to make our people understand and love Paul.”
“He is a scholar who does not intrude his scholarship but is competent to speak on St. Paul.”
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 154. Ag. 11. 840w.
“It is a work of careful thought and thoro scholarship.”
+ + Ind. 60: 1433. Je. 14, ’06. 1050w.
“His translator, the Rev. G. A. Bienemann, has rendered him into lucid and finished English form.”
+ Outlook. 82: 1005. Ap. 28, ’06. 400w.
“His biography does not add very much to our knowledge of the apostle and his time; it is vigorously written. fairly interesting, drastic in its criticism, and very anti-Catholic.”
– + Sat. R. 102: 372. S. 22, ’06. 400w.
Weininger, Otto. Sex and character; authorized tr. from the 6th Germ. ed. *$3. Putnam.
Six editions in the German are to the credit of this volume. There is a two-fold treatment of the subject, the first dealing with the physical phase, the second with the psychological. “In his view woman ‘is merely non-moral. She is characterized by shamelessness and heartlessness.’ Only man has a ‘share, in ontological reality.’ ‘Women have no existence; and no essence; they are not, they are nothing.’ It does not surprise us to be told that such a philosopher died by his own hand at the age of twenty three.” (Outlook.)
“There is exhibited the most acute and subtle mental play throughout, but the whole argument is characterized by downright unreasonableness. There are parts so poor, obscure, illogical, and stupid that they would not be accepted in a college boy’s essay, and other parts worthy of Kant or Schopenhauer.” W. I. Thomas.
– – + Am. J. Soc. 11: 843. My. ’06. 1250w.
“Never before in all our literature has the ultra-masculine view of woman been so logically carried out, so unsparingly forced to its conclusion.” Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
– – + Critic. 48: 414. My. ’06. 3030w. – Lond. Times. 5: 54. F. 16, ’06. 270w.
“Preposterous charlatanry.”
– Outlook. 82: 764. Mr. 31, ’06. 220w.
“It is thus ... as a human document, one unconsciously illustrating the pathology of adolescent sex and character, even more than consciously investigating their nature, that this tragic book will survive, if at all.”
+ – Sat. R. 101: 557. My. 5, ’06. 1830w.
Weir, Irene. Greek painters’ art. *$3. Ginn.
– Ath. 1906. 2: 743. D. 8. 160w.
“Unpretending but most interesting little volume.”
+ Int. Studio. 27: 373. F. ’06. 150w.
Weiss, Bernhard. Commentary on the New Testament; tr. by George H. Schodde, and Epiphanius Wilson; with an introd. by James S. Riggs. 4v. ea. *$3. Funk.
In these four volumes we have the results of the work of a great scholar, who has spent over half a century in a study of his subject which while scientific was tempered by true spiritual insight. The work is intended not only for students but for those who have not time for study and desire a better understanding of the scriptures as they read them. Volume 1, contains the commentary upon Matthew and Mark; Volume 2, Luke, John and The Acts; Vol. 3, Romans, Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians; Volume 4, Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrew, James, Peter, John, Jude and Revelation.
“Professor Weiss’s concise commentary exhibits his well-known learning, thoroughness, and conservatism. It is unfortunate that its English dress was not more carefully prepared.”
+ + – Bib. World. 28: 160. Ag. ’06. 20w.
Weiss, Bernhard. Religion of the New Testament; tr. from the Germ. by G: H. Schodde. *$2. Funk.
“It must, however, be said with frankness that the work of translation has not been well done. The book is a very clear presentation of the general idea which is represented in Harnack’s ‘What is Christianity?’ and, in more extreme form, by Wernle’s ‘Beginnings of Christianity.’” Irving F. Wood.
+ – Am. J. Theol. 10: 130. Jl. ’06. 490w.
Wells, Amos R. Tuxedo avenue to Water street: the story of a transplanted church. $1. Funk.
The author calls his story a parable, and also, the story of a possibility, which the united action of God and the people may make a reality. He tells of a fashionable church which was mysteriously transplanted in a single night and set up stone on stone among the poor of Water street. He depicts most vividly the scorn with which the fashionable members of the old church regard the poor with whom they are thus brought in contact, and he shows the great good which came of it all. It is a story so true to human nature that it makes one pause to think. The author’s character drawing is excellent and he has softened his moral by introducing into his parable the love story of the young minister and Irene, the flower of his flock.
+ Arena. 36: 222. Ag. ’06. 310w.
“His little book is of more than passing interest as a well-developed piece of fiction, and it is profoundly significant as a Parable and an indictment.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 158. Ag. 4, ’06. 160w.
“The little book is effective in its way.”
+ – Outlook. 83: 817. Ag. 4, ’06. 150w.
Wells, Amos Russel. Donald Barton and the doings of the Ajax club. †$1.50. Little.
The “Ajax club” is composed of lusty boys who meet in “The glen” and plan adventures worthy of their honored Greek hero. They do battle against a band of disreputable village boys and win the commendation of the townspeople.
“Though there is the highest intent in this, the author has somehow missed the mark.”
– Nation. 83: 484. D. 6, ’06. 170w.
Wells, Carolyn. [At the sign of the sphinx.] $1. Duffield.
Miss Wells’ fancy-juggling has produced one hundred and twenty rhymed riddles to which are appended answers.
Dial. 41: 287. N. 1, ’06. 30w.
“Is marked by the same cleverness that is always characteristic of this writer.”
+ + Ind. 61: 1399. D. 13, ’06. 210w. + Nation. 83: 440. N. 22, ’06. 90w.
“Generally her mood is playful and her ingenuity is always equal to the task she sets for it. As a general thing, her touch is becomingly light and she treats her syllables with respect. Sometimes the enigma is still a bit enigmatical after one knows the answer.”
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 692. O. 20, ’06. 190w.
Wells, Carolyn. Dorrance doings; il. †$1.50. Wilde.
Another chapter in the lives of the wide-awake Dorrances which is really a sequel to the “Dorrance domain.” The inventive ability of the quartette and their energy in executing have suffered no diminution since they first made their bow to young readers.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 711. O. 27, ’06. 120w.
“Written in a rather perfunctory manner—lacking in charm and freshness.”
– + Outlook. 84: 792. N. 24, ’06. 50w.
Wells, Carolyn. Whimsey anthology. **$1.25. Scribner.
“A whimsey, Miss Wells explains, is ‘a whim, a freak, a capricious notion, an odd device.’ Her new book contains nearly 300 selections from the poets old and new.... Here we have famous wheezes touching the eccentricities of the English language, typographical frenzies in which the compositor shapes the poem as nearly as possible like the object it treats of.... Alphabetical nonsense ... acrostics and lipograms, alliterative efforts, enigmas and charades, macaronic poetry, travesties, certomes, (which are made up of assorted lines from divers poems,) and palindromes are here in rich profusion.”—N. Y. Times.
+ Ind. 61: 756. S. 27, ’06. 410w. + + N. Y. Times. 11: 580. S. 22, ’06. 740w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 810. D. 1, 06. 140w. + Outlook. 84: 338. O. 6. ’06. 50w. World To-Day. 11: 1221. N. ’06. 50w.
Wells, Herbert George. [Future in America: a search after realities.] **$2. Harper.
America’s social, economic, and material phases furnish conditions for objective scrutiny which any American would do well to observe. Mr. Wells finds the note of a “fatal, gigantic, economic development, of large prevision and enormous pressures” uppermost and invincible. His range of observations is broad, covering the main representative cities of America, his insight ready to cope with the peculiarly American conditions, and his comments virile and convincing.
“‘When the sleeper wakes,’ for example, is an astonishing caricature of the inordinate individualism of the American sort. ‘The future in America,’ a sober study of the same subject, is, we think, below it in insight as well as in effectiveness. Mr. Wells’s book is written rather in a mood of despondency.”
– Acad. 71: 544. D. 1, ’06. 1360w.
“His lucid and discriminating description of the present in America is probably worth more than his intended prophecy of the future of America would have been, had he ventured to write it.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 614. N. 17. 370w.
“His is a book which will be criticised, but it will be read, and no reader will fail to gain from it a broader view of the great world-power with its vast opportunities and inequalities, its contradictions and aspirations, its towering wealth, and its suffering, which Mr. Wells has analyzed in this book.” James Wellman.
+ – Harper’s Weekly. 50: 1898. D. 29, ’06. 1810w.
“He has brought to the study of the social, economical, and material problems now confronting us an insight rarely found in an Englishman, and has given lucid expressions to certain ideas concerning the future which have been vaguely stirring in the national consciousness.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 814. D. 1, ’06. 240w.
“A volume, that more than any other book I know of picks out and co-ordinates the tendencies and conditions that are really shaping the American future, disencumbers them from the misleading obstruction of detail, and displays them with that spaciousness, that fervent clarity, which Mr. Wells commands so easily.” Sidney Brooks.
+ + Living Age. 251: 565. D. 1, ’06. 2590w.
“He has struck some nails on the head that have, perhaps, never been struck before—at least with so emphatic a hammer.”
+ – Nation. 83: 537. D. 20. ’06. 1540w.
“To us, Mr. Wells’s hasty observations of American life seem only dull. It is frequently interesting. It is generally disparaging. It is often inaccurate.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 758. N. 17, ’06. 150w. + R. of Rs. 34: 760. D. ’06. 140w.
“The prophesying is hedging, vague, indeterminate. Probably a fairer book about America has never been written.”
+ – Sat. R. 102: 581. N. 10, ’06. 1630w.
“The book is illuminating in the fullest sense, a criticism not only of America, but of all civilised society, and it is written in a style which is always attractive and rises now and then to uncommon beauty and power. Though we endorse his demand for reform in many directions, we are bound to condemn his frequent exaggerations, the shrillness, nay feverishness, of his criticism, and his want of a sense of proportion. He says many true things about the United States, but his picture as a whole is false.”
+ – Spec. 97: 683. N. 3, ’06. 2320w.
Wells, Herbert George. [In the days of the comet.] †$1.50. Century.
A young middle-class Englishman loves a girl who elopes with the son of a landed proprietor. The outraged suitor pursues the couple, bent upon murder and suicide. Then the comet intervenes. It strikes the earth and diffuses a trance-producing vapor. When the world wakens there are no longer passions and rivalries. At this point the author works out a state of socialistic reform characterized by brotherhood principles. The hero finds love an impersonal thing with none of the old proprietary limitations. Woman to him becomes the “shape and color of the divine principle that lights the world,” and whether wife or friend he may love her without reproach.
“An earnest and exceedingly interesting book.”
+ Acad. 71: 266. S. 15, ’06. 180w.
“Is far more than an interesting romance written in the fine literary style that marks the works of this popular imaginative novelist.”
+ Arena. 36: 683. D. ’06. 380w.
“It remains as a whole a fine testimony to the imagination and intellect of one of the most original thinkers of the day.”
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 362. S. 29. 640w. Current Literature. 41: 700. D. 06. 880w.
“Regarded as an argument for socialism ... it is a very weak one.”
– Ind. 61: 1053. N. 1, ’06. 1080w.
“Perhaps it is not the best book Mr. Wells has written. It is in reality no more than a brilliant piece of descriptive writing. But no reader can fail to be touched by the picture of the glorious life that awaits mankind after some great change.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 220w. Lond. Times. 5: 314. S. 14, ’06. 580w. + Nature. 75: 124. D. 6, ’06. 440w. + – N. Y. Times. 11: 719. N. 3, ’06. 200w.
“As a story pure and simple, it falls far below his ‘War of the worlds.’”
– Outlook. 84: 582. N. 3, ’06. 230w. Sat. R. 102: 365. S. 22, ’06. 1560w. + – Spec. 97: 496. O. 6, ’06. 1230w.
Wells, Herbert George. [Kipps: the story of a simple soul.] †$1.50. Scribner.
“Displaying an almost Dickens-like gift for the portrayal of eccentric traits and types of character.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 40: 17. Ja. 1. ’06, 350w. Edinburgh R. 203: 66. Ja. ’06. 2920w. Living Age. 248: 726. Mr. 24, ’06. 2920w. (Reprinted from Edinburgh R.)
Wells, Herbert George. [Modern Utopia.] *$1.50. Scribner.
“Culling over the literature of 1905, I should place at the head of works of the first-class ‘A modern utopia.’” Winthrop More Daniels.
+ Atlan. 97: 840. Je. ’06. 710w.
Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ – Dial. 40: 296. My. 1, ’06. 250w. J. Pol. Econ. 14: 581. N. ’06. 270w.
Wendell, Barrett. Temper of the 17th century in English literature. **$1.50. Scribner.
“We must thank Professor Wendell for the pleasant, if slightly exotic, prose of this thoughtful and inspiring volume. The fly in the amber is the continual use of the word ‘elder.’”
+ – Spec. 97: sup. 468. O. 6, ’06. 860w.
Wertheimer, Edward de. Duke of Reichstadt. **$5. Lane.
“The general reader, for whom this handsome volume is evidently intended, will find that the events and persons in the life of this son of Napoleon stand out sharp, clear, and interesting. Some errors have slipped into the translation. This book with its good index and illustrations is the best on the subject.” Sidney B. Fay.
+ + – Am. Hist. R. 11: 662. Ap. ’06. 860w. Critic. 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 120w.
“Is essentially an historical study, not a mere collection of gossip and rumor.”
+ Dial. 40: 21. Ja. ’06. 360w. + Sat. R. 101: 113. Ja. 27, ’06. 1150w.
Wesselhoeft, Mrs. Elizabeth Foster (Pope) (Lily F.). Ready, the reliable. †$1.50. Little.
Thru the influence of a little child a wealthy, crusty, bachelor uncle learns the great lesson of love and opens his heart to the needs of an overworked mother and her three responsible little ones. Ready, a befriended street dog, is so important a factor in the tale that he has appropriated the title.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 90w.
“When it comes to one part of a story dealing with humans and the other part giving us the thoughts and conversations of cats and dogs ... we think a literary license is taken that is not warranted by the results obtained.”
– R. of Rs. 34: 764. D. ’06. 50w.
Westermarck, Edward Alexander. [Origin and development of the moral ideas.] 2v. v. 1. *$3.50. Macmillan.
“A multitude of curious facts concerning the crude institutions of early times and savage tribes awaits the general reader of these pages. About one-fourth of the volume is concerned with homicide, both in general and in its varying forms down to feticide. The philosophic student finds what he has a right to expect from such an investigator ... acute insight and discriminating judgment in tracing the evolution of moral ideas.”—Outlook.
“We have drawn attention to a few points in which Dr. Westermarck has seemed to us unconvincing. We have intended this only as the criticism which makes appreciation significant. And for the book as a whole—for its learning, its open-mindedness, its catholicity, of interest—we have the warmest appreciation.”
+ + – Acad. 70: 521, Je. 2, ’06. 2520w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Westermarck’s great strength ... consists in his ability to assemble materials, and if he has a weakness, it is on the psychological side.” W. I. Thomas.
+ + – Am. J. Soc. 12: 127. Jl. ’06. 330w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Even suppose, however, certain shortcomings on the side of pure theory, this book remains an achievement unsurpassed in its own kind, a perpetual monument of the courage, the versatility, and the amazing industry of its author.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 1: 692. Je. 9. 1820w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It may be partly owing to this special study, but largely no doubt also to a remarkably sympathetic and candid turn of mind that Dr. Westermarck presents this heterogeneous mass of evidence with so much understanding, and avoids those hasty generalizations and those uncomprehending judgments of alien races that so frequently characterize many writers, even among those who have dwelt long among the people they describe.”
+ + – Ind. 61: 997. O. 25, ’06. 1170w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The mass of information included in these chapters is wonderful. The use which Dr Westermarck makes of it, I have no pretensions to criticise. At any rate, everyone who reads this volume will look forward with impatience to the next.” J. Ellis McTaggart.
+ + – Int. J. Ethics. 17: 125. O. ’06. 1140w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Exceptionally wide reading and a faculty of lucid arrangement in dealing with masses of detail are the necessary equipment for such a task, and to these Dr. Westermarck adds a four years’ residence among the country population of Morocco.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 5: 250. Jl. 13, ’06. 740w. (Review of v. 1.) + + – Nature. 74: 377. Ag. 16, ’06. 1320w. (Review of v. 1.) N. Y. Times. 11: 180. Mr. 24, ’06. 250w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Although this massive work is elaborately analytical and critical, it is none the less interesting.”
+ + Outlook. 82: 1005. Ap. 28, 06. 250w. (Review of v. 1.) Sat. R. 101: 821. Je. 30, ’06. 1260w. (Review of v. 1.)
Westrup, Margaret. [Young O’Briens.] †$1.50. Lane.
“A family of undisciplined young people from the wilds of Ireland, thrust for many months upon the society of a Scotch spinster aunt in a squalid little house in London, suggests a situation which might well draw tears from a stone.” (Ath.) “The transplanting is a hard trial for all of them, and not less trying at times to the aunt. The humor of some of the episodes is delightful.” (Critic.)
“Makes an enjoyable afternoon’s reading, but from a literary point of view does not begin to compare with ‘Helen Alliston’” Amy C. Rich.
+ Arena. 36: 218. Ag. ’06. 330w.
“The narrative ... is told with much humor and not a little pathos, but at too great length.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 1: 792. Je. 30. 180w.
“Both young and old will enjoy this entertaining account of the doings of four Irish young folk.”
+ Critic. 49: 190. Ag. ’06. 100w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 375. Je. 9, ’06. 830w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 170w.
“The book is too long, but the high spirits of the family carry the reader on.”
+ – Sat. R. 102: 243. Ag. 25, ’06. 290w.
Weyman, Stanley John. [Chippinge Borough.] †$1.50. McClure.
“Mr. Weyman’s latest romance has for its background the passing of the Reform bill of 1832. No novelist is more conscientious in his treatment of historical events, and the picture he presents of the fierce struggle between the old governing class and the advocates of the ‘People’s bill’ is singularly faithful and vivid.... Into this political struggle he has successfully woven a romantic story.”—Ath.
“It is wholesome, mediocre work, and will delight Mr. Stanley Weyman’s immense number of readers.”
+ Acad. 71: 421. O. 27, ’06. 130w.
“Is to be numbered among the best of Mr. Weyman’s books.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 2: 613. N. 17. 180w.
“Novels that urge you along with them as ‘Chippinge’ does are not so common that you can afford to quarrel with the means by which they do it.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 5: 377. N. 9, ’06. 440w.
“The chief defect of the book is its length. Good as it all is, the temptation to skip, soon becomes overpowering.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 835. D. 1, ’06. 640w.
“Rarely does one find a semi-historical subject treated so dramatically and with such intense personal interest.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 711. N. 2, ’06. 150w.
“It is not for its tale however that the book may be commended. The interest of the book is in its atmosphere. It renders admirably the spirit and sentiment.”
+ – Sat. R. 102: 585. N. 10, ’06. 440w.
“A most enjoyable story as well as a deeply interesting study of a great struggle.”
+ + Spec. 97: 731. N. 10, ’06. 790w.
Weyman, Stanley John. [Starvecrow farm.] †$1.50. Longmans.
“This is by no means the best of Mr. Weyman’s novels, but it has a considerable interest nevertheless.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 40: 17. Ja. 1, ’06. 170w.
“Mr. Weyman’s atmosphere is charmingly true; the story that he has to tell is more than ordinarily worth telling.”
+ Reader. 7: 563. Ap. ’06. 210w.
Wharton, Edith Newbold (Jones). [House of mirth.] †$1.50. Scribner.
“For all its brilliancy, ‘The house of mirth’ has a certain shallowness; it is thin. At best, Lily can only inspire interest and curiosity.” Mary Moss.
+ Atlan. 97: 52. Ja. ’06. 630w.
“It is Mrs. Wharton’s great achievement, in a book where all is fine, that she makes us see and sympathize with the true distinction in a woman who on the surface has little else than beauty and charm.” E. E. Hale, jr.
+ + + Bookm. 22: 364. D. ’05. 1190w. Critic. 48: 463. My. ’06. 260w.
“It is a story elaborated in every detail to a high degree of refinement, and evidently a product of the artistic conscience. Having paid this deserved tribute to its finer characteristics, we are bound to add that it is deficient in interest.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – Dial. 40: 15. Ja. 1, ’06. 720w.
Reviewed by Charles Waldstein.
North American. 182: 840. Je. ’06 and 183: 125. Jl. ’06. 5670 + 4890w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ + North American. 182: 922. Je. ’06. 400w.
“The book is one of the few novels which can claim to rank as literature.”
+ + + Sat. R. 101: 209. F. 17, ’06. 400w.
Wharton, Henry Marvin. White blood; a story of the South. $1.50. Neale.
The natural ingratitude and inability of the negro to rise to the level of the white man forms the motif of this story written for the purpose of proving that “white blood must rule.” A love story with a southern setting imparts an interest to the much mooted question.
What would one have?: a woman’s confession. *$1. West, J. H.
“An essentially New England temperament is revealed in this ‘confession.’ ... The supposed author is a plain woman of the middle class, brought up on a farm with few opportunities. She has so many sorrows and by them she learns what seems to her the meaning of life.”—Critic.
“The tone of the book is strongly religious; it is at least free from the morbid taint usually to be found in revelations of a similar character, and doubtless it will make a strong appeal to persons of a type of mind similar to that of the ‘woman’ supposed to make the ‘confession.’”
+ Critic. 49: 190. Ag. ’06. 130w.
“There are doubtless countless readers who will find some sort of spiritual consolation in the book, and mental edification, too, in its appreciation of easily accessible literature.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 340. My. 26, ’06. 180w.
“Is manifestly genuine and written with an earnest desire to help others.”
– R. of Rs. 34: 127. Jl. ’06. 90w.
Whates, H. R. Canada, the new nation. **$1.50. Dutton.
“Mr. Whates ... went to Canada as a steerage passenger, posed as an emigrant, and made actual trial of the difficulties which confront an actual settler. In this way he met Canadians of every type and class and had every chance of learning their real views. He travelled over much of the continent, selected a homestead area in the wheatlands of the North-west, and returned after five well-spent months with a knowledge of the land which few could acquire in as many years. The result is a book which is partly a record of travel, partly a most practical guide to the intending settler, and partly a careful and sympathetic study of Canadian political thought.”—Spec.
“Mr. Whates is a little wild in his emigration scheme, and appears in some passages to upset himself.”
+ – Ath. 1906. 1: 699. Je. 9. 740w.
Reviewed by Lawrence J. Burpee.
+ + Dial. 41: 278. N. 1, ’06. 690w.
“The French element in Canadian life receives somewhat less attention than it deserves.”
+ – Nation. 83: 313. O. 11, ’06. 450w. – N. Y. Times. 11: 606. S. 29, ’06. 690w.
“He has performed his task with a singularly open mind, utterly free from the bias which so often renders valueless the observations of traveling Englishmen.”
+ Outlook. 84: 436. D. 15, ’06. 1200w.
“An admirable book which we have read with keen enjoyment. Mr. Whates writes with grace and distinction, he has keen powers of observation, and the tolerant humorous outlook of the true traveller.”
+ + Spec. 97: 95. Jl. 21, ’06. 1460w.
Wheat, Mrs. Lu. Third daughter: a story of Chinese home life. $1.50. Mrs. Lu Wheat, 910 W. 8th st., Los Angeles, Cal.
“Ah Moy, the third daughter of a good family, is the central figure in an idyllic picture of a Chinese home. This is at length broken up by the dire calamities, which give occasion for the display of high qualities of character, but bring Ah Moy to a tragic end. Chinese customs, the position of women, foot-binding, sex-morality, the Boxers, the traffic in slave-girls, their importation hither, and the efforts of missionaries to thwart it, make up the rapidly shifting scene.”—Outlook.
“An extremely interesting and well-written picture of Chinese home-life in a high-caste family.” Amy C. Rich.
+ Arena. 36: 218. Ag. ’06. 250w. + Critic. 48: 477. My. ’06. 80w.
“Writes in large sympathy with whatever she has seen that is attractive and worthy. Concerning Christian missionaries there she has not taken equal pains to inform herself correctly.”
+ – Outlook. 82: 619. Mr. 17, ’06. 130w.
Wheeler, Everett Pepperell. Daniel Webster, the expounder of the Constitution. **$1.50. Putnam.
“A convenient manual for any one who wishes to get in a small compass a view of Webster’s career as expounder.”
+ Nation. 82: 55. Ja. 18, ’06. 340w.
Wheeler, W. H. Practical manual of tides and waves. *$2.80. Longmans.
The principal part of Mr. Wheeler’s work is devoted to “as practical an account as possible, free from all mathematical demonstration of the action of the sun and moon in producing the tides: and of the physical causes by which the tides are affected after their generation, and of their propagation throughout the tidal waters of the earth.” (Nature.) He further deals with wave phenomena in a manner to be useful to practising engineers.
“A perusal of this work will convince any reader that the entire discussion of tides and tidal phenomena has been undertaken by one familiar with the subject, both practically and theoretically, and influenced by genuine love for the work. As a result the author has produced a valuable practical manual of tides and waves which should be found in the library of every one interested in these subjects.” D. D. Gaillard.
+ + + Engin. N. 56: 49. Jl. 12, ’06. 1620w.
“On the whole, Mr. Wheeler has succeeded in the object he had in view, and has ‘produced a handbook that will be of interest and practical service to those who have neither the time nor the opportunity of investigating the subject for themselves.’”
+ + Nature. 74: 218. Jl. 5, ’06. 1400w.
Whelpley, James Davenport. Problem of the immigrant. *$3. Dutton.
“A most convenient handbook for reference, supplying the student with a mass of materials not elsewhere available in one language or in any sort of connected form.” Frederic Austin Ogg.
+ + Dial. 40: 259. Ap. 16, ’06. 570w. + Outlook. 83: 577. Jl. 7, ’06. 400w.
Whiffen, Edwin T. Samson marrying, Samson at Timnah, Samson Hybistes, Samson blinded: four dramatic poems. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
“The poetic impulse is hardly sufficient in the dialogue to overcome its tedious length and there are few beautiful or splendid passages to break the monotony of the diction.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 18. Ja. 13. ’06. 210w.
Whitcomb, Selden Lincoln. Study of a novel. $1.25. Heath.
It is not with the science of the novel but with certain fixed values of material and of form that Mr. Whitcomb’s analysis deals. He shows the laudable and practical work of novel dissection to be a necessary part of the teaching of literature. He discusses external structure, consecutive structure, plot, the settings, the “dramatis personae,” characterization, subject-matter, style, the process of composition, the shaping of forces, influence of a novel, comparative rhetoric and æsthetics, and general aesthetic interest.
“As an attempt to break ground in a comparatively uncultivated field the book is commendable. The writer has got together a good deal of material where it can be found when wanted.”
+ – Ind. 61: 252. Ag. 2, ’06. 150w.
“In its own chosen field this book is exceedingly thorough and instructive.”
+ Outlook. 82: 910. Ap. 21, ’06. 110w.
“Is really a dissection, diagrammatically set forth, of a number of the great novels in English.”
+ R. of Rs. 33: 256. F. ’06. 60w.
White, Frederick M. [Slave of silence.] †$1.50. Little.
The Royal Palace hotel, London, is in this complicated story made the center of a series of strange happenings which begin when Sir Charles, who is marrying his daughter to a rich brute to save his own financial honor, is found dead in his bed at the close of the ceremony. Then follows the disappearance of his body, and the series of adventures which his daughter, her old lover, and their friend Perington encounter when they trace the thieves to a house in Audley place which is full of electrical surprises. Diamonds of fabulous value and certain ruby mine concessions in Burmah complicate the plot, but at last Sir Charles reappears alive, his daughter is left a widow at an auspicious moment for her lover, and the slave of silence is released from allegiance to the crippled villain who is her brother, and marries the faithful Perrington.
“There is a suggestion of occultism from the East, which, serving no purpose in the plot, seems a little superfluous, but for genuine entertainment one cannot do better than to read this book.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 825. D. 1, ’06. 150w.
White, Frederick M. [Weight of the crown.] $1.50. Fenno.
A story in which plots and counter plots run their brisk course as Russia makes a tool of the dissipated crowned head of Asturia and tries to force an abdication. There are two sets of doubles in the story introduced on the one hand to facilitate, on the other hand to retard and complicate the movement towards the dramatic climax.
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 110. F. 24, ’06. 220w.
White, Stewart Edward. The Pass. *$1.25. Outing pub.
In which Mr. White tells the story of a journey across the high Sierras made by an explorer, his wife, his guide, their two dogs and four horses.
“It is the triumph of Mr. White’s enthusiasm and of his ability to put his facts and his impressions into the right words that what was encountered and what was seen on the trip is almost as plain on the printed page as it would have been to you or me had we taken the trip with him.” Churchill Williams.
+ + Bookm. 24: 376. D. ’06. 1270w.
“It is told simply in a style as crisp as mountain air.” May Estelle Cook.
+ Dial. 41: 387. D. 1, ’06. 180w. + Ind. 61: 1234. N. 22, ’06. 160w.
“Like most of Mr. White’s books ‘The Pass’ is very agreeable reading indeed, soothing, but not exciting.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 685. O. 20, ’06. 770w. + Outlook. 84: 532. O. 27, ’06. 80w.
White, William Allen. [In our town.] †$1.50. McClure.
Thirteen stories made up from happenings observed by the editor of a Western newspaper. “He draws humorously convincing portraits of the people of the town, the town millionaire and the town drunkard, the smart set and those who try to be smart, the literary crowd that laughs at them and envies them for their superior culture. But it is not all humorous. The trail of Jim Nevison, the black sheep and ‘desert scorpion,’ is followed to the end and the career of Sampson, a good fellow ‘and yet a fool,’ is graphically outlined by Colonel Alphabetical Morrison.” (Pub. Opin.)
“Read at intervals it will be found quite entertaining, but it decidedly is not a book for steady perusal.”
+ – Lit. D. 83: 124. Jl. 28, ’06. 90w. N. Y. Times. 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.
“A good and wholesome book ... that may serve its best purpose in showing the American people themselves just what they are in this very hour.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 450. Jl. 14, ’06. 250w. + Outlook. 83: 91. My. 12, ’06. 120w.
“He may not have made great stories but he has put into his sketches the stuff out of which great stories are made.”
+ Pub. Opin. 40: 604. My. 12, ’06. 200w. + R. of Rs. 33: 756. Je. ’06. 60w.
“Every newspaper man has his recollections, but few of them can give them with such an artistic blending of pathos and humor as he has.”
+ + World To-Day. 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 170w.
Whiteing, Richard. Ring in the new. †$1.50. Century.
London and its awful problems of labor and poverty is the theme of this bitterly real study of “the other half,” thru which there ever runs a note of hope. Prue at twenty, penniless, unskilled, tho gently born and bred, casts herself into the maelstrom of London in a pitiful attempt to earn a living, and there realizes her own helplessness and all but goes down before the overwhelming fear of it, clinging for comfort to the mongrel dog she can ill afford to keep. The people whom she meets in the course of her plucky career as an incompetent working girl. Sarah the charwoman, Laura, a gem engraver, Leonard the young editor of The branding-iron, a journal of the back streets, and all the others, interest us not so much as individuals as parts of a struggling whole.
“This is the most important romance of recent months dealing with social progress. The author is a finished writer, a scholar skillful with the use of words. This is a work that we can heartily recommend to all lovers of human progress and social advance.”
+ + Arena. 36: 682. D. ’06. 950w.
“The darker side of the picture, as seen by his heroine during her terrible initiation into the struggle for existence, is presented with power, but also with commendable sobriety and restraint.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 1: 633. My. 26. 280w.
“He is earnestly, even angrily intense with the sincerity of his motive. And his motive the noblest of all, is the brotherhood of man.” Richard Duffy.
+ Bookm. 24: 276. N. ’06. 670w.
“The style is somewhat Meredithian—brilliant, suggestive, prismatic, but oftentimes blinding through an excess of nervous energy that entices its possessor from a consistent point of view. As a performance in fiction this book hardly ranks with the same author’s ‘No. 5 John street.’”
+ – Lit. D. 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 270w.
“A story that flashes with wit, glows with indignation, and beams with the steady light of an unshakable hope.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 158. My. 4, ’06. 390w.
“‘Ring in the new’ cannot but compel the absorbed interest of its readers, but more than this, it is worthy the writing and the reading, because it is a voice for the voiceless, because it needs must have its share in bringing about a social condition wherein at least no ‘evil is wrought by want of thought.’ Such a book deserves to be held high above the flood of ordinary fiction, in that its appeal is not to anything less than the noblest elements of character.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 596. S. 29, ’06. 1930w.
“The most vivid individual in the book is Sarah, the charwoman. The weakest parts of the story are the extracts from ‘The branding iron.’”
+ – Outlook. 84: 533. O. 27, ’06. 210w.
“The charm of Mr. Whiteing’s narrative is greatly enhanced by his mastery of the art of presentation. He writes with a most engaging ease, preserving a happy mean between pedantry and looseness,—indeed, the impression created is curiously like that of listening to a brilliant talker.”
+ Spec. 96: 717. My. 5, ’06. 880w.
Whiting, Lilian. Florence of Landor. **$2.50. Little.
“In this fascinating work Lillian Whiting is seen at her best.”
+ + Arena. 35: 444. Ap. ’06. 600w.
“So far as Landor is concerned, the more valuable parts of Miss Whiting’s volume are those containing the reminiscences of his young American friend Miss Kate Field, who saw a good deal of him during the last four or five years of his long life.”
+ + – Ath. 1905, 2: 886. D. 30. 1120w.
“It contains some new and interesting anecdotes and a few good illustrations.”
+ – Atlan. 97: 558. Ap. ’06. 370w. + Ind. 60: 456. F. 22, ’06. 420w.
“It is not, to be sure, one of those that invite perusal at a single sitting. On the contrary, the best enjoyment will be derived through desultory browsing.”
+ Lit. D. 32: 171, F. 3, ’06. 270w.
“Without giving any but the barest details of the poet’s life, Miss Whiting brings vividly before us the brilliant circle of choice intellects, so attached to Landor and to Florence, who ministered to his later years.”
+ + Nation. 81: 527. D. 28, ’05. 1820w. R. of Rs. 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 110w.
Whiting, Lilian. From dream to vision of life. *$1. Little.
“Optimistic papers in which scientific knowledge and religious fervor are combined, compose this volume. They are entitled; Thine eyes shall behold the King in his beauty, The key of the secret, Live in harmony with the new forces, The incalculable power of the spirit, The spiritual illumination, All’s love and all’s law, The rose and flame of life, The glory of summers that are not yet, and To whom the eternal world speaks.”
Whiting, Lilian. Joy that no man taketh from you. **50c. Little.
“It will appeal with special force to those saddened, discouraged, disappointed ones from which riches have taken wings, or who have been overcome by still greater calamities.”
+ Arena. 35: 103. Ja. ’06. 980w.
Whiting, Lilian. Land of enchantment: from Pike’s Peak to the Pacific. **$2.50. Little.
The grandeur and scenic marvels of the great Southwest with its resources and development of life fill Miss Whiting’s volume. The wonders of Colorado, both in the Pike’s Peak region and in Denver “the beautiful,” the surprises of New Mexico with its ruins, traditions and mines, the magic of Arizona with its petrified forest, and Grand cañon, and southern California, mild in its sunshine, all compel the reader to traverse the way under the spell of enchantment.
+ Dial. 41: 453. D. 16, ’06. 210w. Lit. D. 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 60w.
“She makes proper copy of excellent material for such a purpose.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 150w.
“The author has gone over well-known ground quite thoroughly, and has discovered much that is new and picturesque.”
+ Outlook. 84: 940. D. 15, ’06. 70w.
Whitney, Caspar. Jungle trails and jungle people; travel, adventure and observation in the Far East. **$3. Scribner.
“The style, instead of being halting, has the rapid stride of an expert American journalist, and, in spite of occasional disfigurements, the author has produced a work of considerable interest to the general reader, and painted some pictures of Eastern manners and character unfamiliar to those who live in the smaller world of the West.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 669. Je. 2. 1180w.
“What he saw and what he did are pleasantly set down with many illustrations in this handsome volume.”
+ Ind. 59: 1536. D. 28, ’05. 270w.
“Mr. Whitney conveys to the reader a good deal of the pleasure and excitement which he himself experienced.”
+ Spec. 95: 1128. D. 30, ’05. 500w.
Whitney, Helen Hay. [Sonnets and songs.] **$1.20. Harper.
“Gifted young debutante.” Edith M. Thomas.
+ Critic. 48: 271. Mr. ’06. 610w. + R. of Rs. 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 30w.
Whitson, John H. [Justin Wingate, ranchman.] †$1.50. Little.
“It is a capital story of the West and well worth the reading.”
+ Arena. 35: 334. Mr. ’06. 220w.
Whittier, John Greenleaf. Poems; with a biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper poets” this volume becomes a student’s textbook thru its introduction and notes.
Who’s Who, 1906. *$2. Macmillan.
The 1906 volume contains two thousand more biographies than its predecessor. It contains also the number of a man’s sons and daughters, his telegraphic address and telephone number and the registered number of his motor-car.
“The book seems to us to have entirely changed its character since its inception; but in its present form it is exceedingly useful as a book of reference.”
– + + Acad. 69: 1341. D. 23, ’05. 70w.
“The new detail tends to promote self-advertisement rather than public utility.”
+ + – Ath. 1905. 2: 863. D. 23. 40w.
“The selection of American names is as capricious as ever.”
+ + – Dial. 40: 161. Mr. 1, ’06. 60w. – – – Ind. 60: 287. F. 1, ’06. 50w. + + + Int. Studio. 28: 181. Ap. ’06. 40w. + + + Nation. 82: 117. F. 8, ’06. 60w. + + + Outlook. 82: 327. F. 10, ’06. 270w. + + + Sat. R. 100: 822. D. 23, ’05. 80w. + + + Spec. 95: 1092. D. 23. ’05. 100w.
Whyte, Rev. Alexander. Walk, conversation and character of Jesus Christ our Lord. $1.50. Revell.
“Permeated with this moral purpose, these addresses may be classified as devotional reflections upon the life of Jesus.” Llewellyn Phillips.
+ Bib. World. 27: 78. Ja. ’06. 240w.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith) (Mrs. G. C. Riggs). [Rose o’ the river.] †$1.25. Houghton.
“The vivid glimpses of life among the lumbermen are the best features of the book which surely must have made its way on the strength of its predecessor, ‘Rebecca,’ rather than on its own merits.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – Bookm. 22: 494. Ja. ’06. 200w.
“Is as spontaneous and fascinating in its way as was her ‘Rebecca’ in another.”
+ Outlook. 81: 711. N. 25, ’05. 50w. + Reader. 7: 227. Ja. ’06. 190w.
Wilcox, Henry S. Foibles of the bench. $1. Legal literature co., Chicago
The various types found upon the bench in all lands and ages and here personified and analyzed under such chapter headings as; Egotism, Courtesy, Concentration, Courage, Decision, Vain display, Corruption, etc.; in which appear Judge Knowall, Judge Wasp, Judge Doall, Judge Fearful, Judge Wobbler, Judge Wind, Judge Graft and others, who are classed under the virtues which they fail to represent. The whole is breezy and amusing.
“It is excellent work of this character that makes one regret the carelessness and lack of skill that have ruined what might otherwise have been a valuable criticism of the Bench.” Frederick Trevor Hill.
+ – Bookm. 24: 54. S. ’06. 810w. N. Y. Times. 11: 877. D. 15, ’06. 150w.
Wilde, Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills. [De profundis.] **$1.25. Putnam.
“This last work of Oscar Wilde’s may be read with deep interest from many points of view; but it is perhaps most truly remarkable as a piece of introspective psychology.” Rafford Pyke.
+ Bookm. 22: 628. F. ’06. 600w.
“Fantastic his utterances often are, but they are always shrewd, penetrating, suggestive.”
+ Nation. 82: 222. Mr. 15, ’06. 200w.
Wilde, Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Willis. [Picture of Dorian Gray.] **$1.50. Brentano’s.
A new edition of Oscar Wilde’s “psychological masterpiece”, containing chapters that have never before appeared in any American edition. Dorian Gray of the beautiful face and black soul presents just the antithesis of character that fascinated the author’s mind. Love, joy, sorrow all exist in the vesture of life—so they can be donned or doffed at pleasure.
“The book is more effective now than when first published because we know now how true it is.”
+ Ind. 61: 219. Jl. 26, ’06. 400w.
Wildman, Murray Shipley. Money inflation in the United States: a study in social pathology. **$1.50. Putnam.
A sociological study which “has nothing to do with individual morals, but is an attempt to explain certain incidents in our National life to which as a people we cannot point with pride. We are a people with a financial ‘past,’ and Mr. Wildman sets out to rehabilitate us by connecting financial vagaries little different from immoralities, with facts in our National history which show that we were not naturally bad, but yielded to stress of circumstances and most naturally.”—N. Y. Times.
“Is well worthy of commendation to the inquiring student.” Frank L. McVey.
+ + Dial. 41: 165. S. 16, ’06. 410w.
“No one has hitherto treated with such detail the economic conditions underlying the successive movements in favor of cheap money.”
+ + – Ind. 60: 399. F. 15, ’06. 150w.
“Although the book is far from controversial in its tone, its reading will certainly do much to create harmony of opinion on the subject of sound money. As a study of the formation of opinion on one question it is very suggestive.” Caroline M. Hill.
+ J. Pol. Econ. 14: 188. Mr. ’06. 760w.
“Mr. Wildman has written a most ingenious and suggestive apologia for our financial heresies of the period he selected.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 78. F. 10. ’06. 660w.
“Both his method and his reasoning are ingenious, and although it seems to us that he presses a hypothesis to an extreme, we have found his little treatise singularly stimulating.”
+ – Outlook. 82: 616. Mr. 17. ’06. 430w.
Wiley, Sara King. Alcestis and other poems. **75c. Macmillan.
+ Ind. 60: 49. Ja. 4, ’06. 150w. + – N. Y. Times. 11: 7. Ja. 6, ’06. 360w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ + North American. 182: 753. My. ’06. 270w.
Wilkins, William Henry. Mrs. Fitzherbert and George IV. **$5. Longmans.
“There is no great addition to historical knowledge in Mr. Wilkins’s story of Mrs. Fitzherbert and George IV.” A. G. Porritt.
+ Am. Hist. R. 11: 659. Ap. ’06. 510w. + Cath. World. 82: 694. F. ’06. 2480w.
“He is just to George IV., and gives besides an excellent picture of the period.”
+ Critic. 48: 380. Ap. ’06. 140w. + Dial. 40: 202. Mr. 16, ’06. 300w. + Ind. 60: 223. Ja. 25, ’06. 640w.
“It must be said that Mr. Wilkins, though a conscientious searcher and worker, is here rather an apologist than an historian.”
+ – Nation. 82: 350. Ap. 26, ’06. 1510w.
“Mr. Wilkins is too much of an advocate to be a wholly convincing historian and there are signs that he has written in some haste. He deserves full credit for the tact, sensibility, and good taste with which he has performed it.”
+ + – Outlook. 81: 1084. D. 30, ’05. 310w.
Wilkinson, Florence. Far country: poems. **$1. McClure.
“Miss Wilkinson ... is before all, a romanticist, the narrative and ballad are her predestined forms, and she handles them with all the freedom of a native gift.... In phrasing and imagery ‘The far country’ ... shows a freshness and imaginative vision that bespeak the poet’s hand and eye, and above all a joy in the art.... Miss Wilkinson is not a sonneteer ... but to show that she knows wherein her strength lies, there are few sonnets in the volume. It is chiefly the human riddle which haunts her eager, questioning mind.”—N. Y. Times.
“A tendency toward forced forms of expression and an indulgence in mere emotional ejaculation appear to be the most noticeable fault of what is, on the whole, a volume of quite exceptional richness and strength.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + – Dial. 41: 68. Ag. 1, ’06. 470w.
“A volume of uneven, but on the whole, singularly poetic verse. A little sharper discrimination between profusion and diffusion, a little sterner renunciation of unreal and extraneous adornment, a little firmer grasp of organic structure, and Miss Wilkinson will be a poet to reckon with.”
+ – Nation. 83: 145. Ag. 16, ’06. 230w.
“Miss Wilkinson is so rarely unsure in metre, has indeed such command of herself in the most intricate forms, that when one comes upon a jarring line he knows it to be willful heresy rather than unconscious error.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 396. Je. 16, ’06. 1230w.
“An occasional bit of self-consciousness, an evident effort, mar some verses otherwise most pleasing.”
+ + – Outlook. 83: 284. Je. 2, ’06. 90w.
Williams, C. F. Abdy. Story of organ music. *$1.25. Scribner.
“A recent volume in the “Music story series.” The author has outlined a history of the rise and development of organ music, in which the works of the leading composers are described. He is of the opinion that the history of organ music revolves around one gigantic personality, that of Bach, and that no organ composer of any eminence has existed who has not been largely influenced by him. The author has drawn considerably on Ritter’s ‘Geschichte des orgelspiels,’ and on the collections of Comer and others.” (Dial.) The book contains a number of musical illustrations including the whole of a toccata by Pasquini.
“Mr. William’s treatise is scholarly, clear, concise, and elucidative.”
+ + Dial. 40: 395. Je. 16, ’06. 200w.
“Interesting as well as scholarly the book is one of the best in a series that has varied noticeably in merit.”
+ + Ind. 61: 942. O. 18, ’06. 320w.
“Cannot be commended too highly to all organists.”
+ + Nation. 82: 474. Je. 7, ’06. 130w.
“His book is brief but scholarly, and is the work of a man that knows his subject and knows how to present it interestingly—even the more abstruse historical portions of it. The book is one of the best of a series that has varied greatly in merit.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + + N. Y. Times. 11: 237. Ap. 14, ’06. 660w.
Williams, Egerton Ryerson, jr. Ridolfo, the coming of the dawn, a tale of the Renaissance. †$1.50. McClurg.
Perugia, harassed as it was in the hundred and fifty years or more that the Baglioni ruled it by violence, is the scene of this story of Gismonda, the Florentine bride of Ridolfo Baglioni, then signore of Perugia. He marries her for her dowry and leaves her on her wedding day a prisoner in his castle to continue his career of crime and oppression; but she, by her faithfulness, her goodness, and her beauty, finally succeeds in awakening the soul of Ridolfo to a realization of his sins. He forthwith repents of his black deeds, inaugurates a new era for down-trodden Perugia and makes of himself a man worthy of his wife’s love.
“It leaves a strong and even valuable impression of an age which it is well to look back at, not only when modern puzzles seem petty, but when modern civilization seems defective.”
+ Nation. 83: 353. O. 25, ’06. 390w.
“The book is eminently readable.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 721. N. 3. ’06. 190w.
“The story is full of action and dramatic situations.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 796. D. ’06. 140w.
Williams, Hugh Noel. Five fair sisters: an Italian episode at the court of Louis XIV. **$3.50. Putnam.
The five sisters of this historical biography are Laure, Olympe, Marie, Hortense, and Marianne Mancini, the nieces of Cardinal Mazarin. All were taken from Rome to France as children and made brilliant marriages. With the exception of Laure, they all lived long and had romantic careers. Had not Mazarin been so obstinate, Marie Mancini would have been consort of Louis XIV. of France. Olympe became the Comtesse de Soissons; Marianne, Duchesse de Bouillon, who was implicated in the poison trials of 1680; Hortense the Duchesse de Mazarin, fled from her jealous, bigoted husband, and became a reigning beauty at the Court of Charles II. of England.
“He does not affect to have made any additions to historical knowledge, and shows no great fondness for discussing problems or unravelling mysteries; but the facts are stated fairly, and, as a rule, fully enough for the general reader.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 787. Je. 30. 2050w.
Reviewed by Percy F. Bicknell.
Dial. 41: 386. D. 1, ’06. 180w.
“His volume looks well; his illustrations are interesting: his style, though it smacks a good deal too much of translation, is readable; his subject could hardly have been better chosen.”
+ Nation. 83: 288. O. 4. ’06. 800w.
“The present author has put the facts together in a very satisfactory fashion.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 565. S. 15, ’06. 1010w.
“Both entertaining and of interest as throwing light on the life of this great period in French history.”
+ Outlook. 84: 238. S. 22, ’06. 210w.
“Mr. Williams, however, has made a readable story out of material only too abundant. His book is quite as much a study of times and manners as a regular biography: with so many leading figures this was a foregone conclusion.”
+ Spec. 97: sup. 465. O. 6, ’06. 1700w.
Williams, Hugh Noel. [Later queens of the French stage.] Scribner.
A less distinctive work for stage art has been wrought by the six women in this group than by the women who were sketched in the first book of the series, “Queens of the French stage.” This latter group includes Sophie Arnould, Mlle. Guimard, Mlle. Raucourt, Mme. Dugazon, Mlle. Contat, and Mme. Saint-Huberty, and “they were rather reapers than sowers and left few traces on their art.” (Lond. Times.)
“To anyone who likes gossip, amusing stories, vivid descriptions of a very brilliant and heartless state of society, just before it toppled to its fall, we recommend Mr. Williams’s handsomely published book. He has spared no little trouble in research, and is thoroughly well up in his subject; and his book makes most agreeable reading.”
+ Acad. 70: 472. My. 19, ’06. 1200w.
“Mr. Williams’s new book has all the faults of his ‘Queens of the French stage,’ and has them in an aggravated degree. His style is still more slovenly, his grammar still more faulty, his accuracy still more blemished ... his proofs still more carelessly read.”
– – Lond. Times. 5: 171. My. 11, ’06. 930w.
“It is a record of scandals.”
– N. Y. Times. 11: 359. Je. 2, ’06. 870w.
Williams, Hugh Noel. [Queens of the French stage.] *$2.50. Scribner.
“He tells his stories very well, and has a wide knowledge of the memoirs, letters, the epigrams and so forth which illustrate his subjects, and quotes them freely on his handsome pages.”
+ Acad. 70. 112. F. 3, ’06. 1500w. Spec. 95: 533. O. 7, ’05. 160w.
Williams, Jesse Lynch. Day-dreamer. †$1.50. Scribner.
An unabridged rendering of “News and the man,” an amplified version of “The stolen story.” “There is a general stir in this novel which successfully stimulates the rush of a daily newspaper office when the presses are in motion and the ‘stories’ are coming in from every quarter. The reporter’s slang, which is a kind of dialect known only to the initiated, is freely used and the narrative bristles with expert knowledge of reportorial ways and speech.” (Outlook.)
“A very plausible story and a splendid picture of newspaper life and newspaper men.” Stephen Chalmers.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 181. Mr. 24, ’06. 70w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ – North American. 182: 927. Je. ’06. 110w.
“Among the entertaining stories of the season a first place must be given to ... ‘The day dreamer.’”
+ + Outlook. 82: 759. Mr. 31, ’06. 90w.
“But in spite of the well-seasoned character of the plot and the persons, ‘The day-dreamer’ is nevertheless a neatly articulated and very readable tale.”
+ Putnam’s. 1: 127. O. ’06. 140w.
Williams, Leonard. Granada: memories, adventures, studies and impressions. **$2.50. Lippincott.
“Here is a book that gives only one chapter to the Alhambra. ‘The Alhambra by moonlight,’ all the rest being devoted to pilgrimages within easy reach of the City of Granada.... Some lead into the snows of the splendid Sierra Nevada, but most of them are within the power of any one.” (N. Y. Times.) “To the systematic frauds connected with the famous sacred mountain, he devotes several chapters, in which he tells the whole story of the exploitation of the caves—‘a longish story,’ he says, ‘full of interest, social, national and psychological, the story of the most astounding, amazing and protracted swindle the world has ever heard of.’” (Int. Studio.)
“The chapters which make up this volume are much too disconnected in subject, and the author has not the art of interesting us in ... commonplace experiences.”
– + Ath. 1906, 1: 542. My. 5. 470w.
“It is unfortunate that a book so full of varied charm should not have better illustrations. The want of an index is also a considerable drawback to the value of the work.”
+ – Int. Studio. 29: 181. Ag. ’06. 290w.
Williams, Neil Wynn. Electric theft. †$1.50. Small.
An unusual story with plenty of plot, action and romance has its setting in Athens, with the scene shifting to London. A young engineer, who is also an inventor, is sent to Athens to discover the cause of the theft of electricity from the Athenian electric power company. The closely guarded villainy is operated by a band of anarchists whose leader becomes the hero’s rival in affairs of heart as well as schemes in which cunning and skill abound.
Williams, Rebecca R. (“Riddell,” pseud.). Fireside fancies. *75c. Jenkins.
A poem in which the author’s fancy recalls a sequence of brave deeds long past and weaves them into verse at his own fireside.
Williams, Sarah Stone (Hester E. Shipley). Man from London town. $1.50. Neale.
There was a man from London town, and in this modern version of the old rhyme, having scratched out both his eyes as the result of an unfortunate love affair he becomes a cynic, is bored with life and loving. But at last he realizes that his eyes are out thru the influence of a young widow of high ideals and a charming personality, and she is the cause of his jumping once more into the bramble bush and scratching them in again. Unfortunately the man has become so embittered and, is so lacking in fine feeling that he handles too roughly the thing which gave him light. He is the type of a man whose vision is permanently distorted and even love could not make him see.
Williams, Theodore C. [Elegies of Tibullus.] $1.25. Badger, R. G.
“Of this work the judgment must be that it is a paraphrase rather than a translation, and the frequent felicities in the rendering add to one’s regret at its defects.”
+ – Bookm. 23: 338. My. ’06. 760w.
Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Mrs. Alice Muriel (Livingston). [Lady Betty across the water.] †$1.50. McClure.
Lady Betty, the naive young sister of an impoverished duke, comes over from England to visit a Mrs. Stuyvesant-Knox at Newport. The plans of her hostess for securing the sister of a duke as her brother’s wife are frustrated, and the plans of Betty’s mother of securing an American fortune seem, for a time, endangered by a young man who crosses in the steerage of Betty’s ship and who wins her young affection by heroic deeds before she discovers him to be a millionaire in disguise. The story is light and breezy and is full of social satire.
“The interest is smartly whipped up, and kept spinning and humming gaily to the last page.”
+ Acad. 70: 550. Je. 9, ’06. 380w.
“A little more of the handsome Californian, and a little less violet teas and cat lunches would have made it a better balanced book.” Frederick Taber Cooper.
+ – Bookm. 23: 540. Jl. ’06. 310w.
“A frothy sort of cleverness is the chief attribute of the story, but its thin vein of wit is exhausted long before the end is reached, and nothing more substantial is found to take its place.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – Dial. 41: 37. Jl. 16, ’06. 240w.
“The intent is to present a friendly picture of real American life, to hold up the mirror to ‘society’, and to provide a sort of guide book of America’s typical institutions; but it’s all done British visitors must be warned not to take it upon such meagre knowledge of the facts that seriously.”
– + N. Y. Times. 11: 319. My. 19, ’06. 690w.
“It is a pleasantly written narrative, very frothy.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 190w.
“A lively and entertaining tale.”
+ Outlook. 83: 863. Ag. 11, ’06. 50w.
“A readable and entertaining story.”
+ Sat. R. 101: 826. Je. 30, ’06. 80w. Spec. 97: 23. Jl. 7, ’06. 190w.
Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Mrs. Alice Muriel. [My friend the chauffeur.] †$1.50. McClure.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 10: 154. Mr. 1, 06. 290w.
“The tale is amusing enough, but on the whole less good than other stories by the clever authors.”
+ Putnam’s. 1: 254. N. ’06. 60w.
Willis, Henry Parker. Our Philippine problem: a study of American colonial policy. $1.50. Holt.
Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.
Atlan. 97: 848. Je. ’06. 470w.
“So, while there is much in this book ... which is of very considerable import, it is so intermixed with errors, half-truths, misinformation of one sort and another, and political insinuation, as to make the book an altogether unsafe guide for him who is not already expert in Philippine matters.”
+ – – Ind. 59: 1538. D. 28, ’05. 1210w.
Reviewed by Hugh Clifford.
Living Age. 251: 515. D. 1, ’06. 5630w.
Willoughby, William Franklin. Territories and dependencies of the United States: their government and administration. *$1.25. Century.
Reviewed by F. J. Goodnow.
+ – Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 136. Mr. ’06. 1010w.
Wilson, Alice. Actaeon’s defense and other poems. $1. Badger, R: G.
Half a hundred nature poems, love sonnets and lyrics.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ – Dial. 41: 208. O. 1, ’06. 200w.
Wilson, Rev. C. T. Peasant life in the Holy Land. *$3.50. Putnam.
“Peasant life in Palestine was cast in stereotype plates centuries ago, long before the Christian era, and the present life is printed from the old plates. Therefore to see how peasants live and what they think and feel now is to understand how they lived and what they thought in the time of Christ, not to say in the time of Abraham. That fact gives to a portrait of modern life by one who has been a long-time resident of the Holy Land value as well as interest.”—Outlook.
“It is only when he quits his own subject to indulge in speculations or a general view that he stumbles.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 449. Ap. 14. 400w.
“This interesting book is not so much, as the author claims, a contribution to the folklore of Palestine, altho some stories are given, as a description of the peasant life.”
+ – Ind. 61: 941. O. 18, ’06. 200w.
“It gives a picture of the better side of peasant life, and incidentally is of considerable value to the student of Oriental and Biblical archaeology, folklore, and religion.”
+ + Nation. 83: 129. Ag. 9, ’06. 640w.
“The value of the book lies in a wealth of detail about the daily lives of the fellahin. This sharp definition of detail lends a special worth to Mr. Wilson’s work.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 649. O. 6, ’06. 940w.
“It contains not a great deal which will be fresh to one who is familiar with Dr. Thomson’s ‘Land and the book’ or Professor Curtiss’s ‘Primitive Semitic religion to-day.’”
+ – Outlook. 83: 482. Je. 23, ’06. 160w. + Sat. R. 102: 211. Ag. 18, ’06. 810w.
“Mr. Wilson’s book is full of interesting details about Palestinian life. He has extended his observations to natural objects, and has much that is curious to tell us.”
+ Spec. 96: 588. Ap. 14, ’06. 290w.
Wilson, Calvin Dill. Making the most of ourselves. **$1. McClurg.
“For young men and women who are at a groping and impressionable age and who have not had ‘advantages,’ this book ought to be of far greater value than most of its kind.”
+ Critic. 48: 569. Je. ’06. 60w.
Wilson, Floyd Baker. Through silence to realization; or, The human awakening. $1. Fenno.
Self-mastery is the keynote of this volume. Practical suggestions for the achievement of it along metaphysical lines are made by one who has proved that “thoughts are things,” and as entities can be implanted into consciousness and vitalized there.
Wilson, Francis. Joseph Jefferson. **$2. Scribner.
A sketch of Mr. Jefferson by a close friend and fellow actor which pictures “what will be of inestimable value to future generations of playgoers—the personality of Joseph Jefferson.” (Ind.) “New light is thrown on the best qualities of Jefferson, his amiability, his genial humor, his sound artistry. The illustrations include reproductions of photographs of the actors, and some of Jefferson’s paintings.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Those who knew Mr. Jefferson personally and those who knew him only on the stage will be sorry to see him so belittled by an account which, meaning to exalt, succeeds only in debasing.”
– Acad. 71: 370. O. 13, ’06. 380w.
Reviewed by Louise Closser Hale.
+ + Bookm. 23: 532. Jl. ’06. 930w. + + Critic. 48: 570. Je. ’06. 410w.
“A pleasing and worthy portrait.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + Dial. 40: 316. My. 16, ’06. 1770w.
“His analysis of many of the elements of Jefferson’s success—as in “Rip Van Winkle”—is a good one, and the chief impressions are agreeable.” Wm. T. Brewster.
+ + Forum. 38: 96. Jl. ’06. 770w. + + Ind. 60: 987. Ap. 26, ’06. 560w.
“There are few such nuggets in the book, and they can be found only by sifting a vast amount of rubbish.”
– + Nation. 82: 516. Je. 21, ’06. 1160w.
“The sketches of personalities are intimate and charmingly done.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 244. Ap. 14, ’06. 170w. N. Y. Times. 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.
“A book as true to nature as it is entertaining.”
+ + Outlook. 83: 92. My. 12, ’06. 280w.
“Mr. Wilson has done a careful piece of work in bringing together his reminiscences, and there is none of the feeling that he is holding something back to use later on.”
+ + Pub. Opin. 40: 710. Je. 9, ’06. 930w.
“Is packed full of story, incident, and picturesque description.”
+ R. of Rs. 33: 766. Je. ’06. 210w.
Winchester, Caleb Thomas. Life of John Wesley. **$1.50. Macmillan.
Professor Winchester “points out that Wesley was the child of his age in his distrust of enthusiasm. He laid great stress upon an intelligent faith, and endeavored himself to be clear, candid, and logical. That he could have carried on his especial work within the Anglican church, had the bishops of his day held more statesmanlike ideas as to their duty is plain enough; in fact, he never abandoned that church nor did he desire his followers to do so. Yet the logic of events made the organization of a distinctive Methodist body inevitable.”—Critic.
Reviewed by H W. Boynton.
+ Atlan. 98: 278. Ag. ’06. 690w.
“He brings out the character and personality of the man better, on the whole, than any of Wesley’s previous biographers have done.”
+ + Critic. 48: 473. My. ’06. 150w.
“The last chapter on ‘John Wesley the man’ is an especially clear and satisfactory presentation of the great preacher’s mind and personality.”
+ + Dial. 41: 42. Jl. 16, ’06. 300w.
“It is written in excellent style, and is marked by thoroness of information, fairness of judgment, and that sanity and balance, which come only with extensive knowledge.”
+ + Ind. 60: 1162. My. 17, ’06. 440w.
“It is compact, bright, clear-sighted, a book in which an American writer seems to have achieved something of the lucidity, combined with accurate knowledge, of the best French work. There are a few slips here and there in it.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 247. Jl. 13, ’06. 1490w.
“This writer has given us, in brief space, probably the clearest view of his hero.”
+ + Nation. 82: 537. Je. 28, ’06. 940w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
“He writes in a style which is luminous without being rhetorical, warm without being emotional, and simple without being commonplace.”
+ + Outlook. 83: 625. Jl. 14, ’06. 1750w.
“Professor Winchester has dealt fairly with his subject, showing the dark as well as the light sides.”
+ + Pub. Opin. 40: 378. Mr. 24, ’06. 370w.
“Is not primarily a Methodist tribute to the founder of his church; it is the seasoned judgment of a man of literature and an historian of philosophic mind concerning a great divine.”
+ + R. of Rs. 33: 507. Ap. ’06. 140w.
“He is neither a worshipper nor an iconoclast.”
+ Spec. 96: 718: My. 5, ’06. 160w. + World To-Day. 11: 764. Jl. ’06. 160w.
Winslow, Helen Maria. Woman of tomorrow. *$1. Pott.
“The author points out the weak spots in the woman of to-day, and tells her what to do in order to become a more able woman of to-morrow.”—N. Y. Times.
“The writer has made no attempt, in these discreet articles, to treat her subject profoundly or from an original point of view.”
+ – Critic. 47: 573. D. ’05. 120w. + – N. Y. Times. 11: 3. Ja. 6, ’06. 540w.
Winter, Alice Ames. [Jewel weed.] †$1.50. Bobbs.
In the foreground of this story with a middle west setting is a quartette of young people composed of Dick Percival of substantial family connections, his college friend Ellery Norris who is striving to make good his heralded efficiency, Madeline Elton, a finely bred young woman, and Lena Quincy whose gilded vulgarity finds fit expression in the jewel weed. The “jewel weed” becomes Dick’s protege, later his wife, and as such a foreign element in the refined atmosphere of his mother’s home. In contrast to her selfishness which menaces her husband’s social, financial and political career is the fine loyalty of Madeline, which champions everybody’s cause—Ellery Norris more than all others.
“Though not a great novel, this is an excellent love-story written in a bright and pleasing style and very rich in human interest. More than this, it is for the most part true to the life it depicts.”
+ Arena. 36: 687. D. ’05. 300w.
Wise, John Sergeant. Recollections of thirteen presidents. **$2.50. Doubleday.
From the political atmosphere surrounding him in boyhood, the author absorbed the personalities of the presidents of his father’s day, Tyler, Pierce and Buchanan; and of the men following down to the present day he is able to write out of the fulness of his intimate knowledge of them. The author is a Southerner, fought with the confederacy, and does not neglect to make prominent the just position from which to view the work of Jefferson Davis.
+ Am. Hist. R. 12: 210. O. ’06. 50w.
“The taste displayed is often a bit more questionable. and there are many signs of hasty and ill-considered writing. It can, however, never be called a dull book, or one lacking in a fine sense of patriotism.”
+ – Dial. 41: 117. S. 1, ’06. 780w.
“Some wonderfully fresh and striking pen portraits.”
+ Lit. D. 32: 983. Je. 30, ’06. 1180w.
“The book is confessedly partisan rather than judicial in its tone. It is an interesting series of political sketches from a personal point of view, and the intelligent reader will have no trouble in recognizing the point of view and making all necessary allowances. We have noticed few slips of fact.”
+ – Nation. 83: 103. Ag. 2, ’06. 1020w.
“His estimates of the public men he discusses in his book are to a rather remarkable degree free from partisan, even though not always from personal bias. They are both interesting and entertaining.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 333. My. 26, ’06. 1250w.
“His estimates of these historical characters, expressed with the utmost frankness and evident sincerity, make ‘readable footnotes to history.’”
+ R. of Rs. 33: 764. Je. ’06. 250w.
Wise, John Sergeant. Treatise on American citizenship. $3. Thompson.
A book dealing with the primary rights, duties, and privileges of the American citizen and analyzing the peculiar dual system—federal and state—under which he lives. There are seven parts to the treatise: Of citizenship generally; How American citizenship may be acquired; Of the obligations and duties of the citizens to the nation and the state; Of the rights, privileges and immunities of the citizen; Privileges and immunities under the war amendments; Of the protection of citizens abroad; Of expatriation, aliens and who may not become citizens.
“While Mr. Wise has given us here a useful and valuable work, it must be said that it leaves much to be desired and that there is still room for a comprehensive text on the law of citizenship.” Frank Hamsher.
+ – Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 356. S. ’06. 670w.
“As a popular summary of the more important features of our system, the book will be found useful. It is marked by great fairness and freedom from bias of any kind.”
+ + Nation. 82: 451. My. 31, ’06. 310w.
“It is a very useful book, showing a great deal of patient industry, and a clear and sound judgment in dealing with authorities.” Edward Cary.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 93. F. 17, ’06. 1150w.
“He has made no use of treaty stipulations, diplomatic correspondence, rulings of the Department of state or decisions of arbitration commissions. He does not seem to have examined the excellent works of Van Dyne and Howard or the less valuable ones of Morse and Webster, from all of which he could have gained useful information both as to the law of citizenship and methods of treatment. Notwithstanding all that has been said above in criticism of Mr. Wise’s book as a treatise on the law of citizenship, it is a useful and interesting work. To the idea of state citizenship he makes a distinct contribution and his discussion of civil rights under the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments contains many original and valuable suggestions.” James Wilford Garner.
+ – Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 558. S. ’06. 1300w.
Wishart, Alfred Wesley. Primary facts in religious thought. *75c. Univ. of Chicago press.
“Dr. Wishart is a careful reasoner and the volume, on the whole, is an admirable work of the kind. As is so frequently the case in didactic theological works, however, the author, it seems to us, sometimes presumes too much, and therefore his premises are open to criticism.”
+ – Arena. 36: 440. O. ’06. 860w. + Bib. World. 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 50w.
Wister, Owen. [Lady Baltimore.] †$1.50. Macmillan.
This story might be called the “Love affairs of a bachelor” in the objective sense of Lilian Bell’s “Love affairs of an old maid.” For the hero finds real life and other people’s matrimonial projects more fascinating than musty genealogical records that sufficiently searched will prove the blood of kings in his veins and admit him to the “Selected salic scions.” The setting is typically Southern and among the characters are a charming dispenser of cakes at a Woman’s exchange, a young man whose approaching marriage to a brilliant siren furnishes cause for a vast expenditure of the hero’s quixotic chivalry, and numerous old ladies of King’s Port. It would divulge too much of the whimsically clever story to reveal the meaning of so high sounding a title as “Lady Baltimore.”
“The story is one of love, prettily conceived and executed, but it is, perhaps, a little longwinded and slow of development.”
+ – Ath. 1906. 1: 603. My. 19. 280w.
“But it is not merely for its adherence to an academic formula that ‘Lady Baltimore’ is to be praised. It is good to read because of its characterisation, its geniality and its ideas.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ + – Bookm. 23: 296. My. ’06. 1180w. + Critic. 48: 509. Je. ’06. 980w.
“Like Mr. Owen Wister’s other fiction, is defective on the side of construction, but the defect is atoned for by the author’s powers of characterization and his narrative charm.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – Dial. 40: 365. Je. 1, ’06. 410w.
“It is doubtful if any other author has so accurately touched the keynote of the real South, or contrasted it so shrewdly with that of the North.”
+ + + Ind. 60: 1159. My. 17, ’06. 950w.
“He has given us the most courteous, intelligent and veracious interpretation of Southern life ever published without losing a single man by violence out of the tale.”
+ + Ind. 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 50w.
“Mr. Wister brings to this new environment all the fine play and parry of style, all the insight, all the certainty of coloring, that carried the West before his compelling pen.”
+ + Lit. D. 33: 158. Ag. 4, ’06. 420w. + + Lit. D. 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
“‘The Virginian’ can no longer be held to be the work of an impassioned tiro by any one who observes how in ‘Lady Baltimore’ the story is informed by the idea, how light and delicate the humour is for all the urgency of the pleading, how fragrant is that atmosphere of lavender which the whole story breathes.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 142. Ap. 20, ’06. 530w.
“Is marked by all the author’s cleverness and power of observation. What Mr. Wister has written might be called extravaganza with a purpose.”
+ Nation. 82: 390. My. 10, ’06. 430w.
“The attraction of the book is in its hitting off things and people in little illuminating phrases which flash this and that characteristic home to you.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 254. Ap. 21, ’06. 680w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 250w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ + – North American. 182: 928. Je. ’06. 100w.
“It is a true American novel in subject, spirit, and atmosphere.”
+ + + Outlook. 83: 111. My. 19, ’06. 1490w. + + Outlook. 84: 707. N. 24, ’06. 100w.
“There is little success in striking the deeper chords that might be set vibrating by a stronger hand and one less preoccupied with its own rather capable cleverness and its stylistic ingenuity.”
+ – Pub. Opin. 40: 572. My. 5, ’06. 710w. + + R. of Rs. 33: 756. Je. ’06. 70w.
“Owen Wister displays as before the delicacy of touch, the clear precise treatment of ideas, the felicity and grace of expression which make his writing distinguished and admirable, but his material is this time too scanty, and his dissertations seem tedious and complicated to the point of mystification.”
+ – Sat. R. 101: 794. Je. 23, ’06. 250w.
“Is a many-sided book, in which plot and incident, ingenious though they are, are of subsidiary importance, and serve the ulterior purpose of enabling the writer to liberate his mind on a number of burning questions. His satire is inspired not by malice, but by a genuine desire of reform.”
+ + Spec. 96: 675. Ap. 28, ’06. 820w.
Witt, Robert Clermont. How to look at pictures. **$1.40. Putnam.
America finds this book published five years ago in England of such value that it deems it worth while to reprint it even tho there have appeared a number of works akin to it—books whose purpose is identical with it, viz. to direct laymen how to judge first class works of art, “Mr Witt speaks of the personal point of view, the point of view of the subject the picture represents, that of the artist, how to look at a portrait, a historical painting, a colored picture, a genre painting, a landscape and a drawing; how to note the light and shade in a painting, the composition of the picture, the treatment of the subject by the artist, and the methods and materials of a painter.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Several helpful books dealing with the general subject of looking at pictures have been published within the last year, but none of these has the breadth or scope of this admirable book by Mr Witt.”
+ + Critic. 49: 90. Jl. ’06. 180w. + Dial. 41: 120. S. 1, ’06. 310w. + Ind. 61: 518. Ag. 30, ’06. 270w. Lit. D. 32: 832. Je. 2, ’06. 1120w.
“Its contents are marked by tranquil common sense. There is nothing in it which is not true, and nothing, perhaps, which may not still be novel to some part of the great public.”
+ + Nation. 82: 468. Je. 7, ’06. 100w. N. Y. Times. 11: 376. Je. 9, ’06. 440w. + Outlook. 83: 671. Jl. 21, ’06. 80w.
Wolfenstein, Martha. Renegade, and other tales. $1.25. Jewish pub.
“‘A renegade’ presents to us a number of Gentile sinners and Jewish saints in the setting of far-away Bohemia.” (Nation.) This story “is tragical, of course, and there are ten others. The prevailing atmospheric effect is gray, a dull sad gray, and there is always a sense of what may be called the joy of suffering, a sort of reveling in the luxury of woe.” (N. Y. Times.)
“We need not quarrel with the characterization if the stories were only interesting; but they are not.”
– Nation. 82: 182. Mr. 1, ’06. 110w.
“Many of them show a considerable dramatic power.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 113. F. 24, ’06. 430w.
“Full of local color, race peculiarities treated with knowledge and skill, and withal broad human sympathy and delicate humor.”
+ Outlook. 81: 1087. D. 30, ’05. 70w.
Wood, Eugene. [Back home.] †$1.50. McClure.
“The book itself is very like an apple: juicy, ripe and red with garnered sunshine. It is altogether wholesome and sweet to the core.”
+ Ind. 59: 1345. D. 7, ’05. 230w.
Wood, Henry. Life more abundant: scriptural truth in modern application. **$1.20. Lothrop.
“It is an important contribution to the constructive religious thought of the day.”
+ + Arena. 35: 100. Ja. ’06. 370w.
Wood, Theodore. Natural history for young people. $2.50. Dutton.
A survey of the animal world so copiously and realistically illustrated that it furnishes “zoological garden in a book.” “The writer has given a few original observations. Beyond a general classification, he has not attempted scientific methods of treatment. He has selected, from the various groups, the most interesting species, and has written about them with much entertaining detail.” (Nation.)
“On account of its sumptuous format, is for the library rather than for field and forest.”
+ Ind. 59: 1390. D. 14, ’05. 30w. + Nation. 81: 503. D. 21, ’05. 60w. + N. Y. Times. 10: 761. N. 11, ’05. 60w.
“The text is written simply and clearly and is kept free from super-scientific terminology. Decidedly a commendable work.”
+ Outlook. 81: 683. N. 18, ’06. 50w.
Wood, Walter Birbeck, and Edmonds, James Edward. History of the Civil war in the United States, 1861–1865. *$3.50. Putnam.
“There is no lack of intelligent comprehension of the events described, and the presentment is simple and direct. Though one may here and there find fault with the work of Messrs. Wood and Edmonds, the book is nevertheless a good military account of our Civil war—impartial, painstaking, intelligent.” J. K. Hosmer.
+ + – Am. Hist. R. 11: 699. Ap. ’06. 1060w.
“It is a useful condensation of the best military histories and is illuminated by much judicious comment.”
+ Dial. 40: 264. Ap. 16, ’06. 550w.
“It is characterized by understanding, by impartial attitude and by thoroness of treatment.”
+ + Ind. 60: 341. F. 8, ’06. 260w.
“It is readily admitted that for succinctness of statement, for saneness of judgment, for fairness of conclusion there is scarce a volume anywhere in all our war literature which equals this one.” William E. Dodd.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 34. Ja. 20, ’06. 1670w. R. of Rs. 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 90w.
Wood, William. Fight for Canada; a sketch from the history of the great Imperial war. *$2.50. Little.
This history of England’s fight for Canada has been prepared in the light of recently discovered sources of original information and has been treated from a point of view both naval and military. Chapters are devoted to: Pitt’s imperial war; New France and New England; Vandreuil and Bigot; Montcalm; Anson and Saunders; Wolfe; The siege of Quebec; The Battle of the plains; The fall of Quebec; and The fall of New France. The text is both scholarly and interesting, the notes, bibliography, and index are full and satisfactory, and there are portraits and colored maps.
“Mr Wood has not Mr. Parkman’s command of resonant prose, but in simple language details the events hour by hour, describing the character of the ground as one familiar with every foot of it, and the movements of the men of each side as if at a review.” James Bain.
+ + – Am. Hist. R. 10: 398. Ja. ’05. 660w. + Nation. 82: 260. Mr. 29, ’06. 80w.
“An interesting and praiseworthy book.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 248. Ap. 14, ’06. 280w. + + Outlook. 82: 807. Ap. 7, ’06. 140w. R. of Rs. 33: 764. Je. ’06. 50w. Sat. R. 99: 814. Je. 17, ’05. 70w.
Woodberry, George Edward. Swinburne. **75c. McClure.
A recent volume in the “Contemporary men of letters series.” The sketch is not a biography but “a subtle and subjective study not so much of Swinburne’s poetry as of his poetic impulses.” (Nation.)
Critic. 48: 459. My. ’06. 320w. + + Nation. 82: 58. Ja. 18, ’06. 1080w.
“The book is important not so much because of the accident of its being perhaps the first on the subject to be published in this country as because of an uncommon qualification of the author for his task. It is true that he has broad perspective and intimate knowledge, but of greater significance is the affinity of spirit between the poet and his critic.” Lewis N. Chase.
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 889. D. 16, ’05. 2110w. R. of Rs. 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 30w.
Woodberry, George Edward. Torch: eight lectures on race power in literature, delivered before the Lowell institute of Boston. **$1.20. McClure.
Thru “The torch” “one increasing purpose runs. This purpose is the thought that there is a race-mind which slowly, unfalteringly, grandly, approaches through the centuries its final summation (if finality in this connection be conceivable) through a variety of channels, but chiefly through the treasure-stores of great literature.” (Reader.) “The work of the race-mind in literature, as it seems to Mr. Woodberry’s optimistic idealism, is not so much mere self-expression as self-conquest, liberation, racial euthanasia.” (Nation.) The title of the lectures are: Man and the race, The language of all the world, The Titan myth, Spenser, Milton, Wordsworth and Shelley.
“There is no question of the author’s sincerity, and if but as a narrative of personal faith, the book possesses both charm and force.” H. B. Alexander.
+ Bookm. 23: 194. Ap. ’06. 1410w.
“Mr. Woodberry has possibly read into the poets, ancient and modern, more than they intended to say. In dealing with the four ... he shows his finely critical sense, although some of his dicta are open to disagreement.” Edward Fuller.
+ – Critic. 48: 212. Mr. ’06. 620w.
“The high note of idealism thus sounded at the outset is maintained to the last.”
+ Dial. 40: 236. Ap. 1, ’06. 350w.
“Our author’s thought is less convincing in the retrospect than in the reading. It is clear that his choice of typical literature has been very strictly selective, and (though there is much admirable criticism by the way) poetically rather than critically selective. No writer in recent years has presented the cause of the Platonist with greater eloquence and devotion, or has made a more telling synthesis of old poetry and new science.”
+ – Nation. 81: 365. N. 2, ’05. 1220w.
“When Prof. Woodberry leaves the field of theory, or, rather, when he imports into that field specific appreciation and criticism, he is often extremely instructive, and what is more important if he will pardon us for saying so, he is stimulating, satisfying, and quite delightful. It is a pleasure to acknowledge the sincerity, the pure-mindedness, the whole-hearted love of the best that shine in Prof. Woodberry’s pages.” E. C.
+ – N. Y. Times. 10: 721. O. 25, ’05. 640w.
“The philosophy of these lectures—a product of the author’s studies in comparative literature—is profound, and in one aspect, despairing, since it is vitally and essentially sacrificial, and the very death-warrant to all personal egoism.”
+ Reader. 7: 225, Ja. ’06. 680w.
Woodhull, Alfred Alexander. Personal hygiene; designed for undergraduates. *$1. Wiley.
This treatise “embodies in the first place a short but practical and sufficient account of the anatomy and physiology of the different organs and functions of the body, and then considers one by one, the reasons that should guide us in exercise, in food, in bathing, in our choice of clothing, and in reference to stimulants and narcotics.”—Nation.
“On the whole, the book is admirable.”
+ Engin. N. 55: 560. My. 17, ’06. 130w. + Nation. 82: 280. Ap. 5. ’06. 130w. + + Nature. 74: 78. My. 24, ’06. 460w.
“We think that its wide circulation would be a good thing for all concerned.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 228. Ap. 7, ’06. 170w. + R. of Rs. 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 70w.
Woodruff, Anna Helena. Pond in the marshy meadow. $1.50. Saalfield.
A book to open the eyes of children. An “ordinary pond in an ordinary field, belonging to an ordinary farmer” furnishes the objects for lessons of observation and the author is guide and teacher.
“A book with plenty of entertainment in it and considerable instruction put so pleasantly as to be entertaining too.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 140w.
“Has the indefinable touch which will commend it to the minds of children, but the little folks to whom it is dedicated will have to share their pleasure with every one who can remember brooks and pasture-lands, and all the sweet, lazy experiences of childhood in the country.”
+ Outlook. 84: 532. O. 27, ’06. 210w.
Woods, David Walker, jr. John Witherspoon. **$1.50. Revell.
The great-grandson of John Witherspoon has written the first story of that able Scotsman, Presbyterian and American ever published, in which is given a full account of the part he played in the struggle for popular rights in the Church of Scotland, his administration as president of Princeton college, his work in the organization of the American Presbyterian church, and as an active man in the conduct of the revolution and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
+ Am. Hist. R. 12: 209. O. ’06. 60w.
“A biography which will appeal to Princeton men and to students of church history, as well as to those interested in the Revolutionary period of our national life.”
+ + – Dial. 41: 70. Ag. 1, ’06. 380w.
“Dr. Witherspoon’s career does not lend itself to lively narrative, and Mr. Woods is a dull biographer at best.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 482. Ag. 4, ’06. 550w. + Outlook. 82: 908. Ap. 21, ’06. 190w. R. of Rs. 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 80w.
Woods, Frederick Adams. Mental and moral heredity in royalty: a statistical study in history and psychology. **$3. Holt.
A scientific inquiry into the characteristics of royalty based upon a large and well chosen bibliography to which detailed references are given. The study of 832 characters forms the main body of the work, altho 3,312 distinct persons are mentioned. The members of the ruling families of England, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Italy, Russia, Denmark, and Sweden are considered, each individual being graded mentally and morally according to a standard of 1 to 10, the period covered extending in general back to the 16th century. The object of the work is to give a fair estimate of the mental and moral status of royalty as compared with the world in general, and to throw light upon the old question of relative importance of environment and heredity. 104 portraits illustrate the text.
“The author has done his work with skill and good judgment and his book will be specially profitable for reproof and instruction to political doctrinaires of every school.”
+ + Am. Hist. R. 12: 110. O. ’06. 800w.
“In arrangement and presentation the author has been very successful.”
+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 180. Jl. ’06. 380w.
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
Atlan. 98: 423. S. ’06. 450w.
“It would be easy to show the flaws in his system by which such extreme conclusions as his would be weakened.”
+ – Critic. 48: 480. My. ’06. 290w.
“Dr. Woods rarely goes much beyond the statistical warrant of his evidence, and has at all events presented his case more strongly and more judicially, as well as scientifically, than any other contribution to this particular problem.”
+ + – Dial. 40: 299. My. 1, ’06. 430w.
“There will be certain objections made by specialists to both the methods of measurement and the inferences of Dr. Woods. But every one should admire his zeal and fairmindedness and appreciate the importance of the investigation.”
+ + – Ind. 60: 1103. My. 10, ’06. 580w.
“The choice of materials is singularly fortunate, and the method of treatment as far as possible fair and impersonal.”
+ + Nation. 82: 308. Ap. 12. ’06. 1240w.
“The book would be the better for a good index.” I.
+ + – Nature. 74: 97. My. 31, ’06. 1230w.
“The volume is well planned and well worked out.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 143. Mr. 10, ’06. 840w.
“Is a work of the first class in its department of research.”
+ + Outlook. 82: 763. Mr. 31, ’06. 340w. Pub. Opin. 40: 480. Ap. 14, ’06. 80w.
“Dr. Woods’s work is an important contribution to psychology and a most admirable lesson to show that history may become a natural science.” Edward L. Thorndike.
+ + Science, n.s. 23: 693. My. 4, ’06. 840w.
“Dr. Woods cannot be said to have produced a very readable book. The pageant of Regality is lost in mathematical formulae, in ‘grading by intellect’, and ‘in grading by virtue.’”
+ – Spec. 97: sup. 652. N. 3, ’06. 2170w.
Woods, Margaret Louisa. King’s revoke: an episode in the life of Patrick Dillon. †$1.50. Dutton.
“Patrick Dillon, Irishman as he was, served the King of Spain de jure during the usurpation of Joseph Bonaparte. Dillon, in combination with others and with the co-operation of England, designed to rescue Ferdinand VII. from his prison in Valencay, and this is the story of their failure. They failed because of the incredible cowardice of the King, who to curry favor with Napoleon, denounced his own partisans.... The story abounds with episode, and is a very taking piece of intrigue and adventure.”—Ath.
“Mrs. Woods has evidently taken the greatest pains to draw a true picture of Ferdinand, the last of those old-world Spanish monarchs.”
+ Acad. 69: 1229. N. 25, ’05. 510w.
“It is, for all that, a sound, painstaking piece of work, deserving of high praise.”
+ Ath. 1905. 2: 793. D. 9. 320w.
“We expect work of very high character from Mrs. Margaret Woods, and ‘The king’s revoke’ does not disappoint us.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 41: 241. O. 16, ’06. 280w. + – Lond. Times. 4: 407. N. 24, ’05. 350w.
“If the narrative paragraphs move ponderously, honorable amends are made in the ingenious conversation.”
+ Nation. 83: 188. Ag. 30, ’06. 240w.
“She has written a well-considered, carefully wrought novel, but alas, it is undeniably heavy, and among its many good features intrudes the unalluring one of skipability.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 471. Jl. 28. ’06. 190w.
“The theme strikes us as of too rough-and-tumble a character for Mrs. Woods’ delicate talent. The workmanship is skilful, but smugglers, brigands, and the like are a little beyond her control, though the several women of the drama are excellent. As a novel of incident, ‘The king’s revoke’ falls below ‘Sons of the sword.’”
+ – Sat. R. 101: 22. Ja. 6, ’06. 220w.
“In spite, therefore, of sundry misprints and a frequently faulty punctuation, the book is a delight to read for the charm of its characterisation, for its fine historic sense of the glory and weakness of Spain, and for a genuine distinction of style unsurpassed by contemporary writers of this class of fiction.”
+ Spec. 95: 1129. D. 30, ’05. 630w.
Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey (Susan Coolidge, pseud.). [Last verses]; with an introd. by her sister, Mrs. Daniel C. Gilman. *$1. Little.
Mrs. Gilman has collected her sister’s poems which had not appeared in book form and has added some hitherto unpublished in magazines, prefacing the volume with a short sketch of Susan Coolidge’s life and literary work. It is uniform with “Verses” and “More Verses” by the same author.
“The easily-won, temperamental optimism, the gentle if somewhat thin piety, which marked the poetic work of Susan Coolidge and won many readers, is the most notable trait in her ‘Last verses.’”
+ Nation. 83: 395. N. 8, ’06. 300w.
Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey (Susan Coolidge, pseud.). Sheaf of stories; il. by J. W. F. Kennedy. †$1.25. Little.
The author who delighted the children of the past generation with her “What Katy did,” “What Katy did at school” and other stories, offers here twelve sketches of child character which teach happy, wholesome, livable lessons.
“Full of the habitual good sense and good English of that lamented writer.”
+ Nation. 83: 514. D. 13, ’08. 20w. + Outlook. 84: 533. O. 27, ’06. 50w.
Woolson, Grace A. Ferns and how to grow them. **$1. Doubleday.
The second volume in the “Garden Library.” It is a practical cultural guide to fern-growing with a definite botanical atmosphere.
+ + – Ind. 60: 575. Mr. 8, ’06. 230w.
“The volume is practical without being dull.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 406. Je. 23, ’06. 430w.
Wordsworth, William. Literary criticism; ed. with an introd. by Nowell C. Smith. *90c. Oxford.
A volume which “contains all of his prose writings of a critical nature, his prefaces, his essays upon epitaphs, certain familiar letters touching on literary matters, and his ‘opinions expressed in conversation with his nephew and biographer.’” (Nation.)
+ Acad. 70: 29. Ja. 15, ’06. 1570w.
“Admirably lucid introduction.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 326. Mr. 17. 570w. Lond. Times. 5: 110. Mr. 30, ’06. 900w.
“The selections are interesting, as showing a subtlety as well as a shrewdness of critical faculty. Read consecutively, they convey a peculiar impression of independence, fresh air, and wholesomeness.”
+ Nation. 82: 74. Ja. 25, ’06. 80w.
“Of the two dozen pieces of which the volume is made up there is not one that is not worth reading by interested students of the subject, which, in various phases, is always essentially the same—that of literary and specifically of poetical criticism, and no other readers are likely to be attracted by the volume.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 29. Ja. 20, ’06. 670w.
“Mr. Nowell Smith has collected from the prefaces and appendices to Wordsworth’s poems a good deal of interesting critical matter.”
+ Sat. R. 100: 852. D. 30, ’05. 200w.
Wordsworth, William. Poems and extracts; chosen by W. Wordsworth for an album presented to Lady Mary Lowther. Christmas, 1819; printed literally from the original album with facsimiles. *90c. Oxford.
The contributors to this album are Anne, Countess of Winchelsea, and about twenty-three other poets ranging from Webster to William Mickle, and from Shakespeare to Lætitia Pilkington.
“Lovers of Wordsworth all the world over must be grateful to Mr. John Rogers Rees for his generosity in sharing with them this long-hidden treasure, and to Prof. Littledale for enriching the gift with his scholarly introduction and accurate notes.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 1: 325. Mr. 17, 990w.
“Diverse as the sources are, the poems are homogeneous in a certain intensity of moral inspiration: and in their choice and arrangement a very sensitive taste is displayed.”
– Nation. 82: 74. Ja. 25, ’06. 120w.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
– N. Y. Times. 11: 29. Ja. 20, ’06. 510w.
Wright, Carroll Davidson. Battles of labor: being the William Levi Bull lectures for the year 1906. **$1. Jacobs.
Four lectures which show that industrial, social and political problems can be met only with a new application of religion, a new political economy “which looks first ‘to the care and culture of men,’” and with Drummond’s “other selfishness.” The lectures are The background, In mediæval and modern industry, Great modern battles, and How modern battles of labor are treated.
“Interesting and well worth reading.”
+ + Engin. N. 55: 675. Je. 14, ’06. 180w.
“The chief merit of these four lectures is that accuracy, especially in statistical presentation, which Mr. Wright always attains. But they contain nothing new either in fact or philosophy.”
+ Ind. 51: 758. S. 27, ’06. 330w.
“‘Battles of labor’ gives evidence, not of scientific research extended, but rather of fulness of experience, reminiscence, and common knowledge regarding labor troubles of all times.” J. C.
+ J. Pol. Econ. 14: 577. N. ’06. 360w.
“The style of the book is colloquial, for reasons sufficiently indicated above, and it conveys not a little information to the credit of the recent generations which have ameliorated the condition of labor.” Edward A. Bradford.
– N. Y. Times. 11: 505. Ag. 18, ’06. 1120w. + + – Outlook. 84: 89. S. 8, ’06. 480w. – R. of Rs. 34: 383. S. ’06. 90w.
Wright, Mabel Osgood. (Mrs. James Osborne Wright) (Barbara, pseud.). [The Garden, you and I.] †$1.50. Macmillan.
The reappearance of some of the most delightful members of Mrs. Wright’s gardening fraternity gives an old-friend atmosphere to her new book. The story is mainly in the form of letters. “The purpose of the correspondence is to afford opportunity for the experienced Barbara to give of her more abundant knowledge to Mary Penrose, who with her husband is having a ‘garden vacation,’ camping in an old open barn in their own grounds.... A thread of romance runs through the letters, and the same spirit of sympathy with nature that has informed the writer’s other volumes is evident in the present one. For the sake of the garden-lover who reads to learn, it should be said that there are several excellent and suggestive lists of perennials, annuals, and roses, with explanatory notes: but there is no index.” (Dial.)
“A book from Mrs. Wright’s pen is always welcome, for her really reliable information about gardens is sure to be interwoven with the thread of a story which, however slight, has both interest and charm.” Mary K. Ford.
+ + Bookm. 23: 631. Ag. ’06. 770w.
“Somewhat is lacking of the freshness and spontaneity of Barbara’s first appearance.”
+ – Dial. 41: 70. Ag. 1, ’06. 500w. + Ind. 60: 1379. Je. 7, ’06. 100w.
“Her book is an intensely practical one.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 357. S. 15, ’06. 260w. + + N. Y. Times. 11: 389. Je. 16, ’06. 1770w. + Putnam’s. 1: 110. O. ’06. 340w.
“Those who read Barbara’s earlier book and perhaps wished for more specific guidance on many subjects should not fall to consult this new and attractive epitome of garden knowledge.”
+ R. of Rs. 34: 127. Jl. ’06. 90w.
“We have also quiet humor in the way of putting things, and some pleasant sketches of character.”
+ Sat. R. 102: 337. S. 15, ’06. 210w. + Spec. 97: 99. Jl. 21, ’06. 70w.
Wright, Mary Tappan (Mrs. John Henry Wright). Tower: a novel. †$1.50. Scribner.
In her story of the faculty side of college life, Mrs. Wright presents a “masterful president and bishop, several young professors, a few pathetically overworked and underpaid old ones with their wives, children and personal friends.” (Ind.) Eighteen years separate Silvia Langdon, the bishop’s daughter and her lover who parted without pledging of vows. Upon his return to the faculty temporarily he finds her “young and fascinating” at thirty-eight. There is a pathetic side to the renewed love-making which, however, ends triumphantly.
“There is obvious merit in ‘The tower’, but its plot is extremely slight, and lacks movement and interest.”
+ – Ath. 1906. 1: 695. Je. 9. 130w.
“In these final pages Mrs. Wright has cleared herself of the charge of being incapable of creating real human beings.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ – Bookm. 23: 628. Ag. ’06. 1080w.
“There is plenty of clever characterization in the book, and the people are sufficiently differentiated to be interesting. They invariably talk well.”
+ Ind. 60: 1223. My. 24. ’06. 390w.
“The author has somewhat of the insight and delicacy of touch that might have turned out a bit of Cranford-like description of the dullness and narrowness of faculty life in a small college town; but the many pages of uninteresting detail and conversation rob the book of real charm.”
– + N. Y. Times. 11: 286. My. 5, ’06. 500w.
“If the characters were only a little more real and the motives for their action a little more obvious, the book would be something to be reckoned with.”
– World To-Day. 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 110w.
Wright, Thomas. [Life of Sir Richard Burton.] 2v. *$6.50. Putnam.
“The life of Sir Richard Burton leaves the reader in a kind of a stupor; the record is almost incredibly romantic. He was a soldier, a traveler, an explorer, a linguist, an anthropologist an ethnologist, an official. His published works extend to over a hundred volumes. He was a kind of amiable demon; he was a born romancer and boaster, a superstitious atheist; he thanked God that he had committed every sin in the Decalogue, and there seems to be little reason to doubt it; yet he was tender-hearted, loyal, a philanthropist, a devoted friend, a lover of liberty.... As for Mr. Thomas Wright’s book it does more credit to his industry than his literary skill. He has worked in the Boswellian manner, and has amassed a rich harvest of detail, anecdotes and gossip.”—Sat. R.
+ Acad. 70: 277. Mr. 24, ’06. 2290w. + Acad. 70: 303. Mr. 31, ’06. 1120w.
“Mr. Wright’s ideas of taste differ so widely from our own that we cannot view his work with pleasure.”
– Ath. 1906, 1: 420. Ap. 7. 210w. Current Literature. 41: 638. D. ’06. 860w.
“Self-confidence and self-praise, notwithstanding, the author has turned out a creditable piece of book-making.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + – Dial. 41: 29. Jl. 16, ’06. 1870w.
“He is so incredibly rude to Sir Richard and Lady Burton that one wonders why he should have concerned himself at all with persons of whom he has, in spite of intermittent adulation, so bad an opinion.”
– – Ind. 61: 98. Jl. 12, ’06. 880w.
“The most interesting and by far the best done part of the present ‘Life’ is concerned with Burton’s work as a translator.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 82. Mr. 9, ’06. 3090w.
“Of all the five preceding books about Burton, its only real rival is that of Mr. Wilkins, which dealt with Burton only indirectly.”
+ Nation. 83: 205. S. 6, ’06. 2380w.
“Mr. Wright has ... achieved an extremely well-balanced, candid, and fully detailed biography of Burton, just in its estimate alike of the man and his works and leaving us finally with a strong and vivid impression of that extraordinary character and a definite idea of his remarkable adventures.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 408. Je. 23, ’06. 2310w.
“The present biography, while everywhere interesting and certainly good, is assuredly not supremely good. The author writes well, in an easy, racy, idiomatic, and humorously allusive style, that makes the book extremely good reading.” Horatio S. Krans.
+ Outlook. 84: 84. S. 8, ’06. 2580w.
“Would be very useful to anyone who undertook to write a life of Burton; but there is no attempt at portraiture, and no artistic selection of material.”
+ – Sat. R. 101: 429. Ap. 7, ’06. 1690w.
“His manner is always that of the curiosity hunter, to whom Burton is primarily material for anecdotes.”
– + Spec. 96: 833. My. 26, ’06. 1520w.
Wright, William Burnet. Cities of Paul: beacons of the past rekindled for the present. **$1.10. Houghton.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
+ Atlan. 97: 414. Mr. ’06. 160w.
“The reader may learn something from Mr. Wright, who sees many things in the books which he studies—sometimes more than there really are—and has a way of putting them forcibly.”
+ – Spec. 96: 677. Ap. 28, ’06. 250w.
Wylie, Edna Edwards. Ward of the sewing-circle. †$1. Little.
“This is no book for grown-ups, who have lost the ability to get the child’s point of view, for herein lies its real charm.”
+ Ind. 59: 1541. D. 28, ’05. 350w.
Wyllie, William Lionel. J. M. W. Turner. $3. Macmillan.
“This volume is illustrated in tint and color, with reproductions of most of Turner’s well-known paintings. The author has tried, he says, to look at Turner’s life and work from a non-literary point of view, ‘as they appear to a fellow-painter traveling, however remotely, along the same road.’”—R. of Rs.
“An artist’s history of an artist’s life and work, which is interesting and informing on every page.”
+ Acad. 70: 617. Je. 30, ’06. 310w.
“Mr. Wyllie’s style is somewhat crude, and there may be even an occasional lapse in grammar, but he succeeds in sketching graphically the course of Turner’s artistic development.”
+ – Ind. 61: 817. O. 4, ’06. 280w.
“Marked throughout by the insight of true sympathy. The numerous illustrations form a very practical commentary on the fascinating text.”
+ + Int. Studio. 28: 277. My. ’06. 70w.
“The book as a whole is rambling, ill-constructed, and inconsequent.”
– Nation. 81: 500. D. 21, ’05. 210w.
“However sympathetic Mr. Wyllie’s attitude, he may well envy the literary man’s style.”
+ – Outlook. 82: 94. Ja. 13, ’06. 150w. R. of Rs. 33: 256. F. ’06. 70w.
Wyllie, William Lionel, and Wyllie, M. A. London to the Nore; painted and described by W. L. and M. A. Wyllie. *$6. Macmillan.
“The narrative seems to have been written for the most part ‘on the spot,’ and it is no injustice to say that it smells very little of the lamp. There is, of course, a considerable historical spice. After all the pictures are the thing.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 335. Mr. 17. 520w.