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Waddell, Laurence Austine. Lhasa and its mysteries: with a record of the expedition of 1903–1904. 3d ed. *$3. Dutton.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by H. E. Coblentz.
| + | Dial. 42: 43. Ja. 16, ’07. 460w. |
Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton. Building the nation: stories of how our fathers lived, and what they did to make our country a united one. †75c. Wilde.
7–26964.
The third volume in the “Uncle Sam’s old-time story” series. This portion of the history deals with the revolution and is a well taught lesson in American patriotism.
Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton. Ten Indian hunters: stories of famous Indian hunters. il. †$1. Wilde.
7–26965.
The fourth volume in Mrs. Wade’s Indian series tells of ten hunters who gained prowess among their several tribes for their cunning and ability to trap game. Aside from their successful efforts, daring adventure and marvelous skill, the stories picture the various tribes and their manner of living.
Wagner, Charles. My impressions of America; tr. from the French by Mary Louise Hendee. **$1. McClure.
6–33643.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Sweet-tempered and simple-minded little book.” James F. Muirhead.
| + | Atlan. 100: 558. O. ’07. 100w. | |
| + | Putnam’s. 1: 638. F. ’07. 330w. |
Wagner, (Wilhelm) Richard. Tannhauser; a dramatic poem freely translated in poetic narrative form by Oliver Huckel. **75c. Crowell.
6–32851.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Worthy of a place in any library where there is sufficient interest in musical drama.”
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 50. F. ’07. S. | ||
| + | Ind. 62: 498. F. 28, ’07. 150w. |
“Is a rather languid performance.”
| − | Nation. 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 30w. |
Walcott, Earle Ashley. [Apple of discord.] †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–31209.
A tale of San Francisco during the days of the “Sand-lot” riots and the attempted Chinese expulsion. There is a double love story running thru the stress and storm, the more unique of which concerns “Big Sam,” the king of Chinatown and little Moon Ying, the contested possession of two rival tongs.
“For those who find diversion in excitement, this story will furnish marked satisfaction.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 740. N. 16, ’07. 230w. |
Walford, Lucy Bethia. Enlightenment of Olivia. $1.50. Longmans.
7–31230.
The study of a female egotist. “The character of the heroine seems on the whole original, and is drawn with much humour. The Oxford professor who, unconsciously to himself, becomes the instrument of her reformation, can scarcely be taken seriously, and it seems to us that the author did not at first intend him for the monstrosity into which he developes. Olivia’s husband, on the other hand, is an admirable specimen of the middle-class British Philistine at his very best—manly, honorable, and chivalrous to the finger-tips, but alas! somewhat of a bore.” (Ath.)
“A book which at least will not offend through lack of taste or carelessness of style. There is never anything complex about either her plots or her characters, but she tells her tale simply in good plain English and, as a result, her books are eminently readable.”
| + | Acad. 73: 682. Jl. 13, ’07. 240w. | |
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 723. Je. 15. 120w. |
“Mrs. Walford’s tales are reminiscent of Mrs. Oliphant’s peaceful stories of English country life, calm and uneventful, but nevertheless full of pleasant interest and restful to a weary mind on a hot summer’s day.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 140w. |
“It is not art, and being artless no limit can be set anywhere to its mischief nor in England to its circulation.”
| − | Sat. R. 104: 21. Jl. 6, ’07. 480w. |
Walker, Alice Morehouse. Historic Hadley: a story of the making of a famous Massachusetts town. **$1. Grafton press.
6–30490.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The little book too, is accurate, never sacrificing the facts to readability or picturesqueness. Has value both literary and historic, and considerable narrative charm.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 110. Ja. 31, ’07. 550w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 756. N. 17, ’06. 250w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 110. Ja. ’07. 100w. |
Walker, Dawson. Gift of tongues and other essays. *$1.75. Scribner.
“A series of able and scholarly essays on certain New Testament problems; the speaking with tongues in the apostolic church, the legal phraseology in the Epistle to the Galatians, the visit to Jerusalem recorded in the second chapter of that epistle and its relation to the fifteenth chapter of the Acts, and the date of the Acts and the third gospel.”—Sat R.
“Though none of these essays makes any notable contribution to the subject, and the conclusions of the first and last are distinctly improbable, all are worthy of attention.”
| + − | Am. J. Theol. 11: 182. Ja. ’07. 170w. |
“The book will have little influence on the trend of opinion.” Wm. R. Shoemaker.
| − | Bib. World. 30: 76. Jl. ’07. 420w. |
“All would do well to read Dr. Walker’s essays; he arranges his facts well, writes clearly, and is always interesting; his essay on the gift of tongues is the best we have ever read on that puzzling problem.”
| + | Sat. R. 102: 372. S. 22, ’06. 180w. |
Walker, Ernest. Beethoven. $1. Brentano’s. W 5–8.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A thoughtful little book.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 840. D. 29. 170w. |
Walker, Margaret Coulson. [Lady Hollyhock and her friends: a book of nature dolls and others]; drawings by Mary Isabel Hunt. †$1.25. Baker.
6–39448.
A happy thought for little people which will provide busy work the year round. Cucumber, radish, and corn dolls, pansy, hollyhock and poppy maids, apple, peanut and acorn children—and pictures to show how they are made.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 2: 253. D. ’06. | |
| + | Ind. 61: 1411. D. 22, ’06. 30w. | |
| + | Nation. 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 30w. |
“An interesting book for all little folks ... for it will give them no end of the sort of employment that all children like.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 90w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 34: 766. D. ’06. 50w. |
Walker, Rev. William Lowe. Christian theism and a spiritual monism: God, freedom and immortality in view of monistic evolution. *$3. Scribner.
7–12986.
“The work aims to show what ground there is for Christian theism in the spiritual monism toward which science and philosophy now preponderate. Its author ... endeavors to ‘set forth that spiritual interpretation of the universe on the basis of Mr. Spencer’s system of philosophy which he himself affirmed to be possible.’... The argument is mainly objective, in an inductive method, and designed for ‘the plain man.’”—Outlook.
“Nowhere have we seen this thesis more lucidly and convincingly handled than by this able writer.”
| + | Acad. 71: 521. N. 24, ’06. 1190w. |
“A very readable book. Mr. Walker shows wide reading in science and philosophy, and states his position with clearness and force.” W. C. Kierstead.
| + + | Am. J. Theol. 11: 548. Jl. ’07. 490w. |
“Though the work falls short of its aim in some central questions, it is, on the whole, a stimulating contribution to further discussions, and a strong presentation of the harmony of science and religion.”
| + − | Outlook. 83: 1006. Ag. 25, ’06. 610w. |
“However valuable this line of thought may be, it requires a deeper treatment to make it convincing.”
| − + | Sat. R. 103: 592. My. 11, ’07. 1820w. |
Walker, Williston. John Calvin, the organizer of reformed Protestantism, 1509–1564. **$1.35. Putnam.
6–34268.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 50. F. ’07. S. |
“There are no errors of vital importance. The reviewer would dissent from a few conclusions, which must, however, remain largely matters of opinion. The amount to criticise is small; there is much to praise. To say that the book is the best biography written in English is not enough. No other equally brief life has so well assimilated the vast amount of material or summed up Calvin’s character and career with so much insight; and no other life of Calvin preserves throughout so judicial a tone. It is a book whose scholarship will appeal to both the church historian and the general historical reader.” Herbert Darling Foster.
| + + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 366. Ja. ’07. 1210w. |
“We accept what is given, and return thanks for a very good book.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 1: 131. F. 2. 280w. |
“A fairly objective account from a sympathetic point of view.”
| + | Cath. World. 85: 250. My. ’07. 70w. |
“With a difficult subject, Professor Walker has taken particular pains to be impartial and just, both to his hero’s greatness and his failings, and he has succeeded well.”
| + | Ind. 62: 1154. My. 16, ’07. 100w. |
“For its scope and purpose Prof. Williston Walker’s biography of ‘John Calvin’ is a model.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 1236. N. 21, ’07. 30w. |
“The picture which emerges from the pages of Professor Walker is luminous.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 15. Ja. 3, ’07. 1690w. |
“His book is admirable in every way.”
| + + | Spec. 97: 990. D. 15, ’06. 230w. |
Wallace, Dillon. [Long Labrador trail.] *$1.50. Outing.
7–17002.
This “glorious record of American ‘do and dare’” follows the wilderness adventure of one who besides being lured by the irresistible call of the wild is fulfilling the command to accomplish the work of exploration undertaken by his fallen leader, Leonidas Hubbard, viz., to penetrate the Labrador peninsula from Groswater bay to Lake Michikamau, thence thru the lake and northward over the divide, where he hoped to locate the headwaters of the George river.
“It is a record of privation and heroism, well-told, full of the irresistible charm of real exploration.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 173. O. ’07. S. |
“It is to be doubted if he has added greatly to our knowledge of this region; but he has certainly written an interesting book, wholly independent of literary charm.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 442. O. 12. 460w. |
“Somehow, the very lack of rhetorical polish seems appropriate in the description of an undertaking which bespeaks essentially grim determination, and offers little occasion for the play of the finer feelings or of the imagination.” George Gladden.
| + | Bookm. 25: 615. Ag. ’07. 840w. |
“None can fail to enjoy the author’s account of his expedition.” H. E. Coblentz.
| + | Dial. 42: 374. Je. 16, ’07. 320w. |
“A thoroughly interesting account of a country which, in desolation may be said to rival the ‘Far north.’”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 300w. |
“Mr. Wallace takes himself and his achievement a trifle too seriously.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 100. Ag. 1, ’07. 370w. |
“It is an interesting story that Mr. Wallace has recounted of perils ignored and hardships welcomed, of grim and desolate wilds, and of the strength, the courage, and the goodness of human nature rising always above its environment.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 362. Je. 8, ’07. 720w. |
“The details of the travelling supply an attractive narrative.”
| + | Spec. 99: 438. S. 28, ’07. 170w. |
Wallace, Dillon. [Ungava Bob: a winter’s tale.] †$1.50. Revell.
7–29093.
These experiences of a young fur trapper in the frozen interior of Labrador are the sort that will put a lad in the corner and keep him there until the last page is reached. There are encounters with wolves on the fur trails, intimate portrayals of the life and humanity of the Nascaupee Indians who capture and protect the hero, and stirring accounts of dangerous adventures among the ice-packs of the Labrador country.
“The story is told with the greatest simplicity and naturalness. Characters and incidents all have the touch of verity.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 581. S. 28, ’07. 290w. |
“Bob is a plucky young trapper, and his adventures are exciting enough, but the chief merit of the book lies in the pictures of life in the remote regions of Labrador and among the Indians and Eskimos of that frozen country.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 312. O. 12, ’07. 160w. |
Wallace, Helen. Coming of Isobel. $1.50. Cassell.
A story whose plot is founded upon coincidences. “When one young girl is lost we are expected to believe that another exactly like her is found; that this latter has lost her memory, and consequently acts as an innocent substitute; and finally that the foundling is no other than the half-sister of the lost girl.... Other detached coincidences roughly hew the destinies of the family of whose fortunes this book is a record.” (Ath.)
“It is very feminine work in all its aspects, and carries with it unnecessary tragedies and heartburnings. Problems such as are here presented offer comparatively little difficulty in real life.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 297. S. 14. 150w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
Wallace, Helen. Sons of the Seigneur. $1.50. Outing pub.
7–20711.
A romance of the days of Cromwell with its scene laid in the Island of Guernsey. A Royalist maid is the heroine and is loved by two brothers one of whom is cruel and selfish while the other runs the round of chance and peril to serve and protect her. The visit of King Charles II. to the island in disguise is made the turning point in the story which is full of action and feeling.
“On the whole, it is what may fairly be called a brave story of the type it represents.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 26: 82. S. ’07. 290w. | |
| − | Ind. 63: 575. S. 5, ’07. 430w. |
“The book is especially noteworthy for the fascinating character of the heroine and the daintiness and charm of its love interest.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 170w. |
“Notable constructive ability, fertility of invention, dramatic imagination and good taste in the management of these various faculties are all evident. The author has not succeeded, however, in creating a historical atmosphere—the illusion of time and place.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 479. Ag. 3, ’07. 300w. |
Wallace, Lew (Lewis), general. Lew Wallace: an autobiography. 2v. **$5. Harper.
6–38539.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| Current Literature. 42: 178. F. ’07. 1800w. |
“The book is excellent reading. Errors of haste or negligence, including even lapses in grammar, and other more deliberate faults, can be found by the critical; but their enumeration would be a thankless task.” Percy F. Bicknell.
| + + − | Dial. 42: 34. Ja. 16, ’07. 2180w. |
“Quite equal in vividness to his fiction is the dramatic interest with which General Wallace manages to invest the story of his life in some of its vital facts.”
| + | Ind. 62: 1093. My. 9, ’07. 670w. |
“While it is, as a whole, entertaining, there is a diffuseness, an over-elaboration of small points, and a too frequent triviality which suggests lack of proper editorial revision. Literary merit aside, the value of these volumes as a contribution to American history is not inconsiderable.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 87. Ja. 24, ’07. 710w. |
“Nothing I have read, except, perhaps, ‘Ben-Hur,’ has so filled my heart and mind and thrilled me as this autobiography of General Lew Wallace.” Oliver Otis Howard.
| + + + | No. Am. 183: 1294. D. 21, ’06. 1940w. |
Reviewed by Horatio S. Krans.
| + + − | Outlook. 84: 1079. D. 29, ’06. 470w. |
Wallace, W. G. Locomotive breakdown questions answered and illustrated; indexed for quick reference. $1.50. Drake, F. J.
7–21741.
Questions and answers just as they appeared in the Fireman’s magazine. “All of us who have shared in those informal discussions around and about the steel horse know their attraction, though realizing their casual, undecisive or disconnected nature.” (Engin. N.)
“This collection might, with rearrangement, excision and addition, serve a far more useful purpose in systematic education of the men whose very business is system to a degree, and who deserve and are always anxious to learn from those best qualified to teach them the principles of mechanical science related to their duties.” H. Wade Hibbard.
| + − | Engin. N. 58: 293. S. 12, ’07. 560w. |
Waller, Mary Ella. Through the gates of the Netherlands; with il. after Lalanne and others by A. A. Montferrand, reproduced in photogravure. **$3. Little.
6–42908.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 75. Mr. ’07. |
“Tho her knowledge of history is not particularly striking, her insight into human nature is quick and deep.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 912. Ap. 18, ’07. 290w. | |
| + | Nation. 84: 269. Mr. 21, ’07. 680w. |
“The illustrations in this volume are excellent, and the text is full of conviction and enthusiasm.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 109. Ja. ’07. 60w. |
Walling, Robert A. J. Sea-dog of Devon: a life of Sir John Hawkins. **$1.75. Lane.
A popular biography of Hawkins which “vindicates the hero from the charge of having inaugurated the British slave trade.”
“We are bound to say that it is not a biography in the received sense of the word; that it is not the first; and that it is a poor réchauffé of uncritical stuff.”
| − | Ath. 1907, 2: 13. Jl. 6. 180w. |
“Mr. Walling’s book is a good, an interesting, and a useful piece of work.”
| + | Dial. 43: 215. O. 1, ’07. 300w. |
“While it can hardly be called exhaustive, it is certainly readable and animated.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 272. O. 5, ’07. 190w. |
“Till a full biography appears, however, we shall do very well with this book, which is a thoroughly workmanlike narrative with fairly judicious comment. It has a strong flavour of hero-worship to be sure, but we do not wish it to be without that, even though a hero worshipper can scarcely be the best of judges.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 718. My. 4, ’07. 1250w. |
Wallington, Nellie Urner. Historic churches of America; with an introd. by E: E. Hale. **$2. Duffield.
7–31235.
Mrs. Wallington has made her study cover nearly seventy historic churches of America. It traces “in some detail the first steps which were taken in different parts of the nation by persons of distinct religious motive who had exiled themselves from Europe and who meant to maintain their allegiance to a living God.” The book is finely illustrated.
“Brief but entertaining sketches.”
| + | Dial. 43: 427. D. 16, ’07. 90w. |
“The descriptions are picturesquely given and through the whole book there is traced in detail the growth of the various religious movements which took their starting point from the days of the colonies and have found their outward expression in many notable edifices thruout the country.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 100w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
“There is not as much information as one expects in a work of this kind.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 758. N. 30, ’07. 140w. |
Walpole, Sir Spencer. Studies in biography. *$4. Dutton.
7–29124.
Biographical essays upon celebrated men; including Peel, Cobden, Disraeli, Gibbon, Lord Dufferin, Lord Shaftesbury, Bismarck, and Napoleon III. A chapter upon “Some decisive marriages in history,” concludes the volume.
“They deserve to be read for their balance of judgment and orderly presentment of fact.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 288. Mr. 9. 720w. |
“It should be added that the reader receives from all these essays an impression as stimulating as if he had had a quiet and illuminating conversation with a man of wide observation and fruitful reflection.”
| + | Dial. 43: 254. O. 16, ’07. 470w. |
“The essays in the present volume are all readable, and have to a high degree the human interest which differentiates biography from general history.”
| + | Ind. 63: 226. Jl. 25, ’07. 230w. |
“In the main, here as elsewhere, Sir Spencer Walpole is a writer who will not dip his pen into the ink until he is quite sure of the accuracy of the assertion he is going to make. The road he takes us by may not afford many romantic prospects but at least the guide knows every inch of it.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 20. Ja. 18, ’07. 1510w. |
“We welcome these essays ... not only for their intrinsic merits, but because they are a sign of that trend toward biography which is needed for the enriching of historical studies in general.”
| + | Nation. 84: 340. Ap. 11, ’07. 1040w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 68. F. 2, ’07. 300w. |
“These studies are notable for a temperate and judicial spirit. They are uniformly edifying; and though they do not sway the mind by high eloquence they never descend to dullness or commonplace, but win sympathetic assent by their workmanlike thoroughness and their manifest frankness.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 132. Mr. 2, ’07. 750w. |
“Sir Spencer Walpole’s volume is characterized by profound erudition and real literary distinction as well as by critical acumen and breadth of view.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 335. Je. 15, ’07. 1220w. |
Reviewed by W. Roy Smith.
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 360. Je. ’07. 1000w. |
“The whole book is well worth reading, if only that we may have our vague knowledge of political history arranged and corrected by a writer who rarely suffers the informing instinct to oust the critical faculty.”
| + + − | Spec. 98: 371. Mr. 9, ’07. 1390w. |
Walsh, James Joseph. [Catholic churchmen in science]: sketches of the lives of Catholic ecclesiastics who were among the great founders in science. *$1. Dolphin press.
6–38910.
In order to refute the charge that the Roman Catholic church is the enemy of science, the author has prepared brief biographies of some Catholic ecclesiastics who have made important contributions to physical science. They include: Copernicus, Basil Valentine, Linacre, Father Kircher, Bishop Stenson, Abbé Haüy, and Abbot Mendel.
“The doctor has enhanced the value of this welcome little book by prefixing a short, forcible answer to the claim that science and religion are in conflict.”
| + | Cath. World. 84: 548. Ja. ’07. 260w. | |
| + | Ind. 62: 333. F. 7, ’07. 170w. |
Walsh, James Joseph. [Makers of modern medicine.] *$2. Fordham university press.
7–7512.
The volume “is not simply a series of biographies of men who have in the past two hundred years or so helped in building up the modern science of healing, written with no other view than the setting forth of their discoveries and their title of fame. It has an ulterior motive, and this motive is to show that among these men were a dozen at least who were content to accept the teachings of the Christian religion, and in particular those of the Roman Catholic branch of that religion.”—N. Y. Times.
“Dr. Walsh has drawn from many sources, not always judiciously (certainly not judicially). These sources are often so insufficiently indicated that it is not easy to verify the statements that flow freely from his facile, sometimes almost too facile pen. The list of ‘makers’ will hardly satisfy all readers.”
| − + | Nation. 84: 526. Je. 6, ’07. 320w. |
“The book, though interesting and informing in itself, is not so much designed as a contribution to medical history as it is to overthrow the notion expressed in the old saying that where there are three doctors there will be two atheists.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 372. Je. 8, ’07. 670w. |
“For the purpose for which they are aimed, the general instruction of the public in matters pertaining to medical history, they are, like the similar essays of Richardson, extremely entertaining and useful.” W. G. MacCallum.
| + | Science, n.s. 26: 251. Ag. 23, ’07. 450w. |
Walsh, Walter. Moral damage of war. *75c. Ginn.
6–37868.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a rhetorical and aggressive, but it is also in its way a useful, arraignment of the war system.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 768. Mr. 30, ’07. 330w. |
Walters, Henry Beauchamp. Art of the Greeks. $6. Macmillan.
7–35229.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 145. My. ’07. |
“The publishers have produced such a charming book in all external respects that it seems a pity it should not be equally satisfying to the mind of the classical scholar.”
| − + | Dial. 42: 147. Mr. 1, 07. 380w. |
“As a whole the book is written with singular lucidity and charm, and is evidently the flower of deep and painstaking scholarship.”
| + | Int. Studio. 32: 334. O. ’07. 260w. |
“Contains a mass of information intelligently grouped but not commented on.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 145. F. 2, ’07. 1300w. |
* Waltham, T. Ernest, ed. Tangerine: a child’s letters from Morocco. $1.50. Macmillan.
The impressions of a little English girl during a short visit to the chief coast town of Morocco. “The human interest is predominant, of course, and it is illustrated by some good photographs of the Tangerines with the wonderful backgrounds of Moorish architecture.” (Spec.)
| N. Y. Times. 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“To [children] ‘Tangerine’ ought to be a charming picture-book, and a gift-book with a somewhat unusual interest attaching to it.”
| + | Spec. 99: sup. 748. N. 16, ’07. 90w. |
Walton, Mrs. Octavius Frank. Doctor Forester. $1.25. Union press.
A hidden treasure, a secret stairway, strange footsteps heard at night in an old tower, all help to make the summer vacation of Dr. Forester a notable one. His love story, so hopelessly interwoven with that of his best friend, also adds excitement to his time of rest and recreation, but his reward more than repays his worry and distress.
Ward, Cyrennus Osborne. The ancient lowly: a story of the ancient working people from the earliest known period to the adoption of Christianity by Constantine. 2v. ea. $2. Kerr.
In which the author traces the early history of modern socialism. “Its conspicuous merit is the light which it throws on the seamy side of life in the pre-Christian era, as revealed by the fragmentary writings of ancient historians and by the inscriptional discoveries of modern archæology. Its conspicuous defect is the strained interpretation given to the facts with which it is concerned, and the violent, even incendiary spirit in which these facts are discussed. It is, indeed, a work admirably calculated to inflame the already lamentably intense feeling of class hatred.” (Outlook.)
“This is manifestly not the appropriate place for the discussion of a purely controversial work of this kind. Mr. Ward does not write in English conspicuous for clearness or for grace, and his positiveness of statement is not reassuring and fails to inspire confidence.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 306. My. 11, ’07. 400w. |
“Undoubtedly containing much of value to the discriminating student of history, and obviously the result of years of arduous research, it is nevertheless for the general public a book of pernicious influence, contributing nothing to the solution of actual present-day problems and making for greater discontent and bitterness. One is almost tempted to declare that the historical method of investigation has seldom been more sadly misapplied.”
| − + | Outlook. 87: 538. N. 9, ’07. 740w. |
Ward, Elizabeth Stuart (Phelps) (Mrs. Herbert D. Ward). Man in the case; il. by H: J. Peck. †$1.50. Houghton.
6–32116.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is rather surprising to find a veteran like the author employing a plot so worn and transparent as the plot of ‘The man in the case;’ but she certainly managed to make her story attractive.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 797. D. 22. 130w. |
“A good story, full of emotion and suspense, without any recourse at all to sensational methods.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 125. Ja. ’07. 180w. |
“The book is inadequate as a psychological study.”
| − + | Sat. R. 103: 56. Ja. 12, ’07. 200w. |
Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Walled in. †$1.50. Harper.
7–33590.
A story of a college town. Professor Ferris, a singularly strong man, is “walled in” by a terrible automobile accident. His months of convalescence reveal his enduring qualities which are contrasted with the impatience and frivolity of his butterfly wife. The story follows the love of this man for two women, one whose waywardness is her own undoing and one whose strength and beauty of character bring their own reward.
“Told in somewhat long-drawn-out fashion.”
| − | Outlook. 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 150w. |
Ward, Lester Frank. Applied sociology: a treatise on the conscious improvement of society by society. *$2.50. Ginn.
6–23549.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is an epoch making work. Not only is it a contribution to social science of first-rate value; but it is also of fundamental practical interest to education. No other book has done so much to reveal the true function of knowledge.” George Elliott Howard.
| + + + | Am. J. Soc. 12: 854. My. ’07. 1830w. | |
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 76. Mr. ’07. |
“Whether one agrees with all Dr. Ward’s thesis or not, he will profit by a careful study of this book. In correctness of statement, and in rigorous application of scientific methods, it is to be commended to all who have occasion to write upon matters social.” Carl Kelsey.
| + + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 487. N. ’06. 990w. |
“While exhibiting some of the characteristic defects of its class, Mr. Ward’s work is always marked by vigorous thinking and seldom, fails to prove interesting and suggestive.”
| + + − | Nation. 83: 502. D. 27, ’06. 650w. |
“This great book is a noble crown to the author’s philosophy. No writer has presented so powerfully the claims of education as a conscious social policy. No one has so vindicated the worth of the teacher’s work.” Edward Alsworth Ross.
| + + + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 356. Je. ’07. 960w. |
Wardle, Jens. Artistic temperament. †$1.50. McClure.
7–21364.
“Mr. Stephen Cartmel is a painter. He is engaged to a young woman with a rich father, and all the qualities which serve best to steady a man with the artistic tendency to flit from flower to flower. She is not beautiful, but she is serious, womanly, and staying and she loves him protectingly. Then Mr. Stephen Cartmel journeys by cab into Tooting to call upon a neglected school friend.... And he meets the friend’s pretty wife—who began by being his typist, and has been starving all her life for art, romance, and beauty. Delia Blaicklock sits to Mr. Cartmel for her portrait—and the artistic temperament gets in its work.”—N. Y. Times.
“This novel is quite as tiresome as its title would lead us to expect.”
| − | Acad. 72: 295. My. 23, ’07. 480w. |
“There is not a dull page in it. Like many English novels which ought to sell better in this country than they do, it strikes deep, keeping a firm hold on elemental things in human nature.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 208. Ag. 10, ’07. 380w. | |
| + | Nation. 85: 122. Ag. 8, ’07. 550w. |
“Miss Wardle manages the theme admirably—with insight, humor, comprehension, sympa-
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 476. Ag. 3, ’07. 660w. |
Waring, Henry F. Christianity and its Bible: a text-book for private reading. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–19773.
Addresses the audience of “clear-eyed middle-men between the specialists and the ordinary readers.” It surveys the whole religious field in a practical trustworthy manner, “gives pigeon-holes,” as the author says, “in which to put the valuable results of all future hearing, reading. and study concerning religious themes.”
“The task is well done, and the book will be of great value to all who are thoughtfully interested in its theme.”
| + | Bib. World. 29: 479. Je. ’07. 80w. |
“It is both a trustworthy and a useful book, well adapted to increase religious intelligence in a period of mingled joy and faith.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 790. Ag. 10, ’07. 140w. |
Waring, Luther Hess. Law and the gospel of labor. *$1. Neale.
7–29710.
A two part study, whose aim is to present, first, the law of the land, and, secondly, the highest law known to man,—the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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.
6–9259.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 76. Mr. ’07. |
Warner, Horace Everett. Cricket’s song and other melodies. **$1. Lippincott.
7–31376.
Two score and ten poems which are concerned with life, here and hereafter, with mother love, Indian legend, the roar of the weird and thunder of man made things.
Warren, Ina Russelle, comp. Under the holly bough: a collection of Christmas poems. $1.50. Jacobs.
7–36928.
An anthology of Christmas verse from writers old and new which presents the subject in a variety of phases, “from the holy sound of the Christmas chimes, heralding the Day of days, to the merry laugh of the little child over its toys.”
“A particularly attractive Christmas anthology.”
| + | Dial. 43: 382. D. 1, ’07. 90w. |
Warren, Thomas Herbert. Magdalen college, Oxford. (College monographs.) *75c. Dutton.
A history of Magdalen college by its present Head and Vice-Chancellor, from its foundation in the dawn of the renaissance to the present.
“It contains as much local history as the general public is likely to desire, and some interesting notes on the customs and worthies of Magdalen.”
| + | Nation. 85: 120. Ag. 8, ’07. 180w. |
Reviewed by Goldwin Smith.
| + | Outlook. 87: 78. S. 14, ’07. 1450w. |
“Mr. Warren has given us a most interesting account of his college.”
| + | Spec. 98: 804. My. 18, ’07. 260w. |
Warren, Waldo Pondray. Thoughts on business. $1.25. Forbes.
7–33622.
A collection of more than two hundred editorials which have been contributed to leading newspapers and have been called good by prominent business men the country over. The general captions under which the short talks are grouped are: Starting points, Self-improvement, About methods, Developing the workers, With the manager, Buying and selling, Words by the way, and Gleanings.
Washburne, Marion Foster. Family secrets. †$1.25. Macmillan.
7–14264.
Monologues which reveal the secrets of the inner sanctuary of the true home. The revelator is a woman who when reverses come goes with her husband to a little farm on the edge of a manufacturing town. She lives for life’s sake, learns its values and the competence of love, and believes that when women discover their social unequals, and cherish them till they grow into social equals, then we shall begin to get at the real secrets of that family which is the human race. She says: “We must recognize that the brotherhood of man presupposes not only the Fatherhood of God. but also the Motherhood of essential woman.”
| N. Y. Times. 12: 274. Ap. 27. ’07. 50w. |
“A slender but not unpleasing narrative gives a certain coherence to what is essentially a series of lay sermons upon many important problems of domestic and social life.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 365. Je. 8, ’07. 400w. |
“It is a kind of informal philosophy of the family life, very pleasantly written, with a good deal of shrewdness and humor, and in a wholesome attitude toward the trials, vexations, and tragedies of life and character.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 255. Je. 1, ’07. 280w. |
Washington, Booker T. Frederick Douglass. (American crisis biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.
7–8512.
A sympathetic study of a career which was identified with the race problem in the period of revolution and liberation. The sketch reveals Douglass as the personification of the historical events that marked the transition from slavery to citizenship.
“It will interest both the student of history, and the student of life—the ordinary reader.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 173. O. ’07. S. |
“The book is exceedingly clear and simple in its style.” R. R. Wright, jr.
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 623. N. ’07. 320w. |
“The book deserves a better index.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 397. O. 5. 1620w. |
“The story is well told, with enthusiasm and admiration of the hero, but with self-repression, dignity, and a high degree of ability as a biographer.”
| + | Dial. 42: 345. Je. 1. ’07. 280w. |
“A tale at once moving and picturesque.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 251. Ap. 20, ’07. 1000w. |
“It is remarkable because it gives with great frankness, great impartiality, and an entire absence of bitterness of spirit, the views of both men respecting slavery, reconstruction, the political rights and duties of the negro, and the relations between the races.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 76. My. 11. ’07. 280w. |
“The old story of the growth of the movement for abolition, and of Douglass’s concern with it, was well worthy of being told again. It is told in these pages simply, clearly and as fully as the limits of such a biography admitted—better told, one is inclined to say than in Douglass’s own version.” Montgomery Schuyler.
| + | Putnam’s. 3: 105. O. ’07. 290w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 635. My. ’07. 140w. |
“He has found an eminently worthy biographer.”
| + | Spec. 99: 437. S. 28. ’07. 510w. |
Washington, Booker T., and Du Bois, W: E. Burghardt. [Negro in the South: his economic progress in relation to his moral and religious development]; being the William Levi Bull lectures for the year 1907. **$1. Jacobs.
7–21310.
An objective study of the influence of slavery including two lectures by Mr. Washington and two by Mr. Du Bois, as follows: The economic development of the negro race in slavery; The economic development of the negro race since its emancipation; The economic revolution in the South; and Religion in the South.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 174. O. ’07. | |
| J. Pol. Econ. 15: 502. O. ’07. 230w. |
“Du Bois is a dreamer, a rhapsodist, a sort of embodied consciousness of the doom of his race. He writes always with tragic intensity and drifts infallibly from facts and arguments to impassioned upbraidings. anathemas, panegyrics. Booker Washington, a practical man and no dreamer or poet, writes otherwise. He cannot see the tragic end. His eye is fixed upon the present and the immediate future. He is made an optimist by the good things he sees his race has already got and is getting. He strives practically and sensibly to enable that race to get as much as possible without alarming the other race.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 429. Jl. 6, ’07. 2070w. |
“They contain an excellent summing up from the negro’s point of view of the conditions, both adverse and favorable, under which the Southern negro is gradually working out his own salvation.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 640. N. ’07. 90w. |
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.
6–25624.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“With more skilful editing and arrangement, and with a boldly applied pruning hook, they would supply material for a vivid and sympathetic sketch of Washington in the rôle of Cincinnatus.”
| + | Spec. 98: sup. 652. Ap. 27, ’07. 360w. |
Watanna, Onoto, pseud. (Mrs. Winnifred Eaton Babcock) (Mrs. Bertrand Babcock). [Diary of Delia: being a veracious chronicle of the kitchen with some side-lights on the parlour.] †$1.25. Doubleday.
7–18102.
“Delia is the maid-of-all-work for a ‘family of six,’ and so well is she rendered that one gets an unaccustomed serious glimpse at many things perhaps before unseen, through reading her diary, the humor of which also exists independently of its simplified spelling à la Irlandais. From that phrase it follows that Delia’s heart is in the right place, so we know at once where her sympathies will be in her young mistress’s love affair, and divine with equal certainty and pleasure her ultimate possession of a sweetheart of her own.”—Outlook.
“It is a pity that the author did not elect to tell the history of her heroine in some other language intelligible to human beings. To say that the book is lacking in any vestige of humor is not derogatory, for no one expects humor in Yahoo or Tibetan.”
| − | Lit. D. 35: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 290w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 180w. |
“The comedy is good enough to inspire an occasional laugh, especially when it runs into farce, and there are now and then some touches of self-revelation of character by Delia and her friend Minnie that are done rather deftly.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 418. Je. 29, ’07. 230w. | |
| + | Outlook. 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 90w. |
Waterman, Nixon. [Boy wanted: a book of cheerful counsel.] $1.25. Forbes.
6–46363.
Advice and incentive are happily united for the enterprising boy. The keynote of the book is sounded in the following:
Ask no favors of “luck,”—win your way like a man;
Be active and earnest and plucky;
Then your work will come out just about as you plan
And the world will exclaim, “Oh how lucky.”
Waters, N. McGee. Heroes and heroism in common life: an appreciation of the things of every day life. **$1.25. Crowell.
7–29737.
A group of essays which turn back to the waysides and neglected places where have dwelt masters of plain living and high thinking. A book to be added to the simple-life literature of the library.
“The papers ... are quietly and pleasantly written, and while much of their thought is commonplace, there are many passages of tender feeling and vivid description which show appreciation of all that is most beautiful in both nature and mankind.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 180w. |
Watson, Gilbert. Caddie of St. Andrew’s. †$1.50. Holt.
The caddies of St. Andrew’s golf course were a pathetic group of Scotch failures—fishermen who, worn out by their strenuous calling, had drifted to the links. The particular caddie who gives the book its title is Skipper, a cheerful old philosopher and toper whose rigid daughter is the dread of his easy-going existence. His view of life and the things to which it brings him form the story, which, though full of Scotch humor, is nevertheless a tragedy.
Watson, Gilbert. Voice of the South. *$2.50. Dutton.
“While descriptive of some travels in southern Algeria, the book is a narrative dealing with the return of an Arab to his desert home.... Athman, the hero in the book, is a poet, musician, and guide.... The traveler was taken to many beautiful oases, including Sidi Okba, until one day ... the guide and his employer, Sidi, as he called him, went into an Arab café and there saw a desert woman dance.... She danced to desert music the dance of the desert—the South—and Athman’s homeland. Athman fell in love with her. The Sidi tried to buy her away from him, but Athman drove away one dark night and was never heard of or seen again.”—N. Y. Times.
“We would recommend ‘The voice of the South’ to all who have a taste for good prose. To define or describe a good style is always difficult; but in this particular case it is chiefly apparent in the simple and adequate narrative, and in the descriptive passages, which without being either pre-Raphaelite or impressionist, make us see sufficiently all the important detail, and at the same time realise the effect of the whole.”
| + + | Acad. 70: 379. Ap. 21, ’06. 870w. |
“A chatty, descriptive narrative.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 1: 133. F. 3. 150w. |
“The clear, suggestive and beautiful pictures of people, places, and especially camels, bring you back to geographic reality from a placeless world of fancy.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 405. N. 24, ’06. 380w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 11: 612. S. 29, ’06. 310w. |
Watson, Helen H. Andrew Goodfellow: a tale of 1805. $1.50. Macmillan.
The author’s first story which has its setting in the town of Plymouth Dock during the time of Nelson. Its chief interest is concerned with the sea.
“This lack of artistic treatment is to be regretted, as the author has made an interesting choice of characters.”
| + − | Acad. 71: 612. D. 15, ’06. 130w. |
“We think it prettily handled and successfully rendered.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 826. D. 29. 210w. |
“There is nothing original, nothing, indeed, remarkable. It is a happy example of a simple thing done well.”
| + | Lond. Times. 5: 417. D. 14, ’06. 240w. |
“It must be classed as better than the average of novels. It cannot be said that the author succeeds in creating much historical atmosphere.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 66. F. 2, ’07. 410w. |
“The story is told in a frank, open-hearted way, with no subtlety and without much literary art.”
| + − | Outlook. 85: 41. Ja. 5, ’07. 30w. |
“The book is ably written and the plot well constructed, though the only character that the author has carefully worked out is that of the hero, Andrew Goodfellow.”
| + | Spec. 97: 1084. D. 29, ’06. 190w. |
Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott. Midsummer day’s dream. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–31656.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is not often that a story which is written with such buoyancy is also written with such care as Mr. Marriott Watson invariably bestows upon his work.”
| + | Acad. 72: 143. F. 9, ’07. 290w. | |
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 52. F. ’07. ✠ | |
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 129. F. 2. 440w. |
“The vein of light and fanciful comedy in which this story is written makes of it a charming piece of work.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 226. Ap. 1, ’07. 230w. |
“As a provocative of clean and wholesome gayety, ‘A midsummer day’s dream’ would be hard to beat.” Herbert W. Horwill.
| + + | Forum. 38: 552. Ap. ’07. 270w. |
“It never palls, because the author’s spirits never lag, and his inventiveness never grows stale. Mr. Watson is a master of dialog that sparkles and amuses; he turns it, gives it grace and charm, yet never twists it violently for the sake of effect.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 1035. My. 2, ’07. 160w. |
“It is a delicious book.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 37. F. 1, ’07. 550w. |
“Unfortunately the story drags: Mr. Watson’s hand is not quite light enough for a successful soufflé.”
| − + | Sat. R. 103: 305. Mr. 9, ’07. 200w. |
Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott. Privateers. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–2061.
A young English girl, who unknown to herself, is the possessor of a block of valuable railroad stock is pursued by two unscrupulous American speculators. “There are 395 pages in Mr. Watson’s story and it is certainly no exaggeration to say that there is at least one hair-disturbing sensation for every third page, exclusive of the numerous illustrations, which are designed to furnish little extra shudders of their own.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The story is well-planned and ably engineered, but there is too much of every thing; if the author has been less generous, the reader could follow these extraordinary happenings with equal pleasure and considerably less fatigue.”
| + − | Acad. 73: 872. S. 7, ’07. 360w. |
“He belongs ... to the select body which we once called the ‘Higher sensationalists,’ and of which Stevenson is the master.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 232. Ag. 31. 230w. |
“We cannot say very much for Mr. Watson’s Americans. Their acts and their words are reflections of an Englishman’s fertile imagination rather than products of observation.” Wm. Payne.
| + − | Dial. 42: 226. Ap. 1, ’07. 160w. |
“It is a fast and furious melodrama written for the special delight of the gallery gods.”
| − | Ind. 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 320w. |
“Flesh and blood are essential to stir the emotions, and these men and women are solid wax.”
| − | Lit. D. 34: 386. Mr. 9, ’07. 160w. |
“Having not a moment to enter into poor Sylvia’s feelings, he has left her a mere figurehead.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 278. S. 13, ’07. 440w. |
“A toy-house of slang, not without surface glitter and iridescence, though of no substance.”
| − + | Nation. 84: 85. Ja. 24, ’07. 380w. |
“Strikes one as nearing the limit of laboriously ingenious sensationalism. One is forced to assume that Mr. Watson dwells in some particularly remote and inaccessible part of the British Isles to which Americans of flesh and blood never have penetrated.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 56. Ja. 26, ’07. 630w. |
“A crude piece of preposterous sensationalism.”
| − | Outlook. 85: 378. F. 16, ’07. 70w. |
Watson, John (Ian Maclaren, pseud). Graham of Claverhouse; il. by Frank T. Merrill. 50c. Authors and newspapers assn.
7–14589.
“A tale of love, adventure, intrigues, and swagger, of incomparable Scottish knights and beautiful Highland maidens. The protagonist of the highly exciting drama is a brilliant and picturesque figure, well known to Scottish traditions, the hitherto almost neglected by writers of romance. John Graham, of the famous house of Claverhouse and kinsman of the great Montrose, is almost ideally adapted for the hero of what has come to be called a historical novel. Beautiful as Antinoüs, and a veritable Mars for valor, he completely dominates the lively chronicle.”—Lit. D.
“There is no trace of unfairness in this presentment of the cavalier by the Presbyterian, and the portrait is attractive.”
| + | Ind. 62: 1153. My. 16, ’07. 330w. |
“It is a highly colored and on the whole a satisfactory picture of Scottish chivalry that Dr. Watson has given us.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 842. My. 25, ’07. 280w. |
Watson, John (Ian Maclaren, pseud.). Inspiration of our faith: sermons. **$1.25. Armstrong.
5–41620.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“These twenty-nine sermons may indeed be called a contribution to sermonic literature. Here is rare spiritual insight, winning appeal, poetic beauty of expression.” T. G. S.
| + | Bib. World. 29: 76. Ja. ’07. 160w. |
Watson, W. Petrie. Future of Japan; with a survey of present conditions. *$3.50. Dutton.
Mr. Watson “aims to predict the trend of Japan’s development, but he does so by analyzing and reasoning about the Japan of to-day, its tendencies, conditions, ‘atmosphere,’ and aspirations. The book is not so much one which records achievements or glances at historical perspectives as one which takes up basic aspects of character and derives by philosophical induction a knowledge of what is to be expected.” (Outlook.) Mr. Watson’s conclusion is “that Japanese development will not materially influence the civilization of the west; that as a universal fact Japan is almost negligible; that she will try to carry out her destiny without the aid of religion, yet that so far as she will attain success, it will be more and more upon Western lines.” (Ath.)
“Yet, though one may dissent from Mr. Watson’s conclusions (perhaps on account of a bias as purely personal as his own) full justice should be rendered to the absorbing and stimulating qualities of his book. In it the salient characteristics of Japanese life and mentality are admirably brought out.” Osman Edwards.
| + − | Acad. 72: 477. My. 18, ’07. 1540w. |
“We would, however, willingly exchange much of his philosophy for more of his information.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 38. Jl. 13. 450w. |
“If the author has learned from original sources the actual workings of the Japanese mind, and if he were more familiar with ... the great transforming forces evident in the press, the literature, and the life of the nation, especially since the outbreak of the war with Russia,—his opinions might have been quite different.”
| + − | Dial. 43: 284. N. 1, ’07. 900w. |
“Entirely too subjective in attitude and overloaded with references to things occidental, the text shows slight acquaintance with real Japanese thought or origins.”
| − + | Ind. 63: 759. S. 26, ’07. 430w. |
“No falling off in the author’s latest contribution to the study of the various aspects of Japanese life.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 179. Je. 7, ’07. 1240w. |
“Mr. Watson, to be a true prophet, ought not only to have become familiar with the results of research and the facts of actual history, but he ought to have known far more than his pages would lead us to suppose he does know about the actual state of Christianity in Japan and the real mind of the leaders of the nation.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 309. O. 3, ’07. 1120w. |
Reviewed by George R. Bishop.
| + + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 556. S. 14, ’07. 2700w. |
“Extremely valuable book.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 791. Ag. 10, ’07. 410w. |
“Mr. Watson takes himself very seriously, and has evidently devoted an immense amount of thought and study to the production of this book, which on some heads is full of interesting facts; but his facts are so inextricably tangled up with his theories that the process of disentanglement is a greater task than human nature cares to undertake.”
| − + | Sat. R. 104: 19. Jl. 6, ’07. 1180w. |
Watson, William. Text-book of practical physics. *$3. Longmans.
“A treatise on physical measurements, or experimental physics; no description of phenomena or laws is included.”—Engin. N.
“The descriptions are throughout clear and detailed, but the author has perhaps erred by sometimes giving unnecessarily minute directions as to points of minor importance.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 137. F. 2. 750w. |
“Both the arrangement of the text and its style are excellent.”
| + | Engin. N. 57: 193. F. 14, ’07. 90w. |
“The diagrams are very clear, and serve their purpose of elucidating the text better than elaborate pictures of apparatus.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 5: 314. S. 14, ’06. 280w. |
“Schoolmasters should have a copy for reference and for their higher work.” S. S.
| + | Nature. 76: 99. My. 30, ’07. 780w. |
“Any student specializing in physics ought to be acquainted with the contents of the book.” K. E. Guthe.
| + | Science, n.s. 26: 341. S. 13, ’07. 260w. |
* Wayne, Charles Stokes. Marriage of Mrs. Merlin. †$1.25. Dillingham.
7–26961.
The unique situations growing out of a wealthy young widow’s purchase of a husband constitute the fabric of this tale. Mrs. Merlin seeks out a good looking, broad-shouldered young Englishman, offers him the sum of twenty thousand pounds to marry her and protect her during a year of travel; at the end of which time either may end the contract. Shadows out of the past flit across the path of each which are dissipated by the growing faith in each other. The year’s end brings to them an earldom and proves that their trial marriage has been successful enough to endure.
“It is all very foolish and a little improper, but peculiarly ingenious and interesting withal.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 200w. |
Weale, B. L. Putnam, ed. [Indiscreet letters from Peking; being the notes of an eye-witness, which set forth in some detail, from day to day, the real story of the siege and sack of a distressed capital in 1900—the year of] the great tribulation. **$2. Dodd.
7–14591.
“This volume is really the story, not the history, of the siege of the legations in Peking, of the relief of the besieged, and of the sack of the city. Interesting sidelights are cast upon the actions of the diplomatic representatives of allied Europe and America, and ... [there are] comments upon the way the different international troops behaved during the siege.”—R. of Rs.
“These letters bear the hall-mark of truth and raise the wish that it had not been necessary to edit them as ruthlessly as they are said to have been edited. Though his style is vivid he lays no undue emphasis on horrors for their own sake. He writes with that kind of restraint which is convincing, and which goes to make these letters one of the most remarkable documents we have ever read.”
| + + − | Acad. 72: 235. Mr. 9. ’07. 1350w. |
“This ‘catch penny’ title is descriptive of the contents of the volume.”
| − | Ath. 1907, 1: 635. My. 25. 360w. |
“One cannot easily recall a more vivid picture of what a siege really is. The value of [the chapter, ‘How I saw the relief,’] as fiction is doubtful. As history its interest is great, but more than any other portion of the book it requires the support of authority. If it is to stand as authentic history, it constitutes a chapter that will be willingly forgotten by every one save the student of mob psychology.” Edward Clark Marsh.
| + − | Bookm. 25: 288. My. ’07. 1620w. |
“The reader cannot help feeling that the narrative is colored, that the real facts cannot have been quite so lurid or the characters of the men and women quite so mean as they are here portrayed. But after all deductions are made, the story here given, of the warning, the siege, and sack, is remarkably interesting, even tho it is full of horrors.”
| + − | Dial. 43: 67. Ag. 1, ’07. 310w. |
“Vivid and remarkably good reading the account is, almost throughout, although too often the author or editor strives too patently after his effect.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 570. Je. 20, ’07. 480w. |
“They are certainly indiscreet, for they are frank and outspoken in regard to the blindness of the British government, and they are full of spirit and picturesqueness.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 144. Mr. 9, ’07. 230w. |
“The note of high tension, so high that it is almost hysterical, runs through all the pages.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 284. My. 4, ’07. 660w. |
“He writes with the pen of a scandalmonger; he sees the events as they happen around him with the eye of the yellow journalist.”
| − | Outlook. 86: 36. My. 4, ’07. 280w. |
“For vivid descriptive writing this story ... has seldom been equaled in our experience.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 636. My. ’07. 140w. |
“The accounts given of many incidents of the siege are Zolaesque in their grimness of detail and, to give Mr. Weale credit, his word pictures are well drawn. He tells blood-curdling stories with a gusto which may appeal to the morbid fancy of a certain class of readers, but there are many who will want to put down his book, with the feeling that they wish to read no more.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 240. F. 23, ’07. 1100w. |
“The letters are strong and lurid, brutal in realism, often brutal in cynicism, and invariably clever.”
| + − | Spec. 37: 256. F. 16, ’07. 1700w. |
Weale, B. L. Putnam. Truce in the East and its aftermath: being the sequel to “The reshaping of the Far East.” **$3.50. Macmillan.
7–12875.
A frank analysis and discussion of the factors that go to make what is known as the “Far Eastern problem.” The study resolves itself into three parts: Japan and the new position. China and the Chinese, and The powers and their influence. The author warns his reader against over confidence in the ten years’ truce now in operation, yet he does believe that it will be one of the greatest constructive victories of diplomacy, if, during nine years of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, a permanent Far Eastern peace is evolved. There are nearly two hundred pages of appendices including documents peculiarly pertinent to the subject-matter of the political chapters.
“With his presentment of facts it would be difficult to quarrel, but with the conclusions ... it is not easy to agree.”
| + − | Acad. 73: 673. Jl. 13, ’07. 950w. |
“The book is an admirable presentation of the impressions of one of the closest observers of Oriental politics.” Chester Lloyd Jones.
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 189. Jl. ’07. 870w. |
“His book is not convincing. It is too confident in statement, too dramatic in expression, and knows more of the future of half of Asia than it is possible for any one even to guess at—above all, any European. Mr. Weale is always lucid, and even when we are least convinced by his conclusions, we feel that they have been honestly formed upon a fairly wide basis of knowledge, experience, and thought.”
| − + | Ath. 1907, 1: 433. Ap. 13. 1520w. |
“A genuine pupil of such men as Sir Harry Parkes and other devotees of a diplomatic policy increasingly absolute, he takes himself entirely too seriously.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 758. S. 26, ’07. 350w. |
“An interesting contribution to the discussion.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 113. Ap. 12, ’07. 660w. | |
| Nation. 84: 571. Je. 20, ’07. 350w. |
Reviewed by George R. Bishop.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 348. Je. 1, ’07. 1980w. | |
| + | Outlook. 86: 436. Je. 22, ’07. 90w. |
“His penetrating insight and shrewdness of observation in combination with a broad and minute knowledge, give, a firmness of touch that inspires a strong feeling of confidence in the author’s opinions.” G: Louis Beer.
| + + | Putnam’s. 2: 746. S. ’07. 910w. |
“Few writers on the Far East can be as vivid, entertaining, and at the same time as accurate and informing.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 636. My. ’07. 280w. |
“The student of the Far Eastern politics will appreciate the clear grouping of topics, and the ordinary reader will find himself in a position to estimate more clearly the play of forces that have—for good or evil—been set in motion.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 784. Je. 22, ’07. 1910w. |
Weatherford, W. D. Fundamental religious principles in Browning’s poetry. $1. Pub: House M. E. ch. So.
7–23628.
“Mr. Weatherford has made a thorough study of Browning’s works, has gathered up his views on the great fundamentals, has arranged them in systematic order, and has put them in plain and lucid prose. Browning interpreted nature, man and life; and Mr. Weatherford has interpreted Browning’s interpretation.”
Webb, Sidney, and Webb, Beatrice. English local government, from the revolution to the municipal corporations act; the parish and the county. *$4. Longmans.
6–40962.
The first volume of five or six to be devoted to the history of local government in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It covers the government of the parish and the country, and reveals methods of great accuracy in the use of material.
“This book is epoch-making. The completed work, as planned by the authors, will constitute a veritable magnum opus both in scope and in quality, to judge by this splendid installment.” George Elliott Howard.
| + + + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 631. Ap. ’07. 1050w. |
“Altogether it may be said that every student of English local history or administration will now have to read this book with care, and every such student is to be congratulated on having such a key to his subject.” Edward P. Cheyney.
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 191. Jl. ’07. 580w. |
“If we may venture to offer a suggestion in face of the immense industry this book reveals, the authors do not seem to have made much use of a most important source—the Privy council registers. There is little to correct in the authors’ work, and that only on minor points.”
| + + − | Ath. 1997, 1: 95. Ja. 26. 2390w. | |
| + + | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 58. Ja. ’07. 210w. |
“The editors have shown throughout a restrained and judicial temperament.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 5: 366. N. 2. ’06. 960w. |
“The nature of the work precludes any attempt at literary finish; but the narrative flows easily, and, as new light is thrown at every turn on old and hitherto unexplored institutions, no student of English government will assert that the subject has been too exhaustively handled.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 135. F. 7, ’07. 1200w. |
“The whole shows through grasp of the subject, in principle and detail, lucidity of explanation and facility of expression, infinite care, laborious research and skill in marshalling facts and innumerable details. It is a book of great value to the thinking public and local government administrators and students, and worthy of its authors, who have spent years on it. No part of the book will be skipped by those really interested in local government.”
| + + + | Sat. R. 102: 616. N. 17, ’06. 1530w. |
“The method seems to us as good as possible. The authors are never lost amid the multitude of their detail, but disentangle the lines of growth with masterly precision. It is a work which in its way should become a classic.”
| + + + | Spec. 98: 424. Mr. 16, ’07. 470w. |
“A wholly new contribution to the history of England—a contribution which is invaluable on account of its thoroughness of research, the fulness of the authorities quoted for every important statement, and not least for the excellence of its arrangement and indexing.” Annie G. Porritt.
| + + + | Yale R. 15: 460. F. ’07. 1420w. |
Webb, Walter Loring. Economics of railroad construction. $2.50. Wiley.
6–35441.
“It is designed as a manual of instruction for those engaged in the practical problems of railroad engineering, but it aims at the same time to give an insight into the problems of railroad management and control. With this in mind, Part 1 is devoted to the ‘Financial and legal elements of the problem,’ in which an excellent summary is given of railroad statistics, organization capitalization and valuation, and a chapter on methods of estimating volume of traffic. Part 2 concerns the ‘Operating elements of the problem,’ including motive power, car construction and operation, track economics, and train resistance. Part 3, called the ‘Physical elements of the problem,’ discusses distance, curvature and grades.”—Pol. Sci. Q.
“A more accurate and descriptive title for Professor Webb’s book would have been ‘The technical problems of railroad construction and operation.’” Emory R. Johnson.
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 619. N. ’07. 280w. |
“The work as a whole is an excellent treatment of a subject the complete understanding of which is essential to those upon whom rests the responsibility for the economic design and improvement of railways. A vast amount of matter is epitomized and systematized into convenient compass, which considering the authority of its source, should commend it alike to the student and the busy contractor.” Walter W. Colpitts.
| + + | Engin. N. 57: 440. Ap. 18, ’07. 2020w. |
“The condensed character of Mr. Webb’s book would hardly lead to its substitution for the more extended treatment given by Wellington. In spite of the author’s modest assertion that the lawyer or legislator will find in the book little or nothing of use to him, and the implication that the professor of social economics will pass it by, this little manual is well worth a careful reading by all these classes.” Frank Haigh Dixon.
| + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 155. Mr. ’07. 300w. |
Webster, Jean. [Jerry Junior.] †$1.50. Century.
7–13435.
The game of love is played according to new rules in this story of Jerry Junior, the young American who finds himself stranded at an out of the way Italian watering place, awaiting the coming of a delayed sister and aunt. He meets an American girl who lives at a near by villa by inauspiciously falling off a stone wall at her feet and, in order to know her better impersonates an Italian donkey-driver with earrings and a red sash. The girl is not deceived and by the time the donkey driver has advanced in her good graces far enough to hold her hand she succeeds in making him jealous both of the stranger who fell off the wall and of Jerry Junior, both being himself, but he doesn’t know that she knows. It is all very amusing and pretty.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 181. O. ’07. ✠ |
“A book as airy-light, as iridescent, as inconsequential as a soap-bubble.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + − | Bookm. 26: 80. S. ’07. 410w. | |
| + | Ind. 63: 163. Jl. 18, ’07. 90w. |
“Much of the charm of the tale is due to its locale. The descriptions are unforced and Miss Webster has the tact not to insist on her scenic environment, not to force the moonlight and the snowy summits on her readers.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 266. Ap. 27, ’07. 350w. |
“The book like the author’s other works, is a ‘delightful bit of nonsense.’”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 90w. | |
| + | Outlook. 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 70w. |
Weed, Walter Harvey. Copper mines of the world. $4. Hill pub. co.
7–25687.
“The work does not attempt to treat various properties described from the viewpoint of their financial merit; nor does it lead the reader into the deeper technicalities of physical chemistry or metallurgy. On the contrary it is, so to speak, a bird’s-eye view of the copper world, so presented as to answer such questions as: (1) Where are the deposits found? (2) What is the nature of the ore and its amenability to treatment? (3) How much of it is there? (4) What is the geologic occurrence? (5) What is the bearing of the observed and recorded facts on the probability of richness and continuity in depth? (6) What is the genesis of the deposit, and its bearings on the present and probable future production?”—Engin. N.
“Will fill an important niche in the libraries of mining men, investors, and students, and of those as well who are interested in the metal from the industrial point of view only. From the geological standpoint, the author has handled the subject with an undeniable mastery and comprehensiveness. A possible minor criticism is that, in Chapter 2, on ‘Production,’ some of the world’s production tables and diagrams are in terms of metric tons, others in terms of long tons, while United States statistics are given in pounds. This disparity in units does not facilitate off-hand comparisons by the reader.”
| + + − | Engin. N. 58: 296. S. 12, ’07. 430w. |
Weeden, William Babcock. War government: federal and state, in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Indiana, 1861–1865. **$2.50. Houghton.
6–13925.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Many of Mr. Weeden’s characterizations and criticisms are shrewd and to the point, showing real insight into the problems of that troublous time and independence of thought in his estimates of men and measures. His judgments, however, are usually impressionistic, and not based on ordered evidence and argument.”
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 408. Ja. ’07. 820w. |
“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. |
* Wegmann, Edward. Design and construction of dams. 5th ed., rev. and enl. $6. Wiley.
7–31985.
A revised and enlarged edition of Mr. Wegmann’s work including masonry, earth, rockfill, timber and steel structures also the principal types of movable dams. It has been carefully brought up to date.
“A thorough and satisfactory revision.”
| + | Engin. N. 58: 539. N. 14, ’07. 550w. | |
| + | Technical Literature. 2: 459. N. ’07. 460w. |
Weikel, Anna Hamlin. Betty Baird: a boarding-school story; il. †$1.50. Little.
6–29775.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 23. Ja. ’07. ✠ |
Weikel, Anna Hamlin. Betty Baird’s ventures. il. †$1.50. Little.
7–31479.
Friends of Betty Baird will be glad to follow her on a round of activity that begins the fulfilment of her dream to do something in the world. The simple things that lie nearest to her, house work, pickling, preserving were none too prosaic rounds for her ascent. She is a girl whose very enthusiasm is contagious, and whose cheer alone is worth any young girl’s emulation.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 10w. |
“Altogether it is a very good book.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 30w. |
Weingartner, (Paul) Felix. Post-Beethoven symphonists: symphony writers since Beethoven; tr. from the German by Arthur Bles. *$1.75. Scribner.
7–18586.
An essay which treats of the contributions which Schumann, Brahms, Bruckner, Strauss, Schubert, Dvorak, Saint-Saëns, Berlioz and Liszt have made to orchestral music.
“The English translation by Arthur Bles is serviceable, without being a model.”
| − + | Nation. 84: 42. Ja. 10, ’07. 720w. |
“It is not the work of a skillful translator. It is full of awkward and unfortunate paraphrases of the original. It also shows none too great familiarity with German.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 28. Ja. 19. ’07. 410w. |
Weininger, Otto. [Sex and character]; authorized tr. from the 6th Germ. ed. *$3. Putnam.
6–9695.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is brilliantly written, and contains at once profound reflections and almost laughably unfounded statements of fact. It is at times stimulating and suggestive, but, nevertheless, often irritating, because the central idea seems rather an obsession of a brilliant but inexperienced mind than a conception to which the writer has been driven by carefully considered facts.” L. A.
| + − | Nature. 75: 481. Mr. 21, ’07. 1340w. |
* Weir, Archibald. Introduction to the history of modern Europe. $2. Houghton.
The author reviews in their logical connection the chief groups of events which formed the groundwork of European history in the nineteenth century. The period covered is approximately that between 1720 and 1820. “It treats of the political and social reforms introduced in the several monarchies, beginning with the opening of the eighteenth century; the changes brought about by the French revolution and by the Napoleonic despotism; the growth of personal liberty and political solidarity in the various countries of continental Europe after the downfall of Napoleon; the industrial revolution in England; the development of machinery and its influence on economics; and the advance in science; philosophy, and literature.”
“A somewhat unsafe guide to the unwary reader. When all has been said by the way of criticism, however, there is much in this work which makes it a most useful text-book for teachers. It does not pretend to be sufficient in itself; and, while they will be able to modify some of its conclusions by their wider reading, it will open up many lines of study not accessible in the usual text-books.”
| − + | Lond. Times. 6: 263. Ag. 30, ’07. 1100w. |
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.
6–17019.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is by no means representative of the best work now being done by German scholars. Professor Weiss is an able exegete, and he has studied the text with astounding diligence. He is fitted also by deep religious sympathies to be a commentator of the New Testament. The meaning of a particular verse he often states with surprising clearness. But insight into the historical processes which gave rise to the New Testament writings is lacking, and one who studies these works of evangelist and apostles in order to trace the life and growth of which they were a part will find little help in this commentary.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 331. F. 7, ’07. 300w. |
Weiss, Bernhard. Religion of the New Testament; tr. from the Germ. by G: H. Schodde. *$2. Funk.
5–3717.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“It does, indeed, show wide research and much painstaking toil of the true German type, but it is wholly unpractical and unnecessary.” Robert E. Bisbee.
| + − | Arena. 37: 218. F. ’07. 80w. |
Wells, Carolyn. [Patty’s summer days.] †$1.25. Dodd.
6–30458.
“With this volume the “Patty series” is swelled to four, and we have that attractive young person brought down, or rather up, to the sweet girl graduate stage, with just enough of more advanced festivities thrown in to serve as a suitable excuse for the next ... phase of her career.”—N. Y. Times.
“As delightful as its predecessors.”
| + | Bookm. 24: 524. Ja. ’07. 30w. |
“Without seeming to lecture, Miss Wells has buried some very good advice for city schoolgirls in this little story of Patty’s senior year at the Oliphant school.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 721. N. 3, ’06. 370w. |
* Wells, Carolyn. Rainy day diversions. *$1. Moffat.
7–28641.
The “diversions” are grouped as follows: Uncle Bob’s astonishing tricks, consisting of tricks, puzzles and games, told in story form; Holiday amusements, full of suggestions for holiday celebrations; Children’s plays, giving two Christmas plays.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 210. N. ’07. | ||
| Ind. 63: 1007. O. 24, ’07. 60w. |
“Offers too much mental exercise, and too little actual entertainment.”
| − | Nation. 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 40w. |
Wells, David Dwight. [Parlous times.] $1.50. Holt.
Love and diplomacy play at cross purposes in Mr. Wells’ story. The trend of the logic of the book would tend to prove the triteness of the saying that “everything is fair in love and war;” the sense of justice, however, rules, and the woman, married to one man, but playing a desperate diplomatic game while attempting to win the love of another is no more harshly dealt with than to be brought to an understanding of right and of her sense of duty.
Wells, Edward L. Hampton and reconstruction. $1.50. State co.
7–17887.
“Mainly an account of the nomination and election in 1876 of General Wade Hampton as governor of South Carolina on the ‘straightout’ Democratic platform. Introductory chapters give an account of Hampton’s ancestry, his early life and training, an appreciation of his character, and a sketch of his service as a Confederate general in the civil war. In the last chapter the author speaks briefly of the later years of Hampton as United States senator and as retired citizen.”—Dial.
“The work is interestingly written, with perhaps too much moralizing, and contains an abundant store of good anecdotes.”
| + − | Dial. 43: 170. S. 16, ’07. 250w. |
“The narrative is often rambling and disjointed; and the tone, while sincere is too partisan for the purpose of history.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 946. O. 17, ’07. 230w. |
Wells, Herbert George. [Future in America: a search after realities.] **$2. Harper.
6–40259.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“His consideration of our economic, social, and material phases, shows considerable insight and sympathy. Exaggerations may easily be picked out, and palpable errors, not a few, but in spite of them, the American reader will gain a broader view, and some food for thought.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 50. F. ’07. S. | |
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 226. Ja. ’07. 440w. |
“It is surely impossible to class him with the critics of jaundiced eye, even though he quits us in a state of wistful bewilderment rather than in one of confident hope.” James F. Muirhead.
| + | Atlan. 100: 563. O. ’07. 1970w. |
“Mr. Wells’s ‘Future in America’ is but the present that to-morrow will be the past. We had a right to expect from him a more philosophical, a more scientific, a farther-seeing book.” A. Schade van Westrum.
| + − | Bookm. 24: 482. Ja. ’07. 1390w. | |
| Current Literature. 42: 78. Ja. ’07. 2240w. | ||
| Current Literature. 42: 404. Ap. ’07. 1490w. |
“Appears to us to deserve, instead of praise, sharp censure for its superficiality, bad English and its frivolousness.”
| − | Educ. R. 34: 105. Je. ’07. 20w. |
“Tho a few of the pages might have been modified had the writer prolonged his visit none the less they are worth perusal, not alone for the criticisms themselves, but also for the charm of the literary art with which they are expressed.”
| + | Ind. 62: 731. Mr. 28, ’07. 640w. |
Reviewed by Garrett Droppers.
| + | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 174. Mr. ’07. 1410w. |
“Mr. Wells is acute in observation, he is well informed on English social problems, and he reasons carefully. Never was an outside critic more kindly and sympathetic than Mr. Wells, and we have no doubt that during the next twenty years this book will be referred to and quoted from by every good writer on social problems, which, after all, are not peculiar to America.” John Perry.
| + | Nature. 75: 265. F. 17, ’07. 1550w. |
“The book is full of quotable sentences, and nothing could prove the actual maturity of the American people better than the interest and good nature we feel in just such inadequate representations of our country as this is.”
| − + | Outlook. 85: 526. Mr. 2, ’07. 390w. |
Wells, Herbert George. [In the days of the comet.] †$1.50. Century.
6–34685.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The volume is scarcely to be considered as the portrayal of an ideal commonwealth; nor as a serious study of social conditions, while as a love story it is pretty weak.”
| − | Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 470. N. ’06. 80w. |
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
| Atlan. 99: 115. Ja. ’07. 170w. |
Reviewed by Madeleine Z. Doty.
| Charities. 17: 487. D. 15, ’06. 490w. |
“He used to spin capital yarns after an improved Jules Verne fashion, but his reconstructions of society are neither exciting nor plausible. He has deceived us by false pretenses, and we shall hereafter regard his books with justifiable suspicion.” Wm. M. Payne.
| − | Dial. 42: 14. Ja. 1, ’07. 160w. | |
| − + | R. of Rs. 35: 126. Ja. ’07. 100w. |
Wells, Herbert George. [Time machine]; an invention. †$1. Holt.
Instead of a comet to lead up to a new regime, Mr. Wells invents in his present story a time machine which flies with the narrator thru the future to a golden age in which the dreams of to-day, speculations upon the destiny of our race have become projects deliberately put in hand and carried forward. Among them communism, disappearance of disease, subjugation of Nature, warring of physical force, and the close resemblance of the sexes.
Welsh, Charles, ed. Golden treasury of Irish songs and lyrics. 2v. $2.50. Dodge.
7–11574.
“The present anthology ... undertakes to present the best examples of Irish lyrical literature, the songs of the bards of old, the folksongs, the street ballads, the patriotic, pathetic, and romantic songs of the people so far as they have been preserved, the humorous and convivial verse, in which also the literature of the country abounds. Mr. Welsh has included as well poems of the current Irish revival, of which Mr. Yeats and Mr. Hyde are the prophets.”—N. Y. Times.
“Mr. Welsh has given us in such generous measure all that he promised, that it would be ungracious to grumble because he has thrown a lot of odds and ends into the bargain.”
| + + | Cath. World. 86: 120. O. ’07. 450w. | |
| Nation. 84: 570. Je. 20, ’07. 1270w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 160w. | ||
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 220w. |
“Mr. Welsh’s anthology is more complete than any former collection of Irish poetry and necessarily admits some work that does not commend itself to all, but this may be pardoned more readily than the omission of Moira O’Neill whose verse, almost more than that of its fellows, is fashioned of the iridescent web of smiles and tears we have learned to call the Celtic temperament.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
| + + − | Putnam’s. 3: 364. D. ’07. 160w. |
Wendell, Barrett. France of to-day. **$1.50. Scribner.
7–29424.
“Professor Barrett Wendell aims to interpret, not one Frenchman, but the French people. He undertakes to portray their character, to explain what to the Anglo-Saxon appear to be strange contradictions in their conduct, to interpret their life, to a people whose temperament is antagonistic and whose point of view is widely different.”—Outlook.
“The book is delightfully entertaining, and makes for a better understanding of the French people, their life and their ideals.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 199. N. ’07. |
“The early chapters are full of illuminating passages. But when the author ceases to deal with things which he has seen, he gets out of his depth, and is less valuable. The book suffers a little ... from having been composed for American consumption, but on the whole it is both interesting and informing.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 686. N. 30. 1320w. |
“The work is delightfully written with a leisurely air of personal reminiscences and full of those secure generalities which can be made only as a result of genuine experience.”
| + + | Lit. D. 35: 876. D. 7, ’07. 380w. |
“Professor Wendell’s book is both entertaining and profitable, and can be recommended as an introduction to the study of the French character.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 498. N. 28, ’07. 940w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 60w. |
“I greatly admire the book, it is full of excellent things; the author combines acumen with sympathy. He knows how to praise and he knows also how to blame, a much rarer art.” J. A. J. Jusserand.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 742. N. 23, ’07. 110w. |
“He is appreciative without being eulogistic, discriminating without being critical. In general his catholic spirit is wholly admirable, his insight keen, his conceptions clear, and his style felicitous. The book is a valuable contribution to an understanding of the French.”
| + + − | Outlook. 87: 499. N. 2, ’07. 340w. |
“It is a rather keen study of the highly complex French temperament which Professor Wendell gives.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 639. N. ’07. 110w. |
“Whether the reader knows or does not know France, he will learn very much from this thoughtful book.”
| + + | Spec. 99: 822. N. 23, ’07. 1780w. |
Wendell, Barrett. Liberty, union, and democracy: the national ideals of America. **$1.25. Scribner.
6–36883.
From its beginning, back to the days of the Declaration of independence and the Constitution, Professor Wendell traces Americanism historically.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 76. Mr. ’07. |
“This is in many respects a remarkable book. Even those who disagree fundamentally with the brilliant generalizations of the author cannot deny the bristling suggestiveness on every page. The breadth of view and acuteness of analysis which characterize this book give it an unique place in our political literature.” L. S. Rowe.
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 624. N. ’07. 500w. |
“It is difficult to comprehend how a man who for a generation and more has been in a position of vantage from which to observe the currents of American political, social and intellectual life, should have had his provincialism so little disturbed by the almost universal intellectual unrest that marks contemporary America.”
| − + | Ind. 62: 213. Ja. 24, ’06. 770w. | |
| Lit. D. 34: 178. F. 2, ’07. 250w. |
“With sober yet unconventional reflection, keen and matured insight, pervading reasonableness and good sense, and uncommon grace of speech, he has made clear some of the ideals which have made America great. The book should be widely read.”
| + + | Nation. 83: 444. N. 22, ’06. 1390w. |
“The weakness of Mr. Wendell’s expository methods [is], having evolved a brilliant theory, ... he bends all facts to fit it.” H. W. Boynton.
| + − | No. Am. 183: 1182. D. 7, ’07. 1250w. |
“To my mind the most satisfactory recent defence of the fundamental elements of American character is to be found in Barrett Wendell’s ‘Liberty, union, and democracy.’”
| + + | Putnam’s. 1: 639. F. ’07. 430w. |
Reviewed by Horatio S. Krans.
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 107. Ap. ’07. 1970w. |
“His writings on political subjects are suggestive and his interpretation of the American, in the main, sound and sane.”
| + | R. of Rs. 34: 760. D. ’06. 70w. |
Werder, Karl. Heart of Hamlet’s mystery; tr. from the German by Elizabeth Wilder; with introd. by W. J. Rolfe. **$1.50. Putnam.
7–6156.
Some of the lectures delivered by Professor Werder in Berlin 1859–60, which graphically present his theory that Hamlet was obliged by circumstances to delay his revenge in order to unmask and convict the king. They also contain a critical summary of the whole drama and discussions upon other disputed points.
Reviewed by Edward Fuller.
| Bookm. 26: 158. O. ’07. 360w. | ||
| Ind. 63: 155. Jl. 18, ’07. 290w. | ||
| Nation. 84: 390. Ap. 25, ’07. 560w. |
“Werder is an intensely matter-of-fact critic—all prose. The beauty of the book is that Werder has a firm grip on his argument, and coherently analyzes the play in its light. It is therefore, for most readers, a new and intelligible study of ‘Hamlet,’ and as such it will be welcomed.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 73. F. 9, ’07. 800w. |
“The argument is presented with great clearness and force.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 436. Je. 22, ’07. 290w. |
Wesley, John. John Wesley’s journal. Abridged. *50c. West. Meth. bk.
A handy one-volume edition in which the more interesting features of the two volume work are brought into condensed form. The main facts that illustrate the rise and progress of Methodism have been preserved in a continuous narrative.
“The condensation is considerable but the most characteristic and valuable features of this intensely interesting human document are preserved, and no liberties (except of omission) have been taken with Wesley’s text.”
| + | Dial. 42: 179. Mr. 16, ’07. 40w. |
Wesselhoeft, Mrs. Elizabeth F. P. Diamond king and the little man in gray. il. †$1.50. Little.
7–30454.
A child’s Christmas dream in which she wanders among the elves, gnomes and giants of the diamond king’s realm. It is a pretty fairy tale as well as wholesome.
“A new kind of fairy tale.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 40w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 150w. |
West, Andrew Fleming. Short papers on American liberal education. **75c. Scribner.
7–8568.
“How to combine the advantages of a large university with the peculiar benefits of the small college, is one of the problems of our higher education. Dr. Andrew Fleming West, dean of the graduate school of Princeton, answers it in his book ‘American liberal education,’ by the tutorial system now in force at Princeton, and he presents some good arguments in its favor, if the teachers and the taught are to know each other at all.”—Ind.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 133. My. ’07. |
Reviewed by Edward O. Sisson.
| Dial. 43: 286. N. 1, ’07. 440w. | ||
| + | Ind. 62: 742. Mr. 28, ’07. 70w. |
“The only fault reasonably to be found with the volume is that it is a collection of occasional papers and addresses, having much in common, but not dealing adequately with the highly important subject to which they relate. Sanity is the distinguishing quality of Prof. West’s little volume.” E. C.
| + + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 153. Mr. 16, ’07. 1180w. |
“Should be read by all college alumni who would keep pace with advancing change.”
| + + | Outlook. 85: 764. Mr. 30, ’07. 230w. |
Westcott, Rt. Rev. Brooke Foss. St. Paul’s epistle to the Ephesians: the Greek text with notes and addenda. *$2.50. Macmillan.
“The late bishop of Durham, left an all but finished commentary, which is here presented with an introduction and appendix to which friends and co-workers have supplied the larger part. The text is that of the last edition of Westcott and Hort’s ‘New Testament.’ Added to it are the Vulgate (Latin) version of the fourth century and the versions of Wicliff and Tyndale.”—Outlook.
| + | Lond. Times. 5: 366. N. 2, ’06. 1130w. | |
| Nation. 83: 482. D. 6, ’06. 120w. | ||
| Outlook. 84: 681. N. 17. ’06. 70w. |
“In his last, and unhappily almost fragmentary, commentary on Ephesians we find no failure. So far as we have Westcott, it is Westcott at his best.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 242. F. 23, ’07. 830w. |
Westcott, Rt. Rev. Brooke Foss. Village sermons. $1.75. Macmillan.
Forty sermons preached upon various occasions from 1852 to 1881 while the late Bishop of Durham was rector of a rural church.
“When the simplicity of their form and expression is considered, as well as the regretted personality of their author, we look to these sermons at once to enrich and to clarify the teaching of those who stand to-day in similar pulpits.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 30. Ja. 25, ’07. 480w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 12. Ja. 5, ’07. 300w. | ||
| Outlook. 85: 576. Mr. 9, ’07. 70w. |
“They are for the most part direct, simple, suggestive sermons, full of fact and thought rather than of exhortation.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 26. Ja. 5, ’07. 190w. |
Westell, W. Percival. British bird life: being popular sketches of every species of bird now regularly nesting in the British Isles. $1.25. Wessels.
One hundred and seventy-seven species are included in this volume which is profusely illustrated by photographs and drawings. “Each bird is treated under a separate head.... Each sketch includes a brief description of the bird and of its eggs and nest, together with some comment on its habits and haunts.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Another of the cheap illustrated books which are now so much in vogue. Signs of weakness are perceptible with regard to unfamiliar species and especially respecting migrants.”
| − | Ath. 1905, 2: 213. Ag. 12. 400w. | |
| − | Nature. 72: 196. Je. 29, ’05. 580w. |
“When treating of disputed matters Mr. Westell digresses from the more stereotyped form into very interesting narration of personal experiences.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 59. F. 2, ’07. 300w. |
“The work is done very carefully and with scientific accuracy, but ready-made knowledge has its deficiencies; it is especially apt to fail in style.”
| + − | Sat. R. 99: 601. My. 6, ’05. 100w. |
“The title is misleading, since only birds which regularly nest in the British Isles are included; and the alphabetical order is inconvenient. The information in the text is unreliable, and grammar as well as sense are frequently disregarded by the writer.”
| − | Spec. 94: 752. My. 20, ’05. 110w. |
Westermarck, Edward Alexander. [Origin and development of the moral ideas.] 2v. v. 1. *$3.50. Macmillan.
6–18579.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The citations are accurate and from so many writers that this volume at once becomes a source book of great value. The style is compact, but very readable. Only in a few of the first chapters did the reviewer have any sense of an attempt at hair-splitting. On the whole, the volume is a masterly discussion of great moral questions and leaves one anxious to see the second.” Carl Kelsey.
| + + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 489. N. ’06. 760w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“Dr. Westermarck’s book makes good reading for all who are interested in the evolution of human ideas and human institutions, from the tariff to woman suffrage, and from capital punishment to the elective system in colleges and universities.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 545. Je. 13, ’07. 1470w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The interpretation of these facts may here and there be questioned, but the important thing is to have the facts collected so as to be within easy reach. Ethical theorists should find the work invaluable, as thus furnishing them with concrete facts to rest their theories on or to test their theories by. The sociologist will find illuminating discussion of many customs, while the general reader if interested in matters of universal human concern, cannot fail to get pleasure and instruction from the reading of the book. Altogether it is perhaps safe to say that the work is the most important contribution to ethical literature within recent years.” Evander Bradley McGilvary.
| + + − | Philos. R. 16: 70. Ja. ’07. 3830w. (Review of v. 1.) |
Western frontier stories, retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical stories.) *65c. Century.
7–29581.
Sixteen stories for young readers of early frontier life which teem with such adventure as only western made grit can cope with. Indians, desperadoes, wolves and storms give the stout-hearted and quick of action plenty of opportunity to show their courage.
Weston, Thomas. History of the town of Middleboro, Mass. **$5. Houghton.
6–23056.
“This volume not only gives the dry facts of history and genealogy very fully, but also tells of the social customs of the eighteenth century, and supplies many pictures of and scenes in King Philip’s war and the French war.”—Ind.
“This is an unusually interesting history of a class which ought to be very large, for every town should have an official historian.”
| + + | Ind. 61: 1234. N. 22, ’06. 280w. | |
| + | Nation. 84: 58. Ja. 17, ’07. 430w. |
“Does credit to all concerned in its publication.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 841. D. 1, ’06. 230w. |
Weyman, Stanley John. [Chippinge Borough.] †$1.50. McClure.
6–37198.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 19. Ja. ’07. |
“There is, perhaps, nothing better in the book than the sense of tension everywhere prevailing on the eve of an election.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + − | Bookm. 24: 488. Ja. ’07. 400w. |
“On the whole, we must congratulate the author upon what is very nearly if not quite the best of all his novels.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 144. Mr. 1. ’07. 290w. |
“Stanley J. Weyman has come to that place as a novelist where he can afford to amuse himself when he writes whether he entertains the reader or not.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 674. Mr. 21, ’07 70w. |
Weyman, Stanley John. [Laid up in lavender.] †$1.50. Longmans.
7–32320.
“A venerable arch-deacon is entreated by a lady whom he knew in his youth to visit her in her illness. She is an actress, and has a daughter who is a well-known and beautiful actress; and he finds it rather embarrassing when he is asked to undertake the charge of the latter in the event of her mother’s death. When he does find his ward on his hands, he takes counsel of his son, a barrister, who gives him advice in the hypothetical case put to him. Of course the father, hoping to marry off the awkward ward to the man he has heard she loves, discovers this to be his own son under his writing name.”—Ath.
“They are all good stories, and each of them causes something of that feeling of excitement which Mr. Weyman knows so well how to produce.”
| + | Acad. 73: sup. 115. N. 9, ’07. 420w. |
“[The stories] are uninspired and take the author’s reputation no further. Indeed, they ‘drop’ it.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 516. O. 26. 250w. |
“Slight as they are, these early sketches leave the impression that Mr. Weyman understood contemporary life so well that a very promising disciple of Trollope was lost when he turned aside to don the sword and buskin.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 26: 410. D. ’07. 350w. |
“The variety of the provender supplied in the group makes a wholesome and digestible banquet from nourishing soup through seasoned entrée to contenting coffee.”
| + | Nation. 85: 447. N. 14, ’07. 150w. |
“None of the twelve tales has anything to raise it above the level of ordinary magazine fiction, and two or three of them are positively dull.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 711. N. 9, ’07. 100w. |
“Most of the other tales bear internal evidence of having been written some time ago, and the author would have been best advised to have kept them still laid up in lavender.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: 641. N. 23, ’07. 520w. |
Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth. [Italian days and ways.] **$1.50. Lippincott.
6–41526.
The amusing experiences of “three women—one young, the others uncertainly older—who land at Genoa and travel through the highways of Italy à la American tourist.” (Nation.) The record of the travels is in the form of letters written by one of the older women to a friend at home.
“Lacks the humor and buoyancy of Mrs. Wiggin’s Penelope stories but has much human interest and reflects considerable culture and appreciation of Italian sights and scenes.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 15. Ja. ’07. S. |
“Something of the unfading charm of Italy is caught in the pages of Miss Wharton’s ‘Italian days and ways.’”
| + | Dial. 41: 452. D. 16, ’06. 170w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 80w. |
“There is a tendency to enlarge upon trifling incidents, which produces the effect of padding; but the spirit of enthusiastic enjoyment gives a fresh view to old scenes.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 153. F. 14, ’07. 210w. |
“Her accounts of life in the various towns of Italy are as unhackneyed as they are simple and unaffected.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 574. Mr. 9, ’07. 50w. |
Wharton, Edith. [Fruit of the tree.] †$1.50. Scribner.
7–32842.
The interest of the first part of this story centers in the efforts of young John Amherst, who occupies a subordinate position in the management of the Westmore mills, to solve some of the industrial problems there presented, particularly in providing for the health and safety of the employes. His opportunity to carry out his cherished plans seems to be at hand when he gains the sympathy and interest and finally the love of the beautiful young widow who owns the mills. The marriage follows, and a little later there befalls a terrible accident in which the wife is hopelessly injured and to put her out of her pain, Justine, friend and nurse, administers an overdose of morphine. Justine marries Amherst who thru the blackmailing scheme of a young physician learns of Justine’s act and for a time is overwhelmed with her technical responsibility of Bessie’s death while his reason tells him that she is innocent.
“A novel of extraordinary power and intense interest, interpreting American life of the present day, done with Mrs. Wharton’s usual subtlety, ease and precision.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 204. N. ’07. ✠ |
“Though a better book than its predecessor, is not likely to provoke an equal amount of that heated and emotional public discussion which is the true sign of popularity.” Edward Clark Marsh.
| + + | Bookm. 26: 273. N. ’07. 1300w. |
“Besides its accomplished artistry, Mrs. Wharton’s work always gives us the sense of ethical responsibility.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 43: 317. N. 16, ’07. 580w. | |
| + − | Ind. 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 330w. | |
| + − | Ind. 63: 1436. D. 12, ’07. 910w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 35: 920. D. 14, ’07. 140w. |
“Again Mrs. Wharton has done a difficult thing with ease and precision.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 352. O. 17, ’07. 970w. |
“The astonishing thing is that we close the book with the feeling that, after all, the execution is superior to the idea; the story is better told than such a story deserves to be. We admire, but we are a little chilled; Mrs. Wharton sits at her desk like a disembodied intelligence; acute and critical and entirely unsympathetic; she is as detached as a scientific student viewing bacilli under a microscope.”
| + + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 637. O. 19, ’07. 1000w. |
“Even better than ‘The house of mirth.’”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
“Is not a bringer of joy, but it is penetrating in analysis, and evades none of the issues it raises. It lacks humor and contrast of character. The luxury and frivolity of a certain set of society people are almost too insistently driven home.”
| + + − | Outlook. 87: 621. N. 23, ’07. 210w. |
Wharton, Edith. [Madame de Treymes.] †$1. Scribner.
7–8219.
Mrs. Wharton’s stage is occupied by two women—one French by birth, the other by marriage—and an American who at forty is dabbling in the rather unsafe business of aiding one of them in divorce proceedings in order to attain his belated happiness. In transferring her point of observation from a New York to a Paris drawing room, Mrs. Wharton has made the enamel of convention only a little more brilliant, and in suffering it to crack to reveal a shrivelled up heart, only shows that underneath such gloss, life has ceased to ring true to any standards of spontaneity. Family, society, and the church are inexorable Molochs to whom must be sacrificed infant joy, freedom, hope and even courage.
“Now there is much that is admirable and subtle in the story and its treatment. The different points of view of two types of character are set forth with great clearness. The story, however, loses its poignancy owing to the fact that these types are not individualized.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 465. My. 11, ’07. 470w. | |
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 137. My. ’07. |
“The writing is distinguished by that blend of strength and grace which is characteristic of Mrs. Wharton.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 535. My. 4. 170w. |
“Whether or not in her most recently published novelette Mrs. Wharton gives a just evaluation to the ideals of another race, there can be no two opinions of the story’s literary merits.” Harry James Smith.
| + + | Atlan. 100: 131. Jl. ’07. 550w. |
“Although a miracle of condensation, in matter, in form, and by an unimpeachable distinction of style, Mrs. Wharton has written a short story which stands entirely above criticism.” Mary Moss.
| + + | Bookm. 25: 303. My. ’07. 1000w. |
“The author’s ideas are evaporated into Henry James subtleties, and so it is merely a little pamphlet of elegant discriminations.”
| − | Ind. 62: 1528. Je. 27, ’07. 220w. |
“Mrs. Wharton’s little story is as thin as her astral shape and should not be mentioned except to call attention to the fact that she has learned to begin where Henry James leaves off.”
| − | Ind. 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 30w. |
“Her pages exhale the undefinable atmosphere and aroma of aristocratic French life of the present day—a phase of life almost incomprehensible to the foreigner. The author’s style is full of distinction and is marked by those exquisite reserves that characterize the born artist. Slight as the volume is, it reveals artistic possibilities hitherto undiscerned.”
| + + | Lit. D. 34: 640. Ap. 20, ’07. 350w. | |
| + | Nation. 84: 313. Ap. 4, ’07. 710w. |
“She succeeds in painting her gray picture not so subtly that we forget her art, but exquisitely enough for us to recognize how fine that art is.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 137. Mr. 9, ’07. 1400w. |
“The precision of her technique ... the sensitiveness and significance of her observation, her feeling for the harmonious sentence and the suggestive phrase ... must always stamp her work as superior to that of many writers of wider sympathy and more spontaneous talent.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
| + + | No. Am. 185: 218. My. 17, ’07. 1200w. |
“A characteristic piece of work from an extremely careful and artistic writer.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 255. Je. 1, ’07. 150w. |
“An absolutely flawless and satisfying piece of workmanship.” Vernon Atwood.
| + + | Putnam’s. 2: 616. Ag. ’07. 700w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 764. Je. ’07. 320w. |
“The great force of the French family as an organization has never been better treated by a foreign pen, and the little book is written with all the author’s usual delicacy and distinction of style.”
| + + | Spec. 98: 764. My. 11, ’07. 90w. |
Whates, H. R. Canada, the new nation. **$1.50. Dutton.
6–43469.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 133. My. ’07. S. | ||
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 109. Ja. ’07. 150w. | |
| + | Sat. R. 102: 53. Jl. 14, ’06. 380w. |
Wheeler, W. H. Practical manual of tides and waves. *$2.80. Longmans.
6–33569.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| N. Y. Times. 11: 252. Ap. 14, ’06. 200w. |
Whelpley, James Davenport. Problem of the immigrant. *$3. Dutton.
5–11644.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“Mr. Whelpley’s conclusions are forcefully stated even though it is impossible to follow him in all of them.” Arthur B. Reeve.
| + − | Charities. 17: 506. D. 15, ’06. 930w. |
Wherry, Elwood Morris. Islam and Christianity in India and the Far East. (The student lectures on missions at Princeton theological seminary for 1906–’07.) **$1.25. Revell.
7–17908.
In which the author “recounts and describes the various methods of conquest by which Islamism established itself in these several countries, how it has been modified by Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism, and, finally, what Christianity is doing for the conversion of the Mohammedans of these various countries, and what success is attending its efforts.” (N. Y. Times.)
“There is evident throughout the book a thorough knowledge of the history of Islamism, and also of present-day social and moral conditions in Mohammedan countries.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 200w. | |
| + | Outlook. 87: 46. S. 7, ’07. 140w. |
Whinery, Samuel. Specifications for street roadway pavements. *50c. Eng. news.
“After a discussion of the theory of specifications, the general features of specifications are considered, such as those providing for inspection, public convenience and safety, extra work etc. Foundations are then taken up, concrete, old paving stone and broken stone being included. Under the heading ‘Bituminous pavements’ are found asphalt, block asphalt and rock asphalt. The various ingredients of these pavements are treated in detail, and the best methods for laying each pavement are specified. Granite, brick and woodblock pavements are given ample attention, and in the closing pages paragraphs of a general nature, relating to all pavements, are given, including payments, specifications for experimental and untried pavements, etc.”—Technical Literature.
“The pamphlet is a valuable contribution to the literature upon the proper construction of pavements, and will undoubtedly have much influence in standardizing, so far as local conditions will permit, specifications for this kind of work.” Edwin A. Fisher.
| + − | Engin. N. 58: 179. Ag. 15, ’07. 1750w. | |
| Technical Literature. 2: 97. Ag. ’07. 220w. |
Whipple, George Chandler. Value of pure water. $1. Wiley.
7–8249.
Here “an attempt is made from valuable data to establish formulae which may be employed to calculate the allowable depreciation due to sanitary quality, physical characteristics (colour, odour, etc.), hardness, etc., of a water supply.”—Nature.
“This little book is planned on novel lines and deserves recognition. The book is suggestive and stimulating reading, the various tables add to its value, and we heartily commend it to the sanitarian and water engineer.”
| + + | Nature. 76: 245. Jl. 11, ’07. 450w. |
“The book is well worth its price and should be found in every water library.” W. P. Mason.
| + + | Science, n.s. 25: 787. My. 17, ’07. 400w. |
Whistler, Charles W. Gerald the sheriff: a story of the sea in the days of William Rufus. †$1.50. Warne.
A story of life in England in the twelfth century. “It tells of the outlawing of a young Saxon thane, who joined wits and grievances with a displaced Cornish sheriff and, gathering together a hand of Saxon malcontents, hatched a plot for driving out the hated Norman king and seating in his place a Saxon heir to the throne. The tale is told in the first person and merely recounts the adventures which befell the young man and his friend as they followed their forlorn hope. But the adventures are perilous and exciting, and they follow close upon one another, until finally the chief actors win back to place and lands and safety.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The author has made an interesting tale of swift action and high motives, and has told it with a simplicity and dignity of style worthy of a higher grade of work.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 37. Ja. 19, ’07. 410w. |
Whitaker, Herman. [Settler.] †$1.50 Harper.
7–32564.
Manitoba in its primeval loneliness is the scene of his story. A gently reared girl enters the wilderness to care for her brother in his last illness. After his death she marries a rough, crude, strong-hearted settler, then permits her regret for the step to drive the pride-hurt man from her. The situations which grow out of the separation and final reunion are all intensified by the savagery of the wild surroundings.
“A rapid, active tale of adventure.”
| + | Nation. 85: 474. N. 21, ’07. 190w. |
“Much information may be gleaned from ‘The settler’ relating to lumber camps and farming lands of the Canadian Northwest and to the effects on its industrial conditions of the scheming of railway monopolists. We submit that the attempted realism here, especially in the freedom of speech employed by the women, is, in any case, unnecessarily offensive.”
| + − | Outlook. 87: 828. D. 14, ’07. 150w. |
Whitcomb, Ida Prentice. Young people’s story of art. $2. Dodd.
6–38344.
A concise and interesting sketch of the Egyptian, Grecian, Roman, Italian, Spanish, German, Flemish, Dutch, English, and French schools of art into which are woven stories and legends of the artists and their works.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 23. Ja. ’07. |
“It is interesting and instructive and will be read quite as eagerly and with as much profit by the older folks.”
| + − | Bookm. 24: 526. Ja. ’07. 90w. |
“The accounts are full, biographically, historically and in a literary way, while the illustrations are in themselves of distinct value.”
| + | Ind. 61: 1406. D. 13, ’06. 80w. |
“A sympathetically written text, interpolated with most carefully selected pictures. No child who has any sense of the beautiful will find this book dull. Its inspiration to visit museums and see with his own eyes the pictures described is undoubted.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 11: 836. D. 1, ’06. 440w. |
* White, Frederick M. Nether millstone. †$1.50. Little.
7–36980.
A fine old English estate is the scene of most that happens in this tale. Ralph Darnley, the lost heir, returns to find Sir George Dashwood the next of kin in possession, but with only his grandmother and an old butler in his confidence Darnley plans to conceal his identity until he teaches the girl he loves, the daughter of Sir George, the futility of her Dashwood pride which stands in the way of accepting his suit. He aids a false claimant to a nominal control of the property, which renders Sir George and his daughter penniless. The daughter is thrown upon the world and when she has learned its lessons and discovered what true worthiness is Darnley reveals his identity and carries her back to Dashwood hall.
White, Frederick M. [Slave of silence.] †$1.50. Little.
6–24582.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“We are glad to notice in [this novel] the evidence of more care in its production than the last one or two from his pen had led us to expect.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 162. F. 9. 100w. |
White, Stewart Edward. [Camp and trail.] *$1.25. Outing.
7–31474.
A practical experience book for the wilderness traveler. The author tells in detail how to select what is necessary and to reject what is unnecessary for camp convenience and comfort.
“Certainly with the drawings, and even the names of firms that furnish the desirable articles, the way of it all is as ‘plain as plum porridge,’ so that the westward-faring man, tho a tenderfoot, cannot err therein.” May Estelle Cook.
| + | Dial. 43: 419. D. 16, ’07. 90w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
“The humors of life in the open air are happily touched upon, and make the book something more than a manual.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 769. N. 30, ’07. 140w. |
White, Stewart Edward. The pass. *$1.25. Outing pub.
6–325827.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“He impresses one as being more true than Mr. Jack London, with a measurably broader outlook than Mr. Thompson Seton, and more vigorous, more actual than Dr. van Dyke. There are times when one cannot help wishing that he would be a shade less conscientiously breezy in his language.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 386. Ap. 20, ’07. 580w. |
White, Stewart Edward, and Adams, Samuel Hopkins. [Mystery]; il. by Will Crawford. †$1.50. McClure.
7–2060.
“The plot turns upon the mysterious and wonderful happenings that occurred on a volcanic island in the Pacific and upon equally strange and uncanny encounters on the high seas. A long series of happenings follow. More astonishing than anything that ever occurred to the imagination of Stevenson or Marryat.”—Lit. D.
“The book is a happy mixture of R. L. Stevenson and Mr. H. G. Wells.”
| + | Acad. 72: 441. My. 4, ’07. 360w. | |
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 79. Mr. ’07. ✠ |
“The authors indulge in more slang and technical detail of a marine sort than the ordinary reader can readily grasp.”
| − + | Ath. 1907, 1: 572. My. 11. 90w. |
“A well-rounded romance.” Richard Hughes Remsen.
| + + − | Bookm. 25: 84. Mr. ’07. 720w. | |
| + | Ind. 62: 970. Ap. 25, ’07. 130w. |
“The story is well told in a lively style, and the characters are strongly portrayed. Perhaps there is in the dialog a dash too much of smartness. The credibility of the reader is at times overstrained. But the novel has real merit and is a notable contribution to the ‘thrillers’ of the sea.”
| + − | Lit. D. 34: 218. F. 9, ’07. 160w. |
“The narrative sags badly amidships, but the faith of the romancer serves to keep us afloat till we reach port.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 61. Ja. 17, ’07. 180w. |
“Even ‘Treasure island’ has need to look to its laurels when books like the ‘Mystery’ are being written, though the former’s claims are safe as long as Mr. White and Mr. Adams are compelled to adopt such a theatrical device for their wonder worker as the precious substance which the chest on board the Laughing Lass was supposed to contain.”
| + + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 29. Ja. 19, ’07. 1050w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 170w. |
“In a certain way it is very well done; but it is a tour-de-force, not a piece of real writing.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 377. F. 16, ’07. 210w. |
White, William Allen. [In our town.] †$1.50. McClure.
6–12564.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a clever and a wholesome book about people large and small who live in a little city.”
| + | Ind. 62: 1035. My. 2, ’07. 270w. |
Whitehouse, Henry Remsen. Revolutionary princess; Christina Belgiojoso Trivulzio, her life and times, 1808–1871. *$3. Dutton.
A biography which gives in detail the story of the devoted Milanese, her exile in Paris, her revolutionary plots, her travels, her writings and the remarkable characteristics which make the princess a conspicuous figure of her time.
| Ath. 1907, 1: 250. Mr. 2. 1320w. |
“Mr. Whitehouse has given the English reader an interesting account of a romantic personality.”
| + | Ind. 63: 698. S. 19, ’07. 310w. |
“Though his book cannot rank very high either as literature or history, it will do well enough to introduce to the subject those who cannot read Italian.”
| − + | Nation. 84: 366. Ap. 18, ’07. 450w. |
“It is a pity that the publishers of the life of the Princess Belgiojoso did not select a biographer more in sympathy with the subject.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 98. F. 16, ’07. 440w. |
“Mr. Whitehouse has given us not only an interesting biography but a vivacious history of the first three-quarters of the past century in leading to one of the greatest achievements of that century, the unification and liberation of Italy.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 860. Ap. 13, ’07. 370w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 507. Ap. ’07. | ||
| Spec. 98: 577. Ap. 13, ’07. 1620w. |
Whiteing, Richard. Ring in the new. †$1.50. Century.
6–34801.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 27. Ja. ’07. |
“Mr. Whiteing knows the difficulties of the great city for the untrained bread-winner, but his present attempt to give this knowledge literary form is a pretty flat failure.”
| − | Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 470. N. ’06. 80w. |
“Is clever, readable, and not to be taken too seriously.” Mary Moss.
| + − | Atlan. 99: 114. Ja. ’07. 110w. |
“Mr. Whiteing has a big social purpose and he makes you feel it, but the book as a story is not sufficiently interesting and vital to hold popular attention.” Madeleine Z. Doty.
| − + | Charities. 17: 485. D. 15, ’06. 690w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 119. Ja. ’07. 70w. |
* Whiting, Lilian. [Italy, the magic land.] **$2.50. Little.
7–37741.
A companion to Miss Whiting’s “Florence of Landor.” It is a panoramic view of the comparatively modern part of Rome “which, opening with the period of Canova and Thorwaldsen, proceeds to the contemporary Rome of Vedder and Franklin Simmons, in which the author depicts the Rome of the Hawthornes and the Brownings, and of that intense artistic life attracted by the stupendous works of Michael Angelo and the galleries of the Vatican.” The chapter headings are: The period of modern art in Rome, Social life in the Eternal city, Day-dreams in Naples, Amalfi, and Capri, A page de conti from Ischia, Voices of St. Francis of Assisi, The glory of a Venetian June, and The magic land.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 70w. |
Whiting, Lilian. [Land of enchantment: from Pike’s Peak to the Pacific.] **$2.50. Little.
6–42359.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 15. Ja. ’07. |
“The historian or he who would present economic and political conditions from a democratic view-point must be fundamental in his investigations and fearlessly impartial in weighing and presenting all the facts as they exist. Any failure to do this impairs the work as a valuable contribution to historic or economic and social literature. And just here, it seems to us, is found the one weak point in Miss Whiting’s otherwise charmingly instructive and valuable work.”
| + + − | Arena. 37: 211. F. ’07. 2190w. |
“It makes a poor showing in comparison with Mr. James’s thoro and original study.”
| − + | Ind. 62: 43. Ja. 3, ’07. 180w. | |
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 119. Ap. ’07. 30w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 256. F. ’07. 40w. |
Whitlock, Brand. [Turn of the balance.] †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–10046.
An arraignment of the law as it is administered in our commonwealth to-day. Pitted against the big machine of the law is human justice which attempts to overthrow the merciless momentum of legal incompetence, and fails. The force of the story lies along the line of a plea for human sympathy and improved conditions.
“The book is as strong and purposeful as ‘The jungle,’ and as literature it is a more finished creation. It is a distinctly great novel, presenting a vivid and effective picture of the miserables of our social order.”
| + + | Arena. 86: 664. Je. ’07. 2870w. |
“From beginning to end there is not one scene that is forced or unnatural or out of place or out of proportion or improbable or inadequate; there is not one sentence or phrase that is overdone or written for effect; of all the characters there is not one that fails to be convincing.” Charles Edward Russell.
| + + | Arena. 38: 209. Ag. ’07. 1450w. |
“It is a particularly sordid story of criminal life, unredeemed by any special skill in the telling, and lacking the breadth of treatment which alone can make such a subject impressive.”
| − + | Ath. 1907, 2: 400. O. 5. 130w. |
“Grim as his story is, it must claim attention both for its passionate devotion to an idea of mercy and charity, and for its profound recognition of the organic and indestructible unity of human life.” Harry James Smith.
| + | Atlan. 100: 130. Jl. ’07. 750w. |
“Is chiefly remarkable as an exhibit of the criminal under-world, its viewpoint, its customs, and its speech.” Wm. M. Payne.
| − | Dial. 42: 314. My. 16, ’07. 200w. |
“A serious book this, convincing even while one looks for the other side of the picture—one of the most striking of the many indictments of society of recent years.”
| + | Ind. 62: 1031. My. 2, ’07. 340w. |
“The author has an eye for details that give many passages of description a distinctive virtue; but all the virtues are overborne by the pulpit utterance, and swamped in a crowd of people who are all very good or very bad as the illustration of the thesis demands.”
| − + | Lond. Times. 6: 366. N. 29, ’07. 430w. |
“Contains many revelations of our own city life. It is fascinating to read and—worth reading.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 170. Mr. 23, ’07. 640w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 120w. |
“Profoundly depressing is the effect of this story, yet the author surely must have been moved by the desire to better the conditions he describes with great power.”
| + − | Outlook. 85: 812. Ap. 6, ’07. 180w. |
Whitlock, William Wallace. When kings go forth to battle. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–28962.
A small German principality is the seat of exciting warfare. An unscrupulous king and a conniving “minister of interior improvements” find their match in two invincible Americans who keep the secret of a young prince’s hiding place, and with characteristic American energy join in a revolutionary plot to unseat the reigning monarch and place the prince upon the throne.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 619. O. 12, ’07. 160w. |
Whitmore, C. S. Harmony flats: the gifts of a tenement-house fairy. 85c. Benziger.
7–22914.
All about some little neglected children whose squalor and suffering in a New York tenement house are relieved by a kind benefactor, who turns out to be the very irascible old gentleman whom the children had greatly feared.
* Whitney, Helen Hay. Bed-time book; with pictures by Jessie Willcox Smith. †$1.50. Duffield.
7–25151.
A bed-time book for children even to the little nightgown-clad people surrounding the text on every page marching off with their candles to bed.
| + − | Nation. 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 40w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 200w. |
“The most attractive picture-book of the year. There is a strain of seriousness, we might almost say sadness, underlying the expression of Miss Smith’s characters, that the young folks may not find attractive, though they may not penetrate deep enough into the philosophy of art to know the cause. But artistically these pictures would be hard to equal.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 766. D. ’07. 100w. |
Whitney, Rev. James Pounder. Reformation: being an outline of the history of the church from A. D. 1503 to A. D. 1648. (Church universal ser., v. 6.) *$1.50. Macmillan.
7–37538.
A complete handbook of the reformation belonging to the series known as “The church universal” which deals with the history of the Christian church as a historic body.
“His effort ‘to be fair to all schools of thought and to all men to the time’ has, in the opinion of the reviewer, met with indifferent success. Chapters 7–9 (141 pages) are devoted to the Council of Trent. Here we at once become aware that the author is treading on firmer ground. He no longer deals in vague generalities or manifests the ‘possession’ on his part of vast supplies of ignorance and misinformation, but he shows interest in the minutest details and the possession of a creditable amount of authentic knowledge. These chapters constitute the only really valuable part of the work and justify its publication.” Albert Henry Newman.
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 876. Jl. ’07. 820w. |
“The treatment of the very large subject is brief and summary, the point of view is Anglican, and the spirit non-partisan.”
| + | Ind. 63: 763. S. 26, ’07. 50w. |
“He has to do his work his own way, and he has done it admirably. But we are sorry to say that he has sometimes been hasty, and has allowed ill-shapen sentences and sometimes errors of fact to escape his notice.”
| + + − | Sat. R. 104: 244. Ag. 24, ’07. 440w. |
Whitson, John Harvey. Castle of doubt. †$1.50. Little.
7–16940.
A novel in which a young man tells his own strange story. While enjoying a spring-time stroll in Central Park he is suddenly confronted by an up-to-date carriage containing two pretty women, one of whom declares she is his wife. Despite his remonstrance he is thrust into the carriage by the foot-man, embraced, welcomed and carried off to a luxurious house where he is told that he is Julian Randolph, a young millionaire whose sudden disappearance was a matter of national comment two years before. So far the story differs little from other novels of mistaken identity, but the concluding chapters, which establish the right of the hero to the love and the position he has come to covet, are unusual, unexpected, and well handled.
“Belongs [to] the class of books written for that optimistic age that still can believe, if only for twenty-four hours, that the book last read is the best book ever written.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 25: 600. Ag. ’07. 550w. |
“Is an interesting story, not without many instances in real life to prove its plausibility.”
| + | Ind. 63: 574. S. 5, ’07. 230w. |
“The tale is as puzzling as a detective story, and the denouement is as much a surprise to the hero as to the reader.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 140w. |
“The story is well told, and modern New York is graphically pictured.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 100w. |
* Whittier, John Greenleaf. John Greenleaf Whittier: a sketch of his life, by Bliss Perry, with selected poems. **75c. Houghton.
7–36386.
A short sketch of Whittier which leaves out the non-essentials and presents the chief formative influences which made the character and career of the poet. The poems chosen illustrate the trend of his boyhood imagination, the political and social struggle of his mature years, and the peace of the resting and waiting in which his life was brought to a close.
Whys and wherefores of the automobile. il. 50c. Automobile Institute, Cleveland, O.
A simple explanation of the elements of the gasoline motor car, prepared for the non-technical reader.
Whyte, Christina Gowans. Adventures of Merrywink. $2. Crowell.
A fresh, wholesome fairy tale which won the prize of £100 which the Bookman of London offered for the best story submitted in a recent competition.
“The illustrations are unequal, and though some are very feeble, others are exceptionally good.”
| + − | Acad. 71: 584. D. 8, ’06. 50w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 140w. |
“The story is delightful, merry, and well written, certain to please children.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 50w. |
“A very fair specimen of the modern fairy tale.”
| + | Sat. R. 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 60w. |
Whyte, Christina Gowans. Nina’s career. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–32567.
The doings of a group of wholesome English young folk are chronicled in this story. The girl who was granddaughter to a Liberal peer, the once-a-year friend who had to have an artistic career, a delightful family of brothers and sisters, all help to make a pleasing tale of youth, its amusements, ambitions, and achievements.
“A cheerful story, full of life and movement, and by no means lacking in humour.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 652. N. 23. 110w. |
Whyte, Christina Gowans. [Story book girls.] †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–41715.
“A group of English girls attempt to conduct their lives according to story-book ideals. The difficulties in the way are innumerable, but the faith is great, the rewards are many.”—Outlook.
| + | Acad. 71: 643. D. 22, ’06. 90w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 50w. |
“A very interestingly planned and well-executed book, with a delightfully fresh plot.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 120w. |
Widney, Joseph Pomeroy. Race-life of the Aryan peoples. 2v. **$4. Funk.
7–23307.
v. 1. The old world. Beginning with the Asiatic period in the race life of the Aryan people, their various emigrations are here traced chronologically into India and South and West Europe. The whole is an unfolding of “The race epic which the Aryan peoples have lived.”
v. 2. The new world. In this volume the author carries his “race epic” over seas and follows the westward march of the Aryan people from ocean to ocean in America, discussing also present day conditions and problems.
“It is what would be called in its own language a ‘live’ book, and for that we are thankful. It is not to be expected that we should sympathise wholly with American ideals and aspirations, or even those of the best Americans, but we can pay Dr. Widney no higher compliment than to wish that he had been born an Englishman, so that he might have written this book from an English point of view.”
| + − | Acad. 73: 161. N. 23, ’07. 990w. |
“It is a pity that Mr. Widney, many of whose observations are extremely shrewd, should have allowed a book that has evidently cost him much labour to degenerate into a political pamphlet.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 484. O. 19. 970w. |
“The best that can be said of the work is that it has swing and style and may afford material for patriotic addresses. As for the scientific value, it has none.”
| − | Ind. 63: 1375. D. 5, ’07. 410w. |
“His book is not a compilation, nor is it a new statement of a theme already set forth at length by other writers, but an original conception worked out through fine research, carefully coordinated and written in a clear and attractive style.”
| + + | Lit. D. 35: 208 Ag. 10, ’07. 420w. |
“Though Widney’s book is instructive when read aright, that is, with a clear conception of who the Aryan is and whence he came, yet it is misleading, and very much so, if the reader ignores scientific ethnology and anthropology as much as does the author.” Charles E. Woodruff.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 497. Ag. 17, ’07. 2380w. |
“His style is animated and energetic; he is philosophic, discursive, poetic; he is quick to trace analogies and mark contrasts, fond of generalization and prone to turn history into prophecy. The total impression of his work is realistic and picturesque. His national and international forecasts, with one prominent exception are the least satisfactory portion of his work.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 973. Ag. 31, ’07. 400w. |
“Not only the latest result of scholarship in ethnology, but an unusually absorbing narrative.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 36: 382. S. ’07. 270w. |
“A highly interesting and suggestive book.”
| + | Spec. 99: sup. 645. N. 2, ’07. 330w. |
Wieland, George Reber. American fossil cycads. $6.25. Carnegie inst.
6–34020.
“This contribution to American paleo-botany is richly illustrated with fifty plates and 138 text figures. It is an account of the American collections of fossil cycads—plants allied to the fern—so far as they have been studied, and the results of the author’s investigations on the vegetative anatomy and reproductive organs, followed by a comparison of these with similar structures in living cycads, and a discussion of relationships.”—Nation.
“The monograph is creditable to American botany and the presswork of the Carnegie institution.”
| + | Nation. 83: 471. N. 29, ’06. 220w. |
“A flood of light has been thrown on the morphology of an extinct group of Mesozoic gymnosperms, which it is possible to study with a precision and thoroughness hardly to be surpassed in the case of recent plants.”
| + | Nature. 75: 329. Ja. 31, ’07. 1760w. |
“Marks a very important forward step in our knowledge of the cycadales, while it also throws a great deal of light upon the general problem of the phylogeny of the gymnosperms and their supposed relation to filicinean ancestors.” D. P. Penhallow.
| + + | Science, n. s. 25: 856. My. 31, ’07. 1530w. |
Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith) (Mrs. George C. Riggs). [New chronicles of Rebecca.] †$1.25. Houghton.
7–11587.
Eleven more quaintly amusing chronicles which carry Rebecca thru various stages of girlhood and bring her to her eighteenth birthday. They are entitled: Jack o’lantern. Daughters of Zion, Rebecca’s thought-book, A tragedy in millinery, The saving of the colors, The state o’ Maine girl, The little prophet, Abner Simpson’s new leaf, The green isle, Rebecca’s reminiscences, Abijah the brave and fair Emmajane.
“Written with the quiet humour which is her characteristic.”
| + | Acad. 73: 848. Ag. 31, ’07. 160w. | |
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 138. My. ’07. ✠ |
“The pathos is kept commendably in check, however, and there is plenty of humour in the chronicle.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 179. Ag. 17. 210w. |
“The stories are brimming with mirth and kindly sentiment.” Harry James Smith.
| + | Atlan. 100: 133. Jl. ’07. 80w. |
Reviewed by Mary K. Ford.
| Bookm. 25: 304. My. ’07. 800w. |
“The story, abounding in touches of genuine humor and pathos, comes as a delightful treat to both the older and younger reader.”
| + | Cath. World. 85: 693. Ag. ’07. 120w. |
“Conscious invention has taken the place of intuition. It is inferior to its predecessor.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 574. S. 5, ’07. 240w. |
“There are here the same quaintness, pathos, and humor found in her former books, the same understanding of the abysses of childhood, the same realism and fidelity to nature. The pictures by F. C. Yohn are in perfect tune with the story and a model of what novel illustrations should be.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 640. Ap. 20, ’07. 290w. | |
| Nation. 84: 362. Ap. 18, ’07. 200w. |
“This volume is not quite up to the level of its predecessor.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 233. Ap. 13, ’07. 940w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 130w. |
“‘New chronicles of Rebecca’ have ... freshness of sentiment and humor.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 115. My. 18, ’07. 190w. |
“Those who did not make the acquaintance of Rebecca at Sunnybrook farm are recommended not to miss the present opportunity.”
| + | Sat. R. 104: 86. Jl. 20, ’07. 200w. |
“Worthily maintain the reputation of a writer who has done for the present generation of American and English readers much what Miss Alcott did for its predecessor.”
| + | Spec. 98: 1037. Je. 29. ’07. 990w. |
Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith) (Mrs. George C. Riggs). [Old Peabody pew]; a Christmas romance of a country church. il. †$1.50. Houghton.
7–32837.
A Christmas story of a “certain handful of dear New England women of names unknown, dwelling in a certain quiet village, alike unknown.” A new carpet, pews washed in lieu of paint, and cushions mended with care told on Christmas eve the story of days of hard work by the Dorcas society. Among the number had been Nancy Wentworth who, quiet and apart from the rest, had lavished her strength on the Peabody pew, sacred to her early romance, where Christmas eve finds her alone taking the last stitch in the worn-out cushion. To this spot comes Justin Peabody the wanderer lover who, weary as the prodigal son, seeks the comfort and love of Nancy.
“One of the prettiest novelettes of this season, as well as one of the most delightful from a literary point of view.”
| + | Dial. 43: 380. D. 1, ’07. 200w. |
“It is withal so sweet and wholesome that we wish more books like it might be written to take the place of the so-called ‘problem novels’ of the day.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 920. D. 14, ’07. 100w. |
“Many pathetic and humorous touches.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 10w. |
“Notwithstanding the slightness of the plot, there are all the elements of humor and pathos and love that go to make up a story of much sweetness, the kind one feels better for reading.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 716. N. 9, ’07. 100w. |
“A characteristically bright tale of a New England life full of sentiment and humor.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 30w. |
Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith) (Mrs. G. C. Riggs), and Smith, Nora Archibald. [Fairy ring.] **$1.50. McClure.
6–42427.
Sixty-five fairy tales gathered from every nation. They include some well known stories and some recently discovered ones.
“A choice collection.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 23. Ja. ’07. ✠ |
“Less hackneyed than those of the Cinderella kind. For that reason they will read strangely, yet entertainingly to modern ears.”
| + | Ind. 61: 1407. D. 13, ’06. 40w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 11: 784. N. 24, ’06. 170w. |
“Most readable fairy tales.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 93. Ja. 12, ’07. 70w. |
* Wiggin, Mrs. Kate Douglas, and Smith, Nora Archibald, eds. [Pinafore and palace.] †$1.50. McClure.
7–30444.
“This volume of jingles is judiciously divided, somewhat like Charles Welsh’s edition of ‘Mother Goose,’ to accord with the physical activities and dawning mental appreciation of small folk. There is a diversity of selection, ranging from ‘Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, where have you been?’ to Tennyson’s least childlike and most stilted poem, ‘Minnie and Winnie.’”—Nation.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 211. N. ’07. ✠ |
“Taken in a set, these three volumes of verse represent an agreeable progress from classic jingle to rarest poetry.”
| + | Nation. 85: 495. N. 28, ’07. 130w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 90w. |
Wigram, Edgar T. A. Northern Spain; painted and described by Edgar T. A. Wigram. *$6. Macmillan.
“The kind of description which lies halfway between the guide-book and the book of atmosphere.” (Outlook.) “The author made his tour as a bicyclist. He journeyed with observing eyes, and very little in Spain that was really worth while escaped him.” (Ind.) “Besides ‘hamlets’ and small towns, the traveler stopped at the larger cities, including Covadonga and Asturias, Leon, Galicia, Benavente, Zamora, Toro, Salamanca, Bejar, Avila, Toledo, Segovia, Burgos, Navarre, and others.” (N. Y. Times.)
“One cannot open these pages anywhere without being struck by our author’s capacity for presenting a scene in words at once fit and few.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 1: 9. Ja. 5. 1360w. |
“As we read what he has written we see Spanish types with a new significance, and we lay down the volume with a better and a clearer understanding of Spain and the Spaniards.”
| + | Ind. 61: 1398. D. 22, ’06. 150w. |
“It is greatly to be regretted that Mr. Wigram ... was not accompanied on his journey through Northern Spain by a professional painter who would have been able to supplement his eloquent descriptions of the scenes he visited by aesthetic presentments of them in colour. Gifted, moreover, with a vivid imagination and a keen sense of humor, Mr. Wigram manages to hit off in a few telling sentences the idiosyncrasies not only of the men and women, but of the animals he met.”
| + − | Int. Studio. 35: 167. Ap. ’07. 340w. |
“Mr. Wigram has well caught in his pictures the varied colors of Spain, which seem at first glance so inharmonious when viewed by essentially Occidental eyes. But they are true, and the artist is to be congratulated that he has dared to depict the truth and to account for it so entertainingly in a most attractively written text.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 11: 770. N. 24, ’06. 620w. |
“The author not only describes the country through which he rode or walked, but also tells anecdotes, gives bits of the history of certain places, and provides other interesting information.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 11: 830. D. 1, ’06. 360w. |
“An altogether unworthy successor to Ford and Borrow is Mr. Wigram who possesses one faculty denied to those worthies—namely, the facility of describing by picture as well as by pen.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 703. N. 24, ’06. 100w. |
“As a writer he harps too much upon merely pictorial effects, which were doubtless attractive to an artist but suffer through vain repetition. Though we may not claim him as guide or philosopher, he is certainly well met as a soothing friend.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103:372. Mr. 23, ’07. 230w. |
Wilberforce, Wilfrid, and Gilbert, Mrs. A. R. Her faith against the world. *$l. Benziger.
A young barrister asks the aristocratic Sir Richard Forrester for the hand of his daughter, Gertrude and is refused because he lacks position. Later he gets into Parliament on assuring his constituents that he is not a Roman Catholic. Sir Richard then welcomes him, but Gertrude, who has joined the Roman church, refuses to marry a Protestant, and is turned out of her father’s house. The solution of this complication is the burden of this political-religious novel.
“The book is written from the point of view of a Roman Catholic, but without bitterness and intolerance.”
| + | Acad. 71: 553. D. 1, ’06. 140w. |
“An entertaining novel, although it is somewhat sketchy in both action and character, and although it does carry a moral instruction.”
| + − | Cath. World. 84: 701. F. ’07. 260w. |
Wilcox, Earley Vernon. Farm animals: horses, cows, sheep, swine, goats, poultry, etc. **$2. Doubleday.
6–35959.
A practical book giving general information about the breeding and care of farm animals.
“A good, popular guide.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 106. Ap. 16, ’07. |
“It is rather an excellent compend of general information. The chapter on dairy stock is the best in the book, but every chapter is good. The illustrations have the advantage of being well related to the subject.”
| + | Nation. 83: 402. N. 8, ’06. 140w. |
Wilde, Oscar. Decorative art in America: a lecture, together with letters, reviews, and interviews; ed. with an introd. by Richard B. Glaenzer. **$1.50. Brentano’s.
6–39452.
Mr. Glaenzer in his introduction sets forth the characteristics chiefly as they pertain to art, of “the most pitiful dreamer, the wittiest cynic and the most brilliant wit of his century.” The nineteen essays or groups of letters which this volume includes strike the dominant art notes of Oscar Wilde’s nature. Among the personalities touched up by the “verbal colourist” are Mrs. Langtry, Sarah Bernhardt, Whistler, Keats, and Kipling.
Wilde, Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills. [Ballad of Reading gaol]; drawings by Latimer J. Wilson. *$1. Buckles.
7–16474.
In this new edition of the well-known ballad the spirit of the gruesome revelation of a soul in torment is marred by the illustrations which, lacking any subtle suggestion of the horrors of the hangman and the terrors of death, are commonplace and repellant.
Wiley, Harvey Washington. Foods and their adulteration. Il. *$4. Blakiston.
7–19428.
This book, descriptive in character, reaches a large audience, including the consumer, the manufacturer and the scientific as well as the general reader. It treats of the origin, manufacture and composition of food products; the description of common adulterations, food standards and national food laws and regulations. The information contained in this manual appeals especially to the intelligent and scientific cook.
“The book is invaluable to the manufacturer and the consumer, to the scientist and the layman; it is indispensable to even a small collection on this subject of wide, present-day interest.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 199. N. ’07. |
“This is the most authoritative and comprehensive book that has appeared on this important subject, and there is no other man in America who is better fitted to handle it from both the scientific and the legislative sides than the author.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 834. O. 3, ’07. 360w. |
“This is not the book of a crank, and Dr. Wiley’s views regarding the future of the American food-supply are in general optimistic.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 213. S. 5, ’07. 750w. |
“The information furnished by Dr. Wiley arms the public with knowledge—knowledge of the conditions and of its own rights.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 404. Je. 22, ’07. 1370w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 384. S. ’07. 120w. |
“Amid a large mass of confusing and often exaggerated newspaper articles dealing with the subject, it is a comfort to find a book covering the field so completely, so sanely and withal in so interesting a way.”
| + + | Science, n.s. 26: 714. N. 22, ’07. 880w. |
Wiley, Sara King. Alcestis and other poems. **75c. Macmillan.
5–32655.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
| + | Outlook. 85: 573. Mr. 9, ’07. 380w. |
Wiley, Sara King. Coming of Philibert. **$1.25. Macmillan.
7–18078.
A tragic poem-drama of three acts in which Prince Philibert, who has been reared in the forest and kept unconscious of his heritage, according to the wish of his dead father, is brought to the court of Artacia by his twin brother, the young king who feels that he has been unjustly dealt with. Here the world is opened to him, all his latent emotions awake, and unwittingly, he usurps his brother’s place in the hearts of his people, and comes to wear his crown and marry his Clementia.
“It will bear reading. But, in the acting, it would appear lamentably monotonous and wanting in almost every essential of a play, notably characterization, contrast and ‘suspense.’”
| + − | Ind. 63: 571. S. 5, ’07. 330w. |
“Is an interesting bit of dramatic blank verse which just misses distinction.”
| + | Nation. 85: 35. Jl. 11, ’07. 210w. |
“As a play there is much good exposition but little vital action. The verse is always correct, and occasionally there are flashes of fine poetry.” Christian Gauss.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 100w. |
“Mrs. Drummond is an essentially feminine poet of fine insight and delicate sensibility. The chief gain in ‘The coming of Philibert’ is the dramatic action and force.” Louise Collier Willcox.
| + | No. Am. 186: 97. S. ’07. 270w. |
Wilkinson, Florence. Silent door. †$1.50. McClure.
7–10292.
A village story ... “which revolves about Justinian Penrith, incarnate genius of austerity, and a little child left ... upon his doorstep. Given a beautiful daughter who had fled from home some years previous for an affaire d’amour and whose whereabouts had baffled all search—and you have the key to ‘The silent door.’” (N. Y. Times.)
“In Miss Wilkinson’s novel ... one recognizes the promise rather than the achievement. The story taken as a whole is unimpressive. The plot is mildly preposterous, and none of the characters, not even little Rue herself, seems ever quite detachable from the printed page. But the details of Miss Wilkinson’s work are a constant delight.” Harry James Smith.
| + − | Atlan. 100: 132. Jl. ’07. 450w. |
“The chief charm about Miss Wilkinson’s style is its absolute lack of hurry. It is seldom that one encounters such genuine charm in a volume constructed upon a plan so simple.”
| + + | Bookm. 25: 284. My. ’07. 480w. |
“There are some fine pages of description. The humor is abundant and genuine.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 98. Jl. 20, ’07. 330w. |
“It has a pervasive, though not obtrusive, spiritual quality, and leaves upon one an impression of sweetness and light.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 170. Mr. 23, ’07. 970w. |
“In her first novel, she has accomplished something also rare, and certainly thoroughly delightful.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 254. Je. 1, ’07. 210w. |
Wilkinson, Rt. Rev. Thomas Edward. Twenty years of continental work and travel. *$3 50. Longmans.
“The record of an Anglican bishop’s experience in north and central Europe among British colonies, factories, and communities, comprising an area eight times the size of Great Britain.”—Lit. D.
“Bishop Wilkinson has great power of observation and much skill in expressing that observation in words. There is in the volume a good deal of padding which, should have been omitted.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 580. N. 10. 1360w. |
“An interesting panorama of Europe, with a fine historic perspective.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 264. F. 16, ’07. 190w. | |
| + − | Spec. 98: 121. Ja. 26, ’07. 380w. |
Willcocks, M. P. Wingless victory. $1.50. Lane.
7–35625.
Devonshire furnishes the setting of this story. “The plot centres about the winning of an unloving and pretty nearly unfaithful wife by her husband.... The husband is a physician, a curious mixture of strength and weakness, heroism and failure, and altogether a very human and lovable person. The wife is not so comprehensible a type, but still real enough in her feminine perversity and unreasonableness.... Johanna is of another type, and she, too, makes one see deep down into the reality of things. The whole book is alive with human passion, powerfully portrayed, and with the vigor and freshness of the open air.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Talent such as hers was not and never could be acquired in any of the ready-made schools of fiction. It bears the stamp of originality.”
| + + | Acad. 72: 319. Mr. 30, ’07. 550w. |
“The author has certainly produced a notable as well as a good story. It seems to us somewhat clogged by over elaboration of style and metaphor.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 659. Je. 1. 250w. |
“The book is the work of one who has thought much. Scattered through it are gnomic sayings that stick in the memory. These and an intimate sense of natural forces, are perhaps the striking external features of the book.” Ward Clark.
| + | Bookm. 25: 523. Jl. ’07. 450w. |
“The book has strength ... although not in this plot with its dubious ethical implications. It is the strength of keen analysis, vivid descriptive power, and a characterization of the rustic population of Devon and Dartmoor fairly comparable with the work of Mr. Phillpotts and other disciples of the school of Thomas Hardy.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + + − | Dial. 43: 62. Ag. 1, ’07. 340w. |
“An Ibsen plot set in a Thomas Hardy environment. The combination is, on the whole, an effective one, for the author has undoubted talent.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1312. N. 28, ’07. 400w. |
“In the case of Miss Willcock’s book ... we have need of some emphatic word that shall signify a book that is not a season’s masterpiece or a giant among pigmies, but, as we conceive, one that takes its place, if not among the highest, still among books where rules of measurement seem a little out of place.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 110. Ap. 5, ’07. 540w. |
“Rises high above the level of common day fiction. In Miss Willcock’s elaborate descriptions we discern a certain scraping of stage scenery being shifted. In the same way there is unnecessary harping on such indefinable elements as ‘race-processes’ and ‘electric forces of the ages’ unnecessary reductions of action and feeling to terms of biology and prehistoric anthropology.”
| + + − | Nation. 85: 79. Jl. 25, ’07. 570w. |
“A helpful and heartening story, not because any of its characters are particularly high or heroic in their accomplishment, but because it conveys that life itself in its simple, homely, everyday guise is a thing worth while.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 365. Je. 8, ’07. 990w. |
“A very remarkable piece of work, and not less interesting than remarkable.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 190w. | |
| Sat. R. 103: 433. Ap. 6, ’07. 210w. |
“No one except the serious-minded reader who loves a problem novel should embark upon ‘The wingless victory.’”
| + − | Spec. 98: 679. Ap. 27, ’07. 210w. |
Williams, Archibald. [How it works: dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and their application to apparatus in common use.] $1.25. Nelson.
7–29122.
“Here the reader will find explained in a concise, straightforward manner the working of everything from a locomotive or a motorcar to a Bunsen burner or a Westinghouse brake. The book is profusely illustrated with helpful diagrams, and we are glad to note that an index has been provided.”—Acad.
| + | Acad. 71: 607. D. 15, ’06. 100w. |
“Hardly any other volume will answer as many of the questions that a bright boy asks and ought to ask about the things he sees and uses. It should head the list of books to be bought for school libraries.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 737. Mr. 28, ’07. 150w. |
“The volume furnishes much that is practical and lucid.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 80w. |
Williams, Archibald. Romance of early exploration, with descriptions of interesting discoveries, thrilling adventures, and wonderful bravery of the early explorers. *$1.50. Lippincott.
6–39449.
“The present book brings exploration down to A. D. 1600 beginning with its infancy 200 years before Herodotus. Pictures and maps add desirabilty to the book.”—Nation.
“The writer’s own manner is one of manly straightforwardness, as free from dulness as from misplaced embellishment.”
| + | Nation. 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 70w. |
Reviewed by Cyrus C. Adams.
| N. Y. Times. 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 120w. |
“An intelligent boy could hardly have a book which would give him more entertainment and more instruction.”
| + | Spec. 97: sup. 760. N. 17, ’06. 300w. |
Williams, Egerton Ryerson, jr. Ridolfo, the coming of the dawn, a tale of the Renaissance. †$1.50. McClurg.
6–36880.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| − | Ind. 62: 673. Mr. 21, ’07. 100w. | |
| + | Outlook. 85: 575. Mr. 9, ’07. 280w. |
“One thing is certain about Mr. Williams’ first attempt to write a novel; he has succeeded.”
| R. of Rs. 36: 126. Jl. ’07. 40w. |
Williams, Elizabeth Otis. Sojourning, shopping and studying in Paris, a handbook particularly for women. **$1. McClurg.
7–18307.
An excellent little book into which has been compressed a wealth of valuable information for the woman who is traveling alone in France. It contains the addresses of suitable hotels, boarding houses, schools of art, places of amusement, and shops in Paris, it tells what charges, fees, etc. are just, it explains customs and conventions, tells where one may go without an escort, what one may bring home without duty, how to arrange one’s finances, and appends a classified vocabulary which contains all the words and phrases essential to a shopping tour or an excursion.
“A suggestive, helpful little handbook.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 175. O. ’07. | |
| + | Dial. 42: 381. Je. 16, ’07. 40w. |
“Just the sort of information needed by American ladies in Paris. And, altho written for women, we fancy that men will find it almost as valuable.”
| + | Ind. 62: 1357. Je. 6, ’07. 70w. | |
| R. of Rs. 36: 126. Jl. ’07. 40w. |
Williams, Henry Llewellyn, jr., comp. Lincoln story book. **$1.50. Dillingham.
7–8232.
It is the story-telling Lincoln shorn of platform oratory who is revealed in this generous collection of anecdotes. There are over four hundred of them and in the retelling nothing of the humor, or of the tone of the classics has been sacrificed.
Williams, Hugh Noel. Madame Recamier and her friends. *$2. Scribner.
The details of the long salon-reign of Mme. Récamier are carefully set forth here. “With no commanding ability such as in itself might draw a group about her, yet, in wealth and in poverty, in court favor and banishment, in youth and in age, Mme. Récamier was ever the center of a great circle, and ever herself simple, contented, generous, unspoiled by attention from all the famous people of her time.” (Ind.)
“Granting the ‘raison d’etre’ of the biography, it may be said that the author has conscientiously studied the life of his heroine, together with those of her friends as they affected hers, and presents the results in a pleasant, easy manner, which makes the book an entertaining one.”
| + | Dial. 43: 44. Jl. 16, ’07. 260w. |
“A most satisfactory story of an extraordinary career.”
| + | Ind. 63: 342. Ag. 8, ’07. 170w. |
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
| Putnam’s. 2: 475. Jl. ’07. 150w. |
Williams, Hugh Noel. Queen Margot, wife of Henry IV. of France. *$7.50. Scribner.
7–25144.
Daughter of Catherine de Medici, wife of Henry of Navarre, the brilliant La Reine Margot is revealed in both an attractive and forbidding light. She figures thruout the sketch as a being mightily swayed by emotions yet capable of detaching herself from them as in the case of her “debonair equanimity of mind” when divorced from her husband, and called upon to mingle with his new queen and their children.
“On the whole, the author has succeeded in his endeavour to give a full and impartial account of her life, and has acquitted himself satisfactorily of his secondary aim—that of sketching the historical events ‘in which she was more or less directly concerned.’”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1. 68. Ja. 19. 2090w. |
“Despite this special diligence and an adequate knowledge of sixteenth century memoirs, we have found this book enriched by little illuminating criticism.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 17. Jl. 4, ’07. 430w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 83. F. 2, ’07. 720w. |
Williams, James Mickel. An American town: a sociological study. Priv. ptd.
6–46255.
“The author, formerly a fellow in sociology in Columbia university, has in connection with his graduate work, made this sociological study of a small town of rural New York.... He has given us a little bit of the social history of the town and community, dividing it into two periods—from the settlement to 1875 and from 1875 on.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“It is a painstaking, intelligent, and extremely suggestive piece of scholarly work. On the whole Mr. Williams is to be heartily congratulated on a piece of work which opens up new possibilities in the intensive study of localities, and proves that monographic work of this kind is to be of prime importance to sociology.” George E. Vincent.
| + | Am. J. Soc. 12: 421. N. ’06. 850w. |
“This volume is valuable because it is an illustration of careful, conscientious field work, even if occasionally the conclusions seem unwarranted.”
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 471. N. ’06. 190w. |
Williams, John E. H. Life of Sir George Williams, founder of the Young men’s Christian association. **$1.25. Armstrong.
6–42910.
Written at the request of Sir George Williams’ family by “one who has had intimate access to all the sources of information and who writes with keen sympathy and appreciation.... Beginning as a poor young clerk and without other resources than his own strength of character and an indomitable will, the subject of the present work rose to be one of the most considerable men in England.” (Lit. D.)
| + | Lit. D. 34: 342. Mr. 2. ’07. 240w. | |
| + | Lond. Times. 5: 403. N. 30, ’06. 750w. | |
| + | Nation. 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 450w. |
“Is a contribution to the literature of power.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 942. D. 15, ’06. 160w. |
Williams, Leonard. Granada: memories, adventures, studies and impressions. **$2.50. Lippincott.
6–35342.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 76. Mr. ’07. |
Reviewed by Wallace Rice.
| Dial. 41: 392. D. 1, ’06. 170w. | ||
| + | Nation. 84: 39. Ja. 10, ’07. 180w. |
Williams, T. Rhondda. Evangel of the new theology. *$1.50. Scribner.
“The basal question of religion, as he observes, is the relation of God to the living world. The theology now being outgrown conceived of God and man as external to each other, beings apart, and out of this fallacious dualism the Unitarian controversy grew. But ‘the gist of the new theology’ is the oneness of the spiritual nature in God and man, so that humanity itself is ‘an incarnation of the divine life.’”—Outlook.
“In one way or another the whole realm of modern religious thought is touched upon with profound discrimination. The book will prove exceedingly helpful to all who desire a clear and sane statement on vital matters from the modern point of view. As a group of sermons, however, it would seem that the book gives undue emphasis to intellect and does not sufficiently appeal to the deeper things of the heart. Also, the use of Scripture is not large.” E. A. Hanley.
| + − | Bib. World. 29: 475. Je. ’07. 220w. |
“It is marked by warmth as well as freshness and force, and by intentness on the realities of religious faith.”
| + | Outlook. 82: 617. Mr. 17, ’06. 260w. |
Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Alice Muriel. [Car of destiny.] †$1.50. McClure.
7–30841.
“This is a description of several of the more interesting Spanish cities, strung on the thin threads of an automobile trip and a love story. The hero and the heroine fall in love—of course at first sight—at Biarritz. The heroine and her mother are whisked off through Spain in an automobile by the wicked Spanish duke whom this scheming mother wishes the daughter to marry. The hero follows in his automobile. The account of the roads, the country, and the towns is broken by the incidents of the chase—some of them highly melodramatic.”—Nation.
“Frankly, the book contains every one of the elements which ought to annoy a reader of critical taste. And yet, paradoxically, instead of annoying, it furnishes a very genuine, even though not enduring, enjoyment.”
| + − | Bookm. 26: 267. N. ’07. 740w. |
“So unconvincing is the characterization, that marriage as well as misadventure leaves the reader cold.”
| − | Nation. 85: 329. O. 10, ’07. 180w. |
“Splendid descriptions of Spanish life and scenes abound.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 70w. |
“It is a penny-in-the-slot romance, as mechanical as if it were turned out of a factory, marketable like calico, and of about as much distinction.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 685. O. 26, ’07. 450w. |
Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Alice Muriel Livingston. [Princess Virginia.] †$1.50. McClure.
7–15121.
This story “provides a lovely princess with American blood in her veins and ... a pretty will of her own. Also a proper American romantic idea of falling in love with whom she pleases and marrying to suit. But the safety of Europe depends upon her marrying the young Emperor of Rhaetia. What is to be done?... The impressionable Princess Virginia must happen upon the handsome Emperor when she does not know who he is, and he does not know who she is. They will, of course, both of them fall in love at sight. It is always thus. No sooner said than done.”—N. Y. Times.
“The most one can say for it is that it is harmless.”
| − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 181. O. ’07. | |
| Lit. D. 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 210w. |
“No motors in this, but a manner so glib and facile that it resembles nothing so much as the swift revolutions of a new front wheel, when the salesman turns the bicycle upside down and gives a twirl to prove the smooth perfection of its ball-bearings. There is the same near approach to perpetual motion, and the same lack of arriving.”
| − | Nation. 84: 568. Je. 20, ’07. 190w. |
“The Williamsons have produced another fine, galloping romance of the most approved rose-color order.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 320w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 260w. |
Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Alice Muriel. [Rosemary in search of a father.] †$1.50. McClure.
6–40214.
“The five-year old Rosemary at Monte Carlo, seeing that her mother is sad, sets out to find a lost father, and meets with such extraordinary good luck that we can only suspect the intervention of Christmas fairies. They send Rosemary a wonderful father, far more attractive than the real one, and just the man her mother most desired to meet again. So with the help of an old love-affair, an American millionaire, a pretty French adventuress, a profusion of jewels, and costly raiment such as might haunt the delirious dreams of a milliner’s girl, the tale runs on to a happy conclusion.”—Acad.
“It is a brisk, highly coloured story, of the lightest possible construction.”
| + − | Acad. 71: 638. D. 22, ’06. 150w. |
“This little novel has distinction, a literary aroma.”
| + | Lit. D. 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 60w. |
“When this has been described as a ‘pretty’ tale of the whipped cream and bonbon box type, there is not much more to say about it.”
| + | Nation. 83: 464. N. 29, ’06. 160w. |
“All this is highly melodramatic, but Rosemary is a quaint little creature, and adds a large redeeming feature to an otherwise impossible picture.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 11: 888. D. 22, ’06. 370w. |
“An agreeable little short story.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 942. D. 15, ’06. 8w. |
Willys, A. A. [Swiss heroes, an historical romance of the time of Charles the Bold]; tr. from the German by George P. Upton. (Life stories for young people.) **60c. McClure.
7–31242.
The careers of Hans Vögeli, Heinrich Vögeli and Walter Irmy. three Swiss heroes, are followed in their relations with Charles the Bold, whose oppressive measures they avenged for the safety of their people.
Wilson, Mrs. Augusta J. E. [Devota]; il. by Stuart Travis. †$1.50. Dillingham.
7–21224.
“‘Devota’ is the story of a tragedy in the lives of two persons, a man of sterling character, and a proud woman—does it not sound familiar?—who are separated by a misunderstanding and kept apart by the woman’s obstinacy. But after many years they are reconciled. Surely Mrs. Wilson has filled her ink bottle from the spring of eternal youth!”—N. Y. Times.
“Without having read ‘St. Elmo,’ one may safely assert that not even an ornamental border on every page, and illustrations of preternatural loveliness will quite bring ‘Devota’ the vogue of its predecessor.”
| − | Nation. 85: 188. Ag. 29, ’07. 180w. |
“Although it is hardly more than a novelette, has the self same characteristics of style, thought, conception, viewpoint, which marked Mrs. Wilson’s novels of the long ago and which will carry back to his youth the memories of many a gray-haired reader.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 180w. |
* Wilson, David Henry. George Morland. *$1.25. Scribner.
The growing popularity of the Morland paintings seems to be reason enough for producing this biography which covers all of the phases of his artistic career and besides records a good many impressions of the seamy side of man’s life.
“Mr. Wilson does not exhibit, in his pleasant little volume, any special qualification for his task. He moralizes too much on Morland’s career. He seems to fail when he has an opportunity of adding a useful chapter to his book.”
| − − + | Ath. 1907, 2: 625. N. 16. 910w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 536. S. 7, ’07. 700w. |
* Wilson, Harry Leon. [Ewing’s lady.] †$1.50. Appleton.
7–38598.
The story of a young Westerner with genius for painting who is both the protégé of a young New York widow and the object of diabolical revenge on the part of the man whom his mother ran away from to marry his father. Apart from the melodramatic fury of the story a group of minor characters is drawn including “the cowboy in the clear, heady Colorado air, the genial freemasonry of the studio, Clarence, the lovable convert from civilization, dyspepsia and predigested food, and Ben Crider, fit associate for Billy Brue.” (Nation.)
“A generation ago such a story would have been branded as the rankest and frankest of shockers. But Mr. Wilson keeps a strong literary grip on his plot. His characters are admirably drawn, consistent and lifelike. There is plenty of real humour in the book, and some excellent pictures of manners, Eastern and Western.” Burton Blass.
| + − | Bookm. 26: 415. D. ’07. 960w. |
“It is the drawing of the minor characters and their environment that gives the book its charm.”
| + + − | Nation. 85: 545. D. 12, ’07. 190w. |
Wilson, James Harrison. Life of Charles A. Dana. **$3. Harper.
7–19056.
This volume has grown out of the biographer’s intimate acquaintance and immense admiration for a man who during fifty years and more of the past century helped to make the history of our nation. Chapters on his education and early battle with poverty, association with Greeley on the New York Tribune, his telling service to the Federal government during the civil war have been written from letters, documents and clippings bearing upon public and private life.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 174. O. ’07. S. |
Reviewed by M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
| + + | Atlan. 100: 419. S. ’07. 1210w. |
“The whole narrative is very interesting. One could wish that General Wilson would have given us as minute a study of Dana the editor as of Dana the commissioner and the Assistant Secretary of War.” Richard W. Kemp.
| + − | Bookm. 25: 612. Ag. ’07. 800w. |
“His long and intimate acquaintance with an admiration for the man have qualified him to write understandingly without dependence on such outside aid.” Percy F. Bicknell.
| + + | Dial. 43: 32. Jl. 16, ’07. 1490w. |
“While in the main it is laudatory, it is not laudatory in a fulsome sense.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 132. Jl. 27, ’07. 950w. | |
| + | Nation. 84: 548. Je. 13, ’07. 860w. |
“The facts of his life have been diligently assembled, and they are set forth authentically in good chronological order.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 337. My. 25, ’07. 1700w. | |
| + − | Outlook. 87: 586. N. 16, ’07. 1250w. |
“Taken as a whole, General Wilson’s book is excellent in so far as it relates to Dana’s early years and to the civil war. For the rest, it lacks that fulness of information which is necessary to a complete survey of a remarkable career.” Harry Thurston Peck.
| + − | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 518. S. ’07. 1120w. |
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
| Putnam’s. 3: 108. O. ’07. 1100w. |
“While a journalist might perhaps have written a biography of Dana more interesting to journalists, it is doubtful whether any of Mr. Dana’s newspaper acquaintances could have put into the book more of a personal history of the past generation.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 124. Jl. ’07. 200w. |
Wilson, James Southall. Alexander Wilson, poet-naturalist: a study of his life with selected poems. $2. Neale.
7–410.
A sketch of the life of America’s first ornithologist, and poet of somewhat indifferent fame. Alexander Wilson came to America from Scotland in 1794 to be free from the turmoil of revolution. The life story includes Jefferson’s letters about birds, a study of the Scotland of Wilson’s and Burns’s time, and a careful analysis of Wilson’s character.
“The one serious mistake of the author is reflected in the title. He undertakes to rescue from oblivion not only the man and the bird fancier, but the poet.”
| + + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 63. F. 2, ’07. 630w. |
“An interesting memoir.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 380. Mr. ’07. 110w. |
Wilson, May (Anison North, pseud.). Carmichael. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–12002.
“A pretty story of Canadian rural life. The heroine tells the tale, and we see her loving, helpful ministry to family and neighbors, yet sharing her father’s feud and trying to keep it up after his death. But justice and love are too strong for her filial theories, and the houses of Mallory and Carmichael are reconciled. The illustrations and marginal decorations do not add especially to the simple narrative.”—Outlook.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 353. Je. 15, ’07. 80w. |
“A story with a distinct moral lesson—which lesson is well to the front in the author’s mind. Yet it is a very pleasant and readable story also—one which will recommend itself particularly to old-fashioned maiden ladies but need not necessarily on that account be scorned by younger and wiser persons.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 476. Ag. 3, ’07. 630w. | |
| + | Outlook. 86: 476. Je. 29, ’07. 80w. |
Winckler, Hugo. History of Babylonia and Assyria; tr. and ed. by James A. Craig; rev. by the author. **$1.50. Scribner.
7–29420.
“What a few decades of spade-work have revealed of more than three thousand years of civilization is presented here, with the caution not to expect any connected history of it until future excavators shall have done the work awaiting them.”—Outlook.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w. | ||
| Outlook. 87: 311. O. 12, ’07. 300w. |
Winslow, Helen Maria. President of Quex: a woman’s club story. †$1.25. Lothrop.
6–36041.
A novel whose heroine, the president of Quex, “is led out of the useless life of a sorrowing recluse by her work as president of the club, which she makes a factor of consequence in the social, industrial, and political life of her state.” (N. Y. Times.)
| N. Y. Times. 11: 675. O. 13, ’06. 160w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 11: 744. N. 10, ’06. 260w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 90w. |
“We close the little book with a smile compounded of amusement and skepticism.”
| + − | Outlook. 84: 683. N. 17, ’06. 100w. |
Winter, Alice Ames. [Jewel weed.] †$1.50. Bobbs.
6–36042.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is too full of reflected culture, and lacking in realism and vitality. It is weak fiction.”
| − | Outlook. 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 40w. |
Winter, Nevin Otto. [Mexico and her people of to-day.] $3. Page.
7–34163.
An account of the customs, characteristics, amusements, history and advancement of the Mexicans, and the development and resources of their country illustrated from original photographs. The author bases his book upon both travel and study and presents it in the hope that it may help Americans to a better understanding of their neighbors across the line.
“A book of up-to-date information of a miscellaneous sort about a nation concerning which, though she stands at our very doors, most of us know very little.”
| + | Dial. 43: 378. D. 1, ’07. 240w. |
Winterburn, Mrs. Rosa V. Methods in teaching. *$1.25. Macmillan.
7–20690.
“This book is made up of a series of monographs explaining the methods employed in the elementary school of Stockton, California. The English teacher will find much here that is obvious, but the monograph on the teaching of English deserves attention.”—Ath.
“The monographs are very thorough, but also, for the most part very dull.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 93. Jl. 27. 130w. |
“It is a record of experience, of the deductions made by a body of practical teachers working together for a considerable period. As such it is valuable—of greater value perhaps to many teachers than a more profound statement of theoretical pedagogy.”
| + | Nation. 85: 234. S. 12, ’07. 180w. |
Wister, Owen. [How doth the simple spelling bee.] *50c. Macmillan.
7–8533.
An extravaganza on reform spelling, in which the reformer “at the age of seventy-five, with uncounted millions, and ten United States Senators, and a fourth young wife all in his pocket, proposed to hand his name to Immortality by simplifying the spelling of English all over the earth.” The sketch is worthy a Dickens up to date, and exposes humorously the unrelated scraps in the “rag-bag of lawlessness” which Mr. Wister chooses to denominate English spelling.
“The author has mist his aim and is badly mixt in his ideas.”
| − | Ind. 62: 741. Mr. 28, ’07. 50w. |
“A witty satire.”
| + | Nation. 84: 243. Mr. 14, ’07. 30w. |
“Were well worth preserving, for a time at least.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 144. Mr. 9, ’07. 150w. |
“This fantastic skit is immensely amusing at its outset, but becomes a little tedious before the end.”
| + − | Outlook. 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 40w. |
Wister, Owen. [Lady Baltimore.] †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–10312.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The first serious and patriotic American story which candidly has the courage to uphold the aristocratic ideal.” Mary Moss.
| + + | Atlan. 99: 121. Ja. ’07. 620w. |
* Wister, Owen. [Mother.] †$1.25. Dodd.
7–32323.
“Love and speculation in copper stocks are the themes of the novelette, which Mr. Wister blithely dedicates ‘To my favorite broker, with the earnest assurance that Mr. Beverly is not meant for him.’”—Dial.
| Dial. 43: 421. D. 16, ’07. 80w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 60w. |
* Wister, Owen. Seven ages of Washington: a biography. **$2. Macmillan.
7–38230.
An elaboration of a Washington address by the author. It is “a full-length portrait of Washington with enough of his times to see him clearly against.” Mr. Wister shows how the unfreezing of Washington began by Irving, but that he went at it gingerly; “to-day,” he says “we can see the live and human Washington full length. He does not lose an inch of it, and we gain a progenitor of flesh and blood. The seven ages are Ancestry, The boy, The young man. The married man. The commander, The president, and Immortality.”
“His portrait is thoroughly convincing.”
| + | Dial. 43: 424. D. 16, ’07. 140w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
Witt, Robert Clermont. How to look at pictures. **$1.40. Putnam.
3–15103.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“There is no better book of the kind.”
| + + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3:86. Mr. ’07. |
Wolfe, Albert Benedict. Lodging-house problem in Boston: published from the income of the W. H. Baldwin, jr., 1885 fund. (Harvard economic studies, v. 2.) **$1.50. Houghton.
6–45064.
While for two years holding the South End house fellowship Dr. Wolfe collected the material which he has presented here. His treatise “deals with the class of dwellings that are known in many cities as rooming-houses or furnished-room houses, and with the mercantile employees and skilled mechanics who are sheltered in these houses. Oddly enough, it appears that there has never been, heretofore, anything like an adequate investigation of lodging-house conditions in any of our great cities.” (R. of Rs.)
“Societies which aim to promote the wellbeing of young people of this class will find here materials and methods of investigation of highest value.” C. R. Henderson.
| + | Am. J. Soc. 13: 275. S. ’07. 100w. |
“The author has made an important contribution to our knowledge of home (?) life of the great class in our communities, and his volume, and its suggestions, should be carefully studied.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 227. Ja. ’07. 450w. |
“The author is disappointing in not being more convincing and conclusive in some of the salient points he has raised; he has left vital issues related to the subject for others to investigate and develop.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 399. Ag. 15, ’07. 420w. |
“Taking the volume as a whole, the student of social conditions will find in it much to interest him, and he will certainly credit the author with much conscientious industry. At the same time, he will hardly avoid the conclusion that valuable time and energy have been sacrificed to microscopic detail of trivial importance and leading to nowhere in particular.” E. R. Dewsnup.
| + − | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 179. Mr. ’07. 590w. | |
| + | Nation. 84: 105. Ja. 31, ’07. 320w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 72. F. 2, ’07. 250w. |
“While somewhat academic, Dr. Wolfe’s discussion of immediate and ultimate means for the betterment of lodging-house conditions is written broadly and judicially.”
| + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 569. S. ’07. 330w. |
“Dr. Wolfe has gone into the subject very thoroughly.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 180w. |
Wood, Robert Williams. Physical optics. *$3.50. Macmillan.
6–5702.
“While the book hardly claims, perhaps, to be a complete treatise, it covers a great deal of ground, and in particular deals with a number of matters, such as the laws of radiation, dispersion, fluorescence, and the optics of moving media, which are not so fully treated in some other recent works. A student commencing the study of optics would perhaps hardly begin with this book; he would find, however, in its pages when he came to read them some most instructive views of the subject.”—Nature.
“It is full of instruction clearly conveyed, is instinct with intelligence and is uncommonly interesting, because it is largely about the author’s own work. Some day we shall have a better proportioned book, but that it will be a more serviceable one is not so certain.”
| + + − | Nation. 83: 99. Ag. 2, ’06. 170w. |
“The theoretical treatment of the matter is perhaps less satisfactory.”
| + + − | Nature. 74: 509. S. 20, ’06. 1150w. |
“It would be difficult to collect a more instructive and interesting group of experiments in optics than that presented. In quite a number of places the notation does not agree with the figures. Apart from these slight defects the book is an inspiration to students and teachers and will be a great aid in rescuing physical optics from the absurd mathematical symbolism which sometimes seems to throttle progress in this fruitful field of investigation.” J. S. Shearer.
| + + − | Phys. R. 25: 303. O. ’07. 240w. |
Wood, Walter Birbeck, and Edmonds, James Edward. History of the Civil war in the United States, 1861–1865. *$3.50. Putnam.
5–35776.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“It is enough to say that the book can be read with pleasure, but we have to read slowly and closely.” J. E. Morris.
| + − | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 386. Ap. ’07. 1560w. |
Wood, William. Fight for Canada; a sketch from the history of the great imperial war. Definitive ed. $2.50. Little.
6–15420.
A new edition which includes revisions and additional notes. The author gives much detail concerning the personnel and technical equipment of the army and of the navy, and emphasizes particularly the part played by the naval forces in the campaign against Quebec.
| + | Am. Hist. R. 11: 973. Jl. ’06. 100w. |
“The author writes with clearness and force. His characterizations are often presented with succinct and epigrammatic phrase. One defect in the author’s treatment is that all men are either black or white; none are, to use Professor Morse Stephen’s illuminating phrase, pale gray. The author’s strong convictions on present-day subjects ... show a lack of judicial restraint.” S. J. McLean.
| + + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 438. Mr. ’07. 680w. |
Wood, William Wallace. Walschaert locomotive valve gear. $1.50. Henley.
6–46770.
A practical treatise on the locomotive valve actuating mechanism, originally invented by Egide Walschaert, with the history of the development by American and European engine designers, and its evolution into the mechanically correct locomotive valve gear of the present day.
“The work is clear and explicit in the manner of handling the subject, and it should give any careful reader an excellent idea of the principles and application of the Walschaert gear, together with much important relative information of practical value to the engineman and master mechanic.” Arthur M. Waitt.
| + + | Engin. N. 57: 307. Mr. 14, ’07. 440w. |
* Woodberry, George Edward. Great writers. **$1.20. McClure.
7–33931.
Essays of a critical nature upon three prose writers and three poets: Cervantes, Scott, Montaigne; Virgil, Milton and Shakespeare.
“The peculiar critical genius of G. E. Woodberry is seen to exceptional advantage. He approaches high matters with a subtle simplicity that lends a dignity to the texture of his prose, and reinforces his humane imagination with a singularly concrete and vivid sense of the individuality of historical periods. The essays upon the prose writers are perhaps a little more interesting and satisfactory than those upon the poets.”
| + + − | Nation. 85: 498. N. 28, ’07. 550w. |
“Carefully wrought and singularly beautiful, Mr. Woodberry is so much of a poet in temperament that his prose sometimes exchanges simplicity and clear definition for a vagueness which gives the atmosphere of the critic’s mind rather than the fullness of his ideas.”
| + + − | Outlook. 87: 766. D. 7, ’07. 470w. |
Woodberry, George Edward. Ralph Waldo Emerson. **75c. Macmillan.
7–3927.
The life of Emerson written for the “English men of letters” series. “‘The process of a soul in matter’ was his biography,” says Mr. Woodberry. The life is sketched thru the following chapters: The voice obeyed at prime, “Nature,” and its corollaries, “The hypocritic days.” The essays, The poems, and Terminus.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 106. Ap. 16, ’07. S. | |
| Current Literature. 42: 288. Mr. ’07. 1410w. |
“The volume is charmingly written—the style so distinctive, the ideas so often luminous and so generally fascinating.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 548. Ap. 6, ’07. 180w. |
“In our opinion this is the best of the American volumes that have so far appeared in the series, and it is about the best work of its author. But if the book as a whole deserves high praise, there are still grave reservations to be made. There is altogether too much repetition; certain ideas, such as Emerson’s relation to the clergy and the pulpit, come up with needless frequency. And again, there are a few apparent contradictions that call for reconciliation, such as the varying portraiture of Emerson now as practical and now as unpractical. Graver than these are the lapses in scholarship.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 179. F. 21, ’07. 950w. |
“It is a book by which we may be content to have our Emerson and his critics judged on the other side of the Atlantic.” Edward Cary.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 90. F. 16, ’07. 1260w. |
“More serviceable to the student than any previous biography or criticism, because it expounds Emerson from the inside out instead of from the outside in. Professor Woodberry’s study is a triumph of sweet reasonableness; but it is planned without abandonment and executed without ecstacy.” Clayton Hamilton.
| + + | No. Am. 185: 83. My. 3, ’07. 1040w. |
“It is altogether the best among recent additions to the ‘English men of letters series’—indeed, quite the most satisfying interpretation of Emerson which has been offered.” H. W. Boynton.
| + + | Putnam’s. 3: 107. O. ’07. 1050w. |
“Professor Woodberry’s treatment of Emerson is adequate and dignified.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 756. Je. ’07. 40w. |
Woodburn, James Albert, and Moran, Thomas Francis. American history and government: a text-book for grammar schools on the history and civil government of the United States. *$1. Longmans.
6–9273.
An attempt “to combine in a single grammarschool text-book the related subjects of American history and civil government.... The combination consists of ... the interpolation, just after the account of the adoption of the constitution, of seven chapters descriptive of the skeleton of national and state governmental forms.”—Nation.
“The style of the historical chapters is not attractive; the subject-matter is too condensed to be interesting. In the main the spirit of the book is eminently fair and judicial.” Archibald Freeman.
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 13: 196. O. ’07. 690w. | |
| Dial. 42: 118. F. 16, ’07. 60w. |
“The historical narrative, while devoid of literacy merit, is, as a whole, accurate and well proportioned, and shows skill in selecting important incidents.”
| − + | Nation. 84: 411. My. 2, ’07. 320w. | |
| − | Spec. 97: 207. Ag. 11, ’06. 190w. |
“The author is admirably successful in bringing his subject down to the level of those for whom he writes. The style is simple and picturesque. In a few instances, however, he seems to forget that he is writing a condensed, general account.” E. D. Fite.
| + − | Yale R. 16: 101. My. ’07. 310w. |
Woodrow, Nancy Mann Waddel (Mrs. Wilson Woodrow). Bird of time: being conversations with Egeria. **$1. McClure.
7–15323.
“Contains a series of essaylike conversations on the subject of the many-sided phases and attractions of the typical person who came to be generally known a dozen years ago as ‘the new woman.’” (N. Y. Times.) “Sitting with Egeria and her friends in her ‘sweet, sedate, secluded’ garden, or around her birchwood fires, the reader may hear much good talk on subjects as old as the story of Joseph and as new as the balefulness of woman’s economic dependence.... A pretty wisp of story binds all the parts together.” (Nation.)
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 138. My. ’07. |
“Short crisp chapters of conversational give and take.”
| + | Dial. 42: 345. Je. 1, ’07. 290w. |
“These conversations of Egeria and her friends are thoroughly delightful. The pages sparkle. Epigram is kept within bounds, and the style is natural and pure. The book is of the sort that makes waste paper of whole shelves full of ‘smart-set’ fiction.”
| + + | Lit. D. 34: 640. Ap. 20, ’07. 280w. |
“A book by a woman largely about ‘us women’ naturally contains a good deal about ‘you men.’ But never does it fall into the humor-lacking acridities of its class. The proof-reading leaves very much to be desired.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 292. Mr. 28, ’07. 380w. |
“A series of clever conversations.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 173. Mr. 23, ’07, 470w. | |
| Outlook. 86: 258. Je. 1, ’07. 90w. |
Woodrow, Nancy Mann. New missioner. il. †$1.50. McClure.
7–33209.
“In this story the central figure is Frances Benton, a missionary to the mining camp of Zenith, and around her is woven a story of much originality and some force. Here, if we are not mistaken, blackmail as a missionary’s weapon is introduced into fiction for the first time. Miss Benson’s advent is not welcomed by the feminine population of Zenith, and her existence there is not an enviable one.”—N. Y. Times.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
“The author’s delineation of character is clean cut and sympathetic, and her restraint in the use of thrilling situations, in which most western stories are too prolific, is commendable.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 711. N. 9, ’07. 260w. |
“It is an unusual piece of fiction, and more than once really touches the heart.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 50w. |
Woods, Francis Henry. For faith and science. *$1.20. Longmans.
7–29070.
“The author’s purpose ... is to indicate how science as a whole is actually influencing Christian faith and the attitude of intelligent minds towards Christian faith.... There is a good discussion on the limitations of the Bible as the standard of faith and morality.... The main interest is in the third part of the book, which discusses such problems as ‘Is evolution consistent with the Bible?’ ‘Has science any valid ground of objection against miracles?’ and so forth.”—Ath.
“We confess that, amid much that is scholarly and sound, we find a certain lameness in apologetic works of this class.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 696. D. 1. 850w. | |
| Ind. 62: 505. F. 28, ’07. 20w. |
* Woods, James Houghton. Practice and science of religion: a study of method in comparative religion. (Paddock lectures, 1905–1906.) *80c. Longmans.
6–22299.
Mr. Woods “classifies religious faiths according as the judgments they imply are individual, collective, or universal and normative. Under the first division he considers primitive beliefs not strictly religious, under the second ancestral systems, and in the third he includes various forms of mysticism, of the Vedânta system and Buddhism as well as Christianity.”—Nation.
“For the [embodiment of a method and system for solving religious] problems its data are too scant and its touch too light. Moreover, the employment of logical, ethical and metaphysical categories is so frequent and so apparently a priori as almost to belie the author’s initial appeal to the standards of inductive inquiry. There is present also a lack of clearness and incisiveness in the concepts which are described as involved in religious experience. The reader feels himself sometimes on shifting sand when he looks to deal with a clearly developed dialectic.” E. L. Norton.
| − + | J. Philos. 4: 580. O. 10, ’07. 1170w. | |
| Nation. 83: 304. O. 11, ’06. 210w. |
“When describing the history of primitive beliefs and customs he is clear and interesting. But we must confess that his philosophy of religion is not so good; there he seems to us wordy and pretentious, without making any solid contributions to the subject.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 212. F. 16, ’07. 150w. |
Woods, Margaret Louisa (Bradley). [Invader.] †$1.50. Harper.
7–17049.
Sedate Oxford is made the setting for this astonishing tale of a dual personality, of the young Don who marries Milly, the quiet and adoring, and who loves Mildred the reckless, deceitful and captivating. These two natures struggle for mastery in the body of his young wife until after a series of strange happenings, Milly heroically sacrifices all in order that the rival within her, the invader whom she has come to hate and fear, may not embitter her husband’s future or ruin the life of the child, really Milly’s child, who has already felt the strange alternating maternal influences that play over him.
“It is a pity that a certain inability to rouse the sympathy and interest of the reader should make a dull book of what might be, at worst, an ingenious one.”
| − + | Acad. 72: 516. My. 25, ’07. 230w. |
“The author writes crisply, and with a skilful command of her chosen medium. Decidedly a creditable venture.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 630. My. 25. 150w. |
Reviewed by Mary K. Ford.
| Bookm. 25: 522. Jl. ’07. 580w. |
“The interest of this fantastic tale is but moderate, which is chiefly due to the fact that the author takes her subject over-seriously, instead of frankly abandoning herself to its possibilities of comedy and dramatic effect.” Wm. M. Payne.
| − | Dial. 43: 64. Ag. 1, ’07. 440w. |
“Distinctly repulsive ending.”
| − | Ind. 63: 574. S. 5, ’07. 90w. |
“It has in fact, a hundred good qualities, which make it well worth reading. It has one defect which, in our opinion, prevents it from taking its place beside the ‘Village tragedy,’ or the best of modern fiction. Our objections to Mr. Woods’s book (against so able a book we have no scruples about urging objections) is that it falls between the two stools of fact and fancy.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 149. My. 10, ’07. 680w. |
“A sufficiently readable novel.”
| + | Nation. 84: 501. My. 30, ’07. 260w. |
“The story can be commended as readable, and its picture of life in Oxford is interesting. The background is very well filled in, and the author has some humor, plenty of sentiment, and appreciable feeling for inanimate nature.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 298. My. 11, ’07. 330w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 210w. |
“The story is disagreeable and at times offensive to good taste, if not to good morals.”
| − | Outlook. 86: 339. Je. 15, ’07. 80w. |
“Mrs. Woods succeeds better with her female than with her male characters, which are rather shadowy.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: 241. Ag. 24, ’07. 400w. |
“It is impossible to deny that the narrative has a certain engrossing quality, but personally we have no hesitation in expressing our regret that so much talent should have been lavished on a theme which makes neither for health nor happiness.”
| − + | Spec. 98: 983. Je. 22, ’07. 1390w. |
Woods, Margaret Louisa. King’s revoke: an episode in the life of Patrick Dillon. †$1.50. Dutton.
W 6–298.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The narrative is clogged with details and embarrassed by the introduction of too many characters, but it is a careful study of the types and is written with unusual fulness of information.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 673. Mr. 21, ’07. 130w. |
Woodworth, Joseph V. Punches, dies and tools for manufacturing in presses. $4. Henley.
7–8248.
“The author has aimed to give to the practical man as much useful information as possible on the working of sheet metals, the design and construction of punches and dies and the manufacture of repetition parts and articles in presses. The book is a broader and more comprehensive view of the subject than that given in the author’s previous work.”—Engin. N.
“There is probably no other one place where so much valuable data on this specialty can be found.” W. W. Bird.
| + + | Engin. N. 57: 194. F. 14, ’07. 150w. |
Worcester, Dean C. Non-Christian tribes of northern Luzon. Bureau of ptg., Manila.
“Professor Worcester, a secretary of the interior in the Philippine government, has charge both of the ethnological study and the government of the wild peoples. He has made many trips, some of them heartbreaking ‘hikes,’ on occasions also incurring serious danger in regions previously unexplored.... He points out our lack as yet of detailed studies of these various mountain communities, and publishes his views only to help ‘awaken interest’ and to stimulate thus the study needed either to verify or to correct such conclusions as he has ventured.”—Nation.
| + | Ind. 63: 631. S. 12, ’07. 960w. |
“This is the latest, and to date the most authoritative, discussion of the mountain people of Northern Luzon as a whole.”
| + | Nation. 84: 228. Mr. 7, ’07. 570w. |
Wordsworth, William. [Poems]; selected with introd. by Stopford A. Brooke. *$3. McClure.
Mr. Brooke’s introduction “dwells on the poet’s life at Grasmere, the effects of the scenery on his genius and moral being, and his interpretation of that scenery and those effects in his verse.” (Ath.)
“For one who has never yet come under the spell of Wordsworth no fitter passkey could be imagined than is found in [this book].”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 2: 67. Jl. 20. 630w. |
“In this well-got-up volume literature and art are happily associated.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 32: 85. Jl. ’07. 140w. | |
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 228. Jl. 19, ’07. 900w. | |
| + | Nation. 85: 521. D. 5, ’07. 50w. |
“Mr. Stopford Brooke is always an agreeable literary companion, and in his introduction to these selections from Wordsworth he is particularly happy. Several of his touches give us a very human and intimate knowledge of the poet.” Bliss Carman.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 701. N. 2, ’07. 430w. |
Workman, Herbert B. Persecution in the early church: a chapter in the history of renunciation. *$1.50. West. Meth. bk.
7–26456.
A discussion of persecution in the early church based upon all the actors both in the inner life and outer environment to which it was due. The treatment covers the “legal, historical, ecclesiastical and experiential aspects.”
“Mr. Workman’s book is a valuable contribution to the ecclesiastical and political history of the first three centuries of Christianity, and an authoritative study of a very interesting but partially known subject.”
| + + | Dial. 43: 68. Ag. 1, ’07. 410w. |
“The volume covers much the same ground as Mr. Allard’s recently published work on Martyrdom, though with differences characteristic of the two writers. It may be said at once, without any offence to Dr. Workman, that his writing lacks the charm of style which seems almost inevitable in a Frenchman: where, however, critical questions are involved the advantage rests with the English scholar, whose sound judgment removes him as far from M. Allard’s excessive adherence to tradition as from the scepticism of Père Delehaye.” P. V. M. Benecke.
| + | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 328. Ap. ’07. 3160w. |
“This is a really valuable book.”
| + + | Spec. 97: 732. N. 10, ’06. 250w. |
Worsfold, Basil. Lord Milner’s work in South Africa. *$4.50. Dutton.
7–15501.
An intimate view of the official labors of Lord Milner in South Africa. “Mr. Worsfold has written a straightforward, connected account of events that are nowhere else so compactly and coherently set forth; he not only knows his subject thoroughly, but has evidently had opportunities of gathering much personal information directly from Lord Milner himself and from other leading actors in the South African drama; his analysis of the moral and material factors at work is, in the main, to our mind at least, just and convincing.” (Lond. Times.)
“It is neither journalism nor history, and it has the air of being hopelessly out of date. Mr. Worsfold, then, has a twice-told tale to tell, and he tells it with becoming gravity. He does full justice to a great public servant.”
| + − | Acad. 71: 650. D. 29, ’06. 890w. |
“A large part of Mr. Worsfold’s volume seems to us wide of his subject.”
| − + | Ath. 1906, 2: 689. D. 1. 1350w. |
“Mr. Worsfold is frankly a partisan, and a thick-and-thin partisan, of Lord Milner; and is unsparing in his condemnation of the Liberal leaders who showed any sympathy with the Boer republics.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 400. Ag. 15, ’07. 390w. |
“His thought and his style alike lack that distinction which so strikingly characterizes the extracts from Lord Milner’s own despatches and speeches which make no small portion of the present volume. He may not have given us ‘a possession forever,’ but he has compiled a volume which no one who professes to take an intelligent interest in Imperial politics can well afford to leave unread at this present juncture.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 5: 390. N. 23, ’06. 2570w. |
“The book is on a high level, but it is all admiration of Lord Milner.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 342. Ap. 11, ’07. 800w. | |
| Outlook. 85: 903. Ap. 20, ’07. 180w. |
“A valuable footnote to the history of the South African war and the reconstruction period immediately following.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 50w. |
“What he does not know at first hand he has been at great pains to verify by the documentary evidence of blue-books. His story is consecutive, and the sense of perspective is not wanting. His style is clear and occasionally dramatic if somewhat diffuse and iterative.”
| + + − | Sat. R. 102: 710. D. 8, ’06. 1770w. |
Wright, Sir Almroth Edward. Principles of microscopy: being a handbook to the microscope. *$6.50. Macmillan.
7–25539.
“A scientific treatise on the optical technique of the microscope, exclusive of actual microscopic work and study. The theme is illustrated at every step by an exhaustive series of experiments.”—Nation.
“An exhaustive index leaves the critic with nothing but praise for the thoroughness which marks every step in the treatment of the subject.”
| + | Nation. 84: 206. F. 28, ’07. 150w. |
Reviewed by Thomas H. Blakesley.
| + − | Nature. 75: 386. F. 21, ’07. 1420w. |
Wright, Carroll Davidson. Battles of labor: being the William Levi Bull lectures for the year 1906. **$1. Jacobs.
6–14781.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Colonel Wright, in this latest book, takes a historical point of view which lends special interest to his discussion.”
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 228. Ja. ’07. 190w. |
Reviewed by W. B. Guthrie.
| + + | Charities. 17: 468. D. 15, ’06. 350w. |
“With good sense, wide learning, and ripe experience the eminent statistician opens to young theologians that world of conflict in which ethical and religious principles are put to severest strain.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
| + − | Dial. 42: 287. My. 1, ’07. 140w. |
“Especially interesting are the last two lectures, which are based largely on the personal experience and observation of the author.”
| + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 181. Mr. ’07. 110w. |
Wright, George Frederick. Scientific confirmations of Old Testament history. *$2. Bibliotheca sacra co., Oberlin. O.
7–2423.
“This volume embodies the results of his latest investigations besides those found in the authors former writings. They show, what other investigators have held that certain occurrences recorded in the Old Testament as miracles—the deluge, the destruction of Sodom, the Hebrews’ fording of the Red sea and the Jordan, the overthrow of Jericho—belong to the history of the natural operation of geological causes. These causes however, Dr. Wright holds to have been touched off by the direct act of God to meet the occasions, as really as the hunter fires his gun.”—Outlook.
| Ind. 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 590w. |
“Is one of the most thorough books of its kind, in a popular form, lately published. The author’s unabating enthusiasm, his obvious sincerity, and simple and forcible manner make the book interesting.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 48. Ja. 26, ’07. 170w. |
“Whether in the Old Testament or in the New, Dr. Wright is uncompromisingly opposed to the conclusions adopted by the majority of Biblical scholars. Geology is his forte, and the value of the present volume comes from his researches in that field.”
| − + | Outlook. 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 210w. |
Wright, Hamilton M. Handbook of the Philippines. **$1.40. McClurg.
7–32869.
A book for the student or traveler which is the outgrowth of investigations made in the Philippines in order to furnish a complete report to the Manufacturers and producers association of San Francisco. It is a practical reference book recording interesting facts about commerce, productions, industries and prospects. The illustrations are numerous and suggestive.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 199. N. ’07. |
“Not only is it written with the roseate optimism of promotors’ literature but as a compilation of facts it has been carelessly prepared, from inadequate study of sources and hasty observations, and is far from being either accurate or complete.”
| − | Ind. 63: 1371. D. 5, ’07. 580w. |
“In which is compactly set forth a great amount of information concerning the islands and their peoples.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 716. N. 9, ’07. 320w. |
“It is, as an indication of Philippine industrial conditions that the book has chief value. It is emphatically a reference book, not only for the tourist but in a greater measure for the business man, the promoter, the industrialist, the capitalist.”
| + + | Outlook. 87: 541. N. 9, ’07. 1060w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 638. N. ’07. 180w. |
Wright, Harold Bell. [Shepherd of the hills.] $1.50. Book supply co.
7–26339.
The crude mountaineers of the Ozarks are the people of this story, and those of them who were not really born to this wild life have come to it satiated with the ways of men in the world outside and have here been born anew. It is a strange tale of love, of hate, of deception and retribution but, although it deals with tough folk and their rough ways, about it is cast the glamour of the everlasting hills. These men are men of action and their brawn and muscle when exerted in a good cause, have all the force of oratory.
“There are many bits of excellent description, in the course of the story, and an atmosphere as fresh and sweet and free from modern grime as one would breathe on the Ozark trails themselves.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 250w. |
“Both in the more melodramatic and the more sentimental parts of his tale he is apt to overdo the thing. With all its crudeness, however, the story does appeal to one’s admiration of pluck and honesty.”
| − + | Outlook. 87: 269. O. 5, ’07. 120w. |
Wright, Mabel Osgood. Birdcraft. 7th ed. **$2. Macmillan.
A new edition of a book whose “especial value lies in the way in which the principal facts concerning a bird—length, color, song, season, distribution, nest and eggs—are set off in distinct paragraphs, making reference easy and direct. The only change from the old editions is the absence of the badly colored plates of minute figures of birds and the substitution of eighty uncolored plates by Fuertes, including some of this artist’s best work.” (Nation.)
| + | Ind. 62: 1353. Je. 6, ’07. 80w. | |
| + | Nation. 84: 295. Mr. 28, ’07. 90w. |
“The bird is, so to speak, a guide to the realm of bird-land, well composed and arranged.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 227. Ap. 6, ’07. 150w. | |
| + | Outlook. 85: 763. Mr. 30, ’07. 70w. |
* Wright, Mabel Osgood. Gray Lady and the birds: stories of the bird year for home and school, il. **$1.75. Macmillan.
7–38237.
Children and birds are brought into close sympathy here. The author does not give detailed descriptions and tabulated facts, but a record “of the doings of some children who were eager to know; together with a few hints upon the migrations, winter feeding, and protection of some of our common birds and the stories of their lives, that may lead both teacher and pupil to more detailed study when opportunity offers.”
| N. Y. Times. 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
Wright, Thomas. Life of Walter Pater. 2v. *$6.50. Putnam.
7–25136.
“In the main, it avoids the proportion of literary exposition, criticism, and general biography already so thoroughly dealt with in the biographies of Pater written by A. C. Benson and Ferris Greenslet and strives to be familiarly subjective rather than personally and intimately objective. Much of the material employed has been derived from school-fellows, pupils, and colleagues, some of whom speak with questionable freedom.”—N. Y. Times.
“What evil angel—what bat—inspired him to choose a man whose mind and character he was totally incapable of understanding, and then to patronise him?”
| − − | Acad. 72: 263. Mr. 16, ’67. 1900w. |
“The book contains a good deal of new material, especially in the account given of the literary relations between Pater and Oscar Wilde. Mr. Benson’s ‘Walter Pater’ ... was more satisfactory to Pater’s friends than is the present venture.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 353. Mr. 23. 100w. |
“This is the most absurd of his absurdities; the chief, and let us hope, the last of his biographical ineptitudes.” H. W. Boynton.
| − − | Bookm. 25: 420. Je. ’07. 1880w. |
“If his workmanlike methods are not exactly those of previous writers who have rhapsodized on the life and genius of Pater, the difference is not altogether one to be regretted. The richness of illustrative and sometimes not too closely relevant matter more than once comes very near to being padding. The footnotes are superfluously and tiresomely numerous.” Percy F. Bicknell.
| + − | Dial. 42: 280. My. 1, ’07. 2220w. |
“It is equally distinguished for failure to penetrate the character of the man and pitiful in capacity to appreciate the excellence of his work.” Edward Clark Marsh.
| − − | Forum. 39: 106. Jl. ’07. 1130w. |
“This is pretty nearly everything a self-respecting biography ought not to be.”
| − − | Ind. 63: 762. S. 26, ’07. 150w. |
“Mr. Benson and Mr. Greenslet are at any rate critics of taste and culture: and not all the mass of new facts accumulated by Mr. Wright can make up for his entire lack which he here displays of the interpretative gift and of any distinction either in thought or in style.”
| − | Lond. Times. 6: 94. Mr. 22, ’07. 370w. |
“It is, in short the failure of the ‘Boswellian’ method in biography when applied by a man who is not a Boswell to a subject not a Johnson.”
| − | Nation. 84: 312. Ap. 4, ’07. 1810w. |
“Mr. Wright’s book is, in all respects, for the multitude of readers, a straightforward, unimaginative narrative of facts, big and little, and chronicle of gossip concerning a remarkable man about whom the multitude of readers has, hitherto, known very little.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 192. Mr. 30, ’07. 220w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 284. My. 4, ’07. 1400w. |
“The biographer places too great a reliance upon the cumulative effect of unimportant conversations and recollections, and his anxiety to see Pater through the eyes of certain of his early friends promotes a sense of uneasiness in the reader lest there should be another side to many of these stories.” Thomas Walsh.
| − | No. Am. 185: 552. Jl. 5, ’07. 1910w. | |
| + − | Outlook. 86: 75. My. 11, ’07. 260w. |
“Some services he has undoubtedly rendered.” A. I. du P. Coleman.
| − + | Putnam’s. 2: 614. Ag. ’07. 160w. |
“If we took his work seriously at all, we should have to say much harder things about it. As it is, he is just an irritation. We want him out of the way.”
| − − | Sat. R. 103: 590. My. 11, ’07. 1610w. |
Wright, Wilmer Cave. Short history of Greek literature from Homer to Julian. *$1.50. Am. bk.
7–32173.
A book for the reader who believes that he cannot appreciate literature unless he can relate the masterpieces to the types set, once for all, by the Greeks; and also for the student who in the second or third year at college desires a rapid survey of the whole field of Greek literature.
Wrixon, Sir Henry John. Pattern nation. *$1. Macmillan.
7–11013.
The factors in the problem which Sir Henry Wrixon discusses are stated in the following: “The problem [of the day] is, What will the poor do with the rich? It arises when on the political side of life, lawful government of the majority of the people becomes an established fact in vindication of the principle that men are equal; while the industrial and social side of life is still left to be controlled by methods that have for their foundation the fact that men are unequal and that their rewards in life are to be unequal also.” His book answers the question raised in this statement.
| Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 170. Jl. ’07. 400w. | ||
| J. Pol. Econ. 15: 187. Mr. ’07. 280w. |
“The facts and arguments adduced by Sir Henry Wrixon are weighty. They are presented with an earnestness which commands attention.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 5: 354. O. 19, ’06. 680w. |
“The true merit of a volume which in its 172 pages contains more thought and more wisdom than is often to be found in books of tenfold its size, is that it suggests ideas which ought to arrest the attention of the whole English people, whether living in the United Kingdom, or in the United States.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 223. Mr. 7, ’07. 1950w. |
“The essay is valuable as a reflection of a phase of opinion in England, if not very convincing as an argument.”
| − + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 555. S. ’07. 180w. |
“Is a little book of great merit.”
| + + | Spec. 97: 937. D. 15, ’06. 1540w. |
Wyld, Henry Cecil Kennedy. Historical study of the mother tongue: an introduction to philological method. *$2. Dutton.
7–15482.
A purely technical work designed as a textbook for students of philology. “It contains a large amount of information on the history of the language, the facts of comparative grammar bearing on its external relations, and the nature of the causes that operate in the development of language in general.” (Ath.)
“To many teachers of the classics it will be a matter of great regret that an introduction as clear, accurate, scientific, and complete as this has not yet been written for the young student of the classical languages.” A. L. Mayhew.
| + + − | Acad. 72: 134. F. 9, ’07. 1050w. |
“One great merit of the work consists in the fullness and lucidity with which it explains the reasons for conclusions that are too often presented dogmatically. Although on some points we consider Prof. Wyld’s views rather one-sided, we have no hesitation in cordially recommending his book.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 504. Ap. 27. 1130w. |
“A book such as has long been needed by teachers both in Great Britain and in America. The indexes, prepared by Miss Irene Williams, are admirably thorough and full.”
| + + − | Dial. 42: 344. Je. 1, ’07. 400w. |
“It is full of specific fact and observation, drawn from the stores of a wide and sound scholarship. It is, however, in the theories and principles set forth in the book ... that its main interest lies. The reader will not always agree with the author, but his own opinions are pretty certain to undergo some modifications before he has heard him thru.” George Philip Krapp.
| + + − | Educ. R. 34: 525. D. ’07. 2200w. |
“This is an excellent work for post-graduate students in the Germanic languages—especially, of course, English—to supplement the usual courses in historical grammar.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 17. Jl. 4, ’07. 660w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 17. Ja. 12, ’07. 270w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 268. Ap. 27, ’07. 190w. |
“Mr. Wyld has added an excellent bibliography and an equally good index.”
| + | Spec. 98: sup. 648. Ap. 27, ’07. 540w. |
Wyllarde, Dolf. As ye have sown. †$1.50. Lane.
The author’s thesis “seems to be that the British aristocracy has been bred in idleness and nursed in vice for generations until its men are gamblers and roués by instinct, its women unspeakable things clad in scale-like sequins and triply armed with brazen conceit, lewdness and loudness. In contrast, she draws a flattering portrait of the ‘Great middle class’ of England.... A beautiful young woman, Patricia Mornington, wanders into the story and into the fast society, where she finds herself about as much at home as an angel in Tophet or an ascension lily in a foundry furnace.” (Ind.)
“This is a brilliant and convincing picture of society life among the members of the British aristocracy.”
| + | Arena. 38: 215. Ag. ’07. 160w. |
“She shows a less sure touch, in depicting the routine of English suburban homes than in her former vivid sketches of military and colonial life; and she has not succeeded in the task—a difficult one, admittedly—of endowing virtue in the person of her heroine with fascinations exceeding those proper to vice.”
| − | Ath. 1906, 2: 730. D. 8. 180w. |
“We must confess to a doubt concerning the open indecency of the talk at the dinner tables in ‘As ye have sown.’”
| − | Ind. 63: 573. S. 5, ’07. 380w. |
“The intention of the novel is no doubt good, but why does the author forget this wholesome tenet, and insist that her reader shall ‘know of the bad?’”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 432. Jl. 6, ’07. 250w. |
Wyllie, M. A. Norway and its fjords. *$2. Pott.
A “thirty-day scheduled, beaten-track survey of the Norwegian coast” described by Mrs. Wyllie and pictured by W. L. Wyllie.
“As a monthly tourists’ log, the book is good enough to make the reader disappointed that it is not better.”
| + − | Acad. 73: 967. O. 5, ’07. 950w. |
“It is a pity that the book has not been revised—and abridged—by a competent hand; for when its author steps down from the lecturer’s chair, she relates the incidents of travel with spirit, and shows excellent taste in her description of scenery.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 441. O. 12. 400w. |
“This is one of the literary guide-books which in recent years have been prepared by persons of culture and observative powers to supplement the mechanical information contained in the Baedeker series and their like.”
| + + | Lit. D. 35: 919. D. 14, ’07. 70w. |
“What with the chatty intimate style, the excellent descriptions, and the numerous illustrations of this book, one feels on reading it almost as though he had been to Norway.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 210w. |
Wymore, Mary Isabel. Adrienne, and other poems. $1. Badger, R. G.
7–7474.
“Adrienne,” a tale of the sea, is the first of a group of poems which are arranged in the order in which they were written, “thus making,” the author says, “an unbroken chain in the development of an idea.”
| N. Y. Times. 12: 147. Mr. 9, ’07. 40w. |
Wyndham, George. Ronsard and La Pleiade: with selections from their poetry and some translations in original metres. $2. Macmillan.
An introductory essay tells the story of Ronsard and the Pleiad and shows how French and English literature were influenced by the school; then come the “selections,” which contain the best of Ronsard, Du Bellay and lesser folk; the volume concludes with sixty pages of translations of lyric poetry and sonnets in original metres.
“Mr. Wyndham is well fitted for the task. He has caught the spirit of Elizabethan England, and written admirably and with insight of its greatest poetry. The necessary compression of treatment leaves us in some hesitation as to whether the author has not assumed a great many things on very questionable authority.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 648. N. 24. 1500w. |
“Mr. Wyndham has felt, not only the importance but especially the grace of Ronsard and his school; and he shows, with delicacy of sentiment, how that grace pervaded their lives no less than their works.”
| + | Lond. Times. 5: 381. D. 16, ’06. 2470w. |
“His translations are faithful.”
| + | Nation. 84: 57. Ja. 17, ’07. 280w. |
“He shows us the astonishing fact that it is possible to be a politician and yet to have the instinct, much even of the craft, of the poet. Mr. Wyndham writes sharply and emphatically, not lingering by the way, and often flashing a rapid illumination as he goes. Here and there his lines creak or cloud.” Arthur Symons.
| + − | Sat. R. 102: 543. N. 3, ’06. 1870w. |
“The selection is admirably done; the introduction is adequate, though we are always a little uneasy in reading Mr. Wyndham’s prose. He is apt to be too luscious for human nature’s daily food, and he has a wearing habit of using no substantive without several epithets attached.”
| + − | Spec. 97: 930. D. 8, ’06. 510w. |