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Wack, Henry Wellington. Romance of Victor Hugo and Juliette Drouet. [**]$1.50. Putnam.
A bundle of letters written to Hugo by Madame Drouet in 1851 and discovered by Mr. Wack on a ramble thru the island of Guernsey, forms the basis of this book. An introduction by M. François Coppée, the story of the relations of the poet and Juliette for fifty years and of the poet’s life at Hauteville house by Mr. Wack, and many illustrations complete the volume.
Reviewed by Jeannette L. Gilder.
| + + | Critic. 46: 509. Je. ‘05. 790w. |
“His book is quite without adequate raison d’etre.”
| — | Dial. 38: 357. My. 16, ‘05. 530w. |
“The introduction by François Coppée is especially interesting not only on account of the view that it furnishes of Hugo as seen by an enthusiastic young poet, but because of its literary excellence and the charming delicacy with which he has related his experiences.”
| + | Ind. 59: 42. Jl. 6, ‘05. 330w. |
“One more superfluous example of literary indiscretion.”
| — | Nation. 80: 352. My. 4, ‘05. 200w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w. |
“The literary value of this book lies in the charming introduction by François Coppée; the human interest, in the conscientious work of the author, who, however, is sometimes in danger of beating his gold leaf out too thin.”
| + — | Outlook. 79: 1061. Ap. 29, ‘05. 170w. |
“Mr. Wellington Wack proves such a pretty apologist that we can easily persuade ourselves that we are not reading scandal at all, but a ‘worthy literary record.’”
| + — | Pub. Opin. 38: 836. My. 27, ‘05. 340w. | |
| R. of Rs. 32: 124. Jl. ‘05. 90w. |
Wack, Henry Wellington. Story of the Congo Free State. [**]$3.50. Putnam.
“Social, political, and economic aspects of the Belgian system of government in central Africa. After personal research among the documents in the administration office, to which he was given free access by the king of the Belgians, the author presents this volume as a true and complete history of the affairs of the Congo Free State. The work is profusely illustrated with characteristic sketches.”—Bookm.
“His refutation of the British charges is so violent that, considering the sources of his information, the argument is not convincing.”
| + — | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 595. My. ‘05. 180w. |
“But apart from its value as a plea for the equity and wisdom of King Leopold’s administration, the book has an interest which makes a strong appeal to the general reader.”
| + + — | Cath. World. 82: 126. O. ‘05. 620w. |
“We heartily thank the author for the abundant documents, pictures, statistics, appendices, and index even more than for his narrative, which, while liable for discount as a statement of truth, is rich in facts.”
| + + — | Critic. 47: 96. Jl. ‘05. 440w. |
“As a polemic it is plain that ... Mr. Wack writes from a prejudiced, anti-British standpoint.”
| — + | Ind. 59: 390. Ag. 17, ‘05. 300w. |
“The most interesting as well as the most trustworthy feature of the book is its profuse photographic illustration.”
| + — | Nation. 80: 276. Ap. 6, ‘05. 940w. |
“Mr. Wack’s book, however, seems to be ‘the real thing,’ and is the most complete work on the subject that has yet appeared.” James Gustavus Whiteley.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 129. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1710w. |
“He makes it evident at the very outset that he did not approach his task with an altogether unbiased mind. If his monograph fails as a refutation, it is not, however without value as contributing useful information in regard to the history and resources of the Free State.”
| + — | Outlook. 79: 761. Mr. 25, ‘05. 280w. | |
| + — | Pub. Opin. 38: 465. Mr. 25, ‘05. 970w. |
Waddell, Charles Carey. Van Suyden sapphires. [†]$1.50. Dodd.
Miss Gwendolen Bramblestone, one of the guests, at Mrs. Van Suyden’s country place for a week-end house party, becomes implicated in a mysterious jewel robbery. The story follows her efforts to establish her innocence and to recover the gems. Her Scotch lover, the “gentleman burglar,” and an ex-jockey detective add to the plot and to the character interest.
“Exceedingly interesting tale in spite of its thinning out toward the end.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 347 My. 27. ‘05. 560w. |
“An absorbing story from start to finish.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 391. Je. 17. ‘05. 160w. |
“The plot is most ingenious.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 144. My. 13, ‘05. 130w. |
Waddell, Laurence Austine. Lhasa and its mysteries; with a record of the expedition of 1903-4. [*]$6. Dutton.
This detailed account of the expedition to Lhasa is written by the chief medical officer of the military escort which accompanied Sir Francis Younghusband. There is an historical introduction, and there are diagrams, plans, maps, and illustrations from photographs taken by the author.
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 423. Ap. 8. 2210w. |
“His book is decidedly interesting. It contains a great deal of new matter regarding the country. The author has seen a great deal, but he does not impress us as a man of a scholarly, independent, and broadly cultivated mind.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 484. Je. 15, ‘05. 2760w. |
“In the matter of authoritative backgrounds, at all events, Col. Waddell’s book on the Lhasa mission and its antecedents is the most complete which has so far appeared.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 262. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1640w. |
“Inferior in literary quality to both Mr. Landon’s ‘The opening of Tibet’ and Mr. Candler’s ‘The unveiling of Lhasa,’ it deals with the subject more broadly and intimately than either.”
| + + — | Outlook. 80: 241. My. 27, ‘05. 1920w. |
“We may therefore accept the statement made in ‘Lhasa and its mysteries’ as an authoritative description, so far as opportunity allowed, of the inner life of the people.”
| + + | Sat. R. 100: 56. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1990w. |
“He writes with clearness and grace, he has an eye for the picturesque and curious, and he provides a variety of information in which every type of reader may find something to his taste. The only blemish is an occasional tendency to egotism.”
| + + — | Spec. 95: 320. S. 2, ‘05. 1370w. |
Waddington, Mary Alsop King. [Italian letters of a diplomat’s wife.] [**]$2.50. Scribner.
The first part of the book gives an account of a visit to Italy in 1880, just after Monsieur Waddington had resigned the premiership of France, while part 2, Italy revisited, depicts Rome twenty years later, after Monsieur Waddington’s death, and describes a new pope and a new king and queen. The letters give glimpses of society and notables, of state and social functions, of Italian skies and gardens.
“We feel we cannot have too many books like this—the expression of a cultivated, well-bred, cosmopolitan, and always kindly and good-natured mind.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 443. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1500w. | |
| + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 938. Jl. ‘05. 60w. | |
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 494. Ap. 15. 770w. |
“The present volume of Madame Waddington’s letters makes a most interesting and intimate history of social life in Italy during the past quarter of a century.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
| + + | Critic. 46: 506. Je. ‘05. 780w. |
“The book as a whole, though entertaining, hardly equals its predecessor in interest.”
| + | Dial. 38: 357. My. 16, ‘03. 460w. |
“They are just such letters as one would like to get if he had a friend at court, personal, chatty and unaffected.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 1070. My. 11, ‘05. 170w. |
“The book has its defects. But, after all, what we absolutely demand in a book of this kind is that it shall be interesting; and interesting the book is, and full of the atmosphere of Italy.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 418. My. 25, ‘05. 1270w. |
“Mme. Waddington in Italy is not perhaps Mme. Waddington at her best.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 212. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1230w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 220w. |
“What the later volume lacks in unity it amply makes up in variety. Madame Waddington writes familiarly, but her books are singularly free from trivialities and gossip, and one looks in vain for anything like malice or scandal.”
| + + — | Outlook. 79: 1014. Ap. 22, ‘05. 240w. |
“Mme. Waddington’s book is among neither the best nor the worst of its class.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 38: 836. My. 27, ‘05. 330w. | |
| + + | Reader. 6: 596. O. ‘05. 260w. |
“The stream of pleasant babble flows along so easily and briskly and vividly that only a veritable churl could refuse to be vastly entertained.”
| + + | Sat. R. 100: 186. Ag. 5, ‘05. 710w. |
[*] Wade, Blanche Elizabeth. Garden in pink. [**]$1.75. McClurg.
“Best of All” was blessed not only with a fertile imagination but with a husband, “The Other One,” who entered delightedly into all her schemes, and together they turned an old fashioned Italian garden into a pink garden filling it with all the things that bloom pink and gazing at it thru rose colored glasses. Here they and Best of All’s sister, called “The Prevaricator,” because she wrote stories, whiled away much of a happy summer. A dozen garden photographs printed on thin paper and mounted on separate pages, also various border designs drawn by Lucy Fitch Perkins, and printed in pink and green, create a real pink garden atmosphere.
[*] “A novelty in garden books.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 385. D. 1, ‘05. 270w. |
[*] “A charming volume.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 832. D. 2, ‘05. 210w. | |
| * | + | Outlook. 81: 1038. D. 23, ‘05. 90w. |
Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton (Blanchard). Coming of the white men: stories of how our country was discovered. [†]75c. Wilde.
This is the first volume in a series known as “Uncle Sam’s old-time stories.” It aims to interest young readers in the beginnings of American history, and to arouse patriotism. The present narrative covers the period from the time when the Norsemen set foot upon our soil down to the establishing of the Maryland colony.
Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton (Blanchard). Ten big Indians. [†]$1. Wilde.
A companion volume of “Ten little Indians.” This sketch includes the chiefs and leaders of the tribes from which the ten little Indians were drawn. The qualities of the red men and the different periods of American history and different sections of the country are represented while the author shows that thru such means as bravery, oratory, cunning and in a few instances kindness, these braves won power and prominence.
Wagner, Charles. Busy life; or, The conquest of energy; tr. from the French by G: Moorhead. 60c. Ogilvie.
A book of moral teaching intended to instill into the minds of the readers the desire for the real things of life, among which there is none comparable to energy, which is virtue itself, stimulating in us and in others, life, joy, and hope.
[*] Wagner, Charles. Justice; tr. from the French by Mary Louise Hendee. [**]$1. McClure.
“‘A disposition to unfairness, bad faith, and evil speaking, is abroad in every field,’ says the author in his preface, ‘and a matter over which men do not contend at daggers drawn, is hard to find.’ To counteract this evil, the little book teaches the lesson of sweet reasonableness and Christian charity.” (Dial.) The contents include: The birth of righteousness; Dominion and voluntary service; Mine and thine; Science and faith; The love of country—Humanity; The churches—The church—Religious justice; Society and the individual social justice; The religious conception of work.
[*] “Fluent and apparently careful translation. These new chapters contain little that is essentially new to those familiar with the volumes that have preceded.”
| + | Dial. 39: 244. O. 16, ‘05. 320w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 636. S. 30, ‘05. 650w. |
Wagner, Charles. My appeal to America; being my first address to an American audience. [**]50c. McClure.
An appeal for active goodness and the “simple life,” with an introduction by Dr. Lyman Abbott, and notes and appendices. The profits of the book are to go to a fund to furnish a site for a church of which Mr. Wagner is to be the pastor.
“In remarkably lucid English, occasionally quaint, and always naïvely serious, even when expressive of a saving sense of humor.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 706. Mr. 18, ‘05. 120w. | |
| R. of Rs. 31: 383. Mr. ‘05. 60w. |
Wagner, Charles. On life’s threshold: talks to young people on character and conduct; tr. by Edna St. John. [**]$1. McClure.
“In talking to young people ... is it necessary to ... be genuine, direct and simple. In this respect these talks are excellent, and can profitably be studied as models by many of our preachers and teachers. The ethical instruction is developed by a process of reasoning instead of being based on dogma and authority, and is not even very definitely Christian, so there ought not to be any objection to the use of the book in the public school of any locality.”—Ind.
“Pastor Wagner’s power lies in the fact that he is not ashamed to put commonplaces in plain language.”
| + | Ind. 58: 729. Mr. 30, ‘05. 140w. |
“The volume is a careful guidebook to everyday life.”
| + + | Reader. 6: 478. S. ‘05. 220w. |
“Another little volume of thought-provoking, cheerful philosophy.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 512. Ap. ‘03. 100w. |
Wagner, Richard. Selections from the music dramas of Richard Wagner; arranged for the piano by Otto Singer. $1.50. Ditson.
A late addition to the “Musician’s library.” The excerpts are not difficult for the amateur and include representative parts of eleven operas from “Rienzi” to “Parsifal.”
| + + + | Dial. 38: 422. Je. 16, ‘05. 90w. |
“The Wagner book is altogether the most satisfactory collection of excerpts from the works of that musical Titan that we have ever seen. The selection is wise and comprehensive. Mr. Aldrich’s preface is all that such a foreword should be.”
| + + + | Ind. 59: 393. Ag. 17, ‘05. 90w. |
Wagner, Richard. Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck; tr. by W. Ashton Ellis. $4. Scribner.
“The world is indebted to Mathilde Wesendonck for two great achievements—she inspired the composition of ‘Tristan and Isolde,’ and she thereby forced the composer to defer the completion of the ‘Ring des Nibelungen’ until his powers were in their full maturity. This remarkable collection of letters, first published after the death of the lady, which took place in 1902, is another fruit of their relationship. What the nature or that relationship was, we do not propose to discuss.... Its only importance for us consists in its artistic results.”—Lond. Times.
“No lover of the greatest modern master of music should fail to read them.” Jeanette L. Gilder.
| + + + | Critic. 47: 216. S. ‘05. 1050w. |
“If the work has been performed conscientiously,—that is, if there has been no improper discrimination in the selection from private correspondence, nothing omitted which would tend to develop the real character of the man,—the plan is unobjectionable, even admirable, as it brings the man himself very near to the reader.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 118. S. 1, ‘05. 520w. |
“To Mr. Ashton Ellis’s fashion of translating we cannot altogether reconcile ourselves. The translator, however, deserves the greatest praise for the careful way in which he has annotated the letters and for the interesting dissertations which he has prefixed and appended to them.”
| + + — | Lond. Times. 4: 174. Je. 9, ‘05. 2150w. |
“The peculiarities of Wagner’s style are to a considerable extent reflected in the English version.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 126. Ag. 10, ‘05. 790w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 369. Je. 10, ‘05. 240w. |
[Mr. Ellis] “produces English prose that is as gnarled as Wagner’s German. It is not often that the inner workings of genius have been so illumined.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 624. S. 23, ‘05. 670w. | |
| R. of Rs. 32: 255. Ag. ‘05. 60w. |
Wakefield, Frank H. Marriage—limited. $1.50. Neale.
The setting of this story is in a future time when a seven year marriage contract is in vogue. This contract may be renewed at its expiration, or the parties to it may form new contracts. No one may marry more than five times, and all children are brought up and educated by the state. The plot concerns a murder and a robbery and some clever detective work, but these things seem commonplace, and it is the unique state of society that is exciting.
Walker, Ernest. Beethoven. $1. Brentano’s.
The third volume in “The music of the masters” series is a Beethoven handbook which gives a sketch, with suggestive motives, of his principal compositions, including choral music, vocal music, stage music, orchestral works, solo instrument music, chamber music, and piano-forte music. The closing chapter gives a composite view of his music as a whole, showing both his creative genius and reflected qualities.
“The author has confined himself to criticism which is often of a very striking and suggestive kind.”
| + + + | Lond. Times. 4: 235. Jl. 21, ‘05. 600w. |
“On the whole one must admit him to be a sane and safe guide and suggestive withal.”
| + | Nation. 80: 464. Je. 8, ‘05. 150w. |
“On the whole, Mr. Walker’s analyses and discussions are enlightened and sympathetic.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 355. Je. 3, ‘05. 440w. |
Wallace, Alfred Russel. My life: a record of events and opinion. [*]$6. Dodd.
“No one would guess this to be the work of an octogenarian.... There is no sign of diminished vigour, whether in the earlier part, which is written almost entirely from memory, or in the latter, which is largely devoted to a trenchant defence of socialism, spiritualism, and other darling fads of his old age. The book may be divided into four sections, which will doubtless appeal with varying force to different readers. First we have boyhood and adolescence—the student; then the famous expeditions to South America and the Malay archipelago—the naturalist and collector; thirdly, the scientific and literary work at home, the intercourse and correspondence with eminent contemporaries—the evolutionist; lastly, the struggle with economic problems of modern life—the socialist and reformer.”—Lond. Times.
“Dr. Wallace has been his own recording angel, and those who peruse the record cannot but pronounce it well and truly written.” W. P. Pycraft.
| + + | Acad. 68: 1119. O. 28, ‘05. 1870w. |
[*] “Mr. Wallace’s narrative in other words, can hardly be called a model of conciseness. Still its wonderful candour wins ample forgiveness for its prolixity.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 649. N. 11. 1040w. |
“He writes with the crystalline simplicity that belongs to a sincere and candid mind, that invests even trivial things with interest, and continues to charm when wit and fancy, unless they be of a very high order, seem faded or forced.”
| + + + | Lond. Times. 4: 348. O. 20, ‘05. 2550w. |
“While we fully recognize the very extensive variety and importance in many respects of Dr. Wallace’s career we cannot but think he has followed an undesirable precedent in rivalling Spencer’s self-expansiveness. We cannot imagine any reader who will not find the greater part of it worth the reading.”
| + + — | Sat. R. 100: 526. O. 21, ‘05. 1670w. |
Wallace, Dillon. Lure of the Labrador wild. [**]$1.50. Revell.
The account of an exploring expedition into the unknown wilds of Labrador in the summer of 1903. The trip was undertaken by Leonidas Hubbard, jr., who perished from hunger and exhaustion, the author and a half-breed Cree Indian as guide. The story is a pitiful one of hardship and disappointment. The party set out with inadequate provisions, and an insufficient knowledge of the country, and having caught but a glimpse of Lake Michikaman, ragged and starving they were forced to turn back; winter closed in upon them, Hubbard succumbed, and Wallace barely escaped with his life. The story is told simply and graphically, and the author while depicting its horrors admits that he still feels the lure of the wild saying: “The smoke of the camp-fire is in my blood. The fragrance of the forest is in my nostrils. Perhaps it is God’s will that I finish the work of exploration that Hubbard began.” There are a number of illustrations from photographs and three original and accurate maps.
“It is one of the most interesting accounts of exploration we have seen.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 596. My. ‘05. 70w. |
“Seldom has a story of hardship bravely endured been told so movingly.” J. B. G.
| + + | Critic. 46: 472 My. ‘05. 210w. | |
| Nation. 80: 256. Mr. 30, ‘05. 910w. (Condensed narrative.) |
“It is a homely and pitiful story of enterprise, disappointment, and starvation. Its manifest moral is that it does not do to start wrong if you would go exploring.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 98. F. 18, ‘05. 1620w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w. |
“It is a wonderfully interesting record, told in a simple and straightforward manner.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 706. Mr. 18, ‘05. 220w. | |
| + | Pub. Opin. 38: 717. My. 6. ‘05. 180w. |
“Presents, in a graphic, literary style, the tragic story.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 381. Mr. ‘05. 160w. |
“It is a vivid, painful, and admirably written account of an exploring expedition into that inhospitable wilderness.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 918. Je. 24. ‘05. 340w. |
Wallace, Sir Donald Mackenzie. [Russia.] $5. Holt.
An entirely new and much enlarged edition of a work first published in 1877. It has been revised and in great part rewritten, bringing the history of Russia and her people down to May 1905. The noblesse, and the policy of the central government receive adequate treatment, while the story of the lower classes, the traders, parish priests, peasants, burghers, cossacks, and serfs, their life, customs, local government, religion, and the great national movements which affect them, is told in detail and in the light of a full knowledge derived from long residence among them.
“The book has thus been brought up to date, without sacrificing any of its wisdom, or the political insight and the sane and temperate views which have continued for a quarter of a century to give it a leading value.”
| + + + | Acad. 68: 719. Jl. 8, ‘05. 190w. |
“The most important part of the new book consists in the account of the revolutionary movement and in the general considerations contained in the last chapter. Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace writes with real information, and is, alone among the hosts of writers on Russia whose books are just now coming out, to be trusted as a man of authority.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 37. Jl. 8. 1990w. |
“It covers a much broader field than M. Ular even thinks of attempting.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 410. N. ‘05. 230w. |
“As a masterly attempt to facilitate one nation’s understanding of another, ‘Russia’ stands in the same class as Mr. Bodley’s ‘France’ and Mr. Bryce’s ‘American commonwealth.’”
| + + + | Lond. Times. 4: 205. Je. 30, ‘05. 2940w. |
“A book of extreme value on a remarkably difficult subject has been rendered invaluable nay, indispensable—for those who wish clearly to understand present conditions and future possibilities in the realm of the Tsar.”
| + + + | Nation. 81: 170. Ag. 24, ‘05. 1110w. |
“Almost every subject is treated of in a method in keeping with its nature.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 603. S. 16, ‘05. 1150w. |
“Is the finished product of a man who in every respect is competent to deal in a masterly manner with his subject.”
| + + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 446. S. 30, ‘05. 170w. |
“The work is a large and exhaustive one. It is regarded by many Russians as the best work about their country ever written by a foreigner.”
| + + + | R. of Rs. 32: 510. O. ‘05. 190w. | |
| + + | Sat. R. 100: 341. S. 9, ‘05. 1480w. |
“Sir Donald Wallace writes of modern parties with a serene impartiality, and a clearness and fulness which are only too rare in works on the subject. We may differ from the author’s conclusions, but we are compelled to respect them; and since he gives his data frankly and fairly, he provides the reader, if he be mistaken, with materials for an independent judgment.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 152. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1030w. |
Waller, Mary Ella. [Daughter of the rich.] [†]$1.50. Little.
A favorite among young readers whose popularity demands a new edition to which Ellen Bernard Thompson has contributed six full-page illustrations.
Waller, Mary Ella. Sanna. [†]$1.50. Harper.
“The heroine is the center of an admiring circle of homely Nantucket folk, one of the vivid blossoms that glow in the fresh salt breezes. Each character in the story is distinctly individualized, and humor and pathos mingle in their shrewd talk. Somewhat apart, but always sympathetic with the village people, are the members of the Torrence family, within whose bounds are found the seeds that ripen into tragedy and give a dramatic touch to the well-managed plot.”—Outlook.
| Ind. 59: 209. Jl. 27, ‘05. 150w. |
“The author’s art falls below her invention. Nevertheless, ‘Sanna’ is a well-written, wholesome, breezy tale.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 319. My. 13, ‘05. 360w. |
“Altogether this is a novel quite above the average in construction and sustained interest.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 143. My. 13, ‘05. 110w. |
[*] Wallis, Louis. Egoism: a study in the social premises of religion, $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
The author discusses the proposition that “egoism is the only ‘force’ propelling the social machine,” which thesis he demonstrates by evidence drawn from biblical history; he further maintains that the historical criticism of the Bible must be made in the light of sociology; finally, he shows the practical bearing of this on the present social problems.
Walpole, Horace. [Letters chronologically arranged and ed. with notes and indices], by Mrs. Paget Toynbee. 16v. ea. [*]$2; set, [*]$32. Oxford.
Twelve of these sixteen volumes have been published to date. They contain the letters in as complete form as possible, giving four hundred letters not included in the “Latest edition of collected letters,” and which have never before been printed. There is additional annotation and an exhaustive index. The edition is illustrated by fifty portraits in photogravure, and three facsimiles of original letters.
| Acad. 68: 195. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1210w. (Review of v. 9-12.) |
“It is sufficient to say that there is no indication that the editor has become weary in her work, for the foot-notes still contain ample information and represent much labor.”
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 708. Ap. ‘05. 110w. (Review of vols. IX-XII.) |
“The value of Mrs. Toynbee’s work ... does not lie in fresh discoveries so much as in the patient devotion with which she has sifted and sorted the whole correspondence. The notes ... are unobtrusive, and admirable in clarity and conciseness, and, as editing goes, this collection of letters could not be bettered.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 40. Ja. 14. 1440w. (Reviews vols. IX.-XII.) |
“It is superfluous to repeat how eminently Mrs. Toynbee’s edition of Walpole overtops all others. To render it supremely enduring it needs but one addition ... a companion volume of annotations. Mrs. Toynbee’s too chary annotation is always pertinent.”
| + + + | Nation. 80: 231. Mr. 23, ‘05. 1810w. (Review of vols. IX-XII.) |
“This edition of Mrs. Paget Toynbee’s is as complete as possible, and otherwise as pleasing and attractive as an edition can be made.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w. |
| * | + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 898. D. 16, ‘05. 170w. (Review of v. 13-15.) |
“If these letters, then, have not all the airy volatility and gay sparkle of Walpole’s earlier days, it is still astonishing how he retains his freshness and wit, and these volumes yield to none in their interest.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 748. My. 20, ‘05. 2060w. (Re-review of v. 9-12.) |
Walpole, Spencer Horatio. History of twenty-five years, 1855-1881. 2v. $10. Longmans.
The author, who held official positions in the war and post-office departments from 1858 to 1899, is the only English writer who has had the advantage of being in active service in Downing street while engaged in historical research. “The better acquainted a student is with the other histories of the middle years of the nineteenth century the greater is his indebtedness to Sir Spencer Walpole for the many little asides in which he introduces new material, based not on books, official or non-official, but on his own personal experience, and on information which he acquired first hand during his long and distinguished career in the British civil service.... His history covers Europe, and to a large extent the United States, as well as the United Kingdom and the over-sea possessions of Great Britain. He cites an authority for every statement he makes; and his authorities, appended as foot-notes, show that there are few sources—British, American or European—on which he has not drawn.... The first hundred pages in the second volume are devoted to the War of the rebellion and to the attitude of England to the Federal and Confederate governments.” (Ind.)
“The style is commonplace and diffuse. At times it is wordy in the extreme. The marshaling of all this material has been excellently managed.”
| + + — | Ind. 58: 436. F. 23, ‘05. 900w. |
[*] Walters, Henry Beauchamp. [History of ancient pottery, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman]; based on the work of Samuel Birch. 2v. [*]$15. Scribner.
“The first adequate treatment the history of ancient pottery received was in the two volumes of Dr. Samuel Birch, published in 1857.... Since Birch’s death, in 1885, so much new material has been gathered that a further revision of his work has been demanded.... The results of this revision and extension of Dr. Birch’s work are two sumptuous volumes of considerably more than five hundred pages each, well provided with indexes, and bibliographies.” (Dial). “We have ... in the two volumes seventeen chapters devoted to Greek vases and their decoration, and one chapter devoted to ‘Etruscan and South Italian pottery’; five chapters on Roman pottery, by which is meant the pottery of Italy under the Roman rule; and, finally, brief mention of earthenware found in Britain, Gaul, and Germany, but evidently of the Roman Imperial epoch.... There are sixty-nine plates and many are in color.... There are, moreover, two hundred and fifty text illustrations.”—Nation.
[*] “Mr. Walters has provided us with an instalment which is likely for many years to prove a most valuable work of reference for those branches of the subject which he includes in his survey. Almost every page attests the care and thoroughness with which published authorities have been consulted.”
| + + | Ath. 1905. 2: 475. O. 7. 890w. |
Reviewed by Arthur Howard Noll.
| * | + + | Dial. 39: 301. N. 16, ‘05. 1280w. |
[*] “The new publication is practically a complete summary of everything now known of classic ceramic art, no source of information, English or foreign, having been neglected.”
| + + + | Int. Studio. 27: 88. N. ‘05. 470w. | |
| * | + + | Nation. 81: 283. O. 5. ‘05. 1530w. |
[*] “Other and more expensive volumes have surpassed it in beauty of illustrations; none in its exhaustive and logical treatment of ancient pottery and the true and complete meaning of the fragments which have come down to us.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 862. D. 2, ‘05. 450w. |
[*] “The defects in these volumes arise principally from the narrow outlook with which they are written. Upon the whole, it is perhaps surprising that the attempt to condense so vast an accumulation of material into the form of a handbook has been so nearly crowned with success; especially as it has been made at a moment when the questions of the early history of the art are yet in solution and cannot be summarised without danger.”
| + + — | Spec. 95: 613. O. 21, ‘05. 1300w. |
Waltz, Elizabeth Cherry. Ancient landmark. [†]$1.50. McClure.
A romance of Kentucky which deals with the question of divorce. There is a much-abused heroine, the object of a husband’s violence when the drug habit is upon him, into whose head never entered the idea of divorce. “But Lucien Beardsley arose upon the horizon. A Virginian by birth, a cosmopolitan by education, a man of modern ideas.... Lucien found in the unhappy Dulcie a cousin many times removed, and undertook to champion her cause, to upset the ancient landmark, to establish the new custom of divorce, and to launch the grief-stricken Dulcinea upon a new and glittering sea of happiness.” (N. Y. Times.)
| * | + | Ind. 59: 1229. N. 23, ‘05. 150w. |
“Mrs. Waltz is a born writer of sensational fiction, and carries her reader triumphantly through scenes that would be intolerable from a less vigorous hand.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 368. N. 2, ‘05. 340w. |
“Many of the personages are drawn with vitality.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 650. O. 7, ‘05. 300w. |
“An exciting story from start to finish.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 380. O. 14, ‘05. 50w. |
Wampum library of American literature; ed. by Brander Matthews. [**]$1.40. Longmans.
These three volumes form the beginning of a series which when completed will illustrate the development of the various forms of American literature. Each volume treats of a single species, tracing the evolution of this definite form and presenting in chronological sequence typical examples chosen from the writings of American authors born prior to 1850. Volume I, “American short stories,” edited by Charles Sears Baldwin, contains a comprehensive introduction, and selected stories which he divides into two periods, the “tentative” and the “new form.” Under the former are selections from Irving, Austin, Hall, and Pike; under the latter, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Poe, Willis, Kirkland, O’Brien, Hart, Webster, Taylor, Bunner, and Frederic. Volume II, “American literary criticism,” edited by William Morton Payne, deals with the development of the critical spirit in American literature. The introduction shows literary insight and critical ability and ranks with the essays which follow. The essays selected are entirely upon literary themes, and include selections from Dana, Ripley, Emerson, Poe, Ossoli, Lowell, Whitman, Whipple, Stedman, Howells, Lanier, and James. Volume III, “American familiar verse,” edited by Brander Matthews, who is also editing the edition as a whole, contains a, lengthy introduction which defines Familiar verse as—“the lyric of commingled sentiment and playfulness, which is more generally and more carelessly called vers de société.” A rather catholic choice of authors follows—Freneau, J. Q. Adams, Moore, Irving, Bryant, Halleck, Drake, Whittier, Longfellow, Holmes, Saxe, Lowell, Stoddard, Stedman, Aldrich, and many others.
“Two compilations, which are fitted to serve a good purpose in advance English classes.”
| + + | Cath. World. 80: 832. Mr. ‘05. 390w. (Reviews vols. I. and II.) |
“If the succeeding volumes are as capably edited as the three now published, the series will prove of great value in the historical study of our literature. From the character of these three volumes it is evident that the series when complete will place in their proper proportions the successive steps in the evolution of these distinct literary forms. The one unfortunate feature in the general plan of the library is the arbitrary restriction which prohibits a selection from any living American writers whose birth has occurred since December 31, 1850.” W. E. Simonds.
| + + + | Dial. 38: 13. Ja. 1, ‘05. 1350w. |
“The genre of familiar verse is so well adapted to this particular purpose, and Mr. Matthews has shown such skill in selection, that his own volume will probably bear the test of time as the standard anthology. The value of the illustrative material in the others is more doubtful.” G. R. Carpenter.
| + + | Educ. R. 29: 424. Ap. ‘05. 490w. (Reviews vols. I.-III.) | |
| R. of Rs. 31: 250. F. ‘05. 290w. |
Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Mrs. Herbert D. Ward). Trixy. $1.50. Houghton.
This story, which is a dramatic argument against vivisection, has for its heroine Trixy, a performing French poodle, who, barely escaping death on the dissecting table, confronts the accused physician in court. The human interest centers about this young scientist who loses the affections of the woman he loves, and eventually his own life, by his experiments. A young lawyer, an active defender of little dogs and kittens, wins the hand of the girl who could not trust herself to the vivisectionist.
“Clever artist as she is, we are not prepared to say that she has avoided many an ignominious descent into the pathetic.”
| + — | Cath. World. 80: 833. Mr. ‘05. 290w. |
“We do not propose to consider it as a story, but as a tract, for that is what it is chiefly in the author’s mind. In this case ... we question whether the charity which she gives to beasts does not make her forget the charity due to human beings. But Mrs. Ward goes so far as to make a superstitious use of natural scenery to enforce her warning against vivisection.”
| + — | Ind. 58: 99. Ja. 12, ‘05. 850w. |
Ward, H. Marshall. Trees: a handbook of forest botany for the woodlands and the laboratory. 6 vol. ea. [*]$1.50. Macmillan.
The author has prepared this series as a text-book for all who need a guide to their studies. The text is clear and simple and each volume is provided with diagnostic tables devised for use in the field. The series includes, Birds and twigs; Leaves; Flowers and inflorescences: Fruits and seeds; Seedlings; and The habit and conformation of the tree as a whole.
“The book has evidently been compiled with great care. Its value, then, to the student, forester or other, is beyond question.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 280. Ag. 26, 480w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“The book is not only an excellent text-book In forest botany, but is a capital study in pedagogy as well.”
| + + + | Nation. 80: 414. My. 25, ‘05. 420w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“Is, like the earlier volumes in the series, thoroughly interesting and accurate.”
| + + + | Nation. 81: 360. N. 2, ‘05. 100w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“The work will be found indispensable to those students who wish to make an expert study of forest botany. At the same time it is expressed in language so clear and devoid of technicalities that the amateur who wishes to know something about our trees and shrubs will find this one of the most useful guides to which he can turn.”
| + + + | Nature. 71: 291. Ja. 26, ‘05. 620w. (Reviews vols. I. and II.) |
“There is also a very useful and exhaustive index at the end of the book.”
| + + + | Nature. 72: 482. S. 14, ‘05. 410w. (Review of v. 3.) | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 437. Jl. 1, ‘05. 270w. (Review of v. 3.) |
Ward, H. Snowden. Canterbury pilgrimages. [*]$1.75. Lippincott.
“The interest of the book centers around two great tragedies: the fall of Thomas the archbishop, and the fall of Thomas the martyr. These are bound up with a part of a still greater tragedy: the collapse of a grand religious movement, which, with all its human imperfections and short-comings, had done a noble work for those who had needed it most, the poor, the weak, the suffering.” The text has been improved by many illustrations of churches, shrines and relics, and sketches of the “pilgrims’ way.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 479. N. ‘05. 130w. |
“Altogether it is an interesting excursion through historical lore for the illustration of a significant feature of mediaeval English life that Chaucer has kept in permanent remembrance.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 620. S. 28, ‘05. 840w. |
Ward, John. Our Sudan: its pyramids and progress. [*]$8.40. Scribner.
The author gives his reader the privilege of skipping the letterpress and looking at his seven hundred illustrations. This picture book of Soudanese snap-shots is accompanied by chapters “which give interesting if not exactly novel, accounts of events and sundry episodes in the story of the African continent during the last fifty centuries, combined with details of explorations and military expeditions to remote spots during the last fifty years.” (Sat. R.)
“There can be no doubt of its interest or its future popularity.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 557. My. 6. 430w. |
“It is pieced together in so haphazard a manner and with such contempt for all sense of proportion that it can hardly be viewed as a serious guide to anybody. Mr. Ward makes many needless mistakes.”
| — — + | Sat. R. 100: 23. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1160w. | |
| + + | Spec. 94: 559. Ap. 15, ‘05. 210w. |
Ward, Mary Augusta Arnold (Mrs. Thomas Humphry Ward). Marriage of William Ashe. [†]$1.50. Harper.
A novel presenting the political and social order existing in London a hundred years ago. William Ashe, a rising young statesman of English solidity and force, falls in love with Lady Kitty, beautiful, eighteen, just released from a French convent, and neglected by a mother of doubtful reputation. He marries her and she leads him gayly from one scandal to another, ridiculing his influential friends, making enemies of the prime minister, Lord Parham and his wife, and capping all by writing a bitterly real satire upon the social set in which her marriage has placed her. A fragile, captivating creature of varying moods, with an hereditary moral madness in her blood, she holds our interest, excites our pity, and dominates the book. But there are other characters; William’s mother, the strong aristocratic Englishwoman, Mary Lyster, cold, narrow, and selfishly hard, and Geoffrey Cliffe—a villain with a dash of genius, whose power over Kitty began with her desire to penetrate the secret history of a man whose poems filled her with a thrilling sense of feeling and passion beyond her ken.
“It is one of the best that Mrs. Humphry Ward has written, the chief fault of it being the wearisome middle. The work is not organically built up, and though the interest revives towards the end we still feel that the book is imperfect. One can well understand that it would have been twice as good if Mrs. Humphry Ward possessed the saving gift of humour, but she takes many things in life and particularly her own sex much too seriously.”
| + + — | Acad. 68: 227. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1570w. |
“It is not in any real sense a remarkable book. There is little or nothing in it that has not been given before both by the writer herself and by others. The hand of the experienced literary artist is visible—too visible in fact.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 332. Mr. 18. 730w. |
“Considered not as a problem, but simply as a study in incompatibility, ‘The marriage of William Ashe’ is a piece of subtle and delicate workmanship.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + + — | Bookm. 21: 269. My. ‘05. 500w. |
“In spite of its lack of humor the book is never dull.” C. Harwood.
| + | Critic. 46: 472. My. ‘05. 640w. |
“The interest of the work is sustained, rising to an effective dramatic climax, and subsiding into the pathos of a closing scene of deathbed repentance and forgiveness.” William Morton Payne.
| + + | Dial. 38: 389. Je. 1, ‘05. 310w. |
“The first and most obvious complaint is against the strange and confusing method with which Mrs. Ward uses the motive of her story.” Herbert W. Horwill.
| + + — | Forum. 37: 100. Jl. ‘05. 1470w. |
“It must be admitted that ‘The marriage of William Ashe,’ which is her latest, is likewise her strongest book. As usual in Mrs. Ward’s stories, as the end approaches, the interest proportionally deepens. The outcome is unpredictable. Never was the advantage of Mrs. Ward’s method of composition more fully demonstrated than in ‘The marriage of William Ashe.’ The crisis is balanced with absolute nicety: the weight of a hair will turn the scales. The minor characters of Mrs. Ward’s story are drawn with subtlety and power. All in all, ‘The marriage of William Ashe’ is to be regarded as an achievement of consummate art.” C. H. Gaines.
| + + + | Harper’s Weekly. 49: 392. Mr. 18, ‘05. 2060w. |
“It is in the adequate presentation and interpretation of Lady Kitty that the author has achieved probably her greatest success as a literary artist.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 668. Mr. 23, ‘05. 1290w. |
[*] “Is the most notable book of the year, and will perhaps be the only one to survive.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 1152. N. 16, ‘05. 160w. | |
| + — | Nation. 80: 336. Ap. 27, ‘05. 1710w. |
“Like a rich personality ‘The marriage of William Ashe’ yields itself more and more, as one knows it better. It reveals new depth and beauty with each reading; one appreciates how superbly the author has triumphed over unusual difficulties of situation and of character; and with what noble conclusions she has charged a story which might easily have sunk into a moral morass. Its place is with the books that do not die. Its author stands among the few living writers of fiction to whom the Immortals have passed the torch.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 146. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1680w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w. |
“One of those solid, thorough, able and workmanlike novels in which Mrs. Ward has dealt with some of the most serious matters of experience and has proved her right to claim a first position among the novelists of the day. The story needs condensation in the closing chapters, and suffers from lack of humor.”
| + + — | Outlook. 79: 771. Ap. 1, ‘05. 300w. | |
| + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 549. Ap. 8, ‘05. 400w. |
“The book expresses, doubtless, the flower of her talent. It is full of sweet flavors. It has literary beauty of a high order. ‘The marriage of William Ashe’ is not a great story or a vigorous one. It is an absorbing one.”
| + + — | Reader. 5: 783. My. ‘05. 920w. |
“Is one of the few stories of which a measure, at least, of endurance may be predicted.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 756. Je. ‘05. 350w. |
“The book, in short, has the drawbacks not only of a roman à clef, but of a composite photograph. The most attractive and brilliant of all of Mrs. Humphry Ward’s novels. The fine literary quality of her work remains, the reader is once more charmed by the restrained eloquence of her descriptions, and impressed by the penetrating analysis of characters so essentially complex as those of Lady Kitty and Geoffrey Cliffe. But along with these familiar excellencies one notes a marked improvement in technique, a livelier movement in the handling of incident and dialogue,—in short, a greater ease, skill, and charm in presentation.”
| + + — | Spec. 94: 443. Mr. 25, ‘05. 2020w. |
Ward, Wilfrid Philip. Aubrey de Vere. [*]$4.60. Longmans.
A memoir, based on his unpublished diaries and correspondence of Aubrey de Vere by his literary executor. The story of a long and rather uneventful life is told largely by the Irish poet himself, revealing his own mind and temperament, and giving graphic descriptions of contemporary great men, Gladstone, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Newman, Browning. His gradual change of religious belief which brought him from the English church to Rome, his work during the famine of 1846-7, and the service done for Ireland by his voice and pen, are given in detail.
“The editor has based his work on diaries and letters, and has spread a feast for the lover of literature where no crude surfeit reigns.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 189. Ag. ‘05. 180w. |
“Sufficient to give a true picture of the man himself. Yet not the least of the reader’s reward comes from his more intimate knowledge of a pure and unselfish life, lived largely in the service of his fellows; a poet who here reveals himself most fully as the patriot and friend.” Clark S. Northrup.
| + + | Dial. 38: 7. Ja. 1, ‘05. 1760w. |
“The literary workmanship is all that could be desired.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 25: sup. 39. Ap. ‘05. 360w. |
“Quite sustains his reputation as a master in the difficult and delicate art of the biographer.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 290. F. 25, ‘05. 1680w. |
Warden, Florence. House by the river, $1. Ogilvie.
A thrilling story of mystery and intrigue which turns on the theft of curios and paintings from a valuable collection. The owner himself is in the conspiracy to defraud an insurance company.
Ware, William. [Aurelian, a tale of the Roman empire in the Third century.] $1.50. Crowell.
The Luxembourg library offers in single volume edition, handsomely bound and fully illustrated, some notable work of fiction that ranks among the world’s masterpieces. “Aurelian” is one of the four late additions to this series.
Warner, Anne. See French, A. W.
Warner, Charles Dudley. [Complete writings]; [*] ed. by Thomas R. Lounsbury. 15v. ea. $2. Am. pub. co., Hartford, Conn.
The complete works of Charles Dudley Warner, with a biographical sketch appear in this handsome “Backlog” edition. “The volumes are of the right size, simply bound, the paper and the typography expressing the high quality of the work which this set of books preserves in permanent form.” (Outlook.)
| + + + | Critic. 47: 583. D. ‘05. 160w. (Review of v. 12-15.) | |
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 463. Jl. 15, ‘05. (Review of v. 9-15.) |
[*] “Everything has been done by the publishers of this edition to give Mr. Warner’s work the dignity and refinement of form which it deserves. Professor Lounsbury contributes to the series a biography which is characteristically clear, vivacious, and illuminating.”
| + + + | Outlook. 80: 440. Je. 17, ‘05. 970w. |
Warner, George H. Jewish spectre. [**]$1.50. Doubleday.
The author strips himself entirely of race prejudice and almost whimsically creates from myth, from history, from literature and present day tendencies a composite Israel stamped with characteristics of imagination and fact. “The reader does not at once find out what the ‘spectre’ is. At first it seems to be a spectral fear that the Jew is to crowd out all competitors in the struggle for existence.... Later it comes out that the really troublesome ‘spectre’ in the writer’s mind is the domain of religious speculation.” (Outlook.)
| * | Critic. 47: 581. D. ‘05. 25w. |
[*] “Mr. Warner negatives too much and constructs too little.” Edith J. Rich.
| + — | Dial. 39: 302. N. 16, ‘05. 1360w. |
“The merit of the book is that it sincerely attempts to put into a single volume a literary view of a very difficult subject.”
| + | Ind. 59: 991. O. 26, ‘05. 530w. |
“A sort of hotch-potch of anecdote and quotation, legend and fact, held together by a strain of comment, now ironical, now impassioned, which is not likely to convince, but is generally diverting.”
| — | N. Y. Times. 10: 617. S. 23, ‘05. 350w. |
“The book is cleverly written, and makes many good hits at shining marks of folly; but that it is, as announced, ‘an extraordinary’ book, except in wrongheadedness, does not appear.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 334. O. 7, ‘05. 300w. |
“Yet with all it is a strangely suggestive book, reassuring to any man who feels that America is becoming the New Jerusalem, full of careful study and hasty deduction, full of leads which the author does not work to a conclusion, full of surprises and odds and ends of valuable information—and full of contempt.”
| + — | Pub. Opin. 39: 602. N. 4, ‘05. 430w. |
Warner, Horace Everett. Ethics of force. 50c. Pub. for the International Union by Ginn.
This little volume contains, in revised form, a series of five papers read before the Ethical Club of Washington, D. C., just prior to and after the Spanish war. The titles of the papers are The ethics of heroism, The ethics of patriotism, Can war be defended on the authority of Christ? Can war be defended on grounds of reason? and Some objections.
“Although the book is somewhat academic in tone, it is worth reading.”
| + + | Cath. World. 82: 118. O. ‘05. 370w. |
“This is the sort of a thoughtful volume on the subject that should be placed on the reading-lists of our public schools.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 414. S. 23, ‘05. 340w. |
Warwick, Charles Franklin. Mirabeau and the French revolution. [**]$2.50. Lippincott.
“This is the well-written story of the most extraordinary character of the most extraordinary scene in the drama of modern history, the storm-center of that scene till his death.”—Outlook.
“It has all the failings and the qualities of the writing of the enthusiastic amateur.”
| + — — | Acad. 68: 778. Jl. 29, ‘05. 690w. |
“It is neither a satisfactory biography of Mirabeau, nor a clear, sound and well connected synthesis of the early Revolution.” Fred Morrow Fling.
| — — | Am. Hist. R. 11: 157. O. ‘05. 950w. |
“Considered as reading matter, the book offers nothing new.”
| + — | Bookm. 22: 86. S. ‘05. 270w. |
“We learn nothing new about Mirabeau or the French revolution; the style is sometimes absurd.”
| + — — | Critic. 47: 192. Ag. ‘05. 130w. | |
| Dial. 39: 119. S. 1, ‘05. 250w. |
“Has neither scholarship nor style to recommend it. The style of the book is melodramatic.”
| — — — | Ind. 59: 817. O. 5, ‘05. 320w. |
“It would be a mistake, however to dismiss it as of slight worth. It has some very positive merits. The task of exploring the voluminous literature treating of the French revolution is no light one, and Mr. Warwick must be credited with having considerably facilitated the exploration in respect to the period he reviews.”
| + + — | Lit. D. 31: 498. O. 7, ‘05. | |
| + + — | Lit. D. 31: 498. O. 7, ‘05. 320w. |
“Apart from a certain number of verdicts upon individual characters, his text contains little that is distinctive. On the other hand it is of much higher quality than most of the illustrations which accompany it. The book is undeniably amateurish.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 242. S. 21, ‘05. 410w. |
“There is no great distinction in his style, little compelling fire in his accounts of people and events; not much subtlety in his judgments. He is sometimes prolix and sometimes repeats himself. Clarity and intelligibility are the merits of the book; and they are valuable qualities.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 340. My. 27, ‘05. 1850w. |
“Mr. Warwick has made effective use of the best authorities in his account both of the tragic scene and of the masterful actor.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 246. My. 27, ‘05. 50w. |
“Mr. Warwick faces his subject fairly.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 270w. |
“It has the distinctive merit of being at once a biography and a history,—a graphic narrative of events not less than a just, adequate and exceptionally suggestive estimate of a great historical figure.”
| + + | Reader. 6: 597. O. ‘05. 200w. |
“An incisive study of the part played by Mirabeau in the French revolution.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 124. Jl. ‘05. 80w. |
“Mr. Warwick’s book on Mirabeau is passable enough. But it contains absolutely nothing new in fact so far as we have observed, and it is certainly not distinguished for form or point of view or imagination.”
| + — | Sat. R. 99: 849. Je. 24, ‘05. 260w. |
Washburn, William Tucker. First stone, and other stories. $1. Fenno.
These seventeen short stories are as varied in tone as in subject. One is a dramatic scene in the rooms of a danseuse, another is a story of Madagascar, a third treats of Mormonism, and a fourth concerns a most unfaithful wife.
Washington, Booker Taliaferro. [Tuskegee and its people: their ideals and achievements.] [*]$2. Appleton.
A volume prepared by the officers and former students of the normal and industrial institute at Tuskegee, Ala., under the editorial direction of Booker T. Washington, who writes an introduction. The problem of negro education is treated from the inside by the intelligent negro. Seventeen autobiographical sketches are furnished by Tuskegee graduates who are now following various occupations.
“It is an unanswerable argument against the critics of the Tuskegee movement in particular and of the education of the negro in general.”
| + + + | Nation. 81: 41. Jl. 13, ‘05. 1190w. |
“If the stories are marked by a complacency pardonable under the circumstances, and if they fail to prove quite all their authors think they do prove for negro progress, yet they are not uninstructive.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 465. Jl. 15, ‘05. 400w. |
“The writing is unpretentious and therefore the more forcible.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 936. Ag. 12, ‘05. 180w. |
[*] Washington, George. Washington: principal state papers, $1. Century.
This volume in the “Thumb nail” series “is uniform with the early copies of this series which is a small vest-pocket edition richly bound in embossed leather. This volume contains W. E. H. Lecky’s famous essay on ‘The character of Washington’ taken from his ‘History of England in the eighteenth century,’ ‘Washington’s farewell address to the people of the United States,’ his ‘Address to the officers in 1783,’ his ‘Circular letter addressed to the governors of all the states on disbanding the army,’ his ‘Farewell orders to the armies of the United States,’ and his ‘Inaugural address to both houses of congress.’”—Arena.
| * | + | Arena. 34: 665. D. ‘05. 290w. |
[*] “Excellent in point of literary discrimination and value.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 731. D. 2, ‘05. 100w. |
Washington, George. Washington and the West. [**]$2. Century.
A volume which contains the diary kept by Washington in September, 1784, during his journey into the Ohio basin in the interest of a commercial union between the Great lakes and the Potomac river. Mr. Hulbert’s commentary shows Washington to be an active, wide-awake practical man of affairs which is a little-known and less-appreciated phase of his character.
[*] “It is a valuable addition to the literature dealing with Washington, the man and the statesman.”
| + + | Arena. 34: 663. D. ‘05. 410w. |
[*] “An interesting and valuable book, somewhat too strongly colored by certain prejudices which affected the editor from the beginning of his task.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 446. N. 30, ‘05. 480w. |
“Mr. Hulbert’s notes, therefore, are as interesting to read as the diary.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 743. N. 4, ‘05. 460w. |
“This is a valuable portrait of Washington in an aspect comparatively disregarded hitherto, a portrait drawn by himself.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 432. O. 21, ‘05. 200w. | |
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 634. N. 11, ‘05. 250w. | |
| * | + + | R. of Rs. 32: 756. D. ‘05. 110w. |
[*] Wasson, George Savary. Green shay. [†]$1.50. Houghton.
“The scene of action ... is almost entirely on the shore and in the harbor, though the strenuous life of the open sea is always in the background exerting its powerful influence on the actors and the drama. The author is attempting to show the evil ways into which many of the fishing communities have fallen, and their need of moral and spiritual help.”—Outlook.
[*] “The thread of the story is not very distinct. The humor of the book is good, however, though here and there a little underdone, in seasoning and overdone in cooking.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 876. D. 9, ‘05. 170w. |
[*] “As a tract the book makes a strong appeal; as a story it limps a little and lacks freshness of conception and treatment; as a portrayal of character it is delightfully quaint and humorous.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 710. N. 25, ‘05. 120w. |
Waters, N. McGee. Young man’s religion and his father’s faith. [**]90c. Crowell.
Eight practical talks which endeavor to reconcile the old thought and the new. On the ground that altho our conception of the Bible has changed and broadened the book itself is the same, the author declares that the young man who believes in the theory of evolution and questions the infallibility of the Bible differs from the faith of his fathers only in nonessentials and that altho our creeds may be new they seek to define the ways of the same loving God.
[*] Waters, Thomas Franklin. Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay colony; with seven appendices. [*]$5. Ipswich historical soc., Ipswich, Mass.
The author states in his preface: “I have tried to tell accurately but in readable fashion the story of the builders of our town; their homes and home life, their employments, their Sabbath keeping, their love of learning, their administration of town affairs, their stern delusions, their heroism in war, and in resistance to tyranny.” Ipswich was a typical New England town founded in 1623, and this detailed history has been prepared largely from original town documents, facsimiles of several of which are given.
[*] “Takes its place in the front rank of its class, and can hardly be praised too highly for diligent research, candor, taste, style, and construction.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 429. N. 23, ‘05. 820w. |
[*] “An interesting history of an interesting New England town.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 666. O. 14, ‘05. 590w. (Review of pts. 1 and 2.) |
[*] Watkinson, William L. Inspiration in common life. [*]35c. Meth. bk.
A series of helpful suggestions which prove that every man’s possible happiness is the direct outgrowth of the appreciation and development of his hidden worthiness. The volume is uniform with the “Freedom of faith” series.
Watson, Edward Willard. Old lamps and new, and other verses; also, By Gaza’s gate, a cantata, $1. Fisher.
Under the divisions, Old lamps and new, and A forgotten idyl, the author gives us dainty verses, nearly all of which sing of love; some of the gladness of it, some of its pathos. By Gaza’s gate—a cantata, closes the volume. It is sung by Samson, Delilah, and a chorus; the words are based on the text of the Polychrome Bible.
Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott. [Hurricane island.] $1.50. Doubleday.
A young English doctor tells the story of his experiences on the yacht of a German prince. The prince, accompanied by his sister, is eloping with a French actress; they all bear assumed names, but the crew discover the truth, realize that there is great treasure stored in the hold, and mutiny, bloodshed and murder follow. The whole account is exciting, but hardly cheerful, save for the love story of the doctor and the princess.
“The thing is done with such an air of assurance, the characters are so carefully developed and sustained, that we accept it all, in a spirit of meek credulity, and even after a period of sober second thought admit that it is one of the best sustained stories of rattling adventure that has appeared in many a month.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + + | Bookm. 21: 184. Ap. ‘05. 370w. |
“This is a very stirring story, and is almost as good as Robert Louis Stevenson could have made it.” William Morton Payne.
| + + | Dial. 38: 388. Je. 1, ‘05. 190w. |
“Has skilfully combined all the ingredients that go to make what boys pronounce a ‘rattling good story.’”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 132. Mr. 4, ‘05. 240w. |
“For literary qualities it is vastly inferior to Mr. Watson’s ‘Galloping Dick,’ but as a lively story of action it is exciting even if improbable.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 253. Mr. 11, ‘05. 60w. |
“It is ridiculous, impossible, and altogether unallied to anything that any of us is acquainted with in this severely practical world; probably it is for that reason that it is so absorbedly interesting for a quiet evening.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 38: 392. Mr. 11, ‘05. 210w. |
“Is a capital romance of love and piracy ... and delightfully related.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 70w. |
[*] Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott. Twisted eglantine. [†]$1.50. Appleton.
“A fascinating story of the time when George IV. was Prince of Wales. The leading man character is another Beau Brummel, quite well drawn; the freshness, beauty, and grace of the heroine are deftly impressed upon the reader.” (Outlook.) “Sir Piers had no scruples in asking Barbara Garraway, the Hampshire squire’s daughter, to be his mistress; when he found that he had misread her character, he had no scruples in carrying his efforts to make her his wife to the point of abducting her to his country seat.” (Lond. Times.)
[*] “The Beau is the book, and our interest in the book ceases when the Beau begins to prance like any sensational hero.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 927. S. 9, ‘05. 460w. |
[*] “The book thus falls somewhere between the mere romance and the novel of character. The period is well realized; the story is interesting and exciting; but this painful sounding of a shallow type delays its movements, and forbids the happy surrender of judgment which is the condition of enjoying a romance.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 287. S. 8, ‘05. 400w. |
[*] “Mr. Marriott Watson has put his best work into ‘Twisted eglantine,’ and has scored a distinct triumph in Sir Piers Blakiston—an achievement, we should imagine, of no small difficulty.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 783. N. 18, ‘05. 400w. |
[*] “It has passages which may be distasteful to some readers.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 684. N. 18, ‘05. 50w. |
Watson, Thomas Edward. Bethany: a story of the old South. $1.50. Appleton.
Bethany, a village in middle Georgia, is the scene of a novel which describes southern life during the period immediately preceding and during the earlier years of the Civil war. The author is a well-known writer of both biography and history and his present work is almost an autobiography, for he tells of the old South as he knew it in his boyhood. The greater part of the book is taken up with the comparison of Toombs and Stephens, their characters and the issues for which they stood. The slavery question is discussed freely, but while showing a burning loyalty to the South, there is no bitterness toward the North.
“A novel of a rambling sort, although the element of truth is much larger than the element of invention. The fire-eating southerner has not often been exhibited, in either history or fiction, more truthfully and vividly than in the present work. We fear that Mr. Watson is still sadly in need of reconstruction.” W. M. Payne.
| + — | Dial. 38: 127. F. 16, ‘05. 480w. |
“Is scarcely a novel at all. It is history localized and presented from the deliberately provincial point of view. Is probably more nearly veracious than any picture of southern life ever given by a southern author. It is a brilliant interpretation, based upon impressions received with the vividness of adoring youth, and written out with the restraint and judgment of a mature mind. Mr. Watson’s literary style is not always good, is often too insolently local in phrasing, but it is always graphic and honest.”
| + — | Ind. 58: 209. Ja. 26, ‘05. 600w. |
Watson, William. [Poems]; ed. by J. A. Spender. 2v. [*]$2.50. Lane.
In this new edition of his works, the author “has made several alterations, even in his greater poems, changes which tend undoubtedly to perfect the original. The two volumes before us are not large, though they contain a good many poems not to be found in the ‘Collected works.’” (Spec.) The poems are critical, philosophical, and political.
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 328. Mr. 18. 2460w. |
[*] “This is such an edition of a poet’s work as one usually waits for till the author has ceased to be, or at least to write.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 584. D. ‘05. 160w. |
[*] “An edition that is nearly all that could be wished.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 506. D. 21, ‘05. 640w. |
“We would make but one censorious comment. The political verses should have been kept out.”
| + + — | Spec. 94: 217. F. 11, ‘05. 1370w. |
[*] Watson, William. Prayer, [*]35c. Meth. bk.
In this little volume uniform with the “Freedom of faith” series, the author discusses the nature, purpose, conditions, difficulties, and gain of prayer.
[*] Way, Thomas R. and Dennis, G. R. Art of James McNeill Whistler: an appreciation. $2. Macmillan.
A third and cheaper edition of a book which “contains chapters on Whistler’s various styles and subjects, with many illustrations, some of them in color, and a single chapter on the artist as a writer. It is not a life of Whistler; it is an appreciation merely.”—N. Y. Times.
[*] “The new edition is an excellent compact little book, not differing except in outward details from its predecessors.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 471. Jl. 15, ‘05. 260w. |
[*] “Their method is rather eulogistic than critical.”
| + — | Outlook. 80: 690. Jl. 15, ‘05. 30w. | |
| * | R. of Rs. 32: 640. N. ‘05. 80w. |
Wayne, Charles Stokes. Prince to order. [†]$1.50. Lane.
A young Wall street broker, Carey Grey, wakes up one morning to find himself in Paris with a new name, new friends, and his black hair and beard bleached yellow. It develops that he has come under the power of an old phrenologist and chemist who is passing him off as the crown prince of the small kingdom of Budaria, whose king is dying. Grey has come to himself because the old scientist’s power is weakened by a fatal illness, but he keeps up the delusion in order to trap the other conspirators. The complications are many; Grey learns that he has been forced to embezzle from his own New York firm while under this strange influence and his friends believe him dead and dishonored; it is only after many adventures that he vindicates his honor, and re-wins his American fiancée.
“Its treatment lacks distinction, but the tale has one or two features of originality. It is not a bad specimen of its class: lively, entertaining and tolerably ingenious.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 1: 778. Je. 24. 290w. |
“Here we have still another modification of the Zenda story and one which shows ingenuity.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 198. Ap. 1, ‘05. 420w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 120w. | ||
| Pub. Opin. 38: 714. My. 6, ‘05. 150w. |
“The colors in which this comedy are dressed are over strong, but the comedy itself is fairly consistent and interesting.”
| + — | Reader. 6: 474. S. ‘05. 180w. |
“The initial idea in this story is quite promising. The book is amusing.”
| + | Sat. R. 100: 25. Jl. 1, ‘05. 300w. |
[*] Webster, Jean. [Wheat princess.] [†]$1.50, Century.
The wheat princess, an American girl whose father has cornered the wheat market, is living with her aunt and her uncle, who is a philanthropist, in an old villa on the outskirts of Rome. The wheat famine tells heavily upon the Italian peasants; the newspapers blazon her father’s name, the peasants rise in hot indignation, with cries of “Wheat! wheat!” and her uncle, who has given so much for them, is besieged in his luxurious villa. In the end the Americans, their altruistic plans laid low, return to America, but the troublous times among the poor of Italy have brought to the big hearted wheat princess the love of her uncle’s friend, the man who has shared his unselfish dreams.
[*] “An entertaining and well-written story upon somewhat novel lines.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 684. N. 18, ‘05. 100w. |
[*] “Strong, graphic, truthful.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 796. D. 16, ‘05. 160w. |
Webster, John. [White devil and The duchess of Malfy]; ed. by Martin W. Sampson. [*]60c. Heath.
A volume of the Belles-lettres series. The play-wright’s two masterpieces, “The white devil,” and “The duchess of Malfy,” in critical text with the original spelling. An introduction and critical notes are included among the editorial helps.
Weingartner, (Paul) Felix. Symphony since Beethoven; tr. by Maude Barrows Dutton. $1. Ditson.
This book about modern symphonies, by the conductor of the Berlin royal symphony concerts, and of the Kaim orchestra, is in its second German edition. “He holds that no other symphonies comparable to those of Beethoven in lofty grandeur, deep significance and perfection of beauty, have ever been composed.... He has small praise for the successors of the god of his idolatry in the symphony: a kindly word for Schubert, Mendelssohn, Bruckner; condemnation for Schumann and Brahms; mere cursory mention of Tschaikoffsky, Dvorak, Rubinstein, Borodin, Raff, Goldmark, Saint-Saens, César Franck and Sinding ... Favoring criticism on Berlioz and Liszt for their symphonic poems.... Discussion of Richard Strauss, whose earlier tone-poems the author says he admires, but whose later, and greater works he cannot appreciate.” (Ind.)
“An interesting and stimulating essay, albeit so short as to be fragmentary in parts. The translation of this essay into English was worth while, but one regrets that it was not more skilfully done.”
| + — | Ind. 58: 43. Ja. 5, ‘05. 300w. |
“A sympathetic study.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 30: 761. D. ‘04. 100w. |
Weir, Irene. Greek painters’ art. [*]$3. Ginn.
“This book aims to bring together as much information as possible from ancient and modern literature, from the reports of archæologists, and from the study of specimens in museums and elsewhere, in regard to all that relates to color as used by the Greek painters of old. The book is amply illustrated.”—Outlook.
“Miss Weir possesses a delightful enthusiasm for the Greek painters’ art, supported by knowledge of ancient and modern archæological writings as well as familiarity with art works.”
| + | Dial. 39: 20. Jl. 1, ‘05. 150w. |
| — | Ind. 59: 40. Jl. 6, ‘05. 340w. |
“A decidedly interesting if somewhat formal story of the least generally comprehended of the arts of Greece.”
| + | Int. Studio. 25: sup. 89. Je. ‘05. 290w. |
“A curiously offhand and chatty book upon one of the most difficult subjects known to the archæologist.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 312. Ap. 20, ‘05. 390w. |
“It is a most important addition to the popular literature of the subject. Its scheme is as original as it is entertaining.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 276. Ap. 29, ‘05. 590w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 79: 1059. Ap. 29, ‘05. 390w. |
“Miss Irene Weir has ... rendered art students an incalculable service in giving them the advantage of the new light which modern discoveries have thrown upon the lost art of Greek painting.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 835. My. 27, ‘05. 300w. |
“Although we have to recognize how little we know, we are able to find an account of that little in the present volume.”
| + | Spec. 95: 261. Ag. 19, ‘05. 150w. |
Weiss, Bernard. Religion of the New Testament; tr. from the Germ. by G: H. Schodde. [*]$2. Funk.
The object of the book is “to give a ‘brief but clear’ answer to the question, what is the religion of the New Testament?... The book is divided into three parts. In part I, Dr. Weiss describes the suppositions or conditions of the redemption described in the New Testament. In part II, he discusses the redemption in Christ proper. Here the subjects discussed are the redemptive acts of God. In the third part he treats of the realization of redemption in the individual and in the congregation, in the present and in the world to come.”—N. Y. Times.
“With all his splendid exegetical and critical qualities, Professor Weiss does not write in the spirit of the historian. But this is the only serious general criticism one feels compelled to pass upon what is, in fact, a remarkably able work.” S. M.
| + + — | Bib. World. 26: 392. N. ‘05. 620w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 153. Mr. 11, ‘05. 280w. |
“As an exegete Dr. Weiss excels. Men of all schools will find something to learn from it.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 1478. Je. 29, ‘05. 250w. |
“His treatment of the subject is thoroughly objective, and strongly conservative. A somewhat less close adherence to the style of the original would have made many sentences of this translation easier reading for the unlearned, for whom the author intended it.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 708. Mr. 18, ‘05. 240w. |
Wells, Amos Russell. That they all may be one. [**]75c. Funk.
A plea that Christ’s wish that “His followers might be kept from schism, and that His church might be maintained in perfect unity,” may be realized in the unification of denominations. To this end the author advocates union Bible schools and pastorates, and under such chapter headings as, Working together; The search for truth; Churches and men; Church union and patriotism, he finally arrives at, The united church of Christ.
“It is not so incoherent as its typographical form would indicate.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 530. O. 28, ‘05. 20w. |
Wells, Carolyn. [Dorrance domain; a story.] [†]$1.50. Wilde.
Four energetic Dorrances left to the care of their Grandmother Dorrance once wealthy, now skilfully supporting a large family on a small annuity, bemoan their boarding house existence which seems an unbearable hardship after the free life in their Fifty-eighth street home. A part of the Grandfather’s legacy was the Dorrance domain, a rambling summer hotel, which was not easily disposed of and which these daring children propose opening and running for a season. The success of their scheme and the enjoyment which the novel experiment afforded them are told in Miss Wells’ usual sprightly and humorous manner.
[*] “Miss Wells is just the writer to make it the kind worth reading.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 895. D. 16, ‘05. 120w. | |
| Outlook. 81: 575. N. 4, ‘05. 40w. |
Wells, Carolyn. Patty in the city. [†]$1.25. Dodd.
The friends of “Patty at home” will find her quite as delightful to know amid the conditions of New York life, where “she resides in an apartment overlooking Central park, attends a fashionable school, makes new friends, and keeps her old ones.” (Outlook.)
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 648. S. 30, ‘05. 220w. | |
| + | Outlook. 81: 578. N. 4, ‘05. 70w. |
[*] Wells, Carolyn. [Satire anthology.] [**]$1.25. Scribner.
“Beginning with the ancients (Aristophanes, Horace, and Juvenal) ... the selections work down to such very modern exemplars of the species as Mr. Owen Seaman and Mr. Gelett Burgess. Sprinkled through the list of authors we note such out-of-the-way names as those of Ruteboeuf, Abraham à Sancta Clara, Villon, and Béranger. The collection is, however, mainly one of English verse, from the Elizabethans on.”—Dial.
[*] “The selections, from innumerable authors, have been made with skill; but certain of the pieces from very minor modern authors might have been spared in favor of some omitted bits from Lowell and Holmes, both of whom are rather inadequately represented.”
| + + — | Critic. 47: 584. D. ‘05. 150w. |
[*] “May safely be depended upon to provide both amusement and instruction.”
| + | Dial. 39: 450. D. 16, ‘05. 100w. |
[*] “It is ungracious to find fault where there is so much of good. We are glad to get the anthology as it stands.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 905. D. 16, ‘05. 610w. |
[*] “Contains most of the representative and well-known bits of this sort of literature.”
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 640. N. ‘05. 70w. |
Wells, Carolyn, and Taber, Harry Persons. Matrimonial bureau. [†]$1.50. Houghton.
The story of a girl who, weary of “waiting for the prince,” sees her maid happily married thru the agency of a matrimonial bureau, and decides to start one of her own. She invites a cousin, who invites a friend, who invites another friend, and they all stay all summer. Everybody falls in love at cross purposes, a beautiful stranger arrives to confuse confusion, and it is all very complicated and amusing, but is untangled in the end.
“The efforts of a New England spinster to be a machine god are amusing and some of the conversations hang together well.”
| + | Critic. 46: 564. Je. ‘05. 70w. |
“We have never read a more improbable tale, and not often one that so completely failed to amuse.”
| — — — | Nation. 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 220w. |
“The small volume is packed with jokes of the kind visible without a glass.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 203. Ap. 1, ‘05. 40w. |
“Here and there are some love scenes very human, very delicately wrought. Briefly, ‘The matrimonial bureau’ is like the ‘Summer girl,’ passing fair, fair but passing.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 214. Ap. 8, ‘05. 330w. |
“It is an excellent book for summer reading, being as light as air.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 130w. |
“A book of the slightest sort, hardly comedy, more accurately described perhaps as a summer farce.”
| + — | Outlook. 79: 1014. Ap. 22, ‘05. 80w. |
“As a literary soufflé, light, well-flavored and well-browned, this little story will be a tasty addition to the midsummer feast of reading.”
| + | Reader. 6: 359. Ag. ‘05. 190w. |
Wells, Herbert George. [Kipps: a monograph.] [†]$1.50. Scribner.
“An uneducated, awkward, and uncultivated clerk in a London draper’s establishment suddenly has a large fortune left him, attempts to get into high society, is made use of and swindled right and left, but finally has the courage to break away, to marry the girl of his choice, even though she be a servant girl, and to live his own life. In the end fortune smiles on him a second time, but now in moderation, and he is left a happy, contented husband and father; and, by a twist of Mr. Wells’ whimsical fancy, is made the proprietor of a bookshop which he manages on the theory that ‘one book is about as good as another.’”—Outlook.
“The book, in fact, has a purpose, but that purpose is not allowed to interfere with its vivacity; and ‘Kipps’ is, indeed, the most amusing book and at the same time the tenderest book that Mr. Wells has ever written.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 1129. O. 28, ‘05. 900w. |
[*] “He has set aside the speculations of scientific imagination, and deals with warm human life to-day. This is the work which was designed for him in the end, and we cannot doubt that he will continue to devote himself to it.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 681. N. 18. 650w. |
“Deals with his subject in a strong, broad manner, intensified by his understanding of such detail of life as the minor incidents of retail trade.”
| + | Critic. 47: 478. N. ‘05. 50w. | |
| + | Ind. 59: 1113. N. 9, ‘05. 220w. |
“The merit of the novel, however, is not in the story, but in the observation. He never, for a single page, fails to be amusing.”
| + + — | Lond. Times. 4: 358. O. 27, ‘05. 780w. |
“Is a humorous story, but it is not a trifling one, and though it deals largely with humble folk, it has to do, in a broad and forceful way, with much of the seriousness of life.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 649. O. 7, ‘05. 500w. |
“The story in its substance is rather sordid and dull.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 382. O. 14, ‘05. 170w. |
“Kipps, indeed, carries a social question to be long pondered, and the author’s side-talks are an important contribution to the old but never-ended discussion.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 633. N. 11, ‘05. 290w. |
[*] “Is another triumph in the art of presenting character.”
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 759. D. ‘05. 100w. |
[*] “Mr. Wells, as usual, writes cleverly, brilliantly, wittily.”
| + | Sat. R. 100: 658. N. 18, ‘05. 820w. |
[*] “We have found Kipps in many ways the most human and sympathetic of Mr. Wells’s stories.”
| + | Spec. 95: 718. N. 4, ‘05. 1060w. |
Wells, Herbert George. [Modern Utopia.] [*]$1.50. Scribner.
Mr. Wells departs from the Utopia-makers of the past in that his Utopia is a world-state using a universal language. The author deals “with strictly modern and current conditions, and imagines a new state of society, whose social basis has been improved and whose social problems have been settled.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Seems to us to mark an advance even on the high level of excellence which Mr. Wells had before attained.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 414. Ap. 15, ‘05. 1290w. |
[*] “We can discover nothing in this sample, however, that goes beyond good-natured satire of conditions which none would be so poor as to defend.” A. W. S.
| + | Am. J. Soc. 11: 430. N. ‘05. 250w. |
“There has been no work of this importance published for the last thirty years.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 519. Ap. 29. 2450w. |
“The form he has chosen for ‘A modern Utopia’ is exceedingly unfortunate. The essay appended ... is a contribution of real value to the theory of thinking and written in a style as witty and original as that of Professor James.”
| — + | Ind. 58: 1307. Je. 8, ‘05. 740w. |
“Mr. Wells meant this work as a very serious one. Many readers of it will find its perusal trying, and will fail to realize, as proper compensation for the task of reading the same, whatever grist it offers for the mind.”
| + — | Lit. D. 31: 427. S. 23, ‘05. 990w. |
“Mr. Wells’s Utopia is far the most interesting, imaginative, and possible of all the Utopias written since the inventions and discoveries of science began to colour our conceptions of the future.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 144. My. 5, ‘05. 1650w. |
“In the present book Mr. Wells has become still more moderate and practicable and hopeful, without in the least derogating from his ingenuity and originality.” F. C. S. S.
| + + | Nature. 72: 337. Ag. 10, ‘05. 1280w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 313. My. 13, ‘05. 300w. |
“It is carefully thought out and reasoned, and holds together much better than the ideal commonwealths imagined by his predecessors.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 342. My. 27, ‘05. 1340w. |
“The method of presentation adopted is exceedingly happy.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 345. Je. 3, ‘05. 310w. |
“It is an admirable piece of literature and a book of unlimited suggestiveness. As literature and as philosophy, ‘A modern Utopia’ is Mr. Wells’ masterpiece.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 764. Je. ‘05. 220w. |
“The book, both in matter and in form, has been carefully studied and thought out. Mr. Wells’s book seems hardly likely to rank as, or to remain, a classic Utopia.”
| + | Spec. 95: 610. O. 21, ‘05. 2040w. |
Wells, Herbert George. [Twelve stories and a dream.] [†]$1.50. Scribner.
In this volume of stories Mr. Wells “has but rarely any prophetic or scientific axe to grind. His stories deal with the marvelous under many aspects, but always in the light of his half-joyous, half-whimsical humor.” (R. of Rs.)
“None of them is equal to the best of his former tales, but there are some that are very amusing and some quite gruesome.”
| + — | Ind. 58: 1308. Je. 8, ‘05. 100w. |
“Enough have surely been mentioned to show the varied entertainment which Mr. Wells offers and to indicate our opinion that he has never offered any better.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 327. My. 20, ‘05. 590w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w. |
“In at least half of these stories Mr. Wells is seen at his best.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 1062. Ap. 29, ‘05. 160w. |
“‘Twelve stories and a dream’ will not lower Mr. Wells’ reputation as an imaginative writer, which his previous volumes probably did.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 763. Je. ‘05. 80w. |
Welsh, Charles, ed. See Famous battles of the Nineteenth century.
Wendell, Barrett. Temper of the 17th century in English literature. [**]$1.50. Scribner.
“Prof. Barrett Wendell, of the English department at Harvard university, has gathered his lectures on English literature, delivered on the Clark foundation at Trinity college, Cambridge (1902-‘03), into a volume.... These are the first regular lectures concerning English literature ever given by an American at an English university. Together, they are practically a literary study of the age of Dryden. The purpose in these lectures was, he declares, to indicate the manner in which the national temper of England, as revealed in seventeenth-century literature, ‘changed from a temper ancestrally common to modern England, and to modern America, and became, before the century closed, something which later time must recognize as distinctly, specifically, English.”—R. of Rs.
“Prof. Wendell is always interesting, whether we agree with him or not, and the Clark lectures ... have much good matter in them, with perhaps as much that is by no means so good.”
| + + — | Critic. 47: 92. Jl. ‘05. 190w. |
“Smoothness of style ... Though this volume is of such high merit that it will take a place at once as one of the recognized authorities on its subject, it is not likely that all its positions will be accepted without a demur.” Herbert W. Horwill.
| + + — | Forum. 36: 407. Ja. ‘05. 1970w. |
“The title of this book is more philosophical than the contents warrant; instead of obtaining one final impression, we remember the separate remarks—often wise, suggestive and illuminating—on separate authors.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 1016. My. 4, ‘05. 260w. | |
| R. of Rs. 31: 250. F. ‘05. 130w. |
“Its author seems wholly destitute of any pretension to critical discernment. The diction and style, as might be expected, are on a par with the rest of the book. It is scandalous that a great university like Cambridge should tolerate such standards of information and criticism as this volume exhibits.”
| — — — | Sat. R. 99: 704. My. 27, ‘05. 1960w. |
Wertheimer, Edward von. Duke of Reichstadt. [**]$5. Lane.
Dr. Wertheimer’s monograph on the Duke of Reichstadt makes use of a vast deal of new biographical material. The study covers the political setting of the life in detail, painstakingly going over the whole piece of statecraft involved in Napoleon’s Austrian marriage, dwelling at length upon the influence which the alliance exerted upon the policy of Napoleon and of his opponents. The short uneventful life of Napoleon’s son is of less interest than the stirring history which the father tried to shape for the glory of a permanent kingdom. “It is to the fact that he was his father’s son that the fame of the Duke of Reichstadt is due ... the shadow of a great name surrounds him, and historical writers record and discuss his every act as if he had been a real king, instead of merely the If, Yes, and Perhaps of Modern European history.” (N. Y. Times.)
| + + — | Acad. 68: 1124. O. 28, ‘05. 1780w. |
“As a rule, however, the narrative runs easily—perhaps more so than is the case with most translations.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 536. O. 21, 2040w. |
[*] “The translation, on the whole, is very satisfactory, though there are occasional lapses into awkwardness or obscurity. Here and there one may question the justice of Dr. Wertheimer’s remarks. But these and a few other blemishes do not detract from the value of a most careful and interesting work, which presents the first complete and authoritative account of the life of this unfortunate prince.”
| + + — | Lond. Times. 4: 337. O. 13, ‘05. 1360w. |
“Mr. de Wertheimer’s book is a valuable contribution to historical knowledge. The author’s style, however, is somewhat confused, and his judgment is far from critical.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 386. N. 9, ‘05. 1050w. |
“He has scraped everything together, sorted it out, sifted it, and arranged it in what must be acknowledged to be an interesting story. The matter is not important, however. The English translation of Mr. de Wertheimer’s book is good.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 669. O. 14, ‘05. 860w. |
[*] “It is as interesting as it is valuable as a contribution to a strangely neglected period of European history.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 820. D. 2, ‘05. 120w. |
[*] “Dr. Wertheimer has chosen wisely to present the details of a sad career with the fulness, the accuracy, and the impartiality of a scholar.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 869. N. 25, ‘05. 1410w. |
West, George Stephen. Treatise on the British freshwater algae. [*]$3.50. Macmillan.
“Certainly there is no book upon any phase of cryptogamic botany for which there has been so much need, and for which the demand in recent years, has been so great, as one dealing comprehensively with the freshwater algæ.... A good general discussion of the methods of multiplication and reproduction in algæ, together with a reference to the question of polymorphism and a rather full exposition of the particular theories of the author regarding phylogeny, precedes the specific treatment of the six classes, Rhodophyceæ, Phaeophyceæ, Chlorophyceæ, Heterokonteæ, Bacillarieæ, and Myxophyceæ.... The book is fully illustrated and too much cannot be said for the successful effort to secure new and accurate drawings of not only the more recently described genera, but for the older forms as well.”—Science.
“The work has been thoroughly done throughout, and its value is greatly increased by an exhaustive index. The plates are sufficiently characteristic for most identifications, and the descriptions and keys are good.”
| + + + | Nation. 80: 93. F. 2, ‘05. 90w. |
“Is particularly well qualified to write such a book. The need of a treatise upon the freshwater algæ has been referred to; that this book will come as near to filling such a need as one of its scope, written by one man, could possibly be expected, is all that is necessary to say regarding its worth.” George T. Moore.
| + + + | Science, n.s. 21: 184. F. 3, ‘05. 900w. |
West, W. K. George Frederick Watts. $1.25. Warne.
A biographical sketch of Watts by W. K. West, with an essay on his art, and an outline of the sixty-five pictures reproduced in the book, by Romualdo Pantini.
| N. Y. Times. 10: 205. Ap. 1, ‘05. 230w. | ||
| + | Outlook. 79: 856. Ap. 1, ‘05. 60w. |
Westcott, Rev. Frank Nash. Church and the good Samaritan; mission addresses to men. [**]$1. Whittaker.
A series of Lent addresses to men. They include The lawyer’s question, The Jericho road, The priest and the Samaritan, The Samaritan and the Jew, The wayside inn, The two pence.
| + — | Outlook. 79: 758. Mr. 25, ‘05. 60w. |
[*] Westcott, Frank N. Heart of catholicity. $1. Young churchman.
A defence of the conception of the church which is held by the “high church” party of the Anglican communion. It regards the church as a divine institution let down from above, the dispenser of truth and salvation as against the view held by the members of that communion in common with other protestants that the church is a historic growth which has developed out of human needs and which is seeking truth and salvation. The author means by “catholicity” the former conception of the church, but the term ought to be big enough to include both views.
| Outlook. 81: 134. S. 16, ‘05. 150w. |
Westrup, Margaret. Coming of Billy. $1.25. Harper.
“Billy’s coming will be a pleasure to readers of all ages, for Billy is a delightful addition to the real small boys of fiction. His parents send him from India to Rose Cottage, England, where he is a source of continual surprises, not always agreeable to his maiden aunts. He takes a hand in the love affairs of the ‘youngest and prettiest’ Miss Primrose.”—Outlook.
“The reviewer fancies that the whole book is much more likely to interest mature, and even elderly readers, than children.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 432. S. 30. 230w. |
“A delightfully humorous story that is told with a wholly charming grace and simplicity.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 710. O. 21, ‘05. 470w. | |
| + | Outlook. 81: 134. S. 16, ‘05. 70w. |
Weyman, Stanley John. [Starvecrow farm.] [†]$1.50. Longmans.
“The story is placed in the early part of the last century; the heroine, engaged to one man, elopes with another, on whose head there is a price. The couple are captured the day of their flight from the girl’s home, but the man escapes, leaving the girl in the hands of the law. The world thinks her an accomplice, and as her family repudiates her, she has to fight her battle alone.”—Pub. Opin.
“A novel that is likely to be read with delight on a wet day in a country house or on a railway journey.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 1025. O. 7, ‘05. 320w. |
“It is as good as any of those which have preceded it from the same pen, and to say this is to pay it a high compliment.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 396. S. 23. 420w. |
“Its structure is rather flabby. Looking back over the book, we feel that we ought to have been more excited over it than we were; but the truth is that Mr. Weyman is both wordy and a little uncertain.”
| — | Lond. Times. 4: 295. S. 15, ‘05. 510w. |
“It goes—goes a-cantering and takes you along with it.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 707. O. 21, ‘05. 440w. |
[*] “Like the others, a thoroughly readable story.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 823. D. 2, ‘05. 150w. | |
| — | Outlook. 81: 579. N. 4, ‘05. 100w. |
“In ‘Starvecrow farm’ there are the same easy flow of narrative, the lively dialogue, the dramatic sense, and the well-developed plot which characterize all that this author does.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 573. O. 28, ‘05. 110w. |
“As a vigorous, wholesome, and well-constructed tale it deserves to win wide acceptance.”
| + — | Spec. 95: 434. S. 23, ‘05. 740w. |
Whall, C. W. [Stained-glass work.] [**]$1.50. Appleton.
A simple text-book, which the author has written “in a gossipy style, using very few technical terms and explaining every seemingly difficult passage, just as though he were giving oral instruction.” (N. Y. Times.) There are photographic reproductions of windows in English churches, and many diagrams.
| N. Y. Times. 10: 474. Jl. 15, ‘05. 390w. | ||
| + + — | Pub. Opin. 39: 352. S. 9, ‘05. 200w. |
Wharton, Edith Newbold (Jones). [House of mirth.] [†]$1.50. Scribner.
A society novel, cruel in its reality. Lily Bart, beautiful and twenty-nine, the orphaned child of a New York merchant, feels her whole being calling for the stamp of permanent possession upon the luxury which she has always enjoyed at the hands of her friends. Relentlessly the author enmeshes her in the toils of debt incurred at bridge; in scandal, the price of a trip upon a friend’s yacht; and, almost in a loveless marriage,—only the wealthy Rosedale himself recoils from it when society no longer smiles upon Miss Bart. She is dropped from stage to stage of society, the unhappy victim of circumstance and environment, but holding the reader’s full sympathy thru an innate nobility which is submerged but never eliminated. The end is hard—but could it all have ended otherwise?
“Mrs. Wharton has done many good things—she has never done anything better than this. Her dialogue is clever, fresh and sparkling; she has a fine discrimination—a natural, unstudied discrimination—in the use of words; and her style is graceful and fluent.”
| + + + | Acad. 68: 1155. N. 4, ‘05. 330w. |
[*] “It is a pitiful story, told with restraint and insight and not a little subtlety.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 718. N. 25. 160w. |
[*] “As a piece of artistic creation, it falls short of supreme excellence.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
| + + | Critic. 47: 509. D. ‘05. 580w. |
“She still has a fine manner, but it is like the fine gowns of her heroines, a fashion of the times for interpreting decadent symptoms in human nature. What she says will not last, because it is simply the fashionable drawing of ephemeral types and still more ephemeral sentiments.”
| + — | Ind. 59: 150. Jl. 20, ‘05. 820w. | |
| + — | Ind. 59: 1151. N. 16, ‘05. 250w. |
[*] “Miss Bart is a blend of Becky Sharp and Gwendolen Harleth. She is not as compellingly human as the one, nor as inspiring as the other. Frankly, Mrs. Wharton has surpassed George Eliot in this theme. Not only is Lily Bart more congenial and better, as a human variation, than Gwendolen or Becky, but Mrs. Wharton’s style is more plastic and seductive than that of Mrs. Lewes.”
| + + | Lit. D. 31: 886. D. 9, ‘05. 820w. |
[*] “A dozen other novels of the year are good; but this book is really good. What Mrs. Wharton appears to lack is in a word the creative gift at its fullest. She sees with certainty and her hand is as sure as her eye. But with the richest imaginations something takes place beyond this.”
| + + — | Lond. Times. 4: 421. D. 1, ‘05. 790w. |
[*] “A feeling for fair play obliges us to protest Mrs. Wharton’s picture as a prejudiced one, yet it is not consciously unveracious. Though depressing, it is not wholly unprofitable.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 447. N. 30, ‘05. 1100w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 190w. |
“The story is the product of the most carefully calculated, the most skilfully handled, artistic values and effects; but the workmanship is the manner, not the substance of the novel. A story of such integrity of insight and of workmanship is an achievement of high importance in American life.”
| + + + | Outlook. 81: 404. O. 21, ‘05. 1590w. |
[*] “It is by all odds the greatest novel of recent years.”
| + + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 796. D. 16, ‘05. 490w. |
[*] “We have touched only the main theme, which like the whole story, is worked out in a manner to stamp the writer a genius, and give her name a place in the history of American literature.”
| + + + | R. of Rs. 32: 757. D. ‘05. 380w. |
“Her reputation will certainly not suffer any decline by the publication of her new novel.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 657. O. 28, ‘05. 660w. |
Wharton, Edith Newbold (Jones). Italian backgrounds; il. by E. C. Peixotto. [**]$2.50. Scribner.
Mrs. Wharton says, “As with the study of Italian pictures, so it is with Italy herself. The country is divided not in partes tres, but in two; a foreground and a background. The foreground is the property of the guidebook and of its product, the mechanical sightseers; the background, that of the dawdler, the dreamer, and the serious student of Italy.” The nine chapters are—An Alpine posting inn, A midsummer week’s dream, The sanctuaries of the Pennine Alps, What the hermits saw, A Tuscan shrine, Sub umbra liliorum. March in Italy, Picturesque Milan, and Italian backgrounds: then there are twelve illustrations reproduced from Peixotto pictures.
“The book is written with genuine knowledge, with large and generous sympathy, and in excellent English.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 798. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1220w. |
“Her style is extraordinarily good, but her thought is pedantic and inhuman.” G. R. Carpenter.
| + — | Bookm. 21: 609. Ag. ‘05. 550w. |
“Has an air of spontaneity, as well as of competence, an irresistible grace, countless descriptive felicities, and the fervent glow of a genuine enthusiasm.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 287. S. ‘05. 150w. |
“Through this traveller’s story runs a fine thread of scholarship, of savoir faire, of cosmopolitanism, not easily to be matched in travel-literature. The book has what we call distinction of style, as impossible to resist as to define.” Anna Benneson McMahan.
| + + + | Dial. 38: 351. My. 16, ‘05. 930w. | |
| + | Ind. 58: 1311. Je. 8, ‘05. 190w. |
“When Mrs. Wharton leaves the countryside and speaks of pictures and sculpture, she is apt to be less satisfactory. She is almost too impartial in her appreciation.”
| + + — | Lond. Times. 4: 215. Jl. 7, ‘05. 640w. |
“Mrs. Wharton has many unusual qualifications for writing on the art of Italy in its many phases, among others a brilliant style, historic research and a catholicity of taste.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 508. Je. 22, ‘05. 910w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 265. Ap. 22, ‘05. 270w. |
“Like the text, they [the illustrations] press the ‘culture’ of elusive expression very near to the vanishing point.” Walter Littlefield.
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 588. S. 9, ‘05. 940w. |
“This attractive quarto shows the combination of thorough knowledge based on original research, ability to enter into and value different aspects of life and different forms of art, and a finished and suggestive style.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 643. Jl. 8, ‘05. 250w. |
“The book is full of exquisite impressions concerning matters not to be found in the guide books.”
| + + | Reader. 6: 597. O. ‘05. 220w. |
“An intimate acquaintance with Italian art and nature, an insight into southern life, and an exquisite literary style,—all of which belong to this writer—are necessary for such a study.”
| + + + | R. of Rs. 32: 254. Ag. ‘05. 50w. |
“A great deal of charming description is scattered through this volume.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 470. S. 30. ‘05. 2560w. |
Wharton, Edith. [Italian villas and their gardens]; il. with pictures by Maxfield Parrish, and by photographs. [**]$6. Century.
To come so absolutely under the spell of Italy’s garden-magic as is possible thru Mrs. Wharton’s word exposition and Mr. Parrish’s color interpretation, is almost as rare a privilege for the traveler who has visited those haunts as for the stay-at-home tourist. Magic which in its first supernatural impression defies analysis, often yields to laws of formation in the sober moments of consideration. Thus does Mrs. Wharton show that the seemingly spontaneous glory of Italian gardens is, after all, the result of garden-craft which the architects of the Renaissance resolved into a three-fold problem: adaptation of the garden to the architectural lines of the house it adjoins; adaptation to the requirements of the inmates of a house, in the sense of providing shady walks, sunny bowling-greens, parterres and orchards, all conveniently accessible; and, lastly, adaptation to the landscape around. There are fifty illustrations, in color and in black and white by Maxfield Parrish. Months of close observation and sympathetic study have been devoted to the large undertaking and the harmony with the subject matter which the De Vinne press has wrought into the book workmanship is exquisite.
“Mr. Parrish has performed his part of the task in a delightful and satisfactory way. The impression, the atmosphere, created by the illustrations, is not sustained in the text.”
| + + — | Critic. 46: 166. F. ‘05. 1260w. |
“The text is well written and contains much information concerning the villas and gardens selected for treatment.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 25: 179. Ap. ‘05. 150w. |
“This is a notable volume, all the more so from the archæological and historical associations which it recalls.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 118. Ja. 28, ‘05. 70w. |
Wheeler, Candace Thurber (Mrs. Thomas M.). Doubledarling and the dream spinner. [†]$1.50. Fox.
Doubledarling is a little girl “twice as good and twice as beautiful as other children.” When she tells her father how her little discarded red shoes led her in the night to the land where the old shoes go, he promises her a dream machine which will tell her wonderful stories all night long; and on Christmas morning her dream spinner hangs on a peg by her bed ticking out story after story to her. The book tells about these dreams and also of Doubledarling’s waking hours, her friends and her pets. One regrets the commonplace realism which lets an ordinary burglar finally make away with the dream spinner. Dora Wheeler Keith has illustrated the volume.
| * | + | Critic. 47: 577. D. ‘05. 50w. |
| + | Outlook. 81: 381. O. 14, ‘05. 60w. |
Wheeler, Everett Pepperell. Daniel Webster, the expounder of the constitution. [**]$1.50. Putnam.
“This is at once a tribute to the genius of Daniel Webster and a handy manual to the decisions which, following Webster’s arguments before the United States Supreme court, have molded the constitution to make it adequate to our needs. While Mr. Wheeler’s chief concern is with the constitutional questions laid before the court, he is not unmindful of the senatorial side of Webster’s career from the constitutional standpoint, and chapters are given over to the replies of Calhoun and Hayne, involving the nature of the republic, and to the famous ‘Seventh of March’ speech, which brought such disappointment to the enemies of slavery.... Interest is heightened by the inclusion of hitherto unpublished accounts of several of the more important cases, and by an appreciative study of Webster as a lawyer.”—Outlook.
| Am. Hist. R. 10: 717. Ap. ‘05. 90w. |
“Its manifest position as a special pleader for Mr. Webster’s memory. Is particularly desirable as giving us new light on old subjects through its first publication of many facts which aid to a clearer view of the principles of the constitution.”
| + + | Boston Evening Transcript. F. 8, ‘05. 550w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 130. Mr. 4, ‘05. 950w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 79: 399. F. 11, ‘05. 130w. | |
| Yale R. 14: 229. Ag. ‘05. 100w. |
Whelpley, James Davenport. Problem of the immigrant. [*]$3. Dutton.
A brief discussion, with a summary of conditions, laws and regulations governing the movement of population to and from the British empire, the United States, France, Germany, Belgium, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, and Scandinavia.
| + + | Acad. 68: 242. Mr. 11, ‘05. 260w. |
[*] “Such data is not easily accessible to the average student or legislator, and the volume will be of great service.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 753. N. ‘05. 110w. |
“A useful work of reference. Such frantic statements as these are a serious disfigurement in a book professing claims to accuracy.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 45. Jl. 8. 430w. |
“This hasty ‘book of the hour,’ for such it evidently is, interests in parts, particularly in its emphasis upon emigration as a matter of international concern.”
| + + — | Ind. 59: 578. S. 7, ‘05. 180w. |
“His summaries seem excellent and correct. The observations and brief discussions with which he accompanies them are illuminating and to the point.”
| + + + | Nation. 81: 33. Jl. 13, ‘05. 270w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 313. My. 13, ‘05. 200w. |
“The book is more useful than any other bearing on the same subject.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 452. Jl. 8, ‘05. 720w. |
“Mr. Whelpley’s careful study of the general problem of emigration and immigration throughout Europe, our colonies, and the United States will be found a particularly useful addition to a class of recent books that is now somewhat extensive.”
| + + | Sat. R. 99: 710. My. 27, ‘05. 340w. |
“Mr. Whelpley’s ideas are worthy of respect, and the materials which he has provided should be invaluable to the political student.”
| + + — | Spec. 95: 434. S. 23, ‘05. 510w. |
[*] Where the road led and other stories. $1.25. Benziger.
Twenty-eight Roman Catholic stories written by fourteen Roman Catholic authors. The stories are love stories, but some are of filial love, some of maternal love, and some of the love of religion. The authors include Anna T. Sadlier; Mary T. Waggaman; Magdalen G. Rock; Mary E. Mannix; and Mary G. Bonesteel.
Whibley, Charles. Literary portraits. [*]$2.50. Scribner.
Essays on Rabelais, Phillippe de Comines, Philemon, Holland, Montaigne, The library of an old scholar (the poet William Drummond), Robert Burton, and Jacques Casanova.
“The appreciation is clear and just, and the author is to be congratulated on the decision and delicacy of his touch and the simplicity of his style. The average of the volume is fully up to that high standard of culture which is evident in all Mr. Whibley’s published works.” Frank Schloesser.
| + + | Acad. 68: 13. Ja. 7, ‘05. 600w. |
“The level of performance here is singularly even and singularly high.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 78. Ja. 14. 580w. |
“There is perhaps little art in the various portraits, and there is certainly no pretence at originality; but there is sympathetic understanding, and thorough and conscientious labor.”
| + | Critic. 46: 475. My. ‘05. 170w. | |
| + + | Dial. 38: 323. My. 1. ‘05. 930w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 153. Mr. 11, ‘05. 360w. |
“‘Literary portraits’ shows marked ability and is to be classed among the books of criticism of the higher standard.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 198. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1020w. |
“Mr. Whibley has finished these portraits with a skillful and graceful pen. Readers in a critical mood and readers for entertainment will both find his work attractive.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 760. Mr. 25, ‘05. 160w. |
“We miss the illuminating phrase. The fresh judgment and the historical setting is often wholly omitted. Mr. Whibley has ‘the practiced hand,’ and is apt to be content with that amount of accomplishment.”
| — + | Sat. R. 99: 637. My. 13, ‘05. 180w. |
“This seems to us the best of Mr. Whibley’s volumes of essays, the most mature in style and thought, and the most attractive in subject-matter. He has studied each of his writers with a minute care and has read deeply in contemporary literature, so that they are presented to us in the true setting of their age. His judgments have now the sanity which can only come from a full experience and a full enjoyment of a wide field of literature. His style ... has acquired a body and force which it did not always possess, and his essays are admirable, if for nothing else, for their mastery of clear, graceful, and vigorous prose. Sometimes his comment is a little over-strained.”
| + + + | Spec. 94: 87. Ja. 21, ‘05. 1830w. |
Whibley, Leonard, ed. See Companion to Greek studies.
Whiffen, Edwin T. Samson marrying, Samson at Timnah, Samson Hybristes, Samson blinded: four dramatic poems. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
These four dramatic poems deal with four dramatic incidents in the life of Samson. The first tells of Samson’s revenge upon the Philistine youths who, at his wedding-feast, illtreat his father and win from his bride the solution to a certain riddle. The second tells of further revenge upon the Philistines and includes the setting of foxes and fire brands among their corn and vineyards. In the third drama Samson is tried before the elders of Judah, and his mother reveals to him his divinely appointed mission—to free his people. In the fourth the action centers about the effort of Delilah to discover the secret of his strength and closes with Samson blind and a captive.
Whitaker, Herman. Probationer, and other stories. [†]$1.25. Harper.
Thirteen short stories of life in northwestern Canada. “Most of them deal with the days when the factors and commissioners of the Hudson bay company were the lords of the land, and ruled with an iron hand. The history of the great fur company is full of romance, and there is a peculiar fascination about life in those northern regions.” (Outlook.)
“Some of his stories are thrilling, some humorous, some tame. In narrative Mr. Whittaker has a good deal of manner—too much, and not always his own.”
| + — | Nation. 80: 442. Je. 1, ‘05. 260w. |
“A book which is unusually vigorous and suggestive.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 213. Ap. 8, ‘05. 770w. |
“The stories are full of strength and vigor and the atmosphere of the woods.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 858. Ap. 1, ‘05. 80w. |
“No one has so pictured the life of the trappers and traders of that country since Gilbert Parker wrote of ‘Pretty Pierre’ and his people.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 713. My. 6, ‘05. 120w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 761. Je. ‘05. 70w. |
White, Andrew Dickson. [Autobiography of Andrew D. White.] [**]$7.50. Century.
A record of diplomatic service which began in 1854 when Mr. White went to St. Petersburg as attaché of the American legation, and ended when on his seventieth birthday, 1902, he resigned his duties as ambassador to Germany. The two volumes contain an account of his work as state senator, as a college professor, and finally, president of Cornell, as a commissioner to Santo Domingo, and the Paris exposition (1878), as minister to Germany and Russia, as a member of the Venezuelan boundary commission, and president of the American delegation at the peace conference of the Hague (1899). There are descriptions of the emperor of Germany and Czar Nicholas II, and their courts, and many anecdotes and crisp comments. The man, his life, his many fields of labor, and the great men and events with which he came in contact, are all set forth in detail.
“The value of the volumes seems chiefly to arise from the charmingly simple tale of personal experience told by a man of wisdom and insight, a tale told with considerable literary skill.”
| + + + | Am. Hist R. 10: 925. Jl. ‘05. 470w. |
“In ‘The autobiography of Andrew D. White’ we have one of the most brilliant, interesting, instructive and in many ways important works of recent decades. These examples will be sufficient to illustrate the reckless character of our author’s statements whenever the facts run counter to his prejudices and views which in later years he has imbibed from the privileged interests and reactionary influences that have environed him.”
| + + — | Arena. 34: 97. Jl. ‘05. 7000w. |
“The volumes are full of interest for the general reader, but so ill arranged that those may be repelled who by better construction would have been attracted.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 589. My. 13. 880w. |
“Its interest is due not to any novelty of fact, for the entire book is an open page of history, but to an instinct or habit of truthfulness that pervades its pages like an atmosphere.” Theodore T. Munger.
| + + + | Atlan. 96: 556. O. ‘05. 7900w. |
Reviewed by John W. Russell.
| + + + | Bookm. 21: 603. Ag. ‘05. 1460w. |
“I have found this a most readable book from cover to cover, the story of a strenuous life told with simple directness.” Jeanette L. Gilder.
| + + | Critic. 46: 449. My. ‘05. 1460w. |
“In arrangement the work is a model. By his skill in the selection of material, and by his admirably lucid and even style, the author has made every page intensely interesting.” Clark S. Northrup.
| + + + | Dial. 38: 260. Ap. 16, ‘05. 1780w. |
“To the student of the problems of higher education in America, Dr. White’s ‘Autobiography,’ full as it is of matters of general interest, should prove especially interesting and important.” Clark S. Northup.
| + + | Educ. R. 30: 101. Je. ‘05. 1030w. |
“Altogether this is a full book, with something for everybody, putting one in touch on many sides with modern times; an adequate narrative of an exceptional career.”
| + + — | Ind. 59: 812. O. 5, ‘05. 1080w. |
“A better account of the founding of Cornell, of which he was so long the honored and successful head, has never been given, and perhaps in no other of his pages do we see so clearly the practical idealism, which, running throughout his life story like a golden thread, makes it so well worth the telling.”
| + + + | Lit. D. 31: 187. Ag. 5, ‘05. 630w. |
“Viewed as a narrative the book is excellent, and only needs more continuity; viewed as a collection of essays, it is naturally inadequate.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 149. My. 12, ‘05. 2680w. |
“By the side of the recent contributions of Hoar, Stillman, Newcomb, Dwight, Le Conte, Villard, and Conway, the autobiography of White will hold an honored place.”
| + + + | Nation. 80: 272. Ap. 6, ‘05. 2110w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 121. F. 25, ‘05. 180w. |
“Nor does it possess that intimate charm which has made a literary classic of more than one ingenuous personal narrative. There is little in these two volumes which can fail to interest the serious reader in one way or another.” H. W. Boynton.
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 321. My. 20, ‘05. 1410w. |
“If he is not entirely without prejudice of egotism, he displays those qualities after the manner of great men.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 240w. |
“These volumes ... have a value for all his countrymen not surpassed by any American autobiography within our knowledge.” James M. Whiton.
| + + + | Outlook. 80: 132. My. 13, ‘05. 5600w. |
“Mr. White is an octogenarian, with a full life behind him, but two hundred pages would have been ample space for it.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: 28. Jl. 1, ‘05. 160w. |
“It is eminently characteristic of its country of origin.”
| + + + | Spec. 95: 51. Ag. 8, ‘05. 740w. |
“There is a want of continuity. Repetitions occur, and sometimes when they were unintended. He has written a book to interest all who are interested in the modern world.” Simeon E. Baldwin.
| + + — | Yale R. 14: 210. Ag. ‘05. 1770w. |
White, C. V. Peace conference: poem. $1. Badger, R: G.
This poem is dedicated to the American delegates of the International peace conference, which met at the Hague, May 18, 1899. It sets forth the harm which war has done thruout history, and declares that the time for universal peace is here. It closes with the prayer,
“Lord God endow
Us with thy blessings now,
And plenteous peace the whole world o’er
Establish thou forevermore.”
White, Fred M. [Crimson blind.] $1.50. Fenno.
The strands of this story are marvelously twisted. A villain, a fiend in human shape, has plunged his family into dishonor to gain his ends, but by the aid of a clever doctor, whose future had also been involved in the general ruin, a young novelist who applies fiction methods to the case, and a girl cousin who feigns death in order to be free to solve the mystery, the whole is ferreted out, bit by bit. It is an ingenious plot with manifold complications.
“This is a really fine sensational novel.”
| + | Acad. 68: 735. Jl. 15, ‘05. 230w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 320. My. 13, ‘05. 210w. |
White, George. Practical course of instruction in personal magnetism, telepathy, and hypnotism. $1.25. Dutton.
A practical course of instruction setting forth the manner in which any student may acquire powers over himself, over his fellow men, and even over time and space.
| — | Acad. 68: 683. Jl. 1, ‘05. 740w. |
Reviewed by Pendennis.
| — | N. Y. Times. 10: 430. Jl. 1, ‘05. 680w. |
White, T. Hyler. Petrol motor and motor cars: a handbook for engineers, designers, and draughtsmen. [*]$1.40. Longmans.
A book which the author feels is needed, because recent automobile literature has not been written for the benefit of designers. Practical rules for the design of the essential parts of motors and motor cars are given, accompanied by figures. There are tables of various kinds to facilitate calculations and to convert English units into metric measures. The illustrations are good, but are not drawn to a given scale.
“The formulas which are given seem to be of a rational nature; but to the reviewer it seems a fault that the derivation of the same are never given. The author discusses at various places the several alternatives for the many parts of a modern automobile; he gives his reason for his choice very clearly and never uses superfluous words, for which fact he deserves praise. Of course it ought not to be necessary to state that it is not always possible to agree with his conclusions. As a book for the special purpose of helping the designers of these engines it appears to the reviewer that it is the best existing book in the English language, notwithstanding the criticisms which have been made above.” Storm Bull.
| + + — | Engin. N. 53: 186. F. 16, ‘05. 750w. |
White, W. Hale. John Bunyan. [**]$1. Scribner.
This is the third volume in the Literary lives series which aims to furnish biographical and critical estimates. It treats of Bunyan’s life and characteristics. “Bunyan is not altogether the representation of Puritanism ... the qualification necessary in order to understand and properly value him is not theological learning, nor in fact any kind of learning or literary skill, but the experience of life, with its hopes and fears, bright day and black night.” “Pilgrim’s progress” is fully treated and there are lesser studies of “Grace abounding,” the “Life and death of Mr. Badman,” and “The holy war.”
“If the reader would spend the amount of time required to read this book in the careful perusal of any one of Bunyan’s great pieces, he would probably catch more of the spirit of the Bedford dreamer, and gain a clearer and higher conception of his genius, than these pages by Mr. White are able to furnish.”
| — | Am. J. of Theol. 9: 377. Ap. ‘05. 140w. |
[*] “The writer does with success what he has to do, and imagines very well the personality of the great John.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 1: 368. Mr. 25. 230w. |
“The final chapter is a very unsatisfactory treatment of ‘Bunyan and Puritanism.’”
| + — | Bib. World. 25: 316. Ap. ‘05. 80w. |
“A very interesting study. Mr. White has so many admirable things to say of the man and the spirit of his writings that one regrets that he should have devoted so much of his space to a detailed summary of Bunyan’s principal works.”
| + + | Contemporary R. 87: 299. F. ‘05. 920w. |
“The book proves to be a sympathetic, even a devout, study of its interesting theme.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 119. S. 1, ‘05. 340w. | |
| + — | Nation. 80: 79. Ja. 26, ‘05. 940w. |
“An interesting and well written biography. But it lacks background. The picture of the times is inadequate.”
| + — | Outlook. 79: 246. Ja. 28, ‘05. 190w. |
“Mr. White has made us see Bunyan the man, and through him the great, sober, deadly earnest English folk, of whom he was the interpreter.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 126. Ja. ‘05. 80w. |
Whitefield, George. Selected sermons; ed. with introd. and notes, by Rev. A. R. Buckland. [**]50c. Union press.
The text of this volume is with some slight changes that of the “Sermons on important subjects” published in 1828. The six sermons are entitled—The necessity and benefits of religious society, Regeneration, A penitent heart the best New Year’s gift, The almost Christian, Glorifying God in the fire, and Jacob’s ladder.
Whiting, Lilian. Florence of Landor. [**]$2.50. Little.
Lilian Whiting weaves a charm into the living drama that was set in the scenic enchantment of Florence during the period of Walter Savage Landor. She draws the Florence still vital with color, the romance, the tragedy and passionate exaltation and despair of the fifteenth century, and shows the sympathetic common interests of the English and American colony including permanently the Brownings and the Trollopes, and welcoming as visitors from time to time, George Eliot, Frances Power Cobbe, Frederick Tennyson and a number of the Brook farm men and women. The book creates the author’s usual ideal atmosphere, and is handsomely illustrated from photographs.
| * | + | Critic. 47: 581. D. ‘05. 70w. |
[*] “There are so many good things in Miss Whiting’s book, that the pity is all the greater that the writer has never acquired the literary virtues of restraint and selection.”
| + — | Dial. 39: 443. D. 16, ‘05. 370w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 835. D. 2, ‘05. 230w. |
[*] “Uses a great mass of material with fine discretion. At times her pen seems to flag, and she repeats from mere weariness; but far oftener she shows the nice discrimination of the true critic and the grace of the trained writer.”
| + + — | Outlook. 81: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 280w. | |
| * | + | Pub. Opin. 39: 826. D. 23, ‘05. 180w. |
Whiting, Lilian. Joy that no man taketh from you. [**]50c. Little.
The realization of the Kingdom of Heaven in the hearts of men right now and here through the great power of love is the problem which Lilian Whiting meets. This joy may be achieved by the soul “so that neither death nor privation nor loss nor disappointment, not trial in any of its innumerable forms, shall dim its radiance or diminish its energy.”
Whiting, Lilian. Outlook beautiful. [*]$1.25. Little.
In chapters entitled The delusion of death, Realizing the ideal, Friendship as a divine relation, The ethereal world, The supreme purpose of Jesus, An inward stillness. The miracle moment may dawn on any hour, Miss Whiting sets forth her convictions regarding the relation of this life to the life eternal.
“It is unusually rich in helpful thought for those who enjoy transcendental and broadly religious discussions.”
| + + | Arena. 34: 330. S. ‘05. 320w. |
“The book is entirely characteristic of the author, and as such will recommend itself to her considerable public.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 283. S. ‘05. 40w. |
“It is a rhapsody, a carnival of spiritual joy.” David Saville Muzzey.
| + — | Int. J. Ethics. 15: 526. Jl. ‘05. 70w. |
“She weaves a fabric not overstrong, but light, and firm enough for every-day uses.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 142. My. 13, ‘05. 80w. | |
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 61. Jl. 8, ‘05. 90w. |
“Her philosophy and style are very stimulating and suggestive.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 254. Ag. ‘05. 50w. |
[*] Whitney, Caspar. Jungle trails and jungle people; travel, adventure and observation in the Far East. [**]$3. Scribner.
“Recent travels in the Far East, in India, Sumatra, Malay, and Siam.... The record of a trip prompted by the lust of adventure, and by the desire to see strange lands and strange peoples, and to hunt strange animals. Mr. Whitney has caught the trick of making a little human interest enhance the vivid story of some thrilling or stirring hunting adventure.... Hunters or servants, enlighten us as to the mental and moral habits of the natives of the countries described.”—Dial.
[*] “Mr. Whitney has written a volume of travel and adventure that will make his name conspicuous among American hunters.” H. E. Coblentz.
| + + | Dial. 39: 378. D. 1, ‘05. 380w. |
[*] “If he had been less journalistic in style and the printer more careful, the reader’s pleasure would have been increased. Mr. Whitney has given us a pleasing account of a region little known to the white man.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 770w. |
[*] “Is a most interesting and informing volume.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 706. O. 21, ‘05. 570w. |
[*] “His descriptions of some of his guides and hunters are intensely diverting. He makes very real the life in the jungle.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 717. N. 25, ‘05. 160w. |
Whitney, Helen Hay. [Sonnets and songs.] [**]$1.20. Harper.
“All the sonnets and most of the songs give evidence both of temperament and of the study of the older poets, and frequently attain a richness of tone that neither could have accomplished without the other.” (Nation.) “Their mood is chiefly that of quiet wistfulness, touched by the fears and sorrows of uncertain human fate, but open also to the influences of wholesome joy and unaffected sentiment.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Every one of which is a finished bit of art. The work is of so even an excellence that it offers little room for choice.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + + | Dial. 39: 275. N. 1, ‘05. 480w. |
“Love poems, of a passion and sincere subtlety that are none too common.”
| + | Nation. 81: 303. O. 12, ‘05. 300w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 656. O. 7, ‘05. 660w. |
Whitney, Mrs. Helen Hay. Verses for Jock and Joan. [†]$1.50. Fox.
The marginal drawings and the many full page pictures in color by Charlotte Harding, with which this volume of little-folk’s verses is illustrated make it an unusually attractive giftbook.
[*] “A pretty book with graceful verses and dainty illustrations.”
| + | Critic. 47: 584. D. ‘05. 10w. |
[*] “Challenges comparison with Betty Sage’s ‘Rhymes of real children’ of a year ago. The verse is correspondingly humorous, perhaps a trifle more sophisticated.”
| + | Nation. 81: 503. D. 21, ‘05. 60w. |
[*] “The verses are not without point, but are entirely lacking in that ‘turn of the phrase’ which makes the verses of Stevenson or Lewis Carroll dwell in the memory of a child.”
| + — | R. of Rs. 32: 767. D. ‘05. 110w. |
Whitson, John Harvey. Barbara, a woman of the West. 75c. Little.
A new popular edition of a story which follows the fortunes of a young woman in search of her ne’er-do-well husband. He has some claim to literary attainments, starts off on a tour of fortune hunting, and becomes mentally deranged. The scenes shift from Kansas plains to Cripple Creek, thence to San Diego, and the story ends happily despite the fact that Barbara’s Enoch Arden reappears after her second marriage.
Whitson, John H. Justin Wingate, ranchman. [†]$1.50. Little.
Life in the West, where the interests of the ranchman and the farmer are at war is shown thru the medium of story characters. The hero who enters the fight in the Colorado legislature, the doctor who sacrifices all for the unworthy woman who was once his wife, the rancher, choleric but honest, and the son who disgraces him, stand out clearly in the scenes of love, political strife and danger.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 21: 367. Je. ‘05. 160w. | |
| Dial. 38: 392. Je. 1, ‘05. 120w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 10: 272. Ap. 22, ‘05. 80w. |
“Is a wonderfully vivid presentation of the largeness of Western horizons. Mr. Whitson is not so happy in his love stories as in his politics and adventure.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 374. Je. 10, ‘05. 360w. | |
| Outlook. 80: 246. My 27, ‘05. 40w. |
Who’s who, 1905; an annual biographical dictionary. [*]$2. Macmillan.
A book of biographic data about living Englishmen. This edition contains over seventeen thousand biographies, each of which has been submitted for personal revision.
| + + + | Critic. 46: 96. Ja. ‘05. 50w. | |
| + + + | Int. Studio. 24: 370. F. ‘05. 60w. | |
| + + + | Nation. 80: 32. Ja. 12, ‘05. 90w. |
“Improved in arrangement.”
| + + + | Outlook. 79: 197, Ja. 21, ‘05. 60w. | |
| + + + | R. of Rs. 31: 532. Ap. ‘05. 70w. |
Whyte, Rev. Alexander. Apostle Paul. [*]$1. Jennings.
Sixteen lectures upon the apostle Paul, which follow his life and form a comprehensive study of him as preacher, pastor, man of prayer, and chief of sinners, from the first lecture, Paul as a student, to the last, Paul the aged. Five sermons, and an appreciation of Walter Marshall are also included in the volume.
Whyte, Rev. Alexander. Walk, conversation and character of Jesus Christ our Lord. $1.50. Revell.
Addresses offered to the multitude which are “innocent of criticism, but beautifully devout and sweet.” (Outlook.)
“Is composed of original, somewhat visionary, studies of the life of Christ.”
| + | Ind. 59: 331. Ag. 10, ‘05. 50w. |
“Is a simple in thought, not obtrusively original, and expressive of a genuine personal religion.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 936. Ag. 12, ‘05. 80w. |
Wiborg, Frank. Commercial traveller in South America; being the experiences and impressions of an American business man on a trip through Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, the Argentine and Brazil. [**]$1. McClure.
“Mr. Wiborg’s business trip around the coast and across the continent of South America is ... an individual view of a business proposition, and is made readable by descriptions—a business man’s descriptions—of the beauty of the country, and enlivened by some travelling ‘anecdotes.’ A well-drawn map elucidates the whole considerably and makes a very unified piece of work.”—Pub. Opin.
“Its descriptions of the country where conditions have changed rapidly have some value because of their freshness and of the writer’s candid expression of an alert business man’s ideas.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 716. O. 21, ‘05. 620w. |
“Principally as a plea for more intimate business relations between the north and south continents of this hemisphere the work is of value.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 448. S. 30, ‘05. 110w. |
Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith) (Mrs. G. C. Riggs). [Rose o’ the river.] [†]$1.25. Houghton.
The simple story of Rose, a country girl, “a fragile pink rose blossoming on the river’s brink,” and Stephen Waterman, a sturdy young farmer who lives on the other side of the Saco, is prettily told in this volume. Rose’s fancy for a city man interrupts their love for a time, but in the end she returns happily to Stephen. As a background for the slight plot, Mrs. Wiggin gives us the dangerous trade of the lumberman, and the river, a thing of beauty, strength and passion.
“Mrs. Wiggin has contributed a charming picture to the ever-increasing gallery that shows us American country life.”
| + | Acad. 68: 1008. S. 30, ‘05. 330w. |
[*] “This is a rather slight and mildly interesting story.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 642. N. 11. 190w. |
“With a slight plot and commonplace incident, the author, through her clever delineation of Maine manners and peculiarities, makes up an amusing story that may be read in a couple of hours.”
| + | Cath. World. 82: 266. N. ‘05. 210w. |
[*] “The originality and humor that belong to Mrs. Wiggin’s best work are altogether lacking. In spite of a certain rather specious charm, ‘Rose o’ the river’ must be classed with the pot-boilers.”
| + — | Critic. 47: 579. D. ‘05. 70w. |
“A pretty story, pleasantly told by Mrs. Wiggin in her usual limpid style.”
| + | Ind. 59: 989. O. 26, ‘05. 130w. |
[*] “It is ‘manufactured’ from the start, and the attempt to bestow ‘color’ and stir emotion are cruelly patent, tho perfectly null.”
| — | Lit. D. 31: 797. N. 25, ‘05. 360w. |
“Rose is a pretty girl, and her story is a pretty story with a pretty moral.”
| + | Lond. Times. 4: 305. S. 22, ‘05. 200w. |
[*] “‘Rose o’ the river’ is as slender a tale as ever walked into print on the merits of an author’s name.”
| — | Nation. 81: 488. D. 14, ‘05. 120w. |
“The story is written with a graceful sprightliness which is always part of Mrs. Wiggin’s stories, but beside those other two [Rebecca and Penelope] Rose simply cannot live.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 635. S. 30, ‘05. 240w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 100w. |
“The author, as is usual with her, keeps well on the right side of the line that divides sentiment from sentimentality.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 335. O. 7, ‘05. 80w. |
[*] “It is certainly inferior to the author’s usual excellent work.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: 600. N. 4, ‘05. 80w. |
“Her shrewdness and humour act as antiseptics to her strong vein of sentiment. She is tender without being effusive, reticent without any taint of priggishness, entertaining without resort to extravagance of facetiousness.”
| + | Spec. 95: 570. O. 14, ‘05. 850w. |
Wight, Emily Carter. Denim elephant; il. in colours. [†]50c. Stokes.
This little volume in the “Christmas stocking” series presents in a succession of colored pictures and their accompanying text an episode in the life of the denim elephant which belonged to the baby and interfered with the rest of the farmyard, the woolen rabbit, tin cat, china pig, rubber dog, cotton goose, and wooden cow, which belonged to Edith and Philip.
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 894. D. 16, ‘05. 200w. |
Wilbrandt, Adolf. New humanity; or, The Easter island; tr. by Dr. A. S Rappoport. $1.50. Lippincott.
Helmut Adler, an enthusiast and the hero of this story, is modeled after Nietzsche. He has a plan for improving the human race by taking a few chosen followers to a secluded isle where they may rear a perfect race. He loses his reason and dies, and his daughter and her lover decide that the island of perfection can exist only in their own souls.
“But we have seldom seen a worse piece of work as translation than the volume before us.”
| — — | Acad. 68: 567. My. 27, ‘05. 960w. |
“The story is told with a certain morbid power, but drags heavily in the telling, and is only moderately successful in the delineation of the several types of character which people its pages.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + — | Dial. 39: 41. Jl. 16, ‘05. 160w. |
“If the book is doctrinal and the doctrines heavy, it is not therefore a heavy book. On the contrary, there is so much sincerity in each point of view, combined with so much lightness of pen, that it is even absorbing reading; the way is tortuous, indeed, but not slimy.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 148. Ag. 17, ‘05. 780w. |
“The translation is sufficiently clear to carry the meaning of the German writer to the English reader. It is certainly not a work of literary art, but that does not matter.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 376. Je. 10. ‘05. 540w. |
Wilde, Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills. [De profundis.] [**]$1.25. Putnam.
A masterpiece of literary expression penned by Oscar Wilde during his detention in Reading jail, and the last prose he ever wrote. Into it he has put his bitterness in his downfall, his misery in the first two months of prison discipline, and the final triumph of a chastened spirit, a conviction that “there is not a single degradation of the body which I must not try to make into a spiritualizing of the soul.”
“He has added to our literature a work which from its intrinsic value is sure to command the attention of thinking men, from its style the admiration of literary artists, from the tragedy of which it records a part the pity of human hearts.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 397. Ap. 1. 1070w. |
“The essay has ... great literary charm, and possesses unquestioned authenticity as a contribution toward the comprehension of the abnormal and in many ways inexplicable psychology of its author.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 359. My. 16, ‘05. 330w. |
“‘De profundis’ is one of the orchids of literature. As a self-revelation, for it is sincere even in its manifestation of his fundamental insincerity, this little book ranks with the ‘Confessions of Rousseau’ and the ‘Journal of Amiel.’ Both from its style and as a study in abnormal psychology ‘De profundis’ is one of the most noteworthy and interesting books that have appeared for a long time.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 842. Ap. 13, ‘05. 920w. |
[*] “Is one of the saddest, most terrible, yet most fascinating books of recent times.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1161. N. 16, ‘05. 30w. |
“It is one of the most sincere, of all self-revelations, and will go far towards setting Oscar Wilde’s memory right with the world for which he affected to care so little.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 58. Jl. 20, ‘05. 1800w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 205. Ap. 1, ‘05. 450w. |
“The analysis of sorrow, which occupies a considerable part of the volume, is without question, worthy of living and doubtless will live. Least of all its qualities should this book be commended for its literary style and yet for its style alone it is worthy of reading.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 240w. | |
| + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 592. Ap. 15, ‘05. 470w. |
Wilde, Oscar. [Intentions.] [*]$1.50. Brentano’s.
Four essays which gayly and ruthlessly assail what we have thought were truths, and give us others in their place. The decay of lying, defends lying as a fine art; Pen, pencil and poison, is an artistic appreciation of that prince of poisoners, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright; The critic as artist, in dialogue form, is divided into two parts containing some remarks upon the importance of doing nothing, and upon the importance of discussing every thing. The concluding essay, The truth of masks, is styled A note on illusion.
[*] “Disciple-wise, the editor of the present reprint is rather zealous than judicious in his manner of introducing the text.” H. W. Boynton.
| + — | Atlan. 96: 847. D. ‘05. 600w. |
[*] “‘Intentions’ is an interesting book to the student of literature; it contains much that is well put; but even its virtues are vitiated by a false conception of the real meaning of life.” Edward Fuller.
| + — | Critic. 47: 568. D. ‘05. 390w. | |
| Dial. 39: 213. O. 1, ‘05. 50w. |
Wilder, Marshall Pinckney. Sunny side of the street. [**]$1.20. Funk.
Recollections of some 300 more or less well known people with whom the jester-author has come in contact. Three presidents, a king, and various great preachers, actors, politicians and soldiers contribute to the “garland of blossoms” plucked from “the gardens of humor and pathos” in the weaving of which the author modestly claims as his own merely “the string that binds them together.”
“Cannot fail to interest the many friends of the author. Mr. Wilder’s writing is on a par with his speaking.”
| + | Critic. 47: 475. N. ‘05. 50w. |
“The loquacity of the author, his well-known success in ‘getting around,’ his chatty tone, make a very cheerful book.”
| + + | Lit. D. 31: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 580w. |
“He tells many good stories. He nearly always lives up to his doctrine of amiability. We can recommend his book as cheerful reading.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 452. Jl. 8, ‘05. 360w. |
“The dense personal fog that surrounds this work casts diminutive shadows on the sunny side, and many of the anecdotes of which the book is composed savor of spice and antiquity.”
| — | Pub. Opin. 39: 383. S. 16, ‘05. 150w. | |
| R. of Rs. 32: 255. Ag. ‘05. 50w. |
Wiley, Harley Rupert. Treatise on pharmacal jurisprudence, with a thesis on the law in general. $2.50. Hicks-Judd.
This text-book is “A pioneer in its peculiar field” and aims to give “a presentation of the principles, with a collection of the leading cases, which define the legal aspects” of the profession of pharmacy. Over 200 cases are cited and the ground defined is fully covered.
[*] Wiley, Sara King. Alcestis and other poems. [**]75c. Macmillan.
“A priestess of classic song comes with two-fold, precious offering, in this presentation of Iphegeneia, that flower of Argos ... and in the retold story of Alcestis, whom Hercules brings back from the gates of death.”—Critic.
[*] “A beautiful and welcome work, shone upon as by the white light of Greek art, has been contributed in this volume to the poetry of the year.” Edith M. Thomas.
| + | Critic. 47: 511. D. ‘05. 130w. |
[*] “Mrs. Drummond’s treatment of the fables has no very novel features, but she has realized its mood very vividly, and made of it a compact and moving little drama.”
| + | Nation. 81: 508. D. 21, ‘05. 50w. |
[*] Wilkins, Augustus Samuel. Roman education. [*]60c. Macmillan.
“In ninety-two pages the whole system of Roman education is presented.... Dr. Wilkins divides the story of Roman education into two periods: the ‘purely national stage, when as yet there was no outside influence,’ and the effects of Greek influence from the middle of the third century, B.C. onwards on ‘the distinct departments of literary—or what we might call now secondary—education,’ and in the higher training of rhetoric and philosophy.... In four chapters, ‘Education in the ‘early republic,’ Education under Greek influence,’ ‘Elementary schools and studies,’ and ‘Higher studies—rhetoric and philosophy,’ he gives all the information that can be possibly discovered on record and the natural inferences from it.... The final chapter deals with the Endowment of education in ancient Rome.”—Acad.
[*] “There are few teachers who will not benefit by it; few interested in any way in education who will not read it with pleasure and profit.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 966. D. 16, ‘05. 910w. |
[*] “We know no other work to which one could go for so complete and accurate an exposition of what is known about Roman education.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 395. S. 23. 1760w. | |
| * | + | Lond. Times. 4: 317. S. 29, ‘05. 360w. |
[*] “It contains in six chapters and a hundred pages all that is really known upon this subject, and it is the best compendium which we have seen. Its style is pleasant, and the method of treatment makes the book easy to read.”
| + + + | Nation. 81: 402. N. 16, ‘05. 170w. | |
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 683. O. 14, ‘05. 230w. |
[*] “The present volume offers a singularly clear, accurate, and trustworthy statement of the somewhat scanty information that is to be found in Roman writers on the subject of education.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 817. N. 18, ‘05. 1750w. |
Wilkins, Philip A. History of the Victoria cross. [*]$6. Dutton.
This volume contains an account of “the 520 conspicuous acts of bravery which have called for as many bestowals of the decoration, instituted in 1856 and made retroactive for the Crimean war. These plain tales are accompanied by a remarkably large number (392) of portraits of the recipients; by statutory and narrative appendices; by a table of awards of the cross by branches of the service; and by a personal index.” (Nation.)
“The scheme has been very carefully and soberly carried out.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 290. Ap. 13, ‘05. 220w. |
“A very interesting account of the 520 men who have won the cross.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 340. My. 27, ‘05. 1030w. |
“Though we must confess that some of the narratives are somewhat bald, and that the author has neglected many excellent opportunities, Mr. Wilkins’s records are interesting.”
| + — | Spec. 95: 158. Jl. 29, ‘05. 150w. |
[*] Wilkins, William Henry. Mrs. Fitzherbert and George IV. [**]$5. Longmans.
“For more than a century there has been no moral doubt of the marriage of Maria Fitzherbert and George IV. of Great Britain. For the last seventy years it has been practically certain that the proof of that marriage was deposited in Coutts’s bank, in London ... [these papers] ... King Edward placed at the disposal of the author of this volume, and thus enabled him to prove conclusively that Mrs. Fitzherbert was the wife of George, Prince of Wales, later George IV.... Although he writes as a partisan of Mrs. Fitzherbert, he is fair-minded enough to write of the king: ... ‘His faults were many and grave, but ... there must have been some good in him or a good woman would not have loved him.”—N. Y. Times.
[*] “In his Life of Mrs. Fitzherbert he has reached a higher level, both as regards literary excellence and in the interest attaching to his subject.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 1219. N. 25, ‘05. 1930w. |
[*] “Mr. Wilkins displays his usual lucidity in narrative and firm grasp of his subject. These things [errors] do not detract materially from the merit of Mr. Wilkins’s well-written and historically important work.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 716. N. 25. 1860w. |
[*] “If Mr. Wilkins’s ideas are not remarkable, nor his style brilliant, he may be congratulated upon having accomplished the task he set himself by clearing the memory of an injured woman.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 393. N. 17, ‘05. 1920w. |
[*] “Mr. Wilkins has handled his material ably, making a book at once interesting and valuable.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 820. D. 2, ‘05. 160w. |
[*] “Mr. Wilkins has made a very complete biography of Mrs. Fitzherbert.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 870. D. 9, ‘05. 650w. |
[*] “The book is fustian from beginning to end, and is not at all below Mr. Wilkins’ form.”
| — + | Sat. R. 100: 722. D. 2, ‘05. 1850w. |
[*] “It is easy in such a work to fall into the role of mere purveyor of scandal, but Mr. Wilkins never loses sight of his main theme, and the book is primarily a study of character. If now and then he seems to speak from a brief, on the whole he sticks soberly to facts, and his comments are generally fair and convincing. He has performed a delicate task with good taste and good sense, and has produced what is not only a volume of entertaining gossip, but a solid contribution to the history of the epoch.”
| + + — | Spec. 95: sup. 788. N. 18, ‘05. 1480w. |
Wilkinson, Kosmo. Personal story of the upper house. [*]$3. Dutton.
The main purpose of this book is to set forth “how the peers of England, from being an estate of the realm, grew into an independent parliamentary assembly; how and by what personal agencies the hereditary chamber became in a sense the parent of the elective; on what issues, by what degrees, it co-operated with other agencies to establish the house of commons; how then, from seeing in that chamber its natural ally, if not its political offspring, the upper house gradually discovered in the lower a rival and a foe.”
“He has undoubtedly succeeded in his intention of writing what is most likely to find acceptance with those who read to be interested as well as informed.”
| + | Acad. 68: 391. Ap. 8, ‘05. 660w. |
“Is a good book of gossip about the Lords, in which there are plenty of stories and few mistakes.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 335. Mr. 18. 160W. |
“There is no partisanship in his estimates and judgments. There are some really masterly characterizations, especially among those of later times. References to authorities are few and far between, and here and there he makes statements which seem to need the support of good authorities.”
| + + — | Ind. 59: 335. Ag. 10, ‘05. 550w. |
“Mr. Wilkinson writes agreeably. He also shows a considerable range of reading.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 120. Ag. 10, ‘05. 400w. |
“A book that is neither pure history nor pure gossip, and yet comes near to being both.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 404. Je. 17, ‘05. 1680w. |
“As history the value of the work is, to be sure, of rather negative character.”
| + + — | Outlook. 81: 131. S. 16, ‘05. 1680w. |
“In his concluding pages Mr. Wilkinson is obviously hampered by the fact that he is dealing with events and men too near our own time, and writes too much in the style of the professional parliamentary lobbyist. But this book as a whole is a most valuable addition to the series of useful manuals to which it belongs, and is perhaps the most readable of them all.”
| + + — | Spec. 94: 916. Je. 24, ‘05. 2290w. |
Wilkinson, William Cleaver. Modern masters of pulpit discourse. [**]$1.60. Funk.
Criticisms and appreciations of the foremost preachers of France, England and America. “As critical sketches of homiletic art they have a special value for every preacher who is, as he should be, a student of the art.” (Outlook.)
“The author evidently enjoyed writing it. But. personally, we prefer the ‘formless infelicity’ of Newman.”
| — | Ath. 1905, 2: 399. S. 23. 410w. | |
| + | Ind. 59: 754. S. 28. ‘05. 90w. |
“For the general reader there is enough of warm life in them.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 293. Je. 10. ‘05. 160w. |
“The essays are all eminently readable, and have the appearance of carefully formed judgments.”
| + + — | Spec. 95: 262. Ag. 19, ‘05. 280w. |
Williams, Henry Smith, ed. See Historian’s history of the world.
Williams, Henry Smith, and Williams, Edward Huntington. [History of science.] 5v. Harper.
“The plan followed by the editor in chief and his collaborator (Dr. Edward H. Williams) is to give a brief biography of the scientific men to whose labors the world of to-day is indebted, prefacing these biographies by a brief account of the beginnings of science and connecting them by references to the circumstances amid which each investigator worked.... In his second volume Dr. Williams carries on his story through the dark ages, among the Arabians, the most famous investigators of their time, into the western world, giving the biographies and telling of the labors of astronomers, physicists, physicians, down to Franklin and Linnaeus.... In the last three volumes Dr. Williams treats of the development of the physical sciences, of the chemical and biological sciences, and of the present aspects of science.”—N. Y. Times.
“Inevitably, the murmuring shallows of science are more in evidence than its silent deeps; its thaumaturgics than its revelations. All this is somewhat trying to the student. For the student, however, there is already no lack of adequate works in this field; he should be the last to begrudge to the general reader the one book which best meets his demands.” E. T. Brewster.
| — + | Atlan. 96: 690. N. ‘05. 390w. |
“He has diligently collected an abundance of material of an encyclopedic kind. His treatment of many topics is disproportionate and cloudy. Some of the blunders are inexcusable.”
| — — + | Ind. 58: 381. F. 16, ‘05. 570w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 56. Ja. 28, ‘05. 440w. (Outlines scope and contents). |
“Without many noticeable omissions or slurring of important events. The story he tells, dry as it might be under certain circumstances, is fascinating as told by Dr. Williams. The volume might almost be a history of modern British science alone; to Dr. Williams apparently, American contributions to the subject are merely incidental. Proof-reading is careless. Inconsistent in the spelling. An index of little value makes part of the last volume; the work is worthy of a good one.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 99. F. 18, ‘05. 1190w. |
“Error is by no means absent, and some of the defects which the work betrays are surprising, but, viewing it in the large, it must be agreed that its excellencies far outweigh its faults and that it is of genuine value to both student and general reader. The style is picturesque, fluent, and clear. Altogether, the fifth volume, in striking contrast to its predecessors, must be accounted ill advised and weak.”
| + + — | Outlook. 79: 956. Ap. 15, ‘05. 1030w. |
[*] Williams, Hugh Noel. Queens of the French stage. [*]$2.50. Scribner.
“A set of biographical essays entitled ‘Queens of the French stage,’ which cover the period from Louis XIV to the Revolution, beginning with Armande Béjart (Molière’s wife) and ending with the celebrated, and notorious Clairon.” (Nation.) “Mr. Williams gives both the ‘backstairs’ and the theatrical biography of his subjects.... The picture is not a pleasant one, for the book resolves itself into the story of liaisons, jealousies, infidelities, intrigues, and scandals in high life and low.... The book, a substantial volume of some three hundred and fifty quarto pages, is pleasantly illustrated with eight or ten full-page half-tone reproductions after contemporary drawings or paintings.” (Dial.)
[*] “Culled from many sources, these gossiping lives of six actresses make very entertaining reading.”
| + | Critic. 47: 575. D. ‘05. 70w. |
[*] “Written in a clear vigorous style, the book makes interesting, if not very stimulating reading.”
| + | Dial. 39: 443. D. 16, ‘05. 280w. |
[*] “The volume is readable and accurate in most matters save that of French quotations, in which elementary blunders are altogether too frequent.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 424. N. 23, ‘05. 140w. |
[*] “The author’s not inconsiderable learning, tact, taste, and elegant literary style, actually do honor to the careers of the ladies whose portraits painted by famous contemporary brushes are among the art treasures of the world.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 765. N. 11, ‘05. 430w. |
Williams, John Rogers. Handbook of Princeton. [**]$1.50. Grafton press.
Dr. Woodrow Wilson has written a sympathetic introduction to this volume which “in very good taste describes most of the interesting objects and places of patriotic association in that university town of Revolutionary memories.... The book is fully illustrated for the eye of the absent.” (Nation.)
| + | Critic. 47: 479. N. ‘05. 30w. |
“Except in one or two very minor matters, the accounts here given are accurate and sympathetic.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 143. Ag. 17, ‘05. 140w. |
“A very readable manual.”
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 510. O. ‘05. 70w. |
Williams, Theodore C. [Elegies of Tibullus.] $1.25. Badger, R. G.
The consolations of a Roman lover done into English verse. Twenty-four elegies of books I., II., III., and two short pieces of book IV., in the translation of which the author has “always been faithful to the thought and spirit of the original except in the few passages where euphemism was required.”
“A free but exquisite translation.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 94. Ag. 16, ‘05. 50w. |
“Though it is in no sense a slavish rendering, it does present the substance of Tibullus with remarkable fidelity.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 304. O. 12, ‘05. 520w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 678. O. 14, ‘05. 30w. |
Williams, William Henry. Specimens of the Elizabethan drama from Lyly to Shirley, A.D. 1580-A.D. 1642. [*]$1.90. Oxford.
“Nearly a hundred typical and representative scenes, complete in themselves, have been selected.... A short appreciation is prefixed to each section, notes being added.”—Dial.
“Mr. Williams does not in our judgment always do the best with the material that his plan leaves him.”
| — | Acad. 68: 521. My. 13, ‘05. 560w. |
“It is pervaded by the atmosphere of ripe literary scholarship.”
| + + + | Critic. 47: 288. S. ‘05. 150w. | |
| Dial. 38: 277. Ap. 16, ‘05. 60w. | ||
| Dial. 39: 20. Jl. 1, ‘05. 60w. |
“In all substantial matters—connecting introductions, notes, and text—(so far as we have, tested it) his work as an editor seems to be well executed.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 105. Ag. 3, ‘05. 820w. |
“The specimens are generally well chosen, though it is easy to complain of some omissions.”
| + — | Sat. R. 99: 637. My. 13, ‘05. 420w. |
Williamson, C. N., and A. M. [Lightning conductor.] [†]$1.50. Holt.
The popularity of “the strange adventures of a motor-car” has warranted this revised and enlarged edition, including a frontispiece by Eliot Keen, and sixteen full-page illustrations from photographs of the scenes of the story in France, Spain and Italy.
Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Mrs. Alice Muriel. [My friend the chauffeur.] [†]$1.50. McClure.
This book “relates the incidents of a motor-car trip through southern Europe of two young Englishmen (one a lord masquerading as a chauffeur), and three American women, a widow of thirty-nine masquerading as twenty-eight, her daughter of seventeen, masquerading, for her mother’s sake, as thirteen, and her niece, an heiress, masquerading as a poor relation. A prince, poor but dishonest, masquerading as a man of property and honor, hovers around as the villain of the piece.” (Outlook.)
| + | Acad. 68: 1008. S. 30, ‘05. 370w. |
“Altogether a bright and pleasing story.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 651. O. 7, ‘05. 330w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 823. D. 2, ‘05. 170w. |
| + | Outlook. 81: 429. O. 21, ‘05. 160w. |
“There is a certain charm and pleasantness in this work, which inclines one to approbation, though, truth to tell, there is but little solid merit in it.”
| + | Sat. R. 100: 345. S. 9, ‘05. 220w. |
Williamson, Charles Norris and Alice Muriel. [Princess passes: romance of a motor car.] $1.50. Holt.
A traveling love story, half of which takes place in the automobile of the heroine of “The lightning conductor”; the other half is an Alpine walking tour. Lord Lane, lately jilted, finds consolation in a delightful boy, his “little pal,” whom he meets in his travels, and whom he later discovers to be an American heiress, the Mercedes for whom the Winston’s car was named. The story wanders over northern France, Switzerland, and the Italian lakes, ending at Monte Carlo.
“This story is so delightful that we are not disposed to carp over-much at the impossibility of its central situation.” William Morton Payne.
| + + — | Dial. 38: 389. Je. 1, ‘05. 150w. |
“It seems almost too slender to be gravely criticised in matters of plot, character-drawing, and the like. Its staple is sheer, wholesome fun, brisk and bubbling, but not loud or crude.” Herbert W. Horwill.
| + | Forum. 37: 111. Jl. ‘05. 120w. |
“The descriptions of the road are unusually good and the breath of the high Alps is in the book.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 392. Ag. 17, ‘05. 110w. |
“If the story taxes belief, the characters are lifelike enough to satisfy any novel reader in good standing.”
| + | Nation. 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 310w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 20: 180. Mr. 25, ‘05. 530w. |
“Is, if anything, more saturated with the sunshine and fun of automobile adventure than ‘The lightning conductor.’”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w. |
“There is a pretty little romance in the book, and delightful descriptions of scenery, castles, quaint inns, and travel by donkey.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 1015. Ap. 22, ‘05. 220w. |
Williamson, James M. Life and times of St. Boniface. [*]$2. Oxford.
“Dr. Williamson gives us, in a sufficiently readable and popular manner, the life of the Englishman who, in the turmoil of the eighth century, was raised by fortune and his own merits to the primacy of the church in Germany.”—Acad.
| + | Acad. 68: 33. Ja. 14, ‘05. 190w. |
Willis, Henry Parker. Our Philippine problem: a study of American colonial policy. $1.50. Holt.
“A review of our experience as a nation in governing the Philippine islands and an appreciation of the main elements of the Philippine problem as it now presents itself.” There is a frank discussion of civil government, civil service, legal and judicial systems, constabulary, political parties, the church, American education in the islands, social conditions, and kindred subjects, all treated from the view point of an “anti-imperialist.”
[*] “It needs to be stated at the beginning that this book is frankly critical of our Philippine policy, and particularly of the administration thereof. Further perusal and analysis of the book will convince many readers, perhaps unwillingly, too, that the criticisms and charges it contains are not only serious and grave in the extreme, but that their authenticity seems unquestionable. In style it is unusually readable and entertaining.” J. E. Conner.
| + — | Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 761. N. ‘05. 1070w. |
[*] “Is a careful ‘study of American colonial policy,’ well deserving the attention of the politician and historian. The author is thoroughly master of his subject.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 646. N. 11. 300w. | |
| * | Critic. 47: 479. N. ‘05. 80w. |
“Mr. Willis somewhat prejudices his case as an impartial critic by the expression of his own adverse opinion in the preliminary chapter, before he has presented his evidence to his readers. No modern government has ever been more severely impeached of high crimes and misdemeanors against the spirit of the institutions of its people, than has the government at Washington in these chapters.” John J. Halsey.
| — | Dial. 39: 271. N. 1, ‘05. 370w. |
Reviewed by George R. Bishop.
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 633. S. 30, ‘05. 2720w. |
“The serious defect of the book is that it is not what it purports to be. It is really an almost unqualified accusation against the American government, not only of unfitness and failure, but of prejudice, insincerity, and sordidness.”
| — — | Outlook. 81: 89. S. 9, ‘05. 510w. | |
| * | + — | Pub. Opin. 39: 667. N. 18, ‘05. 240w. |
| * | R. of Rs. 32: 639. N. ‘05. 150w. |
Willoughby, William Franklin. Territories and dependencies of the United States: their government and administration. [*]$1.25. Century.
The seventh volume in the “American state series.” The field covered in Dr. Willoughby’s discussion is that of the actual policy and the action taken by the United States in respect to the government and administration of the various dependent territories which have successively come under its sovereignty, and the conferring of political rights upon their inhabitants.
[*] “Mr. Willoughby’s volume will repay careful study.”
| + | Nation. 81: 471. D. 7, ‘05. 480w. |
Reviewed by Robert Livingston Schuyler.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 464. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1140w. |
“Generally speaking, the treatment is concise yet thorough.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 695. Jl. 15, ‘05. 110w. | |
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 317. S. 2, ‘05. 190w. | |
| R. of Rs. 32: 510. O. ‘05. 90w. |
[*] Willson, Robert Newton. American boy and the social evil: from a physician’s standpoint. $1. Winston.
Four plain talks—originally delivered to students and now published by Dr. Willson “for the purpose of more widely introducing a difficult and delicate subject in a plain but thoroughly clean way.” The talks are: The nobility of boyhood: the boy’s part in life’s problem, delivered to the boys of Philadelphia during the summer of 1904, at the request of the department of public health and charities; Clean living: a problem of school and college days, a talk to the students of the University of Pennsylvania, Oct. 10, 1903; The social evil in America and The relation of the citizen to the social evil, addresses to the students of the Union Theological seminary, April, 1905.
[*] Wilson, Bingham Thoburn. Village of Hide and seek. $1.25. Consolidated retail booksellers.
The village of Hide and seek lies at the end of a perilous cliff journey over which Aunt Twaddles, a fat, coarse-skirted witch of the mountains, conducts two children in search of pennyroyal. In her own realm the witch is transformed into a beautiful fairy queen of the dolls, and with her brother Santa Claus furnishes rare entertainment for the visitors.
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 911. D. 23, ‘05. 200w. |
Wilson, Calvin Dill. Making the most of ourselves. [**]$1. McClure.
This series of talks for young people is broad in its scope and includes fifty chapters of helpful advice upon subjects which may be included under such headings as education, deportment, religion, work and spiritual development. The boy or girl who reads these discourses carefully, and heeds them cannot go far wrong in big or little things.
Wilson, Ella Calista. Pedagogues and parents. [**]$1.25. Holt.
It has been the author’s purpose to show the possibilities within the power of a parent of supplementing the work of the teacher, to show what is distinctly the teacher’s work and what the parent’s duty and privilege. “The pedagogue studies the laws of childhood; the parent, the temperament and needs of his particular child; the school-teacher advances the children in regiment, lock-step; the parent in their natural gait, in their strugglings and self-directed sprawlings.” The book is humorously dedicated among others to parents “whose concern for their dear little ones makes them so irregularly bold that they dare consult their own reason in the education of their children, rather than wholly to rely upon old customs.”
“It is not a treatise. Its historical chapters meander and are cheerful and chatty. Of the ideals of the past it gives amusing glimpses. A book to set tongues and pens to wagging, a book to read from preface to finis with the relish of combat or agreement. Whether you deny or assent, you are bound to laugh.” Adele Marie Shaw.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 81. F. 11, ‘05. 2140w. |
“The book is witty, full of wholesome advice to parents and to teachers, and is just the kind of reading for the interested mothers in our women’s clubs.”
| + + | School R. 13: 200*. F. ‘05. 230w. |
Wilson, Floyd Baker. Man limitless. $1.25. Fenno.
In eleven papers treating of such subjects as love, work, memory, suggestion, and accomplishment, is given a metaphysical and psychic study of the possibilities of man, unlimited power resident in one’s selfhood, which may be made use of thru discipline.
“Mr. Wilson’s cry is: Down with the chains! Down with limitations! And he succeeds in persuading us fully that there is no need for any of these.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 70w. |
Wilson, Harry Leon. [Boss of little Arcady.] [†]$1.50. Lothrop.
“Mr. Wilson writes of an Illinois village just before and just after the great war, of a shy boy who adored a schoolgirl with two yellow braids tied with a scarlet ribbon, of another boy who was not shy, of a marriage and a going-away to the stricken field with a sad little miniature inside a blue coat.... He writes of black Clem, who came from Virginia, and was ‘Miss Cah’line’s pus’nal property,’ in spite of the Emancipation proclamation ... of ‘Miss Caroline’ herself ... Miss Caroline’s daughter, Katharine Lansdale ... and Jim, a setter dog.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is a whimsical book that Mr. Wilson has given us this time, a book that is scarcely a novel at all, in the accepted sense, a book that drags somewhat at the start, at the same time that it is surreptitiously fastening its hold on you.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + — | Bookm. 22: 134. O. ‘05. 370w. |
“His new book has leisurely ease of movement and a humor that is simply captivating.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 39: 209. O. 1, ‘05. 250w. |
“A picture of the Western town more truthful, because more affectionately touched with misty hues of the imagination, than are the raw splotches of ‘local color’ miscalled ‘novels of the West.’”
| + + — | Ind. 59: 579. S. 7, ‘05. 400w. |
“The scheme of writing the novel in four books is a lazy one that disturbs the unities. We want the illusion of all the balls in the air at once.”
| + — | Lit. D. 31: 586. O. 21, ‘05. 420w. |
“It is a fine thing of its kind, and will please many, the pleasing of whom is worth a man’s time and trouble.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 539. Ag. 19, ‘05. 900w. |
[*] “A delightfully human, kindly and refreshing tale.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 823. D. 2, ‘05. 170w. |
“There is real pleasure to be derived from its perusal if too much is not expected in the way of incident and action.”
| + + — | Outlook. 80: 1073. Ag. 26, ‘05. 90w. |
Wilson, James Grant. Thackeray in the United States, 1852-3, 1855-6. 2v. [**]$10. Dodd.
A two-volume account of Thackeray’s visits to the United States. His lecture course on the English humorists and the Georges are described, and various anecdotes, conversations and letters are given. There is a bibliographical list of the writings of Thackeray published in the United States, followed by Thackerayana, and the numerous mentions of him in periodicals. There are twenty-six portraits of Thackeray, many of his drawings, and several facsimiles of letters.
“Small faults are easily found, and though the book may not be as learned as possible, it is surely one that should have distinct popularity.”
| + + — | Critic. 46: 188. F. ‘05. 110w. |
Reviewed by M. F.
| + + | Dial. 38: 189. Mr. 16, ‘05. 900w. |
“American readers will find in these two volumes nothing to complain of everything to correct an ancient notion we all had that Thackeray was cynical.”
| + | Ind. 58: 1308. Je. 8. ‘05. 630w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 6. Ja. 7, ‘05. 1460w. | ||
| R. of Rs. 31: 249. F. ‘05. 70w. |
“Two garrulous and amiable volumes.”
| + | Spec. 94: 256. F. 18, ‘05. 1380w. |
Wilson, William Robert Anthony. Knot of blue. [†]$1.50. Little.
This is not an historical romance altho the scene is laid in old Quebec. The heroine, the ward of the governor, and the hero, her childhood playmate, are both the victims of the wicked plots of the villain thru whom the hero is made to appear faithless to both his country and his love. There are many thrilling scenes, enacted by many players, but in the end each wins his true deserts.
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 402. Je. 17, ‘05. 330w. |
“A story of love and adventure, full of movement and romance.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 193. My. 20, ‘05. 50w. |
Winkley, Jonathan Wingate. John Brown, the hero: personal reminiscences, [*]85c. West, J. H.
The author was a boy in Kansas in 1856, and there came in contact with the great abolitionist hero. The object of his little book is to throw some side light upon John Brown’s character, and he gives some new historical material, and recounts adventures in which he was too young to participate except as an eye witness. There is an introduction by Frank B. Sanborn. The illustrations include a representation of a bust of John Brown and two views of the Adair cabin.
| Am. Hist R. 10: 719. Ap. ‘05. 50w. |
“We are glad Dr. Winkley has set down his personal experiences and impressions in so interesting and vivid a manner.”
| + | Arena. 33: 672. Je. ‘05. 160w. |
“Although the matter of the book is slender in amount, and spread thin by both author and printer, and although the glimpses we get of John Brown are few and fleeting, the publishers are still within the truth in announcing that ‘The book has the interest of a romance,’ and that ‘the young will read it as if it were especially “a story for boys,” and the old will find in it matters to revive their enthusiasm.’”
| + | Dial. 38: 240. Ap. 1, ‘05. 290w. |
“Another slight, and wholly unpretentious volume, quickly read.”
| + | Nation. 80: 132. F. 16, ‘05. 200w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10:150. Mr. 11, ‘05. 400w. |
Winslow, Charles Edward Amory. Elements of applied microscopy: a text-book for beginners. $1.50. Wiley.
A presentation of the elements of microscopic study under the headings: Function and parts of the microscope. Manipulation of the microscope, The mounting and preparation of objects for the microscope, Micrometry, and the camera lucida, The microscopy of the common starches, Foods and drugs and their adulterants, The examination of textile fibers, The microscopy of paper, The microscope in medicine and sanitation, Forensic microscopy, Microchemistry, Petrography and metallography.
“Mr. Winslow’s text is practical.”
| + + | Engin. N. 53: 295. Mr. 16, ‘05. 460w. |
Winter, Alice. Prize to the hardy. $1.50. Bobbs.
Mrs. Winter’s story of early Minnesota days is built up around a successful financial magnate of a typical western town, his daughter, in whose veins flows a trace of the blood of Indian chiefs,—a very modern, very feminine, very human specimen of lovable young womanhood, a young Maineite who demonstrates his fitness to be called the “hardy,” and his rival, the near approach to a contemptible villain. There are close range views of the typical Swede farmer, dips into the hardships to be endured in the small Dakota towns, and a thrilling picture of a forest fire’s devastation. The local coloring thruout is consistent and characteristic.
“Told in a spirited manner. It is a story that will appeal to the general reader in search of a pleasing and somewhat exciting love-tale.”
| + | Arena. 34: 221. Ag. ‘05. 250w. |
“The book is not incapably written. The book’s greatest fault is its utter lack of originality.”
| + — | Critic. 46: 381. Ap. ‘05. 90w. |
“In short, without being remarkable in any special way, ‘The prize to the hardy’ is a good readable, human story, and cleverly written at that.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 244. Ap. 15, ‘05. 370w. | |
| + | Outlook. 79: 708. Mr. 18, ‘05. 90w. |
Wise, John Sergeant. Lion’s skin. [†]$1.50. Doubleday.
On the surface the book is the story of a certain Powhatan Carrington, who bore arms in his ‘teens for the Confederacy, and became a Richmond lawyer and politician. On turning Republican he found himself so unpopular among his townspeople, that he removed to New York, where he and his northern wife prospered exceedingly. Underneath is an analysis of the conditions of the South since the Civil war, and a political history of Virginia from the first steps in reconstruction to the election of the governor in 1885.
“‘The lion’s skin’ spells information rather than diversion.”
| + — | Bookm. 21: 651. Ag. ‘05. 270w. |
“In this book there is far more history than fiction.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + — | Dial. 39: 42. Jl. 16, ‘05. 290w. | |
| — | Ind. 58: 1132. My. 18, ‘05. 320w. |
“As a novel Mr. Wise’s book, while it contains some excellent material will not hold the average reader’s attention. But it only ostensibly a novel. It is rather a personal explanation, and as such will interest persons who know who Mr. Wise is.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 178. Mr. 25, ‘05. 630w. |
“Mr. Wise cannot be accounted a success as a novelist, but as a historian he is clear and forceful, and his book calls for careful consideration.”
| + — | Outlook. 79: 857. Ap. 1, ‘05. 320w. |
“As a piece of fiction the book is a negligible quantity, but as the narrative account of the movement of events and the development and importance of the predominant feelings in the South before, during, and immediately after the war it is a worthy contribution to our Civil war literature.”
| — + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 713. My. 6, ‘05. 160w. |
“A new kind of reconstruction story, cleverly weaving together fact and fiction, and discussing the negro problem frankly and impressively.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 508. Ap. ‘05. 160w. |
[*] Wishart, Alfred Wesley. Primary facts in religious thought. [*]75c. Univ. of Chicago press.
Seven essays, intended to state in a simple and practical manner the essential principles of religion, and to clear it from confusion arising from theological changes and historical criticism.
[*] “They are well adapted by their brevity and simplicity to the need of the average man. If they fall short in any point, it is in not recognizing the essential identity of religion and morality beneath their superficial differences.”
| + + — | Outlook. 81: 891. D. 9, ‘05. 170w. |
Wisser, John P., and Gauss, Henry C., comps. Military and naval dictionary. 50c. Hamersley.
Authentic and clearly worded definitions of all terms used in the United States army and navy, with a well-defined statement of the powers of each department of the United States government and the duties of all government officials.
“The work has been condensed into a small handbook, and constitutes a handy volume of reference, the words selected having been clearly defined in simple English. It will be of use not only to the general reader unfamiliar with the terms who wishes to learn their meaning, but also for the Navy, Army, the National guard, the Naval reserve, and others interested in military matters.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 165. Mr. 18, ‘05. 200w. |
Witchell, Charles Anderson. Nature’s story for the year. $1.25. Wessels.
Under such chapter headings as—The universal strife, Signs of spring, April days, May muses, June joys, An August song, Signs of autumn, and Wintry days, is given the story of the denizens of nature’s own land, the thickets and the tree tops; history of a year and what the changing seasons bring to the things that creep and fly.
[*] Wittigschlager, Wilhelmina. Minna, wife of the young rabbi. $1.50. Consolidated retail booksellers.
Minna, a beautiful girl of unknown parentage, born among poor Russian Jews, is forced to marry when only thirteen years old a man whom she has never seen. The morning after her marriage she runs away from her bridegroom and leads a wandering life buffeted by fate and humanity hither and yon, caring for her little son as best she may. She comes to America, but later returns to Russia as an anarchist, only to discover, upon the assassination of Alexander II., that the czar she has plotted to kill is her father. She is sent to Siberia, but is pardoned, and in the end is reunited to her husband, whom she has come to love. This is but a small part of an exciting story, which gives a remarkably vivid and most unflattering picture of the Russian Jew.
[*] Wolf, Edmund Jacob. Higher rock: sermons, addresses, and articles; comp. by a committee of the Board of publication. $1.50. Lutheran pub. soc.
A memorial edition of Dr. Wolf’s sermons, papers and addresses. “They are the ripe fruit of a thoughtful and scholarly mind. Laymen and ministers alike will find the book not only readable but clear and profitable.”
Woljeska, Helen. See Tindolph, Helen Woljeska.
Wollant, Gregoire de. Land of the rising sun; tr. from the Russian by the author, with the assistance of Madame de Wollant. $1.50. Neale.
“The first portion of M. de Wollant’s study is a short description of the Japanese islands, following which there is a historical sketch of the people and an outline of the history of Christianity in Japan. Part two contains the author’s impressions of the Japan to-day, impressions which were derived from trips to northern as well as southern Japan. The descriptions of the people and of the public and domestic life are well considered, and in addition M. de Wollant appends some interesting observations on economic and financial Japan.”—Pub. Opin.
“While he evidently aims to be accurate and impartial, his observations and opinions are naturally colored by his nationality, but we nevertheless find the book very interesting.”
| + — | Critic. 47: 478. N. ‘05. 180w. |
“Where he has occasion to refer to authorities his choice is usually the best, and his personal comments on contemporary conditions reveal an observer of such insight that it is a matter for regret that he has not often seen fit to delve a little deeper beneath the surface which he portrays so admirably.”
| + | Lit. D. 31: 625. O. 28, ‘05. 280w. |
“An interesting and impartial book on Japan. The book is decidedly worth reading.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 606. S. 16, ‘05. 1370w. |
“A Russian’s estimate of Japan is interesting. It is especially interesting, as in the present case, when it is given by a clever, keen-sighted Russian.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 234. S. 23, ‘05. 430w. |
“The narrative is lacking in literary merit and is at times incoherent, but as the book is a translation, a great many of the faults of style and composition may be due to that fact.”
| + — | Pub. Opin. 39: 479. O. 7, ‘05. 130w. |
Wollaston, Arthur Naylor. Sword of Islam. [*]$3. Dutton.
“This book is an enlargement of the author’s previous work, ‘Half-hours with Muhammad.’ The first half of the book gives the story of Mohammed’s life and teaching, the early history of Islam, and a sketch of the dynasties under which Islamic civilization reached its highest development: the second half is devoted to a description of the more important tenets of the Mohammedan faith and the beliefs of the various sects into which Islam is divided.”—Spec.
“Such statements are inexcusable, all being devoid of foundation beyond popular misconception due to ignorance.”
| — | Acad. 68: 800. Ag. 5, ‘05. 980w. | |
| + | Ind. 59: 751. S. 28, ‘05. 160w. |
“This volume may stimulate an interest which it cannot satisfy.”
| — | Nation. 81: 199. S. 7, ‘05. 120w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 317. My. 12, ‘05. 270w. |
“He has done his work of choosing and mingling in an able manner. Mr. Wollaston has made a connected story out of many diverse books and articles. The result of his work we consider valuable, as being many riches in a little space.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 450. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1590w. | |
| + | Outlook. 80: 839. Jl. 29, ‘05. 40w. |
“‘The sword of Islam’ may serve a purpose as a book of reference for the general reader; but it can hardly ‘awaken an interest in the history of a religion and its followers.’”
| + | Spec. 94: 790. My. 27, ‘05. 560w. |
Wood, Charles Seely. Camp fires on the Scioto. [†]$1.50. Wilde.
The third story in Mr. Wood’s series on the opening up of the Northwest territory. It is based on the historical records of surveys made after the Indians had been driven to the northwest. The hardy courage of these government surveyors forms the undertone of the tale, which in particular sketches the heroism of Morris Patterson, a lad who had been orphaned by the cruelty of the Indians, and who resolves to take his father’s place in the company at Massie’s Station on the Ohio river, and to support his little sister.
Wood, Eugene. [Back home.] [†]$1.50. McClure.
Stories which will carry all those who, in childhood, have known the country, thankfully back to the old school-house, the Sabbath-school, the swimming hole, the county fair, the circus and the many other things of youth which were once delightfully real and now seem delightfully funny. The illustrations by A. B. Frost add greatly to the book.
[*] “His style, too, is that of the tricky journalist, and not of the literary artist. That Mr. Wood is not lacking in ability, whatever may be his deficiences in taste, is shown by the sustained excellence of one chapter, ‘The firemen’s tournament.’”
| + — | Lit. D. 31: 798. N. 25, ‘05. 660w. |
“The human touch that makes the whole world kin is to be felt in these homely, humorous sketches.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 380. O. 14, ‘05. 160w. |
“They are well worth reading two or three times over.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 506. O. 14, ‘05. 220w. |
Wood, Henry. Life more abundant: scriptural truth in modern application. [**]$1.20. Lothrop.
“The burden of Mr. Wood’s attempt here is to free the Bible from the old, hard, literal infallibility which has at once hidden its deeper spiritual meaning from its friends and been the most telling weapon in the hands of hostile critics.”—Pub. Opin.
| + + | Outlook. 81: 234. S. 23, ‘05. 200w. |
“Those who are familiar with the inspiring, optimistic tone always struck by Henry Wood in his various writings on new thought topics will not be disappointed in this, his latest volume.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 476. O. 7, ‘05. 490w. |
Wood, T. Martin. Drawings of Sir E. Burne-Jones. [*]$2.50. Scribner.
An importation of the Newnes set of drawings with an introductory essay by Mr. Wood. There are forty-seven illustrations, mostly reproductions of studies for “The Aenid,” “The masque of Cupid,” designs for windows, two or three characters from Tennyson, “The nativity,” and “The entombment,” “The dream,” “The car of love,” “The sirens,” children, hands, a wing, etc. The frontispiece presents a study in red chalk. There are several other pictures in tints, mounted on harmonizing paper. The others are in half-tone. The cover design is printed in three colors from a drawing by Granville Fell.
“Scholarly essay. Carefully selected and well reproduced, though in a few cases losing something of their charm through over-reduction, the drawings here collected include typical examples of a great variety.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 25: 180. Ap. ‘05. 260w. | |
| Int. Studio. 25: sup. 63. My. ‘05. 190w. |
“An altogether satisfactory publication not only for the reason that great pains have been taken to present the drawings through various processes in a striking and intelligent manner, but also because we have these reproductions preceded by an excellent essay by T. Martin Wood, who writes with utter frankness concerning the artist’s draughtsmanship, its development and the feats it achieved.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 178. Mr. 25, ‘05. 260w. |
[*] Wood, T. Martin. Drawings of Rossetti. [*]$2.50. Scribner.
“This year’s addition to the ‘Modern master draughtsmen’ series ... is an ideal study, both in text and illustration, of a distinctive phase of a great artist’s work.... There is an interesting discussion of the proper critical attitude from which to approach Rossetti’s work, and the fifty drawings reproduced in the present volume are treated as illustrative material for various theses, thus receiving considerable detailed attention.... Many are printed in tint and mounted upon rough paper of a harmonizing shade. They represent all stages of work, from the rough sketch to the elaborate highly-finished drawing that was so characteristic of Rossetti’s genius.”—Dial.
[*] “The introductory comment ... is a discriminating and illuminating piece of criticism.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 383. D. 1, ‘05. 280w. |
[*] “Valuable addition to the Newnes series.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 27: sup. 33. D. ‘05. 210w. |
Wood, Walter Birbeck, and Edmonds, James Edward. History of the Civil war in the United States, 1861-1865. [*]$3.50. Putnam.
This history of the civil war was written by two officers of the British army, from an impartial English point of view. “Mr. Spenser Wilkinson in a short introduction commends this book because he is convinced ‘that the true nature of war and its relation to national life can be learned from a study of the American Civil war as a whole.’ ... It tells why and how the war was fought, and though there is much in it which the general public may read with profit and interest, its detail and wealth of maps show that it is intended rather for the specialist.” (Sat. R.)
[*] “Whatever may be the cause of the want of clearness, which we have named, it deprives the book of some of that value which, given its accuracy, would otherwise have attached to it, as a text-book. We have to congratulate our authors upon their index, the compilation of which has evidently been most careful, to the great advantage of the volume.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 431. S. 30. 1070w. |
[*] “It would have been all the more welcome if they had attempted less, and omitted some of the many details with which they load their pages.”
| + + — | Lond. Times. 4: 317. S. 29, ‘05. 720w. |
[*] “The authors are scrupulously fair. They have kept a good proportion in their narrative. But they very certainly have not, as Mr. Spenser Wilkinson would have us believe, produced an authoritative military pronouncement on the subject.”
| + | Nation. 81: 511. D. 21, ‘05. 1030w. | |
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 713. O. 21, ‘05. 240w. | |
| + + — | Sat. R. 100: 412. S. 23, ‘05. 290w. |
Woodman, H. Rea. Noahs afloat. $1.50. Neale.
A jocular account of the voyage of the ark, which begins with the third day out and ends when the Noahs and the stowaway, John Smith, have packed up their belongings and are ready to land. The book is largely taken up with humorous family discussions of up-to-date subjects. Some lively incidents are furnished by the animals.
“It is carefully written, and those who like this kind of humor may like it very much.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 457. Jl. 8, ‘05. 600w. |
Woodward, William Harrison. Desiderius Erasmus concerning the aim and method of education. [*]$1.30. Macmillan.
“This study of the life work of Erasmus as an educator is characterized by ... thoroughness, lucidity, and sympathy.... Erasmus as sketched here is not an altogether attractive personality.”—Int. J. Ethics.
“To inquirers into the origins of modern culture, and to students of the history of education generally, this book will prove invaluable.” R. E. Hughes.
| + + | Int. J. Ethics. 15: 390. Ap. ‘05. 700w. |
Working men’s college, 1854-1904. See Davies, J. Llewelyn, ed.
Workman, William Hunter, and Workman, Fanny Bullock. Through town and jungle: fourteen thousand miles a-wheel among the temples and peoples of the Indian plain. [*]$5. Scribner.
A book devoted to the “temples and people of India,” giving studies of the six styles of Indian architecture, the Buddhist, Indian-Aryan, Jain, Dravidian, Chalukyan, and Mohammedan, and the innumerable variety of people and adventures encountered “from Cape Comorin to the Himalayas and beyond.” There are over two hundred illustrations.
“It is a worthy record of a remarkable journey.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 334. Mr. 18. 1580w. |
“It would be most unfair to deny the value of the material, both textual and pictorial, here gathered together, however unsystematized, or the fact that no other recent work on India gives any such general impression of the Indian peoples and architectures.” Wallace Rice.
| + + — | Dial. 38: 383. Je. 1, ‘05. 580w. |
“The incidents and excitements, as well as the studious results, of this trip are well told.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 269. Ap. 6, ‘05. 340w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 188. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1280w. |
“The narrative does not quite justify one’s expectations. In spite of their unusual powers of endurance, these seasoned travellers found a good deal to grumble about.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: 346. S. 9, ‘05. 260w. |
Wright, John, pseud. See Bourne, R. William.
Wright, Louise Wigfall (Mrs. D. Giraud Wright). Southern girl in ‘61: the wartime memories of a Confederate senator’s daughter. [**]$2.75. Doubleday.
“The narrative begins in Texas, continues through the author’s child-life in Washington; and, during her school days in Boston, carries the thread of the public story rather than her own, reproducing letters showing progress of events in the South. She reached Richmond just after the battle of Manassas; her record ends with Kirby Smith’s surrender; prominent men and women are introduced in incident, anecdote, and by portrait.”—Outlook.
| * | + | Critic. 47: 575. D. ‘05. 90w. |
“The volume under review has an interest and value that the social histories have not.” Walter L. Fleming.
| + + | Dial. 39: 269 N. 1, ‘05. 920w. |
“These books are really worth while, if for no other purpose but to show how ridiculously fallacious are the Southern heroines made up by writers like Cyrus Townsend Brady and George Gary Eggleston.”
| + | Ind. 59: 986. O. 26, ‘05. 100w. |
[*] “A girl sees only the surface of things, and what she does not understand she is not likely to remember, nearly half a century later. So the recollections are about what one should expect. They are pleasing, although often thin.”
| + | Nation. 81: 405. N. 16, ‘05. 1890w. |
“Not even a tag of poor verse ... can rob ‘A southern girl in ‘61’ of its literary quality or historical value, its pathos, and its fine humanity.” L. L.
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 558. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1160w. |
[*] “Mrs. Wright’s book is decidedly one to read.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 820. D. 2, ‘05. 120w. |
“The book has a substantial interest that only the author could supply, and some of the correspondence introduced has the value of historical documents.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 282. S. 30, 05. 200w. |
[*] “‘The feminine spirit of the Confederacy,’ which has been made one of the chapter titles of this book, is cleverly interpreted by this writer, who was actually a part of the stirring scenes which she narrates.”
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 756. D. ‘05. 160w. |
Wright, W. Aldis, ed. See Ascham, Roger. English works.
Wright, William Burnet. Cities of Paul: [*] beacons of the past rekindled for the present. [**]$1.10. Houghton.
A study of the cities of Tarsus, Tyana, Ancyra, Philippi, Old and New Corinth, Ephesus, Colossai, and Thessalonica, which not only shows the setting of the Apostle’s life and helps to our understanding of the Pauline epistles, but points out that the Apostle encountered the same vices, social, political, and commercial, that threaten our own municipalities today, and shows how he dealt with them.
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 851. D. 2, ‘05. 180w. |
[*] “With such a purpose Dr. Wright has put his ample knowledge to a highly instructive as well as entertaining use.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 887. D. 9, ‘05. 100w. |
Wylie, Edna Edwards. Ward of the sewing-circle, [†]$1. Little.
Orphaned Johnny Beal becomes the little “human hand-me-down” of the Smithville sewing-circle. Each member takes charge of him for two months at a time, and with all the divided management, it is no wonder that the little fellow jumbles his various parting injunctions. His only solace is Tab, his cat which kind fate smuggles past the wrathy spots in his foster mothers’ tempers.
Wyllie, William Lionel, and Wyllie, M. A. London to the Nore; painted and described by W. L. and M. A. Wyllie. [*]$6. Macmillan.
This volume “deals with territory between the metropolis and the sea, and is included in the ‘Beautiful book’ series.... It is described by Mrs Wyllie and the many colored pictures and other sketches are by W. L. Wyllie, A. R. A. The party ‘does’ London to the Nore, along the Thames, and the Medway to Rochester. The book is made up of a series of traveler’s impressions with what might be called a partly historical and partly contemporaneous background.”—N. Y. Times.
“In Mr. Wyllie’s pictures in ‘London to the Nore,’ we are struck chiefly by the wholesome sentiment and the microscopic eye. Mrs. Wyllie’s text is a too frivolous accompaniment.”
| + + — | Acad. 68: 779. Jl. 29, ‘05. 400w. |
[*] “Amongst the many delightful publications resulting from the happy collaboration of an artist and author that have recently appeared, high rank must certainly be given to ‘London to the Nore,’ with its sympathetic interpretations of typical river scenes and vivid word-pictures of their environment.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 27: 182. D. ‘05. 190w. | |
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 255. Ag. 11, ‘05. 520w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 485. Jl. 22, ‘05. 350w. |
“In every way a most delightful book.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 159. Jl. 29, ‘05. 410w. |
Wyman, Rev. Henry H. Certainty in religion. 50c; 10c. Columbus press.
“Father Wyman has met many doubters in his long missionary career, and this book is a summary of his most persuasive arguments with them. It will serve, we trust, as a manual for many other zealous priests.”—Cath. World.
“A book of really convincing power.”
| + + | Cath. World. 81: 251. My. ‘05. 380w. |