+ Nation. 82: 222. Mr. 15, ’06. 200w.
Wilde, Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Willis. [Picture of Dorian Gray.] **$1.50. Brentano’s.
A new edition of Oscar Wilde’s “psychological masterpiece”, containing chapters that have never before appeared in any American edition. Dorian Gray of the beautiful face and black soul presents just the antithesis of character that fascinated the author’s mind. Love, joy, sorrow all exist in the vesture of life—so they can be donned or doffed at pleasure.
“The book is more effective now than when first published because we know now how true it is.”
+ Ind. 61: 219. Jl. 26, ’06. 400w.
Wildman, Murray Shipley. Money inflation in the United States: a study in social pathology. **$1.50. Putnam.
A sociological study which “has nothing to do with individual morals, but is an attempt to explain certain incidents in our National life to which as a people we cannot point with pride. We are a people with a financial ‘past,’ and Mr. Wildman sets out to rehabilitate us by connecting financial vagaries little different from immoralities, with facts in our National history which show that we were not naturally bad, but yielded to stress of circumstances and most naturally.”—N. Y. Times.
“Is well worthy of commendation to the inquiring student.” Frank L. McVey.