The book review digest, volume 04, 1908 (part 7 of 7)
“It deserves and will secure a good reception from all who are interested in the subjects of which it treats. The author has the courage of his opinions, and, in not a few instances, exception may be taken to his conclusions; but in all cases the materials for judging independently are given, and readers can claim no more.” W. H. White.
+ + − =Nature.= 78: 598. O. 15, ’08. 800w.
“This single criticism [about his view of the combustion chamber in the cylindrical boiler] should not take from the value of the work as it abounds in so much that is good and valuable to one seeking information on the subject and desiring to be correctly informed as to the marine engine practise of to-day and the lines on which it may be extended in the future.” Horace See.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 28: 686. N. 13, ’08. 1000w.
=Tompkins, Juliet Wilbor.= Dr. Ellen. †$1.50. Baker.
8–2613.
The story of a stout-hearted struggle to care for a consumptive sister and to establish a reputation as a medical practitioner in a little town among the Sierras. “It is a love story, a character study and the history of a brave woman’s struggle against ignorant prejudice, all welded into a single narrative.” (Bookm.)
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“Has no particular strength nor depth but is wholesome.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 88. Mr. ’08.
“It is Dr. Ellen’s courageous and victorious struggle to retrieve her losses that makes the real strength and interest of the book; although the delicate and subtle love-story which is interwoven with it will have no small share in assuring the book the popularity it deserves.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 672. F. ’08. 380w.
=Nation.= 86: 195. F. 27, ’08. 250w.
“This new book is quite as sparkling as anything she has ever done.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 77. F. 8, ’08. 320w.
“It is a privilege to meet a woman so noble in character, so well equipped in mind, and so essentially feminine in heart and soul as Dr. Ellen.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 344. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 761. Je. ’08. 70w.
=Tonge, James.= Coal. *$2. Van Nostrand.
8–17746.
“This book is a popular presentation of the latest facts regarding the origin, position and extent of coal seams throughout the world, together with particulars as to the economical utilization and application of this indispensable mineral fuel. It treats of the history and occurrence of coal, the mode of formation of coal seams and the fossils and botany of the coal measures.”—Engin. D.
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“The book should be interesting and instructive to students of various sciences, as well as to those who, though proud of the high commercial position of their country, are unaware as to how greatly this is due to an abundant supply of inexpensive fuel.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 415. O. ’08. 200w.
“The work appears to have been hastily compiled, and the proofs carelessly revised.”
− + =Nature.= 77: 389. F. 27, ’08. 200w.
=Torbett, D.= Schemers. 75c. Doscher.
8–10856.
“This volume is frankly designed to provide an hour’s light entertainment. It tells of a quite preposterous cad, of a society widow unwilling to part with her youth, of that widow’s attractive daughter, and of the daughter’s loyal but impoverished suitor.” (Bookm.) “Positively harmless ... unless the author could be persuaded to give the name of the Paris doctor who produced such marvelous results in Mrs. Van Agan’s face.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“[The incidents] are certainly new and certainly amusing.”
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 242. My. ’08. 140w.
“It is written with a certain smartness.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 415. Jl. 25, ’08. 110w.
=Tourville, Henri de.= Growth of modern nations: a history of the particularist form of society; tr. from the French of Henri de Tourville, by M. G. Loch. *$3.50. Longmans.
8–5819.
“Not in any sense a history of western Europe. Rather it tells how far different our society is from the society of antiquity; how a certain human race became emancipated from that society of the past and how when settled in one corner of Europe its society received a special form. The most powerful modern nations, it is declared, have gradually evolved, not by public action, but by the free play of private initiative. From germanic and gothic origins to the constitution of the present great nations, the author carefully points out the steps.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“The book is a mass of generalizations, of which many are based on hypotheses rather than upon ascertained facts, while few, if any, are supported by sufficient evidence. The book may be of some value in suggesting new points of view: but the method is so superficial that the conclusions carry slight weight.”
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 898. Jl. ’08. 520w.
“The volume is very suggestive and contains some especially interesting chapters.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 723. My. ’08. 230w.
“To the historical student (as opposed perhaps to the student of social science), the detail and method of these essays will have more interest than their generalizations.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 39. Jl. 11. 900w.
“Not the least of the author’s peculiarities is the ease with which he bends each bit of evidence to conform to his theory. The chapter on the United States is childish in its ignorance.”
− − =Nation.= 87: 266. S. 17, ’08. 900w.
“It is fair to add that Mr. Loch has done his work as translator fairly well, quite as well as the original deserves.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 168. Mr. 28, ’08. 130w.
“Valuable, therefore, though it is a sort of dictionary of sociological growth, and delightful to dip into at odd moments both for entertainment and edification, this volume is lacking in compactness, and in that lucidity and vividness which compactness brings with it.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 125. Ja. 25, ’08. 600w.
=Tracy, Louis.= Red year: a story of the Indian mutiny. $1.50. Clode, E. J.
8–979.
More of a history of the mutiny than a story. “The hero, who begins as Lieutenant and ends as Major Malcolm, distinguished himself especially by riding across the risen country for relief, first from Lucknow to Allahabad, and again from Allahabad to Delhi. In the latter half of the book he has as stirring a military career as the most jaded novel reader could wish.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=Acad.= 73: 297. D. 28, ’07. 170w.
“Is really a very fair history of the Sepoy mutiny. But its value is slight as a novel.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 317. F. 6, ’08. 400w.
“The power of ‘The red year’—for ‘The red year’ is a powerful book—lies in the stern realism of its account of the never to be forgotten events of 1857.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 38. Ja. 25, ’08. 660w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
=Tracy, Louis.= Wheel o’ fortune. $1.50. Clode, E. J.
8–25370.
A story of a hunt for buried treasure which, to vary it from the stock variety, is “tangled up with mystery and archaeology and Roman triremes and loot taken from the land of the Queen of Sheba and Bedouins and camels and the Abyssinian desert.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“This fluent sensational story ... is devoid of humor and characterization.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 724. Je. 13. 30w.
“It is a good tale, entertaining and well told. The author adds much to its interest by his cleverness in keeping the story moving along a blind trail.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 539. O. 3, ’08. 450w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
=Train, Arthur (Cheney).= True stories of crime. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–17543.
Thirteen stories of crime. “As assistant to Mr. Jerome Mr. Train has had great opportunities to meet interesting criminals and know their careers. The stories are guaranteed true to the facts. They are very interesting and valuable.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
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“The style is interesting and the tone is wholesome.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 224. Je. ’08. ✠
“The author is a good story-teller.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 629. N. ’08. 40w.
=Tratman, E. E. Russell.= Railway track and track work. 3d ed. *$3.50. Eng. news.
8–23881.
“Mr. E. E. Russell Tratman ... not only treats this subject in an exhaustive and comprehensive manner, but provides a most valuable addition to the literature on the American railway track.” (Engin. N.) “This new edition contains some fifty pages and several illustrations more than the previous edition. There are two more chapters, some of the subjects having gained so in importance as to demand more exhaustive treatment and some of the combinations of subjects, treated in one chapter, being changed.” (Engin. D.)
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“Its comprehensive and representative treatment of the subject is most commendable and assures the book of a continued recognition as the standard authority on railway track work.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 300. S. ’08. 1350w.
“Outside of the official publications of the American engineering and maintenance of way association, there is no single work which contains between its covers such a broad and comprehensive treatment of the subject.” J: F. Wallace.
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 537. N. 12, ’08. 340w.
“There is not anything written in the book which a railway engineer would desire to have left out.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 567. N. 14, ’08. 540w.
=Travis, Elma Allen.= The cobbler. $1.25. Outing pub.
8–17997.
In the main this is a character sketch of a will o’ the wisp youth, a victim of his temperamental moods. He is a poet, a dreamer and an irresponsible lover whose life, a thing of shreds and patches, is symbolized by the cobbler heritage transmitted by his father. It is a life abounding in atmosphere whose structural poise and practicality it becomes a woman’s mission to supply.
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“The story is told gracefully, and is unburdened by moralizing or flippancy. The eminence of the hero seems to consist far less clearly in what he does or is than in what his creator says of him.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 76. Jl. 23, ’08. 600w.
“Barring the occasional evidences of feminine pedantism, the style is admirable, and the author has a fine gift for descriptive writing. It is a book which should win success, for it reflects knowledge and thought.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 358. Je. 20. ’08. 380w.
=Travis, Thomas.= Young malefactor: a study in juvenile delinquency; with an introd. by Judge Ben B. Lindsey. **$1.50. Crowell.
8–12983.
A book which no library can overlook. The introduction contributed by the widely-known authority on children’s courts emphasizes the necessity for a better understanding of the subject of juvenile delinquency. The body of the book resting upon facts collected during six years of investigation in Europe and America urges that inasmuch as the child criminal of to-day becomes the man criminal of to-morrow, the important task is to reach the child thru study of individual cases and causes.
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“The bibliography has important defects, but indicates significant books. Apprentice work, but work full of promise.” C. R. Henderson.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 130. Jl. ’08. 90w.
“A thoroughly scientific study. Clearly written, well arranged, reliable in its statements, and temperate in tone.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 213. Je. ’08. ✠
“The style is very diffuse, there is a decided lack of logical order, and repetitions are numerous.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 629. N. ’08. 200w.
“This is a thorough, scholarly, honest work. Its importance consists not only in what it teaches but also in that it shows us the limitations of our knowledge of one of the great vital questions of the hour.” R. E. Bisbee.
+ =Arena.= 40: 386. O. ’08. 530w.
“Mr. Travis’ book is a most able work and, considering the importance of the subject, it fills a much needed want in literature.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 401. Je. ’08. 400w.
“May be commended to superintendents and principals of schools, to judges in the criminal courts, and, indeed, and unhappily, to not a few parents.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 522. D. ’08. 40w.
“A volume which will enable a more careful study of causes of juvenile delinquency and dependency, and consequently of better trained application in the development of these youths toward straight paths in life. It is regrettable that the author has not put his matter in somewhat better style, so as to be attractive to the general reader and to those who are not students.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 491. Ag. 27, ’08. 240w.
“A good study.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 636. N. ’08. 280w.
“It contains much trustworthy information usually couched in simple, direct language, and seldom swamped under the purposeless erudition which Mr. Travis occasionally displays.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 262. S. 17, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 170w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 256. Ag. ’08. 40w.
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 477. O. 3, ’08. 260w.
* =Tremayne, Eleanor E.= First governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria. **$3. Putnam.
A biography painstakingly produced from reliable material for which Mr. Hume, editor of the “Romantic history series,” to which this volume belongs, writes an introduction containing a resumé of certain letters throwing light upon the life of Margaret of Austria.
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− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 606. N. 14. 1100w.
“Mrs. Tremayne’s biography is well written and interesting, but she lacks the vitalizing, constructive imagination which enables the historical writer to make past scenes and events and long dead men and women live again, in all their native warmth and color, before the reader’s eyes.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 640. O. 31, ’08. 380w.
=Trevelyan, Sir George Otto.= American revolution. pt. 3. *$2.50. Longmans.
=pt. 3.= Covers Howe’s inactivity during the early months of 1777 and his subsequent capture of Philadelphia; Burgoyne’s long march from Canada and his enforced surrender at Saratoga; Washington’s tribulations at Valley Forge during the dismal winter of 1778; Clinton’s evacuation of Philadelphia and his successful retreat to New York despite the obstacles placed in his way by the American army at Monmouth; and concludes with the steps that led up to the alliance of 1778 with France.
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Reviewed by John Bigelow, jr.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 874. Jl. ’08. 1200w. (Review of pt. 3.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 108. Ap. ’08. (Review of pt. 3.)
“The book is scholarly and free from vulgar errors of fact, and will have a permanent place in the literature of the subject both for the scholar and the more general reader.” C. R. Fish.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 532. Mr. ’08. 450w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“Hardly a page is to be found in the volume where a careful proof-reader would fail to mark peculiarities, or even errors.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 541. N. 2. 2200w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“The most touchy of patriots can find nothing to complain of in the treatment measured out in this volume to the worthy American leaders and the Americans as a nation.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 86: 399. D. ’07. 1150w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“Sir George Trevelyan possesses to a peculiar degree the art of portrait-painting, and no more human or satisfying description of Howe has probably ever been written than that presented in these pages.” H. E. Egerton.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 167. Ja. ’08. 1100w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“It ranks equally high as history and literature.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 586. Mr. 12, ’08. 550w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“The rounded and highly sustained style of the earlier volumes, which some have likened to that of Trevelyan’s uncle, Lord Macaulay, is maintained, and there is just enough of the British point of view to give new zest to a subject so frequently treated by our own writers.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 96. Ja. 18, ’08. 600w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“If Sir George scarcely has that rare talent which can take a wilderness of scattered and rather disorganized military actions, and show plainly what was done in each case, and why, and with what result, he can rise admirably to the big situations where the professional interest is lost in the greatness of the human tragedy.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 297. O. 4, ’07. 1450w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“His point of view is so catholic, his reading so wide, and his likes and dislikes so positive that he confers upon the story a semblance of novelty, due to his own personal qualities as a writer.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 194. F. 27, ’08. 1120w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“It is obvious from this that Trevelyan is not always a safe guide, and that the reader must make allowances for the personal equation. His work, though ranking high as a piece of literature, is but a slight contribution to historical knowledge.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 741. N. 23, ’07. 270w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“It is as interesting as Lord Macaulay’s ‘History of England.’”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 42. My. 2, ’08. 500w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“Those who have read the fascinating earlier volumes of Trevelyan’s ‘American revolution’ will find in this new volume the same quaint and personal touch, the same exquisite satire, the same easy mastery of what the author knows about his subject, and epigrams fitted as nicely as ever into the serious portions of the text. There is, too, the old way of rambling, which carries the reader irresistibly along, but just as surely causing him to lose the logical development of the story.” C. H. Vantyne.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 134. Mr. ’08. 950w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“The book is truly a Washingtoniad.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 490. Jl. ’08. 570w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“This is the best of the four published volumes of Sir George Trevelyan’s history.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 3. O. 19, ’07. 1250w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“Sir George Trevelyan proves himself an admirable military historian, showing merits of lucidity, arrangement, and criticism which his earlier work has not prepared us for. It is true that he has lost the charm of his first manner, with its astounding plentitude of lightly borne knowledge and its allusive grace of style, but he has acquired another kind of charm.”
+ + =Spec.= 99. 710. N. 9, ’07. 1720w. (Review of pt. 3.)
+ =Yale R.= 17: 355. N. ’08. 330w. (Review of pt. 3.)
=Trevena, John.= Furze the cruel. †$1.50. Moffat.
“Furze,” “Heather” and “Granite” are the titles of a contemplated trilogy. Furze symbolizes cruelty, heather endurance, and granite strength. This first volume “is a strenuous upheaval of the mire of the moors.” The flesh and blood characters include a quixotic boy, a girl of doubtful origin, the half-witted Mary and Peter Tavy, a vice-sodden deacon and his victim, the simple, dull Thomasine.
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“Since Charles Kingsley’s ‘Yeast’ we cannot recall any picture of rural life in England that approaches within any measurable distance of this ghastly description of the Dartmoor peasant. It is undoubtedly a great book—almost a masterpiece.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 66. O. 26, ’07. 550w.
“The characters live and move, and are so nicely balanced in their relations as to make them seem the result of their environment.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 683. N. 30. 170w.
“There is good reason to believe that Mr. Trevena is one of the few men of real promise among the new recruits of English fiction.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 304. My. ’08. 650w.
“He strips bare the ugliness of Dartmoor life with a merciless candor that shows too much schooling from Zola, Ibsen, and Tolstoy.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 287. Mr. 26, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Trevena’s handling of Thomasine’s misfortunes is Zolaesque in treatment, and her scene with the brutal Pendoggat suggests a page of ‘La terre’ in its realism.” Lewis Melville.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 157. Mr. 21, ’08. 1650w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 767. Je. ’08. 1000w.
=Treves, Sir Frederick.= Cradle of the deep: an account of a voyage to the West Indies. *$4. Dutton.
8–21129.
Beginning with Barbados, the author visits in turn the islands of the West Indies. “Everywhere against the back drop furnished by the present scene Sir Frederick throws all sorts of pictures from the magic lantern slides of history and legend.” (N. Y. Times.) “Buccaneers, explorers, and great captains, Dampier, Hawkins, Drake, Rodney, and Nelson are among the dramatic personae of the story he has to tell, and the incidents alternate between the convulsions of nature—he has a vivid account of Kingston after the earthquake—and the crash of great fleets in the struggle for world empire.” (Sat. R.)
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“This book is, of its kind, excellent. We note a few small inaccuracies in the author’s account of Capt. Kidd’s voyages.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 782. Je. 27. 1100w.
“If the reader takes it up for what it is, a rambling descriptive account of a recent voyage in the West Indies, written at leisure and with great gusto and packed with historical and romantic anecdote, he may spend a very pleasant hour.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 237. S. 10, ’08. 400w.
“He has read widely and he has read in a spirit which enables him to make the record of his course as different from a guide-book as possible.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 460. Ag. 22, ’08. 930w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 509. O. ’08. 90w.
“It is the work of a keen observer who is able to express his thoughts in picturesque English.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 794. Je. 20, ’08. 280w.
* =Trowbridge, John.= Story of a wireless telegraph boy. †$1.25. Houghton.
8–26832.
The exciting story of a Russian boy who fled from Russia with his father and physics teacher when it is discovered that they are promoting revolutionary plots by means of wireless telegraphy.
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Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 386. D. ’08. 40w.
=Trowbridge, William R. H.= Mirabeau, the demi-god, being the true and romantic story of his life and adventures. *$3.75. Scribner.
7–41576.
A eulogistic sketch of Mirabeau in which the author calls Mirabeau a “demi-god,” a “hero” and states that he prefers “to see in him only his noble and what he believed to be his fundamental self.” “The greatness of Mirabeau is displayed during the last period of his life, and not in his love affairs and low intrigues. To justify his title, Mr. Trowbridge should have passed lightly over Mirabeau’s early years and filled his canvas with the dramatic scenes of the national assembly in which Mirabeau showed himself truly great. In giving but seventy pages to this important period, he had little opportunity to justify his title.” (Am. Hist. R.)
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“The book is not, then, a serious biography, nor is it a good historical novel.”
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 902. Jl. ’08. 650w.
“Will satisfy the class of readers whose higher education is being taken care of by the writers of Sunday supplements.”
− =Nation.= 87: 140. Ag. 13, ’08. 300w.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 387. Jl. 11, ’08. 1150w.
“Is an attempt to strike a happy mean between a novel and a biography, and is not altogether successful.”
− + =Sat. R.= 105: 601. My. 9, ’08. 270w.
“The exaggeration and disorder of Mirabeau’s nature seem in many respects to have infected his latest biographer.”
− =Spec.= 100: 379. Mr. 7, ’08. 450w.
=Trowbridge, William R. H.= Seven splendid sinners. **$4.50. Brentano’s.
The lives of the Duchess of Chateauroux, Duchess of Kendal, Catherine II of Russia, Duchess of Kingston, Countess de Lamotte, Duchess de Polignac, and Lola Montez.
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“A handsome volume against which much might be written without diminishing the large number of readers that such a book is certain to attract.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 472. O. 17. 850w.
“The sketches in no wise fall behind the initial promise.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 595. O. 24, ’08. 570w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
=Trubetzkoi, Amelie (R.) C.= Golden rose. †$1.25. Harper.
8–15326.
The struggle of a woman to possess the golden rose in place of the ordinary painted apple of Eden. A woman is portrayed who having had an unhappy marriage none the less believes in love, but love idealized and purified of its material association, too exalted to permit of a fulfilment in marriage. To her wooer she offers her golden rose which he fondles for a time ecstatically. When he would exchange it for the painted apple she refuses and so sacrifices her material happiness for a principle’s sake.
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“Miss Rives commands a lush and poetic diction. The book is keyed a good third above concert pitch.” E: C. Marsh.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 413. Je. ’08. 900w.
“The wickedness of such books as the ‘Golden rose’ is that they appeal to an element of insincerity in women readers, especially young women readers. The one really vigorous and fine thing in this story is her description of a summer storm in Virginia. The rest of it should never have been written.”
− − + =Ind.= 65: 153. Jl. 16, ’08. 780w.
“On the whole, the abnormal, however loftily treated, is unsatisfactory.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 493. My. 28, ’08. 300w.
“There are all tastes in the world, and love is such a universal sentiment that the book appeals even to those who cannot take the author’s point of view.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 329. Je. 13, ’08. 450w.
“A charmingly told emotional story.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 761. Je. ’08. 40w.
“The little book is well written and attractive, and the pictures of southern life charmingly drawn.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 64. Jl. 11, ’08. 130w.
=Trubetzkoi, Prince Michael.= Out of chaos: a personal story of the revolution in Russia; tr. by Edith Livermore. $2. Longmans.
8–17556.
From an investigation into the deplorable condition of the Russian peasantry who pay most of the taxes—nobility, officials and clergy being exempt—the author became identified with the revolutionary movement. His narrative of the unendurable conditions in Russia, the suffering caused by them and their great injustice to human activity is the straightforward account of a man who is yielding up wealth and position for the salvation of the masses thru whom, he maintains, oppression must eventually cease.
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“The extreme simplicity of a boyish narrative is disconcerting to the reader of the earlier pages of this book, but if he has the courage to go on he will be rewarded for his pains.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 549. N. 2. 200w.
“It will do no one any harm to read this book, and it is possible that even we, here in America, can learn very much from it—more than we are likely to learn from anything we are ourselves writing in the cause of humanity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 57. F. 1, ’08. 680w.
“This is a vivid picture of the difficulties which a young Russian, who is not content with accepting things as they are in Russia, is sure to encounter.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 1100. D. 28, ’07. 340w.
* =Trubetzkoi, Pierre.= Passer-by. †$1.50. Doubleday.
A story which portrays the complications resulting from a business man’s unintentional neglect of his wife and the advantage taken of her loneliness by two foreigners who make love to her.
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− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 604. N. 14. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“It is done with remarkable skill and knowledge of human nature and unusual artistic insight.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 770. D. 12, ’08. 240w.
=Tschudi, Clara.= Ludwig the second, king of Bavaria; tr. from the Norwegian by Ethel Harriet Hearn. *$2.50. Dutton.
8–18336.
The life story of a half-witted ruler. “He was the pupil and supporter of Döllinger, the patron and intimate of Richard Wagner; and his wonderful palaces, his queer habits, his associations with ‘Lohengrin,’ his tragic and in a way mysterious end, all help to surround him with an unusual, if unedifying atmosphere.” (Nation.) “The real value of such a volume as this is found not so much in the narration of certain romantic episodes in Louis’s life as in the incidental light thrown upon the development of the Bavarians themselves.” (Outlook.)
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“One or two slight slips we have noticed in the text. Miss Hearn’s translation is far from satisfactory.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 153. F. 8. 1400w.
“The sole interest of the book for normal persons will be in the chapters dealing with Ludwig’s service to Wagner.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 267. Jl. 30, ’08. 240w.
“It will serve its purpose for the general public.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 465. My. 21, ’08. 200w.
“It is well and readably compiled, but, as usual, has suffered in the translation.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 230w.
“A rather gossipy biography.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 125. My. 16, ’08. 200w.
“Full of interesting personal anecdotes.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 255. Ag. ’08. 30w.
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 601. My. 9, ’08. 250w.
“The narrative is compact, and as complete as is necessary, and if it is not very penetrating, it is interesting because Ludwig’s history is interesting.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 188. F. 1, ’08. 2000w.
=Turley, Charles.= Playmate. il. †$1.50. Dutton.
A wholesome spontaneous book which “relates how the ‘playmate,’ a grown-up of thirty-four years, and his half-dozen godchildren, whose ages range, we take it, from eight to eleven, form a club, among themselves for the better enjoyment of life, and thereafter hold various meetings, discussions, and excursions.” (Ath.)
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“Intended to be a very amusing book, but is only rather so.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 271. D. 21, ’07. 50w.
“The whole thing is charmingly done, for Mr. Turley has a thorough understanding of the juvenile point of view, and presents it with an unobtrusive art that is altogether admirable.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 726. D. 7. 250w.
“Is written with a gentle sense of humor and an appreciation of the vivacities and whimsicalities of childhood.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 222. Ap. 11, ’08. 120w.
=Sat. R.= 104: sup. 5. D. 7, ’07. 100w.
“There is the same kindly humor, the same intimate appreciation of the boyish standpoint, the same easy, unaffected style [that one finds in ‘Maitland Major’].”
+ =Spec.= 99: 873. N. 30, ’07. 200w.
=Turneaure, Frederick Eugene, and Maurer, Edward Rose.= Principles of reinforced concrete construction. $3. Wiley.
7–36223.
Principles of mechanics underlying the design of reinforced concrete and the result of available tests of these principles are presented here. “About three-quarters of the book is devoted to development of methods of design and the remainder to very condensed descriptions of recent American constructions in reinforced concrete.” (Engin. N.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 85. Mr. ’08.
“Apart from such points of minor detail as have been mentioned above, it is difficult to see how, in the present state of the art, a better and safer exposition could have been made, and the task was not a small one nor the dangers few. The book will be found indispensable by all workers in reinforced-concrete design. The authors have performed a distinct service to the profession, and are to be congratulated upon their success.” L. J. Johnson.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 651. D. 12, ’07. 910w.
+ =Nature.= 77: sup. 6. Mr. 5, ’08. 750w.
* =Turneaure, Frederick Eugene, and Russell, Harry Luman.= Public water-supplies: requirements, resources, and the construction of works; with a chapter on pumping machinery by D. W. Mead. 2d. ed., rev. and enl. $5. Wiley.
8–25128.
A thoroly revised and enlarged edition, treating the subject as follows: Pt. 1 contains seven chapters on the quantity and quality of water required for public supplies, the sources of supply, evaporation and percolation, the examination and quality of water, and the relations between communicable diseases and water supplies. Pt. 2 is on the construction of water works.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 298. D. ’08.
“The book is a most excellent elementary summary of the fundamentals underlying the subject, and is altogether up to the high standard established by the author in the longer work on ‘Public water supplies’ written by him in collaboration with H. L. Russell.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 418. Ap. ’08. 230w.
“The lapse of seven years, during which no competing work has appeared, and the revision which has now been made, establish the book more firmly than ever in its position among American texts on water-supply.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 541. N. 12, ’08. 670w.
“Great progress has been made of late in the purification of water, and the book is well up to date in this important branch, imperfectly covered in most general books on water supply. It will be difficult to mention any detail of water works design not covered in this admirable book, which has its value materially enhanced by a short bibliography appended to each chapter.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 594. N. 21, ’08. 340w.
=Tuttle, Hudson.= Arcana of nature, or, The history and laws of creation; with an introd. by Emmet Densmore. *$1.50. Stillman pub.
8–31129.
A reprint of a book that was written about fifty years ago by a farmer boy of seventeen, together with an introduction giving an account of the phenomena of its authorship, and the “superior condition” of Andrew Jackson Davis, Emanuel Swedenborg, and other psychics. The interest attached to Hudson Tuttle’s work lies mainly in the psychic influence that was brought to bear upon his writing it, a matter worthy the consideration of students of psychical research.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 660. N. 7, ’08. 160w.
=Tweedie, Ethel B.= Hyde Park; its history and romance. **$4. Pott.
8–34713.
A book of memories which are associated with Hyde park’s history for four centuries, during which time the fashionable resort of today has evolved from a royal hunting ground. The narrative covers the uses made of this park, the associations with social and political life of England, the duels fought there, and the hangings at Tyburn. The volume is illustrated from old engravings.
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“Mrs. Tweedie has brought together a good many interesting facts relating to London’s chief park, and has produced a volume of easy and agreeable reading; but it is rather a collection of scraps than a consecutive history.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 118. Ag. 1. 640w.
“While it cannot be regarded as anything but a compilation, it is the work of a compiler who had the good grace to saturate herself in the atmosphere of her subject before jotting down a line, with the result that the book, even to its most colourless parts, bears the unmistakable marks of zest and freshness.” Firmin Dredd.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 272. N. ’08. 1500w.
“Its merit is that it is written in an easy and attractive style, and that it contains reproductions of a lot of old prints that are very interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 200w.
“Mrs. Alec Tweedie has given us a pleasant book, full of anecdote and description.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 711. My. 2, ’08. 340w.
=Tyler, John Mason.= Man in the light of evolution. **$1.25. Appleton.
8–29749.
From a biologist’s point of view, yet intended for lay readers, this study is concerned with the light that evolution throws upon the problems of man’s moral, religious, social and family progress. The chapters are as follows: Evolution and Darwinism; Stages of human evolution; Family and society; The logic of evolution; The survival of the fittest; Evolution and faith; Racial experience; Conformity to environment; and Social environment. Bibliography and index.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 628. O. 24, ’08. 20w.
“An important and excellent book, this, and in a line not often taken by a professor of biology.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 594. N. 14, ’08. 160w.
“Professor Tyler is to be thanked for presenting thus a wholesome picture of the progress of the ages from a somewhat new standpoint.” H. W. Conn.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 844. D. 11, ’08. 600w.
=Tyler, Lyon Gardiner.= Williamsburg, the old colonial capital. $2.50. Lyon G. Tyler, Richmond, Va.
7–38428.
A complete history of the town from its first settlement, full information concerning “public buildings, political and social conditions, and much interesting data in reference to the prominent families of Virginia.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“President Tyler has given us the best and fullest account of ‘ancient’ Williamsburg and its fine old college that we are likely to have in years to come.” W: E. Dodd.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 650. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“Bears the stamp of careful research, and is evidently the work of a scholar as well as of an enthusiastic Virginian.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 100. F. 22, ’08. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 115. Ja. ’08. 170w.
“Dr. Tyler has collected a quantity of facts about the place and its people. And quite worth collecting they were, though, of course, the interest is mainly local.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 305. F. 22, ’08. 250w.
=Tyndale, Walter.= Below the cataracts. il. *$3.50. Lippincott.
8–5821.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“Is written in good English and published in good print with numerous and prettily coloured illustrations. Remember this is a guide-book—a very luxurious one to those going to Egypt, and a well illustrated one to those who don’t or can’t go there.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 296. D. 28, ’07. 630w.
“Mr. Tyndale has done well himself to write the letterpress required as a setting for these Egyptian pictures; for he has thus secured a harmony rare in this sort of publication, in which the artists’s work and the author’s often cry against each other. This pleasant narrative, taken in conjunction with the pictures, gives a life-like impression of Egypt which works more pretentious have utterly failed to convey. We note some errors.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 774. D. 14. 420w.
“The work of an artist possessing not only technical ability, but a facile pen. To visitors of the Metropolitan museum in New York his text will have a special interest.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 224. Mr. 5, ’08. 520w.
“He writes simply and naturally, giving for the most part an account of his own experiences, and what he writes is consequently pleasant to read.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 341. Mr. 14, ’08. 1000w.
=Tyrrell, George.= Medievalism: a reply to Cardinal Mercier. *$1.25. Longmans.
W8–175.
“Last Lent Cardinal Mercier issued a Pastoral to the diocese of Malines in which he condemned the errors of modernism; it was a document of no great ability, and its interest for English readers lay mainly in the fact that it branded Father Tyrrell as a typical Modernist. Father Tyrrell has not unnaturally taken up the gauntlet, and he now gives Cardinal Mercier his opinion of him, of the Roman church, and of the Modernist movement, with great freedom and at considerable length.”—Sat. R.
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=Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 340w.
“Personally courteous to the Cardinal, this reply is a fine and manly specimen of British straight-hitting at the power that backs him.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 364. O. 17, ’08. 200w.
“We think that this reply would have gained in power had it been more restrained, and had the author been content to explain and defend his own position without denouncing the government and morality of Rome, or holding up to scorn the weaker paragraphs of the Cardinal’s pastoral.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 426. O. 3, ’08. 360w.
“In more than one respect ‘Medievalism’ may be compared to Newman’s ‘Apologia’; in its occasion, its fine literary form, and its crushing polemic it recalls that famous work.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 329. S. 5, ’08. 1800w.
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=Underwood, Joseph Harding.= Distribution of ownership. (Columbia university studies in history, economics and public law.) pa. *$1.50. Longmans.
8–832.
“Dr. Underwood attempts to give the history of ownership from the most primitive times, thru the eras of Hebrew, Greek, Roman and Teutonic civilizations, to the present day conception of corporate ownership and the beginnings of a return to restrictions of individual ownership, not only of land, but also of chattles.” (Ind.)
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“It is to be regretted that it is not written in a clearer and more readable style, and that it is marred by a number of historical errors which, while perhaps not of serious consequence to the substance of the work, shake the reader’s confidence in its accuracy.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 435. Ag. 20, ’08. 370w.
“He makes indiscriminate use of a variety of works, good, bad, and indifferent, upon economics, jurisprudence, and sociology, but nowhere shows a firm grasp of his subject.”
− =Nation.= 87: 493. N. 19, ’08. 450w.
“Without proposing any concrete reforms, and weakened at times by an unjudicial impatience, it at least indicates valid reasons for cheerfulness and confidence.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 323. F. 8, ’08. 380w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 383. Mr. ’08. 60w.
=Unwin, William Cawthorne.= Treatise on hydraulics. *$4.25. Macmillan.
W8–47.
A thorogoing class text-book as well as a work of reference. The chapters are as follows: Properties of fluids, Distribution of pressure, Principles of hydraulics, Discharge from orifices, Notches and weirs, Compressible fluids, Fluid friction, Flow in pipes, Distribution of water, Later investigations of flow in pipes, Flow of compressible fluids in pipes, Uniform flow of water in canals, and conduits, Gaging of streams, and Impact and reaction of fluids.
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“Considered as a whole, the treatment, from the scientific point of view, is terse, accurate and concise, but the many admirers of Professor Unwin will close the book with a feeling of disappointment that the writing of it has been permitted to partake of the nature of pastime rather than of strenuous work.” G. S. Williams.
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 77. Ja. 16, ’08. 2930w.
“The book will answer the expectations of all but the most critical, for the mistakes, in it are very few and refer mainly to experimental results with which American readers are apparently more familiar than the author.”
+ + − =Engin. Rec.= 57: 111. Ja. 25, ’08. 960w.
=Updike, Wilkins.= History of the Episcopal church in Narragansett, R. I., including a history of other Episcopal churches in the state; 2d. ed. ed. by Daniel Goodwin. 3v. *$15. Updike.
8–266.
A revision of a work appearing in 1847. “Dr. Goodwin has retained the text of the original work in its entirety, merely making necessary corrections and dividing into chapters. The addition of new matter he has made in the form of notes, segregated in the back of each volume, and bulking as large as the original text. The book contains a history of the Episcopal church in Narragansett and of other Episcopal churches in Rhode Island, and of all the principal families of that region, a transcript of the parish register, and reprints of many interesting old documents, letters and diaries.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Dr. Goodwin’s editing of the present edition shows his eminent fitness for the work.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 72. Jl. 23, ’08. 350w.
“The work throws so much light upon the social and ecclesiastical history of Rhode Island in the eighteenth century, and gives so many intimate, self-made pictures of the life of the time that it will be sure of a warm welcome from all students of that period.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 204. Ap. 11, ’08. 370w.
Upson, Arthur Wheelock. Tides of spring, and other poems. $1. Small.
8–3140.
The titular piece is a brief one-act drama for whose theme Mr. Upson “has gone to Scottish history, that almost unworked dramatic quarry; and about a picturesque incident in the early life of Malcolm Ceannmor, one of the ancient Scottish kings, has created an idyl of youth.... The contrast between the cautious wisdom of experience and the daring intuition of youth lies the philosophical motive of the play.” (N. Y. Times.) The volume also contains a group of lyrics to friends.
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“Mr. Upson’s lines are full of germinal thoughts.” J. B. Rittenhouse.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 196. Ap. 11, ’08. 700w.
=Upson, Henry Swift.= Insomnia and nerve strain. *$1.50. Putnam.
8–18289.
A discussion which urges physicians to hunt for a physical basis in the cause of mania, melancholia and dementia precox. The author’s main contention, supported by innumerable cases, is that the nerve strain of those cases almost always associated with insomnia is not degenerate and is not incurable. He describes in this connection the action of the nervous system, in vascular control, in inhibition, nutrition and shock; and he formulates the difference between vital and non-vital matter, and between nerve cells and lower tissues.
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“The author’s views concerning the action of the nervous system are not altogether clear and rest upon an interpretation of nervous phenomena which few students of these subjects are ready to accept.”
− =Nation.= 87: 145. Ag. 13, ’08. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 448. Ag. 15, ’08. 400w.
“A very wilderness of words and well up to the high standard of obscurity adopted by writers on psychology.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 306. S. 5, ’08. 150w.
=Upton, George Putnam.= Musical memories. *$2.75. McClurg.
8–30387.
“The ‘memories’ relate to those stars, of various magnitudes, and now chiefly extinct, that were in their glory, on the operatic stage and in the concert hall in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and that cast some rays of their effulgence on the Chicago of that period.” (Dial.) Patti, Ole Bull, Wieniawsky, Rubinstein, Christine Nilsson and Theodore Thomas are among the celebrities who call back from the past pleasant reminiscences. Five chapters treat of the history of musical societies in Chicago, beginning as far back as the year 1833.
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“Professional criticisms and judgments add to the value of the book, and there are many amusing anecdotes and crisp characterizations.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 298. D. ’08.
“A book of unusual interest to those of his own community, and hardly less attractive to music-lovers and readers generally.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 206. O. 1, ’08. 2200w.
“Mr. Upton’s book is one of the most valuable contributions to American musical history ever issued, and the numerous personal sketches and anecdotes interspersed make it as interesting as a novel to music lovers.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 367. O. 15, ’08. 1100w.
“The ‘memories’ are on the whole entertaining. There are people and things about whom and which Mr. Upton feels impelled to write when he has little or nothing to say; some of his critical remarks will call forth doubt or dissent.” R: Aldrich.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 543. O. 3, ’08. 950w.
=Upton, George Putnam.= Standard concert guide: a handbook of the standard symphonies, oratorios, cantatas and symphonic poems for the concert goer. $1.75. McClurg.
8–23575.
A combination and condensation of the author’s “Standard oratorios,” “Standard symphonies,” and “Standard cantatas” in a single volume for concert and library purposes. New matter has been added to bring it down to date, including notices of works by Brücker, Cowen, Dvorák, Elgar, Franck, Mackenzie, Parker, Parry, Sinding, Richard Strauss, and Tchaikovsky. Contains portraits of the composers included.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 266. N. ’08. ✠
=Dial.= 45: 120. S. 1, ’08. 50w.
“[The reader] will be puzzled only by one strange thing. In the Index reference is made to ‘Bürckner.’ His real name is Bruckner.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 321. O. 1, ’08. 300w.
“The index appears to be quite full and serviceable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 466. Ag. 22, ’08. 170w.
“This ‘Guide’ is sufficiently safe and authoritative if one can accept the seemingly arbitrary method of selection.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 38: 511. O. ’08. 200w.
=Urusov, Sergiei Dmitrievich, kniaz.= Memoirs of a Russian governor; tr. by Herman Rosenthal. **$1.50. Harper.
8–3431.
“A prince of an ancient Russian family, a member of the first Duma, tells in these memoirs the secrets about czardom; lays bare the intricate machinery of the autocracy, the schemes of the police department, and the intrigues and corruption that underlie the fabric of government. Prince Urusov is not a revolutionist, not a destructive agitator, but a constructive patriot, typical of the new Russia “now rising from the wreckage of the old.” The memoirs form a permanent document of Russian history.”
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“An excellent book and of more value, though of limited scope, than half the books that set out to give the American reader a general idea of Russia and the Russians.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 213. Je. ’08.
“Because of the light it throws upon the inmost workings of the Russian government it is a book which every one will read with interest.” L. W. Tower.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 464. S. ’08. 430w.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 381. Mr. 28. 400w.
“Here is a book of rare interest written from a rare point of view—an account by a native official of the intricate workings of the Russian bureaucracy.” I. W. Riley.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 274. My. ’08. 1300w.
“It is the details of this absurd and anarchic system which Prince Urusov sets forth most convincingly, and at times in a highly amusing manner.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1035. My. 7, ’08. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 461. Jl. 27, ’07. 2500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 38. Ja. 25, ’08. 130w.
“A permanent and vitally valuable historical document.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 40. My. 2, ’08. 600w.
“These records and impressions are bound to take their place among the permanent documents of Russian history.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 381. Mr. ’08. 300w.
“This is one of the books that count. It tells us more of the inner history of Russia in recent years than has been told, we venture to say, by any other volume.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 332. S. 5, ’08. 1350w.
=Urwick, W. E.= Child’s mind, its growth and training; being a short study of some processes of learning and teaching. $1.50. Longmans.
E 8–29.
“Mr. Urwick’s object is to found the right teaching and training of scholars from infancy (for which he substitutes the ungainly expression infanthood) to adolescence on the results of psychology and biology, so far as these sciences have explained the development of children’s minds.” (Ath.) “Mr. Urwick’s treatment is based upon the modern conception of connation. Human behavior can be analysed largely into connative processes which set towards or away from objects of positive or negative ‘immediate value.’” (Nature.)
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“We cannot admit that he has succeeded in setting forth ‘in simple and untechnical language’ the results obtained by the investigation of ‘mind-growth as an organic process’; but he has derived from them much sound advice to teachers in their practical work.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 763. D. 14. 650w.
“We find in the book elementary matter set forth in a complicated and difficult style; in consequence, the reader who is in need of such a book will find this one obscure and perplexing, while those who can readily understand the book do not need to read it.” E: O. Sisson.
− =Dial.= 44: 276. My. 1, ’08. 150w.
“One of the most useful pedagogical treatises of recent years.” T. P. N.
+ =Nature.= 77: 410. Mr. 5, ’08. 300w.
“It is rather in its scattered suggestions and its point of view than in its completed statements that it has most value. The reader feels that the author is on a good trail but needs to follow it out further. Altogether we commend the book as a most suggestive presentation of certain phases of educational theory from the point of view of functional or activity psychology.” Irving King.
+ − =School R.= 16: 686. D. ’08. 600w.
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=Vacandard, Elphege.= Inquisition: a critical and historical study of the coercive power of the church; tr. from the 2d ed., by Bertrand L. Conway. **$1.50. Longmans.
8–7862.
Discusses the origin and development of the coercive power of the Catholic church in matters of faith. The author “proves that the primitive church has a horror of persecution for conscience sake, and declares that the church’s departure from her early tradition is not only revolting in itself but has far-reaching and lamentable consequences.... In his concluding chapter M. Vacandard endeavors to explain the atrocities of the inquisition from the standpoint of a loyal Catholic.” (Ind.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 242. O. ’08.
“A much-needed counterpoise to Mr. Lea’s ‘History of the inquisition.’”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 246. My. ’08. 830w.
“A book worthy of special notice. Vacandard is a historian first, an apologist afterward.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 379. Ag. 13, ’08. 340w.
=Vaizey, Jessie Mansergh.= Pixie O’Shaugnessy. †$1.50. Jacobs.
7–39197.
A little Irish child from Knock castle, the ugly duckling among conspicuously pretty sisters, with no nose to speak of, and a mouth of enormous proportions, is the youthful heroine of this boarding-school tale. Honest, brave-hearted, loyal, witty, she is an unwavering example to school-mates and teachers.
=Vance, Louis Joseph.= Black bag. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–980.
The same hurried action and absorbing strain of romance are found here as in “The brass bowl.” At the center of the plot is a rascally diamond smuggler who pretends to be the long absent father of Dorothy Calendar, an English girl, who has just inherited a large fortune. He connives with the mother of the next heir in line and between them, hoodwinking Dorothy into aiding them, they attempt to rob the girl of her property of which the part most immediately desirable is a black bag of jewels. A young Californian takes a hand in the game, outwits the plotters and accidentally delivers Dorothy into the hands of the real George Burgoyne Calendar, her father.
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“The book, if ingenious, is wanting in imaginative power, literary worth or striking elements of novelty which might to some extent compensate the reader for the extraordinary demand on his credulity.”
− =Arena.= 39: 506. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“Is one of the best specimens of modern adventure that we have read lately.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 39. Jl. 11. 100w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 693. Mr. 26, ’08. 150w.
“‘The black bag’ is probably not a masterpiece, but it has certain very pleasing qualities. The most engaging thing about it is its youthfulness, its buoyancy, its joy of motion.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 237. Mr. 12, ’08. 320w.
“There is an amount of adventure, movement, danger, and excitement that might almost surfeit the appetite were it not for a certain delightful whimsicality on the part of the author, who never takes himself too seriously.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 92. F. 15, ’08. 180w.
“As a sensational narrative of crime attempted and frustrated it is ingenious enough, but it does not come within sight of the remotest borders of real literature.”
− + =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 50w.
=Vandewalker, Nina Catharine.= Kindergarten in American education. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–10422.
A book for teachers and all students of social and educational problems. It “gives a history of a half-century of kindergarten development, exhibits its relation to other movements that have been significant in American life and education, and shows how its practice is being gradually modified by the new educational psychology.” (Nation.)
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“Because of its contemporaneousness the book is unusually concrete and explicit, and not in the least speculative.” M. V. O’Shea.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 124. Jl. ’08. 900w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 242. O. ’08.
“The book is encyclopedic in nature. The student of almost any phase of the subject will find an abundance of material well selected and well organized.” F. A. Manny.
+ =El. School T.= 9: 54. S. ’08. 600w.
“She overestimates the importance of the movement and fails to see the future decline, or at least great modification, of the kindergarten.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 320. Ag. 6, ’08. 50w.
=Nation.= 86: 399. Ap. 30, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 251. My. 2, ’08. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 639. My. ’08. 120w.
=Van Dyke, Henry.= Counsels by the way. **$1. Crowell.
8–21627.
A group of Dr. Van Dyke’s most stimulating short papers and addresses. The following are included: Ships and havens, under which general heading are Pilgrims of the sea, whither bound? The haven of work, The haven of character and the last port; The poetry of the Psalms; Joy and power; The battle of life; and The good old way. A general note of optimism is sounded thruout, the warranted optimism of one who knows true service, struggle and conquest.
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“They are excellent in point of style and permeated with a helpful optimism.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 298. D. ’08. ✠
“The author hardly meets our expectations at times. The work as a whole, however, is one of the finest volumes of ethical, literary and religious essays of the year.”
+ − =Arena.= 40: 468. N. ’08. 260w.
+ =Dial.= 45: 414. D. 1, ’08. 160w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 541. O. 3, ’08. 110w.
* =Van Dyke, Henry.= House of Rimmon: a drama in four acts. **$1. Scribner.
8–30293.
A drama whose scene is laid in Damascus and the mountains of Assyria in 850 B. C. Naaman, the Damascus captain, is the central figure, who, a leper, and a victim of an unfaithful wife’s plotting is cared for by the Israelitish maid, Ruahmah, thru whose aid he is healed by the prophet Elisha.
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“Its pre-Christian setting is sympathetically imagined; the psychology of character is bound up in some haunting poetry; but when that is said, all is said. His scenes are fragmentary and his material is shaped for imaginative effect, not for externalizing.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1063. N. 5, ’08. 200w.
“Its lines throughout are rhythmic prose, lacking the impassioned beauty, the unity of word and emotion, which are the essence of true poetic drama. In action ‘The house of Rimmon’ shows an instinctive sense of dramatic effectiveness, of the value of spectacle and climax, but its psychology is in several places so defective that its most impressive scenes are open to impeachment when considered as other than a spectacle. The points in which Dr. Van Dyke has shown most strength are in the delicate and beautiful characterization of the Hebrew captive Ruahmah, in his portrayal of the fine spirit of Naaman, the hero, and in the generally high ethical standard of the drama.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 690. N. 21, ’08. 720w.
“Must be counted among the most important recent achievements in the poetic drama. In idea and feeling it is unaffectedly religious, in interest it is engrossingly dramatic, in form and phrase it is deeply poetic.”
+ + =Outlook.= 90: 746. N. 28, ’08. 1200w.
* =Van Dyke, Henry.= Out-of-doors in the Holy Land: impressions of travel in body and spirit. **$1.50. Scribner.
8–29361.
The record of a journey thru Palestine which was “a religious revelation to the author.” “Dr. Van Dyke has discovered that ‘Christianity is an out-of-doors religion,’ and journeys in the faith that ‘the shut-in shrines and altered memorials are less significant than what we find in the open among the streets and on the surrounding hill-sides.’ His ‘impressions of travel in body and spirit’ (his sub-title) are therefore not heavy with human creeds and contentions, but breathe the spirit of the land itself. His writing always combines poetry, religion, and the love of nature, and this threefold felicity could not be more appropriately displayed than in celebrating the birthplace of Christianity.” (Dial.)
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“His descriptions of these long-loved places are at once refreshing and reverent.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 408. D. 1, ’08. 270w.
=Ind.= 65: 1181. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
=Ind.= 65: 1465. D. 17, ’08. 140w.
“The work will be welcomed as a rare gift-book, and the sixteen full-page colored illustrations are no mean addition to its claim on general popularity.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 909. D. 12, ’08. 160w.
“There is nothing new in it, and yet the author has added to the literature of the Holy Land something worth having in the record of impressions made by the land itself, its people, and its pilgrims on a devout and poetic soul.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 548. D. 3, ’08. 400w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
“The book is exactly what might be expected from a traveler whose eyes, like Dr. Van Dyke’s, are ever open to the beautiful and whose pen is so well able to set forth what he sees.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 754. D. 5, ’08. 430w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 757. D. ’08. 50w.
=Van Dyke, John Charles.= Money god: chapters of heresy and dissent concerning business methods and mercenary ideals in American life. **$1. Scribner.
8–14734.
“Devoted to the exposure of money-madness as the great American epidemic. This afflicts millions of ‘little rascals’ as well as the comparatively few ‘wealthy malefactors.’ It ‘has journalism by the throat,’ depraves the drama, and taints all business life. It despoils the land by waste; it demoralizes our national life, and gives us ill fame throughout the world. ‘The trail of the dollar is over it all.’”—Outlook.
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Reviewed by I. A. Loos.
=Econ. Bull.= 1: 150. Je. ’08. 380w.
“Finely wrought chapters.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 842. O. 8, ’08. 100w.
“Mr. Vandyke ... has no remedy to suggest for the social troubles which he describes. In that case the description hardly seems worth while unless better done than by Mr. Vandyke. What Mr. Vandyke deserves most credit for is his chapter showing the folly of legislation as a remedy for faults which lie deep in human nature.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 287. My. 23, ’08. 440w.
“It is a tremendous indictment of the degrading materialism now menacing both democracy and religion. As such it should be read by all who have at heart the need of a moral revival. Exception, however, must be taken to an occasional savor of race prejudice.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 389. Je. 20, ’08. 160w.
“He has brought to his task that directness of vision and statement which have so well served him in the treatment of subjects of a very different nature.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 110. O. ’08. 450w.
=Van Dyne, Frederick.= Treatise on the law of naturalization of the United States. *$5. Lawyers’ co-op.
7–23477.
“Mr. Van Dyne brings together all the laws still in force dealing with the acquisition of citizenship by foreigners. The historical development of our present regulations is traced, as are also the judicial decisions and the opinions and rulings of the executive and international claims commissions.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“The book will be found to be of great value to those having jurisdiction in naturalization proceedings, to lawyers who desire to advise clients who are seeking naturalization or to establish rights of citizenship and, in general, to every student and citizen who has an interest in solving those problems arising from the assimilation by the nation of the hundreds of thousands of aliens coming to our shores every year.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 451. S. ’08. 250w.
“The book is essentially complete as a textbook, and, if its 500 pages are slightly padded, it is with interesting matter.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1150. My. 21, ’08. 140w.
“The book may be adversely criticised for its somewhat defective organization, the long quotations from documents and cases and the failure to give a list of the cases cited.” H: B. Armes.
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 522. S. ’08. 580w.
“A new legal work of more than ordinary importance.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 255. F. ’08. 100w.
=Van Vorst, Bessie (Mrs. John Van Vorst).= Cry of the children: a study of child-labor; with introd. by Hon. Albert J. Beveridge. **$1.25. Moffat.
8–4342.
A first-hand study based upon an investigation conducted in the cotton mills of Alabama, Georgia, Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Mrs. Van Vorst’s aim has been to get at the human side of the child-labor question without making her interest sensational. She talked and walked with the children, visited their homes and their schools, questioned them and drew conclusions. “Without doubt her series of impressionistic pictures will give to most readers an idea more vivid and intelligible of conditions in the mill towns than would any other method of presentation.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Sympathetically but not sensationally told, save as the facts themselves are sensational.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 151. My. ’08. ✠
“Nothing is gained by over-statement and hysterics. Mrs. Van Vorst would do better to confine herself strictly to describing what she saw, for her strong point is not in drawing inferences.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 451. S. ’08. 300w.
=Ind.= 65: 267. Jl. 30, ’08. 400w.
“Interestingly told narrative.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 246. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“Her treatment of the subject is popular and impressionistic. Her book is a straightforward account of what she herself saw and heard.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 70. F. 8, ’08. 600w.
=Outlook.= 88: 610. Mr. 14, ’08. 400w.
=Van Vorst, Marie.= Sentimental adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode. il. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–10276.
Adventures of a wealthy bachelor during ten years of devotion to a married woman. Everywhere “the kind fates give him glimpses of the woman who has a husband, and to her his conduct is the essence of propriety, delicacy, and devotion combined and double distilled.” (N. Y. Times.) Finally his faithfulness is rewarded.
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“He is really not a bad fellow, and his adventures make sufficiently agreeable reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 473. Ap. 18. 150w.
“There is more sentiment than adventure in the concoction, and more words than either.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 211. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
+ − =R. of Rs.= 37: 761. Je. ’08. 100w.
=Vasari, Giorgio.= Vasari on technique; translated by Louisa S. Maclehose; edited with introduction and notes by G. Baldwin Brown. *$4. Dutton.
8–12590.
This treatise, translated for the first time, constitutes the introduction to Vasari’s “Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architects.” “So far as the art-worker is concerned, this preliminary exposition of the various processes and materials employed by the artists and craftsmen of his day is of far greater interest than the biographical details constituting the bulk of the work.” (Int. Studio.) “In the province of painting, for instance, Vasari tells us not only concerning the different methods of executing drawings and cartoons, and then of the subsequent mural painting, or of the oil painting on panel or canvas; he also informs us concerning permanent decorative painting for façades, he tells us about gilding, about glass or marble mosaics, about tarsia, or wood inlays, about stained glass, and about methods of enameling.” (Outlook.)
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“The book, interesting as it is, is only to a limited degree calculated to satisfy the curiosity of which it is so welcome a symptom, and it would be even less satisfactory were it confined strictly to the matter indicated in its title.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 265. F. 29. 500w.
=Dial.= 44: 250. Ap. 16, ’08. 100w.
“A welcome contribution to the literature of craftsmanship. Its serviceableness is enhanced by Professor Brown’s introductory essay and his copious notes, which are both learned and interesting.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 473. F. 27, ’08. 20w.
“The translation and editing of the work have been carried out with conscientious thoroughness, and additional interest is given to the volume by the numerous illustrations contained in it.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 33: 252. Ja. ’08. 250w.
+ − =Nation.= 86: 270. Mr. 19, ’08. 80w.
“Its language is technical, of course, but not so technical as to be too far above the head of the general reader. Its value is manifest when we consider its comprehensiveness.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 562. Mr. 7, ’08. 450w.
* =Vaughan, Herbert Millingchamp.= Medici popes (Leo X and Clement VII). **$4. Putnam.
“It is to a study of the personal character of Leo X that he devotes the greater portion of his book; what he has to say of the other Medici popes he compresses into a few brief chapters, and the political relations of the church with the several countries of Europe during the Medici period, he practically ignores.”—N. Y. Times.
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“After reading Mr. Vaughan’s book we know better than before what Leo looked like, what his mind was like, in what his strength consisted, and the nature of his weakness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 610. O. 24, ’08. 480w.
“Even from the point of view of a personal study the wisdom of his omissions may be questioned. The undue prominence given to unimportant details makes the book a perilous one for the uninitiated. Yet it is obviously intended for the uninitiated. Mr. Vaughan’s particular outlook may be right enough, but his book gives an entirely false notion of the renaissance as a whole.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 614. N. 14, ’08. 1050w.
“Mr. Vaughan quotes largely from Benvenuto Cellini, but he has been unable to bring the glamour and the movement of that astonishing autobiography into the rest of his book.”
− =Spec.= 101: 839. N. 21, ’08. 160w.
=Vedder, Henry Clay.= Christian epoch-makers: the story of the great missionary eras in the history of Christianity. **$1.20. Am. Bapt.
8–21632.
A chapter on the philosophy of Christian missions introduces a graphic account of the great leaders of the missionary epochs of the Christian church. The seventeen men whose work is outlined are as follows: Paul, Ulfilas, Patrick, Augustine, Boniface, Aurgar, Vladimir, Raimund Lull, Francis of Assisi, Xavier, Ziegenbalg, Schwartz, Zinzendorf, Carey, Martyn, Judson and Livingstone.
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“The value of this book lies in the bringing together in a unique manner of a vast mass of materials, in their lucid interpretation, and in the really fine generalizations, which are interpolated without obtrusiveness.” H. P. J. Selinger.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 672. O. ’08. 360w.
“This book should have a wide reading.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 368. N. ’08. 30w.
* =Vedder, Henry Clay.= Our New Testament: how did we get it? **$1. Am. Bapt.
8–35968.
A historical investigation rather than a work of apologetics in polemics whose central thought is that in the formal sense of the term there was no such thing as a closed canon.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 316. Jl. 6, ’08. 90w.
=Venable, William Mayo.= Methods and devices for bacterial treatment of sewage. $3. Wiley.
8–10451.
“The introductory chapter briefly explains what is meant by the bacterial treatment of sewage and the second chapter gives a list of books on the subject and references to similar articles in technical journals. The aerobic treatment of crude sewage, the mechanical removal of sludge, the anaerobic treatment of sewage, intermittent contact systems, automatic discharging devices and percolating filters are given a chapter each, after which there is a summary of engineering principles regarding the design of sewage purification works.” (Engin. Rec.) “The tenth chapter describes in detail the actual installation of two plants.” (Engin. D.)
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“As a guide to the sanitary engineer, it seems to the reviewer that this book will prove indispensable.” R. W. Hall.
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 525. My. ’08. 380w.
“There is much interesting reading in this book and the author’s idea as to the importance of intelligent supervision is thoroughly sound. However, the subjects of comparative efficiencies and costs, size of filtering material, rates of filtration, depth of beds, etc., are left in a rather unsatisfactory state.” G: W. Fuller.
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 540. My. 14, ’08. 650w.
=Engin. Rec.= 57: 624. My. 9, ’08. 250w.
=Verschoyle, W. Denham.= Electricity: what is it? *$1. Macmillan.
8–28960.
“The main object of this book is to sustain the contention that something more than the usually accepted electrical idea is needed if we would aim at solving the many problems which exist around us.... The author of this book, starting merely with three postulates, (1) absolute energy, (2) aether, (3) some form of interaction between them, develops a theory which claims to admit of the main facts of natural phenomena being arranged ‘in a homogeneous and inter-related series.’ The fundamental conception of the theory is that of the gyron.... It is not very clear how the author arrives at the existence of forces emanating from the gyron, but by means of them he is able to discuss the evolution of the atom, the relations of the elements, heat, light, electricity, dissociation. The ‘mystery of life’ even is not excluded from the discussion.”—Nature.
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“The work can hardly be regarded as a serious contribution to science.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 131. Ag. 1. 740w.
“He so mixes reliable experimental knowledge with abstruse hypotheses, which are, to say the least, still disputable, that the reader is left quite bewildered.”
− =Nation.= 87: 212. S. 3, ’08. 140w.
“We do not agree with him in thinking that the diverse and tentative views held just now by our leading investigators as to the ultimate constitution of matter afford a sufficient justification for the present attempt to explain matter and electricity by an effort of the imagination.”
− =Nature.= 78: 475. S. 17, ’08. 370w.
“This is a brave attempt by an enquirer devoid of the first essential requirement—exact knowledge of elementary mechanical laws—to explain the relation between electrical phenomena and the ether of space.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 369. S. 19, ’08. 800w.
=Viele, Herman Knickerbocker.= Heartbreak Hill. †$1.50. Duffield.
8–26196.
The prospect of a stepfather is an outrage to Mopsie Beatoun, so she runs away to live with an uncle and aunt. How she throve among her relatives, breathing all the while the peaceful air of Heartbreak Hill, is told with charm and fidelity to the things of real life.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 305. D. ’08. ✠
“Sentiment and humor are nicely balanced in its pages, and the transcript of New England life and character is both truthful and charming.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 295. N. 1, ’08. 230w.
“A writer of such stories as Mr. Vielé’s earlier ‘Inn of the silver moon’ and the present book is a public benefactor.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 318. O. 1, ’08. 170w.
“It always is a matter for regret when a good story goes wrong, and in this instance there is ground for deep and earnest regret, because in his opening chapters Mr. Viele arouses great expectations.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 480w.
“A love story full of amusing complications.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 618. O. 24, ’08. 20w.
“The introduction of a preposterous plot about a copper mine and the burlesque attitude of the characters one to another become distinctly tiresome before the plot draws to a weak-kneed close.”
− =Outlook.= 90: 273. O. 3, ’08. 70w.
=Villari, Pasquale.= Studies historical and critical; tr. by Linda Villari. *$3.75. Scribner.
7–38555.
Seven essays, most important of which is the critical treatment of “Is history a science?” “The others are all on Italians of different ages and different degrees of distinction,—Cavour, Savonarola (on whom Professor Villari is, of course, the supreme authority), Donatello, Luigi Settembrini, Francesco de Sanctis, the critic, and Domenico Morelli, the painter.” (Spec.)
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“The essay [on ‘Is history a science?’] is an interesting one, although it contains perhaps little of originality, but the expert collation and contrast of so many weighty opinions upon a subject that is in its essence a vital one, renders it a valuable contribution to the philosophy of history.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 10. O. 12, ’07. 650w.
“The style is excellent but too weighty and scholarly for the ordinary reader. The translation is well done.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 214. Je. ’08.
“The question, whether history should be a science or an art, is handled with great wealth of detail, and with large knowledge of kindred studies; but there is decidedly too much amateur metaphysic in the essay.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 544. N. 2. 1150w.
“The essay on ‘Savonarola and the present day’ is perhaps the most suggestive of any and the fullest of Professor Villari’s essential teaching.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 346. N. 15, ’07. 550w.
“As he is as thoroughgoing as a German pedant in his application of the scientific method to research, his opinions ought to command a hearing in quarters where the dry-as-dust theory of historical study still prevails.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 239. Mr. 12, ’08. 700w.
“[In ‘Is history a science?’] the author swirls about in an eddy of other men’s opinions, and it might be said of his method, as of an earlier school of criticism, that it does not conclude.” Christian Gauss.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 199. Ap. 11, ’08. 900w.
“The whole volume is competently translated, though in its English dress it has lost distinction.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 433. S. 28, ’07. 1600w.
=Vinogradoff, Paul.= English society in the eleventh century: essays in English mediaeval history. *$5.20. Oxford.
8–17763.
“The volume is a sort of sequel to ‘Villainage in England.’ ... It is divided into two essays, one on government and organized society, the other on the tenure and use of land, the various classes of the population, and the relations of people and land. Under these general headings are ranged some fifteen chapters of detailed investigation, with concrete summaries at the end of each section, and two admirable chapters stating his general conclusions.”—Nation.
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“Professor Vinogradoff’s book is, however, much more than a series of special and important Domesday studies. Its highest value lies in the fact that it is a reasonable, well-ordered explanation of English society at an important moment.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 102. O. ’08. 1000w.
“A high level of abstract science is maintained; and in scope and language the volume is for specialists, and fully intelligible to them alone. A few criticisms of detail cannot be omitted, especially as the cardinal limitation of a most scholarly and in all ways remarkable book is some lack of pains in finishing off the details, and even in seeing the work through the press.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 753. Je. 20. 2150w.
“The work well fulfills the promise of its title by giving on the whole much the best account that we possess of the organization and classes of the English people in the critical eleventh century.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 264. S. 17, ’08. 940w.
“Exhaustive enquiry.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 501. Ap. 18, ’08. 1550w
“It is difficult to give in a review any adequate idea of the value of this monumental work, which reconstructs in a very wonderful way the social life of the eleventh century. It is possible at last to feel that we are in positive touch with the nation that William the Conqueror subdued and transformed. In accomplishing such a task Professor Vinogradoff has carried Maitland’s work noticeably forward.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 977. Je. 20, ’08. 2100w.
* =Virgil, Publius Virgilius Maro.= Aeneid; tr. into English verse by Theodore C. Williams. *$1.50. Houghton.
Moved by the desire for a smooth story-rendering of the Aeneid the author has produced a translation that will permit of continuous reading aloud. It is characterized by lucidity, swift, clear movement, an avoidance of the commonplace, and the preservation of both the dramatic and argumentative force of the speeches contained in the poem and the religious suggestiveness.
=Voogt, Gos de.= Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos de Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley; ed. for America by C: W. Burkett. *$3.50. Ginn.
7–40011.
“This volume is devoted to dogs, cats, horses, asses, sheep, goats, pigs, cattle, fowl and rabbits, described in an easy popular style, with abundant photographic illustrations. There are over five hundred of these, besides seven full-page color plates.”—Ind.
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“Especially useful in the children’s room for reference use in connection with the schools.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 50. F. ’08.
“An interesting and profitable book to look over.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1044. My. 7, ’08. 100w.
=Voorhees, Edward Burnett.= Forage crops for soiling, silage, hay and pasture. (Rural science ser.) **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–31477.
A practical treatment from the cultivator’s and feeder’s standpoint, prepared by the director of the New Jersey experimental stations. It deals with the problem of continual forage supply, a matter of particular interest to dairy farmers near the cities.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 18. Ja. ’08. ✠
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 724. My. ’08. 100w.
“The summaries are perhaps the best part of the book, and will be appreciated both by the student and the farmer. Certain statements will want correction in a future edition.” E. J. R.
+ − =Nature.= 77: 388. F. 27, ’08. 750w.
“Although the work is prepared for American readers, there are useful ideas in it for many English agriculturists.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 130. Ja. 25, ’08. 120w.
=Vorse, Mary Heaton.= Breaking in of a yachtsman’s wife. il. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–14521.
A delightful book of “maritime miscellany” which records in the main the experiences of a landlubber who married a nautical man and learned to love every phase of the happy carefree life. “A voyager on many seas, and these as various as the differing shores of Venice and Cape Cod can make them, she and the faithful Stan, yachtsman-in-chief, were attended by more than one pair of lovers in differing stages of infection.” (Dial.)
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“A charming summer book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 224. Je. ’08. ✠
“One may justly pay it a compliment rarely due to fiction of the episodic sort, of feeling that instead of there being a superfluity of episodes, there is on the contrary no page that we would willingly have sacrificed.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 502. Jl. ’08. 220w.
“It is a pleasant book, flavored with more than one kind of salt.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 354. Je. 1, ’08. 250w.
“The writer of this little book has a sense of humor which is apparent in the first chapter and appears intermittently thruout the story.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1290. Je. 4, ’08. 120w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 398. S. 19, ’08. 170w.
“Human nature under the influence of the boating passion is a study which Mrs. Vorse has prosecuted thoroughly, humorously, altogether delightfully.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 515. Je. 4, ’08. 200w.
“The string of stories—for such is the character of the book—may be recommended even more decidedly to the serious than to the young and frivolous. As a tonic to depression and an antidote to gloom, it has a higher mission than even the entertainment of those for whom presumably it was written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 288. My. 23, ’08. 400w.
“All through the pages there is the amusing give-and-take repartée and the whole book has a breezy, salty flavor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
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=Waddell, John A. L.= Specifications and contracts. *$1. Eng. news.
8–983.
Four chapters presenting a “very sound discussion of a number of typical contracts, embodying comments on many points of trouble or difficulty, comments drawn from long experience in engineering work.” (Engin. N.)
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“These lectures attracted wide attention at the time of their delivery, as condensing into small space the essentials of the subjects treated, and in a form particularly adapted to the instruction of students. The element of illustration and example embodied in this book will recommend it to professors in technical schools, giving as it does the results of the extended experience of two writers eminent respectively in the engineering and legal professions.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 3: 70. Ja. ’08. 400w.
“The scanty literature of engineering contracts is measurably enriched by Waddell & Wait’s new work. A separation into specifications and contracts is attempted by Mr. Waddell, with not very good success.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 59: 84. Ja. 16, ’08. 1530w.
=Waddington, Mary A.= King. Château and country life in France. **$2.50. Scribner.
8–28628.
An intimate account of life in the French châteaux written by one “who knows her subject thoroughly well, for a good portion of her life has been spent in rural France amid the scenes and among the people she writes about so charmingly.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“As a whole the book has less interest and charm than her ‘Italian letters.’”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 299. D. ’08.
“We fear that as little pains have been taken with the writing as with the revision. It contains many agreeable pages which make the reader regret that an author who has lived among interesting scenes, and possesses a real power of description, should not have taken pains to produce a book worthy of her material and her ability.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 720. D. 5. 1250w.
“It is the human element in Mme. Waddington’s book, rather than her references to architecture and landscape, that makes it especially enjoyable.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 413. D. 1. ’08. 260w.
“Thoroughly familiar with the scenes she describes, yet with a certain freshness of view, due to her American origin, Madame Waddington paints a picture of rural life in France with a charming directness and simplicity.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 493. N. 19, ’08. 280w.
“We get some delightful and authoritative impressions from the book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 430w.
“Madame Waddington’s former books have led the reader confidently to expect from her writing agreeable impressions, large social knowledge, and charm of manner. The present volume confirms that expectation.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 552. N. 7, ’08. 100w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 760. D. ’08. 150w.
=Wagnalls, Mabel.= Palace of danger. †$1.50. Funk.
8–27097.
A historical novel set in the reign of Louis XV whose ruling spirit is the fascinating Madame de Pompadour. Across the pages is a shadow of the Jesuit—Jansenist quarrel, simmered down to strife between church and parliament; but the story deals principally with Louis, his favorite, and the love of the Marquise’s protégée for a ruthless count.
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“Though not anything like so strong and compelling as the historical romances of the elder Dumas, is superior to many of the popular historical novels of recent years.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 482. N. ’08. 250w.
“The author seems nowhere to have been opprest by the weight of her historical knowledge. It rather comes to the reader as a direct and spontaneous creation.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 679. N. 7, ’08. 160w.
“Plenty of rapid action and many interesting and truthful pictures of the time enliven the course of the story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 655. N. 7, ’08. 230w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 180w.
“It is a thoroughly human tale and so well constructed that the interest holds one to the end. Perhaps there are too many dramatic surprises, but they are all of the kind that might really have happened.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 38: 634. N. ’08. 120w.
=Wagnalls, Mabel.= Stars of the opera; revised and enlarged edition. **$1.20. Funk.
7–31432.
A new edition revised and enlarged. Personal interviews and life studies of Sembrich, Eames, Calvé, Nordica, Lehmann, Farrar and Melba are followed by critical studies of the operas with which their names are especially associated.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 230. Je. ’08.
+ =Arena.= 38: 682. D. ’07. 140w.
“The book is notable as a trustworthy guide to those who are unfamiliar with the operatic stage, while as a source of entertaining reading to others who in these matters are sophisticated, it makes further distinct claims.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 165. F. 1, ’08. 150w.
“These interviews are all in good taste and authentic, each having been proof-read by the singer who gave it.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 315. Ap. 2, ’08. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 726. N. 16, ’07. 100w.
=Wagner, Richard.= Rhine-gold: a dramatic poem; freely translated in poetic narrative form by Oliver Huckel. **75c. Crowell.
7–28637.
As in his “Tannhäuser” and “Parsifal.” Dr. Huckel opens the “Rhine-gold” with a criticism and description of the story. “Then comes the magnificent rendition of the great poem. It is a free translation. The author has striven to present as perfectly as possible in rhythmic form the ideas and mental pictures as well as the words of Wagner.” (Arena.)
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“The present volume will be regarded as indispensable by lovers of the music-dramas of Richard Wagner.”
+ =Arena.= 38: 681. D. ’07. 120w.
“The most valuable part of the book is, perhaps, its careful and interesting foreword.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 49. Ja. 2, ’08. 100w.
=Waineman, Paul.= Summer tour in Finland. **$2.50. Pott.
8–34794.
A tour from Helsingfors to Tornea, at the north of the gulf of Bothnia, “where only a small river divides Finland from Sweden, and where one is in the luminous summer nights of the Arctic circle.” The author gives her impressions of the people tuned slightly to the personal note, because she herself is a Finn; gives word pictures of mountains, forests and lakes; takes the reader into peasants’ huts as well as princes’ abodes; and voices thru the whole a regret for the downfall of feudalism, “for no other reason than that it was more picturesque than democracy.”
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“The writer has the ‘seeing eye,’ and a gift of describing, in poetic, and sometimes ultrasentimental, language, a variety of scenery. The book is a little too long, and the account of the railway journey southward in western Finland rather lacking in interest.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 539. O. 31. 400w.
“A clever writer’s impression of a delightful country.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 623. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“Quite half the small facts she sets down have no relevance to the matter in hand, and therefore do not illuminate it.”
− + =Spec.= 101: 368. S. 12, ’08. 1650w.
* =Waldstein, Charles, and Shoobridge, Leonard.= Herculaneum, past, present, and future. *$5. Macmillan.
An informing work which “brings home to every ‘thoughtful and honest man who can look further and rise higher than his own immediate hearthstone’ the high importance of investigating the ruins of these ancient cities and bringing to light their treasures of art. Referring to the fact that the work is to be carried on by the Italian government with the assistance of an international commission, Dr. Waldstein points out that it is working together ‘on the very soil on which our common civilization rests to restore the living testimonies of culture which belong to us all.’”—R. of Rs.
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“It is the most complete and most accessible account in English of the little that is actually known of Herculaneum in ancient, mediaeval and modern times. It is when we turn to the latter portion of the book,—the portion treating of Herculaneum’s future, that we find the author’s method of exposition not only unconventional, but even disconcerting in its flights of fancy that at times verge upon the grotesque.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 507. N. ’08. 1750w.
“Waldstein deals in grand projects. He likes to move before the footlights of the stage. It seems also wide of the mark to call the excavations of Olympia and Delphi in ‘the bow and arrow phase.’”
− =Ind.= 65: 1242. N. 26, ’08. 760w.
“An interesting volume—especially interesting, indeed, because of the scope indicated in its title.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 797. D. 5, ’08. 300w.
“The volume contains a series of valuable appendices.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 757. D. ’08. 400w.
“Part 2 can only be described as the sort of day-dream in which many people probably indulge, in church or on a solitary walk, but which they seldom print. Apart from these fantasies, the authors throw little new light on questions which they must have considered.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 642. N. 21, ’08. 1100w.
=Wales, Hubert.= Old allegiance. $1.50. Kennerley.
8–17994.
The adventures of two Oxford graduates on an island sheltering and isolating a Jacobite society with whose leader it had become a hobby to foster the old allegiance. The descendant of the Stuarts was entertained here periodically. When James VI was expected and circumstance forbade his coming one of the Oxford men masqueraded as the Stuart ruler. The adventures of the masquerader including his clever foiling of a band of dynamiters are of the Anthony Hope order.
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“The author is to be congratulated on having made a story of adventure which, though dealing with familiar topics ... has yet contrived to get itself invested with a dewy freshness.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 213. S. 3, ’08. 140w.
“His tale is well constructed and well written, with a light touch, a sufficient realism and a lively fancy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 427. Ag. 1, ’08. 160w.
“When we reviewed this novel in October, 1899, with a due appreciation of its undoubted merits, it was entitled, ‘Purple and fine linen: a tale of two centuries, by William Pigott.’”
+ =Spec.= 101: 203. Ag. 8, ’08. 220w.
=Walk, Charles Edmonds.= Silver blade: the true chronicle of a double mystery. †$1.50. McClurg.
8–9527.
A Spaniard’s vendetta is responsible for the duplex problem of murder involved in this story. Among an excited group of more or less unrelated characters, all of whom are well-drawn types, moves a detective, unagitated, endowed with the impassiveness of an Indian. His methods are his own and worth studying.
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“Mr. Walk has constructed a very complicated puzzle. There may be a bit of incredulity mixt with our marvel at Captain Converse, but his ingenuity keeps us entertained, and what more has one the right to ask from a story of this kind?”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1037. My. 7, ’08. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 100w.
=Outlook.= 89: 313. Je. 6, ’08. 50w.
=Walker, Ernest.= History of music in England. *$2.50. Oxford.
8–12789.
A history whose purpose is to sketch the main features of English music from its earliest artistic manifestation to the close of the nineteenth century. “The book has been designed from the standpoint of a musician rather than from that of an antiquarian; and even then more for the general music-lover than for the technically erudite.” More stress is laid upon the art itself than upon biographical minutiæ.
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+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 202. F. 15. 170w.
“The best and most useful results of research are embodied; and, what is more, opportunity is afforded the reader, by means of copious musical illustrations printed in the text, to form his own conclusions. We know of no chapter on Handel so luminous and unbiased as Dr. Walker’s.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 157. F. 13, ’08. 730w.
“Dr. Walker has made an original and important contribution to musical history in this volume.” R: Aldrich.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 289. My. 23, ’08. 1000w.
“As a whole, the book deserves nothing but praise, and it is the only condensed history of English music which is at once competent, complete, and unprejudiced.” Arthur Symons.
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 44. Ja. 11, ’08. 1900w.
“Not merely a masterly piece of condensation, based on intimate first-hand knowledge of the available material, but from beginning to end it is written with a conviction which commands respect, and with an incisive energy and felicity of phrase which render its perusal a most stimulating literary experience.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 338. F. 29, ’08. 750w.
* =Walker, Margaret Coulson.= Bird legend and life. **$1.25. Baker.
Contains “descriptive matter of the kind usually found in such popular nature books. A few pages of desultory bird lore are as far as the author has gone in her endeavor ‘to get together the most important avian legends and superstitions, and also to discover in them evidences of apparent truth.’”—Ind.
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“Contains some good photographs of wild birds.” W. J. Bowdoin.
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1467. D. 17, ’08. 60w.
“Is illustrated in a very satisfactory way. The quotations are apt and succinct, and there is much information in the text.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 676. D. ’08. 30w.
=Walkley, Arthur Bingham.= Drama and life. *$1.75. Brentano’s.
W 8–65.
The collected studies and appreciations of the dramatic critic of the London Times. The volume “consists of revised dramatic reviews and essays taken from the London Times and two longer and more deliberate papers, the one on modern English and French drama and the other on selected French and English plays, which were printed originally in the Edinburgh Review.” (Nation.)
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“There is a lightness of touch about his pen that makes his notices of the dullest plays entertaining reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 140. F. 1. 800w.
“There is much entertaining and a considerable proportion of solid and instructive matter in this volume. With all his brilliancy Mr. Walkley is not always consistent.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 496. My. 28, ’08. 900w.
“Mr. Walkley’s humor, which we make bold to call his most delightful attribute, shines on many pages and is the book’s saving grace.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 293. My. 23, ’08. 770w.
“He is not only the shrewdest English-speaking critic of the stage to-day, but so agreeable a writer that he can be read with pleasure by people who have little interest in his subject. His ‘Drama and Life’ is like some of the plays he enjoys, but condemns. It has in places broken the mould of current dramatic criticism. It is the better reading on that account, and may be commended even to those wise persons to whom the present English stage is a subject of little interest.” F. M. Colby.
+ =No. Am.= 187: 777. My. ’08. 1800w.
=Wall, Mary Virginia.= Daughter of Virginia Dare. $1.50. Neale.
8–16952.
A story based upon the supposition that Pocahontas was the daughter of Virginia Dare.
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“A story that will have considerable mild interest for those who have taken stock in the theory that Pocahontas was a Dare—and no interest at all to those who turn up their noses at that theory.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 160w.
=Wallace, Edgar.= Angel Esquire. †$1.50. Holt.
8–20673.
An eccentric man bequeaths his millions to the one of four people—a defenseless girl and three daring criminals—who shall first decipher a cryptic verse containing the combination of the safe where his gold reposes. By twos and threes they try to outwit the girl, and finally one of the three, the most unorthodox of detectives, becomes the girl’s champion and defends her not only against the other two possible heirs but also against an evil attorney who takes a hand in the game.
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“A detective story with some novel turns, which can be safely recommended to connoisseurs.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 20w.
“It is not a detective story, but that much rarer thing, a dime novel as well written as detective stories have been since Poe and Conan Doyle showed us how.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 466. N. 12, ’08. 260w.
“Certainly there is no lack of entertainment for the brief time spent—or squandered—in the perusal of this thoroughly modern story.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 270w.
“Mr. Wallace’s story will certainly make the lover of tales of crime ‘sit up,’ and will also entertain him with its comedy-side—rare in this class of fiction.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 274. O. 3, ’08. 80w.
=Walling, William English.= Russia’s message: the true world import of the revolution. **$3. Doubleday.
8–18337.
Setting out to show what Russia can offer us rather than to suggest what the world can do for Russia, the author, whose sympathies are with the revolutionists goes beyond the outrageous atrocities and presents the world import of the revolution. “This volume is first of all an indictment of the Russian government. It is not too severe; but that is only because it is not possible to draw a too severe indictment. The Russian bureaucracy is the worst government now on the face of the globe, unless that of the Congo surpasses it in atrocity.” (Outlook.)
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“It is indispensable for all who care to study this great upheaval of modern times.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 243. O. ’08.
“The Russian revolution is a phenomenon so vast that no single mind or book can possibly compass it, but ‘Russia’s message’ is the best exposition of it that has yet appeared in our language.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 610. S. 10, ’08. 660w.
“We must credit the author with giving us a great deal of learned socialistic disquisition, yet the work is dry.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 37: 470. O. 3, ’08. 500w.
“Mr. Walling, though he violates the law of historiography as it is handed down to us from Germany, has given us by far the most noteworthy study of the late Russian upheaval that has appeared in this country, and one of the very few first-rate books on the subject that have been written anywhere.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 120. Ag. 8, ’08. 1150w.
“Mr. Walling’s work covers the whole ground of the Russian revolution in a very interesting and instructive way, and though his book is not likely to convey the same message as his title seems to imply, it will be indispensable for all who care to study this great upheaval of modern times.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 409. Jl. 25. ’08. 870w.
“The book is a complete study of the whole situation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 622. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“His passionate devotion to what he regards as the rights of man gives interest to his book, but also contributes its chief defect. It has impelled him to make a volume much larger than it need to have been. It is the work of an avowed partisan.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 764. Ag. 1, ’08. 1250w.
“The struggle now going on in the czar’s empire has a vital significance for the future of human society, and Mr. Walling’s clear-cut style drives home this truth with great force.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 254. Ag. ’08. 260w.
=Walpole, Sir Spencer.= Essays, political and biographical; ed. by Francis Holland. *$3. Dutton.
8–32327.
A volume of biographical and political essays, very many of which appeared originally in the Edinburgh review. Among them are essays on George Savile, first Lord Halifax, George Crabbe, Godolphin, The dining societies of London, and Croker papers.
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“Though hardly profound, they are always agreeable.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 208. Ag. 22. 360w.
“All the papers are interesting and readable—excellent specimens of the author’s genial style.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 255. O. 16, ’08. 250w.
“We heartily commend this posthumous volume. We regret that the titles of the books which called forth Sir Spencer’s reviews, and the names of the periodicals in which they first appeared (with dates) have not been given. The essays themselves abound in interest.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 214. S. 3, ’08. 480w.
“One of the most enjoyable of the essays is a critical appreciation of George Crabbe, the East Anglian poet.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 458. Ag. 22, ’08. 80w.
“Will add nothing to the historian’s reputation.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 83. Jl. 18, ’08. 220w.
“We have found a chapter of reminiscences by his daughter one of the most interesting parts of the book.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 166. Ag. 1, ’08. 1300w.
=Walsh, James Joseph.= Popes and science: the history of the papal relations to science during the middle ages and down to our own time. *$2. Fordham univ. press.
8–15255.
The “brief of an advocate” which shows that popes are liberal patrons of science, and that they have encouraged medical research. “He collects many instances to show physicians in good standing in the Church did use dissection and make considerable progress in anatomy and medicine, and argues that the treatment of the sick and insane was not so heartless and irrational as we have been accustomed to believe. Finally, he brings forward Crookes, Wallace, Richet Lodge, Lombroso and the psychical researchers to prove that the tendency of science is away from materialism and toward the recognition of the spiritualistic interpretations that it used to sneer at.” (Ind.)
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“He is occasionally tempted to push the claims of his clients beyond bounds.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 87: 830. S. ’08. 920w.
“His books are not more partisan than White’s ‘Warfare of science with theology,’ against which they are chiefly directed, and they should be read in connection with it by those who want to get both sides.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 613. S. 10, ’08. 200w.
“The book is well worth reading for its extensive learning and the vigor of its style.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 604. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
“The writer’s unbroken silence on the workings of inquisitors and the censorship is fatal to his arguments. He has vindicated some churchmen, but not the Church.”
− =Nation.= 87: 319. O. 1, ’08. 700w.
“He is no mean antagonist in debate, and in this case he comes armed with a wealth of information beyond the ordinary layman’s reach.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 460. Ag. 22, ’08. 580w.
=Walsh, James Joseph.= Thirteenth greatest of centuries. *$2.50. Catholic summer school press, 110 W. 74th st., N. Y.
7–26016.
“All the great issues, forces, and institutions of the thirteenth century are reviewed at generous length—the rise and character, the curricula and the influences of the early universities; the steps taken towards popular education, both literary and technical; the development of letters; the great books and the great writers of the period; the Latin hymns of the church, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, the Golden legend, the Romance of the rose, Joceylin of Brakeland, Matthew Paris, and Vincent of Beauvais; hospitals; famous women; Marco Polo and the story of geographical exploration; the systematization of law; and the beginnings of modern commerce.”—Cath. World.
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“Dr. Walsh, who is both a student and a popular lecturer, comes forward in this volume, laden with the results of omnivorous reading, and lays his treasures, in almost boundless profusion, at the feet of his audience.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 86: 532. Ja. ’08. 700w.
“We respectfully commend to the open-minded his presentation of that great epoch.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 207. S. ’08. 80w.
“Dr. Walsh’s book, maintaining that the thirteenth is the greatest century in human annals, is, of course, not scientific, but interesting it certainly is, and, because of its abundant information, it is valuable too.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 639. Mr. 19, ’08. 400w.
“As an interesting and accurate account of medievalism, with its intensity, its enthusiasm, its devotion, as well as its narrowness and exclusiveness, this volume may be read with pleasure and profit.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 419. Mr. 21, ’08. 120w.
“This dull, thoughtless and styleless volume contains a mass of interesting facts, most of which were doubtless novel to the lecturer’s audience; and if we cannot commend his manner of presenting them, which resembles, on an elephantine scale, that of our snippet press, we cannot doubt that in many of his hearers he has started the train of profitable thought.”
− + =Sat. R.= 105: 175. F. 8, ’08. 1150w.
=Walsh, William Shepard.= International encyclopedia of prose and poetical quotations. $5. Winston.
8–18548.
“Differs from most books of its class in the kind of quotations included and in the treatment. It in fact combines with ordinary collections of ‘elegant extracts’ something of the book of phrase and fable and something of an author book.” (Nation.) “There are selections from many languages, but all under one alphabet, and all thoroughly indexed.” (Outlook.)
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“Altogether a cursory inspection of the work gives the impression that it may be more than ordinarily useful. The indexes are full, the printing careful except for the occasional Greek passages which show a sovereign contempt for the rules of accent.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 438. N. 5, ’08. 170w.
“So far as it goes [it] is an excellent book of reference. Its arrangement is such that it is a very easy matter to find what one is looking for if the matter is among the quotations included in the book. It is rather startling to discover that a considerable percentage of the American and English writers of note of our time are quite ignored in Mr. Walsh’s compilation.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 549. O. 3, ’08. 240w.
“The volume is a welcome addition to the literature of its class.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 594. N. 14, ’08. 70w.
=Walton, George Lincoln.= Why worry? *$1. Lippincott.
8–16562.
“The author discusses worry and obsession from the standpoint of the neurologist, devoting most of his attention to how absurd and dangerous is the mental attitude of those who can’t stop tapping with the fingers or can’t endure such tapping; who must have the head of their bed to the north or will not sit with the face to the wall; who go back three times to see if they locked the door or wash the hands after touching anything.”-=Outlook.=
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“A practical, readable book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 243. O. ’08.
=Ind.= 64: 1352. Je. 11, ’08. 140w.
“From this little volume ... it is quite possible for a reasonably ‘fussy’ person or hypochondriac to extract extremely beneficial prescriptions.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 380. Jl. 4, ’08. 360w.
=Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.= Though life us do part. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–26679.
A story which teaches a lesson of inviolable love. Love-making and marriage under the most promising of circumstances are followed by disagreement and separation. The husband, a young physician, enlists in the Cuban war, and after a short period of service is reported dead. In reality he is not dead, and as a much scarred and wounded stranger, comes back to his town unrecognized even by his wife, leases from her his old office, and, thru service, wins her love. Important also in the negative-lesson sense is the vengeance of a collie upon a vivisector whose hand on the point of offering a sacrifice to science, was staid by searchers for the lost dog.
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− =Nation.= 87: 415. O. 29, ’08. 400w.
“With the exception of her heroine, she introduces her people to the reader before she has made intimate acquaintance with them herself.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 556. O. 10, ’08. 400w.
“There is a happy working out of the skillful and original plot.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“A story that will interest, if it does not reform, readers who enjoy Mrs. Ward’s cleverness.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 502. O. 31, ’08. 90w.
=Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.= Walled in. †$1.50. Harper.
7–33590.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“This author still retains a sweetness of the mind in describing natural scenery or even garden scenery.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
+ =Ind.= 64: 183. Ja. 23, ’08. 230w.
“If she were a young writer we might be tempted to say of her recent work that it has shown increased promise. It seems to contain more sentiment and less sentimentality, less appeal to the sensibilities of the schoolgirl and the shoplady, than marked the ‘Confessions of a wife,’ and (in less degree) its successors.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 590. D. 26, ’07. 600w.
“A love story that will not add to its author’s literary reputation or give its readers a shock of delight.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 61. F. 1, ’08. 350w.
=Ward, John J.= Some nature biographies: plant—insect—marine—mineral; with upwards of 200 illustrations reproduced from photographs and photo-micrographs taken by the author. *$1.50. Lane.
8–12203.
A series of nature studies, originally published in the Strand, Pall Mall, and other magazines which deal with the observations in the English woods and field. It “may be regarded as a kind of kinematograph in book form.” (Nature.) It presents the life history of certain butterflies and moths, the descriptive material being aided by some fine photographic work.
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“Is one of the best of its class that can be put into the hands of any boy or girl who loves nature and seeks to be told more about her.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 197. F. 15. 380w.
“Are of interest to American readers, not only because of the painstaking care with which the author has gathered his facts and his illustrations, and the pleasing manner in which he has narrated them, but also because of the fact that some of the chapters ... have no limitations of locality to circumscribe their interest.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 216. Ap. 1, ’08. 200w.
“Interesting and well written, and give evidence both of a sound knowledge of the best authorities and considerable independent observation.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 584. Je. 25, ’08. 130w.
“A better book of its class we have never seen.”
+ + =Nature.= 77: 147. D. 19, ’07. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 70w.
“He writes also in the same pleasant and informing manner on the development of buds, the decay and fall of leaves, the senses of insects, and the story of a piece of coal.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 907. D. 7, ’07. 270w.
=Ward, Mary Augusta (Arnold) (Mrs. Thomas Humphry Ward).= Testing of Diana Mallory. †$1.50. Harper.
8–26683.
In the world of her book Mrs. Ward has once more placed strong men and weak, and intimately inspects manners and motives, settings and atmosphere. Her heroine is adorable; her hero, weak of will and an unconscionable cad. Oliver Marsham confesses his love for Diana Mallory. He soon learns that she is the daughter of one Janet Sparling, gambler and murderer. He retreats, leaves the girl to suffer, pursues his way to parliament, mismanages his campaign, is hit by an enemy’s missile, and, when failure and death stare him in the face, turns to Diana, who ministers to him, marries him, and woes him back to life. Not overcome by the revelation of her mother’s crime, not resentful when Oliver deserts her, not shrinking when love and duty send her to Oliver’s bedside, Diana seems to have transcended the sense of distorted forms to the realities that constitute the life principle.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 246. O. ’08.
“Marsham must be regarded as the weak point in the story. Neither his position as a rising politician nor his personal charm and brilliancy impress us as they are intended to do.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 397. O. 3, 460w.
“Is not a great novel; it is a moving tale.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 149. O. ’08. 1050w.
“It is all so extremely well informed, and so thoroughly well done, that it is difficult to understand why we should not be more deeply moved by it and why it should not make a more lasting impression.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 454. D. 16, ’08. 500w.
“There is not a thrilling scene in the book, nor a single character of extraordinary fascination; but it is written with a fineness of perception, a delicacy of expression, that redeems it from the commonplace.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 896. O. 15, ’08. 970w.
=Ind.= 65: 1182. N. 19, ’08. 100w.
“To its readers’ deepest and highest human feeling it appeals with the irresistible power of truth.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 604. O. 24, ’08. 300w.
“Our respect for Diana is put under an almost intolerable strain. Are such people quite worth presenting to us on so large a canvas?”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 264. S. 17, ’08. 450w.
“Considered as a novel of society, ‘Diana Mallory’ is fascinating and authoritative; considered as the story of a young woman pathetically situated, it is moving and satisfying.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 505. S. 19, ’08. 770w.
“A romantic story in Mrs. Ward’s best style.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 220w.
Reviewed by C. L. Rudyard.
+ =No. Am.= 188: 779. N. ’08. 2400w.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 502. O. 31, ’08. 400w.
“Has an assured welcome in the library, and a space already waiting for it by the side of ‘Lady Rose’s daughter’ and ‘The marriage of William Ashe.’” Agnes Repplier.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 697 N. 28, 08. 480w.
“It is not a great novel, but Diana is almost a great figure.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 634. N. ’08. 300w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 425. O. 3, ’08. 970w.
“Judged by the test of originality, the book stands on a much higher plane than any of its three predecessors, while the story, regarded merely as a story, is at least as engrossing, as well furnished with incident, and as strong in dramatic interest.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 506. O. 3, ’08. 1300w.
=Ward, Robert De Courcy.= Climate—considered especially in relation to man. (Science ser., no. 19.) **$2. Putnam.
8–12801.
With the needs of both teacher and student kept in mind the author co-ordinates and sets forth clearly and systematically the broader facts of climate. The work is intended to be supplementary to the first volume of Dr. Julius Hann’s “Handbuch der klimatologie,” translated into English in 1903.
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“The book contains a good deal of interesting historical material as well as a very clear-cut and informing presentation of the facts of climate as they are now known.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 524. D. ’08. 80w.
“A fit supplement to Hann’s, presenting clearly and reducing to its simplest terms a subject over which first-hand knowledge and research and a cumulative experience in teaching have given him the mastery.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 302. My. 30, ’08. 1000w.
“An important volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 758. Je. ’08. 70w.
“Mr. Ward has succeeded in presenting a well-written volume, suitable for the classroom, being methodical in arrangement, and clear and direct in statement.” O. L. F.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 841. D. 11, ’08. 820w.
+ =Spec.= 101: 783. N. 14, ’08. 420w.
=Ware, Richard Darwin.= In the woods and on the shore. $2. Page.
8–17814.
A record of several seasons of hunting and fishing in Newfoundland and New Brunswick, along the shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the eastern coast of Massachusetts. “The book has a human side, for there seems no better way to become acquainted with one’s fellows—not even the French method, of dividing an inheritance with them—than by camping out in the wilds with them for a season. On some of his longest expeditions, Mrs. Ware was a member of the hard-working company; so that this book, unlike most of its fellows, has a feminine touch added to its other desirable features.” (Dial.)
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“The influence of the woods, coupled with the single-mindedness of the sportsman, has given a simplicity and directness to the style that is good to meet, and the pages may be aptly described as spacious.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 44: 343. Je. 1, ’08. 230w.
“Written in a pleasant style by a hunter of experience.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 314. O. 1, ’08. 70w.
=Warfield, Rev. Benjamin Breckinridge.= Lord of glory: a study of the designations of our Lord in the New Testament with especial reference to his deity. *$1.50. Am. tract.
7–38253.
“An examination of the designations applied to Jesus in the synoptics, John, Acts, Paul, Hebrews, the Catholic epistles, and the Apocalypse satisfies Professor Warfield that all the New Testament writers, beginning with Mark, held His person to be supernatural and divine in the fullest sense. The result is ‘to throw into prominence the unitary presupposition by the entire New Testament of the deity of our Lord.’”—Bib. World.
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“Throughout the book interpretation is strained, yet it is fair to add that the author’s purpose, to examine the designations of our Lord in the New Testament with especial reference to His deity, is useful, and that he has shown wide acquaintance with the writings of New Testament commentators.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 666. My. 30. 500w.
“In some matters, one feels that Professor Warfield has been too easily convinced, e. g., in his treatment of ‘lord,’ and that his finding is too sweeping in consequence.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 31: 160. F. ’08. 100w.
“The result is the most exhaustive monograph which has appeared in English on the subject.” I. F. Wood.
+ + =Bib. World.= 32: 75. Jl. ’08. 1050w.
“To one already holding to it, it seems conclusive. To an inquiring mind, indisposed or unable to scrutinize the argument very closely, it may carry some conviction.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 42. Ja, 4, ’08. 260w.
=Waring, Eleanor Howard.= White path. $1.50. Neale.
7–41587.
A story with a problem which deals with a man and a woman each of whom has lived thru the agonies of an unhappy marriage. Their friendship terminates in love, but their legal ties prevent marriage, so they are content to walk in a white path of idealism, eliminating entirely all material relations.
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=Lit. D.= 36: 97. Ja. 18, ’08. 70w.
=Warren, Maude Radford.= Land of the living. †$1.50. Harper.
8–20711.
Chicago is the scene of this story of love and city politics. An Irish political boss, who winks at questionable practices that are profitable, adopts a sturdy little youngster of the streets, and attempts to bring him up as a machine. The lad’s genius and goodness foil the machine methods of the ‘boss,’ no less than the corrupt agencies of reform thru which a rival hoped to win both a bride and an election.
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“The characters are well conceived and contrasted; there is, however, a trace of weakness in construction.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 297. S. 12. 160w.
“A book to be cordially commended and read with quiet enjoyment.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 145. O. ’08. 280w.
“Into the oft-told tale of ward politics in Chicago the author has infused some new effects by making it at the same time a study of two phases of the Celtic nature—the idealizing and the domineering.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 289. S. 24, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 240w.
“The book as a whole, while neither deep nor large, has movement and variety, so that it is readable in more than an ordinary degree.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 957. Ag. 22, ’08. 70w.
=Warwick, Charles Franklin.= Danton and the French revolution. **$2.50. Jacobs.
8–15330.
A popular history of the French revolution in the midst of whose war of ideas the figure of Danton is traced as he rose to sudden power, was cut off in the heyday of his manhood, and sent to the scaffold in the thirty-fifth year of his age.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 216. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“A book on a great topic, and worthy of it. In but one respect does the writer mar his reader’s pleasure—he quotes frequently and copiously without naming his authority. Clergymen who join socialists and anarchists in prating of revolution, justifying the latter by allusion to the French revolution, should read Mr. Warwick’s book.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 374. Jl. 4, ’08. 1600w.
“Mr. Warwick shows no evidence of having made any study of original materials. He shows no remarkable dramatic insight.”
− =Outlook.= 89: 813. Ag. 8, ’08. 700w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 637. N. ’08. 40w.
=Washburn, Margaret Floy.= Animal mind: a text-book of comparative psychology. *$1.60. Macmillan.
8–6095.
The facts set forth in this book have been deduced from experimental work in comparative psychology. The author shows the difficulties besetting the student who desires to know the contents of minds below the human level. Knowledge must be obtained by way of inference from behavior. The questions then confronting the comparative psychologist are: By what method shall he find out how an animal behaves? and How shall he interpret the conscious aspect of that behavior? These questions are answered scientifically thruout the study.
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“While the book offers nothing new to the scientist and psychologist, it is a careful, sane, reliable piece of work.”
− =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 215. Je. ’08.
“Renders accessible to student as well as to the studious layman the kind of data, the critical interpretation of results, and the source of the guiding principles, that in the modern view are likely to bring some systematic understanding of animal psychology.” J. Jastrow.
+ =Dial.= 45: 39. Jl. 16, ’08. 620w.
=Ind.= 64: 758. Ap. 2, ’08. 350w.
“It will be found indispensable to all workers in the subject of animal behavior, and ought to be read extensively by physiologists.” S. O. Mast.
+ =J. Philos.= 5: 467. Ag. 13, ’08. 1100w.
“Psychologists will be unanimous in their gratitude to Miss Washburn for the very thorough way in which she has accomplished her task.” W: Brown.
+ =Nature.= 78: 269. Jl. 23, ’08. 480w.
“The author does not juggle with facts; she is sternly scientific in the matter of deductions and conclusions.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 153. Mr. 21, ’08. 650w.
“The strong feature of the work is the systematization and correlation of facts.” K: T. Waugh.
+ =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 205. Je. 15, ’08. 1650w.
“In the chapter on hearing, the author, while giving a good résumé of the field, makes the mistake of saying that birds have no cochlea. The book as a whole is so well done that we venture the opinion that its usefulness will continue for several years to come.” J: B. Watson.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 28: 275. Ag. 28, ’08. 1050w.
=Washburne, Marion Foster.= Mother’s yearbook: being a practical application of the results of scientific child-study to the problems of the first year of childhood. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–16420.
Each month of a baby’s first twelve is carefully followed, the possible development outlined, and the mother’s preparation and responsibility dwelt upon; the educational principles of Froebel, Preyer, and others being applied after a manner that will assure the most healthful and rational results. The book is a common sense mother’s book based upon thoroly tested scientific principles.
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“For the young mother to whom her new baby is more than merely a pretty plaything, we have seen no book better than this.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1405. Je. 18, ’08. 40w.
=Washington, Booker Taliaferro.= Negro in business. $1.50. Hertel, Jenkins & co.
7–37616.
Furnishes some record of the business awakening among the negro people in the United States. “Part 1 is devoted to accounts of the success different members of the race have achieved in various lines of business, the material being mainly biographical in its nature.... Part 2 deals more with general principles. Chapters upon ‘Progress of the American negro,’ ‘The negro and the labor problem of the south,’ ‘The negro and his relation to the south,’ ‘The fruits of industrial training,’ and ‘The American negro and his economic value,’ are fruitful in matter and suggestions.” (J. Pol. Econ.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 215. Je. ’08.
“Dr. Washington makes a strong appeal by describing various men and women. What he has to say should receive careful attention from all those who feel that the negro is doomed to inevitable failure.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 724. My. ’08. 100w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 643. D. ’07. 200w.
“An informing book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 254. F. ’08. 140w.
=Wasson, George Savary.= Home from sea. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–11079.
The deep sea fisherman as a type is perpetuated in these tales of Killick Cove. We hear him speak in terms of maritime vernacular, note how his life’s strength and savor come from the invigorating tang of the salt, and how, unmindful of progress and fast vanishing traditions, he remains a primitive New Englander in freedom of fancy, bold daring, and bred-in-the-bone superstition. The book is illustrated from the author’s own sketches.
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“Original, wholesome in tone, and full of local color.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 246. O. ’08.
“There is a strong flavor of New England, that appears in the dialect, as well as in the dry humor of the characters.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1351. Je. 11, ’08. 150w.
“The originality of the stories does but add to their credibility.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 492. My. 28, ’08. 150w.
“Mr. Wasson is doing a distinct service in preserving so faithfully a type of man rapidly disappearing, to be found nowhere else in the country.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 130w.
“There are good, wholesome stories in the collection.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 761. Je. ’08. 50w.
=Waterbury, Leslie Abram.= Cement laboratory manual. $1. Wiley.
8–27794.
A manual of instructions for the use of students in cement laboratory practice. “It opens with a brief chapter on the methods used in laboratory work, and gives instructions regarding the care and use of apparatus. The second chapter is devoted to illustrated descriptions of the apparatus employed in cement tests. Following this chapter is one in which fourteen laboratory problems are set forth.” (Engin. D.)
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+ =Engin. D.= 4: 545. N. ’08. 280w.
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 531. N. 7, ’08. 200w.
=Waterbury, Leslie Abram.= Vest-pocket handbook of mathematics for engineers. *$1. Wiley.
8–17557.
“Intended as a reference work for the use of those who have studied or are studying the branches of mathematics usually taught in engineering courses. It contains the basic formulas of algebra, trigonometry, analytic geometry and calculus, and brief statements of the principal theorems of statics and dynamics. Thirty pages are devoted to stresses and the strength of pipes, cylinders, riveted joints, beams, columns, etc.”—Engin. D.
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=Engin. D.= 4: 55. Jl. ’08. 100w.
“Should prove a very desirable addition to the engineer’s equipment.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 82. Jl. 16, ’08. 160w.
“The selection of the formulas has been well done so as to cover the requirements of most engineers.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 566. N. 14. ’08. 140w.
=Waterfield, Margaret H.= Flower grouping in English, Scotch, and Irish gardens; notes and fifty-six sketches in color by Margaret Waterfield; with contributions by E. V. B., S. Arnott and others. *$6. Dutton.
8–29354.
A garden book whose text and illustrations are full of artistic instruction and suggestions.
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“As a garden-book at once artistic and yet fairly practical, Miss Waterfield’s leaves little to be desired within its chosen field.” E. K. Dunton.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 339. Je. 1, ’08. 450w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 224. Mr. 5, ’08. 250w.
“To the lover of gardens, and to the student of gardening, it is of great interest and full to the brim with informing observations and lessons from experience and long devotion to the subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 130w.
“The meat of the book is in the illustration, and the meat is delicious.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 350. Je. 13, ’08. 100w.
Reviewed by A. M. Cecil.
=Sat. R.= 105: 527. Ap. 25, ’08. 700w.
“Miss Waterfield has had the help of able contributors, and has given garden-lovers not only a book, but an ideal, nay, many ideals.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 70. Ja. 11, ’08. 60w.
=Waters, Robert.= Culture by conversation. **$1.20. Dodd.
7–29842.
“A plea for the resurrection of the old lost art of conversing, which, says the author of this volume, is as superior to books as living men and women are to the post mortem stories of their lives.” (R. of Rs.) Helpful rules and illustrations of conversation are given for instruction.
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“This is a very entertaining book to read because it is full of anecdote and happy illustration. Mr. Waters has culled quotations by the score—all of them well worth noting—and if we look at the book as a series of easygoing essays, it is most commendable. Whether it will do anything to revive the obsolescent art of conversation, may well be doubted.”
+ =Bookm.= 26: 674. F. ’08. 820w.
“A few details might call for criticism if space permitted. But these are trifling blemishes on a good and useful and entertaining book.”
+ + − =Dial.= 44: 19. Ja. 1, ’08. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 52. Ja. 25, ’08. 240w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 118. Ja. ’08. 40w.
* =Watkeys, Frederick W.= Old Edinburgh. (Travel lovers’ lib.) 2v. $3. Page.
8–32990.
An account of the ancient capital of the kingdom of Scotland, including its streets, houses, notable inhabitants, and customs in the olden time. “The outcome, as the author explains in his preface, of a recent pleasant sojourn in the Scottish capital, his book will be a welcome companion to other sojourners and of interest to intending visitors. It makes no claim to being exhaustive, nor does it seek to supersede older and more learned historical accounts of the famous city.” (Dial.)
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“Is an attractive and serviceable book of its kind.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 462. D. 16, ’08. 230w.
“The illustrations, printed in brown tone, that are introduced from rare prints, add greatly to the book’s value.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1460. D. 17, ’08. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 80w.
=Watkins, George Pendleton.= Growth of large fortunes: a study of economic causes affecting the acquisition and distribution of property. (Publications of the American economic assn.) $1. Macmillan.
8–4000.
“The object in the present work is not to discuss the social aspects of the problem, nor to devise plans for corrective legislation; it is simply to acquaint the readers with the economic factors which have operated to bring large fortunes into existence. These, roughly speaking, are, on his showing, identical with the factors that have made for economic progress generally—the development of improved methods of production and distribution, the growth of invention and discovery, the exploitation of natural resources unutilized by previous generations, the steady and unprecedented growth of capital.”—Outlook.
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“The treatise presents a good analysis of the conditions, changes and general causes underlying the recent development of large fortunes, and may be considered a valuable contribution to the subject.” E. N. Tuckey.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 117. Je. ’08. 1300w.
“He does not cover his subject in its entirety, but within its self-imposed limitations his examination is certainly thorough and informative.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 324. F. 8, ’08. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 383. Mr. ’08. 30w.
=Watson, Charles R.= In the valley of the Nile: a survey of the missionary movement in Egypt. **$1. Revell.
8–17702.
A survey of the missionary movement in Egypt from the beginnings of Christianity in the Nile valley down to the present time. The peculiarities of the field, the history of the vanguard in entering it, the gain in power, the outgrowth of the necessity of devising methods of work, the present need of expanding and extending actual operations are all enlarged upon out of the fulness of the author’s own experience.
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“His survey of present social and political conditions shows insight and judgment. It should be read by any one desirous of understanding modern Egypt.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 782. O. 1, ’08. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 533. Jl. 4, ’08. 440w.
* =Watson, H. B. Marriott.= Devil’s pulpit. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–29000.
A “buried treasure” story. “It carries as reckless and unassorted a lot of adventurers as ever took ship together from Southampton to an island in the West Indies. Battle, murder, and sudden death go with them, and so do all sorts of wild and unexpected happenings. But in the end they get their treasure, such of them as are still alive.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
“A thoroughly good, rattling, thrilling story it is.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 719. D. 5, ’08. 220w.
=Watson, John.= The philosophical basis of religion: a series of lectures. *$3. Macmillan.
8–12831.
The author concerns himself with the reconstruction of the history of religious belief, which he deems necessary in view of “the unrest and confusion of ideas which have invaded our modern life.” He offers a philosophy of religion based upon rationality.
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“In every part of the book subjects of long-standing debate have been so treated as to bring out the most recent phases of the controversy and it is scarcely necessary to add that these lectures will be warmly welcomed by many earnest students of philosophy and theology.” J. G. Hume.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 507. Jl. ’08. 700w.
“We do not share the author’s views, or find him particularly convincing. But his position, both in attack and defence, is well sustained, and we recall few such well-argued expositions of a standpoint not easily understood.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 435. O. 10. 200w.
“On the whole—and this is the only serious criticism I should advance against Dr. Watson—matters are not advanced in a convincing manner beyond the stage already reached, especially by ... Dr. Edward Caird. By his present work he has laid both the student of religious philosophy and those whose main interest lies in the history of the evolution of dogma under an obligation which is not easily measured; for he has written a wise book upon a subject whose importance in these days outrivals all other interests.” H: Jones.
+ + − =Hibbert J.= 6: 676. Ap. ’08. 3000w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 117. Ag. 6, ’08. 260w.
“These lectures eminently deserve the attention of those who agree with their author that ‘nothing short of a complete revision of theological ideas can bring permanent satisfaction to our highly reflective age.’”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 566. Mr. 7, ’08. 350w.
“It is in connection with the main philosophical thesis of the book that I venture to express the most dissatisfaction.” A. K. Rogers.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 529. S. ’08. 1700w.
=Watson, John (Ian Maclaren, pseud.).= God’s message to the human soul: the use of the Bible in the light of the new knowledge. (Cole lectures of Vanderbilt university for 1907.) **$1.25. Revell.
7–32354.
The lectures which Dr. Watson was to have delivered at Vanderbilt university in the autumn of 1907. “Dr. Watson welcomes the modern world, its science, its criticism. He recognizes to the full the change that has come over our idea of the Bible in these latter days. The book is itself an evolution; that fact alone will enable us to understand it, and especially to appreciate the imperfect but developing ethics of the Old Testament. The purpose of the Bible is religious, not scientific.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“It does not equal in merit ‘The mind of the Master’ or the Yale lectures on ‘The cure of souls.’”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 52. Ja. 2, ’08. 110w.
“He presents these sane and sound views in a style that catches the ear as well as the mind and that often has the charm of epigram.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 57. F. 1, ’08. 380w.
=Watson, John (Ian Maclaren, pseud.).= St. Jude’s. *$1.25. S. S. times co.
7–21223.
Sketches or studies illustrating the spiritual life of St. Jude’s, a free church’s congregation in Glasgow.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 54. F. ’08.
“The book, though slight, is worth reading, and leaves a kindly impression of the writer and the man.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 475. O. 19. 160w.
“The parishioners are every whit as canny, dour and disagreeably theological as the simpler folk of the Grampian hills but somehow they are not quite so interesting in the thick and heavy Glasgow atmosphere.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 825 O. 3 ’07 100w.
“They are all good.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 616. O. 26, ’07. 150w
=Watson, John (Ian Maclaren, pseud.).= Scot of the 18th century: his religion and his life. *$2. Armstrong.
8–8469.
Ten posthumous sketches eight of which are devoted to the Scot’s religion and two to his life. “In ‘The Scot in his home’ we have a brief but comprehensive survey of social conditions, and another section unfolds the familiar tale of Church discipline. The greater part of the book is occupied with an interesting account—somewhat marred by repetition—of the men who governed or rent the Kirk, and of the literary circle which made Edinburgh famous.” (Ath.)
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“The sketches are unequal in value, and the best of them in our opinion, is that which traces, with no small insight and humour, the decline and ritual in the reformed kirk. Historical blunders are fairly numerous, and sometimes serious. There are few misprints, and some oddities of style.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 647. N. 23. 1500w.
“Those who have read the late Dean Stanley’s ‘History of the church of Scotland’ can never forget it. The same may be said of this harvest from the same rich field.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 47. Ja. 4, ’08. 260w.
“The late ‘Ian Maclaren’ could always write in a genial and interesting way on anything and everything connected with Scotland. This posthumous volume is a proof of the fact, and of little else.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 127. Ja. 25, ’08. 320w.
=Watson, Thomas Edward.= Waterloo. *$1.50. Neale.
8–28406.
A vivid account of the battle of Waterloo, to the historical records concerning which the author brings the aid of a brilliant imagination.
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“Worthily serves as an epilog to his life of Napoleon.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1178. N. 19, ’08. 30w.
“The story of a partisan who tries to be just and succeeds fairly well in the endeavor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 611. O. 24, ’08. 280w.
* =Watt, Lauchlan MacLean.= Attic and Elizabethan tragedy. *$2. Dutton.
“The first half dozen chapters are taken up with a broad general comparison of the conditions in the two countries under which tragedy reached its noblest expression, its origins in Greece and in England, and of the dramatic laws and social customs which governed its writing and presentation. Then a dozen or more chapters are devoted to the three great authors of Attic tragedy and their remaining works, and as many more to the foremost tragedians of the Elizabethan age.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The author has the gift of dramatic, interesting statement, and his general discussion of the drama is thoughtful and illuminating.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 673. N. 14, ’08. 200w.
“On the whole he has prepared himself for his task by a course of wide reading which might certainly have been more up to date, but which includes many high authorities on his subject. Some of his verse paraphrases are fair, some very bad indeed. The book is mainly derivative and presents to us nothing essential that has not been said before, and often said a good deal better. In short, the book is obviously suited to students who are anxious for a simple, comprehensive study of a subject more or less new to them.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 703. D. 5, ’08. 950w.
=Watts, Mary S.= The tenants: an episode of the ’80s. †$1.50. McClure.
8–11081.
A mansion whose history is the history of a strange group of human beings furnishes the stage for this kaleidoscopic drama. The builder, Governor Gwynne, is succeeded by less prosperous and ambitious generations, who bask for a time in the glory of his name, then allow the house to pass to a southern broker who plays the town honor false. The author finds all sorts and conditions of men to portray, and each sketch in turn is distinct and impressionistic.
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“This is almost an invention in stories.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 469. My. 21, ’08. 200w.
“It is a novel of manners rather than startling plot, and the interest in the depicting of character outweighs the interest in incident. Perhaps the finest quality of the work is a gentle humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 185. Ap. 4, ’08. 550w.
“We hope to see more books like ‘The tenants.’ It is leisurely but not lengthy, humorous but not boisterous; and it has a gradually developing plot-interest which does not degenerate into cheap sensationalism.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 40. My. 2, ’08. 170w.
=Wayland, John Walter.= Political opinions of Thomas Jefferson: an essay; with an introd. by R. H. Dabney. $1.25. Neale.
8–1940.
The quintessence of Jefferson’s political views. The discussion falls under five heads: Concerning government, Concerning the American states, Concerning the United States government, Concerning the United States in relation to foreign powers, and Concerning various questions of importance.
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“The opinions quoted are at times, too, selected rather than interpretive.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 452. S. ’08. 160w.
“Dr. Wayland has certainly made an interesting and useful classification of Jefferson’s political doctrines.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 382. Mr. ’08. 170w.
=Weale, B. L. Putnam.= Coming struggle in eastern Asia. *$3.50. Macmillan.
8–11478.
The last of four volumes dealing with the Far Eastern question. It contains the author’s “careful revaluation of the old forces in the Far Eastern situation as they displayed themselves during the first half of the year 1907.” The author believes that it is the oligarchic Japan which constitutes the new problems in eastern Asia. “Apart from his political argument the book is of value for the large amount of information it gives of the present condition and future prospects of Eastern Siberia and Manchuria and the financial and commercial statistics of Japan and China.” (Ind.)
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“The account of the situation in Manchuria is especially valuable; other parts are somewhat disappointing—not up to his best work—because some facts and conclusions are to be questioned.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 209. Je. ’08.
“The criticisms are often directly opposed to those commonly passed on the same subjects in Europe and America, but the conclusions are reached by an acute observer of Oriental affairs and are based on statements of fact convincing and often startling, a fact which gives the arguments more than ordinary weight.” C: L. Jones.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 466. S. ’08. 640w.
“Having called attention to the somewhat dangerous doctrines of the author, and warned our readers against the exaggeration of many of his 640 closely printed pages, we must not omit to point out that he supplies an enormous amount of useful information, especially on the present naval and military preparations of Japan.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 225. F. 22. 1400w.
“Although one may not glean from it a great deal that is really new, one cannot put his hands upon a more sane, compact, and readable discussion of the subject in English.” F: A. Ogg.
+ =Dial.= 45: 58. Ag. 1, ’08. 830w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 749. Ap. 2, ’08. 250w.
“While the political conclusions of the volume must be taken account of everywhere, its real value lies in the wealth of information and multiplicity of details which it gives regarding Manchuria.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 165. Mr. 28, ’08. 1750w.
=Outlook.= 89: 311. Je. 6, ’08. 700w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 508. Ap. ’08. 350w.
=Weale, William Henry J.= Hubert and John Van Eyck: their life and work. *$30. Lane.
8–20537.
A work which makes its appeal mainly to the “true connoisseur and the genuine lover of art for its own sake. Mr. Weale prefaces his work with a chronological summary of the chief events that affected the careers of the Van Eycks, and devotes a considerable portion of his text to the actual transcription, in order of date, of the more important of the documents from which he has culled his information, supplementing his quotations by a very complete bibliography of all the publications that bear even remotely upon the fortunes of the two famous brothers.” (Int. Studio.)
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“In the monumental work before us we have one of the most authoritative and scholarly works that have been published in any language for many years. The individuality of the author, his sincerity and his knowledge, are stamped on every page. Tiresome little inaccuracies impair the value as a work of reference.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 484. Ap. 18. 2900w.
“Upon its artistic side the book is a notable contribution to the art works of recent years.” W. C. Larned.
+ =Dial.= 45: 112. S. 1, ’08. 1200w.
“A monumental work ... the value of which to the student of Flemish painting it is impossible to over-estimate.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 33: 332. F. ’08. 300w.
“His book is a model to all future scientific art-historians; it is a volume indispensable to all who concern themselves with connoisseur-ship or the history of art. Here is a compilation from which fancy is wholly barred out; nothing but absolute facts are admitted to these stern pages.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 34: sup. 25. Mr. ’08. 1800w.
“In accuracy the work falls far short of the German standard. We hasten to add that the book as it is is immensely useful. The very richness and variety of the book forbids us to follow it in detail.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 40. Jl. 9, ’08. 2250w.
+ =Spec.= 100: 303. F. 22, ’08. 420w.
=Webb, Wilfrid Mark.= Heritage of dress; being notes on the history and evolution of clothes. *$3.50. McClure.
8–12147.
How we came to have articles of dress as common as the modern coat, shawl, buttons, safety-pins, etc. is set forth “after the method of the naturalist.” The origin of dress and its development furnish a most enlightening discussion for the reader who is apt to take things for granted and not to inquire into descent.
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“Interesting account of the origin and evolution of all sorts of details of dress, containing a considerable amount of conjecture, but presenting much curious and instructive matter.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 215. Je. ’08.
“Mr. Webb renders an interesting subject somewhat dull by a pedestrian style. The value of the book is, however, much enhanced by many plates and figures.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 124. F. 1, 750w.
“If Mr. Webb has not written a scientific treatise on the ‘Heritage of dress,’ he has given us, within the limits, an interesting and suggestive book.”
+ − =Nature.= 77: sup. 7. Mr. 5, ’08. 700w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“His stock-in-trade appears to be a habit of theorising from insufficient data, and a certain amount of genuine knowledge of natural history not applicable to his present subject.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 177. Ag. 8, ’08. 1500w.
“This important-looking book contains a good deal that is very curious and instructive.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 102. Ja. 18, ’08. 440w.
=Webster, Henry Kitchell.= Whispering man. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–27494.
The amateur detective who unravels the mystery of a murder that baffles police and plain clothes men, is not a “Thinking machine” but a man who knows by instinct when he is looking into the face of a criminal. He finds the murderer after detectives, professional and amateur, have done their best to convict various innocent people.
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“‘The whispering man’ belongs to the class of the more successful [detective stories], because of the precision with which the parts of the plot are fitted together, and the clock-work regularity of the action.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 457. D. 16, ’08. 200w.
“A clever detective story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 577. O. 17, ’08. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 749. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
=Webster, Hutton.= Primitive secret societies: a study in early politics and religion. **$2. Macmillan.
8–3955.
“In which the author discusses the significance of the data collected in recent years by investigators in Australia, Melanesia, Africa, and North America. Much of this information regarding initiation ceremonies and other curious rites found among savage and barbarous communities will be entirely new to those readers who have never had access to detailed accounts of these recent discoveries.”—R. of Rs.
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“A very welcome and important contribution to the study of early society, and yet it is perhaps as notable for what it has not attempted as for what it has performed. Within the limits of his attempt, it seems to me that the author follows a defective method in assuming that the motives lying behind the organization of secret societies are everywhere the same.” W: I. Thomas.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 166. O. ’08. 440w.
“Dr. Webster has done all students of social institutions a service by collecting and interpreting so much evidence to show the significance and development of the rites by which the boy becomes a citizen with the responsibilities of the adult.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 724. My. ’08. 120w.
“It is a book that will be of special interest to students of sociology and anthropology.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 39: 594. My. ’08. 110w.
“It is a comparatively small matter if on the side of theory the book shows certain shortcomings, notably the tendency we have noticed to ignore plurality of casual chains of development. As a systematic arrangement of well-chosen evidence it will take a high place amongst contemporary aids to anthropological study.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 443. Ap. 11. 1500w.
“Dr. Webster pursues what we consider a deplorable practice in the matter of quotation.” Frederick Starr.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 248. O. 16, ’08. 1650w.
“As an example of scholarly research, judicious statement and careful interpretation the book leaves little for criticism. Perhaps an additional chapter tracing the historical importance of this succession would have given the book greater completeness as well as more well-rounded interest.” U. G. Weatherly.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 151. Je. ’08. 720w.
“The work is extremely valuable for any student of human life and social organizations that tries to see things in their beginnings. In its field it may be compared with Westermarck’s ‘History of human marriage’ and such other fundamental treatises on the psychical life and institutions of mankind.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 767. My. 23, ’08. 450w.
“Portions of the book are filled with curious and interesting details which lighten Professor Webster’s somewhat wooden treatment with vivid detail.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 560. Je. 18, ’08. 430w.
“Although the main usefulness of his work will be for those who read to write, it has its uses for those who read merely to read.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 101. F. 22, ’08. 400w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 640. My. ’08. 70w.
=Weed, Clarence Moores.= Our trees: how to know them; photographs from nature by Arthur I. Emerson, with a guide to their recognition at any season of the year and notes on their characteristics, distribution and culture, by Clarence M. Weed. **$3. Lippincott.
8–8141.
A book whose text and very fine illustrations unite in teaching the non-botanical reader how to identify at a glance any unknown tree. In the descriptive matter special attention has been given to distinguishing characteristics of the various species, as well as to the more interesting phases of the yearly cycle of each, and the special values of each for ornamental planting.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 152. My. ’08. ✠
Reviewed by T: H. Macbride.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 342. Je. 1, ’08. 150w.
“We commend the volume heartily to the amateur and the student.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1149. My. 21, ’08. 100w.
“The text, which is pleasantly written, gives a good account of forest lore, and of facts relative to the range of the species, together with a sprinkling of fairly selected verse.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 428. My. 7, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 264. My. 9, ’08. 80w.
“The text and pictures together form a complete method of acquiring an intimate acquaintance with American trees. The descriptions are accurate and reasonably full.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 886. Ap. 18, ’08. 80w.
=Weed, Clarence Moores.= Wild flower families. **$1.50. Lippincott.
8–13637.
The haunts, characters and family relationships of the herbaceous wild flowers are given with suggestions for their identification. “The treatment is by families, beginning with such flowers as appear earliest in spring and ending with those that longest defy the frosts of autumn.” (Dial.)
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“One of the most helpful of the wild flower books.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 249. O. ’08. ✠
“The book always keeps in view the giving of practical information, which is admirably blended with literary flavor through apt quotation, largely from contemporary poets.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 354. Je. 1, ’08. 200w.
“The work is well conceived and executed. We particularly like the instructions given in the introduction about collecting and preserving plants. We wish the author were not so afraid of using botanical names, at least the generic ones.”
+ + − =Ind.= 64: 1298. Je. 4, ’08. 100w.
=Weir, Archibald A. E.= Introduction to the history of modern Europe. $2. Houghton.
7–42473.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“Selected chapters of this little book will make good supplementary reading and be helpful and stimulating to any person of culture and wide-reading, or to the student stall-fed on the husks of political details.” G. S. Ford.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 634. Ap. ’08. 550w.
=Educ. R.= 36: 207. S. ’08. 50w.
“Here and there his statements are overstrained. Its chief value lies in the clear and suggestive relations which it presents between the realms of thought and action. Here the author gives many thoughtful touches which reveal the connexion between politics and culture.” J. H. Rose.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 170. Ja. ’08. 820w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 321. Ag. 6, ’08. 20w.
“To the reviewer it seems that Mr. Weir has erred in essaying the impossible and that his work would be far more valuable if he had centred his attention on one phase of civilization, say, politics, instead of squandering it upon the whole, vast field.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 18. Ja. 11, ’08. 340w.
=Weiss, Mrs. Susan Archer.= Home life of Poe. $1.50. Broadway pub.
7–42108.
A sketch in which the author presents a “thorougly human likeness. The failings of the man are not concealed, but they are treated humanly, with neither the attempt to throw the blame for them on others, as certain advocates have tried to do, nor the more common gloating over his weaknesses which has been carried on by most biographers from the jealousies aroused by Poe among his contemporaries. Possibly there is a touch of undue animosity shown against Mrs. Clemm and her daughter.” (Nation.)
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“Her contribution to Poe literature is a permanent and wholesome one.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 206. Jl. 23, ’08. 260w.
“The author makes a distinct contribution to an understanding of Poe as a man. No future historian of American literature can neglect it or is likely to do so.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 236. F. 15, ’08. 730w.
“Within its own field, as an intimate portrait of Poe and of those with whom he lived from childhood to death, we regard it as the sanest and truest book yet published.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 192. F. 27, ’08. 380w.
“The final biographer of Poe will be guided in his story of the poet’s childhood and of his later life in Richmond largely by those pictures of him which appear in this modest little book.” C: M. Graves.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 71. F. 8. ’08. 670w.
=Welch, Catherine.= Little Dauphin. *$1.50. Scribner.
The life of the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette is traced to the imprisonment of the French royal family in the Temple, and from there “the author has no definite theory: but, although unwilling to accept any one of the forty personages who claimed to be the son of Louis XVI, she does—and in our view, justifiably—express a decided disbelief in the fact of the death in the Temple, and sets forth substantial grounds for dissatisfaction with the official proof of it.” (Ath.)
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“Miss Welch’s book amply justifies its existence. The only blunder as to fact that we have encountered in the book is the calling of Drouet ‘the postmaster of Varennes’ (twice).”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 294. S. 12. 1750w.
“Miss Welch writes with a lively imagination and a warm tenderness of feeling that make her narrative vivid and appealing. She has a gentle sense of humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 593. O. 24, ’08. 1050w.
“Is quite a good book to read. The author has some gift of style and a pleasant vein of exaggeration. Her case is put with impartiality and at the same time with decision. It is possible to quarrel with her conclusions, but it is impossible not to respect them.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 271. Ag. 29, ’08. 850w.
=Wells, Carolyn.= Emily Emmins papers, il. †$1.50. Putnams.
7–39016.
“Emily Emmins, spinster” writes characteristically of her first impressions of London gained and enjoyed without a Baedeker. She comments upon “week-end house-parties out of town, tea drinking, shopping experiences in Piccadilly, and that alluring social game known as ‘going on.’” (Nation).
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“The illustrations add to the liveliness of an uncommonly diverting narrative.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 54. F. ’08. ✠
“An uncommonly lively and readable text.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 568. D. 19, ’07. 360w.
“Her original side-remarks on the peculiarities of British institutions are full of good humor of the kind that provokes many a quiet chuckle.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 15. Ja. 11, ’08. 70w.
=Wells, Carolyn=, comp. Vers de societe anthology. **$1.25. Scribner.
7–37621.
A book of light verse culled from poems all the way from Sir Philip Sydney’s time to the present. “Her own suggestion [that the title should be Gentle Verse] strikes us as capital, and we could wish she had boldly made it the title of her book; it fits well her definition of the kind as depending for its spirit ‘on an instant perception and a fine appreciation of values, seen through the medium of a whimsical kindliness.’” (Nation.)
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“One of the best of Miss Wells’ anthologies.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 51. F. ’08.
“An excellent book to read.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 492. N. 28, ’07. 240w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 26. Ja. 18, ’08. 160w.
=Wells, Herbert George.= First and last things: a confession of faith and a rule of life. **$1.50. Putnam.
8–29004.
It is demanded of all who write concretely of reform that there shall be some system of belief underlying their schemes. While Mr. Wells believes that no “trimmed or rounded system of philosophy or religion is attainable” he does set forth his social faith, and the convictions and ideas which constitute it, and which have led up to a rule of life. He turns analyst of his own mind and these pages record the results.
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“A personal testament of this sort must of necessity have an interest, and, in the case of an intellect such as Mr. Wells’s, a value also. Fascinating volume.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 712. D. 5. 1900w.
“Although Mr. Wells’ religion and philosophy may not be, and indeed cannot be, exactly those of any one if his readers, the book is valuable as the honest attempt of a man of vigorous and wide-ranging intellect to explain precisely what he believes and what he disbelieves.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 347. N. 16, ’08. 420w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 658. N. 7, ’08. 2200w.
=Outlook.= 90: 594. N. 14, ’08, 200w.
“Not only has Mr. Wells himself said it all before, but it was never anything but the stale commonplace of ‘progressive thought.’”
− + =Sat. R.= 106: 700. D. 5, ’08. 850w.
=Wells, Herbert George.= New worlds for old. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–8150.
An intimate and first hand study of the socialist movement. Acquaintance with its leaders, membership in many of its organizations, and experiments in socialist politics have enabled the author to arrive at certain conclusions as to the trend and needs of social development. These he sets down here. He discusses the spirit of good will in man, the fundamental idea in socialism, some generalizations on socialism, some objections to socialism, revolutionary administrative and constructive socialism, and answers the questions, Would socialism destroy the home and would it abolish all property? A final chapter is devoted to the advancement of socialism.
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“A most persuasive plea for socialism, which is at the same time fair, temperate, open-minded.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 153. My. ’08. ✠
“Not for a long time has the literature of socialism been enriched by a more reasonable and entertaining book than this. Some of his difficulties he slurs over instead of meeting them squarely.” H. R. Mussey.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 467. S. ’08. 470w.
“This book is, in our judgment, the very best popular treatise on socialism that has appeared.” B. O. Flower.
+ + =Arena.= 39: 586. My. ’08. 3350w.
“We highly commend the defence of moderate non-revolutionary ‘Socialism’ contained in the first and several of the other chapters of Mr. Wells. The main objection that may be taken to the work of Mr. Wells is that we took to the last collection of the essays of M. Jaurès, namely, that the title of the best of those essays applies to the picture that Mr. Wells and M. Jaurès paint—‘Moonlight.’”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 320. Mr. 14. 340w.
“Forms a very good introduction to socialism. It will attract and interest those who are not of that faith, and correct those who are.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ =Dial.= 45: 163. S. 16, ’08. 860w.
“This is at once the most readable, the most sensible and the least socialistic of recent socialist works.” F. A. Fetter.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 53. Ap. ’08. 700w.
“The vogue which the writer enjoys is to us a mystery, for the content of his books seems to oscillate between the weird and the grotesque, and to be distinctly tiresome.”
− =Educ. R.= 36: 102. Je. ’08. 120w.
“Mr. Wells has some particularly irritating mannerisms, and his humor is not always in the best of taste.” James Seth.
− + =Hibbert J.= 6: 910. Jl. ’08. 830w.
“Altogether this [that the state should become the over-parent] is a most seductive, sane and sober argument. Like all sociological studies made in Europe, it fails to hit American conditions exactly.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 865. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“His title might with equal truth have been ‘New words for old,’ for this book does not present an essential project of Utopian socialism which he has not elaborated before.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 491. My. 28, ’08. 450w.
“For, despite all the praise which is not grudged him, it remains true that there is more of the Blue book about this document than anything yet appearing from his pen. The statistics are tremendously respectable and convincing, but alas! they are caviare to the general, and not pure literature, however well they enforce a point.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 167. Mr. 28, ’08. 1200w.
“When his analysis of socialism is scrutinized, it is impossible to share his enthusiasm to any degree.” H. A. Bruce.
− =Outlook.= 89: 388. Je. 20, ’08. 530w.
“In content the book is very valuable indeed.”
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 556. S. ’08. 250w.
“Mr. Wells temporarily forsakes his role of a writer of fantastic romances and sets forth his idea in his own clear style of what the future socialistic state is to be.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 640. My. ’08. 50w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 405. Mr. 28, ’08. 1200w.
“Mr. Wells sets out the grounds of our discontent, and pictures for us reconstructions of society which are alluring, if not convincing to the sober imagination.”
− =Spec.= 101: sup. 471. O. 3, ’08. 900w.
=Wells, Herbert George.= War in the air. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–30615.
A book in which Mr. Wells takes the reader step by step to the end of a triumph of “scientific imagination.” It is a prediction fraught with achievement. A cockney of a scientific turn, who is carried away to Germany in a balloon, and from there is taken on the flagship of a German air fleet setting out to attack the United States, furnishes eyes for the reader to behold the possible development of aerial navigation, and the use of air ships in future war.
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“His story, however, suffers from being less of a story than it ought to be.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 602. N. 14. 420w.
=Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“The book certainly ‘gives to think,’ and for those who do not like to think it provides entertainment, with a certain modicum of instruction perforce and unawares.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 668. N. 14, ’08. 800w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 749. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
“May stand as the best boy’s book of the season if it can stand as a boy’s book at all.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 110w.
“It is a novel, a romance, a social study and a prophetic anticipation crushed into one. Its complexity spoils it as a work of art. The book, indeed, is worth reading for half a dozen reasons; but it would have been better worth reading had there not been quite so many.”
+ − =Sat. R=, 106: 614. N. 14, ’08. 470w.
=Welsford, Joseph W. W.= Strength of nations: an argument from history. **$1.75. Longmans.
7–38586.
“Stated briefly, Mr. Welsford’s theme is that the only permanent source of national strength is national production, and that the neglect of national production for the sake of temporary advantages, whether in the shape of tribute from subjects or dividends from foreign investments, of profits for merchants and capitalists, or cheap food for the masses, has invariably led to national decay and disaster.” (Ath.) He uses Rome and Constantinople as his first illustration of his thesis.
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“The argument is plain, and the analogies are good—the historical lesson all that the most ardent protectionist can desire. There is one most annoying feature in the book. The authorities, to whom reference is made in the notes, are indicated by letters only, and further reference must be made to an index of authorities at the end of the book.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 741. Ag. 3, ’07. 1200w.
“Mr. Welsford’s book can be recommended to classes which are studying the pathology of history, and want a morbid specimen for examination; it can serve no other good purpose.” Clive Day.
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 347. Ja. ’08. 590w.
“While [the author] is successful in collecting his material, he fails to round it out into a definite system of ideas. In his zeal for industry, he forgets humanity.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 51. Mr. ’08. 350w.
“The work has been based almost entirely on general histories, and is loosely reasoned, superficial, and partisan in character.”
− =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 390. Je. ’08. 130w.
“Those who are already in agreement with him will welcome with delight an exposition so full of novel and suggestive instances. Those whose point of view differs from Mr. Welsford’s may think his conclusions exaggerated and may feel annoyed by his frankly controversial tone, but can hardly fail to be impressed by the facts which he has adduced.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 219. Jl. 12, ’07. 1700w.
− =Nation.= 87: 444. N. 5, ’08. 900w.
“In spite of the crispness of his style and a somewhat serene confidence in his ability to discover the real lines of cause and effect in the labyrinth of the past, the new Orosius of the Tariff reform league will find at least as many students of history who will question his synthesis as economists convinced by his arguments. On the other hand the book does show originality and is decidedly stimulating.”
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 563. S. ’08. 220w.
=Wendell, Barrett.= Privileged classes. **$1.25. Scribner.
8–28840.
“In the four essays that make up this volume Professor Wendell discusses the deeper problems of higher education in their relation to present-day American life. The papers were originally presented as addresses on literary and educational occasions.”—R. of Rs.
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“The great merit of this collection of essays is the brilliancy of the phrasing. That intellectual courage which enables Mr. Wendell to expound the unpopular side of the problem of equal rights is not characteristic of the collegiate or social circles in which he moves. Therefore it is the more honourable to him.” J: Macy.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 357. D. ’08. 1500w.
“We believe Professor Wendell exaggerates the discontent, but be that as it may, he certainly misinterprets it if he seriously believes it is symptomatic of revolution based on conviction that our democracy is a failure.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 635. O. 31. ’08. 700w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 638. N. ’08. 40w.
=Wernle, Paul.= Sources of our knowledge of the life of Jesus; tr. by Edward Lummis. *$1. Am. Unitar.
7–31390.
Aims to prepare for the lay reader a path to the knowledge of Jesus, and to guide him so far forward in the examination of the sources that he may himself take part in the answer to the question, Who and what was Jesus? The author discusses Source—material outside the four gospels. Our four evangelists, The synoptics, and The sources of the synoptics.
=Wesselhoeft, Elizabeth F. P.= Rover, the farm dog. †$1.25. Little.
A story of child life on a farm, introducing a delightful step-grandmother and a number of interesting dogs.
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Reviewed by K. L. M.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 386. D. ’08. 80w.
“Kindness is the motive behind the adventures in this book.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1479. D. 17, ’08. 40w.
=West, Jennie Jerome (Lady Randolph Spencer Churchill, afterwards Mrs. George Cornwallis-West).= Reminiscences of Lady Randolph Churchill. **$3.50. Century.
8–30607.
With characteristic detachment Mrs. West assembles rambling personal reminiscences of social and political England during the past thirty years. To these are added glimpses of court life in Russia and Germany; impressions and experiences gained from a tour around the world; knowledge of the Red cross movement gained thru actual service on the staff of the hospital ship Maine. Her own sprightly description and comment are interspersed with bits of conversation and excerpt from letters. The book is handsomely illustrated.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 299. D. ’08.
“Lady Randolph Churchill is a true woman in that her point of view is always the personal one, which gives an original tang to her anecdotes of great personages, English and foreign.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1176. N. 19, ’08. 300w.
“A valuable and spritely record of men and women.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 899. D. 12, ’08. 120w.
“There is nothing ill-natured in the book, and apparently nothing indiscreet.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 462. N. 12, ’08. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 650. N. 7, ’08. 1450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 741. D. 5, ’08. 170w.
“With much good humor sketches the character of friend and opponent, using sufficient prudence yet making a witty, piquant narrative.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 841. D. 12, ’08. 550w.
“In a volume of this kind the point of view is everything, and it is that which, to American readers at least, lends a rare charm to these memoirs.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 761. D. ’08. 220w.
“Mrs. Cornwallis West seems to think that to make a good book it is enough to throw together, without method, arrangement, or dates, a lot of hazy recollections about famous and fashionable people. But it is not enough; and since the appearance of Sir Henry Drummond Wolff’s memoir we have not experienced so keen a disappointment as in these pointless and rambling reminiscences.”
− + =Sat. R.= 106: 487. O. 17, ’08. 800w.
“As boldness generally succeeds, so does Mrs. George West succeed in writing a most entertaining book without giving any one a harder knock, we should think, than he is able to bear, or causing more embarrassment to public characters still living than they are accustomed to.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 589. O. 17, ’08. 2450w.
=West, Max.= Inheritance tax. 2d ed., completely rev. and enl. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics and public law, v. 4, no. 2.) *2.50. Longmans.
8–831.
“Includes all the valuable, historical material of the first edition and reviews the many and extensive changes brought about by the legislation during the past fourteen years.”’—Econ. Bull.
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“The work is an unbiased presentation of the data necessary for a clear knowledge of the subject.” Carl C. Plehn.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 48. Ap. ’08. 500w.
“We commend his monograph to all interested in the subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 380. F. 15, ’08. 330w.
=Westall, Laura May.= Common-sense view of the mind-cure. **75c. Funk.
8–27799.
Not a contribution to Christian science but a discussion of the use of will power in curing or driving away common functional disorders.
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“There is not much sentiment, and there is a good deal of logical practical statement in ‘A common sense view of the mind cure.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 548. O. 3, ’08. 120w.
=Westell, W. Percival.= Insect book. (Country handbooks ser.) *$1. Lane.
A brief study of the insects of Great Britain. The author “tells about insects of the garden, of the waterside, of the wood, and, we may say of the country generally; finally, about insects of the house. Of course, he is a friend of the insect tribe as a whole; but he concedes that the cockroach is ‘an unmitigated nuisance’ in many houses. It came over to this country in the sixteenth century, a heavy ‘per contra’ when we are reckoning up the benefits of that epoch.” (Spec.)
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“A delightful little book, easily read at a sitting, and in the main, accurate. One might also doubt if Mr. Westell has not gone too far in his aim to be popular and simple, by omitting so generously the scientific names.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 561. Je. 18, ’08. 200w.
“The volume breathes a certain culture and graciousness refreshing as the conversation of some learned but withal quite human friend.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 449. Ag. 15, ’08. 170w.
“A very interesting little book on a subject in which he is an expert.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 545. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.
=Westlake, John.= International law; a treatise. 2v. ea. *$3. Putnam.
The author “has not attempted an exhaustive and technical treatise, but rather a general work, which would appeal both to university students, publicists and that widening circle of the reading public interested in international questions. The first volume is devoted to the law of peace; the second volume to the law of war and of neutrality.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“The distinguishing characteristic of Prof. Westlake’s work is that he has succeeded in emancipating himself from the insular prepossessions which have heretofore characterized so many of the British works on international law. While this work cannot be said to present the subject from a new point of view, it is in many respects the most satisfactory summary of the present status of international law available to English speaking students.” L. S. Rowe.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 468. S. ’08. 300w.
“Perhaps no work has been written on the leading topics of international law which is more likely to enable its readers to reason sanely upon the ‘other topics’ of the subject. The only defect observable in the book, if it be permitted to criticize adversely one who has demonstrated himself a master, is the somewhat obscure language in which the thought has at times been expressed.” G. W. Scott.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 518. S. ’08. 1750w.
=Westrum, Adriaan Schade van.= The devil. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–27363.
A story based on the translations and adaptation made from the Hungarian by Alex Konta and William Trowbridge Larned. “It is a picture of erring human nature, but the sophistries of Satan are set forth with wit and humor and are made the vehicle of satirical flings at the modern social order.”
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+ =Lit. D.= 37: 814. N. 28, ’08. 130w.
“The task of one who runs dramatic materials into the novel mould—much simpler than the opposite process—is to avoid adding too much. In this case the adapter has acquitted himself well.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 442. N. 5, ’08. 280w.
=Westrup, Margaret.= Greater mischief. †$1.50. Harper.
8–5583.
A sensitive child at the mercy of a jealous, undemonstrative, puritanic mother struggles into bloom in the little garden of her wonderful imagination. A prince charming offers to her when a child of ten the first real sympathy her hungry little soul has known. She lives upon the memory of their companionship until in after years he returns and offers her his love. Their love is changed to grief thru an ancient grudge which the wooer’s father bears the dead father of Audrey, and only a heroic sacrifice on the part of the hitherto uncompromising mother is able to restore happiness.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 224. Je. ’08.
“Speaking generally, the personages of the story (including Euphemia, a truly comical dog) are realized far more vividly than in the run of contemporary novels. It is a pity that their effectiveness should be so often endangered by the coil of a futile and over-ingenious plot.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 237. Mr. 12, ’08. 150w.
“An excellent specimen of English skill in the writing of fiction and of those points in which it is superior to the American novel.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 266. My. 9, ’08. 200w.
“The problem presented in [this story] is a serious one, and has tragic possibilities; but the story holds it with firm but skillful grasp, and surrounds it with so much pleasant humor and charming suggestion that the reader is never overwhelmed.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 652. Mr. 21, ’08. 150w.
* =Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth.= An English honeymoon. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–32322.
Honeymoon happiness casts its effulgence across every page of this bright narrative of scenes and sights thru England. In a series of letters the bride reveals how they convert everything from a king’s highway to an obscure lane into a byway of lovers; comfortable, unconventionable “honeymooners” they are who describe scenes, haunts and structures as they perceive them, and assemble bits of historical, literary and art information for the reader’s enlightenment.
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“It is an attractive volume and written in Miss Wharton’s best style.”
+ =Dial.= 45; 462. D. 16, ’08. 170w.
“It is all charmingly told, and as a bit of travel literature the little volume is strengthened by the excellent illustrations.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 911. D. 12, ’08. 140w.
“The travel narrative is an entertaining mixture of description, quotation, and anecdote.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 740. D. 5, ’08. 220w.
“The happy traveler writes enthusiastically.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 749. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
=Wharton, Edith.= Hermit and the wild woman. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–27101.
A group of stories dealing “with subtle problems, delicate situations, the nuances, so to speak, of conduct and temperament.” (Outlook.) “The title story, ‘The hermit and the wild woman,’ is in the form of an Italian legend and bears the mark of the author’s familiarity with the history and literature, the art and faith of Italy. The other stories are of modern life.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Have all the subtlety and artistry in style and conception that we associate with Mrs. Wharton.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 305. D. ’08.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 644. N. 21. 160w.
“The stories are, of course, admirably told; we must hope that their uniformity of key is a coincidence, and that the story-teller’s buoyancy has not taken itself off altogether.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 525. N. 26, ’08. 400w.
“The stories are unequal in interest, although uniformly delightful in the felicity of their detail and the trained taste of their composition.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 541. O. 3, ’08. 600w.
“They are not, however, either so novel in situation or so interesting as some of their predecessors. They are a little inclined to a certain form of preciosity from which Mrs. Wharton will do well to deliver herself.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 362. O. 17, ’08. 150w.
“Is best read by firelight, when the room is still, when the delicate perfection of the work makes its just appeal to an alert and impartial reader.” Agnes Repplier.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 702. N. 28, ’08. 330w.
“To begin with, we cannot think that she was altogether well advised in including in a set of ultra-modern stories the mediaeval quasi-allegory which gives its name to the book. Apart from that, the almost invariable recurrence of failure, disappointment, and disillusionment as the leading motives of each episode makes for depression as well as monotony.”
− + =Spec.= 101: 886. N. 28, ’08. 750w.
=Wharton, Edith.= Motor-flight through France. **$2. Scribner.
8–30288.
A book for readers familiar with France. Mrs. Wharton’s glances here and there serve as suggestions to start a description that grows out of the fulness of her historical understanding of the places visited, and her shrewd, analytical reflections.
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“Readers who enjoy style, readers who are fond of automobile riding, readers who are interested in rural France, whether for its art, its architecture, or its landscape, will enjoy Mrs. Wharton’s book.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 409. D. 1, ’08. 250w.
“Is rich with the delicate observation of a keen, well-stored mind, eager for new impressions.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1180. N. 19, ’08. 260w.
“For anyone contemplating a motor trip thru France it should serve, moreover, as an excellent guide.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 911. D. 12, ’08. 200w.
“One may say that this is a book to give keen pleasure to all who have themselves visited the scenes which Mrs. Wharton recalls so surely and charmingly, but that it is too wide in scope, too crowded with detail, too hasty in movement, to be very satisfactory to the untravelled.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 469. N. 12, ’08. 830w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 622. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“Those who have been charmed with Mrs. Wharton’s novels will not be disappointed by her venture into the unfamiliar role of a travel writer.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 637. O. 31, ’08. 230w.
“Her keenness of observation and delicate descriptive style never fail her.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 760. D. ’08. 30w.
“A glance at the contents of the book does not suggest anything like the treasures of novelty to be found within.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 947. D. 5, ’08. 620w.
=Wheeler, H. F. B., and Broadley, A. M.= Napoleon and the invasion of England. 2v. *$10. Lane.
8–6630.
Newspapers, letters, diaries and broad-sides of the period from 1793 to 1805 have provided a wealth of material upon which this narrative is based. It describes the various plans which the French considered during this period for the invasion of the British Isles with Napoleon as leader. “The authors bring out clearly the importance of Napoleon’s ignorance of matters nautical, an ignorance which assumes great importance when we remember that one of the most potent factors in the overthrow of Napoleon was the sea power of England.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Whether we consider the number of new materials, the wealth of illustrations, both pictorial and literary (most of them drawn from Mr. Broadley’s fine collection), the skill with which materials and illustrative extracts are woven into the narrative or the correctness of the text, the completeness of the index, and the excellence of the form, the result must be considered highly satisfactory.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 396. O. 5. 1920w.
“These caricatures, strange to say, though they are of course valuable for the side-light they throw on public feeling at the time of their production, are singularly deficient in real humour, and fail altogether to appeal to modern taste—an incidental proof of the increase in refinement that has taken place in that taste of late years. These are all of stirring interest, and bring out more forcibly than could any description by a later pen the actual feelings aroused by the gloomy situation.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 33: 250. Ja. ’08. 400w.
“We cannot pretend to think that it altogether sustains the authoritative character implied in its rather ambitious title. It is, in our judgment, palpably lacking in a true sense of historical perspective and is little qualified to sustain the comparison it suggests with the works of such men as Colomb, Mahan, and Desbriere, but it is nevertheless full of entertainment and not devoid of instruction.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 321. O. 25, ’07. 1580w.
“The great value of Messrs. Wheeler and Broadley’s handsome volumes is that they bring together a great deal of miscellaneous material ... that paint, as nothing else does, the national psychology of England at this moment of pressing danger. They fill a gap in English historical literature and may be heartily recommended. At the same time it must be said that the authors are more collectors than historians, enthusiasts than stylists; their own share of the book is occasionally slipshod and is not marked by the historical sense.”
+ − =Nation.=, 86: 125. F. 6, ’08. 260w.
“Every critic must unhesitatingly commend the wealth of pictorial material in these two volumes. It has very high historical value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 16. Ja. 11, ’08. 260w.
“There can be little doubt that the authors of this book are right in their contention that Bonaparte seriously intended the invasion of England after the breach of Treaty of Amiens, and we do not know where we can find so living a picture of the preparations which were made to meet it.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 3. S. 28. ’07. 1600w.
“The present work succeeds in giving us in the compass of a single book a more convincing picture of a period of panic than we can recall in any library.”
+ + =Spec.= 99. sup. 899. D. 7, ’07. 2120w.
=Wheeler, Henry.= History and exposition of the twenty-five articles of religion of the Methodist Episcopal church. *$2. Meth. bk.
8–2747.
“A traditional, ‘confessional,’ treatment of the twenty-five articles as an exhaustive creedal statement of Methodist doctrine.... The book contains a brief introduction by Bishop Warren, a preliminary account of the articles, a parallel presentation of the thirty-nine articles with Wesley’s abridgment, and as the body of the work, a discussion of each article verbatim, giving origin, aim, and exposition.”—Am. J. Theol.
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=Am. J. Theol.= 12: 678. O. ’08. 140w.
=Ind.= 65: 46. Jl. 2, ’08. 70w.
=Wheelock, Elizabeth M.= Stories of Wagner operas told for children. †$1.28. Bobbs.
8–6994.
Stories of seven of the best Wagner operas are here retold for children: The master singers of Nuremberg, The flying Dutchman, Lohengrin, The Rhinegold The Walkyries, Siegfried, and The dusk of the gods.
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“Assuredly a contribution to the every-child-should-know literature.”
+ =Dial.= 44. 251. Ap. 16, ’08. 70w.
“The style of the author is too slavishly dependent upon the incidents to be distinctive.” M. J. Moses.
− =Ind.= 65: 1474. D. 17, ’08. 40w.
“Mrs. Wheelock has been remarkably successful in infusing the real narrative spirit into these tales, and her book may be placed by the side of the Grimm and the Andersen fairy tales.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 291. Mr. 26, ’08. 350w.
“Contains very little spontaneous narrative, although the events are faithfully followed.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 30w.
“They are told here as they were told, not written, and retain a flavor of the human voice, a certain pleasant intimacy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 221. Ap. 11, ’08. 80w.
=Whetham, Catherine Durning, and Whetham, William C. D.= History of the life of Colonel Nathaniel Whetham, a forgotten soldier of the civil wars. *$2.80. Longmans.
The career of a typical soldier of the Commonwealth, including early life, apprenticeship to a baker, marriage with the baker’s widow, service for parliament at the outbreak of the civil war in 1642, governorships, and opposition to the establishment of an hereditary protectorate. “With the exception of the opening chapter of the book deals exclusively with Whetham’s public and military life, and a great part of the work is occupied with explanatory summaries of the state of parties in England and Scotland and with the causes and course of the civil war.” (Eng. Hist. R.)
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“It is only by such work that we may ultimately come to comprehend such periods as that of the Puritan revolution.” W. C. Abbott.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 121. O. ’08. 440w.
“Rich in illustration, drawn in great measure from original sources, this book is refreshingly free from superfluous matter; and its style presents the directness, and restraint regarding the intrusion of personal sentiments, which belong to true scholarship.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 348. Mr. 21, 2450w.
“The chief interest of the work lies in the account given of the minor details of the war round Oxford, of Whetham’s defence of Northampton, and of his later work and difficulties as governor of Portsmouth.” Eva Scott.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 364. Ap. ’08. 550w.
“A valuable contribution to the history of the seventeenth century. Generally the book is most interesting. Perhaps its pleasantest pages are those which describe the rural life of the seventeenth century.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 536. Ap. 25, ’08. 700w.
=Whidden, John D.= Ocean life in the old sailing ship days, from forecastle to quarter-deck. **$1.50. Little.
8–15164.
Old-time sailing ships, the incidents connected with them, the captains who commanded them and the departed glamour and romance of the sea are the items for this autobiographic narrative. It is written out of the experience of an old sea captain who, an orphan at five, on shipboard at twelve, exposed to temptation in every port, subjected to hard usage and strict discipline, rose from service in the forecastle to the command and part ownership of a sailing craft.
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“It is to be noted that in the account of his Eastern voyages Captain Whidden has repeated the old and all but baseless tradition of Juggernaut sacrifices. The Captain spins a rattling good yarn, and we commend it to all lovers of sea stories.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 215. O. 1, ’08. 400w.
“One is constantly led to wish that better use had been made of the abundant material at the disposal of its author; for occasionally he essays a literary flight outside his usual record in log-book style, and those excursions seldom fail to interest, instruct, or amuse. Our legislators should read these pages written in unconscious support of the present movement to strike the tariff shackles from American industries.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 547. D. 3, ’08. 300w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 676. N. 14, ’08. 380w.
“His book not only relates his experiences as a voyager, but gives remarkable insight into the ships and seafaring methods of a past generation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 637. N. ’08. 80w.
=Whipple, George Chandler.= Typhoid fever; its causation, transmission and prevention; introd. by W: T. Sedgwick. *$3. Wiley.
8–13622.
Aims to furnish to doctors and engineers “a condensed summary of the most important facts that have been learned regarding typhoid fever, so far as they relate to the prevention and spread of the disease; to furnish to the student of sanitary science a group of illustrations of some of the leading principles of epidemiology; and to give the general reader a simple and, it is hoped, a clear and correct account of the causation, transmission and prevention of the disease, and his own responsibility in helping to bring about such conditions of cleanliness that typhoid fever shall soon cease to be a national disgrace.”—Preface.
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“It is doubtful if any work in any language presents the side of the subject of which he treats so concisely and yet so thoroughly as he has done.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 4: 181. Ag. ’08. 730w.
“Rarely is a book written with such capabilities for good as has this one. It is to be hoped that the book will have a wide circulation and careful reading and heeding among engineers, physicians and lay-members of boards of health, as well as many others who are interested in the public wealth and health.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 59: 648. Je. 11, ’08. 660w.
“This is the most important work on the subject, in English, since Curschmann’s monograph was translated and edited by Dr. William Osler seven years ago.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 417. O. 29, ’08. 940w.
“In the main the work is an admirable one, and worthy of the highest commendation.” George Blumer.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 28: 733. N. 20, ’08. 470w.
=Whitaker, Walter Claiborne.= Richard Hooker Wilmer, second bishop of Alabama: a biography. **$2. Jacobs.
7–39218.
A sketch of Bishop Wilmer’s life which renders “simple justice” to his undaunted courage, self-forgetfulness, and the consecration with which he discharged his pioneer diocese responsibilities.
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“This life of the Alabama clergyman well repays a careful perusal both from the viewpoint of church history and from that of a lively human interest.” W: E. Dodd.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 917. Jl. ’08. 500w.
+ =Dial.= 44: 215. Ap. 1, ’08. 550w.
Reviewed by Gaillard Hunt.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 52. Ja. 25, ’08. 1330w.
=Spec.= 100: sup. 649. Ap. 25, ’08. 320w.
=White, Albert Beebe.= Making of the English constitution, 449–1485. *$2. Putnam.
8–29201.
A brief, up-to-date college text which places the emphasis thruout upon evolution rather than upon description; whose purpose has been to furnish a logically satisfying account of the genesis of each institution as far as present knowledge permits. In arrangement, it is governed by the requirements of the subject-matter, and does not attempt to conform to either the chronological or topical order. It aims to make the student understand the origin and growth of the English constitution as a many-sided but single evolution.
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“The book is admirably arranged and written; it is notable for its simplicity, lucidity, and directness. Something may be said, too, in its favor on account of its brevity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 576. O. 17, ’08. 160w.
=White, Fred Merrick.= Five knots. †$1.50. Little.
8–12766.
A tale of crime and mystery in which a vendetta is executed by two little yellow men from Borneo. An English ship owner’s road to fortune led from a heinous crime which he committed among some Malays, two of whom escape, and later arrive in London to execute their vengeance. The story is full of thrills.
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“Mr. White has done better work along these same lines, and it is to be hoped that he will do so again.” F: T. Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 28: 67. S. ’08. 200w.
“A more absurd story is seldom written.”
− =Nation.= 86: 536. Je. 11, ’08. 250w.
=White, Fred Merrick.= Yellow face. *$1. Fenno.
8–4908.
A mystery story with an arch conspirator who has upon his track the usual Scotland Yard sleuths and the more resourceful amateur detectives. “The story hinges upon a surgical mutilation borrowed from the Aztecs, involves the aid of numerous scientific discoveries and inventions; in the end the entire cast is arrayed in all its strength against the villain.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The plot is well conceived and is executed in forcibly interesting style. There are a number of minor discrepancies and many earmarks of overhasty composition, but the story never flags in its rapid, thrilling movement, the very evident work of an old hand at the art.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 100. F. 22, ’08. 200w.
=White, Stewart Edward.= Arizona nights, il. †$1.50. McClure.
7–36101.
A book of scenes and portrayals that flash by the reader as tho “caught in the films” of a panorama camera. “Mr. White gives a view of the life on Arizona cattle ranches which is instinct with virility and love of that out-of-door existence which he knows so well. The stories run the gamut from ‘The honk honk breed.’ whose humor will delight every unrepentant nature-fakir, to the last tale ‘The raw-hide,’ a grim sketch in a vein which will surprise a good many of Mr. White’s admirers.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“That ... Mr. White’s pages as they stand do not give the impression of being overcrowded is due to the unusual clearness of his mental vision and to a terse vigorous style which, without abruptness, often compacts into a sentence the pith of a paragraph. Of this sort of writing the present book is an admira example.” Churchill Williams.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 524. Ja. ’08. 980w.
“This volume is largely a catena of campfire stories of cowboys, rustlers, Indians, remittance men and greasers, including some details too gross to make pleasant reading.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1473. D. 19, ’07. 80w.
“Shows a hitherto unsuspected ability in character drawing and in the sensing of dramatic values, which makes of it the most interesting thing he has written.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 856. D. 21, ’07. 230w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 123 Ja. ’08. 150w.
“Here are some most readable, and at times exciting, yarns of the Arizona desert.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 993. D. 14, ’07. 280w.
=White, Stewart Edward.= Riverman. †$1.50. McClure.
8–23537.
A story of Michigan rivermen which deals with the fortunes of a log-driving firm. The hero is a river-boss who is induced by a New York lawyer, roughing it for his health, to join him in organizing a company to handle expeditiously all of the logs of the section. The treachery of the partner is outlined in detail against the sterling strength of the rugged hero. Local color and atmosphere abound.
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“The love story is inferior and detracts somewhat from the merit of the book.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 246. O. ’08. ✠
“It is to be heartily recommended to any and every one who likes a tale of action that is American through and through, that has no tinge of melodrama, an occasional incident excepted, but that has thrills in plenty, and is pervaded with a buoyant spirit of optimism and rugged health which is good for mind and body.” Churchill Williams.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 150. O. ’03. 1050w.
“It is a good story if you free Mr. White from observing the usual canons of literary construction.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1065. N. 5, ’03. 500w.
“The story is good, and we think would be better for a little abridging of the mass of technicalities relating to logging and to the financing of lumber companies.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 340. O. 8, ’08. 270w.
“It is certain that a great many people will find it quite possible, and even exciting, to read Mr. White’s frightfully inartistic but in parts very stirring narrative.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 482. S. 5, ’08. 660w.
“A powerful companion novel to ‘The blazed trail.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 749. D. 5, ’08. 260w.
“In and out of this good story-material Mr. White has woven a sub-plot of villainy which is not at all convincing and is essentially uninteresting.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 278. O. 3, ’08. 120w.
=White, William Frank.= Scrap-book of elementary mathematics; notes, recreations, essays. *$1. Open ct.
8–3914.
A book of mathematical curiosities. “It deals with more than D’Israeli’s ‘six follies of science,’ not confining itself to follies or to impossibilities of the circle-squaring type, but including in its medley of seventy topics many other points of interest and even critical importance in modern mathematics, as, for example, linkages and straight-line motion, and the instruments allowed by Plato in simple construction.” (Nation.)
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“His book is decidedly worth having and studying.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 423. Ap. ’08. 60w.
“Though it is inferior in some respects to Schubert’s ‘Mathematical essays and recreations,’ is yet a miscellany well worth having both on account of the mathematical curiosities it has brought together out of a space of more than two thousand years, and on account of its enlightened comment upon them.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 212. S. 3, ’08. 130w.
=Whitford, Caleb Bailey.= Training the bird dog. *$1.25. Outing pub.
8–21503.
A clear, scientific treatise for dog owners and sportsmen on the development of the hunting dog, written by an expert dog breaker, one whose methods have produced a long line of prize winners. In leading up to the ‘first lessons,’ the author discusses the genius of breaking, the breaker’s ideal, breaking the breaker, rewards and punishments, and the best age for breaking.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 454. Ag. 15, ’08. 220w.
=Whitin, Ernest Stagg.= Factory legislation in Maine. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics and public law.) *$1. Longmans.
8–18392.
The first part of this study is historical. “It traces the conditions of the industrial and the legislative acts from 1821 to 1907. The second part is equally instructive and deals with administration and the factory law of 1908. The critique of the child labor law, pp. 130 ff., is especially apt. A complete index of the labor laws of Maine in force in 1908 is appended to this very valuable little book.” (Am. J. Soc.)
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“Important technological essay.” H. P. J. Sellinger.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 270. S. ’08. 80w.
“Excellent monograph.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 631. N. ’08. 160w.
“Mr. Whitin’s treatise is of chiefly local interest, but it is a part of the times in which we live, and which are similar in all states.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 439. Ag. 8, ’08. 360w.
=Whiting, Lilian.= Italy, the magic land. *$2.50. Little.
7–37741.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“The book as a whole is sufficiently attractive, aside from its occasional overload of polysyllabic adjectives.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 510. Ja. ’08. 390w.
=Dial.= 43: 427. D. 16, ’07. 90w.
“A queer hodge-podge.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 523. Mr. 5, ’08. 100w.
“Certain phrases might merit the criticism ‘gushing.’ Notwithstanding such an occasional limitation, the book contains much genuine Italian atmosphere.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 876. D. 21. ’07. 150w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 625. F. ’08. 320w.
* =Whiting, Lilian.= Paris the beautiful. **$2. Little.
8–32991.
“A little record of the crystalized enchantment of many springtimes and early summers” spent in Paris. “Most unique and satisfactory of all, it pictures Paris in its activity to-day. The work that is being done by scientists is reported as if from the laboratory, and that of artists from the Salons of last spring. Men like Rodin, Richet, the scientist Landor, and many others, are described in connection with labors now in hand. Miss Whiting’s spirit is that of enthusiastic admiration of the Parisians, whose chief characteristic she considers is ‘imaginative intensity:’ and admiration also of the city, whose atmosphere she finds not one of frivolity and wickedness, but of ‘light and color, of the keenest and most sympathetic human response in joy or sorrow,—an atmosphere too, that is peopled with lofty visions and with ideals of loveliness.’”(Dial.)
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“It is, in truth, just such a record as actual and would-be lovers of Paris will welcome, because it shows the city not only in its outward fairness but in its beauty of intellectual and artistic achievement.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 461. D. 16, ’08. 270w.
“There is no doubt that with this book a pleasant hour may be spent in a literary companionship, which will be a delight to many.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 699. N. 28, ’08. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 749. D. 5, ’08. 80w.
=Whiting, Robert Rudd.= Ball of yarn: its unwinding. **75c. Elder.
7–31419.
“The ‘Yarns’ are told by several men sitting around the stove in a hotel office and vary from that of the breath-bound village in which, on a cold winter’s day, the people all got lost in the frozen fog of their own breaths to that of the man who had a scheme for beating the races by telegraphing the list of a day’s winners around the world and getting it back to New York the day before it started.”—N. Y. Times.
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Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1469. D. 19, ’07. 70w.
“A collection of grotesque perversions of possibility somewhat after the manner of Munchausen tales.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 631. O. 19, ’07. 130w.
=Whitney, Helen Hay.= Gypsy verses. $1.25. Duffield.
7–31381.
Underneath the flaunting of gypsy colors, and the hoaxes of Romany spells, this verse reveals regret, weariness and longing for the “Silver and azure of the open day.”
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“There is imaginative distinction in these verses.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 64. Ag. 1, ’08. 150w.
=Nation.= 85: 589. D. 26, ’07. 200w.
“There are ... individual lines and epithets that have freshness and lustre, and once in a while an unhackneyed point of view that gives a glimpse and promise of something deeper.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 199. Ap. 11, ’08. 300w.
=Whitty, Edward Michael.= St. Stephen’s in the fifties, the session 1852–3, a parliamentary retrospect; with an introd. by Justin McCarthy, and notes by H. M. Williams. *$3. Wessels.
7–12661.
The gallery letters written by a young Irish journalist to the Leader, a London paper, reveal two things: viz., that newspaper writing was an art in those days and that parliament had many an interesting character to portray. There are Disraeli, Gladstone, John Bright, Henry Drummond and many another. “It is the story of rises and falls in great reputations, of disappointments soothed, of foiled intrigues, of dogged endurance and loyalty repaid.” (Spec.)
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“Much of [the English journalism of the ‘fifties and ’sixties] has passed into the ranks of permanent literature, and in this portion a high place must be given to the book before us.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 369. O. 13, ’06. 820w.
“Some of Whitty’s portraits are of singular interest and power, and well deserve the honour of frequent republication.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 405. O. 6. 450w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 153. F. 13, ’08. 850w.
“Mr. McCarthy’s preface is a work of supererogation from beginning to end, for it attempts to elucidate nothing but the already obvious, and cumbers the ground with a deal of personal opinion. The oldest ‘Parliamentary hand’ and the last successful candidate at a by-election can learn much to his edification and amusement by studying the conditions at ‘St. Stephen’s in the fifties.’”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 623. O. 27, ’06. 2620w.
=Who’s= who on the stage, 1908; ed. by Walter Browne and E. DeRoy Koch. il. *$3.50. Dodge, B. W.
The dramatic reference book and biographical dictionary of the theater, for 1908. It contains careers of actors, actresses, managers and playwrights of the American stage. A number of illustrations are included.
=Wide, Anders.= Horne gymnastics on Ling’s system. **50c. Funk.
A little handbook of some seventy pages which outlines the principals of the Swedish gymnastic system as introduced and developed by Pehr Henrik Ling. Not only are the physical benefits of the system pointed out but the ethical and moral as well.
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“Is valuable to the man of sedentary occupation, who is anxious to keep himself in good physical condition.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1044. My. 7. ’08. 70w.
=Wiedersheim, Robert.= Comparative anatomy of vertebrates; adapted from the German of Dr. Robert Wiedersheim by W. N. Parker. *$3.75. Macmillan.
8–16426.
The third English edition founded upon the sixth German edition. It has been prepared chiefly for students whereas former editions have been used largely by investigators and teachers. The bibliography of the previous editions has been extended to include six hundred additional titles of the last German edition.
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“The work is without a rival in any language, and is unsurpassed as a complete and comprehensive compendium of the more significant facts of comparative anatomy, an indispensable text for college and university use, and a valuable work of reference in the general library.”
+ + =Dial.= 44: 249. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.
=Nation.= 86: 156. F. 13, ’08. 500w.
“Notwithstanding deficiencies, the present is the best English treatise upon vertebrate anatomy, as the original is the best German. The reviewer sincerely hopes to greet a later faultless edition.” B. G. Wilder.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 27: 737. My. 8, ’08. 5000w.
* =Wiggin, Kate Douglas, and Smith, Nora Archibald=, eds. Tales of laughter. †$1.50. McClure.
A hundred and forty tales of the character that from time immemorial have entertained the group of listeners about a mother’s knee. They will prove a mine to little people who like the “huff and puff” of the story of the three little pigs, and the jigs of the dancing Japanese kettle.
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“All having the humorous quality that the title of the collection suggests. Uniform in binding with ‘The fairy ring’ and ‘Magic casements,’ to which excellent volumes it is a worthy successor.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 313. D. ’08.
Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
=Ind.= 65: 1483. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 80w.
“No better editors could be chosen, and they lay tribute upon many lands and languages.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 751. N. 28, ’08. 120w.
=Wilder, Marshall Pinckney.= Smiling ’round the world. †$1.50. Funk.
8–15165.
A jaunt “of many moons and many miles” of “many jests and many smiles.” There are no hardships of travel indulged in here; with an abundance of good cheer and ready wit the author carries his reader across the continent, over sea to Hawaii, and from there over the regulation course to Gibraltar and on to New York.
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“Full of interesting facts and information that all intelligent people should possess, so sugar-coated with humor that the dullest mind cannot fail to heartily enjoy the contents.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 127. Jl. ’08. 140w.
“An amusing chronicle of his trip.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 163. Ag. 1, ’08. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 140w.
=Wilder, Victor.= Mozart: the story of his life as man and artist according to authentic documents and other sources; tr. by L. Liebich. 2v. *$3.50. Scribner.
8–22792.
Trustworthy, save for a few slips, and interestingly told, this life is written for general readers. It contains a bibliography of Mozart literature, both English and foreign, a list of his compositions, published and unpublished, and twenty-three portraits and facsimiles.
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“There is more of biography than artistic comment or criticism in his book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 487. Ap. 18. 300w.
“It has certainly deserved the honor of a translation, even after this long interval, because of its lucid style and charm of narrative. There are reasons to think that the author of this book had not read Jahn. A few ludicrous blunders appear. The translator has done her work well.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 451. My. 14, ’08. 380w.
=Willcocks, Mary Patricia.= Man of genius: a story of the judgment of Paris. †$1.50. Lane.
8–17245.
“Miss Willcock’s new story tells of an ambitious young architect who is loved by two women, one of whom sacrifices herself by concealing from him that she is to become the mother of his child, lest she should block his advancement, yet has no understanding of his imaginative and esthetic nature; while the other, who is in sympathy with him on these points, keeps herself in the background, urges him to marry the other girl, and helps them to success and to as happy a married life as is possible for them—ill mated as they are temperamentally.”—Outlook.
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“The book as a whole is thoughtful, if somewhat dull.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 784. Je. 27. 140w.
“It is good, conscientious work, but it fails to convince, chiefly, but not only, because the man of genius does not convince one of his possession of the divine quality.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 551. S. 3, ’08. 100w.
“The sentiment cloys, while the characters move forward with no volition of their own and evident effort on the part of the author.”
− =Nation.= 87: 56. Jl. 16, ’08. 470w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“In both characters and story it strikes root in the deeper meanings of life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 637. O. 31, ’08. 600w.
“Far above the average level of the fiction of the day as to intellectual ability. It is equally true that it conspicuously lacks those elements of lively entertainment and plot-excitement so dear to many novel-readers’ hearts.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 531. Jl. 4, ’08. 240w.
“Had ‘Adam Bede’ never been written, this story would have greater claim to originality. Miss Willcocks, it is true, constructs her own plot, but her treatment of character suggests George Eliot, and we share Hazlitt’s preference for an old book over a new.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 369. S. 19, ’08. 230w.
=Williams, Eliot Crawshay.= Across Persia. *$3.50. Longmans.
8–9064.
“Mr. Williams made his return to Europe from India via Persia, landing at Bushire and stopping at Shiraz, Persepolis, Isfahan, and Teheran. He tells us in leisurely fashion what he thinks of the scenery, the inhabitants, the remains of Persian grandeur and Greek enterprise. And he often amuses himself and us by details of Persian manners and methods. A traveller devoid of the sense of humour is unthinkable, and the author must have found its possession an invaluable quality at times.”—Spec.
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“He has nothing very new to say, but his observations of men and manners are fair and just, and the account of his wanderings makes interesting reading. The value of his book is enhanced by a good map, some excellent photographic reproductions, and an index.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 296. D. 28, ’07. 170w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 153. My. ’08.
“A conscientious, but unsatisfying piece of work, and his frequent reflections are apt to be trivial.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 206. Ag. 22. 120w.
“His traveller’s tale has charm and serenity. Picture and text are mutually helpful and interesting to the reader.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 106. F. 16, ’08. 320w.
“Mr. Williams gives us a most interesting description of the ancient monuments of the Persian kings ... and his many photographs add greatly to the charm of the book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 767. D. 21, ’07. 570w.
“Our author belongs to the class of born travellers to whom travel is an existence in itself. He is a kindly humourist, and a very patient one. He travelled with his eyes wide open, and can give us not a little valuable information.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 781. N. 16, ’07. 250w.
* =Williams, Hershel.= Fairy tales from folk lore. **$1. Moffat.
8–22796.
Twelve folk-lore tales taken from as many countries.
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“The interest is relative, and the nationalistic value is beyond the ken of boys and girls. We do not discount the fancy, but undoubtedly the student emphasis is too strong.” M. J. Moses.
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1473. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
“A pleasing little collection. The stories are all told very simply, with now and then a touch of homely humor that smells of the soil out of which they were born.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 483. S. 5, ’08. 130w.
=Williams, Hugh Noel.= Princess of intrigue, Anne Genevieve de Bourbon, duchesse de Longueville, and her times. 2v. *$6.50. Putnam.
8–12137.
“Born of a race of royal intriguers, thrust from a convent into the artificial atmosphere of the Hôtel de Rambouillet and the gaiety of a corrupt court, where her wit and beauty carried everything before them, married to a man twice her age, who cared nothing for her but was wax in her hands for any madcap political adventure, Anne, duchesse de Longueville, found herself, at twenty-five, an object of universal homage and a power to be reckoned with in the state of France.” (Dial.) It is of this woman’s career and influence that Mr. Williams writes having studied exhaustively both contemporary and modern sources.
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“The author generally passes lightly over points of controversy, though, when he does enter the lists, little fault is to be found with his arguments or conclusions. The book is undoubtedly interesting and well written as a whole.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 250. F. 29. 1900w.
“Compared with some of his previous studies of great Frenchwomen this one lacks vivacity.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 180. Mr. 16, ’08. 300w.
“As a history of French society this carefully prepared and richly illustrated work will be valuable to readers who have no access to the French material which the author has used freely.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 553. Je. 18, ’08. 340w.
“The research, the information, and the discriminative judgment which have gone to the compiling [of this book] must claim instant recognition and respect. Mr. Williams has succeeded ... not only in writing an admirable historical work on the times, but has achieved the more trying and delicate task of rendering this work as absorbing as a novel.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 100. F. 22, ’08. 1000w.
“Should make a strong appeal to all who delight in contemplating the events of history from the court point of view.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 534. Jl. 4, ’08. 230w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 637. My. ’08. 50w.
“An interesting chronicle of a most romantic period.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 979. Je. 20, ’08. 500w.
* =Williams, Hugh Noel.= Women Bonapartes. 2v. *$6. Scribner.
A biographical sketch of Madame Mère and her three daughters Elisa, Pauline and Caroline. “The treatment of the theme is chronological, and necessarily introduces many important characters, both male and female, besides the Bonaparte ladies.” (Dial.)
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“Messrs. Methuen may be congratulated upon the readableness of the book. It is not possible to combine the light handling suitable to such volumes with serious study of the historical facts. The extent of Mr. Williams’s indebtedness to French authorities will be judged by the reader’s impatience at the use of French idiom in the book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 541. O. 31. 740w.
“The work is really an account of the life and times of Napoleon from a fresh point of view.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 463. D. 16, ’08. 200w.
=Ind.= 65: 1178. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
=Williams, Jesse Lynch.= Girl and the game, and other college stories. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–17249.
A group of college stories as follows: The girl and the game, The college and the circus, At the corner of Lover’s lane, Leg pull, Reddy Armstrong’s reformation, The advantage of a college education, The man in the window, What the old graduate learned, and Talks with a kid brother.
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“Vary in quality, on the whole inferior to the author’s earlier work. The moral tone is good, if somewhat forced at times.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 247. O. ’08.
“They are without wit or humor, they are crudely constructed, they are even trivial and silly.”
− =Nation.= 87: 56. Jl. 16, ’08. 200w.
“About most of Mr. Williams’ stories, it may safely be said that they are more blameless than exhilarating.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 442. Ag. 8, ’08. 240w.
=Williams, Jessie Lynch.= My lost duchess: an idyl of the town. †$1.50. Century.
8–11087.
With only the window-pane, the half-hidden privet hedge, and the granite balustrade between them a man woos in his heart an unknown maiden. He fancies she is the duchess or the goddess of his dreams when in reality she is a dainty little governess whom he does not win without trials and discouragement. The characteristic idyl-atmosphere of leisure pervades the story.
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“The situations suggest Van Bibber and the conversations Anthony Hope.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 224. Je. ’08.
“If Mr. Williams is a trifle too lively of fancy and broad of touch to produce a town eclogue of classical grace, he is by that same token more fit for the moment, more, as it is called, up-to-date.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 12. Jl. 2, ’08. 240w.
“Mr. Williams has shown himself to be just enough of an idealist to refine the events of daily life without becoming unconvincing.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 278. My. 16, ’08. 200w.
“Nick, the hero, is as worthy and entertaining a protagonist of the Fifth avenue phase of New York life as Van Bibber was at his best.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 230w.
“It is as light as froth, but it has in its delicate fabric some of the irridescent gleams of the soap-bubble.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 313. Je. 6, ’08. 30w.
=Williams, Leonard.= Arts and crafts of older Spain. (World of art ser.) 3v. *$4.50. McClurg.
8–15871.
A comprehensive, copiously illustrated three-volume work based upon a wealth of material. The first volume includes gold, silver, and jewel work, iron work, bronzes and arms; the second, furniture, ivories, pottery and glass; the third, textile fabrics—silk, clothes and woolens, embroidery, tapestry and lace. Appendices, a bibliography and an index complete the volume.
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Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1459. D. 17, ’08. 100w.
“If such a work as this is to be of scientific value, its author should take care to employ technical terms where such exist.”
− =Int. Studio.= 35: 166. Ag. ’08. 470w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 912. D. 12, ’08. 120w.
“These volumes serve as a suggestive and stimulating introduction to all these treasures of the peninsula.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 559. D. 3, ’08. 400w.
“It is sufficient to express appreciation for the author’s practical treatment of his subject which makes the book a valuable guide for the modern craftsman, and to close with an added expression of admiration for the literary charm of Mr. Williams’s style.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 780w.
=Spec.= 100: 1003. Je. 27, ’08. 180w.
=Williams, R. H.= With the border ruffians: memories of the far West, 1852–1868; ed. by E. W. Williams. *$4. Dutton.
8–12130.
A famous adventure book. “Of English birth, the author came here at the age of 20 in the year 1852, and for the better part of the following sixteen years he was in the cyclone belt, and it was blowing all the time. He fought with the Kansas Rangers and with their Texan namesakes. He fought to maintain slavery when he wasn’t fighting Indians or ruffians of one sort or another. Barroom fights and summary hangings—in one of which the narrator came very near playing the principal part—alternate with prospecting tours and ranching. Out of the great welter of struggle and bloodshed one sees the country emerging, settling, coming to maturity.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“As a narrative of personal adventure and experience it is remarkably interesting; as a contribution to local history it presents a vivid picture of frontier life during an important period.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 153. My. ’08.
“A fascinating romance, the interest of which reminds one more than a little of the qualities which have made ‘Robinson Crusoe’ beloved.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 825. D. 28. 760w.
“An interesting book, whether regarded as a mere story, as autobiography, or as a description of bygone social conditions.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 45. Jl. 16, ’08. 330w.
“Interesting reading and good material for history. The author ... nothing extenuates nor sets down aught in malice.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 472. F. 27, ’08. 250w.
“The straightforward tale of a man who from boyhood lived in the thick of alarums and excursions. He has [told the story of Capt. Williams] excellently in this roomy, well-made volume.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 86. F. 15, ’08. 780w.
“As recorded in the present volume the story is well told and has its place as a contribution to the stirring history of that period.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 381. Mr. ’08. 230w.
“Mr. Williams’s memoirs are written with no art, but, if we are entitled to judge, they are absolutely truthful. One must get inside the atmosphere of this book really to appreciate how fine a tribute these words are to the Federal army.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 1054. D. 21, ’07. 1550w.
=Williamson, Charles N., and Williamson, Mrs. Alice M.= Chauffeur and the chaperon. (English title, The botor chaperon.) il. †$1.50. McClure.
8–16473.
Another guide book glorified by the most whimsical and interesting of romances. An American girl and her English step-sister inherit a motor boat and decide to explore the waterways of Holland. Accident procures for them lovers, relatives and a chaperon. The lively experiences of the party only make more palatable the real instruction which is imparted in generous measure.
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“When, fired with enthusiasm, one closes the novel and rushes to pack a hasty portmanteau, he will start for the land of canals with a pretty clear notion as to what will be his route and where he will linger on his way.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 849. Ag. 31, ’07. 220w.
“It is lively reading but is rather too long drawn out.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 225. Je. ’08.
“Their writing, though it does not pretend to literary quality, has both gaiety and naturalness, so that their glorified tours, duly spiced with a love interest, are agreeable residing.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 92. Jl. 27. 80w.
“It contains rather a larger proportion than usual of guide-book, and a smaller proportion of plot.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 502. Jl. ’08. 370w.
“To all who like amphibious excursions and farcical story combined the book will be welcome, for the journey is charming and the company merry.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 56. Jl. 16, ’08. 220w.
“Has all the qualities that have made their previous stories so popular and at the same time has more complexity of plot and more incident, both exciting and amusing, than is to be found in some of their stories.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 280w.
“The plot is as impossible as usual, but the characters are attractive, some of their complications amusing, and the guide-book directions interesting and not too obtrusive.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 532. Jl. 4, ’08. 100w.
“There is, in fact, so much useful and detailed information in the volume that it is a thousand pities, in the first place, that there is no index, and, in the second, that the information is buried under so thick a covering of romance.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 333. S. 7, ’07. 230w.
=Williamson, M. G.= Edinburgh: a historical and topographical account of the city. *$1.75. Dutton.
7–28491.
A book whose purpose is to connect the history of the city with the chief objects of interest. “The city’s consecutive history begins in the fifth century A. D., and from that date the author carries down his narrative to the nineteenth century. He includes a good account of the golden age of Edinburgh society in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and of the literary men of old Edinburgh.” (Nation.)
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“Will give the interested reader plenty to ‘think about,’ especially if he does not already know his Edinburgh.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 341. S. 22. 300w.
“The volume is a good, historical guide book.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 71. Jl. 23, ’08. 150w.
“If we may judge from these initial volumes, the text and pictures of the new series are in the hands of competent authorities.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 534. Jl. 4, ’08. 100w.
“Mr. Williamson has had a great subject to deal with, and has treated it worthily.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 65. Jl. 14, ’06. 250w.
* =Willis, Bailey, and others.= Research in China. 3v. and atlas, v. 1, $8; atlas, $7; v. 2, $2. Carnegie inst.
In three volumes are recorded the results of seven months of research in China conducted by a topographer and two geologists. “The first part of the volume ... forms a bulky quarto of more than 350 pages, with upwards of fifty plates, consisting of photographic views of landscapes, maps, and geological sections. The second part includes systematic petrography, zoological notes, and a syllabary of Chinese sounds. The second volume is intended ‘to summarize the detailed presentation of our results, and to combine them with the work of others in a systematic discussion of the geology of southeastern Asia.’ The third volume is to be devoted to palaeontology. The atlas contains some forty sheets of maps, sections, and photographic views, most of the maps being on the scale of 1/125,000, or two miles to the inch, engraved and coloured in the excellent style to which the United States geological survey has now accustomed us.” (Nature.)
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“These sumptuous volumes constitute a monumental contribution to Asiatic geology. They are signal productions not only in their substance and form, but in the fact that they are a gift of productive industry to progressive science, and a tribute of one of the newest phases of civilization to one of the oldest.” T. C. C.
+ + =J. Geol.= 16: 387. My. ’08. 740w. (Review of v. 1, pts. 1 and 2, and v. 2.)
“We venture to think that all that was new and important among the results of the expedition might easily have been comprised within the limits of this first single volume. The physiographical discussions in the volume are most unsatisfactory.”
− + =Nature.= 76: 345. Ag. 8, ’07. 1700w. (Review of v. 1, pt. 1.)
“There is some internal evidence of hasty writing, such as inaccuracies in translation conveying a rather different sense from that of the original. The pith of this volume might have been summed up in a single chapter without losing any important contribution to science, and the space so saved might have been devoted to a much-needed bibliography of the subject. The artistic excellence of the numerous maps by which the volume is illustrated deserves unqualified praise.”
− + =Nature.= 79: 61. N. 19, ’08. 1100w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Willson, Rev. Thomas B.= Norway at home. *$1.75. Scribner.
8–22498.
Tells of Norway’s “constitution and government, its national defense, its religion, literature, music, education, its capital, its social life, agriculture, rural customs, forests, local government, poor laws, industrial life, transportation, and, finally, about ‘Norway as a playground.’” (Outlook.) “A lucid account is given of the circumstances which led to the separation of Norway from Sweden.” (Ath.)
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“It shows a full knowledge of the subject.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 759. Je. 20. 520w.
“His sincerity and sympathy quite win the reader’s heart and shine through the trite figures of the tame and old-fashioned style.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 161. Ag. 20, ’08. 460w.
“Mr. Willson tells us authoritatively about many departments of life and occupation in Norway.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 815. Ag. 8, ’08. 200w.
=Wilson, Andrew.= How to keep well. (Handy information series.) 50c. Crowell.
7–20716.
A little book of instruction on points of cleanliness, ventilation, care of body, eating and drinking, and what to do in case of accidents and illness.
=Wilson, Ernest, and Lydall, Francis.= Electrical traction. 2v. ea. *$4. Longmans.
8–14350.
“Volume 1 is devoted to direct-current traction and the first part is given up to tramways, the latter part to heavier traction. In neither case is the subject carried further back in the system of distribution than the switchboard.... Volume 2 is devoted entirely to alternating-current traction, an indication of the extent to which this system is considered favorably in Europe.”—St. Ry. J.
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“Valuable addition to works on subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 153. My. ’08.
“The treatment is mostly descriptive, but not always complete.” Gisbert Kapp.
+ + − =Nature.= 77: 169. D. 26, ’07. 1840w.
“There is a demand for a book of this kind, and the authors have been very successful in their treatment of the subject.”
+ + =St. Ry. J.= 30: 1076. N. 30, ’07. 550w.
* =Wilson, William R. A.= Journeys of the Kit-Kat club: England. **$2. Appleton.
8–27783.
Meant to serve the present generation as Butterworth’s “Zigzag journeys” did the last, this volume records the experiences of four American school boys and their tutor in England. Information concerning history and literature is served up in story form greatly enhanced for the youthful reader by the wealth of good illustrations.
* =Wilson, Winter Lincoln.= Elements of railroad track and construction. $2. Wiley.
8–27791.
“In this volume no attempt has been made to treat the subjects of railroad track and construction with any considerable amount of detail, but rather to present a few of the fundamental principles in such manner that the inexperienced engineering student can form a general idea of the subjects.”
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“Professor Wilson has treated this matter in a very attractive and common sense manner. He has certainly shown the qualities of a highclass instructor by presenting his subject in plain and simple language, unincumbered by complicated or unnecessary mathematical formulas. and it is written in such a way as not only to interest young engineering students in this subject, but to impress upon their minds the essential principles underlying maintenance-of-way work.” J: F. Wallace.
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 537. N. 12, ’08. 180w.
“The author has fulfilled his purpose excellently. While the book is primarily for engineering students, it can be recommended for general readers who wish to know something more about railroad track than they can see from the car window.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 706. D. 19, ’08. 160w.
=Wilson, (Thomas) Woodrow.= Constitutional government in the United States. *$1.50. Macmillan.
8–17752.
The author states that these lectures do not undertake to discuss systematically the character of the American government and its methods, but that they are intended to set forth certain salient features from a fresh point of view, and in the light of a fresh analysis of the nature and operations of constitutional government. “Eight lectures are included in the series; they define constitutional government and present the author’s views of the application of the constitutional principle in this country.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Suggestive, valuable, popular rather than profound.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 300. D. ’08.
“Dr. Wilson’s lectures are clearly intended for the thoughtful citizen not necessarily learned in the law—a popular treatise.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1001. O. 29. ’08. 550w.
“A suggestive, but not very profound, examination of certain aspects of the American system. It is certainly matter of regret that, with such keen insight and so much literary skill, the distinguished author should here have held his plough with so light a hand.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 94. Jl. 30, ’08. 220w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 329. Je. 13, ’08. 150w.
“Though less detailed, less legal, less scholastic, and possibly less scholarly than Professor Stimson’s, is broader, more philosophical, more vital, animated by a clearer perception of actual conditions, less constricted by reference to the letter of the law.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 313. O. 10, ’08. 740w.
“No American publicist is better fitted than President Wilson to make such a presentation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 256. Ag. ’08. 120w.
=Wilson, Thomas Woodrow.= Free life. **75c. Crowell.
8–22491.
In substance, a baccalaureate address which makes a serious appeal to young people to live a life free from the fetlocks of tradition; to be transformed by the scriptural renewing of the mind—a renewal which results in a “return to a sort of youth and naturalness of thought drawn out of those only fountains of perpetual youth, the fountains of just thought and true feeling.”
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=Dial.= 45: 466. D. 16, ’08. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 593. O. 24, ’08. 180w.
* =Wilstach, Paul.= Richard Mansfield: the man and the actor. **$3.50. Scribner.
The authorized biography of Mansfield written by a personal friend with the actor’s papers and correspondence at his disposal. “The book is full of amusing anecdotes and appreciative dramatic criticism. It narrates the life of Mansfield from boyhood to the end of his career, and treats exhaustively of the genius and development of each of the great parts with which he became identified in his art.” (Lit. D.)
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=Ind.= 65: 1176. N. 19, ’08. 70w.
“As a whole the book gives an interesting picture of the stage during the last thirty years.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 913. D. 12, ’08. 140w.
“This is the sort of book that might have been written by a theatrical press agent, so packed is it with trivial and irrelevant detail, so devoid of sober judgment, so disorderly in arrangement, so oblivious of uncomfortable facts.”
− =Nation.= 87: 500. N. 19, ’08. 640w.
“Serious inaccuracies are few in any chapter. Is best from the twenty-second chapter forward to the end, for that part of the book relates to Mansfield’s golden prime.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 667. N. 14, ’08. 820w.
“While interesting in itself, an attractive feature of the biography is the large number of illustrations.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 749. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
“He discloses to the public gaze many passages of personal history that tend to throw new light on this unique personality.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 761. D. ’08. 120w.
=Winckler, Hugo.= History of Babylonia and Assyria; tr. and ed. by James A. Craig; rev. by the author. **$1.50. Scribner.
7–29420.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“The book has indeed its uses, but I cannot but feel that Professor Craig, an able and accurate scholar, would have served better the aim that he had in view, if he had written an entirely new book over his own name.” R. W. Rogers.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 557. Ap. ’08. 650w.
“In religious matters Dr. Winckler tells us much which is new, and which, if not always strongly supported by fact, at any rate stimulates the spirit of inquiry. We have noticed some curious mistakes or mistranslations.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 724. Je. 13. 1650w.
“The style in general is clear, although the author’s fulness of knowledge and the brevity of treatment make some passages obscure at first reading. The separate consideration of the history of each of the nations, Babylonia and Assyria, here found is probably better than the combined treatment ordinarily employed. But the resulting gaps in the Assyrian history, with references to the previous treatment, seriously interrupt the continuity; some repetition would have been preferable.” G: R. Berry.
+ − =Bib. World.= 32: 435. D. ’08. 440w.
“Professor Craig, as translator, has done his work well. The translation reads easily, and Professor Winckler knows how to write in an interesting and frequently picturesque manner.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 174. F. 20, ’08. 1100w.
=Wingate, Charles Frederick.= Sanitary question-box. 50c. Funk.
A practical guide to the essentials of sanitation and ventilation in the home, the bedroom, the kitchen, the cellar, the laundry and the stable.
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“Should be widely useful in promoting the spread of knowledge on these subjects.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 768. My. 23, ’08. 50w.
=Winslow, Helen Maria.= Spinster farm. $2. Page.
8–15883.
Tells of the experiences of “the Spinster, Janet Fleming by name, who purchases a farm and engages in chicken-raising; her lively niece Peggy; the Professor, who pays persistent court to the Spinster; young Robert Graves, who does the same to Peggy; and the humbler characters playing their useful parts in kitchen and barn. Homely reality is interspersed with romance.” (Dial.)
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 306. D. ’08.
“Miss Winslow has a penchant for old run-to-seed farms, a humorous way of describing country scenes and events, and a fresh unconventional manner of looking at life’s problems and perplexities.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 44: 336. Je. 1, ’08. 550w.
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1247. N. 26, ’08. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 230w.
=Winslow, Kenelm.= Production and handling of clean milk. *$2.50. Jenkins.
7–41833.
A complete, plain, practical, authoritative guide to the production and distribution of clean milk for farmers, health officers, milk inspectors, students of agriculture and dairying, physicians and others interested in matters pertaining to dairying and hygiene.
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“On the farm side Professor Winslow’s book is better than Professor Jensen’s, which in other respects is more authoritative and comprehensive.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 217. Je. ’08.
“Dr. Winslow has written an eminently practical treatise.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 384. Mr. ’08. 200w.
=Winter, Nevin Otto.= Mexico and her people of to-day. $3. Page.
7–34163.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“Though an attractive and on the whole very satisfactory treatise on Mexico, is poorest in its historical sections.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 663. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“Well arranged, up-to-date, interesting information ... written in a pleasant, easy style.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 86. Mr. ’08. ✠
“An entertaining account, unfortunately full of repetitions and inaccuracies.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 512. Mr. ’08. 150w.
“When treating of religion Mr. Winter, we regret to say, shows at times a gross ignorance of the teachings of the Catholic church—an ignorance which vastly decreases the value of his work.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 87: 682. Ag. ’08. 680w.
“The book is weakest in its historical portions.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 754. Ap. 2, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Winter writes with the sympathy and insight of one who knows his subject thoroughly.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 221. Mr. 5, ’08. 430w.
“Mr. Winter presents his observations and study in a scientific manner, which is most informing, convincing, and impressive, and cannot fail to attract readers of all classes.” T: B. Connery.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 155. Mr. 21, ’08. 1500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“His book is especially to be recommended for its account of scenery and for its delineation of Mexican customs and character.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 277. F. 1, ’08. 100w.
“A thoroughly up-to-date description of Mexico.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 116. Ja. ’08. 80w.
=Winter, William.= Other days: being chronicles and memoirs of the stage. **$3. Moffat.
8–28838.
Against a background made by outline sketches of Hodgkinson, Fennell, Cooper, Edwin Forrest, Junius Brutus Booth, Jefferson, Edwin Booth and Irving, the author sketches in detail the careers of Jefferson, Brougham, Boucicault, Charlotte Cushman, Edward A. Sothern, John McCullough, Barrett, Mary Anderson and Adelaide Nielson; omitting Mansfield, as the author is engaged now upon a complete “life.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 300. D. ’08.
“All lovers of the drama, and one may add of good writing, ought to be grateful to him for what he has done in the present volume.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 340. D. ’08. 1300w.
“Mr. Winter speaks with the authority of an expert, with the judgment acquired by long experience, with the knowledge and sympathy which spring from personal acquaintance and association, and with the critical acumen and graceful style of the scholar.” G: P. Upton.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 246. O. 16, ’08. 3000w.
“It is mainly because of its human quality that ‘Other days’ is an important book; it calls the great dead back to life again. He shares with so great a critic of the arts as Ruskin the merit of being always right when he is lauding beauty, and the defect of being almost always wrong when he shifts to the less lofty mood of deprecation.” Walter Clayton.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 504. N. ’08. 1200w.
“There is no one living who has better perspective of the American stage than Mr. William Winter. His book is indicative of his rich experience and has a certain permanent worth as an addition to the literature of the American stage. Its narrative quality is balanced by a critical and literary side that is as agreeable, even if it is not quite as classic, as Elia’s opinions concerning the actors and the dramas of his day.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 1124. N. 12, ’08. 320w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 913. D. 12, ’08. 170w.
“His volume will be a welcome addition to every dramatic library. It is full of fresh and illuminative detail, of analytical character studies, of sound theatrical philosophy, of witty comment, eloquent appreciation, and wholesome scorn.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 392. O. 22, ’08. 1300w.
“His new book is full of his own uncommon charm. That is its principal merit. But Mr. Winter is invariably accurate in his statements, dates, names, and titles of plays. This is a rare merit with theatrical historians.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 651. N. 7, ’08. 500w.
* =Wishard, John G.= Twenty years in Persia. **$1.50. Revell.
8–31141.
Persia as seen thru the eyes of a medical missionary. “But it would be a mistake to suppose this volume exclusively devoted to the history of missionary labor. On the contrary, while not pretending to the encyclopedic character of Curzon’s work, it supplements the latter by a vast amount of detail descriptive of the intimate life of the Persian of every class, and in this respect, for accuracy and just observation, far surpasses in interest the records of the casual traveler.” (Ind.)
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“It is, above all, refreshing to find a book on Persia free from the flippant criticism so often chargeable to western authors, whose eyes are out of focus in the East and who have no serious interest in the struggle for reform which has just been inaugurated.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1308. D. 3, ’08. 470w.
“Dr. Wishard writes easily and fascinatingly about the Shah’s country.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 754. D. 5, ’08. 170w.
=Wister, Owen.= Seven ages of Washington: a biography **$2. Macmillan.
7–38230.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“The book’s worst faults are crude historical knowledge and statements which are not consistent with themselves.” J: S. Bassett.
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 911. Jl. ’08. 620w.
“A truly delightful biography giving a finished portrait, broad and vigorous in treatment, not overlaid with common-place or labored detail.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 51. F. ’08. ✠
“Forms a pretty volume, possessing obvious merits, but open to criticism if considered, to use the author’s words, as ‘a full-length portrait of Washington, with enough of his times to see him clearly against.’”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 73. Ja. 18. 300w.
“At some points extravagant in expression, and at others exhibiting perhaps not the best of taste, this book presents a picture of the great man that is clearcut and on the whole true. Unpretentious, the volume is of just about the value that the author meant it should possess.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 102. Ja. 30, ’08. 140w.
“A pleasant and wholesome and patriotic little book.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 491. Jl. ’08. 260w.
“A biography of a new and attractive type.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 37: 113. Ja. ’08. 140w.
=Wolff, Sir Henry Drummond.= Rambling recollections. 2v. *$7.50. Macmillan.
8–11479.
“The most valuable parts of the book are those chapters devoted to the British administration of the Ionian islands; the account of Wolff’s interviews with a number of the prominent European statesmen just prior to the Congress of Berlin of 1878; the description of the organization of East Rumelia, pursuant to the treaty formulated by that Congress, and the story of the instigation of the treaty with Turkey, upon which is based the legality of England’s present anomalous position in Egypt. Of great interest also are the personal impressions of the Franco-Prussian war, and the detailed account of Lytton’s strange interest in occult phenomena, to which he gave expression in ‘Zanoni,’ and in some of his other novels.”—N. Y. Times.
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“His stories are of curiously uneven merit. All are kind, but fewer than half are pointed. Gossiping and agreeable book.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 123. F. 1. 1150w.
“Whatever criticism the author may have subjected himself to ... he will not be censured as having taxed his readers’ attention in a manner unbefitting this season of rest and recreation.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 45: 14. Jl. 1, ’08. 1400w.
+ − =Ind.= 65: 152. Jl. 16, ’08. 400w.
“His main interest is personal, and he ambles gently on from man to man that he has known. He aims to be exact, and this accounts for a deal of useless genealogical lumber in his volumes.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 428. My. 7, ’08. 500w.
“Interspersed throughout the two volumes are a legion of anecdotes, some of them timeworn, but others fresh and amusing. These serve to enliven what would otherwise be a most tedious book, and one which in its entirety must fail to fulfill legitimate expectations.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 114. F. 29, ’08. 520w.
“His record of witty sayings and amusing incidents is extensive, but the stories are thrown into the narrative in a curiously abrupt and desultory way.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 612. Mr. 14, ’08. 200w.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 4: 492. Jl. ’08. 400w.
“The author manages, without giving away diplomatic secrets, to convey to us a great deal of the ‘atmosphere’ surrounding the legations of the great powers in the European capitals.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 637. My. ’08. 100w.
“Not half as good as his conversation. The recollections of a writer who has been everywhere and known everybody, and done a great many things in politics and diplomacy, ought to be a great deal more interesting than these two volumes are. Few men could have written a better book of recollections; and few have written a worse.”
− + =Sat. R.= 105: 142. F. 1, ’08. 1280w.
“The grammar is often faulty, and there is much repetition. Though he has much to say of value on politics, he discourses at unnecessary length of matters which had only a momentary interest. But with all its faults, his book is good reading.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 222. F. 8, ’08. 1550w.
* =Wollaston, A. F. R.= From Ruwenzori to the Congo: a naturalist’s journey across Africa. *$5. Dutton.
The record of an expedition conducted in the interests of the British museum. “The great merit about the whole narrative is that it insists upon the romance of Central Africa. Travellers nowadays are apt to be so very scientific and impassive, and when they expand it is generally in the direction of politics. But Mr. Wollaston is full of the delight and romance of strange sights.” (Spec.) “The Duke of the Abruzzi’s book is largely the record of the ascent of Ruwenzori—a feat which had never before been achieved by a European—the Wollaston volume is more exclusively devoted to the natural history, not only of Ruwenzori itself, but of the whole region which it dominates. The book is profusely illustrated.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 698. N. 28, ’08. 140w.
“Mr. Wollaston’s book is an excellent specimen of how works of travel should be written. He never bores the reader because he is never bored himself. Let it be added that the book is admirably written, and that the author, being a trained naturalist, has a great deal to say about the flora and fauna which one does not get from the ordinary traveller.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 676. O. 31, ’08. 1600w.
=Wollstonecraft, Mary.= Love letters of Mary Wollstonecraft; with an introd. by Roger Ingpen. *$1. Lippincott.
Mr. Ingpen in his preface calls these letters written to George Imlay “the most passionate love letters in our literature.” “The passion of the letters, which rises on occasion to Sappho’s height, is less striking than the dignity and independence of the writer. She is saved reluctantly from suicide, but she does not sentimentalize over her broken heart. She only asks questions where she is entitled to denounce; and the final letters, with their studied moderation and sense of personal agony, are an indictment which can never, one thinks, have been forgotten, even by a shallow and paltry lover.” (Ath.)
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+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 227. F. 22. 160w.
=Nation.= 87: 386. O. 22, ’08. 200w.
“A prefatory memoir by Roger Ingpen is sympathetic in its tone but just and discriminating in its estimate.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 564. O. 10, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
=Wood, Eugene.= Folks back home. †$1.50. McClure.
8–8099.
Thirteen stories of central Ohio in which the homely incidents of simple life are realistically sketched. The “h-yur,” “whur” and “w’y” stamp the dialect, unmistakably, as the “Ahia” variety.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 158. My. ’08. ✠
“Some of the stories are authoritative social studies of village habit and custom; they are always whimsically correct to the utmost detail, often tender, sometimes pathetic, and once or twice the laughing voice of the narrator deepens to tragedy, but the prevailing note is that of lighthearted humor.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1350. Je. 11, ’08. 300w
“The book is a pleasant, inoffensive example of the applepie school; chiefly remarkable for the absence from its pages of the time-honored ‘b’gosh’ and the substitution of a new expletive, ‘I jox.’”
+ =Nation.= 86: 287. Mr. 26, ’08. 120w.
“A collection of short stories, vivacious and veracious.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 50w.
“The author wields the magic wand that is the possession of all writers who can reach the hidden springs of common humanity; of those who write simply concerning things they have known always, and in which the kinship of us all is discerned.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 797. Ap. 4, ’08. 150w.
=Wood, Henry.= New old healing. **$1.20. Lothrop.
8–18719.
A book of fragments, related by the unitary principles of psychical healing. The teachings, says the author “are in accord with a liberal interpretation of the Biblical and Christian point of view.”
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“Contains a number of theses for meditation ‘in the silence room,’ and brief discussions of old and new forms of faith cure and mental treatment in a tolerant and comprehensive spirit.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 433. Ag. 20. ’08. 170w.
“Instead of being a study of a very interesting development it is practically nothing more than a collection of fragments.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 434. Ag. 8, ’08. 200w.
“One who cannot agree with him in defining matter as ‘vibration’ or health and strength as real ‘entities,’ can admit that his main contention has a sound psychological basis.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 766. Ag. 1, ’08. 200w.
“Almost every page contains some thought that is not only mentally stimulating but spiritually uplifting, some suggestion of real usefulness in the conduct of life.” H. A. Bruce.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 705. N. 28, ’08. 700w.
=Wood, Henry A. W.= Money-hunger: a brief study of commercial immorality in the United States. **$1. Putnam.
8–1479.
“After pointing out that at present there is no established basis for business ethics, and that the home, the church, the schools and the newspapers fail to supply any standard, the author devotes three chapters to a discussion of the responsibility of the press for present conditions of commercial immorality.” (Ann. Am. Acad.) “It is a very timely and vigorous moral protest against the worship of Mammon and the failure to inculcate higher ideals which have resulted in such a debased moral tone as is found in the business world of to-day.” (J. Pol. Econ.)
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“While it lacks the periods of Ruskin and the thunderings of Carlyle it is nevertheless well done. The view point of the book is distinctly ethical, set off by touches of innocent ignorance concerning the operation of economic forces.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 453. S. ’08. 140w.
“The book contains practically nothing that is new, emphasizes perhaps too strongly the influence of certain factors in our social life, but rightly recognizes that any social change for the better must come by a slow process which shall work through public opinion rather than by any legislative or administrative change.” J. W. Jenks.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 349. D. ’08. 650w.
=Ind.= 65: 842. O. 8, ’08. 200w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 174. Mr. ’08. 50w.
=Wood, Joseph.= The Bible: what it is and is not. *$1. Am. Unitar.
8–35658.
A discussion which will be of help to people who are troubled because they have wakened to the fact that the Bible is not infallible; that it is not verbally inspired. “Once let it be known,” says the author, “that Christians study the Bible as they do any other great book; that they believe in its human origin; that they know it to contain mistakes; that they value it not for its myths and miracles but for its moral and spiritual records and teaching.” This attitude disarms the skeptic.
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“A reverent treatment of some of the problems of the Bible.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 243. O. ’08.
=Wood, Robert Williams.= Animal analogues: Denatured series, no. 24. **75c. Elder.
Related in idea to “How to tell the birds from the flowers.” “As in the earlier contribution to comparative biology, the humor is almost all in the parallelistic nomenclature, and in the pictures which, like attractive suburban homes at reasonable prices, must be seen to be appreciated. The puss and the octopus take on a really startling resemblence under the author’s clever pencil. Happy also is the hitherto unsuspected similarity between the pipe-fish and the sea-gar, the doe and the dodo, the cross-bill and the sweet-william, the pitcher-plant and the fly-catcher, the P-cock and the Q-cumber, the pansy and the chim-pansy.” (Nation.)
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“Deftly set forth in Mr. Wood’s characteristically buoyant and convincing style.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 466. D. 16, 08. 70w.
=Ind.= 65: 952. O. 22, ’08. 40w.
=Nation.= 87: 386. O. 22, ’08. 130w.
=Wood, Robert Williams.= How to tell the birds from the flowers: a manual of flornithology for beginners; verses and il. by R. W. Wood. (Nature ser., no. 23.) **75c; pa. **50c. Elder.
7–24147.
“In a series of clever nonsense verses, each one accompanied and made clearer by a very earnest illustration, the author gives directions by which any one can distinguish the bird from the flower that sounds like it.” (N. Y. Times.) “Obviously a satire directed against the sentimental nature-study literature which sometimes masquerades as scientific teaching, particularly in the United States.” (Nature.)
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“Clever little skit.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 238. F. 15, ’08. 100w.
=Nature.= 77: 7. N. 7, ’07. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 546. S. 14, ’07. 150w.
=Woodberry, George Edward.= Appreciation of literature. **$1.50. Baker.
7–33230.
The fourth volume in the “Appreciation series,” and one which is intended as a popular introduction to the art of reading. “In discussing the first principles in the appreciation of literature, Prof. Woodberry says that literature is an art of expression, or the expression of life. The reader’s own experience, therefore, is the key to literature.” (N. Y. Times.) “The opening chapter on ‘First principles,’ is one in which the writer attempts a definition of literature, art, criticism, and such like elementary matters. Then follows a discussion of the various prominent genres, Lyric poetry, Narrative poetry, Dramatic poetry and Fiction.” (Nation.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 217. Je. ’08.
“From the critical point of view Mr. Woodberry’s new volume is not particularly significant. Such a volume may be of assistance to persons of a certain stage of culture who are not indisposed to be coaxed still farther by a little discreet encouragement.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 872. Ap. 16, ’08. 170w.
“Critically the book is slight. And yet by readers at a certain stage of culture it might be found suggestive and even stimulating. At the same time it is for just such readers that a good many of Mr. Woodberry’s statements seem misleading, if not actually dangerous.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 469. N. 21, ’07. 330w.
“What is particularly attractive is the charming simplicity of style, never suggestive of the savant who feels that he is commissioned to guide his fellow-creatures from some lofty pedestal, but recalling vividly the easy, dreamy, conversational manner of the popular professor in his Madison avenue lecture room.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 117. F. 29, ’08. 2320w.
=Woodbridge, Jahleel Ligon.= Story of the covenant and the mystery of the Jew. $1. Broadway pub.
7–33914.
Written for the lay reader in order to arouse interest in the subject and to bring into brief compass the arguments and the scriptural quotations bearing upon the Abrahamic covenant, and seeks to substantiate the practice of infant baptism by tracing its historical connection with the covenant of Abraham.
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“It is unfortunately characterized by more zeal than discretion. Its point of view is wholly unscientific and dogmatic.”
− =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 341. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“The exegesis is rabbinical and the whole point of view inaccessible to the average man.”
− =Bib. World.= 31: 319. Ap. ’08. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 731. N. 16, ’07. 100w.
=Woodrow, Nancy Mann Waddell (Mrs. Wilson Woodrow).= Silver butterfly. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–30252.
In quest of the owners of a fabulously rich South American mine, Robert Hayden returns to New York after years of travel to the uttermost parts of the earth. He feels intuitively that his day of destiny and a fairy princess await him. The princess proves an elusive Cinderella who leaves an ornate butterfly in lieu of a slipper. Immediately he is precipitated in the very “haunt and home of tantalizing mystery.” Tracing a similarity in names—a coincidence in which a wondrous fortune-teller plays part—he not only finds Eldorado,—but wins Cinderella too.
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“The story itself has little to recommend it. It has no special literary merit and though it professes to be a tale of mystery, it is not sufficiently exciting to keep the reader’s interest from flagging.” A. C. Rich.
− =Arena.= 40: 484. N. ’08. 200w.
“The action moves rapidly and the story is told with much dash and spirit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 676. N. 14, ’08. 260w.
=Woodward, Ida.= In and around the Isle of Purbeck. **$5. Lane.
8–29188.
The author has gone into the details of the history of this neck of land—for it is a peninsula rather than an island—with an area of less than a hundred square miles. “Its most famous show place is Corfe castle. This came into historical prominence when it was the scene of the murder of King Edward. William the Conqueror seems to have added the great tower, and John shut up here for a while his niece, the sister of Arthur, and ‘Damsel of Brittany.’ From time to time it reappears, commonly as a prison. In 1643 it was courageously held by Lady Bankes for the king. Two years afterwards it was taken by treachery, and destroyed by order of Parliament. It now remains ... one of the most picturesque ruins in England.” (Spec.)
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“The omissions, where information was much to be desired, are numerous; whilst we have come across many statements which are doubtful or wholly inaccurate. It is only fair, however, to state that there are various passages which yield sound historic information, as well as some which are of an entertaining character.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 509. O. 24. 1000w.
“A series of thirty-six plates in color forms a most attractive feature of the volume.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 348. Je. 1, ’08. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 114. F. 29, ’08. 100w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 113. Ja. 25, ’08. 140w.
=Spec.= 100: 104. Ja. 18, ’08. 250w.
=Worcester, Elwood; McComb, Samuel; and Coriat, Isador H.= Religion and medicine; the moral control of nervous disorders. **$1.50. Moffatt.
8–17567.
An authoritative account, furnished by the ministers of Emanuel church and their medical associates, of the psychological, medical and religious facts and principles upon which their practice of psychic healing is based.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 266. N. ’08.
“The several contributors do not really agree, nor can the exposition be said to be particularly helpful to those acquainted with the current views as to psychic treatment. Dr. Worcester’s insistence upon an independent and mystic subconscious mind is unfortunate, and does not strengthen the practical side of the volume. But it will serve a timely and useful purpose, and for that it should be welcomed.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 17. Jl. 1, ’08. 450w.
=Ind.= 65: 431. Ag. 20, ’08. 500w.
“The book is marked throughout with an admirable modesty and moderation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 376. Jl. 4, ’08. 1000w.
“No more needed book on the general subject of psychotherapy has lately come forth, and none more likely to exert beneficent influence wherever read.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 625. Jl. 18, ’08. 280w.
Reviewed by H. A. Bruce.
=Outlook.= 90: 702. N. 28, ’08. 1250w.
=Wordsworth, William.= Letters of Wordsworth’s family from 1787 to 1855; collected and ed. by W: Knight. 3v. $7.50. Ginn.
7–38248.
“Three volumes of Wordsworth letters now collected together for the first time.... The merit of the collection lies rather in the completeness of the view which it gives us of Wordsworth’s history than in the novelty of its contents, though these include some interesting unpublished matter,—notably the newly discovered series of letters addressed to Coleridge. In bringing together and arranging chronologically a great correspondence which hitherto has lain strewn up and down among a multitude of memoirs, remains, and miscellaneous publications, Professor Knight has done a lasting service to literature.”—Spec.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 140. My. ’08.
“Ill arranged, scantily annotated, and poorly indexed. With all its faults, this edition of the ‘Letters’ is indispensable to the student of Wordsworth.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 630. My. 23. 570w.
“There is not a great deal that is new in Mr. Knight’s ‘Letters of the Wordsworth family,’ and the editing can only be described as chaotic yet we may be thankful to have the correspondence of the poet and his household brought together in any form.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 49. Jl. 16, ’08. 4800w.
“In their store of fresh material, illuminating, by both data and comment, the characters of most of Wordsworth’s great contemporaries; in the light flashed upon his own nature from many facts, and in the complete expression of his opinions upon subjects of permanent interest,—these letters will henceforth be indispensable to the student of Wordsworth, and they supply much that will be invaluable to future biographies, not only of Wordsworth, but of his fellow poets.” J. B. Rittenhouse.
+ + =No. Am.= 188: 292. Ag. ’08. 1450w.
“It is only to be regretted that he has not stated clearly the source of each letter, and thus afforded the reader at once a useful clue thru the labyrinth of already published Wordsworthiana, and the means of arriving, without the effort of a somewhat elaborate collation, at what is new in the present book.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 460. Mr. 21, ’08. 1450w.
=Workman, Fanny Bullock, and Workman, William Hunter.= Ice-bound heights of the Mustagh: an account of two seasons of pioneer exploration and high climbing in the Baltistan Himalaya. il. *$5. Scribner.
8–18698.
“The authors show in detail what a serious sport mountain-climbing may become. The story of their climbs in the ice-world of the Himalaya is a record of scientific observations and discoveries comprehensible only to those who are masters of the science of geography, and of interest only to those who have some knowledge of mountain-climbing, or those who wish to enlarge their information regarding the physiography of the world. Here and there in the book the general reader will find some ordinary statement of fact that will interest him.”—Dial.
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+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 633. My. 23. 1200w.
“As mountain climbers bent on increasing the world’s knowledge of scientific geographical data, they have succeeded to an unusual degree.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 346. Je. 1, ’08. 350w.
“The volume contains a large amount of interesting matter: running comment on botany and geology, and even the record of animalculæ at a height of 17,000 feet; sketches of people and notes on the nature of the country.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 538. Je. 11, ’08. 700w.
“A book of rare interest to mountain climbers and to all lovers of travel and of adventure.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 112. F. 29, ’08. 150w.
“The book is not only a scientific record in narrative form, but also an invaluable guide for others who may wish to attempt the same ascents. It has the special interest of dealing with positive explorations on mighty peaks heretofore never scaled.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 274. My. 16, ’08. 250w.
“The writing is correct enough, but wholly without any sort of charm, and this chronicle of continual success leaves an impression of self-satisfaction which is probably due only to the method employed. It is not a book to read for any literary quality, but only for the interest of the facts.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 621. Ap. 18, ’08. 1450w.
=Workman, Rev. George Coulson.= Servant of Jehovah; or, The passion prophecy of Scripture analyzed and elucidated. *$1.60. Longmans.
“The work is a careful historical exegesis of all the ‘Servant passages’ in the Deutero-Isaiah. Professor Workman’s view is that ‘the servant is always the Israelitish nation, or the Jewish church, contemplated by the prophet either from the point of view of its actual condition or from the point of view of its divine vocation.’ This has come to be the opinion of modern students generally.”—Ind.
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“Some of the arguments advanced in Prof. Workman’s book may be open to serious question; but the treatise can nevertheless be recommended as an able and even eloquent exposition of the prophecy as viewed by a very influential school of critics.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 438. Ap. 13. 170w.
“It is sane and spiritual. The treatment is scholarly, but not technical; thus the book will be found interesting and instructive by all who are concerned for such things.”
+ =Bib. World.= 30: 239. S. ’07. 40w.
“Deserving of attention.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 160. Ja. 16, ’08. 90w.
=Worthington, Arthur Mason.= Study of splashes. *$2. Longmans.
An untechnical treatment based upon the author’s photographic study of splashes. “The numerous photographs of splashes—197 in all—are chosen for their beauty as well as for their appropriateness in illustrating different phases of the phenomena, and are well reproduced. The apparatus used in obtaining the photographs is described, and the fundamental principles involved in the formation of splashes are also briefly but clearly explained.” (Phys. R.)
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“Should find a place in every scientific library.” C. V. Boys.
+ =Nature.= 78: 666. O. 29, ’08. 1700w.
“A particularly fascinating volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 470. Ag. 29, ’08. 1400w.
+ =Phys. R.= 27: 223. S. ’08. 300w.
“Is a brilliant monograph, and deserves to pass at once into the rank of classic works of the kind.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 200. Ag. 8, ’08. 110w.
=Wright, Henry Burt.= Life with a purpose: memorial of John Lawrence Thurston, first missionary of the Yale mission. **$1.50. Revell.
8–10897.
“A memorial to John Lawrence Thurston, who, at the very beginning of his career as a missionary in China, was ordered home on account of ill health and soon died of consumption. The volume has been prepared by many hands of relatives, friends and associates. All who knew him intimately contributed of their knowledge. Beginning with his childhood, his life is portrayed and the development of his character is traced with the utmost detail by means of his own letters and diaries and the reminiscences of his friends.”—N. Y. Times.
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=Nation.= 87:463. N. 12, ’08. 160w.
“As a human document the volume is of interest to all who value such intimate studies of mind and spirit as well as for those who care for the work in which he was engaged.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 239. Ap. 25, ’08. 170w.
=Wright, Mabel Osgood.= Gray Lady and the birds: stories of the bird year for home and school. il. **$1.75. Macmillan.
7–38237.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 96. Mr. ’08.
“As a book for children to read to themselves its success is [somewhat] doubtful, for it contains somewhat solid food for tender digestions.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 327. Mr. 14. 350w.
“It is a useful book altho somewhat padded with poems and other quotations.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 50. Ja. 2, ’08. 90w.
“The many lovers of Mabel Osgood Wright’s books will find the present a particularly good example of her work.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 40. Ja. 25, ’08. 210w.
“Nothing better in the way of bird-lore for children has appeared than this pleasant, human, true book.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 875. D. 21, ’07. 160w.
=Wright, Mabel Osgood.= Open window: tales of the months. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–18722.
A story for every month of the year. In lights varying from the cold, “hard moon” of January to the mellow “moon of falling leaves” nature’s byplaces and remote hamlets are made to reveal their influence on the vital things of life. The author is a past master in portraying the delightful sympathy between nature and its lovers, and in defining the quality of human kindness which nature-training produces.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 247. O. ’08. ✠
“‘Barbara’s’ work is open to the criticism that is often trivial and sometimes sentimentally false. However, a ‘nice’ atmosphere environs it, and that counts.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 400. O. 3. 180w.
“Twelve tales ‘of the months,’ good work all of them, each with a bit of observation of life in it, and with here and there a line of interpretation.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 551. S. 3, ’08. 50w.
“She has the graceful affectionate manner of the feminine diarist, the faculty of chronicling the small beer of experience without seeming impertinent or dull.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 265. S. 17, ’08. 100w.
“Written in an excellent vein, with a strain of imaginative richness to give color to the narratives.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 377. Jl. 4, ’08. 160w.
“The anticipations excited by the appearance of a new volume by the author of ‘The garden of a commuter’s wife’ will not be disappointed.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 412. S. 19, ’08. 750w.
=Wright, Sidney.= Romance of the world’s fisheries: interesting descriptions of the many and curious methods of fishing in all parts of the world. *$1.50. Lippincott.
8–2215.
A book for the general reader which describes the methods of fishing for whales, seals, pearls, sponges, salmon, sardines, anchovy, mackerel, etc. The implements required, nets, hooks, lines, baskets, and the trawl of antiquity receive their share of attention.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 87. Mr. ’08.
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 747. N. 16, ’07. 850w.
=Wright, Walter Page.= Perfect garden: how to keep it beautiful and fruitful; with practical hints on economical management and the culture of all the principal flowers, fruits and vegetables. *$2. Lippincott.
8–31981.
“Mr. Wright’s aim is to show an amateur how to pick a suitable spot for a garden, and then, ‘how to keep it beautiful and fruitful.’ He deals with flowers, fruits, and vegetables, and gives some space also to glass-houses.”—Nation.
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“Among the innumerable books on gardening which have been produced during the last few years, this by Mr. Wright is one of the best.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 546. O. 31. 680w.
“Naturally he offers very little that is original; but he makes all his points with skill and excellent judgment.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 166. Ag. 20, ’08. 250w.
“As far as we have examined the book we have found it judicious and practical.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 101. Jl. 18, ’08. 70w.
=Wright, William Kelley.= Ethical significance of feeling, pleasure, and happiness in modern non-hedonistic systems. *50c. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–36261.
The monograph is a critical study of the teachings of philosophers from Descartes thru Green and Nietzsche. The divisions of the study are as follows: Introduction, The perfectionists, The British non-Hedonists, Modified perfectionism, Kant, Several nineteenth-century non-Hedonists, and Conclusion.
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“He has given a concise and careful statement of the growth of an ethical problem and of various proposed solutions. Though primarily ethical in its scope, this essay, in the attention it gives to the definition of pleasure, becomes a valuable contribution to the history of psychology as well as to the field of ethics.” Kate Gordon.
+ =J. Philos.= 5: 217. Ap. 9, ’08. 1400w.
Reviewed by F. H. Rousmaniere.
+ =Philos. R.= 17: 559. S. ’08. 520w.
=Wright, Wilmer Cave.= Short history of Greek literature from Homer to Julian. *$1.50. Am. bk.
7–32173.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“It would be difficult to recommend this little book too highly.”
+ + + =Acad.= 73: 272. D. 21, ’07. 410w.
“An excellent sketch.”
+ =Class. J.= 3: 128. Ja. ’08. 10w.
“I have taken up this book on different days and at various hours, when fresh and when tired, and have never failed to become interested.” C. F. S.
+ =Class. J.= 3: 242. Ap. ’08. 670w.
“The views expressed are sane and reasonable, and the style is, on the whole, agreeable in spite of a few lapses into figurative expressions of doubtful taste. Mrs. Wright hardly does justice to the poetry of Bacchylides.” H. N. Fowler.
+ − =Class. Philol.= 3: 217. Ap. ’08. 500w.
“It is well done and it will serve either as a reading book or as a book of reference.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 206. S. ’08. 80w.
“No one has better rendered into English the spirit of the devil-may-care Archilochus.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 312. Ag. 6, ’08. 100w.
“Adequate learning, wide reading, the critical equipment, good taste and good judgment, a pleasing and readable style, a thread of individuality shining through the mass of the material—these are the qualities which impart to this small manual genuine value beyond its modest pretensions.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 240. Mr. 12, ’08. 800w.
=Wundt, Wilhelm Max.= Outlines of psychology; tr. with the co-operation of the author, by C. H. Judd. 3d rev. English ed. from the 7th rev. German ed. *$2.25. Stechert.
A new edition whose most notable change is the inclusion of some twenty figures and diagrams, with new explanatory matter in the text.
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“One has only words of praise for this volume as it now stands in its third English dress, and Professor Judd is to be warmly commended for the skill and pains with which he has executed his task.” A. H. Pierce.
+ =Philos. R.= 17: 228. Mr. ’08. 500w.
“English-speaking students are fortunate in possessing such a scholarly translation of the great psychologist’s answer to the average student’s needs.” Raymond Dodge.
+ =Science=, n.s. 26: 588. N. 1, ’07. 400w.
=Wylde, C. H.= How to collect continental china. (How to ser.) $2. Macmillan.
8–13288.
“Mr. Wylde gives the history of all the important old European factories, devoting most space to Sévres, where soft paste porcelain reached its perfection, and to Meissen, where the use of hard paste was discovered. There is also a careful account of the forms and styles of decoration characteristic of the various factories, many of whose productions are reproduced in some of the forty excellent plates. The makers’ marks are also reproduced in facsimile.”—Dial.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 217. Je. ’08.
=Dial.= 44: 138. Mr. 1, ’08. 160w.
=Ind.= 64: 526. Mr. 5, ’08. 150w.
“Mr. Wylde has covered a very great deal of ground, and his book should be of considerable value to the collector.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 243. S. ’08. 130w.
“Because the description of each type is led up to with a little exposition of the personality and motives of the potters, the book leaves an impression of being readable and entertaining.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 563. Je. 18, ’08. 350w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 513. F. 29, ’08. 100w.
“The information is in the main correct throughout, and given as concisely and briefly as possible. The experienced collector as well as the beginner will find this a thoroughly useful book. The index is quite comprehensive.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 146. F. 1, ’08. 160w.
“Mr. Wylde’s volume will be found a useful guide.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 29. Ja. 4. ’08. 280w.
=Wyllarde, Dolf.= Mafoota: a romance of Jamaica. †$1.50. Lane.
8–6988.
The story of a self-exiled wife’s development from a pinched, frigid girl, disliking her husband, into a lovable woman who returns to him with the trophies of her better experiences.
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“The story marks an advance on the author’s part in a wider and brighter horizon.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 650. N. 23. 250w.
“The author appears, to us, to have handled her material with delicacy, strength, and sincerity. Lovers of straightforward writing, writing that is also instinct with emotional qualities, will give Dolf Wyllarde the credit she deserves.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 114. F. 29, ’08. 300w.
=Wyllie, Bertie.= Sheffield plate. (Newnes library of applied arts.) *$2.50. Scribner.
7–40880.
A handbook “written with a complete knowledge of its subject both as regards its technical and artistic aspects and with the view of reviving an industry almost on the verge of extinction. The illustrations—some six score in number—will serve as a guide to those ignorant of the beauty of these last products of the old handicraft methods of working, and may help to preserve others lying about unregarded, and awaken their owners to a sense of their value.”—Ath.
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“It will be useful and interesting not only to the collector and designer, but also to many households throughout the country.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 135. F. 1. 220w.
“An enthusiastic collector himself, he avoids the dry, statistical tone that discourages the beginner, and he possesses a happy faculty—somewhat rare in students of the antique—of saying clearly and exactly what he means.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 81. F. 1, ’08. 150w.
=Int. Studio.= 33: 336. F. ’08. 150w.
“One of the most infectiously enthusiastic of recent books on any of the arts and crafts.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 520. Je. 4, ’08. 400w.
=Wyzewa, Teodore de.= Some women loving or luckless; tr. from the French by C. H. Jeaffreson. **$2.50. Lane.
Sketches of fourteen lives of women of different climes and times all meeting upon a plane of despair and suffering, and all furnishing in their life record a human document of universal interest. Among them are some of Henry VIII’s wives, Sophia Dorothea the wife of George I of England, Caroline von Günderode, Mary Stuart, Mary Woolstonecraft, Constanza Monti, Fanny Burney and Mrs. Browning.
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“His pronouncements are in general vitiated by a noticeable lack of the judicial faculty, which is especially apparent in his estimate of Henry VIII. The translation, though abounding in literalisms ... is above the average.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 470. O. 17. 270w.
“There is not one of these papers which is not interesting. They are written with a Gaelic grace and sympathy, with a strong, even a naif Catholic lien, yet with the knowledge and insight of a man of the world.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 594. O. 24, ’08. 540w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 622. O. 24, ’08. 20w.
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* =Ybarra, Thomas R.= Davy Jones’s yarns and other salted songs. **$1.25. Holt.
The “yarns,” five in number, relate in rhyme how Davy Jones met an Icecreamberg; how a Swiss Admiral helped him out of trouble in Russia; how he and the Swiss Admiral chased the Mince Pirates; how he and Professor Bim went to Cuba to kill the revolution bug; and how he met with a typhoon. The “Salted songs” are in the same hilarious vein. The illustrations are as spirited as they are funny.
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“A fantastic quality in their humor that is as unusual as it is delightful.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 415. D. 1, ’08. 120w.
“The drawings rescue the verses from the commonplace.” W. G. Bowdoin.
− + =Ind.= 65: 1467. D. 17, ’08. 30w.
=Yeats, William Butler, and Gregory, Isabelle A.= Unicorn from the stars, and other plays. *$1.50. Macmillan.
8–16447.
Containing The unicorn from the stars, by Lady Gregory and W. B. Yeats; Cathleen ni Houlihan, by W. B. Yeats; The hour-glass, by W. B. Yeats.
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“The plays impress us as having little dramatic character: we should say that they conveyed their idea chiefly by symbol rather than by action. We like to read and enjoy them, rather than criticize them.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 255. O. 16, ’08. 360w.
“It would be easy to exaggerate the importance of them as plays, impossible to deny their significance as first fruits of a veritable national drama.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 540. Je. 11, ’08. 620w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 217. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
=Yerkes, Robert Mearns.= Dancing mouse: a study in animal behavior. (Animal behavior ser., v. 1.) *$1.25. Macmillan.
7–34599.
“The book is a thoroughly scientific study of behavior in one of the higher animals,—a work of really fundamental interest to all students of comparative psychology.... The first five chapters are devoted more particularly to the special peculiarities of the dancing mouse; to its origin and history; to its extraordinary ‘dance’ movements; to methods of breeding and care; to the controversy that has long existed regarding the structure of the ear and the sense of hearing. With the sixth chapter, on the sense of hearing, begins the account of the author’s own investigations.”—Psychol. Bull.
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“This study is the nearest approach yet made by any student of behavior to giving a complete and systematic account of the varieties and complexities of the actions of a mammalian race.” J: B. Watson.
+ =J. Philos.= 5: 184. Mr. 26, ’08. 2000w.
“Apart from its value as a contribution to science, the book is an extremely readable one, and is, moreover, admirably bound and printed.” W. B.
+ =Nature.= 77: 533. Ap. 9, ’08. 400w.
“The distinguishing feature of the work lies in the ingenious and extremely valuable methods of experimental investigation worked out by Yerkes; this makes the book really indispensable to every investigator in this field.” H. S. Jennings.
+ =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 92. Mr. 15, ’08. 900w.
“To people who have not followed the recent developments in this field of science the book is a revelation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 112. Ja. ’08. 80w.
“Aside from its general usefulness as a reference book for the research student, the book forms a valuable guide to the technique of experimentation upon animals.” J: B. Watson.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 28: 151. Jl. 31, ’08. 1950w.
=York, Francis L.= Counterpoint simplified. (Music students lib.) $1.25. Ditson.
8–1124.
A resetting of old well-known principles of strict counterpoint in as convenient and as concise a form as possible.
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“A textbook that merits high commendation. Its statements are clear and orderly, and its examples valuable.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 243. O. ’08.
* =Young, Alexander Bell Filson.= When the tide turns. †$1.50. Estes.
“The hero is a young artist with genius for expression by means of the line. His eyesight and his feelings are both a bit morbid at the start, but the controversies that his work arouses set his feet more firmly upon the road to fame.... There comes to him the great love, and its object is the wife of his best friend. The author has no doubts whatever about the right solution of the problem, and neither, after an hour’s reasoning about it has the artist.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Mr. Filson Young shows his youth in many ways throughout this book. It ‘reads young,’ and there is youth to account for and excuse certain errors in treatment. He writes admirably, and by far the pleasantest parts of his book are the descriptions of nature, which are frequent.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 715. D. 5. 140w.
“Without detriment to his narrative the author might have been more discreet in his accounts of the young man’s experiments with the tree of knowledge.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 789. D. 19, ’08. 340w.
“The book falls into pieces which owe nothing to each other, written in different styles, different veins, and of different people.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 674. N. 28, ’08. 400w.
=Younghusband, George John.= Story of the Guides. *$2.25. Macmillan.
8–27167.
A narrative of some of the adventures of the corps of guides organized in India in 1846 to furnish aid to troops in the field and to collect information. “It is full of interest from the first chapter, in which a brief sketch of the raising of the corps by ‘Joe’ Lumsden is given—through the description of distinguished service which began then, and has since been continuous—to the final chapter, in which ‘the home of the guides’ at Mardá is described.” (Ath.)
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“Deserves a cordial welcome for several reasons, but primarily because of its intrinsic merits, which are many. There is little to find fault with in the book, but that little should not have been there.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 727. Je. 13. 780w.
“From this ‘story’ one gains a new and higher appreciation of the Indian’s character, not only as regards his bravery, but more especially his absolute devotion to duty.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 98. Jl. 30, ’08. 740w.
“It is the rough material out of which history is made.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 232. Ag. 15, ’08. 1300w.
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=Zamacois, Miguel.= The jesters: a simple story in four acts of verse, adapted from the French, by J: N. Raphael. **$1. Brentano’s.
8–6085.
A translation done into English rime.
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“Why this translation should have been deemed worthy of preservation in permanent form it is not easy to guess—for it is a most inadequate performance. The lines exhibit few traces of literary facility or poetic instinct.”
− =Nation.= 86: 428. My. 1, ’08. 270w.
“It is a bit of the old lace of literature, archaic and euphuistic, but with the conventional threads woven into a gossamer woof of verse.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 275. My. 16, ’08. 270w.
=Zeuner, Gustav Anton.= Technical thermodynamics; authorized translation by J. F. Klein. 2v. *$8. Van Nostrand.
7–29742.
This first English translation has been made from the fifth complete and revised original German edition. Volume one contains a discussion of The fundamental laws of thermodynamics, theory of gases; volume two treats of The theory of vapors.
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“Of interest both to the pure physicist and to the engineer. The translation is on the whole clear and accurate. The sentences are often German in construction, and the frequent use of compound words leaves no doubt as to their origin. The fault is palpable throughout, rendering the text clumsy and troublesome to read even when the meaning is clear.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 388. Mr. 28. 370w.
“A standard work which should be in all technical libraries.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 154. My. ’08.
=Zueblin, Charles.= Religion of a democrat. *$1. Huebsch.
8–12540.
Professor Zueblin outlines the religion of a democrat in six chapters dealing with Temperament and personality, The constraint of orthodoxy, The decay of authority, Religion and the church, Religion and the state, and Impersonal immortality. The first five chapters argue for the renunciation of time-honored hindrances to living issues and the development of a greater social utility to be achieved thru the State; while the last chapter deduces the subjective obligations of democratic religion, which are considered under the term of “impersonal immortality.”
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“The reader cannot fail to be quickened and profited by so thoughtful, unconventional, and earnest a discussion of the great religious realities.” N. P. Gilman.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 267. S. ’08. 370w.
“Though ... we are not at all times prepared to accept Professor Zueblin’s views, we regard this work as on the whole one of the most helpful and constructive contributions to economic progress which has appeared in recent years.”
+ − =Arena.= 40: 117. Jl. ’08. 2400w.
“The atmosphere of the book is fresh and free and bracing.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 67. Ag. 1, ’08. 300w.
“These essays constitute a suitable companion volume to the author’s ‘A decade of civic development.’” I: Aw Loos.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 333. D. ’08. 700w.
=Ind.= 65: 557. S. 3, ’08. 110w.
=Outlook.= 89: 392. Je. 20, ’08. 200w.
“A fine, sensible contribution to modern thought, to current efforts to solve present-day problems. The book is radical and fearless, though scarcely conclusive—perhaps the more valuable for that reason.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 331. Je. 13, ’08. 440w.
=Zwemer, Samuel Marinus.= Islam, a challenge to faith: studies on the Mohammedan religion and the needs and opportunities of the Mohammedan world from the standpoint of Christian missions. $1. S. V. M.
7–39397.
“The present volume by a missionary scholar long resident in Arabia is a compact compendium of complete information on all the facts pertinent to a complete understanding of its present conditions, political, religious, ethical, and social, of the problem presented to Christendom by the antagonist which now dominates a seventh part of mankind.”—Outlook.
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“A useful compendium of up-to-date information regarding a subject in which Christian churches today are only beginning to take an interest.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 527. Jl. ’08. 60w.
“His most effective chapter is that on ‘The ethics of Islam.’”
+ =Ind.= 65: 782. O. 1, ’08. 100w.
=Outlook.= 88: 98. Ja. 11, ’08. 150w.
“An informing study.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 384. Mr. ’08. 60w.
=Zwemer, Rev. Samuel Marinus, and Brown, Rev. Arthur Judson.= Nearer and farther East: outline studies of Moslem lands and of Siam, Burma and Korea. (United study of missions.) *50c. Macmillan.
8–15133.
“Dr. Zwemer, who writes on the general characteristics of Islam and the problem of Christian missions in Mohammedan countries, dwells vividly and fervently on the points in which Mohammedan theory and practice in religion, morality, and government, especially as regards the status of women and freedom of thought and discussion, are inferior to those of Christianity.... Dr. Brown, on the other hand, who writes of Siam, Burma, and Korea, describes in a broad and straightforward fashion the physical, social, and political conditions of those countries, with simple recitals, excellently put, of what enlightened missionary effort has accomplished.”—Nation.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 300. D. 08. ✠
=Ind.= 64: 1451. Je. 25, ’08. 100w.
“One cannot but hope that those who will use this volume as a basis for missionary studies in churches and societies may arise part to the wider social plane of the second.” from the complacent spirituality of the first.
+ =Nation.= 87: 160. Ag. 20, ’08. 360w.
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