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=Wagner, Charles.=^{[7]} Home of the soul; tr. from the French by Laura Sanford Hoffmann; with an introd. by Lyman Abbott. **$1.20. Funk.

9–18053.

First messages delivered in the author’s institutional church in Paris, known as “The home of the soul.” The pastor’s religion as embodied in these sermons is summed up by Lyman Abbott as follows: “To find God, study your fellow men: to serve God, serve your fellow men; to teach men the Fatherhood of God, inspire in them a sense of human brotherhood.”

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+ =Dial.= 47: 127. S. 1, ’09. 230w. + =Lit. D.= 39: 448. S. 18, ’09. 270w.

“The translation is for the most part devoid of literary merit, though it must be confessed that Pastor Wagner is not himself a literary artist. His appeal, however, is not strictly to the intellectuality; rather it is to the emotion of righteousness.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 476. Ag. 7, ’09. 700w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 256. Ag. ’09. 40w.

=Wagner, Richard.=^{[5]} Richard to Minna Wagner: letters to his first wife; tr. with preface by William Ashton Ellis. 2v. *$7. Scribner.

9–20264.

Letters which reveal the fatal significance of the union of Richard and Minna Wagner. “Mr. Ellis contributes an introduction of fourteen pages, in which he discusses various points in the tragic conjugal life of Richard and Minna Wagner, the most ill-mated couple that were ever brought together. ‘My marriage—not a soul knows what I have suffered through that,’ he wrote to his sister in 1866. Now all the world can read the story. The fact that Minna preserved these letters, containing so many lamentations and reproaches, is noted by Mr. Ellis as one of her good traits.” (Nation.)

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“The world shows a pardonable curiosity to learn as much as possible about the lives of men who have distinguished themselves. Hence these letters will be perused with interest.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 446. Ap. 10. 770w.

“The letters of Richard Wagner constitute a history of his intellectual life astonishing and unique.” L: J. Block.

+ =Dial.= 47: 231. O. 1, ’09. 2200w. + =Nation.= 88: 494. My. 13, ’09. 450w.

“Mr. Ellis now gives us these voluminous letters of Wagner to his first wife as a sort of pendant to the letters of Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck; and it may be also, as a sort of ‘pièce justificative’ after those remarkable outpourings, as a sort of rehabilitation of the composer. They will indeed serve in that way.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 325. My. 22, ’09. 1050w.

=Wagner, Richard.=^{[9]} Valkyrie; a dramatic poem, freely translated in poetic narrative form by Oliver Huckel. **75c. Crowell.

9–25250.

Mr. Huckel’s fifth volume of the Wagner music-dramas and the second of the “Ring” cycle, the first, the “Rhinegold” appearing last year. The translation of the poem is preceded by one of the author’s illuminating forewords in which the sources of the drama, the story and its significance are considered.

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“A narrative paraphrase of the drama’s action, dialogue, and setting that avoids the rawness of the usual libretto and at the same time conveys more information.”

+ =Dial.= 47: 522. D. 16, ’09. 50w.

=Walden, John W: H:=^{[12]} Universities of ancient Greece. **$1.50. Scribner.

9–29251.

Lectures delivered at Harvard university in 1904 form the nucleus of this book which aims to atone for the lack of consideration given to Greek education of imperial times and to interest students of education and of philology, also general readers. Beginning with a short account of Athenian education in pre-Alexandrian times, and of the conditions which prevailed in Grecian lands in the last three centuries B. C., the author follows the history of the establishment of universities and discusses their status, management and achievements, their essential elements, the teachers and students, the spirit of learning and the enthusiasm for intellectual ideals.

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“Scholarly volume.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 763. D. ’09. 50w.

=Waldstein, Charles, and Shoobridge, Leonard.= Herculaneum, past, present, and future. *$5. Macmillan.

8–37672.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

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“The useful portion of the book comprises the appendices with the exception of the first, the plates, and part 1, but unfortunately this last section which should have been made the best and most valuable of all is marred by so many signs of haste and of being a purely perfunctory performance, that it is unsatisfactory.” S. B. P.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 376. Ja. ’09. 600w.

“Though written from the archeologic standpoint and containing considerable matter not of general interest, it warrants notice as an important work by an authority on a subject having very little adequate treatment.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 22. Ja. ’09.

“Illustrated by an admirable series of photographs, which alone would give considerable value to the book.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 108. Ja. 23. 750w.

“The narrative is compiled from the best sources and deserves a cordial welcome.” F. B. Tarbell.

+ − =Class. J.= 4: 142. Ja. ’09. 550w.

“With the main thesis of the book, that Herculaneum should be excavated, everyone will agree; but in regard to Professor Waldstein’s extremely positive assertions concerning the richness of the treasure buried there, and his insistence on the preëminence of this over all other ancient sites, there will hardly be the same unanimity.” G. J. Laing.

+ − =Dial.= 46: 112. F. 16, ’09. 1400w. + =Lit. D.= 38: 224. F. 6, ’09. 450w.

“It is a pity that there is not included a general chapter on the art of Herculaneum, with a short discussion of the more important pieces found there.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 97. Ja. 28, ’09. 900w.

=Wales, Hubert.=^{[5]} Hilary Thornton. †$1.50. Estes.

9–4486.

“Let it be said at once that the story has not a ‘happy ending.’ It is concerned with the love of a man for a woman—a sufficiently old story, but none the less potent for all that. Thornton is a clerk in a law office, almost stifled under briefs and abstracts and the habit of looking at the crises of human lives as so many ‘cases.’ Mrs. Randolph Wynne is a noted writer, no bas bleu, but a woman first who happens to be a celebrity afterwards. She raises Thornton to his own level intellectually, and then raises him above it spiritually.”—N. Y. Times.

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“One lays down this book with a sense of distaste, despite its manifestly high ethical intent. It seems to represent the inherent unwholesomeness of modern introspection, focussed upon the unpleasant possibilities of marriage; it is a congress of horrible examples.”

− =Nation.= 88: 489. My. 13, ’09. 130w.

“There is nothing banal in the book; it appeals to the intelligence as well as to the emotions. It is a study in human nature well worth writing and decidedly well worth reading.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 161. Mr. 20, ’09. 230w.

=Walford, Lucy Bethia (Mrs. Alfred S. Walford). Leonore Stubbs.= †$1.50. Longmans.

9–35328.

“Leonore Stubbs is the daughter of a country gentleman, married in her teens to a business man, who, dying bankrupt three years later, leaves her with no refuge but her father’s house. Her sufferings in this gloomy and not over-peaceful environment, and her adventures with the suitors attracted partly by her reputed wealth and partly by a more romantic motive, are described with Mrs. Walford’s wonted humour.”—Ath.

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“There is some good character delineation.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 93. Mr. ’09.

“The conclusion of the book is out of harmony with the beginning.”

− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 569. N. 7. 130w.

“The characterizing is one of the book’s chief attractions, and includes a variety of new and not unoriginal actors. The story flows unhindered, perfectly readable if not soul-stirring.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 632. D. 24, ’08. 270w.

“There is a good deal of clever portraiture of character in the book, and some skill in the working out of the plot.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 52. Ja. 23, ’09. 220w.

“Pleasant little story.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 616. N. 14, ’08. 160w.

=Walk, Charles Edmonds.=^{[10]} Yellow circle. †$1.50. McClurg.

9–26145.

A mystery story that starts with the dramatic incident of the interruption of a fashionable wedding by a swarthy looking man who whispers a word to the bride, drops a bracelet into her hand, and rushes away followed by the horror-stricken young woman. After thrilling adventure covering four days it comes to light that the villain’s power over the girl was the result of a long series of intrigues, begun in a college secret organization, and planned for the purpose of winning her and also her father’s fortune.

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“Is at once an interesting conundrum and a good detective story. The mystery, of course, is the thing, and it is not neglected while the author puts a little flesh-and-blood work into the people concerned in it.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 764. D. 4, ’09. 150w.

=Walker, Margaret Coulson.= Bird legend and life. **$1.25. Baker.

8–31846.

A collection of the most important avian legends and superstitions in which the author hunts for the evidences of apparent truth. The legendary sketch in each instance is supplemented by an instructive sketch of the bird’s life, habits, appearance and influence upon man. Includes the owl, wren, eagle, swallow, magpie, king fisher, hawk, vulture, robin, raven, and woodpecker. There are thirty-four full-page illustrations.

=Walker, Williston.= Great men of the Christian church. *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.

8–37051.

A series of twenty brief biographies designed for the reader or student without technical training in church history. The sketches show the conditions of church life and thought in which the various leaders did their work, and illustrate a great variety of service, life and experience.

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“The chapters are full of life and movement and are well calculated to quicken interest and arouse readers and students to thought and further study.” H: F. Cope.

+ =Bib. World.= 33: 353. My. ’09. 350w.

“In every chapter we find some remark to set students thinking. The book is primarily for them.”

+ =Outlook.= 91: 774. Ap. 3, ’09. 370w.

=Wall, J. Charles.=^{[5]} Ancient earthworks. 2s. 6d. Talbot, London.

“One of the series of ‘Antiquaries’ primers,’ which is designed for the elementary instruction of the layman with antiquarian leanings.” (Spec.) “The book is indispensable to all who in their journeying over the countryside desire to have something more trustworthy than local tradition to explain those curious formations of the ground which serve better than any history-book to show what a pit of universal strife were these islands in the centuries before the conquest.”—Spec.

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“Mr. Wall is well qualified to write upon this topic.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 764. Je. 26. 150w.

“The volume should not only start many inquiring into the subject, but should do something to correct the ‘flighty legends’ given in irresponsible guide-books.”

+ =Sat. R.= 106: 676. N. 28, ’08. 90w.

“The subject has a fascination that is all its own, and in the hundred and forty pages of which this booklet is composed ample justice is done to it by means of careful and intelligible classification, some excellent plates, and more than sixty illustrations of the formation of earthworks.”

+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 645. Ap. 24, ’09. 200w.

=Wallace, Charles William.= Children of the chapel at Blackfriars, 1597–1603. *$2.50. Charles W. Wallace, Lincoln, Neb.

9–856.

“An issue of the ‘University studies’ of the University of Nebraska. It is the result of an extensive original investigation of the history of the Elizabethan children-companies of players, and is only a foretaste of what is to come, for the writer contemplates extending the work until it shall fill three large volumes, including the many documents which he will reprint. Some of these documents are of extreme importance to Shakespearean students, and are of the author’s own unearthing. They are merely referred to in the present monograph, but will be published in full when the complete work is ready.”—Dial.

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=Dial.= 46: 55. Ja. 16, ’09. 130w.

“Professor Wallace’s book is the most thorough study we have of an Elizabethan theatre—to be sure, for a limited period of its existence, but that the most important. The evidence on the main thesis, we confess, does not appear to us so conclusive as it does to the author.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 148. F. 11, ’09. 630w.

“The volume in hand is not one which can be classed as eloquent or particularly readable. The book is cordially recommended to students.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 84. F. 13, ’09. 1450w.

=Wallace, Harold Frank.= Stalks abroad: being some account of the sport obtained during a two years’ tour of the world. *$3.50. Longmans.

9–17000.

“‘Stalks abroad’ is a pleasantly written and instructive work on sport and travel which brings home to one’s mind the extraordinary shrinkage which has taken place in the size of the world during the last few decades as a result of rapid transit by steamboat and railway.” (Sat. R.) The author explored for big game the best hunting grounds of America, New Zealand, India, Japan, and British and East Africa.

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“A pleasant description of the sporting side of a holiday.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 196. F. 13. 330w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 164. Mr. 20, ’09. 280w.

“Is full of observations about animals interesting to all hunters and animal lovers.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 380. Je. 12, ’09. 150w.

“The illustrations are excellent and add considerably to the value of a very readable book.” F. C. Selous.

+ =Sat. R.= 107: 41. Ja. 9, ’09. 440w.

“Parts of the book are excellently well written. There are a few trivialities and slang words which might have been omitted.”

+ − =Spec.= 102: 861. My. 29, ’09. 250w.

=Wallace, Lew.=^{[10]} Boyhood of Christ; new ed. $1.50. Harper.

A holiday edition of Mr. Lew Wallace’s story of the boyhood of Christ written in 1888 to fix the impression that Jesus Christ was in all the stages of his life a human being.

=Wallas, Graham.= Human nature in politics. **$1.50. Houghton.

9–35520.

A thoughtful presentation which claims for a study of human nature in politics the service of deepening and widening a knowledge of political institutions and also of opening an unworked mine of political invention. The chapters are grouped under two heads: The conditions of the problem, discussing in turn Impulse and instinct in politics, Political entities, Non-rational inferences in politics, The material of political reasoning and The method of political reasoning; and The possibilities of progress, including Political morality, Representative government, Official thought and Nationality and humanity.

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“The work stands alone and has large value for students of politics; it is heavy reading for the average person.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 145. My. ’09.

“On the whole, his thesis is well worked out, and, considering the mass of details and variety of side lights which he attempts to throw upon his subject, his matter is effectively presented.” W. E. Hotchkiss.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 218. Jl. ’09. 280w.

“The volume is by no means so exclusively designed for the instruction of students as to repel the general reader. The freshest portion lies in the reflections aroused by the treatment, in the same pages, of various types of modern socialism, and two types of Catholicism, represented, on the one hand, by ‘the Pope and his advisers,’ and, on the other, by ‘Modernist’ students of the history of their religion.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 758. D. 12. 450w.

“The book as a whole, is not addressed to men in their private capacities, but to that far lower order of beings, men about to appear in public, men on the point of mounting platforms, getting ready to write leading articles, planning treatises on social science. For that portion of a man which is ready for publication or may be found at any time in a political speech such a book may have a special use—if only as a reminder that there is more of him.” F. M. Colby.

− =Bookm.= 30: 396. D. ’09. 2300w.

“The weakness of Mr. Wallas’s treatment of ‘human nature’ lies in his failure to appreciate the part which custom and sentiment play in preserving the stability of a society.” G: E. Vincent.

+ − =Hibbert J.= 7: 932. Jl. ’09. 620w.

“This is a work in a field hitherto untilled and has the merits and defects of pioneer work.”

+ − =Ind.= 67: 481. Ag. 26, ’09. 200w.

“The book is written in a simple, engaging style, giving ample evidence that together with vision the author has unfailing common sense and humor.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 75. Jl. 22, ’09. 180w.

“Very lively and edifying volume.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 400. Je. 26, ’09. 1700w.

“He has not simply applied already worked out psychological doctrines to a new subject matter: he has enlarged and enriched psychology itself by his interpretation.” Ernest Talbert.

+ =Psychol. Bull.= 6: 412. D. 15, ’09. 1100w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 127. Jl. ’09. 140w.

“Complete, therefore, as is his practical equipment, Mr. Wallas indulges in so many divagations on difficult topics, such as the conflict between inheritance and environment, in so subtle a style that we fear he will be often unintelligible to his readers, unless they happen to attend lectures at the London school of economics. A good deal, too, of his earlier chapters is a repetition, in a less lucid form, of Bagehot’s ‘Physics and politics.’ But the book is well worth the trouble of reading, for it contains many shrewd and humorous observations, and some profound reflections.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 45. Ja. 9, ’09. 1800w.

“Mr. Wallas is always readable and very often instructive. He uses, it may be, the ironical method too much; but he illuminates every subject with which he deals. And of this illumination not the least valuable result will be to make us examine a little more closely and faithfully our own habits of political thought.”

+ − =Spec.= 102: 345. F. 27, ’09. 320w.

“Books of this class are rare. Few men have the combination of abundant knowledge with power of expression required to produce them. Hence they possess unique value.” H: J. Ford.

+ =Yale R.= 18: 101. My. ’09. 580w.

=Waller, Mary Ella.=^{[6]} Year out of life. †$1.50. Appleton.

9–8571.

A year out of the life of an English girl who decides during a leisurely tour thru Germany to translate some work into English. She selects a book of stories, writes to the author for permission to make the translation, and there begins a correspondence which underlies a romance. Uncertainty, at the root of which is a vast amount of egotism, prevents her acceptance of the author’s suit. When she is ready to give him a favorable answer she learns that he is pledged to another.

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“Like a chapter out of real life rather than a tale of the imagination.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 189. Je. ’09. ✠

Reviewed by F: T. Cooper.

=Bookm.= 29: 404. Je. ’09. 230w.

“The book is refreshing, like the home-made ale and nectar that women sometimes brew.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 1344. Je. 17, ’09. 100w.

“From the author of ‘The wood-carver of ’Lympus’ one looks and not in vain, for originality of plan and grace of manner; for a deep-reaching insight equally into the constancies and vagaries of human nature; which makes at times for vagueness; and for a steadfast faith in the beneficence of the ‘something not ourselves.’”

+ =Nation.= 88: 632. Je. 24, ’09. 320w.

“Miss Waller’s style is agreeable and eminently suited to the topic in hand. Occasional charming glimpses of German ways and people and places enliven the volume. If the book is unsatisfactory, it is probably because the writer’s aim was but too well accomplished. She has drawn a selfish, cold, and shallow personality to the life.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 279. My. 1, ’09. 600w.

=Walsh, William Shepard=, ed.^{[5]} Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch: cartoons, comments and poems, published in the London charivari, during the American civil war (1861–1865). **$1. Moffat.

9–8748.

A history of the opposition of the London Punch towards Lincoln, a reproduction of cartoon jibes and jests, and the amends made in Tom Taylor’s poem on Lincoln’s assassination.

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“Will interest many older readers and is a record that larger libraries will wish to add to their Lincoln literature.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 146. My. ’09.

“An interesting side-light is thrown on civil war times by this little book.”

+ =Dial.= 46: 332. My. 16, ’09. 100w.

“It affords a curious glimpse into the humor of a past generation, and has a certain historical interest besides. Mr. Walsh’s own running comment on the cartoons and poems will help younger readers to understand the prejudices and passions of the day.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 384. Ap. 15, ’09. 200w.

“The most interesting of the aftermath, perhaps.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 242. Ap. 17, ’09. 160w.

=Walter, A.=^{[9]} Emperor William First; tr. by G: P. Upton. **60c. McClurg.

9–23799.

A chronological history of the life of Emperor William First, whose simplicity, honesty of character, devotion to duty, love of country and power to act, make his life a study for all youth and all people.

=Walton, George Lincoln.=^{[5]} Practical guide to the wild flowers and fruits. **$1.50. Lippincott.

9–10974.

A discussion of the more widely distributed herbaceous wild flowers. It covers their haunts, characteristics and family relationships, with suggestions for their identification. The arrangement of species has been planned with reference to a sequence of the blossoming time of the members of the important families so that the season of flowering may be followed to a certain extent.

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“Not so good a beginner’s book as Mrs. Parsons’ ‘How to know the wild flowers’ or Mrs. Doubleday’s ‘Nature’s garden,’ but a useful manual where a more extensive work is desired by persons not accustomed to botanical keys.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 183. Je. ’09. ✠

“A capital [volume] to be taken into the country.” G: Gladden.

+ =Bookm.= 29: 546. Jl. ’09. 130w.

“Its distinctive features are, first, the treatment of flowers and fruits in the same volume, and, second, the charts, based on color for large groups, and, for the smaller ones, on simple obvious distinctions of leaf and flower arrangement and flower form.”

+ =Dial.= 46: 374. Je. 1, ’09. 140w.

“The characteristic of the present volume is that as much science as can be hoped for is added, and even an analytical table under each color, with references to sections.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 1245. Je. 3, ’09. 170w.

“The drawings as a rule are not satisfactory, and in one or two instances are distinctly misleading.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 105. Jl. 29, ’09. 140w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 384. Je. 12, ’09. 120w.

=Walton, George Lincoln.=^{[12]} Those nerves. **$1. Lippincott.

9–28552.

A book whose only object “is to promote such peace of mind as may make for health as well as for happiness. In other words, like vaccination, pure milk, and disinfection, it aims to prevent.”

=Warbasse, James Peter.=^{[11]} Medical sociology: a series of observations touching upon the sociology of health and the relations of medicine to society. *$2. Appleton.

9–23786.

“A well-written volume intended to popularize medicine so far as relates to the personal preservation of health.... The work is divided into two parts. The first is intended to interest the lay reader and deals with problems as the alcohol and sexual questions, fresh air, Christian science, eating and talking, an eminently readable and enlightening series of twenty-five short essays. The second part tells us about preventive medicine, medical expert witnesses, the future of medicine, etc.”—Lit. D.

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“Some of these fragments were originally editorial paragraphs in a medical journal: all may be said to be in the manner of the paragrapher rather than the essayist. From this cause the book fails of the appeal which it might have had. Yet it is sincere, and often suggestively phrased, within its limitations.”

+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 652. N. ’09. 140w.

“These thirty-five chapters are really most wise and thoughtful, and lay and professional alike will enjoy and value the whole work.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 688. O. 23, ’09. 140w.

“There is a certain vigor of style in certain passages which is not devoid of beauty either in thought or phrase.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 730. N. 20, ’09. 920w.

=Ward, Archibald Robinson.=^{[6]} Pure milk and the public health: a manual of milk and dairy inspection; with two chapters by Myer Edward Jaffa. *$2. Taylor & Carpenter.

9–12051.

“The author has here presented in relatively small compass the main principles and practices essential to the sanitary and economic supervision of the public milk supply.... It is just what is needed by members of boards of health, secretaries and health officers, to enable them to see what should be done to safeguard the milk supply of a community, and in general how to do it. It will be useful, also, to chemists and bacteriologists, but it makes no pretense of going into the details of the technic of milk examination.”—Engin. N.

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“Valuable work.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 88. N. ’09.

“The book is a very satisfactory one, and it goes without saying that such a volume should be in every health board library in the land.”

+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 64. My. 13, ’09. 330w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 278. My. 1, ’09. 120w.

=Ward, Bernard.=^{[11]} Dawn of the Catholic revival in England. 1781–1803. 2v. *$7. Longmans.

9–18711.

The history of English Catholicism during the last quarter of the eighteenth century. “The entire country is covered by the present writer; but the story of the London district is dealt with in much greater detail than is that of any other section. The writer traces with grateful fidelity the great advantages that accrued to the English church from the coming of the French ‘émigré’ clergy during the revolution; and follows minutely the grave and threatening divisions brought about by the controversies concerning the oath. The disputes between the laity and their hierarchical rulers, and among the rulers themselves, about the time of the relief act, which in the Midland district were not settled till the first years of the nineteenth century, are also set forth.” (Cath. World.)

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+ =Cath. World.= 89: 244. My. ’09. 330w.

“Mr. Ward’s book will be of more than historical value if, read by both Catholics and Protestants, it serves as an influence to weld Englishmen of every church into one great nation.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 932. O. 21, ’09. 1100w. =Sat. R.= 108: 601. N. 13, ’09. 1580w.

=Ward, Elizabeth Stuart.=^{[9]} Jonathan and David. **50c. Harper.

9–22180.

The story of a man and dog friendship that will completely capture the heart of every reader who believes that dog love is immortal. Together they suffer cold and hunger, together they rejoice when a good divinity discovers that the dog, under the master’s instruction, can do tricks that have a money value. Self-respecting, they earn their living—“the dog who had gained so much of the human, and the lonely man who had acquired something of the beautiful canine.”

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=Nation.= 89: 488. N. 18, ’09. 40w.

“A very pretty story, inspired by sentiments of charity toward men and true affection for dogs.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 560. S. 18, ’09. 230w.

“An exquisite and touching tale.”

+ =No. Am.= 190: 843. D. ’09. 60w.

“Full of human dignity and pathos.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 635. N. ’09. 20w.

=Ward, Elizabeth Stuart.=^{[11]} Oath of allegiance, and other stories. **$1.25. Houghton.

9–35852.

Eleven serious short stories. “The sanctity of the marriage-tie with its attendant duties and sacrifices comes in for extended treatment. The marital relation as a hard, but by no means unlovely, bond is the idea emphasized.” (Lit. D.) “The initial story of this volume is based on an odd incident that appears to be taken from real life, the delivery of a love letter to a woman fifteen years after it had been written and after the death of the writer. It is a war-time tale, and throbs with the passionate heroism and sacrifice of those years.” (N. Y. Times.)

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“The characters are well drawn, the situations dramatic and convincingly set forth.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 94. N. ’09. ✠

“Whatever may be urged against the strain of sadness that pervades them, or their ofttimes unsatisfying endings, this much must be conceded,—they reveal a true understanding and interpretation of life.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 686. O. 23, ’09. 240w.

“The material, with its little touches of modern dress, is the old material.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 487. N. 18, ’09. 300w.

“Mrs. Ward rarely fails to breathe into her people some portion of her own intense individuality, and in consequence they seem always to be very much alive—even though she may be writing of them after they are dead.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 673. O. 30, ’09. 160w.

“These are in the author’s best vein, all showing her shrewd but kindly psychological insight.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 635. N. ’09. 40w.

=Ward, Florence Gannon H. (Mrs. J. C. Ward).=^{[10]} Under the northern lights. †$1.50. Wessels.

9–25635.

A well-bred, well-educated New York mining engineer weds in a hasty moment a cheap young woman with the drug habit. He puts her in a sanitarium and turns to the great west for the life of action that can quiet his restless remorse. In an Alaska mining camp he is thrown with a wealthy New Yorker’s family among whose members is a young woman whom he learns to love elementally with the big honesty of heart that had been developed thru the out-of-doors struggle with great northern forces. The author finds a way to happiness that is logical even tho it is unpleasant.

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“The tale is told with dash and a freshness of touch that make it readable, notwithstanding an occasional unwise use of English.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 591. O. 9, ’09. 200w.

=Ward, Harry Marshall.=^{[6]} Trees: a handbook of forest-botany for the woodlands and laboratory. 5v. (Cambridge biological ser.) ea. *$1.50. Putnam.

=v. 4.= Fruits.

“After a general discussion of the morphology of fruits (part 1, 59 pp.), the second part (94 pp.) gives a key to trees and shrubs, based on characters derived from fruits, and accompanied by figures of most of the species.”—Bot. Gaz.

=v. 5.= “This volume dealing with the form of trees is the final one of its series.... Part 1 deals in a general way with the habit or form of trees, and, in addition to the text, the form or habit of the tree is indicated in many instances by illustrations, while the form of the branch-system is also indicated diagrammatically. A series of Mr. Henry Irving’s well-known photographs illustrating the outward appearance of the bark has been included. In part 2 the trees are detailed according to their form and other external appearances. The system of tabulation adopted is similar to that employed in the previous volumes. At the end we have an appendix which contains a classification of trees and shrubs according to their seedlings.”—Nature.

* * * * *

“Like the other parts of the series, this one will doubtless be useful in Great Britain, though it cannot be particularly serviceable in this country. It embodies a good idea, however, which might be applied to the trees of this continent.”

+ − =Bot. Gaz.= 47: 415. My. ’09. 160w. (Review of v. 4.)

“Will be found of use to the expert and student alike, while the beginner who has once started to read it will soon find himself becoming enthusiastic under the inspiring influence of the writer.”

+ =Nature.= 80: 126. Ap. 1, ’09. 200w. (Review of v. 4.)

“It will be admitted on all hands that the late Prof. Marshall Ward has left behind a monumental work which will long be considered a standard on trees.”

+ =Nature.= 81: 64. Jl. 15, ’09. 180w. (Review of v. 5.)

“An exceptionally valuable book for the botanical student, either as a useful aid in the field or in laboratory work.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 166. Mr. 20, ’09. 100w. (Review of v. 4.) + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 384. Je. 12, ’09. 140w. (Review of v. 5.)

=Ward, James.=^{[3]} Fresco painting; its art and technique with special reference to the Buono and spirit fresco methods. *$4.20. Scribner.

W9–123.

“Defines very clearly the essential qualities of the best ancient, mediæval, renaissance and modern frescoes, describes the colours used, the preparation of the walls and methods of execution in the past and present. The author gives reproductions, including several in colour, of typical examples both of fresco-bromo or true fresco and spirit-fresco, devoting considerable space to a searching examination of the present state of the masterpieces of Giotto, Fra Angelico, Benozzo Gozzoli, Perugino, Raphael, Ghirlandajo, Pinturicchio, and Michael Angelo that are still ‘in situ.’”—Int. Studio.

* * * * *

“This book resembles in its first part many similar attempts to explain the process of fresco painting, differing from them, if at all, in being more thorough and practical. The second half hardly rises above the guide-book standard, while we cannot agree with Mr. Ward in thinking the time ripe for a general revival of fresco painting.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 244. Ag. 28. 370w.

“Useful book.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 38: 245. S. ’09. 180w. =Int. Studio.= 39: sup. 24. N. ’09. 100w.

=Ward, Josephine Mary (Hope-Scott) (Mrs. Wilfrid Philip Ward).=^{[11]} Great possessions. **$1.35. Putnam.

9–27448.

A novel that is called the English “House of mirth.” The story opens with the melodramatic circumstances of a distinguished Londoner’s leaving, contrary to law and equity, the bulk of his property not to his wife but to a woman in Florence. It portrays social London at close range, affords a picture of a presentation at court and of lesser conventions of fashionable society, and abounds in clever characterization of London types.

* * * * *

“A book of unusual charm and interest.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 421. O. 9. 160w.

“The best work in the book is the part of it which is most detached from its project and least dependent on the working-out of a plot.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 571. N. 6, ’09. 520w.

“The book is not without blemishes in construction, but they are venial drawbacks which in no way detract from its distinction of thought, its charm of expression, and its originality of characterisation.”

+ − =Spec.= 103: 794. N. 13, ’09. 770w.

=Ward, Mary Augusta (Mrs. Thomas Humphry Ward).=^{[6]} Marriage à la mode. (Eng. title. Daphne.) **$1.20. Doubleday.

9–13541.

A novel which deals with the marriage between a beautiful, wealthy, self-confident American girl and an impecunious Englishman. Mrs. Ward’s purpose is that of treating English and American character and social customs from the point of view of differing national standards. The young woman fosters a jealous frenzy, which a grain of common sense might have averted, and she turns to the American divorce courts for the dissolution of her marriage. The ease with which it is acquired mocks the English sense of outraged justice, until the scales fall from Daphne’s eyes and she sees that a crude state law has confused her moral values and falsified her conscience but had not quite brutalized her. How she attempts to restore the “mutilated divine” within her self is told in the closing pages.

* * * * *

“Mrs. Ward’s story does not give us the impression of time and care spent on it which her earlier novels do; in fact, we are disappointed with it.”

− =Ath.= 1909, 1: 669. Je. 5. 200w.

“The book is superficial in thought and weak in execution, as thin in intellectual content as in art.”

− =Atlan.= 104: 683. N. ’09. 600w.

“It is an irritating book for the American reader.” H. W. Boynton.

− + =Bookm.= 29: 537. Jl. ’09. 1400w.

Reviewed by A. Schade van Westrum.

=Bookm.= 30: 339. D. ’09. 50w.

“We feel that Mrs. Ward has been more intent to point the moral than to adorn the tale.”

− =Cath. World.= 89: 823. S. ’09. 400w.

“It is hardly more than a sketch in dimensions, and bears many evidences of flagging powers and hasty composition.” W: M. Payne.

− =Dial.= 47: 46. Jl. 16, ’09. 220w.

“It is too offensive and bigoted not to attract attention. In it will be found the least flattering, most insulting estimate of American womanhood that has yet been offered to the public.”

− =Ind.= 66: 1295. Je. 10, ’09. 1200w.

“Its forceful appeal compensates largely for lack of style.”

+ − =Lit. D.= 39: 107. Jl. 17, ’09. 200w.

“The disconcerting thing to the American reader is that she apparently regards her Daphne as in some sense typical of our womenkind.”

− =Nation.= 88: 631. Je. 24, ’09. 600w.

“Pulling the wires for a high-bred Englishwoman seated beside her tea table, she is mistress of her puppet show. The result is fine art. When she undertakes to make the American young woman who has brought herself up go through the appropriate motions she achieves burlesque.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 380. Je. 12, ’09. 200w.

“It is because Mrs. Ward has put her cart before her horse, perhaps, that she has fallen so far below her usual standard as a story writer.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 386. Je. 19, ’09. 900w.

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.

=N. Y. Times.= 14: 623. O. 23, ’09. 160w.

“In construction and style ‘Marriage à la mode’ falls distinctly below the level of most of its predecessors. The story is distinctly melodramatic.”

+ − =Outlook.= 92: 348. Je. 12, ’09. 220w.

“The whole thing might have been done on a higher plane, less crudely—should have been so done by this distinguished commentator on human affairs.” H. W. Boynton.

− + =Putnam’s.= 6: 494. Jl. ’09. 520w.

“The story is, in fact, a rather slow-moving discussion of some of the fundamental differences between American and English character and social customs.”

− =R. of Rs.= 40: 124. Jl. ’09. 200w.

“This is by far the best-written novel which Mrs. Humphry Ward has given us, though there is no plot and the characterisation of everybody but Daphne is rather sketchy. The book may shock those who make the mistake of regarding the Americans as a civilised people.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 787. Je. 19, ’09. 950w.

“Is not a cheerful book. It is, in fact, an extremely painful story.”

+ − =Spec.= 102: 823. My. 22, ’09. 1000w.

=Ward, Wilfrid Philip.= Ten personal studies. *$3. Longmans.

9–5493.

Analyses of the characters of the following men “from the standpoint of a conservative and a Catholic”: J. A. Balfour; T. H. Delane; R. H. Hutton; Sir J. Knowles; Henry Sidgwick; Lord Lytton; Father Ryder; Sir M. E. Grant Duff; Leo XIII; Cardinal Wiseman; John Henry Newman; Cardinals Newman and Manning.

* * * * *

“The weakest of these essays is the first, on Mr. Balfour. The other ‘personal’ studies will add to Mr. Wilfrid Ward’s reputation, even if the personal element does not always amount to much.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 671. Je. 5. 340w. =Cath. World.= 88: 679. F. ’09. 1000w.

“It is difficult to decide which study is the most fascinating.” Wilfred Wilberforce.

+ =Cath. World.= 90: 193. N. ’09. 4200w.

“The study of Cardinal Newman is especially good.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 22. Ja. 9, ’09. 150w.

“A personal sketch of Mr. Balfour solely in a tariff reform milieu must be unsatisfactory because it is so imperfect, however interesting it may be as a résumé of a chapter of current politics.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 278. F. 27, ’09. 520w.

“Mr. Ward is never trite or obtuse, and he has that friendly warmth and appreciation which are always acceptable in contemporary criticism.”

+ =Spec.= 102: 542. Ap. 3, ’09. 500w.

=Ware, J. Redding.=^{[8]} Passing English of the Victorian era: a dictionary of heterodox English, slang and phrase. (Standard reference lib.) *$3. Dutton.

W9–146.

“A dictionary of slang as now current among our English cousins. The entries are illustrated by quotations.”—Dial.

* * * * *

“We compliment the author on his industry, and on giving exact references in many cases, for his quotations. But we must seriously complain of the inadequacy of the etymologies offered.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 584. My. 15. 400w.

“The book, while serving a serious purpose, will also be found highly entertaining.”

+ =Dial.= 47: 104. Ag. 16, ’09. 110w.

“It is a curious book. There are evidences that the author has not read as widely as a lexicographer should read.”

− =Ind.= 67: 477. Ag. 26, ’09. 900w.

=Warming, Eugenius.=^{[10]} Oecology of plants: an introduction to the study of plant communities, by E. Warming assisted by Martin Vahl; prepared for publication in English by P. Groom and I. B. Balfour. *$2.90. Oxford.

Agr9–2122.

“This book is more than a mere translation of an already existing volume; it is, as the authors state, ‘practically a new one.’ Much new matter has been added, and the chapters have been largely rearranged and rewritten.” (Ath). “The introduction contains considerable new matter concerning growth forms (‘Lebensformen’ or ‘Vegetationsformen’), together with a new and rather satisfactory classification of them. There are six categories of growth forms; heterotrophic, aquatic, muscoid, lichenoid, lianoid, and all other autonomous land forms. The final category is, of course, much the largest and is subdivided into monocarpic and polycarpic forms.” (Bot. Gaz.)

* * * * *

“On the whole, we have nothing but praise for the book.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 270. S. 4. 600w.

“While words of adverse criticism seem necessary here and there, one may write volumes of praise. Warming’s ‘Plantesamfund’ will be for all time the great ecological classic, and the English volume now before us is the most important ecological work in any language. It is at the same time an old book and a new, a translation of the masterpiece of 1895 and a compendium of the ecological thought of 1909.” H: C. Cowles.

+ + − =Bot. Gaz.= 48: 149. Ag. ’09. 1650w.

“It is with great pleasure that botanists receive this volume, which is substantially new in all respects. We can heartily recommend this volume to all who are at all interested in the activities of living beings.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 519. N. 25, ’09. 770w.

=Warner, Amos Griswold.= American charities: a study in philanthropy and economics; new ed. rev. and enl. *$2. Crowell.

8–31177.

A modernized version of Dr. Warner’s book whose text has been made over to include the most recent researches and tabulations. This work of revision to meet new conditions has been done by Mary Roberts Coolidge, a pupil and co-worker of Dr. Warner. Also there has been included a biographical preface by George Elliott Howard.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 68. F. ’09.

“It is exceedingly fortunate for the students of public and private charity that Professor Warner’s noble treatise has been revised and the facts brought up to date by a very competent and sympathetic editor.” C. R. Henderson.

+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 551. Ja. ’09. 120w.

“It will be very useful to all students of social problems and should prove a valuable textbook.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 205. Ja. ’09. 110w.

“The fine spirit that marked the original work has been maintained.”

+ =Arena.= 40: 603. D. ’08. 300w.

“What we deplore in the revised edition is a joining of the labor of teacher and pupil in a posthumous product, in which the part of each is distinguishable only upon close scrutiny of the texts. We believe that, obsessed by her very affection, the pupil has taken an unwarrantable liberty and one that will cause real distress to those who have leant on the broad, true principles of Amos G. Warner as tersely expressed in his American charities.”

− + =Char.= 21: 706. Ja. 23, ’09. 1900w.

“The book can be recommended to students as one of highest value and importance.”

+ =Dial.= 46: 145. Mr. 1, ’09. 120w.

“The book itself is well proportioned. The arrangement in the new edition which omits the special chapter bibliographies given at the beginning of each chapter in the old edition and indicating the material upon which the discussion of the subject matter of the chapter was based, is to be regretted.” S: M. Lindsay.

+ − =Econ. Bull.= 2: 384. D. ’09. 720w.

“The book has been and remains the best of its kind.”

+ =Educ. R.= 37: 97. Ja. ’09. 50w.

“The happy blending of the practical with the theoretical makes it a book that should appeal to every student of sociology, every citizen interested in philanthropy, and every official engaged in the administration of practical charities.” E. L. Bogart.

+ =Forum.= 42: 89. Jl. ’09. 350w.

“The work has gained in usefulness for those whose interest or occupation in charities is practical; and in its larger usefulness Professor Warner’s thoughtful and hopeful message has been given new life.” J. A. Field.

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 102. F. ’09. 550w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 48. Ja. 23, ’09. 240w.

“Inaccuracies are encountered in the most cursory examination of the book. On the whole the impression given by the book is that Warner’s ‘American charities’ has been worked over in the light of the discussion and development that has got into print since it was written, but that somehow the life and vigor is lacking which is felt in the original text.” Lilian Brandt.

+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 332. Je. ’09. 530w.

=Warren, George Frederick.=^{[10]} Elements of agriculture. *$1.10. Macmillan.

9–21273.

A book that may be used for a text in preparatory schools and for short courses in colleges. Its purpose is “to make the teaching of agriculture in existing high-schools comparable in extent and thoroughness with the teaching of physics, mathematics, history, and literature.”

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 129. D. ’09.

=Warren, Mrs. Maude Lavinia (Radford).=^{[6]} Peter-Peter: a romance out of town. †$1.50. Harper.

9–13914.

How two young married people, cradled their lives thru in the lap of luxury, suddenly lose their wealth, assert latent good sense, refuse help from parents and learn the secret of happy living toiling together on a suburban farm. The wholesome, unspoiled outlook on life, to say nothing of the lightness of touch and delicacy of humor, will recommend this story to young married people who might permit similar misfortunes to spoil their lives. Nor did Peter and Margery’s courage and self respect go without substantial rewards.

* * * * *

“A book destined to a popularity quite beyond its real merit, a book that with all its tenderness, its humour, its reverence of home and love and motherhood, remains, when all is said, essentially and preposterously unreal.” F: T. Cooper.

+ − =Bookm.= 29: 646. Ag. ’09. 220w. + − =Ind.= 67: 425. Ag. 19, ’09. 70w.

“A volume which must furnish real delight to all true women.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 420. Jl. 3, ’09. 380w. =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 8. O. 16, ’09. 150w.

“So charmingly told that the reader will swallow all that is preposterous and thoroughly enjoy the book.”

+ − =Spec.= 103: 65. Jl. 10, ’09. 30w.

=Warren, Thomas Herbert.=^{[7]} Essays of poets and poetry, ancient and modern. *$3. Dutton.

Among the essays are those on Sophocles and the Greek genius, Dante and the art of poetry, Matthew Arnold, Art of translation, and “In memoriam” after fifty years. “No lover of literature could read the volume without having his admirations quickened and harmonised, without a renewal of the sense of the dignity and sweetness of the old traditions of art and song.” (Sat. R.)

* * * * *

“Suggestive studies, these, of a ripe scholarship.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 884. O. 14, ’09. 220w.

“How the author of the brilliant essay on Matthew Arnold could have written the rest of this volume is a puzzle worthy the attention of Baconian cipher experts. A seasoned reader will find pleasurable matter and suggestive judgments in all; a grudging Epicurean would perhaps hardly venture beyond the second essay.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 408. O. 28, ’09. 800w.

“He courts both an erudite and a popular audience, but so combines his elements of erudition and popularity as to satisfy neither.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 562. S. 25, ’09. 1100w.

“The book is not one which establishes a new principle of criticism, but it strikes a new note, in that it brings back a sense of stately urbanity and academical grace which, to our loss, seems somewhat to have deserted us.”

+ =Sat. R.= 107: 723. Je. 5, ’09. 1050w.

“This is a delightful book, and will, we predict, give an immense deal of pleasure wherever sound learning and true literature are loved and flourish. What a comfort to find a critic who is interested not in himself but in the men he writes about, who wants not to show off his own cleverness but to exhibit the beauties of the poets of whom he writes, who does not pose and posture in front of some noble masterpiece, but with courtesy and good breeding shows cause why this or that rule should be made absolute in the high court of letters!”

+ =Spec.= 102: 779. My. 15, ’09. 1750w.

=Warschauer, J.=^{[7]} Jesus: seven questions. *3s. 6d. Clarke, James, & co., London.

The seven questions answered concerning Jesus are the following: Was He the son of God? Was He sinless? Did He perform miracles? Could He forgive sins? Must we believe in Him In order to be saved? Did He rise from the dead? Did He die for us?

* * * * *

“Many who are in sympathy with Warschauer’s general attitude will doubtless feel that his treatment is weakest at this point, that is, he has assumed rather than proved that the content of Jesus’ life was pervasively religioethical. But this is just the item in modern study about Jesus which is in sharpest debate.” S. J. Case.

+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 459. Jl. ’09. 900w.

“The questions he asks are of supreme importance, and his answers are valuable studies in religion.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 252. F. 27. 600w.

“The whole tone of the book is deeply religious, and though Dr. Warschauer will not satisfy, he can hardly offend the most orthodox.”

+ − =Spec.= 102: 900. Je. 5, ’09. 280w.

=Warwick, Charles Franklin.=^{[6]} Robespierre and the French revolution. **$2.50. Jacobs.

9–14577.

A companion volume to “Mirabeau and the French revolution” and “Danton and the French revolution.” The series taken as a whole affords the student a history of the entire revolution from the point of view of the three most distinguished and representative men whose principles and purposes respectively dominated a period of the era.

* * * * *

“Proper names and words are badly treated throughout. The author has no plan, but rambles backwards and forwards without method.”

− =Ath.= 1909, 2: 622. N. 20. 750w.

“Good popular exposition of the subject, and will be found useful as well as readable.”

+ =Dial.= 47: 103. Ag. 16, ’09. 230w.

“Mr. Warwick is conscientious; and if, in this respect, he has a fault, it is that he does not dogmatise sufficiently. His presentment of Robespierre almost fails to be a portrait, and only just misses being a collection of preliminary studies.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 353. S. 18, ’09. 1050w.

=Washburn, George.=^{[11]} Fifty years in Constantinople and recollections of Robert college. **$3. Houghton.

9–28288.

A history of Robert college in Constantinople from its foundation to the close of its fortieth year, 1903. It is a picture of a college in Turkey with a background of incidents, personalities and events. An introduction reviews the events of the past fifty years that have led to the revolution in Constantinople.

* * * * *

“The alluring title does not fulfil the expectations it arouses. It abounds in minutiæ which might be of interest to the trustees of the college, but which are boring to the casual reader. The author is always a warm partisan, not an impartial chronicler.” D. K. Brown.

− + =Bookm.= 30: 392. D. ’09. 580w.

“A book which is absolutely without literary ambition, and is to a large extent statistical information, becomes a story of absorbing interest.”

+ =Dial.= 47: 389. N. 16, ’09. 290w. =Ind.= 67: 1145. N. 18, ’09. 170w.

“The history of Robert college is fascinating as a romance.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 790. N. 6, ’09. 570w. + =Outlook.= 93: 758. D. 4, ’09. 700w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 755. D. ’09. 70w.

=Washburne, Marion Foster.=^{[10]} House on the north shore. †$1.25. McClurg.

9–24263.

Renunciation and conquest in their relation to mastering a hereditary curse furnish the motif of Mrs. Washburne’s story. It is an intimate analysis of the problems of a united family, for whom the world would move so happily and so comfortably did there not lurk the germs of hereditary madness. What the haunted house on the north shore had to do with the struggle of father and son; how love for others, interest in others led the father out of self-absorption, the central fact in all insanity, to his final conquest is all dramatically set down.

* * * * *

“An interesting story.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 597. O. 9, ’09. 160w.

=Washington, Booker Taliaferro.=^{[12]} Story of the negro. 2v. **$3. Doubleday.

9–29958.

A simple, straight story of what the negro himself has accomplished in the way of attaining a higher civilization. The work is in three parts: The negro in Africa; The negro as a slave; The negro as a freeman.

=Washington, George.= Writings of George Washington; ed. with introd. and notes by Lawrence B. Evans. (Writings of American statesmen.) **$2.50. Putnam.

8–35847.

The first volume of a new series, “Writings of American statesmen,” whose purpose is to present in convenient form the most important writings of our most important statesmen. An introduction which relates Washington to his times and shows the significance of the record he left behind is followed by his writings assembled under the following heads: In the British army and colonial councils; In the war for independence; The formation and adoption of the constitution; Starting the new government; Policies and opinions; and The farewell address.

* * * * *

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14; 857. Jl. ’09. 350w.

“It is an excellent work to meet the average library need and should be purchased even by small libraries where there is a demand for source material in the schools.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 52. F. ’09. =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 180. Jl. ’09. 250w.

“Its three-fold purpose seems to be very satisfactorily accomplished.”

+ =Dial.= 46: 25. Ja. 1, ’09. 180w. + =Educ. R.= 37: 316. Mr. ’09. 70w.

“The selections are admirably made, so as to bring out the sober good sense and wisdom which made Washington first, during the war, as commander-in-chief, and then, after the peace, as the representative of national unity, at once the author and the saviour of the United States.” H. E. E.

+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 620. Jl. ’09. 300w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 41. Ja. 23, ’09. 280w.

“Such a handy series has long been needed and will be well received by teachers of history and politics as well as by citizens who like to draw upon first-hand sources of information.”

+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 558. S. ’09. 130w.

“The volume will be found serviceable as a source-book for school and college use, furnishing illustrative material upon the life and times of Washington. The footnotes are not extensive, but they have been carefully prepared and are helpful.” Max Farrand.

+ =Yale R.= 18: 103. My. ’09. 350w.

=Washington, George.=^{[5]} Letters and addresses; ed. by Jonas Viles. (Unit books, no. 10.) 70c. Unit bk. pub. co.

Includes in convenient form letters and addresses of Washington selected from a hundred and more books containing the writings of Washington and the writings of others about Washington.

=Washington, George.= Washington year book: maxims and morals of “the father of his country;” comp. by Wallace Rice. **$1. McClurg.

8–28430.

A companion to the “Lincoln year book,” including for every day of the year a brief bit of wisdom uttered by Washington.

* * * * *

=Dial.= 45: 464. D. 16, ’08. 80w. + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 656. N. 7, ’08. 350w.

=Wason, Robert Alexander.=^{[9]} Happy Hawkins; il. by Howard Giles. †$1.50. Small.

9–35792.

“Happy Hawkins,” a philosophical and loyal-hearted cowboy, is the unique and humorous character thru whose agency this story unfolds. Out of frank devotion to the motherless Barbara, daughter of his employer, he untangles her father’s life history and finds her mother who, upon learning of her husband’s deception practised in wooing her, had deserted her family. “Happy” reconciles husband and wife and incidentally removes unjust suspicions against Barbara’s lover, a supposed ranchman, who turns out to be an English earl.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 57. O. ’09. ✠

“The racy dialect grows on one, providing he read only a chapter or so at a time, so does the humor very often, and some of the adventures and ’scapes are as gory and narrow as one can possibly desire. A readable story.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 549. S. 2, ’09. 80w.

“The question is: Has any novel of the West as good as this been written since ‘The Virginian’?”

+ =Nation.= 89: 356. O. 14, ’09. 190w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 828. D. 25, ’09. 210w.

=Wassam, Clarence Wycliffe.= Salary loan business in New York city: a report prepared under the direction of the Bureau of social research, New York school of philanthropy, with extracts from an unpublished report of Frank Julian Warne. (Russell Sage foundation.) 75c. Charity organization soc.

8–34256.

“This report, undertaken by the Russell Sage foundation, and prepared under the direction of the Bureau of social research of the New York school of philanthropy, is an excellent illustration of the great field for work open to the Foundation and of the many ways in which it can be of social service. The report is based on careful investigation and succinctly describes the causes which lead to salary loans; the amount, charges, profits, and methods of the business: its legal aspects and effects; and, finally, the proposed remedies.”—J. Pol. Econ.

* * * * *

“The book is full of information for those who are interested to learn just how this species of petty robbery works.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 466. Mr. ’09 170w.

“Mr. Wassam’s book is the first important step in a campaign which is now being waged against the abuses of salary loan companies in a number of American cities. It has already been an important factor in arousing public sentiment.” E. W. Kemmerer.

+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 146. Je. ’09. 800w.

“The evil is made clear, and the solution suggested: it should have results.”

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 105. F. ’09. 100w. =Survey.= 22: 573. Jl. 24, ’09. 150w.

Reviewed by R. C. McCrea.

=Survey.= 22: 679. Ag. 14, ’09. 520w.

=Waters, Yssabella.=^{[8]} Visiting nursing in the United States. $1.25. Charities pub.

A directory of the organizations employing trained visiting nurses, with chapters on the principles, organization and methods of administration of such work.

=Waterton, Charles.=^{[8]} Wanderings in South America, the northwest of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, and 1824; with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc., for cabinets of natural history;

new ed., ed, with biographical introd. and explanatory index by the Rev. J. G. Wood. *$2.50. Sturgis & Walton.

9–16434.

A new edition of a book that originally appeared in 1825. “The vivid and faithful pictures of life in the jungle are ever new and always entertaining and instructive.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“Entertaining and instructive pictures of life in the tropical jungle.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 63. O. ’09.

“An appreciative memoir of Waterton, largely autobiographical, compiled by Dr. Moore, who was a friend of the great naturalist’s old age, adds in no small degree to the worth of this edition.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 104. Jl. 29, ’09. 150w.

“The writer’s charming descriptions of the country and its animal life are entirely applicable to-day.” Forbes Lindsay.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 479. Ag. 7, ’09. 500w.

“Is almost as fascinating a book as is White’s ‘Natural history of Selborne.’”

+ =Outlook.= 93: 8. S. 4, ’09. 110w.

=Watson, Foster.=^{[10]} Beginnings of the teaching of modern subjects in England. *7s. 6d. Pitman & sons, London.

“Gives a separate historical account of the introduction and establishment of the modern subjects as one by one they became recognised portions of the school curriculum.”—Sat. R.

* * * * *

“The book is useful rather than interesting: it seems a mass of quotations, of different lengths, rather than a continuous historical narrative, and some portions of it are unnecessarily dry. Prof. Watson has taken little pains to attract readers; his sentences are grammatically correct, but he allows himself to adopt, from time to time, in the writing of English, a style both cumbrous and inelegant. We regret this the more because the book is well worth perusal.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 205. Ag. 21. 1000w.

“All those who are interested in education or who are members of the teaching profession will find it abundantly interesting. It is a volume packed with information.”

+ =Sat. R.= 108: 294. S. 4, ’09. 450w.

=Watson, Foster.= English grammar schools to 1660: their curriculum and practice. *$2. Putnam.

E9–546.

“Mr. Watson, who is Professor of Education in the University college of Wales, has written a very practical book upon just what grammar school education in England was during the period from the invention of printing to the restoration, what subjects it was concerned with, by what methods it taught them, and what were its practical aims. It is based largely upon an examination of the school text books, while to these results he has added such contributory information as can be gathered from contemporary history and literature.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“Prof. Watson’s volume well deserves perusal for the light it throws on the history of the two centuries closed by the restoration.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 69. Ja. 16. 1150w.

“No serious student of the history of English education will overlook his ‘English grammar schools to 1660,’ which is really the first treatment of the subject in anything approaching an accessible volume.”

+ =Educ. R.= 38: 97. Je. ’09. 80w.

“Mr. Watson’s book is a noteworthy addition to the revelations of English life exactly as it was lived during the Tudor and Stuart periods.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 122. F. 27, ’09. 360w.

“It must not be supposed that the interest of the subject is antiquarian. It touches on modern life and practice at many points.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 1108. D. 26, ’08. 350w.

=Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott.=^{[10]} Castle by the sea. †$1.50. Little.

9–25393.

A bookish young Londoner leases for the summer season a picturesque old castle on the English coast. He comes here for work and quiet but is soon involved in a series of strange happenings in which secret staircases and subterranean caverns play their part. The real owner of the castle, fleeing from his debts comes here incognito and he, the bailiffs, some charming young women summering in the village, a painter who is copying the old masters in the library, and the old servitors ranged against the men who are scheming for the possession of the castle and its caves contribute to an interesting story of love and adventure.

* * * * *

“By the exercise of extraordinary dexterity Mr. Marriott Watson contrives to combine successfully the elements of farce and melodrama in a story permeated by the fragrance of first love.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 261. S. 4. 170w.

“Mr. Watson’s style is as good as his invention. and the sum total of the effect is decidedly pleasing.” W: M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 47: 385. N. 16. ’09. 260w.

“Is one of the best that he has ever published in deftness and finish of construction, in the inherent interest of its plot and in the attractiveness of its scene and characters.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 596. O. 9, ’09. 200w.

“It is entertaining enough. It is an amusing company that Mr. Marriott Watson has collected, and no one will drop the book halfway through.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 356. S. 18, ’09. 150w.

“A somewhat complicated story which will repay the trouble of disentangling it.”

+ − =Spec.= 103: 693. O. 30, ’09. 10w.

=Watson, John B.=^{[11]} Behavior of noddy and sooty terns. Carnegie inst.

“The author spent two and a half months on Bird Key, with the object of observing, as closely as possible, the details of the lives of the two species of terns found breeding there. Of the noddy terns there were about 1,400 adults, while the colony of sooties numbered more than 18,800. The food and the feeding habits, the courtship, nest-building, care, and external development of the young, and the entire daily activity of both species are minutely described, each phase of study being subdivided, and an excellent summary given of each.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“This paper of sixty-eight pages forms one of the most important of recent contributions to ornithology. The author is primarily a psychologist, and his language in a number of instances is made unnecessarily technical by the use of such terms as intra-organic pressure.”

+ + − =Nation.= 89: 104. Jl. 29, ’09. 470w.

“A valuable contribution to ornithological information, as the life habits of these terns during their nesting season have never been so thoroughly studied before.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 632. O. 23, ’09. 1200w.

=Watson, William.=^{[12]} New poems. **$1.50. Lane.

9–28538.

“These ‘New poems’ are forty-four in number, of which about thirty are allowed to occupy a page each, while much the longest of them, that to ‘Miranda,’ consists of seventeen sonnets, and that to ‘America’ has sixty lines of blank verse. In quantity the volume is not large, and in quality it would add little to Mr. Watson’s just fame—for the poems are generally slight—but for one that immediately became the most famous poem of the year, that which denounces ‘The woman with the serpent’s tongue.’”—Ind.

* * * * *

“There is not one poem which does not bear marks of the most cunning craftsmanship. In many of these poems there is a Tennysonian flavour delightful to scholars who rejoice in the continuity of the poetic tradition.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 617. N. 20. 2000w.

“Indeed, with a few exceptions, this is a padded volume of trifles. But the poem that stamps on a woman gives the volume distinction, and the drinking song is as jolly as Shakespeare.”

− + =Ind.= 67: 1319. D. 9, ’09. 950w.

“These new poems are very beautiful and very forceful, and it is rather difficult to speak of them with moderation.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1092. D. 11, ’09. 700w.

“If there was nothing else in Mr. Watson’s new volume, it would surely be worth buying over and over again for one of many beautiful ‘Sonnets to Miranda.’” Richard Le Gallienne.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 787. D. 11, ’09. 1750w.

“Mr. Watson remains, as in his first promising work, distinctively a critic of life; that is at once the strength and the limitation of his poetry.”

+ =Outlook.= 93: 651. N. 27, ’09. 160w.

“For ourselves, at any rate, we cannot read these present poems without some sense of their inadequacy. They are, in a word, innutritious. Any pleasure they afford is only the moonlike reflection of sensations we tasted long ago, and more freshly, in the work of the same writer. The poems in this book please, as well-turned Latin verses please the scholar; no more.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 6. N. 13, ’09. 1050w.

“Almost everything in this book reaches a high level of poetic accomplishment; and when the inspiration is adequate to the craftsmanship the result is noble poetry.”

+ − =Spec.= 103: 745. N. 6, ’09. 800w.

=Watt, Sir George.= Commercial products of India; being an abridgment of the “Dictionary of the economic products of India.” *$5. Dutton.

Agr8–1024.

“A digest of information on the products which are of present or prospective industrial or commercial importance. It is an abridgment of the ‘Dictionary of the economic products of India,’ by the same author published in six volumes in 1885–94, and now out of print. The general plan of treatment may be indicated by the article on cotton, which occupies fifty-six pages.... To each section is appended a list of authorities from which the facts are derived, the statistical returns being brought down to 1905–6.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“As a book of reference, it ought to be within handy reach of every student of economic and political conditions in Great Britain’s Eastern empire.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 1401. Je. 24, ’09. 300w.

“Some of the information, we observe, is rather trivial. Moreover, the usefulness of the work as a book of reference would have been increased by the addition of tables of measures and values.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 114. F. 4, ’09. 330w.

“Despite blemishes, however, which we trust a more rigorous application of the blue pencil will cause to disappear in the next edition, there can be no question of the great value of Sir George Watt’s book. He has laid a fresh debt of gratitude on all interested in India or its products.” A. T. Gage.

+ − =Nature.= 79: 184. D. 17, ’08. 820w.

“The work is important both commercially and scientifically.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 150. Mr. 13, ’09. 140w. + =R. of Rs.= 39: 252. F. ’09. 90w. + =Spec.= 102: sup. 1006. Je. 26, ’09. 350w.

=Watt, Henry J.=^{[10]} Economy and training of memory. 50c. Longmans.

A work for teachers and students of psychology who are interested in memory development and preservation. The author discusses the experimental investigation of memory, the mechanical memory of association, the factors that influence memory and how it can be trained and assisted. The volume closes with twenty-three rules for the economy and training of the memory.

* * * * *

“Much definite information is given on particular points where the merely empirical adviser is quite at a loss. Moreover, if the book did no more than free the ordinary adult from that excessive distrust of his memory, which is so bad in effect, and is, perhaps, too optimistically believed by Mr. Watt to be quite ungrounded in fact, it would be abundantly justified.”

+ =Nature.= 81: 158. Ag. 5, ’09. 230w.

“Though this book reveals no new psychological principle, it contains suggestions that might be fruitful to the teacher, and some advice as to methods of memorizing poetry and prose that may help the general reader.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 427. Jl. 10, ’09. 250w.

=Watt, Lauchlan MacLean.= Attic and Elizabethan tragedy. *$2. Dutton.

9–9950.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

* * * * *

“It is, in fact, a real ‘multum in parvo.’ Occasionally an error drops in.”

+ − =Ind.= 66: 706. Ap. 1, ’09. 430w.

“A highly valuable introduction to study of the tragic drama, ancient and modern.”

+ =Outlook.= 91: 586. Mr. 13, ’09. 350w.

=Way, L. N.=^{[12]} Call of the heart. †$1.50. Dillingham.

9–29505.

The story of a young woman’s love for a married man, her disillusionment and struggle to forget the horror of her experience. A book whose bold handling of human passion entirely unfits it for general library use; altho one agrees with the belief of the author that no woman who has sinned is justified in relinquishing her claim upon a virtuous future life.

=Wayfarer= in New York; introd. by E: S. Martin.^{[11]} *$1.25. Macmillan.

9–35849.

An anthology of descriptions and impressions included under the following heads: From the Battery to Trinity; Within half a mile of City hall; Greenwich and Chelsea villages; The Washington square neighborhood; The East side; From Union square to Madison square; From Madison square through Central park; Upper Manhattan and Harlem; The Bronx and beyond; Over the water. It is a guide book of high literary quality.

* * * * *

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 88. N. ’09.

“A vivid panorama of city life as our novelists, poets, newspaper reporters, historians, and other ‘wayfarers’ have interpreted it, with many intentions and in varying mood.” E. K. Dunton.

+ =Dial.= 47: 454. D. 1, ’09. 140w.

“The compilation which Mr. Martin has wittily introduced is only fairly well done.” Brander Matthews.

+ − =Forum.= 42: 476. N. ’09. 300w. =Ind.= 67: 1320. D. 9, ’09. 190w.

“A thoroughly readable volume. He could have done even better if he had not overlooked a number of striking poems and prose extracts.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 361. O. 14, ’09. 150w.

“Very appealing to the sentiment is the little volume as well as interesting because of its glimpses into the life of other days.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 790. D. 11, ’09. 330w. =Survey.= 23: 376. D. 18, ’09. 180w.

=Weale, B. L. Putnam.= Forbidden boundary. $1.50. Macmillan.

9–13038.

A group of short stories of life in China and Japan. “They all suggest the glamour and mystery of the East, though there is an inartistic gruesome touch about one or two of them.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“The two best stories in the volume are skilful in characterization, strong in movement, and full of atmosphere and colour.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 757. D. 12. 130w.

“Told with a sheer power of graphic narrative, a sense of colour values in the Orient, that holds you with its suggestion of something strange and mysterious and evil.” F: T. Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 28: 383. D. ’08. 270w.

“Is not an unqualified success as a storyteller. There is a surfeit of the dreadful, and what from an artistic point of view is worse, a profuseness, relevant and irrelevant, that makes of several of the stories in this volume sheer rigmaroles.”

− + =Nation.= 88: 68. Ja. 21, ’09. 330w.

“Perhaps the volume is what might be called a ‘man’s book.’ The book should not be missed by those who are not afraid of a shudder or two, and who care for stories of artistic vitality.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 414. Jl. 3, ’09. 720w.

“The literary merit of the stories is uneven, but the side lights thrown on life in the Far East are valuable indeed.”

+ − =Outlook.= 91: 65. Ja. 9, ’09. 140w.

“Very few living writers can put into a short story the mysterious, haunting atmosphere of the Far East as successfully and subtly as B. L. Putnam Weale.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 122. Ja. ’09. 140w.

=Weaver, Gertrude (G. Colmore, pseud.).= Priests of progress. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.

9–7569.

A novel attacking vivisection and the practice of performing surgical operations for the scientific interest attaching to them rather than for the benefit to be derived by the patient.

* * * * *

“‘Priests of progress’ is one of the strongest and best novels of the year. It is more than a powerful and compelling romance: it is a volume instinct with moral idealism which will make for higher morality.”

+ =Arena.= 41: 601. Ag. ’09. 1350w.

“As a story it is of no interest and as an argument it is of no importance, for it consists of the usual series of garbled quotations and misinterpretations on a thread of fiction.”

− =Ind.= 66: 426. F. 25, ’09. 100w.

“The book is powerfully written, and its subject demands attention; but in saying this we must not be held to be in any shape or form endorsing its conclusion.”

+ − =Spec.= 102: 24. Ja. 2, ’09. 300w.

=Webb, M. de P.= India and the empire: a consideration of the tariff problem, with an introd. by Sir E. F. Law. *$1.20. Longmans.

8–22575.

“The burden of the present discussion is in effect the perennial question of British free trade versus preferential tariffs. The author appears as an ardent supporter of the Chamberlain policy of preferential tariff as best calculated to promote the general welfare of the empire. In fact he openly takes the stand that only by a system of preferential tariffs can Britain avert the inevitable fate of becoming a second or even third rate power, with the loss of its important colonial possessions.... Mr. Webb, both in his text and in the appendices, however, does demonstrate the importance of Indian trade and that so far as India alone is concerned her best interests would be materially promoted by the adoption of an imperial commercial policy.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

* * * * *

“Whether he makes out his whole case depends largely on the personal leanings of the individual reader toward the tariff issue. In analysing the tariff problems, the author was led into a very full survey of India’s commercial relations, a fact which gives the volume decidedly greater value as a book of general utility.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 205. Ja. ’09. 220w. =Ath.= 1908, 1: 381. Mr. 28. 300w.

“The author, who has had the advantage of seventeen years’ residence in India, proceeds to show just how the economic conditions and industrial resources of that country would fit into such a scheme. Herein lies the chief value of the book.”

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 103. F. ’09. 380w.

=Webb, Walter Loring.= Railroad construction: theory and practice: a text-book for the use of students in colleges and technical schools. 4th ed., rev. and enl. $5. Wiley.

8–28301.

“Such changes as have been made in the last two editions are mostly in the arrangement and contents of the tables, although in the fourth edition the chapter on Economics has been brought down to present unit costs and the earthworks section has been revised for the better, especially insofar as the cost data are concerned.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 125. Ap. ’09.

“The book is still the best condensed study of railroad construction available for students and beginners.”

+ =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 694. D. 17, ’08. 130w.

“A concise and clear statement of all the important features of railway location and construction.”

+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 139. Ja. 30, ’09. 120w.

=Webb, Walter Loring, and Gibson, W. Herbert.^{[7]}= Masonry and reinforced concrete. $3. Am. school of correspondence.

9–35100.

“A working manual of approved American practice in the selection, testing and structural use of building stone, brick, cement, and other masonry materials, with complete instruction in the various modern structural applications of concrete steel.” “As a general survey of the field of masonry construction—including that latest development, concrete—this book by Messrs. Webb and Gibson is quite satisfactory.” (Engin. N.)

* * * * *

“It will not replace Baker’s ‘Masonry’ or such works on concrete as Buel and Hill’s or Taylor and Thompson’s.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 184. Je. ’09.

“It will make very interesting reading for the novice anxious to gain an idea of the principles of the subject before taking up its serious and detailed study. But it is not a ‘working manual’ nor does it contain ‘complete instruction in the various modern structural applications of concrete and concrete steel.’”

+ − =Engin.= N. 61: sup. 3. Ja. 14, ’09. 90w.

=Webster, Henry Kitchell.=^{[6]} King in khaki. †$1.50. Appleton.

9–10037.

A story which tells how “a New York ex-newspaper man who has taken hold of a big industrial enterprise on a little island in the West Indies, brought order out of chaos, and put it on a paying basis. A multi-millionaire who owns a lot of the stock sees a chance to turn a trick in high finance, and makes ready to squeeze out the original stockholders and buy in most of the stock himself before it is known that the property has become a gilt-edged investment. The ex-newspaper man determines to undermine his scheme, and the two have an exciting battle of wits and expedients, in which nature also takes a hand with some spectacular performances suited to a sub-tropical island.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“An interesting, well-told story.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 189. Je. ’09. ✠

“Mr. Webster has a crisp method of story-telling that is very fetching in a writer who aims at nothing more than entertainment.” W: M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 46: 371. Je. 1, ’09. 280w.

“The book just misses being worth while. Judged simply as a story of adventure, however, it is as good as the next, and filled to the brim with exciting incident.” J. Marchand.

+ − =Bookm.= 29: 415. Je. ’09. 250w.

“Another story of the ‘rattling good’ sort.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 261. Ap. 24, ’09. 230w.

=Webster, Jean.= Much ado about Peter. †$1.50. Doubleday.

9–7143.

Peter, head groom in the Carter stables, chief advisor and assistant to the children in their Comanche games, peace-maker between parlor maid and her exacting young mistress, understudy of Lord Kiscadden in private theatricals, is a loyal servant and a calm philosopher. He achieves his triumph when he preaches the sermon to his young employer that saves domestic unhappiness and elicits the comment: “Peter, you may be elemental, but I half suspect you’re right.”

* * * * *

“Bright, humorous; a good story to read aloud.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 149. My. ’09. ✠

“Miss Webster’s descriptions are good, her insight into human nature is keen, and her humor is infectious. It is an entertaining book for a leisurely afternoon.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 199. Jl. 22, ’09. 100w.

“One cannot help feeling that if Miss Webster had kept Peter and his friends in their places, and had given the children the front of the stage, she might, with a little attention to plot, have written a fresh and continuously entertaining story of childlife.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 444. Ap. 29, ’09. 260w.

“There is much crisp dialogue, and a good deal of sunshiny humor throughout, and if some of the escapades related seem a little less than realistic, the wholesome preachments to which they act as vehicles are none the less pertinent and enjoyable. Miss Jean Webster has not made too much ado about Peter.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 180. Mr. 27, ’09. 220w.

“There is nothing morbid throughout the book—all is bright and happy and appealing.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 380. Je. 12, ’09. 180w.

=Webster, Noah.=^{[12]} Webster’s new international dictionary of the English language, based on the international dictionary of 1890 and 1900; now completely revised in all departments, including also a dictionary of geography and biography, being the latest authentic quarto edition of the Merriam series; W. T. Harris, editor in chief, F. Sturges Allen, general editor. $10. Merriam.

9–25402.

This edition containing 400,000 words and phrases, is practically a new dictionary altho it is a revision of Webster’s International dictionary of 1890 and its supplement of 1900. For convenience each page is divided into two sections, the lower one in smaller type containing minor words, foreign words and phrases, and abbreviations. All the lists, except geographical and biographical names, formerly given in the appendix, are incorporated in the main alphabet. Following the rule that a dictionary should record existing usage, simplified spelling forms are not given unless they have been generally adopted, but words originating in slang which have passed into common usage are freely introduced. The inclusion of encyclopedic matter makes the dictionary a storehouse of information that records the very latest advance in all departments of knowledge.

* * * * *

“The work on synonyms is very thorough and satisfactory.”

+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 150. D. ’09.

“Is by all means the first single-volume dictionary of the English language for everyday use on the teacher’s desk or in the business man’s office. It is practical, clear and complete.”

+ + + =Educ. R.= 38: 425. N. ’09. 140w. + + − =Nation.= 89: 434. N. 4, ’09. 1000w.

=Wedgwood, Julia.=^{[11]} Nineteenth century teachers and other essays. *$3. Doran.

“Here we are in the staid British atmosphere; magazine articles on good old stock subjects covering a period of forty years. Life of Charles Kingsley, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, A study of Carlyle, The moral influence of George Eliot, John Ruskin, Henry Thomas Buckle, and so on.”—Sat. R.

* * * * *

“The writer of prolegomena, no less than the historian, must, amongst other things, be detached from the controversies of the century, unprejudiced, and endowed with exceptional powers of intellect; wherefore we are unable to discover a justification for the volume before us. Yet, from the historian’s point of view, the book is at least suggestive.”

− + =Ath.= 1909, 1: 723. Je. 19. 1650w.

“Good solemn stuff, with nothing paradoxical about it, and as edifying as a collection of sermons.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 568. My. 1, ’09. 60w.

“Miss Wedgwood’s essays are full of brilliant and illuminating sentences and paragraphs, but they show a lack of the power of characterisation. A systematic setting of fault against virtue and defect against quality produces a neutral effect. The eulogists she despises attain often a more lifelike result. All the same, the book is well worth reading for the sake of its digressions, and much of it is memorable in an unusual degree. Miss Wedgwood’s greatest interest is, of course, in theology.”

+ − =Spec.= 103: 58. Jl. 10, ’09. 1100w.

=Weikel, Anna Hamlin.=^{[11]} Betty Baird’s golden year. †$1.50. Little.

9–25810.

The last volume in the “Betty Baird” series. It rounds out Betty’s period of preparation for mature usefulness bringing her to the end of her girlhood.

=Weir, Hugh C.=^{[11]} Conquest of the Isthmus. **$2. Putnam.

9–28051.

“The account of an eye-witness of the work going on at Panama.... He tells how the men at labor live, work, and amuse themselves. When he writes of Panama he calls his account a ‘romance of jungle and city.’ He gives a lively description of scorpions, tarantulas, and alligators, as he found them. He talks of ‘the disease battle’ of the Isthmus and he writes enthusiastically of ex-President Roosevelt’s visit to Panama.... Diagrams show us how the work progresses, a crowd of illustrations brings the place and the work before our eyes and Mr. Weir has no good words for those who decry the Gatun dam.... In his concluding chapter he answers the question ‘Is it all worth while?’ which he answers by showing that the canal is certain to be a financial success.”—Lit. D.

* * * * *

“His book is by no means lacking in point and vivacity.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 641. O. 16, ’09. 320w.

“It is undeniably superficial and sensational, and its statements are not to be accepted without caution.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 463. N. 11, ’09. 450w.

“It is a story of heroic achievements he tells.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 598. O. 9, ’09. 290w.

=Weitenkampf, Frank.= How to appreciate prints. **$1.50. Moffat.

8–34261.

“Written for the unqualified beginner. Mr. Weitenkampf, as curator of prints in the New York public library, knows as no other man the many interests, mostly non-aesthetic, that centre about a collection of prints, and, while his own taste is trained, he gives to each popular motive its due place in his book. For readers moderately well informed on these matters his manual will seem diffuse and roundabout. But it is not written for them. The diffuseness is merely that of the patient mentor who by repetition, illustration, and apt dilution must make his lesson clear.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“Is happily popular in style, technical terms being employed only when the context renders them easily understood.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 53. F. ’09.

“No one can read this book without taking a more intelligent and discriminating interest in the arts which find their expression in the work of the graver.”

+ =Dial.= 46: 144. Mr. 1, ’09. 210w.

Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.

+ =Ind.= 65: 1460. D. 17, ’08. 130w.

“It is to be feared that it will be read only by those who are already in sympathy with the writer’s enthusiasms.”

− =Int. Studio.= 38: 328. O. ’09. 150w.

“For its public the book will do good. It will reach many who cannot grasp such manuals as the late Dr. Lippmann’s. The field is covered fully, and even the different sorts of process engraving are included. We could wish the very summary and thin encyclopædic portion had been reduced in favor of a more extended appreciative treatment of a few great and typical engravers; also that the inferiority of reproductive engraving had been more strongly insisted on.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 125. F. 4, ’09. 330w.

“The private owners of fine prints and the custodians of the great public collections owe Mr. Weitenkampf a debt of thanks for his admirable chapter on the ‘Care of prints,’ and, indeed, the lover of art and the believer in the value of its wide dissemination owe him gratitude for the catholicity of appreciation that directs the mind to joy in the humblest reproduction of good work of all sorts and conditions, some of which to-day comes within the reach of nearly every one.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 197. Ap. 3, ’09. 880w.

“A valuable handbook for the collector of prints or engravings, or for any one who wants to know how to go about starting a collection.”

+ =Outlook.= 91: 385. F. 20, ’09. 200w.

Reviewed by Christian Brinton.

+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 620. F. ’09. 100w.

“Like so many books on art of American origin, this work has a curious superficiality of outlook combined with a large amount of detailed learning.”

+ − =Spec.= 103: sup. 925. D. 4, ’09. 50w.

=Welch, Alice Kemp=, ed. and tr. Of the tumbler of Our Lady and other miracles now translated from the middle French; introd. and notes by Alice Kemp-Welch. (New medieval lib.) *$2. Duffield.

9–14150.

Stories taken from manuscript in the Séminaire at Soissons which forms a part of the collection of miracles made in the thirteenth century by Gautier de Coinci, a monk of St. Médard.

* * * * *

“The tales are excellent, but we are inclined to take serious objection to the greater part of the notes, which seem to be somewhat antiquated.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 601. My. 16. 170w. + =Lit. D.= 37: 902. D. 12, ’08. 60w. + =Nation.= 88: 463. My. 6, ’09. 320w. + =Outlook.= 91: 15. Ja. 2, ’09. 970w.

=Weld, Louis D. H.= Private freight cars and American railways. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics and public law, v. 31, no. I.) *$1.50. Longmans.

8–18395.

“The monograph by Dr. Weld on private freight cars deals comprehensively with a transportation subject of great importance concerning which there was comparatively little printed information.... The monograph gives a history of special equipment cars, shows what part those cars have played in the development of the country, discusses the financial relations of private car lines and the railroads, also the contracts between the private car companies and the rail lines, considers the question of refrigeration charges, analyzes the earnings of private cars, describes the different forms of discriminations and rebates, and closes with an outline of proposed remedies.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

* * * * *

“A valuable monograph.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 630. N. ’08. 150w.

“We have merely to accept or reject the author’s summary of existing and familiar evidence. However, the balancing process has been well done.” F. H. Dixon.

+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 203. S. ’08. 720w.

=Weller, Charles Frederick.=^{[5]} Neglected neighbors: stories of life in the alleys, tenements and shanties of the national capital; with a letter of introd. by Theodore Roosevelt. **$1.50. Winston.

9–3316.

A work of civic import bringing to light the conditions among alley and tenement dwellers in the city of Washington. The author makes use of illustrative incidents and typical stories rather than statistical tables and formal diagrams. He points out the evils that to-day are a distinct drawback to the development of a model city. His study “will be helpful in pointing out the evils which block the way and in suggesting remedial measures.”

* * * * *

“The reading of the book leaves in the mind the impression that the author is guilty of groundless optimism. The book draws a terrible picture, and fails to present any adequate method of relieving its horrors.”

− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 192. Jl. ’09. 170w. + =Ind.= 67: 371. Ag. 12, ’09. 220w.

“Were Mr. Weller not a veteran charity worker of established repute, we should be tempted to suspect that his stories were doctored, and his photographs invented in a gallery.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 410. Ap. 22, ’09. 200w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 126. Mr. 6, ’09. 350w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 127. Jl. ’09. 180w.

“A welcome and noteworthy contribution to the literature of the slum, as well as an important addition to the shelf of books and pamphlets relating to housing which have been issued during the last ten years.” C: B. Bail.

+ =Survey.= 22: 577. Jl. 24, ’09. 1100w.

=Wells, Carolyn.=^{[11]} The clue. †$1.50. Lippincott.

9–25642.

As the title suggests, this story deals with a mystery—a mystery that begins with a crime. On the eve of the marriage of Madeline Van Norman, the descendant of a proud Southern family and heiress to a large estate, she is found dead beside her library table, having been stabbed to the heart with a curious dagger that had served as a paper knife. The usual criminal-hunting method is employed to the extent of suspecting everybody and proving him guiltless; but there is variation to the extent that the probable criminal in the case is dismissed with the innocent ones, then, all of a sudden, is revealed as the real murderer.

=Wells, Carolyn.= Happychaps. †$1.50. Century.

9–12.

The doings, told in rime, of a quaint, funny nimble race of little people—cousins to elves, gnomes and fairies. They are agile little creatures and make merry sport for children as they romp thru the pages of Miss Wells’s book.

* * * * *

Reviewed by K. L. M.

+ =Bookm.= 28: 384. D. ’08. 80w.

“Miss Wells’s verse text is surprisingly good, considering the quantity.” M. J. Moses.

+ =Ind.= 65: 1470. D. 17, ’08. 40w. =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 40w.

“Miss Carolyn Wells writes verses that have a swing to them, and such vivid descriptions that children can find ‘a laugh on every page’ of ‘The happychaps,’ but she does not work out her story to a climax with the same art as that with which she describes details, and we doubt if the children will accept the entire story with particular enthusiasm.”

− + =R. of Rs.= 38: 767. D. ’08. 70w.

=Wells, Charles Jeremiah.= Joseph and his brethren: a dramatic poem; with introd. by Algernon C: Swinburne and note on Rossetti and Wells by Theodore Watts-Dunton. (World’s classics.) lea. *75c. Oxford.

W9–124.

A reprint of the 1876 edition. It contains Swinburne’s essay on Wells and a note by Watts-Dunton enlarging upon the place held by Wells in the creed of Rossetti and his uncle.

* * * * *

“We do not hesitate to predict that the present generation, whom Mr. Watts-Duncan accuses of knowing nothing of ‘Joseph and his brethren,’ are going to receive gladly this book.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 189. F. 13. 2450w.

“[Its prefatory] features, to say nothing of the poem itself, certainly make a sufficiently generous shilling’s worth of the book.”

+ =Dial.= 46: 193. Mr. 16, ’09. 240w.

“A poem noteworthy for its historical associations and highly interesting in itself.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 224. Mr. 4, ’09. 1500w.

“There can be no doubt at all that ‘Joseph and his brethren’ deserves a far wider circle of readers than it has hitherto enjoyed. His command of his medium—dramatic blank verse—is, as Mr. Swinburne himself admits, defective. His lines tend to be monotonous. Wells could write exquisite poetry, but it is poetry which is essentially undramatic; its beauty lies almost entirely in its descriptive qualities.”

+ − =Spec.= 102: 420. Mr. 13, ’09. 750w.

=Wells, Herbert George.=^{[11]} Ann Veronica. †$1.50. Harper.

9–28269.

“A modern love story,” in which a restless, English girl, hedged about by convention, personified by her father and aunt, resolves to learn what life really means at all hazards. She forsakes her home in order to study biology in a London laboratory. She tries to make her way unaided but finds herself financially helpless and discovers how at the mercy of man a woman really is. This leads her into the suffrage movement and ultimately to jail. She falls in love with a married man and they go abroad together, happy in their freedom despite an outraged society. In the end they are able to marry and reappear once more within the pale of society.

* * * * *

“The story is astonishingly brilliant, and for sheer vitality of realization some of its scenes are unsurpassed. The characterization is always sound, and often more than that.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 456. O. 16. 270w.

“One feels that there is nothing improbable in any of the things that Ann Veronica does—it is the spirit in which she does them that rings false.” F: T. Cooper.

− =Bookm.= 30: 383. D. ’09. 900w.

“The novel is certain to create much eager and animated controversy among its readers, but I venture to think there is one epithet which no reader whatever is likely to apply to it, and that is the epithet ‘commonplace.’ One of the most attractive and impressive studies Mr. Wells has yet given to us in his ideal and yet thoroly realistic fiction.” Justin McCarthy.

+ − =Ind.= 67: 1085. N. 11, ’09. 500w. − =Ind.= 67: 1314. D. 9, ’09. 1300w.

“The story is surprisingly clever, amazingly daring. Perhaps, even in this age of college women, clear-eyed, confident, practical—and devoured with curiosity—Mr. Wells’s delightful story is not quite a safe guide to proper conduct.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 622. O. 23, ’09. 650w.

“The book has a good deal of scathing social satire and keen observation. Mr. Wells is no stylist; it is not literature or beauty he is after, but a plain picture of life, and in giving this he is entirely successful.”

+ =No. Am.= 190: 837. D. ’09. 320w.

“The unpleasant impression left by this book cannot be entirely explained away by ascribing it to overdone realism. There is throughout a vicious insistence upon the material aspect of life, more especially upon the physical aspect of sex.”

− =Sat. R.= 108: 444. O. 9, ’09. 950w.

“It is a book capable of poisoning the minds of those who read it.”

− =Spec.= 103: 846. N. 20, ’09. 1200w.

=Wells, Herbert George.= Socialism and the family. *50c. Ball pub.

8–16488.

To reintegrate the family, lessen divorces, increase marriages and promote child-bearing, Mr. Wells offers the remedy of a family subsidy. He believes that the state should pay for children born legitimately in the marriage it sanctions; that a woman with healthy and successful offspring should draw from the state a wage for each child, so long as he gets on well.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 87. Mr. ’09.

“The ground on which the-outside critic may most profitably enter is afforded by Mr. Wells’ broader conceptions of socialism and the state. Mr. Wells’ eye is not single. He has one eye upon the new model of militant Fabianism, and the other on that far off divine event, his New Republic.” G: Unwin.

− + =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 523. Jl. ’07. 1000w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 9. Ja. 2, ’09. 80w.

“Mr. Wells is interesting but not convincing. One looks upon his intellectual acrobatic feats with admiration but is not inclined to follow him.”

− + =Outlook.= 91: 243. Ja. 30, ’09. 420w.

=Wells, Herbert George.= Tono-Bungay: a novel. †$1.50. Duffield.

9–5520.

The hero of this novel is a young man born of parents who served the British nobility. Thru hard work he earns a pharmaceutical society scholarship, goes to London and yields to London influences that warp and distribute his energies. He joins his uncle in building up a patent medicine business—the great Tono-Bungay property—“out of human hope and a credit for bottles and rent and printing.” There are romances, chiefly unsuccessful ones; there are ideas about socialism, theology and aesthetics; and there is the inevitable theme of aeronautics.

* * * * *

“Mr. Wells’s style of narrative gets more abrupt and parenthetic, but there is no denying that if his mannerisms have grown, so also has his manner, and that has resulted in a very fine novel.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 312. Mr. 13. 450w.

“In spite of a lack of distinction in manner, ‘Tono-Bungay’ the book is wholsome, whatever the tonic may have been.”

+ − =Atlan.= 103: 705. My. ’09. 850w.

“Is he trying to crush the small dealer by establishing a mammoth department store novel, in which every one can find everything he needs? If the mass of material were well organised it might be a great book. It is not organised; the whole is considerably less than the sum of its parts.” Ward Clark.

− + =Bookm.= 29: 92. Mr. ’09. 950w.

“‘Tono-Bungay’ has many ‘longueurs,’ but despite them is a vastly entertaining novel.” W: M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 46: 262. Ap. 16, ’09. 360w.

“In spite of humor, imagination, a lucid style, a gift of insight into the shams and absurdities of society, ‘Tono-Bungay’ is as uninspiring as a dull, gray day.”

− + =Ind.= 66: 700. Ap. 1, ’09. 260w.

“In general method it is rather frankly modelled on ‘Joseph Vance’; that is, it is composed with skill, though with some appearance of inconsecutiveness and even incoherence. The persons in the book are of more importance than the plot.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 170. F. 13, ’09. 500w.

“An entertaining book with both a story and a moral, and not a dull page, is a rare achievement for an author nowadays. These results have been attained in the work before us. It is hardly to be denied that Mr. Wells makes his point, but he does not seem to see that the point is made against himself as well as against the system which offends him. Doubtless, our social affairs are ordered in an apparently futile way, and most of us make the blunders in our lives which Mr. Wells describes with a frankness verging close upon Rousseau’s and almost declassing his book as suitable reading for the young person.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 54. Ja. 30, ’09. 1100w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 380. Je. 12, ’09. 180w.

“This is not merely something written merely to exploit theories or politics; it is not even a mere transcript from life; it is a Book.”

+ =No. Am.= 189: 920. Je. ’09. 110w.

“The love story is painful and not in the best of taste. Altogether the reader recalls Mr. Wells’s less ambitious ‘Wheels of chance’ and ‘Love and Mr. Lewisham’—and not to the advantage of ‘Tono-Bungay.’”

− =Outlook.= 91: 534. Mr. 6, ’09. 180w.

“Those who take up ‘Tono-Bungay’ will be quite likely to read it through and they will find it a vivacious English novel of the familiar type, dealing with the life of to-day.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 384. Mr. ’09. 150w.

“The book is shrewd, amusing, melancholy, and almost free from that indefinable quality for which no other word than ‘cheapness’ has yet been devised.”

+ =Sat. R.= 107: 309. Mr. 6, ’09. 400w.

“A strong, sincere, but in the main repellent work.”

− + =Spec.= 102: 346. F. 27, ’09. 1150w.

=Welsh, Charles=, comp, and ed.^{[11]} Stories children love: a collection of stories arranged for children and young people of various ages. $1.25. Dodge.

9–20134.

Seventy-two stories “chosen from the literature of many times and several countries. Swift, Goldsmith, Irving, Hawthorne, Defoe, Madame de Ségur, Hans Christian Andersen, and Robert Southey are among the writers laid under contribution. He has not confined himself to the older authors, however, since Edward Eggleston has been drawn upon for a sketch of an old-time spelling bee, taken from ‘The hoosier schoolmaster.’”—Lit. D.

* * * * *

“The extreme age variance (from three to seventeen years) recommends the collection for home but makes it somewhat inconvenient for school purposes or reading in the library.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 97. N. ’09. ✠

“The one mistake lay in over-ambition to include the simplest with the more complex style; any effort to grade material conscientiously within the limits of one volume will inevitably result in an inequality, which is mystifying to the youngest reader and incongruous to the oldest.” M. J. Moses.

+ − =Ind.= 67: 1359. D. 16, ’09. 80w. =Lit. D.= 39: 545. O. 2, ’09. 170w.

“Considering his limitations, Mr. Welsh has done well, and his volume deserves careful consideration.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1025. D. 4, ’09. 100w.

“In one volume, Charles Welsh attempts with a commendable amount of success to gather together ‘Stories children love,’ guaranteed by experts who have had opportunity for extensive observation as to juvenile taste.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 538. D. 2, ’09. 70w.

=Wendell, Barrett.=^{[12]} Mystery of education and other academic performances. **$1.25. Scribner.

9–26988.

Contains “four essays and a poem delivered before audiences on various recent academic occasions. The views on college teaching they present are those of one who finds scholasticism irksome and values such teaching in proportion as it develops the student’s powers and enlarges his resources.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“Professor Wendell is always entertaining and instructive in his lectures and essays, and this, his last publication, is no exception to the rule.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 970. N. 27, ’09. 220w. + =Outlook.= 93: 649. N. 27, ’09. 150w. + =Outlook.= 93: 876. D. 18, ’09. 150w.

=Wendell, Barrett.= Privileged classes. **$1.25. Scribner.

8–28840.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

* * * * *

“The essay-address is suggestive and at times convincing. The other essays are not more significant than the two already reviewed, being rather academic and general. The author’s style is most excellent, the book being very delightful from a literary standpoint. The argument lacks convincing power, being sometimes overburdened with qualifying phrases.” T: J. Riley.

+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 539. Ja. ’09. 400w.

“Stimulating essays, sustaining by able argument the contention that much of our modern education is a failure.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 22. Ja. ’09.

“Both witty and wise,—at the same time paradoxical and gently ironical, this latest book of Professor Wendell’s cannot fail to arrest the attention of any but the unthinking and heedless. He is eminently sane and conservative in his opinions, and his book is suggestive and inspiring.” Mary Lloyd.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 478. Mr. ’09. 430w.

“We are frankly of those who hold his criticism to be timely and, on the whole, much to the point. We commend ‘The privileged classes,’ therefore, as a useful and palatable antidote for national pride and self-satisfaction.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 69. Ja. 21, ’09. 580w.

“Whatever Professor Wendell, of Harvard, writes is worth reading, whether one agrees with him or not.”

+ − =Outlook.= 91: 150. Ja. 23, ’09. 270w.

=Wenley, Robert Mark.=^{[6]} Modern thought and the crisis in belief. (Baldwin lectures, 1909.) *$1.50. Macmillan.

9–6087.

“The book is almost equally divided into a destructive criticism of religious beliefs still current, and philosophical reconstruction; but one apprehends more clearly what it is that is destroyed than what it is that is constructed.” (Science.) The chapters are: Sheaves on the threshing-floor; The waters of Meribah; Breaches of the house; Humiliation in the midst; The pre-established discord; The adjournment of well-being; The penumbra of belief; and The valley of blessing.

* * * * *

“The style is too distractingly noticeable to be good.” D. C. Macintosh.

+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 630. O. ’09. 450w.

“Professor Wenley is not merely a man of wide reading; he is a man of wide comprehension and sympathy. He has the rare ability to discern the real significance and bearing of modern movements of thought in very different fields.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 919. Ap. 29, ’09. 770w.

“Whoever will read this book should read it through from cover to cover. Otherwise he will do injustice to its conclusion, as well as to the deeply religious spirit of its author.” E. S. D.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 591. O. 9, ’09. 430w.

“The book is one which may be commended to thoughtful people generally, but especially to students who have been instructed in the general principles of philosophical idealism, and are wrestling with the problem of reconstructing their religious creed. While it is strong food, it is precisely what is needed for the health of many men.” E. L. Hinman.

+ =Philos. R.= 18: 667. N. ’09. 450w.

“The best, and the longest, division of the book deals with the religious consequences of historical criticism. One could wish that Professor Wenley would be persuaded to chasten his style. At its best it is admirably vigorous and effective; but there are moments in which it seems a cross between the style of the Delphian oracle and that of Mr. George Ade.”

+ − =Science=, n.s. 29: 818. My. 21, ’09. 800w.

=Westermarck, Edward Alexander.= Origin and development of the moral ideas. 2v. v. 2. *$3.50. Macmillan.

6–18579.

=v. 2.= “Treats of the right of property, regard for truth and good faith, altruistic sentiments, suicide, industry, ascetic practices, the relations between the sexes, regard for the lower animals and for the dead, cannibalism, and the relation of gods to morality.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“As a great encyclopedia of facts, it will be a valuable reference work for large libraries.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 87. Mr. ’09. (Review of v. 2.)

“So far as the reviewer knows this is the most exhaustive comparative study of human morals ever made.” Carl Kelsey.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 219. Jl. ’09. 460w. (Review of v. 2.)

“By dint of a singular combination of virile qualities—pluck, resolution, and common sense—Prof. Westermarck has accomplished a monumental work that places him in the first rank of living anthropologists.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 399. Ap. 3. 1500w. (Review of v. 2.)

“I trust that even this very inadequate abstract of the contents of Dr. Westermarck’s work may be sufficient to make evident the value of this great contribution to learning.” J. E. McTaggart.

+ =Int. J. Ethics.= 20: 94. O. ’09. 2300w. (Review of v. 2.)

“The characteristics of the first volume appear also in the second: astounding profusion of examples (always with precise references to authorities), clearness and ease of presentation, broad sympathy, accuracy of discrimination, and soundness of judgment.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 196. F. 25, ’09. 420w. (Review of v. 2.)

“The present work has, of course, its thesis, but it is one which is, for the greater part of the time, obscured by the very masses of detailed fact which are marshalled in support of it.” A. E. Taylor.

+ − =Nature.= 79: 481. F. 25, ’09. 1100w. (Review of v. 2.)

“There has never been any attempt to establish a moral theory on facts gathered from such a wide range of time and space as Westermarck’s attempt; and the result is that the work deserves to rank among the world’s greatest scientific books; in its own branch of science it has no peer, and is not likely to find one for a long time to come. Rarely does one find a writer on ethical subjects so free from pre-possessions as Westermarck is; but at least in one instance it seems to me that he evinces a strong prejudice which warps his judgment. I may close by saying that not its least claim to greatness is that the layman can read it with as much interest and profit as the expert finds in it. It should have a wide and enduring circulation. No one after this will have a right to discuss questions of ethical theory who has not made himself acquainted with its contents.” E. B. McGilvary.

+ + − =Philos. R.= 18: 429. Jl. ’09. 4000w. (Review of v. 2.)

“The work takes its place at once as the standard book on inductive ethics—a monument of patient and unprejudiced toil that in its particular line will not easily be superseded.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 107: 465. Ap. 10, ’09. 1400w. (Review of v. 2.)

=Weyman, Stanley John.= Wild geese. †$1.50. Doubleday.

9–4487.

“A pitiful but convincing picture of Ireland in her worst days of English oppression, hopeless conspiracy, and primitive manners. There is character interest also, especially in the Colonel who returns from military service in Sweden—a gentleman of honor and courage, a wonderful swordsman who will not fight a duel, a resourceful strategist who checkmates the schemes of the wild plotters who would involve in ruin his ward, a patriotic Irish girl, ignorant of affairs.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“Equal to Mr. Weyman’s best work.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 114. Ap. ’09. ✠

“The heroine, like many of Mr. Weyman’s female characters, seems to us rather unconvincing, and the hero is far from attractive; but the book abounds in exciting adventures, and the action is swift. Those who enjoy romantic novels of this kind will seek far before they find a better romance than ‘The wild geese.’” A. C. Rich.

+ − =Arena.= 41: 608. Ag. ’09. 220w.

“There is no falling-off in vigour and vividness of narration; the local colour only is perhaps a little doubtful.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 177. Ag. 15. 170w.

“Is one of the best stories he has ever given us.” W: M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 47: 47. Jl. 16, ’09. 200w.

“That the tale is full of adventure admirably depicted goes without saying.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 1082. My. 20, ’09. 200w.

“‘The wild geese’ is—the usual thing, only not quite so much so—a diminished echo of ‘Under the red robe’ and ‘A gentleman of France.’”

− =Nation.= 88: 443. Ap. 29, ’09. 220w.

“Of all his romances of adventure, there is none that excels this in quality and in interest. He has never created a more interesting and lovable character than Col. John Sullivan.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 142. Mr. 13, ’09. 160w.

“Throughout, the story has lively action and dramatic suspense.”

+ =Outlook.= 91: 813. Ap. 10, ’09. 160w.

“Constructively the story is very well done: the action is not too breathless, and the alternation in the hero’s fortunes is adequately managed; but there is little attempt to render the speech or thought of the Kerry people.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 207. Ag. 15, ’08. 730w.

“We are told of the heroine’s charms, but we only realise her shrewishness. This is, perhaps, the most serious blemish in a spirited and wholesome story.”

+ − =Spec.= 101: 269. Ag. 22, ’08. 800w.

=Wharton, Edith Newbold.=^{[5]} Artemis to Actæon and other verse. **$1.25. Scribner.

9–10298.

A slight three part volume of poems, the first in blank verse seeks themes out of legendary Greece, the second is a group of sonnets, while the third is composed of lyric poems.

* * * * *

“Too intangible and involved to attract the ordinary reader.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 23. S. ’09.

“Miss Wharton writes excellent blank verse, rhythmical, well balanced, and melodious. In rhyme the author is less successful.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 178. Ag. 14. 300w.

“She was not born a poet; but this volume shows well how high in poetry a thoroughly cultured prose artist may attain. It is a noble and worthy piece of work, of which at least no living poet need be ashamed.” Brian Hooker.

+ =Bookm.= 29: 367. Je. ’09. 500w.

“In her poems, perhaps more than in her stories, we find great refinement of feeling, subtlety of thought, and a diction that will bear close critical scrutiny.” W: M. Payne.

+ − =Dial.= 47: 101. Ag. 16, ’09. 320w.

“Not that Mrs. Wharton has not written some rich and interesting verse; but it is too precious and curious—it is at times too downright unnatural to touch the heart very seriously.”

− + =Ind.= 67: 934. O. 21, ’09. 90w.

“It is full of unrest and strain; it itches to allegorize in strange effective fashions.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 55. Jl. 15, ’09. 150w.

“The academic flavor of these poems is, as it were, of the spirit. They have beauty, but lack vitality. The outside rather than the inside of life is what Mrs. Wharton tells of, and therefore it is that she is particularly happy in painting an impression. The book is a witness of careful work and polish; it is no outburst of passionate feeling or desperate need of singing.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 300. My. 8, ’09. 720w.

“Edith Wharton is a prose-writer ‘par excellence,’ and while she reaches the lyric pitch in thought and substance there are moments when, fine craftsman that she is, diction and cadence halt and move in the measure of prose.”

+ − =No. Am.= 190: 702. N. ’09. 300w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 123. Jl. ’09. 50w.

“Her poetry, very beautiful and perfect in its way, makes its chief appeal to the intellect.”

+ =Spec.= 103: 20. Jl. 3, ’09. 330w.

=Wheat, Mrs. Lu.= Ah Moy: the story of a Chinese girl. **$1.50. Grafton press.

8–20018.

In the sad experiences of Ah Moy, a Chinese girl, are reflected the habits of thought, customs, and feelings of the Chinese people. Altho the third daughter, she is not unwelcome; is betrothed at birth; loses her promised husband in the Boxer rebellion; during a time of reverses is sold into slavery, taken to San Francisco, where, rather than suffer the Chinatown shame into which she is forced uses the knife which was her father’s parting gift to be employed only in so dire an extremity.

* * * * *

“The author of the story has lent herself with a great deal of very wise sympathy to the Chinese way of thinking.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 324. F. 11, ’09. 230w. =N. Y. Times.= 13: 749. D. 5, ’08. 320w.

“It is told with such knowledge, understanding, and sympathy as make it well worth reading by such as like to see beneath the surface of other civilizations than our own and to look therein for good.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 5. Ja. 2, ’09. 300w.

=Wheatley, Henry Benjamin.=^{[12]} Hogarth’s London. $4.80. Dutton.

“A series of pen pictures of eighteenth century life in London—the life, the manners, and customs of the city as Hogarth saw it. As the author says in his preface, ‘Hogarth was a devoted Londoner, and while illustrating the manners of Englishmen of his time he drew his subjects from the inhabitants of London, with whom he was in daily intercourse. Representations of streets and buildings in all parts of London are to be found in the collection of his works, and most of these are discussed in this book.’”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“The pictures given in the very excellent reproductions are wisely selected.”

+ =Dial.= 47: 519. D. 16, ’09. 250w.

Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.

+ =Ind.= 67: 1350. D. 16, ’09. 80w.

“This book will be a useful companion to the standard life by Austin Dobson. We have here pretty much all the relevant material, a considerable amount of which has been added by Mr. Wheatley’s industry.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 609. D. 16, ’09. 310w.

“Interesting and valuable work.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 803. D. 18, ’09. 260w.

=Whistler, James A. McNeill.= Ten o’clock. Authorized ed. $1. Ernest Dressel North, 4 E. 39th st., N. Y.

This reprint limited to 1,000 copies “has the rare distinction of having been authorized by the author’s literary executor, and is the only separate edition of the lecture now in print. The Pennell biography and the reminiscences of Mr. Bacher—which unfortunately Miss Philip did not authorize,—have revived interest in Whistler’s personality.”—Dial.

* * * * *

“That personality never, surely, had more final expression than in the crisp, audacious phrases of this heretical gospel of art, which set London agog and forever severed the friendship between Whistler and Oscar Wilde.”

+ =Dial.= 46: 118. F. 16, ’09. 130w.

“Is bound to be popular in the growing school of Whistlerites.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 1187. N. 19, ’08. 70w.

=Whitaker, Herman.= Planter. †$1.50. Harper.

9–7039.

A vivid picture of life on a Mexican rubber plantation in which are introduced Yaqui slaves, the brutal planter, a beautiful Mexican girl, and a young American deluded into managing the interests of a corporation of swindlers. His hardships and peril involve fighting against unjust labor conditions, tricksters and a Mexican Legree with the result that he wins his battle and the heart of the maiden too.

* * * * *

“As a vivid presentation of scenes and characters comparatively unexploited, this novel makes a strong appeal to the jaded sense, and may be recommended as a picturesque and intelligent piece of work.” W: M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 47: 48. Jl. 16, ’09. 220w.

“It is unquestionably a book of great power, stamping in its sharp-bitten impressions with mighty blows.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 631. Je. 24, ’09. 370w.

“The book is decidedly alive, and has a double interest—as a picture of a country and people of which we know little, but which abound in romantic phases, and as a story of action. But it must be added that the author would do well to restrain the exuberance of his style, and that there are in his story some errors of taste and sometimes a perfervid sensationalism in plot.”

+ − =Outlook.= 91: 814. Ap. 10, ’09. 210w.

=Whitcomb, Ida Prentice.= Young people’s story of music. $2. Dodd.

8–34154.

“Opening with a chapter on ‘The beginnings of music’ and closing with one on ‘modern music of other countries’ the author presents to her readers the growth and development of the art through the centuries. The book is illustrated with portraits of many noted composers and with reproductions of some primitive musical instruments.”—Bookm.

* * * * *

“More valuable for reference than for general reading.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 96. Mr. ’09.

Reviewed by K. L. M.

+ =Bookm.= 28: 502. Ja. ’09. 100w.

“An unwieldy book of very uneven interest—more or less of a hodge-podge of information, some of which is none too accurate.”

− + =Ind.= 67: 308. Ag. 5, ’09. 100w.

“It is to a considerable degree what such a book should not be, rhapsodical, uncritical, gossipy.”

− =Outlook.= 91: 292. F. 6, ’09. 60w.

“A slipshod piece of work, crude in conception, slovenly in style and positively bristling with errors.” D. G. Mason.

− =Putnam’s.= 6: 111. Ap. ’09. 200w.

=White, Albert Beebe.= Making of the English constitution, 1449–1485. *$2. Putnam.

8–29201.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

* * * * *

“In view of the marked lack of critical and bibliographical foot-notes in connection with many controverted questions it would seemingly have been better to have omitted some of these long quotations and given the space to critical and bibliographical notes.” N. M. Trenholme.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 395. Ja. ’09. 600w.

“There is no more clear and scholarly treatise on English constitutional history during the middle ages in existence.” E: P. Cheyney.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 479. Mr. ’09. 900w.

“The early history of the English constitution is traced in the light of the best authorities on admirably clear and large lines.”

+ =Educ. R.= 37: 207. F. ’09. 50w.

“The difficulties of selection and compression have been skilfully overcome, and Mr. White usually shows a knowledge of the latest literature. We cannot in every case commend his hints for further study; his bibliography refers to three books which are not yet in existence, and in his notes he treats with undue respect some works which are either too speculative, or too much the result of compilation at second hand, to be of value for the beginner.” H. W. C. D.

+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 607. Jl. ’09. 140w.

“The result of Prof. White’s labors can hardly be regarded as a successful textbook, and it adds nothing to our knowledge.”

− + =Nation.= 88: 68. Ja. 21, ’09. 640w.

“His volume is well adapted to its purpose, and is accompanied with a bibliography and suggestions for collateral reading which will be of special value to the student.”

+ =Outlook.= 91: 110. Ja. 16, ’09. 230w.

“Sets forth the results of the latest and best scholarship pertaining to the period. It is especially full and satisfactory on the development of the judicial system.”

+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 175. Mr. ’09. 100w.

=White, Edward Lucas.= Narrative lyrics. **$1.25. Putnam.

8–26401.

Nineteen poems whose themes are borrowed chiefly from ancient Egypt, Palestine, and the Greece of mythology. “In reality they are most of them old stories, unravelled and deftly rewoven in metrical patterns. Among others there is a ‘Benaiah,’ a ‘Rhampsinitos,’ a ‘Shamgar.’ Their likeness to the lyric consists mainly in the air of personal concern with which they are related.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“When blank verse is employed, in which he is happiest, the poet’s powers are at the best. In rime verse he is less successful.”

+ − =Ind.= 66: 199. Ja. 28, ’09. 350w. + − =Nation.= 88: 41. Ja. 14, ’09. 430w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 102. F. 20, ’09. 150w.

=White, Eliza Orne.=^{[10]} Wares of Edgefield. **$1.25. Houghton.

9–25973.

The little town of Edgefield furnishes the setting for this story with Boston some miles away to heighten the contrast. The Wares are an old and respected family and the happenings which go to make up the lives of two generations of Wares and their friends form the incidents of the chapters which move quietly along in small town fashion but teach the lesson that “we live to love, and after a time we seem to others to grow old, but there is no growing old for ourselves while there are the younger ones to help and to love.”

* * * * *

“Of very moderate interest on account of the thinness of the plot, which is stretched to cover three generations.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 94. N. ’09.

“This story leaves one with the impression of real power somehow missed. Though the writer plainly states her keynote—Sympathy—at the story’s end we are left disappointed.”

− + =Nation.= 89: 434. N. 4, ’09. 100w.

“It is a clean, wholesome, and interesting little tale, and should please those who have taken delight in the author’s previous work.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 687. N. 6, ’09. 200w.

=White, Fred Merrick.= Crime on canvas. $1.50. Fenno.

9–6574.

“The arch villain is an artist who sets out to revenge himself, for slights to his vanity, upon a rich English nobleman, whose inordinate pride of family makes it easy to goad him to desperation by working upon a family secret. This the young artist does by painting pictures of a young woman whose relationship the nobleman does not wish to acknowledge, sending them to him by mail and finally exhibiting in public a portrait that is so remarkable as a work of art as to attract wide attention. The plot is quite complicated, has many exciting situations, and calls for constant alertness and detective cunning on the part of the several friends who are helping the persecuted old man to get the better of his enemy.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“Barring the verbosity in conversation and the stilted manner of speech of nearly all the characters, the book is a creditable enough specimen of its class of fiction.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 210. Ap. 10, ’09. 200w.

=White, Fred Merrick.= Sundial. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.

8–31687.

“An old Italian sundial with a fountain playing around it in the garden of a famous artist is the centre of interest. A man who is a mixture of scientist, man of the world, and criminal sets up an electrical plant not far away, and by means of wireless transmission *charges the fountain. A theft of jewels, which are afterward hidden in the top of the sundial, the deaths of two persons by contact with the charged water, and the elopement of the artist’s wife and the criminal are among the incidents of the story. The mystery is finally unraveled by the combined efforts of a criminologist and an electrician.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“This is the best mystery story we have read in months. Though there is here as in most mystery tales the element of improbability, it is not so obtrusive as in most similar romances.”

+ − =Arena.= 41: 89. Ja. ’09. 340w.

“In conception and portrayal of character, development of plot, and manner of telling the story is crude and commonplace.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 805. D. 26, ’08. 200w.

=White, Frederick.= Bill, a cheerful dog. **$1. Moffat.

9–2762.

Cheer is the predominant note in this book of children’s verse humorously illustrated.

* * * * *

Reviewed by K. L. M.

=Bookm.= 28: 468. Ja. ’09. 40w. =N. Y. Times.= 13: 702. N. 28, ’08. 140w.

=White, Henry Alexander.= Stonewall Jackson. (American crisis biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.

9–3196.

Material for this concise biography has been drawn from every available original source. It gives accounts of early life, traces character development, and follows accurately Jackson’s military operations. Bibliography and index.

* * * * *

“Will answer the average library need better than the ‘Life and letters’ by Mrs. Jackson, and is much more valuable on the military side.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 87. Mr. ’09.

“Dr. White has given a succinct and well-selected account of the chief events in General Jackson’s life, and has written a book that will serve as a good résumé of his military career. We should have liked a fuller criticism of his generalship.” J. M. Garnett.

+ − =Dial.= 46: 255. Ap. 16, ’09. 1650w.

=White, Horace.= Money and banking, illustrated by American history; rev. and continued to the year 1908. 3d ed. *$1.80. Ginn.

8–24281.

“The third revision without an increase in size. In chap. 5, of Book 3, the refutation of Kemmerer’s quantity theory by W. M. Persons is introduced. The old chap. 6 on the ‘Latin union,’ and the old chap. 7 on ‘International monetary conferences,’ are omitted, and appear briefly in new chap. 6. Book 2 on ‘Government paper money,’ is left unchanged. In Book 3, on ‘Banking,’ statistics as late as August, 1907, are introduced in chap. 14; and the following new chapters are added: 15, ‘State banks and trust companies’; 17, ‘Recent history’; 18, ‘The panic of 1907’; 19, ‘Present problems’; and 20, ‘The Central bank question.’ Grant’s veto and the Indianapolis monetary commission are dropped as ancient history, while the Report of the American banker’s commission and the Aldrich-Vreeland act take their place in the appendix.”—J. Pol. Econ.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 125. Ap. ’09.

“The chief adverse criticism to be passed upon the volume is the partial failure to tie the new portions to the old in such a way as to give the work entire unity of treatment.” H. P. Willis.

+ − =Econ. Bull.= 2: 48. Ap. ’09. 280w. =J. Pol Econ.= 16: 711. D. ’08. 180w.

=White, Marian.=^{[10]} Fuels of the household: their origin, composition and uses. *75c. Whitcomb & B.

9–28229.

An essay that aims to instruct young housekeepers on the origin, composition, chemical combustion and uses of solid, semi-solid, liquid and gaseous fuels. Among its brief chapters is one on “Economy of fuels.”

* * * * *

“It is the only popular work on the subject and will be valuable for school and household use.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 52. O. ’09.

=White, Percy.=^{[8]} Rescuer. †$1.50. Dillingham.

From the experiments of a celebrated French physicist Edgar Maitland believed that he had made the important discovery that the brain in the process of thinking emits rays which may be photographed. At his premature death his assistant Percy Athelstan was asked to carry on his work. How Athelstan used the supposed discovery for the purpose of living parasitically upon the Maitland widow and daughter and how Colonel Drayton circumvented his schemes is the subject of this story.

* * * * *

“The man who persists in wading from cover to cover will not get much more of real story out of the book than the man who puts it aside when he has read Chapter 1.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 656. O. 23, ’09. 330w.

“Mr. White fills more than three hundred pages at the sacrifice of much of his old crispness. The end of the story is obvious throughout, while the characters are not drawn with much subtlety. But one reads to the end.”

− + =Sat. R.= 107: 20. Ja. 2, ’09. 150w.

“The whole novel, if a little slight, is decidedly entertaining.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 843. N. 21, ’08. 110w.

=White, William Allen.=^{[8]} Certain rich man. $1.50. Macmillan.

9–18720.

A story of Sycamore Ridge, Kansas, which, many claim, is the fulfilment of a long-standing promise for a great American novel. It traces leisurely the development of the town from the raw state prior to the war to its present-day thriving condition. At the center of a deftly portrayed group of men and women towers the figure of a certain rich man who from a bare-footed country boy becomes the multi-millionaire president of the National provisions company. He is a type of the American capitalist who drowns his conscience with the cry of the Larger Good, plays his game with Destiny crushing the hopes and tender sentiments of others that pass in the way of the fulfilment of a greedy dream, until finally he is touched by the spirit of the awakening American conscience which expresses activity thru exposure of evil and the force of enlightened public opinion.

* * * * *

“One of the best novels of the year.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 28. S. ’09. ✠

“In spite of the wearisome atmosphere of Yankee finance, it claims attention by its painstaking study of the effect of wealth on a character destined by natural proclivities to amass it.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 424. O. 9. 140w.

“He could learn much from some of the more frivolous American writers in the matter of the clean, clear-cut stroke. Rather a pity, too, is the melodramatic end.”

+ − =Atlan.= 104: 682. N. ’09. 140w.

“An exceptionally successful performance. It is a legitimate child of love and of years.” Stuart Henry.

+ =Bookm.= 30: 60. S. ’09. 700w.

“Mr. White has a message for the American people.”

+ − =Cath. World.= 90: 249. N. ’09. 270w.

“The writer’s knowledge, powers of observation, and pointed style impart a considerable degree of interest to his story, despite its amorphous structure.” W: M. Payne.

+ − =Dial.= 47: 180. S. 16, ’09. 500w.

“So long as there is an abundance of neatly bound sermons on the market, this particular sort of fiction seems not merely superfluous, but not quite honest. Is it not time to suggest the passage of a pure-food law for our brain products, requiring a qualitative analysis to be printed on the covers?” Philip Tillinghast.

− =Forum.= 42: 285. S. ’09. 2300w.

“Mr. White has proved by this that he can run a marathon as well as sprint. This novel is not merely a short story long drawn out, or a series of sketches. It has an underlying unity. The chief artistic defect is in his handling of the transitions back and forth in time.”

+ − =Ind.= 67: 547. S. 2, ’09. 750w.

“While the criticism may be urged that the story is inclined to be rather heavy at times, it is nevertheless a fine bit of work and wi well repay a careful reading.”

+ − =Lit. D.= 39: 448. S. 18. ’09. 230w.

“It is obvious that the author has listened with interest to the yearning prophecies of The American novel, and that he has attempted to end them by fulfilling them. Considering the magnitude of his undertaking, his success has been remarkable.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 163. Ag. 19, ’09. 550w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 380. Je. 12, ’09. 160w.

“The story moves deliberately and stops to reason and to play with fancies, to look forward and back, as an old man who wrote of those he had known in a long life would naturally do when he came to set down his memories. Only in one point will the average reader be inclined to quarrel with the author and insist that he has gone radically wrong. That is in the matter of the spirit of Ellen, John Barclay’s early love, who died young.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 462. Jl. 31, ’09. 900w.

“It is such a big book, one must wish it were actually great.” H. W. Boynton.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 633. O. 23, ’09. 150w.

“A very powerful and swift-moving novel.”

+ =No. Am.= 190: 565. O. ’09. 300w.

“The test is whether the book moves the heart, whether it entertains, whether it is a true reflection of life; or whether it bores, preaches, offends the taste. Judged by this test, Mr. White’s story is eminently worth while, a refreshing oasis in the unusually arid field of recent fiction. It is brave, honest, and kindly.”

+ =Outlook.= 92: 921. Ag. 21, ’09. 1200w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 636. N. ’09. 30w.

=Whiteing, Richard.= Little people. *$1.50. Cassell.

9–35442.

The “little people” of Mr. Whiteing’s essays are the “nobodies and failures” of the world. “They are the people of no consequence or importance in a sense, yet whose types, characteristics, modes of life and speech and thought, their troubles or amusements and habits, furnish much and readable ‘copy’ to novelists and journalists. Mr. Whiteing approaches them as critic, moraliser, commentator upon them, in a sympathetic but at the same time ironical spirit.” (Sat. R.)

* * * * *

“A book that will have decided charm for educated readers with sociological interests.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 112. Ap. ’09.

“For its humour and kindliness, combined with an unerring eye for foibles and follies, the book is one to be read with real interest.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 100. Ja. 23. 200w.

“Philosophy, literary skill, and humour will go a long way toward making almost any thesis acceptable.” Montgomery Schuyler.

+ =Bookm.= 29: 194. Ap. ’09. 1550w.

“Terseness of phrase and vigor of thought mark this book as they do not always succeed in marking the author’s novels.”

+ =Dial.= 46: 266. Ap. 16, ’09. 320w.

“If this is not a great book, it is an unusually attractive one by reason of its unaffected gentleness and optimism.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 489. My. 13, ’09. 500w.

“The most admirable kind of reading for a winter night. There is something cozy and cheery and warm about each page, a gentle revelation of commonplace lives that are none the less extremely human.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 137. Mr. 6, ’09. 800w.

“The essays are well written, with a background of socialism for a theory, which without being obtrusive gives a continuity to them.”

+ =Sat. R.= 107: 52. Ja. 9, ’09. 200w.

=Whiting, Lilian.= Paris the beautiful. **$2. Little.

8–32991.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

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“Poor arrangement and lack of an index decrease its value for reference.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 88. Mr. ’09.

“As rich in information as it is fascinating in its manner of presentation.”

+ =Arena.= 41: 74. Ja. ’09. 2000w.

“The book, as a whole, is worthy of its great subject.”

+ =Spec.= 102: 824. My. 22, ’09. 170w.

=Whitlock, Brand.= Abraham Lincoln. (Beacon biographies.) **50c. Small.

9–3043.

A biography of Lincoln condensed to the proportions agreed upon for the “Beacon biographies.” The main facts in Lincoln’s life are furnished without embellishment, and the principal forces that operated in producing a man whose brotherhood ideas were greatly in advance of his age.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 88. Mr. ’09.

“The biography is written in an engaging style, simple, direct and calculated to hold the reader’s interest throughout by the charm of the writer’s directness, sincerity and sympathy in dealing with one of the greatest and most truly sincere and simple lives known to history.”

+ =Arena.= 41: 392. Mr. ’09. 380w.

“A remarkably complete and satisfactory sketch of Lincoln’s life with references to the best sources of fuller information.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 264. F. 4, ’09. 40w.

“This little book serves as a valuable introduction to more exhaustive works on the same subject.”

+ =Lit. D.= 38: 564. Ap. 3, ’09. 260w.

“Despite one or two lapses in grammar and an occasional straining at heroics, tells the story of Lincoln’s career concisely and entertainingly.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 166. F. 18, ’09. 40w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 82. F. 13, ’09. 100w.

=Whitney, Henry Clay.= Life of Lincoln; ed. by Marion Mills Miller. 2v. **$2.50. Baker.

8–36380.

A two-volume life of Lincoln written by a personal friend. The first deals with Lincoln’s early life; the second, with his political history. “Perhaps the second volume is the more interesting. It deals with the anxious years while Lincoln was President, with Mr. Whitney as paymaster to the army. From his inauguration to his death the President is set before us as a great soldier. Mr. Whitney contends that up to the time of Grant, Lincoln was virtually in command of the Federal forces and every victory they gained was under his direction. This point is well drawn out in Mr. Whitney’s interesting pages.” (Lit. D.)

* * * * *

“His account of the great President is simple and straightforward, without literary merit. The value of the work seems rather to be to corroborate the general idea by a vast accumulation of facts.”

+ − =Ind.= 66: 264. F. 4, ’09. 120w. + =Lit. D.= 38: 226. F. 6, ’09. 200w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 54. Ja. 30, ’09. 80w.

“Mr. Whitney is himself without special insight and without special discriminative power. Mr. Whitney would have done better if he had confined his book to personal impressions of Mr. Lincoln derived from association with him. These occupy largely the first volume, and constitute the chief value in the biography as a whole. Even these, however, do not add much to the popular knowledge of the great President.”

− + =Outlook.= 91: 245. Ja. 30, ’09. 200w.

=Whittuck, Edward Arthur=, ed. International documents: a collection of international conventions and declarations of a lawmaking kind; with notes and introd. *$3.50. Longmans.

8–19741.

Contains all the conventions or treaties made since 1856 at the close of the Crimean war to those made at the second Peace conference of the Hague in 1907. The work is in three parts as follows: “Part 1 contains the Declaration of Paris of 1856, the Geneva convention of 1864, with the additional articles which were not ratified, and the Declaration of St. Petersburg of 1868. Part 2 contains the various acts, general and special, of the first Hague conference. Part 3 contains the acts of the second Hague conference.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Unless the absence of a clear table of contents and of an index may fairly be deemed a blemish, no fault can be imputed to this useful work of reference.” G. B. H.

+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 207. Ja. ’09. 120w.

“It is very useful to have this quasi code upon the topics covered brought together and printed so conveniently, with the informing historical and critical introduction.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 450. Ag. 15, ’08. 400w.

“A useful volume.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 472. Ag. 29, ’08. 170w.

“If subsequent volumes are issued, a better model could not be wished.”

+ =Sat. R.= 107: 22. Ja. 2, ’09. 160w.

=Wiggin, Kate Douglas.=^{[10]} Susanna and Sue. **$1.50. Houghton.

9–27270.

When Susanna Hathaway finds life under her husband’s roof unendurable she takes refuge in a Shaker village which she remembers from a childhood visit. With her is her little daughter Sue who attempts, with delightful seriousness, to be a good Shaker and train her tripping little steps to follow “along the path where saintly feet have trod.” Apart from the world, in this atmosphere of perfect peace, Susanna’s bruised heart is healed and when she goes back with new courage to take up old duties, she finds that the long days in the lone, deserted house have awakened in her husband a new sense of manhood. Both are ready to forget and begin life anew.

* * * * *

“Scarcely more than a short story in length and too expensive for the average library.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 136. D. ’09.

“The simple Shakers are drawn with thorough understanding, and little Sue is, like all Mrs. Wiggin’s children, a very real and a very lovable child.”

+ =Dial.= 47: 463. D. 1, ’09. 190w.

“This quaint story of Shaker life is both novel and readable.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 791. N. 6, ’09. 260w. =Lit. D.= 39: 1085. D. 11, ’09. 130w.

“The good woman who makes generous gifts of ‘pieces of her mind’ is particularly delicious. We wish there were more of her.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 694. N. 6, ’09. 200w.

“As a story it is not one of the author’s best books.”

+ − =Outlook.= 93: 361. O. 16, ’09. 40w.

“The charm of the book resides in the scenes which are passed in company with Eldress Abby. Elder Daniel Gray, and especially with Brother Ansel.”

+ =Spec.= 103: 1003. D. 11, ’09. 110w.

=Wilcox, Walter Dwight.=^{[6]} Rockies of Canada: a rev. and enl. ed. of “Camping in the Canadian Rockies.” **$5. Putnam.

9–8920.

In addition to a thoroly revised text the illustrations have been increased to twice the number in the first edition. “Mr. Wilcox was one of the pioneer pleasure-seekers to explore and photograph the country. His mountaineering experiences now extend over twenty years, and his account of them, with the views, gives a comprehensive picture of the mountains and the mountain lakes, which constitute one of the rarest beauties of the region.” (Dial.)

* * * * *

“An excellent description for intending travelers.”

− =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 197. Je. ’09. + =Dial.= 46: 374. Je. 1, ’09. 140w.

“The book deserves its lasting popularity, for it is useful, and a guide to natural beauties that some day will count their annual pilgrims by thousands.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 1240. Je. 3, ’09. 100w.

“In the end one turns to the illustrations as in many respects the best part of the book.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 213. S. 2, ’09. 530w.

“All in all, his work has been greatly improved by its revision.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 257. Ap. 24, ’09. 250w.

=Wilkinson, William Cleaver.= Some new literary valuations. **$1.50. Funk.

9–585.

Includes the following studies: William Dean Howells as man of letters; Matthew Arnold as critic; Matthew Arnold as poet; Tennyson as artist in lyric verse; Edmund Clarence Stedman as man of letters; John Morley as critic of Voltaire and Diderot; and Tolstoy. Appendix—Alexander Smith’s life drama.

* * * * *

“This volume is one of the few really important works of literary criticism that have appeared on this side of the Atlantic during the past six months. To our mind the best essay in the volume is that devoted to Tolstoi.”

+ − =Arena.= 41: 391. Mr. ’09. 930w.

“He thinks, and so do we, that it is well to have such minute criticism applied to the work of accepted authors.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 638. Mr. 25, ’09. 240w.

“Exhibits a keen perception of the obvious, a stringent regard for exact and literal expression. a belief in orthodox Christianity, and an almost overmastering passion for grammar.”

− + =Nation.= 88: 359. Ap. 8, ’09. 600w.

“If the purpose of the essays were not so didactic and the style were less difficult, less filled with cumbersome qualifications, the use of the first person singular, and speciosities of diction, a candid reader might admit to experiencing in the perusal of the book something of the pleasure derived from ‘Innocents abroad.’”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 60. Ja. 30, ’09. 480w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 508. Ap. ’09. 40w.

=Willcox. Louise Collier.=^{[10]} Human way. **$1.25. Harper.

9–24687.

A steady optimism pervades these essays which contend that we may make what we will out of life but that we are under obligation to make of it something very good and very beautiful. The help we may derive from books, nature, children, friendship, and human relations is set forth in various essays followed by papers upon personality, solitude, memorat memoria, and detachment, each of which carries on the general theme of the series.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 129. D. ’09.

“A collection of essays written with, at times, an almost startling insight into the deeper meanings of life.”

+ =Dial.= 47: 288. O. 16, ’09. 370w.

“It is with a sense of richness that the reader completes this volume. Not one, but many readings, are required to fully grasp its beautiful truths and make them one’s own. If it be true, as stated in the book, that the value of the book is to be gaged by its depth of suggestion, then ‘The human way’ measures up to the highest standard.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 39: 642. O. 16. ’09. 400w.

“She has written with an air of meditation and a note of conviction which awaken the perceptions of the reader to the finer qualities of his experience.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 409. O. 28, ’09. 600w.

“These essays will make their strongest appeal to middle-age—fortunately an elastic term.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 673. O. 30, ’09. 240w.

“She has produced a book that is as winsome and noble as it is distinguished and exceptional.”

+ =No. Am.= 190: 412. S. ’09. 500w.

“The intellectual quality of her essays is high.”

+ =Outlook.= 93: 831. D. 11, ’09. 330w.

=Willett, Herbert Lockwood.= Studies in the first book of Samuel: for the use of classes in secondary schools and in the secondary division of the Sunday school. (Constructive Bible studies.) *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.

9–7565.

A companion volume to the previously published “Studies in the Gospel according to Mark.” It aims from the intellectual point of view to train pupils in the proper way of approaching and using a book of the Bible; and from a religious point of view to tell the story of God’s revelation of himself to man in terms of human life.

* * * * *

“A double purpose is however served by Dr. Willett’s book on Samuel; the pupil not only has a fascinating introduction to this book and to its many exciting events, but he is brought face to face with many of his own ethical and religious problems through its narratives and is forced to do his own thinking about these.” H: F. Cope.

+ =Bib. World.= 33: 352. My. ’09. 320w.

=Williams, Archibald.= How it is done; or, Victories of the engineer: describing in simple language how great engineering achievements in all parts of the world have been accomplished. $1.25. Nelson.

8–31651.

Deals with “civil” rather than the “mechanical” side of engineering. “The book takes up the most important feats of recent years in railroad engineering, ship and bridge building, irrigation, mining and tunneling, dam building, securing power from water falls, and devotes a chapter to the Panama canal. The building and launching of the Mauretania, the making of the Florida Keys railroad, the building of the East River bridges, the Simplon tunnel work, and the curbing of the Nile are a few subjects upon which he writes, describing the work with as much detail as is necessary for its understanding, telling the difficulties that have to be surmounted and showing how the enterprise is finally carried to successful completion.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Specially suitable for young people.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 88. Mr. ’09. ✠

“Any boy, or, for the matter of that, any man—for whom human triumph over the forces of nature possesses attraction will be made happy for hours with this volume in his hands.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 823. D. 26. 900w.

“Mr. Williams has an excellent faculty for getting hold of the kernel of things in the methods, processes, and principles of engineering achievements, while his presentation, aside from being in simple language, shows a feeling for the dramatic element always present in the conception and carrying out of these huge enterprises.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 15: 74. F. 6, ’09. 200w.

=Williams, Rt. Rev. Charles David.=^{[10]} Valid Christianity for to-day. *$1.50. Macmillan.

9–9479.

A volume of eighteen sermons by a Michigan Episcopal bishop “whose purpose is to present a Christianity that is valid for to-day. The author insists that such a Christianity must ‘moralize our industrial, political and commercial life, and humanize our social life.’ It must cleanse the heart and invigorate our moral life also.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)

* * * * *

“Thoroughly modern, constructive and very readable.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 23. S. ’09.

“Bishop Williams has clearly indicated in this volume the trend of modern Christian thought in dealing with present social conditions.” S. E. Rupp.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 438. S. ’09. 200w.

“These sermons will not put men to sleep. They will keep them very much awake, and very closely in contact with the needs and thoughts of the modern world.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 722. N. 20, ’09. 220w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 761. D. ’09. 80w.

=Williams, Francis Howard.= Burden-bearer: an epic of Lincoln. **$2.50. Jacobs.

8–33299.

A political epic in which are treated both the military and political history of the Lincoln period.

* * * * *

“His poem resembles now a rhymed—or at least a metrical—gazette, and anon a rhymed or metrical newspaper.”

− =Nation.= 88: 166. F. 18, ’09. 180w.

“As pure poetry, little can be said in praise of this epic, whatever credit be granted the author on the score of patriotism.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 83. F. 13, ’09. 100w.

“It is an excellent and spirited history of the American civil war, and the verse, though cumbered with many cacophonous American names, is swift and graceful. Mr. Williams is far below Mr. Noyes as a poet, but in some respects he tells his story better.”

+ − =Spec.= 102: sup. 152. Ja. 30, ’09. 60w.

=Williams, Gardner Stewart, and Hazen, Allen.= Hydraulic tables: the elements of gagings and the friction of water flowing in pipes, aqueducts, sewers, etc. as determined by the Hazen and Williams formula and the flow of water over sharp-edged and irregular weirs and the quantity discharged, as determined by Bazin’s formula and experimental investigations upon large models. 2d ed., rev. and enl. $1.50. Wiley.

9–601.

For this edition “the changes are confined to that part of the book devoted to the flow of water over weirs, where some new matter relating to submerged weirs is presented in the text, and where the table of discharge by Bazin’s formula has been extended to cover variations of head by 0.01 ft. from zero to 6 ft., making in all a table of 30 pages instead of the two pages in the former edition. A table of discharge of high weirs, 10, 20 and 30 ft., under heads from 6 to 20 ft. has been added.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

=Engin. N.= 61: sup. 14. F. 18, ’09. 120w.

“The book will be found highly valuable to those who have to compute the discharge of conduits and the flow over weirs of the forms in common use.”

+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 195. F. 13, ’09. 150w.

=Williams, Henry Smith.=^{[7]} Alcohol: how it affects the individual, the community, and the race. **50c. Century.

9–18388.

Based upon three articles which appeared in McClure’s magazine: Alcohol and the individual; Alcohol and the community; Alcohol and the race. The original material has been revised and expanded—the new matter including important tables which summarize the result of various experiments as to the effect of alcohol on the human system.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 129. D. ’09.

“The case made out by Dr. Williams is a strong one.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 934. O. 21, ’09. 50w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 468. Jl. 31, ’09. 340w.

=Williams, Hugh Noel.=^{[11]} Rose of Savoy: Marie Adelaide of Savoy. *$3.50. Scribner.

A history of Marie Adelaide of Savoy who, in 1696, a child of eleven came to Versailles to marry the young Duke de Bourgogne. It is a tale of her times and the influence that she exercised over the Court and Louis XIV.

* * * * *

“In the book before us he once more gives evidence of sound judgment in the handling of his authorities and he does not wander unduly from his subject. We have encountered a few misprints or slips.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 323. S. 18. 2150w. =Dial.= 47: 457. D. 1, ’09. 270w.

“The book merits a more extended notice, and it is with regret that we leave it, for it sparkles with anecdote and quotable incidents.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 634. O. 23, ’09. 500w.

“To us the young Duke is even more interesting than his Duchess, the chief subject of this book, and its author has done well in placing their portraits side by side.”

+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 818. N. 20, ’09. 530w.

=Williams, Hugh Noel.= Women Bonapartes. 2v. *$6. Scribner.

9–1981.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

* * * * *

+ =Nation.= 88: 16. Ja. 7, ’09. 260w.

“To Mme. Mère one may accede that Mr. Williams does simple justice. But in the treatment of Napoleon’s three sisters one feels that the whitewash brush is too much in evidence.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 798. D. 26, ’08. 930w.

“The two volumes are full of interest, admirably and vivaciously written, and incidentally disclose an intimate view of life in France under the great Emperor.”

+ =Outlook.= 91: 19. Ja. 2, ’09. 450w.

“We prefer Mr. Trowbridge’s translation to Mr. Noel Williams’ réchauffé.”

− =Sat. R.= 106: 734. D. 12, ’08. 250w.

“Mr. Williams seems never to have quite made up his mind whether he was writing gossip or history, but the merit of his work certainly lies in the more purely historical portions of it, and in the free use which it makes of M. Masson’s admirable and important researches in ‘Napoléon et sa famille.’”

+ − =Spec.= 101: 1100. D. 26, ’08. 540w.

=Williams, J. B.= History of English journalism to the foundation of the Gazette. *$3. Longmans.

9–7094.

From the crude beginnings of journalism in England Mr. Williams tells the story to the foundation of the Gazette, and sketches the careers of the principal newspaper writers. The study is founded “largely on an examination of the famous Thomason collection, which forms a great part of the British Museum’s assemblage of seventeenth century journals.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“The present study is much the most scholarly account of the beginnings of English journalism which has yet appeared. It is a mine of information. Its interest, and to some extent its value, are limited in certain well defined ways.” W. C. Abbott.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 577. Ap. ’09. 600w.

“If there is a chance of revision he should rearrange and rewrite some of the chapters, and so make it easier to read his valuable record.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 219. F. 20. 150w.

“His work is a piece of original research throughout. On certain points the desire of Mr. Williams to be entirely independent in his conclusions, and to use nothing but first-hand evidence, leads him unduly to neglect the work of historians who have dealt with some of the questions discussed in his pages.” C. H. Firth.

+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 571. Jl. ’09. 1000w.

“Another valuable contribution to the accumulating material that is awaiting the man who is disposed to write the full and comprehensive history of the English press for which students of constitutional history are waiting.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 761. S. 30, ’09. 350w.

“Some of Mr. Williams’s book is of interest only to the antiquary. But the literary student will find much to his liking in the accounts of the earliest newspapers, and the allusions to them the historian identifies in literature.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 767. D. 12, ’08. 1550w.

=Williams, Jesse Lynch.=^{[5]} Mr. Cleveland: a personal impression. **50c. Dodd.

9–7561.

An appreciation by a friend and neighbor of the former president. “To most people it will seem strange to think of Grover Cleveland as a shy, sensitive, companionable, warm-hearted man, fond of children and adored by them. We have come to admire him as a statesman of rugged honesty, wisdom, high ideals, and splendid fighting qualities; we now see through the revelations of those who knew the man that he was one to be loved as well as to be admired.” (Dial.)

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 184. Je. ’09.

“A charming portrait of the man in his later years.”

+ =Dial.= 46: 301. My. 1, ’09. 90w.

“A useful and an informing little volume.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 985. My. 6, ’09. 30w.

“Attractive volume.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 361. Ap. 8, ’09. 30w.

“It is just such intimate glimpses as this into the private character of public men that are necessary to the proper understanding of their actions and careers.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 256. Ap. 24, ’09. 400w.

=Williams, M. Atkinson.=^{[6]} Report on the teaching of English in the United States. 75c. Bardeen. E9–644.

A report of what Miss Williams observed while studying the subject of the teaching of English in the American schools. “Those who draw up school programmes in this country, and those who carry them out, may alike learn much from it.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

“Though an unpretentious little volume, contains a good deal of suggestive comment on American methods in primary and secondary schools.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 414. Ap. 22, ’09. 170w.

“Represents the work done by her as the holder of a Gilchrist travelling studentship. And very valuable work it seems to have been.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 303. Ag. 29, ’08. 300w.

=Williams, W. M. J.=^{[5]} King’s revenue: being a handbook to the taxes and the public revenue. 6s. King, P. S., and son, London.

“This volume, intended as a convenient reference on the sources of the British revenues, makes no pretense at anything more than a purely objective statement of the facts. It takes up under separate heads the customs, excise, and other inland revenues, gives a brief historical survey of each, explains the present rates and concludes with statistical tables showing the revenues from each source during recent years.”—J. Pol. Econ.

* * * * *

“Its wealth of legal citation is conveniently arranged, and the mode of subject arrangement makes the volume specially valuable as a reference for students of the problems of national revenue.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 194. Jl. ’09. 140w. + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 681. N. 28. 90w.

Reviewed by C. C. P.

+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 50. Ap. ’09. 520w.

“It is concisely, carefully, and thoughtfully executed and so well fulfils the purpose for which it was intended that it should prove useful for the economist as well as the general public.”

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 167. Mr. ’09. 80w.

“It will prove a serviceable manual.”

+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 190. Mr. ’09. 80w.

“This book will be a valuable addition to the reference library of the student of public finance, particularly in America, where the material it contains is not always easily available.”

+ =Yale R.= 18: 108. My. ’09. 200w.

=Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Mrs. Alice Muriel.=^{[7]} Set in silver. †$1.50. Doubleday.

9–10033.

A story whose scene shifts to suit the course of an automobile trip along southern and western shores of England, Scotland and Wales. “A retired Anglo-Indian comes to pick up a girl-ward in Paris, but as the young lady was engaged in eloping with a Frenchman she persuaded her dearest friend to impersonate her during the critical period. The story is told in letters, and the friend in question (believed by the Anglo-Indian and by Mr. and Mrs. Williamson to be altogether charming) suggests reflections on the odd blend of minx and sentimentalist in the modern girl which we have not time to formulate.” (Sat. R.)

* * * * *

“The interwoven love episode seems more intrusive, sentimental and impossible than in the earlier stories by these authors.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 189. Je. ’09. =Ind.= 67: 425. Ag. 19, ’09. 80w.

“The authors have added another pleasant story to their list of travel romances.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 380. Je. 12, ’09. 200w.

“This exploration of ‘wild England’ yields some very attractive experiences. They are illustrated by plates that reinforce the more or less vivacious descriptions given by the letter writers.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 406. Je. 26, ’09. 230w.

“The thread of story on which these rather conventional pearls are strung is amusing.”

+ =Sat. R.= 108: 22. Jl. 3, ’09. 100w.

“An attractive account of a motor-car tour.”

+ =Spec.= 102: 904. Je. 5, ’09. 30w.

=Williamson, James J.=^{[9]} Mosby’s rangers: a record of the operations of the Forty-third battalion of Virginia cavalry, from its organization to the surrender. 2d ed. rev. and enl. *$2.50. Sturgis & Walton.

9–22853.

First hand information that Mr. Williamson has acquired from the rangers themselves has been used to supplement the text of the first edition. “In the main, however, the story is unchanged; it remains as it was in its original form, a straightforward, picturesque story of the exploits of an organization of fearless, dashing troopers, led by an intrepid, intelligent, resourceful and daredevil commander.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Very entertaining and important book.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 491. Ag. 14, ’09. 170w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 383. S. ’09. 250w.

=Willis, John C.=^{[11]} Agriculture in the tropics: an elementary treatise. (Cambridge biological ser.) *$2.75. Putnam.

9–28786.

A four-part work containing little of value to the practical man in connection with actual field work but helpful and thought-stimulating to the student, the administrator, and the traveler. The divisions of the subject are: The preliminaries to agriculture; The principal cultivations of the tropics; Agriculture in the tropics; Agricultural organization and policy.

* * * * *

“We have nothing but praise for the contents of this survey of tropical agriculture.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 301. S. 11. 1150w. + =Spec.= 103: 210. Ag. 7, ’09. 150w.

=Wilmot-Buxton, Ethel M.=^{[8]} Stories of Norse heroes told by the Northmen; retold by E. M. Wilmot-Buxton. †$1.50. Crowell.

W9–264.

Twenty-five stories for young people retold in simple, easy prose from the legends contained in the Eddas and Sagas of Iceland and Norway. They are the ancient stories of the gods whom the Northmen worshiped and of the deeds of the legendary heroes.

* * * * *

“Contains more stories than Mabie’s work and can be used with younger children.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 95. N. ’09. ✠

“An excellent edition.” M. J. Moses.

+ =Ind.= 67: 1361. D. 16, ’09. 40w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 487. Ag. 14, ’09. 100w.

“There is much about the vikings, King Sigmund, Balder, and Loki, that every child of culture should know.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 768. D. ’09. 30w.

=Wilson, Calvin Dill.= Making the most of ourselves: talks for young people. Second ser. **$1. McClurg.

9–20659.

Some fifty short essays touching upon the elements of success in every career. The volume contains rational theory and practical suggestions upon such subjects as hero worship, the gospel of work, value of concentration, the spiritual element in success, cocksureness, battling with blues, the making and keeping of friends, value of self-control, on fearlessness and the joy of effort.

* * * * *

“These essays are entirely practical, and are easy to read and understand.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 210. Ap. 10, ’09. 200w.

=Wilstach, Paul.= Richard Mansfield: the man and the actor. **$3.50. Scribner.

8–31676.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

* * * * *

“Mr. Wilstach does not strike at the very soul and center of the man and create an image so entire as to explain itself.” Clayton Hamilton.

+ − =Forum.= 41: 281. Mr. ’09. 1000w.

Reviewed by Elizabeth Wallace.

+ =Outlook.= 91: 650. Mr. 20, ’09. 950w.

=Wimperis, Harry Egerton.=^{[8]} Internal combustion engine; being a text book on gas, oil and petrol engines, for the use of students and engineers. *$3. Van Nostrand.

9–17426.

“The distinctive feature of the early part of his work is the development of the thermodynamic equations on the assumption that the specific heat of the charge varies linearly with the temperature.... The second section of the book is devoted to the construction and operation of gas engines and producers, and covers a fair range of practice.... Oil and petrol motors are dealt with in the final section of the book, and considerable space is devoted to carburettors, ignition, rating of petrol motors, and their efficiency.”—Nature.

* * * * *

“The book is interesting throughout and is original, but is not well adapted to the needs of a student who is taking up the subject for the first time. The author is interested in a few special problems and devotes most of his space to them; he has done valuable work in helping towards a more complete theory of the gas engine.” L. S. Marks.

+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 43. Ap. 15, ’09. 1250w.

“Mr. Wimperis has dealt very successfully with a considerable range of theory and practice, and, in a moderate compass, has given a clear account of the theory of the internal-combustion engine. We think that the author might have devoted more space to the consideration of indicators. It is one of the most interesting and readable works which has appeared for a very long time.” E. G. Coker.

+ − =Nature.= 80: 124. Ap. 1, ’09. 400w.

=Winslow, Helen Maria.=^{[10]} Woman for mayor: a novel of to-day. $1.50. Reilly & B.

9–16441.

Portrays a successful test of woman’s suffrage. In the course of her narrative the author demonstrates the idea that women will be elected to responsible offices if they but have a share in the voting. The woman candidate for mayor in the present story wins the majority of votes and mollifies her opponent, by consenting to wed him.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 57. O. ’09. ✠ + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 454. Jl. 24, ’09. 140w.

=Winslow, Kenelm.=^{[11]} Production and handling of clean milk, including Practical milk inspection, by Kenelm Winslow, and Essentials of milk bacteriology by H. W. Hill. 2d ed. *$3.25. Jenkins.

9–23849.

A working guide for those pursuing or wishing to pursue one of the most wholesome, worthy and laudable undertakings—the production of clean milk.

=Winter, Nevin Otto.=^{[11]} Guatemala and her people of to-day. $3. Page.

9–20548.

“An account of the land, its history and development; the people, their customs and characteristics; to which are added chapters on British Honduras and the republic of Honduras, with references to the other countries of Central America, Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.” (Explan. title.) “The chapter on ‘The tropics and their development’ is really illuminating and statesmanlike. Ancient monuments are described, the story of the republic of Guatemala told, and the prospects of the state calmly and sagaciously discust. The work is highly interesting and at the present moment of value to the public at large.” (Lit. D.)

* * * * *

“As the only popular work on Guatemala, it will interest the general reader and those having business interests in Central America.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 88. N. ’09. ✠

“As in his earlier book on Mexico, the author combines the practical with the historical and picturesque.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 1044. N. 4, ’09. 200w. + =Lit. D.= 39: 546. O. 2, ’09. 150w.

=Winter, William.=^{[7]} Old friends; being literary recollections of other days. **$3. Moffat.

9–14944.

Informal recollections of old friends including the following people whom he knew from childhood: Webster, Everett, Choate, and Parker, to Hawthorne, Holmes, Lowell, and Longfellow, and Stedman, Stoddard, Aldrich, Louise Chandler Moulton, and many others In this country, and, among those in England, Dickens and Arnold.

* * * * *

“They are discursive but illuminating, and full of interest.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 24. S. ’09.

Reviewed by A. B. Maurice.

=Bookm.= 29: 595. Ag. ’09. 1900w.

“Walt Whitman’s peculiarities are well enough known by this time, and Mr. Winter’s catalogue of his offences seems hardly called for. A serious disfigurement of so excellent and handsome a volume is to be noted in the many misprints.” P. F. Bicknell.

+ − =Dial.= 47: 12. Jl. 1, ’09. 1100w. =Ind.= 67: 365. Ag. 12, ’09. 350w.

“From beginning to end it is good literature.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 330. O. 7, ’09. 930w.

“The reminiscences of Mr. Winter are literary; the number of ‘friends’ is remarkable not only for their size in certain numerals but also for their fame.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 380. Je. 12, ’09. 180w.

“One of the most interesting and important chapters in the book is devoted to George William Curtis.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 415. Jl. 3, ’09. 900w. + =Outlook.= 93: 249. O. 2, ’09. 1900w.

=Wise, Bernhard Ringrose.=^{[10]} Commonwealth of Australia. (All red ser.) *$3. Little.

9–29168.

A thoroly informing volume of some three hundred and fifty pages that presents a general view of the Australian commonwealth both as a country and a nation. It explains the special features of Australian policy, the ideas, temper and conduct of the people.

* * * * *

“This is the only book devoted to the special features of Australian policy.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 130. D. ’09.

“Will be found useful by those interested in commonwealth politics and problems of Australian defence.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 614. My. 22. 250w.

“There is still room for a more compendious and detailed treatment of the constitutional questions of the new commonwealth.”

+ − =Dial.= 47: 339. N. 1, ’09. 320w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 738. N. 27, ’09. 550w.

=Wise, Thomas A., and Rhodes, Harrison.=^{[5]} Gentleman from Mississippi: a novel founded on the popular play of the same title, produced under the management of W: A. Brady and Jos. R. Grismer. *50c. Ogilvie.

A transcript of life at the nation’s capital which shows the inside of the political maneuvers and of the workings of bosses—how they shape men and women to their ends, how their cunning intrigues extend into the very social life of Washington. An honest Southern planter, his daughter and private secretary are the chief characters.

* * * * *

“The story is amusing, but it is a tissue of absurdities, and it runs a long way off from the political life of our national capital with which it is exclusively concerned.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 318. My. 22, ’09. 130w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 378. Je. 12, ’09. 160w.

=Withers, Hartley.=^{[8]} Meaning of money. *$2. Dutton.

9–17157.

“A simple account, in non-technical language, of the modern mechanism of exchange. From metallic money, the author passes to such subjects as bills of exchange, checks, banknotes, the clearing system, foreign exchange, commercial banking, and the money market. Designed for English readers, the volume considers chiefly the English money market, but pays due attention to the various elements affecting the world’s exchanges.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“As a compendium for people untrained in the intricacies of finance, the book merits hearty commendation. Its explanations are clear, its illustrations striking, and its underlying theory extremely sound and sensible.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 395. Ap. 15, ’09. 220w.

“An excellent explanation of the monetary system of England and a lucid exposition of the relations existing between London, the world’s money centre, and the other great banking cities of the globe.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 492. Ag. 14, ’09. 450w.

“We can heartily recommend readers who wish to get an insight into the actual facts of modern finance to study Mr. Withers’s book. They will find it admirably clear, and not only free from the technicalities of trade, but, what is perhaps even more gratifying, free from the pedantry of the professor.”

+ =Spec.= 102: 821. My. 22, ’09. 630w.

=Witkowski, Georg.=^{[9]} German drama of the nineteenth century; authorized translation from the 2d German ed., by L. E. Horning. **$1. Holt.

9–15867.

“Traces the development of the drama from the prototypes of the realistic plays of to-day created by Schiller and from the middle-class plays of Iffland through romantic drama, fate tragedies, comedy farce, social drama, idealism, naturalism, folklore, and mysticism, contributing an accompaniment of brilliant and discerning comment that reveals the interplay of influences and interests.” (N. Y. Times.) The divisions are: The German drama at the end of the eighteenth century; The German drama from 1800–1830; The German drama from 1830–1885; The German drama from 1885–1900; and The product of the century.

* * * * *

“Students of modern literature, who wish in small compass a critical survey of the German drama of the last hundred years, will find it here.”

+ =Educ. R.= 38: 205. S. ’09. 60w.

“The chief fault of the book lies in its form. It reads like the scenario of a larger book planned perhaps for later achievement. And it is therefore not always easy to read. Another fault which makes the reading difficult is the very uneven and oftentimes quite inadequate work of the translator. What is most noticeable among the good points of the book is the dignity of the standard upheld by the author for the art which he loves.” G. I. Colbron.

+ − =Forum.= 42: 282. S. ’09. 1100w. =Ind.= 65: 1179. N. 19, ’08. 50w.

“A scholarly, informing and withal readable little volume.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 709. S. 23. ’09. 500w.

“Nothing at the same time so comprehensive and terse has appeared on the subject, and it is a subject of increasing interest to the English-speaking public.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 439. Jl. 17, ’09. 530w.

=Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville.=^{[6]} Love among the chickens: a story of the haps and mishaps on an English chicken farm. $1.50. Circle pub. co.

9–18719.

A tale of love and laughter whose background is furnished by an English chicken farm. The chicken raisers are novices in the business and they ally with themselves an equally ignorant friend who shares in the haps and mishaps of their business plunges. “The love affair develops with the starting of the farm and is concerned with the pretty daughter of an Irish professor, with an Irish temper, who is a near-by summer resident. The fowls do all the uncanny things which hens can always be expected to do when man attempts to coerce their movements, and supply no end of exercise, mental and physical, for the chicken farmers and amusement for the neighborhood.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“The promise contained in the opening chapters of the book is hardly fulfilled as the story proceeds. The humor is somewhat forced and the incidents themselves of hardly sufficient interest.”

− + =Lit. D.= 39: 449. S. 18, ’09. 160w.

“The book has brisk movement, and a bright style, which, though unable to handle the plot without shifting grips, is quite adequate to the minor incidents.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 56. Jl. 15, ’09. 200w.

“It is a merry tale, cleverly told, and never lacking in good taste.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 342. My. 29, ’09. 320w.

=Wodiska, Julius.=^{[12]} Book of precious stones: the identification of gems and gem minerals and an account of their scientific, commercial, artistic, and historical aspects. **$2.50. Putnam.

9–30640.

“A combination of the practical and the esthetic marks this author’s treatment of a most fascinating subject. While he gives the scientific data on which precious minerals of various kinds may be identified, he also, by his many illustrations, exhibits the beauty of jewelry. The setting of gems is described in some detail and the many legendary and traditional qualities attributed to them are also touched upon.”—Lit. D.

* * * * *

“The lover of precious stones will be a lover of Mr. Wodiska’s book. It will also prove of value as a handbook to dealers and setters, and is as complete and beautiful a volume on this subject as can be procured anywhere, if we take into consideration the limitations imposed by its size.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1085. D. 11, ’09. 120w.

“It is a comprehensive and interesting volume, which should appeal not only to experts, but to the general reader anxious to add to his store of knowledge on a fascinating subject.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 781. D. 11, ’09. 1200w.

=Wollaston, Alexander F: R.= From Ruwenzori to the Congo: a naturalist’s journey across Africa. *$5. Dutton.

9–7998.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 24. S. ’09.

“To a perhaps hypercritical taste, something is lacking—something which is to be found in many a rambling, clumsy book with no literary pretensions—the African atmosphere. It is a pity Mr. Wollaston felt ‘a concern’ to plead the cause of the Congo State.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 732. Je. 19. 900w.

“Few books of travel have more delightful and instructive photographic reproductions than this volume.” H. E. Coblentz.

+ =Dial.= 46: 365. Je. 1, ’09. 400w.

“The most interesting part is the account of the uncommonly successful work of the naturalists on the eastern slopes of the range.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 339. Ap. 1, ’09. 570w.

“There are some interesting and important observations concerning the treatment of African natives by the Belgians in this book.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 115. F. 27, ’09. 670w.

“A very entertaining book.”

+ =Outlook.= 92: 270. My. 29, ’09. 120w.

“Entertainingly written volume.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 382. Mr. ’09. 300w.

“An admirable extra-official record of the work accomplished on Ruwenzori in 1905. His appendices should be useful to future travellers.”

+ =Sat. R.= 107: 49. Ja. 9, ’09. 120w.

=Wollaston, Arthur Naylor=, comp.^{[6]} Tales within tales; adapted from the fables of Pilpai. (Romance of the East ser.) *$1. Dutton.

“These tales are adapted from the fables of Pilpai, the dreamer, a kind of ancient Uncle Remus, for like Uncle Remus, he runs to the beast fable, the earliest form of satire and allegory. The series of stories which is one of the ‘Romance of the East series,’ takes its title from the fact that the anecdotes, each illustrating some moral, keep folding up and branching out after the manner of tale-telling at a ‘smoker,’ where one story surely moves some other guest to say, ‘That reminds me—.’”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“We fancy that the modern child will sniff at these innocent beast-tales. We wish success to Mr. Murray’s series, but we confess we should like to see each volume prepared with more regard to the bibliographical information which many readers will naturally expect.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 208. Ag. 21. 400w.

“The author has translated the tales into plain English, although his style is a little involved—perhaps to suit the involved atmosphere of the series. Beast stories will always hold their own charm, and this addition to the list should prove instructive to the young and at least interesting to the old.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 323. My. 22, ’09. 200w.

“We have the best of them very nicely served up.”

+ =Spec.= 102: 506. Mr. 27, ’09. 140w.

=Woman= in industry, from seven points of view.^{[5]} 2s. 6d. Duckworth & co., London.

9–8898.

Seven lectures delivered by different women dealing with the following subjects: The regulation of women’s work, The minimum wage, Trade unionism, Infant mortality, Child employment and juvenile delinquency, Factory and workshop law, and Factory proposals. “The general drift of the lectures is toward resort to trade-unions and greater regulations and control by the state.” (J. Pol. Econ.)

* * * * *

“Miss Anderson’s article might fitly stand alone. On ‘Wage-earning children’ Miss Adler is known to be the best authority that the ladies could call into counsel. We heartily commend the result of their labour as a whole.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 758. D. 12. 250w.

“The lectures are intended primarily for the general public and should prove instructive to those interested in the subject.”

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 309. My. ’09. 80w. + =Sat. R.= 107: 760. Je. 12, ’09. 100w.

=Wood, Alice Ida Perry.=^{[11]} Stage history of Shakespeare’s King Richard the Third. (Columbia university studies in English.) *$1.25. Macmillan.

9–25746.

“The story of the development of the actual presentation of ‘Richard the Third’ in the successive periods of English acting down to the productions by Booth and Irving is told, not merely in detail that shows careful study, but with analytical and comparative methods of real literary value. Especially interesting is the attempt to fit the known theories of the Elizabethan stage to the first production of this history-drama.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

+ =Dial.= 47: 290. O. 16, ’09. 70w.

“It is not often that a scholarly monograph concerned primarily with the technique of a subject is made so attractive to the general reader.”

+ =Outlook.= 93: 558. N. 6, ’09. 190w.

=Wood, Sumner Gilbert.=^{[8]} Taverns and turnpikes of Blandford, 1733–1833. *$2. S. G. Wood, Blandford, Mass.

9–837.

Called by the author a “by-product” this book “is of general historical interest, being a careful, sympathetic study of types of important local institutions. It throws interesting sidelights on many phases of social, political and business affairs in early New England.”

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 184. Je. ’09.

“While strictly a local history, the book has a wider interest, since it portrays an aspect of the life of a past period to which specialists in our social history have for some time been devoting considerable interest.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 604. S. 9, ’09. 120w.

“The book should be placed in every library side by side with Charles E. Craven’s ‘History of Mattituck, L. I.’”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 970. N. 27, ’09. 170w.

“We take pleasure in recommending it not only to students of New England history, but to lovers of the past as a sentimental possession.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 79. Jl. 22, ’09. 950w.

“The numerous illustrations with which the volume is embellished of old taverns and turnpike scenes add materially to its interest and value as a picture of early times in the local history of New England.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 705. N. 13, ’09. 700w.

=Wood-Seys, Roland Alexander.= Sappho in Boston. †$1.50. Moffat.

8–28059.

A sprightly story of a cultivated, fascinating Boston girl who in playing a surprising rôle brings a young Englishman off his “insular pedistal[P2: typo? pedestal].”

* * * * *

“It is to be strongly recommended for three reasons: its English is a pure joy, its veiled satire on American society is permeated with a rather rare quality of humour, and thirdly the question whether or not the Englishman who tells his story in the first person will eventually win the undeniably charming Bostonian lady, who may or may not be divorced, has beyond question a piquant interest that challenges approval.” F: T. Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 28: 475. Ja. ’09. 200w.

“This is a story which does not stand still long enough to be criticised. It whizzes and fizzes its way through conversational smartness, hypertrophy of wealth, coruscations of epigram, and yet, reaching its end, reveals a solidity that one hardly suspected. It is superfluous to add that the book is nothing if not brisk, even breathless reading, and its unconventional dénouement invests it with positive charm.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 42. Ja. 14, ’09. 270w.

“The drawing of the characters is clean-cut, the dialogue sparkling, and the dénouement a complete surprise.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 30w.

“The whole book is quite as impossible as its central conception of this particular Sappho in Boston.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 684. N. 21, ’08. 160w.

=Woodberry, George Edward.=^{[7]} Life of Edgar Allan Poe, personal and literary, with his chief correspondence with men of letters. 2v. **$5. Houghton.

9–7719.

A biography based upon the author’s 1885 volume. “His aim in the larger as in the more compact book, however, is to present a literary biography. He points out that a biography of Poe has two special interests: it lies outside New England, and it embodies contemporaneous literary history apart from the lives of the other greater American writers. In the earlier volume, Mr. Woodberry tells us, he excluded much and suppressed much which he thought the world would let die. But this attempt to assist oblivion has proved fruitless. Every possible theory and surmise relating to Poe has been put forth, and in this work he has presented all matters of fact that have come to light.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“A timely work that will doubtless supplant its predecessor as the most authoritative and trustworthy biography among the many now in print.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 197. Je. ’09.

“As an encyclopaedia of the professional and private adventures of Poe, this new memoir is indeed of the highest value.” W. B. Blake.

+ =Dial.= 47: 118. S. 1, ’09. 1250w.

“The appearance of these volumes is the most important event connected with the centenary of Poe. There are doubtless readers who would find more pleasure and profit in Professor Woodberry’s earlier biography than in this fuller work, which suffers from the defects of its qualities.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 100. Jl. 29, ’09. 1750w.

“Special interest attaches to this new and larger form of Mr. Woodberry’s biography because of the large addition of letters and other material incorporated in the text and the numerous appendices which present a variety of documents bearing upon Poe’s life and including complete bibliography of his writings.”

+ =Outlook.= 92: 421. Je. 19, ’09. 380w.

=Woodruff, Charles Edward.=^{[12]} Expansion of races. $4. Rebman co.

9–17263.

“This book is a twentieth century edition of Malthus’ ‘Essay on population,’ with additions from modern biology, anthropology, ethnology, and medical science. Its author, who is a major surgeon in the United States army, calls it ‘an anthropological study.’ But it is really much more a work on the biological side of sociology, making very liberal use of anthropological data. The main interest of the author as is abundantly shown throughout the text is in the problem of the rise and decline of nations and civilizations.”—Econ. Bull.

* * * * *

“From one point of view it might be said to be a horrible example of what a biologist who has had no training in the social sciences may do in handling social and economic problems. In spite of its bizarre theories, however, it must be said that the work is a very suggestive one and deserves the attention of economists and sociologists.” C: A. Ellwood.

+ − =Econ. Bull.= 2: 393. D. ’09. 1400w.

“A considerable part, and perhaps the most valuable part, of the book is that devoted to an explanation of human governments and the two great party policies of which they are all the apparently complex, but really simple, manifestation. These comments will have attained their object if they call the attention of the thoughtful to a remarkable addition to the stock of human knowledge.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 465. Jl. 31, ’09. 1000w.

=Woolwine, Thomas Lee.= In the valley of the shadows. †$1. Doubleday.

9–4961.

A short story of the Tennessee mountains in which the feud that had existed between two families for several generations is finally ended thru the influence of the sacrificing love that grows up between the son of one and the daughter of the other.

* * * * *

“The story is written in a simple, direct and pleasing style. The descriptions of nature are admirable and the delineation of the characters, in so far as they are delineated, is excellent.”

+ =Arena.= 41: 605. Ag. ’09. 230w.

“The marks of the ‘prentice hand are numerous, and there is little to differentiate the work from that of numerous other ’prentices.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 143. Mr. 13, ’09. 250w.

=Worcester, Rev. Elwood.= Living word. **$1.50. Moffat.

9–132.

“An interpretation of the Emmanuel movement which “is giving us a new conception of as well as a new faith in God; a new interpretation of as well as a new following of Christ; a new realization of immortality as a present as well as a continuing existence; and a new reverence for man as God’s child with infinite possibilities.”” (Outlook.) “The book is divided into two parts, of which the first is concerned with the belief in God Himself, and the second with such intimations of immortality as are to be discovered in or about man.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“They interpret life in terms of spirituality and contain much stimulating thought and inspiring suggestion.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 89. Mr. ’09.

“The book is written in a broad-minded, nonsectarian way. While the reader may question some of the conclusions reached, he can not help admitting that it is a strong, sincere expression of thought.”

+ − =Lit. D.= 38: 308. F. 20, ’09. 270w. =Nation.= 88: 536. My. 27, ’09. 120w.

“While it is a book that will be a help to many, it will also interest all who admire a sincere spirit and courageous recognition of the change in man.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 74. F. 6, ’09. 540w.

“A broad, inspiring, and helpful interpretation and may be commended heartily to those who desire to understand something of the secret of the present unrecognized revival of religion.”

+ =Outlook.= 91: 293. F. 6, ’09. 270w.

=Worth, Nicholas, pseud.=^{[11]} Southerner: a novel, being the autobiography of Nicholas Worth. **$1.20. Doubleday.

9–26438.

“While the author claims that this book is a novel, it is really an indictment of a whole people. Nicholas Worth, the hero, is a Southern youth, who gets a Harvard education immediately after the civil war. Unfortunately, this education results in making him a man who feels better and different from his own kind, who secretly despises them for their faults, and who is only willing to impart to them the mind and virtues and standards of another people whom he admires more.”—Ind.

* * * * *

“The book combines sincerity with insight and, in vividly picturing from within the period of southern rehabilitation, has undoubted historical value. It will appeal only to the more serious reader.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 136. D. ’09.

“The story of this man’s struggle for the betterment of his fellows, whether it be pieced together by fancy, or be literally the record of experience, makes one of the most genuine of books; it combines sincerity with insight, and deserves to be taken to heart by serious readers both North and South.” W: M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 47: 387. N. 16, ’09. 280w.

“There can be no doubt that the criticisms are written from an intimate inside knowledge of Southern character, and that the book contains a truthful list of not only the faults and frailties of this people, but of their fallacious standards of value. No people, especially a choleric people like those of the South, endure being kicked by a highly educated little fellow, and Nicholas is a little fellow. This is one fault of the book. The reformer in it is too small a personality, too decimated by the kind of education he is trying to thrust upon others, too contemptuous, too unfriendly in spite of his protestations of devotion. The other fault of the book is this: By education and industry, the hero meant the kind of education and the kind of commercialism that has secularized and fattened the North and East.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.

+ − =Ind.= 67: 1090. N. 11, ’09. 1000w.

“It is the animus, the steady and strong and at times passionate rebellion against what may be called the forces of delay in the South, against whatever and whoever may be holding it back and keeping it apart, that gives to the book its force. The book would doubtless do more good than harm in the South if it should be widely and candidly read there. It is much more likely, however, to get a wide reading, and a rather too serious acceptance, in the North.”

− + =Nation.= 89: 511. N. 25, ’09. 1200w.

“Contains some very interesting pictures of life in one of the cotton states stretching over the period from the last year of the civil war to the present time and beyond, perhaps, for the narrative seems to deal somewhat in prophecy. After all the story, interesting as much of it is, is not evidence but argument and plea. The tract, of course, spoils the novel—which, swamped as it is, shows in points the qualities of a real story of real people.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 590. O. 9, ’09. 700w.

=Wrede, William.=^{[9]} Origin of the New Testament; tr. by James S. Hill. (Harper’s library of living thought.) **75c. Harper.

W9–258.

For the “interested layman or the busy cleric” this is a plain, exhaustive study of the present condition of criticism of New Testament origins from what is commonly known as the standpoint of the “advanced” school.

* * * * *

“The translator claims that it contains a plain and exhaustive account of the present condition of the criticism of New Testament origins from what is commonly known as the standpoint of the ‘advanced’ school. The claim, however, is much too strong.”

− =Ath.= 1909, 2: 294. S. 11. 420w.

“This posthumous work is free from all the futilities of dogma. It is a reverent work, but it treats of the New Testament as a book, or collection of books, like other books, and not supernaturally inspired.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 828. D. 25, ’09. 430w.

“It should be useful and interesting to those who care for a subject at once literary and historical.”

+ =Sat. R.= 107: sup. 5. My. 22, ’09. 100w. =Spec.= 102: 824. My. 22, ’09. 100w.

=Wright, Edward Stager.= Westward ’round the world. **$1.25. Dutton.

9–44.

A little book designed “to aid those in search of mild adventure.” In the opening chapter the advice of the author’s wife is recorded upon the subject of a suitable wardrobe for the woman who plans to make a good deal of the social side of travel. This over, the working itinerary for the trip is given, then follows the running narrative of sights, experiences, and impressions which thru ten months can provide a liberal education. There is abundant incidental instruction and advice for the prospective traveler.

* * * * *

“With many of his impressions those who know the countries to which they refer will be content, in spite of the lack of restraint with which he criticises and the coarseness he occasionally exhibits in setting down his disapproving opinions. Mr. Wright spent less than a month in Japan, but he writes about the country as though he knew it thoroughly.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 28. Ja. 16, ’09. 420w.

=Wright, Harold Bell.=^{[10]} Calling of Dan Matthews. $1.50. Book supply co., Chicago; (For sale by Reilly & B.)

9–21865.

Heeding a call to devote his life to the service of his fellow men, Dan Matthews naturally entered the ministry, and this story brings out clearly in its course how much more a church may value its rich members than its minister. In the face of the unchristian attitude of his church its lack of charity and sympathy with the unfortunate, the great dreams of its young minister are thwarted and he finds that he may serve humanity unhampered only outside the church which stands between him and the teachings of Christ as he interprets them. The love theme is closely interwoven with his problem as the trained nurse, whom he loves, and the doctor, who is his best friend, first open his eyes to the true condition of affairs.

* * * * *

“A tale of considerable interest but annoyingly exaggerated in the drawing of ‘pious’ characters.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 94. N. ’09.

“It is precisely the sort of book which the readers who like this author’s previous volumes may reasonably be expected to enjoy. That it has no special structural merit, no special distinction of style is quite beside the point.” F: T. Cooper.

+ − =Bookm.= 30: 189. O. ’09. 230w.

“In his new work Mr. Wright has taken occasion to state some very plain facts. The chances are that readers may not entirely agree with him. They will feel, perhaps, that he has overstated his case, but much remains to command a careful hearing. The novel might have been stronger, had the writer taken into account that real men and women are neither wholly good, nor wholly bad, but that human nature approaches neither extreme.”

− + =Lit. D.= 39: 546. O. 2, ’09. 200w.

“The author writes, evidently, with deep seriousness and with some knowledge of life and the world, but he has not succeeded in imparting to his characters the illusion of reality. In this respect the book is not equal to his former novels, although the plot, what little there is of it, is handled more skilfully.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 551. S. 18, ’09. 430w.

=Wright, Horace Winslow.=^{[6]} Birds of the Boston public garden: a study in migration; with an introd. by Bradford Torrey. **$1. Houghton.

9–12629.

“The opening chapter tells when bird migrations occur, what species have appeared each spring from 1900 to 1908, and gives lists of those observed on maximum days, which in the years named have fallen from May 12 to May 20.... A list of one hundred and sixteen birds which the author has observed in the nine years forms the principal part of the compact volume, and as the title suggests, is given not for general descriptive purposes, but as the record of feathered visitants actually seen in the garden. Several dainty photogravures of rare trees in the garden ornament the book.”—Dial.

* * * * *

+ =Dial.= 46: 374. Je. 1, ’09. 230w.

“It constitutes a remarkable record of thorough observation in a very limited area.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 517. My. 20, ’09. 220w.

“It is a most interesting study in observation.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 386. Je. 19, ’09. 400w.

=Wright, Rev. John.= Some notable altars in the Church of England and the American Episcopal Church. *$6. Macmillan.

8–33912.

“This volume, containing descriptions of more than a hundred altars in English and American churches, is a handbook of the history and practice of altar construction. Aside from the historical and descriptive interest of the book, it will be of value to those who are desirous of constructing new altars or enriching old ones.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

+ =Dial.= 46: 233. Ap. 1, ’09. 170w.

“Will interest Protestant churchmen. If the architect or the sculptor be less attracted, it will be because of the inevitable reappearance in such a collection of the old forms and arrangements. Unfortunately, the opportunity to show us the best obtainable has not been fully utilized. The plates are uneven in quality.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 662. D. 31, ’08. 380w. + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 623. O. 24, ’08. 50w.

“The pictures are of very good quality and preserve in unusual degree the values of light and shade and of the multifarious details of decoration.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 788. D. 13, ’08. 260w.

=Wright, Mabel Osgood.=^{[7]} Poppea of the post-office. $1.50. Macmillan.

9–18947.

A foundling of rare sweetness and loyalty possessed of no little spirit is the heroine of this tale set in the early sixties. She is adopted by the post-master of a little town who having been bereft of wife and child allows this little “lady baby” when left upon his doorstep to slip into the place of his lost Marygold. The mystery surrounding Poppea’s parentage, the doings of simple town folk, and the echo of the din of the rebellion are intimately woven into a tale which abounds in clear character delineations.

* * * * *

“A superficial, melodramatic tale, and the most conventional this author has written, but wholesome and interesting.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 28. S. ’09. ✠

“A sweet and wholesome tale.” W: M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 47: 183. S. 16, ’09. 230w.

“There is nothing that is strikingly original—neither plot, characters, nor setting—and nothing that interferes with a placid interest.”

+ − =Ind.= 67: 549. S. 2, ’09. 120w. + =Lit. D.= 39: 449. S. 18, ’09. 270w.

“The idyllic quality of the narrative renders the matter of plot of little account.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 278. S. 23, ’09. 370w.

“The characters are all living, likeable folk, and Poppea herself is a wholly charming heroine. But as a story the book is somewhat monotonous. Better a week in the garden with Barbara than a cycle of plot with Mrs. Wright.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 477. Ag. 7, ’09. 280w. + =Sat. R.= 108: 508. O. 23, ’09. 280w.

“The story might have been better managed, but the dialogue, and the scenery, and the drawing of character are excellent.”

+ − =Spec.= 103: 610. O. 16, ’09. 20w.

=Wright, Peter.=^{[12]} Three-foot stool. **$1.50. Dutton.

A volume dealing with the people and life of the West. “Descriptions of the cattleman’s life, his manners, his horsemanship, his employments, his food, and samples of his conversation are interspersed with rhymed passages which invoke the muse, with the pastoral episodes of an Arcadian love affair, whereof the heroine (called Belphoebe) is first coy, then yielding; with animadversions upon the corruption of American politics; while tales of the Orient, and even of Paris, are interpolated.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Mr. Wright clearly has no knowledge of bookmaking, but his mind is a storehouse of information and impressions regarding cattle ranches in Western America. It is a curious hotchpotch—leisurely, and in the main pleasing.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 93. Jl. 24. 250w.

“A curious volume, a medley of good writing and bad in prose, with some pretty bad writing in verse.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 719. N. 20, ’09. 360w.

=Wright, Walter Page.=^{[10]} Garden week by week. *$2. Doubleday.

9–35802.

A garden handbook that “does not contain anything about garden art, nor about the general principles of gardening. It is composed of twelve practical chapters, subdivided so as to show seasonable work for every week in the year.... The reader is told what operations to perform and what plants to grow every week.”

* * * * *

“Presupposes more extensive operations and is more detailed than Shelton’s ‘Seasons in a flower garden.’”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 53. O. ’09.

“Mr. Wright is eminently practical.”

+ =Spec.= 102: 1038. Je. 26, ’09. 150w.

=Wright, William Henry.=^{[11]} Grizzly bear: the narrative of a hunter-naturalist, historical, scientific and adventurous. **$1.50. Scribner.

9–25768.

An autobiographical chapter enables the reader to reach the author’s state of interest in grizzly bears that led him to devote twenty-five years to the study of them. He traces the history of grizzlies, gives numerous experiences and adventures in hunting them and minutely discusses their character and habits.

* * * * *

“His pictures in this book are admirable, and worth classing with the work of the brothers Kearton. This is an excellent, if unpretentious, contribution to their history.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 498. O. 23. 400w.

“A capital book of its kind.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 643. O. 16, ’09. 190w.

“Mr. Wright makes his book intensely interesting.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 639. N. ’09. 130w.

“The book contains a deal of interesting matter about the habits of bears.”

+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 816. N. 20, ’09. 180w.

=Wrong, George MacKinnon.= Canadian manor and its seigneurs: the story of a hundred years. *$3. Macmillan.

8–34239.

A story whose heroes, John Nairne and Malcolm Frazer, are Highland officers who became seigneurs in the province of Quebec. “After the taking of Quebec, they settled on grants obtained on the shores of the St. Lawrence. Whatever the faults of the seigniorial system, they did not make themselves felt when it was worked by such men as John Nairne. He was keenly interested in the welfare of his tenants, promoting the clearing of the land and agricultural improvements of all kinds. He encouraged settlement, giving terms, which, as Professor Wrong reminds us, compare favourably with what an intending settler would receive to-day from a private owner or a land company. Not till much later did the seigniorial rights become burdensome. The story of John Nairne, of the fulfilment of his purposes, and of the sorrows of his life is deeply interesting.” (Spec.)

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“The author’s attitude toward the ancient local institutions of French Canada is discriminating but thoroughly sympathetic; and although his story is one of dramatic interest he has given us real history and not historical fiction.” W: B. Munro.

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 635 Ap. ’09. 600w.

“Has an interest beyond that suggested by the title.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 606. N. 14. 800w.

“Is one of the best of the local histories in which the Province of Quebec is rich.” W. L. G.

+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 618. Jl. ’09. 240w.

“Two books with the same root idea, to trace the growth of French Canada, not through the dramatic events of her history, but through the everyday life of her people. As it has been worked out, however, they are complementary, the one beginning where the other leaves off. Both are vivid in style and fresh in treatment, but they command interest for wholly different seasons. It is no reflection on ‘Canadian types of the old régime’ that ‘A Canadian manor and its seigneurs’ has the advantage, for Professor Wrong has written a French Canada with England, rather than France, in the background, in itself a distinction.”

+ =Sat. R.= 107: 308. Mr. 6, ’09. 500w.

“Professor Wrong gives us a valuable picture of the ‘habitant’ village with its various ways and customs.”

+ =Spec.= 102: 66. Ja. 9, ’09. 200w.

=Wyllarde, Dolf.= Rose-white youth. †$1.50. Lane.

8–29001.

“The heroine is fifteen, and she dies of a broken back (supplemented by a broken heart) on her sixteenth birthday. The man in the case is a bronzed explorer, known to scientific fame, a guest of her family at their country house. It is a wretched misunderstanding that causes him to misjudge her, and it is not cleared up (for the girl) in time to save her from that last reckless ride along the cliff.”—Dial.

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“This story is marred by the frequent employment of sensual suggestion, a fault which has marked the earlier books of this writer, seeming to indicate an inherent vulgarity of mind.” W: M. Payne.

− + =Dial.= 46: 86. F. 1, ’09. 150w.

“‘Dolf Wyllarde’ is better bred than ‘The Duchess,’ but the style is not quite free from the shabby-genteel complacency of the middle-class romancer sure of an audience.”

− + =Nation.= 88: 117. F. 4, ’09. 230w.

“A haunting little volume, not easily laid aside.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 571. O. 17, ’08. 140w.

“It is an ultra-sentimental story. The book shows a good deal of shrewd observation and a keen sense of the pathos of life even in its teens—viewed from a little way off.”

− + =Sat. R.= 107: 49. Ja. 9, ’09. 180w.

=Wynne, May.=^{[5]} Gipsy count: a romance of chivalry. $1.50. McBride, J:

9–10032.

A story of the fifteenth century which follows a race feud in two Breton noblemen’s families. Siege of castle finds its parallel in the siege of hearts which latter warfare is participated in by steel-clad knights and high-spirited heroines.

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“Without being a story which even the most conscientious consumer of fiction need feel bound to read, the ‘Gipsy count’ may amuse the idle, perhaps as well as some thousands of other such compositions.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 291. My. 8, ’09. 110w.

=Wynne, May.= Henry of Navarre: a romance of August, 1572. †$1.50. Putnam.

8–30614.

Descriptive note in December, 1908 under “Henry of Navarre.”

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“Not remarkably well written, but fairly interesting and unobjectionable.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 55. F. ’09.

“This transmogrified play makes a brisk and spirited narrative with rather crude and conventional characterization.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 221. F. 20. 140w.

“When all is said, an hour, even an undistinguished hour, in the presence of a colossal event, is better than many another thousand.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 308. Mr. 25, ’09. 330w.

“It is all about the massacre of S. Bartholomew, and a Henry of Navarre and Marguerite of Valois who do not quite tally with the historical personages of those names; and swords clash and ladies’ eyes flash and cannons crash and doors bash and heads smash, and as for trash—but the mannerisms of Oriental storytellers are out of place.”

− =Sat. R.= 107: 145. Ja. 30, ’09. 220w.

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