Volume 2 — Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Digests of Reviews appearing in January-December, 1906 magazines (continued 26)
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Engin. N. 55: 558. My. 17, ’06. 720w.
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Nature. 74: 631. O. 25, ’06. 460w.
Ver Beck, Frank (William Francis). Ver Beck’s book of bears; some of the lines were thought out by Hanna Rion, others by Hayden Carruth, the worst ones by Frank Ver Beck, the best ones by the bear himself. †$1.50. Lippincott.
A “bear” book in which the spirited illustrations put a whole bear family, if not through Jiu Jitsu, at least thru acrobatic and pugilistic performances which are marvelous as to expertness.
“Is chiefly pictorial in its appeal, for the comment in verse and prose is not half so telling as the illustrations which it accompanies.”
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Dial. 41: 397. D. 1, ’06. 60w.
“The child will be hard to please indeed who cannot find hours of delight in the volume.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 50w.
Verrall, Arthur Woolgar. Essays on four plays of Euripides: Andromache, Helen, Heracles, Orestes. *$2.25. Macmillan.
“In ‘Euripides the rationalist’ Dr. Verrall dealt with his author on broad lines; here he takes four of his plays, veritable puzzles, and after showing the absurdity of the common interpretations of them, offers new ones of his own, based on the general view of the poet’s genius which he has formed. He claims to have found for these four plays interpretations reasonable and consistent, in place of the only possible alternative, the assumption that as dramas they are complete failures.”—Ath.
“The notes are of the characteristic Verrallian type, brilliant and scholarly in the highest degree, but fantastic and unconvincing.” R. Y. Tyrrell.
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Acad. 69: 1283. D. 9, ’05. 1750w.
“We must offer our congratulations to Dr. Verrall on the admirable clearness with which he states and analyzes the intricate plots.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 192. F. 17. 1640w.
“By a chance, fortunate for Euripides and his readers, we have ... a second instalment ... of Dr. Verrall’s prose studies of the poet. That amounts to saying that the brightest and most ingenious exponent of the ‘true inwardness’ of Euripides as poet and dramatist and the most poetical of living translators have simultaneously helped forward a now winning cause—the rehabilitation of Euripides.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 63. F. 23. ’06. 1650w.
“The new volume is written with the acuteness and scholarship, the excessive ingenuity, the sensational manner of the old. Dr. Verrall is a thorough scholar, and no one can read him without profit. It is his method, not his knowledge that is at fault.”
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Nation. 82: 302. Ap. 12, ’06. 2060w.
“One may not always agree with his conclusions, some of them are very daring, one must give them consideration for the sake of the ability, sincerity and enthusiasm which he displays in arriving at them.”
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Sat. R. 100: 820. D. 22, ’05. 600w.
“[Dr. Verrall] is so ingeniously intricate in his arguments, he weaves into them so many curious facts and acute observations, he so intertwines exact details with fine-spun fancies, that to put even some of his conclusions simply is no easy task, while any close criticism of his reasoning would need not an article but a volume.”
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Spec. 96: 586. Ap. 14. ’06. 1500w.
Vesey, Arthur Henry. Castle of lies. †$1.50. Appleton.
A young man branded a coward because he did not risk his life to rescue a friend who had fallen over a precipice is the hero of a stormy tale rife with intrigue and hair-breadth escapes. He is led to believe that he may retrieve his former self respect by saving a life for the life lost. “The story is around the love of an American for an English girl. The title of the book is from the castle owned by the villain of the story, a countess, who, for political reasons, spirits away an ambassador, the brother of the heroine, and kidnaps the hero.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The whole thing is a tissue of glaring improbabilities strung together with no regard for sequence.”
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Critic. 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 130w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 242. Ap. 14, ’06. 260w.
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Outlook. 82: 907. Ap. 21, ’06. 70w.
Vetch, Robert Hamilton, ed. Life of Lt.-Gen. the Hon. Sir Andrew Clarke; with a pref. by Sir G. S. Clarke. **$4. Dutton.
Sir Andrew Clarke of “the shrewd eye for capable men” deserves a biography “if only as an example of how the servants of the empire are made.” “To have played a part in the early struggles of two of the Australasian colonies, to have undertaken engineering works on a large scale, to have settled complex native problems in the Straits settlements and to have served on the Viceroy’s Council would have been enough for most men; but Sir Andrew Clarke was a man of such unceasing activity that these achievements were but a part of his career, and the training which he obtained in thus serving his country abroad only fitted him the better for becoming at home Commandant 361of the School of military engineering and Inspector-General of fortifications.” (Acad.)
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Acad. 70: 60. Ja. 20, ’06. 600w.
“The volume in which this story is told is judiciously edited.”
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Ath. 1906. 1: 197. F. 17. 320w.
Critic. 48: 285. Mr. ’06. 80w.
Ind. 60: 629. Mr. 15, ’06. 400w.
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Lond. Times. 4: 455. D. 22, ’05. 660w.
“The book, which contains some interesting portraits, illustrations, and maps, is full of information as to persons, places, and events; but it is wanting in individual human interest. It is rather a record than a well-digested biography.”
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Nation. 82: 365. My. 3, ’06. 250w.
“The life of this civilian in the army is admirably told by Col. Vetch.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 3. Ja. 6, ’06. 930w.
“A very able and judicious biographer he is. Colonel Vetch’s lucidly written, informing, and detailed biography deserves to be, and doubtless will be, considered an authority on the matter in, and the system by, which the British Empire was extended and consolidated in the nineteenth century.”
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Spec. 96: sup. 121. Ja. 27, ’06. 430w.
Villari, Luigi, ed. Balkan question. *$3. Dutton.
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Spec. 96: 227. F. 10. ’06. 170w.
Vincent, Leon Henry. American literary masters. **$2. Houghton.
Each of the nineteen chapters in this volume treats of the life and works of some American author of the period 1809–1860. The writers considered are: Irving, Bryant, Cooper, Longfellow, Poe, Bancroft, Prescott, Hawthorne, Whittier, Holmes, Motley, Emerson, Thoreau, Taylor, Mitchell, Curtis, Lowell, Whitman and Parkman.
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Acad. 71: 572. D. 8, ’06. 1090w.
Am. Hist. R. 11: 971. Jl. ’06. 30w.
“Mr. Vincent is clear, concise and definite, without being dry.”
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Critic. 49: 91. Jl. ’06. 80w.
“The work is pleasing in style, and provides much systematically-ordered information.”
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Dial. 41: 43. Jl. 16, ’06. 50w.
“He writes to instruct, but has the happy inspiration of retaining all the graces which he displays for the fastidious.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 167. Mr. 17, ’06. 210w.
“Among recent works of its kind we have seen none likely to be more useful.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 180. Mr. 24, ’06. 150w.
“But he has done his work conservatively and well.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 510. Ap. 31, ’06. 110w.
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Spec. 97: 498. O. 6, ’06. 150w.
Vinogradoff, Paul. Growth of the manor. *$2.50. Macmillan.
“To the special student of the period.... The book is indispensable; while, on account of its breadth of treatment and its suggestive quality, it ought also to be welcomed by a far wider circle. The book is by no means conclusive. So little evidence is adduced in support of large generalizations that the author often fails to convince.” Frances G. Davenport.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 361. Ja. ’06. 1710w.
“In spite of these criticisms we cannot but admire the comprehensive knowledge of the history of the land tenure shown in this book, covering, as it does, a period of over a thousand years, and dealing with systems so different as those of the Romans, the Celts, the Saxons, and the Normans. English historical students must acknowledge their indebtedness to Professor Vinogradoff for the labour he has spent on the elucidation of the ancient institutions of our country.” F. G. M. Beck.
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Eng. Hist. R. 21: 764. O. ’06. 1500w.
Reviewed by Charles Beard.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 165. Mr. ’06. 1120w.
“A book which is, without question, the most important treatise now available for students and scholars who seek a knowledge of the subject. The style is simple and clear, and except for the arrangement of paragraphs, which run unbroken sometimes for three pages or more, no criticism can be passed on the construction of the book.” C. D.
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Yale R. 14: 429. F. ’06. 1610w.
Vizetelly, Francis (Frank) Horace. Deskbook of errors in English. *75c. Funk.
The author’s object is to correct careless diction and to point out common errors and vulgarisms that have crept into our language so that his readers may acquire refined speech by learning what to avoid. To this end he has arranged those words which are most often incorrectly used in alphabetical order, including slang and colloquialisms, and has given each a concise note in explaining its use and misuse.
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Ind. 61: 252. Ag. 2, ’06. 40w.
“As an interesting, convenient, and not in the least academic desk manual, the book will go far to show the busy men the value of a ready precise use of good words in neat, unmistakable relations.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 451. Jl. 14. ’06. 400w.
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Outlook. 83: 671. Jl. 21, ’06. 210w.
R. of Rs. 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 60w.
Vizetelly, Francis (Frank) Horace. Preparation of manuscripts for the printer. *75c. Funk.
“This is a work that should be possessed by all persons with literary aspirations. It is also a treatise that will materially aid the practical culture of the general reader.”
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Arena. 35: 105. Ja. ’06. 500w.
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R. of Rs. 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 60w.
Vries, Hugo de. Species and varieties: their origin by mutation: lectures delivered at the University of California; ed. by Daniel Trembly MacDougal. *$5. Open ct.
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Nation. 82: 496. Je. 14, ’06. 990w.
“Ranks with the most important on its subject which have thus far appeared.”
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Outlook. 83: 45. My. 3, ’06. 490w.
Vye, J. A. Farm accounts: a manual for farmers and those desiring a simple method of keeping accounts. $1.25. J. A. Vye. St. Anthony Park, St. Paul.
A manual prepared for the classes of the School of agriculture of the Minnesota university, and adapted to the needs of high schools and business colleges.
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Wack, Henry Wellington. In Thamesland being a gossiping record of rambles thru England from the source of the Thames to the sea, with casual studies of the English people, their histories, literary and romantic shrines. The whole forming a complete guide to the Thames valley. **$3. Putnam.
Mr. Wack and a friend voyaged down the 362Thames “from near its obscure source to Kingston-upon-Thames, a short distance above London, where tidewater is met with. Mr. Wack has quite a faculty for accumulating facts, and his ‘Thamesland’ is a veritable mine of history, interspersed with much observation of scenery and occasionally a facetious remark at the expense of the natives with whom they came in contact. The book, which is admirably illustrated and has a good map, will serve as a very useful and interesting guide to those who wish to take a similar voyage down the historic Thames or spend the days in wandering among the towns on its banks.”-Ind.
“This volume so frequently fails in accuracy that the reader who knows the river must be moved to impatience.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 212. Ag. 25. 1070w.
Reviewed by Anna Benneson McMahan.
Dial. 41: 200. O. 1, ’06. 990w.
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Ind. 61: 638. S. 13, ’06. 300w.
“He writes agreeably and has been careful in collecting his information.”
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Lit. D. 33: 430. S. 29, ’06. 90w.
“The book is, in fact, one to make an Englishman shudder, and to depress even more the American who has been over the same ground.”
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Nation. 83: 350. O. 25, ’06. 280w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 382. Je. 15, ’06. 100w.
“We know of none at once so entertaining, so beautiful, and so comprehensive in its scope as this.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 450. Jl. 14, ’06. 230w.
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Putnam’s. 1: 254. N. ’06. 240w.
“High-class guide-book.”
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R. of Rs. 34: 255. Ag. ’06. 70w.
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Spec. 97: 271. Ag. 25, ’06. 220w.
Wack, Henry Wellington. Story of the Congo Free State. **$3.50. Putnam.
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Am. J. Theol. 10: 196. Ja. ’06. 350w.
“The present volume, in its controversial part, is useful in presenting the other side, as against Dilke, Fox-Bourne and their supporters. Its elaborate collection of data not especially bearing on the ‘Congo question’ is the more immediately valuable to the student.” A. G. K.
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Yale R. 14: 434. F. ’06. 680w.
Waddell, Charles Carey. Van Suyden sapphires. † $1.50. Dodd.
“Is decidedly one of the best stories of this class that has been put out in many a day.”
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Reader. 7: 562. Ap. ’06. 160w.
Waddell, Laurence Austine. Lhasa and its mysteries: with a record of the expedition of 1903–1905. *$3. Dutton.
“This is a new and cheaper edition of Colonel Waddell’s account of our recent expedition into Tibet. In its more expensive shape it passed through two editions, and the present one is a marvel of cheapness. Not very many of the illustrations of last year are omitted in this year’s reprint, and the type is the same.”-Nature.
“A volume which is almost, if not quite as handsome and complete as the expensive first and second editions.”
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Acad. 70: 487. My. 19, ’06. 290w.
“Colonel Waddell’s book ... now appears in a cheaper edition, $3.00, which for most persons and libraries will be as satisfactory.”
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Ind. 61: 883. O. 1, ’06. 80w.
Lit. D. 33: 474. O. 6, ’06. 100w.
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Nature. 74: 518. S. 20, ’06. 220w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 757. N. 17, ’06. 270w.
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Outlook. 84: 630. N. 10, ’06. 350w.
Waddington, Mary Alsop King. Italian letters of a diplomat’s wife. **$2.50. Scribner.
“For readers of whatever experience the letters are at their best when they have to do with the two latest occupants of the Quirinal, their queens, and their three contemporaries in the Vatican.” M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
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Atlan. 97: 113. Ja. ’06. 260w.
Wade, Blanche Elizabeth. Garden in pink. **$1.75. McClurg.
“Is an exquisite and perfect bit of bookmaking but having said this it is difficult to add anything in praise of the book’s literary substance.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 168. Mr. 17, ’06. 430w.
Wade, Blanche Elizabeth. Stained glass lady: an idyl; with frontispiece and other drawings by Blanche Ostertag. †$2.50. McClurg.
Imaginative “Little boy” after “counting things” to keep awake during the big people’s sermon spies a beautiful young woman outlined against the stained glass window. In his youthful fancy she is fit to wear the crown suspended in the glass above her head. He calls her the “Stained-glass lady,” and there springs up between the two an idyllic friendship which is characterized by the child’s susceptibility to the poetic graces of the woman, and to the flower and sunlight atmosphere of her surroundings.
“A vivid descriptive touch, a whimsical humor, and a highly imaginative appreciation of nature combine to produce a unique and decided charm, which a slight affectation of style rather increases than diminishes.”
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Dial. 41: 394. D. ’06. 220w.
“Such children as are blessed with imagination and a love of the beautiful will delight in ‘The stained glass lady.’”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 100w.
Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton (Blanchard). Indian fairy tales, as told to the children of the wigwam. $1. Wilde.
The folk-lore of the red people as it was handed down from generation to generation is found in this little volume for young readers who cannot but feel the charm of the mythical red heroes and of the things of the water, the air, and the stars themselves which figure in these stories of: The daughter of the stars, White Feather and the six giants, The magic moccasins, Hiawatha, Lex, Gloaskap, Manabozho, The fire plume and all the others.
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Ind. 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton (Blanchard). Old colony days: stories of the first settlers and how the country grew, with il. by Sears Gallagher. [+]75c. Wilde.
The second volume in “Uncle Sam’s old-time stories.” Uncle Sam is the story-teller and follows the principal events of colonial days, showing with what courage, in spite of hardships and dangers, the settlers struggled for free homes. It is a juvenile book adapted to class-room needs.
“Would have been much more effective had the first settlers and the country’s growth been followed in a direct manner.”
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Ind. 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
Waggaman, Mary T., and others. Juvenile round table, third series. $1. Benziger.
A group of interesting stories with Catholic teaching.
363Wagnalls, Mabel. Miserere. **40c. Funk.
A sad tale with a musical setting in which a young prima donna is the central spirit.
“A charming little story of music and music-lovers.” Amy C. Rich.
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Arena. 36: 686. D. ’06. 70w.
Wagner, Charles. Justice; tr. from the French by Mary Louise Hendee. **$1. McClure.
Critic. 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 70w.
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Reader. 7: 225. Ja. ’06. 240w.
Wagner, Charles. My impressions of America; tr. from the French by Mary Louise Hendee. **$1. McClure.
“The author of ‘The simple life’ has made a record of his personal experiences rather than a formal study of American institutions. His attitude is one of sympathy and appreciation, seldom running into criticism. The book is not without passages of the reflective and serious kind, but they are thrown in here and there as breaks in the narrative.”—Lit. D.
“From a literary point of view, it is about nil; as also from the point of view of the American who desires to see his country more clearly through the eyes of a stranger.”
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Dial. 41: 286. N. 1, ’06. 190w.
Ind. 61: 825. O. 4, ’06. 100w.
“Mr. Wagner has offered to Americans a graceful and interesting souvenir of his recent visit.”
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Lit. D. 33: 474. O. 6, ’06. 70w.
“Dr. Wagner is above all a keen observer. He notices little things as well as those of great dimensions, and writes of them simply and charmingly.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 633. O. 6, ’06. 450w.
“It is the spontaneous expression of a man who is wholly delightful as a companion and who writes as simply and as freely and in as friendly a fashion as he talks.”
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Outlook. 84: 795. N. 24, ’06. 250w.
R. of Rs. 34: 512. O. ’06. 50w.
Wagner, Richard. Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck; tr. by W. Ashton Ellis. $4. Scribner.
“Our author dwells at too great length on Wagner’s virtues and Minna’s failings.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 711. Je. 9. 800w.
Wagner, (Wilhelm) Richard. Tannhäuser; a dramatic poem freely translated in poetic narrative form by Oliver Huckel. **75c. Crowell.
A companion volume to Mr. Huckel’s “Parsifal” and “Lohengrin.” This parable of the redemptive power of a pure and unselfish love loses neither dignity nor strength in the translation.
“This essay alone is worth more than the price of the work to lovers of the greatest musical genius of the nineteenth century.”
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Arena. 36: 685. D. ’06. 190w.
“There is a prose introduction, which is both historical and critical and the verse is smooth and flowing.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 724. N. 3, ’06. 90w.
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Putnam’s. 1: 377. D. ’06. 90w.
Wagstaff, Henry McGilbert. State rights and political parties in North Carolina, 1776–1861. 50c. Johns Hopkins.
A monograph setting forth the political tendencies of North Carolinians between the war of independence and the war of secession.
Walcott, Earle Ashley. Blindfolded. $1.50. Bobbs.
San Francisco with its Chinatown and its water front, its wild life and its desperadoes, is the scene of this adventurous tale of two dual personalities. A young stranger arrives at the Golden Gate just in time to take up, blindfolded, the work of his murdered friend and double, and he is further blinded because of the strange resemblance which his friend’s benefactor bears to his friend’s enemy. Thru murders, brawls, wild scenes in the stock exchange, and strange adventurous missions he gropes courageously in the dark towards light, wealth and happiness.
“This is a mystery-romance displaying considerable ability on the part of the author in construction, plot and counterplot. It is fairly well written and is, we think, the best story of the kind that has appeared in recent months.”
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Arena. 36: 571. N. ’06. 350w.
Lit. D. 33: 646. N. 3, ’06. 80w.
“In spite of the triteness of both fiction and machinery, it cannot be denied that the book holds our attention from start to finish by means of an interest born of suspense.”
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Outlook. 84: 839. D. 1, ’06. 30w.
World To-Day. 11: 1222. N. ’06. 80w.
Walker, Alice Morehouse. Historic Hadley: a story of the making of a famous Massachusetts town. **$1. Grafton press.
In this sketch of historic Hadley “truth has not been sacrificed to style. Painstaking effort has been made to search the town records, to scrutinize every historical document, and to weigh carefully famous traditions. The old dwellings, the highways and byways, the mountains, the river and the meadows, the ancient elms, heirlooms and antique relics have been questioned and they have broken their silence of centuries and told the story of by-gone days.”
Walker, James. Analytical theory of light. *$5. Macmillan.
“Not a text-book of physical optics, but of the analytical theory of light.... It is a book to which students who desire to know how far the mathematical side of the wave theory has been carried, what are its limitations, and in what directions advances are possible will usefully turn.”—Nature.
“Mr. Walker has added to the literature of the subject a book of real value.”
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Nature. 73: 241. Ja. 11, ’06. 1290w.
“Is, perhaps, the most complete treatment of the subject so far attempted from the standpoint of the general wave theory.” C. E. M.
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Science, n.s. 23: 385. Mr. 9, ’06. 220w.
Walker, Williston. John Calvin, the organizer of reformed Protestantism, 1509–1564. **$1.35. Putnam.
Uniform with the “Heroes of the Reformation.” The volume “lays special stress on Calvin’s training, spiritual development, and constructive work, giving secondary place to the details of his Genevan contests, or of his relations to the spread of the Reformation in the different countries to which his influence extended. Calvin, as Mr. Walker points out at the very beginning of his book, was of the second generation of reformers.” (Putnam’s.)
“It is an excellent piece of work. While by no means light reading, the book is clear and straightforward, and it makes the real man Calvin live before us his strange life, so far-reaching in its influence.”
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Dial. 41: 286. N. 1, ’06. 140w.
364“It contains about all that the average scholar needs to care for. It is free from exaggerations of either praise or blame. The bias on the whole is for Calvin. Will be useful to any student of history, no matter what others he may have on the same topic; and it is competent by itself to meet the requirements of most of us. It gives the essential facts in a straightforward, unambitious style. And it has a very good index.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 775. N. 24, ’06. 1120w.
“The present biography is critical as well as sympathetic, carefully citing authorities, and candidly exhibiting both the lights and the shadows of a masterful character and career.”
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Outlook. 84: 384. O. 13. ’06. 150w.
Putnam’s. 1: 383. D. ’06. 210w.
“A well-balanced, temperate historical character sketch.”
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R. of Rs. 34: 758. D. ’06. 90w.
Wallace, Alfred Russel. My life: a record of events and opinion. *$6. Dodd.
“It dwells in a somewhat too extended manner on unimportant personal details and facts relating to the family and friends of the author. This fault, however, is insignificant in comparison with the general excellence of the life story, which merits the widest reading.”
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Arena. 36: 202. Ag. ’06. 10,400w.
“The narrative has very little literary charm, ingenious or other. The annalist’s expression is often incorrect, and invariably clumsy. He has no organic mode of speech, and words are but rough counters with him.” H. W. Boynton.
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Atlan. 98: 279. Ag. ’06. 860w.
“Like one of his disembodied spirits, able to get outside of himself and write an autobiography as interesting as it is disinterested.” I. Woodbridge Riley.
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Bookm. 22: 626. F. ’06. 1670w.
“The record is planned on too large a scale. The reader who knows how to skip will find these volumes deeply interesting.”
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Contemporary R. 88: 899. D. ’05. 2220w.
“In the past year which has been prolific of biographies and autobiographies there has been nothing more important or more entertaining than the autobiography of Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
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Critic. 48: 352. Ap. ’06. 1410w.
“There is a good deal of matter in the book which does not strike one as being particularly valuable or important; but on the other hand, the variety of subjects discussed, and the wide human interests of the author, cause it to appeal to a far larger circle than the usual biography of a man engaged in the investigation of technical matters.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
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Dial. 40: 11. Ja. 1, ’06. 1710w.
“This autobiography is as self-revealing as Pepys’s or Rousseau’s.”
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Ind. 60: 280. F. 1, ’06. 950w.
“This is certainly a very entertaining book, highly instructive in several distinct ways.”
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Nation. 82: 160. F. 22, ’06. 2960w.
Reviewed by J. A. T.
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Nature. 73: 145. D. 14, ’05. 1890w.
Reviewed by Joseph Jacobs.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 13. Ja. 13. ’06. 1700w.
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Outlook. 82: 371. F. 17, ’06. 2140w.
“His autobiography is a welcome and worthy record of an honourable and strenuous career.”
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Spec. 96: 61. Ja. 13. ’06. 1500w.
Wallace, Sir Donald Mackenzie. Russia. $5. Holt.
“The additions to the book will be of primary interest to the student of contemporaneous political, social, and economic conditions rather than to the historian.” F. G. D.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 440. Ja. ’06. 320w.
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Outlook. 83: 137. My. 19, ’06. 630w.
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Quarterly R. 204: 249. Ja. ’06. 3570w.
“The book continues to be, as it has been for nearly a generation, the best English book on Russia.” C. D.
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Yale R. 15: 331. N. ’06. 330w.
Wallace, Lew (Lewis), general. Lew Wallace: an autobiography. 2v. **$5. Harper.
At the time of General Lew Wallace’s death his autobiography was practically complete. It is written with the personal note individualizing and vitalizing a career which tho it began in uneventful commonplaces grew to distinction in letters, politics, war and diplomacy. A certain simplicity of life and creed pervades the sketch and a magnificent sense of justice. Wallace’s boyhood and youth, in which are set forth the struggles to find himself, his young manhood, full of patriotism and his maturity in which the lawyer and politician figure, all attest to a devotion to life for the purpose of finding working principles.
“No more frank and informal record of personal experience has ever been written. In a way, no higher compliment can be paid to his story than to say that it is one of those grownup books which a boy would read with understanding and enjoyment.”
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Harper’s Weekly. 50: 1866. D. 22, ’06. 1590w.
“An intimate and entertaining narrative.”
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Lit. D. 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 120w.
“Is interesting both for the career ... and for the light which it throws upon the conditions which made the writing of the first best seller possible.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 800. D. 1, ’06. 230w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 889. D. 22, ’06. 1330w.
“General Wallace’s war experiences were full of romance, adventure and inspiration. He has not failed to let his kindly, mellow sense of humor play over his narrative.”
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R. of Rs. 34: 757. D. ’06. 150w.
Waller, Mary Ella. Through the gates of the Netherlands; with 24 photogravure pl. after Lanne, and others by A. A. Montferrand, reproduced in photogravure. **$3. Little.
An intimate sketch of Holland and its people which purports to be written by an architect’s wife during a sojourn with her husband in this land of dunes and dykes. It is a record, accompanied by various illustrations, of the essentials that have gone to make up the beauty, the glory, the struggle and the toil of this “brave little land.”
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Dial. 41: 452. D. 16, ’06. 220w.
“The results of much close observation may be found in her account of the manner in which the Hollanders live, their habits of body and of thought, the picturesque details of the country, and the rest.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 120w.
“An attractive book which in graphic and readable qualities is decidedly above the average of such works.”
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Outlook. 84: 940. D. 15, ’06. 120w.
Wallis, Louis. Egoism: a study in the social premises of religion. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
Reviewed by A. W. Small and Charles Rufus Brown.
Am. J. Soc. 11: 848. My. ’06. 1400w.
“The line of argument is interesting and stimulating, and calls for more thorough work before we can feel quite satisfied that the case is proved.” Ira Maurice Price and John M. P. Smith.
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Am. J. Theol. 10: 326. Ap. ’06. 250w.
“It is a sociological study of considerable value, the chief defect of which is the tendency to make assumed sociological conditions account 365for so much as to leave little for the religious genius of Israel to do.”
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Bib. World. 27: 159. F. ’06. 60w.
“The best part of the book is the terse rapid survey of Israel’s internal development; and the writer does good service in calling attention again to sociological facts conditioning prophetic teaching. However, his generalizations are too sweeping; but this fact may be due to the brevity of the book.” Milton G. Evans.
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Bib. World. 28: 288. O. ’06. 240w.
Lit. D. 32: 55. Ja. 13, ’06. 900w.
Walpole, Horace. Letters chronologically arranged and ed. with notes and indices, by Mrs. Paget Toynbee. 16v. ea. *$2; set, *$32. Oxford.
“In accuracy of text and diligence of annotation this edition satisfies a close criticism.”
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Acad. 69: 1310. D. 16, ’05. 260w. (Review of v. 13–15.)
“As she began she went on, and the conclusion maintains her high level of editorial efficiency. It is certainly to be deplored that so important and laborious a work has not been crowned by a complete index. That supplied cannot be regarded as worthy of a great scheme. These volumes are his rosemary, and we cannot conceive that the world will ever forget them.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 69. Ja. 20. 1860w. (Review of v. 13–16.)
“Mrs. Toynbee has done her author good service in other ways besides the collection of new letters. She has made many alterations in the chronology of Cunningham’s arrangement. She has also much amended the text. From every point of view Mrs. Paget Toynbee has done a monumental piece of work, creditable in the highest degree for accuracy and thoroughness.” Gamaliel Bradford, jr.
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Atlan. 97: 330. Mr. ’06. 5560w.
“On the whole, her text would seem to be more accurate and more nearly intact than any of its predecessors.” H. W. Boynton.
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Dial. 40: 320. My. 16, ’06. 1330w. (Review of v. 1–16.)
“This edition can scarcely be said to add anything of importance to our knowledge of Horace Walpole or of his times. Nor is the editorial work, though well done, by any means remarkable. Further, as completeness seems to have been the special object of the edition, its appearance has been premature.” William Hunt.
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Eng. Hist. R. 21: 386. Ap. ’06. 1040w. (Review of v. 13–16.)
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N. Y. Times. 10: 898. D. 16, ’05. 170w. (Review of v. 13–15.)
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N. Y. Times. 11: 66. F. 3, ’06. 460w. (Review of v. 16.)
“Fully as interesting, in some respects indeed almost more interesting, than any of those which preceded them. Indices compiled even by the very competent assistants called in at the eleventh hour cannot produce the same accurate minuteness as that which undoubtedly Mrs. Toynbee would have given her readers.”
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Sat. R. 101: 110. Ja. 27, ’06. 2190w. (Review of v. 12–16.)
Walsh, Walter. Moral damage of war. *75c. Ginn.
An “unsparing, detailed and specific arraignment of the war system.” The book is almost exclusively a résumé of the crimes and demoralization caused by the Boer war.
Dial. 41: 330. N. 16, ’06. 130w.
Walters, F. Ruffenacht. Sanatoria for consumptives. *$5. Dutton.
An unofficial descriptive catalog of sanatoria in various countries for the open-air treatment of consumption.
Nation. 82: 300. Ap. 12, ’06. 100w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 552. Ag. 19, ’05. 230w.
“The information has been carefully and intelligently compiled.”
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Outlook. 81: 529. O. 28, ’05. 40w.
Walters, Henry Beauchamp. Art of the Greeks. $6. Macmillan.
An informing treatment of all phases of Greek art including architecture, sculpture, painting, pottery, coins, gems, gold and silverware, presented in the light of recent archaeological discovery.
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Ath. 1906, 2: 742. D. 8. 380w.
“The tale is well told and loaded with additions that recent years have brought. The excellent form and the well-nigh perfect and abundant illustrations will make the book extremely popular. One rises from a reading of the book with wonder that so much has been put into such little space. One might almost say ‘Infinite riches in a little room.’”
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Ind. 61: 1289. N. 29, ’06. 1160w.
“Recommends itself among books on art subjects at this season of gifts by its substantial worth and its attractive make-up.”
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Int. Studio. 30: sup. 52. D. ’06. 340w.
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Nation. 83: 518. D. 13, ’06. 1070w.
“The book is written in a broad, dignified, and authoritative style, with a fine sense of suppression, which makes adverse criticism dangerous.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 837. D. 1, ’06. 350w.
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Outlook. 84: 704. N. 24, ’06. 200w.
“An exhaustive handbook.”
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Putnam’s. 1: 377. D. ’06. 130w.
Walters, Henry Beauchamp. History of ancient pottery, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman; based on the work of Samuel Birch. 2v. *$15. Scribner.
“This is a difficult book to estimate justly. Such a work was much needed; and this has great merits, and will probably be read and valued widely. But it has bad defects, both of plan and of workmanship.”
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Acad. 70: 55. Ja. 20, ’06. 2210w.
“Gives us after long waiting an adequate history of ancient pottery, of which vases are the chief item.” Rufus B. Richardson.
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Ind. 60: 41. Ja. 4, ’06. 1770w.
Waltz, Elizabeth Cherry. Ancient landmark. †$1.50. McClure.
“The prologue to this entertaining story is a mistake.”
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Acad. 70: 140. F. 10, ’06. 280w.
“On the whole, we find variety in the types depicted, sordid and unpleasing as they mostly are.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 194. F. 17. 130w.
“As a ‘problem novel’ the book has no claim to originality, but the delicacy with which the subject is handled is unusual and refreshing.”
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Sat. R. 101: 178. F. 10, ’06. 220w.
Wampum library of American literature; ed. by Brander Matthews. **$1.40. Longmans.
“Dr. Payne’s choice of critics and of critical work is admirable, and his characterization of our American contribution to criticism is, on the whole, exceptionally good.”
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Ind. 59: 215. Jl. 27, ’05. (Review of v. 2.)
War in the Far East, 1904–1905, by the military correspondent of the London Times; with 34 maps especially prepared by Percy Fisher. **$5. Dutton.
This book is a compilation of the comments printed in The London Times from day to day during the war between Russia and Japan, contributed by its able military correspondent, Mr. Emery. “The military expert of the Times holds a high position in Europe as a critic and 366student of war, and his comments, criticisms, predictions on events, the lessons he drew from them, were read the world over with close attention. The republication of the daily comments, with certain purely personal remarks omitted, is then very acceptable to other students both of history and of the science of war, though the volume is not, and does not pretend to be, a history of war in the ordinary sense.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The maps are more complete than those in almost any book of military history.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 606. N. 4. 1590w.
“This book is magnificent, but it is not a story. Read it for what it purports to express and actually is, and it will be found to have hardly a peer in its class of literature, and probably will have no equal or successor for many years.” William Eliot Griffis.
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Dial. 40: 194. Mr. 16, ’06. 1440w.
“Taken for what it professes to be, this book is of eminent value, but since each chapter was written within a short time after the battle it narrates ... the historian of the future, with the official records at his command, will doubtless find in it many errors of detail.”
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Ind. 60: 516. Mr. 1, ’06. 300w.
“As a contribution to the literature of scientific warfare the volume is of high value. We cannot commend it as a narrative of the particular war under review, for it retains altogether too much of the speculative comment of the original, so interesting at the time, but so tedious after the event.”
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Lit. D. 32: 172. F. 3, ’06. 90w.
“Embellished as they now are by an admirable series of maps, they form by far the most scientific study of the war that has yet been published. It is, however, unfortunate that the spelling of names in the letterpress should not have been brought into accord with that adopted by the map maker.”
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Lond. Times. 4: 353. O. 27, ’05. 2880w.
“This book contains many remarks on matters of strategy and military science that are of permanent value.”
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Nation. 82: 79. Ja. 25, ’06. 130w.
“Apart from its technical interest, it is noteworthy as showing how well its author could prophesy.”
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N. Y. Times. 10: 890. D. 16, ’06. 410w.
“Whoever he may be, the ‘Times’ critic is a master of the art of warfare, and the possessor of a singularly vigorous and happy style, and his work is undoubtedly one of the most suggestive and illuminating battle-books in print.”
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Outlook. 81: 943. D. 16, ’05. 250w.
R. of Rs. 33: 114. Ja. ’06. 130w.
“Where military questions only are concerned fully bears out the expectations which other works of a similar nature would lead us to expect. And yet there is a good deal too much advertisement about it. We would add too that the comments on the military operations are in their broad features often excellent.”
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Sat. R. 100: 686. N. 25, ’05. 2030w.
“It is a remarkable feat to have given us contemporary accounts of the battles themselves so accurate that when read in conjunction with the maps which show us each phase of these battles ... they may fitly serve as the best general introduction to closer and more detailed study. Even more remarkable still are the ‘appreciations’ which show us the workings of a mind wise before and not after the event.”
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Spec. 96: 221. F. 10, ’06. 1110w.
Ward, Elizabeth Stuart (Phelps) (Mrs. Herbert D. Ward). Man in the case; il. by H: J. Peck. †$1.50. Houghton.
Joan Dare past the first flush of youth withdraws her promise to marry Douglas Ray the day following her betrothal. She enters upon a period of martyrdom which involves the mystery of the tale. “There is nothing sensational about the book but its title, although its theme is a village sensation. It contains some credible new New England villagers, and one old woman who is more than credible. It is, moreover, free from religious or erotic sentimentality.” (Nation).
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Ind. 61: 1116. N. 8, ’06. 380w.
“The love-story in her new novel is told with such perfect art that it recalls the great ones of literature: yet the materials and the setting are of the simplest and the interest is dependent upon the writer’s art alone.”
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Lit. D. 33: 646. N. 3, ’06. 230w.
“Mrs. Ward is to be congratulated upon having, in this little tale, escaped from the morbidness and mawkishness which have made much of her work, especially her recent work, a thing popular and to be abhorred by the judicious.”
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Nation. 83: 287. O. 4, ’06. 80w.
“The book is written with Mrs. Ward’s usual elevation of feeling and dignity of manner. It shows the same tense quality of imagination, sometimes becoming almost exaggeration, which have always marked her work. There is perhaps less of care and detail in the drawing of her characters, which affect one like unfinished sketches, than one used to find in her work.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 619. O. 6, ’06. 300w.
“She has never been more out of key with a wholesome way of dealing with life than in this story of a heroic and self-sacrificing woman.”
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Outlook. 84: 708. N. 24, ’06. 120w.
“Her best work next to ‘A singular life.’”
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World To-Day. 11: 1221. N. ’06. 140w.
Ward, H. Snowden. Canterbury pilgrimages. *$1.75. Lippincott.
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Dial. 40: 268. Ap. 16, ’06. 160w.
“From the point of view of the historian, Mr. Ward has written a very minute and interesting description of the life and death of Thomas à Becket and of the cult of St. Thomas.”
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Nation. 81: 525. D. 28, ’05. 490w.
Ward, Josephine Mary Hope-Scott (Mrs. Wilfrid Philip Ward). Out of due time. $1.50. Longmans.
“The present novel is not of the sort likely to satisfy the ordinary appetite for fiction, but it is well thought out, and represents the mental and religious struggle of a strong mind. Two women sacrificed themselves to a man who, as his sister said, did not pray—he only thought. The inroads of scientific knowledge upon such a soul can be imagined from the Catholic standpoint. The story is one of contest between theological fervor and emotionless intellect; the effect is somber, and the style somewhat ponderous.”—Outlook.
“Here is the simple, direct style—the outcome of natural distinction under fine culture—the serene, benignant attitude towards matters of controversy; the loftiness of thought that marked her former work. The book is on a high plane.”
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Acad. 70: 382. Ap. 21, ’06. 440w.
Ath. 1906, 1: 542. My. 5. 220w.
“As one is about to assign to this doubly fascinating volume a permanent place on the book shelf, embarrassment arises. We think its proper place is [in the useful apologetic literature of the day].” James J. Fox, D. D.
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Cath. World. 83: 382. Je. ’06. 4720w.
“[We] have regretted that a book with such excellent and penetrating work in it should drop from the high level on which it begins.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 125. Ap. 6, ’06. 500w.
“The book is hampered by its argument, but it is, nevertheless, so full of humanity, of beauty, of literary value that to miss it would be to miss such a feast as does not come every day.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 338. My. 26, ’06. 1220w.
367“In spite of her special motive, the author handles her material with tact and delicacy.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
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Outlook. 83: 286. Je. 2, ’06. 100w.
“The intense spirituality of the conception and the grace of the style render the book memorable.”
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Sat. R. 101: 760. Je. 16, ’06. 440w.
“The main interest of the book has nothing to do with fiction.”
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Spec. 96: 676. Ap. 28, ’06. 330w.
Ward, Lester Frank. Applied sociology: a treatise on the conscious improvement of society by society. *$2.50. Ginn.
The central thought of this discussion is that of a true science of society, capable, in the measure that it approaches completeness, of being turned to the profit of mankind. Movement, Achievement, and Improvement are the three subdivisions of the treatment.
“Right or wrong in its main contentions, the ‘Applied sociology’ is, together with the appropriate parts of the ‘Pure sociology,’ the most impressive treatment of the general principles of education since Spencer’s. Those who, like the writer, are puzzled to fit the facts to its doctrines and those who heartily accept it will equally enjoy it and equally admire it as a further example of the author’s great gifts as a thinker and as a writer.” Edward L. Thorndike.
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Bookm. 24: 290. N. ’06. 3690w.
“The clearness, brilliancy and vigorous defense of some pronounced doctrine which we have learned to expect from Professor Ward are characteristics of this book. It concerns real facts, not verbal distinctions; it delights by its cleverness of thought and style. The one failure in clearness of this volume is its failure to distinguish between absolute and relative achievement and to assign the proper social value to each.” Edward L. Thorndike.
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Science, n.s. 24: 299. S. 7, ’06. 1130w.
Ward, Mary Augusta Arnold (Mrs. Thomas Humphry Ward). Fenwick’s career; il. by Albert E. Sterner. *$1.50. Harper.
Mrs. Ward’s latest novel is based upon the story of the painter George Romney, whose thirty years’ separation from his wife for the sake of his art is reduced to twelve in the present story. The hero, John Fenwick, from the Westmorland hills, possesses a great uncouth, untrained genius for painting which longs for expression. In satisfying his ambition to go to London he subordinates wife, child, all heart things to his one great art passion. Out of his hesitation to admit the existence of a wife to his uncertain London friends and patrons grows an estrangement which is unconsciously aided by Eugenie de Pastourelles, the Eleanor of the story, a woman of great strength, but unfortunate in her marriage. As Mrs. Ward’s art demands the shifting of moral and ethical values to the right focus, with sure steady touch she extricates and arrays in order the confused forces.
“The criticism that one is almost compelled to pass upon the book is that the characters are somewhat wanting in life and full-bloodedness.”
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Acad. 70: 422. My. 5, ’06. 1470w.
“As to Fenwick himself the portrait lacks outline. It is thoroughly enjoyable, with charm as well as an idea of its own.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 572. My. 11. 1330w.
“You read her latest volume with a wish that, having conceived so vital and typical a character as Fenwick, she might have been inspired to treat him less conventionally.” Mary Moss.
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Bookm. 23: 533. Jl. ’06. 2890w.
“Mrs. Ward has certainly forgotten for the moment one of the prime principles of literary artistry—that sympathy can hardly be excited in the reader’s mind for unsympathetic characters.”
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Critic. 49: 50. Jl. ’06. 580w.
“Another positive merit of this novel is found in its comparative freedom from the prolixity that lies like a dead weight on most of its predecessors.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 41: 36. Jl. 16, ’06. 710w.
“If there is any fault to be found with the book it is the emphasis which the author places upon refinement, sensibility and the society which these elements create.”
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Ind. 60: 1432. Je. 14, ’06. 1020w.
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Ind. 61: 1161. N. 15, ’06. 90w.
“The book is justified by the artistic and well-rounded-out finale.”
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Lit. D. 33: 123. Jl. 28, ’06. 850w.
“It shows all the old thoroughness, knowledge, good sense: a little more than the old tenderness and sympathy. It does not hit hard; it does not carry the reader on in a fever. It never surprises.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 158. My. 4, ’06. 1070w.
“It is only in construction that ‘Fenwick’s career’ seems to us better than the preceding novel.”
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Nation. 83: 15. Jl. 5, ’06. 630w.
“While ‘Fenwick’s career’ may fail of an instant appeal to ‘the general,’ we think it attains a height hitherto unreached by its author. She has poured into it her deepest thought, her ripest wisdom, and it stands to-day the noblest expression of her genius.” M. Gordon Pryor. Rice.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 385. My. 5, ’06. 2330w.
“Mrs. Ward handles each delicate situation with her characteristic skill.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 150w.
“Is full of talent, but stops short of being a work of genius.”
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Outlook. 83: 501. Je. 30, ’06. 240w.
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Pub. Opin. 40: 660. My. 26, 06. 1380w.
R. of Rs. 33: 762. Je. ’06. 70w.
“They should be set down as fundamentally inartistic and unedifying.”
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Sat. R. 101: 725. Je. 9, ’06. 1500w.
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Spec. 96: 757. My. 12, ’06. 1370w.
“It is a piece of sincere writing, gripping the reader without appeal to literary tricks or falsetto sentiment.”
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World To-Day. 11: 765. Jl. ’06. 120w.
Ward, Mary Augusta Arnold (Mrs. Thomas Humphry Ward). Marriage of William Ashe. †$1.50. Harper.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
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Atlan. 97: 55. Ja. ’06. 230w.
Warden, Florence, pseud. (Mrs Florence Alice Price James). House by the river. $1. Ogilvie.
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Pub. Opin. 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 150w.
“The lovers of sensational fiction ... no doubt will not be troubled by the utter improbability of the incidents and characters, nor annoyed by vulgarities of style, and crudities of description, and will be quite satisfied with the fare supplied by the ingenious author.”
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Sat. R. 100: 345. S. 9. ’05. 130w.
Wardman, Ervin. Princess Olga, †$1.50. Harper.
The invincible hero of Mr. Wardman’s story is an American who had received his hardy training in a Mexican mining district. He is sent by his New York company to further its interest in the Italian kingdom of Crevonia where plots and counterplots, conspiracies and assassinations, mark the riotous settlement of a disputed succession. Among the spies is 368Princess Olga whose charms the defiant American cannot resist. Her sense of duty to kingdom and her love for a bold man fight for mastery, with the world-old result that can eliminate the importance of kingdoms and courts.
“The story is compact of intrigue, adventure, and general nervous excitement; it is a capital production of its sort.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 40: 366. Je. 1, ’06. 240w.
“For a first novel, his is a finished and striking production.”
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Lit. D. 32: 808. My. 26, ’06. 610w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 270. Ap. 28, ’06. 520w.
Warman, Cy. Last spike, and other railroad stories. †$1.25. Scribner.
“These short stories, by a well-known popular magazine writer, tell of adventures on railroad surveys, in railway locomotives and cars and elsewhere. Some of the best of the stories have the Canadian Northwest as their scene of action.” (Engin. N.).
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Engin. N. 55: 313. Mr. 15, ’06. 40w.
“Many of them are good of their kind, and all of them have a certain stamp of mechanic strength.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 133. Mr. 3, ’06. 280w.
“The stories are readable and entertaining, but they lack that something which, for want of a better name is called ‘the literary touch.’”
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Outlook. 82: 909. Ap. 21, ’06. 100w.
“Breezy and realistic stories. Mr. Warman not only knows the language of railroading but he has also caught the spirit.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 315. Mr. 10, ’06. 150w.
Warne, Frank Julien. Coal-mine workers: a study in labor organization. **$1. Longmans.
This little volume is the direct outgrowth of Dr. Warne’s sympathetic study of the coal-miners’ situation in periods of peace as well as in times of strikes. It is a “treatise on the anatomy of the trade union.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Dr. Warne has done a valuable service in placing in compact and readable form a study of the United mine workers of America, one of the strongest labor unions in the world.” E. S. Meade.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 354. S. ’06. 550w.
“It might also be described as a miniature encyclopedia, so full of information is it and so readily does it answer the questions that occur to one regarding the miners and their employers.”
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Ind. 60: 930. Ap. 19. ’06. 200w.
“The author’s attitude is sympathetic, but not partisan, and he has made a distinct contribution to the knowledge of the controversy which once convulsed the nation.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 65. F. 3, ’06. 450w.
“In our judgment, this book deserves to be characterized as an authority, and, as far as we know, as the best authority, in the limited field of which it treats.”
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Outlook. 82: 275. F. 3, ’06. 150w.
“The book is written in a scientific spirit, if one excepts a tendency at times to condone violence on the part of the union against nonunion men.”
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Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 567. S. ’06. 160w.
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R. of Rs. 83: 254. F. ’06. 240w.
Warner, Beverley Ellison. Famous introductions to Shakespeare’s plays by the notable editors of the eighteenth century, ed. with a critical introd., biographical and explanatory notes. **$2.50. Dodd.
A compilation of the best known introductions including those contributed by Rowe, Pope, Theobald, Hamner, Warburton, Johnson, Stevens, Capell, Reed and Malone. A biographical sketch of each author prefaces his work, and the work is handsomely illustrated.
“Dr. Warner’s idea though a good one, has been anticipated, and his labor is largely wasted.” William Allen Neilson.
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Atlan. 97: 701. My. ’06. 420w.
“We note a few misprints.”
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Critic. 48: 471. My. ’06. 200w.
“His own editorial matter is not of great value and there is no index. The English, too, is not always irreproachable.”
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Dial. 40: 332. My. 16, ’06. 420w.
“On the whole the make-up of the book leaves something to be desired. The matter is not very clearly distinguished for easy reference.”
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Nation. 83: 183. Ag. 30, ’06. 430w.
“Without Dr. Warner’s own lucid and learned introductions, and his invaluable footnotes, the new book would have been esteemed a veritable treasure. Dr. Warner’s editorial work makes it only the more valuable.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 180. Mr. 24, ’06. 520w.
“A very useful compilation.”
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Outlook. 83: 42. My. 3, ’06. 210w.
Warner, George H. Jewish spectre. **$1.50. Doubleday.
“A remarkably brilliant book which will have decided influence upon all open-minded readers. In literary skill the author stands comparison with his better known brother, Charles Dudley Warner.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 241. Ja. ’06. 170w.
Warren, F. D. Handbook on reinforced concrete for architects, engineers and contractors. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
A handbook “treating upon a general form of design rather than upon any one particular or patented system.... The book is divided into four parts: Part I gives a general but concise resume of the subject from a practical standpoint, bringing out some of the difficulties met with in practice, and suggesting remedies. Under Part II is compiled a series of tests justifying the use of various constants and coefficients in preparing the tables under Part III, as well as bearing out the theory of elasticity. Part III contains a series of tables from which it is hoped the designer may obtain all necessary information to meet the more common cases in practice. Part IV treats of the design of trussed roofs from a practical standpoint.”
“The reviewer regrets that it is his duty to give his opinion that this book is fundamentally in error in so many ways that it is not worthy of a place in the working library of an engineer.” Arthur N. Talbot.
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Engin. N. 55: 311. Mr. 15, ’06. 1780w.
Washington, Booker Taliaferro. Putting the most into life. **75c. Crowell.
A recent series of Sunday evening talks has been recast and enlarged for the general public. The discussion includes the physical, mental, spiritual and racial aspects of the case.
Washington, Booker Taliaferro. Tuskegee and its people: their ideals and achievements. *$2. Appleton.
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Washington, George. Letters and recollections of George Washington; being letters to Tobias Lear and others between 1790 and 1799, showing the first American in the management of his estate and domestic affairs with a diary of 369Washington’s last days, kept by Mr. Lear; il. from rare old portraits, photographs, and engravings. **$2.50. Doubleday.
Washington is portrayed in the light of a “domestic man managing his own affairs; as a planter looking over crops, cattle, and overseers; and as a business man driving bargains, suing for bad debts, collecting rents, and making investments.” (Dial.)
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Acad. 71: 416. O. 27, ’06. 1660w.
“The chief attraction of the present volume is manifestly meant to be Lear’s account of Washington’s death.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 434. O. 13. 1850w.
“Of editing there is practically none; and to the lack of it, as well as to careless proofreading, is due the perpetuation of the copyist’s misreadings of Washington’s spelling. The reviewer has been unable to find anything in the book that will justify the word ‘Recollections’ in the title. There is no index.” Walter L. Fleming.
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Dial. 41: 237. O. 16, ’06. 1300w.
“They are valuable historically as showing the genius for detail which must have formed one of the strongest characteristics of Washington.”
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Lit. D. 33: 284. S. 1, ’06. 220w.
“On the whole, then, these letters, though telling us little that is new, are full of interest, as any letters unfolding for us the intimate thoughts and workaday occupations of such a man must be.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 374. N. 9, ’06. 1440w.
“The work could have been rendered more readable by a few explanatory foot-notes, and more useful to the student by brief introductions stating where the originals of other than the Lear letters are to be found, and how far they have been used before.”
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Nation. 83: 285. O. 4, ’06. 1200w.
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Washington, George. Washington and the West. **$2. Century.
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Dial. 40: 93. F. 1, ’06. 480w.
Watanna, Onoto (Mrs. Winnifred Eaton Babcock) (Mrs. Bertrand Babcock). Japanese blossom. **$2. Harper.
The dainty marginal drawings upon each page of this volume add much to the Japanese effect of the story of the strangely assorted family of Mr. Kurukawa. To retrieve his shattered fortunes this descendant of the Samurai goes to America leaving behind him four children and his wife, to whom shortly after his departure a baby boy is born. Later his wife dies and her father and mother care for the children while Mr. Kurukawa marries an American widow with two children and, after the birth of another baby, brings his new family back to Japan to unite it with his old family. The difficulties are easily seen but all are surmounted. The eldest son has rebelled against his new mother and joined the Japanese army, the father follows him, wins glory in the war and all ends happily.
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Ind. 61: 1400. D. 13, ’06. 30w.
“A charming idyl of Japanese home life in war times.”
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“This story is a particularly pleasing one, with certain elements of novelty.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
Outlook. 84: 678. N. 17, ’06. 70w.
Waters, N. McGee. Young man’s religion and his father’s faith. **90c. Crowell.
“This book, written with the eloquence of the man who is speaking instead of writing, will unquestionably help many readers over perplexities that now stand in the way of a practical application of religion to life.”
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Outlook. 82: 523. Mr. 3, ’06. 180w.
“These topics are handled without any trace of cant or bias.”
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Watson, Edward Willard. Old lamps and new, and other verse; also, By Gaza’s gate, a cantata. $1. Fisher.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
Dial. 40: 127. F. 16, ’06. 160w.
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Watson, Esther. All the year in the garden: a nature calendar. $1. Crowell.
An apt quotation for every day in the year selected from out of door sentiments of our great poets and teachers.
Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott. Midsummer day’s dream. †$1.50. Appleton.
“A delightful bit of romantic foolery.... The sketch is a record of certain amorous adventures contingent upon an out-of-doors amateur rendering of the ‘Midsummer night’s dream.’ The principal motive is a mystery connected with the finding and trailing of a woman’s shoe. In the course of his search the hero is constrained to make love pleasantly if somewhat indiscriminately; and there is plenty of chance in ‘Titania’s glade’ for comfortable philandering. Titania is married and therefore immune from his attentions, which wander among Hermia, Helena, and several of the fairies.”—Nation.
“The whimsical tone of the book is so well maintained that all its absurdities of situation and incident take on an amiable glamour.”
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Nation. 83: 228. S. 13, ’06. 210w.
“In addition to being amusing and cleverly done, the story is written very gracefully, with a touch of poetic imagination, that, like everything else in the book is not more than half serious.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 579. S. 22, ’06. 460w.
“The chief criticism that one is inclined to make is that the situation is dwelt upon a little too long and that the story would have left a better impression if it had been considerably shortened.”
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Outlook. 84: 337. O. 6, ’06. 100w.
Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott. Twisted eglantine. †$1.50. Appleton.
“Whatever its success may be, this book puts him in the front rank of living romancers.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 330. S. 9. 590w.
“Mr. Marriott Watson has never given us a finer character-study than this of Sir Piers.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 40: 17. Ja. 1, ’06. 300w.
Watson, John (Ian Maclaren, pseud.). Inspiration of our faith: sermons. **$1.25. Armstrong.
“Somewhat of the same idea, that of ascending in personal Christ-like life to fellowship with the Father, and thence deriving the help necessary for the fulfillment of duty, runs thru a series of twenty-nine sermons by the Rev. John Watson, better known as ‘Ian Maclaren.’ Each sermon breathes that practical Christianity which has characterized Ian Maclaren’s fiction and theological writings alike.”—Ind.
“They have the supreme merit (rare in sermons) of being interesting.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 297. Mr. 10. 90w.
370“Strikingly beautiful as the language is, the volume will be prized by those who desire inspiring and helpful words for their devotional reading.”
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Ind. 60: 223. Ja. 25, ’06. 80w.
Lit. D. 32: 370. Mr. 10, ’06. 1060w.
“Here the ethical and the inspirational are happily blended, as elsewhere in his writings.”
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Outlook. 81: 1040. D. 23, ’05. 190w.
Watson, William. Poems; ed. by J. A. Spender. 2v. *$2.50. Lane.
“It constitutes, for the present at least, a definitive edition of Mr. Watson’s work.”
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Dial. 40: 24. Ja. 1, ’06. 60w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
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North American. 182: 756. My. ’06. 290w.
R. of Rs. 33: 121. Ja. ’06. 80w.
Wayne, Charles Stokes. Prince to order. †$1.50. Lane.
“To fiction readers, who do not care for the element of probability, and to whom artificiality is not objectionable, this book will be enjoyable as it is bright and full of action and excitement if one can become deeply interested in a story that is wanting in the important element of probability.”
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Arena. 35: 331. Mr. ’06. 630w.
Weale, B. L. Putnam. Re-shaping of the Far East; with numerous il. from photographs. 2v. **$6. Macmillan.
The author “tells us just as much of the history of the subject as we need to know, sketching the annals of China in particular from the earliest times, and then describing in greater detail the commercial relations of Europe and America not only with China, but also with Korea and Japan. Relations of journeys into the interior and along the coasts give a picturesque glimpse of present Far Eastern conditions. We are shown Sir Robert Hart’s Service at work, the Germans introducing their characteristic methods at Kiao-chau, Dr. Morrison watching the Legations through a glass door at Peking, and the Marconi mast standing ready to signal for help to Ta-ku. There follows a fairly elaborate history of the Russo-Japanese war, and a severe criticism of its operations; and we are told finally what the Chinese are thinking and intending, what Mr. Weale expects the future to bring forth, and what policy seems to him most likely to serve British interests. In fact, we have an embarrassing choice of topics which equally invite discussion.”—Lond. Times.
“Despite some loose history, exaggerated statements, and rather wild speculations, the work is the best account of twentieth-century China in existence, and affords useful, though far from infallible hints as to the possibilities of the next decade in the Far East.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 193. F. 17. 1070w.
“One of the most readable and valuable books which have appeared in recent years.” John W. Foster.
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Atlan. 97: 543. Ap. ’06. 180w.
“For a work of undoubted weight, in the sense that it shows throughout a remarkably intimate acquaintance with the affairs of the East ... the style is a delight, though style is altogether too big a word to describe the absolutely nonchalant, personal, pungent way of the author with his book.” S. S. Trunsky.
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Bookm. 23: 656. Ag. ’06. 1120w.
“Is by no means a perfect work of its kind, but its indisputable merits far outweigh the faults which even the most captious critic could ascribe to it.” Frederick Austin Ogg.
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Dial. 40: 317. My. 16, ’06. 2600w.
“Thruout, he shows a lamentable ignorance of American history and policy.”
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Ind. 60: 400. F. 15, ’06. 840w.
“Mr. Putnam Weale’s new book is hardly so interesting as his ‘Manchu and Muscovite.’ It is burdened by a belated account of the early months of the Russo-Japanese war, is somewhat discursive and would ... be improved by elimination and condensation.”
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Lit. D. 32: 623. Ap. 21, ’06. 640w.
“The author, combining the knowledge of the student with the knowledge of the man on the spot, presents the Far Eastern question exhaustively in almost every imaginable aspect. In spite of the manner in which the Russian ‘débâcle’ has upset some of his calculations, his book is the most valuable of recent contributions to the elucidation of Far Eastern problems.”
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Lond. Times. 4: 438. D. 15, ’05. 1640w.
“In other words, Mr. Weale approaches the Chinese question from a strictly insular point of view. Yet his books may be highly recommended. All reserves made, there is nothing better on the Far Eastern question as it stands at this moment.”
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Nation. 82: 79. Ja. 25, ’06. 1180w.
“Comprehensive and luminous discussion of the development of Far Eastern affairs.” George R. Bishop.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 80. F. 10, ’06. 3230w.
Outlook. 84: 40. S. 1, ’06. 310w.
“Mr. Weale has given a complete and yet concise survey of the situation. His introduction is a historical prologue giving in a few score pages one of the best ideas of Chinese history that has ever been presented.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 123. Ja. 27, ’06. 670w.
“By far the most valuable book that has appeared on the East for a number of years. Nowhere else can so much valuable information be found in so compact a form.”
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Putnam’s. 1: 126. O. ’06. 270w.
“An absorbingly interesting work, including both description and history.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 253. F. ’06. 240w.
“Mr. Weale has unquestionably collected and marshalled a mass of information with ability and lucidity, and the result is a comprehensive survey of the situation outlined with a vigorous but light, albeit sharply-pointed, pen.”
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Sat. R. 101: 174. F. 10, ’06. 2020w.
Webster, Jean. Wheat princess. †$1.50. Century.
“The conversations are realistic, and the characters individual.”
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Critic. 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 60w.
Wedmore, Frederick. National gallery, London: the Flemish school. *$1.25. Warne.
This is the initial volume of a new series to be called the “Art galleries of Europe.” Mr. Wedmore gives a brief sketch of Flemish art, and emphasizes its two phases: the Mediæval phase dominated by Jan Van Eyck and Hans Menlinc, the Renaissance phase, by Rubens and Vandyke. There are fifty-five reproductions from Haufstaengl photographs.
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Acad. 70: 557. Je. 9, ’06. 90w.
“Mr. Wedmore’s introduction is not an altogether favourable specimen of his power as a writer on art. True, it contains some very apposite criticisms, but these are interspersed with somewhat captious digressions.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 707. Je. 9. 370w.
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Ind. 61: 943. O. 18, ’06. 110w.
Int. Studio. 29: sup. 83. S. ’06. 240w.
“Taken all in all, however, Mr. Wedmore’s paper is not a coherent dissertation on the Flemish school; it is too itemized, too scrappy, and too diversified to be of much value as a serious study. As a collection of notes, however, appended to artists’ names, it will save the student of the National gallery with Flemish proclivities much toil and trouble among art encyclopædias.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 508. Ag. 18, ’06. 350w.
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Outlook. 83: 671. Jl. 31, ’06. 50w.
Wedmore, Frederick. Whistler and others. *$1.50. Scribner.
Mr. Wedmore’s volume of essays is prefaced 371by a chapter entitled “A candid word to the English reader” in which he makes serious charge against the Englishman as an art critic. Some observations on Venetian art, Goya, Richard Wilson, Romney, Laurence, Watts, Etty, and others may be passed over to find the real worth of the book in the papers on Whistler, Fantin and Boudin, English watercolour, The print collector. Constable’s English landscapes, and The Norwich school.
“His critical method is not exhaustive but suggestive, and no inventory of qualities could so stimulate the imagination as one of his pregnant summaries.”
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Acad. 71: 31. Jl. 14, ’06. 970w.
“The essays and fragments that make up the volume are in part reprinted from various periodicals. Some of them seem hardly of sufficient importance to warrant the more permanent form.”
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Dial. 41: 285. N. 1, ’06. 180w.
“Perhaps the best piece in the book is the study of Fantin and Boudin. We wish that some of the other articles had been undertaken in a like spirit of respect for his subject and respect for his reader.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 202. Je. 1, ’06. 1000w.
“It was, however, an error of taste to pad the volume out with trifling notes which may have served well enough to introduce a temporary exhibition or to characterize a single painting.”
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Nation. 83: 99. Ag. 2, ’06. 220w.
“The critic’s survey is characteristically candid and suggestive.”
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Outlook. 84: 706. N. 24, ’06. 60w.
“If you want the final word upon Whistler, Wedmore has not said it or thought it.”
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Putnam’s. 1: 226. N. ’06. 670w.
Weeden, William Babcock. War government: federal and state, in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Indiana, 1861–1865. **$2.50. Houghton.
Using Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania. and Indiana as typical states, this study of the civil war period shows that “war government, federal and state, accomplished most potent and far-reaching results in the readjustment of the relations between states and nation, and between the people and the governing body.”
“The style, sometimes eccentric and inclined to digression, is always keen, pungent and fearless. The characterization of Lincoln is refreshingly free from conventionality either in praise or blame, and, with all its partisanship, the book has distinct value.” Theodore Clarke Smith.
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Atlan. 98: 705. N. ’06. 380w.
“With his conclusions many will disagree. In some places a rearrangement of the material might have made the book easier reading; but the vigorous style and independent judgment of the author are calculated to enlist one’s interest to the end.”
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Critic. 49: 189. Ag. ’06. 240w.
“The author’s dislike of those on the other side and his failure to appreciate their position, his inability to recognize and understand the principle of evolution in human affairs, and his twentieth century criticism of nineteenth century deeds, are defects that mar a work which otherwise might have been of considerable interest and value.”
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Dial. 41: 167. S. 16. ’06. 530w.
“It is entertainingly written, and only the most ‘blasé’ of readers of Civil war matters can fall to find an engaging interest in its pages. It reveals moreover, a vast deal of research. But it can hardly be called a critical study of the relation of federal to state government during the Civil war.”
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Ind. 61: 639. S. 13. ’06. 210w.
“The subject is one deserving exhaustive exploration and it is therefore the more to be regretted that Mr. Weeden has not treated it with a firmer grasp and an unprejudiced mind.”
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Lit. D. 33: 123. Jl. 28, ’06. 150w.
“The narrative, well fortified by references, is marred by a good deal of feeble and confused rhetoric.”
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Nation. 82: 511. Je. 21, ’06. 280w.
“It is an interesting and able work.” Wm. E. Dodd.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 505. Ag. 18, ’06. 1320w.
“He has undertaken a most interesting task; but his spirit is so partisan and his style so turgid, discursive, and inaccurate that his book is of only very limited value.”
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Outlook. 83: 288. Je. 2, ’06. 210w.
“Mr. Weeden’s book should do much to put needed emphasis on a somewhat neglected aspect of the war.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 764. Je. ’06. 280w.
Weedon, L. L. Child characters from Dickens. $2.50. Dutton.
There are eighteen stories in this group, including many of the children’s favorites, among them are those of Harvey and Norah, of “The holly tree,” Paul Dombey, Johnny and the Boofer Lady, Little Nell, the Marchioness, Polly, Little Dorrit, etc. Six colored plates and seventy half-tones “tell their part of the story so well that every character in the book can be told offhand.” (N. Y. Times.) “His illustrator, Mr. A. A. Dixon, has distributed good looks to everybody with the facility of a fairy of the olden time at a christening.” (Ath.)
Ath. 1905, 2: 796. D. 9. 60w.
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Nation. 81: 489. D. 14, ’05. 250w.
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N. Y. Times. 10: 911. D. 23, ’05. 180w.
“This is a charming book. The tales are skillfully managed. A better introduction to Dickens could not be.”
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Spec. 95: 1091. D. 23, ’05. 50w.
Weikel, Anna Hamlin. Betty Baird: a boarding-school story; il. †$1.50. Little.
Betty Baird is the daughter of a scholarly Presbyterian minister who had trained his daughter thru her fourteen years on rather oldfashioned but thoro lines. Betty is sent to boarding school and, bright, nimble witted tho she is, she has many trying experiences among her snobbish, fashionable mates. The story follows her thru her three years of victories terminating in first honor at graduation.
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Weinel, Heinrich. St. Paul, the man and his work; tr. by Rev. G. A. Bienemann and ed. by Rev. W. D. Morrison. *$2.50. Putnam.
Professor Weinel of the University of Jena says in his preface: “This book forms a necessary supplement to my ‘Jesus in the nineteenth century,’ for it shows how the Gospel came to make that concordat with the ‘world’ i. e., with the ancient state and its religion and morality, which we call ‘church.’ I have tried to show how necessary, and how solitary this compromise was, by what pure motives it was animated, but also with what dangers it was pregnant for the Gospel itself.” Further the author says: “I have wanted to make our people understand and love Paul.”
“He is a scholar who does not intrude his scholarship but is competent to speak on St. Paul.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 154. Ag. 11. 840w.
“It is a work of careful thought and thoro scholarship.”
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Ind. 60: 1433. Je. 14, ’06. 1050w. 372
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Ind. 61: 1165. N. 15, ’06. 140w.
Lit. D. 32: 618. Ap. 21, ’06. 890w.
“His translator, the Rev. G. A. Bienemann, has rendered him into lucid and finished English form.”
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Outlook. 82: 1005. Ap. 28, ’06. 400w.
“His biography does not add very much to our knowledge of the apostle and his time; it is vigorously written. fairly interesting, drastic in its criticism, and very anti-Catholic.”
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Sat. R. 102: 372. S. 22, ’06. 400w.
Weininger, Otto. Sex and character; authorized tr. from the 6th Germ. ed. *$3. Putnam.
Six editions in the German are to the credit of this volume. There is a two-fold treatment of the subject, the first dealing with the physical phase, the second with the psychological. “In his view woman ‘is merely non-moral. She is characterized by shamelessness and heartlessness.’ Only man has a ‘share, in ontological reality.’ ‘Women have no existence; and no essence; they are not, they are nothing.’ It does not surprise us to be told that such a philosopher died by his own hand at the age of twenty three.” (Outlook.)
“There is exhibited the most acute and subtle mental play throughout, but the whole argument is characterized by downright unreasonableness. There are parts so poor, obscure, illogical, and stupid that they would not be accepted in a college boy’s essay, and other parts worthy of Kant or Schopenhauer.” W. I. Thomas.
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Am. J. Soc. 11: 843. My. ’06. 1250w.
“Never before in all our literature has the ultra-masculine view of woman been so logically carried out, so unsparingly forced to its conclusion.” Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
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Critic. 48: 414. My. ’06. 3030w.
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Lond. Times. 5: 54. F. 16, ’06. 270w.
“Preposterous charlatanry.”
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Outlook. 82: 764. Mr. 31, ’06. 220w.
“It is thus ... as a human document, one unconsciously illustrating the pathology of adolescent sex and character, even more than consciously investigating their nature, that this tragic book will survive, if at all.”
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Sat. R. 101: 557. My. 5, ’06. 1830w.
Weir, Irene. Greek painters’ art. *$3. Ginn.
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Ath. 1906. 2: 743. D. 8. 160w.
“Unpretending but most interesting little volume.”
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Weiss, Bernhard. Commentary on the New Testament; tr. by George H. Schodde, and Epiphanius Wilson; with an introd. by James S. Riggs. 4v. ea. *$3. Funk.
In these four volumes we have the results of the work of a great scholar, who has spent over half a century in a study of his subject which while scientific was tempered by true spiritual insight. The work is intended not only for students but for those who have not time for study and desire a better understanding of the scriptures as they read them. Volume 1, contains the commentary upon Matthew and Mark; Volume 2, Luke, John and The Acts; Vol. 3, Romans, Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians; Volume 4, Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrew, James, Peter, John, Jude and Revelation.
“Professor Weiss’s concise commentary exhibits his well-known learning, thoroughness, and conservatism. It is unfortunate that its English dress was not more carefully prepared.”
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Bib. World. 28: 160. Ag. ’06. 20w.
Weiss, Bernhard. Religion of the New Testament; tr. from the Germ. by G: H. Schodde. *$2. Funk.
“It must, however, be said with frankness that the work of translation has not been well done. The book is a very clear presentation of the general idea which is represented in Harnack’s ‘What is Christianity?’ and, in more extreme form, by Wernle’s ‘Beginnings of Christianity.’” Irving F. Wood.
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Am. J. Theol. 10: 130. Jl. ’06. 490w.
Wells, Amos R. Tuxedo avenue to Water street: the story of a transplanted church. $1. Funk.
The author calls his story a parable, and also, the story of a possibility, which the united action of God and the people may make a reality. He tells of a fashionable church which was mysteriously transplanted in a single night and set up stone on stone among the poor of Water street. He depicts most vividly the scorn with which the fashionable members of the old church regard the poor with whom they are thus brought in contact, and he shows the great good which came of it all. It is a story so true to human nature that it makes one pause to think. The author’s character drawing is excellent and he has softened his moral by introducing into his parable the love story of the young minister and Irene, the flower of his flock.
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Arena. 36: 222. Ag. ’06. 310w.
“His little book is of more than passing interest as a well-developed piece of fiction, and it is profoundly significant as a Parable and an indictment.”
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Lit. D. 33: 158. Ag. 4, ’06. 160w.
“The little book is effective in its way.”
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Outlook. 83: 817. Ag. 4, ’06. 150w.
Wells, Amos Russel. Donald Barton and the doings of the Ajax club. †$1.50. Little.
The “Ajax club” is composed of lusty boys who meet in “The glen” and plan adventures worthy of their honored Greek hero. They do battle against a band of disreputable village boys and win the commendation of the townspeople.
“Though there is the highest intent in this, the author has somehow missed the mark.”
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Nation. 83: 484. D. 6, ’06. 170w.
Wells, Carolyn. At the sign of the sphinx. $1. Duffield.
Miss Wells’ fancy-juggling has produced one hundred and twenty rhymed riddles to which are appended answers.
Dial. 41: 287. N. 1, ’06. 30w.
“Is marked by the same cleverness that is always characteristic of this writer.”
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Ind. 61: 1399. D. 13, ’06. 210w.
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Nation. 83: 440. N. 22, ’06. 90w.
“Generally her mood is playful and her ingenuity is always equal to the task she sets for it. As a general thing, her touch is becomingly light and she treats her syllables with respect. Sometimes the enigma is still a bit enigmatical after one knows the answer.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 692. O. 20, ’06. 190w.
Wells, Carolyn. Dorrance doings; il. †$1.50. Wilde.
Another chapter in the lives of the wide-awake Dorrances which is really a sequel to the “Dorrance domain.” The inventive ability of the quartette and their energy in executing have suffered no diminution since they first made their bow to young readers.
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373“Written in a rather perfunctory manner—lacking in charm and freshness.”
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Outlook. 84: 792. N. 24, ’06. 50w.
Wells, Carolyn. Whimsey anthology. **$1.25. Scribner.
“A whimsey, Miss Wells explains, is ‘a whim, a freak, a capricious notion, an odd device.’ Her new book contains nearly 300 selections from the poets old and new.... Here we have famous wheezes touching the eccentricities of the English language, typographical frenzies in which the compositor shapes the poem as nearly as possible like the object it treats of.... Alphabetical nonsense ... acrostics and lipograms, alliterative efforts, enigmas and charades, macaronic poetry, travesties, certomes, (which are made up of assorted lines from divers poems,) and palindromes are here in rich profusion.”—N. Y. Times.
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World To-Day. 11: 1221. N. ’06. 50w.
Wells, Herbert George. Future in America: a search after realities. **$2. Harper.
America’s social, economic, and material phases furnish conditions for objective scrutiny which any American would do well to observe. Mr. Wells finds the note of a “fatal, gigantic, economic development, of large prevision and enormous pressures” uppermost and invincible. His range of observations is broad, covering the main representative cities of America, his insight ready to cope with the peculiarly American conditions, and his comments virile and convincing.
“‘When the sleeper wakes,’ for example, is an astonishing caricature of the inordinate individualism of the American sort. ‘The future in America,’ a sober study of the same subject, is, we think, below it in insight as well as in effectiveness. Mr. Wells’s book is written rather in a mood of despondency.”
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Acad. 71: 544. D. 1, ’06. 1360w.
“His lucid and discriminating description of the present in America is probably worth more than his intended prophecy of the future of America would have been, had he ventured to write it.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 614. N. 17. 370w.
“His is a book which will be criticised, but it will be read, and no reader will fail to gain from it a broader view of the great world-power with its vast opportunities and inequalities, its contradictions and aspirations, its towering wealth, and its suffering, which Mr. Wells has analyzed in this book.” James Wellman.
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Harper’s Weekly. 50: 1898. D. 29, ’06. 1810w.
“He has brought to the study of the social, economical, and material problems now confronting us an insight rarely found in an Englishman, and has given lucid expressions to certain ideas concerning the future which have been vaguely stirring in the national consciousness.”
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Lit. D. 33: 814. D. 1, ’06. 240w.
“A volume, that more than any other book I know of picks out and co-ordinates the tendencies and conditions that are really shaping the American future, disencumbers them from the misleading obstruction of detail, and displays them with that spaciousness, that fervent clarity, which Mr. Wells commands so easily.” Sidney Brooks.
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Living Age. 251: 565. D. 1, ’06. 2590w.
“He has struck some nails on the head that have, perhaps, never been struck before—at least with so emphatic a hammer.”
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Nation. 83: 537. D. 20. ’06. 1540w.
“To us, Mr. Wells’s hasty observations of American life seem only dull. It is frequently interesting. It is generally disparaging. It is often inaccurate.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 758. N. 17, ’06. 150w.
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R. of Rs. 34: 760. D. ’06. 140w.
“The prophesying is hedging, vague, indeterminate. Probably a fairer book about America has never been written.”
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Sat. R. 102: 581. N. 10, ’06. 1630w.
“The book is illuminating in the fullest sense, a criticism not only of America, but of all civilised society, and it is written in a style which is always attractive and rises now and then to uncommon beauty and power. Though we endorse his demand for reform in many directions, we are bound to condemn his frequent exaggerations, the shrillness, nay feverishness, of his criticism, and his want of a sense of proportion. He says many true things about the United States, but his picture as a whole is false.”
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Spec. 97: 683. N. 3, ’06. 2320w.
Wells, Herbert George. In the days of the comet. †$1.50. Century.
A young middle-class Englishman loves a girl who elopes with the son of a landed proprietor. The outraged suitor pursues the couple, bent upon murder and suicide. Then the comet intervenes. It strikes the earth and diffuses a trance-producing vapor. When the world wakens there are no longer passions and rivalries. At this point the author works out a state of socialistic reform characterized by brotherhood principles. The hero finds love an impersonal thing with none of the old proprietary limitations. Woman to him becomes the “shape and color of the divine principle that lights the world,” and whether wife or friend he may love her without reproach.
“An earnest and exceedingly interesting book.”
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Acad. 71: 266. S. 15, ’06. 180w.
“Is far more than an interesting romance written in the fine literary style that marks the works of this popular imaginative novelist.”
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Arena. 36: 683. D. ’06. 380w.
“It remains as a whole a fine testimony to the imagination and intellect of one of the most original thinkers of the day.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 362. S. 29. 640w.
Current Literature. 41: 700. D. 06. 880w.
“Regarded as an argument for socialism ... it is a very weak one.”
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Ind. 61: 1053. N. 1, ’06. 1080w.
“Perhaps it is not the best book Mr. Wells has written. It is in reality no more than a brilliant piece of descriptive writing. But no reader can fail to be touched by the picture of the glorious life that awaits mankind after some great change.”
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Lit. D. 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 220w.
Lond. Times. 5: 314. S. 14, ’06. 580w.
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Nature. 75: 124. D. 6, ’06. 440w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 719. N. 3, ’06. 200w.
“As a story pure and simple, it falls far below his ‘War of the worlds.’”
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Outlook. 84: 582. N. 3, ’06. 230w.
Sat. R. 102: 365. S. 22, ’06. 1560w.
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Spec. 97: 496. O. 6, ’06. 1230w.
Wells, Herbert George. Kipps: the story of a simple soul. †$1.50. Scribner.
“Displaying an almost Dickens-like gift for the portrayal of eccentric traits and types of character.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 40: 17. Ja. 1. ’06, 350w.
Edinburgh R. 203: 66. Ja. ’06. 2920w.
Living Age. 248: 726. Mr. 24, ’06. 2920w. (Reprinted from Edinburgh R.)
374Wells, Herbert George. Modern Utopia. *$1.50. Scribner.
“Culling over the literature of 1905, I should place at the head of works of the first-class ‘A modern utopia.’” Winthrop More Daniels.
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Atlan. 97: 840. Je. ’06. 710w.
Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.
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Dial. 40: 296. My. 1, ’06. 250w.
J. Pol. Econ. 14: 581. N. ’06. 270w.
Wendell, Barrett. Temper of the 17th century in English literature. **$1.50. Scribner.
“We must thank Professor Wendell for the pleasant, if slightly exotic, prose of this thoughtful and inspiring volume. The fly in the amber is the continual use of the word ‘elder.’”
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Spec. 97: sup. 468. O. 6, ’06. 860w.
Wertheimer, Edward de. Duke of Reichstadt. **$5. Lane.
“The general reader, for whom this handsome volume is evidently intended, will find that the events and persons in the life of this son of Napoleon stand out sharp, clear, and interesting. Some errors have slipped into the translation. This book with its good index and illustrations is the best on the subject.” Sidney B. Fay.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 662. Ap. ’06. 860w.
Critic. 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 120w.
“Is essentially an historical study, not a mere collection of gossip and rumor.”
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Dial. 40: 21. Ja. ’06. 360w.
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Sat. R. 101: 113. Ja. 27, ’06. 1150w.
Wesselhoeft, Mrs. Elizabeth Foster (Pope) (Lily F.). Ready, the reliable. †$1.50. Little.
Thru the influence of a little child a wealthy, crusty, bachelor uncle learns the great lesson of love and opens his heart to the needs of an overworked mother and her three responsible little ones. Ready, a befriended street dog, is so important a factor in the tale that he has appropriated the title.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 90w.
“When it comes to one part of a story dealing with humans and the other part giving us the thoughts and conversations of cats and dogs ... we think a literary license is taken that is not warranted by the results obtained.”
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R. of Rs. 34: 764. D. ’06. 50w.
Westermarck, Edward Alexander. Origin and development of the moral ideas. 2v. v. 1. *$3.50. Macmillan.
“A multitude of curious facts concerning the crude institutions of early times and savage tribes awaits the general reader of these pages. About one-fourth of the volume is concerned with homicide, both in general and in its varying forms down to feticide. The philosophic student finds what he has a right to expect from such an investigator ... acute insight and discriminating judgment in tracing the evolution of moral ideas.”—Outlook.
“We have drawn attention to a few points in which Dr. Westermarck has seemed to us unconvincing. We have intended this only as the criticism which makes appreciation significant. And for the book as a whole—for its learning, its open-mindedness, its catholicity, of interest—we have the warmest appreciation.”
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Acad. 70: 521, Je. 2, ’06. 2520w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Westermarck’s great strength ... consists in his ability to assemble materials, and if he has a weakness, it is on the psychological side.” W. I. Thomas.
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Am. J. Soc. 12: 127. Jl. ’06. 330w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Even suppose, however, certain shortcomings on the side of pure theory, this book remains an achievement unsurpassed in its own kind, a perpetual monument of the courage, the versatility, and the amazing industry of its author.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 692. Je. 9. 1820w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It may be partly owing to this special study, but largely no doubt also to a remarkably sympathetic and candid turn of mind that Dr. Westermarck presents this heterogeneous mass of evidence with so much understanding, and avoids those hasty generalizations and those uncomprehending judgments of alien races that so frequently characterize many writers, even among those who have dwelt long among the people they describe.”
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Ind. 61: 997. O. 25, ’06. 1170w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The mass of information included in these chapters is wonderful. The use which Dr Westermarck makes of it, I have no pretensions to criticise. At any rate, everyone who reads this volume will look forward with impatience to the next.” J. Ellis McTaggart.
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Int. J. Ethics. 17: 125. O. ’06. 1140w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Exceptionally wide reading and a faculty of lucid arrangement in dealing with masses of detail are the necessary equipment for such a task, and to these Dr. Westermarck adds a four years’ residence among the country population of Morocco.”