Volume 3 — W (continued 3)

* Woods, James Houghton. Practice and science of religion: a study of method in comparative religion. (Paddock lectures, 1905–1906.) *80c. Longmans.

6–22299.

Mr. Woods “classifies religious faiths according as the judgments they imply are individual, 485collective, or universal and normative. Under the first division he considers primitive beliefs not strictly religious, under the second ancestral systems, and in the third he includes various forms of mysticism, of the Vedânta system and Buddhism as well as Christianity.”—Nation.

“For the [embodiment of a method and system for solving religious] problems its data are too scant and its touch too light. Moreover, the employment of logical, ethical and metaphysical categories is so frequent and so apparently a priori as almost to belie the author’s initial appeal to the standards of inductive inquiry. There is present also a lack of clearness and incisiveness in the concepts which are described as involved in religious experience. The reader feels himself sometimes on shifting sand when he looks to deal with a clearly developed dialectic.” E. L. Norton.

− + J. Philos. 4: 580. O. 10, ’07. 1170w.

Nation. 83: 304. O. 11, ’06. 210w.

“When describing the history of primitive beliefs and customs he is clear and interesting. But we must confess that his philosophy of religion is not so good; there he seems to us wordy and pretentious, without making any solid contributions to the subject.”

+ − Sat. R. 103: 212. F. 16, ’07. 150w.

Woods, Margaret Louisa (Bradley). Invader. †$1.50. Harper.

7–17049.

Sedate Oxford is made the setting for this astonishing tale of a dual personality, of the young Don who marries Milly, the quiet and adoring, and who loves Mildred the reckless, deceitful and captivating. These two natures struggle for mastery in the body of his young wife until after a series of strange happenings, Milly heroically sacrifices all in order that the rival within her, the invader whom she has come to hate and fear, may not embitter her husband’s future or ruin the life of the child, really Milly’s child, who has already felt the strange alternating maternal influences that play over him.

“It is a pity that a certain inability to rouse the sympathy and interest of the reader should make a dull book of what might be, at worst, an ingenious one.”

− + Acad. 72: 516. My. 25, ’07. 230w.

“The author writes crisply, and with a skilful command of her chosen medium. Decidedly a creditable venture.”

+ Ath. 1907, 1: 630. My. 25. 150w.

Reviewed by Mary K. Ford.

Bookm. 25: 522. Jl. ’07. 580w.

“The interest of this fantastic tale is but moderate, which is chiefly due to the fact that the author takes her subject over-seriously, instead of frankly abandoning herself to its possibilities of comedy and dramatic effect.” Wm. M. Payne.

− Dial. 43: 64. Ag. 1, ’07. 440w.

“Distinctly repulsive ending.”

− Ind. 63: 574. S. 5, ’07. 90w.

“It has in fact, a hundred good qualities, which make it well worth reading. It has one defect which, in our opinion, prevents it from taking its place beside the ‘Village tragedy,’ or the best of modern fiction. Our objections to Mr. Woods’s book (against so able a book we have no scruples about urging objections) is that it falls between the two stools of fact and fancy.”

+ − Lond. Times. 6: 149. My. 10, ’07. 680w.

“A sufficiently readable novel.”

+ Nation. 84: 501. My. 30, ’07. 260w.

“The story can be commended as readable, and its picture of life in Oxford is interesting. The background is very well filled in, and the author has some humor, plenty of sentiment, and appreciable feeling for inanimate nature.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 298. My. 11, ’07. 330w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 210w.

“The story is disagreeable and at times offensive to good taste, if not to good morals.”

− Outlook. 86: 339. Je. 15, ’07. 80w.

“Mrs. Woods succeeds better with her female than with her male characters, which are rather shadowy.”

+ − Sat. R. 104: 241. Ag. 24, ’07. 400w.

“It is impossible to deny that the narrative has a certain engrossing quality, but personally we have no hesitation in expressing our regret that so much talent should have been lavished on a theme which makes neither for health nor happiness.”

− + Spec. 98: 983. Je. 22, ’07. 1390w.

Woods, Margaret Louisa. King’s revoke: an episode in the life of Patrick Dillon. †$1.50. Dutton.

W 6–298.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The narrative is clogged with details and embarrassed by the introduction of too many characters, but it is a careful study of the types and is written with unusual fulness of information.”

+ − Ind. 62: 673. Mr. 21, ’07. 130w.

Woodworth, Joseph V. Punches, dies and tools for manufacturing in presses. $4. Henley.

7–8248.

“The author has aimed to give to the practical man as much useful information as possible on the working of sheet metals, the design and construction of punches and dies and the manufacture of repetition parts and articles in presses. The book is a broader and more comprehensive view of the subject than that given in the author’s previous work.”—Engin. N.

“There is probably no other one place where so much valuable data on this specialty can be found.” W. W. Bird.

+ + Engin. N. 57: 194. F. 14, ’07. 150w.

Worcester, Dean C. Non-Christian tribes of northern Luzon. Bureau of ptg., Manila.

“Professor Worcester, a secretary of the interior in the Philippine government, has charge both of the ethnological study and the government of the wild peoples. He has made many trips, some of them heartbreaking ‘hikes,’ on occasions also incurring serious danger in regions previously unexplored.... He points out our lack as yet of detailed studies of these various mountain communities, and publishes his views only to help ‘awaken interest’ and to stimulate thus the study needed either to verify or to correct such conclusions as he has ventured.”—Nation.

+ Ind. 63: 631. S. 12, ’07. 960w.

“This is the latest, and to date the most authoritative, discussion of the mountain people of Northern Luzon as a whole.”

+ Nation. 84: 228. Mr. 7, ’07. 570w.

Wordsworth, William. Poems; selected with introd. by Stopford A. Brooke. *$3. McClure.

Mr. Brooke’s introduction “dwells on the poet’s life at Grasmere, the effects of the scenery on his genius and moral being, and his interpretation of that scenery and those effects in his verse.” (Ath.)

“For one who has never yet come under the spell of Wordsworth no fitter passkey could be imagined than is found in [this book].”

+ + Ath. 1907, 2: 67. Jl. 20. 630w.

“In this well-got-up volume literature and art are happily associated.”

+ + Int. Studio. 32: 85. Jl. ’07. 140w.

+ + Lond. Times. 6: 228. Jl. 19, ’07. 900w.

+ Nation. 85: 521. D. 5, ’07. 50w.

“Mr. Stopford Brooke is always an agreeable literary companion, and in his introduction to these selections from Wordsworth he is particularly happy. Several of his touches give us 486a very human and intimate knowledge of the poet.” Bliss Carman.

+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 701. N. 2, ’07. 430w.

Workman, Herbert B. Persecution in the early church: a chapter in the history of renunciation. *$1.50. West. Meth. bk.

7–26456.

A discussion of persecution in the early church based upon all the actors both in the inner life and outer environment to which it was due. The treatment covers the “legal, historical, ecclesiastical and experiential aspects.”

“Mr. Workman’s book is a valuable contribution to the ecclesiastical and political history of the first three centuries of Christianity, and an authoritative study of a very interesting but partially known subject.”

+ + Dial. 43: 68. Ag. 1, ’07. 410w.

“The volume covers much the same ground as Mr. Allard’s recently published work on Martyrdom, though with differences characteristic of the two writers. It may be said at once, without any offence to Dr. Workman, that his writing lacks the charm of style which seems almost inevitable in a Frenchman: where, however, critical questions are involved the advantage rests with the English scholar, whose sound judgment removes him as far from M. Allard’s excessive adherence to tradition as from the scepticism of Père Delehaye.” P. V. M. Benecke.

+ Eng. Hist. R. 22: 328. Ap. ’07. 3160w.

“This is a really valuable book.”

+ + Spec. 97: 732. N. 10, ’06. 250w.

Worsfold, Basil. Lord Milner’s work in South Africa. *$4.50. Dutton.

7–15501.

An intimate view of the official labors of Lord Milner in South Africa. “Mr. Worsfold has written a straightforward, connected account of events that are nowhere else so compactly and coherently set forth; he not only knows his subject thoroughly, but has evidently had opportunities of gathering much personal information directly from Lord Milner himself and from other leading actors in the South African drama; his analysis of the moral and material factors at work is, in the main, to our mind at least, just and convincing.” (Lond. Times.)

“It is neither journalism nor history, and it has the air of being hopelessly out of date. Mr. Worsfold, then, has a twice-told tale to tell, and he tells it with becoming gravity. He does full justice to a great public servant.”

+ − Acad. 71: 650. D. 29, ’06. 890w.

“A large part of Mr. Worsfold’s volume seems to us wide of his subject.”

− + Ath. 1906, 2: 689. D. 1. 1350w.

“Mr. Worsfold is frankly a partisan, and a thick-and-thin partisan, of Lord Milner; and is unsparing in his condemnation of the Liberal leaders who showed any sympathy with the Boer republics.”

+ − Ind. 63: 400. Ag. 15, ’07. 390w.

“His thought and his style alike lack that distinction which so strikingly characterizes the extracts from Lord Milner’s own despatches and speeches which make no small portion of the present volume. He may not have given us ‘a possession forever,’ but he has compiled a volume which no one who professes to take an intelligent interest in Imperial politics can well afford to leave unread at this present juncture.”

+ + − Lond. Times. 5: 390. N. 23, ’06. 2570w.

“The book is on a high level, but it is all admiration of Lord Milner.”

+ − Nation. 84: 342. Ap. 11, ’07. 800w.

Outlook. 85: 903. Ap. 20, ’07. 180w.

“A valuable footnote to the history of the South African war and the reconstruction period immediately following.”

+ R. of Rs. 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 50w.

“What he does not know at first hand he has been at great pains to verify by the documentary evidence of blue-books. His story is consecutive, and the sense of perspective is not wanting. His style is clear and occasionally dramatic if somewhat diffuse and iterative.”

+ + − Sat. R. 102: 710. D. 8, ’06. 1770w.

Wright, Sir Almroth Edward. Principles of microscopy: being a handbook to the microscope. *$6.50. Macmillan.

7–25539.

“A scientific treatise on the optical technique of the microscope, exclusive of actual microscopic work and study. The theme is illustrated at every step by an exhaustive series of experiments.”—Nation.

“An exhaustive index leaves the critic with nothing but praise for the thoroughness which marks every step in the treatment of the subject.”

+ Nation. 84: 206. F. 28, ’07. 150w.

Reviewed by Thomas H. Blakesley.

+ − Nature. 75: 386. F. 21, ’07. 1420w.

Wright, Carroll Davidson. Battles of labor: being the William Levi Bull lectures for the year 1906. **$1. Jacobs.

6–14781.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Colonel Wright, in this latest book, takes a historical point of view which lends special interest to his discussion.”

+ Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 228. Ja. ’07. 190w.

Reviewed by W. B. Guthrie.

+ + Charities. 17: 468. D. 15, ’06. 350w.

“With good sense, wide learning, and ripe experience the eminent statistician opens to young theologians that world of conflict in which ethical and religious principles are put to severest strain.” Charles Richmond Henderson.

+ − Dial. 42: 287. My. 1, ’07. 140w.

“Especially interesting are the last two lectures, which are based largely on the personal experience and observation of the author.”

+ Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 181. Mr. ’07. 110w.

Wright, George Frederick. Scientific confirmations of Old Testament history. *$2. Bibliotheca sacra co., Oberlin. O.

7–2423.

“This volume embodies the results of his latest investigations besides those found in the authors former writings. They show, what other investigators have held that certain occurrences recorded in the Old Testament as miracles—the deluge, the destruction of Sodom, the Hebrews’ fording of the Red sea and the Jordan, the overthrow of Jericho—belong to the history of the natural operation of geological causes. These causes however, Dr. Wright holds to have been touched off by the direct act of God to meet the occasions, as really as the hunter fires his gun.”—Outlook.

Ind. 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 590w.

“Is one of the most thorough books of its kind, in a popular form, lately published. The author’s unabating enthusiasm, his obvious sincerity, and simple and forcible manner make the book interesting.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 48. Ja. 26, ’07. 170w.

“Whether in the Old Testament or in the New, Dr. Wright is uncompromisingly opposed to the conclusions adopted by the majority of Biblical scholars. Geology is his forte, and the value of the present volume comes from his researches in that field.”

− + Outlook. 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 210w.

Wright, Hamilton M. Handbook of the Philippines. **$1.40. McClurg.

7–32869.

A book for the student or traveler which is the outgrowth of investigations made in the Philippines in order to furnish a complete report to the Manufacturers and producers association of San Francisco. It is a practical reference book recording interesting facts 487about commerce, productions, industries and prospects. The illustrations are numerous and suggestive.

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 199. N. ’07.

“Not only is it written with the roseate optimism of promotors’ literature but as a compilation of facts it has been carelessly prepared, from inadequate study of sources and hasty observations, and is far from being either accurate or complete.”

− Ind. 63: 1371. D. 5, ’07. 580w.

“In which is compactly set forth a great amount of information concerning the islands and their peoples.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 716. N. 9, ’07. 320w.

“It is, as an indication of Philippine industrial conditions that the book has chief value. It is emphatically a reference book, not only for the tourist but in a greater measure for the business man, the promoter, the industrialist, the capitalist.”

+ + Outlook. 87: 541. N. 9, ’07. 1060w.

+ R. of Rs. 36: 638. N. ’07. 180w.

Wright, Harold Bell. Shepherd of the hills. $1.50. Book supply co.

7–26339.

The crude mountaineers of the Ozarks are the people of this story, and those of them who were not really born to this wild life have come to it satiated with the ways of men in the world outside and have here been born anew. It is a strange tale of love, of hate, of deception and retribution but, although it deals with tough folk and their rough ways, about it is cast the glamour of the everlasting hills. These men are men of action and their brawn and muscle when exerted in a good cause, have all the force of oratory.

“There are many bits of excellent description, in the course of the story, and an atmosphere as fresh and sweet and free from modern grime as one would breathe on the Ozark trails themselves.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 250w.

“Both in the more melodramatic and the more sentimental parts of his tale he is apt to overdo the thing. With all its crudeness, however, the story does appeal to one’s admiration of pluck and honesty.”

− + Outlook. 87: 269. O. 5, ’07. 120w.

Wright, Mabel Osgood. Birdcraft. 7th ed. **$2. Macmillan.

A new edition of a book whose “especial value lies in the way in which the principal facts concerning a bird—length, color, song, season, distribution, nest and eggs—are set off in distinct paragraphs, making reference easy and direct. The only change from the old editions is the absence of the badly colored plates of minute figures of birds and the substitution of eighty uncolored plates by Fuertes, including some of this artist’s best work.” (Nation.)

+ Ind. 62: 1353. Je. 6, ’07. 80w.

+ Nation. 84: 295. Mr. 28, ’07. 90w.

“The bird is, so to speak, a guide to the realm of bird-land, well composed and arranged.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 227. Ap. 6, ’07. 150w.

+ Outlook. 85: 763. Mr. 30, ’07. 70w.

* Wright, Mabel Osgood. Gray Lady and the birds: stories of the bird year for home and school, il. **$1.75. Macmillan.

7–38237.

Children and birds are brought into close sympathy here. The author does not give detailed descriptions and tabulated facts, but a record “of the doings of some children who were eager to know; together with a few hints upon the migrations, winter feeding, and protection of some of our common birds and the stories of their lives, that may lead both teacher and pupil to more detailed study when opportunity offers.”

N. Y. Times. 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

Wright, Thomas. Life of Walter Pater. 2v. *$6.50. Putnam.

7–25136.

“In the main, it avoids the proportion of literary exposition, criticism, and general biography already so thoroughly dealt with in the biographies of Pater written by A. C. Benson and Ferris Greenslet and strives to be familiarly subjective rather than personally and intimately objective. Much of the material employed has been derived from school-fellows, pupils, and colleagues, some of whom speak with questionable freedom.”—N. Y. Times.

“What evil angel—what bat—inspired him to choose a man whose mind and character he was totally incapable of understanding, and then to patronise him?”

− − Acad. 72: 263. Mr. 16, ’67. 1900w.

“The book contains a good deal of new material, especially in the account given of the literary relations between Pater and Oscar Wilde. Mr. Benson’s ‘Walter Pater’ ... was more satisfactory to Pater’s friends than is the present venture.”

+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 353. Mr. 23. 100w.

“This is the most absurd of his absurdities; the chief, and let us hope, the last of his biographical ineptitudes.” H. W. Boynton.

− − Bookm. 25: 420. Je. ’07. 1880w.

“If his workmanlike methods are not exactly those of previous writers who have rhapsodized on the life and genius of Pater, the difference is not altogether one to be regretted. The richness of illustrative and sometimes not too closely relevant matter more than once comes very near to being padding. The footnotes are superfluously and tiresomely numerous.” Percy F. Bicknell.

+ − Dial. 42: 280. My. 1, ’07. 2220w.

“It is equally distinguished for failure to penetrate the character of the man and pitiful in capacity to appreciate the excellence of his work.” Edward Clark Marsh.

− − Forum. 39: 106. Jl. ’07. 1130w.

“This is pretty nearly everything a self-respecting biography ought not to be.”

− − Ind. 63: 762. S. 26, ’07. 150w.

“Mr. Benson and Mr. Greenslet are at any rate critics of taste and culture: and not all the mass of new facts accumulated by Mr. Wright can make up for his entire lack which he here displays of the interpretative gift and of any distinction either in thought or in style.”

− Lond. Times. 6: 94. Mr. 22, ’07. 370w.

“It is, in short the failure of the ‘Boswellian’ method in biography when applied by a man who is not a Boswell to a subject not a Johnson.”

− Nation. 84: 312. Ap. 4, ’07. 1810w.

“Mr. Wright’s book is, in all respects, for the multitude of readers, a straightforward, unimaginative narrative of facts, big and little, and chronicle of gossip concerning a remarkable man about whom the multitude of readers has, hitherto, known very little.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 192. Mr. 30, ’07. 220w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 284. My. 4, ’07. 1400w.

“The biographer places too great a reliance upon the cumulative effect of unimportant conversations and recollections, and his anxiety to see Pater through the eyes of certain of his early friends promotes a sense of uneasiness in the reader lest there should be another side to many of these stories.” Thomas Walsh.

− No. Am. 185: 552. Jl. 5, ’07. 1910w.

+ − Outlook. 86: 75. My. 11, ’07. 260w.

“Some services he has undoubtedly rendered.” A. I. du P. Coleman.

− + Putnam’s. 2: 614. Ag. ’07. 160w.

“If we took his work seriously at all, we should have to say much harder things about it. As it is, he is just an irritation. We want him out of the way.”

− − Sat. R. 103: 590. My. 11, ’07. 1610w.

488Wright, Wilmer Cave. Short history of Greek literature from Homer to Julian. *$1.50. Am. bk.

7–32173.

A book for the reader who believes that he cannot appreciate literature unless he can relate the masterpieces to the types set, once for all, by the Greeks; and also for the student who in the second or third year at college desires a rapid survey of the whole field of Greek literature.

Wrixon, Sir Henry John. Pattern nation. *$1. Macmillan.

7–11013.

The factors in the problem which Sir Henry Wrixon discusses are stated in the following: “The problem [of the day] is, What will the poor do with the rich? It arises when on the political side of life, lawful government of the majority of the people becomes an established fact in vindication of the principle that men are equal; while the industrial and social side of life is still left to be controlled by methods that have for their foundation the fact that men are unequal and that their rewards in life are to be unequal also.” His book answers the question raised in this statement.

Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 170. Jl. ’07. 400w.

J. Pol. Econ. 15: 187. Mr. ’07. 280w.

“The facts and arguments adduced by Sir Henry Wrixon are weighty. They are presented with an earnestness which commands attention.”

+ + Lond. Times. 5: 354. O. 19, ’06. 680w.

“The true merit of a volume which in its 172 pages contains more thought and more wisdom than is often to be found in books of tenfold its size, is that it suggests ideas which ought to arrest the attention of the whole English people, whether living in the United Kingdom, or in the United States.”

+ + Nation. 84: 223. Mr. 7, ’07. 1950w.

“The essay is valuable as a reflection of a phase of opinion in England, if not very convincing as an argument.”

− + Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 555. S. ’07. 180w.

“Is a little book of great merit.”

+ + Spec. 97: 937. D. 15, ’06. 1540w.

Wyld, Henry Cecil Kennedy. Historical study of the mother tongue: an introduction to philological method. *$2. Dutton.

7–15482.

A purely technical work designed as a textbook for students of philology. “It contains a large amount of information on the history of the language, the facts of comparative grammar bearing on its external relations, and the nature of the causes that operate in the development of language in general.” (Ath.)

“To many teachers of the classics it will be a matter of great regret that an introduction as clear, accurate, scientific, and complete as this has not yet been written for the young student of the classical languages.” A. L. Mayhew.

+ + − Acad. 72: 134. F. 9, ’07. 1050w.

“One great merit of the work consists in the fullness and lucidity with which it explains the reasons for conclusions that are too often presented dogmatically. Although on some points we consider Prof. Wyld’s views rather one-sided, we have no hesitation in cordially recommending his book.”

+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 504. Ap. 27. 1130w.

“A book such as has long been needed by teachers both in Great Britain and in America. The indexes, prepared by Miss Irene Williams, are admirably thorough and full.”

+ + − Dial. 42: 344. Je. 1, ’07. 400w.

“It is full of specific fact and observation, drawn from the stores of a wide and sound scholarship. It is, however, in the theories and principles set forth in the book ... that its main interest lies. The reader will not always agree with the author, but his own opinions are pretty certain to undergo some modifications before he has heard him thru.” George Philip Krapp.

+ + − Educ. R. 34: 525. D. ’07. 2200w.

“This is an excellent work for post-graduate students in the Germanic languages—especially, of course, English—to supplement the usual courses in historical grammar.”

+ + Nation. 84: 17. Jl. 4, ’07. 660w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 17. Ja. 12, ’07. 270w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 268. Ap. 27, ’07. 190w.

“Mr. Wyld has added an excellent bibliography and an equally good index.”

+ Spec. 98: sup. 648. Ap. 27, ’07. 540w.

Wyllarde, Dolf. As ye have sown. †$1.50. Lane.

The author’s thesis “seems to be that the British aristocracy has been bred in idleness and nursed in vice for generations until its men are gamblers and roués by instinct, its women unspeakable things clad in scale-like sequins and triply armed with brazen conceit, lewdness and loudness. In contrast, she draws a flattering portrait of the ‘Great middle class’ of England.... A beautiful young woman, Patricia Mornington, wanders into the story and into the fast society, where she finds herself about as much at home as an angel in Tophet or an ascension lily in a foundry furnace.” (Ind.)

“This is a brilliant and convincing picture of society life among the members of the British aristocracy.”

+ Arena. 38: 215. Ag. ’07. 160w.

“She shows a less sure touch, in depicting the routine of English suburban homes than in her former vivid sketches of military and colonial life; and she has not succeeded in the task—a difficult one, admittedly—of endowing virtue in the person of her heroine with fascinations exceeding those proper to vice.”

− Ath. 1906, 2: 730. D. 8. 180w.

“We must confess to a doubt concerning the open indecency of the talk at the dinner tables in ‘As ye have sown.’”

− Ind. 63: 573. S. 5, ’07. 380w.

“The intention of the novel is no doubt good, but why does the author forget this wholesome tenet, and insist that her reader shall ‘know of the bad?’”

+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 432. Jl. 6, ’07. 250w.

Wyllie, M. A. Norway and its fjords. *$2. Pott.

A “thirty-day scheduled, beaten-track survey of the Norwegian coast” described by Mrs. Wyllie and pictured by W. L. Wyllie.

“As a monthly tourists’ log, the book is good enough to make the reader disappointed that it is not better.”

+ − Acad. 73: 967. O. 5, ’07. 950w.

“It is a pity that the book has not been revised—and abridged—by a competent hand; for when its author steps down from the lecturer’s chair, she relates the incidents of travel with spirit, and shows excellent taste in her description of scenery.”

+ − Ath. 1907, 2: 441. O. 12. 400w.

“This is one of the literary guide-books which in recent years have been prepared by persons of culture and observative powers to supplement the mechanical information contained in the Baedeker series and their like.”

+ + Lit. D. 35: 919. D. 14, ’07. 70w.

“What with the chatty intimate style, the excellent descriptions, and the numerous illustrations of this book, one feels on reading it almost as though he had been to Norway.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 210w.

489Wymore, Mary Isabel. Adrienne, and other poems. $1. Badger, R. G.

7–7474.

“Adrienne,” a tale of the sea, is the first of a group of poems which are arranged in the order in which they were written, “thus making,” the author says, “an unbroken chain in the development of an idea.”

N. Y. Times. 12: 147. Mr. 9, ’07. 40w.

Wyndham, George. Ronsard and La Pleiade: with selections from their poetry and some translations in original metres. $2. Macmillan.

An introductory essay tells the story of Ronsard and the Pleiad and shows how French and English literature were influenced by the school; then come the “selections,” which contain the best of Ronsard, Du Bellay and lesser folk; the volume concludes with sixty pages of translations of lyric poetry and sonnets in original metres.

“Mr. Wyndham is well fitted for the task. He has caught the spirit of Elizabethan England, and written admirably and with insight of its greatest poetry. The necessary compression of treatment leaves us in some hesitation as to whether the author has not assumed a great many things on very questionable authority.”

+ − Ath. 1906, 2: 648. N. 24. 1500w.

“Mr. Wyndham has felt, not only the importance but especially the grace of Ronsard and his school; and he shows, with delicacy of sentiment, how that grace pervaded their lives no less than their works.”

+ Lond. Times. 5: 381. D. 16, ’06. 2470w.

“His translations are faithful.”

+ Nation. 84: 57. Ja. 17, ’07. 280w.

“He shows us the astonishing fact that it is possible to be a politician and yet to have the instinct, much even of the craft, of the poet. Mr. Wyndham writes sharply and emphatically, not lingering by the way, and often flashing a rapid illumination as he goes. Here and there his lines creak or cloud.” Arthur Symons.

+ − Sat. R. 102: 543. N. 3, ’06. 1870w.

“The selection is admirably done; the introduction is adequate, though we are always a little uneasy in reading Mr. Wyndham’s prose. He is apt to be too luscious for human nature’s daily food, and he has a wearing habit of using no substantive without several epithets attached.”

+ − Spec. 97: 930. D. 8, ’06. 510w.