Volume 3 — W
Reading edition
Waddell, Laurence Austine. Lhasa and its mysteries: with a record of the expedition of 1903–1904. 3d ed. *$3. Dutton.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by H. E. Coblentz.
+ Dial. 42: 43. Ja. 16, ’07. 460w.
Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton. Building the nation: stories of how our fathers lived, and what they did to make our country a united one. †75c. Wilde.
7–26964.
The third volume in the “Uncle Sam’s old-time story” series. This portion of the history deals with the revolution and is a well taught lesson in American patriotism.
Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton. Ten Indian hunters: stories of famous Indian hunters. il. †$1. Wilde.
7–26965.
The fourth volume in Mrs. Wade’s Indian series tells of ten hunters who gained prowess among their several tribes for their cunning and ability to trap game. Aside from their successful efforts, daring adventure and marvelous skill, the stories picture the various tribes and their manner of living.
Wagner, Charles. My impressions of America; tr. from the French by Mary Louise Hendee. **$1. McClure.
6–33643.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Sweet-tempered and simple-minded little book.” James F. Muirhead.
+ Atlan. 100: 558. O. ’07. 100w.
+ Putnam’s. 1: 638. F. ’07. 330w.
Wagner, (Wilhelm) Richard. Tannhauser; a dramatic poem freely translated in poetic narrative form by Oliver Huckel. **75c. Crowell.
6–32851.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Worthy of a place in any library where there is sufficient interest in musical drama.”
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 50. F. ’07. S.
+ Ind. 62: 498. F. 28, ’07. 150w.
“Is a rather languid performance.”
− Nation. 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 30w.
Walcott, Earle Ashley. Apple of discord. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–31209.
A tale of San Francisco during the days of the “Sand-lot” riots and the attempted Chinese expulsion. There is a double love story running thru the stress and storm, the more unique of which concerns “Big Sam,” the king of Chinatown and little Moon Ying, the contested possession of two rival tongs.
“For those who find diversion in excitement, this story will furnish marked satisfaction.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 740. N. 16, ’07. 230w.
Walford, Lucy Bethia. Enlightenment of Olivia. $1.50. Longmans.
7–31230.
The study of a female egotist. “The character of the heroine seems on the whole original, and is drawn with much humour. The Oxford professor who, unconsciously to himself, becomes the instrument of her reformation, can scarcely be taken seriously, and it seems to us that the author did not at first intend him for the monstrosity into which he developes. Olivia’s husband, on the other hand, is an admirable specimen of the middle-class British Philistine at his very best—manly, honorable, and chivalrous to the finger-tips, but alas! somewhat of a bore.” (Ath.)
“A book which at least will not offend through lack of taste or carelessness of style. There is never anything complex about either her plots or her characters, but she tells her tale simply in good plain English and, as a result, her books are eminently readable.”
+ Acad. 73: 682. Jl. 13, ’07. 240w.
+ Ath. 1907, 1: 723. Je. 15. 120w.
“Mrs. Walford’s tales are reminiscent of Mrs. Oliphant’s peaceful stories of English country life, calm and uneventful, but nevertheless full of pleasant interest and restful to a weary mind on a hot summer’s day.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 140w.
“It is not art, and being artless no limit can be set anywhere to its mischief nor in England to its circulation.”
− Sat. R. 104: 21. Jl. 6, ’07. 480w.
Walker, Alice Morehouse. Historic Hadley: a story of the making of a famous Massachusetts town. **$1. Grafton press.
6–30490.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The little book too, is accurate, never sacrificing the facts to readability or picturesqueness. Has value both literary and historic, and considerable narrative charm.”
+ + Nation. 84: 110. Ja. 31, ’07. 550w.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 756. N. 17, ’06. 250w.
+ R. of Rs. 35: 110. Ja. ’07. 100w.
Walker, Dawson. Gift of tongues and other essays. *$1.75. Scribner.
“A series of able and scholarly essays on certain New Testament problems; the speaking with tongues in the apostolic church, the legal phraseology in the Epistle to the Galatians, the visit to Jerusalem recorded in the second chapter of that epistle and its relation to the fifteenth chapter of the Acts, and the date of the Acts and the third gospel.”—Sat R.
“Though none of these essays makes any notable contribution to the subject, and the conclusions of the first and last are distinctly improbable, all are worthy of attention.”
+ − Am. J. Theol. 11: 182. Ja. ’07. 170w.
“The book will have little influence on the trend of opinion.” Wm. R. Shoemaker.
− Bib. World. 30: 76. Jl. ’07. 420w.
“All would do well to read Dr. Walker’s essays; he arranges his facts well, writes clearly, and is always interesting; his essay on the gift of tongues is the best we have ever read on that puzzling problem.”
+ Sat. R. 102: 372. S. 22, ’06. 180w.
457Walker, Ernest. Beethoven. $1. Brentano’s. W 5–8.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A thoughtful little book.”
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 840. D. 29. 170w.
Walker, Margaret Coulson. Lady Hollyhock and her friends: a book of nature dolls and others; drawings by Mary Isabel Hunt. †$1.25. Baker.
6–39448.
A happy thought for little people which will provide busy work the year round. Cucumber, radish, and corn dolls, pansy, hollyhock and poppy maids, apple, peanut and acorn children—and pictures to show how they are made.
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 2: 253. D. ’06.
+ Ind. 61: 1411. D. 22, ’06. 30w.
+ Nation. 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 30w.
“An interesting book for all little folks ... for it will give them no end of the sort of employment that all children like.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 90w.
+ R. of Rs. 34: 766. D. ’06. 50w.
Walker, Rev. William Lowe. Christian theism and a spiritual monism: God, freedom and immortality in view of monistic evolution. *$3. Scribner.
7–12986.
“The work aims to show what ground there is for Christian theism in the spiritual monism toward which science and philosophy now preponderate. Its author ... endeavors to ‘set forth that spiritual interpretation of the universe on the basis of Mr. Spencer’s system of philosophy which he himself affirmed to be possible.’... The argument is mainly objective, in an inductive method, and designed for ‘the plain man.’”—Outlook.
“Nowhere have we seen this thesis more lucidly and convincingly handled than by this able writer.”
+ Acad. 71: 521. N. 24, ’06. 1190w.
“A very readable book. Mr. Walker shows wide reading in science and philosophy, and states his position with clearness and force.” W. C. Kierstead.
+ + Am. J. Theol. 11: 548. Jl. ’07. 490w.
“Though the work falls short of its aim in some central questions, it is, on the whole, a stimulating contribution to further discussions, and a strong presentation of the harmony of science and religion.”
+ − Outlook. 83: 1006. Ag. 25, ’06. 610w.
“However valuable this line of thought may be, it requires a deeper treatment to make it convincing.”
− + Sat. R. 103: 592. My. 11, ’07. 1820w.
Walker, Williston. John Calvin, the organizer of reformed Protestantism, 1509–1564. **$1.35. Putnam.
6–34268.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 50. F. ’07. S.
“There are no errors of vital importance. The reviewer would dissent from a few conclusions, which must, however, remain largely matters of opinion. The amount to criticise is small; there is much to praise. To say that the book is the best biography written in English is not enough. No other equally brief life has so well assimilated the vast amount of material or summed up Calvin’s character and career with so much insight; and no other life of Calvin preserves throughout so judicial a tone. It is a book whose scholarship will appeal to both the church historian and the general historical reader.” Herbert Darling Foster.
+ + − Am. Hist. R. 12: 366. Ja. ’07. 1210w.
“We accept what is given, and return thanks for a very good book.”
+ + Ath. 1907, 1: 131. F. 2. 280w.
“A fairly objective account from a sympathetic point of view.”
+ Cath. World. 85: 250. My. ’07. 70w.
“With a difficult subject, Professor Walker has taken particular pains to be impartial and just, both to his hero’s greatness and his failings, and he has succeeded well.”
+ Ind. 62: 1154. My. 16, ’07. 100w.
“For its scope and purpose Prof. Williston Walker’s biography of ‘John Calvin’ is a model.”
+ + Ind. 63: 1236. N. 21, ’07. 30w.
“The picture which emerges from the pages of Professor Walker is luminous.”
+ + Nation. 84: 15. Ja. 3, ’07. 1690w.
“His book is admirable in every way.”
+ + Spec. 97: 990. D. 15, ’06. 230w.
Wallace, Dillon. Long Labrador trail. *$1.50. Outing.
7–17002.
This “glorious record of American ‘do and dare’” follows the wilderness adventure of one who besides being lured by the irresistible call of the wild is fulfilling the command to accomplish the work of exploration undertaken by his fallen leader, Leonidas Hubbard, viz., to penetrate the Labrador peninsula from Groswater bay to Lake Michikamau, thence thru the lake and northward over the divide, where he hoped to locate the headwaters of the George river.
“It is a record of privation and heroism, well-told, full of the irresistible charm of real exploration.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 173. O. ’07. S.
“It is to be doubted if he has added greatly to our knowledge of this region; but he has certainly written an interesting book, wholly independent of literary charm.”
+ Ath. 1907, 2: 442. O. 12. 460w.
“Somehow, the very lack of rhetorical polish seems appropriate in the description of an undertaking which bespeaks essentially grim determination, and offers little occasion for the play of the finer feelings or of the imagination.” George Gladden.
+ Bookm. 25: 615. Ag. ’07. 840w.
“None can fail to enjoy the author’s account of his expedition.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ Dial. 42: 374. Je. 16, ’07. 320w.
“A thoroughly interesting account of a country which, in desolation may be said to rival the ‘Far north.’”
+ Lit. D. 35: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 300w.
“Mr. Wallace takes himself and his achievement a trifle too seriously.”
+ − Nation. 85: 100. Ag. 1, ’07. 370w.
“It is an interesting story that Mr. Wallace has recounted of perils ignored and hardships welcomed, of grim and desolate wilds, and of the strength, the courage, and the goodness of human nature rising always above its environment.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 362. Je. 8, ’07. 720w.
“The details of the travelling supply an attractive narrative.”
+ Spec. 99: 438. S. 28, ’07. 170w.
Wallace, Dillon. Ungava Bob: a winter’s tale. †$1.50. Revell.
7–29093.
These experiences of a young fur trapper in the frozen interior of Labrador are the sort that will put a lad in the corner and keep him there until the last page is reached. There are encounters with wolves on the fur trails, intimate portrayals of the life and humanity of the Nascaupee Indians who capture and protect the hero, and stirring accounts of dangerous adventures among the ice-packs of the Labrador country.
“The story is told with the greatest simplicity and naturalness. Characters and incidents all have the touch of verity.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 581. S. 28, ’07. 290w.
“Bob is a plucky young trapper, and his adventures are exciting enough, but the chief merit of the book lies in the pictures of life 458in the remote regions of Labrador and among the Indians and Eskimos of that frozen country.”
+ Outlook. 87: 312. O. 12, ’07. 160w.
Wallace, Helen. Coming of Isobel. $1.50. Cassell.
A story whose plot is founded upon coincidences. “When one young girl is lost we are expected to believe that another exactly like her is found; that this latter has lost her memory, and consequently acts as an innocent substitute; and finally that the foundling is no other than the half-sister of the lost girl.... Other detached coincidences roughly hew the destinies of the family of whose fortunes this book is a record.” (Ath.)
“It is very feminine work in all its aspects, and carries with it unnecessary tragedies and heartburnings. Problems such as are here presented offer comparatively little difficulty in real life.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 2: 297. S. 14. 150w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
Wallace, Helen. Sons of the Seigneur. $1.50. Outing pub.
7–20711.
A romance of the days of Cromwell with its scene laid in the Island of Guernsey. A Royalist maid is the heroine and is loved by two brothers one of whom is cruel and selfish while the other runs the round of chance and peril to serve and protect her. The visit of King Charles II. to the island in disguise is made the turning point in the story which is full of action and feeling.
“On the whole, it is what may fairly be called a brave story of the type it represents.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ Bookm. 26: 82. S. ’07. 290w.
− Ind. 63: 575. S. 5, ’07. 430w.
“The book is especially noteworthy for the fascinating character of the heroine and the daintiness and charm of its love interest.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 170w.
“Notable constructive ability, fertility of invention, dramatic imagination and good taste in the management of these various faculties are all evident. The author has not succeeded, however, in creating a historical atmosphere—the illusion of time and place.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 479. Ag. 3, ’07. 300w.
Wallace, Lew (Lewis), general. Lew Wallace: an autobiography. 2v. **$5. Harper.
6–38539.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Current Literature. 42: 178. F. ’07. 1800w.
“The book is excellent reading. Errors of haste or negligence, including even lapses in grammar, and other more deliberate faults, can be found by the critical; but their enumeration would be a thankless task.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + − Dial. 42: 34. Ja. 16, ’07. 2180w.
“Quite equal in vividness to his fiction is the dramatic interest with which General Wallace manages to invest the story of his life in some of its vital facts.”
+ Ind. 62: 1093. My. 9, ’07. 670w.
“While it is, as a whole, entertaining, there is a diffuseness, an over-elaboration of small points, and a too frequent triviality which suggests lack of proper editorial revision. Literary merit aside, the value of these volumes as a contribution to American history is not inconsiderable.”
+ + − Nation. 84: 87. Ja. 24, ’07. 710w.
“Nothing I have read, except, perhaps, ‘Ben-Hur,’ has so filled my heart and mind and thrilled me as this autobiography of General Lew Wallace.” Oliver Otis Howard.
+ + + No. Am. 183: 1294. D. 21, ’06. 1940w.
Reviewed by Horatio S. Krans.
+ + − Outlook. 84: 1079. D. 29, ’06. 470w.
Wallace, W. G. Locomotive breakdown questions answered and illustrated; indexed for quick reference. $1.50. Drake, F. J.
7–21741.
Questions and answers just as they appeared in the Fireman’s magazine. “All of us who have shared in those informal discussions around and about the steel horse know their attraction, though realizing their casual, undecisive or disconnected nature.” (Engin. N.)
“This collection might, with rearrangement, excision and addition, serve a far more useful purpose in systematic education of the men whose very business is system to a degree, and who deserve and are always anxious to learn from those best qualified to teach them the principles of mechanical science related to their duties.” H. Wade Hibbard.
+ − Engin. N. 58: 293. S. 12, ’07. 560w.
Waller, Mary Ella. Through the gates of the Netherlands; with il. after Lalanne and others by A. A. Montferrand, reproduced in photogravure. **$3. Little.
6–42908.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 75. Mr. ’07.
“Tho her knowledge of history is not particularly striking, her insight into human nature is quick and deep.”
+ − Ind. 62: 912. Ap. 18, ’07. 290w.
+ Nation. 84: 269. Mr. 21, ’07. 680w.
“The illustrations in this volume are excellent, and the text is full of conviction and enthusiasm.”
+ R. of Rs. 35: 109. Ja. ’07. 60w.
Walling, Robert A. J. Sea-dog of Devon: a life of Sir John Hawkins. **$1.75. Lane.
A popular biography of Hawkins which “vindicates the hero from the charge of having inaugurated the British slave trade.”
“We are bound to say that it is not a biography in the received sense of the word; that it is not the first; and that it is a poor réchauffé of uncritical stuff.”
− Ath. 1907, 2: 13. Jl. 6. 180w.
“Mr. Walling’s book is a good, an interesting, and a useful piece of work.”
+ Dial. 43: 215. O. 1, ’07. 300w.
“While it can hardly be called exhaustive, it is certainly readable and animated.”
+ Outlook. 87: 272. O. 5, ’07. 190w.
“Till a full biography appears, however, we shall do very well with this book, which is a thoroughly workmanlike narrative with fairly judicious comment. It has a strong flavour of hero-worship to be sure, but we do not wish it to be without that, even though a hero worshipper can scarcely be the best of judges.”
+ − Spec. 98: 718. My. 4, ’07. 1250w.
Wallington, Nellie Urner. Historic churches of America; with an introd. by E: E. Hale. **$2. Duffield.
7–31235.
Mrs. Wallington has made her study cover nearly seventy historic churches of America. It traces “in some detail the first steps which were taken in different parts of the nation by persons of distinct religious motive who had exiled themselves from Europe and who meant to maintain their allegiance to a living God.” The book is finely illustrated.
“Brief but entertaining sketches.”
+ Dial. 43: 427. D. 16, ’07. 90w.
“The descriptions are picturesquely given and through the whole book there is traced in detail the growth of the various religious movements which took their starting point from the days of the colonies and have found their outward 459expression in many notable edifices thruout the country.”
+ Lit. D. 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 100w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“There is not as much information as one expects in a work of this kind.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 758. N. 30, ’07. 140w.
Walpole, Sir Spencer. Studies in biography. *$4. Dutton.
7–29124.
Biographical essays upon celebrated men; including Peel, Cobden, Disraeli, Gibbon, Lord Dufferin, Lord Shaftesbury, Bismarck, and Napoleon III. A chapter upon “Some decisive marriages in history,” concludes the volume.
“They deserve to be read for their balance of judgment and orderly presentment of fact.”
+ Ath. 1907, 1: 288. Mr. 9. 720w.
“It should be added that the reader receives from all these essays an impression as stimulating as if he had had a quiet and illuminating conversation with a man of wide observation and fruitful reflection.”
+ Dial. 43: 254. O. 16, ’07. 470w.
“The essays in the present volume are all readable, and have to a high degree the human interest which differentiates biography from general history.”
+ Ind. 63: 226. Jl. 25, ’07. 230w.
“In the main, here as elsewhere, Sir Spencer Walpole is a writer who will not dip his pen into the ink until he is quite sure of the accuracy of the assertion he is going to make. The road he takes us by may not afford many romantic prospects but at least the guide knows every inch of it.”
+ Lond. Times. 6: 20. Ja. 18, ’07. 1510w.
“We welcome these essays ... not only for their intrinsic merits, but because they are a sign of that trend toward biography which is needed for the enriching of historical studies in general.”
+ Nation. 84: 340. Ap. 11, ’07. 1040w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 68. F. 2, ’07. 300w.
“These studies are notable for a temperate and judicial spirit. They are uniformly edifying; and though they do not sway the mind by high eloquence they never descend to dullness or commonplace, but win sympathetic assent by their workmanlike thoroughness and their manifest frankness.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 132. Mr. 2, ’07. 750w.
“Sir Spencer Walpole’s volume is characterized by profound erudition and real literary distinction as well as by critical acumen and breadth of view.”
+ + Outlook. 86: 335. Je. 15, ’07. 1220w.
Reviewed by W. Roy Smith.
+ Putnam’s. 2: 360. Je. ’07. 1000w.
“The whole book is well worth reading, if only that we may have our vague knowledge of political history arranged and corrected by a writer who rarely suffers the informing instinct to oust the critical faculty.”
+ + − Spec. 98: 371. Mr. 9, ’07. 1390w.
Walsh, James Joseph. Catholic churchmen in science: sketches of the lives of Catholic ecclesiastics who were among the great founders in science. *$1. Dolphin press.
6–38910.
In order to refute the charge that the Roman Catholic church is the enemy of science, the author has prepared brief biographies of some Catholic ecclesiastics who have made important contributions to physical science. They include: Copernicus, Basil Valentine, Linacre, Father Kircher, Bishop Stenson, Abbé Haüy, and Abbot Mendel.
“The doctor has enhanced the value of this welcome little book by prefixing a short, forcible answer to the claim that science and religion are in conflict.”
+ Cath. World. 84: 548. Ja. ’07. 260w.
+ Ind. 62: 333. F. 7, ’07. 170w.
Walsh, James Joseph. Makers of modern medicine. *$2. Fordham university press.
7–7512.
The volume “is not simply a series of biographies of men who have in the past two hundred years or so helped in building up the modern science of healing, written with no other view than the setting forth of their discoveries and their title of fame. It has an ulterior motive, and this motive is to show that among these men were a dozen at least who were content to accept the teachings of the Christian religion, and in particular those of the Roman Catholic branch of that religion.”—N. Y. Times.
“Dr. Walsh has drawn from many sources, not always judiciously (certainly not judicially). These sources are often so insufficiently indicated that it is not easy to verify the statements that flow freely from his facile, sometimes almost too facile pen. The list of ‘makers’ will hardly satisfy all readers.”
− + Nation. 84: 526. Je. 6, ’07. 320w.
“The book, though interesting and informing in itself, is not so much designed as a contribution to medical history as it is to overthrow the notion expressed in the old saying that where there are three doctors there will be two atheists.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 372. Je. 8, ’07. 670w.
“For the purpose for which they are aimed, the general instruction of the public in matters pertaining to medical history, they are, like the similar essays of Richardson, extremely entertaining and useful.” W. G. MacCallum.
+ Science, n.s. 26: 251. Ag. 23, ’07. 450w.
Walsh, Walter. Moral damage of war. *75c. Ginn.
6–37868.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a rhetorical and aggressive, but it is also in its way a useful, arraignment of the war system.”
+ Outlook. 85: 768. Mr. 30, ’07. 330w.
Walters, Henry Beauchamp. Art of the Greeks. $6. Macmillan.
7–35229.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 145. My. ’07.
“The publishers have produced such a charming book in all external respects that it seems a pity it should not be equally satisfying to the mind of the classical scholar.”
− + Dial. 42: 147. Mr. 1, 07. 380w.
“As a whole the book is written with singular lucidity and charm, and is evidently the flower of deep and painstaking scholarship.”
+ Int. Studio. 32: 334. O. ’07. 260w.
“Contains a mass of information intelligently grouped but not commented on.”
+ Sat. R. 103: 145. F. 2, ’07. 1300w.
* Waltham, T. Ernest, ed. Tangerine: a child’s letters from Morocco. $1.50. Macmillan.
The impressions of a little English girl during a short visit to the chief coast town of Morocco. “The human interest is predominant, of course, and it is illustrated by some good photographs of the Tangerines with the wonderful backgrounds of Moorish architecture.” (Spec.)
N. Y. Times. 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“To [children] ‘Tangerine’ ought to be a charming picture-book, and a gift-book with a somewhat unusual interest attaching to it.”
+ Spec. 99: sup. 748. N. 16, ’07. 90w.
Walton, Mrs. Octavius Frank. Doctor Forester. $1.25. Union press.
A hidden treasure, a secret stairway, strange footsteps heard at night in an old tower, all 460help to make the summer vacation of Dr. Forester a notable one. His love story, so hopelessly interwoven with that of his best friend, also adds excitement to his time of rest and recreation, but his reward more than repays his worry and distress.
Ward, Cyrennus Osborne. The ancient lowly: a story of the ancient working people from the earliest known period to the adoption of Christianity by Constantine. 2v. ea. $2. Kerr.
In which the author traces the early history of modern socialism. “Its conspicuous merit is the light which it throws on the seamy side of life in the pre-Christian era, as revealed by the fragmentary writings of ancient historians and by the inscriptional discoveries of modern archæology. Its conspicuous defect is the strained interpretation given to the facts with which it is concerned, and the violent, even incendiary spirit in which these facts are discussed. It is, indeed, a work admirably calculated to inflame the already lamentably intense feeling of class hatred.” (Outlook.)
“This is manifestly not the appropriate place for the discussion of a purely controversial work of this kind. Mr. Ward does not write in English conspicuous for clearness or for grace, and his positiveness of statement is not reassuring and fails to inspire confidence.”
− N. Y. Times. 12: 306. My. 11, ’07. 400w.
“Undoubtedly containing much of value to the discriminating student of history, and obviously the result of years of arduous research, it is nevertheless for the general public a book of pernicious influence, contributing nothing to the solution of actual present-day problems and making for greater discontent and bitterness. One is almost tempted to declare that the historical method of investigation has seldom been more sadly misapplied.”
− + Outlook. 87: 538. N. 9, ’07. 740w.
Ward, Elizabeth Stuart (Phelps) (Mrs. Herbert D. Ward). Man in the case; il. by H: J. Peck. †$1.50. Houghton.
6–32116.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is rather surprising to find a veteran like the author employing a plot so worn and transparent as the plot of ‘The man in the case;’ but she certainly managed to make her story attractive.”
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 797. D. 22. 130w.
“A good story, full of emotion and suspense, without any recourse at all to sensational methods.”
+ R. of Rs. 36: 125. Ja. ’07. 180w.
“The book is inadequate as a psychological study.”
− + Sat. R. 103: 56. Ja. 12, ’07. 200w.
Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Walled in. †$1.50. Harper.
7–33590.
A story of a college town. Professor Ferris, a singularly strong man, is “walled in” by a terrible automobile accident. His months of convalescence reveal his enduring qualities which are contrasted with the impatience and frivolity of his butterfly wife. The story follows the love of this man for two women, one whose waywardness is her own undoing and one whose strength and beauty of character bring their own reward.
“Told in somewhat long-drawn-out fashion.”
− Outlook. 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 150w.
Ward, Lester Frank. Applied sociology: a treatise on the conscious improvement of society by society. *$2.50. Ginn.
6–23549.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is an epoch making work. Not only is it a contribution to social science of first-rate value; but it is also of fundamental practical interest to education. No other book has done so much to reveal the true function of knowledge.” George Elliott Howard.
+ + + Am. J. Soc. 12: 854. My. ’07. 1830w.
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 76. Mr. ’07.
“Whether one agrees with all Dr. Ward’s thesis or not, he will profit by a careful study of this book. In correctness of statement, and in rigorous application of scientific methods, it is to be commended to all who have occasion to write upon matters social.” Carl Kelsey.
+ + − Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 487. N. ’06. 990w.
“While exhibiting some of the characteristic defects of its class, Mr. Ward’s work is always marked by vigorous thinking and seldom, fails to prove interesting and suggestive.”
+ + − Nation. 83: 502. D. 27, ’06. 650w.
“This great book is a noble crown to the author’s philosophy. No writer has presented so powerfully the claims of education as a conscious social policy. No one has so vindicated the worth of the teacher’s work.” Edward Alsworth Ross.
+ + + Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 356. Je. ’07. 960w.
Wardle, Jens. Artistic temperament. †$1.50. McClure.
7–21364.
“Mr. Stephen Cartmel is a painter. He is engaged to a young woman with a rich father, and all the qualities which serve best to steady a man with the artistic tendency to flit from flower to flower. She is not beautiful, but she is serious, womanly, and staying and she loves him protectingly. Then Mr. Stephen Cartmel journeys by cab into Tooting to call upon a neglected school friend.... And he meets the friend’s pretty wife—who began by being his typist, and has been starving all her life for art, romance, and beauty. Delia Blaicklock sits to Mr. Cartmel for her portrait—and the artistic temperament gets in its work.”—N. Y. Times.
“This novel is quite as tiresome as its title would lead us to expect.”
− Acad. 72: 295. My. 23, ’07. 480w.
“There is not a dull page in it. Like many English novels which ought to sell better in this country than they do, it strikes deep, keeping a firm hold on elemental things in human nature.”
+ Lit. D. 35: 208. Ag. 10, ’07. 380w.
+ Nation. 85: 122. Ag. 8, ’07. 550w.
“Miss Wardle manages the theme admirably—with insight, humor, comprehension, sympa-
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 476. Ag. 3, ’07. 660w.
Waring, Henry F. Christianity and its Bible: a text-book for private reading. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–19773.
Addresses the audience of “clear-eyed middle-men between the specialists and the ordinary readers.” It surveys the whole religious field in a practical trustworthy manner, “gives pigeon-holes,” as the author says, “in which to put the valuable results of all future hearing, reading. and study concerning religious themes.”
“The task is well done, and the book will be of great value to all who are thoughtfully interested in its theme.”
+ Bib. World. 29: 479. Je. ’07. 80w.
“It is both a trustworthy and a useful book, well adapted to increase religious intelligence in a period of mingled joy and faith.”
+ Outlook. 86: 790. Ag. 10, ’07. 140w.
Waring, Luther Hess. Law and the gospel of labor. *$1. Neale.
7–29710.
A two part study, whose aim is to present, first, the law of the land, and, secondly, the highest law known to man,—the gospel of Jesus Christ.
461Warner, 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.
6–9259.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 76. Mr. ’07.
Warner, Horace Everett. Cricket’s song and other melodies. **$1. Lippincott.
7–31376.
Two score and ten poems which are concerned with life, here and hereafter, with mother love, Indian legend, the roar of the weird and thunder of man made things.
Warren, Ina Russelle, comp. Under the holly bough: a collection of Christmas poems. $1.50. Jacobs.
7–36928.
An anthology of Christmas verse from writers old and new which presents the subject in a variety of phases, “from the holy sound of the Christmas chimes, heralding the Day of days, to the merry laugh of the little child over its toys.”
“A particularly attractive Christmas anthology.”
+ Dial. 43: 382. D. 1, ’07. 90w.
Warren, Thomas Herbert. Magdalen college, Oxford. (College monographs.) *75c. Dutton.
A history of Magdalen college by its present Head and Vice-Chancellor, from its foundation in the dawn of the renaissance to the present.
“It contains as much local history as the general public is likely to desire, and some interesting notes on the customs and worthies of Magdalen.”
+ Nation. 85: 120. Ag. 8, ’07. 180w.
Reviewed by Goldwin Smith.
+ Outlook. 87: 78. S. 14, ’07. 1450w.
“Mr. Warren has given us a most interesting account of his college.”
+ Spec. 98: 804. My. 18, ’07. 260w.
Warren, Waldo Pondray. Thoughts on business. $1.25. Forbes.
7–33622.
A collection of more than two hundred editorials which have been contributed to leading newspapers and have been called good by prominent business men the country over. The general captions under which the short talks are grouped are: Starting points, Self-improvement, About methods, Developing the workers, With the manager, Buying and selling, Words by the way, and Gleanings.
Washburne, Marion Foster. Family secrets. †$1.25. Macmillan.
7–14264.
Monologues which reveal the secrets of the inner sanctuary of the true home. The revelator is a woman who when reverses come goes with her husband to a little farm on the edge of a manufacturing town. She lives for life’s sake, learns its values and the competence of love, and believes that when women discover their social unequals, and cherish them till they grow into social equals, then we shall begin to get at the real secrets of that family which is the human race. She says: “We must recognize that the brotherhood of man presupposes not only the Fatherhood of God. but also the Motherhood of essential woman.”
N. Y. Times. 12: 274. Ap. 27. ’07. 50w.
“A slender but not unpleasing narrative gives a certain coherence to what is essentially a series of lay sermons upon many important problems of domestic and social life.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 365. Je. 8, ’07. 400w.
“It is a kind of informal philosophy of the family life, very pleasantly written, with a good deal of shrewdness and humor, and in a wholesome attitude toward the trials, vexations, and tragedies of life and character.”
+ Outlook. 86: 255. Je. 1, ’07. 280w.
Washington, Booker T. Frederick Douglass. (American crisis biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.
7–8512.
A sympathetic study of a career which was identified with the race problem in the period of revolution and liberation. The sketch reveals Douglass as the personification of the historical events that marked the transition from slavery to citizenship.
“It will interest both the student of history, and the student of life—the ordinary reader.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 173. O. ’07. S.
“The book is exceedingly clear and simple in its style.” R. R. Wright, jr.
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 623. N. ’07. 320w.
“The book deserves a better index.”
+ + − Ath. 1907, 2: 397. O. 5. 1620w.
“The story is well told, with enthusiasm and admiration of the hero, but with self-repression, dignity, and a high degree of ability as a biographer.”
+ Dial. 42: 345. Je. 1. ’07. 280w.
“A tale at once moving and picturesque.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 251. Ap. 20, ’07. 1000w.
“It is remarkable because it gives with great frankness, great impartiality, and an entire absence of bitterness of spirit, the views of both men respecting slavery, reconstruction, the political rights and duties of the negro, and the relations between the races.”
+ + Outlook. 86: 76. My. 11. ’07. 280w.
“The old story of the growth of the movement for abolition, and of Douglass’s concern with it, was well worthy of being told again. It is told in these pages simply, clearly and as fully as the limits of such a biography admitted—better told, one is inclined to say than in Douglass’s own version.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ Putnam’s. 3: 105. O. ’07. 290w.
R. of Rs. 35: 635. My. ’07. 140w.
“He has found an eminently worthy biographer.”
+ Spec. 99: 437. S. 28. ’07. 510w.
Washington, Booker T., and Du Bois, W: E. Burghardt. Negro in the South: his economic progress in relation to his moral and religious development; being the William Levi Bull lectures for the year 1907. **$1. Jacobs.
7–21310.
An objective study of the influence of slavery including two lectures by Mr. Washington and two by Mr. Du Bois, as follows: The economic development of the negro race in slavery; The economic development of the negro race since its emancipation; The economic revolution in the South; and Religion in the South.
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 174. O. ’07.
J. Pol. Econ. 15: 502. O. ’07. 230w.
“Du Bois is a dreamer, a rhapsodist, a sort of embodied consciousness of the doom of his race. He writes always with tragic intensity and drifts infallibly from facts and arguments to impassioned upbraidings. anathemas, panegyrics. Booker Washington, a practical man and no dreamer or poet, writes otherwise. He cannot see the tragic end. His eye is fixed upon the present and the immediate future. He is made an optimist by the good things he sees his race has already got and is getting. He strives practically and sensibly to enable that race to get as much as possible without alarming the other race.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 429. Jl. 6, ’07. 2070w.
462“They contain an excellent summing up from the negro’s point of view of the conditions, both adverse and favorable, under which the Southern negro is gradually working out his own salvation.”
+ R. of Rs. 36: 640. N. ’07. 90w.
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 Washington’s last days, kept by Mr. Lear; il. from rare old portraits, photographs and engravings. **$2.50. Doubleday.
6–25624.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“With more skilful editing and arrangement, and with a boldly applied pruning hook, they would supply material for a vivid and sympathetic sketch of Washington in the rôle of Cincinnatus.”
+ Spec. 98: sup. 652. Ap. 27, ’07. 360w.
Watanna, Onoto, pseud. (Mrs. Winnifred Eaton Babcock) (Mrs. Bertrand Babcock). Diary of Delia: being a veracious chronicle of the kitchen with some side-lights on the parlour. †$1.25. Doubleday.
7–18102.
“Delia is the maid-of-all-work for a ‘family of six,’ and so well is she rendered that one gets an unaccustomed serious glimpse at many things perhaps before unseen, through reading her diary, the humor of which also exists independently of its simplified spelling à la Irlandais. From that phrase it follows that Delia’s heart is in the right place, so we know at once where her sympathies will be in her young mistress’s love affair, and divine with equal certainty and pleasure her ultimate possession of a sweetheart of her own.”—Outlook.
“It is a pity that the author did not elect to tell the history of her heroine in some other language intelligible to human beings. To say that the book is lacking in any vestige of humor is not derogatory, for no one expects humor in Yahoo or Tibetan.”
− Lit. D. 35: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 290w.
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.
“The comedy is good enough to inspire an occasional laugh, especially when it runs into farce, and there are now and then some touches of self-revelation of character by Delia and her friend Minnie that are done rather deftly.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 418. Je. 29, ’07. 230w.
+ Outlook. 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 90w.
Waterman, Nixon. Boy wanted: a book of cheerful counsel. $1.25. Forbes.
6–46363.
Advice and incentive are happily united for the enterprising boy. The keynote of the book is sounded in the following:
Ask no favors of “luck,”—win your way like a man;
Be active and earnest and plucky;
Then your work will come out just about as you plan
And the world will exclaim, “Oh how lucky.”
Waters, N. McGee. Heroes and heroism in common life: an appreciation of the things of every day life. **$1.25. Crowell.
7–29737.
A group of essays which turn back to the waysides and neglected places where have dwelt masters of plain living and high thinking. A book to be added to the simple-life literature of the library.
“The papers ... are quietly and pleasantly written, and while much of their thought is commonplace, there are many passages of tender feeling and vivid description which show appreciation of all that is most beautiful in both nature and mankind.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 180w.
Watson, Gilbert. Caddie of St. Andrew’s. †$1.50. Holt.
The caddies of St. Andrew’s golf course were a pathetic group of Scotch failures—fishermen who, worn out by their strenuous calling, had drifted to the links. The particular caddie who gives the book its title is Skipper, a cheerful old philosopher and toper whose rigid daughter is the dread of his easy-going existence. His view of life and the things to which it brings him form the story, which, though full of Scotch humor, is nevertheless a tragedy.
Watson, Gilbert. Voice of the South. *$2.50. Dutton.
“While descriptive of some travels in southern Algeria, the book is a narrative dealing with the return of an Arab to his desert home.... Athman, the hero in the book, is a poet, musician, and guide.... The traveler was taken to many beautiful oases, including Sidi Okba, until one day ... the guide and his employer, Sidi, as he called him, went into an Arab café and there saw a desert woman dance.... She danced to desert music the dance of the desert—the South—and Athman’s homeland. Athman fell in love with her. The Sidi tried to buy her away from him, but Athman drove away one dark night and was never heard of or seen again.”—N. Y. Times.
“We would recommend ‘The voice of the South’ to all who have a taste for good prose. To define or describe a good style is always difficult; but in this particular case it is chiefly apparent in the simple and adequate narrative, and in the descriptive passages, which without being either pre-Raphaelite or impressionist, make us see sufficiently all the important detail, and at the same time realise the effect of the whole.”
+ + Acad. 70: 379. Ap. 21, ’06. 870w.
“A chatty, descriptive narrative.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 133. F. 3. 150w.
“The clear, suggestive and beautiful pictures of people, places, and especially camels, bring you back to geographic reality from a placeless world of fancy.”
+ + Lond. Times. 4: 405. N. 24, ’06. 380w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 612. S. 29, ’06. 310w.
Watson, Helen H. Andrew Goodfellow: a tale of 1805. $1.50. Macmillan.
The author’s first story which has its setting in the town of Plymouth Dock during the time of Nelson. Its chief interest is concerned with the sea.
“This lack of artistic treatment is to be regretted, as the author has made an interesting choice of characters.”
+ − Acad. 71: 612. D. 15, ’06. 130w.
“We think it prettily handled and successfully rendered.”
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 826. D. 29. 210w.
“There is nothing original, nothing, indeed, remarkable. It is a happy example of a simple thing done well.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 417. D. 14, ’06. 240w.
“It must be classed as better than the average of novels. It cannot be said that the author succeeds in creating much historical atmosphere.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 66. F. 2, ’07. 410w.
“The story is told in a frank, open-hearted way, with no subtlety and without much literary art.”
+ − Outlook. 85: 41. Ja. 5, ’07. 30w.
“The book is ably written and the plot well constructed, though the only character that the author has carefully worked out is that of the hero, Andrew Goodfellow.”
+ Spec. 97: 1084. D. 29, ’06. 190w.
463Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott. Midsummer day’s dream. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–31656.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is not often that a story which is written with such buoyancy is also written with such care as Mr. Marriott Watson invariably bestows upon his work.”
+ Acad. 72: 143. F. 9, ’07. 290w.
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 52. F. ’07. ✠
+ Ath. 1907, 1: 129. F. 2. 440w.
“The vein of light and fanciful comedy in which this story is written makes of it a charming piece of work.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 42: 226. Ap. 1, ’07. 230w.
“As a provocative of clean and wholesome gayety, ‘A midsummer day’s dream’ would be hard to beat.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + Forum. 38: 552. Ap. ’07. 270w.
“It never palls, because the author’s spirits never lag, and his inventiveness never grows stale. Mr. Watson is a master of dialog that sparkles and amuses; he turns it, gives it grace and charm, yet never twists it violently for the sake of effect.”
+ + Ind. 62: 1035. My. 2, ’07. 160w.
“It is a delicious book.”
+ Lond. Times. 6: 37. F. 1, ’07. 550w.
“Unfortunately the story drags: Mr. Watson’s hand is not quite light enough for a successful soufflé.”
− + Sat. R. 103: 305. Mr. 9, ’07. 200w.
Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott. Privateers. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–2061.
A young English girl, who unknown to herself, is the possessor of a block of valuable railroad stock is pursued by two unscrupulous American speculators. “There are 395 pages in Mr. Watson’s story and it is certainly no exaggeration to say that there is at least one hair-disturbing sensation for every third page, exclusive of the numerous illustrations, which are designed to furnish little extra shudders of their own.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The story is well-planned and ably engineered, but there is too much of every thing; if the author has been less generous, the reader could follow these extraordinary happenings with equal pleasure and considerably less fatigue.”
+ − Acad. 73: 872. S. 7, ’07. 360w.
“He belongs ... to the select body which we once called the ‘Higher sensationalists,’ and of which Stevenson is the master.”
+ Ath. 1907, 2: 232. Ag. 31. 230w.
“We cannot say very much for Mr. Watson’s Americans. Their acts and their words are reflections of an Englishman’s fertile imagination rather than products of observation.” Wm. Payne.
+ − Dial. 42: 226. Ap. 1, ’07. 160w.
“It is a fast and furious melodrama written for the special delight of the gallery gods.”
− Ind. 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 320w.
“Flesh and blood are essential to stir the emotions, and these men and women are solid wax.”
− Lit. D. 34: 386. Mr. 9, ’07. 160w.
“Having not a moment to enter into poor Sylvia’s feelings, he has left her a mere figurehead.”
+ − Lond. Times. 6: 278. S. 13, ’07. 440w.
“A toy-house of slang, not without surface glitter and iridescence, though of no substance.”
− + Nation. 84: 85. Ja. 24, ’07. 380w.
“Strikes one as nearing the limit of laboriously ingenious sensationalism. One is forced to assume that Mr. Watson dwells in some particularly remote and inaccessible part of the British Isles to which Americans of flesh and blood never have penetrated.”
− N. Y. Times. 12: 56. Ja. 26, ’07. 630w.
“A crude piece of preposterous sensationalism.”
− Outlook. 85: 378. F. 16, ’07. 70w.
Watson, John (Ian Maclaren, pseud). Graham of Claverhouse; il. by Frank T. Merrill. 50c. Authors and newspapers assn.
7–14589.
“A tale of love, adventure, intrigues, and swagger, of incomparable Scottish knights and beautiful Highland maidens. The protagonist of the highly exciting drama is a brilliant and picturesque figure, well known to Scottish traditions, the hitherto almost neglected by writers of romance. John Graham, of the famous house of Claverhouse and kinsman of the great Montrose, is almost ideally adapted for the hero of what has come to be called a historical novel. Beautiful as Antinoüs, and a veritable Mars for valor, he completely dominates the lively chronicle.”—Lit. D.
“There is no trace of unfairness in this presentment of the cavalier by the Presbyterian, and the portrait is attractive.”
+ Ind. 62: 1153. My. 16, ’07. 330w.
“It is a highly colored and on the whole a satisfactory picture of Scottish chivalry that Dr. Watson has given us.”
+ Lit. D. 34: 842. My. 25, ’07. 280w.
Watson, John (Ian Maclaren, pseud.). Inspiration of our faith: sermons. **$1.25. Armstrong.
5–41620.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“These twenty-nine sermons may indeed be called a contribution to sermonic literature. Here is rare spiritual insight, winning appeal, poetic beauty of expression.” T. G. S.
+ Bib. World. 29: 76. Ja. ’07. 160w.
Watson, W. Petrie. Future of Japan; with a survey of present conditions. *$3.50. Dutton.
Mr. Watson “aims to predict the trend of Japan’s development, but he does so by analyzing and reasoning about the Japan of to-day, its tendencies, conditions, ‘atmosphere,’ and aspirations. The book is not so much one which records achievements or glances at historical perspectives as one which takes up basic aspects of character and derives by philosophical induction a knowledge of what is to be expected.” (Outlook.) Mr. Watson’s conclusion is “that Japanese development will not materially influence the civilization of the west; that as a universal fact Japan is almost negligible; that she will try to carry out her destiny without the aid of religion, yet that so far as she will attain success, it will be more and more upon Western lines.” (Ath.)
“Yet, though one may dissent from Mr. Watson’s conclusions (perhaps on account of a bias as purely personal as his own) full justice should be rendered to the absorbing and stimulating qualities of his book. In it the salient characteristics of Japanese life and mentality are admirably brought out.” Osman Edwards.
+ − Acad. 72: 477. My. 18, ’07. 1540w.
“We would, however, willingly exchange much of his philosophy for more of his information.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 2: 38. Jl. 13. 450w.
“If the author has learned from original sources the actual workings of the Japanese mind, and if he were more familiar with ... the great transforming forces evident in the press, the literature, and the life of the nation, especially since the outbreak of the war with Russia,—his opinions might have been quite different.”
+ − Dial. 43: 284. N. 1, ’07. 900w.
“Entirely too subjective in attitude and overloaded with references to things occidental, the text shows slight acquaintance with real Japanese thought or origins.”
− + Ind. 63: 759. S. 26, ’07. 430w.
464“No falling off in the author’s latest contribution to the study of the various aspects of Japanese life.”
+ + Lond. Times. 6: 179. Je. 7, ’07. 1240w.
“Mr. Watson, to be a true prophet, ought not only to have become familiar with the results of research and the facts of actual history, but he ought to have known far more than his pages would lead us to suppose he does know about the actual state of Christianity in Japan and the real mind of the leaders of the nation.”
+ − Nation. 85: 309. O. 3, ’07. 1120w.
Reviewed by George R. Bishop.
+ + − N. Y. Times. 12: 556. S. 14, ’07. 2700w.
“Extremely valuable book.”
+ + Outlook. 86: 791. Ag. 10, ’07. 410w.
“Mr. Watson takes himself very seriously, and has evidently devoted an immense amount of thought and study to the production of this book, which on some heads is full of interesting facts; but his facts are so inextricably tangled up with his theories that the process of disentanglement is a greater task than human nature cares to undertake.”
− + Sat. R. 104: 19. Jl. 6, ’07. 1180w.
Watson, William. Text-book of practical physics. *$3. Longmans.
“A treatise on physical measurements, or experimental physics; no description of phenomena or laws is included.”—Engin. N.
“The descriptions are throughout clear and detailed, but the author has perhaps erred by sometimes giving unnecessarily minute directions as to points of minor importance.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 137. F. 2. 750w.
“Both the arrangement of the text and its style are excellent.”
+ Engin. N. 57: 193. F. 14, ’07. 90w.
“The diagrams are very clear, and serve their purpose of elucidating the text better than elaborate pictures of apparatus.”
+ − Lond. Times. 5: 314. S. 14, ’06. 280w.
“Schoolmasters should have a copy for reference and for their higher work.” S. S.
+ Nature. 76: 99. My. 30, ’07. 780w.
“Any student specializing in physics ought to be acquainted with the contents of the book.” K. E. Guthe.
+ Science, n.s. 26: 341. S. 13, ’07. 260w.
* Wayne, Charles Stokes. Marriage of Mrs. Merlin. †$1.25. Dillingham.
7–26961.
The unique situations growing out of a wealthy young widow’s purchase of a husband constitute the fabric of this tale. Mrs. Merlin seeks out a good looking, broad-shouldered young Englishman, offers him the sum of twenty thousand pounds to marry her and protect her during a year of travel; at the end of which time either may end the contract. Shadows out of the past flit across the path of each which are dissipated by the growing faith in each other. The year’s end brings to them an earldom and proves that their trial marriage has been successful enough to endure.
“It is all very foolish and a little improper, but peculiarly ingenious and interesting withal.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 200w.
Weale, B. L. Putnam, ed. Indiscreet letters from Peking; being the notes of an eye-witness, which set forth in some detail, from day to day, the real story of the siege and sack of a distressed capital in 1900—the year of the great tribulation. **$2. Dodd.
7–14591.
“This volume is really the story, not the history, of the siege of the legations in Peking, of the relief of the besieged, and of the sack of the city. Interesting sidelights are cast upon the actions of the diplomatic representatives of allied Europe and America, and ... [there are] comments upon the way the different international troops behaved during the siege.”—R. of Rs.
“These letters bear the hall-mark of truth and raise the wish that it had not been necessary to edit them as ruthlessly as they are said to have been edited. Though his style is vivid he lays no undue emphasis on horrors for their own sake. He writes with that kind of restraint which is convincing, and which goes to make these letters one of the most remarkable documents we have ever read.”
+ + − Acad. 72: 235. Mr. 9. ’07. 1350w.
“This ‘catch penny’ title is descriptive of the contents of the volume.”
− Ath. 1907, 1: 635. My. 25. 360w.
“One cannot easily recall a more vivid picture of what a siege really is. The value of [the chapter, ‘How I saw the relief,’] as fiction is doubtful. As history its interest is great, but more than any other portion of the book it requires the support of authority. If it is to stand as authentic history, it constitutes a chapter that will be willingly forgotten by every one save the student of mob psychology.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ − Bookm. 25: 288. My. ’07. 1620w.
“The reader cannot help feeling that the narrative is colored, that the real facts cannot have been quite so lurid or the characters of the men and women quite so mean as they are here portrayed. But after all deductions are made, the story here given, of the warning, the siege, and sack, is remarkably interesting, even tho it is full of horrors.”
+ − Dial. 43: 67. Ag. 1, ’07. 310w.
“Vivid and remarkably good reading the account is, almost throughout, although too often the author or editor strives too patently after his effect.”
+ − Nation. 84: 570. Je. 20, ’07. 480w.
“They are certainly indiscreet, for they are frank and outspoken in regard to the blindness of the British government, and they are full of spirit and picturesqueness.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 144. Mr. 9, ’07. 230w.
“The note of high tension, so high that it is almost hysterical, runs through all the pages.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 284. My. 4, ’07. 660w.
“He writes with the pen of a scandalmonger; he sees the events as they happen around him with the eye of the yellow journalist.”
− Outlook. 86: 36. My. 4, ’07. 280w.
“For vivid descriptive writing this story ... has seldom been equaled in our experience.”
+ R. of Rs. 35: 636. My. ’07. 140w.
“The accounts given of many incidents of the siege are Zolaesque in their grimness of detail and, to give Mr. Weale credit, his word pictures are well drawn. He tells blood-curdling stories with a gusto which may appeal to the morbid fancy of a certain class of readers, but there are many who will want to put down his book, with the feeling that they wish to read no more.”
+ − Sat. R. 103: 240. F. 23, ’07. 1100w.
“The letters are strong and lurid, brutal in realism, often brutal in cynicism, and invariably clever.”
+ − Spec. 37: 256. F. 16, ’07. 1700w.
Weale, B. L. Putnam. Truce in the East and its aftermath: being the sequel to “The reshaping of the Far East.” **$3.50. Macmillan.
7–12875.
A frank analysis and discussion of the factors that go to make what is known as the “Far Eastern problem.” The study resolves itself into three parts: Japan and the new position. China and the Chinese, and The powers and their influence. The author warns his reader against over confidence in the ten years’ truce now in operation, yet he does believe that it will be one of the greatest constructive victories of diplomacy, if, during nine years of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, a permanent Far Eastern peace is evolved. There are nearly two hundred pages of appendices including 465documents peculiarly pertinent to the subject-matter of the political chapters.
“With his presentment of facts it would be difficult to quarrel, but with the conclusions ... it is not easy to agree.”
+ − Acad. 73: 673. Jl. 13, ’07. 950w.
“The book is an admirable presentation of the impressions of one of the closest observers of Oriental politics.” Chester Lloyd Jones.
+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 189. Jl. ’07. 870w.
“His book is not convincing. It is too confident in statement, too dramatic in expression, and knows more of the future of half of Asia than it is possible for any one even to guess at—above all, any European. Mr. Weale is always lucid, and even when we are least convinced by his conclusions, we feel that they have been honestly formed upon a fairly wide basis of knowledge, experience, and thought.”
− + Ath. 1907, 1: 433. Ap. 13. 1520w.
“A genuine pupil of such men as Sir Harry Parkes and other devotees of a diplomatic policy increasingly absolute, he takes himself entirely too seriously.”
+ − Ind. 63: 758. S. 26, ’07. 350w.
“An interesting contribution to the discussion.”
+ Lond. Times. 6: 113. Ap. 12, ’07. 660w.
Nation. 84: 571. Je. 20, ’07. 350w.
Reviewed by George R. Bishop.
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 348. Je. 1, ’07. 1980w.
+ Outlook. 86: 436. Je. 22, ’07. 90w.
“His penetrating insight and shrewdness of observation in combination with a broad and minute knowledge, give, a firmness of touch that inspires a strong feeling of confidence in the author’s opinions.” G: Louis Beer.
+ + Putnam’s. 2: 746. S. ’07. 910w.
“Few writers on the Far East can be as vivid, entertaining, and at the same time as accurate and informing.”
+ R. of Rs. 35: 636. My. ’07. 280w.
“The student of the Far Eastern politics will appreciate the clear grouping of topics, and the ordinary reader will find himself in a position to estimate more clearly the play of forces that have—for good or evil—been set in motion.”
+ Sat. R. 103: 784. Je. 22, ’07. 1910w.
Weatherford, W. D. Fundamental religious principles in Browning’s poetry. $1. Pub: House M. E. ch. So.
7–23628.
“Mr. Weatherford has made a thorough study of Browning’s works, has gathered up his views on the great fundamentals, has arranged them in systematic order, and has put them in plain and lucid prose. Browning interpreted nature, man and life; and Mr. Weatherford has interpreted Browning’s interpretation.”
Webb, Sidney, and Webb, Beatrice. English local government, from the revolution to the municipal corporations act; the parish and the county. *$4. Longmans.
6–40962.
The first volume of five or six to be devoted to the history of local government in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It covers the government of the parish and the country, and reveals methods of great accuracy in the use of material.
“This book is epoch-making. The completed work, as planned by the authors, will constitute a veritable magnum opus both in scope and in quality, to judge by this splendid installment.” George Elliott Howard.
+ + + Am. Hist. R. 12: 631. Ap. ’07. 1050w.
“Altogether it may be said that every student of English local history or administration will now have to read this book with care, and every such student is to be congratulated on having such a key to his subject.” Edward P. Cheyney.
+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 191. Jl. ’07. 580w.
“If we may venture to offer a suggestion in face of the immense industry this book reveals, the authors do not seem to have made much use of a most important source—the Privy council registers. There is little to correct in the authors’ work, and that only on minor points.”
+ + − Ath. 1997, 1: 95. Ja. 26. 2390w.
+ + J. Pol. Econ. 15: 58. Ja. ’07. 210w.
“The editors have shown throughout a restrained and judicial temperament.”
+ + Lond. Times. 5: 366. N. 2. ’06. 960w.
“The nature of the work precludes any attempt at literary finish; but the narrative flows easily, and, as new light is thrown at every turn on old and hitherto unexplored institutions, no student of English government will assert that the subject has been too exhaustively handled.”
+ + Nation. 84: 135. F. 7, ’07. 1200w.
“The whole shows through grasp of the subject, in principle and detail, lucidity of explanation and facility of expression, infinite care, laborious research and skill in marshalling facts and innumerable details. It is a book of great value to the thinking public and local government administrators and students, and worthy of its authors, who have spent years on it. No part of the book will be skipped by those really interested in local government.”
+ + + Sat. R. 102: 616. N. 17, ’06. 1530w.
“The method seems to us as good as possible. The authors are never lost amid the multitude of their detail, but disentangle the lines of growth with masterly precision. It is a work which in its way should become a classic.”
+ + + Spec. 98: 424. Mr. 16, ’07. 470w.
“A wholly new contribution to the history of England—a contribution which is invaluable on account of its thoroughness of research, the fulness of the authorities quoted for every important statement, and not least for the excellence of its arrangement and indexing.” Annie G. Porritt.
+ + + Yale R. 15: 460. F. ’07. 1420w.
Webb, Walter Loring. Economics of railroad construction. $2.50. Wiley.
6–35441.
“It is designed as a manual of instruction for those engaged in the practical problems of railroad engineering, but it aims at the same time to give an insight into the problems of railroad management and control. With this in mind, Part 1 is devoted to the ‘Financial and legal elements of the problem,’ in which an excellent summary is given of railroad statistics, organization capitalization and valuation, and a chapter on methods of estimating volume of traffic. Part 2 concerns the ‘Operating elements of the problem,’ including motive power, car construction and operation, track economics, and train resistance. Part 3, called the ‘Physical elements of the problem,’ discusses distance, curvature and grades.”—Pol. Sci. Q.
“A more accurate and descriptive title for Professor Webb’s book would have been ‘The technical problems of railroad construction and operation.’” Emory R. Johnson.
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 619. N. ’07. 280w.
“The work as a whole is an excellent treatment of a subject the complete understanding of which is essential to those upon whom rests the responsibility for the economic design and improvement of railways. A vast amount of matter is epitomized and systematized into convenient compass, which considering the authority of its source, should commend it alike to the student and the busy contractor.” Walter W. Colpitts.
+ + Engin. N. 57: 440. Ap. 18, ’07. 2020w.
“The condensed character of Mr. Webb’s book would hardly lead to its substitution for the more extended treatment given by Wellington. In spite of the author’s modest assertion 466that the lawyer or legislator will find in the book little or nothing of use to him, and the implication that the professor of social economics will pass it by, this little manual is well worth a careful reading by all these classes.” Frank Haigh Dixon.
+ Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 155. Mr. ’07. 300w.
Webster, Jean. Jerry Junior. †$1.50. Century.
7–13435.
The game of love is played according to new rules in this story of Jerry Junior, the young American who finds himself stranded at an out of the way Italian watering place, awaiting the coming of a delayed sister and aunt. He meets an American girl who lives at a near by villa by inauspiciously falling off a stone wall at her feet and, in order to know her better impersonates an Italian donkey-driver with earrings and a red sash. The girl is not deceived and by the time the donkey driver has advanced in her good graces far enough to hold her hand she succeeds in making him jealous both of the stranger who fell off the wall and of Jerry Junior, both being himself, but he doesn’t know that she knows. It is all very amusing and pretty.
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 181. O. ’07. ✠
“A book as airy-light, as iridescent, as inconsequential as a soap-bubble.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − Bookm. 26: 80. S. ’07. 410w.
+ Ind. 63: 163. Jl. 18, ’07. 90w.
“Much of the charm of the tale is due to its locale. The descriptions are unforced and Miss Webster has the tact not to insist on her scenic environment, not to force the moonlight and the snowy summits on her readers.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 266. Ap. 27, ’07. 350w.
“The book like the author’s other works, is a ‘delightful bit of nonsense.’”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 90w.
+ Outlook. 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 70w.
Weed, Walter Harvey. Copper mines of the world. $4. Hill pub. co.
7–25687.
“The work does not attempt to treat various properties described from the viewpoint of their financial merit; nor does it lead the reader into the deeper technicalities of physical chemistry or metallurgy. On the contrary it is, so to speak, a bird’s-eye view of the copper world, so presented as to answer such questions as: (1) Where are the deposits found? (2) What is the nature of the ore and its amenability to treatment? (3) How much of it is there? (4) What is the geologic occurrence? (5) What is the bearing of the observed and recorded facts on the probability of richness and continuity in depth? (6) What is the genesis of the deposit, and its bearings on the present and probable future production?”—Engin. N.
“Will fill an important niche in the libraries of mining men, investors, and students, and of those as well who are interested in the metal from the industrial point of view only. From the geological standpoint, the author has handled the subject with an undeniable mastery and comprehensiveness. A possible minor criticism is that, in Chapter 2, on ‘Production,’ some of the world’s production tables and diagrams are in terms of metric tons, others in terms of long tons, while United States statistics are given in pounds. This disparity in units does not facilitate off-hand comparisons by the reader.”
+ + − Engin. N. 58: 296. S. 12, ’07. 430w.
Weeden, William Babcock. War government: federal and state, in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Indiana, 1861–1865. **$2.50. Houghton.
6–13925.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Many of Mr. Weeden’s characterizations and criticisms are shrewd and to the point, showing real insight into the problems of that troublous time and independence of thought in his estimates of men and measures. His judgments, however, are usually impressionistic, and not based on ordered evidence and argument.”
+ − Am. Hist. R. 12: 408. Ja. ’07. 820w.
“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.
+ − Atlan. 98: 705. N. ’06. 380w.
* Wegmann, Edward. Design and construction of dams. 5th ed., rev. and enl. $6. Wiley.
7–31985.
A revised and enlarged edition of Mr. Wegmann’s work including masonry, earth, rockfill, timber and steel structures also the principal types of movable dams. It has been carefully brought up to date.
“A thorough and satisfactory revision.”
+ Engin. N. 58: 539. N. 14, ’07. 550w.
+ Technical Literature. 2: 459. N. ’07. 460w.
Weikel, Anna Hamlin. Betty Baird: a boarding-school story; il. †$1.50. Little.
6–29775.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 23. Ja. ’07. ✠
Weikel, Anna Hamlin. Betty Baird’s ventures. il. †$1.50. Little.
7–31479.
Friends of Betty Baird will be glad to follow her on a round of activity that begins the fulfilment of her dream to do something in the world. The simple things that lie nearest to her, house work, pickling, preserving were none too prosaic rounds for her ascent. She is a girl whose very enthusiasm is contagious, and whose cheer alone is worth any young girl’s emulation.
N. Y. Times. 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
“Altogether it is a very good book.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 30w.
Weingartner, (Paul) Felix. Post-Beethoven symphonists: symphony writers since Beethoven; tr. from the German by Arthur Bles. *$1.75. Scribner.
7–18586.
An essay which treats of the contributions which Schumann, Brahms, Bruckner, Strauss, Schubert, Dvorak, Saint-Saëns, Berlioz and Liszt have made to orchestral music.
“The English translation by Arthur Bles is serviceable, without being a model.”
− + Nation. 84: 42. Ja. 10, ’07. 720w.
“It is not the work of a skillful translator. It is full of awkward and unfortunate paraphrases of the original. It also shows none too great familiarity with German.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 28. Ja. 19. ’07. 410w.
Weininger, Otto. Sex and character; authorized tr. from the 6th Germ. ed. *$3. Putnam.
6–9695.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is brilliantly written, and contains at once profound reflections and almost laughably unfounded statements of fact. It is at times stimulating and suggestive, but, nevertheless, often irritating, because the central idea seems rather an obsession of a brilliant but inexperienced mind than a conception to which the writer has been driven by carefully considered facts.” L. A.
+ − Nature. 75: 481. Mr. 21, ’07. 1340w.
467* Weir, Archibald. Introduction to the history of modern Europe. $2. Houghton.
The author reviews in their logical connection the chief groups of events which formed the groundwork of European history in the nineteenth century. The period covered is approximately that between 1720 and 1820. “It treats of the political and social reforms introduced in the several monarchies, beginning with the opening of the eighteenth century; the changes brought about by the French revolution and by the Napoleonic despotism; the growth of personal liberty and political solidarity in the various countries of continental Europe after the downfall of Napoleon; the industrial revolution in England; the development of machinery and its influence on economics; and the advance in science; philosophy, and literature.”
“A somewhat unsafe guide to the unwary reader. When all has been said by the way of criticism, however, there is much in this work which makes it a most useful text-book for teachers. It does not pretend to be sufficient in itself; and, while they will be able to modify some of its conclusions by their wider reading, it will open up many lines of study not accessible in the usual text-books.”
− + Lond. Times. 6: 263. Ag. 30, ’07. 1100w.
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.
6–17019.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is by no means representative of the best work now being done by German scholars. Professor Weiss is an able exegete, and he has studied the text with astounding diligence. He is fitted also by deep religious sympathies to be a commentator of the New Testament. The meaning of a particular verse he often states with surprising clearness. But insight into the historical processes which gave rise to the New Testament writings is lacking, and one who studies these works of evangelist and apostles in order to trace the life and growth of which they were a part will find little help in this commentary.”
+ − Ind. 62: 331. F. 7, ’07. 300w.
Weiss, Bernhard. Religion of the New Testament; tr. from the Germ. by G: H. Schodde. *$2. Funk.
5–3717.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“It does, indeed, show wide research and much painstaking toil of the true German type, but it is wholly unpractical and unnecessary.” Robert E. Bisbee.
+ − Arena. 37: 218. F. ’07. 80w.
Wells, Carolyn. Patty’s summer days. †$1.25. Dodd.
6–30458.
“With this volume the “Patty series” is swelled to four, and we have that attractive young person brought down, or rather up, to the sweet girl graduate stage, with just enough of more advanced festivities thrown in to serve as a suitable excuse for the next ... phase of her career.”—N. Y. Times.
“As delightful as its predecessors.”
+ Bookm. 24: 524. Ja. ’07. 30w.
“Without seeming to lecture, Miss Wells has buried some very good advice for city schoolgirls in this little story of Patty’s senior year at the Oliphant school.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 721. N. 3, ’06. 370w.
* Wells, Carolyn. Rainy day diversions. *$1. Moffat.
7–28641.
The “diversions” are grouped as follows: Uncle Bob’s astonishing tricks, consisting of tricks, puzzles and games, told in story form; Holiday amusements, full of suggestions for holiday celebrations; Children’s plays, giving two Christmas plays.
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 210. N. ’07.
Ind. 63: 1007. O. 24, ’07. 60w.
“Offers too much mental exercise, and too little actual entertainment.”
− Nation. 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 40w.
Wells, David Dwight. Parlous times. $1.50. Holt.
Love and diplomacy play at cross purposes in Mr. Wells’ story. The trend of the logic of the book would tend to prove the triteness of the saying that “everything is fair in love and war;” the sense of justice, however, rules, and the woman, married to one man, but playing a desperate diplomatic game while attempting to win the love of another is no more harshly dealt with than to be brought to an understanding of right and of her sense of duty.
Wells, Edward L. Hampton and reconstruction. $1.50. State co.
7–17887.
“Mainly an account of the nomination and election in 1876 of General Wade Hampton as governor of South Carolina on the ‘straightout’ Democratic platform. Introductory chapters give an account of Hampton’s ancestry, his early life and training, an appreciation of his character, and a sketch of his service as a Confederate general in the civil war. In the last chapter the author speaks briefly of the later years of Hampton as United States senator and as retired citizen.”—Dial.
“The work is interestingly written, with perhaps too much moralizing, and contains an abundant store of good anecdotes.”
+ − Dial. 43: 170. S. 16, ’07. 250w.
“The narrative is often rambling and disjointed; and the tone, while sincere is too partisan for the purpose of history.”
+ − Ind. 62: 946. O. 17, ’07. 230w.
Wells, Herbert George. Future in America: a search after realities. **$2. Harper.
6–40259.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“His consideration of our economic, social, and material phases, shows considerable insight and sympathy. Exaggerations may easily be picked out, and palpable errors, not a few, but in spite of them, the American reader will gain a broader view, and some food for thought.”
+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 50. F. ’07. S.
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 226. Ja. ’07. 440w.
“It is surely impossible to class him with the critics of jaundiced eye, even though he quits us in a state of wistful bewilderment rather than in one of confident hope.” James F. Muirhead.
+ Atlan. 100: 563. O. ’07. 1970w.
“Mr. Wells’s ‘Future in America’ is but the present that to-morrow will be the past. We had a right to expect from him a more philosophical, a more scientific, a farther-seeing book.” A. Schade van Westrum.
+ − Bookm. 24: 482. Ja. ’07. 1390w.
Current Literature. 42: 78. Ja. ’07. 2240w.
Current Literature. 42: 404. Ap. ’07. 1490w.
“Appears to us to deserve, instead of praise, sharp censure for its superficiality, bad English and its frivolousness.”
− Educ. R. 34: 105. Je. ’07. 20w.
“Tho a few of the pages might have been modified had the writer prolonged his visit none the less they are worth perusal, not alone for the criticisms themselves, but also for the charm of the literary art with which they are expressed.”
+ Ind. 62: 731. Mr. 28, ’07. 640w.
Reviewed by Garrett Droppers.
+ J. Pol. Econ. 15: 174. Mr. ’07. 1410w.
468“Mr. Wells is acute in observation, he is well informed on English social problems, and he reasons carefully. Never was an outside critic more kindly and sympathetic than Mr. Wells, and we have no doubt that during the next twenty years this book will be referred to and quoted from by every good writer on social problems, which, after all, are not peculiar to America.” John Perry.
+ Nature. 75: 265. F. 17, ’07. 1550w.
“The book is full of quotable sentences, and nothing could prove the actual maturity of the American people better than the interest and good nature we feel in just such inadequate representations of our country as this is.”
− + Outlook. 85: 526. Mr. 2, ’07. 390w.
Wells, Herbert George. In the days of the comet. †$1.50. Century.
6–34685.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The volume is scarcely to be considered as the portrayal of an ideal commonwealth; nor as a serious study of social conditions, while as a love story it is pretty weak.”
− Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 470. N. ’06. 80w.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
Atlan. 99: 115. Ja. ’07. 170w.
Reviewed by Madeleine Z. Doty.
Charities. 17: 487. D. 15, ’06. 490w.
“He used to spin capital yarns after an improved Jules Verne fashion, but his reconstructions of society are neither exciting nor plausible. He has deceived us by false pretenses, and we shall hereafter regard his books with justifiable suspicion.” Wm. M. Payne.
− Dial. 42: 14. Ja. 1, ’07. 160w.
− + R. of Rs. 35: 126. Ja. ’07. 100w.
Wells, Herbert George. Time machine; an invention. †$1. Holt.
Instead of a comet to lead up to a new regime, Mr. Wells invents in his present story a time machine which flies with the narrator thru the future to a golden age in which the dreams of to-day, speculations upon the destiny of our race have become projects deliberately put in hand and carried forward. Among them communism, disappearance of disease, subjugation of Nature, warring of physical force, and the close resemblance of the sexes.
Welsh, Charles, ed. Golden treasury of Irish songs and lyrics. 2v. $2.50. Dodge.
7–11574.
“The present anthology ... undertakes to present the best examples of Irish lyrical literature, the songs of the bards of old, the folksongs, the street ballads, the patriotic, pathetic, and romantic songs of the people so far as they have been preserved, the humorous and convivial verse, in which also the literature of the country abounds. Mr. Welsh has included as well poems of the current Irish revival, of which Mr. Yeats and Mr. Hyde are the prophets.”—N. Y. Times.
“Mr. Welsh has given us in such generous measure all that he promised, that it would be ungracious to grumble because he has thrown a lot of odds and ends into the bargain.”
+ + Cath. World. 86: 120. O. ’07. 450w.
Nation. 84: 570. Je. 20, ’07. 1270w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 220w.
“Mr. Welsh’s anthology is more complete than any former collection of Irish poetry and necessarily admits some work that does not commend itself to all, but this may be pardoned more readily than the omission of Moira O’Neill whose verse, almost more than that of its fellows, is fashioned of the iridescent web of smiles and tears we have learned to call the Celtic temperament.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ + − Putnam’s. 3: 364. D. ’07. 160w.
Wendell, Barrett. France of to-day. **$1.50. Scribner.
7–29424.
“Professor Barrett Wendell aims to interpret, not one Frenchman, but the French people. He undertakes to portray their character, to explain what to the Anglo-Saxon appear to be strange contradictions in their conduct, to interpret their life, to a people whose temperament is antagonistic and whose point of view is widely different.”—Outlook.
“The book is delightfully entertaining, and makes for a better understanding of the French people, their life and their ideals.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 199. N. ’07.
“The early chapters are full of illuminating passages. But when the author ceases to deal with things which he has seen, he gets out of his depth, and is less valuable. The book suffers a little ... from having been composed for American consumption, but on the whole it is both interesting and informing.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 2: 686. N. 30. 1320w.
“The work is delightfully written with a leisurely air of personal reminiscences and full of those secure generalities which can be made only as a result of genuine experience.”
+ + Lit. D. 35: 876. D. 7, ’07. 380w.
“Professor Wendell’s book is both entertaining and profitable, and can be recommended as an introduction to the study of the French character.”
+ + Nation. 85: 498. N. 28, ’07. 940w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
“I greatly admire the book, it is full of excellent things; the author combines acumen with sympathy. He knows how to praise and he knows also how to blame, a much rarer art.” J. A. J. Jusserand.
+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 742. N. 23, ’07. 110w.
“He is appreciative without being eulogistic, discriminating without being critical. In general his catholic spirit is wholly admirable, his insight keen, his conceptions clear, and his style felicitous. The book is a valuable contribution to an understanding of the French.”
+ + − Outlook. 87: 499. N. 2, ’07. 340w.
“It is a rather keen study of the highly complex French temperament which Professor Wendell gives.”
+ R. of Rs. 36: 639. N. ’07. 110w.
“Whether the reader knows or does not know France, he will learn very much from this thoughtful book.”
+ + Spec. 99: 822. N. 23, ’07. 1780w.
Wendell, Barrett. Liberty, union, and democracy: the national ideals of America. **$1.25. Scribner.
6–36883.
From its beginning, back to the days of the Declaration of independence and the Constitution, Professor Wendell traces Americanism historically.
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 76. Mr. ’07.
“This is in many respects a remarkable book. Even those who disagree fundamentally with the brilliant generalizations of the author cannot deny the bristling suggestiveness on every page. The breadth of view and acuteness of analysis which characterize this book give it an unique place in our political literature.” L. S. Rowe.
+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 624. N. ’07. 500w.
“It is difficult to comprehend how a man who for a generation and more has been in a position of vantage from which to observe the currents of American political, social and intellectual life, should have had his provincialism so little disturbed by the almost universal intellectual unrest that marks contemporary America.”
− + Ind. 62: 213. Ja. 24, ’06. 770w.
Lit. D. 34: 178. F. 2, ’07. 250w.
“With sober yet unconventional reflection, keen and matured insight, pervading reasonableness and good sense, and uncommon grace 469of speech, he has made clear some of the ideals which have made America great. The book should be widely read.”
+ + Nation. 83: 444. N. 22, ’06. 1390w.
“The weakness of Mr. Wendell’s expository methods [is], having evolved a brilliant theory, ... he bends all facts to fit it.” H. W. Boynton.
+ − No. Am. 183: 1182. D. 7, ’07. 1250w.
“To my mind the most satisfactory recent defence of the fundamental elements of American character is to be found in Barrett Wendell’s ‘Liberty, union, and democracy.’”
+ + Putnam’s. 1: 639. F. ’07. 430w.
Reviewed by Horatio S. Krans.
+ Putnam’s. 2: 107. Ap. ’07. 1970w.
“His writings on political subjects are suggestive and his interpretation of the American, in the main, sound and sane.”
+ R. of Rs. 34: 760. D. ’06. 70w.
Werder, Karl. Heart of Hamlet’s mystery; tr. from the German by Elizabeth Wilder; with introd. by W. J. Rolfe. **$1.50. Putnam.
7–6156.
Some of the lectures delivered by Professor Werder in Berlin 1859–60, which graphically present his theory that Hamlet was obliged by circumstances to delay his revenge in order to unmask and convict the king. They also contain a critical summary of the whole drama and discussions upon other disputed points.
Reviewed by Edward Fuller.
Bookm. 26: 158. O. ’07. 360w.
Ind. 63: 155. Jl. 18, ’07. 290w.
Nation. 84: 390. Ap. 25, ’07. 560w.
“Werder is an intensely matter-of-fact critic—all prose. The beauty of the book is that Werder has a firm grip on his argument, and coherently analyzes the play in its light. It is therefore, for most readers, a new and intelligible study of ‘Hamlet,’ and as such it will be welcomed.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 73. F. 9, ’07. 800w.
“The argument is presented with great clearness and force.”
+ Outlook. 86: 436. Je. 22, ’07. 290w.
Wesley, John. John Wesley’s journal. Abridged. *50c. West. Meth. bk.
A handy one-volume edition in which the more interesting features of the two volume work are brought into condensed form. The main facts that illustrate the rise and progress of Methodism have been preserved in a continuous narrative.
“The condensation is considerable but the most characteristic and valuable features of this intensely interesting human document are preserved, and no liberties (except of omission) have been taken with Wesley’s text.”
+ Dial. 42: 179. Mr. 16, ’07. 40w.
Wesselhoeft, Mrs. Elizabeth F. P. Diamond king and the little man in gray. il. †$1.50. Little.
7–30454.
A child’s Christmas dream in which she wanders among the elves, gnomes and giants of the diamond king’s realm. It is a pretty fairy tale as well as wholesome.
“A new kind of fairy tale.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 150w.
West, Andrew Fleming. Short papers on American liberal education. **75c. Scribner.
7–8568.
“How to combine the advantages of a large university with the peculiar benefits of the small college, is one of the problems of our higher education. Dr. Andrew Fleming West, dean of the graduate school of Princeton, answers it in his book ‘American liberal education,’ by the tutorial system now in force at Princeton, and he presents some good arguments in its favor, if the teachers and the taught are to know each other at all.”—Ind.
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 133. My. ’07.
Reviewed by Edward O. Sisson.
Dial. 43: 286. N. 1, ’07. 440w.
+ Ind. 62: 742. Mr. 28, ’07. 70w.
“The only fault reasonably to be found with the volume is that it is a collection of occasional papers and addresses, having much in common, but not dealing adequately with the highly important subject to which they relate. Sanity is the distinguishing quality of Prof. West’s little volume.” E. C.
+ + − N. Y. Times. 12: 153. Mr. 16, ’07. 1180w.
“Should be read by all college alumni who would keep pace with advancing change.”
+ + Outlook. 85: 764. Mr. 30, ’07. 230w.
Westcott, Rt. Rev. Brooke Foss. St. Paul’s epistle to the Ephesians: the Greek text with notes and addenda. *$2.50. Macmillan.
“The late bishop of Durham, left an all but finished commentary, which is here presented with an introduction and appendix to which friends and co-workers have supplied the larger part. The text is that of the last edition of Westcott and Hort’s ‘New Testament.’ Added to it are the Vulgate (Latin) version of the fourth century and the versions of Wicliff and Tyndale.”—Outlook.
+ Lond. Times. 5: 366. N. 2, ’06. 1130w.
Nation. 83: 482. D. 6, ’06. 120w.
Outlook. 84: 681. N. 17. ’06. 70w.
“In his last, and unhappily almost fragmentary, commentary on Ephesians we find no failure. So far as we have Westcott, it is Westcott at his best.”
+ Sat. R. 103: 242. F. 23, ’07. 830w.
Westcott, Rt. Rev. Brooke Foss. Village sermons. $1.75. Macmillan.
Forty sermons preached upon various occasions from 1852 to 1881 while the late Bishop of Durham was rector of a rural church.
“When the simplicity of their form and expression is considered, as well as the regretted personality of their author, we look to these sermons at once to enrich and to clarify the teaching of those who stand to-day in similar pulpits.”
+ Lond. Times. 6: 30. Ja. 25, ’07. 480w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 12. Ja. 5, ’07. 300w.
Outlook. 85: 576. Mr. 9, ’07. 70w.
“They are for the most part direct, simple, suggestive sermons, full of fact and thought rather than of exhortation.”
+ Sat. R. 103: 26. Ja. 5, ’07. 190w.
Westell, W. Percival. British bird life: being popular sketches of every species of bird now regularly nesting in the British Isles. $1.25. Wessels.
One hundred and seventy-seven species are included in this volume which is profusely illustrated by photographs and drawings. “Each bird is treated under a separate head.... Each sketch includes a brief description of the bird and of its eggs and nest, together with some comment on its habits and haunts.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Another of the cheap illustrated books which are now so much in vogue. Signs of weakness are perceptible with regard to unfamiliar species and especially respecting migrants.”
− Ath. 1905, 2: 213. Ag. 12. 400w.
− Nature. 72: 196. Je. 29, ’05. 580w.
470“When treating of disputed matters Mr. Westell digresses from the more stereotyped form into very interesting narration of personal experiences.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 59. F. 2, ’07. 300w.
“The work is done very carefully and with scientific accuracy, but ready-made knowledge has its deficiencies; it is especially apt to fail in style.”
+ − Sat. R. 99: 601. My. 6, ’05. 100w.
“The title is misleading, since only birds which regularly nest in the British Isles are included; and the alphabetical order is inconvenient. The information in the text is unreliable, and grammar as well as sense are frequently disregarded by the writer.”
− Spec. 94: 752. My. 20, ’05. 110w.
Westermarck, Edward Alexander. Origin and development of the moral ideas. 2v. v. 1. *$3.50. Macmillan.
6–18579.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The citations are accurate and from so many writers that this volume at once becomes a source book of great value. The style is compact, but very readable. Only in a few of the first chapters did the reviewer have any sense of an attempt at hair-splitting. On the whole, the volume is a masterly discussion of great moral questions and leaves one anxious to see the second.” Carl Kelsey.
+ + − Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 489. N. ’06. 760w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Dr. Westermarck’s book makes good reading for all who are interested in the evolution of human ideas and human institutions, from the tariff to woman suffrage, and from capital punishment to the elective system in colleges and universities.”
+ + Nation. 84: 545. Je. 13, ’07. 1470w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The interpretation of these facts may here and there be questioned, but the important thing is to have the facts collected so as to be within easy reach. Ethical theorists should find the work invaluable, as thus furnishing them with concrete facts to rest their theories on or to test their theories by. The sociologist will find illuminating discussion of many customs, while the general reader if interested in matters of universal human concern, cannot fail to get pleasure and instruction from the reading of the book. Altogether it is perhaps safe to say that the work is the most important contribution to ethical literature within recent years.” Evander Bradley McGilvary.
+ + − Philos. R. 16: 70. Ja. ’07. 3830w. (Review of v. 1.)
Western frontier stories, retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical stories.) *65c. Century.
7–29581.
Sixteen stories for young readers of early frontier life which teem with such adventure as only western made grit can cope with. Indians, desperadoes, wolves and storms give the stout-hearted and quick of action plenty of opportunity to show their courage.
Weston, Thomas. History of the town of Middleboro, Mass. **$5. Houghton.
6–23056.
“This volume not only gives the dry facts of history and genealogy very fully, but also tells of the social customs of the eighteenth century, and supplies many pictures of and scenes in King Philip’s war and the French war.”—Ind.
“This is an unusually interesting history of a class which ought to be very large, for every town should have an official historian.”
+ + Ind. 61: 1234. N. 22, ’06. 280w.
+ Nation. 84: 58. Ja. 17, ’07. 430w.
“Does credit to all concerned in its publication.”
+ Outlook. 84: 841. D. 1, ’06. 230w.
Weyman, Stanley John. Chippinge Borough. †$1.50. McClure.
6–37198.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 19. Ja. ’07.
“There is, perhaps, nothing better in the book than the sense of tension everywhere prevailing on the eve of an election.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − Bookm. 24: 488. Ja. ’07. 400w.
“On the whole, we must congratulate the author upon what is very nearly if not quite the best of all his novels.” Wm. M. Payne.