W (continued 2)

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

+ − Ath. 1909, 2: 456. O. 16. 270w.

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

− Bookm. 30: 383. D. ’09. 900w.

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

+ − Ind. 67: 1085. N. 11, ’09. 500w.

− Ind. 67: 1314. D. 9, ’09. 1300w.

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

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

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

+ No. Am. 190: 837. D. ’09. 320w.

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

− Sat. R. 108: 444. O. 9, ’09. 950w.

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

− Spec. 103: 846. N. 20, ’09. 1200w.

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

8–16488.

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

A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 87. Mr. ’09.

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

− + Int. J. Ethics. 17: 523. Jl. ’07. 1000w.

N. Y. Times. 14: 9. Ja. 2, ’09. 80w.

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

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

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

9–5520.

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

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

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

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

+ − Atlan. 103: 705. My. ’09. 850w.

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

− + Bookm. 29: 92. Mr. ’09. 950w.

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

+ Dial. 46: 262. Ap. 16, ’09. 360w.

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

− + Ind. 66: 700. Ap. 1, ’09. 260w.

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

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

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

+ − N. Y. Times. 14: 54. Ja. 30, ’09. 1100w.

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

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

+ No. Am. 189: 920. Je. ’09. 110w.

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

− Outlook. 91: 534. Mr. 6, ’09. 180w.

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

+ R. of Rs. 39: 384. Mr. ’09. 150w.

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

+ Sat. R. 107: 309. Mr. 6, ’09. 400w.

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

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

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

9–20134.

Seventy-two stories “chosen from the literature of many times and several countries. Swift, Goldsmith, Irving, Hawthorne, Defoe, Madame 467de Ségur, Hans Christian Andersen, and Robert Southey are among the writers laid under contribution. He has not confined himself to the older authors, however, since Edward Eggleston has been drawn upon for a sketch of an old-time spelling bee, taken from ‘The hoosier schoolmaster.’”—Lit. D.

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

+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 97. N. ’09. ✠

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

+ − Ind. 67: 1359. D. 16, ’09. 80w.

Lit. D. 39: 545. O. 2, ’09. 170w.

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

+ Lit. D. 39: 1025. D. 4, ’09. 100w.

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

+ Nation. 89: 538. D. 2, ’09. 70w.

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

9–26988.

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

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

+ Lit. D. 39: 970. N. 27, ’09. 220w.

+ Outlook. 93: 649. N. 27, ’09. 150w.

+ Outlook. 93: 876. D. 18, ’09. 150w.

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

8–28840.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

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

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

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

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 22. Ja. ’09.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9–6087.

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

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

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

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

+ Ind. 66: 919. Ap. 29, ’09. 770w.

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

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

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

+ Philos. R. 18: 667. N. ’09. 450w.

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

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

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

6–18579.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9–4487.

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

“Equal to Mr. Weyman’s best work.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 114. Ap. ’09. ✠

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

+ − Arena. 41: 608. Ag. ’09. 220w.

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

+ − Ath. 1908, 2: 177. Ag. 15. 170w.

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

+ Dial. 47: 47. Jl. 16, ’09. 200w.

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

+ Ind. 66: 1082. My. 20, ’09. 200w.

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

− Nation. 88: 443. Ap. 29, ’09. 220w.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9–10298.

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

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

+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 23. S. ’09.

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

+ − Ath. 1909, 2: 178. Ag. 14. 300w.

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

+ Bookm. 29: 367. Je. ’09. 500w.

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

+ − Dial. 47: 101. Ag. 16, ’09. 320w.

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

− + Ind. 67: 934. O. 21, ’09. 90w.

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

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

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

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

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

+ − No. Am. 190: 702. N. ’09. 300w.

R. of Rs. 40: 123. Jl. ’09. 50w.

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

+ Spec. 103: 20. Jl. 3, ’09. 330w.

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

8–20018.

In the sad experiences of Ah Moy, a Chinese girl, are reflected the habits of thought, customs, and feelings of the Chinese people. Altho the third daughter, she is not unwelcome; is betrothed at birth; loses her promised husband in the Boxer rebellion; during a time of reverses is sold into slavery, taken to San Francisco, 469where, rather than suffer the Chinatown shame into which she is forced uses the knife which was her father’s parting gift to be employed only in so dire an extremity.

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

+ Ind. 66: 324. F. 11, ’09. 230w.

N. Y. Times. 13: 749. D. 5, ’08. 320w.

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

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

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

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

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

+ Dial. 47: 519. D. 16, ’09. 250w.

Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.

+ Ind. 67: 1350. D. 16, ’09. 80w.

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

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

“Interesting and valuable work.”

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

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

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

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

+ Dial. 46: 118. F. 16, ’09. 130w.

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

+ Ind. 65: 1187. N. 19, ’08. 70w.

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

9–7039.

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

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

+ Dial. 47: 48. Jl. 16, ’09. 220w.

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

+ Nation. 88: 631. Je. 24, ’09. 370w.

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

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

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

8–34154.

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

“More valuable for reference than for general reading.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 96. Mr. ’09.

Reviewed by K. L. M.

+ Bookm. 28: 502. Ja. ’09. 100w.

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

− + Ind. 67: 308. Ag. 5, ’09. 100w.

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

− Outlook. 91: 292. F. 6, ’09. 60w.

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

− Putnam’s. 6: 111. Ap. ’09. 200w.

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

8–29201.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

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

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

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

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

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

+ Educ. R. 37: 207. F. ’09. 50w.

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Sets forth the results of the latest and best scholarship pertaining to the period. It is especially 470full and satisfactory on the development of the judicial system.”

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

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

8–26401.

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

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

+ − Ind. 66: 199. Ja. 28, ’09. 350w.

+ − Nation. 88: 41. Ja. 14, ’09. 430w.

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 102. F. 20, ’09. 150w.

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

9–25973.

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

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

+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 94. N. ’09.

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

− + Nation. 89: 434. N. 4, ’09. 100w.

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

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

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

9–6574.

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

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

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

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

8–31687.

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

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

+ − Arena. 41: 89. Ja. ’09. 340w.

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

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

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

9–2762.

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

Reviewed by K. L. M.

Bookm. 28: 468. Ja. ’09. 40w.

N. Y. Times. 13: 702. N. 28, ’08. 140w.

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

9–3196.

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

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

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 87. Mr. ’09.

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

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

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

8–24281.

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

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 125. Ap. ’09.

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

+ − Econ. Bull. 2: 48. Ap. ’09. 280w.

J. Pol Econ. 16: 711. D. ’08. 180w.

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

9–28229.

An essay that aims to instruct young housekeepers 471on the origin, composition, chemical combustion and uses of solid, semi-solid, liquid and gaseous fuels. Among its brief chapters is one on “Economy of fuels.”

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

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 52. O. ’09.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

+ Spec. 101: 843. N. 21, ’08. 110w.

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

9–18720.

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

“One of the best novels of the year.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 28. S. ’09. ✠

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

+ − Ath. 1909, 2: 424. O. 9. 140w.

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

+ − Atlan. 104: 682. N. ’09. 140w.

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

+ Bookm. 30: 60. S. ’09. 700w.

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

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

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

+ − Dial. 47: 180. S. 16, ’09. 500w.

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

− Forum. 42: 285. S. ’09. 2300w.

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

+ − Ind. 67: 547. S. 2, ’09. 750w.

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

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

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

+ − Nation. 89: 163. Ag. 19, ’09. 550w.

N. Y. Times. 14: 380. Je. 12, ’09. 160w.

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

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

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

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

“A very powerful and swift-moving novel.”

+ No. Am. 190: 565. O. ’09. 300w.

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

+ Outlook. 92: 921. Ag. 21, ’09. 1200w.

R. of Rs. 40: 636. N. ’09. 30w.

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

9–35442.

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

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

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 112. Ap. ’09.

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

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

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

+ Bookm. 29: 194. Ap. ’09. 1550w.

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

+ Dial. 46: 266. Ap. 16, ’09. 320w.

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

+ Nation. 88: 489. My. 13, ’09. 500w.

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

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

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

+ Sat. R. 107: 52. Ja. 9, ’09. 200w.

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

8–32991.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

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

+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 88. Mr. ’09.

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

+ Arena. 41: 74. Ja. ’09. 2000w.

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

+ Spec. 102: 824. My. 22, ’09. 170w.

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

9–3043.

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

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 88. Mr. ’09.

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

+ Arena. 41: 392. Mr. ’09. 380w.

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

+ Ind. 66: 264. F. 4, ’09. 40w.

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

+ Lit. D. 38: 564. Ap. 3, ’09. 260w.

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

+ − Nation. 88: 166. F. 18, ’09. 40w.

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 82. F. 13, ’09. 100w.

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

8–36380.

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

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

+ − Ind. 66: 264. F. 4, ’09. 120w.

+ Lit. D. 38: 226. F. 6, ’09. 200w.

N. Y. Times. 14: 54. Ja. 30, ’09. 80w.

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

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

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

8–19741.

Contains all the conventions or treaties made since 1856 at the close of the Crimean war to those made at the second Peace conference of the Hague in 1907. The work is in three parts as follows: “Part 1 contains the Declaration of Paris of 1856, the Geneva convention of 1864, with the additional articles which were not ratified, and the Declaration of St. Petersburg of 1868. Part 2 contains the various acts, general and special, of the first Hague conference. Part 3 contains the acts of the second Hague conference.” (N. Y. Times.)

“Unless the absence of a clear table of contents and of an index may fairly be deemed a blemish, no fault can be imputed to this useful work of reference.” G. B. H.

+ − Eng. Hist. R. 24: 207. Ja. ’09. 120w.

“It is very useful to have this quasi code upon the topics covered brought together and printed so conveniently, with the informing historical and critical introduction.”

+ N. Y. Times. 13: 450. Ag. 15, ’08. 400w.

“A useful volume.”

+ N. Y. Times. 13: 472. Ag. 29, ’08. 170w.

“If subsequent volumes are issued, a better model could not be wished.”

+ Sat. R. 107: 22. Ja. 2, ’09. 160w.

Wiggin, Kate Douglas.^[10] Susanna and Sue. **$1.50. Houghton.

9–27270.

When Susanna Hathaway finds life under her husband’s roof unendurable she takes refuge in a Shaker village which she remembers from a childhood visit. With her is her little daughter Sue who attempts, with delightful seriousness, to be a good Shaker and train her tripping little steps to follow “along the path where saintly feet have trod.” Apart from the world, in this atmosphere of perfect peace, Susanna’s bruised heart is healed and when she goes back with new courage to take up old duties, she finds that the long days in the lone, deserted house have awakened in her husband a new sense of manhood. Both are ready to forget and begin life anew.

“Scarcely more than a short story in length and too expensive for the average library.”

+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 136. D. ’09.

“The simple Shakers are drawn with thorough understanding, and little Sue is, like all Mrs. Wiggin’s children, a very real and a very lovable child.”

+ Dial. 47: 463. D. 1, ’09. 190w.

“This quaint story of Shaker life is both novel and readable.”

+ Lit. D. 39: 791. N. 6, ’09. 260w.

Lit. D. 39: 1085. D. 11, ’09. 130w.

“The good woman who makes generous gifts of ‘pieces of her mind’ is particularly delicious. We wish there were more of her.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 694. N. 6, ’09. 200w.

“As a story it is not one of the author’s best books.”

+ − Outlook. 93: 361. O. 16, ’09. 40w.

“The charm of the book resides in the scenes which are passed in company with Eldress 473Abby. Elder Daniel Gray, and especially with Brother Ansel.”

+ Spec. 103: 1003. D. 11, ’09. 110w.

Wilcox, Walter Dwight.^[6] Rockies of Canada: a rev. and enl. ed. of “Camping in the Canadian Rockies.” **$5. Putnam.

9–8920.

In addition to a thoroly revised text the illustrations have been increased to twice the number in the first edition. “Mr. Wilcox was one of the pioneer pleasure-seekers to explore and photograph the country. His mountaineering experiences now extend over twenty years, and his account of them, with the views, gives a comprehensive picture of the mountains and the mountain lakes, which constitute one of the rarest beauties of the region.” (Dial.)

“An excellent description for intending travelers.”

− A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 197. Je. ’09.

+ Dial. 46: 374. Je. 1, ’09. 140w.

“The book deserves its lasting popularity, for it is useful, and a guide to natural beauties that some day will count their annual pilgrims by thousands.”

+ Ind. 66: 1240. Je. 3, ’09. 100w.

“In the end one turns to the illustrations as in many respects the best part of the book.”

+ Nation. 89: 213. S. 2, ’09. 530w.

“All in all, his work has been greatly improved by its revision.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 257. Ap. 24, ’09. 250w.

Wilkinson, William Cleaver. Some new literary valuations. **$1.50. Funk.

9–585.

Includes the following studies: William Dean Howells as man of letters; Matthew Arnold as critic; Matthew Arnold as poet; Tennyson as artist in lyric verse; Edmund Clarence Stedman as man of letters; John Morley as critic of Voltaire and Diderot; and Tolstoy. Appendix—Alexander Smith’s life drama.

“This volume is one of the few really important works of literary criticism that have appeared on this side of the Atlantic during the past six months. To our mind the best essay in the volume is that devoted to Tolstoi.”

+ − Arena. 41: 391. Mr. ’09. 930w.

“He thinks, and so do we, that it is well to have such minute criticism applied to the work of accepted authors.”

+ Ind. 66: 638. Mr. 25, ’09. 240w.

“Exhibits a keen perception of the obvious, a stringent regard for exact and literal expression. a belief in orthodox Christianity, and an almost overmastering passion for grammar.”

− + Nation. 88: 359. Ap. 8, ’09. 600w.

“If the purpose of the essays were not so didactic and the style were less difficult, less filled with cumbersome qualifications, the use of the first person singular, and speciosities of diction, a candid reader might admit to experiencing in the perusal of the book something of the pleasure derived from ‘Innocents abroad.’”

− + N. Y. Times. 14: 60. Ja. 30, ’09. 480w.

R. of Rs. 39: 508. Ap. ’09. 40w.

Willcox. Louise Collier.^[10] Human way. **$1.25. Harper.

9–24687.

A steady optimism pervades these essays which contend that we may make what we will out of life but that we are under obligation to make of it something very good and very beautiful. The help we may derive from books, nature, children, friendship, and human relations is set forth in various essays followed by papers upon personality, solitude, memorat memoria, and detachment, each of which carries on the general theme of the series.

A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 129. D. ’09.

“A collection of essays written with, at times, an almost startling insight into the deeper meanings of life.”

+ Dial. 47: 288. O. 16, ’09. 370w.

“It is with a sense of richness that the reader completes this volume. Not one, but many readings, are required to fully grasp its beautiful truths and make them one’s own. If it be true, as stated in the book, that the value of the book is to be gaged by its depth of suggestion, then ‘The human way’ measures up to the highest standard.”

+ + Lit. D. 39: 642. O. 16. ’09. 400w.

“She has written with an air of meditation and a note of conviction which awaken the perceptions of the reader to the finer qualities of his experience.”

+ Nation. 89: 409. O. 28, ’09. 600w.

“These essays will make their strongest appeal to middle-age—fortunately an elastic term.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 673. O. 30, ’09. 240w.

“She has produced a book that is as winsome and noble as it is distinguished and exceptional.”

+ No. Am. 190: 412. S. ’09. 500w.

“The intellectual quality of her essays is high.”

+ Outlook. 93: 831. D. 11, ’09. 330w.

Willett, Herbert Lockwood. Studies in the first book of Samuel: for the use of classes in secondary schools and in the secondary division of the Sunday school. (Constructive Bible studies.) *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.

9–7565.

A companion volume to the previously published “Studies in the Gospel according to Mark.” It aims from the intellectual point of view to train pupils in the proper way of approaching and using a book of the Bible; and from a religious point of view to tell the story of God’s revelation of himself to man in terms of human life.

“A double purpose is however served by Dr. Willett’s book on Samuel; the pupil not only has a fascinating introduction to this book and to its many exciting events, but he is brought face to face with many of his own ethical and religious problems through its narratives and is forced to do his own thinking about these.” H: F. Cope.

+ Bib. World. 33: 352. My. ’09. 320w.

Williams, Archibald. How it is done; or, Victories of the engineer: describing in simple language how great engineering achievements in all parts of the world have been accomplished. $1.25. Nelson.

8–31651.

Deals with “civil” rather than the “mechanical” side of engineering. “The book takes up the most important feats of recent years in railroad engineering, ship and bridge building, irrigation, mining and tunneling, dam building, securing power from water falls, and devotes a chapter to the Panama canal. The building and launching of the Mauretania, the making of the Florida Keys railroad, the building of the East River bridges, the Simplon tunnel work, and the curbing of the Nile are a few subjects upon which he writes, describing the work with as much detail as is necessary for its understanding, telling the difficulties that have to be surmounted and showing how the enterprise is finally carried to successful completion.” (N. Y. Times.)

“Specially suitable for young people.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 88. Mr. ’09. ✠

“Any boy, or, for the matter of that, any man—for whom human triumph over the forces of nature possesses attraction will be made happy for hours with this volume in his hands.”

+ Ath. 1908, 2: 823. D. 26. 900w.

474“Mr. Williams has an excellent faculty for getting hold of the kernel of things in the methods, processes, and principles of engineering achievements, while his presentation, aside from being in simple language, shows a feeling for the dramatic element always present in the conception and carrying out of these huge enterprises.”

+ N. Y. Times. 15: 74. F. 6, ’09. 200w.

Williams, Rt. Rev. Charles David.^[10] Valid Christianity for to-day. *$1.50. Macmillan.

9–9479.

A volume of eighteen sermons by a Michigan Episcopal bishop “whose purpose is to present a Christianity that is valid for to-day. The author insists that such a Christianity must ‘moralize our industrial, political and commercial life, and humanize our social life.’ It must cleanse the heart and invigorate our moral life also.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)

“Thoroughly modern, constructive and very readable.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 23. S. ’09.

“Bishop Williams has clearly indicated in this volume the trend of modern Christian thought in dealing with present social conditions.” S. E. Rupp.

+ Ann. Am. Acad. 34: 438. S. ’09. 200w.

“These sermons will not put men to sleep. They will keep them very much awake, and very closely in contact with the needs and thoughts of the modern world.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 722. N. 20, ’09. 220w.

R. of Rs. 40: 761. D. ’09. 80w.

Williams, Francis Howard. Burden-bearer: an epic of Lincoln. **$2.50. Jacobs.

8–33299.

A political epic in which are treated both the military and political history of the Lincoln period.

“His poem resembles now a rhymed—or at least a metrical—gazette, and anon a rhymed or metrical newspaper.”

− Nation. 88: 166. F. 18, ’09. 180w.

“As pure poetry, little can be said in praise of this epic, whatever credit be granted the author on the score of patriotism.”

− N. Y. Times. 14: 83. F. 13, ’09. 100w.

“It is an excellent and spirited history of the American civil war, and the verse, though cumbered with many cacophonous American names, is swift and graceful. Mr. Williams is far below Mr. Noyes as a poet, but in some respects he tells his story better.”

+ − Spec. 102: sup. 152. Ja. 30, ’09. 60w.

Williams, Gardner Stewart, and Hazen, Allen. Hydraulic tables: the elements of gagings and the friction of water flowing in pipes, aqueducts, sewers, etc. as determined by the Hazen and Williams formula and the flow of water over sharp-edged and irregular weirs and the quantity discharged, as determined by Bazin’s formula and experimental investigations upon large models. 2d ed., rev. and enl. $1.50. Wiley.

9–601.

For this edition “the changes are confined to that part of the book devoted to the flow of water over weirs, where some new matter relating to submerged weirs is presented in the text, and where the table of discharge by Bazin’s formula has been extended to cover variations of head by 0.01 ft. from zero to 6 ft., making in all a table of 30 pages instead of the two pages in the former edition. A table of discharge of high weirs, 10, 20 and 30 ft., under heads from 6 to 20 ft. has been added.”—Engin. N.

Engin. N. 61: sup. 14. F. 18, ’09. 120w.

“The book will be found highly valuable to those who have to compute the discharge of conduits and the flow over weirs of the forms in common use.”

+ Engin. Rec. 59: 195. F. 13, ’09. 150w.

Williams, Henry Smith.^[7] Alcohol: how it affects the individual, the community, and the race. **50c. Century.

9–18388.

Based upon three articles which appeared in McClure’s magazine: Alcohol and the individual; Alcohol and the community; Alcohol and the race. The original material has been revised and expanded—the new matter including important tables which summarize the result of various experiments as to the effect of alcohol on the human system.

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 129. D. ’09.

“The case made out by Dr. Williams is a strong one.”

+ Ind. 67: 934. O. 21, ’09. 50w.

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 468. Jl. 31, ’09. 340w.

Williams, Hugh Noel.^[11] Rose of Savoy: Marie Adelaide of Savoy. *$3.50. Scribner.

A history of Marie Adelaide of Savoy who, in 1696, a child of eleven came to Versailles to marry the young Duke de Bourgogne. It is a tale of her times and the influence that she exercised over the Court and Louis XIV.

“In the book before us he once more gives evidence of sound judgment in the handling of his authorities and he does not wander unduly from his subject. We have encountered a few misprints or slips.”

+ − Ath. 1909, 2: 323. S. 18. 2150w.

Dial. 47: 457. D. 1, ’09. 270w.

“The book merits a more extended notice, and it is with regret that we leave it, for it sparkles with anecdote and quotable incidents.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 634. O. 23, ’09. 500w.

“To us the young Duke is even more interesting than his Duchess, the chief subject of this book, and its author has done well in placing their portraits side by side.”

+ Spec. 103: sup. 818. N. 20, ’09. 530w.

Williams, Hugh Noel. Women Bonapartes. 2v. *$6. Scribner.

9–1981.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

+ Nation. 88: 16. Ja. 7, ’09. 260w.

“To Mme. Mère one may accede that Mr. Williams does simple justice. But in the treatment of Napoleon’s three sisters one feels that the whitewash brush is too much in evidence.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 13: 798. D. 26, ’08. 930w.

“The two volumes are full of interest, admirably and vivaciously written, and incidentally disclose an intimate view of life in France under the great Emperor.”

+ Outlook. 91: 19. Ja. 2, ’09. 450w.

“We prefer Mr. Trowbridge’s translation to Mr. Noel Williams’ réchauffé.”

− Sat. R. 106: 734. D. 12, ’08. 250w.

“Mr. Williams seems never to have quite made up his mind whether he was writing gossip or history, but the merit of his work certainly lies in the more purely historical portions of it, and in the free use which it makes of M. Masson’s admirable and important researches in ‘Napoléon et sa famille.’”

+ − Spec. 101: 1100. D. 26, ’08. 540w.

Williams, J. B. History of English journalism to the foundation of the Gazette. *$3. Longmans.

9–7094.

From the crude beginnings of journalism in England Mr. Williams tells the story to the foundation of the Gazette, and sketches the careers of the principal newspaper writers. The study is founded “largely on an examination of the famous Thomason collection, which forms 475a great part of the British Museum’s assemblage of seventeenth century journals.” (N. Y. Times.)

“The present study is much the most scholarly account of the beginnings of English journalism which has yet appeared. It is a mine of information. Its interest, and to some extent its value, are limited in certain well defined ways.” W. C. Abbott.

+ − Am. Hist. R. 14: 577. Ap. ’09. 600w.

“If there is a chance of revision he should rearrange and rewrite some of the chapters, and so make it easier to read his valuable record.”

+ − Ath. 1909, 1: 219. F. 20. 150w.

“His work is a piece of original research throughout. On certain points the desire of Mr. Williams to be entirely independent in his conclusions, and to use nothing but first-hand evidence, leads him unduly to neglect the work of historians who have dealt with some of the questions discussed in his pages.” C. H. Firth.

+ − Eng. Hist. R. 24: 571. Jl. ’09. 1000w.

“Another valuable contribution to the accumulating material that is awaiting the man who is disposed to write the full and comprehensive history of the English press for which students of constitutional history are waiting.”

+ Ind. 67: 761. S. 30, ’09. 350w.

“Some of Mr. Williams’s book is of interest only to the antiquary. But the literary student will find much to his liking in the accounts of the earliest newspapers, and the allusions to them the historian identifies in literature.”

+ N. Y. Times. 13: 767. D. 12, ’08. 1550w.

Williams, Jesse Lynch.^[5] Mr. Cleveland: a personal impression. **50c. Dodd.

9–7561.

An appreciation by a friend and neighbor of the former president. “To most people it will seem strange to think of Grover Cleveland as a shy, sensitive, companionable, warm-hearted man, fond of children and adored by them. We have come to admire him as a statesman of rugged honesty, wisdom, high ideals, and splendid fighting qualities; we now see through the revelations of those who knew the man that he was one to be loved as well as to be admired.” (Dial.)

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 184. Je. ’09.

“A charming portrait of the man in his later years.”

+ Dial. 46: 301. My. 1, ’09. 90w.

“A useful and an informing little volume.”

+ Ind. 66: 985. My. 6, ’09. 30w.

“Attractive volume.”

+ Nation. 88: 361. Ap. 8, ’09. 30w.

“It is just such intimate glimpses as this into the private character of public men that are necessary to the proper understanding of their actions and careers.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 256. Ap. 24, ’09. 400w.

Williams, M. Atkinson.^[6] Report on the teaching of English in the United States. 75c. Bardeen. E9–644.

A report of what Miss Williams observed while studying the subject of the teaching of English in the American schools. “Those who draw up school programmes in this country, and those who carry them out, may alike learn much from it.” (Spec.)

“Though an unpretentious little volume, contains a good deal of suggestive comment on American methods in primary and secondary schools.”

+ Nation. 88: 414. Ap. 22, ’09. 170w.

“Represents the work done by her as the holder of a Gilchrist travelling studentship. And very valuable work it seems to have been.”

+ Spec. 101: 303. Ag. 29, ’08. 300w.

Williams, W. M. J.^[5] King’s revenue: being a handbook to the taxes and the public revenue. 6s. King, P. S., and son, London.

“This volume, intended as a convenient reference on the sources of the British revenues, makes no pretense at anything more than a purely objective statement of the facts. It takes up under separate heads the customs, excise, and other inland revenues, gives a brief historical survey of each, explains the present rates and concludes with statistical tables showing the revenues from each source during recent years.”—J. Pol. Econ.

“Its wealth of legal citation is conveniently arranged, and the mode of subject arrangement makes the volume specially valuable as a reference for students of the problems of national revenue.”

+ Ann. Am. Acad. 34: 194. Jl. ’09. 140w.

+ Ath. 1908, 2: 681. N. 28. 90w.

Reviewed by C. C. P.

+ Econ. Bull. 2: 50. Ap. ’09. 520w.

“It is concisely, carefully, and thoughtfully executed and so well fulfils the purpose for which it was intended that it should prove useful for the economist as well as the general public.”

+ J. Pol. Econ. 17: 167. Mr. ’09. 80w.

“It will prove a serviceable manual.”

+ Pol. Sci. Q. 24: 190. Mr. ’09. 80w.

“This book will be a valuable addition to the reference library of the student of public finance, particularly in America, where the material it contains is not always easily available.”

+ Yale R. 18: 108. My. ’09. 200w.

Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Mrs. Alice Muriel.^[7] Set in silver. †$1.50. Doubleday.

9–10033.

A story whose scene shifts to suit the course of an automobile trip along southern and western shores of England, Scotland and Wales. “A retired Anglo-Indian comes to pick up a girl-ward in Paris, but as the young lady was engaged in eloping with a Frenchman she persuaded her dearest friend to impersonate her during the critical period. The story is told in letters, and the friend in question (believed by the Anglo-Indian and by Mr. and Mrs. Williamson to be altogether charming) suggests reflections on the odd blend of minx and sentimentalist in the modern girl which we have not time to formulate.” (Sat. R.)

“The interwoven love episode seems more intrusive, sentimental and impossible than in the earlier stories by these authors.”

+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 189. Je. ’09.

Ind. 67: 425. Ag. 19, ’09. 80w.

“The authors have added another pleasant story to their list of travel romances.”

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

“This exploration of ‘wild England’ yields some very attractive experiences. They are illustrated by plates that reinforce the more or less vivacious descriptions given by the letter writers.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 406. Je. 26, ’09. 230w.

“The thread of story on which these rather conventional pearls are strung is amusing.”

+ Sat. R. 108: 22. Jl. 3, ’09. 100w.

“An attractive account of a motor-car tour.”

+ Spec. 102: 904. Je. 5, ’09. 30w.

Williamson, James J.^[9] Mosby’s rangers: a record of the operations of the Forty-third battalion of Virginia cavalry, from its organization to the surrender. 2d ed. rev. and enl. *$2.50. Sturgis & Walton.

9–22853.

First hand information that Mr. Williamson has acquired from the rangers themselves has been used to supplement the text of the first 476edition. “In the main, however, the story is unchanged; it remains as it was in its original form, a straightforward, picturesque story of the exploits of an organization of fearless, dashing troopers, led by an intrepid, intelligent, resourceful and daredevil commander.” (N. Y. Times.)

“Very entertaining and important book.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 491. Ag. 14, ’09. 170w.

+ R. of Rs. 40: 383. S. ’09. 250w.

Willis, John C.^[11] Agriculture in the tropics: an elementary treatise. (Cambridge biological ser.) *$2.75. Putnam.

9–28786.

A four-part work containing little of value to the practical man in connection with actual field work but helpful and thought-stimulating to the student, the administrator, and the traveler. The divisions of the subject are: The preliminaries to agriculture; The principal cultivations of the tropics; Agriculture in the tropics; Agricultural organization and policy.

“We have nothing but praise for the contents of this survey of tropical agriculture.”

+ Ath. 1909, 2: 301. S. 11. 1150w.

+ Spec. 103: 210. Ag. 7, ’09. 150w.

Wilmot-Buxton, Ethel M.^[8] Stories of Norse heroes told by the Northmen; retold by E. M. Wilmot-Buxton. †$1.50. Crowell.

W9–264.

Twenty-five stories for young people retold in simple, easy prose from the legends contained in the Eddas and Sagas of Iceland and Norway. They are the ancient stories of the gods whom the Northmen worshiped and of the deeds of the legendary heroes.

“Contains more stories than Mabie’s work and can be used with younger children.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 95. N. ’09. ✠

“An excellent edition.” M. J. Moses.

+ Ind. 67: 1361. D. 16, ’09. 40w.

N. Y. Times. 14: 487. Ag. 14, ’09. 100w.

“There is much about the vikings, King Sigmund, Balder, and Loki, that every child of culture should know.”

+ R. of Rs. 40: 768. D. ’09. 30w.

Wilson, Calvin Dill. Making the most of ourselves: talks for young people. Second ser. **$1. McClurg.

9–20659.

Some fifty short essays touching upon the elements of success in every career. The volume contains rational theory and practical suggestions upon such subjects as hero worship, the gospel of work, value of concentration, the spiritual element in success, cocksureness, battling with blues, the making and keeping of friends, value of self-control, on fearlessness and the joy of effort.

“These essays are entirely practical, and are easy to read and understand.”

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

Wilstach, Paul. Richard Mansfield: the man and the actor. **$3.50. Scribner.

8–31676.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

“Mr. Wilstach does not strike at the very soul and center of the man and create an image so entire as to explain itself.” Clayton Hamilton.

+ − Forum. 41: 281. Mr. ’09. 1000w.

Reviewed by Elizabeth Wallace.

+ Outlook. 91: 650. Mr. 20, ’09. 950w.

Wimperis, Harry Egerton.^[8] Internal combustion engine; being a text book on gas, oil and petrol engines, for the use of students and engineers. *$3. Van Nostrand.

9–17426.

“The distinctive feature of the early part of his work is the development of the thermodynamic equations on the assumption that the specific heat of the charge varies linearly with the temperature.... The second section of the book is devoted to the construction and operation of gas engines and producers, and covers a fair range of practice.... Oil and petrol motors are dealt with in the final section of the book, and considerable space is devoted to carburettors, ignition, rating of petrol motors, and their efficiency.”—Nature.

“The book is interesting throughout and is original, but is not well adapted to the needs of a student who is taking up the subject for the first time. The author is interested in a few special problems and devotes most of his space to them; he has done valuable work in helping towards a more complete theory of the gas engine.” L. S. Marks.

+ − Engin. N. 61: sup. 43. Ap. 15, ’09. 1250w.

“Mr. Wimperis has dealt very successfully with a considerable range of theory and practice, and, in a moderate compass, has given a clear account of the theory of the internal-combustion engine. We think that the author might have devoted more space to the consideration of indicators. It is one of the most interesting and readable works which has appeared for a very long time.” E. G. Coker.

+ − Nature. 80: 124. Ap. 1, ’09. 400w.

Winslow, Helen Maria.^[10] Woman for mayor: a novel of to-day. $1.50. Reilly & B.

9–16441.

Portrays a successful test of woman’s suffrage. In the course of her narrative the author demonstrates the idea that women will be elected to responsible offices if they but have a share in the voting. The woman candidate for mayor in the present story wins the majority of votes and mollifies her opponent, by consenting to wed him.

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 57. O. ’09. ✠

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 454. Jl. 24, ’09. 140w.

Winslow, Kenelm.^[11] Production and handling of clean milk, including Practical milk inspection, by Kenelm Winslow, and Essentials of milk bacteriology by H. W. Hill. 2d ed. *$3.25. Jenkins.

9–23849.

A working guide for those pursuing or wishing to pursue one of the most wholesome, worthy and laudable undertakings—the production of clean milk.

Winter, Nevin Otto.^[11] Guatemala and her people of to-day. $3. Page.

9–20548.

“An account of the land, its history and development; the people, their customs and characteristics; to which are added chapters on British Honduras and the republic of Honduras, with references to the other countries of Central America, Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.” (Explan. title.) “The chapter on ‘The tropics and their development’ is really illuminating and statesmanlike. Ancient monuments are described, the story of the republic of Guatemala told, and the prospects of the state calmly and sagaciously discust. The work is highly interesting and at the present moment of value to the public at large.” (Lit. D.)

“As the only popular work on Guatemala, it will interest the general reader and those having business interests in Central America.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 88. N. ’09. ✠

477“As in his earlier book on Mexico, the author combines the practical with the historical and picturesque.”

+ Ind. 67: 1044. N. 4, ’09. 200w.

+ Lit. D. 39: 546. O. 2, ’09. 150w.

Winter, William.^[7] Old friends; being literary recollections of other days. **$3. Moffat.

9–14944.

Informal recollections of old friends including the following people whom he knew from childhood: Webster, Everett, Choate, and Parker, to Hawthorne, Holmes, Lowell, and Longfellow, and Stedman, Stoddard, Aldrich, Louise Chandler Moulton, and many others In this country, and, among those in England, Dickens and Arnold.

“They are discursive but illuminating, and full of interest.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 24. S. ’09.

Reviewed by A. B. Maurice.

Bookm. 29: 595. Ag. ’09. 1900w.

“Walt Whitman’s peculiarities are well enough known by this time, and Mr. Winter’s catalogue of his offences seems hardly called for. A serious disfigurement of so excellent and handsome a volume is to be noted in the many misprints.” P. F. Bicknell.

+ − Dial. 47: 12. Jl. 1, ’09. 1100w.

Ind. 67: 365. Ag. 12, ’09. 350w.

“From beginning to end it is good literature.”

+ Nation. 89: 330. O. 7, ’09. 930w.

“The reminiscences of Mr. Winter are literary; the number of ‘friends’ is remarkable not only for their size in certain numerals but also for their fame.”

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

“One of the most interesting and important chapters in the book is devoted to George William Curtis.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 415. Jl. 3, ’09. 900w.

+ Outlook. 93: 249. O. 2, ’09. 1900w.

Wise, Bernhard Ringrose.^[10] Commonwealth of Australia. (All red ser.) *$3. Little.

9–29168.

A thoroly informing volume of some three hundred and fifty pages that presents a general view of the Australian commonwealth both as a country and a nation. It explains the special features of Australian policy, the ideas, temper and conduct of the people.

“This is the only book devoted to the special features of Australian policy.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 130. D. ’09.

“Will be found useful by those interested in commonwealth politics and problems of Australian defence.”

+ Ath. 1909, 1: 614. My. 22. 250w.

“There is still room for a more compendious and detailed treatment of the constitutional questions of the new commonwealth.”

+ − Dial. 47: 339. N. 1, ’09. 320w.

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 738. N. 27, ’09. 550w.

Wise, Thomas A., and Rhodes, Harrison.^[5] Gentleman from Mississippi: a novel founded on the popular play of the same title, produced under the management of W: A. Brady and Jos. R. Grismer. *50c. Ogilvie.

A transcript of life at the nation’s capital which shows the inside of the political maneuvers and of the workings of bosses—how they shape men and women to their ends, how their cunning intrigues extend into the very social life of Washington. An honest Southern planter, his daughter and private secretary are the chief characters.

“The story is amusing, but it is a tissue of absurdities, and it runs a long way off from the political life of our national capital with which it is exclusively concerned.”

− + N. Y. Times. 14: 318. My. 22, ’09. 130w.

N. Y. Times. 14: 378. Je. 12, ’09. 160w.

Withers, Hartley.^[8] Meaning of money. *$2. Dutton.

9–17157.

“A simple account, in non-technical language, of the modern mechanism of exchange. From metallic money, the author passes to such subjects as bills of exchange, checks, banknotes, the clearing system, foreign exchange, commercial banking, and the money market. Designed for English readers, the volume considers chiefly the English money market, but pays due attention to the various elements affecting the world’s exchanges.”—Nation.

“As a compendium for people untrained in the intricacies of finance, the book merits hearty commendation. Its explanations are clear, its illustrations striking, and its underlying theory extremely sound and sensible.”

+ Nation. 88: 395. Ap. 15, ’09. 220w.

“An excellent explanation of the monetary system of England and a lucid exposition of the relations existing between London, the world’s money centre, and the other great banking cities of the globe.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 492. Ag. 14, ’09. 450w.

“We can heartily recommend readers who wish to get an insight into the actual facts of modern finance to study Mr. Withers’s book. They will find it admirably clear, and not only free from the technicalities of trade, but, what is perhaps even more gratifying, free from the pedantry of the professor.”

+ Spec. 102: 821. My. 22, ’09. 630w.

Witkowski, Georg.^[9] German drama of the nineteenth century; authorized translation from the 2d German ed., by L. E. Horning. **$1. Holt.

9–15867.

“Traces the development of the drama from the prototypes of the realistic plays of to-day created by Schiller and from the middle-class plays of Iffland through romantic drama, fate tragedies, comedy farce, social drama, idealism, naturalism, folklore, and mysticism, contributing an accompaniment of brilliant and discerning comment that reveals the interplay of influences and interests.” (N. Y. Times.) The divisions are: The German drama at the end of the eighteenth century; The German drama from 1800–1830; The German drama from 1830–1885; The German drama from 1885–1900; and The product of the century.

“Students of modern literature, who wish in small compass a critical survey of the German drama of the last hundred years, will find it here.”

+ Educ. R. 38: 205. S. ’09. 60w.

“The chief fault of the book lies in its form. It reads like the scenario of a larger book planned perhaps for later achievement. And it is therefore not always easy to read. Another fault which makes the reading difficult is the very uneven and oftentimes quite inadequate work of the translator. What is most noticeable among the good points of the book is the dignity of the standard upheld by the author for the art which he loves.” G. I. Colbron.

+ − Forum. 42: 282. S. ’09. 1100w.

Ind. 65: 1179. N. 19, ’08. 50w.

“A scholarly, informing and withal readable little volume.”

+ Ind. 67: 709. S. 23. ’09. 500w.

“Nothing at the same time so comprehensive and terse has appeared on the subject, and it is a subject of increasing interest to the English-speaking public.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 439. Jl. 17, ’09. 530w.

478Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville.^[6] Love among the chickens: a story of the haps and mishaps on an English chicken farm. $1.50. Circle pub. co.

9–18719.

A tale of love and laughter whose background is furnished by an English chicken farm. The chicken raisers are novices in the business and they ally with themselves an equally ignorant friend who shares in the haps and mishaps of their business plunges. “The love affair develops with the starting of the farm and is concerned with the pretty daughter of an Irish professor, with an Irish temper, who is a near-by summer resident. The fowls do all the uncanny things which hens can always be expected to do when man attempts to coerce their movements, and supply no end of exercise, mental and physical, for the chicken farmers and amusement for the neighborhood.” (N. Y. Times.)

“The promise contained in the opening chapters of the book is hardly fulfilled as the story proceeds. The humor is somewhat forced and the incidents themselves of hardly sufficient interest.”

− + Lit. D. 39: 449. S. 18, ’09. 160w.

“The book has brisk movement, and a bright style, which, though unable to handle the plot without shifting grips, is quite adequate to the minor incidents.”

+ − Nation. 89: 56. Jl. 15, ’09. 200w.

“It is a merry tale, cleverly told, and never lacking in good taste.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 342. My. 29, ’09. 320w.

Wodiska, Julius.^[12] Book of precious stones: the identification of gems and gem minerals and an account of their scientific, commercial, artistic, and historical aspects. **$2.50. Putnam.

9–30640.

“A combination of the practical and the esthetic marks this author’s treatment of a most fascinating subject. While he gives the scientific data on which precious minerals of various kinds may be identified, he also, by his many illustrations, exhibits the beauty of jewelry. The setting of gems is described in some detail and the many legendary and traditional qualities attributed to them are also touched upon.”—Lit. D.

“The lover of precious stones will be a lover of Mr. Wodiska’s book. It will also prove of value as a handbook to dealers and setters, and is as complete and beautiful a volume on this subject as can be procured anywhere, if we take into consideration the limitations imposed by its size.”

+ Lit. D. 39: 1085. D. 11, ’09. 120w.

“It is a comprehensive and interesting volume, which should appeal not only to experts, but to the general reader anxious to add to his store of knowledge on a fascinating subject.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 781. D. 11, ’09. 1200w.

Wollaston, Alexander F: R. From Ruwenzori to the Congo: a naturalist’s journey across Africa. *$5. Dutton.

9–7998.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 24. S. ’09.

“To a perhaps hypercritical taste, something is lacking—something which is to be found in many a rambling, clumsy book with no literary pretensions—the African atmosphere. It is a pity Mr. Wollaston felt ‘a concern’ to plead the cause of the Congo State.”

+ − Ath. 1909, 1: 732. Je. 19. 900w.

“Few books of travel have more delightful and instructive photographic reproductions than this volume.” H. E. Coblentz.

+ Dial. 46: 365. Je. 1, ’09. 400w.

“The most interesting part is the account of the uncommonly successful work of the naturalists on the eastern slopes of the range.”

+ Nation. 88: 339. Ap. 1, ’09. 570w.

“There are some interesting and important observations concerning the treatment of African natives by the Belgians in this book.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 115. F. 27, ’09. 670w.

“A very entertaining book.”

+ Outlook. 92: 270. My. 29, ’09. 120w.

“Entertainingly written volume.”

+ R. of Rs. 39: 382. Mr. ’09. 300w.

“An admirable extra-official record of the work accomplished on Ruwenzori in 1905. His appendices should be useful to future travellers.”

+ Sat. R. 107: 49. Ja. 9, ’09. 120w.

Wollaston, Arthur Naylor, comp.^[6] Tales within tales; adapted from the fables of Pilpai. (Romance of the East ser.) *$1. Dutton.

“These tales are adapted from the fables of Pilpai, the dreamer, a kind of ancient Uncle Remus, for like Uncle Remus, he runs to the beast fable, the earliest form of satire and allegory. The series of stories which is one of the ‘Romance of the East series,’ takes its title from the fact that the anecdotes, each illustrating some moral, keep folding up and branching out after the manner of tale-telling at a ‘smoker,’ where one story surely moves some other guest to say, ‘That reminds me—.’”—N. Y. Times.

“We fancy that the modern child will sniff at these innocent beast-tales. We wish success to Mr. Murray’s series, but we confess we should like to see each volume prepared with more regard to the bibliographical information which many readers will naturally expect.”

+ − Ath. 1909, 2: 208. Ag. 21. 400w.

“The author has translated the tales into plain English, although his style is a little involved—perhaps to suit the involved atmosphere of the series. Beast stories will always hold their own charm, and this addition to the list should prove instructive to the young and at least interesting to the old.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 14: 323. My. 22, ’09. 200w.

“We have the best of them very nicely served up.”

+ Spec. 102: 506. Mr. 27, ’09. 140w.

Woman in industry, from seven points of view.^[5] 2s. 6d. Duckworth & co., London.

9–8898.

Seven lectures delivered by different women dealing with the following subjects: The regulation of women’s work, The minimum wage, Trade unionism, Infant mortality, Child employment and juvenile delinquency, Factory and workshop law, and Factory proposals. “The general drift of the lectures is toward resort to trade-unions and greater regulations and control by the state.” (J. Pol. Econ.)

“Miss Anderson’s article might fitly stand alone. On ‘Wage-earning children’ Miss Adler is known to be the best authority that the ladies could call into counsel. We heartily commend the result of their labour as a whole.”

+ Ath. 1908, 2: 758. D. 12. 250w.

“The lectures are intended primarily for the general public and should prove instructive to those interested in the subject.”

+ J. Pol. Econ. 17: 309. My. ’09. 80w.

+ Sat. R. 107: 760. Je. 12, ’09. 100w.

Wood, Alice Ida Perry.^[11] Stage history of Shakespeare’s King Richard the Third. (Columbia university studies in English.) *$1.25. Macmillan.

9–25746.

“The story of the development of the actual presentation of ‘Richard the Third’ in the successive periods of English acting down to the productions by Booth and Irving is told, not merely in detail that shows careful study, but with analytical and comparative methods of real literary value. Especially interesting is 479the attempt to fit the known theories of the Elizabethan stage to the first production of this history-drama.”—Outlook.

+ Dial. 47: 290. O. 16, ’09. 70w.

“It is not often that a scholarly monograph concerned primarily with the technique of a subject is made so attractive to the general reader.”

+ Outlook. 93: 558. N. 6, ’09. 190w.

Wood, Sumner Gilbert.^[8] Taverns and turnpikes of Blandford, 1733–1833. *$2. S. G. Wood, Blandford, Mass.

9–837.

Called by the author a “by-product” this book “is of general historical interest, being a careful, sympathetic study of types of important local institutions. It throws interesting sidelights on many phases of social, political and business affairs in early New England.”

A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 184. Je. ’09.

“While strictly a local history, the book has a wider interest, since it portrays an aspect of the life of a past period to which specialists in our social history have for some time been devoting considerable interest.”

+ Ind. 67: 604. S. 9, ’09. 120w.

“The book should be placed in every library side by side with Charles E. Craven’s ‘History of Mattituck, L. I.’”

+ Lit. D. 39: 970. N. 27, ’09. 170w.

“We take pleasure in recommending it not only to students of New England history, but to lovers of the past as a sentimental possession.”

+ Nation. 89: 79. Jl. 22, ’09. 950w.

“The numerous illustrations with which the volume is embellished of old taverns and turnpike scenes add materially to its interest and value as a picture of early times in the local history of New England.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 705. N. 13, ’09. 700w.

Wood-Seys, Roland Alexander. Sappho in Boston. †$1.50. Moffat.

8–28059.

A sprightly story of a cultivated, fascinating Boston girl who in playing a surprising rôle brings a young Englishman off his “insular pedistal[P2: typo? pedestal].”

“It is to be strongly recommended for three reasons: its English is a pure joy, its veiled satire on American society is permeated with a rather rare quality of humour, and thirdly the question whether or not the Englishman who tells his story in the first person will eventually win the undeniably charming Bostonian lady, who may or may not be divorced, has beyond question a piquant interest that challenges approval.” F: T. Cooper.

+ Bookm. 28: 475. Ja. ’09. 200w.

“This is a story which does not stand still long enough to be criticised. It whizzes and fizzes its way through conversational smartness, hypertrophy of wealth, coruscations of epigram, and yet, reaching its end, reveals a solidity that one hardly suspected. It is superfluous to add that the book is nothing if not brisk, even breathless reading, and its unconventional dénouement invests it with positive charm.”

+ − Nation. 88: 42. Ja. 14, ’09. 270w.

“The drawing of the characters is clean-cut, the dialogue sparkling, and the dénouement a complete surprise.”

+ N. Y. Times. 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 30w.

“The whole book is quite as impossible as its central conception of this particular Sappho in Boston.”

− N. Y. Times. 13: 684. N. 21, ’08. 160w.

Woodberry, George Edward.^[7] Life of Edgar Allan Poe, personal and literary, with his chief correspondence with men of letters. 2v. **$5. Houghton.

9–7719.

A biography based upon the author’s 1885 volume. “His aim in the larger as in the more compact book, however, is to present a literary biography. He points out that a biography of Poe has two special interests: it lies outside New England, and it embodies contemporaneous literary history apart from the lives of the other greater American writers. In the earlier volume, Mr. Woodberry tells us, he excluded much and suppressed much which he thought the world would let die. But this attempt to assist oblivion has proved fruitless. Every possible theory and surmise relating to Poe has been put forth, and in this work he has presented all matters of fact that have come to light.” (Outlook.)

“A timely work that will doubtless supplant its predecessor as the most authoritative and trustworthy biography among the many now in print.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 197. Je. ’09.

“As an encyclopaedia of the professional and private adventures of Poe, this new memoir is indeed of the highest value.” W. B. Blake.

+ Dial. 47: 118. S. 1, ’09. 1250w.

“The appearance of these volumes is the most important event connected with the centenary of Poe. There are doubtless readers who would find more pleasure and profit in Professor Woodberry’s earlier biography than in this fuller work, which suffers from the defects of its qualities.”

+ − Nation. 89: 100. Jl. 29, ’09. 1750w.

“Special interest attaches to this new and larger form of Mr. Woodberry’s biography because of the large addition of letters and other material incorporated in the text and the numerous appendices which present a variety of documents bearing upon Poe’s life and including complete bibliography of his writings.”

+ Outlook. 92: 421. Je. 19, ’09. 380w.

Woodruff, Charles Edward.^[12] Expansion of races. $4. Rebman co.

9–17263.

“This book is a twentieth century edition of Malthus’ ‘Essay on population,’ with additions from modern biology, anthropology, ethnology, and medical science. Its author, who is a major surgeon in the United States army, calls it ‘an anthropological study.’ But it is really much more a work on the biological side of sociology, making very liberal use of anthropological data. The main interest of the author as is abundantly shown throughout the text is in the problem of the rise and decline of nations and civilizations.”—Econ. Bull.

“From one point of view it might be said to be a horrible example of what a biologist who has had no training in the social sciences may do in handling social and economic problems. In spite of its bizarre theories, however, it must be said that the work is a very suggestive one and deserves the attention of economists and sociologists.” C: A. Ellwood.

+ − Econ. Bull. 2: 393. D. ’09. 1400w.

“A considerable part, and perhaps the most valuable part, of the book is that devoted to an explanation of human governments and the two great party policies of which they are all the apparently complex, but really simple, manifestation. These comments will have attained their object if they call the attention of the thoughtful to a remarkable addition to the stock of human knowledge.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 465. Jl. 31, ’09. 1000w.

Woolwine, Thomas Lee. In the valley of the shadows. †$1. Doubleday.

9–4961.

A short story of the Tennessee mountains in which the feud that had existed between two families for several generations is finally ended thru the influence of the sacrificing love that grows up between the son of one and the daughter of the other.

“The story is written in a simple, direct and pleasing style. The descriptions of nature are admirable and the delineation of the characters, in so far as they are delineated, is excellent.”

+ Arena. 41: 605. Ag. ’09. 230w.

480“The marks of the ‘prentice hand are numerous, and there is little to differentiate the work from that of numerous other ’prentices.”

− N. Y. Times. 14: 143. Mr. 13, ’09. 250w.

Worcester, Rev. Elwood. Living word. **$1.50. Moffat.

9–132.

“An interpretation of the Emmanuel movement which “is giving us a new conception of as well as a new faith in God; a new interpretation of as well as a new following of Christ; a new realization of immortality as a present as well as a continuing existence; and a new reverence for man as God’s child with infinite possibilities.”” (Outlook.) “The book is divided into two parts, of which the first is concerned with the belief in God Himself, and the second with such intimations of immortality as are to be discovered in or about man.” (N. Y. Times.)

“They interpret life in terms of spirituality and contain much stimulating thought and inspiring suggestion.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 89. Mr. ’09.

“The book is written in a broad-minded, nonsectarian way. While the reader may question some of the conclusions reached, he can not help admitting that it is a strong, sincere expression of thought.”

+ − Lit. D. 38: 308. F. 20, ’09. 270w.

Nation. 88: 536. My. 27, ’09. 120w.

“While it is a book that will be a help to many, it will also interest all who admire a sincere spirit and courageous recognition of the change in man.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.