Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Reviews of 1917 Books (continued 45)

+ — Ath p511 O ‘17 650w

Boston Transcript p6 Jl 25 ‘17 250w

“Mr Wallace portrays the Italy of politics, of diplomacy, of war, of realism. His task has been attempted before, with much success by King and Okey and by Underwood. But the developments of the past two years afford excellent opportunity to paint the picture afresh and on a larger canvas. Mr Wallace has spent some time with the troops on the various Italian fronts, and he describes in lucid and restrained manner the difficulties and triumphs of the operations against the Austrians. His book is well written, although there is an occasional inexact statement.”

+ — Dial 63:30 Ja 28 ‘17 430w

“The book contains a map of what the author conceives to be Italy’s projected sphere of influence in Asia Minor and in Austria.”

+ Ind 92:60 O 6 ‘17 80w

+ N Y Times 22:266 Jl 15 ‘17 280w

Outlook 116:233 Je 6 ‘17 140w

“The pages that deal with the great problem which is Italy’s problem alone, the quarrel between the Vatican and the Quirinal, are full of valuable information. And none of the recent books on the present war gives a more useful description of the counter-currents of Italy’s growing national aspirations, Austria’s imperialistic inclinations, and the Pan-Slav movement, which combined to keep the Balkan region at a fever-heat of tension for many years and culminated in the present catastrophe.” G. I. Colbron

+ Pub W 91:1324 Ap 21 ‘17 730w

“It is not a profound work; it adds nothing to the equipment of the advanced student. But it tells simply and clearly the story of Italy’s rise through immense difficulties to real independence, and shows how she has come within sight of realizing the greatest of her ambitions—the rescue of millions of her people in the Trentino and the Adriatic provinces from the Austrian oppressor. Mr Wallace is an American who loves Italy.”

+ Spec 119:245 S 8 ‘17 1500w

+ Springf’d Republican p6 Jl 11 ‘17 550w

“Mr Wallace has thrown together a certain number of documents and has eked them out with impressions rapidly gleaned and facts carelessly ascertained. He has made a volume of some 300 pages, but he has not written a book. His work lacks perspective and cohesion, and is sometimes positively misleading. He lacks the sense of style that distinguishes many American war correspondents, to say nothing of the best American writers. It is only in dealing with the present aspects of Italian policy and Italy’s war aims that Mr Wallace’s work becomes tolerably accurate. His last three chapters are fair journalism.”

— The Times [London] Lit Sup p350 Jl 26 ‘17 1200w

WALLER, EDITH. English-Italian phrase book for social workers. pa 75c Edith Waller, Morristown, N.J. 458 16-14779

“This book is intended to help the American social worker, teacher, physician or nurse, who in daily work find need for a small store of colloquial Italian.”—Educ R

“The book is exceedingly well done and may be highly commended to those who are at work in these fields.”

+ Educ R 53:199 F ‘17 70w

N Y Br Lib News 3:152 O ‘16

“Designed to furnish a small store of colloquial Italian, it contains phrases on buying and preparing food, caring for the sick and infants, registering pupils and conducting a class. Includes a vocabulary and the essentials of the Italian grammar.”

Pittsburgh 22:536 Je ‘17 40w

580WALLING, WILLIAM ENGLISH. Russia’s message: the people against the czar. il *$1.50 (3c) Knopf 947 17-13587

This work, first published by Doubleday, Page & Co., in 1908 and listed in the Digest at that time, is now brought out in a new and cheaper edition by Alfred A. Knopf. To the new edition Mr Walling has added an introduction, written at some time during the progress of the present war but before the recent revolution. In this introduction Mr Walling discusses the attitude of England, France, and Germany toward Russian autocracy.

“Of interest now as showing the foundation of the great democratic movement.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:143 Ja ‘18

“Reissued with some unaccountable omissions and the complete disappearance of the index, as well as of a number of illustrations. But in any form, Mr Walling’s book commands attention.” L: S. Friedland

+ Dial 62:429 My 17 ‘17 820w

+ Ind 91:30 Jl 7 ‘17 110w

“There are a permanent value and a timeliness in Mr Walling’s book that make its republication in the climax of the events he foreshadowed worth noting. The student of recent events in Russia will find the news dispatches strikingly illuminated by Mr Walling’s descriptions.”

+ Lit D 55:40 O 13 ‘17 280w

“Of particular interest is Mr Walling’s account of the progress of the waking up of the peasant population a few years ago, and its progress in enlightenment.”

+ N Y Times 22:159 Ap 22 ‘17 570w

“It is in part because Mr Walling so thoroughly and convincingly analyzes the policy and motives of czardom that his book is not only informing, but as timely as possible. ... Accurately and in detail, Mr Walling lays bare an economic system that, but for the clearness and appositeness of the evidence he submits, would seem incredible. ... His book is thorough and authoritative—a study of more than transitory value—but also a book of the hour admirably adapted to enlighten and influence American opinion.”

+ No Am 205:951 Je ‘17 900w

“Written ten years ago after the author had passed the greater part of two years in close contact with Russian government officials, as well as with the leaders of revolutionary organizations after the temporary failure of their uprising in 1905.”

+ R of Rs 56:101 Jl ‘17 100w

+ Springf’d Republican p6 My 15 ‘17 420w

WALLING, WILLIAM ENGLISH, and LAIDLER, HARRY WELLINGTON, eds. State socialism pro and con. *$2 (1c) Holt 335.6 17-17731

This book on state socialism or collectivism, which its editors, both members of the Intercollegiate Socialist society, define as “the policy of extending the economic functions of the state,” is in no sense a brief for state socialism, but “primarily a source book of authoritative selections either written by experts or selected by experts from official reports.” The editors have not tried to give arguments, except in the introduction, but simply to provide the reader with the most important data on which to base a conclusion. The introduction takes up the relation of state socialism to war socialism, to the military state, to related government policies, to democracy, socialism, and nationalism. The excerpts are arranged under the headings: Finance; Agriculture and the conservation of natural resources; Transportation and communication; Commerce, industry and mining; Collectivism and the individual (as citizen, consumer, producer and taxpayer). A good deal of space, though not the larger part, is given to the United States. Chapter twenty-nine, on “Municipal ownership,” is by Evans Clark.

“An interesting exhibit of the world-wide tendency toward broadening the functions of government.” V: E. Helleberg

+ Am J Soc 23:550 Ja ‘18 250w

A L A Bkl 14:8 O ‘17

“The con side does not seem to have received quite as much publicity as the pro side. ... For the man who deplores, no less than for the man who welcomes, this trend [toward state socialism] the volume will be found extremely serviceable. In fact, no other book, no other half dozen books, contain as much information concerning the economic or collectivistic functions of modern states.”

+ — Cath World 106:536 Ja ‘18 550w

“Within the self-imposed limits of their work the editors have succeeded in presenting a unique and adequate record of the world-advance of collectivism. A chapter on ‘Municipal ownership’ surveys that field briefly, effectively, and with consistent impersonality. ‘State socialism pro and con’ is not recommended for hammock hours. But as a handy reference volume for the serious-minded it will save many days of searching through technical libraries for data on collectivism.” D. R. Richberg

+ Dial 63:111 Ag 16 ‘17 600w

“An authoritative work of reference.”

+ Ind 92:487 D 8 ‘17 100w

“One great value of the present survey by Walling and Laidler is that it fixes definitely accomplishments up to the period of the war, and will thus retain its place as an authoritative and important handbook. Its arrangement is excellent, and no book could be easier for quick consultation. The chapter on Municipal socialism by Evans Clark is an unusually capable piece of work.” Frank Macdonald

+ N Y Call p14 Ag 19 ‘17 600w

“The book is a storehouse of material which in itself supplies the argument which the editors refrain from making. They are entitled to make their own selections, and it is no grievance that they are rather pro than con. Nevertheless, they have done their work so well that it would be reassuring to have the other side presented with equal efficiency.”

+ N Y Times 22:263 Jl 15 ‘17 530w

Outlook 116:305 Je 20 ‘17 40w

R of Rs 56:326 S ‘17 170w

Springf’d Republican p6 Jl 16 ‘17 850w

WALPOLE, HUGH. Green mirror; a quiet story. *$1.50 Doran 17-30042

The second volume of the trilogy of which “The Duchess of Wrexe” was the first. The novel is also related to “The dark forest,” since Henry Trenchard, the Englishman of that story, appears here, twelve years earlier, as a boy. “In the members of the Trenchard family Mr Walpole has embodied all of those distinctively British characteristics that have always exasperated the rest of the world. ... Mrs Trenchard is a personified British matron, inflexible, dominant, a bit stupid, fiercely maternal, and, altogether, a rather terrible sort of person. ... But the British matron meets with her Waterloo in this new novel in which she makes a ruthless, carefully worked out, determined effort to force submission to her purpose on the part of all her family. The breath of another dawn has already begun to blow. ... Then into the circle comes Philip Mark, a young Englishman who has lived for some years in Russia, whose embryonic imagination has been developed in that country, who has ideas and feelings and sentiments that are disconcertingly un-English, that disturbingly suggest a region where Trenchards are not known. He is resented, considered with disapproval and dislike. But he and the eldest daughter of the family fall in love with each other and the drama of the tale grows out of the determination of Mrs Trenchard that he shall not become one of them.” (N Y Times)

+ A L A Bkl 14:134 Ja ‘18

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ Bookm 46:598 Ja ‘18 950w

581“What Mr Walpole does in ‘The green mirror,’ as a novelist he does well. That is, he tells a good story so that its scenes, its action and its people seem actually to exist. But what he does in ‘The green mirror’ as a propagandist, he does not well at all, for his presentation of the case against family solidarity seems merely to be the typical argument of the social revolutionist.” E. F. E.

+ — Boston Transcript p8 N 21 ‘17 1200w

“What Mr Walpole has so fully and sensitively absorbed in a case that is perfect of its kind remains essentially undisturbed by storm and wreck on the surface. The character, the exigencies, of the great compromise of the family are too permanent to be called unfashionable because of the war. ... It is a fine novel, grappling bravely with the great ironies of motherlove.” F. H.

+ — New Repub 13:154 D 8 ‘17 1650w

“Without any doubt, when Mr Walpole wrote this novel in those dead years before the war he was engaged, quite consciously to himself, in the task of flaying, gently and tenderly and lovingly, it is true, but still flaying with satire the heart and soul of his native land. And he has done the task with such neatness and dexterity and completeness, and also with such tenderness, that the work itself fills the reader with interest and its artistic performance with satisfaction.”

+ N Y Times 22:474 N 18 ‘17 1350w

“Distinctly it belongs to the class of major English fiction; it is a story built, as one may say, to last, not to be read and easily forgotten.”

+ Outlook 117:574 D 5 ‘17 210w

WALSH, JOHN. Mass and vestments of the Catholic church; liturgical, doctrinal, historical and archeological. il *$1.75 Benziger 265

“Arranged catechetically, this volume is intended to be a help to the busy clergy, laity, and converts to the Catholic church. The author has given a clear explanation of the different parts of the mass, the language, usage, and elements used in its celebration, and the eastern and western rites. A full description of the altar, linens, sacred vessels, vestments, and number and kind of lights used at the various services is also given.”—Boston Transcript

“The laity will find much useful information in very simple and brief form.”

+ Boston Transcript p8 D 27 ‘16 130w

“Must be regarded as the best among popular works of reference on the mass.”

+ Cath World 104:695 F ‘17 180w

Pittsburgh 22:438 My ‘17

“Told in simple English.”

+ Springf’d Republican p15 Ag 26 ‘17 100w

WALTERS, HENRY BEAUCHAMP, ed. Classical dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities, biography, geography, and mythology. il *$6.50 Putnam 913.3 17-4478

“Mr Walters has executed a ‘tour de force’ in compressing within the limits of a handy volume a summary of the information usually sought in four dictionaries of two volumes each.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “The merit of Mr Walters’s compendium is that it combines with Lemprière’s work on proper names the information contained in Dr Smith’s ‘Dictionary of antiquities.’ ... The book uses material derived from the ‘Companions to Greek and Latin studies,’ and has profited by the researches of many predecessors, including those indefatigable Germans who make no account of time or labour when they sit down to exhaust a subject.” (Sat R)

“It does not of course compete with fuller works of reference, and will not satisfy anyone who desires full information on any of its subjects. And yet it will admirably serve the purpose which it proposes to serve, and will help the student over the ordinary antiquarian difficulties which constantly present themselves in the reading of any Greek or Latin author. The volume is of a convenient size for frequent and familiar use, is on excellent paper, is well printed and illustrated.” F. J. Miller

+ Class J 63:610 Je ‘17 300w

“Fairly up to date, with the antiquities, biography, geography, and mythology all in one handy volume. In view of the wide scope of the work, covering, as it does, the same field as the colossal Pauly-Wissowa or the combined five volumes of Sir William Smith’s time-honored dictionaries, it is necessarily brief. But the concise articles are, in the main, packed with information upon the essential facts needed by the young student. And the serviceability of the book is greatly enhanced by the wealth of illustrative material selected with the judgment and taste that we might expect from the editor, who is also assistant-keeper of Greek and Roman antiquities in the British museum.” Walter Miller

+ + — Class Philol 12:311 Jl ‘17 250w

“Quantities are marked in various words, and the book is clearly not for the professed scholar. It is for ‘the upper forms of public schools,’ also for classical students at the universities. The latter, we should have thought, would mostly be beyond it. ... With its sensible single alphabet in the Latin order and its ample indexes, the book is over 1,100 pages and a weighty affair, which it would have been unwise to increase.”

+ Sat R 122:sup6 O 14 ‘16 650w

“It is very much more discreet, as well as more scholarly, than Lemprière, dear to our fathers and grandfathers; it contains a great deal more information than Dr Smith’s familiar work which we used to read at school.”

+ Spec 117:556 N 4 ‘16 110w

“These criticisms are offered in the hope that when the book reaches, as no doubt it will, a second edition, some necessary revision may take place. Of its general usefulness there can be no question.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p520 N 2 ‘16 700w

WALTHER, ANNA HILDA LOUISE. Pilgrimage with a milliner’s needle. il *$1.50 (3½c) Stokes 17-25140

This book is the personal diary of a young Danish girl, “from childhood up to fairly mature age, beginning in Copenhagen and ending in New York city.” (Boston Transcript) She was apprenticed to the millinery business, and as soon as she had learned her trade, started out to ply it in different countries, wandering thru Europe, South Africa and the United States. Her diary tells of more than one love affair and of her conversion to Christian science. There is a glowing introduction by Richard Le Gallienne.

“Her narrative is personal and naively frank in giving emotional details of her own life. It is more readable as autobiography than as travel.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:126 Ja ‘18

“The interest aroused by Richard Le Gallienne’s highly appreciating foreword flags in places as the narrative proceeds. ... The finale is startingly tame and commonplace.”

– + Boston Transcript p6 O 10 ‘17 280w

+ Dial 63:466 N 8 ‘17 50w

+ Ind 93:241 F 9 ‘18 40w

“A series of vivid pictures of places and people. Underlying it all is a charming personal narrative.”

+ R of Rs 56:551 N ‘17 70w

War and the spirit of youth. $1 Atlantic monthly 940.91 17-24228

“Three papers of mystical tendency which recently appeared in the Atlantic Monthly have been published in one volume entitled ‘The war and the spirit of youth,’ by Maurice Barrès, Anne C. E. Allinson and Sir Francis Younghusband. The papers are by a Frenchman, an Englishman and an American, and reveal in all three cases a spiritual temperament. In the first one, ‘Young soldiers of France,’ M. Barrès gives excerpts from letters written by certain young French soldiers at the front. ... The 582two other papers are philosophical discussions of the spiritual motives behind the present war.”—Springf’d Republican

A L A Bkl 14:51 N ‘17

“M. Barrès tactfully allows the letters of young French soldiers to reveal of themselves the permanent spiritual values which, so it seemed to these boys, made their sacrifices just. ... It is only on reading the conventional and weak deistic apologia of Sir Francis Younghusband that the question of the value of such waste of human happiness for mechanical political ends rises again with unescapable directness.”

+ — New Repub 13:sup18 N 17 ‘17 150w

Springf’d Republican p6 O 12 ‘17 150w

WARD, SIR ADOLPHUS WILLIAM. Germany, 1815-1890. (Cambridge historical ser.) 3v v 1 *$3 Putnam 943.07 (16-17397)

v 1 1815-1852.

“Dr Ward has long been known as foremost among English scholars in the study of modern German history, and he reckons among the chief pleasures of life ‘the promotion of a better understanding between two nations now estranged from each other for many a long day.’ ... He is dealing with the Germany that emerged from the rough handling of Napoleon, after the Holy Roman empire had finally passed off the stage, and the German confederation had begun its uneasy existence. ... This period was, as Dr Ward says, a half-century of struggle and humiliation, and the first reflection that follows on the study of action that failed, and reaction that failed equally, is that Bismarck must have been a very great man to build up out of this chaos the powerful nation we know to our cost to-day.” (Sat R) Volume 1, covering the period from 1815 to 1852, will be followed by a second volume carrying the history to 1890.

“No one would question Dr Ward’s high qualifications, for few living English writers have given evidence of more versatile and exact scholarship than the Master of Peterhouse. This volume on Germany from 1815 to 1852 is, however, a grievous disappointment. It is one of the most jejune handbooks ever produced by English writers, who furnish no mean competition in such compilations. The style is prolix and involved, loaded with details and unimportant names, broken by parentheses and totally unrelieved by emphasis. Inclusion by mere enumeration replaces discrimination and selection. ... The bibliography will be useful but it is not above criticism.” G. S. Ford

– + Am Hist R 22:706 Ap ‘17 400w

“Does not replace other histories but is authoritative, suggestive, and impartial.”

+ A L A Bkl 13:262 Mr ‘17

“The author has an exceptional command of foreign sources, as his bibliography shows, and studies with care the thought and policy and the various movements which influenced the making of modern Germany.”

+ Ath p291 Je ‘16 50w

+ Dial 62:317 Ap 5 ‘17 150w

“Sir Adolphus Ward’s knowledge of his subject is enormous and his equity and discrimination are no less remarkable than his knowledge. All personages of all parties receive a full measure of indulgence. ... In the fullness of his own knowledge of German affairs the author has perhaps forgotten how meagre is the knowledge of most educated Englishmen.” F. C. M.

+ Eng Hist R 21:672 O ‘16 350w

“Few English writers are so well qualified to speak on German political affairs as the author of the present volume, and the immediate result is a book which displays profound learning and a thorough mastery of the subject. ... But it is a book for students only and primarily, even for students a book of reference. ... The book concludes with an excellent bibliography, a good index, and a map of the German confederation.”

+ Nation 104:165 F 8 ‘17 150w

Pittsburgh 22:129 F ‘17

“This book is at least a clear proof that the English academic mind can remain calm and impartial in the midst of war. ... His book is of very great value as a compressed and exact record; it repays careful study, and a second reading gives greater pleasure than the first.”

+ Sat R 123:112 F 3 ‘17 900w

“No such compact mass of information about the German states between 1815 and 1852 as is contained in this book has previously appeared in English. The book is not for the most part easy reading. But as a book for consultation and reference as to facts we know of no other like this. ... Sir Adolphus Ward writes on this question [Denmark]—which we take only as an illustration—as on others, in what may be called a pre-war spirit. That is no defect in an historian, for we might have been more inclined to suspect the accuracy of his presentment of facts if he ever showed a trace of passion or partisanship. But in this volume there is absolutely none.”

+ Spec 117:46 Jl 8 ‘16 1550w

The Times [London] Lit Sup p263 Je 1 ‘16 40w

“We rise from reading the book with the impression that the author has been somewhat overwhelmed by the very wealth of his learning. To tell truth, this book would have gained in force and actuality, even if a certain impartiality had been sacrificed, had it been written frankly from an English point of view as an honest criticism from outside of the tendencies underlying the development of the German idea.”

+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p302 Je 29 ‘16 1850w

WARD, CHARLES HENSHAW. What is English? *$1 Scott 808 17-4013

The author calls this “a book of strategy for English teachers.” As a teacher of English in a boys’ preparatory school, he is concerned with the problems of secondary education, and he takes the stand that the first demand on English teachers is that they teach the essentials of good English, putting accuracy in detail before attempts at literary grace. He commends the methods described in Brown’s “How the French boy learns to write.” Among the chapters are: What English is; Intensive spelling; What grammar is all about; Teaching grammar; What is a comma? Present usage in pointing; Themes; Reading.

“To punctuation he gives almost as much space as to the other two subjects combined. Surely this is disproportionate. The book represents a reaction, in the main wholesome, against the notion that the whole duty of a high-school English teacher is to cultivate ‘insight into beauty’ or to teach his pupils to write clever short stories. But the reaction (in theory, at least) may easily go too far.”

+ — Nation 106:122 Ja 31 ‘18 300w

Pratt p18 O ‘17 10w

“In style and method Mr Ward’s book is itself an excellent object-lesson in effective composition.”

+ R of Rs 56:109 Jl ‘17 150w

WARD, GILBERT OAKLEY. Practical use of books and libraries; an elementary manual. (Useful reference ser.) 3d ed rev and enl il $1.25 Boston bk. 020 17-178

“A carefully revised, enlarged, reset, and in part rewritten edition. Some of the more important changes from the second edition are as follows: the magazine list has been revised and rearranged; certain sections on debate work, well covered elsewhere, have been replaced by detailed directions for making a working bibliography; the chapter on book buying has been prefaced by a description of the principal sources of information about books, especially reviews.”—A L A Bkl

+ A L A Bkl 13:366 My ‘17

St Louis 15:167 Je ‘17

583“A book which all high-school students should be familiar with.”

+ School R 25:304 Ap ‘17 10w

WARD, HARRY FREDERICK. Labor movement from the standpoint of religious values. *$1.25 (3c) Sturgis & Walton 331.8 17-17728

The author is professor of social service at the Boston university school of theology. The lectures were originally given to students in the university; they were repeated in Ford Hall, Boston, in 1915, as noonday lectures to “men of all classes and creeds, of all ranks, standards and opinions. ... The text is from a verbatim stenographic report, with no changes whatever.” (Preface) The questions and answers of the forum period following each lecture are included. “Contents: Trade unions; Socialism; Syndicalism; The demand for leisure; The demand for income; Violence and its causes; Labor and the law; Democracy and industry.” (N Y Br Lib News)

N Y Br Lib News 4:104 Jl ‘17

“An unusual feature of the book is the reproduction of a testimonial adopted in the form of a resolution by the I.W.W. propaganda league of Boston in appreciation of the sympathetic expositions of the cause of labor by Professor Ward. ... A wide knowledge of the various phases of the working class movement is exhibited throughout the lectures.” Alexander Trachtenberg

+ N Y Call p14 Je 24 ‘17 950w

WARD, HERBERT. Mr Poilu; notes and sketches with the fighting French. il *$2.50 (10c) Doran 940.91 (Eng ed 17-26483)

Mr Ward, author of “My life with Stanley’s rear-guard,” is an English sculptor who, after living in New Zealand and Australia, being in turn sailor, miner, gymnast in a traveling circus and stock-rider, saw five years of active service in Africa, part of the time as a member of Stanley’s expedition to relieve Emin Pasha in the Sudan. In 1900, Mr Ward settled in Paris, but returned to England in 1914 and attached himself as lieutenant to the famous No. 3 convoy of the British ambulance committee, operating under the French army. The book is a series of notes, rather than a connected narrative, giving first-hand impressions of the French common soldier at the front, and of the French army system—a system that is, says the author, “peculiarly adapted to the French temperament; it is in harmony with their intelligence, their love of liberty, and their high state of civilization.” One chapter is devoted to “The women of France.” The forty-eight illustrations in color and black and white are from the author’s drawings of the “poilu” as seen at the front under all sorts of conditions.

+ A L A Bkl 13:446 Jl ‘17

+ Cleveland p82 Je ‘17 80w

“During the last year or two Mr Ward has become well known to Americans by his lectures in this country, from ocean to ocean, in aid of French soldiers and their families. ... Although written with the greatest modesty and with a certain effect of casualness, the book presents a brilliant analysis of spiritual qualities, of temperament, of racial endowment.”

+ N Y Times 22:266 Jl 15 ‘17 200w

+ Outlook 116:489 Jl 25 ‘17 150w

+ Spec 118:239 F 24 ‘17 170w

Springf’d Republican p15 Jl 29 ‘17 250w

“Certainly claims attention for the artistic merit of its illustrations.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p599 D 14 ‘16 130w

WARD, LESTER FRANK.^[2] Glimpses of the cosmos. 8v v 5 *$2.50 Putnam 301

In a series of eight volumes, of which this is the fifth, the publishers are bringing out the minor writings of Lester Ward, with biographical and historical notes. The material is arranged chronologically, so that the mental development of the author may be followed. The present volume covers the years 1893-1897.

“The work is interesting, not only as reproducing numerous papers upon important subjects, but also as a record of the author’s mental evolution.”

+ Ath p461 S ‘17 50w

R of Rs 55:442 Ap ‘17 40w

“The value of all these minor writings of Prof. Ward is by no means established by their publication, but the principal objection to this collection of his entire works is that they are not arranged according to subjects. As a ‘mental autobiography’ the volumes will be of interest to very few.”

— Springf’d Republican p19 O 14 ‘17 170w

WARD, MARY AUGUSTA (ARNOLD) (MRS HUMPHRY WARD). ‘Missing.’ il *$1.50 (1½c) Dodd 17-28797

A war novel not concerned with the soldier at the front except as seen thru the tears and anguish of the woman at home. The central figure is Nelly Sarratt, a war bride, thru whose brief honeymoon the reader comes to know her as a very beautiful, childlike, appealing little soul who has given every ounce of her love to her adored soldier husband. He goes back to the front. Later comes the message that he has been reported wounded and missing. Weeks of illness leave the wife limp and unresisting in the hands of capable friends. A sister who counts everything about war a nuisance, and who cannot forgive Nelly for marrying a poor man, watches with silent approval the solicitous thoughtfulness of a young baronet for Nelly’s welfare. When the moment comes for the sister to hasten to a French hospital to identify a man who had lost his memory but who might be George Sarratt she denies the identity believing that it will spoil Nelly’s prospects. Memory returns; the man asks for his wife; Nelly hastens to his bedside and comforts him in his last moments. Her sorrow turns her frailties to strength. She becomes a nurse, “uplifted strengthened—to endure and serve.”

A L A Bkl 14:171 F ‘18

“It is a pedestrian performance, by no means on the level of ‘Marcella’ and ‘Helbeck of Bannisdale.’”

— Ath p597 N ‘17 100w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

Bookm 46:337 N ‘17 140w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

Bookm 46:599 Ja ‘18 550w

“If the war must enter fiction, it can scarcely enter it more wisely and more significantly than in Mrs Ward’s latest novel.” E. F. E.

+ Boston Transcript p8 N 3 ‘17 1550w

+ Cleveland p3 Ja ‘18 60w

“‘Missing’ might be a contribution to the contemporary literature about woman, as vital in its way as ‘A woman of genius,’ but, like most of Mrs Ward’s work, it lacks reality. It is a cleverly staged, well-managed drama of the Pinero type.”

– + Dial 64:117 Ja 31 ‘18 150w

Nation 106:95 Ja 24 ‘18 300w

“The most interesting parts of the book are the occasional glimpses it gives of England and the English at war, glimpses few and very brief. We wish there were more of them, and could easily have dispensed with some of the very numerous descriptions of Lake-country scenery, graceful though many of them are, for the sake of seeing more of the war conditions.”

+ N Y Times 22:433 O 28 ‘17 1000w

“In construction the story has little subtlety. The only approach to a plot arises from the extraordinary treachery of Nelly’s sister, an original but not very lifelike figure. The characterisation generally is not on Mrs Ward’s usual level. The civilian representative of Major Dobbin has more airs and graces than our dear old friend, but he takes no hold on our affections. The soldiers are all good men and true—there are no George Osbornes among them—but our view of them is wholly superficial. The aristocratic 584V.A.D. is more in the author’s earlier manner, and sufficiently convincing as regards her insolence and frivolity, and even her occasional lapses into efficiency; but we are altogether sceptical concerning her underlying goodness of heart.”

— Sat R 124:290 O 13 ‘17 450w

Spec 119:528 N 10 ‘17 60w

“It is a poignant little tragedy, portrayed with fidelity, restraint and verisimilitude.”

+ Springf’d Republican p13 F 10 ‘18 350w

“A novelist so well equipped and so experienced as Mrs Humphry Ward could not produce an uninteresting or manifestly faulty tale; but throughout our reading of this new book we felt that this was not a story which Mrs Humphry Ward wanted to tell for its own sake. It has all the sterling qualities of her fiction, but less of the breadth of life, less of the obvious personal interest in the characters and the subject, than some of her novels. ... It is all reasonable, true, and just; a sound story well composed and logically, if lengthily, worked out.”

+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p476 O 4 ‘17 500w

WARD, MARY AUGUSTA (ARNOLD) (MRS HUMPHRY WARD). Towards the goal. *$1.25 (2½c) Scribner 940.91 17-21840

Mrs Ward’s art as a novelist has been put to the great service of telling to the world how the British are steadily pushing towards the goal of that just, necessary and final victory which shall make the sacrifice of the best and highest in the empire not in vain. In a series of letters addressed to Theodore Roosevelt, written between March 24 and June 1, 1917, she tells what needed to be made graphic of the work of the navy and of the army in France. Mr Roosevelt contributes a preface in which he says “Mrs Ward’s volume is of high value as a study of contemporary history. It is of at least as high value as an inspiration to constructive patriotism.” The prophecy in her first letter that “the logic of facts will sweep the American and British nations together in some sort of intimate union” is fulfilled before the close of the book which is, in some sense, a sequel to “England’s effort.”

A L A Bkl 14:21 O ‘17

“Gives a valuable first-hand account of certain organized German atrocities, such as the brutal treatment of Senlis, about which too little is generally known.”

+ Ath p476 S ‘17 100w

“As in the case of its predecessor, ‘Towards the goal’ represents a very happy combination. It is authoritative. Mrs Ward has seen the operations in France and she has talked with those who know most of the situation both in England and in France. Moreover, she possesses the imagination and the art which make her readers see with her—an element which gives the book the worth which could never have been gained by the facts in the hands of one less skilled. All through the latter part of the book the strong joy of England is made clear over the entry of America into the war.” D. L. M.

+ Boston Transcript p6 S 5 ‘17 1300w

“Distinguished for intensity of feeling, and an appreciation of the meaning of the war to all the Allies.”

+ Cleveland p118 N ‘17 40w

“As a work of contemporary history, Mrs Ward’s book must win a lasting reputation.”

+ Ind 92:342 N 17 ‘17 150w

“From one who knows the German mind as Mrs Ward has known it, the stinging condemnation of its materialism, its ruthless ambition, and its deliberate inhumanity in war, which she more than once voices, comes with exceptional force; and her repeated insistence that nothing less than ‘restitution, reparation, and guarantees’ will insure a lasting peace is clearly no literary repetition of a political formula, but a conviction from which her personal observations offer her no escape.”

+ Nation 105:542 N 15 ‘17 800w

“Mrs Ward is interested always in the achievements and the influence of personality, and this gives color and life to her pages. ... It is a wonderful story, tragic, inspiring, deeply moving, and Mrs Ward tells it well, though with the utmost brevity.”

+ N Y Times 22:301 Ag 19 ‘17 1000w

Pittsburgh 22:684 O ‘17 30w

“Mrs Ward tells us that the letters are written not for Englishmen but as ‘a general account for Americans.’ From this point of view the volume deserves nothing but praise.”

+ Sat R 124:132 Ag 18 ‘17 400w

“As in the case of ‘England’s effort,’ she was given every facility by the authorities for obtaining the material for her book.”

+ Spec 119:358 O 6 ‘17 730w

“The letters are, in the first place, descriptive of certain phases of the war as Mrs Ward has observed them. The second purpose of Mrs Ward’s book seems to be political. She writes to urge upon Americans the desirability of making the demand for ‘reparation, restitution, guarantees’ the guiding purpose of their representatives in the peace negotiations. While the letters contain but a small amount of fresh information, they are pleasantly, even persuasively written. Mrs Ward is to be specially thanked for her commendation of Lord Haldane.”

+ Springf’d Republican p15 Ag 19 ‘17 700w

The Times [London] Lit Sup p363 Ag 2 ‘17 1000w

WARE, MARY S. Old world through old eyes. il *$2 (1½c) Putnam 915 17-15435

Mrs Ware, “seventy years young,” started off alone in 1912 for a three years’ tour of the Orient. She visited “Japan and the Philippines, China, Burmah and Siam, Cambodia, India, and the East Indian islands,” was a guest at four native courts and had interviews with various other native rulers. She tells us that she has “given little space to descriptions of natural scenery or of national monuments,” because what most interested her in her travels “were the results obtained in colonization and in the government of backward peoples by the Americans, English, French and Dutch.” (Preface) A few pages towards the end of the book give a brief chronicle of Mrs Ware’s life in Paris in 1915. These letters of travel, written to her family, have been collected and printed for her grandchildren. Any money realized by her from the book will be sent, while the war lasts, to French hospitals, and after the war, to French soldiers blinded in the war.

“Its interest is indeed compelling.” F. B.

+ Boston Transcript p7 Je 13 ‘17 1050w

“She is evidently a woman of strong character and trained intellect as well as large heart, and her book has more of character and individuality than would be found in most collections of family letters from abroad.”

+ Dial 63:595 D 6 ‘17 250w

“The author says: ‘I have not followed the usual course of travel narrative.’ ... It is this departure from ‘the usual course,’ this fresh curiosity, this sight of a developing world as a wide-eyed old lady sees it, that is largely responsible for the marked charm and interest of the book. ... Mrs Ware’s little investigation of American rule in the Philippines is most interesting reading. ‘The Americans,’ she says, ‘have a clean government over here.’ It was there that she met General Pershing and had many good talks with him about the islands.”

+ N Y Times 22:278 Jl 29 ‘17 800w

WARREN, MRS CONSTANCE M. (WILLIAMS). Phœnix. il *$1.40 (2c) Houghton 17-8464

Boston society, with its strict traditions giving way to the encroachments of newer manners and customs, forms the background of this story. Janet, the heroine, is a young girl, sweet and unspoiled in spite of great wealth. She has given her heart to Donald Craig, a boyish sweetheart, and she is waiting in simple 585happiness for the declaration of his love. But Donald is poor and he goes away to make his fortune leaving the words unsaid. Hurt and rebuffed, Janet marries Osborne Slade, a man older than herself, but a most desirable person by all Boston standards. The story has to do with her marriage. It is a tepid success for a time, but a crisis arises and at this time Janet meets Donald again. The story closes with the European war in progress and Janet serving as a nurse in France.

“Fidelity to the varied aspects of the present-day life in Boston is to be found in ‘The phœnix.’ Sometimes, however, mere truth palls, and there are pages of the book where the author quite fails to hold our interest, through her very evident desire to make her picture a faithful one. ... What the author has done supremely well is to create the atmosphere of over-organized hustle and underlying boredom in which so many well-to-do women exist.” D. L. M.

+ — Boston Transcript p7 Mr 17 ‘17 450w

“With the possible exception of one or two of the minor characters, the people in the book are not well drawn, and the novel as a whole is somewhat dull.”

– + N Y Times 22:172 Ap 29 ‘17 250w

“The final chapters have a bit of the cinema about them. But ‘The phoenix’ is sincere and alive, while the characters, with the possible exception of Donald Craig, are drawn with faithfulness. It is a good specimen of new Boston fiction.”

+ — Springf’d Republican p15 Jl 29 ‘17 470w

WASHBURN, MARGARET FLOY. Movement and mental imagery; outlines of a motor theory of the complexer mental processes. il *$1.75 Houghton 150 16-15871

This work by a professor of psychology in Vassar college is published as one of the Vassar semi-centennial series. “The author deals with types of association among movements; movement and consciousness; the spontaneous recurrence of movements; the memory after-image and perseveration; the connecting links in movement-systems; associative dispositions; imageless processes; and cognate matters.” (Ath)

Ath p33 Ja ‘17 40w

Boston Transcript p8 O 4 ‘16 350w

“While the appeal of the book is distinctly to the technical student of psychology, the wider bearings of the conception are well considered.”

+ Dial 61:318 O 19 ‘16 300w

Ind 90:297 My 12 ‘17 140w

N Y Br Lib News 3:156 O ‘16

Pratt p20 O ‘17 30w

St Louis 15:6 Ja ‘17 9w

WASHBURN, STANLEY. Russian advance. il *$1.25 (3c) Doubleday 940.91 17-2489

This is Mr Washburn’s third volume of field notes from the Russian front. It covers the period from June 5 to September 1, 1916, and is a reprint in part of articles that have appeared in the London Times. He has confined his account of Russian operations to that part of the campaign that came under his own observation on the southwestern front. The book closes with a summary of the Russian offensive to the first of September.

A L A Bkl 13:309 Ap ‘17

Cleveland p45 Mr ‘17 60w

“A strict censorship has made it impossible for the writer to give names and details and explanations that would have added much to the interest of his narrative. But it is full enough for the general reader, and it also has the merit of handling topics not already written to death by dozens of other war-chroniclers.” P. F. Bicknell

+ Dial 62:306 Ap 5 ‘17 110w

“His book is not long; but he has had the ability to choose for his setting forth those salient things that really present the picture of the army, the country, the strategy, the people, the occurrences great and small of Russia’s part in the war; we have a real glimpse of the Russian advance as a whole, and an actual sense of what, in Russia and in Austria, lies behind it.”

+ N Y Times 22:57 F 18 ‘17 300w

“Unlike ‘Victory in defeat,’ wherein the retreat of 1915 is given with considerable technical detail, the present book inclines to the colorful and the descriptive, with particular emphasis on the master-mind that directed the movement.”

+ Springf’d Republican p17 Ap 8 ‘17 150w

“It is a very cheering report.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p159 Ap 5 ‘17 1000w

WASTE, HENRIE, pseud. Philosophy; an autobiographical fragment. *$1.25 Longmans 17-5129

“Philosophy, fair maid of ever youthful face and wisely old heart, is the fairy godmother in this unique tale of adventuring minds and hearts. Its scene is laid in Freiburg, where the American girl who tells the story in the first person, is pursuing the study of philosophy mainly with the intent to find out all she can about how we know and why we wish to know and whence come and how are governed the motives that control action and the laws that control thought. ... But she is just as human a girl as if she were not so entranced with this high purpose and so absorbed in the mental occupations that will advance her on the way. She is a true daughter of Eve, who was the mother of all philosophy, and, like Eve, her mind is one large question mark before all the manifestations of life. ... She has not long to wait until the signal becomes insistent and the quest absorbing in the matter of the personality of one of her fellow-students. The story of the quick developing of love between them and their mutual attraction for each other makes an idyllic romance wherein philosophy stands ever at their elbows.”—N Y Times

Boston Transcript p7 My 16 ‘17 150w

“There is about this book a quality of freshness and vividness which will hold the general reader’s interest even through the passages of philosophical analysis and research.”

+ Dial 62:148 F 22 ‘17 190w

“Rather dull and prosy narrative.”

— Ind 90:87 Ap 7 ‘17 40w

Int J Ethics 27:407 Ap ‘17 100w

“The author evidently knows her philosophical books, and shows no little acumen in weaving the theorems of the schools into the conversations of a philandering young man and a maid. By all odds the best things in the book are the satirical yet kindly sketches of the other students of the seminar who are not so soulful as Taddeo.”

+ Nation 105:180 Ag 16 ‘17 200w

“A vivid crescendo of experience, alive with the glamor of personality. You read it again as soon as you can, with the same quickened beating of the heart and far more understanding.” R. B.

+ + New Repub 10:384 Ap 28 ‘17 450w

N Y Br Lib News 4:47 Mr ‘17

“Presumably a first book, it shows the anonymous author to be possessed of unusual powers and of striking promise. Her ability to suffuse all life with the light of abstract thought, made glowing and vital, sets her in a class apart, while her power to express tensity of emotion and make it fine and beautiful is a gift ever welcome among writers of fiction.”

+ N Y Times 22:21 Ja 21 ‘17 660w

“A rather skillful book and also rather fascinating. Henrie can react with girlish enthusiasm upon Freiburg with its quaint formal professors, its dumpy landladies, and its uncompromising salespeople who are insulted if you ask for something they do not have: and she can love Taddeo, an olive skinned cosmopolitan.”

+ Springf’d Republican p19 My 27 ‘17 230w

586WATSON, FREDERICK. Story of the Highland regiments. il *$2 Macmillan 355 (Eng ed 16-6535)

“Mr Watson has collected into this volume a story of the campaigns in which the Highland regiments have taken part, and it covers the period from the beginning of the ‘Black Watch’ in 1725, to the spring of 1915. ... The volume is illustrated with full page pictures in colors, and the scenes depicted are the historic and striking incidents in the history of the various regiments. Apt quotations from the poets introduce the chapters and heighten the effect of the stories.”—Boston Transcript

“Every chapter is intensely interesting, those describing the service of the Highlanders in America especially so, for where the accounts deal with the conflict against the United States the story is told with expressions of appreciation of the cause of the American colonists.” J. S. B.

+ Boston Transcript p8 My 19 ‘17 400w

+ Spec 116:195 F 5 ‘16 180w

WATSON, SIR WILLIAM. Man who saw, and other poems arising out of the war. *$1 Harper 821 17-15992

“The contents of this volume include little that can be described as poems of action. The author desires his book to be considered as an intermittent commentary on the main developments, and some of the collateral phenomena, of the war. ... Nineteen of the poems are sonnets. ... Although many of these poems have already appeared in various publications, ... not a few have since undergone a process for which ‘revision’ would be a feeble word.” (Preface)

“Among the finest of the sonnets are those entitled ‘Tranquil liberty,’ ‘Commemorative,’ and ‘You at the helm.’”

+ Ath p310 Je ‘17 200w

“Nothing like this poetry has come from an English poet since Wordsworth lived and Swinburne died.” E. F. E.

+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 16 ‘17 1400w

Cleveland p121 N ‘17 50w

Ind 91:135 Jl 28 ‘17 50w

“I think Sir William Watson has served England by proving that in patriotic and martial vigor the most fastidious of her artists can vie with the most daredevil of her rhymesters.” O. W. Firkins

+ Nation 106:91 Ja 24 ‘18 250w

+ N Y Times 22:241 Je 24 ‘17 500w

“The energy of these poems will keep them alive long after many more tuneful echoes of the conflict are forgotten.”

+ R of Rs 56:217 Ag ‘17 130w

+ Spec 118:613 Je 2 ‘17 620w

“The subject matter of the sonnets is rather too pedestrian to justify the use of that metier, and the other poems incline to tickle the intellect rather than to stir the emotions. These verses of Mr Watson seem to exhibit the temper of an Englishman so outraged by contemporary events that he neglects to listen to the muse—a poet so overwhelmed that he forgets to sing.”

— Springf’d Republican p15 Ag 5 ‘17 230w

“Sir William Watson’s aim is clear, and he has achieved it. His book is, as he desired it to be, ‘an intermittent commentary on the main developments, and some of the collateral phenomena, of the war.’ But future times will turn to it when they want to know what Britain’s case was, what Britain felt and thought in the war, not when they need the consolation and exaltation of great poetry. ‘Crossing the Rubicon,’ ‘The battle of the Bight,’ ‘The charge of the 9th Lancers,’ and other poems that readers may remember to have seen in periodicals (though on most of them Sir William Watson has worked anew since they were first published) fire the blood. The strange Coleridgian poem, ‘Desolation’ is violently exciting.”

+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p354 Jl 26 ‘17 1000w

WATSON, SIR WILLIAM. Retrogression, and other poems. *$1.25 Lane 821 17-2699

This book of poems is a companion volume to the author’s prose work “Pencraft.” It is a defense of the stately and beautiful traditions of English literature, and a lament over their passing:

“For few and fewer do they grow, Who know, or ever care to know, The great things greatly said and sung In this heroic English tongue.”

The book is made up of two parts: Poems of the literary life; Poems personal and general. All the poems appear here in print for the first time with the exception of six reprinted from English periodicals.

“Little in this collection touches Mr Watson’s early standard of finished verse compact of serious if not profound thought. The title-poem is the best, but is too short to redeem the book from the charge of mere poetic journalism.”

— Ath p594 D ‘16 30w

“Most of the lyrics are brief—some consisting of only a couplet or a quatrain, and there is considerable evidence of temper which would have been better modified in more than one instance. There are also memorable lines and there are flashes of wit. But on the whole it is not a volume that will add greatly to Mr Watson’s reputation.” N. H. D.

– + Boston Transcript p7 F 10 ‘17 1000w

“With this poem ‘Nature’s way’ and much else in his book that is sound in thought and brilliant in phrase, Mr Watson will find more sympathizers than he may realize or even desire—for he seems to enjoy thinking of himself as a sort of ‘lonely antagonist of destiny,’ a last survivor of the giants before the flood. It is a pity that this mood of haughty isolation has grown so strong in his work of late. ... The man who has successfully challenged Keats in ‘Ode to autumn’ and Arnold in ‘Wordsworth’s grave’ and Milton himself in ‘Lachrymæ musarum,’ might well afford to let alone all really ignorant or merely spiteful criticism of his work.” Odell Shepard

+ — Dial 63:18 Je 28 ‘17 700w

“Of late years, Mr William Watson has been making poetry a criticism of art rather than a criticism of life. Many of the poems in ‘Retrogression’ seem to be versifications of passages in his ‘Pencraft: a plea for the older ways.’ But the versification is deftly done; it glows now and then with the magic of Wordsworth’s grave’ and the ‘Ode in May.’”

+ — Lit D 54:633 Mr 10 ‘17 300w

“If our own poet’s judgments are correct, surely he need not excite himself over the faults which give to his own virtues the helpful emphasis of contrast; there are worse fates than insulation—on a pinnacle.” O. W. Firkins

+ Nation 105:66 Jl 19 ‘17 330w

+ R of Rs 55:438 Ap ‘17 110w

“All lovers of good poetry, and especially of the finely adjusted word and phrase, will be delighted with the greater part of Mr William Watson’s new volume, ‘Retrogression.’ ... The last portion of the volume, entitled ‘Poems personal and general,’ contain some delightful verses written to Mr Watson’s own daughter, and some tributes to his friends. As a whole the volume will attract, in spite of the fact that none of the poems rises to the heights reached by the poet in previous years.”

+ — Spec 117:772 D 16 ‘16 1150W

“Not always does he attain the aphoristic character of Pope, and not often the sprightly wit and pungency of Lowell. Moreover, some of the rhymed epigrams seem inspired by ill-nature, with the malice ill-concealed. But, on the whole, the book can be recommended for its bracing effect.”

+ — Springf’d Republican p6 F 2 ‘17 550w

“This volume will certainly not add to Mr Watson’s poetic reputation. He has always been an admirable critic, and has shown more than any modern of Ben Jonson’s gift of converting literary criticism into poetry. But he used to have other gifts too. Here there is 587nothing else which is poetry and unfortunately a great deal which is scarcely even verse. ... But in the critical poems he has something to say and something that needs saying just now.”

– + The Times [London] Lit Sup p570 N 30 ‘16 900w

WATTS, MARY STANBERY. Three short plays. *$1.25 (2c) Macmillan 812 17-1624

Mrs Watts, well known as a novelist, appears as a dramatist in this new book. The first, “An ancient dance,” is a two-act play in which a phonograph is utilized as an instrument of tragedy. In “Civilization,” the play in one act that follows, the theory that “a man’s a man for a’ that” is turned inside out and shown to be false according to the conventions of modern society. “The wearin’ o’ the green,” the third play, is a farce in two acts in which the appearance of a real plumber and a real burglar at a fancy dress party produces an amusing situation.

A L A Bkl 13:304 Ap ‘17

“These three plays, by a well-known American novelist, exhibit versatility and a considerable power of writing good dialogue.”

+ Ath p413 Ag ‘17 60w

Pratt p37 O ‘17

“The dialogue is well written and the characterization good, but the plays are rather over-weighted with detail.”

+ Spec 118:545 My 12 ‘17 30w

“‘The ancient dance’ depends upon unlikely error. ... ‘Civilization’ seems designed to prove the time-honored theory that society girls can fall in love with nothing but brass buttons. ... ‘The wearin’ o’ the green’ is a rather obvious farce depending upon mistaken identity carried far beyond the bounds of probability.”

— Springf’d Republican p17 Je 3 ‘17 280w

WATTS-DUNTON, WALTER THEODORE. Poetry and the Renascence of wonder. *$1.75 Button 808.1 16-22776

“‘Poetry and the Renascence of wonder,’ the two famous essays by the late Theodore Watts-Dunton, are presented as rewritten by the author. The text is interspersed with ‘riders’ culled from his criticisms on poetry contributed to the Athenæum, printed in closer text than the material of the essays. The essay on poetry appeared in the ninth and subsequent editions of the ‘Encyclopædia Britannica.’ It examines and explains the principles of poetic art as exemplified by the poetry of all great literatures. ‘The Renascence of wonder’ is the return to the primitive, to the ‘childlike wonder of the Iliad and the Odyssey.’” (R of Rs) The second essay appeared first in the Cyclopædia of English literature. The book has an introduction by Thomas Hake.

“Not satisfactory as a finished product though full of suggestions to the earnest student of poetry.”

+ — A L A Bkl 13:213 F ‘17

“We hoped, when the first volume on our list, ‘Poetry, and the Renascence of wonder,’ was announced, that the large essay or treatise on poetics which Watts-Dunton used to speak of as having been sadly cut down to form the article ‘Poetry’ in the ‘Encyclopaedia Britannica’ was going to be published at full length. It now appears that the original essay no longer exists, and that the excised portions were long ago used up, in our columns and elsewhere. ... Unfortunately, it has lost instead of gained by expansion into a book.”

+ — Ath p467 O ‘16 1350w

“Includes the two essays by which he is best known as a critic, a body of historical and critical comment which will long have a distinctive value.”

+ Bookm 45:292 My ‘17 70w

Ind 89:458 Mr 12 ‘17 100w

Nation 105:293 S 13 ‘17 120w

+ R of Rs 54:676 D ‘16 140w

“As no one is likely to read this book who has not a real interest in literature as a fine art, it will probably irritate all its readers by its formlessness as well as by the inclusion of such poor stuff as the essay on ‘Ethical poetry.’ Yet there will be very few of them whose gratitude will not survive their irritation, especially if they supply for themselves the index which the editor has neglected to supply.”

+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p463 S 28 ‘16 1750w

WATTS-DUNTON, WALTER THEODORE. Vesprie Towers. *$1.35 (2c) Lane 17-7458

An unfailing belief in their “Luck” had been the inheritance of all the Vespries of Vesprie Towers. It survived in Violet Vesprie, the last of the line, tho she is impoverished to the point of penury and finally has to face eviction from her home. She goes to London where she spends four years in wretchedness, but her pride and her faith never waver. In London she befriends a young girl in need, finding later that she is a girl from the neighborhood of her old home. And it is thru this act of kindness that good fortune comes to her, making way for a return to Vesprie Towers.

“The value of the novel lies chiefly in its beauty of spirit and in its evocation of beautiful images.”

+ Ath p580 D ‘16 750w

“One of those leisurely, well-ripened Victorian novels that convey relaxation and a gentle degree of interest to their readers.”

+ Dial 62:483 My 31 ‘17 150w

“The story does not approach in any form or manner that other novel, ‘Aylwin,’ which made Watts-Dunton’s name known as an author. It is amateurish by every sign; there is not a character in it that does not smack of the lay figure, the style is faulty, the dialogue stilted and dull. Now and then it seems to get really under way; there will be a passage that stirs you—but immediately the thing falls down again. ... The book is interesting as some queer old print is interesting, simply as a relic of the kind of thing that once existed.”

– + N Y Times 22:74 Mr 4 ‘17 950w

+ Outlook 115:668 Ap 11 ‘17 15w

WAUGH, FRANK ALBERT. Agricultural college; a study in organization and management and especially in problems of teaching. *$1.10 (3c) Judd 630.7 16-23153

The author, of the Massachusetts agricultural college, treats the problems of agricultural education from the viewpoint of the teacher. On controversial points, as he frankly states, he has stressed the unorthodox point of view. He says, “Education in general is ruled too much by tradition, and the agricultural colleges, of all academic institutions, should be free to take the radical course wherever tradition is called in question. The agricultural college is from the nature of the case, a radical, not a traditional, institution.” Contents: Purposes and ideals; College organization; Physical and financial problems; Organization of instruction; Specialization in agriculture; Course of study—materials; Course of study—arrangement; Methods of teaching; Extension teaching; The experiment station; Special problems and methods.

“Scholarly yet popular in treatment, and accurate. Interesting and profitable reading, whether or not one agrees with its conclusions.”

+ A L A Bkl 13:299 Ap ‘17

“Suggestive, interestingly written, critical discussion, the first in the field.”

+ Cleveland p124 N ‘17 10w

“Clear and radical. ... It is a book for those who attend faculty meetings, for fathers with sons who want this kind of vocational education, and above all for legislators.”

Ind 89:557 Mr 26 ‘17 300w

WAUGH, FRANK ALBERT. Natural style in landscape gardening. il *$2.50 (9c) Badger, R: G. 710 17-17750

A collection of essays on landscape gardening. In the first essay, What is meant, the author reviews the controversy that used to be waged over the merits of the “formal” and the “natural” styles. Modern practice, he says, has developed 588an admirable catholicity of taste that accepts the best of both, and uses the one or the other as best suits the artist’s purpose. The remaining essays are: The native landscape; Form and spirit; The landscape motive; Principles of structural composition; The art of grouping; Features and furnishings; The open field. The author, who is head of the department of agriculture at Amherst agricultural college, has recently been appointed consulting landscape architect of the United States forest service. Photographs from his camera illustrate the work.

“The book, as well as the style of landscape design which it so sympathetically explains, should appeal forcefully to the engineer.”

+ Engin News-Rec 80:371 F 21 ‘18 200w

WAUGH, FRANK ALBERT. Outdoor theaters. il *$2.50 (16c) Badger, R: G. 725.8 17-18366

A book on the design, construction and use of open-air auditoriums. While the outdoor theater is a new institution in America, there are thruout the country, as this book will show, a number of notable examples. Among these are “Bankside,” at the University of North Dakota, the Greek theater at the University of California, the outdoor theaters at Vassar and Bryn Mawr, the “Player’s green” in Chicago, the municipal theater in Anoka, Minnesota, and “Brookside” in Mt. Kisco, New York. The subject is treated in three parts: Questions of use; Problems of design; Selected examples. There is a brief foreword by Percy MacKaye. The book is well illustrated and there is a short bibliography.

+ Engin News-Rec 80:371 F 21 ‘18 80w

Reviewed by M. H. B. Mussey

Survey 39:447 Ja 19 ‘18 180w

WAWN, F. T. Joyful years. *$1.50 (1c) Dutton 17-19508

“The joyful years are those when you are finding yourselves, children.” So speaks Shaun James, writer, widower, and one of the leading characters in this rather lengthy novel of English present day life. Other characters are Cynthia Rosemary Bremner, a normal, happy girl; her brother Alan; her young cousin Joyce; her older and more sophisticated cousin Phyllis; Laurence Man, an official of the “Great company,” in love with Cynthia; and Peter Middleton, meant to be an artist and trying to be a business man, also in love with Cynthia. The last eighty pages deal with the characters in wartime, but the story ends happily for Cynthia and her husband.

“Mr Wawn writes well, and his characters are people of flesh and blood in whom one can feel an interest. The scene is laid largely near Tintagel, and the descriptions of that beautiful and romantic country are well done.”

+ Ath p363 Jl ‘17 100w

“Its endless descriptions are touched with a sort of mild eroticism.” H. W. Boynton

– + Bookm 46:96 S ‘17 380w

“In many ways this is an old-fashioned novel—which is another way of saying that it is a romantic, leisurely and delightful one. ... The wholesomeness and sweet reasonableness of the people one meets in the pages of this book are indeed refreshing. ... A word should be said also for the delicacy with which the author has written of love and marriage. The very soul of purity breathes in his pages.”

+ + Cath World 105:839 S ‘17 350w

“‘The joyful years’ is best described as a first-rate second-rate novel. It is one of those stories of solid worth which only the English writers seem able to produce. On every page there is evidence of the trained thinker and writer who has observed life. ... A good story well told.”

+ Dial 63:117 Ag 16 ‘17 290w

“A mental revel in feminine pulchritude.”

— Ind 92:260 N 3 ‘17 40w

“A tale rather hopelessly old-fashioned, since it records no more unconventional a sex-adventure than is involved in a runaway marriage. ... The story is ‘well-written’ in a way, but unduly drawn out, and marred by a kind of spinsterly voluptuousness which insists on our habitual assistance at the heroine’s toilet.”

– + Nation 105:178 Ag 16 ‘17 380w

“‘The joyful years’ falls short of being a good novel because of the saccharine sweetness of its love affair, because of the tawdry cheapness of its central philosophy, and because the author deliberately chooses the wrong side of great public questions. ... The one character of interest is Phyllis. She is real—she lives; her shallowness and flippancy are exquisitely drawn.” D. P. Berenberg

– + N Y Call p14 Ag 5 ‘17 450w

“The novel contains some interesting pictures of the war, as Peter saw it from the trenches, and as Cynthia saw it from the point of view of the women who had to stay at home and wait.”

+ N Y Times 22:274 Jl 22 ‘17 550w

“The pictures of the hero in the trenches are well drawn.”

+ Spec 118:677 Je 16 ‘17 40w

WEALE, BERTRAM LENOX PUTNAM, pseud. (BERTRAM LENOX SIMPSON). Fight for the republic in China. il *$3.50 (4c) Dodd 951 17-31438

This book covers the years 1911 to 1917. A general introduction sketches events leading up to this period. To include everything which the student or the casual reader needs to know about the Chinese question is the author’s aim. He calls attention particularly to the inclusion of certain Chinese and Japanese documents which “afford a sharp contrast between varying types of eastern brains.” The appendixes give “every document of importance for the period covered.”

“It would be difficult to overestimate the service this book must render to the study of the more important aspects of Far Eastern questions. It must have a place in every library furnished with the best available materials for the intelligent consideration of China and Chinese problems in their relation to the social advance of the modern world.” L. E. Robinson

+ Bookm 46:267 N ‘17 250w

“An anti-Japanese bias is often markedly pronounced.”

+ — Ind 93:200 F 2 ‘18 600w

“It is not only an important addition to our positive knowledge but a valuable contribution to political literature. It is of unique interest in that the case for the republic developed in the narrative is supported by official and semi-official documentary evidence. His sober analysis of the factor of Japan should be read by every intelligent citizen.”

+ N Y Times 23:13 Ja 13 ‘18 500w

“For the reader the work presents all the fascination of the drama, for, rapidly as events have moved of late in the Occident, they have moved even more swiftly in the Orient.”

+ Springf’d Republican p6 D 27 ‘17 720w

WEAVER, ERASMUS MORGAN. Notes on military explosives. 4th ed rev and enl il *$3.25 Wiley 662 17-11354

“The book shows the leading developments wrought by the present war—particularly the employment of atmospheric nitrogen and the substitution of wood pulp for cotton. The text opens with some elementary notes on chemistry and descriptions of substances entering explosives. Then the characteristics and requirements of propelling, disrupting and detonating compounds are presented. There are chapters on tests, storage, handling and use for special demolitions. An appendix contains (1) laboratory experiments to illustrate the section on chemistry, (2) a paper by A. S. Cushman on ‘The role of chemistry in war,’ and (3) the Interstate commerce commission regulations governing the transportation of explosives as freight.” (Engin News-Rec) “The author, a major general in the U.S. army, is chief of coast artillery.” (St Louis)

589

+ Cleveland p113 S ‘17 50w

“This book will be interesting to all who desire to serve their country as military engineers at the ‘front’ or to make the explosives that the needs of the front demand.”

+ Coal Age 11:888 My 19 ‘17 1000w

“General Weaver’s treatise on military explosives has long been one of the most important books in the engineer’s military library, but the past four years have made the previous edition inadequate in regard to use, so that the present edition is welcome.”

+ Engin News-Rec 78:360 My 17 ‘17 150w

N Y P L New Tech Bks p16 Ap ‘17 130w

St Louis 15:366 O ‘17 10w

WEAVER, HENRIETTA. Flame and the shadow-eater. *$1.40 (2c) Holt 17-14135

A book of short stories in which the author’s aim has been to present certain phases of eastern mysticism in the form of fiction. The stories bear such titles as The seller of dreams, The wonder-bubble of the world, Mirage in the desert, Dust in the wind, and The night-comer, and are written in a manner that is imitative of the oriental story teller.

“Told with all the richness of imagery and measured cadence of the oriental tale.”

+ Cleveland p104 S ‘17 40w

Dial 62:527 Je 14 ‘17 150w

“The author frequently succeeds only in being obscure when she endeavors to be mystical. ... Their abundance of color, their intellectual quality, and their departure from the commonplace make the stories quite interesting.”

+ — N Y Times 22:258 Jl 8 ‘17 250w

WEBB, A. P., comp. Bibliography of the works of Thomas Hardy, 1865-1915. *$2.50 Torch press 016.823 17-5721

“Mr Webb has had in mind chiefly the collector of first editions, and has not attempted a complete bibliography, ignoring late editions and American editions, except where the latter rank as first editions. He includes contributions to books, periodicals, and newspapers, and a selection of critical notices, &c. The illustrations comprise a fine photogravure portrait of Mr E. O. Hoppé, and facsimiles of ‘The night of Trafalgar’ from ‘The dynasts,’ and the war poem ‘Song of the soldiers.’” (Ath)

Ath p425 S ‘16 70w

“Mr Webb, who is now at the front, carried out his work while under training in camp, which is not the best place for an undertaking the performance of which necessitates close and constant attendance in libraries and a liberal expenditure of time. The errors of date and description in the collations, the want of uniformity in style, and lack of complete reference, of which complaint has been made, can easily be remedied in a second edition. Notwithstanding inconsistencies in typography, the printing has been well done, and the binding of the book is exceptionally tasteful. The index supplies much useful information.” A. L. C.

Library Association Record 19:75 F 15 ‘17 400w

+ Spec 117:419 D 7 ‘16 140w

WEBB, MARY. Golden arrow. *$1.50 (2c) Dutton (Eng ed 17-15288)

This is one of those books that are distinctly novels of place. The Welsh hills that are its setting enter intimately into the story. Deborah Arden, the farmer’s daughter who has given her great love to Stephen Southernwood, is at home in the hills. But to Stephen, town-bred, they are hampering and confining. They become the symbol to him of the freedom he has renounced. His love for Deborah is not strong enough to hold him and he goes. But once on the other side of the world, he finds that it is powerful enough to draw him back. The half dozen characters of the story, all types from rustic life, are set forth with a sure hand.

“The author has borrowed largely and more or less superficially from Hardy, but she knows her country and her characters: she reflects the moods of that physical nature which has produced superstitions and an uplifting awe in its people, and she has created a story that is worth reading even for its own sake.”

+ Dial 62:444 My 17 ‘17 130w

+ Ind 90:438 Je 2 ‘17 180w

“The novel is at its best in the beginning, for it is one of those books which seem never quite to get anywhere. ... There are some interesting pictures of life in the remote Welsh countryside which is the scene of the entire narrative, quite a number of unusually well-written passages, and altogether the book is a thoughtful one, possessed of many commendable qualities.”

+ — NY Times 22:183 My 6 ‘17 250w

+ Outlook 115:668 Ap 11 ‘17 14w

+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p428 S 7 ‘16 1000w

WEBB, MARY. Gone to earth. *$1.50 (1½c) Dutton 17-18165

Hazel Woodus, only child of a Welsh harper and of a gipsy mother, is a passionate lover of nature, and especially of all weak and hunted things. “Her own close kinship to the little fox which is her great pet is emphasized early in the story.” (N Y Times) She is very beautiful, entirely untaught, and wants to be free. But two men, utterly unlike, love her: Edward Marston, the young minister, who appeals to her spiritual self, and Jack Reddin of Undern, who appeals to her physical self. One becomes her husband, the other her lover, and her life ends in a tragedy.

“There is from the very beginning an almost Æschylean sense of deepening gloom, and oncoming, unavoidable calamity. Nevertheless, there are numerous gleams of light. ... The separate individualities of the principal personages stand out strongly and clearly; and the author can be complimented upon having produced a notable work of fiction.”

+ Ath p472 S ‘17 110w

“Mary Webb writes of her corner of the Welsh mountains with a very real understanding of the country folk, and also, alas, with unmistakable sentimentality.”

+ — Dial 63:220 S 13 ‘17 90w

“On the whole, the ‘localism’ of this writer is hardly more than a garb for her bitter distrust of human nature and society.”

Nation 105:317 S 20 ‘17 270w

“Puritans will be shocked by the plain-spoken frankness with which the author treats questions of sex. ... There is nothing of lewdness even suggested—nor is sex glorified and surrounded with a halo of mysticism. It is dealt with simply, as a phase of life which cannot be ignored. ... Reddin, the brutal squire, is drawn a little too strongly, while Edward Marston, whom Hazel marries, is too much of an idealist to be true to life.” D. P. Berenberg

+ — NY Call p15 S 9 ‘17 380w

“Like her earlier novel, ‘The golden arrow,’ Mrs Webb’s new romance is a story of one of the more remote and lonely districts of Wales. ... Hazel’s character is skillfully analyzed, yet she remains always ‘a girl in a book,’ a thing of romance and unreality. Edward, whose very goodness and generosity proved his undoing, and his placid, altogether conventional mother, however, are real people, while the author shows throughout a keen sense of life’s ironies. The plot is well worked out and the final tragedy a clever bit of symbolism. But what one remembers best in closing the book is the beauty of its descriptions of the countryside.”

+ N Y Times 22:318 Ag 26 ‘17 440w

“The book is notable for the author’s success in conveying to her readers the impression of free open-air life in very wild country.”

+ Spec 119:300 S 22 ‘17 50w

+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p416 Ag 30 ‘17 400w

590WEBB, SIDNEY. Restoration of trade union conditions. pa *50c Huebsch 331.87

“A well known result of the war has been the suspension of trade union conditions in the British Isles. ... With the war came a demand for an enormously increased production in British manufacturing plants. In order to increase the output the government appealed to the labor unions to suspend their protective network of usages and customs. The unions, with great patriotism, consented, but only after receiving an explicit promise from the government that the old rules should be restored after the war. The suspension continues. ... Mr Webb’s main contention is that the restoration of the old usages and customs is impossible.”—Springf’d Republican

Ann Am Acad 74:297 N ‘17 130w

Reviewed by H. M. Kallen

* Dial 63:333 O 11 ‘17 2750w

Ind 92:536 D 15 ‘17 140w

“To disagree with Mr Webb fundamentally, it does not follow at all that what he writes is negligible.” J. W.

+ — NY Call p14 S 23 ‘17 800w

“A clear-minded and courageous analysis of the situation.”

+ Springf’d Republican p8 S 27 ‘17 700w

“This little book of approximately one hundred pages should at the present time demand the serious attention of every trade-unionist, employer, and citizen interested in industrial relations; for in it Sidney Webb discusses one of the serious questions facing the English nation.” B. M. Selekman

+ Survey 38:440 Ag 18 ‘17 850w

WEBB, SIDNEY.^[2] Works manager to-day. *$1 Longmans 658.7 17-31556

An address prepared for a series of private gatherings of works managers in Great Britain. Sidney Webb believes that, whatever form industrial organization may take in the future, whether state control, private control or government by the workers themselves prevail, the function of works manager must continue. “In my own opinion,” he says, “the profession of the manager, under whatever designation, is destined, with the ever-increasing complication of man’s enterprises, to develop a steadily increasing technique and a more and more specialised vocational training of its own; and to secure, like the vocation of the engineer, the architect, or the chemist, universal recognition as a specialized brain-working occupation.” Some of the points touched on are: The function of management; Reducing the cost of production; Appointments and dismissals; The recognition of trade unionism.

“The common-sense remarks as to the functions of works managers and the best way to exercise them may well appeal to those who still adhere to the principle that, business being business, profits are the most important thing to be considered.”

+ Ath p673 D ‘17 70w

“Had such statements come from any one less fully recognized as a thorough student of conditions, in all probability they would have been put down as hysterical. The nature of the gathering, the occasion of the address and the position of the orator give them a grim significance.”

+ Engin News-Rec 80:371 F 21 ‘18 400w

“It would be a good thing if managers of industrial enterprises in America were required to read ‘The works manager to-day,’ by Sidney Webb. Not that it is complete or very profound treatise of the science of management—on the contrary, it is easy fireside reading for a single evening—but it contains a good deal of very sensible talk to which industrial managers might well give heed.” J: A. Fitch

+ Survey 39:443 Ja 19 ‘18 1000w

WEBNER, FRANK ERASTUS. Factory accounting. il $3.30 LaSalle extension univ. 657 17-4009

“This work is intended by the author to be of use to manufacturers and accountants as well as to students. It endeavors to cover a broader field than cost accounting; and in working out the factory accounting technique it deals quite as much with matters of production control as with accounting. ... Four distinct parts comprise the volume. In the first a brief descriptive survey of the different types of management is given. The second deals with the controlling accounts, the general exhibits and the relation of cost accounts to the general exhibit. It contains also chapters on specific order and process production, and on different methods of concentrating their principal characteristics for effective handling. Some of these schemes deal mainly with the distribution of manufacturing costs over product, others with planning and scheduling. The third part is a short chapter describing the different types of industries, classed according to production methods. The fourth part describes methods of collecting data concerning materials, labor, and expense, and of handling these accounts.”—J Pol Econ

“The present volume is better adapted to its primary use, correspondence instruction, although providing a fairly satisfactory text for classroom use. Mr Webner’s broad experience in the field of practice makes him an authority as to what is needed for preparation for that line of work. ... Mr Webner’s discussion of the human element is very good and calls attention to a subject which needs more attention than it generally receives.” R. B. Kester

+ Ann Am Acad 71:226 My ‘17 450w

Cleveland p70 My ‘17 30w

“The unique position of the book in the range of accounting texts is attained by virtue of the fact that, while attempting to set forth a greater range of matter than comes within the sphere of technical cost accounting, the author deals carefully and in detail with the devices and methods of discovering and recording production facts.”

+ J Pol Econ 25:637 Je ‘17 400w

+ Pittsburgh 22:349 Ap ‘17 30w

“‘The sixth volume of the La Salle course in higher accountancy. ... The clear definitions and statements of the author, supplemented by charts, graphs and forms, go far toward simplifying a rather complex subject.’”

+ Pittsburgh 22:469 My ‘17 30w (Reprinted from Scientific American p364 Ap 7 ‘17)

Pratt p24 Jl ‘17 10w

“Succeeds in presenting a complex subject with simplicity.”

+ Springf’d Republican p17 N 25 ‘17 50w

WEBSTER, HENRY KITCHELL. Thoroughbred. il *$1.35 (3c) Bobbs 17-3575

Like many other husbands, he kept his business concerns to himself and he told his wife of the impending crisis only when it had ceased to impend. He paid his stenographer, ordered the telephone taken from his office, and then went home to tell his wife that she might now go back to her mother. This was too much for Celia. She was a girl of spirit and she promptly flew into a rage. Was that what he thought of her! Very well, she would show him! And show him she did—in a twelve dollar a month flat (three rooms and bath, unheated, no closets). This is the story of Celia’s adventures in house-furnishing and housekeeping. It is also that rarity, a love story that is simple, honest and unsentimental.

“Slight, good for reading aloud. Appeared in Everybody’s Magazine.”

+ A L A Bkl 13:268 Mr ‘17

“It contains no episode such as defaces Mr Webster’s ‘The real adventure.’ ... ‘The thoroughbred’ is a wholesome bit of domestic romance. ... Mr Webster writes in what may almost be called the magazine dialect of American-English. It is the Saturday Evening Post style, a talky style which conveys an impression of being like real talk, and is very little like it.” H. W. Boynton

+ — Bookm 45:207 Ap ‘17 450w

591“The ‘Real adventure’ contained rather the promise than the evidence of literary mastership. Mr Webster’s third novel, ‘The thoroughbred,’ contains neither. Considering the work that has preceded it, it is extraordinarily disappointing; considering it by itself, the best that can be said is that it adequately and entertainingly fills a leisure hour or two.”

Boston Transcript p8 F 21 ‘17 200w

“The whole thing seems too easy; there is too much of the superman about it.” E: E. Hale

– + Dial 62:145 P 22 ‘17 550w

“This trivial prettifaction of the commonplace follows an old formula. ... Mr Webster combines this formula with a style of some distinction and considerable gayety. In ‘The real adventure’ he wrote a novel which was rich in performance. ‘The thoroughbred’ is mere timeserving to the gods of publicity and best-sellerdom.”

— New Repub 10:146 Mr 3 ‘17 250w

+ N Y Times 22:26 Ja 28 ‘17 550w

“Henry Kitchell Webster certainly understands the ways of women, which is another way of saying that he understands human nature. ... In some ways, despite its much smaller scope, ‘The thoroughbred’ is a better piece of work than ‘The real adventure.’” E. P. Wyckoff

+ Pub W 91:204 Ja 20 ‘17 450w

“A diverting tale, not true or important, but the sentiment is pretty.”

Springf’d Republican p15 Mr 4 ‘17 200w

WEBSTER, HUTTON. Early European history. il $1.60 Heath 940 17-12510

“Prof. Hutton Webster’s ‘Early European history,’ which begins with prehistoric man, covers the rise of European civilization down to the period of the Protestant reformation with which most histories of modern Europe begin, and it may, therefore, be used conveniently in conjunction with any standard modern history.” (Ind) “The work is intended for high schools which do not care to give a whole year to ancient history alone, but which prefer, in accordance with the recent recommendations of some educational bodies, to cover the general field of all history in a two years’ course.” (Nation)

Ind 91:266 Ag 18 ‘17 50w

“Mr Webster has kept to the same high level of excellence which he set for himself four years ago in his ‘Ancient history.’ ... He has unusually good chapters on the rise and spread of Islam, on the Mongols and the Turks, on the formation of national languages and literatures, and on early geographical discovery and colonization. ... The only unsatisfactory sections are those on feudalism and Germanic law.”

+ — Nation 105:267 S 6 ‘17 580w

“Adds another valuable text to the growing list already in this field. ... As to maps, illustrations, and plates, the book is well supplied. The appendix contains a long table of events and dates, which will be likely to hinder rather than help the inexperienced teacher.” R. M. Tryon

+ — School R 25:686 N ‘17 200w

WEED, CLARENCE MOORES. Butterflies worth knowing. (Little nature lib.; Worth knowing ser.) il *$1.60 (2c) Doubleday 595.7 17-13203

The author says, “In this little book an attempt has been made to discuss the more abundant and widely distributed butterflies of eastern North America from the point of view of their life histories and their relations to their surroundings.” Part 1, serving as an introduction, is given up to a discussion of the structure, color, life and habits, etc., of the butterfly. Part 2, the largest section of the book is devoted to descriptions of the true butterflies, superfamily Papilionoidea; part 3 to the skipper butterflies, superfamily Hesperioidea. There are over thirty color plates with additional plates in black and white.

“Brief, interestingly written book for the general reader. There is no key for the identification of species.”

+ — Cleveland p94 Jl ‘17 50w

“A volume that will delight and inform.”

Lit D 55:48 Ag 4 ‘17 200w

+ N Y Times 22:254 Jl 8 ‘17 80w

WEEKLEY, ERNEST. Surnames. *$2.25 Dutton 929.1 (Eng ed 17-10193)

This book, like an earlier one, “Romance of names,” is, the author says, an “offshoot” of the “Dictionary of English surnames” on which he has been engaged for some years. He says, “The present volume treats much more completely, and hence more ponderously, of certain groups of surnames which I have investigated with some approach to thoroughness. ... Its relation to the ‘Romance of names’ is that of a more or less erudite treatise to a primer, matter which in the former book was dismissed in a paragraph or two being here expanded into a chapter. ... The index contains some six thousand existing surnames, including a certain proportion of French and German names and a sprinkling from other countries.” Among the chapter headings are: The study of surnames; The Teutonic name-system; Some local surnames; The corruption of local surnames; Some occupative surnames; Physical nicknames; Costume nicknames; Vegetable nicknames; Pageant names; The Shakespeare type of surname.

A L A Bkl 13:447 Jl ‘17

“A wonderful book.”

+ Boston Transcript p6 Ap 18 ‘17 180w

“This volume and two previous studies by Professor Weekley, ‘The romance of words’ and ‘The romance of names’ should be in every home library.”

+ R of Rs 56:332 S ‘17 100w

“A professor and the head of a modern language department in one of our new universities, Mr Weekley may be supposed to know his business so far as learning goes. The satisfactory thing from the ordinary reader’s point of view is that he wears his learning lightly, and infuses some welcome humour into his research. ... We want good learning popularised, and he has gone the right way to do it.”

+ Sat R 122:580 D 16 ‘16 320w

+ Spec 118:207 F 17 ‘17 1850w

“This fascinating book has scholarship and humor to recommend it.”

+ Springf’d Republican p17 Mr 18 ‘17 1850w

“We simply cannot help reading him.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p546 N 16 ‘16 1250w

WEEKS, ARLAND DEYETT. Psychology of citizenship. (National social science ser.) *50c (2c) McClurg 304 17-10222

The author says, “This book is a study of the psychology of our relations to civic affairs and deals with mental traits affecting the quality of citizenship.” The book is made up of brief chapters on: Civic demands upon intelligence; Social inertia; The limits of attention; Forms of distraction; The effect of machinery upon the mind; The spirit of labor; The control of suggestion; Civic publicity and the voter; The legal mind; Views of property; A sense of humanity. In the last chapter the author makes some observations on the psychology of war. He is professor of education in the North Dakota agricultural college, and a series of articles contributed to the American Journal of Sociology has served as a basis for this book.

Am Econ R 7:429 Je ‘17 50w

A L A Bkl 14:8 O ‘17

“The student of practical politics will find much to interest him in the book, particularly in the chapter which deals with ‘Civic publicity and the voter.’”

+ Am Pol Sci R 12:160 F ‘18 50w

“There is one excellent and practical chapter on civic publicity. A book which will rouse not only thought but discussion.”

+ Cleveland p77 Je ‘17 70w

592“Words of special emphasis would be reserved to commend this small but unusually able and attractive book. Professor Weeks has succeeded in carrying a message of vital significance, in phrasing it in an effective style, and above all in selecting for emphasis the focal points of interest to the understanding of the mind of the citizen. This is popular psychology directed with skill to problems of daily concern.”

+ Dial 63:348 O 11 ‘17 220w

R of Rs 56:440 O ‘17 30w

St Louis 15:169 Je ‘17

“Prof. Weeks’s views, while not all acceptable, should at least stimulate social thinking.”

Springf’d Republican p8 Ap 20 ‘17 320w

WEEKS, RAYMOND. Ode to France. *50c Oxford 811 17-9132

“This ode was written during August and September, 1914. The poet calls upon the world to rescue France, the ‘land whose deeds of old still burn,’ from the hideous shame forced upon her by the Huns.”—R of Rs

“This admirably wrought poem is now being read from the public platform and it has moved thousands to greater affection for France—affection which has taken practical form in contributions to French relief.”

+ Lit D 54:1787 Je 9 ‘17 400w

R of Rs 55:660 Je ‘17 30w

WELD, LOUIS DWIGHT HARVELL. Marketing of farm products. *$1.50 Macmillan 338 16-1411

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

“The reviewer regrets saying so much in seeming dispraise of a book he so greatly approves. But the publication of so comprehensive and vigorous a study of this important question should be the occasion for all students of the problem to make frank and searching examination of their ideas upon the subject. Professor Weld has laid some excellent foundations. Later writers will be much in his debt and teachers will find that he has given them an excellent book for class use. If some of us think he is unduly complacent about the existing organization of the trade in farm products we may well remember that a large amount of public sentiment and local prejudice can be depended upon to exert a strong counter-influence.” E. G. Nourse

+ — J Pol Econ 25:204 F ‘17 1800w

WELLMAN, MABEL THACHER. Food study. il *$1 Little 641 17-2354

The author, head of the department of home economics in Indiana university, has planned this work as a text book for high schools. She says, “The work is an attempt to present a manual of definite directions which will aid the student in her adventure into the subject, but it is by no means intended to supersede the teacher or to furnish material which can be taught by one untrained in the subject.” In her arrangement of material the author has not followed conventional lines. For instance, she has placed her lessons on canning and preserving first, because fall, the opening of the school year, is the natural time for such work. References for reading and Questions follow each chapter.

“Includes instruction in table manners and on the etiquette of entertaining. A distinctive feature is a diagram of a table laid for a home dinner.”

+ Cleveland p112 S ‘17 40w

Educ R 53:430 Ap ‘17 30w

N Y Br Lib News 4:45 Mr ‘17

“The housewife desirous of retrenching her expenses will find aid and instruction.”

+ N Y Times 22:73 Ap 29 ‘17 90w

Pittsburgh 22:319 Ap ‘17

St Louis 15:175 Je ‘17

“This book seems to have covered the ground pretty thoroughly, and to be a source of reliable information gathered from standard works and authorities. The class experiments are clear and definite, the summary questions and references most comprehensive. But in an attempt to put the material together for ‘certain advantages in presentation, as the early introduction of such subjects as meals and serving,’ a most illogical and confusing plan has been followed.” Catherine Creamer

+ — School R 25:300 Ap ‘17 280w

“A distinct addition to the available secondary-school texts on foods. The most valuable contribution is in the excellent quality of the subject-matter presented. This material is accurate, well selected, and clearly and simply written. It includes explanations of the principals of physics, chemistry, and bacteriology that are encountered in the preparation of foods as well as general information about food materials. This text material is not only well selected, but it is presented in such a sequence that there is a gradual development of the material adapted to the comprehension and progress of the students.” A. R. Hanna