The Cumulative Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Digests of reviews appearing in January—December 1905, magazines (continued 27)

“This is the first orderly and intelligent treatise devoted to it. Goes far to supply the obvious need of a manual.”

+ — Nation. 80: 121. F. 9, ‘05. 490w.

Van Dyke, Henry. Essays in application. **$1.50. Scribner.

“A group of twelve essays and addresses, which may be generally characterized as the creed or confession of an idealist, and an application of his principles to life.”—Outlook.

* + Lit. D. 31: 957. D. 23, ‘05. 750w.

“These essays bear his stamp. They are not written solely for scholars. They are easily understandable, readable, while his ‘sane idealism’ shines through them all.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 749. N. 4, ‘05. 520w.

Outlook. 81: 628. N. 11, ‘05. 40w.

Van Dyke, Henry. Fisherman’s luck, and some other uncertain things. †$1.50. Scribner.

“The thirteenth edition of a well-known series of essays arranged in the form of a holiday book illustrated with most agreeable drawings by F. Walter Taylor.” (Critic.) The volume contains beside the title essay: The thrilling moment; Talkability; A wild strawberry; Lovers and landscape; A fatal success; Fishing in books; A Norwegian honeymoon; Who owns the mountains? A lazy, idle book; The open fire; A slumber song.

* + Critic. 47: 583. D. ‘05. 30w.

* + Dial. 39: 449. D. 16, ‘05. 80w.

* + Nation. 81: 299. O. 12, ‘05. 40w.

* Outlook. 81: 381. O. 14, ‘05. 30w.

Van Dyke, Henry, ed. Little masterpieces of English poetry, by British and American authors; ed. by Henry van Dyke, assisted by Hardin Craig. 6v. ea. **75c; set, **$4.50. Doubleday.

“A companion to the ‘Science,’ ‘Fiction’ and ‘Humor’ series.... For the many ... such a collection as this, wisely selected, and adapted to the limits of both time and purse of the average reader, is of real and not inconsiderable value.” (Outlook.) “In the first of the six little volumes we find ballads old and new, in the second, idyls and stories in verse, and in the four remaining volumes lyrics, odes, sonnets and epigrams; descriptive and reflective verse; and elegies and hymns. Each of these major divisions is subdivided according to subjects. Living poets are excluded.” (Critic.)

* “The principle of arrangement followed in this new one is as excellent as it is novel. As a rule, admirable judgment has been shown in combining these handy volumes, the most remarkable defect being the omission of Shelley’s ‘Adonais.’”

+ + — Critic. 47: 584. D. ‘05. 120w.

* “Dr. van Dyke’s name is a sufficient guarantee of the excellence of the selection.”

+ Outlook. 81: 682. N. 18, ‘05. 80w.

Van Dyke, Henry. Music and other poems. **$1. Scribner.

A collection of poems which take many forms and follow many themes. The opening “Ode to music” is followed by sonnets, lyrics, and other verses treating of the open, the silent hills, and the hearth and home.

“Dr. Van Dyke’s work is that of a scholar in poetry endowed with a graceful gift of lyric speech.” Ferris Greenslet.

+ + Atlan. 96: 420. S. ‘05. 570w.

“They are delicate and graceful in workmanship, the expression of a refined and sensitive poetic instinct rather than the outpourings of a creative mood.”

+ + Dial. 38: 197. Mr. 16, ‘05. 390w.

“Dr. Van Dyke has nearly every good poetic gift except creative genius.”

+ Ind. 58: 384. F. 16, ‘05. 140w.

* “In spite of his popularity even Dr. van Dyke, who attempts to supply our want of a reflective poet, leaves much to be desired in depth and significance.”

+ — Ind. 59: 1162. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.

“There is much that is charming and appealing in these verses. From first to last there is evidence of an unusual gift for verbal music. If they are a little too honeyed, too academic, they are also the production of a skillful artificer in words and of a mind of high culture and high ideals.”

+ + Reader. 5: 498. Mr. ‘05. 430w.

Van Dyke, Henry. School of life, **50c. Scribner.

In this thin little volume is “eloquently expressed an optimism based, not on temperament, but on faith in character, discernment of the spiritual possibilities of life, and sound judgment of ethical values.” (Outlook.)

“The characteristic charm of Dr. van Dyke’s former works is extended to the present volume.”

+ Bookm. 21: 328. My. ‘05. 30w.

+ Outlook. 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 50w.

Van Dyke, Henry. Spirit of Christmas. **75c. Scribner.

Four essays for the Christmas tide. The first, “A dream story,” shows how power and knowledge are both insufficient to reclaim the world from sin, but that the secret of success lies in greater love; the second, “Christmas giving and Christmas living,” offers helpful suggestions on the spirit of giving; the third, “Christmas keeping,” shows the possible purification in the Christmas thought; and the two Christmas prayers make a plea for the home and the lonely ones.

* + Dial. 39: 449. D. 16, ‘05. 60w.

* “Full of Dr. van Dyke’s spirit of helpfulness, and pervaded by the very human charm of his style.”

+ Outlook. 81: 838. D. 2, ‘05. 50w.

Van Dyke, Paul. Renascence portraits. **$2. Scribner.

Professor van Dyke’s survey embraces “the England, Germany, and Italy of the sixteenth century. His concern is primarily with three individuals—Pietro Aretino, the Venetian satirist; Thomas Cromwell, the unscrupulous minister of the still less scrupulous Henry VIII., and the Emperor Maximilian I.—but the standpoint from which they are regarded is such as to necessitate a close examination of their times.”—Outlook.

* “His book appears to have been printed without the proofs being read, though this appearance 360may be due to the author’s own style, which is vicious.”

+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 852. D. 2, ‘05. 1240w.

* “The results, not the details, of research are here exhibited, and in a setting of idea which gives color and meaning and movement.”

+ Outlook. 81: 715. N. 25, ‘05. 310w.

Van Vorst, Marie. Amanda of the mill: a novel. †$1.50. Dodd.

“A novel with a ‘poor white trash’ mill-girl heroine, and a dissipated labor agitator for hero, does not sound promising.” (Outlook.) It “is clearly meant as a tract on industrial conditions in the new South.... [It] pictures the life of the factory hands in the cotton mills—a life ... which is mainly sickness, suffering and death. There is much in the book to arouse sober thought, and certain passages are rich in description and characterization.” (Pub. Opin.)

“Apart from errors in style, and, here and there, in feeling, there is a capacity to portray life which shows real power.”

+ — Acad. 68: 240. Mr. 11, ‘05. 230w.

“Is not a strong story, though it shows in places, the wish, if not the power, to say something vital about love and life and death.”

+ Ath. 1905, 1: 395. Ap. 1. 420w.

Reviewed by Herbert W. Horwill.

+ — Forum. 37: 113. Jl. ‘05. 220w.

“Mrs. Van Vorst paints with a strong hand the terrible life in the mills.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 260. Ap. 22, ‘05. 610w.

“Interesting and good work, although its story is improbable and over weighted with propagandist theories and statistics.”

+ — Outlook. 80: 137. My. 13, ‘05. 40w.

“In ‘Amanda of the mill’ she does not control her material; it controls her. Over-seriousness forces her into melodrama, with improbabilities that were never intended.”

— + Pub. Opin. 38: 633. Ap. 22, ‘05. 130w.

“An interesting but rather improbable story.”

+ — R. of Rs. 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 30w.

Vardon, Harry. Complete golfer. **$3.50. McClure.

“Mr. Vardon has four times won the open championship of Great Britain and once the American championship. There is no doubt, therefore, that he knows how to play golf; and this book proves that he knows how to tell others how to do it.” (Outlook.) The book is amply illustrated.

“Will be read with unusual interest as being the work of one who is not only original in his methods and fascinating in his style, but also perhaps the most finished and graceful player that has ever lived.”

+ + + Ath. 1905, 2: 295. S. 2. 1300w.

“It is a very good book. He never leaves one in doubt as to his meaning, and he brings to the succour of his pen a pleasant geniality and optimism.”

+ + Lond. Times. 4: 202. Je. 23, ‘05. 530w.

“Vardon’s manner of writing is as straightforward and interesting as his manner of playing golf.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 608. S. 16, ‘05. 250w.

“He has accomplished what has often been called the impossible, the writing of a helpful book in an entertaining manner by one who is an acknowledged expert of the game.” F. W. C.

+ + + N. Y. Times. 10: 652. O. 7, ‘05. 1720w.

* + + N. Y. Times. 10: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.

“His descriptions of his style are simple, clear, and interesting, and his stories of experiences on the links in this country, England, and Scotland are rarely entertaining. His book is full of valuable hints, not only for the novice, but for the experienced golfer as well.”

+ + Outlook. 81: 88. S. 9, ‘05. 90w.

+ + Sat. R. 100: 179. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1270w.

+ + Spec. 95: 56. Ag. 5, ‘05. 280w.

Veblen, Thorstein B. Theory of business enterprise. **$1.50. Scribner.

“The work deals rather with the methods of modern financiering and the quest of profit rather than with the other less prominent commercial data. If we have to choose between the ten chapters of which the volume consists, we should particularly recommend the last five as appealing more generally to the unbiased reader.... The first five seem rather to lead up to the others, and to be an attempt at more technical and erudite writing. Much is new of what the author says about crises.... The ‘Theory of modern welfare,’ ... the significance for the business world at large of the advance in workingmen’s wages, ... and the theory of wasteful expenditure” are fully treated. “The excellent remarks (pp. 319, 320) about business thinking, and the equally keen observation about the absence of thrift among the modern industrial workmen and its causes (pp. 325-27) are among the most timely in the book.... The points of interest are many, and it is to be regretted that we cannot here call attention to all of them.”—J. Pol. Econ.

“The book lacks the desirable quality of terseness and the writer at times wanders from the main line of his subject. A commendable feature is the formulation of many of his statements in symbols of mathematics, which are not incorporated into the text, but in foot-notes.” John C. Duncan.

+ — Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 612. My. ‘05. 250w.

“Professor Veblen has a preternaturally vivid insight into the pathological side of business and society: and he follows remorselessly the poisoned tract which his critical scalpel has discovered. And yet, despite the fact that the author’s attitude renders the highest approval of either the scientific or the ethical standpoint impossible, the book is an uncommonly suggestive one. The penetrating glance into certain broad and seamy aspects of our industrial life prompts to a reflective testing of one’s social beliefs and ideals.” Winthrop More Daniels.

+ + Atlan. 95: 558. Ap. ‘05. 990w.

“Professor Veblen, except in his satiric moods, tends to an oracular and often to a tortuous mode of expression. By reason of its many evidences of keen and profound thought, of a high grade of scholarship and of a breadth and sureness of vision, the book is notable among recent contributions to economics; and tho its usual style is difficult, it is yet penetrated by flashes of inimitable satiric wit that is delightful.”

+ + — Ind. 58: 727. Mr. 30, ‘05. 570w.

“Our objection to this work ... is ... the constant use of terms which to the lay mind seem unnecessarily studied and anachronistic. The excellent qualities of scholarly reasoning and scientific demonstration which characterize this book, besides the author’s wide acquaintance with the existing economic literature....” A. M. Wergeland.

+ + — J. Pol. Econ. 13: 115. D. ‘04. 930w.

“Such a theory as is here set forth may impress the readers of sensational magazines: but it is a travesty of economics and an unjust aspersion of our business morality.”

— — Nation. 81: 37. Jl. 13, ‘05. 2280w.

Reviewed by Frank Haigh Dixon.

+ + — Yale R. 14: 96. My. ‘05. 550w.

Vesey, Arthur Henry. Clock and the key. †$1.50. Appleton.

An American girl in modern Venice sets her two lovers the task of bringing to her a casket of jewels which disappeared five centuries before. One man is an Italian duke, the other an American. With the girl as the prize, the search for the jewels soon results in a series of complicated and exciting adventures, but at last by the aid of an old and intricate clock, which is itself the key, the jewels come to the girl, and the girl to the man she loves.

361“It is mysterious without being sensational, sparkling without being trashy.”

+ Critic. 47: 286. S. ‘05. 80w.

“It really makes a very good mystery story.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 140. Mr. 4, ‘05. 370w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 150w.

Views of early New York; with illustrative sketches; prepared for the New York chapter of the colonial order of the Acorn. priv. ptd. Colonial order of the Acorn, N. Y.

This volume “contains six copper plate engravings made by Edwin Davis French from views of New York in the early stages of its history.... ‘These views were selected with care, and graphically represent the gradual growth of the city from the little Dutch trading-post, situated at the Battery, to the more important city depicted in Rollinson’s view of 1801.’ Each view is accompanied by an explanatory sketch from a well-known authority.” (N. Y. Times.)

“The little volume is full of interest to students of New York history.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 214. Ap. 8, ‘05. 290w.

Vigfusson, Gudbrandur, and Powell, Frederick York, eds and trs. Origines islandicae: a collection of the more important sagas and other native writings relating to the settlement and early history of Iceland. 2v. *$14. Oxford.

These volumes are divided into five books: “Landnámabok—the book of the land-taking.... Islandingabok (Libellus islandorum) a collection of notes made in the eleventh or twelfth century ... relating to the old law and customs of the Norsemen settled in Iceland.... Tales and legends relating to the conversion and early church history of Iceland, Sagas relating to the history of Iceland during the first two centuries ... divided into four sections, which treat of the South, the West, the North, and the East quarters respectively.... Sagas relating to the exploring voyages of Icelanders.... All or nearly all of this matter has, we think, been printed before in Iceland or in Denmark, but much of it is now accessible only in books that have become scarce, and in texts far from accurate.”—Nation.

* “The present work is by no means free from some of the faults which marked its predecessor, the ‘Corpus poeticum boreale’; but fortunately the comparison of the two works will hold for the merits as well as the defects.”

+ + — Ath. 1905, 2: 646. N. 11. 2650w.

Reviewed by W. P. Ker.

* + + Eng. Hist. R. 20: 779. O. ‘05. 1080w.

* “Deeply as we must regret the loss of these two distinguished men before completing their work, the book as it stands is one of great value, and will doubtless find a place on the shelves of every university library and of every scholar of the old Northern literature. The translation is clear, direct, and simple, slightly archaic as is right.”

+ + Nation. 81: 260. S. 28, ‘05. 2910w.

* N. Y. Times. 10: 577. S. 2, ‘05. 250w.

* “In this case the peculiar gifts of mediaeval temperament and curious linguistic knowledge of the English translator have given us a translation equally spirited and faithful on the whole, often very near the picturesque quality of the original and yet good honest idiomatic English prose.”

+ + Sat. R. 100: 627. N. 11, ‘05. 2020w.

Villard, Henry. Memoirs of Henry Villard, journalist and financier, 1835-1900. 2v. **$5. Houghton.

Henry Villard landed in New York in 1853, a mere boy, without friends, money, or a knowledge of English. After suffering almost incredible hardships, he finally succeeded as a journalist, representing the N. Y. Tribune as war correspondent during the Civil war. His memoirs contain valuable accounts of battles, estimates of the commanders, and personal descriptions of Lincoln and others. Later he left journalism for finance, attaining eminence in this calling also.

“What separates it from other books of its class is that it is a characteristic illustration of American possibilities.” M. A. De Wolfe Howe.

+ + Atlan. 95: 131. Ja. ‘05. 810w.

Villari, Luigi, ed. Balkan question. *$3. Dutton.

A symposium on the Macedonian question, past, present, and future. Its object is to draw the attention of Englishmen to the situation in the Balkans, to show that Turkey cannot be reformed from within and that the time is ripe to bring about European control. There are chapters by English writers on the various aspects of the problem, and by French and Italian writers on the attitude and duty of their respective countries.

Critic. 47: 410. N. ‘05. 460w.

“To be sure, it is a piece of liberal propaganda and tells only one side of the story, but it is nevertheless a lucid explanation of a very complicated situation.”

+ + — Ind. 59: 751. S. 28, ‘05. 540w.

“There is, in the book before us, considerable repetition, an occasional contradiction, and some diversity, not only as to points of view, but as to such minor matters as the spelling of geographical and proper nouns.”

+ + — Nation. 80: 424. My. 25, ‘05. 1340w.

“It is a most informing and interesting volume.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 198. Ap. 1, ‘05. 650w.

“We know of no other volume exhibiting the subject so comprehensively and so clearly from the pro-Macedonian standpoint.”

+ + + Outlook. 79: 757. Mr. 25, ‘05. 200w.

“Undoubtedly the most instructive two chapters are those by Mr. Valentine Chirol and Mr. Bourchier.”

+ Sat. R. 99: 634. My. 13, ‘05. 1020w.

Villari, Luigi. Russia under the great shadow. **$3.50. Pott.

“Unless all the auguries should prove false, the war in the Far East should mark the transition of Russia from the Middle ages to the twentieth century, from the Eastern to the Western world, from barbarism to civilization,” gives the keynote of Mr. Villari’s optimism which characterizes this work, altho he brings the reader face to face with the dark facts of present conditions. One of the strongest chapters in the book is that in the industrial development of Russia whose conclusion proves that “M. de Witte’s scheme of making agricultural Russia an industrial country was a mistake both politically and economically.” (Sat. R.)

“The book is so good that we find little to say about it. The only point upon which we find Mr. Villari inclined to go wrong concerns the defects of the Eastern church.”

+ + — Ath. 1905, 1: 747. Je. 17. 480w.

“If it does not claim to be a very profound study, it is, nevertheless, a very pleasant book to read, and contains much interesting, and even valuable information.”

+ + Lond. Times. 4: 222. Jl. 14, ‘05. 500w.

“Mr. Villari has written an excellent account of the Czar’s empire in war-time.”

+ + + N. Y. Times. 10: 542. Ag. 19, ‘05. 2310w.

“The work itself strikes us less as that of an observant traveller than a compilation of material taken from well-known standard works.”

+ + — Sat. R. 100: 121. Jl. 22, ‘05. 700w.

“Is full of shrewd observation and vivid description, and is admirably illustrated.”

+ + Spec. 95: 152. Jl. 29, ‘05. 130w.

362Villiers, Frederic. Port Arthur: three months with the besiegers. *$2.50. Longmans.

An English war correspondent’s story of three months with the Japanese army before Port Arthur. It is a vivid and stirring account as far as it goes, but unfortunately the author left the army two months before the actual fall of the fortress.

“Mr. Villiers’ impressions ... form a series of word-pictures which, although at times they are somewhat disjointed, make interesting reading, and this, too, despite the irritating and frequently recurring fact that unimportant and somewhat egotistical information about the writer and his field companions is unnecessarily obtruded upon the attention of the reader.”

+ + Acad. 68: 174. F. 25, ‘05. 550w.

“The text is brightly written, in a vein altogether cheerful.”

+ Dial. 38: 275. Ap. 16, ‘05. 150w.

“It is simply the diary of an experienced observer.”

+ + Nation. 80: 316. Ap. 20, ‘05. 3650w.

“It is as a study of human nature exposed to exceptional conditions that it holds the interest of the reader from the first page to the last.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 260. Ap. 22, ‘05. 760w.

“Taken only for what it claims to be—a picturesque, gossipy narrative of personal observation and experience—the book is enjoyable.”

+ Outlook. 79: 653. Mr. 11, ‘05. 120w.

Pub. Opin. 38: 467. Mr. 25, ‘05. 690w.

“The narrative throughout is written with a cheerful good feeling and fairness which command respect.”

+ + Spec. 94: 405. Mr. 18, ‘05. 130w.

Vilmorin-Andrieux, et cie. Vegetable garden. *$4.50. Dutton.

“The new issue of the English version of Mm. Vilmorin-Andrieux’ vegetable encyclopedia makes a volume of nearly 800 pages.... The book shows its mixed origin inevitably: the general notes on culture are chiefly founded on the practice of the Paris market-gardens; and these are followed by directions in smaller type intended for British conditions. There is bewildering choice of varieties of every root and herb—French, German, Italian, or American.... The botanical and historical information is rather disproportionate to the cultural directions.... Small woodcuts illustrate the book.”—Sat. R.

+ + Acad. 68: 815. Ag. 5, ‘05. 190w.

+ + Ath. 1905, 2: 280. Ag. 26. 320w.

* “With Professor Bailey’s valuable ‘Cyclopaedia,’ and with this minor cyclopaedia supplementing that, our gardeners, professional and amateur, are well equipped.”

+ + Nation. 81: 472. D. 7, ‘05. 560w.

“The book will probably be of more value to the experienced gardener than to the beginner.”

+ + Outlook. 81: 45. S. 2, ‘05. 50w.

+ Sat. R. 100: 155. Jl. 29, ‘05. 400w.

+ Spec. 95: 159. Jl. 29, ‘05. 250w.

Vincent, Marvin R., tr. See Dante, A. Inferno.

Vinogradoff, Paul. Growth of the manor. *$2.50. Macmillan.

A volume based upon lectures given at Oxford in the summer of 1904, and addressed primarily to students of general history. The author gives a full treatment of manorial origins; he states in his preface: “All periods of English history had their bearing on the life of the manor. Some germs of manorial institutions may be found in the Celtic age; the Roman occupation of the island had undoubtedly a powerful influence on its economic arrangements; the old English period is marked by the full development of the rural township; the feudal epoch finds the manor at its height; the dissolution of the manor forms one of the processes by which modern commercial intercourse was brought about.”

“His method and the mastery of the details of his subject combine to produce a notable book; but we confess to disappointment that he did not pursue to a greater extent the test of comparative polity. Broad as it is in outline, it is full to the highest degree of the most valuable details. A mass of material brought together and classified in a manner which must remain of permanent value.”

+ + + Acad. 68: 125. F. 11, ‘05. 780w.

“On the whole, Dr. Vinogradoff is not convincing in his argument.”

— + Lond. Times. 4: 322. O. 6, ‘05. 1050w.

“This power of brilliant scientific intuition in individual instances, along with his vast general erudition, is what makes Vinogradoff so admirable. He is preëminently a ‘case historian.’ But the power of summation, of vividly portraying the march of change in its broad currents, he does not possess.”

+ + — Nation. 81: 223. S. 14, ‘05. 1490w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 105. F. 18, ‘05. 330w.

“In handling a subject that promises so much Dr. Vinogradoff has displayed an accuracy rare among holders of British professorships.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 315. My. 13, ‘05. 290w.

“Scholars will not find it easy to accept Dr. Vinogradoff’s conclusions in full, but all will perceive in his treatise an illuminating contribution to a difficult problem.”

+ + — Outlook. 79: 652. Mr. 11, ‘05. 300w.

“Dr. Vinogradoff in stating his case has also carefully set forth the views of those who differ from him, and the result is a book of singular value as well as of extraordinary fascination.”

+ + + Spec. 94: 594. Ap. 22, ‘05. 2250w.

Vitelleschi, Marchesa. Romance of Savoy. *$7.50. Dutton.

The romantic rise of the House of Savoy is sketched from its subservient position under the insolent protection of the King of France to an independent state worthy of the respect of the whole of Europe. Two important personages are the center of development, Victor Amadeus II., Duke of Savoy, and Anna Maria of Orleans, granddaughter of Charles I.

“Certain peculiarities of diction betray deficient knowledge of English on the part of the author or the translator, if it has been found necessary to call in the latter.”

+ + — Ath. 1905, 1: 488. Ap. 15. 1800w.

“If she had not attempted to prove too much, to dwell too strongly on the importance to Savoy of its connection with the Stuarts, her book would have been more convincing.”

+ + — N. Y. Times. 10: 533. Ag. 12, ‘05. 1050w.

“She has been an industrious worker, and has unearthed from the papers put at her disposition some interesting things relative to a picturesque period in Italian history. She has also, however, unearthed some things of rather doubtful permanent worth, and the printing of these at times clouds the clearness of her narrative.”

+ + — Outlook. 80: 984. Ag. 19, ‘05. 280w.

Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred. Emile Zola, novelist and reformer. **$3.50. Lane.

A life of Zola by his authorized translator, the son of one of his first publishers. Zola’s school days at Aix, his youth in Paris, his position with the publisher Hachette, his connection with the Dreyfus episode, and the history of his writings, particularly the long Rougon-Manquart cycle, are given in full. There is much of his contracts with publishers and theatrical managers, and the business detail incident to his work.

“Not one of the five hundred and fifty pages that make up this life is out of place.”

+ + Critic. 46: 188. F. ‘05. 120w.

“In some respects Mr. Vizetelly’s ‘Zola’ is a 363satisfactory, and is likely to remain for some time a definitive work. With regard to the facts of Zola’s career there is probably no one capable of speaking with more authority than Mr. Vizetelly. The book is unnecessarily crowded with ‘shop.’”

+ + — Ind. 58: 266. F. 2, ‘05. 700w.

* “Tho wanting in conclusion and proportion, is likely to be for some time an authoritative source for the facts of the novelist’s life.”

+ + — Ind. 59: 1162. N. 16, ‘05. 70w.

Vizetelly, Francis (Frank) Horace. Preparation of manuscripts for the printer. *75c. Funk.

A series of directions to authors as to the manner of preparing copy and correcting proofs with suggestions on submitting manuscripts for publication.

* “It contains much useful information and sound advice from a man of experience in the publishing world.”

+ + Outlook. 81: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 50w.

* “Altogether, this is likely to be a useful book.”

+ Spec. 95: 934. D. 2, ‘05. 130w.

Von Horn, W. D. See Oertel, Phillipp Friedrich Wilhelm.

Vries, Hugo de. Species and varieties: their origin by mutation; lectures delivered at the University of California; ed. by Daniel Trembly MacDougal. *$5. Open ct.

“The present work consists of twenty-eight lectures arranged in six groups. The first lecture is an introduction dealing with ‘Theories of evolution’ and ‘Methods of investigation.’ ... The second division of lectures (II.-IV.) deals with ‘Elementary species in nature.’ ... In lectures V.-XV., the author presents the evidence to show that ‘varieties’ are produced either by the loss of some marked peculiarity, or by latent characters becoming active, or by the acquisition of others that are already present in allied species.... Lectures XVI.-XXIV. Although the author tested many species, only one, the evening primrose, Œnothera, gave positive, mutating, results. He finds that the various mutations obtained from this species take place with a great degree of regularity. Very simple rules of general validity, he assumes, govern the whole phenomenon.... Lectures XXV.-XXVIII. There is selection of two kinds, between species and between varieties.”—Philos. R.

“‘Species and varieties,’ then, within the field of natural science, is clearly the book of the year. On the practical side it gives unity and significance to the random observations of every lover of plants. On the theoretical side, the work articulates with Mendel’s old doctrine of the unit character, the heredity atom which either is, or is not, and never splits in passing from one generation to the next.” E. T. Brewster.

+ + + Atlan. 96: 683. N. ‘05. 850w.

“‘The greatest contribution since Darwin’ is the universal testimony.” H. C. Cowles.

+ + + Bot. G. 40: 148. Ag. ‘05. 900w.

+ + + Ind. 58: 1187. My. 25, ‘05. 810w.

“The book is, considering its bulk, very free from misprints.” A. D.

+ + + Nature. 72: 314. Ag. 3, ‘05. 1560w.

+ + Outlook. 79: 605. Mr. 4, ‘05. 100w.

“Evidently the work of de Vries may well prove to be an epoch-making contribution to the advance of knowledge.” Edward G. Spaulding.

+ + Philos. R. 14: 354. My. ‘05. 2760w.

+ + Pub. Opin. 38: 344. Mr. 4, ‘05. 970w.

“The great service of de Vries’s work is that, being founded on experimentation, it challenges to experimentation as the only judge of its merits. As to the literary qualities of the book, one has first to praise the general method of exposition. It is quite a model.” C. B. Davenport.

+ + + Science, n.s. 22: 369. S. 22, ‘05. 2800w.

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Wack, Henry Wellington. Romance of Victor Hugo and Juliette Drouet. **$1.50. Putnam.

A bundle of letters written to Hugo by Madame Drouet in 1851 and discovered by Mr. Wack on a ramble thru the island of Guernsey, forms the basis of this book. An introduction by M. François Coppée, the story of the relations of the poet and Juliette for fifty years and of the poet’s life at Hauteville house by Mr. Wack, and many illustrations complete the volume.

Reviewed by Jeannette L. Gilder.

+ + Critic. 46: 509. Je. ‘05. 790w.

“His book is quite without adequate raison d’etre.”

— Dial. 38: 357. My. 16, ‘05. 530w.

“The introduction by François Coppée is especially interesting not only on account of the view that it furnishes of Hugo as seen by an enthusiastic young poet, but because of its literary excellence and the charming delicacy with which he has related his experiences.”

+ Ind. 59: 42. Jl. 6, ‘05. 330w.

“One more superfluous example of literary indiscretion.”

— Nation. 80: 352. My. 4, ‘05. 200w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w.

“The literary value of this book lies in the charming introduction by François Coppée; the human interest, in the conscientious work of the author, who, however, is sometimes in danger of beating his gold leaf out too thin.”

+ — Outlook. 79: 1061. Ap. 29, ‘05. 170w.

“Mr. Wellington Wack proves such a pretty apologist that we can easily persuade ourselves that we are not reading scandal at all, but a ‘worthy literary record.’”

+ — Pub. Opin. 38: 836. My. 27, ‘05. 340w.

R. of Rs. 32: 124. Jl. ‘05. 90w.

Wack, Henry Wellington. Story of the Congo Free State. **$3.50. Putnam.

“Social, political, and economic aspects of the Belgian system of government in central Africa. After personal research among the documents in the administration office, to which he was given free access by the king of the Belgians, the author presents this volume as a true and complete history of the affairs of the Congo Free State. The work is profusely illustrated with characteristic sketches.”—Bookm.

“His refutation of the British charges is so violent that, considering the sources of his information, the argument is not convincing.”

+ — Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 595. My. ‘05. 180w.

“But apart from its value as a plea for the equity and wisdom of King Leopold’s administration, the book has an interest which makes a strong appeal to the general reader.”

+ + — Cath. World. 82: 126. O. ‘05. 620w.

“We heartily thank the author for the abundant documents, pictures, statistics, appendices, and index even more than for his narrative, which, while liable for discount as a statement of truth, is rich in facts.”

+ + — Critic. 47: 96. Jl. ‘05. 440w.

“As a polemic it is plain that ... Mr. Wack writes from a prejudiced, anti-British standpoint.”

— + Ind. 59: 390. Ag. 17, ‘05. 300w.

“The most interesting as well as the most trustworthy feature of the book is its profuse photographic illustration.”

+ — Nation. 80: 276. Ap. 6, ‘05. 940w.

“Mr. Wack’s book, however, seems to be ‘the 364real thing,’ and is the most complete work on the subject that has yet appeared.” James Gustavus Whiteley.

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 129. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1710w.

“He makes it evident at the very outset that he did not approach his task with an altogether unbiased mind. If his monograph fails as a refutation, it is not, however without value as contributing useful information in regard to the history and resources of the Free State.”

+ — Outlook. 79: 761. Mr. 25, ‘05. 280w.

+ — Pub. Opin. 38: 465. Mr. 25, ‘05. 970w.

Waddell, Charles Carey. Van Suyden sapphires. †$1.50. Dodd.

Miss Gwendolen Bramblestone, one of the guests, at Mrs. Van Suyden’s country place for a week-end house party, becomes implicated in a mysterious jewel robbery. The story follows her efforts to establish her innocence and to recover the gems. Her Scotch lover, the “gentleman burglar,” and an ex-jockey detective add to the plot and to the character interest.

“Exceedingly interesting tale in spite of its thinning out toward the end.”

+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 347 My. 27. ‘05. 560w.

“An absorbing story from start to finish.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 391. Je. 17. ‘05. 160w.

“The plot is most ingenious.”

+ Outlook. 80: 144. My. 13, ‘05. 130w.

Waddell, Laurence Austine. Lhasa and its mysteries; with a record of the expedition of 1903-4. *$6. Dutton.

This detailed account of the expedition to Lhasa is written by the chief medical officer of the military escort which accompanied Sir Francis Younghusband. There is an historical introduction, and there are diagrams, plans, maps, and illustrations from photographs taken by the author.

+ + — Ath. 1905, 1: 423. Ap. 8. 2210w.

“His book is decidedly interesting. It contains a great deal of new matter regarding the country. The author has seen a great deal, but he does not impress us as a man of a scholarly, independent, and broadly cultivated mind.”

+ + — Nation. 80: 484. Je. 15, ‘05. 2760w.

“In the matter of authoritative backgrounds, at all events, Col. Waddell’s book on the Lhasa mission and its antecedents is the most complete which has so far appeared.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 262. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1640w.

“Inferior in literary quality to both Mr. Landon’s ‘The opening of Tibet’ and Mr. Candler’s ‘The unveiling of Lhasa,’ it deals with the subject more broadly and intimately than either.”

+ + — Outlook. 80: 241. My. 27, ‘05. 1920w.

“We may therefore accept the statement made in ‘Lhasa and its mysteries’ as an authoritative description, so far as opportunity allowed, of the inner life of the people.”

+ + Sat. R. 100: 56. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1990w.

“He writes with clearness and grace, he has an eye for the picturesque and curious, and he provides a variety of information in which every type of reader may find something to his taste. The only blemish is an occasional tendency to egotism.”

+ + — Spec. 95: 320. S. 2, ‘05. 1370w.

Waddington, Mary Alsop King. Italian letters of a diplomat’s wife. **$2.50. Scribner.

The first part of the book gives an account of a visit to Italy in 1880, just after Monsieur Waddington had resigned the premiership of France, while part 2, Italy revisited, depicts Rome twenty years later, after Monsieur Waddington’s death, and describes a new pope and a new king and queen. The letters give glimpses of society and notables, of state and social functions, of Italian skies and gardens.

“We feel we cannot have too many books like this—the expression of a cultivated, well-bred, cosmopolitan, and always kindly and good-natured mind.”

+ + Acad. 68: 443. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1500w.

+ Am. Hist. R. 10: 938. Jl. ‘05. 60w.

+ + — Ath. 1905, 1: 494. Ap. 15. 770w.

“The present volume of Madame Waddington’s letters makes a most interesting and intimate history of social life in Italy during the past quarter of a century.” Jeannette L. Gilder.

+ + Critic. 46: 506. Je. ‘05. 780w.

“The book as a whole, though entertaining, hardly equals its predecessor in interest.”

+ Dial. 38: 357. My. 16, ‘03. 460w.

“They are just such letters as one would like to get if he had a friend at court, personal, chatty and unaffected.”

+ + Ind. 58: 1070. My. 11, ‘05. 170w.

“The book has its defects. But, after all, what we absolutely demand in a book of this kind is that it shall be interesting; and interesting the book is, and full of the atmosphere of Italy.”

+ + — Nation. 80: 418. My. 25, ‘05. 1270w.

“Mme. Waddington in Italy is not perhaps Mme. Waddington at her best.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 212. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1230w.

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 220w.

“What the later volume lacks in unity it amply makes up in variety. Madame Waddington writes familiarly, but her books are singularly free from trivialities and gossip, and one looks in vain for anything like malice or scandal.”

+ + — Outlook. 79: 1014. Ap. 22, ‘05. 240w.

“Mme. Waddington’s book is among neither the best nor the worst of its class.”

+ Pub. Opin. 38: 836. My. 27, ‘05. 330w.

+ + Reader. 6: 596. O. ‘05. 260w.

“The stream of pleasant babble flows along so easily and briskly and vividly that only a veritable churl could refuse to be vastly entertained.”

+ + Sat. R. 100: 186. Ag. 5, ‘05. 710w.

* Wade, Blanche Elizabeth. Garden in pink. **$1.75. McClurg.

“Best of All” was blessed not only with a fertile imagination but with a husband, “The Other One,” who entered delightedly into all her schemes, and together they turned an old fashioned Italian garden into a pink garden filling it with all the things that bloom pink and gazing at it thru rose colored glasses. Here they and Best of All’s sister, called “The Prevaricator,” because she wrote stories, whiled away much of a happy summer. A dozen garden photographs printed on thin paper and mounted on separate pages, also various border designs drawn by Lucy Fitch Perkins, and printed in pink and green, create a real pink garden atmosphere.

* “A novelty in garden books.”

+ + Dial. 39: 385. D. 1, ‘05. 270w.

* “A charming volume.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 832. D. 2, ‘05. 210w.

* + Outlook. 81: 1038. D. 23, ‘05. 90w.

Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton (Blanchard). Coming of the white men: stories of how our country was discovered. †75c. Wilde.

This is the first volume in a series known as “Uncle Sam’s old-time stories.” It aims to interest young readers in the beginnings of American history, and to arouse patriotism. The present narrative covers the period from the time when the Norsemen set foot upon our soil down to the establishing of the Maryland colony.

Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton (Blanchard). Ten big Indians. †$1. Wilde.

A companion volume of “Ten little Indians.” This sketch includes the chiefs and leaders of the tribes from which the ten little Indians were drawn. The qualities of the red men and the 365different periods of American history and different sections of the country are represented while the author shows that thru such means as bravery, oratory, cunning and in a few instances kindness, these braves won power and prominence.

Wagner, Charles. Busy life; or, The conquest of energy; tr. from the French by G: Moorhead. 60c. Ogilvie.

A book of moral teaching intended to instill into the minds of the readers the desire for the real things of life, among which there is none comparable to energy, which is virtue itself, stimulating in us and in others, life, joy, and hope.

* Wagner, Charles. Justice; tr. from the French by Mary Louise Hendee. **$1. McClure.

“‘A disposition to unfairness, bad faith, and evil speaking, is abroad in every field,’ says the author in his preface, ‘and a matter over which men do not contend at daggers drawn, is hard to find.’ To counteract this evil, the little book teaches the lesson of sweet reasonableness and Christian charity.” (Dial.) The contents include: The birth of righteousness; Dominion and voluntary service; Mine and thine; Science and faith; The love of country—Humanity; The churches—The church—Religious justice; Society and the individual social justice; The religious conception of work.

* “Fluent and apparently careful translation. These new chapters contain little that is essentially new to those familiar with the volumes that have preceded.”

+ Dial. 39: 244. O. 16, ‘05. 320w.

* + N. Y. Times. 10: 636. S. 30, ‘05. 650w.

Wagner, Charles. My appeal to America; being my first address to an American audience. **50c. McClure.

An appeal for active goodness and the “simple life,” with an introduction by Dr. Lyman Abbott, and notes and appendices. The profits of the book are to go to a fund to furnish a site for a church of which Mr. Wagner is to be the pastor.

“In remarkably lucid English, occasionally quaint, and always naïvely serious, even when expressive of a saving sense of humor.”

+ + Outlook. 79: 706. Mr. 18, ‘05. 120w.

R. of Rs. 31: 383. Mr. ‘05. 60w.

Wagner, Charles. On life’s threshold: talks to young people on character and conduct; tr. by Edna St. John. **$1. McClure.

“In talking to young people ... is it necessary to ... be genuine, direct and simple. In this respect these talks are excellent, and can profitably be studied as models by many of our preachers and teachers. The ethical instruction is developed by a process of reasoning instead of being based on dogma and authority, and is not even very definitely Christian, so there ought not to be any objection to the use of the book in the public school of any locality.”—Ind.

“Pastor Wagner’s power lies in the fact that he is not ashamed to put commonplaces in plain language.”

+ Ind. 58: 729. Mr. 30, ‘05. 140w.

“The volume is a careful guidebook to everyday life.”

+ + Reader. 6: 478. S. ‘05. 220w.

“Another little volume of thought-provoking, cheerful philosophy.”

+ + R. of Rs. 31: 512. Ap. ‘03. 100w.

Wagner, Richard. Selections from the music dramas of Richard Wagner; arranged for the piano by Otto Singer. $1.50. Ditson.

A late addition to the “Musician’s library.” The excerpts are not difficult for the amateur and include representative parts of eleven operas from “Rienzi” to “Parsifal.”

+ + + Dial. 38: 422. Je. 16, ‘05. 90w.

“The Wagner book is altogether the most satisfactory collection of excerpts from the works of that musical Titan that we have ever seen. The selection is wise and comprehensive. Mr. Aldrich’s preface is all that such a foreword should be.”

+ + + Ind. 59: 393. Ag. 17, ‘05. 90w.

Wagner, Richard. Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck; tr. by W. Ashton Ellis. $4. Scribner.

“The world is indebted to Mathilde Wesendonck for two great achievements—she inspired the composition of ‘Tristan and Isolde,’ and she thereby forced the composer to defer the completion of the ‘Ring des Nibelungen’ until his powers were in their full maturity. This remarkable collection of letters, first published after the death of the lady, which took place in 1902, is another fruit of their relationship. What the nature or that relationship was, we do not propose to discuss.... Its only importance for us consists in its artistic results.”—Lond. Times.

“No lover of the greatest modern master of music should fail to read them.” Jeanette L. Gilder.

+ + + Critic. 47: 216. S. ‘05. 1050w.

“If the work has been performed conscientiously,—that is, if there has been no improper discrimination in the selection from private correspondence, nothing omitted which would tend to develop the real character of the man,—the plan is unobjectionable, even admirable, as it brings the man himself very near to the reader.”

+ + Dial. 39: 118. S. 1, ‘05. 520w.

“To Mr. Ashton Ellis’s fashion of translating we cannot altogether reconcile ourselves. The translator, however, deserves the greatest praise for the careful way in which he has annotated the letters and for the interesting dissertations which he has prefixed and appended to them.”

+ + — Lond. Times. 4: 174. Je. 9, ‘05. 2150w.

“The peculiarities of Wagner’s style are to a considerable extent reflected in the English version.”

+ + Nation. 81: 126. Ag. 10, ‘05. 790w.

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 369. Je. 10, ‘05. 240w.

[Mr. Ellis] “produces English prose that is as gnarled as Wagner’s German. It is not often that the inner workings of genius have been so illumined.”

+ + — N. Y. Times. 10: 624. S. 23, ‘05. 670w.

R. of Rs. 32: 255. Ag. ‘05. 60w.

Wakefield, Frank H. Marriage—limited. $1.50. Neale.

The setting of this story is in a future time when a seven year marriage contract is in vogue. This contract may be renewed at its expiration, or the parties to it may form new contracts. No one may marry more than five times, and all children are brought up and educated by the state. The plot concerns a murder and a robbery and some clever detective work, but these things seem commonplace, and it is the unique state of society that is exciting.

Walker, Ernest. Beethoven. $1. Brentano’s.

The third volume in “The music of the masters” series is a Beethoven handbook which gives a sketch, with suggestive motives, of his principal compositions, including choral music, vocal music, stage music, orchestral works, 366solo instrument music, chamber music, and piano-forte music. The closing chapter gives a composite view of his music as a whole, showing both his creative genius and reflected qualities.

“The author has confined himself to criticism which is often of a very striking and suggestive kind.”

+ + + Lond. Times. 4: 235. Jl. 21, ‘05. 600w.

“On the whole one must admit him to be a sane and safe guide and suggestive withal.”

+ Nation. 80: 464. Je. 8, ‘05. 150w.

“On the whole, Mr. Walker’s analyses and discussions are enlightened and sympathetic.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 355. Je. 3, ‘05. 440w.

Wallace, Alfred Russel. My life: a record of events and opinion. *$6. Dodd.

“No one would guess this to be the work of an octogenarian.... There is no sign of diminished vigour, whether in the earlier part, which is written almost entirely from memory, or in the latter, which is largely devoted to a trenchant defence of socialism, spiritualism, and other darling fads of his old age. The book may be divided into four sections, which will doubtless appeal with varying force to different readers. First we have boyhood and adolescence—the student; then the famous expeditions to South America and the Malay archipelago—the naturalist and collector; thirdly, the scientific and literary work at home, the intercourse and correspondence with eminent contemporaries—the evolutionist; lastly, the struggle with economic problems of modern life—the socialist and reformer.”—Lond. Times.

“Dr. Wallace has been his own recording angel, and those who peruse the record cannot but pronounce it well and truly written.” W. P. Pycraft.

+ + Acad. 68: 1119. O. 28, ‘05. 1870w.

* “Mr. Wallace’s narrative in other words, can hardly be called a model of conciseness. Still its wonderful candour wins ample forgiveness for its prolixity.”

+ + — Ath. 1905, 2: 649. N. 11. 1040w.

“He writes with the crystalline simplicity that belongs to a sincere and candid mind, that invests even trivial things with interest, and continues to charm when wit and fancy, unless they be of a very high order, seem faded or forced.”

+ + + Lond. Times. 4: 348. O. 20, ‘05. 2550w.

“While we fully recognize the very extensive variety and importance in many respects of Dr. Wallace’s career we cannot but think he has followed an undesirable precedent in rivalling Spencer’s self-expansiveness. We cannot imagine any reader who will not find the greater part of it worth the reading.”

+ + — Sat. R. 100: 526. O. 21, ‘05. 1670w.

Wallace, Dillon. Lure of the Labrador wild. **$1.50. Revell.

The account of an exploring expedition into the unknown wilds of Labrador in the summer of 1903. The trip was undertaken by Leonidas Hubbard, jr., who perished from hunger and exhaustion, the author and a half-breed Cree Indian as guide. The story is a pitiful one of hardship and disappointment. The party set out with inadequate provisions, and an insufficient knowledge of the country, and having caught but a glimpse of Lake Michikaman, ragged and starving they were forced to turn back; winter closed in upon them, Hubbard succumbed, and Wallace barely escaped with his life. The story is told simply and graphically, and the author while depicting its horrors admits that he still feels the lure of the wild saying: “The smoke of the camp-fire is in my blood. The fragrance of the forest is in my nostrils. Perhaps it is God’s will that I finish the work of exploration that Hubbard began.” There are a number of illustrations from photographs and three original and accurate maps.

“It is one of the most interesting accounts of exploration we have seen.”

+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 596. My. ‘05. 70w.

“Seldom has a story of hardship bravely endured been told so movingly.” J. B. G.

+ + Critic. 46: 472 My. ‘05. 210w.

Nation. 80: 256. Mr. 30, ‘05. 910w. (Condensed narrative.)

“It is a homely and pitiful story of enterprise, disappointment, and starvation. Its manifest moral is that it does not do to start wrong if you would go exploring.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 98. F. 18, ‘05. 1620w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.

“It is a wonderfully interesting record, told in a simple and straightforward manner.”

+ Outlook. 79: 706. Mr. 18, ‘05. 220w.

+ Pub. Opin. 38: 717. My. 6. ‘05. 180w.

“Presents, in a graphic, literary style, the tragic story.”

+ + R. of Rs. 31: 381. Mr. ‘05. 160w.

“It is a vivid, painful, and admirably written account of an exploring expedition into that inhospitable wilderness.”

+ + Spec. 94: 918. Je. 24. ‘05. 340w.

Wallace, Sir Donald Mackenzie. Russia. $5. Holt.

An entirely new and much enlarged edition of a work first published in 1877. It has been revised and in great part rewritten, bringing the history of Russia and her people down to May 1905. The noblesse, and the policy of the central government receive adequate treatment, while the story of the lower classes, the traders, parish priests, peasants, burghers, cossacks, and serfs, their life, customs, local government, religion, and the great national movements which affect them, is told in detail and in the light of a full knowledge derived from long residence among them.

“The book has thus been brought up to date, without sacrificing any of its wisdom, or the political insight and the sane and temperate views which have continued for a quarter of a century to give it a leading value.”

+ + + Acad. 68: 719. Jl. 8, ‘05. 190w.

“The most important part of the new book consists in the account of the revolutionary movement and in the general considerations contained in the last chapter. Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace writes with real information, and is, alone among the hosts of writers on Russia whose books are just now coming out, to be trusted as a man of authority.”

+ + + Ath. 1905, 2: 37. Jl. 8. 1990w.

“It covers a much broader field than M. Ular even thinks of attempting.”

+ + Critic. 47: 410. N. ‘05. 230w.

“As a masterly attempt to facilitate one nation’s understanding of another, ‘Russia’ stands in the same class as Mr. Bodley’s ‘France’ and Mr. Bryce’s ‘American commonwealth.’”

+ + + Lond. Times. 4: 205. Je. 30, ‘05. 2940w.

“A book of extreme value on a remarkably difficult subject has been rendered invaluable nay, indispensable—for those who wish clearly to understand present conditions and future possibilities in the realm of the Tsar.”

+ + + Nation. 81: 170. Ag. 24, ‘05. 1110w.

“Almost every subject is treated of in a method in keeping with its nature.”

+ + + N. Y. Times. 10: 603. S. 16, ‘05. 1150w.

“Is the finished product of a man who in every respect is competent to deal in a masterly manner with his subject.”

+ + + Pub. Opin. 39: 446. S. 30, ‘05. 170w.

“The work is a large and exhaustive one. It is regarded by many Russians as the best work about their country ever written by a foreigner.”

+ + + R. of Rs. 32: 510. O. ‘05. 190w.

+ + Sat. R. 100: 341. S. 9, ‘05. 1480w.

“Sir Donald Wallace writes of modern parties with a serene impartiality, and a clearness and fulness which are only too rare in works on the subject. We may differ from the author’s conclusions, but we are compelled to respect them; and since he gives his data frankly and fairly, he provides the reader, if 367he be mistaken, with materials for an independent judgment.”

+ + Spec. 95: 152. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1030w.

Waller, Mary Ella. Daughter of the rich. †$1.50. Little.

A favorite among young readers whose popularity demands a new edition to which Ellen Bernard Thompson has contributed six full-page illustrations.

Waller, Mary Ella. Sanna. †$1.50. Harper.

“The heroine is the center of an admiring circle of homely Nantucket folk, one of the vivid blossoms that glow in the fresh salt breezes. Each character in the story is distinctly individualized, and humor and pathos mingle in their shrewd talk. Somewhat apart, but always sympathetic with the village people, are the members of the Torrence family, within whose bounds are found the seeds that ripen into tragedy and give a dramatic touch to the well-managed plot.”—Outlook.

Ind. 59: 209. Jl. 27, ‘05. 150w.

“The author’s art falls below her invention. Nevertheless, ‘Sanna’ is a well-written, wholesome, breezy tale.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 319. My. 13, ‘05. 360w.

“Altogether this is a novel quite above the average in construction and sustained interest.”

+ + Outlook. 80: 143. My. 13, ‘05. 110w.

* Wallis, Louis. Egoism: a study in the social premises of religion, $1. Univ. of Chicago press.

The author discusses the proposition that “egoism is the only ‘force’ propelling the social machine,” which thesis he demonstrates by evidence drawn from biblical history; he further maintains that the historical criticism of the Bible must be made in the light of sociology; finally, he shows the practical bearing of this on the present social problems.

Walpole, Horace. Letters chronologically arranged and ed. with notes and indices, by Mrs. Paget Toynbee. 16v. ea. *$2; set, *$32. Oxford.

Twelve of these sixteen volumes have been published to date. They contain the letters in as complete form as possible, giving four hundred letters not included in the “Latest edition of collected letters,” and which have never before been printed. There is additional annotation and an exhaustive index. The edition is illustrated by fifty portraits in photogravure, and three facsimiles of original letters.

Acad. 68: 195. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1210w. (Review of v. 9-12.)

“It is sufficient to say that there is no indication that the editor has become weary in her work, for the foot-notes still contain ample information and represent much labor.”

+ + Am. Hist. R. 10: 708. Ap. ‘05. 110w. (Review of vols. IX-XII.)

“The value of Mrs. Toynbee’s work ... does not lie in fresh discoveries so much as in the patient devotion with which she has sifted and sorted the whole correspondence. The notes ... are unobtrusive, and admirable in clarity and conciseness, and, as editing goes, this collection of letters could not be bettered.”

+ + + Ath. 1905, 1: 40. Ja. 14. 1440w. (Reviews vols. IX.-XII.)

“It is superfluous to repeat how eminently Mrs. Toynbee’s edition of Walpole overtops all others. To render it supremely enduring it needs but one addition ... a companion volume of annotations. Mrs. Toynbee’s too chary annotation is always pertinent.”

+ + + Nation. 80: 231. Mr. 23, ‘05. 1810w. (Review of vols. IX-XII.)

“This edition of Mrs. Paget Toynbee’s is as complete as possible, and otherwise as pleasing and attractive as an edition can be made.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w.

* + + N. Y. Times. 10: 898. D. 16, ‘05. 170w. (Review of v. 13-15.)

“If these letters, then, have not all the airy volatility and gay sparkle of Walpole’s earlier days, it is still astonishing how he retains his freshness and wit, and these volumes yield to none in their interest.”

+ + Spec. 94: 748. My. 20, ‘05. 2060w. (Re-review of v. 9-12.)

Walpole, Spencer Horatio. History of twenty-five years, 1855-1881. 2v. $10. Longmans.

The author, who held official positions in the war and post-office departments from 1858 to 1899, is the only English writer who has had the advantage of being in active service in Downing street while engaged in historical research. “The better acquainted a student is with the other histories of the middle years of the nineteenth century the greater is his indebtedness to Sir Spencer Walpole for the many little asides in which he introduces new material, based not on books, official or non-official, but on his own personal experience, and on information which he acquired first hand during his long and distinguished career in the British civil service.... His history covers Europe, and to a large extent the United States, as well as the United Kingdom and the over-sea possessions of Great Britain. He cites an authority for every statement he makes; and his authorities, appended as foot-notes, show that there are few sources—British, American or European—on which he has not drawn.... The first hundred pages in the second volume are devoted to the War of the rebellion and to the attitude of England to the Federal and Confederate governments.” (Ind.)

“The style is commonplace and diffuse. At times it is wordy in the extreme. The marshaling of all this material has been excellently managed.”

+ + — Ind. 58: 436. F. 23, ‘05. 900w.

* Walters, Henry Beauchamp. History of ancient pottery, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman; based on the work of Samuel Birch. 2v. *$15. Scribner.

“The first adequate treatment the history of ancient pottery received was in the two volumes of Dr. Samuel Birch, published in 1857.... Since Birch’s death, in 1885, so much new material has been gathered that a further revision of his work has been demanded.... The results of this revision and extension of Dr. Birch’s work are two sumptuous volumes of considerably more than five hundred pages each, well provided with indexes, and bibliographies.” (Dial). “We have ... in the two volumes seventeen chapters devoted to Greek vases and their decoration, and one chapter devoted to ‘Etruscan and South Italian pottery’; five chapters on Roman pottery, by which is meant the pottery of Italy under the Roman rule; and, finally, brief mention of earthenware found in Britain, Gaul, and Germany, but evidently of the Roman Imperial epoch.... There are sixty-nine plates and many are in color.... There are, moreover, two hundred and fifty text illustrations.”—Nation.

* “Mr. Walters has provided us with an instalment which is likely for many years to prove a most valuable work of reference for those branches of the subject which he includes in his survey. Almost every page attests the care and thoroughness with which published authorities have been consulted.”

+ + Ath. 1905. 2: 475. O. 7. 890w.

Reviewed by Arthur Howard Noll.

* + + Dial. 39: 301. N. 16, ‘05. 1280w.

* “The new publication is practically a complete summary of everything now known of classic ceramic art, no source of information, English or foreign, having been neglected.”

+ + + Int. Studio. 27: 88. N. ‘05. 470w.

* + + Nation. 81: 283. O. 5. ‘05. 1530w.

* “Other and more expensive volumes have 368surpassed it in beauty of illustrations; none in its exhaustive and logical treatment of ancient pottery and the true and complete meaning of the fragments which have come down to us.”

+ + + N. Y. Times. 10: 862. D. 2, ‘05. 450w.

* “The defects in these volumes arise principally from the narrow outlook with which they are written. Upon the whole, it is perhaps surprising that the attempt to condense so vast an accumulation of material into the form of a handbook has been so nearly crowned with success; especially as it has been made at a moment when the questions of the early history of the art are yet in solution and cannot be summarised without danger.”

+ + — Spec. 95: 613. O. 21, ‘05. 1300w.

Waltz, Elizabeth Cherry. Ancient landmark. †$1.50. McClure.

A romance of Kentucky which deals with the question of divorce. There is a much-abused heroine, the object of a husband’s violence when the drug habit is upon him, into whose head never entered the idea of divorce. “But Lucien Beardsley arose upon the horizon. A Virginian by birth, a cosmopolitan by education, a man of modern ideas.... Lucien found in the unhappy Dulcie a cousin many times removed, and undertook to champion her cause, to upset the ancient landmark, to establish the new custom of divorce, and to launch the grief-stricken Dulcinea upon a new and glittering sea of happiness.” (N. Y. Times.)

* + Ind. 59: 1229. N. 23, ‘05. 150w.

“Mrs. Waltz is a born writer of sensational fiction, and carries her reader triumphantly through scenes that would be intolerable from a less vigorous hand.”

+ — Nation. 81: 368. N. 2, ‘05. 340w.

“Many of the personages are drawn with vitality.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 650. O. 7, ‘05. 300w.

“An exciting story from start to finish.”

+ Outlook. 81: 380. O. 14, ‘05. 50w.

Wampum library of American literature; ed. by Brander Matthews. **$1.40. Longmans.

These three volumes form the beginning of a series which when completed will illustrate the development of the various forms of American literature. Each volume treats of a single species, tracing the evolution of this definite form and presenting in chronological sequence typical examples chosen from the writings of American authors born prior to 1850. Volume I, “American short stories,” edited by Charles Sears Baldwin, contains a comprehensive introduction, and selected stories which he divides into two periods, the “tentative” and the “new form.” Under the former are selections from Irving, Austin, Hall, and Pike; under the latter, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Poe, Willis, Kirkland, O’Brien, Hart, Webster, Taylor, Bunner, and Frederic. Volume II, “American literary criticism,” edited by William Morton Payne, deals with the development of the critical spirit in American literature. The introduction shows literary insight and critical ability and ranks with the essays which follow. The essays selected are entirely upon literary themes, and include selections from Dana, Ripley, Emerson, Poe, Ossoli, Lowell, Whitman, Whipple, Stedman, Howells, Lanier, and James. Volume III, “American familiar verse,” edited by Brander Matthews, who is also editing the edition as a whole, contains a, lengthy introduction which defines Familiar verse as—“the lyric of commingled sentiment and playfulness, which is more generally and more carelessly called vers de société.” A rather catholic choice of authors follows—Freneau, J. Q. Adams, Moore, Irving, Bryant, Halleck, Drake, Whittier, Longfellow, Holmes, Saxe, Lowell, Stoddard, Stedman, Aldrich, and many others.

“Two compilations, which are fitted to serve a good purpose in advance English classes.”

+ + Cath. World. 80: 832. Mr. ‘05. 390w. (Reviews vols. I. and II.)

“If the succeeding volumes are as capably edited as the three now published, the series will prove of great value in the historical study of our literature. From the character of these three volumes it is evident that the series when complete will place in their proper proportions the successive steps in the evolution of these distinct literary forms. The one unfortunate feature in the general plan of the library is the arbitrary restriction which prohibits a selection from any living American writers whose birth has occurred since December 31, 1850.” W. E. Simonds.

+ + + Dial. 38: 13. Ja. 1, ‘05. 1350w.

“The genre of familiar verse is so well adapted to this particular purpose, and Mr. Matthews has shown such skill in selection, that his own volume will probably bear the test of time as the standard anthology. The value of the illustrative material in the others is more doubtful.” G. R. Carpenter.

+ + Educ. R. 29: 424. Ap. ‘05. 490w. (Reviews vols. I.-III.)

R. of Rs. 31: 250. F. ‘05. 290w.

Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Mrs. Herbert D. Ward). Trixy. $1.50. Houghton.

This story, which is a dramatic argument against vivisection, has for its heroine Trixy, a performing French poodle, who, barely escaping death on the dissecting table, confronts the accused physician in court. The human interest centers about this young scientist who loses the affections of the woman he loves, and eventually his own life, by his experiments. A young lawyer, an active defender of little dogs and kittens, wins the hand of the girl who could not trust herself to the vivisectionist.

“Clever artist as she is, we are not prepared to say that she has avoided many an ignominious descent into the pathetic.”

+ — Cath. World. 80: 833. Mr. ‘05. 290w.

“We do not propose to consider it as a story, but as a tract, for that is what it is chiefly in the author’s mind. In this case ... we question whether the charity which she gives to beasts does not make her forget the charity due to human beings. But Mrs. Ward goes so far as to make a superstitious use of natural scenery to enforce her warning against vivisection.”

+ — Ind. 58: 99. Ja. 12, ‘05. 850w.

Ward, H. Marshall. Trees: a handbook of forest botany for the woodlands and the laboratory. 6 vol. ea. *$1.50. Macmillan.

The author has prepared this series as a text-book for all who need a guide to their studies. The text is clear and simple and each volume is provided with diagnostic tables devised for use in the field. The series includes, Birds and twigs; Leaves; Flowers and inflorescences: Fruits and seeds; Seedlings; and The habit and conformation of the tree as a whole.

“The book has evidently been compiled with great care. Its value, then, to the student, forester or other, is beyond question.”

+ + + Ath. 1905, 2: 280. Ag. 26, 480w. (Review of v. 3.)

“The book is not only an excellent text-book In forest botany, but is a capital study in pedagogy as well.”

+ + + Nation. 80: 414. My. 25, ‘05. 420w. (Review of v. 2.)

“Is, like the earlier volumes in the series, thoroughly interesting and accurate.”

+ + + Nation. 81: 360. N. 2, ‘05. 100w. (Review of v. 3.)

“The work will be found indispensable to those students who wish to make an expert study of forest botany. At the same time it is expressed in language so clear and devoid of technicalities that the amateur who wishes to know something about our trees and shrubs 369will find this one of the most useful guides to which he can turn.”

+ + + Nature. 71: 291. Ja. 26, ‘05. 620w. (Reviews vols. I. and II.)

“There is also a very useful and exhaustive index at the end of the book.”

+ + + Nature. 72: 482. S. 14, ‘05. 410w. (Review of v. 3.)

N. Y. Times. 10: 437. Jl. 1, ‘05. 270w. (Review of v. 3.)

Ward, H. Snowden. Canterbury pilgrimages. *$1.75. Lippincott.

“The interest of the book centers around two great tragedies: the fall of Thomas the archbishop, and the fall of Thomas the martyr. These are bound up with a part of a still greater tragedy: the collapse of a grand religious movement, which, with all its human imperfections and short-comings, had done a noble work for those who had needed it most, the poor, the weak, the suffering.” The text has been improved by many illustrations of churches, shrines and relics, and sketches of the “pilgrims’ way.”

+ + Critic. 47: 479. N. ‘05. 130w.

“Altogether it is an interesting excursion through historical lore for the illustration of a significant feature of mediaeval English life that Chaucer has kept in permanent remembrance.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 620. S. 28, ‘05. 840w.

Ward, John. Our Sudan: its pyramids and progress. *$8.40. Scribner.

The author gives his reader the privilege of skipping the letterpress and looking at his seven hundred illustrations. This picture book of Soudanese snap-shots is accompanied by chapters “which give interesting if not exactly novel, accounts of events and sundry episodes in the story of the African continent during the last fifty centuries, combined with details of explorations and military expeditions to remote spots during the last fifty years.” (Sat. R.)

“There can be no doubt of its interest or its future popularity.”

+ + — Ath. 1905, 1: 557. My. 6. 430w.

“It is pieced together in so haphazard a manner and with such contempt for all sense of proportion that it can hardly be viewed as a serious guide to anybody. Mr. Ward makes many needless mistakes.”

— — + Sat. R. 100: 23. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1160w.

+ + Spec. 94: 559. Ap. 15, ‘05. 210w.

Ward, Mary Augusta Arnold (Mrs. Thomas Humphry Ward). Marriage of William Ashe. †$1.50. Harper.

A novel presenting the political and social order existing in London a hundred years ago. William Ashe, a rising young statesman of English solidity and force, falls in love with Lady Kitty, beautiful, eighteen, just released from a French convent, and neglected by a mother of doubtful reputation. He marries her and she leads him gayly from one scandal to another, ridiculing his influential friends, making enemies of the prime minister, Lord Parham and his wife, and capping all by writing a bitterly real satire upon the social set in which her marriage has placed her. A fragile, captivating creature of varying moods, with an hereditary moral madness in her blood, she holds our interest, excites our pity, and dominates the book. But there are other characters; William’s mother, the strong aristocratic Englishwoman, Mary Lyster, cold, narrow, and selfishly hard, and Geoffrey Cliffe—a villain with a dash of genius, whose power over Kitty began with her desire to penetrate the secret history of a man whose poems filled her with a thrilling sense of feeling and passion beyond her ken.

“It is one of the best that Mrs. Humphry Ward has written, the chief fault of it being the wearisome middle. The work is not organically built up, and though the interest revives towards the end we still feel that the book is imperfect. One can well understand that it would have been twice as good if Mrs. Humphry Ward possessed the saving gift of humour, but she takes many things in life and particularly her own sex much too seriously.”

+ + — Acad. 68: 227. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1570w.

“It is not in any real sense a remarkable book. There is little or nothing in it that has not been given before both by the writer herself and by others. The hand of the experienced literary artist is visible—too visible in fact.”

+ + — Ath. 1905, 1: 332. Mr. 18. 730w.

“Considered not as a problem, but simply as a study in incompatibility, ‘The marriage of William Ashe’ is a piece of subtle and delicate workmanship.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ + — Bookm. 21: 269. My. ‘05. 500w.

“In spite of its lack of humor the book is never dull.” C. Harwood.

+ Critic. 46: 472. My. ‘05. 640w.

“The interest of the work is sustained, rising to an effective dramatic climax, and subsiding into the pathos of a closing scene of deathbed repentance and forgiveness.” William Morton Payne.

+ + Dial. 38: 389. Je. 1, ‘05. 310w.

“The first and most obvious complaint is against the strange and confusing method with which Mrs. Ward uses the motive of her story.” Herbert W. Horwill.

+ + — Forum. 37: 100. Jl. ‘05. 1470w.

“It must be admitted that ‘The marriage of William Ashe,’ which is her latest, is likewise her strongest book. As usual in Mrs. Ward’s stories, as the end approaches, the interest proportionally deepens. The outcome is unpredictable. Never was the advantage of Mrs. Ward’s method of composition more fully demonstrated than in ‘The marriage of William Ashe.’ The crisis is balanced with absolute nicety: the weight of a hair will turn the scales. The minor characters of Mrs. Ward’s story are drawn with subtlety and power. All in all, ‘The marriage of William Ashe’ is to be regarded as an achievement of consummate art.” C. H. Gaines.

+ + + Harper’s Weekly. 49: 392. Mr. 18, ‘05. 2060w.

“It is in the adequate presentation and interpretation of Lady Kitty that the author has achieved probably her greatest success as a literary artist.”

+ + Ind. 58: 668. Mr. 23, ‘05. 1290w.

* “Is the most notable book of the year, and will perhaps be the only one to survive.”

+ + Ind. 59: 1152. N. 16, ‘05. 160w.

+ — Nation. 80: 336. Ap. 27, ‘05. 1710w.

“Like a rich personality ‘The marriage of William Ashe’ yields itself more and more, as one knows it better. It reveals new depth and beauty with each reading; one appreciates how superbly the author has triumphed over unusual difficulties of situation and of character; and with what noble conclusions she has charged a story which might easily have sunk into a moral morass. Its place is with the books that do not die. Its author stands among the few living writers of fiction to whom the Immortals have passed the torch.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.

+ + + N. Y. Times. 10: 146. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1680w.

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.

“One of those solid, thorough, able and workmanlike novels in which Mrs. Ward has dealt with some of the most serious matters of experience and has proved her right to claim a first position among the novelists of the day. The story needs condensation in the closing chapters, and suffers from lack of humor.”

+ + — Outlook. 79: 771. Ap. 1, ‘05. 300w.

+ + Pub. Opin. 38: 549. Ap. 8, ‘05. 400w.

“The book expresses, doubtless, the flower of her talent. It is full of sweet flavors. It has literary beauty of a high order. ‘The marriage of William Ashe’ is not a great story or a vigorous one. It is an absorbing one.”

+ + — Reader. 5: 783. My. ‘05. 920w.

“Is one of the few stories of which a measure, at least, of endurance may be predicted.”

+ + R. of Rs. 31: 756. Je. ‘05. 350w.

370“The book, in short, has the drawbacks not only of a roman à clef, but of a composite photograph. The most attractive and brilliant of all of Mrs. Humphry Ward’s novels. The fine literary quality of her work remains, the reader is once more charmed by the restrained eloquence of her descriptions, and impressed by the penetrating analysis of characters so essentially complex as those of Lady Kitty and Geoffrey Cliffe. But along with these familiar excellencies one notes a marked improvement in technique, a livelier movement in the handling of incident and dialogue,—in short, a greater ease, skill, and charm in presentation.”

+ + — Spec. 94: 443. Mr. 25, ‘05. 2020w.

Ward, Wilfrid Philip. Aubrey de Vere. *$4.60. Longmans.

A memoir, based on his unpublished diaries and correspondence of Aubrey de Vere by his literary executor. The story of a long and rather uneventful life is told largely by the Irish poet himself, revealing his own mind and temperament, and giving graphic descriptions of contemporary great men, Gladstone, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Newman, Browning. His gradual change of religious belief which brought him from the English church to Rome, his work during the famine of 1846-7, and the service done for Ireland by his voice and pen, are given in detail.

“The editor has based his work on diaries and letters, and has spread a feast for the lover of literature where no crude surfeit reigns.”

+ + Critic. 47: 189. Ag. ‘05. 180w.

“Sufficient to give a true picture of the man himself. Yet not the least of the reader’s reward comes from his more intimate knowledge of a pure and unselfish life, lived largely in the service of his fellows; a poet who here reveals himself most fully as the patriot and friend.” Clark S. Northrup.

+ + Dial. 38: 7. Ja. 1, ‘05. 1760w.

“The literary workmanship is all that could be desired.”

+ + Int. Studio. 25: sup. 39. Ap. ‘05. 360w.

“Quite sustains his reputation as a master in the difficult and delicate art of the biographer.”

+ + Spec. 94: 290. F. 25, ‘05. 1680w.

Warden, Florence. House by the river, $1. Ogilvie.

A thrilling story of mystery and intrigue which turns on the theft of curios and paintings from a valuable collection. The owner himself is in the conspiracy to defraud an insurance company.

Ware, William. Aurelian, a tale of the Roman empire in the Third century. $1.50. Crowell.

The Luxembourg library offers in single volume edition, handsomely bound and fully illustrated, some notable work of fiction that ranks among the world’s masterpieces. “Aurelian” is one of the four late additions to this series.

Warner, Anne. See French, A. W.

Warner, Charles Dudley. Complete writings; * ed. by Thomas R. Lounsbury. 15v. ea. $2. Am. pub. co., Hartford, Conn.

The complete works of Charles Dudley Warner, with a biographical sketch appear in this handsome “Backlog” edition. “The volumes are of the right size, simply bound, the paper and the typography expressing the high quality of the work which this set of books preserves in permanent form.” (Outlook.)

+ + + Critic. 47: 583. D. ‘05. 160w. (Review of v. 12-15.)

+ + + N. Y. Times. 10: 463. Jl. 15, ‘05. (Review of v. 9-15.)

* “Everything has been done by the publishers of this edition to give Mr. Warner’s work the dignity and refinement of form which it deserves. Professor Lounsbury contributes to the series a biography which is characteristically clear, vivacious, and illuminating.”

+ + + Outlook. 80: 440. Je. 17, ‘05. 970w.

Warner, George H. Jewish spectre. **$1.50. Doubleday.

The author strips himself entirely of race prejudice and almost whimsically creates from myth, from history, from literature and present day tendencies a composite Israel stamped with characteristics of imagination and fact. “The reader does not at once find out what the ‘spectre’ is. At first it seems to be a spectral fear that the Jew is to crowd out all competitors in the struggle for existence.... Later it comes out that the really troublesome ‘spectre’ in the writer’s mind is the domain of religious speculation.” (Outlook.)

* Critic. 47: 581. D. ‘05. 25w.

* “Mr. Warner negatives too much and constructs too little.” Edith J. Rich.

+ — Dial. 39: 302. N. 16, ‘05. 1360w.

“The merit of the book is that it sincerely attempts to put into a single volume a literary view of a very difficult subject.”

+ Ind. 59: 991. O. 26, ‘05. 530w.

“A sort of hotch-potch of anecdote and quotation, legend and fact, held together by a strain of comment, now ironical, now impassioned, which is not likely to convince, but is generally diverting.”

— N. Y. Times. 10: 617. S. 23, ‘05. 350w.

“The book is cleverly written, and makes many good hits at shining marks of folly; but that it is, as announced, ‘an extraordinary’ book, except in wrongheadedness, does not appear.”

+ — Outlook. 81: 334. O. 7, ‘05. 300w.

“Yet with all it is a strangely suggestive book, reassuring to any man who feels that America is becoming the New Jerusalem, full of careful study and hasty deduction, full of leads which the author does not work to a conclusion, full of surprises and odds and ends of valuable information—and full of contempt.”

+ — Pub. Opin. 39: 602. N. 4, ‘05. 430w.

Warner, Horace Everett. Ethics of force. 50c. Pub. for the International Union by Ginn.

This little volume contains, in revised form, a series of five papers read before the Ethical Club of Washington, D. C., just prior to and after the Spanish war. The titles of the papers are The ethics of heroism, The ethics of patriotism, Can war be defended on the authority of Christ? Can war be defended on grounds of reason? and Some objections.

“Although the book is somewhat academic in tone, it is worth reading.”

+ + Cath. World. 82: 118. O. ‘05. 370w.

“This is the sort of a thoughtful volume on the subject that should be placed on the reading-lists of our public schools.”

+ + Pub. Opin. 39: 414. S. 23, ‘05. 340w.

Warwick, Charles Franklin. Mirabeau and the French revolution. **$2.50. Lippincott.

“This is the well-written story of the most extraordinary character of the most extraordinary scene in the drama of modern history, the storm-center of that scene till his death.”—Outlook.

“It has all the failings and the qualities of the writing of the enthusiastic amateur.”

+ — — Acad. 68: 778. Jl. 29, ‘05. 690w.

“It is neither a satisfactory biography of Mirabeau, nor a clear, sound and well connected synthesis of the early Revolution.” Fred Morrow Fling.

— — Am. Hist. R. 11: 157. O. ‘05. 950w.

371“Considered as reading matter, the book offers nothing new.”

+ — Bookm. 22: 86. S. ‘05. 270w.

“We learn nothing new about Mirabeau or the French revolution; the style is sometimes absurd.”

+ — — Critic. 47: 192. Ag. ‘05. 130w.

Dial. 39: 119. S. 1, ‘05. 250w.

“Has neither scholarship nor style to recommend it. The style of the book is melodramatic.”

— — — Ind. 59: 817. O. 5, ‘05. 320w.

“It would be a mistake, however to dismiss it as of slight worth. It has some very positive merits. The task of exploring the voluminous literature treating of the French revolution is no light one, and Mr. Warwick must be credited with having considerably facilitated the exploration in respect to the period he reviews.”

+ + — Lit. D. 31: 498. O. 7, ‘05.

+ + — Lit. D. 31: 498. O. 7, ‘05. 320w.

“Apart from a certain number of verdicts upon individual characters, his text contains little that is distinctive. On the other hand it is of much higher quality than most of the illustrations which accompany it. The book is undeniably amateurish.”

+ — Nation. 81: 242. S. 21, ‘05. 410w.

“There is no great distinction in his style, little compelling fire in his accounts of people and events; not much subtlety in his judgments. He is sometimes prolix and sometimes repeats himself. Clarity and intelligibility are the merits of the book; and they are valuable qualities.”

+ + — N. Y. Times. 10: 340. My. 27, ‘05. 1850w.

“Mr. Warwick has made effective use of the best authorities in his account both of the tragic scene and of the masterful actor.”

+ Outlook. 80: 246. My. 27, ‘05. 50w.

“Mr. Warwick faces his subject fairly.”

+ Pub. Opin. 39: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 270w.

“It has the distinctive merit of being at once a biography and a history,—a graphic narrative of events not less than a just, adequate and exceptionally suggestive estimate of a great historical figure.”

+ + Reader. 6: 597. O. ‘05. 200w.

“An incisive study of the part played by Mirabeau in the French revolution.”

+ + R. of Rs. 32: 124. Jl. ‘05. 80w.

“Mr. Warwick’s book on Mirabeau is passable enough. But it contains absolutely nothing new in fact so far as we have observed, and it is certainly not distinguished for form or point of view or imagination.”

+ — Sat. R. 99: 849. Je. 24, ‘05. 260w.

Washburn, William Tucker. First stone, and other stories. $1. Fenno.

These seventeen short stories are as varied in tone as in subject. One is a dramatic scene in the rooms of a danseuse, another is a story of Madagascar, a third treats of Mormonism, and a fourth concerns a most unfaithful wife.

Washington, Booker Taliaferro. Tuskegee and its people: their ideals and achievements. *$2. Appleton.

A volume prepared by the officers and former students of the normal and industrial institute at Tuskegee, Ala., under the editorial direction of Booker T. Washington, who writes an introduction. The problem of negro education is treated from the inside by the intelligent negro. Seventeen autobiographical sketches are furnished by Tuskegee graduates who are now following various occupations.

“It is an unanswerable argument against the critics of the Tuskegee movement in particular and of the education of the negro in general.”

+ + + Nation. 81: 41. Jl. 13, ‘05. 1190w.

“If the stories are marked by a complacency pardonable under the circumstances, and if they fail to prove quite all their authors think they do prove for negro progress, yet they are not uninstructive.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 465. Jl. 15, ‘05. 400w.

“The writing is unpretentious and therefore the more forcible.”

+ Outlook. 80: 936. Ag. 12, ‘05. 180w.

* Washington, George. Washington: principal state papers, $1. Century.

This volume in the “Thumb nail” series “is uniform with the early copies of this series which is a small vest-pocket edition richly bound in embossed leather. This volume contains W. E. H. Lecky’s famous essay on ‘The character of Washington’ taken from his ‘History of England in the eighteenth century,’ ‘Washington’s farewell address to the people of the United States,’ his ‘Address to the officers in 1783,’ his ‘Circular letter addressed to the governors of all the states on disbanding the army,’ his ‘Farewell orders to the armies of the United States,’ and his ‘Inaugural address to both houses of congress.’”—Arena.

* + Arena. 34: 665. D. ‘05. 290w.

* “Excellent in point of literary discrimination and value.”

+ Pub. Opin. 39: 731. D. 2, ‘05. 100w.

Washington, George. Washington and the West. **$2. Century.

A volume which contains the diary kept by Washington in September, 1784, during his journey into the Ohio basin in the interest of a commercial union between the Great lakes and the Potomac river. Mr. Hulbert’s commentary shows Washington to be an active, wide-awake practical man of affairs which is a little-known and less-appreciated phase of his character.

* “It is a valuable addition to the literature dealing with Washington, the man and the statesman.”

+ + Arena. 34: 663. D. ‘05. 410w.

* “An interesting and valuable book, somewhat too strongly colored by certain prejudices which affected the editor from the beginning of his task.”

+ + — Nation. 81: 446. N. 30, ‘05. 480w.

“Mr. Hulbert’s notes, therefore, are as interesting to read as the diary.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 743. N. 4, ‘05. 460w.

“This is a valuable portrait of Washington in an aspect comparatively disregarded hitherto, a portrait drawn by himself.”

+ + Outlook. 81: 432. O. 21, ‘05. 200w.

+ Pub. Opin. 39: 634. N. 11, ‘05. 250w.

* + + R. of Rs. 32: 756. D. ‘05. 110w.

* Wasson, George Savary. Green shay. †$1.50. Houghton.

“The scene of action ... is almost entirely on the shore and in the harbor, though the strenuous life of the open sea is always in the background exerting its powerful influence on the actors and the drama. The author is attempting to show the evil ways into which many of the fishing communities have fallen, and their need of moral and spiritual help.”—Outlook.

* “The thread of the story is not very distinct. The humor of the book is good, however, though here and there a little underdone, in seasoning and overdone in cooking.”

+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 876. D. 9, ‘05. 170w.

* “As a tract the book makes a strong appeal; as a story it limps a little and lacks freshness of conception and treatment; as a portrayal of character it is delightfully quaint and humorous.”

+ — Outlook. 81: 710. N. 25, ‘05. 120w.

Waters, N. McGee. Young man’s religion and his father’s faith. **90c. Crowell.

Eight practical talks which endeavor to reconcile the old thought and the new. On the ground that altho our conception of the Bible has changed and broadened the book itself is the same, the author declares that the young man who believes in the theory of evolution and questions the infallibility of the Bible differs 372from the faith of his fathers only in nonessentials and that altho our creeds may be new they seek to define the ways of the same loving God.

* Waters, Thomas Franklin. Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay colony; with seven appendices. *$5. Ipswich historical soc., Ipswich, Mass.

The author states in his preface: “I have tried to tell accurately but in readable fashion the story of the builders of our town; their homes and home life, their employments, their Sabbath keeping, their love of learning, their administration of town affairs, their stern delusions, their heroism in war, and in resistance to tyranny.” Ipswich was a typical New England town founded in 1623, and this detailed history has been prepared largely from original town documents, facsimiles of several of which are given.

* “Takes its place in the front rank of its class, and can hardly be praised too highly for diligent research, candor, taste, style, and construction.”

+ + Nation. 81: 429. N. 23, ‘05. 820w.

* “An interesting history of an interesting New England town.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 666. O. 14, ‘05. 590w. (Review of pts. 1 and 2.)

* Watkinson, William L. Inspiration in common life. *35c. Meth. bk.

A series of helpful suggestions which prove that every man’s possible happiness is the direct outgrowth of the appreciation and development of his hidden worthiness. The volume is uniform with the “Freedom of faith” series.

Watson, Edward Willard. Old lamps and new, and other verses; also, By Gaza’s gate, a cantata, $1. Fisher.

Under the divisions, Old lamps and new, and A forgotten idyl, the author gives us dainty verses, nearly all of which sing of love; some of the gladness of it, some of its pathos. By Gaza’s gate—a cantata, closes the volume. It is sung by Samson, Delilah, and a chorus; the words are based on the text of the Polychrome Bible.

Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott. Hurricane island. $1.50. Doubleday.

A young English doctor tells the story of his experiences on the yacht of a German prince. The prince, accompanied by his sister, is eloping with a French actress; they all bear assumed names, but the crew discover the truth, realize that there is great treasure stored in the hold, and mutiny, bloodshed and murder follow. The whole account is exciting, but hardly cheerful, save for the love story of the doctor and the princess.

“The thing is done with such an air of assurance, the characters are so carefully developed and sustained, that we accept it all, in a spirit of meek credulity, and even after a period of sober second thought admit that it is one of the best sustained stories of rattling adventure that has appeared in many a month.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ + Bookm. 21: 184. Ap. ‘05. 370w.

“This is a very stirring story, and is almost as good as Robert Louis Stevenson could have made it.” William Morton Payne.

+ + Dial. 38: 388. Je. 1, ‘05. 190w.

“Has skilfully combined all the ingredients that go to make what boys pronounce a ‘rattling good story.’”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 132. Mr. 4, ‘05. 240w.

“For literary qualities it is vastly inferior to Mr. Watson’s ‘Galloping Dick,’ but as a lively story of action it is exciting even if improbable.”

+ Outlook. 79: 253. Mr. 11, ‘05. 60w.

“It is ridiculous, impossible, and altogether unallied to anything that any of us is acquainted with in this severely practical world; probably it is for that reason that it is so absorbedly interesting for a quiet evening.”

+ Pub. Opin. 38: 392. Mr. 11, ‘05. 210w.

“Is a capital romance of love and piracy ... and delightfully related.”

+ + R. of Rs. 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 70w.

* Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott. Twisted eglantine. †$1.50. Appleton.

“A fascinating story of the time when George IV. was Prince of Wales. The leading man character is another Beau Brummel, quite well drawn; the freshness, beauty, and grace of the heroine are deftly impressed upon the reader.” (Outlook.) “Sir Piers had no scruples in asking Barbara Garraway, the Hampshire squire’s daughter, to be his mistress; when he found that he had misread her character, he had no scruples in carrying his efforts to make her his wife to the point of abducting her to his country seat.” (Lond. Times.)

* “The Beau is the book, and our interest in the book ceases when the Beau begins to prance like any sensational hero.”

+ — Acad. 68: 927. S. 9, ‘05. 460w.

* “The book thus falls somewhere between the mere romance and the novel of character. The period is well realized; the story is interesting and exciting; but this painful sounding of a shallow type delays its movements, and forbids the happy surrender of judgment which is the condition of enjoying a romance.”

+ — Lond. Times. 4: 287. S. 8, ‘05. 400w.

* “Mr. Marriott Watson has put his best work into ‘Twisted eglantine,’ and has scored a distinct triumph in Sir Piers Blakiston—an achievement, we should imagine, of no small difficulty.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 783. N. 18, ‘05. 400w.

* “It has passages which may be distasteful to some readers.”

+ — Outlook. 81: 684. N. 18, ‘05. 50w.

Watson, Thomas Edward. Bethany: a story of the old South. $1.50. Appleton.