The Cumulative Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Digests of reviews appearing in January—December 1905, magazines (continued 29)
Reading edition
Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Mrs. Alice Muriel. My friend the chauffeur. †$1.50. McClure.
This book “relates the incidents of a motor-car trip through southern Europe of two young Englishmen (one a lord masquerading as a chauffeur), and three American women, a widow of thirty-nine masquerading as twenty-eight, her daughter of seventeen, masquerading, for her mother’s sake, as thirteen, and her niece, an heiress, masquerading as a poor relation. A prince, poor but dishonest, masquerading as a man of property and honor, hovers around as the villain of the piece.” (Outlook.)
+ Acad. 68: 1008. S. 30, ‘05. 370w.
“Altogether a bright and pleasing story.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 651. O. 7, ‘05. 330w.
* + N. Y. Times. 10: 823. D. 2, ‘05. 170w.
+ Outlook. 81: 429. O. 21, ‘05. 160w.
“There is a certain charm and pleasantness in this work, which inclines one to approbation, though, truth to tell, there is but little solid merit in it.”
+ Sat. R. 100: 345. S. 9, ‘05. 220w.
Williamson, Charles Norris and Alice Muriel. Princess passes: romance of a motor car. $1.50. Holt.
A traveling love story, half of which takes place in the automobile of the heroine of “The lightning conductor”; the other half is an Alpine walking tour. Lord Lane, lately jilted, finds consolation in a delightful boy, his “little pal,” whom he meets in his travels, and whom he later discovers to be an American heiress, the Mercedes for whom the Winston’s car was named. The story wanders over northern France, Switzerland, and the Italian lakes, ending at Monte Carlo.
“This story is so delightful that we are not disposed to carp over-much at the impossibility of its central situation.” William Morton Payne.
+ + — Dial. 38: 389. Je. 1, ‘05. 150w.
“It seems almost too slender to be gravely criticised in matters of plot, character-drawing, and the like. Its staple is sheer, wholesome fun, brisk and bubbling, but not loud or crude.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ Forum. 37: 111. Jl. ‘05. 120w.
“The descriptions of the road are unusually good and the breath of the high Alps is in the book.”
+ + Ind. 59: 392. Ag. 17, ‘05. 110w.
“If the story taxes belief, the characters are lifelike enough to satisfy any novel reader in good standing.”
+ Nation. 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 310w.
+ N. Y. Times. 20: 180. Mr. 25, ‘05. 530w.
“Is, if anything, more saturated with the sunshine and fun of automobile adventure than ‘The lightning conductor.’”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.
“There is a pretty little romance in the book, and delightful descriptions of scenery, castles, quaint inns, and travel by donkey.”
+ Outlook. 79: 1015. Ap. 22, ‘05. 220w.
Williamson, James M. Life and times of St. Boniface. *$2. Oxford.
“Dr. Williamson gives us, in a sufficiently readable and popular manner, the life of the Englishman who, in the turmoil of the eighth century, was raised by fortune and his own merits to the primacy of the church in Germany.”—Acad.
+ Acad. 68: 33. Ja. 14, ‘05. 190w.
Willis, Henry Parker. Our Philippine problem: a study of American colonial policy. $1.50. Holt.
“A review of our experience as a nation in governing the Philippine islands and an appreciation of the main elements of the Philippine problem as it now presents itself.” There is a frank discussion of civil government, civil service, legal and judicial systems, constabulary, political parties, the church, American education in the islands, social conditions, and kindred subjects, all treated from the view point of an “anti-imperialist.”
* “It needs to be stated at the beginning that this book is frankly critical of our Philippine policy, and particularly of the administration thereof. Further perusal and analysis of the book will convince many readers, perhaps unwillingly, too, that the criticisms and charges it contains are not only serious and grave in the extreme, but that their authenticity seems unquestionable. In style it is unusually readable and entertaining.” J. E. Conner.
+ — Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 761. N. ‘05. 1070w.
* “Is a careful ‘study of American colonial policy,’ well deserving the attention of the politician and historian. The author is thoroughly master of his subject.”
+ + Ath. 1905, 2: 646. N. 11. 300w.
* Critic. 47: 479. N. ‘05. 80w.
“Mr. Willis somewhat prejudices his case as an impartial critic by the expression of his own adverse opinion in the preliminary chapter, before he has presented his evidence to his readers. No modern government has ever been 387more severely impeached of high crimes and misdemeanors against the spirit of the institutions of its people, than has the government at Washington in these chapters.” John J. Halsey.
— Dial. 39: 271. N. 1, ‘05. 370w.
Reviewed by George R. Bishop.
+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 633. S. 30, ‘05. 2720w.
“The serious defect of the book is that it is not what it purports to be. It is really an almost unqualified accusation against the American government, not only of unfitness and failure, but of prejudice, insincerity, and sordidness.”
— — Outlook. 81: 89. S. 9, ‘05. 510w.
* + — Pub. Opin. 39: 667. N. 18, ‘05. 240w.
* R. of Rs. 32: 639. N. ‘05. 150w.
Willoughby, William Franklin. Territories and dependencies of the United States: their government and administration. *$1.25. Century.
The seventh volume in the “American state series.” The field covered in Dr. Willoughby’s discussion is that of the actual policy and the action taken by the United States in respect to the government and administration of the various dependent territories which have successively come under its sovereignty, and the conferring of political rights upon their inhabitants.
* “Mr. Willoughby’s volume will repay careful study.”
+ Nation. 81: 471. D. 7, ‘05. 480w.
Reviewed by Robert Livingston Schuyler.
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 464. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1140w.
“Generally speaking, the treatment is concise yet thorough.”
+ + Outlook. 80: 695. Jl. 15, ‘05. 110w.
+ + Pub. Opin. 39: 317. S. 2, ‘05. 190w.
R. of Rs. 32: 510. O. ‘05. 90w.
* Willson, Robert Newton. American boy and the social evil: from a physician’s standpoint. $1. Winston.
Four plain talks—originally delivered to students and now published by Dr. Willson “for the purpose of more widely introducing a difficult and delicate subject in a plain but thoroughly clean way.” The talks are: The nobility of boyhood: the boy’s part in life’s problem, delivered to the boys of Philadelphia during the summer of 1904, at the request of the department of public health and charities; Clean living: a problem of school and college days, a talk to the students of the University of Pennsylvania, Oct. 10, 1903; The social evil in America and The relation of the citizen to the social evil, addresses to the students of the Union Theological seminary, April, 1905.
* Wilson, Bingham Thoburn. Village of Hide and seek. $1.25. Consolidated retail booksellers.
The village of Hide and seek lies at the end of a perilous cliff journey over which Aunt Twaddles, a fat, coarse-skirted witch of the mountains, conducts two children in search of pennyroyal. In her own realm the witch is transformed into a beautiful fairy queen of the dolls, and with her brother Santa Claus furnishes rare entertainment for the visitors.
* + N. Y. Times. 10: 911. D. 23, ‘05. 200w.
Wilson, Calvin Dill. Making the most of ourselves. **$1. McClure.
This series of talks for young people is broad in its scope and includes fifty chapters of helpful advice upon subjects which may be included under such headings as education, deportment, religion, work and spiritual development. The boy or girl who reads these discourses carefully, and heeds them cannot go far wrong in big or little things.
Wilson, Ella Calista. Pedagogues and parents. **$1.25. Holt.
It has been the author’s purpose to show the possibilities within the power of a parent of supplementing the work of the teacher, to show what is distinctly the teacher’s work and what the parent’s duty and privilege. “The pedagogue studies the laws of childhood; the parent, the temperament and needs of his particular child; the school-teacher advances the children in regiment, lock-step; the parent in their natural gait, in their strugglings and self-directed sprawlings.” The book is humorously dedicated among others to parents “whose concern for their dear little ones makes them so irregularly bold that they dare consult their own reason in the education of their children, rather than wholly to rely upon old customs.”
“It is not a treatise. Its historical chapters meander and are cheerful and chatty. Of the ideals of the past it gives amusing glimpses. A book to set tongues and pens to wagging, a book to read from preface to finis with the relish of combat or agreement. Whether you deny or assent, you are bound to laugh.” Adele Marie Shaw.
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 81. F. 11, ‘05. 2140w.
“The book is witty, full of wholesome advice to parents and to teachers, and is just the kind of reading for the interested mothers in our women’s clubs.”
+ + School R. 13: 200*. F. ‘05. 230w.
Wilson, Floyd Baker. Man limitless. $1.25. Fenno.
In eleven papers treating of such subjects as love, work, memory, suggestion, and accomplishment, is given a metaphysical and psychic study of the possibilities of man, unlimited power resident in one’s selfhood, which may be made use of thru discipline.
“Mr. Wilson’s cry is: Down with the chains! Down with limitations! And he succeeds in persuading us fully that there is no need for any of these.”
+ Pub. Opin. 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 70w.
Wilson, Harry Leon. Boss of little Arcady. †$1.50. Lothrop.
“Mr. Wilson writes of an Illinois village just before and just after the great war, of a shy boy who adored a schoolgirl with two yellow braids tied with a scarlet ribbon, of another boy who was not shy, of a marriage and a going-away to the stricken field with a sad little miniature inside a blue coat.... He writes of black Clem, who came from Virginia, and was ‘Miss Cah’line’s pus’nal property,’ in spite of the Emancipation proclamation ... of ‘Miss Caroline’ herself ... Miss Caroline’s daughter, Katharine Lansdale ... and Jim, a setter dog.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is a whimsical book that Mr. Wilson has given us this time, a book that is scarcely a novel at all, in the accepted sense, a book that drags somewhat at the start, at the same time that it is surreptitiously fastening its hold on you.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ — Bookm. 22: 134. O. ‘05. 370w.
“His new book has leisurely ease of movement and a humor that is simply captivating.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 39: 209. O. 1, ‘05. 250w.
“A picture of the Western town more truthful, because more affectionately touched with misty hues of the imagination, than are the raw splotches of ‘local color’ miscalled ‘novels of the West.’”
+ + — Ind. 59: 579. S. 7, ‘05. 400w.
“The scheme of writing the novel in four books is a lazy one that disturbs the unities. We want the illusion of all the balls in the air at once.”
+ — Lit. D. 31: 586. O. 21, ‘05. 420w.
“It is a fine thing of its kind, and will please many, the pleasing of whom is worth a man’s time and trouble.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 539. Ag. 19, ‘05. 900w.
388* “A delightfully human, kindly and refreshing tale.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 823. D. 2, ‘05. 170w.
“There is real pleasure to be derived from its perusal if too much is not expected in the way of incident and action.”
+ + — Outlook. 80: 1073. Ag. 26, ‘05. 90w.
Wilson, James Grant. Thackeray in the United States, 1852-3, 1855-6. 2v. **$10. Dodd.
A two-volume account of Thackeray’s visits to the United States. His lecture course on the English humorists and the Georges are described, and various anecdotes, conversations and letters are given. There is a bibliographical list of the writings of Thackeray published in the United States, followed by Thackerayana, and the numerous mentions of him in periodicals. There are twenty-six portraits of Thackeray, many of his drawings, and several facsimiles of letters.
“Small faults are easily found, and though the book may not be as learned as possible, it is surely one that should have distinct popularity.”
+ + — Critic. 46: 188. F. ‘05. 110w.
Reviewed by M. F.
+ + Dial. 38: 189. Mr. 16, ‘05. 900w.
“American readers will find in these two volumes nothing to complain of everything to correct an ancient notion we all had that Thackeray was cynical.”
+ Ind. 58: 1308. Je. 8. ‘05. 630w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 6. Ja. 7, ‘05. 1460w.
R. of Rs. 31: 249. F. ‘05. 70w.
“Two garrulous and amiable volumes.”
+ Spec. 94: 256. F. 18, ‘05. 1380w.
Wilson, William Robert Anthony. Knot of blue. †$1.50. Little.
This is not an historical romance altho the scene is laid in old Quebec. The heroine, the ward of the governor, and the hero, her childhood playmate, are both the victims of the wicked plots of the villain thru whom the hero is made to appear faithless to both his country and his love. There are many thrilling scenes, enacted by many players, but in the end each wins his true deserts.
+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 402. Je. 17, ‘05. 330w.
“A story of love and adventure, full of movement and romance.”
+ Outlook. 80: 193. My. 20, ‘05. 50w.
Winkley, Jonathan Wingate. John Brown, the hero: personal reminiscences, *85c. West, J. H.
The author was a boy in Kansas in 1856, and there came in contact with the great abolitionist hero. The object of his little book is to throw some side light upon John Brown’s character, and he gives some new historical material, and recounts adventures in which he was too young to participate except as an eye witness. There is an introduction by Frank B. Sanborn. The illustrations include a representation of a bust of John Brown and two views of the Adair cabin.
Am. Hist R. 10: 719. Ap. ‘05. 50w.
“We are glad Dr. Winkley has set down his personal experiences and impressions in so interesting and vivid a manner.”
+ Arena. 33: 672. Je. ‘05. 160w.
“Although the matter of the book is slender in amount, and spread thin by both author and printer, and although the glimpses we get of John Brown are few and fleeting, the publishers are still within the truth in announcing that ‘The book has the interest of a romance,’ and that ‘the young will read it as if it were especially “a story for boys,” and the old will find in it matters to revive their enthusiasm.’”
+ Dial. 38: 240. Ap. 1, ‘05. 290w.
“Another slight, and wholly unpretentious volume, quickly read.”
+ Nation. 80: 132. F. 16, ‘05. 200w.
N. Y. Times. 10:150. Mr. 11, ‘05. 400w.
Winslow, Charles Edward Amory. Elements of applied microscopy: a text-book for beginners. $1.50. Wiley.
A presentation of the elements of microscopic study under the headings: Function and parts of the microscope. Manipulation of the microscope, The mounting and preparation of objects for the microscope, Micrometry, and the camera lucida, The microscopy of the common starches, Foods and drugs and their adulterants, The examination of textile fibers, The microscopy of paper, The microscope in medicine and sanitation, Forensic microscopy, Microchemistry, Petrography and metallography.
“Mr. Winslow’s text is practical.”
+ + Engin. N. 53: 295. Mr. 16, ‘05. 460w.
Winter, Alice. Prize to the hardy. $1.50. Bobbs.
Mrs. Winter’s story of early Minnesota days is built up around a successful financial magnate of a typical western town, his daughter, in whose veins flows a trace of the blood of Indian chiefs,—a very modern, very feminine, very human specimen of lovable young womanhood, a young Maineite who demonstrates his fitness to be called the “hardy,” and his rival, the near approach to a contemptible villain. There are close range views of the typical Swede farmer, dips into the hardships to be endured in the small Dakota towns, and a thrilling picture of a forest fire’s devastation. The local coloring thruout is consistent and characteristic.
“Told in a spirited manner. It is a story that will appeal to the general reader in search of a pleasing and somewhat exciting love-tale.”
+ Arena. 34: 221. Ag. ‘05. 250w.
“The book is not incapably written. The book’s greatest fault is its utter lack of originality.”
+ — Critic. 46: 381. Ap. ‘05. 90w.
“In short, without being remarkable in any special way, ‘The prize to the hardy’ is a good readable, human story, and cleverly written at that.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 244. Ap. 15, ‘05. 370w.
+ Outlook. 79: 708. Mr. 18, ‘05. 90w.
Wise, John Sergeant. Lion’s skin. †$1.50. Doubleday.
On the surface the book is the story of a certain Powhatan Carrington, who bore arms in his ‘teens for the Confederacy, and became a Richmond lawyer and politician. On turning Republican he found himself so unpopular among his townspeople, that he removed to New York, where he and his northern wife prospered exceedingly. Underneath is an analysis of the conditions of the South since the Civil war, and a political history of Virginia from the first steps in reconstruction to the election of the governor in 1885.
“‘The lion’s skin’ spells information rather than diversion.”
+ — Bookm. 21: 651. Ag. ‘05. 270w.
“In this book there is far more history than fiction.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — Dial. 39: 42. Jl. 16, ‘05. 290w.
— Ind. 58: 1132. My. 18, ‘05. 320w.
“As a novel Mr. Wise’s book, while it contains some excellent material will not hold the average reader’s attention. But it only ostensibly a novel. It is rather a personal explanation, and as such will interest persons who know who Mr. Wise is.”
+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 178. Mr. 25, ‘05. 630w.
“Mr. Wise cannot be accounted a success as a novelist, but as a historian he is clear and forceful, and his book calls for careful consideration.”
+ — Outlook. 79: 857. Ap. 1, ‘05. 320w.
389“As a piece of fiction the book is a negligible quantity, but as the narrative account of the movement of events and the development and importance of the predominant feelings in the South before, during, and immediately after the war it is a worthy contribution to our Civil war literature.”
— + + Pub. Opin. 38: 713. My. 6, ‘05. 160w.
“A new kind of reconstruction story, cleverly weaving together fact and fiction, and discussing the negro problem frankly and impressively.”
+ R. of Rs. 31: 508. Ap. ‘05. 160w.
* Wishart, Alfred Wesley. Primary facts in religious thought. *75c. Univ. of Chicago press.
Seven essays, intended to state in a simple and practical manner the essential principles of religion, and to clear it from confusion arising from theological changes and historical criticism.
* “They are well adapted by their brevity and simplicity to the need of the average man. If they fall short in any point, it is in not recognizing the essential identity of religion and morality beneath their superficial differences.”
+ + — Outlook. 81: 891. D. 9, ‘05. 170w.
Wisser, John P., and Gauss, Henry C., comps. Military and naval dictionary. 50c. Hamersley.
Authentic and clearly worded definitions of all terms used in the United States army and navy, with a well-defined statement of the powers of each department of the United States government and the duties of all government officials.
“The work has been condensed into a small handbook, and constitutes a handy volume of reference, the words selected having been clearly defined in simple English. It will be of use not only to the general reader unfamiliar with the terms who wishes to learn their meaning, but also for the Navy, Army, the National guard, the Naval reserve, and others interested in military matters.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 165. Mr. 18, ‘05. 200w.
Witchell, Charles Anderson. Nature’s story for the year. $1.25. Wessels.
Under such chapter headings as—The universal strife, Signs of spring, April days, May muses, June joys, An August song, Signs of autumn, and Wintry days, is given the story of the denizens of nature’s own land, the thickets and the tree tops; history of a year and what the changing seasons bring to the things that creep and fly.
* Wittigschlager, Wilhelmina. Minna, wife of the young rabbi. $1.50. Consolidated retail booksellers.
Minna, a beautiful girl of unknown parentage, born among poor Russian Jews, is forced to marry when only thirteen years old a man whom she has never seen. The morning after her marriage she runs away from her bridegroom and leads a wandering life buffeted by fate and humanity hither and yon, caring for her little son as best she may. She comes to America, but later returns to Russia as an anarchist, only to discover, upon the assassination of Alexander II., that the czar she has plotted to kill is her father. She is sent to Siberia, but is pardoned, and in the end is reunited to her husband, whom she has come to love. This is but a small part of an exciting story, which gives a remarkably vivid and most unflattering picture of the Russian Jew.
* Wolf, Edmund Jacob. Higher rock: sermons, addresses, and articles; comp. by a committee of the Board of publication. $1.50. Lutheran pub. soc.
A memorial edition of Dr. Wolf’s sermons, papers and addresses. “They are the ripe fruit of a thoughtful and scholarly mind. Laymen and ministers alike will find the book not only readable but clear and profitable.”
Woljeska, Helen. See Tindolph, Helen Woljeska.
Wollant, Gregoire de. Land of the rising sun; tr. from the Russian by the author, with the assistance of Madame de Wollant. $1.50. Neale.
“The first portion of M. de Wollant’s study is a short description of the Japanese islands, following which there is a historical sketch of the people and an outline of the history of Christianity in Japan. Part two contains the author’s impressions of the Japan to-day, impressions which were derived from trips to northern as well as southern Japan. The descriptions of the people and of the public and domestic life are well considered, and in addition M. de Wollant appends some interesting observations on economic and financial Japan.”—Pub. Opin.
“While he evidently aims to be accurate and impartial, his observations and opinions are naturally colored by his nationality, but we nevertheless find the book very interesting.”
+ — Critic. 47: 478. N. ‘05. 180w.
“Where he has occasion to refer to authorities his choice is usually the best, and his personal comments on contemporary conditions reveal an observer of such insight that it is a matter for regret that he has not often seen fit to delve a little deeper beneath the surface which he portrays so admirably.”
+ Lit. D. 31: 625. O. 28, ‘05. 280w.
“An interesting and impartial book on Japan. The book is decidedly worth reading.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 606. S. 16, ‘05. 1370w.
“A Russian’s estimate of Japan is interesting. It is especially interesting, as in the present case, when it is given by a clever, keen-sighted Russian.”
+ Outlook. 81: 234. S. 23, ‘05. 430w.
“The narrative is lacking in literary merit and is at times incoherent, but as the book is a translation, a great many of the faults of style and composition may be due to that fact.”
+ — Pub. Opin. 39: 479. O. 7, ‘05. 130w.
Wollaston, Arthur Naylor. Sword of Islam. *$3. Dutton.
“This book is an enlargement of the author’s previous work, ‘Half-hours with Muhammad.’ The first half of the book gives the story of Mohammed’s life and teaching, the early history of Islam, and a sketch of the dynasties under which Islamic civilization reached its highest development: the second half is devoted to a description of the more important tenets of the Mohammedan faith and the beliefs of the various sects into which Islam is divided.”—Spec.
“Such statements are inexcusable, all being devoid of foundation beyond popular misconception due to ignorance.”
— Acad. 68: 800. Ag. 5, ‘05. 980w.
+ Ind. 59: 751. S. 28, ‘05. 160w.
“This volume may stimulate an interest which it cannot satisfy.”
— Nation. 81: 199. S. 7, ‘05. 120w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 317. My. 12, ‘05. 270w.
“He has done his work of choosing and mingling in an able manner. Mr. Wollaston has made a connected story out of many diverse books and articles. The result of his work we consider valuable, as being many riches in a little space.”
+ + + N. Y. Times. 10: 450. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1590w.
+ Outlook. 80: 839. Jl. 29, ‘05. 40w.
“‘The sword of Islam’ may serve a purpose as a book of reference for the general reader; but it can hardly ‘awaken an interest in the history of a religion and its followers.’”
+ Spec. 94: 790. My. 27, ‘05. 560w.
390Wood, Charles Seely. Camp fires on the Scioto. †$1.50. Wilde.
The third story in Mr. Wood’s series on the opening up of the Northwest territory. It is based on the historical records of surveys made after the Indians had been driven to the northwest. The hardy courage of these government surveyors forms the undertone of the tale, which in particular sketches the heroism of Morris Patterson, a lad who had been orphaned by the cruelty of the Indians, and who resolves to take his father’s place in the company at Massie’s Station on the Ohio river, and to support his little sister.
Wood, Eugene. Back home. †$1.50. McClure.
Stories which will carry all those who, in childhood, have known the country, thankfully back to the old school-house, the Sabbath-school, the swimming hole, the county fair, the circus and the many other things of youth which were once delightfully real and now seem delightfully funny. The illustrations by A. B. Frost add greatly to the book.
* “His style, too, is that of the tricky journalist, and not of the literary artist. That Mr. Wood is not lacking in ability, whatever may be his deficiences in taste, is shown by the sustained excellence of one chapter, ‘The firemen’s tournament.’”
+ — Lit. D. 31: 798. N. 25, ‘05. 660w.
“The human touch that makes the whole world kin is to be felt in these homely, humorous sketches.”
+ Outlook. 81: 380. O. 14, ‘05. 160w.
“They are well worth reading two or three times over.”
+ Pub. Opin. 39: 506. O. 14, ‘05. 220w.
Wood, Henry. Life more abundant: scriptural truth in modern application. **$1.20. Lothrop.
“The burden of Mr. Wood’s attempt here is to free the Bible from the old, hard, literal infallibility which has at once hidden its deeper spiritual meaning from its friends and been the most telling weapon in the hands of hostile critics.”—Pub. Opin.
+ + Outlook. 81: 234. S. 23, ‘05. 200w.
“Those who are familiar with the inspiring, optimistic tone always struck by Henry Wood in his various writings on new thought topics will not be disappointed in this, his latest volume.”
+ + Pub. Opin. 39: 476. O. 7, ‘05. 490w.
Wood, T. Martin. Drawings of Sir E. Burne-Jones. *$2.50. Scribner.
An importation of the Newnes set of drawings with an introductory essay by Mr. Wood. There are forty-seven illustrations, mostly reproductions of studies for “The Aenid,” “The masque of Cupid,” designs for windows, two or three characters from Tennyson, “The nativity,” and “The entombment,” “The dream,” “The car of love,” “The sirens,” children, hands, a wing, etc. The frontispiece presents a study in red chalk. There are several other pictures in tints, mounted on harmonizing paper. The others are in half-tone. The cover design is printed in three colors from a drawing by Granville Fell.
“Scholarly essay. Carefully selected and well reproduced, though in a few cases losing something of their charm through over-reduction, the drawings here collected include typical examples of a great variety.”
+ + Int. Studio. 25: 180. Ap. ‘05. 260w.
Int. Studio. 25: sup. 63. My. ‘05. 190w.
“An altogether satisfactory publication not only for the reason that great pains have been taken to present the drawings through various processes in a striking and intelligent manner, but also because we have these reproductions preceded by an excellent essay by T. Martin Wood, who writes with utter frankness concerning the artist’s draughtsmanship, its development and the feats it achieved.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 178. Mr. 25, ‘05. 260w.
* Wood, T. Martin. Drawings of Rossetti. *$2.50. Scribner.
“This year’s addition to the ‘Modern master draughtsmen’ series ... is an ideal study, both in text and illustration, of a distinctive phase of a great artist’s work.... There is an interesting discussion of the proper critical attitude from which to approach Rossetti’s work, and the fifty drawings reproduced in the present volume are treated as illustrative material for various theses, thus receiving considerable detailed attention.... Many are printed in tint and mounted upon rough paper of a harmonizing shade. They represent all stages of work, from the rough sketch to the elaborate highly-finished drawing that was so characteristic of Rossetti’s genius.”—Dial.
* “The introductory comment ... is a discriminating and illuminating piece of criticism.”
+ + Dial. 39: 383. D. 1, ‘05. 280w.
* “Valuable addition to the Newnes series.”
+ + Int. Studio. 27: sup. 33. D. ‘05. 210w.
Wood, Walter Birbeck, and Edmonds, James Edward. History of the Civil war in the United States, 1861-1865. *$3.50. Putnam.
This history of the civil war was written by two officers of the British army, from an impartial English point of view. “Mr. Spenser Wilkinson in a short introduction commends this book because he is convinced ‘that the true nature of war and its relation to national life can be learned from a study of the American Civil war as a whole.’ ... It tells why and how the war was fought, and though there is much in it which the general public may read with profit and interest, its detail and wealth of maps show that it is intended rather for the specialist.” (Sat. R.)
* “Whatever may be the cause of the want of clearness, which we have named, it deprives the book of some of that value which, given its accuracy, would otherwise have attached to it, as a text-book. We have to congratulate our authors upon their index, the compilation of which has evidently been most careful, to the great advantage of the volume.”
+ + — Ath. 1905, 2: 431. S. 30. 1070w.
* “It would have been all the more welcome if they had attempted less, and omitted some of the many details with which they load their pages.”
+ + — Lond. Times. 4: 317. S. 29, ‘05. 720w.
* “The authors are scrupulously fair. They have kept a good proportion in their narrative. But they very certainly have not, as Mr. Spenser Wilkinson would have us believe, produced an authoritative military pronouncement on the subject.”
+ Nation. 81: 511. D. 21, ‘05. 1030w.
* N. Y. Times. 10: 713. O. 21, ‘05. 240w.
+ + — Sat. R. 100: 412. S. 23, ‘05. 290w.
Woodman, H. Rea. Noahs afloat. $1.50. Neale.
A jocular account of the voyage of the ark, which begins with the third day out and ends when the Noahs and the stowaway, John Smith, have packed up their belongings and are ready to land. The book is largely taken up with humorous family discussions of up-to-date subjects. Some lively incidents are furnished by the animals.
“It is carefully written, and those who like this kind of humor may like it very much.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 457. Jl. 8, ‘05. 600w.
391Woodward, William Harrison. Desiderius Erasmus concerning the aim and method of education. *$1.30. Macmillan.
“This study of the life work of Erasmus as an educator is characterized by ... thoroughness, lucidity, and sympathy.... Erasmus as sketched here is not an altogether attractive personality.”—Int. J. Ethics.
“To inquirers into the origins of modern culture, and to students of the history of education generally, this book will prove invaluable.” R. E. Hughes.
+ + Int. J. Ethics. 15: 390. Ap. ‘05. 700w.
Working men’s college, 1854-1904. See Davies, J. Llewelyn, ed.
Workman, William Hunter, and Workman, Fanny Bullock. Through town and jungle: fourteen thousand miles a-wheel among the temples and peoples of the Indian plain. *$5. Scribner.
A book devoted to the “temples and people of India,” giving studies of the six styles of Indian architecture, the Buddhist, Indian-Aryan, Jain, Dravidian, Chalukyan, and Mohammedan, and the innumerable variety of people and adventures encountered “from Cape Comorin to the Himalayas and beyond.” There are over two hundred illustrations.
“It is a worthy record of a remarkable journey.”
+ + Ath. 1905, 1: 334. Mr. 18. 1580w.
“It would be most unfair to deny the value of the material, both textual and pictorial, here gathered together, however unsystematized, or the fact that no other recent work on India gives any such general impression of the Indian peoples and architectures.” Wallace Rice.
+ + — Dial. 38: 383. Je. 1, ‘05. 580w.
“The incidents and excitements, as well as the studious results, of this trip are well told.”
+ + Nation. 80: 269. Ap. 6, ‘05. 340w.
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 188. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1280w.
“The narrative does not quite justify one’s expectations. In spite of their unusual powers of endurance, these seasoned travellers found a good deal to grumble about.”
+ — Sat. R. 100: 346. S. 9, ‘05. 260w.
Wright, John, pseud. See Bourne, R. William.
Wright, Louise Wigfall (Mrs. D. Giraud Wright). Southern girl in ‘61: the wartime memories of a Confederate senator’s daughter. **$2.75. Doubleday.
“The narrative begins in Texas, continues through the author’s child-life in Washington; and, during her school days in Boston, carries the thread of the public story rather than her own, reproducing letters showing progress of events in the South. She reached Richmond just after the battle of Manassas; her record ends with Kirby Smith’s surrender; prominent men and women are introduced in incident, anecdote, and by portrait.”—Outlook.
* + Critic. 47: 575. D. ‘05. 90w.
“The volume under review has an interest and value that the social histories have not.” Walter L. Fleming.
+ + Dial. 39: 269 N. 1, ‘05. 920w.
“These books are really worth while, if for no other purpose but to show how ridiculously fallacious are the Southern heroines made up by writers like Cyrus Townsend Brady and George Gary Eggleston.”
+ Ind. 59: 986. O. 26, ‘05. 100w.
* “A girl sees only the surface of things, and what she does not understand she is not likely to remember, nearly half a century later. So the recollections are about what one should expect. They are pleasing, although often thin.”
+ Nation. 81: 405. N. 16, ‘05. 1890w.
“Not even a tag of poor verse ... can rob ‘A southern girl in ‘61’ of its literary quality or historical value, its pathos, and its fine humanity.” L. L.
+ + — N. Y. Times. 10: 558. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1160w.
* “Mrs. Wright’s book is decidedly one to read.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 820. D. 2, ‘05. 120w.
“The book has a substantial interest that only the author could supply, and some of the correspondence introduced has the value of historical documents.”
+ Outlook. 81: 282. S. 30, 05. 200w.
* “‘The feminine spirit of the Confederacy,’ which has been made one of the chapter titles of this book, is cleverly interpreted by this writer, who was actually a part of the stirring scenes which she narrates.”
+ R. of Rs. 32: 756. D. ‘05. 160w.
Wright, W. Aldis, ed. See Ascham, Roger. English works.
Wright, William Burnet. Cities of Paul: * beacons of the past rekindled for the present. **$1.10. Houghton.
A study of the cities of Tarsus, Tyana, Ancyra, Philippi, Old and New Corinth, Ephesus, Colossai, and Thessalonica, which not only shows the setting of the Apostle’s life and helps to our understanding of the Pauline epistles, but points out that the Apostle encountered the same vices, social, political, and commercial, that threaten our own municipalities today, and shows how he dealt with them.
* N. Y. Times. 10: 851. D. 2, ‘05. 180w.
* “With such a purpose Dr. Wright has put his ample knowledge to a highly instructive as well as entertaining use.”
+ Outlook. 81: 887. D. 9, ‘05. 100w.
Wylie, Edna Edwards. Ward of the sewing-circle, †$1. Little.
Orphaned Johnny Beal becomes the little “human hand-me-down” of the Smithville sewing-circle. Each member takes charge of him for two months at a time, and with all the divided management, it is no wonder that the little fellow jumbles his various parting injunctions. His only solace is Tab, his cat which kind fate smuggles past the wrathy spots in his foster mothers’ tempers.
Wyllie, William Lionel, and Wyllie, M. A. London to the Nore; painted and described by W. L. and M. A. Wyllie. *$6. Macmillan.
This volume “deals with territory between the metropolis and the sea, and is included in the ‘Beautiful book’ series.... It is described by Mrs Wyllie and the many colored pictures and other sketches are by W. L. Wyllie, A. R. A. The party ‘does’ London to the Nore, along the Thames, and the Medway to Rochester. The book is made up of a series of traveler’s impressions with what might be called a partly historical and partly contemporaneous background.”—N. Y. Times.
“In Mr. Wyllie’s pictures in ‘London to the Nore,’ we are struck chiefly by the wholesome sentiment and the microscopic eye. Mrs. Wyllie’s text is a too frivolous accompaniment.”
+ + — Acad. 68: 779. Jl. 29, ‘05. 400w.
* “Amongst the many delightful publications resulting from the happy collaboration of an artist and author that have recently appeared, high rank must certainly be given to ‘London to the Nore,’ with its sympathetic interpretations of typical river scenes and vivid word-pictures of their environment.”
+ + Int. Studio. 27: 182. D. ‘05. 190w.
+ + Lond. Times. 4: 255. Ag. 11, ‘05. 520w.
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 485. Jl. 22, ‘05. 350w.
“In every way a most delightful book.”
+ + Spec. 95: 159. Jl. 29, ‘05. 410w.
392Wyman, Rev. Henry H. Certainty in religion. 50c; 10c. Columbus press.
“Father Wyman has met many doubters in his long missionary career, and this book is a summary of his most persuasive arguments with them. It will serve, we trust, as a manual for many other zealous priests.”—Cath. World.
“A book of really convincing power.”
+ + Cath. World. 81: 251. My. ‘05. 380w.
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Yechton, Barbara, pseud. (Lydia Farrington Krause). Some adventures of Jack and Jill. †$1.50. Dodd.
“A pretty story of a group of English children who lived in Santa Cruz, West Indies. Little Jill, the narrator, looks up to her brother Jack with loving admiration. The mischief they get into and the honest way they get out make delightful reading.”—Outlook.
* “The story is well told.”
+ Critic. 47: 577. D. ‘05. 20w.
* “It is a good story for boys and girls, any one in fact.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 795. N. 25, ‘05. 210w.
* “Refinement and gentleness characterize this wholesome chronicle of childish thoughts and doings.”
+ Outlook. 81: 430. O. 21, ‘05. 60w.
Yellow war, by “O.” **$1.20. McClure.
Dramatic episodes of the war in the Far East are given here with a touch of imagination which only adds to their reality: we see things as the yellow men must see them. There are scenes of war on sea and land, scenes at the front, and at home, most of which tell of the systematic subordination and sacrifice of the individual to the system.
“It is a book which gives an excellent idea of the actors in the war.”
+ + Acad. 68: 172. F. 25, ‘05. 320w.
“There is much idealization rather than a precise report, and the result is an impression even more veritable than the others have been able to convey, notwithstanding a certain sense of the fiction that is truer than mere fact.” Wallace Rice.
+ + Dial. 38: 417. Je. 16, ‘05. 890w.
“On its face a collection of detached recitals, many of them thrilling, but not incredible, this volume, when carefully read, reveals more than tales of adventure. The anonymous writer is clearly distrustful and unsympathetic, but he tries to be impartial.”
+ + Nation. 81: 204. S. 7, ‘05. 1480w.
“On the whole, it is a book of blood-stirring reading—a sort of prose glory song of the wonderful little yellow man.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 262. Ap. 22, ‘05. 550w.
“Remarkable for their vividness and intensity.”
+ + Outlook. 79: 1062. Ap. 29, ‘05. 280w.
“It is quite likely that this fiction is a truer picture in spirit of the Japanese than much of the fact we have been fed on.”
+ + Pub. Opin. 38: 755. My. 13, ‘05. 360w.
“It is a word panorama of its great battles and sieges by one who has studied the characters of the men of the two nations engaged in it. The style of this narrative is highly direct and intense, full of life and color.”
+ + + Reader. 6: 597. O. ‘05. 180w.
“The merely literary merits of his book are great. Most of the book can only be described as lurid; and yet the author writes simply, is never rhetorical, and clearly labours to be temperate and exact. The book is not impartial, sometimes it is palpably unfair, and now and then it is impossibly fantastic. But at its best it comes nearer a kind of genius than any war correspondence we remember.”
+ + — Spec. 94: 405. Mr. 18, ‘05. 800w.
Young, Egerton Ryerson. Hector my dog. $1.50. Wilde.
Hector grows very human to the animal lover as with a high degree of intelligence he records his dog thoughts and narrates his Northland adventures. Particularly interesting is the author’s suggestion that the devotion and loyalty which a dog renders his master must be preserved as a part of all good in the final reckoning.
* “Knows his subject and its surroundings thoroughly.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 90w.
* “He has written some excellent descriptions of sledge-trips and other characteristic experiences of that frozen country, but his book, as a whole, is marred by a touch of sentimentality and a tendency to point a moral.”
+ — Outlook. 81: 718. N. 25, ‘05. 100w.
* “There is plenty of adventure and danger, animal jealousy and human love. The book is pleasant—fascinating indeed—and morally healthy.”
+ Spec. 95: sup. 907. D. 2, ‘05. 60w.
Young, Janet, comp. Psychological yearbook. **$1. Elder.
Quotations showing the laws, the ways, the means, the methods, for gaining lasting health, happiness, peace and prosperity.
Young, Jeremiah Simeon. Political and constitutional study of the Cumberland road. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
“The introductory chapters on the early transportation difficulties and the first roads to the West are a most convenient summary of that interesting problem in our early economic history. The two following chapters on the genesis of the Cumberland road, its location, construction and administration, will be welcomed by everyone who has had to lecture on the subject. The long constitutional controversy is clearly outlined, taking up the question of eminent domain, jurisdiction, Monroe’s veto, and the final surrender of the road to the states through which the road passed.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“The treatment is in the main historical. The style of the author is both good and bad. It is clear, but marred by numerous repetitions of lines and even paragraphs, giving us the impression that the chapters were written at widely separated times. There is, moreover, an unfortunate failure of correspondence at times between the text and citations. The book is a very readable and logical discussion of a most interesting subject. It is marred, however, by certain faults of style and inaccuracies in details.” Alonzo H. Tuttle.
+ + — Am. Hist. R. 10: 696. Ap. ‘05. 330w.
“This is an admirable little monograph, a source study of a constitutional question of great historical significance. The monographic study will greatly aid the general historian in getting a sure grasp of the main questions involved.”
+ + + Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 346. Mr. ‘05. 130w.
Younghusband, Francis Edward. Heart of a continent. *$2. Scribner.
This narrative of travels in Manchuria, across the Gobi desert, thru the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Hunza, 1884-1894, was issued several years ago, and is now republished in cheaper form, owing to the renewed interest which recent events have awakened in both Colonel Younghusband and the entire region traversed. At the time of this expedition Manchuria was practically a closed country, Russia had not thought of occupying it, and the account is one of thoro pioneer explorations, of interesting experiences and observations on the people and the general conditions. There are half a dozen illustrations.
393“For full details of their remarkable journey, Mr. James’s book must be consulted; but the brief account of it given by Col. Younghusband is sufficiently full for ordinary purposes, and is replete with both interesting and valuable information.”
+ + Nation. 80: 157. F. 23, ‘05. 1960w.
Ystridde, G. Three dukes. **$1.20. Putnam.
“A story portraying life among the upper classes of Russia. A pretty English girl accepts the position as a governess to two grown daughters of an eccentric Russian nobleman. The mother is very anxious to get her daughters married. Three dukes are attracted by the beauty of the governess and the fancied dowries of her pupils, but the path of love is very rugged.”—Bookm.
“Nowhere is there a glimpse of the author’s self, the book is as free from personal feeling and bias as a police report. She records what she has seen and heard, and her photographs of scenes and people bear the stamp of truth and individuality.”
— Acad. 68: 150. F. 18, ‘05. 230w.
“A vivacious and readable picture of Russian life, containing a good many sharply drawn characters who sound as if they had human prototypes.”
+ Critic. 46: 564. Je. ‘05. 50w.
“The genuineness of the local coloring is undeniable, and the deft manipulation of both characters and incident shows unusual talent. The book has a charm. The interest is kept up throughout.” W. M. Payne.
+ — Dial. 38: 125. F. 16. ‘05. 210w.
“To an English speaking, American thinking reader much of it seems futile and much else of it dull. Similarly all of it seems to lack that sense of humor which is nothing more or less than a sense of proportion.”
— N. Y. Times. 10: 20. Ja. 14, ‘05. 400w.
Z
* Zacher, Albert. Rome as an art city. *$1. Scribner.
A volume in “The Langham series of art monographs.” “This little book gives a rapid but comprehensive survey of the art of Rome, piloting the reader with considerable skill through the successive phases—classical, Christian, renaissance—down to the present day, and leaving him at last in a position ‘to distinguish the characteristic note in her art, and to divine the secret of its world-wide reputation.’ ... The scheme of the book is suitably assisted by a few photographs of typical buildings and pictures.”—Ath.
* “The general tone is modest.”
+ Ath. 1905, 2: 730. N. 25. 160w.
* “It is surprising to find the amount of information he has got into this narrow space.”
+ Nation. 81: 408. N. 16, ‘05. 430w.
Zangwill, Israel. Celibates’ club, being the united stories of the bachelors’ club and the old maids’ club. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Genial stories of how the old maids’ and bachelors’ clubs came to be united. A dramatic critic married in order to have some one handy to make use of the second complimentary ticket, and then the theatres began to send but one ticket. An epicure married his bad cook that he might be free “to hire a good one.” Young Dickray married the daughter of his father’s ghost in a spirit of atonement; this is not as weird as it sounds. There are many other stories in the same vein.
Reviewed by G. W. Adams.
+ — Bookm. 21: 312. My. ‘05. 520w.
“‘The celibates’ is not to be stolidly masticated—it is tabasco rather than oatmeal porridge, and should be used accordingly.”
+ Critic. 47: 452. N. ‘05. 780w.
“The author’s humor is not all British any more than that of George Bernard Shaw.”
+ — Lit. D. 31: 498. O. 7. ‘05. 340w.
“Is a collection of extravagant tales and character sketches. But the book is no better than an exhibition of the journalistic talent for writing up exhaustively from the slightest foundation of facts or fancy.”
+ Nation. 80: 441. Je. 1, ‘05. 570w.
“It is clever—only too clever, witty, lively, cynical, even sentimental. Yet, after its fashion, human also. Above all, it is Mr. Zangwill’s own.”
+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 194. Ap. 1, ‘05. 650w.
“Whimsicality too elaborate and often forced is made to take the place of humor, with the result that the reader is often puzzled and sometimes wearied.”
+ — Outlook. 79: 960. Ap. 15, ‘05. 80w.
+ Pub. Opin. 38: 716. My. 6, ‘05. 500w.
“All the stories abound in wit and humor in detail, and ... some of the verses are brilliant.”
+ + R. of Rs. 31: 758. Je. ‘05. 220w.
Ziémssen, Ludwig. Johann Sebastian Bach; tr. from the German by George P. Upton. **60c. McClurg.
The life of Bach, contrary to most artists’ careers, manifests no repression of spontaneous, all-around development. “He was an affectionate father, laboring manfully and incessantly to support a large family; a good citizen ... a musician without an equal in the profundity of his knowledge and the richness of his productions; the founder of modern music, the master of the organ, a composer of the highest forms of sacred music; a plain humble man.” This view of the man fills the volume which belongs to “Life stories for young people.”
* “The story is well told, with commendable fidelity to fact, and the translation is exceedingly good.”
+ + Nation. 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 100w.
Zilliacus, Konni. Russian revolutionary movement: a history of the various uprisings from the beginning. *$2.50. Dutton.
“M. Zilliacus writes primarily for Finlanders, who have no à priori sympathy with Russian democracy, and require to be convinced that the cause of their nation is bound up with the larger cause of reform. He therefore gives a summary of recent history, showing the steps in the development of the autocracy, the consequent misgovernment, and the elements in the state which have now been arrayed against it.”—Spec.
* “We are able for this and other reasons to commend this volume.”
+ Ath. 1905, 2: 142. Jl. 29. 560w.
“The account is of absorbing interest, and may well be read by all who desire to obtain an inside view of the underlying causes of present conditions in Russia.”
+ + Dial. 39: 313. N. 16, ‘05. 400w.
* “He claims to have misrepresented no facts, and to have verified them, so far as possible, by reference to other than revolutionary sources, a claim which appears to us to be thoroughly well-founded.”
+ Lond. Times. 4: 243. Jl. 28, ‘05. 580w.
“He frankly sympathizes with the revolutionists. But his general statements are abundantly supported by specific facts.”
+ + — N. Y. Times. 10: 728. O. ‘05. 400w.
“A word of praise is due the unnamed translator, whose version is smooth, flowing, and altogether readable.”
+ + — Outlook. 81: 630. N. 11, ‘05. 220w.
394“The book is conspicuous by a rare moderation of tone.”
+ + + Spec. 95: 152. Jl. 29, ‘05. 230w.
Zimmer, George Frederick. Mechanical handling of material. *$10. Van Nostrand.
This is the first book written in English devoted to the subject of mechanical loading and transportation of materials. It treats of elevators and conveyors of various kinds, of ropeways and cableways, grab buckets, dump cars, unloading by coal tips, automatic weighing machines, floor and silo warehouses for grain, cantilever cranes, etc. There are 542 illustrations.
“The scarcity of data and the apparent unreliability of some of the data given form the most disappointing feature of this volume. There are many otherwise good illustrations whose value is greatly reduced by the absence of dimensions.”
+ — Engin. N. 53: 637. Je. 15, ‘05. 1240w.
“The book will be indispensable to all engineering firms, consulting engineers, and architects who have to deal with this important question.” T. H. B.
+ + + Nature. 72: 290. Jl. 27, ‘05. 810w.
Ziwet, Alexander. Elements of theoretical mechanics. *$4. Macmillan.
This is a revised edition of “An elementary treatise on theoretical mechanics,” by the junior professor of mathematics in the University of Michigan, and is intended especially for students of engineering. Kinemetics, statics, and kinetics are the main divisions of the book, which states in its preface: “This work is not a treatise on applied mechanics, the application being merely used to illustrate the general principles and to give the student an idea of the uses to which mechanics can be put.”
“Is an excellent introduction to the science of analytical mechanics. His exposition is in general sound and logical.” L. M. Hoskins.
+ + + Science, n. s. 21: 302. F. 24, ‘05. 1120w.
Zola, Emile. Selections; ed. by A. G. Cameron. *80c. Holt.
In choosing these selections the editor has endeavored to illustrate Zola’s “patriotic, sociological, and descriptive sides, expressed in the mastery of his style and literary workmanship.” The text includes L’Attaque du Moulin, Le grand Michu, Le paradis des chats, Les Halles, L’Ile du diable, and nine other selections. An English introduction, notes and bibliography fits the book for student use.
+ + Critic. 47: 475. N. ‘05. 90w.
“It would have been better if Mr. Cameron had given the source from which he took each of the pieces he has chosen.”
+ + — N. Y. Times. 10: 396. Je. 17, ‘05. 290w.
Zollinger, Gulielma, pseud. (William Zachary Gladwin). Widow O’Callaghan’s boys. $1.50. McClurg.
Widow O’Callaghan’s boys have lost not a whit of their popularity during the seven years since their first appearance. The brave cheerful struggle of the mother in launching seven boys upon useful careers is as refreshing and helpful as ever. Mrs. O’Callaghan brought her boys up on the teaching that “The Lord niver puts little b’ys and big jobs together. He gives the little b’y a chance at the little jobs, and them as does the little jobs faithful gets to be able to be the men that does big jobs easy.”
* + Critic. 47: 577. D. ‘05. 30w.
* “Quite inimitable in Mrs. O’Callahan’s Irish way of putting things, which furnishes the salt to the solid nutriment of the story.”
+ Nation. 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 150w.