The book review digest, Volume 02, 1906
Volume 2, Luke, John and The Acts; Vol. 3, Romans, Corinthians,
Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians; Volume 4, Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrew, James, Peter, John, Jude and Revelation.
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“Professor Weiss’s concise commentary exhibits his well-known learning, thoroughness, and conservatism. It is unfortunate that its English dress was not more carefully prepared.”
+ + – =Bib. World.= 28: 160. Ag. ’06. 20w.
=Weiss, Bernhard.= Religion of the New Testament; tr. from the Germ. by G: H. Schodde. *$2. Funk.
“It must, however, be said with frankness that the work of translation has not been well done. The book is a very clear presentation of the general idea which is represented in Harnack’s ‘What is Christianity?’ and, in more extreme form, by Wernle’s ‘Beginnings of Christianity.’” Irving F. Wood.
+ – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 130. Jl. ’06. 490w.
=Wells, Amos R.= Tuxedo avenue to Water street: the story of a transplanted church. $1. Funk.
The author calls his story a parable, and also, the story of a possibility, which the united action of God and the people may make a reality. He tells of a fashionable church which was mysteriously transplanted in a single night and set up stone on stone among the poor of Water street. He depicts most vividly the scorn with which the fashionable members of the old church regard the poor with whom they are thus brought in contact, and he shows the great good which came of it all. It is a story so true to human nature that it makes one pause to think. The author’s character drawing is excellent and he has softened his moral by introducing into his parable the love story of the young minister and Irene, the flower of his flock.
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+ =Arena.= 36: 222. Ag. ’06. 310w.
“His little book is of more than passing interest as a well-developed piece of fiction, and it is profoundly significant as a Parable and an indictment.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 158. Ag. 4, ’06. 160w.
“The little book is effective in its way.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 817. Ag. 4, ’06. 150w.
=Wells, Amos Russel.= Donald Barton and the doings of the Ajax club. †$1.50. Little.
The “Ajax club” is composed of lusty boys who meet in “The glen” and plan adventures worthy of their honored Greek hero. They do battle against a band of disreputable village boys and win the commendation of the townspeople.
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“Though there is the highest intent in this, the author has somehow missed the mark.”
– =Nation.= 83: 484. D. 6, ’06. 170w.
=Wells, Carolyn.= At the sign of the sphinx. $1. Duffield.
Miss Wells’ fancy-juggling has produced one hundred and twenty rhymed riddles to which are appended answers.
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=Dial.= 41: 287. N. 1, ’06. 30w.
“Is marked by the same cleverness that is always characteristic of this writer.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1399. D. 13, ’06. 210w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 440. N. 22, ’06. 90w.
“Generally her mood is playful and her ingenuity is always equal to the task she sets for it. As a general thing, her touch is becomingly light and she treats her syllables with respect. Sometimes the enigma is still a bit enigmatical after one knows the answer.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 692. O. 20, ’06. 190w.
=Wells, Carolyn.= Dorrance doings; il. †$1.50. Wilde.
Another chapter in the lives of the wide-awake Dorrances which is really a sequel to the “Dorrance domain.” The inventive ability of the quartette and their energy in executing have suffered no diminution since they first made their bow to young readers.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 711. O. 27, ’06. 120w.
“Written in a rather perfunctory manner—lacking in charm and freshness.”
– + =Outlook.= 84: 792. N. 24, ’06. 50w.
=Wells, Carolyn.= Whimsey anthology. **$1.25. Scribner.
“A whimsey, Miss Wells explains, is ‘a whim, a freak, a capricious notion, an odd device.’ Her new book contains nearly 300 selections from the poets old and new.... Here we have famous wheezes touching the eccentricities of the English language, typographical frenzies in which the compositor shapes the poem as nearly as possible like the object it treats of.... Alphabetical nonsense ... acrostics and lipograms, alliterative efforts, enigmas and charades, macaronic poetry, travesties, certomes, (which are made up of assorted lines from divers poems,) and palindromes are here in rich profusion.”—N. Y. Times.
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+ =Ind.= 61: 756. S. 27, ’06. 410w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 580. S. 22, ’06. 740w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, 06. 140w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 338. O. 6. ’06. 50w.
=World To-Day.= 11: 1221. N. ’06. 50w.
=Wells, Herbert George.= Future in America: a search after realities. **$2. Harper.
America’s social, economic, and material phases furnish conditions for objective scrutiny which any American would do well to observe. Mr. Wells finds the note of a “fatal, gigantic, economic development, of large prevision and enormous pressures” uppermost and invincible. His range of observations is broad, covering the main representative cities of America, his insight ready to cope with the peculiarly American conditions, and his comments virile and convincing.
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“‘When the sleeper wakes,’ for example, is an astonishing caricature of the inordinate individualism of the American sort. ‘The future in America,’ a sober study of the same subject, is, we think, below it in insight as well as in effectiveness. Mr. Wells’s book is written rather in a mood of despondency.”
– =Acad.= 71: 544. D. 1, ’06. 1360w.
“His lucid and discriminating description of the present in America is probably worth more than his intended prophecy of the future of America would have been, had he ventured to write it.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 614. N. 17. 370w.
“His is a book which will be criticised, but it will be read, and no reader will fail to gain from it a broader view of the great world-power with its vast opportunities and inequalities, its contradictions and aspirations, its towering wealth, and its suffering, which Mr. Wells has analyzed in this book.” James Wellman.
+ – =Harper’s Weekly.= 50: 1898. D. 29, ’06. 1810w.
“He has brought to the study of the social, economical, and material problems now confronting us an insight rarely found in an Englishman, and has given lucid expressions to certain ideas concerning the future which have been vaguely stirring in the national consciousness.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 814. D. 1, ’06. 240w.
“A volume, that more than any other book I know of picks out and co-ordinates the tendencies and conditions that are really shaping the American future, disencumbers them from the misleading obstruction of detail, and displays them with that spaciousness, that fervent clarity, which Mr. Wells commands so easily.” Sidney Brooks.
+ + =Living Age.= 251: 565. D. 1, ’06. 2590w.
“He has struck some nails on the head that have, perhaps, never been struck before—at least with so emphatic a hammer.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 537. D. 20. ’06. 1540w.
“To us, Mr. Wells’s hasty observations of American life seem only dull. It is frequently interesting. It is generally disparaging. It is often inaccurate.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 758. N. 17, ’06. 150w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 760. D. ’06. 140w.
“The prophesying is hedging, vague, indeterminate. Probably a fairer book about America has never been written.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 581. N. 10, ’06. 1630w.
“The book is illuminating in the fullest sense, a criticism not only of America, but of all civilised society, and it is written in a style which is always attractive and rises now and then to uncommon beauty and power. Though we endorse his demand for reform in many directions, we are bound to condemn his frequent exaggerations, the shrillness, nay feverishness, of his criticism, and his want of a sense of proportion. He says many true things about the United States, but his picture as a whole is false.”
+ – =Spec.= 97: 683. N. 3, ’06. 2320w.
=Wells, Herbert George.= In the days of the comet. †$1.50. Century.
A young middle-class Englishman loves a girl who elopes with the son of a landed proprietor. The outraged suitor pursues the couple, bent upon murder and suicide. Then the comet intervenes. It strikes the earth and diffuses a trance-producing vapor. When the world wakens there are no longer passions and rivalries. At this point the author works out a state of socialistic reform characterized by brotherhood principles. The hero finds love an impersonal thing with none of the old proprietary limitations. Woman to him becomes the “shape and color of the divine principle that lights the world,” and whether wife or friend he may love her without reproach.
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“An earnest and exceedingly interesting book.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 266. S. 15, ’06. 180w.
“Is far more than an interesting romance written in the fine literary style that marks the works of this popular imaginative novelist.”
+ =Arena.= 36: 683. D. ’06. 380w.
“It remains as a whole a fine testimony to the imagination and intellect of one of the most original thinkers of the day.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 362. S. 29. 640w.
=Current Literature.= 41: 700. D. 06. 880w.
“Regarded as an argument for socialism ... it is a very weak one.”
– =Ind.= 61: 1053. N. 1, ’06. 1080w.
“Perhaps it is not the best book Mr. Wells has written. It is in reality no more than a brilliant piece of descriptive writing. But no reader can fail to be touched by the picture of the glorious life that awaits mankind after some great change.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 220w.
=Lond. Times.= 5: 314. S. 14, ’06. 580w.
+ =Nature.= 75: 124. D. 6, ’06. 440w.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 719. N. 3, ’06. 200w.
“As a story pure and simple, it falls far below his ‘War of the worlds.’”
– =Outlook.= 84: 582. N. 3, ’06. 230w.
=Sat. R.= 102: 365. S. 22, ’06. 1560w.
+ – =Spec.= 97: 496. O. 6, ’06. 1230w.
=Wells, Herbert George.= Kipps: the story of a simple soul. †$1.50. Scribner.
“Displaying an almost Dickens-like gift for the portrayal of eccentric traits and types of character.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 17. Ja. 1. ’06, 350w.
=Edinburgh R.= 203: 66. Ja. ’06. 2920w.
=Living Age.= 248: 726. Mr. 24, ’06. 2920w. (Reprinted from Edinburgh R.)
=Wells, Herbert George.= Modern Utopia. *$1.50. Scribner.
“Culling over the literature of 1905, I should place at the head of works of the first-class ‘A modern utopia.’” Winthrop More Daniels.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 840. Je. ’06. 710w.
Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 296. My. 1, ’06. 250w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 581. N. ’06. 270w.
=Wendell, Barrett.= Temper of the 17th century in English literature. **$1.50. Scribner.
“We must thank Professor Wendell for the pleasant, if slightly exotic, prose of this thoughtful and inspiring volume. The fly in the amber is the continual use of the word ‘elder.’”
+ – =Spec.= 97: sup. 468. O. 6, ’06. 860w.
=Wertheimer, Edward de.= Duke of Reichstadt. **$5. Lane.
“The general reader, for whom this handsome volume is evidently intended, will find that the events and persons in the life of this son of Napoleon stand out sharp, clear, and interesting. Some errors have slipped into the translation. This book with its good index and illustrations is the best on the subject.” Sidney B. Fay.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 662. Ap. ’06. 860w.
=Critic.= 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 120w.
“Is essentially an historical study, not a mere collection of gossip and rumor.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 21. Ja. ’06. 360w.
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 113. Ja. 27, ’06. 1150w.
=Wesselhoeft, Mrs. Elizabeth Foster (Pope) (Lily F.).= Ready, the reliable. †$1.50. Little.
Thru the influence of a little child a wealthy, crusty, bachelor uncle learns the great lesson of love and opens his heart to the needs of an overworked mother and her three responsible little ones. Ready, a befriended street dog, is so important a factor in the tale that he has appropriated the title.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 90w.
“When it comes to one part of a story dealing with humans and the other part giving us the thoughts and conversations of cats and dogs ... we think a literary license is taken that is not warranted by the results obtained.”
– =R. of Rs.= 34: 764. D. ’06. 50w.
=Westermarck, Edward Alexander.= Origin and development of the moral ideas. 2v. v. 1. *$3.50. Macmillan.
“A multitude of curious facts concerning the crude institutions of early times and savage tribes awaits the general reader of these pages. About one-fourth of the volume is concerned with homicide, both in general and in its varying forms down to feticide. The philosophic student finds what he has a right to expect from such an investigator ... acute insight and discriminating judgment in tracing the evolution of moral ideas.”—Outlook.
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“We have drawn attention to a few points in which Dr. Westermarck has seemed to us unconvincing. We have intended this only as the criticism which makes appreciation significant. And for the book as a whole—for its learning, its open-mindedness, its catholicity, of interest—we have the warmest appreciation.”
+ + – =Acad.= 70: 521, Je. 2, ’06. 2520w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Westermarck’s great strength ... consists in his ability to assemble materials, and if he has a weakness, it is on the psychological side.” W. I. Thomas.
+ + – =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 127. Jl. ’06. 330w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Even suppose, however, certain shortcomings on the side of pure theory, this book remains an achievement unsurpassed in its own kind, a perpetual monument of the courage, the versatility, and the amazing industry of its author.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 692. Je. 9. 1820w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It may be partly owing to this special study, but largely no doubt also to a remarkably sympathetic and candid turn of mind that Dr. Westermarck presents this heterogeneous mass of evidence with so much understanding, and avoids those hasty generalizations and those uncomprehending judgments of alien races that so frequently characterize many writers, even among those who have dwelt long among the people they describe.”
+ + – =Ind.= 61: 997. O. 25, ’06. 1170w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The mass of information included in these chapters is wonderful. The use which Dr Westermarck makes of it, I have no pretensions to criticise. At any rate, everyone who reads this volume will look forward with impatience to the next.” J. Ellis McTaggart.
+ + – =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 125. O. ’06. 1140w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Exceptionally wide reading and a faculty of lucid arrangement in dealing with masses of detail are the necessary equipment for such a task, and to these Dr. Westermarck adds a four years’ residence among the country population of Morocco.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 250. Jl. 13, ’06. 740w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + – =Nature.= 74: 377. Ag. 16, ’06. 1320w. (Review of v. 1.)
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 180. Mr. 24, ’06. 250w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Although this massive work is elaborately analytical and critical, it is none the less interesting.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 1005. Ap. 28, 06. 250w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Sat. R.= 101: 821. Je. 30, ’06. 1260w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Westrup, Margaret.= Young O’Briens. †$1.50. Lane.
“A family of undisciplined young people from the wilds of Ireland, thrust for many months upon the society of a Scotch spinster aunt in a squalid little house in London, suggests a situation which might well draw tears from a stone.” (Ath.) “The transplanting is a hard trial for all of them, and not less trying at times to the aunt. The humor of some of the episodes is delightful.” (Critic.)
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“Makes an enjoyable afternoon’s reading, but from a literary point of view does not begin to compare with ‘Helen Alliston’” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 36: 218. Ag. ’06. 330w.
“The narrative ... is told with much humor and not a little pathos, but at too great length.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 792. Je. 30. 180w.
“Both young and old will enjoy this entertaining account of the doings of four Irish young folk.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 190. Ag. ’06. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 375. Je. 9, ’06. 830w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 170w.
“The book is too long, but the high spirits of the family carry the reader on.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 243. Ag. 25, ’06. 290w.
=Weyman, Stanley John.= Chippinge Borough. †$1.50. McClure.
“Mr. Weyman’s latest romance has for its background the passing of the Reform bill of 1832. No novelist is more conscientious in his treatment of historical events, and the picture he presents of the fierce struggle between the old governing class and the advocates of the ‘People’s bill’ is singularly faithful and vivid.... Into this political struggle he has successfully woven a romantic story.”—Ath.
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“It is wholesome, mediocre work, and will delight Mr. Stanley Weyman’s immense number of readers.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 421. O. 27, ’06. 130w.
“Is to be numbered among the best of Mr. Weyman’s books.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 613. N. 17. 180w.
“Novels that urge you along with them as ‘Chippinge’ does are not so common that you can afford to quarrel with the means by which they do it.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 377. N. 9, ’06. 440w.
“The chief defect of the book is its length. Good as it all is, the temptation to skip, soon becomes overpowering.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 835. D. 1, ’06. 640w.
“Rarely does one find a semi-historical subject treated so dramatically and with such intense personal interest.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 711. N. 2, ’06. 150w.
“It is not for its tale however that the book may be commended. The interest of the book is in its atmosphere. It renders admirably the spirit and sentiment.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 585. N. 10, ’06. 440w.
“A most enjoyable story as well as a deeply interesting study of a great struggle.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 731. N. 10, ’06. 790w.
=Weyman, Stanley John.= Starvecrow farm. †$1.50. Longmans.
“This is by no means the best of Mr. Weyman’s novels, but it has a considerable interest nevertheless.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 17. Ja. 1, ’06. 170w.
“Mr. Weyman’s atmosphere is charmingly true; the story that he has to tell is more than ordinarily worth telling.”
+ =Reader.= 7: 563. Ap. ’06. 210w.
=Wharton, Edith Newbold (Jones).= House of mirth. †$1.50. Scribner.
“For all its brilliancy, ‘The house of mirth’ has a certain shallowness; it is thin. At best, Lily can only inspire interest and curiosity.” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 52. Ja. ’06. 630w.
“It is Mrs. Wharton’s great achievement, in a book where all is fine, that she makes us see and sympathize with the true distinction in a woman who on the surface has little else than beauty and charm.” E. E. Hale, jr.
+ + + =Bookm.= 22: 364. D. ’05. 1190w.
=Critic.= 48: 463. My. ’06. 260w.
“It is a story elaborated in every detail to a high degree of refinement, and evidently a product of the artistic conscience. Having paid this deserved tribute to its finer characteristics, we are bound to add that it is deficient in interest.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 15. Ja. 1, ’06. 720w.
Reviewed by Charles Waldstein.
=North American.= 182: 840. Je. ’06 and 183: 125. Jl. ’06. 5670 + 4890w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ + =North American.= 182: 922. Je. ’06. 400w.
“The book is one of the few novels which can claim to rank as literature.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 101: 209. F. 17, ’06. 400w.
=Wharton, Henry Marvin.= White blood; a story of the South. $1.50. Neale.
The natural ingratitude and inability of the negro to rise to the level of the white man forms the motif of this story written for the purpose of proving that “white blood must rule.” A love story with a southern setting imparts an interest to the much mooted question.
What would one have?: a woman’s confession. *$1. West, J. H.
“An essentially New England temperament is revealed in this ‘confession.’ ... The supposed author is a plain woman of the middle class, brought up on a farm with few opportunities. She has so many sorrows and by them she learns what seems to her the meaning of life.”—Critic.
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“The tone of the book is strongly religious; it is at least free from the morbid taint usually to be found in revelations of a similar character, and doubtless it will make a strong appeal to persons of a type of mind similar to that of the ‘woman’ supposed to make the ‘confession.’”
+ =Critic.= 49: 190. Ag. ’06. 130w.
“There are doubtless countless readers who will find some sort of spiritual consolation in the book, and mental edification, too, in its appreciation of easily accessible literature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 340. My. 26, ’06. 180w.
“Is manifestly genuine and written with an earnest desire to help others.”
– =R. of Rs.= 34: 127. Jl. ’06. 90w.
=Whates, H. R.= Canada, the new nation. **$1.50. Dutton.
“Mr. Whates ... went to Canada as a steerage passenger, posed as an emigrant, and made actual trial of the difficulties which confront an actual settler. In this way he met Canadians of every type and class and had every chance of learning their real views. He travelled over much of the continent, selected a homestead area in the wheatlands of the North-west, and returned after five well-spent months with a knowledge of the land which few could acquire in as many years. The result is a book which is partly a record of travel, partly a most practical guide to the intending settler, and partly a careful and sympathetic study of Canadian political thought.”—Spec.
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“Mr. Whates is a little wild in his emigration scheme, and appears in some passages to upset himself.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906. 1: 699. Je. 9. 740w.
Reviewed by Lawrence J. Burpee.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 278. N. 1, ’06. 690w.
“The French element in Canadian life receives somewhat less attention than it deserves.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 313. O. 11, ’06. 450w.
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 606. S. 29, ’06. 690w.
“He has performed his task with a singularly open mind, utterly free from the bias which so often renders valueless the observations of traveling Englishmen.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 436. D. 15, ’06. 1200w.
“An admirable book which we have read with keen enjoyment. Mr. Whates writes with grace and distinction, he has keen powers of observation, and the tolerant humorous outlook of the true traveller.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 95. Jl. 21, ’06. 1460w.
=Wheat, Mrs. Lu.= Third daughter: a story of Chinese home life. $1.50. Mrs. Lu Wheat, 910 W. 8th st., Los Angeles, Cal.
“Ah Moy, the third daughter of a good family, is the central figure in an idyllic picture of a Chinese home. This is at length broken up by the dire calamities, which give occasion for the display of high qualities of character, but bring Ah Moy to a tragic end. Chinese customs, the position of women, foot-binding, sex-morality, the Boxers, the traffic in slave-girls, their importation hither, and the efforts of missionaries to thwart it, make up the rapidly shifting scene.”—Outlook.
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“An extremely interesting and well-written picture of Chinese home-life in a high-caste family.” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 36: 218. Ag. ’06. 250w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 477. My. ’06. 80w.
“Writes in large sympathy with whatever she has seen that is attractive and worthy. Concerning Christian missionaries there she has not taken equal pains to inform herself correctly.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 619. Mr. 17, ’06. 130w.
=Wheeler, Everett Pepperell.= Daniel Webster, the expounder of the Constitution. **$1.50. Putnam.
“A convenient manual for any one who wishes to get in a small compass a view of Webster’s career as expounder.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 55. Ja. 18, ’06. 340w.
=Wheeler, W. H.= Practical manual of tides and waves. *$2.80. Longmans.
The principal part of Mr. Wheeler’s work is devoted to “as practical an account as possible, free from all mathematical demonstration of the action of the sun and moon in producing the tides: and of the physical causes by which the tides are affected after their generation, and of their propagation throughout the tidal waters of the earth.” (Nature.) He further deals with wave phenomena in a manner to be useful to practising engineers.
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“A perusal of this work will convince any reader that the entire discussion of tides and tidal phenomena has been undertaken by one familiar with the subject, both practically and theoretically, and influenced by genuine love for the work. As a result the author has produced a valuable practical manual of tides and waves which should be found in the library of every one interested in these subjects.” D. D. Gaillard.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 56: 49. Jl. 12, ’06. 1620w.
“On the whole, Mr. Wheeler has succeeded in the object he had in view, and has ‘produced a handbook that will be of interest and practical service to those who have neither the time nor the opportunity of investigating the subject for themselves.’”
+ + =Nature.= 74: 218. Jl. 5, ’06. 1400w.
=Whelpley, James Davenport.= Problem of the immigrant. *$3. Dutton.
“A most convenient handbook for reference, supplying the student with a mass of materials not elsewhere available in one language or in any sort of connected form.” Frederic Austin Ogg.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 259. Ap. 16, ’06. 570w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 577. Jl. 7, ’06. 400w.
=Whiffen, Edwin T.= Samson marrying, Samson at Timnah, Samson Hybistes, Samson blinded: four dramatic poems. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
“The poetic impulse is hardly sufficient in the dialogue to overcome its tedious length and there are few beautiful or splendid passages to break the monotony of the diction.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 18. Ja. 13. ’06. 210w.
=Whitcomb, Selden Lincoln.= Study of a novel. $1.25. Heath.
It is not with the science of the novel but with certain fixed values of material and of form that Mr. Whitcomb’s analysis deals. He shows the laudable and practical work of novel dissection to be a necessary part of the teaching of literature. He discusses external structure, consecutive structure, plot, the settings, the “dramatis personae,” characterization, subject-matter, style, the process of composition, the shaping of forces, influence of a novel, comparative rhetoric and æsthetics, and general aesthetic interest.
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“As an attempt to break ground in a comparatively uncultivated field the book is commendable. The writer has got together a good deal of material where it can be found when wanted.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 252. Ag. 2, ’06. 150w.
“In its own chosen field this book is exceedingly thorough and instructive.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 910. Ap. 21, ’06. 110w.
“Is really a dissection, diagrammatically set forth, of a number of the great novels in English.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 60w.
=White, Frederick M.= Slave of silence. †$1.50. Little.
The Royal Palace hotel, London, is in this complicated story made the center of a series of strange happenings which begin when Sir Charles, who is marrying his daughter to a rich brute to save his own financial honor, is found dead in his bed at the close of the ceremony. Then follows the disappearance of his body, and the series of adventures which his daughter, her old lover, and their friend Perington encounter when they trace the thieves to a house in Audley place which is full of electrical surprises. Diamonds of fabulous value and certain ruby mine concessions in Burmah complicate the plot, but at last Sir Charles reappears alive, his daughter is left a widow at an auspicious moment for her lover, and the slave of silence is released from allegiance to the crippled villain who is her brother, and marries the faithful Perrington.
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“There is a suggestion of occultism from the East, which, serving no purpose in the plot, seems a little superfluous, but for genuine entertainment one cannot do better than to read this book.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 825. D. 1, ’06. 150w.
=White, Frederick M.= Weight of the crown. $1.50. Fenno.
A story in which plots and counter plots run their brisk course as Russia makes a tool of the dissipated crowned head of Asturia and tries to force an abdication. There are two sets of doubles in the story introduced on the one hand to facilitate, on the other hand to retard and complicate the movement towards the dramatic climax.
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+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 110. F. 24, ’06. 220w.
=White, Stewart Edward.= The Pass. *$1.25. Outing pub.
In which Mr. White tells the story of a journey across the high Sierras made by an explorer, his wife, his guide, their two dogs and four horses.
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“It is the triumph of Mr. White’s enthusiasm and of his ability to put his facts and his impressions into the right words that what was encountered and what was seen on the trip is almost as plain on the printed page as it would have been to you or me had we taken the trip with him.” Churchill Williams.
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 376. D. ’06. 1270w.
“It is told simply in a style as crisp as mountain air.” May Estelle Cook.
+ =Dial.= 41: 387. D. 1, ’06. 180w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1234. N. 22, ’06. 160w.
“Like most of Mr. White’s books ‘The Pass’ is very agreeable reading indeed, soothing, but not exciting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 685. O. 20, ’06. 770w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 532. O. 27, ’06. 80w.
=White, William Allen.= In our town. †$1.50. McClure.
Thirteen stories made up from happenings observed by the editor of a Western newspaper. “He draws humorously convincing portraits of the people of the town, the town millionaire and the town drunkard, the smart set and those who try to be smart, the literary crowd that laughs at them and envies them for their superior culture. But it is not all humorous. The trail of Jim Nevison, the black sheep and ‘desert scorpion,’ is followed to the end and the career of Sampson, a good fellow ‘and yet a fool,’ is graphically outlined by Colonel Alphabetical Morrison.” (Pub. Opin.)
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“Read at intervals it will be found quite entertaining, but it decidedly is not a book for steady perusal.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 83: 124. Jl. 28, ’06. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.
“A good and wholesome book ... that may serve its best purpose in showing the American people themselves just what they are in this very hour.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 450. Jl. 14, ’06. 250w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 91. My. 12, ’06. 120w.
“He may not have made great stories but he has put into his sketches the stuff out of which great stories are made.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 604. My. 12, ’06. 200w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 756. Je. ’06. 60w.
“Every newspaper man has his recollections, but few of them can give them with such an artistic blending of pathos and humor as he has.”
+ + =World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 170w.
=Whiteing, Richard.= Ring in the new. †$1.50. Century.
London and its awful problems of labor and poverty is the theme of this bitterly real study of “the other half,” thru which there ever runs a note of hope. Prue at twenty, penniless, unskilled, tho gently born and bred, casts herself into the maelstrom of London in a pitiful attempt to earn a living, and there realizes her own helplessness and all but goes down before the overwhelming fear of it, clinging for comfort to the mongrel dog she can ill afford to keep. The people whom she meets in the course of her plucky career as an incompetent working girl. Sarah the charwoman, Laura, a gem engraver, Leonard the young editor of The branding-iron, a journal of the back streets, and all the others, interest us not so much as individuals as parts of a struggling whole.
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“This is the most important romance of recent months dealing with social progress. The author is a finished writer, a scholar skillful with the use of words. This is a work that we can heartily recommend to all lovers of human progress and social advance.”
+ + =Arena.= 36: 682. D. ’06. 950w.
“The darker side of the picture, as seen by his heroine during her terrible initiation into the struggle for existence, is presented with power, but also with commendable sobriety and restraint.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 633. My. 26. 280w.
“He is earnestly, even angrily intense with the sincerity of his motive. And his motive the noblest of all, is the brotherhood of man.” Richard Duffy.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 276. N. ’06. 670w.
“The style is somewhat Meredithian—brilliant, suggestive, prismatic, but oftentimes blinding through an excess of nervous energy that entices its possessor from a consistent point of view. As a performance in fiction this book hardly ranks with the same author’s ‘No. 5 John street.’”
+ – =Lit. D.= 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 270w.
“A story that flashes with wit, glows with indignation, and beams with the steady light of an unshakable hope.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 158. My. 4, ’06. 390w.
“‘Ring in the new’ cannot but compel the absorbed interest of its readers, but more than this, it is worthy the writing and the reading, because it is a voice for the voiceless, because it needs must have its share in bringing about a social condition wherein at least no ‘evil is wrought by want of thought.’ Such a book deserves to be held high above the flood of ordinary fiction, in that its appeal is not to anything less than the noblest elements of character.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 596. S. 29, ’06. 1930w.
“The most vivid individual in the book is Sarah, the charwoman. The weakest parts of the story are the extracts from ‘The branding iron.’”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 533. O. 27, ’06. 210w.
“The charm of Mr. Whiteing’s narrative is greatly enhanced by his mastery of the art of presentation. He writes with a most engaging ease, preserving a happy mean between pedantry and looseness,—indeed, the impression created is curiously like that of listening to a brilliant talker.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 717. My. 5, ’06. 880w.
=Whiting, Lilian.= Florence of Landor. **$2.50. Little.
“In this fascinating work Lillian Whiting is seen at her best.”
+ + =Arena.= 35: 444. Ap. ’06. 600w.
“So far as Landor is concerned, the more valuable parts of Miss Whiting’s volume are those containing the reminiscences of his young American friend Miss Kate Field, who saw a good deal of him during the last four or five years of his long life.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 886. D. 30. 1120w.
“It contains some new and interesting anecdotes and a few good illustrations.”
+ – =Atlan.= 97: 558. Ap. ’06. 370w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 456. F. 22, ’06. 420w.
“It is not, to be sure, one of those that invite perusal at a single sitting. On the contrary, the best enjoyment will be derived through desultory browsing.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 171, F. 3, ’06. 270w.
“Without giving any but the barest details of the poet’s life, Miss Whiting brings vividly before us the brilliant circle of choice intellects, so attached to Landor and to Florence, who ministered to his later years.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 527. D. 28, ’05. 1820w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 110w.
=Whiting, Lilian.= From dream to vision of life. *$1. Little.
“Optimistic papers in which scientific knowledge and religious fervor are combined, compose this volume. They are entitled; Thine eyes shall behold the King in his beauty, The key of the secret, Live in harmony with the new forces, The incalculable power of the spirit, The spiritual illumination, All’s love and all’s law, The rose and flame of life, The glory of summers that are not yet, and To whom the eternal world speaks.”
=Whiting, Lilian.= Joy that no man taketh from you. **50c. Little.
“It will appeal with special force to those saddened, discouraged, disappointed ones from which riches have taken wings, or who have been overcome by still greater calamities.”
+ =Arena.= 35: 103. Ja. ’06. 980w.
=Whiting, Lilian.= Land of enchantment: from Pike’s Peak to the Pacific. **$2.50. Little.
The grandeur and scenic marvels of the great Southwest with its resources and development of life fill Miss Whiting’s volume. The wonders of Colorado, both in the Pike’s Peak region and in Denver “the beautiful,” the surprises of New Mexico with its ruins, traditions and mines, the magic of Arizona with its petrified forest, and Grand cañon, and southern California, mild in its sunshine, all compel the reader to traverse the way under the spell of enchantment.
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+ =Dial.= 41: 453. D. 16, ’06. 210w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 60w.
“She makes proper copy of excellent material for such a purpose.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 150w.
“The author has gone over well-known ground quite thoroughly, and has discovered much that is new and picturesque.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 940. D. 15, ’06. 70w.
=Whitney, Caspar.= Jungle trails and jungle people; travel, adventure and observation in the Far East. **$3. Scribner.
“The style, instead of being halting, has the rapid stride of an expert American journalist, and, in spite of occasional disfigurements, the author has produced a work of considerable interest to the general reader, and painted some pictures of Eastern manners and character unfamiliar to those who live in the smaller world of the West.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 669. Je. 2. 1180w.
“What he saw and what he did are pleasantly set down with many illustrations in this handsome volume.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1536. D. 28, ’05. 270w.
“Mr. Whitney conveys to the reader a good deal of the pleasure and excitement which he himself experienced.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 1128. D. 30, ’05. 500w.
=Whitney, Helen Hay.= Sonnets and songs. **$1.20. Harper.
“Gifted young debutante.” Edith M. Thomas.
+ =Critic.= 48: 271. Mr. ’06. 610w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 30w.
=Whitson, John H.= Justin Wingate, ranchman. †$1.50. Little.
“It is a capital story of the West and well worth the reading.”
+ =Arena.= 35: 334. Mr. ’06. 220w.
=Whittier, John Greenleaf.= Poems; with a biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper poets” this volume becomes a student’s textbook thru its introduction and notes.
Who’s Who, 1906. *$2. Macmillan.
The 1906 volume contains two thousand more biographies than its predecessor. It contains also the number of a man’s sons and daughters, his telegraphic address and telephone number and the registered number of his motor-car.
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“The book seems to us to have entirely changed its character since its inception; but in its present form it is exceedingly useful as a book of reference.”
– + + =Acad.= 69: 1341. D. 23, ’05. 70w.
“The new detail tends to promote self-advertisement rather than public utility.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1905. 2: 863. D. 23. 40w.
“The selection of American names is as capricious as ever.”
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 161. Mr. 1, ’06. 60w.
– – – =Ind.= 60: 287. F. 1, ’06. 50w.
+ + + =Int. Studio.= 28: 181. Ap. ’06. 40w.
+ + + =Nation.= 82: 117. F. 8, ’06. 60w.
+ + + =Outlook.= 82: 327. F. 10, ’06. 270w.
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 822. D. 23, ’05. 80w.
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 1092. D. 23. ’05. 100w.
=Whyte, Rev. Alexander.= Walk, conversation and character of Jesus Christ our Lord. $1.50. Revell.
“Permeated with this moral purpose, these addresses may be classified as devotional reflections upon the life of Jesus.” Llewellyn Phillips.
+ =Bib. World.= 27: 78. Ja. ’06. 240w.
=Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith) (Mrs. G. C. Riggs).= Rose o’ the river. †$1.25. Houghton.
“The vivid glimpses of life among the lumbermen are the best features of the book which surely must have made its way on the strength of its predecessor, ‘Rebecca,’ rather than on its own merits.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 22: 494. Ja. ’06. 200w.
“Is as spontaneous and fascinating in its way as was her ‘Rebecca’ in another.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 711. N. 25, ’05. 50w.
+ =Reader.= 7: 227. Ja. ’06. 190w.
=Wilcox, Henry S.= Foibles of the bench. $1. Legal literature co., Chicago
The various types found upon the bench in all lands and ages and here personified and analyzed under such chapter headings as; Egotism, Courtesy, Concentration, Courage, Decision, Vain display, Corruption, etc.; in which appear Judge Knowall, Judge Wasp, Judge Doall, Judge Fearful, Judge Wobbler, Judge Wind, Judge Graft and others, who are classed under the virtues which they fail to represent. The whole is breezy and amusing.
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“It is excellent work of this character that makes one regret the carelessness and lack of skill that have ruined what might otherwise have been a valuable criticism of the Bench.” Frederick Trevor Hill.
+ – =Bookm.= 24: 54. S. ’06. 810w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 877. D. 15, ’06. 150w.
=Wilde, Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills.= De profundis. **$1.25. Putnam.
“This last work of Oscar Wilde’s may be read with deep interest from many points of view; but it is perhaps most truly remarkable as a piece of introspective psychology.” Rafford Pyke.
+ =Bookm.= 22: 628. F. ’06. 600w.
“Fantastic his utterances often are, but they are always shrewd, penetrating, suggestive.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 222. Mr. 15, ’06. 200w.
=Wilde, Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Willis.= Picture of Dorian Gray. **$1.50. Brentano’s.
A new edition of Oscar Wilde’s “psychological masterpiece”, containing chapters that have never before appeared in any American edition. Dorian Gray of the beautiful face and black soul presents just the antithesis of character that fascinated the author’s mind. Love, joy, sorrow all exist in the vesture of life—so they can be donned or doffed at pleasure.
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“The book is more effective now than when first published because we know now how true it is.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 219. Jl. 26, ’06. 400w.
=Wildman, Murray Shipley.= Money inflation in the United States: a study in social pathology. **$1.50. Putnam.
A sociological study which “has nothing to do with individual morals, but is an attempt to explain certain incidents in our National life to which as a people we cannot point with pride. We are a people with a financial ‘past,’ and Mr. Wildman sets out to rehabilitate us by connecting financial vagaries little different from immoralities, with facts in our National history which show that we were not naturally bad, but yielded to stress of circumstances and most naturally.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Is well worthy of commendation to the inquiring student.” Frank L. McVey.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 165. S. 16, ’06. 410w.
“No one has hitherto treated with such detail the economic conditions underlying the successive movements in favor of cheap money.”
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 399. F. 15, ’06. 150w.
“Although the book is far from controversial in its tone, its reading will certainly do much to create harmony of opinion on the subject of sound money. As a study of the formation of opinion on one question it is very suggestive.” Caroline M. Hill.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 188. Mr. ’06. 760w.
“Mr. Wildman has written a most ingenious and suggestive apologia for our financial heresies of the period he selected.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 78. F. 10. ’06. 660w.
“Both his method and his reasoning are ingenious, and although it seems to us that he presses a hypothesis to an extreme, we have found his little treatise singularly stimulating.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 616. Mr. 17. ’06. 430w.
=Wiley, Sara King.= Alcestis and other poems. **75c. Macmillan.
+ =Ind.= 60: 49. Ja. 4, ’06. 150w.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 7. Ja. 6, ’06. 360w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ + =North American.= 182: 753. My. ’06. 270w.
=Wilkins, William Henry.= Mrs. Fitzherbert and George IV. **$5. Longmans.
“There is no great addition to historical knowledge in Mr. Wilkins’s story of Mrs. Fitzherbert and George IV.” A. G. Porritt.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 659. Ap. ’06. 510w.
+ =Cath. World.= 82: 694. F. ’06. 2480w.
“He is just to George IV., and gives besides an excellent picture of the period.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 380. Ap. ’06. 140w.
+ =Dial.= 40: 202. Mr. 16, ’06. 300w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 223. Ja. 25, ’06. 640w.
“It must be said that Mr. Wilkins, though a conscientious searcher and worker, is here rather an apologist than an historian.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 350. Ap. 26, ’06. 1510w.
“Mr. Wilkins is too much of an advocate to be a wholly convincing historian and there are signs that he has written in some haste. He deserves full credit for the tact, sensibility, and good taste with which he has performed it.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 81: 1084. D. 30, ’05. 310w.
=Wilkinson, Florence.= Far country: poems. **$1. McClure.
“Miss Wilkinson ... is before all, a romanticist, the narrative and ballad are her predestined forms, and she handles them with all the freedom of a native gift.... In phrasing and imagery ‘The far country’ ... shows a freshness and imaginative vision that bespeak the poet’s hand and eye, and above all a joy in the art.... Miss Wilkinson is not a sonneteer ... but to show that she knows wherein her strength lies, there are few sonnets in the volume. It is chiefly the human riddle which haunts her eager, questioning mind.”—N. Y. Times.
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“A tendency toward forced forms of expression and an indulgence in mere emotional ejaculation appear to be the most noticeable fault of what is, on the whole, a volume of quite exceptional richness and strength.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 68. Ag. 1, ’06. 470w.
“A volume of uneven, but on the whole, singularly poetic verse. A little sharper discrimination between profusion and diffusion, a little sterner renunciation of unreal and extraneous adornment, a little firmer grasp of organic structure, and Miss Wilkinson will be a poet to reckon with.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 145. Ag. 16, ’06. 230w.
“Miss Wilkinson is so rarely unsure in metre, has indeed such command of herself in the most intricate forms, that when one comes upon a jarring line he knows it to be willful heresy rather than unconscious error.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 396. Je. 16, ’06. 1230w.
“An occasional bit of self-consciousness, an evident effort, mar some verses otherwise most pleasing.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 83: 284. Je. 2, ’06. 90w.
=Williams, C. F. Abdy.= Story of organ music. *$1.25. Scribner.
“A recent volume in the “Music story series.” The author has outlined a history of the rise and development of organ music, in which the works of the leading composers are described. He is of the opinion that the history of organ music revolves around one gigantic personality, that of Bach, and that no organ composer of any eminence has existed who has not been largely influenced by him. The author has drawn considerably on Ritter’s ‘Geschichte des orgelspiels,’ and on the collections of Comer and others.” (Dial.) The book contains a number of musical illustrations including the whole of a toccata by Pasquini.
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“Mr. William’s treatise is scholarly, clear, concise, and elucidative.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 395. Je. 16, ’06. 200w.
“Interesting as well as scholarly the book is one of the best in a series that has varied noticeably in merit.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 942. O. 18, ’06. 320w.
“Cannot be commended too highly to all organists.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 474. Je. 7, ’06. 130w.
“His book is brief but scholarly, and is the work of a man that knows his subject and knows how to present it interestingly—even the more abstruse historical portions of it. The book is one of the best of a series that has varied greatly in merit.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 237. Ap. 14, ’06. 660w.
=Williams, Egerton Ryerson, jr.= Ridolfo, the coming of the dawn, a tale of the Renaissance. †$1.50. McClurg.
Perugia, harassed as it was in the hundred and fifty years or more that the Baglioni ruled it by violence, is the scene of this story of Gismonda, the Florentine bride of Ridolfo Baglioni, then signore of Perugia. He marries her for her dowry and leaves her on her wedding day a prisoner in his castle to continue his career of crime and oppression; but she, by her faithfulness, her goodness, and her beauty, finally succeeds in awakening the soul of Ridolfo to a realization of his sins. He forthwith repents of his black deeds, inaugurates a new era for down-trodden Perugia and makes of himself a man worthy of his wife’s love.
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“It leaves a strong and even valuable impression of an age which it is well to look back at, not only when modern puzzles seem petty, but when modern civilization seems defective.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 353. O. 25, ’06. 390w.
“The book is eminently readable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 721. N. 3. ’06. 190w.
“The story is full of action and dramatic situations.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 796. D. ’06. 140w.
=Williams, Hugh Noel.= Five fair sisters: an Italian episode at the court of Louis XIV. **$3.50. Putnam.
The five sisters of this historical biography are Laure, Olympe, Marie, Hortense, and Marianne Mancini, the nieces of Cardinal Mazarin. All were taken from Rome to France as children and made brilliant marriages. With the exception of Laure, they all lived long and had romantic careers. Had not Mazarin been so obstinate, Marie Mancini would have been consort of Louis XIV. of France. Olympe became the Comtesse de Soissons; Marianne, Duchesse de Bouillon, who was implicated in the poison trials of 1680; Hortense the Duchesse de Mazarin, fled from her jealous, bigoted husband, and became a reigning beauty at the Court of Charles II. of England.
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“He does not affect to have made any additions to historical knowledge, and shows no great fondness for discussing problems or unravelling mysteries; but the facts are stated fairly, and, as a rule, fully enough for the general reader.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 787. Je. 30. 2050w.
Reviewed by Percy F. Bicknell.
=Dial.= 41: 386. D. 1, ’06. 180w.
“His volume looks well; his illustrations are interesting: his style, though it smacks a good deal too much of translation, is readable; his subject could hardly have been better chosen.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 288. O. 4. ’06. 800w.
“The present author has put the facts together in a very satisfactory fashion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 565. S. 15, ’06. 1010w.
“Both entertaining and of interest as throwing light on the life of this great period in French history.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 238. S. 22, ’06. 210w.
“Mr. Williams, however, has made a readable story out of material only too abundant. His book is quite as much a study of times and manners as a regular biography: with so many leading figures this was a foregone conclusion.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 465. O. 6, ’06. 1700w.
=Williams, Hugh Noel.= Later queens of the French stage. Scribner.
A less distinctive work for stage art has been wrought by the six women in this group than by the women who were sketched in the first book of the series, “Queens of the French stage.” This latter group includes Sophie Arnould, Mlle. Guimard, Mlle. Raucourt, Mme. Dugazon, Mlle. Contat, and Mme. Saint-Huberty, and “they were rather reapers than sowers and left few traces on their art.” (Lond. Times.)
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“To anyone who likes gossip, amusing stories, vivid descriptions of a very brilliant and heartless state of society, just before it toppled to its fall, we recommend Mr. Williams’s handsomely published book. He has spared no little trouble in research, and is thoroughly well up in his subject; and his book makes most agreeable reading.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 472. My. 19, ’06. 1200w.
“Mr. Williams’s new book has all the faults of his ‘Queens of the French stage,’ and has them in an aggravated degree. His style is still more slovenly, his grammar still more faulty, his accuracy still more blemished ... his proofs still more carelessly read.”
– – =Lond. Times.= 5: 171. My. 11, ’06. 930w.
“It is a record of scandals.”
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 359. Je. 2, ’06. 870w.
=Williams, Hugh Noel.= Queens of the French stage. *$2.50. Scribner.
“He tells his stories very well, and has a wide knowledge of the memoirs, letters, the epigrams and so forth which illustrate his subjects, and quotes them freely on his handsome pages.”
+ =Acad.= 70. 112. F. 3, ’06. 1500w.
=Spec.= 95: 533. O. 7, ’05. 160w.
=Williams, Jesse Lynch.= Day-dreamer. †$1.50. Scribner.
An unabridged rendering of “News and the man,” an amplified version of “The stolen story.” “There is a general stir in this novel which successfully stimulates the rush of a daily newspaper office when the presses are in motion and the ‘stories’ are coming in from every quarter. The reporter’s slang, which is a kind of dialect known only to the initiated, is freely used and the narrative bristles with expert knowledge of reportorial ways and speech.” (Outlook.)
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“A very plausible story and a splendid picture of newspaper life and newspaper men.” Stephen Chalmers.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 181. Mr. 24, ’06. 70w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ – =North American.= 182: 927. Je. ’06. 110w.
“Among the entertaining stories of the season a first place must be given to ... ‘The day dreamer.’”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 759. Mr. 31, ’06. 90w.
“But in spite of the well-seasoned character of the plot and the persons, ‘The day-dreamer’ is nevertheless a neatly articulated and very readable tale.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 127. O. ’06. 140w.
=Williams, Leonard.= Granada: memories, adventures, studies and impressions. **$2.50. Lippincott.
“Here is a book that gives only one chapter to the Alhambra. ‘The Alhambra by moonlight,’ all the rest being devoted to pilgrimages within easy reach of the City of Granada.... Some lead into the snows of the splendid Sierra Nevada, but most of them are within the power of any one.” (N. Y. Times.) “To the systematic frauds connected with the famous sacred mountain, he devotes several chapters, in which he tells the whole story of the exploitation of the caves—‘a longish story,’ he says, ‘full of interest, social, national and psychological, the story of the most astounding, amazing and protracted swindle the world has ever heard of.’” (Int. Studio.)
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“The chapters which make up this volume are much too disconnected in subject, and the author has not the art of interesting us in ... commonplace experiences.”
– + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 542. My. 5. 470w.
“It is unfortunate that a book so full of varied charm should not have better illustrations. The want of an index is also a considerable drawback to the value of the work.”
+ – =Int. Studio.= 29: 181. Ag. ’06. 290w.
=Williams, Neil Wynn.= Electric theft. †$1.50. Small.
An unusual story with plenty of plot, action and romance has its setting in Athens, with the scene shifting to London. A young engineer, who is also an inventor, is sent to Athens to discover the cause of the theft of electricity from the Athenian electric power company. The closely guarded villainy is operated by a band of anarchists whose leader becomes the hero’s rival in affairs of heart as well as schemes in which cunning and skill abound.
=Williams, Rebecca R. (“Riddell,” pseud.).= Fireside fancies. *75c. Jenkins.
A poem in which the author’s fancy recalls a sequence of brave deeds long past and weaves them into verse at his own fireside.
=Williams, Sarah Stone (Hester E. Shipley).= Man from London town. $1.50. Neale.
There was a man from London town, and in this modern version of the old rhyme, having scratched out both his eyes as the result of an unfortunate love affair he becomes a cynic, is bored with life and loving. But at last he realizes that his eyes are out thru the influence of a young widow of high ideals and a charming personality, and she is the cause of his jumping once more into the bramble bush and scratching them in again. Unfortunately the man has become so embittered and, is so lacking in fine feeling that he handles too roughly the thing which gave him light. He is the type of a man whose vision is permanently distorted and even love could not make him see.
=Williams, Theodore C.= Elegies of Tibullus. $1.25. Badger, R. G.
“Of this work the judgment must be that it is a paraphrase rather than a translation, and the frequent felicities in the rendering add to one’s regret at its defects.”
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 338. My. ’06. 760w.
=Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Mrs. Alice Muriel (Livingston).= Lady Betty across the water. †$1.50. McClure.
Lady Betty, the naive young sister of an impoverished duke, comes over from England to visit a Mrs. Stuyvesant-Knox at Newport. The plans of her hostess for securing the sister of a duke as her brother’s wife are frustrated, and the plans of Betty’s mother of securing an American fortune seem, for a time, endangered by a young man who crosses in the steerage of Betty’s ship and who wins her young affection by heroic deeds before she discovers him to be a millionaire in disguise. The story is light and breezy and is full of social satire.
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“The interest is smartly whipped up, and kept spinning and humming gaily to the last page.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 550. Je. 9, ’06. 380w.
“A little more of the handsome Californian, and a little less violet teas and cat lunches would have made it a better balanced book.” Frederick Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 540. Jl. ’06. 310w.
“A frothy sort of cleverness is the chief attribute of the story, but its thin vein of wit is exhausted long before the end is reached, and nothing more substantial is found to take its place.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 41: 37. Jl. 16, ’06. 240w.
“The intent is to present a friendly picture of real American life, to hold up the mirror to ‘society’, and to provide a sort of guide book of America’s typical institutions; but it’s all done British visitors must be warned not to take it upon such meagre knowledge of the facts that seriously.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 319. My. 19, ’06. 690w.
“It is a pleasantly written narrative, very frothy.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 190w.
“A lively and entertaining tale.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 863. Ag. 11, ’06. 50w.
“A readable and entertaining story.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 826. Je. 30, ’06. 80w.
=Spec.= 97: 23. Jl. 7, ’06. 190w.
=Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Mrs. Alice Muriel.= My friend the chauffeur. †$1.50. McClure.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 10: 154. Mr. 1, 06. 290w.
“The tale is amusing enough, but on the whole less good than other stories by the clever authors.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 254. N. ’06. 60w.
=Willis, Henry Parker.= Our Philippine problem: a study of American colonial policy. $1.50. Holt.
Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.
=Atlan.= 97: 848. Je. ’06. 470w.
“So, while there is much in this book ... which is of very considerable import, it is so intermixed with errors, half-truths, misinformation of one sort and another, and political insinuation, as to make the book an altogether unsafe guide for him who is not already expert in Philippine matters.”
+ – – =Ind.= 59: 1538. D. 28, ’05. 1210w.
Reviewed by Hugh Clifford.
=Living Age.= 251: 515. D. 1, ’06. 5630w.
=Willoughby, William Franklin.= Territories and dependencies of the United States: their government and administration. *$1.25. Century.
Reviewed by F. J. Goodnow.
+ – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 136. Mr. ’06. 1010w.
=Wilson, Alice.= Actaeon’s defense and other poems. $1. Badger, R: G.
Half a hundred nature poems, love sonnets and lyrics.
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Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 41: 208. O. 1, ’06. 200w.
=Wilson, Rev. C. T.= Peasant life in the Holy Land. *$3.50. Putnam.
“Peasant life in Palestine was cast in stereotype plates centuries ago, long before the Christian era, and the present life is printed from the old plates. Therefore to see how peasants live and what they think and feel now is to understand how they lived and what they thought in the time of Christ, not to say in the time of Abraham. That fact gives to a portrait of modern life by one who has been a long-time resident of the Holy Land value as well as interest.”—Outlook.
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“It is only when he quits his own subject to indulge in speculations or a general view that he stumbles.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 449. Ap. 14. 400w.
“This interesting book is not so much, as the author claims, a contribution to the folklore of Palestine, altho some stories are given, as a description of the peasant life.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 941. O. 18, ’06. 200w.
“It gives a picture of the better side of peasant life, and incidentally is of considerable value to the student of Oriental and Biblical archaeology, folklore, and religion.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 129. Ag. 9, ’06. 640w.
“The value of the book lies in a wealth of detail about the daily lives of the fellahin. This sharp definition of detail lends a special worth to Mr. Wilson’s work.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 649. O. 6, ’06. 940w.
“It contains not a great deal which will be fresh to one who is familiar with Dr. Thomson’s ‘Land and the book’ or Professor Curtiss’s ‘Primitive Semitic religion to-day.’”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 482. Je. 23, ’06. 160w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 211. Ag. 18, ’06. 810w.
“Mr. Wilson’s book is full of interesting details about Palestinian life. He has extended his observations to natural objects, and has much that is curious to tell us.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 588. Ap. 14, ’06. 290w.
=Wilson, Calvin Dill.= Making the most of ourselves. **$1. McClurg.
“For young men and women who are at a groping and impressionable age and who have not had ‘advantages,’ this book ought to be of far greater value than most of its kind.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 569. Je. ’06. 60w.
=Wilson, Floyd Baker.= Through silence to realization; or, The human awakening. $1. Fenno.
Self-mastery is the keynote of this volume. Practical suggestions for the achievement of it along metaphysical lines are made by one who has proved that “thoughts are things,” and as entities can be implanted into consciousness and vitalized there.
=Wilson, Francis.= Joseph Jefferson. **$2. Scribner.
A sketch of Mr. Jefferson by a close friend and fellow actor which pictures “what will be of inestimable value to future generations of playgoers—the personality of Joseph Jefferson.” (Ind.) “New light is thrown on the best qualities of Jefferson, his amiability, his genial humor, his sound artistry. The illustrations include reproductions of photographs of the actors, and some of Jefferson’s paintings.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Those who knew Mr. Jefferson personally and those who knew him only on the stage will be sorry to see him so belittled by an account which, meaning to exalt, succeeds only in debasing.”
– =Acad.= 71: 370. O. 13, ’06. 380w.
Reviewed by Louise Closser Hale.
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 532. Jl. ’06. 930w.
+ + =Critic.= 48: 570. Je. ’06. 410w.
“A pleasing and worthy portrait.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 316. My. 16, ’06. 1770w.
“His analysis of many of the elements of Jefferson’s success—as in “Rip Van Winkle”—is a good one, and the chief impressions are agreeable.” Wm. T. Brewster.
+ + =Forum.= 38: 96. Jl. ’06. 770w.
+ + =Ind.= 60: 987. Ap. 26, ’06. 560w.
“There are few such nuggets in the book, and they can be found only by sifting a vast amount of rubbish.”
– + =Nation.= 82: 516. Je. 21, ’06. 1160w.
“The sketches of personalities are intimate and charmingly done.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 244. Ap. 14, ’06. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.
“A book as true to nature as it is entertaining.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 92. My. 12, ’06. 280w.
“Mr. Wilson has done a careful piece of work in bringing together his reminiscences, and there is none of the feeling that he is holding something back to use later on.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 710. Je. 9, ’06. 930w.
“Is packed full of story, incident, and picturesque description.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 766. Je. ’06. 210w.
=Winchester, Caleb Thomas.= Life of John Wesley. **$1.50. Macmillan.
Professor Winchester “points out that Wesley was the child of his age in his distrust of enthusiasm. He laid great stress upon an intelligent faith, and endeavored himself to be clear, candid, and logical. That he could have carried on his especial work within the Anglican church, had the bishops of his day held more statesmanlike ideas as to their duty is plain enough; in fact, he never abandoned that church nor did he desire his followers to do so. Yet the logic of events made the organization of a distinctive Methodist body inevitable.”—Critic.
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Reviewed by H W. Boynton.
+ =Atlan.= 98: 278. Ag. ’06. 690w.
“He brings out the character and personality of the man better, on the whole, than any of Wesley’s previous biographers have done.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 473. My. ’06. 150w.
“The last chapter on ‘John Wesley the man’ is an especially clear and satisfactory presentation of the great preacher’s mind and personality.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 42. Jl. 16, ’06. 300w.
“It is written in excellent style, and is marked by thoroness of information, fairness of judgment, and that sanity and balance, which come only with extensive knowledge.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 1162. My. 17, ’06. 440w.
“It is compact, bright, clear-sighted, a book in which an American writer seems to have achieved something of the lucidity, combined with accurate knowledge, of the best French work. There are a few slips here and there in it.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 247. Jl. 13, ’06. 1490w.
“This writer has given us, in brief space, probably the clearest view of his hero.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 537. Je. 28, ’06. 940w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
“He writes in a style which is luminous without being rhetorical, warm without being emotional, and simple without being commonplace.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 625. Jl. 14, ’06. 1750w.
“Professor Winchester has dealt fairly with his subject, showing the dark as well as the light sides.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 378. Mr. 24, ’06. 370w.
“Is not primarily a Methodist tribute to the founder of his church; it is the seasoned judgment of a man of literature and an historian of philosophic mind concerning a great divine.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 507. Ap. ’06. 140w.
“He is neither a worshipper nor an iconoclast.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 718: My. 5, ’06. 160w.
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 764. Jl. ’06. 160w.
=Winslow, Helen Maria.= Woman of tomorrow. *$1. Pott.
“The author points out the weak spots in the woman of to-day, and tells her what to do in order to become a more able woman of to-morrow.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The writer has made no attempt, in these discreet articles, to treat her subject profoundly or from an original point of view.”
+ – =Critic.= 47: 573. D. ’05. 120w.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 3. Ja. 6, ’06. 540w.
=Winter, Alice Ames.= Jewel weed. †$1.50. Bobbs.
In the foreground of this story with a middle west setting is a quartette of young people composed of Dick Percival of substantial family connections, his college friend Ellery Norris who is striving to make good his heralded efficiency, Madeline Elton, a finely bred young woman, and Lena Quincy whose gilded vulgarity finds fit expression in the jewel weed. The “jewel weed” becomes Dick’s protege, later his wife, and as such a foreign element in the refined atmosphere of his mother’s home. In contrast to her selfishness which menaces her husband’s social, financial and political career is the fine loyalty of Madeline, which champions everybody’s cause—Ellery Norris more than all others.
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“Though not a great novel, this is an excellent love-story written in a bright and pleasing style and very rich in human interest. More than this, it is for the most part true to the life it depicts.”
+ =Arena.= 36: 687. D. ’05. 300w.
=Wise, John Sergeant.= Recollections of thirteen presidents. **$2.50. Doubleday.
From the political atmosphere surrounding him in boyhood, the author absorbed the personalities of the presidents of his father’s day, Tyler, Pierce and Buchanan; and of the men following down to the present day he is able to write out of the fulness of his intimate knowledge of them. The author is a Southerner, fought with the confederacy, and does not neglect to make prominent the just position from which to view the work of Jefferson Davis.
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+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 210. O. ’06. 50w.
“The taste displayed is often a bit more questionable. and there are many signs of hasty and ill-considered writing. It can, however, never be called a dull book, or one lacking in a fine sense of patriotism.”
+ – =Dial.= 41: 117. S. 1, ’06. 780w.
“Some wonderfully fresh and striking pen portraits.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 983. Je. 30, ’06. 1180w.
“The book is confessedly partisan rather than judicial in its tone. It is an interesting series of political sketches from a personal point of view, and the intelligent reader will have no trouble in recognizing the point of view and making all necessary allowances. We have noticed few slips of fact.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 103. Ag. 2, ’06. 1020w.
“His estimates of the public men he discusses in his book are to a rather remarkable degree free from partisan, even though not always from personal bias. They are both interesting and entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 333. My. 26, ’06. 1250w.
“His estimates of these historical characters, expressed with the utmost frankness and evident sincerity, make ‘readable footnotes to history.’”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 250w.
=Wise, John Sergeant.= Treatise on American citizenship. $3. Thompson.
A book dealing with the primary rights, duties, and privileges of the American citizen and analyzing the peculiar dual system—federal and state—under which he lives. There are seven parts to the treatise: Of citizenship generally; How American citizenship may be acquired; Of the obligations and duties of the citizens to the nation and the state; Of the rights, privileges and immunities of the citizen; Privileges and immunities under the war amendments; Of the protection of citizens abroad; Of expatriation, aliens and who may not become citizens.
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“While Mr. Wise has given us here a useful and valuable work, it must be said that it leaves much to be desired and that there is still room for a comprehensive text on the law of citizenship.” Frank Hamsher.
+ – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 356. S. ’06. 670w.
“As a popular summary of the more important features of our system, the book will be found useful. It is marked by great fairness and freedom from bias of any kind.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 451. My. 31, ’06. 310w.
“It is a very useful book, showing a great deal of patient industry, and a clear and sound judgment in dealing with authorities.” Edward Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 93. F. 17, ’06. 1150w.
“He has made no use of treaty stipulations, diplomatic correspondence, rulings of the Department of state or decisions of arbitration commissions. He does not seem to have examined the excellent works of Van Dyne and Howard or the less valuable ones of Morse and Webster, from all of which he could have gained useful information both as to the law of citizenship and methods of treatment. Notwithstanding all that has been said above in criticism of Mr. Wise’s book as a treatise on the law of citizenship, it is a useful and interesting work. To the idea of state citizenship he makes a distinct contribution and his discussion of civil rights under the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments contains many original and valuable suggestions.” James Wilford Garner.
+ – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 558. S. ’06. 1300w.
=Wishart, Alfred Wesley.= Primary facts in religious thought. *75c. Univ. of Chicago press.
“Dr. Wishart is a careful reasoner and the volume, on the whole, is an admirable work of the kind. As is so frequently the case in didactic theological works, however, the author, it seems to us, sometimes presumes too much, and therefore his premises are open to criticism.”
+ – =Arena.= 36: 440. O. ’06. 860w.
+ =Bib. World.= 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 50w.
=Wister, Owen.= Lady Baltimore. †$1.50. Macmillan.
This story might be called the “Love affairs of a bachelor” in the objective sense of Lilian Bell’s “Love affairs of an old maid.” For the hero finds real life and other people’s matrimonial projects more fascinating than musty genealogical records that sufficiently searched will prove the blood of kings in his veins and admit him to the “Selected salic scions.” The setting is typically Southern and among the characters are a charming dispenser of cakes at a Woman’s exchange, a young man whose approaching marriage to a brilliant siren furnishes cause for a vast expenditure of the hero’s quixotic chivalry, and numerous old ladies of King’s Port. It would divulge too much of the whimsically clever story to reveal the meaning of so high sounding a title as “Lady Baltimore.”
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“The story is one of love, prettily conceived and executed, but it is, perhaps, a little longwinded and slow of development.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906. 1: 603. My. 19. 280w.
“But it is not merely for its adherence to an academic formula that ‘Lady Baltimore’ is to be praised. It is good to read because of its characterisation, its geniality and its ideas.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ + – =Bookm.= 23: 296. My. ’06. 1180w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 509. Je. ’06. 980w.
“Like Mr. Owen Wister’s other fiction, is defective on the side of construction, but the defect is atoned for by the author’s powers of characterization and his narrative charm.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 365. Je. 1, ’06. 410w.
“It is doubtful if any other author has so accurately touched the keynote of the real South, or contrasted it so shrewdly with that of the North.”
+ + + =Ind.= 60: 1159. My. 17, ’06. 950w.
“He has given us the most courteous, intelligent and veracious interpretation of Southern life ever published without losing a single man by violence out of the tale.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 50w.
“Mr. Wister brings to this new environment all the fine play and parry of style, all the insight, all the certainty of coloring, that carried the West before his compelling pen.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 158. Ag. 4, ’06. 420w.
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
“‘The Virginian’ can no longer be held to be the work of an impassioned tiro by any one who observes how in ‘Lady Baltimore’ the story is informed by the idea, how light and delicate the humour is for all the urgency of the pleading, how fragrant is that atmosphere of lavender which the whole story breathes.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 142. Ap. 20, ’06. 530w.
“Is marked by all the author’s cleverness and power of observation. What Mr. Wister has written might be called extravaganza with a purpose.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 390. My. 10, ’06. 430w.
“The attraction of the book is in its hitting off things and people in little illuminating phrases which flash this and that characteristic home to you.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 254. Ap. 21, ’06. 680w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 250w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ + – =North American.= 182: 928. Je. ’06. 100w.
“It is a true American novel in subject, spirit, and atmosphere.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 83: 111. My. 19, ’06. 1490w.
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 707. N. 24, ’06. 100w.
“There is little success in striking the deeper chords that might be set vibrating by a stronger hand and one less preoccupied with its own rather capable cleverness and its stylistic ingenuity.”
+ – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 572. My. 5, ’06. 710w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 756. Je. ’06. 70w.
“Owen Wister displays as before the delicacy of touch, the clear precise treatment of ideas, the felicity and grace of expression which make his writing distinguished and admirable, but his material is this time too scanty, and his dissertations seem tedious and complicated to the point of mystification.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 794. Je. 23, ’06. 250w.
“Is a many-sided book, in which plot and incident, ingenious though they are, are of subsidiary importance, and serve the ulterior purpose of enabling the writer to liberate his mind on a number of burning questions. His satire is inspired not by malice, but by a genuine desire of reform.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 675. Ap. 28, ’06. 820w.
=Witt, Robert Clermont.= How to look at pictures. **$1.40. Putnam.
America finds this book published five years ago in England of such value that it deems it worth while to reprint it even tho there have appeared a number of works akin to it—books whose purpose is identical with it, viz. to direct laymen how to judge first class works of art, “Mr Witt speaks of the personal point of view, the point of view of the subject the picture represents, that of the artist, how to look at a portrait, a historical painting, a colored picture, a genre painting, a landscape and a drawing; how to note the light and shade in a painting, the composition of the picture, the treatment of the subject by the artist, and the methods and materials of a painter.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Several helpful books dealing with the general subject of looking at pictures have been published within the last year, but none of these has the breadth or scope of this admirable book by Mr Witt.”
+ + =Critic.= 49: 90. Jl. ’06. 180w.
+ =Dial.= 41: 120. S. 1, ’06. 310w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 518. Ag. 30, ’06. 270w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 832. Je. 2, ’06. 1120w.
“Its contents are marked by tranquil common sense. There is nothing in it which is not true, and nothing, perhaps, which may not still be novel to some part of the great public.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 468. Je. 7, ’06. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 376. Je. 9, ’06. 440w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 671. Jl. 21, ’06. 80w.
=Wolfenstein, Martha.= Renegade, and other tales. $1.25. Jewish pub.
“‘A renegade’ presents to us a number of Gentile sinners and Jewish saints in the setting of far-away Bohemia.” (Nation.) This story “is tragical, of course, and there are ten others. The prevailing atmospheric effect is gray, a dull sad gray, and there is always a sense of what may be called the joy of suffering, a sort of reveling in the luxury of woe.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“We need not quarrel with the characterization if the stories were only interesting; but they are not.”
– =Nation.= 82: 182. Mr. 1, ’06. 110w.
“Many of them show a considerable dramatic power.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 113. F. 24, ’06. 430w.
“Full of local color, race peculiarities treated with knowledge and skill, and withal broad human sympathy and delicate humor.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1087. D. 30, ’05. 70w.
=Wood, Eugene.= Back home. †$1.50. McClure.
“The book itself is very like an apple: juicy, ripe and red with garnered sunshine. It is altogether wholesome and sweet to the core.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1345. D. 7, ’05. 230w.
=Wood, Henry.= Life more abundant: scriptural truth in modern application. **$1.20. Lothrop.
“It is an important contribution to the constructive religious thought of the day.”
+ + =Arena.= 35: 100. Ja. ’06. 370w.
=Wood, Theodore.= Natural history for young people. $2.50. Dutton.
A survey of the animal world so copiously and realistically illustrated that it furnishes “zoological garden in a book.” “The writer has given a few original observations. Beyond a general classification, he has not attempted scientific methods of treatment. He has selected, from the various groups, the most interesting species, and has written about them with much entertaining detail.” (Nation.)
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“On account of its sumptuous format, is for the library rather than for field and forest.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1390. D. 14, ’05. 30w.
+ =Nation.= 81: 503. D. 21, ’05. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 761. N. 11, ’05. 60w.
“The text is written simply and clearly and is kept free from super-scientific terminology. Decidedly a commendable work.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 683. N. 18, ’06. 50w.
=Wood, Walter Birbeck, and Edmonds, James Edward.= History of the Civil war in the United States, 1861–1865. *$3.50. Putnam.
“There is no lack of intelligent comprehension of the events described, and the presentment is simple and direct. Though one may here and there find fault with the work of Messrs. Wood and Edmonds, the book is nevertheless a good military account of our Civil war—impartial, painstaking, intelligent.” J. K. Hosmer.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 699. Ap. ’06. 1060w.
“It is a useful condensation of the best military histories and is illuminated by much judicious comment.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 264. Ap. 16, ’06. 550w.
“It is characterized by understanding, by impartial attitude and by thoroness of treatment.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 341. F. 8, ’06. 260w.
“It is readily admitted that for succinctness of statement, for saneness of judgment, for fairness of conclusion there is scarce a volume anywhere in all our war literature which equals this one.” William E. Dodd.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 34. Ja. 20, ’06. 1670w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 90w.
=Wood, William.= Fight for Canada; a sketch from the history of the great Imperial war. *$2.50. Little.
This history of England’s fight for Canada has been prepared in the light of recently discovered sources of original information and has been treated from a point of view both naval and military. Chapters are devoted to: Pitt’s imperial war; New France and New England; Vandreuil and Bigot; Montcalm; Anson and Saunders; Wolfe; The siege of Quebec; The Battle of the plains; The fall of Quebec; and The fall of New France. The text is both scholarly and interesting, the notes, bibliography, and index are full and satisfactory, and there are portraits and colored maps.
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“Mr Wood has not Mr. Parkman’s command of resonant prose, but in simple language details the events hour by hour, describing the character of the ground as one familiar with every foot of it, and the movements of the men of each side as if at a review.” James Bain.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 398. Ja. ’05. 660w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 260. Mr. 29, ’06. 80w.
“An interesting and praiseworthy book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 248. Ap. 14, ’06. 280w.
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 807. Ap. 7, ’06. 140w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 50w.
=Sat. R.= 99: 814. Je. 17, ’05. 70w.
=Woodberry, George Edward.= Swinburne. **75c. McClure.
A recent volume in the “Contemporary men of letters series.” The sketch is not a biography but “a subtle and subjective study not so much of Swinburne’s poetry as of his poetic impulses.” (Nation.)
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=Critic.= 48: 459. My. ’06. 320w.
+ + =Nation.= 82: 58. Ja. 18, ’06. 1080w.
“The book is important not so much because of the accident of its being perhaps the first on the subject to be published in this country as because of an uncommon qualification of the author for his task. It is true that he has broad perspective and intimate knowledge, but of greater significance is the affinity of spirit between the poet and his critic.” Lewis N. Chase.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 889. D. 16, ’05. 2110w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 30w.
=Woodberry, George Edward.= Torch: eight lectures on race power in literature, delivered before the Lowell institute of Boston. **$1.20. McClure.
Thru “The torch” “one increasing purpose runs. This purpose is the thought that there is a race-mind which slowly, unfalteringly, grandly, approaches through the centuries its final summation (if finality in this connection be conceivable) through a variety of channels, but chiefly through the treasure-stores of great literature.” (Reader.) “The work of the race-mind in literature, as it seems to Mr. Woodberry’s optimistic idealism, is not so much mere self-expression as self-conquest, liberation, racial euthanasia.” (Nation.) The title of the lectures are: Man and the race, The language of all the world, The Titan myth, Spenser, Milton, Wordsworth and Shelley.
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“There is no question of the author’s sincerity, and if but as a narrative of personal faith, the book possesses both charm and force.” H. B. Alexander.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 194. Ap. ’06. 1410w.
“Mr. Woodberry has possibly read into the poets, ancient and modern, more than they intended to say. In dealing with the four ... he shows his finely critical sense, although some of his dicta are open to disagreement.” Edward Fuller.
+ – =Critic.= 48: 212. Mr. ’06. 620w.
“The high note of idealism thus sounded at the outset is maintained to the last.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 236. Ap. 1, ’06. 350w.
“Our author’s thought is less convincing in the retrospect than in the reading. It is clear that his choice of typical literature has been very strictly selective, and (though there is much admirable criticism by the way) poetically rather than critically selective. No writer in recent years has presented the cause of the Platonist with greater eloquence and devotion, or has made a more telling synthesis of old poetry and new science.”
+ – =Nation.= 81: 365. N. 2, ’05. 1220w.
“When Prof. Woodberry leaves the field of theory, or, rather, when he imports into that field specific appreciation and criticism, he is often extremely instructive, and what is more important if he will pardon us for saying so, he is stimulating, satisfying, and quite delightful. It is a pleasure to acknowledge the sincerity, the pure-mindedness, the whole-hearted love of the best that shine in Prof. Woodberry’s pages.” E. C.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 721. O. 25, ’05. 640w.
“The philosophy of these lectures—a product of the author’s studies in comparative literature—is profound, and in one aspect, despairing, since it is vitally and essentially sacrificial, and the very death-warrant to all personal egoism.”
+ =Reader.= 7: 225, Ja. ’06. 680w.
=Woodhull, Alfred Alexander.= Personal hygiene; designed for undergraduates. *$1. Wiley.
This treatise “embodies in the first place a short but practical and sufficient account of the anatomy and physiology of the different organs and functions of the body, and then considers one by one, the reasons that should guide us in exercise, in food, in bathing, in our choice of clothing, and in reference to stimulants and narcotics.”—Nation.
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“On the whole, the book is admirable.”
+ =Engin. N.= 55: 560. My. 17, ’06. 130w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 280. Ap. 5. ’06. 130w.
+ + =Nature.= 74: 78. My. 24, ’06. 460w.
“We think that its wide circulation would be a good thing for all concerned.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 228. Ap. 7, ’06. 170w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 70w.
=Woodruff, Anna Helena.= Pond in the marshy meadow. $1.50. Saalfield.
A book to open the eyes of children. An “ordinary pond in an ordinary field, belonging to an ordinary farmer” furnishes the objects for lessons of observation and the author is guide and teacher.
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“A book with plenty of entertainment in it and considerable instruction put so pleasantly as to be entertaining too.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 140w.
“Has the indefinable touch which will commend it to the minds of children, but the little folks to whom it is dedicated will have to share their pleasure with every one who can remember brooks and pasture-lands, and all the sweet, lazy experiences of childhood in the country.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 532. O. 27, ’06. 210w.
=Woods, David Walker, jr.= John Witherspoon. **$1.50. Revell.
The great-grandson of John Witherspoon has written the first story of that able Scotsman, Presbyterian and American ever published, in which is given a full account of the part he played in the struggle for popular rights in the Church of Scotland, his administration as president of Princeton college, his work in the organization of the American Presbyterian church, and as an active man in the conduct of the revolution and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 209. O. ’06. 60w.
“A biography which will appeal to Princeton men and to students of church history, as well as to those interested in the Revolutionary period of our national life.”
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 70. Ag. 1, ’06. 380w.
“Dr. Witherspoon’s career does not lend itself to lively narrative, and Mr. Woods is a dull biographer at best.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 482. Ag. 4, ’06. 550w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 908. Ap. 21, ’06. 190w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 80w.
=Woods, Frederick Adams.= Mental and moral heredity in royalty: a statistical study in history and psychology. **$3. Holt.
A scientific inquiry into the characteristics of royalty based upon a large and well chosen bibliography to which detailed references are given. The study of 832 characters forms the main body of the work, altho 3,312 distinct persons are mentioned. The members of the ruling families of England, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Italy, Russia, Denmark, and Sweden are considered, each individual being graded mentally and morally according to a standard of 1 to 10, the period covered extending in general back to the 16th century. The object of the work is to give a fair estimate of the mental and moral status of royalty as compared with the world in general, and to throw light upon the old question of relative importance of environment and heredity. 104 portraits illustrate the text.
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“The author has done his work with skill and good judgment and his book will be specially profitable for reproof and instruction to political doctrinaires of every school.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 110. O. ’06. 800w.
“In arrangement and presentation the author has been very successful.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 180. Jl. ’06. 380w.
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
=Atlan.= 98: 423. S. ’06. 450w.
“It would be easy to show the flaws in his system by which such extreme conclusions as his would be weakened.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 480. My. ’06. 290w.
“Dr. Woods rarely goes much beyond the statistical warrant of his evidence, and has at all events presented his case more strongly and more judicially, as well as scientifically, than any other contribution to this particular problem.”
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 299. My. 1, ’06. 430w.
“There will be certain objections made by specialists to both the methods of measurement and the inferences of Dr. Woods. But every one should admire his zeal and fairmindedness and appreciate the importance of the investigation.”
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 1103. My. 10, ’06. 580w.
“The choice of materials is singularly fortunate, and the method of treatment as far as possible fair and impersonal.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 308. Ap. 12. ’06. 1240w.
“The book would be the better for a good index.” I.
+ + – =Nature.= 74: 97. My. 31, ’06. 1230w.
“The volume is well planned and well worked out.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 143. Mr. 10, ’06. 840w.
“Is a work of the first class in its department of research.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 763. Mr. 31, ’06. 340w.
=Pub. Opin.= 40: 480. Ap. 14, ’06. 80w.
“Dr. Woods’s work is an important contribution to psychology and a most admirable lesson to show that history may become a natural science.” Edward L. Thorndike.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 23: 693. My. 4, ’06. 840w.
“Dr. Woods cannot be said to have produced a very readable book. The pageant of Regality is lost in mathematical formulae, in ‘grading by intellect’, and ‘in grading by virtue.’”
+ – =Spec.= 97: sup. 652. N. 3, ’06. 2170w.
=Woods, Margaret Louisa.= King’s revoke: an episode in the life of Patrick Dillon. †$1.50. Dutton.
“Patrick Dillon, Irishman as he was, served the King of Spain de jure during the usurpation of Joseph Bonaparte. Dillon, in combination with others and with the co-operation of England, designed to rescue Ferdinand VII. from his prison in Valencay, and this is the story of their failure. They failed because of the incredible cowardice of the King, who to curry favor with Napoleon, denounced his own partisans.... The story abounds with episode, and is a very taking piece of intrigue and adventure.”—Ath.
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“Mrs. Woods has evidently taken the greatest pains to draw a true picture of Ferdinand, the last of those old-world Spanish monarchs.”
+ =Acad.= 69: 1229. N. 25, ’05. 510w.
“It is, for all that, a sound, painstaking piece of work, deserving of high praise.”
+ =Ath.= 1905. 2: 793. D. 9. 320w.
“We expect work of very high character from Mrs. Margaret Woods, and ‘The king’s revoke’ does not disappoint us.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 41: 241. O. 16, ’06. 280w.
+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 407. N. 24, ’05. 350w.
“If the narrative paragraphs move ponderously, honorable amends are made in the ingenious conversation.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 188. Ag. 30, ’06. 240w.
“She has written a well-considered, carefully wrought novel, but alas, it is undeniably heavy, and among its many good features intrudes the unalluring one of skipability.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 471. Jl. 28. ’06. 190w.
“The theme strikes us as of too rough-and-tumble a character for Mrs. Woods’ delicate talent. The workmanship is skilful, but smugglers, brigands, and the like are a little beyond her control, though the several women of the drama are excellent. As a novel of incident, ‘The king’s revoke’ falls below ‘Sons of the sword.’”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 22. Ja. 6, ’06. 220w.
“In spite, therefore, of sundry misprints and a frequently faulty punctuation, the book is a delight to read for the charm of its characterisation, for its fine historic sense of the glory and weakness of Spain, and for a genuine distinction of style unsurpassed by contemporary writers of this class of fiction.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 1129. D. 30, ’05. 630w.
=Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey (Susan Coolidge, pseud.).= Last verses; with an introd. by her sister, Mrs. Daniel C. Gilman. *$1. Little.
Mrs. Gilman has collected her sister’s poems which had not appeared in book form and has added some hitherto unpublished in magazines, prefacing the volume with a short sketch of Susan Coolidge’s life and literary work. It is uniform with “Verses” and “More Verses” by the same author.
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“The easily-won, temperamental optimism, the gentle if somewhat thin piety, which marked the poetic work of Susan Coolidge and won many readers, is the most notable trait in her ‘Last verses.’”
+ =Nation.= 83: 395. N. 8, ’06. 300w.
=Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey (Susan Coolidge, pseud.).= Sheaf of stories; il. by J. W. F. Kennedy. †$1.25. Little.
The author who delighted the children of the past generation with her “What Katy did,” “What Katy did at school” and other stories, offers here twelve sketches of child character which teach happy, wholesome, livable lessons.
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“Full of the habitual good sense and good English of that lamented writer.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’08. 20w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 533. O. 27, ’06. 50w.
=Woolson, Grace A.= Ferns and how to grow them. **$1. Doubleday.
The second volume in the “Garden Library.” It is a practical cultural guide to fern-growing with a definite botanical atmosphere.
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+ + – =Ind.= 60: 575. Mr. 8, ’06. 230w.
“The volume is practical without being dull.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 406. Je. 23, ’06. 430w.
=Wordsworth, William.= Literary criticism; ed. with an introd. by Nowell C. Smith. *90c. Oxford.
A volume which “contains all of his prose writings of a critical nature, his prefaces, his essays upon epitaphs, certain familiar letters touching on literary matters, and his ‘opinions expressed in conversation with his nephew and biographer.’” (Nation.)
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+ =Acad.= 70: 29. Ja. 15, ’06. 1570w.
“Admirably lucid introduction.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 326. Mr. 17. 570w.
=Lond. Times.= 5: 110. Mr. 30, ’06. 900w.
“The selections are interesting, as showing a subtlety as well as a shrewdness of critical faculty. Read consecutively, they convey a peculiar impression of independence, fresh air, and wholesomeness.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 74. Ja. 25, ’06. 80w.
“Of the two dozen pieces of which the volume is made up there is not one that is not worth reading by interested students of the subject, which, in various phases, is always essentially the same—that of literary and specifically of poetical criticism, and no other readers are likely to be attracted by the volume.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 29. Ja. 20, ’06. 670w.
“Mr. Nowell Smith has collected from the prefaces and appendices to Wordsworth’s poems a good deal of interesting critical matter.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 852. D. 30, ’05. 200w.
=Wordsworth, William.= Poems and extracts; chosen by W. Wordsworth for an album presented to Lady Mary Lowther. Christmas, 1819; printed literally from the original album with facsimiles. *90c. Oxford.
The contributors to this album are Anne, Countess of Winchelsea, and about twenty-three other poets ranging from Webster to William Mickle, and from Shakespeare to Lætitia Pilkington.
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“Lovers of Wordsworth all the world over must be grateful to Mr. John Rogers Rees for his generosity in sharing with them this long-hidden treasure, and to Prof. Littledale for enriching the gift with his scholarly introduction and accurate notes.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 325. Mr. 17, 990w.
“Diverse as the sources are, the poems are homogeneous in a certain intensity of moral inspiration: and in their choice and arrangement a very sensitive taste is displayed.”
– =Nation.= 82: 74. Ja. 25, ’06. 120w.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 29. Ja. 20, ’06. 510w.
=Wright, Carroll Davidson.= Battles of labor: being the William Levi Bull lectures for the year 1906. **$1. Jacobs.
Four lectures which show that industrial, social and political problems can be met only with a new application of religion, a new political economy “which looks first ‘to the care and culture of men,’” and with Drummond’s “other selfishness.” The lectures are The background, In mediæval and modern industry, Great modern battles, and How modern battles of labor are treated.
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“Interesting and well worth reading.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 55: 675. Je. 14, ’06. 180w.
“The chief merit of these four lectures is that accuracy, especially in statistical presentation, which Mr. Wright always attains. But they contain nothing new either in fact or philosophy.”
+ =Ind.= 51: 758. S. 27, ’06. 330w.
“‘Battles of labor’ gives evidence, not of scientific research extended, but rather of fulness of experience, reminiscence, and common knowledge regarding labor troubles of all times.” J. C.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 577. N. ’06. 360w.
“The style of the book is colloquial, for reasons sufficiently indicated above, and it conveys not a little information to the credit of the recent generations which have ameliorated the condition of labor.” Edward A. Bradford.
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 505. Ag. 18, ’06. 1120w.
+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 89. S. 8, ’06. 480w.
– =R. of Rs.= 34: 383. S. ’06. 90w.
=Wright, Mabel Osgood. (Mrs. James Osborne Wright) (Barbara, pseud.).= The Garden, you and I. †$1.50. Macmillan.
The reappearance of some of the most delightful members of Mrs. Wright’s gardening fraternity gives an old-friend atmosphere to her new book. The story is mainly in the form of letters. “The purpose of the correspondence is to afford opportunity for the experienced Barbara to give of her more abundant knowledge to Mary Penrose, who with her husband is having a ‘garden vacation,’ camping in an old open barn in their own grounds.... A thread of romance runs through the letters, and the same spirit of sympathy with nature that has informed the writer’s other volumes is evident in the present one. For the sake of the garden-lover who reads to learn, it should be said that there are several excellent and suggestive lists of perennials, annuals, and roses, with explanatory notes: but there is no index.” (Dial.)
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“A book from Mrs. Wright’s pen is always welcome, for her really reliable information about gardens is sure to be interwoven with the thread of a story which, however slight, has both interest and charm.” Mary K. Ford.
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 631. Ag. ’06. 770w.
“Somewhat is lacking of the freshness and spontaneity of Barbara’s first appearance.”
+ – =Dial.= 41: 70. Ag. 1, ’06. 500w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 1379. Je. 7, ’06. 100w.
“Her book is an intensely practical one.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 357. S. 15, ’06. 260w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 389. Je. 16, ’06. 1770w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 110. O. ’06. 340w.
“Those who read Barbara’s earlier book and perhaps wished for more specific guidance on many subjects should not fall to consult this new and attractive epitome of garden knowledge.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 127. Jl. ’06. 90w.
“We have also quiet humor in the way of putting things, and some pleasant sketches of character.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 337. S. 15, ’06. 210w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 99. Jl. 21, ’06. 70w.
=Wright, Mary Tappan (Mrs. John Henry Wright).= Tower: a novel. †$1.50. Scribner.
In her story of the faculty side of college life, Mrs. Wright presents a “masterful president and bishop, several young professors, a few pathetically overworked and underpaid old ones with their wives, children and personal friends.” (Ind.) Eighteen years separate Silvia Langdon, the bishop’s daughter and her lover who parted without pledging of vows. Upon his return to the faculty temporarily he finds her “young and fascinating” at thirty-eight. There is a pathetic side to the renewed love-making which, however, ends triumphantly.
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“There is obvious merit in ‘The tower’, but its plot is extremely slight, and lacks movement and interest.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906. 1: 695. Je. 9. 130w.
“In these final pages Mrs. Wright has cleared herself of the charge of being incapable of creating real human beings.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 628. Ag. ’06. 1080w.
“There is plenty of clever characterization in the book, and the people are sufficiently differentiated to be interesting. They invariably talk well.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 1223. My. 24. ’06. 390w.
“The author has somewhat of the insight and delicacy of touch that might have turned out a bit of Cranford-like description of the dullness and narrowness of faculty life in a small college town; but the many pages of uninteresting detail and conversation rob the book of real charm.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 286. My. 5, ’06. 500w.
“If the characters were only a little more real and the motives for their action a little more obvious, the book would be something to be reckoned with.”
– =World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 110w.
=Wright, Thomas.= Life of Sir Richard Burton. 2v. *$6.50. Putnam.
“The life of Sir Richard Burton leaves the reader in a kind of a stupor; the record is almost incredibly romantic. He was a soldier, a traveler, an explorer, a linguist, an anthropologist an ethnologist, an official. His published works extend to over a hundred volumes. He was a kind of amiable demon; he was a born romancer and boaster, a superstitious atheist; he thanked God that he had committed every sin in the Decalogue, and there seems to be little reason to doubt it; yet he was tender-hearted, loyal, a philanthropist, a devoted friend, a lover of liberty.... As for Mr. Thomas Wright’s book it does more credit to his industry than his literary skill. He has worked in the Boswellian manner, and has amassed a rich harvest of detail, anecdotes and gossip.”—Sat. R.
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+ =Acad.= 70: 277. Mr. 24, ’06. 2290w.
+ =Acad.= 70: 303. Mr. 31, ’06. 1120w.
“Mr. Wright’s ideas of taste differ so widely from our own that we cannot view his work with pleasure.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 1: 420. Ap. 7. 210w.
=Current Literature.= 41: 638. D. ’06. 860w.
“Self-confidence and self-praise, notwithstanding, the author has turned out a creditable piece of book-making.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 29. Jl. 16, ’06. 1870w.
“He is so incredibly rude to Sir Richard and Lady Burton that one wonders why he should have concerned himself at all with persons of whom he has, in spite of intermittent adulation, so bad an opinion.”
– – =Ind.= 61: 98. Jl. 12, ’06. 880w.
“The most interesting and by far the best done part of the present ‘Life’ is concerned with Burton’s work as a translator.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 82. Mr. 9, ’06. 3090w.
“Of all the five preceding books about Burton, its only real rival is that of Mr. Wilkins, which dealt with Burton only indirectly.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 205. S. 6, ’06. 2380w.
“Mr. Wright has ... achieved an extremely well-balanced, candid, and fully detailed biography of Burton, just in its estimate alike of the man and his works and leaving us finally with a strong and vivid impression of that extraordinary character and a definite idea of his remarkable adventures.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 408. Je. 23, ’06. 2310w.
“The present biography, while everywhere interesting and certainly good, is assuredly not supremely good. The author writes well, in an easy, racy, idiomatic, and humorously allusive style, that makes the book extremely good reading.” Horatio S. Krans.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 84. S. 8, ’06. 2580w.
“Would be very useful to anyone who undertook to write a life of Burton; but there is no attempt at portraiture, and no artistic selection of material.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 429. Ap. 7, ’06. 1690w.
“His manner is always that of the curiosity hunter, to whom Burton is primarily material for anecdotes.”
– + =Spec.= 96: 833. My. 26, ’06. 1520w.
=Wright, William Burnet.= Cities of Paul: beacons of the past rekindled for the present. **$1.10. Houghton.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 414. Mr. ’06. 160w.
“The reader may learn something from Mr. Wright, who sees many things in the books which he studies—sometimes more than there really are—and has a way of putting them forcibly.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 677. Ap. 28, ’06. 250w.
=Wylie, Edna Edwards.= Ward of the sewing-circle. †$1. Little.
“This is no book for grown-ups, who have lost the ability to get the child’s point of view, for herein lies its real charm.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1541. D. 28, ’05. 350w.
=Wyllie, William Lionel.= J. M. W. Turner. $3. Macmillan.
“This volume is illustrated in tint and color, with reproductions of most of Turner’s well-known paintings. The author has tried, he says, to look at Turner’s life and work from a non-literary point of view, ‘as they appear to a fellow-painter traveling, however remotely, along the same road.’”—R. of Rs.
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“An artist’s history of an artist’s life and work, which is interesting and informing on every page.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 617. Je. 30, ’06. 310w.
“Mr. Wyllie’s style is somewhat crude, and there may be even an occasional lapse in grammar, but he succeeds in sketching graphically the course of Turner’s artistic development.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 817. O. 4, ’06. 280w.
“Marked throughout by the insight of true sympathy. The numerous illustrations form a very practical commentary on the fascinating text.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 28: 277. My. ’06. 70w.
“The book as a whole is rambling, ill-constructed, and inconsequent.”
– =Nation.= 81: 500. D. 21, ’05. 210w.
“However sympathetic Mr. Wyllie’s attitude, he may well envy the literary man’s style.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 94. Ja. 13, ’06. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 70w.
=Wyllie, William Lionel, and Wyllie, M. A.= London to the Nore; painted and described by W. L. and M. A. Wyllie. *$6. Macmillan.
“The narrative seems to have been written for the most part ‘on the spot,’ and it is no injustice to say that it smells very little of the lamp. There is, of course, a considerable historical spice. After all the pictures are the thing.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 335. Mr. 17. 520w.
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=Young, Alexander Bell Filson.= Sands of pleasure. †$1.50. Estes.
A young engineer is the hero of this tale, busy in the first part with constructing a light house on the Cornish coast. The scene shifts to Paris when the reaction after work is of the pleasure seeking sort and deadly. The third part of the book presents the hero back from the scene of infatuations hard at work, effacing stains and memories.
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“He is a photographer, not a painter, and his photographs will be merely unpleasant to some of his readers and frankly disappointing to others.”
– =Acad.= 69: 1263. D. 2, ’05. 430w.
“Mr. Filson Young has a better sense of style than sense of life. His work bears the hallmark of youth and inexperience.”
– =Ath.= 1905, 2: 794. D. 9. 330w.
“A book that from first to last is stamped by a rare sanity and subtle wisdom. The scene of their dramatic parting and its petty, sordid cause is ... one of those little miracles of intuition which are the hallmarks of genius.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + – =Bookm.= 34: 385. D. ’06. 710w.
“It is not a book for the young to read, but it is one that will work no harm to mature and balanced minds.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 41: 241. O. 16, ’06. 340w.
“In our opinion, his book—lacking any moral idea or the forcible enunciation of any moral idea—is by no means suitable for mixed reading, and should be kept strictly to adults.”
– =Lond. Times.= 4: 421. D. 1, 05. 560w.
“All through the book there is somehow a sense of strain, of tension, as if the author were trying to materialise some inspiration that kept ever evading him. Some of the descriptions are excellent and the book abounds in happy phrases. But the final impression is disappointment.”
– + =Sat. R.= 101: 22. Ja. 6, ’06. 1000w.
=Young, Egerton Ryerson.= Hector my dog. $1.50. Wilde.
“Is that rare thing, a book about dogs with which even those who love and understand dog nature will find no fault.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 17. Ja. 13, ’06. 630w.
=Yulee, C. Wickliffe.= Awakening: a Washington novel. $1.25. Neale.
Here is a picture of Washington projected on a screen, with the city,—its ideals, its types, and its institutions,—as a background. Well to the fore are the intrigues, political and social, which are intended to prevent the Honorable Arthur Montresor from securing a charming American wife whose “character had that froufrou which is inevitable with gay vivacity or fashion, but about which there was nothing tawdry—it was as graceful and refined as some exquisite lace.”
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+ =Critic.= 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 60w.
“The local color of the Capital of a few years ago is well given.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 336. My. 26, ’06. 210w.
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=Zacher, Albert.= Rome as an art city. *$1. Scribner.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 927. D. 30, ’05. 90w.
=Zedtwitz, Baroness von.= Double doctrine of the church of Rome. 35c. Revell.
The author has prepared this repudiation of the two-fold system of the Romish church with a view of proclaiming her final renunciation of papacy.
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=Arena.= 36: 442. O. ’06. 1430w.
=Ind.= 60: 1227. My. 24, ’06. 100w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 765. Je. ’06. 110w.
=Ziémssen, Ludwig.= Johann Sebastian Bach; tr. from the German by George P. Upton. *60c. McClurg.
“While it is in the main accurate as to the facts it is not entirely so.” Richard Aldrich.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 336. My. 26, ’06. 230w.
=Zilliacus, Konni.= Russian revolutionary movement: a history of the various uprisings from the beginning. *$2.50. Dutton.
“With the exception of occasional slips, very few in number, the translation is entirely adequate.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 411. My. 17, ’06. 2840w.
“M. Zilliacus merely repeats what has already been given in some dozen books during the last few months. The one merit of the book is the author’s confession of bias.”
– =Sat. R.= 100: 219. Ag. 12, ’05. 140w.
=Zimmern, Alice.= Old tales from Rome. †$1.25. McClurg.
A three part story book whose tales are founded upon legends and fables of Rome as related by Virgil. Part I. gives the story of Aeneas and his comrades from the fall of Troy to the founding of Lavinium;