Maxfield Parrish, and by photographs. **$6. Century.
To come so absolutely under the spell of Italy’s garden-magic as is
possible thru Mrs. Wharton’s word exposition and Mr. Parrish’s color
interpretation, is almost as rare a privilege for the traveler who has
visited those haunts as for the stay-at-home tourist. Magic which in
its first supernatural impression defies analysis, often yields to
laws of formation in the sober moments of consideration. Thus does
Mrs. Wharton show that the seemingly spontaneous glory of Italian
gardens is, after all, the result of garden-craft which the architects
of the Renaissance resolved into a three-fold problem: adaptation of
the garden to the architectural lines of the house it adjoins;
adaptation to the requirements of the inmates of a house, in the sense
of providing shady walks, sunny bowling-greens, parterres and
orchards, all conveniently accessible; and, lastly, adaptation to the
landscape around. There are fifty illustrations, in color and in black
and white by Maxfield Parrish. Months of close observation and
sympathetic study have been devoted to the large undertaking and the
harmony with the subject matter which the De Vinne press has wrought
into the book workmanship is exquisite.
“Mr. Parrish has performed his part of the task in a delightful and
satisfactory way. The impression, the atmosphere, created by the
illustrations, is not sustained in the text.”
+ + — =Critic.= 46: 166. F. ‘05. 1260w.
“The text is well written and contains much information concerning the
villas and gardens selected for treatment.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: 179. Ap. ‘05. 150w.
“This is a notable volume, all the more so from the archæological and
historical associations which it recalls.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 118. Ja. 28, ‘05. 70w.
=Wheeler, Candace Thurber (Mrs. Thomas M.).= Doubledarling and the dream
spinner. †$1.50. Fox.
Doubledarling is a little girl “twice as good and twice as beautiful
as other children.” When she tells her father how her little discarded
red shoes led her in the night to the land where the old shoes go, he
promises her a dream machine which will tell her wonderful stories all
night long; and on Christmas morning her dream spinner hangs on a peg
by her bed ticking out story after story to her. The book tells about
these dreams and also of Doubledarling’s waking hours, her friends and
her pets. One regrets the commonplace realism which lets an ordinary
burglar finally make away with the dream spinner. Dora Wheeler Keith
has illustrated the volume.
* + =Critic.= 47: 577. D. ‘05. 50w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 381. O. 14, ‘05. 60w.
=Wheeler, Everett Pepperell.= Daniel Webster, the expounder of the
constitution. **$1.50. Putnam.
“This is at once a tribute to the genius of Daniel Webster and a handy
manual to the decisions which, following Webster’s arguments before
the United States Supreme court, have molded the constitution to make
it adequate to our needs. While Mr. Wheeler’s chief concern is with
the constitutional questions laid before the court, he is not
unmindful of the senatorial side of Webster’s career from the
constitutional standpoint, and chapters are given over to the replies
of Calhoun and Hayne, involving the nature of the republic, and to the
famous ‘Seventh of March’ speech, which brought such disappointment to
the enemies of slavery.... Interest is heightened by the inclusion of
hitherto unpublished accounts of several of the more important cases,
and by an appreciative study of Webster as a lawyer.”—Outlook.
=Am. Hist.= R. 10: 717. Ap. ‘05. 90w.
“Its manifest position as a special pleader for Mr. Webster’s memory.
Is particularly desirable as giving us new light on old subjects
through its first publication of many facts which aid to a clearer
view of the principles of the constitution.”
+ + =Boston Evening Transcript.= F. 8, ‘05. 550w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 130. Mr. 4, ‘05. 950w.
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 399. F. 11, ‘05. 130w.
=Yale R.= 14: 229. Ag. ‘05. 100w.
=Whelpley, James Davenport.= Problem of the immigrant. *$3. Dutton.
A brief discussion, with a summary of conditions, laws and regulations
governing the movement of population to and from the British empire,
the United States, France, Germany, Belgium, Austria-Hungary, Russia,
Spain, Portugal, Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, and
Scandinavia.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 242. Mr. 11, ‘05. 260w.
* “Such data is not easily accessible to the average student or
legislator, and the volume will be of great service.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 753. N. ‘05. 110w.
“A useful work of reference. Such frantic statements as these are a
serious disfigurement in a book professing claims to accuracy.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 45. Jl. 8. 430w.
“This hasty ‘book of the hour,’ for such it evidently is, interests in
parts, particularly in its emphasis upon emigration as a matter of
international concern.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 578. S. 7, ‘05. 180w.
“His summaries seem excellent and correct. The observations and brief
discussions with which he accompanies them are illuminating and to the
point.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 33. Jl. 13, ‘05. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 313. My. 13, ‘05. 200w.
“The book is more useful than any other bearing on the same subject.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 452. Jl. 8, ‘05. 720w.
“Mr. Whelpley’s careful study of the general problem of emigration and
immigration throughout Europe, our colonies, and the United States
will be found a particularly useful addition to a class of recent
books that is now somewhat extensive.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 99: 710. My. 27, ‘05. 340w.
“Mr. Whelpley’s ideas are worthy of respect, and the materials which
he has provided should be invaluable to the political student.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 434. S. 23, ‘05. 510w.
* Where the road led and other stories. $1.25. Benziger.
Twenty-eight Roman Catholic stories written by fourteen Roman Catholic
authors. The stories are love stories, but some are of filial love,
some of maternal love, and some of the love of religion. The authors
include Anna T. Sadlier; Mary T. Waggaman; Magdalen G. Rock; Mary E.
Mannix; and Mary G. Bonesteel.
=Whibley, Charles.= Literary portraits. *$2.50. Scribner.
Essays on Rabelais, Phillippe de Comines, Philemon, Holland,
Montaigne, The library of an old scholar (the poet William Drummond),
Robert Burton, and Jacques Casanova.
“The appreciation is clear and just, and the author is to be
congratulated on the decision and delicacy of his touch and the
simplicity of his style. The average of the volume is fully up to that
high standard of culture which is evident in all Mr. Whibley’s
published works.” Frank Schloesser.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 13. Ja. 7, ‘05. 600w.
“The level of performance here is singularly even and singularly
high.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 78. Ja. 14. 580w.
“There is perhaps little art in the various portraits, and there is
certainly no pretence at originality; but there is sympathetic
understanding, and thorough and conscientious labor.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 475. My. ‘05. 170w.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 323. My. 1. ‘05. 930w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 153. Mr. 11, ‘05. 360w.
“‘Literary portraits’ shows marked ability and is to be classed among
the books of criticism of the higher standard.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 198. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1020w.
“Mr. Whibley has finished these portraits with a skillful and graceful
pen. Readers in a critical mood and readers for entertainment will
both find his work attractive.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 760. Mr. 25, ‘05. 160w.
“We miss the illuminating phrase. The fresh judgment and the
historical setting is often wholly omitted. Mr. Whibley has ‘the
practiced hand,’ and is apt to be content with that amount of
accomplishment.”
— + =Sat. R.= 99: 637. My. 13, ‘05. 180w.
“This seems to us the best of Mr. Whibley’s volumes of essays, the
most mature in style and thought, and the most attractive in
subject-matter. He has studied each of his writers with a minute care
and has read deeply in contemporary literature, so that they are
presented to us in the true setting of their age. His judgments have
now the sanity which can only come from a full experience and a full
enjoyment of a wide field of literature. His style ... has acquired a
body and force which it did not always possess, and his essays are
admirable, if for nothing else, for their mastery of clear, graceful,
and vigorous prose. Sometimes his comment is a little over-strained.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 87. Ja. 21, ‘05. 1830w.
=Whibley, Leonard=, ed. See =Companion= to Greek studies.
=Whiffen, Edwin T.= Samson marrying, Samson at Timnah, Samson Hybristes,
Samson blinded: four dramatic poems. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
These four dramatic poems deal with four dramatic incidents in the
life of Samson. The first tells of Samson’s revenge upon the
Philistine youths who, at his wedding-feast, illtreat his father and
win from his bride the solution to a certain riddle. The second tells
of further revenge upon the Philistines and includes the setting of
foxes and fire brands among their corn and vineyards. In the third
drama Samson is tried before the elders of Judah, and his mother
reveals to him his divinely appointed mission—to free his people. In
the fourth the action centers about the effort of Delilah to discover
the secret of his strength and closes with Samson blind and a captive.
=Whitaker, Herman.= Probationer, and other stories. †$1.25. Harper.
Thirteen short stories of life in northwestern Canada. “Most of them
deal with the days when the factors and commissioners of the Hudson
bay company were the lords of the land, and ruled with an iron hand.
The history of the great fur company is full of romance, and there is
a peculiar fascination about life in those northern regions.”
(Outlook.)
“Some of his stories are thrilling, some humorous, some tame. In
narrative Mr. Whittaker has a good deal of manner—too much, and not
always his own.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 442. Je. 1, ‘05. 260w.
“A book which is unusually vigorous and suggestive.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 213. Ap. 8, ‘05. 770w.
“The stories are full of strength and vigor and the atmosphere of the
woods.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 858. Ap. 1, ‘05. 80w.
“No one has so pictured the life of the trappers and traders of that
country since Gilbert Parker wrote of ‘Pretty Pierre’ and his people.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 713. My. 6, ‘05. 120w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 761. Je. ‘05. 70w.
=White, Andrew Dickson.= Autobiography of Andrew D. White. **$7.50.
Century.
A record of diplomatic service which began in 1854 when Mr. White went
to St. Petersburg as attaché of the American legation, and ended when
on his seventieth birthday, 1902, he resigned his duties as ambassador
to Germany. The two volumes contain an account of his work as state
senator, as a college professor, and finally, president of Cornell, as
a commissioner to Santo Domingo, and the Paris exposition (1878), as
minister to Germany and Russia, as a member of the Venezuelan boundary
commission, and president of the American delegation at the peace
conference of the Hague (1899). There are descriptions of the emperor
of Germany and Czar Nicholas II, and their courts, and many anecdotes
and crisp comments. The man, his life, his many fields of labor, and
the great men and events with which he came in contact, are all set
forth in detail.
“The value of the volumes seems chiefly to arise from the charmingly
simple tale of personal experience told by a man of wisdom and
insight, a tale told with considerable literary skill.”
+ + + =Am. Hist R.= 10: 925. Jl. ‘05. 470w.
“In ‘The autobiography of Andrew D. White’ we have one of the most
brilliant, interesting, instructive and in many ways important works
of recent decades. These examples will be sufficient to illustrate the
reckless character of our author’s statements whenever the facts run
counter to his prejudices and views which in later years he has
imbibed from the privileged interests and reactionary influences that
have environed him.”
+ + — =Arena.= 34: 97. Jl. ‘05. 7000w.
“The volumes are full of interest for the general reader, but so ill
arranged that those may be repelled who by better construction would
have been attracted.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 589. My. 13. 880w.
“Its interest is due not to any novelty of fact, for the entire book
is an open page of history, but to an instinct or habit of
truthfulness that pervades its pages like an atmosphere.” Theodore T.
Munger.
+ + + =Atlan.= 96: 556. O. ‘05. 7900w.
Reviewed by John W. Russell.
+ + + =Bookm.= 21: 603. Ag. ‘05. 1460w.
“I have found this a most readable book from cover to cover, the story
of a strenuous life told with simple directness.” Jeanette L. Gilder.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 449. My. ‘05. 1460w.
“In arrangement the work is a model. By his skill in the selection of
material, and by his admirably lucid and even style, the author has
made every page intensely interesting.” Clark S. Northrup.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 260. Ap. 16, ‘05. 1780w.
“To the student of the problems of higher education in America, Dr.
White’s ‘Autobiography,’ full as it is of matters of general interest,
should prove especially interesting and important.” Clark S. Northup.
+ + =Educ. R.= 30: 101. Je. ‘05. 1030w.
“Altogether this is a full book, with something for everybody, putting
one in touch on many sides with modern times; an adequate narrative of
an exceptional career.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 812. O. 5, ‘05. 1080w.
“A better account of the founding of Cornell, of which he was so long
the honored and successful head, has never been given, and perhaps in
no other of his pages do we see so clearly the practical idealism,
which, running throughout his life story like a golden thread, makes
it so well worth the telling.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 31: 187. Ag. 5, ‘05. 630w.
“Viewed as a narrative the book is excellent, and only needs more
continuity; viewed as a collection of essays, it is naturally
inadequate.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 149. My. 12, ‘05. 2680w.
“By the side of the recent contributions of Hoar, Stillman, Newcomb,
Dwight, Le Conte, Villard, and Conway, the autobiography of White will
hold an honored place.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 272. Ap. 6, ‘05. 2110w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 121. F. 25, ‘05. 180w.
“Nor does it possess that intimate charm which has made a literary
classic of more than one ingenuous personal narrative. There is little
in these two volumes which can fail to interest the serious reader in
one way or another.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 321. My. 20, ‘05. 1410w.
“If he is not entirely without prejudice of egotism, he displays those
qualities after the manner of great men.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 240w.
“These volumes ... have a value for all his countrymen not surpassed
by any American autobiography within our knowledge.” James M. Whiton.
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 132. My. 13, ‘05. 5600w.
“Mr. White is an octogenarian, with a full life behind him, but two
hundred pages would have been ample space for it.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 28. Jl. 1, ‘05. 160w.
“It is eminently characteristic of its country of origin.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 51. Ag. 8, ‘05. 740w.
“There is a want of continuity. Repetitions occur, and sometimes when
they were unintended. He has written a book to interest all who are
interested in the modern world.” Simeon E. Baldwin.
+ + — =Yale R.= 14: 210. Ag. ‘05. 1770w.
=White, C. V.= Peace conference: poem. $1. Badger, R: G.
This poem is dedicated to the American delegates of the International
peace conference, which met at the Hague, May 18, 1899. It sets forth
the harm which war has done thruout history, and declares that the
time for universal peace is here. It closes with the prayer,
“Lord God endow
Us with thy blessings now,
And plenteous peace the whole world o’er
Establish thou forevermore.”
=White, Fred M.= Crimson blind. $1.50. Fenno.
The strands of this story are marvelously twisted. A villain, a fiend
in human shape, has plunged his family into dishonor to gain his ends,
but by the aid of a clever doctor, whose future had also been involved
in the general ruin, a young novelist who applies fiction methods to
the case, and a girl cousin who feigns death in order to be free to
solve the mystery, the whole is ferreted out, bit by bit. It is an
ingenious plot with manifold complications.
“This is a really fine sensational novel.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 735. Jl. 15, ‘05. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 320. My. 13, ‘05. 210w.
=White, George.= Practical course of instruction in personal magnetism,
telepathy, and hypnotism. $1.25. Dutton.
A practical course of instruction setting forth the manner in which
any student may acquire powers over himself, over his fellow men, and
even over time and space.
— =Acad.= 68: 683. Jl. 1, ‘05. 740w.
Reviewed by Pendennis.
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 430. Jl. 1, ‘05. 680w.
=White, T. Hyler.= Petrol motor and motor cars: a handbook for
engineers, designers, and draughtsmen. *$1.40. Longmans.
A book which the author feels is needed, because recent automobile
literature has not been written for the benefit of designers.
Practical rules for the design of the essential parts of motors and
motor cars are given, accompanied by figures. There are tables of
various kinds to facilitate calculations and to convert English units
into metric measures. The illustrations are good, but are not drawn to
a given scale.
“The formulas which are given seem to be of a rational nature; but to
the reviewer it seems a fault that the derivation of the same are
never given. The author discusses at various places the several
alternatives for the many parts of a modern automobile; he gives his
reason for his choice very clearly and never uses superfluous words,
for which fact he deserves praise. Of course it ought not to be
necessary to state that it is not always possible to agree with his
conclusions. As a book for the special purpose of helping the
designers of these engines it appears to the reviewer that it is the
best existing book in the English language, notwithstanding the
criticisms which have been made above.” Storm Bull.
+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 186. F. 16, ‘05. 750w.
=White, W. Hale.= John Bunyan. **$1. Scribner.
This is the third volume in the Literary lives series which aims to
furnish biographical and critical estimates. It treats of Bunyan’s
life and characteristics. “Bunyan is not altogether the representation
of Puritanism ... the qualification necessary in order to understand
and properly value him is not theological learning, nor in fact any
kind of learning or literary skill, but the experience of life, with
its hopes and fears, bright day and black night.” “Pilgrim’s progress”
is fully treated and there are lesser studies of “Grace abounding,”
the “Life and death of Mr. Badman,” and “The holy war.”
“If the reader would spend the amount of time required to read this
book in the careful perusal of any one of Bunyan’s great pieces, he
would probably catch more of the spirit of the Bedford dreamer, and
gain a clearer and higher conception of his genius, than these pages
by Mr. White are able to furnish.”
— =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 377. Ap. ‘05. 140w.
* “The writer does with success what he has to do, and imagines very
well the personality of the great John.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 368. Mr. 25. 230w.
“The final chapter is a very unsatisfactory treatment of ‘Bunyan and
Puritanism.’”
+ — =Bib. World.= 25: 316. Ap. ‘05. 80w.
“A very interesting study. Mr. White has so many admirable things to
say of the man and the spirit of his writings that one regrets that he
should have devoted so much of his space to a detailed summary of
Bunyan’s principal works.”
+ + =Contemporary R.= 87: 299. F. ‘05. 920w.
“The book proves to be a sympathetic, even a devout, study of its
interesting theme.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 119. S. 1, ‘05. 340w.
+ — =Nation.= 80: 79. Ja. 26, ‘05. 940w.
“An interesting and well written biography. But it lacks background.
The picture of the times is inadequate.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 246. Ja. 28, ‘05. 190w.
“Mr. White has made us see Bunyan the man, and through him the great,
sober, deadly earnest English folk, of whom he was the interpreter.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 126. Ja. ‘05. 80w.
=Whitefield, George.= Selected sermons; ed. with introd. and notes, by
Rev. A. R. Buckland. **50c. Union press.
The text of this volume is with some slight changes that of the
“Sermons on important subjects” published in 1828. The six sermons are
entitled—The necessity and benefits of religious society,
Regeneration, A penitent heart the best New Year’s gift, The almost
Christian, Glorifying God in the fire, and Jacob’s ladder.
=Whiting, Lilian.= Florence of Landor. **$2.50. Little.
Lilian Whiting weaves a charm into the living drama that was set in
the scenic enchantment of Florence during the period of Walter Savage
Landor. She draws the Florence still vital with color, the romance,
the tragedy and passionate exaltation and despair of the fifteenth
century, and shows the sympathetic common interests of the English and
American colony including permanently the Brownings and the Trollopes,
and welcoming as visitors from time to time, George Eliot, Frances
Power Cobbe, Frederick Tennyson and a number of the Brook farm men and
women. The book creates the author’s usual ideal atmosphere, and is
handsomely illustrated from photographs.
* + =Critic.= 47: 581. D. ‘05. 70w.
* “There are so many good things in Miss Whiting’s book, that the pity
is all the greater that the writer has never acquired the literary
virtues of restraint and selection.”
+ — =Dial.= 39: 443. D. 16, ‘05. 370w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 835. D. 2, ‘05. 230w.
* “Uses a great mass of material with fine discretion. At times her
pen seems to flag, and she repeats from mere weariness; but far
oftener she shows the nice discrimination of the true critic and the
grace of the trained writer.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 280w.
* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 826. D. 23, ‘05. 180w.
=Whiting, Lilian.= Joy that no man taketh from you. **50c. Little.
The realization of the Kingdom of Heaven in the hearts of men right
now and here through the great power of love is the problem which
Lilian Whiting meets. This joy may be achieved by the soul “so that
neither death nor privation nor loss nor disappointment, not trial in
any of its innumerable forms, shall dim its radiance or diminish its
energy.”
=Whiting, Lilian.= Outlook beautiful. *$1.25. Little.
In chapters entitled The delusion of death, Realizing the ideal,
Friendship as a divine relation, The ethereal world, The supreme
purpose of Jesus, An inward stillness. The miracle moment may dawn on
any hour, Miss Whiting sets forth her convictions regarding the
relation of this life to the life eternal.
“It is unusually rich in helpful thought for those who enjoy
transcendental and broadly religious discussions.”
+ + =Arena.= 34: 330. S. ‘05. 320w.
“The book is entirely characteristic of the author, and as such will
recommend itself to her considerable public.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 283. S. ‘05. 40w.
“It is a rhapsody, a carnival of spiritual joy.” David Saville Muzzey.
+ — =Int. J. Ethics.= 15: 526. Jl. ‘05. 70w.
“She weaves a fabric not overstrong, but light, and firm enough for
every-day uses.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 142. My. 13, ‘05. 80w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 61. Jl. 8, ‘05. 90w.
“Her philosophy and style are very stimulating and suggestive.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 254. Ag. ‘05. 50w.
* =Whitney, Caspar.= Jungle trails and jungle people; travel, adventure
and observation in the Far East. **$3. Scribner.
“Recent travels in the Far East, in India, Sumatra, Malay, and
Siam.... The record of a trip prompted by the lust of adventure, and
by the desire to see strange lands and strange peoples, and to hunt
strange animals. Mr. Whitney has caught the trick of making a little
human interest enhance the vivid story of some thrilling or stirring
hunting adventure.... Hunters or servants, enlighten us as to the
mental and moral habits of the natives of the countries
described.”—Dial.
* “Mr. Whitney has written a volume of travel and adventure that will
make his name conspicuous among American hunters.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 378. D. 1, ‘05. 380w.
* “If he had been less journalistic in style and the printer more
careful, the reader’s pleasure would have been increased. Mr. Whitney
has given us a pleasing account of a region little known to the white
man.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 770w.
* “Is a most interesting and informing volume.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 706. O. 21, ‘05. 570w.
* “His descriptions of some of his guides and hunters are intensely
diverting. He makes very real the life in the jungle.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 717. N. 25, ‘05. 160w.
=Whitney, Helen Hay.= Sonnets and songs. **$1.20. Harper.
“All the sonnets and most of the songs give evidence both of
temperament and of the study of the older poets, and frequently attain
a richness of tone that neither could have accomplished without the
other.” (Nation.) “Their mood is chiefly that of quiet wistfulness,
touched by the fears and sorrows of uncertain human fate, but open
also to the influences of wholesome joy and unaffected sentiment.” (N.
Y. Times.)
“Every one of which is a finished bit of art. The work is of so even
an excellence that it offers little room for choice.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 275. N. 1, ‘05. 480w.
“Love poems, of a passion and sincere subtlety that are none too
common.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 303. O. 12, ‘05. 300w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 656. O. 7, ‘05. 660w.
=Whitney, Mrs. Helen Hay.= Verses for Jock and Joan. †$1.50. Fox.
The marginal drawings and the many full page pictures in color by
Charlotte Harding, with which this volume of little-folk’s verses is
illustrated make it an unusually attractive giftbook.
* “A pretty book with graceful verses and dainty illustrations.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 584. D. ‘05. 10w.
* “Challenges comparison with Betty Sage’s ‘Rhymes of real children’
of a year ago. The verse is correspondingly humorous, perhaps a trifle
more sophisticated.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 503. D. 21, ‘05. 60w.
* “The verses are not without point, but are entirely lacking in that
‘turn of the phrase’ which makes the verses of Stevenson or Lewis
Carroll dwell in the memory of a child.”
+ — =R. of Rs.= 32: 767. D. ‘05. 110w.
=Whitson, John Harvey.= Barbara, a woman of the West. 75c. Little.
A new popular edition of a story which follows the fortunes of a young
woman in search of her ne’er-do-well husband. He has some claim to
literary attainments, starts off on a tour of fortune hunting, and
becomes mentally deranged. The scenes shift from Kansas plains to
Cripple Creek, thence to San Diego, and the story ends happily despite
the fact that Barbara’s Enoch Arden reappears after her second
marriage.
=Whitson, John H.= Justin Wingate, ranchman. †$1.50. Little.
Life in the West, where the interests of the ranchman and the farmer
are at war is shown thru the medium of story characters. The hero who
enters the fight in the Colorado legislature, the doctor who
sacrifices all for the unworthy woman who was once his wife, the
rancher, choleric but honest, and the son who disgraces him, stand out
clearly in the scenes of love, political strife and danger.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 21: 367. Je. ‘05. 160w.
=Dial.= 38: 392. Je. 1, ‘05. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 272. Ap. 22, ‘05. 80w.
“Is a wonderfully vivid presentation of the largeness of Western
horizons. Mr. Whitson is not so happy in his love stories as in his
politics and adventure.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 374. Je. 10, ‘05. 360w.
=Outlook.= 80: 246. My 27, ‘05. 40w.
Who’s who, 1905; an annual biographical dictionary. *$2. Macmillan.
A book of biographic data about living Englishmen. This edition
contains over seventeen thousand biographies, each of which has been
submitted for personal revision.
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 96. Ja. ‘05. 50w.
+ + + =Int. Studio.= 24: 370. F. ‘05. 60w.
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 32. Ja. 12, ‘05. 90w.
“Improved in arrangement.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 197, Ja. 21, ‘05. 60w.
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 31: 532. Ap. ‘05. 70w.
=Whyte, Rev. Alexander.= Apostle Paul. *$1. Jennings.
Sixteen lectures upon the apostle Paul, which follow his life and form
a comprehensive study of him as preacher, pastor, man of prayer, and
chief of sinners, from the first lecture, Paul as a student, to the
last, Paul the aged. Five sermons, and an appreciation of Walter
Marshall are also included in the volume.
=Whyte, Rev. Alexander.= Walk, conversation and character of Jesus
Christ our Lord. $1.50. Revell.
Addresses offered to the multitude which are “innocent of criticism,
but beautifully devout and sweet.” (Outlook.)
“Is composed of original, somewhat visionary, studies of the life of
Christ.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 331. Ag. 10, ‘05. 50w.
“Is a simple in thought, not obtrusively original, and expressive of a
genuine personal religion.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 936. Ag. 12, ‘05. 80w.
=Wiborg, Frank.= Commercial traveller in South America; being the
experiences and impressions of an American business man on a trip
through Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, the Argentine and Brazil. **$1.
McClure.
“Mr. Wiborg’s business trip around the coast and across the continent
of South America is ... an individual view of a business proposition,
and is made readable by descriptions—a business man’s descriptions—of
the beauty of the country, and enlivened by some travelling
‘anecdotes.’ A well-drawn map elucidates the whole considerably and
makes a very unified piece of work.”—Pub. Opin.
“Its descriptions of the country where conditions have changed rapidly
have some value because of their freshness and of the writer’s candid
expression of an alert business man’s ideas.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 716. O. 21, ‘05. 620w.
“Principally as a plea for more intimate business relations between
the north and south continents of this hemisphere the work is of
value.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 448. S. 30, ‘05. 110w.
=Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith) (Mrs. G. C. Riggs).= Rose o’ the river.
†$1.25. Houghton.
The simple story of Rose, a country girl, “a fragile pink rose
blossoming on the river’s brink,” and Stephen Waterman, a sturdy young
farmer who lives on the other side of the Saco, is prettily told in
this volume. Rose’s fancy for a city man interrupts their love for a
time, but in the end she returns happily to Stephen. As a background
for the slight plot, Mrs. Wiggin gives us the dangerous trade of the
lumberman, and the river, a thing of beauty, strength and passion.
“Mrs. Wiggin has contributed a charming picture to the ever-increasing
gallery that shows us American country life.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 1008. S. 30, ‘05. 330w.
* “This is a rather slight and mildly interesting story.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 642. N. 11. 190w.
“With a slight plot and commonplace incident, the author, through her
clever delineation of Maine manners and peculiarities, makes up an
amusing story that may be read in a couple of hours.”
+ =Cath. World.= 82: 266. N. ‘05. 210w.
* “The originality and humor that belong to Mrs. Wiggin’s best work
are altogether lacking. In spite of a certain rather specious charm,
‘Rose o’ the river’ must be classed with the pot-boilers.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 579. D. ‘05. 70w.
“A pretty story, pleasantly told by Mrs. Wiggin in her usual limpid
style.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 989. O. 26, ‘05. 130w.
* “It is ‘manufactured’ from the start, and the attempt to bestow
‘color’ and stir emotion are cruelly patent, tho perfectly null.”
— =Lit. D.= 31: 797. N. 25, ‘05. 360w.
“Rose is a pretty girl, and her story is a pretty story with a pretty
moral.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 305. S. 22, ‘05. 200w.
* “‘Rose o’ the river’ is as slender a tale as ever walked into print
on the merits of an author’s name.”
— =Nation.= 81: 488. D. 14, ‘05. 120w.
“The story is written with a graceful sprightliness which is always
part of Mrs. Wiggin’s stories, but beside those other two [Rebecca and
Penelope] Rose simply cannot live.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 635. S. 30, ‘05. 240w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 100w.
“The author, as is usual with her, keeps well on the right side of the
line that divides sentiment from sentimentality.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 335. O. 7, ‘05. 80w.
* “It is certainly inferior to the author’s usual excellent work.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 600. N. 4, ‘05. 80w.
“Her shrewdness and humour act as antiseptics to her strong vein of
sentiment. She is tender without being effusive, reticent without any
taint of priggishness, entertaining without resort to extravagance of
facetiousness.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 570. O. 14, ‘05. 850w.
=Wight, Emily Carter.= Denim elephant; il. in colours. †50c. Stokes.
This little volume in the “Christmas stocking” series presents in a
succession of colored pictures and their accompanying text an episode
in the life of the denim elephant which belonged to the baby and
interfered with the rest of the farmyard, the woolen rabbit, tin cat,
china pig, rubber dog, cotton goose, and wooden cow, which belonged to
Edith and Philip.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 894. D. 16, ‘05. 200w.
=Wilbrandt, Adolf.= New humanity; or, The Easter island; tr. by Dr. A. S
Rappoport. $1.50. Lippincott.
Helmut Adler, an enthusiast and the hero of this story, is modeled
after Nietzsche. He has a plan for improving the human race by taking
a few chosen followers to a secluded isle where they may rear a
perfect race. He loses his reason and dies, and his daughter and her
lover decide that the island of perfection can exist only in their own
souls.
“But we have seldom seen a worse piece of work as translation than the
volume before us.”
— — =Acad.= 68: 567. My. 27, ‘05. 960w.
“The story is told with a certain morbid power, but drags heavily in
the telling, and is only moderately successful in the delineation of
the several types of character which people its pages.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 41. Jl. 16, ‘05. 160w.
“If the book is doctrinal and the doctrines heavy, it is not therefore
a heavy book. On the contrary, there is so much sincerity in each
point of view, combined with so much lightness of pen, that it is even
absorbing reading; the way is tortuous, indeed, but not slimy.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 148. Ag. 17, ‘05. 780w.
“The translation is sufficiently clear to carry the meaning of the
German writer to the English reader. It is certainly not a work of
literary art, but that does not matter.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 376. Je. 10. ‘05. 540w.
=Wilde, Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills.= De profundis. **$1.25. Putnam.
A masterpiece of literary expression penned by Oscar Wilde during his
detention in Reading jail, and the last prose he ever wrote. Into it
he has put his bitterness in his downfall, his misery in the first two
months of prison discipline, and the final triumph of a chastened
spirit, a conviction that “there is not a single degradation of the
body which I must not try to make into a spiritualizing of the soul.”
“He has added to our literature a work which from its intrinsic value
is sure to command the attention of thinking men, from its style the
admiration of literary artists, from the tragedy of which it records a
part the pity of human hearts.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 397. Ap. 1. 1070w.
“The essay has ... great literary charm, and possesses unquestioned
authenticity as a contribution toward the comprehension of the
abnormal and in many ways inexplicable psychology of its author.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 359. My. 16, ‘05. 330w.
“‘De profundis’ is one of the orchids of literature. As a
self-revelation, for it is sincere even in its manifestation of his
fundamental insincerity, this little book ranks with the ‘Confessions
of Rousseau’ and the ‘Journal of Amiel.’ Both from its style and as a
study in abnormal psychology ‘De profundis’ is one of the most
noteworthy and interesting books that have appeared for a long time.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 842. Ap. 13, ‘05. 920w.
* “Is one of the saddest, most terrible, yet most fascinating books of
recent times.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1161. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.
“It is one of the most sincere, of all self-revelations, and will go
far towards setting Oscar Wilde’s memory right with the world for
which he affected to care so little.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 58. Jl. 20, ‘05. 1800w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 205. Ap. 1, ‘05. 450w.
“The analysis of sorrow, which occupies a considerable part of the
volume, is without question, worthy of living and doubtless will live.
Least of all its qualities should this book be commended for its
literary style and yet for its style alone it is worthy of reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 240w.
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 592. Ap. 15, ‘05. 470w.
=Wilde, Oscar.= Intentions. *$1.50. Brentano’s.
Four essays which gayly and ruthlessly assail what we have thought
were truths, and give us others in their place. The decay of lying,
defends lying as a fine art; Pen, pencil and poison, is an artistic
appreciation of that prince of poisoners, Thomas Griffiths
Wainewright; The critic as artist, in dialogue form, is divided into
two parts containing some remarks upon the importance of doing
nothing, and upon the importance of discussing every thing. The
concluding essay, The truth of masks, is styled A note on illusion.
* “Disciple-wise, the editor of the present reprint is rather zealous
than judicious in his manner of introducing the text.” H. W. Boynton.
+ — =Atlan.= 96: 847. D. ‘05. 600w.
* “‘Intentions’ is an interesting book to the student of literature;
it contains much that is well put; but even its virtues are vitiated
by a false conception of the real meaning of life.” Edward Fuller.
+ — =Critic.= 47: 568. D. ‘05. 390w.
=Dial.= 39: 213. O. 1, ‘05. 50w.
=Wilder, Marshall Pinckney.= Sunny side of the street. **$1.20. Funk.
Recollections of some 300 more or less well known people with whom the
jester-author has come in contact. Three presidents, a king, and
various great preachers, actors, politicians and soldiers contribute
to the “garland of blossoms” plucked from “the gardens of humor and
pathos” in the weaving of which the author modestly claims as his own
merely “the string that binds them together.”
“Cannot fail to interest the many friends of the author. Mr. Wilder’s
writing is on a par with his speaking.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 475. N. ‘05. 50w.
“The loquacity of the author, his well-known success in ‘getting
around,’ his chatty tone, make a very cheerful book.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 580w.
“He tells many good stories. He nearly always lives up to his doctrine
of amiability. We can recommend his book as cheerful reading.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 452. Jl. 8, ‘05. 360w.
“The dense personal fog that surrounds this work casts diminutive
shadows on the sunny side, and many of the anecdotes of which the book
is composed savor of spice and antiquity.”
— =Pub. Opin.= 39: 383. S. 16, ‘05. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 255. Ag. ‘05. 50w.
=Wiley, Harley Rupert.= Treatise on pharmacal jurisprudence, with a
thesis on the law in general. $2.50. Hicks-Judd.
This text-book is “A pioneer in its peculiar field” and aims to give
“a presentation of the principles, with a collection of the leading
cases, which define the legal aspects” of the profession of pharmacy.
Over 200 cases are cited and the ground defined is fully covered.
* =Wiley, Sara King.= Alcestis and other poems. **75c. Macmillan.
“A priestess of classic song comes with two-fold, precious offering,
in this presentation of Iphegeneia, that flower of Argos ... and in
the retold story of Alcestis, whom Hercules brings back from the gates
of death.”—Critic.
* “A beautiful and welcome work, shone upon as by the white light of
Greek art, has been contributed in this volume to the poetry of the
year.” Edith M. Thomas.
+ =Critic.= 47: 511. D. ‘05. 130w.
* “Mrs. Drummond’s treatment of the fables has no very novel features,
but she has realized its mood very vividly, and made of it a compact
and moving little drama.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 508. D. 21, ‘05. 50w.
* =Wilkins, Augustus Samuel.= Roman education. *60c. Macmillan.
“In ninety-two pages the whole system of Roman education is
presented.... Dr. Wilkins divides the story of Roman education into
two periods: the ‘purely national stage, when as yet there was no
outside influence,’ and the effects of Greek influence from the middle
of the third century, B.C. onwards on ‘the distinct departments of
literary—or what we might call now secondary—education,’ and in the
higher training of rhetoric and philosophy.... In four chapters,
‘Education in the ‘early republic,’ Education under Greek influence,’
‘Elementary schools and studies,’ and ‘Higher studies—rhetoric and
philosophy,’ he gives all the information that can be possibly
discovered on record and the natural inferences from it.... The final
chapter deals with the Endowment of education in ancient Rome.”—Acad.
* “There are few teachers who will not benefit by it; few interested
in any way in education who will not read it with pleasure and
profit.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 966. D. 16, ‘05. 910w.
* “We know no other work to which one could go for so complete and
accurate an exposition of what is known about Roman education.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 395. S. 23. 1760w.
* + =Lond. Times.= 4: 317. S. 29, ‘05. 360w.
* “It contains in six chapters and a hundred pages all that is really
known upon this subject, and it is the best compendium which we have
seen. Its style is pleasant, and the method of treatment makes the
book easy to read.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 402. N. 16, ‘05. 170w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 683. O. 14, ‘05. 230w.
* “The present volume offers a singularly clear, accurate, and
trustworthy statement of the somewhat scanty information that is to be
found in Roman writers on the subject of education.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 817. N. 18, ‘05. 1750w.
=Wilkins, Philip A.= History of the Victoria cross. *$6. Dutton.
This volume contains an account of “the 520 conspicuous acts of
bravery which have called for as many bestowals of the decoration,
instituted in 1856 and made retroactive for the Crimean war. These
plain tales are accompanied by a remarkably large number (392) of
portraits of the recipients; by statutory and narrative appendices; by
a table of awards of the cross by branches of the service; and by a
personal index.” (Nation.)
“The scheme has been very carefully and soberly carried out.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 290. Ap. 13, ‘05. 220w.
“A very interesting account of the 520 men who have won the cross.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 340. My. 27, ‘05. 1030w.
“Though we must confess that some of the narratives are somewhat bald,
and that the author has neglected many excellent opportunities, Mr.
Wilkins’s records are interesting.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 158. Jl. 29, ‘05. 150w.
* =Wilkins, William Henry.= Mrs. Fitzherbert and George IV. **$5.
Longmans.
“For more than a century there has been no moral doubt of the marriage
of Maria Fitzherbert and George IV. of Great Britain. For the last
seventy years it has been practically certain that the proof of that
marriage was deposited in Coutts’s bank, in London ... [these
papers] ... King Edward placed at the disposal of the author of this
volume, and thus enabled him to prove conclusively that Mrs.
Fitzherbert was the wife of George, Prince of Wales, later George
IV.... Although he writes as a partisan of Mrs. Fitzherbert, he is
fair-minded enough to write of the king: ... ‘His faults were many and
grave, but ... there must have been some good in him or a good woman
would not have loved him.”—N. Y. Times.
* “In his Life of Mrs. Fitzherbert he has reached a higher level, both
as regards literary excellence and in the interest attaching to his
subject.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1219. N. 25, ‘05. 1930w.
* “Mr. Wilkins displays his usual lucidity in narrative and firm grasp
of his subject. These things [errors] do not detract materially from
the merit of Mr. Wilkins’s well-written and historically important
work.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 716. N. 25. 1860w.
* “If Mr. Wilkins’s ideas are not remarkable, nor his style brilliant,
he may be congratulated upon having accomplished the task he set
himself by clearing the memory of an injured woman.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 393. N. 17, ‘05. 1920w.
* “Mr. Wilkins has handled his material ably, making a book at once
interesting and valuable.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 820. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
* “Mr. Wilkins has made a very complete biography of Mrs.
Fitzherbert.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 870. D. 9, ‘05. 650w.
* “The book is fustian from beginning to end, and is not at all below
Mr. Wilkins’ form.”
— + =Sat. R.= 100: 722. D. 2, ‘05. 1850w.
* “It is easy in such a work to fall into the role of mere purveyor of
scandal, but Mr. Wilkins never loses sight of his main theme, and the
book is primarily a study of character. If now and then he seems to
speak from a brief, on the whole he sticks soberly to facts, and his
comments are generally fair and convincing. He has performed a
delicate task with good taste and good sense, and has produced what is
not only a volume of entertaining gossip, but a solid contribution to
the history of the epoch.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: sup. 788. N. 18, ‘05. 1480w.
=Wilkinson, Kosmo.= Personal story of the upper house. *$3. Dutton.
The main purpose of this book is to set forth “how the peers of
England, from being an estate of the realm, grew into an independent
parliamentary assembly; how and by what personal agencies the
hereditary chamber became in a sense the parent of the elective; on
what issues, by what degrees, it co-operated with other agencies to
establish the house of commons; how then, from seeing in that chamber
its natural ally, if not its political offspring, the upper house
gradually discovered in the lower a rival and a foe.”
“He has undoubtedly succeeded in his intention of writing what is most
likely to find acceptance with those who read to be interested as well
as informed.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 391. Ap. 8, ‘05. 660w.
“Is a good book of gossip about the Lords, in which there are plenty
of stories and few mistakes.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 335. Mr. 18. 160W.
“There is no partisanship in his estimates and judgments. There are
some really masterly characterizations, especially among those of
later times. References to authorities are few and far between, and
here and there he makes statements which seem to need the support of
good authorities.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 335. Ag. 10, ‘05. 550w.
“Mr. Wilkinson writes agreeably. He also shows a considerable range of
reading.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 120. Ag. 10, ‘05. 400w.
“A book that is neither pure history nor pure gossip, and yet comes
near to being both.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 404. Je. 17, ‘05. 1680w.
“As history the value of the work is, to be sure, of rather negative
character.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 131. S. 16, ‘05. 1680w.
“In his concluding pages Mr. Wilkinson is obviously hampered by the
fact that he is dealing with events and men too near our own time, and
writes too much in the style of the professional parliamentary
lobbyist. But this book as a whole is a most valuable addition to the
series of useful manuals to which it belongs, and is perhaps the most
readable of them all.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 916. Je. 24, ‘05. 2290w.
=Wilkinson, William Cleaver.= Modern masters of pulpit discourse.
**$1.60. Funk.
Criticisms and appreciations of the foremost preachers of France,
England and America. “As critical sketches of homiletic art they have
a special value for every preacher who is, as he should be, a student
of the art.” (Outlook.)
“The author evidently enjoyed writing it. But. personally, we prefer
the ‘formless infelicity’ of Newman.”
— =Ath.= 1905, 2: 399. S. 23. 410w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 754. S. 28. ‘05. 90w.
“For the general reader there is enough of warm life in them.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 293. Je. 10. ‘05. 160w.
“The essays are all eminently readable, and have the appearance of
carefully formed judgments.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 262. Ag. 19, ‘05. 280w.
=Williams, Henry Smith=, ed. See =Historian’s= history of the world.
=Williams, Henry Smith, and Williams, Edward Huntington.= History of
science. 5v. Harper.
“The plan followed by the editor in chief and his collaborator (Dr.
Edward H. Williams) is to give a brief biography of the scientific men
to whose labors the world of to-day is indebted, prefacing these
biographies by a brief account of the beginnings of science and
connecting them by references to the circumstances amid which each
investigator worked.... In his second volume Dr. Williams carries on
his story through the dark ages, among the Arabians, the most famous
investigators of their time, into the western world, giving the
biographies and telling of the labors of astronomers, physicists,
physicians, down to Franklin and Linnaeus.... In the last three
volumes Dr. Williams treats of the development of the physical
sciences, of the chemical and biological sciences, and of the present
aspects of science.”—N. Y. Times.
“Inevitably, the murmuring shallows of science are more in evidence
than its silent deeps; its thaumaturgics than its revelations. All
this is somewhat trying to the student. For the student, however,
there is already no lack of adequate works in this field; he should be
the last to begrudge to the general reader the one book which best
meets his demands.” E. T. Brewster.
— + =Atlan.= 96: 690. N. ‘05. 390w.
“He has diligently collected an abundance of material of an
encyclopedic kind. His treatment of many topics is disproportionate
and cloudy. Some of the blunders are inexcusable.”
— — + =Ind.= 58: 381. F. 16, ‘05. 570w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 56. Ja. 28, ‘05. 440w. (Outlines scope and
contents).
“Without many noticeable omissions or slurring of important events.
The story he tells, dry as it might be under certain circumstances, is
fascinating as told by Dr. Williams. The volume might almost be a
history of modern British science alone; to Dr. Williams apparently,
American contributions to the subject are merely incidental.
Proof-reading is careless. Inconsistent in the spelling. An index of
little value makes part of the last volume; the work is worthy of a
good one.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 99. F. 18, ‘05. 1190w.
“Error is by no means absent, and some of the defects which the work
betrays are surprising, but, viewing it in the large, it must be
agreed that its excellencies far outweigh its faults and that it is of
genuine value to both student and general reader. The style is
picturesque, fluent, and clear. Altogether, the fifth volume, in
striking contrast to its predecessors, must be accounted ill advised
and weak.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 956. Ap. 15, ‘05. 1030w.
* =Williams, Hugh Noel.= Queens of the French stage. *$2.50. Scribner.
“A set of biographical essays entitled ‘Queens of the French stage,’
which cover the period from Louis XIV to the Revolution, beginning
with Armande Béjart (Molière’s wife) and ending with the celebrated,
and notorious Clairon.” (Nation.) “Mr. Williams gives both the
‘backstairs’ and the theatrical biography of his subjects.... The
picture is not a pleasant one, for the book resolves itself into the
story of liaisons, jealousies, infidelities, intrigues, and scandals
in high life and low.... The book, a substantial volume of some three
hundred and fifty quarto pages, is pleasantly illustrated with eight
or ten full-page half-tone reproductions after contemporary drawings
or paintings.” (Dial.)
* “Culled from many sources, these gossiping lives of six actresses
make very entertaining reading.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 575. D. ‘05. 70w.
* “Written in a clear vigorous style, the book makes interesting, if
not very stimulating reading.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 443. D. 16, ‘05. 280w.
* “The volume is readable and accurate in most matters save that of
French quotations, in which elementary blunders are altogether too
frequent.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 424. N. 23, ‘05. 140w.
* “The author’s not inconsiderable learning, tact, taste, and elegant
literary style, actually do honor to the careers of the ladies whose
portraits painted by famous contemporary brushes are among the art
treasures of the world.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 765. N. 11, ‘05. 430w.
=Williams, John Rogers.= Handbook of Princeton. **$1.50. Grafton press.
Dr. Woodrow Wilson has written a sympathetic introduction to this
volume which “in very good taste describes most of the interesting
objects and places of patriotic association in that university town of
Revolutionary memories.... The book is fully illustrated for the eye
of the absent.” (Nation.)
+ =Critic.= 47: 479. N. ‘05. 30w.
“Except in one or two very minor matters, the accounts here given are
accurate and sympathetic.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 143. Ag. 17, ‘05. 140w.
“A very readable manual.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 510. O. ‘05. 70w.
=Williams, Theodore C.= Elegies of Tibullus. $1.25. Badger, R. G.
The consolations of a Roman lover done into English verse. Twenty-four
elegies of books I., II., III., and two short pieces of book IV., in
the translation of which the author has “always been faithful to the
thought and spirit of the original except in the few passages where
euphemism was required.”
“A free but exquisite translation.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 94. Ag. 16, ‘05. 50w.
“Though it is in no sense a slavish rendering, it does present the
substance of Tibullus with remarkable fidelity.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 304. O. 12, ‘05. 520w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 678. O. 14, ‘05. 30w.
=Williams, William Henry.= Specimens of the Elizabethan drama from Lyly
to Shirley, A.D. 1580-A.D. 1642. *$1.90. Oxford.
“Nearly a hundred typical and representative scenes, complete in
themselves, have been selected.... A short appreciation is prefixed to
each section, notes being added.”—Dial.
“Mr. Williams does not in our judgment always do the best with the
material that his plan leaves him.”
— =Acad.= 68: 521. My. 13, ‘05. 560w.
“It is pervaded by the atmosphere of ripe literary scholarship.”
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 288. S. ‘05. 150w.
=Dial.= 38: 277. Ap. 16, ‘05. 60w.
=Dial.= 39: 20. Jl. 1, ‘05. 60w.
“In all substantial matters—connecting introductions, notes, and
text—(so far as we have, tested it) his work as an editor seems to be
well executed.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 105. Ag. 3, ‘05. 820w.
“The specimens are generally well chosen, though it is easy to
complain of some omissions.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 637. My. 13, ‘05. 420w.
=Williamson, C. N., and A. M.= Lightning conductor. †$1.50. Holt.
The popularity of “the strange adventures of a motor-car” has
warranted this revised and enlarged edition, including a frontispiece
by Eliot Keen, and sixteen full-page illustrations from photographs of
the scenes of the story in France, Spain and Italy.
=Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Mrs. Alice Muriel.= My
friend the chauffeur. †$1.50. McClure.
This book “relates the incidents of a motor-car trip through southern
Europe of two young Englishmen (one a lord masquerading as a
chauffeur), and three American women, a widow of thirty-nine
masquerading as twenty-eight, her daughter of seventeen, masquerading,
for her mother’s sake, as thirteen, and her niece, an heiress,
masquerading as a poor relation. A prince, poor but dishonest,
masquerading as a man of property and honor, hovers around as the
villain of the piece.” (Outlook.)
+ =Acad.= 68: 1008. S. 30, ‘05. 370w.
“Altogether a bright and pleasing story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 651. O. 7, ‘05. 330w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 823. D. 2, ‘05. 170w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 429. O. 21, ‘05. 160w.
“There is a certain charm and pleasantness in this work, which
inclines one to approbation, though, truth to tell, there is but
little solid merit in it.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 345. S. 9, ‘05. 220w.
=Williamson, Charles Norris and Alice Muriel.= Princess passes: romance
of a motor car. $1.50. Holt.
A traveling love story, half of which takes place in the automobile of
the heroine of “The lightning conductor”; the other half is an Alpine
walking tour. Lord Lane, lately jilted, finds consolation in a
delightful boy, his “little pal,” whom he meets in his travels, and
whom he later discovers to be an American heiress, the Mercedes for
whom the Winston’s car was named. The story wanders over northern
France, Switzerland, and the Italian lakes, ending at Monte Carlo.
“This story is so delightful that we are not disposed to carp
over-much at the impossibility of its central situation.” William
Morton Payne.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 389. Je. 1, ‘05. 150w.
“It seems almost too slender to be gravely criticised in matters of
plot, character-drawing, and the like. Its staple is sheer, wholesome
fun, brisk and bubbling, but not loud or crude.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ =Forum.= 37: 111. Jl. ‘05. 120w.
“The descriptions of the road are unusually good and the breath of the
high Alps is in the book.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 392. Ag. 17, ‘05. 110w.
“If the story taxes belief, the characters are lifelike enough to
satisfy any novel reader in good standing.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 310w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 20: 180. Mr. 25, ‘05. 530w.
“Is, if anything, more saturated with the sunshine and fun of
automobile adventure than ‘The lightning conductor.’”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.
“There is a pretty little romance in the book, and delightful
descriptions of scenery, castles, quaint inns, and travel by donkey.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 1015. Ap. 22, ‘05. 220w.
=Williamson, James M.= Life and times of St. Boniface. *$2. Oxford.
“Dr. Williamson gives us, in a sufficiently readable and popular
manner, the life of the Englishman who, in the turmoil of the eighth
century, was raised by fortune and his own merits to the primacy of
the church in Germany.”—Acad.
+ =Acad.= 68: 33. Ja. 14, ‘05. 190w.
=Willis, Henry Parker.= Our Philippine problem: a study of American
colonial policy. $1.50. Holt.
“A review of our experience as a nation in governing the Philippine
islands and an appreciation of the main elements of the Philippine
problem as it now presents itself.” There is a frank discussion of
civil government, civil service, legal and judicial systems,
constabulary, political parties, the church, American education in the
islands, social conditions, and kindred subjects, all treated from the
view point of an “anti-imperialist.”
* “It needs to be stated at the beginning that this book is frankly
critical of our Philippine policy, and particularly of the
administration thereof. Further perusal and analysis of the book will
convince many readers, perhaps unwillingly, too, that the criticisms
and charges it contains are not only serious and grave in the extreme,
but that their authenticity seems unquestionable. In style it is
unusually readable and entertaining.” J. E. Conner.
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 761. N. ‘05. 1070w.
* “Is a careful ‘study of American colonial policy,’ well deserving
the attention of the politician and historian. The author is
thoroughly master of his subject.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 646. N. 11. 300w.
* =Critic.= 47: 479. N. ‘05. 80w.
“Mr. Willis somewhat prejudices his case as an impartial critic by the
expression of his own adverse opinion in the preliminary chapter,
before he has presented his evidence to his readers. No modern
government has ever been more severely impeached of high crimes and
misdemeanors against the spirit of the institutions of its people,
than has the government at Washington in these chapters.” John J.
Halsey.
— =Dial.= 39: 271. N. 1, ‘05. 370w.
Reviewed by George R. Bishop.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 633. S. 30, ‘05. 2720w.
“The serious defect of the book is that it is not what it purports to
be. It is really an almost unqualified accusation against the American
government, not only of unfitness and failure, but of prejudice,
insincerity, and sordidness.”
— — =Outlook.= 81: 89. S. 9, ‘05. 510w.
* + — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 667. N. 18, ‘05. 240w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 639. N. ‘05. 150w.
=Willoughby, William Franklin.= Territories and dependencies of the
United States: their government and administration. *$1.25. Century.
The seventh volume in the “American state series.” The field covered
in Dr. Willoughby’s discussion is that of the actual policy and the
action taken by the United States in respect to the government and
administration of the various dependent territories which have
successively come under its sovereignty, and the conferring of
political rights upon their inhabitants.
* “Mr. Willoughby’s volume will repay careful study.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 471. D. 7, ‘05. 480w.
Reviewed by Robert Livingston Schuyler.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 464. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1140w.
“Generally speaking, the treatment is concise yet thorough.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 695. Jl. 15, ‘05. 110w.
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 317. S. 2, ‘05. 190w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 510. O. ‘05. 90w.
* =Willson, Robert Newton.= American boy and the social evil: from a
physician’s standpoint. $1. Winston.
Four plain talks—originally delivered to students and now published by
Dr. Willson “for the purpose of more widely introducing a difficult
and delicate subject in a plain but thoroughly clean way.” The talks
are: The nobility of boyhood: the boy’s part in life’s problem,
delivered to the boys of Philadelphia during the summer of 1904, at
the request of the department of public health and charities; Clean
living: a problem of school and college days, a talk to the students
of the University of Pennsylvania, Oct. 10, 1903; The social evil in
America and The relation of the citizen to the social evil, addresses
to the students of the Union Theological seminary, April, 1905.
* =Wilson, Bingham Thoburn.= Village of Hide and seek. $1.25.
Consolidated retail booksellers.
The village of Hide and seek lies at the end of a perilous cliff
journey over which Aunt Twaddles, a fat, coarse-skirted witch of the
mountains, conducts two children in search of pennyroyal. In her own
realm the witch is transformed into a beautiful fairy queen of the
dolls, and with her brother Santa Claus furnishes rare entertainment
for the visitors.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 911. D. 23, ‘05. 200w.
=Wilson, Calvin Dill.= Making the most of ourselves. **$1. McClure.
This series of talks for young people is broad in its scope and
includes fifty chapters of helpful advice upon subjects which may be
included under such headings as education, deportment, religion, work
and spiritual development. The boy or girl who reads these discourses
carefully, and heeds them cannot go far wrong in big or little things.
=Wilson, Ella Calista.= Pedagogues and parents. **$1.25. Holt.
It has been the author’s purpose to show the possibilities within the
power of a parent of supplementing the work of the teacher, to show
what is distinctly the teacher’s work and what the parent’s duty and
privilege. “The pedagogue studies the laws of childhood; the parent,
the temperament and needs of his particular child; the school-teacher
advances the children in regiment, lock-step; the parent in their
natural gait, in their strugglings and self-directed sprawlings.” The
book is humorously dedicated among others to parents “whose concern
for their dear little ones makes them so irregularly bold that they
dare consult their own reason in the education of their children,
rather than wholly to rely upon old customs.”
“It is not a treatise. Its historical chapters meander and are
cheerful and chatty. Of the ideals of the past it gives amusing
glimpses. A book to set tongues and pens to wagging, a book to read
from preface to finis with the relish of combat or agreement. Whether
you deny or assent, you are bound to laugh.” Adele Marie Shaw.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 81. F. 11, ‘05. 2140w.
“The book is witty, full of wholesome advice to parents and to
teachers, and is just the kind of reading for the interested mothers
in our women’s clubs.”
+ + =School R.= 13: 200*. F. ‘05. 230w.
=Wilson, Floyd Baker.= Man limitless. $1.25. Fenno.
In eleven papers treating of such subjects as love, work, memory,
suggestion, and accomplishment, is given a metaphysical and psychic
study of the possibilities of man, unlimited power resident in one’s
selfhood, which may be made use of thru discipline.
“Mr. Wilson’s cry is: Down with the chains! Down with limitations! And
he succeeds in persuading us fully that there is no need for any of
these.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 70w.
=Wilson, Harry Leon.= Boss of little Arcady. †$1.50. Lothrop.
“Mr. Wilson writes of an Illinois village just before and just after
the great war, of a shy boy who adored a schoolgirl with two yellow
braids tied with a scarlet ribbon, of another boy who was not shy, of
a marriage and a going-away to the stricken field with a sad little
miniature inside a blue coat.... He writes of black Clem, who came
from Virginia, and was ‘Miss Cah’line’s pus’nal property,’ in spite of
the Emancipation proclamation ... of ‘Miss Caroline’ herself ... Miss
Caroline’s daughter, Katharine Lansdale ... and Jim, a setter dog.”—N.
Y. Times.
“It is a whimsical book that Mr. Wilson has given us this time, a book
that is scarcely a novel at all, in the accepted sense, a book that
drags somewhat at the start, at the same time that it is
surreptitiously fastening its hold on you.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ — =Bookm.= 22: 134. O. ‘05. 370w.
“His new book has leisurely ease of movement and a humor that is
simply captivating.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 209. O. 1, ‘05. 250w.
“A picture of the Western town more truthful, because more
affectionately touched with misty hues of the imagination, than are
the raw splotches of ‘local color’ miscalled ‘novels of the West.’”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 579. S. 7, ‘05. 400w.
“The scheme of writing the novel in four books is a lazy one that
disturbs the unities. We want the illusion of all the balls in the air
at once.”
+ — =Lit. D.= 31: 586. O. 21, ‘05. 420w.
“It is a fine thing of its kind, and will please many, the pleasing of
whom is worth a man’s time and trouble.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 539. Ag. 19, ‘05. 900w.
* “A delightfully human, kindly and refreshing tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 823. D. 2, ‘05. 170w.
“There is real pleasure to be derived from its perusal if too much is
not expected in the way of incident and action.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 1073. Ag. 26, ‘05. 90w.
=Wilson, James Grant.= Thackeray in the United States, 1852-3, 1855-6.
2v. **$10. Dodd.
A two-volume account of Thackeray’s visits to the United States. His
lecture course on the English humorists and the Georges are described,
and various anecdotes, conversations and letters are given. There is a
bibliographical list of the writings of Thackeray published in the
United States, followed by Thackerayana, and the numerous mentions of
him in periodicals. There are twenty-six portraits of Thackeray, many
of his drawings, and several facsimiles of letters.
“Small faults are easily found, and though the book may not be as
learned as possible, it is surely one that should have distinct
popularity.”
+ + — =Critic.= 46: 188. F. ‘05. 110w.
Reviewed by M. F.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 189. Mr. 16, ‘05. 900w.
“American readers will find in these two volumes nothing to complain
of everything to correct an ancient notion we all had that Thackeray
was cynical.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1308. Je. 8. ‘05. 630w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 6. Ja. 7, ‘05. 1460w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 249. F. ‘05. 70w.
“Two garrulous and amiable volumes.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 256. F. 18, ‘05. 1380w.
=Wilson, William Robert Anthony.= Knot of blue. †$1.50. Little.
This is not an historical romance altho the scene is laid in old
Quebec. The heroine, the ward of the governor, and the hero, her
childhood playmate, are both the victims of the wicked plots of the
villain thru whom the hero is made to appear faithless to both his
country and his love. There are many thrilling scenes, enacted by many
players, but in the end each wins his true deserts.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 402. Je. 17, ‘05. 330w.
“A story of love and adventure, full of movement and romance.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 193. My. 20, ‘05. 50w.
=Winkley, Jonathan Wingate.= John Brown, the hero: personal
reminiscences, *85c. West, J. H.
The author was a boy in Kansas in 1856, and there came in contact with
the great abolitionist hero. The object of his little book is to throw
some side light upon John Brown’s character, and he gives some new
historical material, and recounts adventures in which he was too young
to participate except as an eye witness. There is an introduction by
Frank B. Sanborn. The illustrations include a representation of a bust
of John Brown and two views of the Adair cabin.
=Am. Hist R.= 10: 719. Ap. ‘05. 50w.
“We are glad Dr. Winkley has set down his personal experiences and
impressions in so interesting and vivid a manner.”
+ =Arena.= 33: 672. Je. ‘05. 160w.
“Although the matter of the book is slender in amount, and spread thin
by both author and printer, and although the glimpses we get of John
Brown are few and fleeting, the publishers are still within the truth
in announcing that ‘The book has the interest of a romance,’ and that
‘the young will read it as if it were especially “a story for boys,”
and the old will find in it matters to revive their enthusiasm.’”
+ =Dial.= 38: 240. Ap. 1, ‘05. 290w.
“Another slight, and wholly unpretentious volume, quickly read.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 132. F. 16, ‘05. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10:150. Mr. 11, ‘05. 400w.
=Winslow, Charles Edward Amory.= Elements of applied microscopy: a
text-book for beginners. $1.50. Wiley.
A presentation of the elements of microscopic study under the
headings: Function and parts of the microscope. Manipulation of the
microscope, The mounting and preparation of objects for the
microscope, Micrometry, and the camera lucida, The microscopy of the
common starches, Foods and drugs and their adulterants, The
examination of textile fibers, The microscopy of paper, The microscope
in medicine and sanitation, Forensic microscopy, Microchemistry,
Petrography and metallography.
“Mr. Winslow’s text is practical.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 53: 295. Mr. 16, ‘05. 460w.
=Winter, Alice.= Prize to the hardy. $1.50. Bobbs.
Mrs. Winter’s story of early Minnesota days is built up around a
successful financial magnate of a typical western town, his daughter,
in whose veins flows a trace of the blood of Indian chiefs,—a very
modern, very feminine, very human specimen of lovable young womanhood,
a young Maineite who demonstrates his fitness to be called the
“hardy,” and his rival, the near approach to a contemptible villain.
There are close range views of the typical Swede farmer, dips into the
hardships to be endured in the small Dakota towns, and a thrilling
picture of a forest fire’s devastation. The local coloring thruout is
consistent and characteristic.
“Told in a spirited manner. It is a story that will appeal to the
general reader in search of a pleasing and somewhat exciting
love-tale.”
+ =Arena.= 34: 221. Ag. ‘05. 250w.
“The book is not incapably written. The book’s greatest fault is its
utter lack of originality.”
+ — =Critic.= 46: 381. Ap. ‘05. 90w.
“In short, without being remarkable in any special way, ‘The prize to
the hardy’ is a good readable, human story, and cleverly written at
that.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 244. Ap. 15, ‘05. 370w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 708. Mr. 18, ‘05. 90w.
=Wise, John Sergeant.= Lion’s skin. †$1.50. Doubleday.
On the surface the book is the story of a certain Powhatan Carrington,
who bore arms in his ‘teens for the Confederacy, and became a Richmond
lawyer and politician. On turning Republican he found himself so
unpopular among his townspeople, that he removed to New York, where he
and his northern wife prospered exceedingly. Underneath is an analysis
of the conditions of the South since the Civil war, and a political
history of Virginia from the first steps in reconstruction to the
election of the governor in 1885.
“‘The lion’s skin’ spells information rather than diversion.”
+ — =Bookm.= 21: 651. Ag. ‘05. 270w.
“In this book there is far more history than fiction.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 42. Jl. 16, ‘05. 290w.
— =Ind.= 58: 1132. My. 18, ‘05. 320w.
“As a novel Mr. Wise’s book, while it contains some excellent material
will not hold the average reader’s attention. But it only ostensibly a
novel. It is rather a personal explanation, and as such will interest
persons who know who Mr. Wise is.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 178. Mr. 25, ‘05. 630w.
“Mr. Wise cannot be accounted a success as a novelist, but as a
historian he is clear and forceful, and his book calls for careful
consideration.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 857. Ap. 1, ‘05. 320w.
“As a piece of fiction the book is a negligible quantity, but as the
narrative account of the movement of events and the development and
importance of the predominant feelings in the South before, during,
and immediately after the war it is a worthy contribution to our Civil
war literature.”
— + + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 713. My. 6, ‘05. 160w.
“A new kind of reconstruction story, cleverly weaving together fact
and fiction, and discussing the negro problem frankly and
impressively.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 508. Ap. ‘05. 160w.
* =Wishart, Alfred Wesley.= Primary facts in religious thought. *75c.
Univ. of Chicago press.
Seven essays, intended to state in a simple and practical manner the
essential principles of religion, and to clear it from confusion
arising from theological changes and historical criticism.
* “They are well adapted by their brevity and simplicity to the need
of the average man. If they fall short in any point, it is in not
recognizing the essential identity of religion and morality beneath
their superficial differences.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 891. D. 9, ‘05. 170w.
=Wisser, John P., and Gauss, Henry C.=, comps. Military and naval
dictionary. 50c. Hamersley.
Authentic and clearly worded definitions of all terms used in the
United States army and navy, with a well-defined statement of the
powers of each department of the United States government and the
duties of all government officials.
“The work has been condensed into a small handbook, and constitutes a
handy volume of reference, the words selected having been clearly
defined in simple English. It will be of use not only to the general
reader unfamiliar with the terms who wishes to learn their meaning,
but also for the Navy, Army, the National guard, the Naval reserve,
and others interested in military matters.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 165. Mr. 18, ‘05. 200w.
=Witchell, Charles Anderson.= Nature’s story for the year. $1.25.
Wessels.
Under such chapter headings as—The universal strife, Signs of spring,
April days, May muses, June joys, An August song, Signs of autumn, and
Wintry days, is given the story of the denizens of nature’s own land,
the thickets and the tree tops; history of a year and what the
changing seasons bring to the things that creep and fly.
* =Wittigschlager, Wilhelmina.= Minna, wife of the young rabbi. $1.50.
Consolidated retail booksellers.
Minna, a beautiful girl of unknown parentage, born among poor Russian
Jews, is forced to marry when only thirteen years old a man whom she
has never seen. The morning after her marriage she runs away from her
bridegroom and leads a wandering life buffeted by fate and humanity
hither and yon, caring for her little son as best she may. She comes
to America, but later returns to Russia as an anarchist, only to
discover, upon the assassination of Alexander II., that the czar she
has plotted to kill is her father. She is sent to Siberia, but is
pardoned, and in the end is reunited to her husband, whom she has come
to love. This is but a small part of an exciting story, which gives a
remarkably vivid and most unflattering picture of the Russian Jew.
* =Wolf, Edmund Jacob.= Higher rock: sermons, addresses, and articles;
comp. by a committee of the Board of publication. $1.50. Lutheran pub.
soc.
A memorial edition of Dr. Wolf’s sermons, papers and addresses. “They
are the ripe fruit of a thoughtful and scholarly mind. Laymen and
ministers alike will find the book not only readable but clear and
profitable.”
=Woljeska, Helen.= See =Tindolph, Helen Woljeska.=
=Wollant, Gregoire de.= Land of the rising sun; tr. from the Russian by
the author, with the assistance of Madame de Wollant. $1.50. Neale.
“The first portion of M. de Wollant’s study is a short description of
the Japanese islands, following which there is a historical sketch of
the people and an outline of the history of Christianity in Japan.
Part two contains the author’s impressions of the Japan to-day,
impressions which were derived from trips to northern as well as
southern Japan. The descriptions of the people and of the public and
domestic life are well considered, and in addition M. de Wollant
appends some interesting observations on economic and financial
Japan.”—Pub. Opin.
“While he evidently aims to be accurate and impartial, his
observations and opinions are naturally colored by his nationality,
but we nevertheless find the book very interesting.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 478. N. ‘05. 180w.
“Where he has occasion to refer to authorities his choice is usually
the best, and his personal comments on contemporary conditions reveal
an observer of such insight that it is a matter for regret that he has
not often seen fit to delve a little deeper beneath the surface which
he portrays so admirably.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 625. O. 28, ‘05. 280w.
“An interesting and impartial book on Japan. The book is decidedly
worth reading.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 606. S. 16, ‘05. 1370w.
“A Russian’s estimate of Japan is interesting. It is especially
interesting, as in the present case, when it is given by a clever,
keen-sighted Russian.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 234. S. 23, ‘05. 430w.
“The narrative is lacking in literary merit and is at times
incoherent, but as the book is a translation, a great many of the
faults of style and composition may be due to that fact.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 479. O. 7, ‘05. 130w.
=Wollaston, Arthur Naylor.= Sword of Islam. *$3. Dutton.
“This book is an enlargement of the author’s previous work,
‘Half-hours with Muhammad.’ The first half of the book gives the story
of Mohammed’s life and teaching, the early history of Islam, and a
sketch of the dynasties under which Islamic civilization reached its
highest development: the second half is devoted to a description of
the more important tenets of the Mohammedan faith and the beliefs of
the various sects into which Islam is divided.”—Spec.
“Such statements are inexcusable, all being devoid of foundation
beyond popular misconception due to ignorance.”
— =Acad.= 68: 800. Ag. 5, ‘05. 980w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 751. S. 28, ‘05. 160w.
“This volume may stimulate an interest which it cannot satisfy.”
— =Nation.= 81: 199. S. 7, ‘05. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 317. My. 12, ‘05. 270w.
“He has done his work of choosing and mingling in an able manner. Mr.
Wollaston has made a connected story out of many diverse books and
articles. The result of his work we consider valuable, as being many
riches in a little space.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 450. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1590w.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 839. Jl. 29, ‘05. 40w.
“‘The sword of Islam’ may serve a purpose as a book of reference for
the general reader; but it can hardly ‘awaken an interest in the
history of a religion and its followers.’”
+ =Spec.= 94: 790. My. 27, ‘05. 560w.
=Wood, Charles Seely.= Camp fires on the Scioto. †$1.50. Wilde.
The third story in Mr. Wood’s series on the opening up of the
Northwest territory. It is based on the historical records of surveys
made after the Indians had been driven to the northwest. The hardy
courage of these government surveyors forms the undertone of the tale,
which in particular sketches the heroism of Morris Patterson, a lad
who had been orphaned by the cruelty of the Indians, and who resolves
to take his father’s place in the company at Massie’s Station on the
Ohio river, and to support his little sister.
=Wood, Eugene.= Back home. †$1.50. McClure.
Stories which will carry all those who, in childhood, have known the
country, thankfully back to the old school-house, the Sabbath-school,
the swimming hole, the county fair, the circus and the many other
things of youth which were once delightfully real and now seem
delightfully funny. The illustrations by A. B. Frost add greatly to
the book.
* “His style, too, is that of the tricky journalist, and not of the
literary artist. That Mr. Wood is not lacking in ability, whatever may
be his deficiences in taste, is shown by the sustained excellence of
one chapter, ‘The firemen’s tournament.’”
+ — =Lit. D.= 31: 798. N. 25, ‘05. 660w.
“The human touch that makes the whole world kin is to be felt in these
homely, humorous sketches.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 380. O. 14, ‘05. 160w.
“They are well worth reading two or three times over.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 506. O. 14, ‘05. 220w.
=Wood, Henry.= Life more abundant: scriptural truth in modern
application. **$1.20. Lothrop.
“The burden of Mr. Wood’s attempt here is to free the Bible from the
old, hard, literal infallibility which has at once hidden its deeper
spiritual meaning from its friends and been the most telling weapon in
the hands of hostile critics.”—Pub. Opin.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 234. S. 23, ‘05. 200w.
“Those who are familiar with the inspiring, optimistic tone always
struck by Henry Wood in his various writings on new thought topics
will not be disappointed in this, his latest volume.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 476. O. 7, ‘05. 490w.
=Wood, T. Martin.= Drawings of Sir E. Burne-Jones. *$2.50. Scribner.
An importation of the Newnes set of drawings with an introductory
essay by Mr. Wood. There are forty-seven illustrations, mostly
reproductions of studies for “The Aenid,” “The masque of Cupid,”
designs for windows, two or three characters from Tennyson, “The
nativity,” and “The entombment,” “The dream,” “The car of love,” “The
sirens,” children, hands, a wing, etc. The frontispiece presents a
study in red chalk. There are several other pictures in tints, mounted
on harmonizing paper. The others are in half-tone. The cover design is
printed in three colors from a drawing by Granville Fell.
“Scholarly essay. Carefully selected and well reproduced, though in a
few cases losing something of their charm through over-reduction, the
drawings here collected include typical examples of a great variety.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: 180. Ap. ‘05. 260w.
=Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 63. My. ‘05. 190w.
“An altogether satisfactory publication not only for the reason that
great pains have been taken to present the drawings through various
processes in a striking and intelligent manner, but also because we
have these reproductions preceded by an excellent essay by T. Martin
Wood, who writes with utter frankness concerning the artist’s
draughtsmanship, its development and the feats it achieved.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 178. Mr. 25, ‘05. 260w.
* =Wood, T. Martin.= Drawings of Rossetti. *$2.50. Scribner.
“This year’s addition to the ‘Modern master draughtsmen’ series ... is
an ideal study, both in text and illustration, of a distinctive phase
of a great artist’s work.... There is an interesting discussion of the
proper critical attitude from which to approach Rossetti’s work, and
the fifty drawings reproduced in the present volume are treated as
illustrative material for various theses, thus receiving considerable
detailed attention.... Many are printed in tint and mounted upon rough
paper of a harmonizing shade. They represent all stages of work, from
the rough sketch to the elaborate highly-finished drawing that was so
characteristic of Rossetti’s genius.”—Dial.
* “The introductory comment ... is a discriminating and illuminating
piece of criticism.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 383. D. 1, ‘05. 280w.
* “Valuable addition to the Newnes series.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 33. D. ‘05. 210w.
=Wood, Walter Birbeck, and Edmonds, James Edward.= History of the Civil
war in the United States, 1861-1865. *$3.50. Putnam.
This history of the civil war was written by two officers of the
British army, from an impartial English point of view. “Mr. Spenser
Wilkinson in a short introduction commends this book because he is
convinced ‘that the true nature of war and its relation to national
life can be learned from a study of the American Civil war as a
whole.’ ... It tells why and how the war was fought, and though there
is much in it which the general public may read with profit and
interest, its detail and wealth of maps show that it is intended
rather for the specialist.” (Sat. R.)
* “Whatever may be the cause of the want of clearness, which we have
named, it deprives the book of some of that value which, given its
accuracy, would otherwise have attached to it, as a text-book. We have
to congratulate our authors upon their index, the compilation of which
has evidently been most careful, to the great advantage of the
volume.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 431. S. 30. 1070w.
* “It would have been all the more welcome if they had attempted less,
and omitted some of the many details with which they load their
pages.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 317. S. 29, ‘05. 720w.
* “The authors are scrupulously fair. They have kept a good proportion
in their narrative. But they very certainly have not, as Mr. Spenser
Wilkinson would have us believe, produced an authoritative military
pronouncement on the subject.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 511. D. 21, ‘05. 1030w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 713. O. 21, ‘05. 240w.
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 412. S. 23, ‘05. 290w.
=Woodman, H. Rea.= Noahs afloat. $1.50. Neale.
A jocular account of the voyage of the ark, which begins with the
third day out and ends when the Noahs and the stowaway, John Smith,
have packed up their belongings and are ready to land. The book is
largely taken up with humorous family discussions of up-to-date
subjects. Some lively incidents are furnished by the animals.
“It is carefully written, and those who like this kind of humor may
like it very much.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 457. Jl. 8, ‘05. 600w.
=Woodward, William Harrison.= Desiderius Erasmus concerning the aim and
method of education. *$1.30. Macmillan.
“This study of the life work of Erasmus as an educator is
characterized by ... thoroughness, lucidity, and sympathy.... Erasmus
as sketched here is not an altogether attractive personality.”—Int. J.
Ethics.
“To inquirers into the origins of modern culture, and to students of
the history of education generally, this book will prove invaluable.”
R. E. Hughes.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 15: 390. Ap. ‘05. 700w.
Working men’s college, 1854-1904. See =Davies, J. Llewelyn=, ed.
=Workman, William Hunter, and Workman, Fanny Bullock.= Through town and
jungle: fourteen thousand miles a-wheel among the temples and peoples of
the Indian plain. *$5. Scribner.
A book devoted to the “temples and people of India,” giving studies of
the six styles of Indian architecture, the Buddhist, Indian-Aryan,
Jain, Dravidian, Chalukyan, and Mohammedan, and the innumerable
variety of people and adventures encountered “from Cape Comorin to the
Himalayas and beyond.” There are over two hundred illustrations.
“It is a worthy record of a remarkable journey.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 334. Mr. 18. 1580w.
“It would be most unfair to deny the value of the material, both
textual and pictorial, here gathered together, however unsystematized,
or the fact that no other recent work on India gives any such general
impression of the Indian peoples and architectures.” Wallace Rice.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 383. Je. 1, ‘05. 580w.
“The incidents and excitements, as well as the studious results, of
this trip are well told.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 269. Ap. 6, ‘05. 340w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 188. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1280w.
“The narrative does not quite justify one’s expectations. In spite of
their unusual powers of endurance, these seasoned travellers found a
good deal to grumble about.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 346. S. 9, ‘05. 260w.
=Wright, John, pseud.= See =Bourne, R. William.=
=Wright, Louise Wigfall (Mrs. D. Giraud Wright).= Southern girl in ‘61:
the wartime memories of a Confederate senator’s daughter. **$2.75.
Doubleday.
“The narrative begins in Texas, continues through the author’s
child-life in Washington; and, during her school days in Boston,
carries the thread of the public story rather than her own,
reproducing letters showing progress of events in the South. She
reached Richmond just after the battle of Manassas; her record ends
with Kirby Smith’s surrender; prominent men and women are introduced
in incident, anecdote, and by portrait.”—Outlook.
* + =Critic.= 47: 575. D. ‘05. 90w.
“The volume under review has an interest and value that the social
histories have not.” Walter L. Fleming.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 269 N. 1, ‘05. 920w.
“These books are really worth while, if for no other purpose but to
show how ridiculously fallacious are the Southern heroines made up by
writers like Cyrus Townsend Brady and George Gary Eggleston.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 986. O. 26, ‘05. 100w.
* “A girl sees only the surface of things, and what she does not
understand she is not likely to remember, nearly half a century later.
So the recollections are about what one should expect. They are
pleasing, although often thin.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 405. N. 16, ‘05. 1890w.
“Not even a tag of poor verse ... can rob ‘A southern girl in ‘61’ of
its literary quality or historical value, its pathos, and its fine
humanity.” L. L.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 558. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1160w.
* “Mrs. Wright’s book is decidedly one to read.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 820. D. 2, ‘05. 120w.
“The book has a substantial interest that only the author could
supply, and some of the correspondence introduced has the value of
historical documents.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 282. S. 30, 05. 200w.
* “‘The feminine spirit of the Confederacy,’ which has been made one
of the chapter titles of this book, is cleverly interpreted by this
writer, who was actually a part of the stirring scenes which she
narrates.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 756. D. ‘05. 160w.
=Wright, W. Aldis=, ed. See =Ascham, Roger.= English works.
=Wright, William Burnet.= Cities of Paul: * beacons of the past
rekindled for the present. **$1.10. Houghton.
A study of the cities of Tarsus, Tyana, Ancyra, Philippi, Old and New
Corinth, Ephesus, Colossai, and Thessalonica, which not only shows the
setting of the Apostle’s life and helps to our understanding of the
Pauline epistles, but points out that the Apostle encountered the same
vices, social, political, and commercial, that threaten our own
municipalities today, and shows how he dealt with them.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 851. D. 2, ‘05. 180w.
* “With such a purpose Dr. Wright has put his ample knowledge to a
highly instructive as well as entertaining use.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 887. D. 9, ‘05. 100w.
=Wylie, Edna Edwards.= Ward of the sewing-circle, †$1. Little.
Orphaned Johnny Beal becomes the little “human hand-me-down” of the
Smithville sewing-circle. Each member takes charge of him for two
months at a time, and with all the divided management, it is no wonder
that the little fellow jumbles his various parting injunctions. His
only solace is Tab, his cat which kind fate smuggles past the wrathy
spots in his foster mothers’ tempers.
=Wyllie, William Lionel, and Wyllie, M. A.= London to the Nore; painted
and described by W. L. and M. A. Wyllie. *$6. Macmillan.
This volume “deals with territory between the metropolis and the sea,
and is included in the ‘Beautiful book’ series.... It is described by
Mrs Wyllie and the many colored pictures and other sketches are by W.
L. Wyllie, A. R. A. The party ‘does’ London to the Nore, along the
Thames, and the Medway to Rochester. The book is made up of a series
of traveler’s impressions with what might be called a partly
historical and partly contemporaneous background.”—N. Y. Times.
“In Mr. Wyllie’s pictures in ‘London to the Nore,’ we are struck
chiefly by the wholesome sentiment and the microscopic eye. Mrs.
Wyllie’s text is a too frivolous accompaniment.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 779. Jl. 29, ‘05. 400w.
* “Amongst the many delightful publications resulting from the happy
collaboration of an artist and author that have recently appeared,
high rank must certainly be given to ‘London to the Nore,’ with its
sympathetic interpretations of typical river scenes and vivid
word-pictures of their environment.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 27: 182. D. ‘05. 190w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 255. Ag. 11, ‘05. 520w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 485. Jl. 22, ‘05. 350w.
“In every way a most delightful book.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 159. Jl. 29, ‘05. 410w.
=Wyman, Rev. Henry H.= Certainty in religion. 50c; 10c. Columbus press.
“Father Wyman has met many doubters in his long missionary career, and
this book is a summary of his most persuasive arguments with them. It
will serve, we trust, as a manual for many other zealous
priests.”—Cath. World.
“A book of really convincing power.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 251. My. ‘05. 380w.
Y
=Yechton, Barbara, pseud. (Lydia Farrington Krause).= Some adventures of
Jack and Jill. †$1.50. Dodd.
“A pretty story of a group of English children who lived in Santa
Cruz, West Indies. Little Jill, the narrator, looks up to her brother
Jack with loving admiration. The mischief they get into and the honest
way they get out make delightful reading.”—Outlook.
* “The story is well told.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 577. D. ‘05. 20w.
* “It is a good story for boys and girls, any one in fact.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 795. N. 25, ‘05. 210w.
* “Refinement and gentleness characterize this wholesome chronicle of
childish thoughts and doings.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 430. O. 21, ‘05. 60w.
Yellow war, by “O.” **$1.20. McClure.
Dramatic episodes of the war in the Far East are given here with a
touch of imagination which only adds to their reality: we see things
as the yellow men must see them. There are scenes of war on sea and
land, scenes at the front, and at home, most of which tell of the
systematic subordination and sacrifice of the individual to the
system.
“It is a book which gives an excellent idea of the actors in the war.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 172. F. 25, ‘05. 320w.
“There is much idealization rather than a precise report, and the
result is an impression even more veritable than the others have been
able to convey, notwithstanding a certain sense of the fiction that is
truer than mere fact.” Wallace Rice.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 417. Je. 16, ‘05. 890w.
“On its face a collection of detached recitals, many of them
thrilling, but not incredible, this volume, when carefully read,
reveals more than tales of adventure. The anonymous writer is clearly
distrustful and unsympathetic, but he tries to be impartial.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 204. S. 7, ‘05. 1480w.
“On the whole, it is a book of blood-stirring reading—a sort of prose
glory song of the wonderful little yellow man.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 262. Ap. 22, ‘05. 550w.
“Remarkable for their vividness and intensity.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 1062. Ap. 29, ‘05. 280w.
“It is quite likely that this fiction is a truer picture in spirit of
the Japanese than much of the fact we have been fed on.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 755. My. 13, ‘05. 360w.
“It is a word panorama of its great battles and sieges by one who has
studied the characters of the men of the two nations engaged in it.
The style of this narrative is highly direct and intense, full of life
and color.”
+ + + =Reader.= 6: 597. O. ‘05. 180w.
“The merely literary merits of his book are great. Most of the book
can only be described as lurid; and yet the author writes simply, is
never rhetorical, and clearly labours to be temperate and exact. The
book is not impartial, sometimes it is palpably unfair, and now and
then it is impossibly fantastic. But at its best it comes nearer a
kind of genius than any war correspondence we remember.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 405. Mr. 18, ‘05. 800w.
=Young, Egerton Ryerson.= Hector my dog. $1.50. Wilde.
Hector grows very human to the animal lover as with a high degree of
intelligence he records his dog thoughts and narrates his Northland
adventures. Particularly interesting is the author’s suggestion that
the devotion and loyalty which a dog renders his master must be
preserved as a part of all good in the final reckoning.
* “Knows his subject and its surroundings thoroughly.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 90w.
* “He has written some excellent descriptions of sledge-trips and
other characteristic experiences of that frozen country, but his book,
as a whole, is marred by a touch of sentimentality and a tendency to
point a moral.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 718. N. 25, ‘05. 100w.
* “There is plenty of adventure and danger, animal jealousy and human
love. The book is pleasant—fascinating indeed—and morally healthy.”
+ =Spec.= 95: sup. 907. D. 2, ‘05. 60w.
=Young, Janet=, comp. Psychological yearbook. **$1. Elder.
Quotations showing the laws, the ways, the means, the methods, for
gaining lasting health, happiness, peace and prosperity.
=Young, Jeremiah Simeon.= Political and constitutional study of the
Cumberland road. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
“The introductory chapters on the early transportation difficulties
and the first roads to the West are a most convenient summary of that
interesting problem in our early economic history. The two following
chapters on the genesis of the Cumberland road, its location,
construction and administration, will be welcomed by everyone who has
had to lecture on the subject. The long constitutional controversy is
clearly outlined, taking up the question of eminent domain,
jurisdiction, Monroe’s veto, and the final surrender of the road to
the states through which the road passed.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“The treatment is in the main historical. The style of the author is
both good and bad. It is clear, but marred by numerous repetitions of
lines and even paragraphs, giving us the impression that the chapters
were written at widely separated times. There is, moreover, an
unfortunate failure of correspondence at times between the text and
citations. The book is a very readable and logical discussion of a
most interesting subject. It is marred, however, by certain faults of
style and inaccuracies in details.” Alonzo H. Tuttle.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 696. Ap. ‘05. 330w.
“This is an admirable little monograph, a source study of a
constitutional question of great historical significance. The
monographic study will greatly aid the general historian in getting a
sure grasp of the main questions involved.”
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 346. Mr. ‘05. 130w.
=Younghusband, Francis Edward.= Heart of a continent. *$2. Scribner.
This narrative of travels in Manchuria, across the Gobi desert, thru
the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Hunza, 1884-1894, was issued several
years ago, and is now republished in cheaper form, owing to the
renewed interest which recent events have awakened in both Colonel
Younghusband and the entire region traversed. At the time of this
expedition Manchuria was practically a closed country, Russia had not
thought of occupying it, and the account is one of thoro pioneer
explorations, of interesting experiences and observations on the
people and the general conditions. There are half a dozen
illustrations.
“For full details of their remarkable journey, Mr. James’s book must
be consulted; but the brief account of it given by Col. Younghusband
is sufficiently full for ordinary purposes, and is replete with both
interesting and valuable information.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 157. F. 23, ‘05. 1960w.
=Ystridde, G.= Three dukes. **$1.20. Putnam.
“A story portraying life among the upper classes of Russia. A pretty
English girl accepts the position as a governess to two grown
daughters of an eccentric Russian nobleman. The mother is very anxious
to get her daughters married. Three dukes are attracted by the beauty
of the governess and the fancied dowries of her pupils, but the path
of love is very rugged.”—Bookm.
“Nowhere is there a glimpse of the author’s self, the book is as free
from personal feeling and bias as a police report. She records what
she has seen and heard, and her photographs of scenes and people bear
the stamp of truth and individuality.”
— =Acad.= 68: 150. F. 18, ‘05. 230w.
“A vivacious and readable picture of Russian life, containing a good
many sharply drawn characters who sound as if they had human
prototypes.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 564. Je. ‘05. 50w.
“The genuineness of the local coloring is undeniable, and the deft
manipulation of both characters and incident shows unusual talent. The
book has a charm. The interest is kept up throughout.” W. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 38: 125. F. 16. ‘05. 210w.
“To an English speaking, American thinking reader much of it seems
futile and much else of it dull. Similarly all of it seems to lack
that sense of humor which is nothing more or less than a sense of
proportion.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 20. Ja. 14, ‘05. 400w.
Z
* =Zacher, Albert.= Rome as an art city. *$1. Scribner.
A volume in “The Langham series of art monographs.” “This little book
gives a rapid but comprehensive survey of the art of Rome, piloting
the reader with considerable skill through the successive
phases—classical, Christian, renaissance—down to the present day, and
leaving him at last in a position ‘to distinguish the characteristic
note in her art, and to divine the secret of its world-wide
reputation.’ ... The scheme of the book is suitably assisted by a few
photographs of typical buildings and pictures.”—Ath.
* “The general tone is modest.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 730. N. 25. 160w.
* “It is surprising to find the amount of information he has got into
this narrow space.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 408. N. 16, ‘05. 430w.
=Zangwill, Israel.= Celibates’ club, being the united stories of the
bachelors’ club and the old maids’ club. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Genial stories of how the old maids’ and bachelors’ clubs came to be
united. A dramatic critic married in order to have some one handy to
make use of the second complimentary ticket, and then the theatres
began to send but one ticket. An epicure married his bad cook that he
might be free “to hire a good one.” Young Dickray married the daughter
of his father’s ghost in a spirit of atonement; this is not as weird
as it sounds. There are many other stories in the same vein.
Reviewed by G. W. Adams.
+ — =Bookm.= 21: 312. My. ‘05. 520w.
“‘The celibates’ is not to be stolidly masticated—it is tabasco rather
than oatmeal porridge, and should be used accordingly.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 452. N. ‘05. 780w.
“The author’s humor is not all British any more than that of George
Bernard Shaw.”
+ — =Lit. D.= 31: 498. O. 7. ‘05. 340w.
“Is a collection of extravagant tales and character sketches. But the
book is no better than an exhibition of the journalistic talent for
writing up exhaustively from the slightest foundation of facts or
fancy.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 441. Je. 1, ‘05. 570w.
“It is clever—only too clever, witty, lively, cynical, even
sentimental. Yet, after its fashion, human also. Above all, it is Mr.
Zangwill’s own.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 194. Ap. 1, ‘05. 650w.
“Whimsicality too elaborate and often forced is made to take the place
of humor, with the result that the reader is often puzzled and
sometimes wearied.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 960. Ap. 15, ‘05. 80w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 716. My. 6, ‘05. 500w.
“All the stories abound in wit and humor in detail, and ... some of
the verses are brilliant.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 758. Je. ‘05. 220w.
=Ziémssen, Ludwig.= Johann Sebastian Bach; tr. from the German by George
P. Upton. **60c. McClurg.
The life of Bach, contrary to most artists’ careers, manifests no
repression of spontaneous, all-around development. “He was an
affectionate father, laboring manfully and incessantly to support a
large family; a good citizen ... a musician without an equal in the
profundity of his knowledge and the richness of his productions; the
founder of modern music, the master of the organ, a composer of the
highest forms of sacred music; a plain humble man.” This view of the
man fills the volume which belongs to “Life stories for young people.”
* “The story is well told, with commendable fidelity to fact, and the
translation is exceedingly good.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 100w.
=Zilliacus, Konni.= Russian revolutionary movement: a history of the
various uprisings from the beginning. *$2.50. Dutton.
“M. Zilliacus writes primarily for Finlanders, who have no à priori
sympathy with Russian democracy, and require to be convinced that the
cause of their nation is bound up with the larger cause of reform. He
therefore gives a summary of recent history, showing the steps in the
development of the autocracy, the consequent misgovernment, and the
elements in the state which have now been arrayed against it.”—Spec.
* “We are able for this and other reasons to commend this volume.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 142. Jl. 29. 560w.
“The account is of absorbing interest, and may well be read by all who
desire to obtain an inside view of the underlying causes of present
conditions in Russia.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 313. N. 16, ‘05. 400w.
* “He claims to have misrepresented no facts, and to have verified
them, so far as possible, by reference to other than revolutionary
sources, a claim which appears to us to be thoroughly well-founded.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 243. Jl. 28, ‘05. 580w.
“He frankly sympathizes with the revolutionists. But his general
statements are abundantly supported by specific facts.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 728. O. ‘05. 400w.
“A word of praise is due the unnamed translator, whose version is
smooth, flowing, and altogether readable.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 630. N. 11, ‘05. 220w.
“The book is conspicuous by a rare moderation of tone.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 152. Jl. 29, ‘05. 230w.
=Zimmer, George Frederick.= Mechanical handling of material. *$10. Van
Nostrand.
This is the first book written in English devoted to the subject of
mechanical loading and transportation of materials. It treats of
elevators and conveyors of various kinds, of ropeways and cableways,
grab buckets, dump cars, unloading by coal tips, automatic weighing
machines, floor and silo warehouses for grain, cantilever cranes, etc.
There are 542 illustrations.
“The scarcity of data and the apparent unreliability of some of the
data given form the most disappointing feature of this volume. There
are many otherwise good illustrations whose value is greatly reduced
by the absence of dimensions.”
+ — =Engin. N.= 53: 637. Je. 15, ‘05. 1240w.
“The book will be indispensable to all engineering firms, consulting
engineers, and architects who have to deal with this important
question.” T. H. B.
+ + + =Nature.= 72: 290. Jl. 27, ‘05. 810w.
=Ziwet, Alexander.= Elements of theoretical mechanics. *$4. Macmillan.
This is a revised edition of “An elementary treatise on theoretical
mechanics,” by the junior professor of mathematics in the University
of Michigan, and is intended especially for students of engineering.
Kinemetics, statics, and kinetics are the main divisions of the book,
which states in its preface: “This work is not a treatise on applied
mechanics, the application being merely used to illustrate the general
principles and to give the student an idea of the uses to which
mechanics can be put.”
“Is an excellent introduction to the science of analytical mechanics.
His exposition is in general sound and logical.” L. M. Hoskins.
+ + + =Science=, n. s. 21: 302. F. 24, ‘05. 1120w.
=Zola, Emile.= Selections; ed. by A. G. Cameron. *80c. Holt.
In choosing these selections the editor has endeavored to illustrate
Zola’s “patriotic, sociological, and descriptive sides, expressed in
the mastery of his style and literary workmanship.” The text includes
L’Attaque du Moulin, Le grand Michu, Le paradis des chats, Les Halles,
L’Ile du diable, and nine other selections. An English introduction,
notes and bibliography fits the book for student use.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 475. N. ‘05. 90w.
“It would have been better if Mr. Cameron had given the source from
which he took each of the pieces he has chosen.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 396. Je. 17, ‘05. 290w.
=Zollinger, Gulielma, pseud. (William Zachary Gladwin).= Widow
O’Callaghan’s boys. $1.50. McClurg.
Widow O’Callaghan’s boys have lost not a whit of their popularity
during the seven years since their first appearance. The brave
cheerful struggle of the mother in launching seven boys upon useful
careers is as refreshing and helpful as ever. Mrs. O’Callaghan brought
her boys up on the teaching that “The Lord niver puts little b’ys and
big jobs together. He gives the little b’y a chance at the little
jobs, and them as does the little jobs faithful gets to be able to be
the men that does big jobs easy.”
* + =Critic.= 47: 577. D. ‘05. 30w.
* “Quite inimitable in Mrs. O’Callahan’s Irish way of putting things,
which furnishes the salt to the solid nutriment of the story.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 150w.
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
1. Please note that the publisher split hyphenated last names. The
portion after the hyphen was listed before the forename. The
portion before the split was listed after the forenames with a
hyphen. E.g. E. Burton-Brown was listed as =Brown, E. Burton-.=
2. Removed the bold markup from book titles with no author listed. This
is to be consistent with book titles with authors listed. Also the
publisher was inconsistent in the book title markup--usually only
the first word but sometimes the entire title.
3. Included “and” in the authors bold markup to be consistent with
majority practice in this book.
4. Added missing “A” heading on p. 1.
5. Changed “feeling” to “feelings” on p. 4.
6. The initial digit in 940w on p. 11 was illegible
7. “Kryburg” on p. 31 is listed as “Kyrburg” in Wikipedia.
8. Removed the misplaced phrase “rank of the church” from p. 31.
9. The volume numbers are missing for the “Baltimore Sun” on pp. 44,
88, 212, 288, and 327.
10. Changed “take” to “taken” on p. 44.
11. Added “be” after “to” on p. 47.
12. Changed “Is” to “As” on p. 53.
13. Changed “con-methods” to “methods” on p. 54.
14. Changed “breath” to “breathe” on p. 68.
15. Added “, ‘05” after “Jl. 22” on p. 72.
16. Changed “become” to “becomes” on p. 82.
17. The volume number is missing for the “Boston Evening Transcript” on
p. 90.
18. Changed “is” to “as” on p. 91.
19. Changed “in” to “is” on p. 102.
20. Changed “fact” to “face” on p. 107.
21. Added “is” after “it” on p. 116.
22. Changed “come” to “came” on p. 124.
23. Changed “has” to “have” on p. 134.
24. The “Westminster Review” on p. 171 is missing date and number of
words.
25. On p. 177 there is some text missing between “hand” and “sovereign”.
The missing text may be “handled that the” per Internet.
26. Changed “view” to “(Review” on p. 192.
27. Changed “his” to “her” on p. 214.
28. Changed “with” for “will” on p. 231.
29. The last two digits of the “Nation” number of words entry on p. 284
were missing.
30. Changed “passed” to “pass” on p. 322.
31. Reversed the two lines after “the student was the prevailing idea in
Mr. Stur-” on p. 338.
32. Changed “a count” to “account” on p. 357.
33. Reversed the two lines after “It is as a study of human nature
exposed to” on p. 363.
34. Changed “parts” to “part” on p. 375.
35. Removed duplicate second “Spec.” review on p. 376.
36. Changed “or” to “of” on p. 379.
37. Silently corrected typographical errors.
38. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.
39. Did not use a hanging indent in book description in text version.
This is to aid with electronic processing described below.
40. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.
41. Enclosed bold font in =equals=.
42. Enclosed spaced font in ~tildes~.
The structure is
a) information about the book, b) publisher's blurb (or
excerpt from a review), c) review information including
rating.
The text has been formatted to hopefully make it easier for
a programmer to extract the data.
Book information
Are preceeded by two blank lines.
Are not indented in order to assist with extraction.
Generally follow the format: =Author.= Book title. Price.
Publisher.
Some listings did not include an author. As previously
mentioned, bold format was removed form the book titles to
assist with extraction.
Authors titles and honorifics were placed within the bold
(=) markup.
Person job titles such as editor or translator were placed
outside the bold markup just before the book title.
Occasionally additional information such as translator or
editor are included after the book title and before the
price.
Many listings are cross references (“See”) to another place
in this digest.
Publisher's blurb (or excerpt from a review)
Are wrapped paragraphs indented two spaces.
If there are two paragraphs following the book information
then the first one is generally the publishers blurb.
Subsequent paragraphs until the next book are exerpts from
reviews.
Review information including rating was formatted as follows
Asterisk (if any) indented one space.
Plus and minus ratings (if any) occupying the fourth through
eighth positions, right justified.
Abbreviated magazine title enclosed in equals ‘=’ signs
beginning at the tenth position then the reference data
follows.
In the reference to a magazine, the first number refers to
the volume, the next to the page and the letters to the
date.(Quoted from Other Abbreviation section.)
Word count (if any) is included as the last item of data in
the reference.
Book information extraction regex example:
Probably needs to be a two step process:
Step 1 extract the works where the author is listed, for
example:
regex: (?<=\n{3})[\* ]{0,2}\=([^=]+?)\=
output: Author: $1
Step 2 extract the works without listed authors, e.g.:
regex: (?<=\S\n{3})[\* ]{0,2}([A-Z][^\=\d\$\*†]+?) [\*\†\d]
output: Title: $1
The full solution of capturing the title and publisher are
left to the user.