8–17543.
Thirteen stories of crime. “As assistant to Mr. Jerome Mr. Train has
had great opportunities to meet interesting criminals and know their
careers. The stories are guaranteed true to the facts. They are very
interesting and valuable.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
* * * * *
“The style is interesting and the tone is wholesome.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 224. Je. ’08. ✠
“The author is a good story-teller.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 629. N. ’08. 40w.
=Tratman, E. E. Russell.= Railway track and track work. 3d ed.
*$3.50. Eng. news.
8–23881.
“Mr. E. E. Russell Tratman ... not only treats this subject in an
exhaustive and comprehensive manner, but provides a most valuable
addition to the literature on the American railway track.” (Engin. N.)
“This new edition contains some fifty pages and several illustrations
more than the previous edition. There are two more chapters, some of
the subjects having gained so in importance as to demand more
exhaustive treatment and some of the combinations of subjects, treated
in one chapter, being changed.” (Engin. D.)
* * * * *
“Its comprehensive and representative treatment of the subject is most
commendable and assures the book of a continued recognition as the
standard authority on railway track work.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 300. S. ’08. 1350w.
“Outside of the official publications of the American engineering and
maintenance of way association, there is no single work which contains
between its covers such a broad and comprehensive treatment of the
subject.” J: F. Wallace.
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 537. N. 12, ’08. 340w.
“There is not anything written in the book which a railway engineer
would desire to have left out.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 567. N. 14, ’08. 540w.
=Travis, Elma Allen.= The cobbler. $1.25. Outing pub.
8–17997.
In the main this is a character sketch of a will o’ the wisp youth, a
victim of his temperamental moods. He is a poet, a dreamer and an
irresponsible lover whose life, a thing of shreds and patches, is
symbolized by the cobbler heritage transmitted by his father. It is a
life abounding in atmosphere whose structural poise and practicality
it becomes a woman’s mission to supply.
* * * * *
“The story is told gracefully, and is unburdened by moralizing or
flippancy. The eminence of the hero seems to consist far less clearly
in what he does or is than in what his creator says of him.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 76. Jl. 23, ’08. 600w.
“Barring the occasional evidences of feminine pedantism, the style is
admirable, and the author has a fine gift for descriptive writing. It
is a book which should win success, for it reflects knowledge and
thought.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 358. Je. 20. ’08. 380w.
=Travis, Thomas.= Young malefactor: a study in juvenile delinquency;
with an introd. by Judge Ben B. Lindsey. **$1.50. Crowell.
8–12983.
A book which no library can overlook. The introduction contributed by
the widely-known authority on children’s courts emphasizes the
necessity for a better understanding of the subject of juvenile
delinquency. The body of the book resting upon facts collected during
six years of investigation in Europe and America urges that inasmuch
as the child criminal of to-day becomes the man criminal of to-morrow,
the important task is to reach the child thru study of individual
cases and causes.
* * * * *
“The bibliography has important defects, but indicates significant
books. Apprentice work, but work full of promise.” C. R. Henderson.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 130. Jl. ’08. 90w.
“A thoroughly scientific study. Clearly written, well arranged,
reliable in its statements, and temperate in tone.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 213. Je. ’08. ✠
“The style is very diffuse, there is a decided lack of logical order,
and repetitions are numerous.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 629. N. ’08. 200w.
“This is a thorough, scholarly, honest work. Its importance consists
not only in what it teaches but also in that it shows us the
limitations of our knowledge of one of the great vital questions of
the hour.” R. E. Bisbee.
+ =Arena.= 40: 386. O. ’08. 530w.
“Mr. Travis’ book is a most able work and, considering the importance
of the subject, it fills a much needed want in literature.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 401. Je. ’08. 400w.
“May be commended to superintendents and principals of schools, to
judges in the criminal courts, and, indeed, and unhappily, to not a
few parents.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 522. D. ’08. 40w.
“A volume which will enable a more careful study of causes of juvenile
delinquency and dependency, and consequently of better trained
application in the development of these youths toward straight paths
in life. It is regrettable that the author has not put his matter in
somewhat better style, so as to be attractive to the general reader
and to those who are not students.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 491. Ag. 27, ’08. 240w.
“A good study.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 636. N. ’08. 280w.
“It contains much trustworthy information usually couched in simple,
direct language, and seldom swamped under the purposeless erudition
which Mr. Travis occasionally displays.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 262. S. 17, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 170w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 256. Ag. ’08. 40w.
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 477. O. 3, ’08. 260w.
* =Tremayne, Eleanor E.= First governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of
Austria. **$3. Putnam.
A biography painstakingly produced from reliable material for which
Mr. Hume, editor of the “Romantic history series,” to which this
volume belongs, writes an introduction containing a resumé of certain
letters throwing light upon the life of Margaret of Austria.
* * * * *
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 606. N. 14. 1100w.
“Mrs. Tremayne’s biography is well written and interesting, but she
lacks the vitalizing, constructive imagination which enables the
historical writer to make past scenes and events and long dead men and
women live again, in all their native warmth and color, before the
reader’s eyes.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 640. O. 31, ’08. 380w.
=Trevelyan, Sir George Otto.= American revolution. pt. 3. *$2.50.
Longmans.
=pt. 3.= Covers Howe’s inactivity during the early months of 1777 and
his subsequent capture of Philadelphia; Burgoyne’s long march from
Canada and his enforced surrender at Saratoga; Washington’s
tribulations at Valley Forge during the dismal winter of 1778;
Clinton’s evacuation of Philadelphia and his successful retreat to New
York despite the obstacles placed in his way by the American army at
Monmouth; and concludes with the steps that led up to the alliance of
1778 with France.
* * * * *
Reviewed by John Bigelow, jr.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 874. Jl. ’08. 1200w. (Review of pt. 3.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 108. Ap. ’08. (Review of pt. 3.)
“The book is scholarly and free from vulgar errors of fact, and will
have a permanent place in the literature of the subject both for the
scholar and the more general reader.” C. R. Fish.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 532. Mr. ’08. 450w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“Hardly a page is to be found in the volume where a careful
proof-reader would fail to mark peculiarities, or even errors.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 541. N. 2. 2200w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“The most touchy of patriots can find nothing to complain of in the
treatment measured out in this volume to the worthy American leaders
and the Americans as a nation.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 86: 399. D. ’07. 1150w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“Sir George Trevelyan possesses to a peculiar degree the art of
portrait-painting, and no more human or satisfying description of Howe
has probably ever been written than that presented in these pages.” H.
E. Egerton.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 167. Ja. ’08. 1100w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“It ranks equally high as history and literature.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 586. Mr. 12, ’08. 550w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“The rounded and highly sustained style of the earlier volumes, which
some have likened to that of Trevelyan’s uncle, Lord Macaulay, is
maintained, and there is just enough of the British point of view to
give new zest to a subject so frequently treated by our own writers.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 96. Ja. 18, ’08. 600w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“If Sir George scarcely has that rare talent which can take a
wilderness of scattered and rather disorganized military actions, and
show plainly what was done in each case, and why, and with what
result, he can rise admirably to the big situations where the
professional interest is lost in the greatness of the human tragedy.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 297. O. 4, ’07. 1450w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“His point of view is so catholic, his reading so wide, and his likes
and dislikes so positive that he confers upon the story a semblance of
novelty, due to his own personal qualities as a writer.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 194. F. 27, ’08. 1120w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“It is obvious from this that Trevelyan is not always a safe guide,
and that the reader must make allowances for the personal equation.
His work, though ranking high as a piece of literature, is but a
slight contribution to historical knowledge.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 741. N. 23, ’07. 270w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“It is as interesting as Lord Macaulay’s ‘History of England.’”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 42. My. 2, ’08. 500w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“Those who have read the fascinating earlier volumes of Trevelyan’s
‘American revolution’ will find in this new volume the same quaint and
personal touch, the same exquisite satire, the same easy mastery of
what the author knows about his subject, and epigrams fitted as nicely
as ever into the serious portions of the text. There is, too, the old
way of rambling, which carries the reader irresistibly along, but just
as surely causing him to lose the logical development of the story.”
C. H. Vantyne.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 134. Mr. ’08. 950w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“The book is truly a Washingtoniad.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 490. Jl. ’08. 570w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“This is the best of the four published volumes of Sir George
Trevelyan’s history.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 3. O. 19, ’07. 1250w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“Sir George Trevelyan proves himself an admirable military historian,
showing merits of lucidity, arrangement, and criticism which his
earlier work has not prepared us for. It is true that he has lost the
charm of his first manner, with its astounding plentitude of lightly
borne knowledge and its allusive grace of style, but he has acquired
another kind of charm.”
+ + =Spec.= 99. 710. N. 9, ’07. 1720w. (Review of pt. 3.)
+ =Yale R.= 17: 355. N. ’08. 330w. (Review of pt. 3.)
=Trevena, John.= Furze the cruel. †$1.50. Moffat.
“Furze,” “Heather” and “Granite” are the titles of a contemplated
trilogy. Furze symbolizes cruelty, heather endurance, and granite
strength. This first volume “is a strenuous upheaval of the mire of
the moors.” The flesh and blood characters include a quixotic boy, a
girl of doubtful origin, the half-witted Mary and Peter Tavy, a
vice-sodden deacon and his victim, the simple, dull Thomasine.
* * * * *
“Since Charles Kingsley’s ‘Yeast’ we cannot recall any picture of
rural life in England that approaches within any measurable distance
of this ghastly description of the Dartmoor peasant. It is undoubtedly
a great book—almost a masterpiece.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 66. O. 26, ’07. 550w.
“The characters live and move, and are so nicely balanced in their
relations as to make them seem the result of their environment.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 683. N. 30. 170w.
“There is good reason to believe that Mr. Trevena is one of the few
men of real promise among the new recruits of English fiction.” F: T.
Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 304. My. ’08. 650w.
“He strips bare the ugliness of Dartmoor life with a merciless candor
that shows too much schooling from Zola, Ibsen, and Tolstoy.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 287. Mr. 26, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Trevena’s handling of Thomasine’s misfortunes is Zolaesque in
treatment, and her scene with the brutal Pendoggat suggests a page of
‘La terre’ in its realism.” Lewis Melville.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 157. Mr. 21, ’08. 1650w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 767. Je. ’08. 1000w.
=Treves, Sir Frederick.= Cradle of the deep: an account of a voyage
to the West Indies. *$4. Dutton.
8–21129.
Beginning with Barbados, the author visits in turn the islands of the
West Indies. “Everywhere against the back drop furnished by the
present scene Sir Frederick throws all sorts of pictures from the
magic lantern slides of history and legend.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Buccaneers, explorers, and great captains, Dampier, Hawkins, Drake,
Rodney, and Nelson are among the dramatic personae of the story he has
to tell, and the incidents alternate between the convulsions of
nature—he has a vivid account of Kingston after the earthquake—and the
crash of great fleets in the struggle for world empire.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“This book is, of its kind, excellent. We note a few small
inaccuracies in the author’s account of Capt. Kidd’s voyages.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 782. Je. 27. 1100w.
“If the reader takes it up for what it is, a rambling descriptive
account of a recent voyage in the West Indies, written at leisure and
with great gusto and packed with historical and romantic anecdote, he
may spend a very pleasant hour.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 237. S. 10, ’08. 400w.
“He has read widely and he has read in a spirit which enables him to
make the record of his course as different from a guide-book as
possible.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 460. Ag. 22, ’08. 930w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 509. O. ’08. 90w.
“It is the work of a keen observer who is able to express his thoughts
in picturesque English.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 794. Je. 20, ’08. 280w.
* =Trowbridge, John.= Story of a wireless telegraph boy. †$1.25.
Houghton.
8–26832.
The exciting story of a Russian boy who fled from Russia with his
father and physics teacher when it is discovered that they are
promoting revolutionary plots by means of wireless telegraphy.
* * * * *
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 386. D. ’08. 40w.
=Trowbridge, William R. H.= Mirabeau, the demi-god, being the true
and romantic story of his life and adventures. *$3.75. Scribner.
7–41576.
A eulogistic sketch of Mirabeau in which the author calls Mirabeau a
“demi-god,” a “hero” and states that he prefers “to see in him only
his noble and what he believed to be his fundamental self.” “The
greatness of Mirabeau is displayed during the last period of his life,
and not in his love affairs and low intrigues. To justify his title,
Mr. Trowbridge should have passed lightly over Mirabeau’s early years
and filled his canvas with the dramatic scenes of the national
assembly in which Mirabeau showed himself truly great. In giving but
seventy pages to this important period, he had little opportunity to
justify his title.” (Am. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“The book is not, then, a serious biography, nor is it a good
historical novel.”
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 902. Jl. ’08. 650w.
“Will satisfy the class of readers whose higher education is being
taken care of by the writers of Sunday supplements.”
− =Nation.= 87: 140. Ag. 13, ’08. 300w.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 387. Jl. 11, ’08. 1150w.
“Is an attempt to strike a happy mean between a novel and a biography,
and is not altogether successful.”
− + =Sat. R.= 105: 601. My. 9, ’08. 270w.
“The exaggeration and disorder of Mirabeau’s nature seem in many
respects to have infected his latest biographer.”
− =Spec.= 100: 379. Mr. 7, ’08. 450w.
=Trowbridge, William R. H.= Seven splendid sinners. **$4.50.
Brentano’s.
The lives of the Duchess of Chateauroux, Duchess of Kendal, Catherine
II of Russia, Duchess of Kingston, Countess de Lamotte, Duchess de
Polignac, and Lola Montez.
* * * * *
“A handsome volume against which much might be written without
diminishing the large number of readers that such a book is certain to
attract.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 472. O. 17. 850w.
“The sketches in no wise fall behind the initial promise.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 595. O. 24, ’08. 570w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
=Trubetzkoi, Amelie (R.) C.= Golden rose. †$1.25. Harper.
8–15326.
The struggle of a woman to possess the golden rose in place of the
ordinary painted apple of Eden. A woman is portrayed who having had an
unhappy marriage none the less believes in love, but love idealized
and purified of its material association, too exalted to permit of a
fulfilment in marriage. To her wooer she offers her golden rose which
he fondles for a time ecstatically. When he would exchange it for the
painted apple she refuses and so sacrifices her material happiness for
a principle’s sake.
* * * * *
“Miss Rives commands a lush and poetic diction. The book is keyed a
good third above concert pitch.” E: C. Marsh.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 413. Je. ’08. 900w.
“The wickedness of such books as the ‘Golden rose’ is that they appeal
to an element of insincerity in women readers, especially young women
readers. The one really vigorous and fine thing in this story is her
description of a summer storm in Virginia. The rest of it should never
have been written.”
− − + =Ind.= 65: 153. Jl. 16, ’08. 780w.
“On the whole, the abnormal, however loftily treated, is
unsatisfactory.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 493. My. 28, ’08. 300w.
“There are all tastes in the world, and love is such a universal
sentiment that the book appeals even to those who cannot take the
author’s point of view.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 329. Je. 13, ’08. 450w.
“A charmingly told emotional story.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 761. Je. ’08. 40w.
“The little book is well written and attractive, and the pictures of
southern life charmingly drawn.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 64. Jl. 11, ’08. 130w.
=Trubetzkoi, Prince Michael.= Out of chaos: a personal story of the
revolution in Russia; tr. by Edith Livermore. $2. Longmans.
8–17556.
From an investigation into the deplorable condition of the Russian
peasantry who pay most of the taxes—nobility, officials and clergy
being exempt—the author became identified with the revolutionary
movement. His narrative of the unendurable conditions in Russia, the
suffering caused by them and their great injustice to human activity
is the straightforward account of a man who is yielding up wealth and
position for the salvation of the masses thru whom, he maintains,
oppression must eventually cease.
* * * * *
“The extreme simplicity of a boyish narrative is disconcerting to the
reader of the earlier pages of this book, but if he has the courage to
go on he will be rewarded for his pains.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 549. N. 2. 200w.
“It will do no one any harm to read this book, and it is possible that
even we, here in America, can learn very much from it—more than we are
likely to learn from anything we are ourselves writing in the cause of
humanity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 57. F. 1, ’08. 680w.
“This is a vivid picture of the difficulties which a young Russian,
who is not content with accepting things as they are in Russia, is
sure to encounter.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 1100. D. 28, ’07. 340w.
* =Trubetzkoi, Pierre.= Passer-by. †$1.50. Doubleday.
A story which portrays the complications resulting from a business
man’s unintentional neglect of his wife and the advantage taken of her
loneliness by two foreigners who make love to her.
* * * * *
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 604. N. 14. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“It is done with remarkable skill and knowledge of human nature and
unusual artistic insight.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 770. D. 12, ’08. 240w.
=Tschudi, Clara.= Ludwig the second, king of Bavaria; tr. from the
Norwegian by Ethel Harriet Hearn. *$2.50. Dutton.
8–18336.
The life story of a half-witted ruler. “He was the pupil and supporter
of Döllinger, the patron and intimate of Richard Wagner; and his
wonderful palaces, his queer habits, his associations with
‘Lohengrin,’ his tragic and in a way mysterious end, all help to
surround him with an unusual, if unedifying atmosphere.” (Nation.)
“The real value of such a volume as this is found not so much in the
narration of certain romantic episodes in Louis’s life as in the
incidental light thrown upon the development of the Bavarians
themselves.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“One or two slight slips we have noticed in the text. Miss Hearn’s
translation is far from satisfactory.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 153. F. 8. 1400w.
“The sole interest of the book for normal persons will be in the
chapters dealing with Ludwig’s service to Wagner.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 267. Jl. 30, ’08. 240w.
“It will serve its purpose for the general public.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 465. My. 21, ’08. 200w.
“It is well and readably compiled, but, as usual, has suffered in the
translation.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 230w.
“A rather gossipy biography.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 125. My. 16, ’08. 200w.
“Full of interesting personal anecdotes.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 255. Ag. ’08. 30w.
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 601. My. 9, ’08. 250w.
“The narrative is compact, and as complete as is necessary, and if it
is not very penetrating, it is interesting because Ludwig’s history is
interesting.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 188. F. 1, ’08. 2000w.
=Turley, Charles.= Playmate. il. †$1.50. Dutton.
A wholesome spontaneous book which “relates how the ‘playmate,’ a
grown-up of thirty-four years, and his half-dozen godchildren, whose
ages range, we take it, from eight to eleven, form a club, among
themselves for the better enjoyment of life, and thereafter hold
various meetings, discussions, and excursions.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Intended to be a very amusing book, but is only rather so.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 271. D. 21, ’07. 50w.
“The whole thing is charmingly done, for Mr. Turley has a thorough
understanding of the juvenile point of view, and presents it with an
unobtrusive art that is altogether admirable.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 726. D. 7. 250w.
“Is written with a gentle sense of humor and an appreciation of the
vivacities and whimsicalities of childhood.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 222. Ap. 11, ’08. 120w.
=Sat. R.= 104: sup. 5. D. 7, ’07. 100w.
“There is the same kindly humor, the same intimate appreciation of the
boyish standpoint, the same easy, unaffected style [that one finds in
‘Maitland Major’].”
+ =Spec.= 99: 873. N. 30, ’07. 200w.
=Turneaure, Frederick Eugene, and Maurer, Edward Rose.= Principles
of reinforced concrete construction. $3. Wiley.
7–36223.
Principles of mechanics underlying the design of reinforced concrete
and the result of available tests of these principles are presented
here. “About three-quarters of the book is devoted to development of
methods of design and the remainder to very condensed descriptions of
recent American constructions in reinforced concrete.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 85. Mr. ’08.
“Apart from such points of minor detail as have been mentioned above,
it is difficult to see how, in the present state of the art, a better
and safer exposition could have been made, and the task was not a
small one nor the dangers few. The book will be found indispensable by
all workers in reinforced-concrete design. The authors have performed
a distinct service to the profession, and are to be congratulated upon
their success.” L. J. Johnson.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 651. D. 12, ’07. 910w.
+ =Nature.= 77: sup. 6. Mr. 5, ’08. 750w.
* =Turneaure, Frederick Eugene, and Russell, Harry Luman.= Public
water-supplies: requirements, resources, and the construction of works;
with a chapter on pumping machinery by D. W. Mead. 2d. ed., rev. and
enl. $5. Wiley.
8–25128.
A thoroly revised and enlarged edition, treating the subject as
follows: Pt. 1 contains seven chapters on the quantity and quality of
water required for public supplies, the sources of supply, evaporation
and percolation, the examination and quality of water, and the
relations between communicable diseases and water supplies. Pt. 2 is
on the construction of water works.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 298. D. ’08.
“The book is a most excellent elementary summary of the fundamentals
underlying the subject, and is altogether up to the high standard
established by the author in the longer work on ‘Public water
supplies’ written by him in collaboration with H. L. Russell.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 418. Ap. ’08. 230w.
“The lapse of seven years, during which no competing work has
appeared, and the revision which has now been made, establish the book
more firmly than ever in its position among American texts on
water-supply.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 541. N. 12, ’08. 670w.
“Great progress has been made of late in the purification of water,
and the book is well up to date in this important branch, imperfectly
covered in most general books on water supply. It will be difficult to
mention any detail of water works design not covered in this admirable
book, which has its value materially enhanced by a short bibliography
appended to each chapter.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 594. N. 21, ’08. 340w.
=Tuttle, Hudson.= Arcana of nature, or, The history and laws of
creation; with an introd. by Emmet Densmore. *$1.50. Stillman pub.
8–31129.
A reprint of a book that was written about fifty years ago by a farmer
boy of seventeen, together with an introduction giving an account of
the phenomena of its authorship, and the “superior condition” of
Andrew Jackson Davis, Emanuel Swedenborg, and other psychics. The
interest attached to Hudson Tuttle’s work lies mainly in the psychic
influence that was brought to bear upon his writing it, a matter
worthy the consideration of students of psychical research.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 660. N. 7, ’08. 160w.
=Tweedie, Ethel B.= Hyde Park; its history and romance. **$4. Pott.
8–34713.
A book of memories which are associated with Hyde park’s history for
four centuries, during which time the fashionable resort of today has
evolved from a royal hunting ground. The narrative covers the uses
made of this park, the associations with social and political life of
England, the duels fought there, and the hangings at Tyburn. The
volume is illustrated from old engravings.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Tweedie has brought together a good many interesting facts
relating to London’s chief park, and has produced a volume of easy and
agreeable reading; but it is rather a collection of scraps than a
consecutive history.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 118. Ag. 1. 640w.
“While it cannot be regarded as anything but a compilation, it is the
work of a compiler who had the good grace to saturate herself in the
atmosphere of her subject before jotting down a line, with the result
that the book, even to its most colourless parts, bears the
unmistakable marks of zest and freshness.” Firmin Dredd.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 272. N. ’08. 1500w.
“Its merit is that it is written in an easy and attractive style, and
that it contains reproductions of a lot of old prints that are very
interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 200w.
“Mrs. Alec Tweedie has given us a pleasant book, full of anecdote and
description.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 711. My. 2, ’08. 340w.
=Tyler, John Mason.= Man in the light of evolution. **$1.25.
Appleton.
8–29749.
From a biologist’s point of view, yet intended for lay readers, this
study is concerned with the light that evolution throws upon the
problems of man’s moral, religious, social and family progress. The
chapters are as follows: Evolution and Darwinism; Stages of human
evolution; Family and society; The logic of evolution; The survival of
the fittest; Evolution and faith; Racial experience; Conformity to
environment; and Social environment. Bibliography and index.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 628. O. 24, ’08. 20w.
“An important and excellent book, this, and in a line not often taken
by a professor of biology.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 594. N. 14, ’08. 160w.
“Professor Tyler is to be thanked for presenting thus a wholesome
picture of the progress of the ages from a somewhat new standpoint.”
H. W. Conn.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 844. D. 11, ’08. 600w.
=Tyler, Lyon Gardiner.= Williamsburg, the old colonial capital.
$2.50. Lyon G. Tyler, Richmond, Va.
7–38428.
A complete history of the town from its first settlement, full
information concerning “public buildings, political and social
conditions, and much interesting data in reference to the prominent
families of Virginia.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“President Tyler has given us the best and fullest account of
‘ancient’ Williamsburg and its fine old college that we are likely to
have in years to come.” W: E. Dodd.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 650. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“Bears the stamp of careful research, and is evidently the work of a
scholar as well as of an enthusiastic Virginian.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 100. F. 22, ’08. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 115. Ja. ’08. 170w.
“Dr. Tyler has collected a quantity of facts about the place and its
people. And quite worth collecting they were, though, of course, the
interest is mainly local.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 305. F. 22, ’08. 250w.
=Tyndale, Walter.= Below the cataracts. il. *$3.50. Lippincott.
8–5821.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“Is written in good English and published in good print with numerous
and prettily coloured illustrations. Remember this is a guide-book—a
very luxurious one to those going to Egypt, and a well illustrated one
to those who don’t or can’t go there.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 296. D. 28, ’07. 630w.
“Mr. Tyndale has done well himself to write the letterpress required
as a setting for these Egyptian pictures; for he has thus secured a
harmony rare in this sort of publication, in which the artists’s work
and the author’s often cry against each other. This pleasant
narrative, taken in conjunction with the pictures, gives a life-like
impression of Egypt which works more pretentious have utterly failed
to convey. We note some errors.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 774. D. 14. 420w.
“The work of an artist possessing not only technical ability, but a
facile pen. To visitors of the Metropolitan museum in New York his
text will have a special interest.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 224. Mr. 5, ’08. 520w.
“He writes simply and naturally, giving for the most part an account
of his own experiences, and what he writes is consequently pleasant to
read.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 341. Mr. 14, ’08. 1000w.
=Tyrrell, George.= Medievalism: a reply to Cardinal Mercier. *$1.25.
Longmans.
W8–175.
“Last Lent Cardinal Mercier issued a Pastoral to the diocese of
Malines in which he condemned the errors of modernism; it was a
document of no great ability, and its interest for English readers lay
mainly in the fact that it branded Father Tyrrell as a typical
Modernist. Father Tyrrell has not unnaturally taken up the gauntlet,
and he now gives Cardinal Mercier his opinion of him, of the Roman
church, and of the Modernist movement, with great freedom and at
considerable length.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 340w.
“Personally courteous to the Cardinal, this reply is a fine and manly
specimen of British straight-hitting at the power that backs him.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 364. O. 17, ’08. 200w.
“We think that this reply would have gained in power had it been more
restrained, and had the author been content to explain and defend his
own position without denouncing the government and morality of Rome,
or holding up to scorn the weaker paragraphs of the Cardinal’s
pastoral.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 426. O. 3, ’08. 360w.
“In more than one respect ‘Medievalism’ may be compared to Newman’s
‘Apologia’; in its occasion, its fine literary form, and its crushing
polemic it recalls that famous work.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 329. S. 5, ’08. 1800w.
U
=Underwood, Joseph Harding.= Distribution of ownership. (Columbia
university studies in history, economics and public law.) pa. *$1.50.
Longmans.
8–832.
“Dr. Underwood attempts to give the history of ownership from the most
primitive times, thru the eras of Hebrew, Greek, Roman and Teutonic
civilizations, to the present day conception of corporate ownership
and the beginnings of a return to restrictions of individual
ownership, not only of land, but also of chattles.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“It is to be regretted that it is not written in a clearer and more
readable style, and that it is marred by a number of historical errors
which, while perhaps not of serious consequence to the substance of
the work, shake the reader’s confidence in its accuracy.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 435. Ag. 20, ’08. 370w.
“He makes indiscriminate use of a variety of works, good, bad, and
indifferent, upon economics, jurisprudence, and sociology, but nowhere
shows a firm grasp of his subject.”
− =Nation.= 87: 493. N. 19, ’08. 450w.
“Without proposing any concrete reforms, and weakened at times by an
unjudicial impatience, it at least indicates valid reasons for
cheerfulness and confidence.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 323. F. 8, ’08. 380w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 383. Mr. ’08. 60w.
=Unwin, William Cawthorne.= Treatise on hydraulics. *$4.25.
Macmillan.
W8–47.
A thorogoing class text-book as well as a work of reference. The
chapters are as follows: Properties of fluids, Distribution of
pressure, Principles of hydraulics, Discharge from orifices, Notches
and weirs, Compressible fluids, Fluid friction, Flow in pipes,
Distribution of water, Later investigations of flow in pipes, Flow of
compressible fluids in pipes, Uniform flow of water in canals, and
conduits, Gaging of streams, and Impact and reaction of fluids.
* * * * *
“Considered as a whole, the treatment, from the scientific point of
view, is terse, accurate and concise, but the many admirers of
Professor Unwin will close the book with a feeling of disappointment
that the writing of it has been permitted to partake of the nature of
pastime rather than of strenuous work.” G. S. Williams.
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 77. Ja. 16, ’08. 2930w.
“The book will answer the expectations of all but the most critical,
for the mistakes, in it are very few and refer mainly to experimental
results with which American readers are apparently more familiar than
the author.”
+ + − =Engin. Rec.= 57: 111. Ja. 25, ’08. 960w.
=Updike, Wilkins.= History of the Episcopal church in Narragansett,
R. I., including a history of other Episcopal churches in the
state; 2d. ed. ed. by Daniel Goodwin. 3v. *$15. Updike.
8–266.
A revision of a work appearing in 1847. “Dr. Goodwin has retained the
text of the original work in its entirety, merely making necessary
corrections and dividing into chapters. The addition of new matter he
has made in the form of notes, segregated in the back of each volume,
and bulking as large as the original text. The book contains a history
of the Episcopal church in Narragansett and of other Episcopal
churches in Rhode Island, and of all the principal families of that
region, a transcript of the parish register, and reprints of many
interesting old documents, letters and diaries.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Dr. Goodwin’s editing of the present edition shows his eminent
fitness for the work.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 72. Jl. 23, ’08. 350w.
“The work throws so much light upon the social and ecclesiastical
history of Rhode Island in the eighteenth century, and gives so many
intimate, self-made pictures of the life of the time that it will be
sure of a warm welcome from all students of that period.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 204. Ap. 11, ’08. 370w.
Upson, Arthur Wheelock. Tides of spring, and other poems. $1. Small.
8–3140.
The titular piece is a brief one-act drama for whose theme Mr. Upson
“has gone to Scottish history, that almost unworked dramatic quarry;
and about a picturesque incident in the early life of Malcolm
Ceannmor, one of the ancient Scottish kings, has created an idyl of
youth.... The contrast between the cautious wisdom of experience and
the daring intuition of youth lies the philosophical motive of the
play.” (N. Y. Times.) The volume also contains a group of lyrics to
friends.
* * * * *
“Mr. Upson’s lines are full of germinal thoughts.” J. B. Rittenhouse.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 196. Ap. 11, ’08. 700w.
=Upson, Henry Swift.= Insomnia and nerve strain. *$1.50. Putnam.
8–18289.
A discussion which urges physicians to hunt for a physical basis in
the cause of mania, melancholia and dementia precox. The author’s main
contention, supported by innumerable cases, is that the nerve strain
of those cases almost always associated with insomnia is not
degenerate and is not incurable. He describes in this connection the
action of the nervous system, in vascular control, in inhibition,
nutrition and shock; and he formulates the difference between vital
and non-vital matter, and between nerve cells and lower tissues.
* * * * *
“The author’s views concerning the action of the nervous system are
not altogether clear and rest upon an interpretation of nervous
phenomena which few students of these subjects are ready to accept.”
− =Nation.= 87: 145. Ag. 13, ’08. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 448. Ag. 15, ’08. 400w.
“A very wilderness of words and well up to the high standard of
obscurity adopted by writers on psychology.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 306. S. 5, ’08. 150w.
=Upton, George Putnam.= Musical memories. *$2.75. McClurg.
8–30387.
“The ‘memories’ relate to those stars, of various magnitudes, and now
chiefly extinct, that were in their glory, on the operatic stage and
in the concert hall in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and
that cast some rays of their effulgence on the Chicago of that
period.” (Dial.) Patti, Ole Bull, Wieniawsky, Rubinstein, Christine
Nilsson and Theodore Thomas are among the celebrities who call back
from the past pleasant reminiscences. Five chapters treat of the
history of musical societies in Chicago, beginning as far back as the
year 1833.
* * * * *
“Professional criticisms and judgments add to the value of the book,
and there are many amusing anecdotes and crisp characterizations.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 298. D. ’08.
“A book of unusual interest to those of his own community, and hardly
less attractive to music-lovers and readers generally.” P. F.
Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 206. O. 1, ’08. 2200w.
“Mr. Upton’s book is one of the most valuable contributions to
American musical history ever issued, and the numerous personal
sketches and anecdotes interspersed make it as interesting as a novel
to music lovers.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 367. O. 15, ’08. 1100w.
“The ‘memories’ are on the whole entertaining. There are people and
things about whom and which Mr. Upton feels impelled to write when he
has little or nothing to say; some of his critical remarks will call
forth doubt or dissent.” R: Aldrich.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 543. O. 3, ’08. 950w.
=Upton, George Putnam.= Standard concert guide: a handbook of the
standard symphonies, oratorios, cantatas and symphonic poems for
the concert goer. $1.75. McClurg.
8–23575.
A combination and condensation of the author’s “Standard oratorios,”
“Standard symphonies,” and “Standard cantatas” in a single volume for
concert and library purposes. New matter has been added to bring it
down to date, including notices of works by Brücker, Cowen, Dvorák,
Elgar, Franck, Mackenzie, Parker, Parry, Sinding, Richard Strauss, and
Tchaikovsky. Contains portraits of the composers included.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 266. N. ’08. ✠
=Dial.= 45: 120. S. 1, ’08. 50w.
“[The reader] will be puzzled only by one strange thing. In the Index
reference is made to ‘Bürckner.’ His real name is Bruckner.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 321. O. 1, ’08. 300w.
“The index appears to be quite full and serviceable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 466. Ag. 22, ’08. 170w.
“This ‘Guide’ is sufficiently safe and authoritative if one can accept
the seemingly arbitrary method of selection.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 38: 511. O. ’08. 200w.
=Urusov, Sergiei Dmitrievich, kniaz.= Memoirs of a Russian governor;
tr. by Herman Rosenthal. **$1.50. Harper.
8–3431.
“A prince of an ancient Russian family, a member of the first Duma,
tells in these memoirs the secrets about czardom; lays bare the
intricate machinery of the autocracy, the schemes of the police
department, and the intrigues and corruption that underlie the fabric
of government. Prince Urusov is not a revolutionist, not a destructive
agitator, but a constructive patriot, typical of the new Russia “now
rising from the wreckage of the old.” The memoirs form a permanent
document of Russian history.”
* * * * *
“An excellent book and of more value, though of limited scope, than
half the books that set out to give the American reader a general idea
of Russia and the Russians.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 213. Je. ’08.
“Because of the light it throws upon the inmost workings of the
Russian government it is a book which every one will read with
interest.” L. W. Tower.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 464. S. ’08. 430w.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 381. Mr. 28. 400w.
“Here is a book of rare interest written from a rare point of view—an
account by a native official of the intricate workings of the Russian
bureaucracy.” I. W. Riley.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 274. My. ’08. 1300w.
“It is the details of this absurd and anarchic system which Prince
Urusov sets forth most convincingly, and at times in a highly amusing
manner.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1035. My. 7, ’08. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 461. Jl. 27, ’07. 2500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 38. Ja. 25, ’08. 130w.
“A permanent and vitally valuable historical document.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 40. My. 2, ’08. 600w.
“These records and impressions are bound to take their place among the
permanent documents of Russian history.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 381. Mr. ’08. 300w.
“This is one of the books that count. It tells us more of the inner
history of Russia in recent years than has been told, we venture to
say, by any other volume.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 332. S. 5, ’08. 1350w.
=Urwick, W. E.= Child’s mind, its growth and training; being a short
study of some processes of learning and teaching. $1.50. Longmans.
E 8–29.
“Mr. Urwick’s object is to found the right teaching and training of
scholars from infancy (for which he substitutes the ungainly
expression infanthood) to adolescence on the results of psychology and
biology, so far as these sciences have explained the development of
children’s minds.” (Ath.) “Mr. Urwick’s treatment is based upon the
modern conception of connation. Human behavior can be analysed largely
into connative processes which set towards or away from objects of
positive or negative ‘immediate value.’” (Nature.)
* * * * *
“We cannot admit that he has succeeded in setting forth ‘in simple and
untechnical language’ the results obtained by the investigation of
‘mind-growth as an organic process’; but he has derived from them much
sound advice to teachers in their practical work.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 763. D. 14. 650w.
“We find in the book elementary matter set forth in a complicated and
difficult style; in consequence, the reader who is in need of such a
book will find this one obscure and perplexing, while those who can
readily understand the book do not need to read it.” E: O. Sisson.
− =Dial.= 44: 276. My. 1, ’08. 150w.
“One of the most useful pedagogical treatises of recent years.” T. P.
N.
+ =Nature.= 77: 410. Mr. 5, ’08. 300w.
“It is rather in its scattered suggestions and its point of view than
in its completed statements that it has most value. The reader feels
that the author is on a good trail but needs to follow it out further.
Altogether we commend the book as a most suggestive presentation of
certain phases of educational theory from the point of view of
functional or activity psychology.” Irving King.
+ − =School R.= 16: 686. D. ’08. 600w.
V
=Vacandard, Elphege.= Inquisition: a critical and historical study of
the coercive power of the church; tr. from the 2d ed., by Bertrand L.
Conway. **$1.50. Longmans.
8–7862.
Discusses the origin and development of the coercive power of the
Catholic church in matters of faith. The author “proves that the
primitive church has a horror of persecution for conscience sake, and
declares that the church’s departure from her early tradition is not
only revolting in itself but has far-reaching and lamentable
consequences.... In his concluding chapter M. Vacandard endeavors to
explain the atrocities of the inquisition from the standpoint of a
loyal Catholic.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 242. O. ’08.
“A much-needed counterpoise to Mr. Lea’s ‘History of the
inquisition.’”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 246. My. ’08. 830w.
“A book worthy of special notice. Vacandard is a historian first, an
apologist afterward.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 379. Ag. 13, ’08. 340w.
=Vaizey, Jessie Mansergh.= Pixie O’Shaugnessy. †$1.50. Jacobs.
7–39197.
A little Irish child from Knock castle, the ugly duckling among
conspicuously pretty sisters, with no nose to speak of, and a mouth of
enormous proportions, is the youthful heroine of this boarding-school
tale. Honest, brave-hearted, loyal, witty, she is an unwavering
example to school-mates and teachers.
=Vance, Louis Joseph.= Black bag. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–980.
The same hurried action and absorbing strain of romance are found here
as in “The brass bowl.” At the center of the plot is a rascally
diamond smuggler who pretends to be the long absent father of Dorothy
Calendar, an English girl, who has just inherited a large fortune. He
connives with the mother of the next heir in line and between them,
hoodwinking Dorothy into aiding them, they attempt to rob the girl of
her property of which the part most immediately desirable is a black
bag of jewels. A young Californian takes a hand in the game, outwits
the plotters and accidentally delivers Dorothy into the hands of the
real George Burgoyne Calendar, her father.
* * * * *
“The book, if ingenious, is wanting in imaginative power, literary
worth or striking elements of novelty which might to some extent
compensate the reader for the extraordinary demand on his credulity.”
− =Arena.= 39: 506. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“Is one of the best specimens of modern adventure that we have read
lately.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 39. Jl. 11. 100w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 693. Mr. 26, ’08. 150w.
“‘The black bag’ is probably not a masterpiece, but it has certain
very pleasing qualities. The most engaging thing about it is its
youthfulness, its buoyancy, its joy of motion.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 237. Mr. 12, ’08. 320w.
“There is an amount of adventure, movement, danger, and excitement
that might almost surfeit the appetite were it not for a certain
delightful whimsicality on the part of the author, who never takes
himself too seriously.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 92. F. 15, ’08. 180w.
“As a sensational narrative of crime attempted and frustrated it is
ingenious enough, but it does not come within sight of the remotest
borders of real literature.”
− + =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 50w.
=Vandewalker, Nina Catharine.= Kindergarten in American education.
*$1.25. Macmillan.
8–10422.
A book for teachers and all students of social and educational
problems. It “gives a history of a half-century of kindergarten
development, exhibits its relation to other movements that have been
significant in American life and education, and shows how its practice
is being gradually modified by the new educational psychology.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“Because of its contemporaneousness the book is unusually concrete and
explicit, and not in the least speculative.” M. V. O’Shea.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 124. Jl. ’08. 900w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 242. O. ’08.
“The book is encyclopedic in nature. The student of almost any phase
of the subject will find an abundance of material well selected and
well organized.” F. A. Manny.
+ =El. School T.= 9: 54. S. ’08. 600w.
“She overestimates the importance of the movement and fails to see the
future decline, or at least great modification, of the kindergarten.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 320. Ag. 6, ’08. 50w.
=Nation.= 86: 399. Ap. 30, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 251. My. 2, ’08. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 639. My. ’08. 120w.
=Van Dyke, Henry.= Counsels by the way. **$1. Crowell.
8–21627.
A group of Dr. Van Dyke’s most stimulating short papers and addresses.
The following are included: Ships and havens, under which general
heading are Pilgrims of the sea, whither bound? The haven of work, The
haven of character and the last port; The poetry of the Psalms; Joy
and power; The battle of life; and The good old way. A general note of
optimism is sounded thruout, the warranted optimism of one who knows
true service, struggle and conquest.
* * * * *
“They are excellent in point of style and permeated with a helpful
optimism.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 298. D. ’08. ✠
“The author hardly meets our expectations at times. The work as a
whole, however, is one of the finest volumes of ethical, literary and
religious essays of the year.”
+ − =Arena.= 40: 468. N. ’08. 260w.
+ =Dial.= 45: 414. D. 1, ’08. 160w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 541. O. 3, ’08. 110w.
* =Van Dyke, Henry.= House of Rimmon: a drama in four acts. **$1.
Scribner.
8–30293.
A drama whose scene is laid in Damascus and the mountains of Assyria
in 850 B. C. Naaman, the Damascus captain, is the central figure, who,
a leper, and a victim of an unfaithful wife’s plotting is cared for by
the Israelitish maid, Ruahmah, thru whose aid he is healed by the
prophet Elisha.
* * * * *
“Its pre-Christian setting is sympathetically imagined; the psychology
of character is bound up in some haunting poetry; but when that is
said, all is said. His scenes are fragmentary and his material is
shaped for imaginative effect, not for externalizing.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1063. N. 5, ’08. 200w.
“Its lines throughout are rhythmic prose, lacking the impassioned
beauty, the unity of word and emotion, which are the essence of true
poetic drama. In action ‘The house of Rimmon’ shows an instinctive
sense of dramatic effectiveness, of the value of spectacle and climax,
but its psychology is in several places so defective that its most
impressive scenes are open to impeachment when considered as other
than a spectacle. The points in which Dr. Van Dyke has shown most
strength are in the delicate and beautiful characterization of the
Hebrew captive Ruahmah, in his portrayal of the fine spirit of Naaman,
the hero, and in the generally high ethical standard of the drama.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 690. N. 21, ’08. 720w.
“Must be counted among the most important recent achievements in the
poetic drama. In idea and feeling it is unaffectedly religious, in
interest it is engrossingly dramatic, in form and phrase it is deeply
poetic.”
+ + =Outlook.= 90: 746. N. 28, ’08. 1200w.
* =Van Dyke, Henry.= Out-of-doors in the Holy Land: impressions of
travel in body and spirit. **$1.50. Scribner.
8–29361.
The record of a journey thru Palestine which was “a religious
revelation to the author.” “Dr. Van Dyke has discovered that
‘Christianity is an out-of-doors religion,’ and journeys in the faith
that ‘the shut-in shrines and altered memorials are less significant
than what we find in the open among the streets and on the surrounding
hill-sides.’ His ‘impressions of travel in body and spirit’ (his
sub-title) are therefore not heavy with human creeds and contentions,
but breathe the spirit of the land itself. His writing always combines
poetry, religion, and the love of nature, and this threefold felicity
could not be more appropriately displayed than in celebrating the
birthplace of Christianity.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“His descriptions of these long-loved places are at once refreshing
and reverent.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 408. D. 1, ’08. 270w.
=Ind.= 65: 1181. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
=Ind.= 65: 1465. D. 17, ’08. 140w.
“The work will be welcomed as a rare gift-book, and the sixteen
full-page colored illustrations are no mean addition to its claim on
general popularity.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 909. D. 12, ’08. 160w.
“There is nothing new in it, and yet the author has added to the
literature of the Holy Land something worth having in the record of
impressions made by the land itself, its people, and its pilgrims on a
devout and poetic soul.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 548. D. 3, ’08. 400w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
“The book is exactly what might be expected from a traveler whose
eyes, like Dr. Van Dyke’s, are ever open to the beautiful and whose
pen is so well able to set forth what he sees.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 754. D. 5, ’08. 430w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 757. D. ’08. 50w.
=Van Dyke, John Charles.= Money god: chapters of heresy and dissent
concerning business methods and mercenary ideals in American life.
**$1. Scribner.
8–14734.
“Devoted to the exposure of money-madness as the great American
epidemic. This afflicts millions of ‘little rascals’ as well as the
comparatively few ‘wealthy malefactors.’ It ‘has journalism by the
throat,’ depraves the drama, and taints all business life. It despoils
the land by waste; it demoralizes our national life, and gives us ill
fame throughout the world. ‘The trail of the dollar is over it
all.’”—Outlook.
* * * * *
Reviewed by I. A. Loos.
=Econ. Bull.= 1: 150. Je. ’08. 380w.
“Finely wrought chapters.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 842. O. 8, ’08. 100w.
“Mr. Vandyke ... has no remedy to suggest for the social troubles
which he describes. In that case the description hardly seems worth
while unless better done than by Mr. Vandyke. What Mr. Vandyke
deserves most credit for is his chapter showing the folly of
legislation as a remedy for faults which lie deep in human nature.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 287. My. 23, ’08. 440w.
“It is a tremendous indictment of the degrading materialism now
menacing both democracy and religion. As such it should be read by all
who have at heart the need of a moral revival. Exception, however,
must be taken to an occasional savor of race prejudice.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 389. Je. 20, ’08. 160w.
“He has brought to his task that directness of vision and statement
which have so well served him in the treatment of subjects of a very
different nature.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 110. O. ’08. 450w.
=Van Dyne, Frederick.= Treatise on the law of naturalization of the
United States. *$5. Lawyers’ co-op.
7–23477.
“Mr. Van Dyne brings together all the laws still in force dealing with
the acquisition of citizenship by foreigners. The historical
development of our present regulations is traced, as are also the
judicial decisions and the opinions and rulings of the executive and
international claims commissions.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“The book will be found to be of great value to those having
jurisdiction in naturalization proceedings, to lawyers who desire to
advise clients who are seeking naturalization or to establish rights
of citizenship and, in general, to every student and citizen who has
an interest in solving those problems arising from the assimilation by
the nation of the hundreds of thousands of aliens coming to our shores
every year.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 451. S. ’08. 250w.
“The book is essentially complete as a textbook, and, if its 500 pages
are slightly padded, it is with interesting matter.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1150. My. 21, ’08. 140w.
“The book may be adversely criticised for its somewhat defective
organization, the long quotations from documents and cases and the
failure to give a list of the cases cited.” H: B. Armes.
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 522. S. ’08. 580w.
“A new legal work of more than ordinary importance.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 255. F. ’08. 100w.
=Van Vorst, Bessie (Mrs. John Van Vorst).= Cry of the children: a
study of child-labor; with introd. by Hon. Albert J. Beveridge.
**$1.25. Moffat.
8–4342.
A first-hand study based upon an investigation conducted in the cotton
mills of Alabama, Georgia, Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
Mrs. Van Vorst’s aim has been to get at the human side of the
child-labor question without making her interest sensational. She
talked and walked with the children, visited their homes and their
schools, questioned them and drew conclusions. “Without doubt her
series of impressionistic pictures will give to most readers an idea
more vivid and intelligible of conditions in the mill towns than would
any other method of presentation.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Sympathetically but not sensationally told, save as the facts
themselves are sensational.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 151. My. ’08. ✠
“Nothing is gained by over-statement and hysterics. Mrs. Van Vorst
would do better to confine herself strictly to describing what she
saw, for her strong point is not in drawing inferences.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 451. S. ’08. 300w.
=Ind.= 65: 267. Jl. 30, ’08. 400w.
“Interestingly told narrative.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 246. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“Her treatment of the subject is popular and impressionistic. Her book
is a straightforward account of what she herself saw and heard.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 70. F. 8, ’08. 600w.
=Outlook.= 88: 610. Mr. 14, ’08. 400w.
=Van Vorst, Marie.= Sentimental adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode. il.
†$1.50. Scribner.
8–10276.
Adventures of a wealthy bachelor during ten years of devotion to a
married woman. Everywhere “the kind fates give him glimpses of the
woman who has a husband, and to her his conduct is the essence of
propriety, delicacy, and devotion combined and double distilled.” (N.
Y. Times.) Finally his faithfulness is rewarded.
* * * * *
“He is really not a bad fellow, and his adventures make sufficiently
agreeable reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 473. Ap. 18. 150w.
“There is more sentiment than adventure in the concoction, and more
words than either.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 211. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
+ − =R. of Rs.= 37: 761. Je. ’08. 100w.
=Vasari, Giorgio.= Vasari on technique; translated by Louisa S.
Maclehose; edited with introduction and notes by G. Baldwin Brown.
*$4. Dutton.
8–12590.
This treatise, translated for the first time, constitutes the
introduction to Vasari’s “Lives of the most excellent painters,
sculptors and architects.” “So far as the art-worker is concerned,
this preliminary exposition of the various processes and materials
employed by the artists and craftsmen of his day is of far greater
interest than the biographical details constituting the bulk of the
work.” (Int. Studio.) “In the province of painting, for instance,
Vasari tells us not only concerning the different methods of executing
drawings and cartoons, and then of the subsequent mural painting, or
of the oil painting on panel or canvas; he also informs us concerning
permanent decorative painting for façades, he tells us about gilding,
about glass or marble mosaics, about tarsia, or wood inlays, about
stained glass, and about methods of enameling.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The book, interesting as it is, is only to a limited degree
calculated to satisfy the curiosity of which it is so welcome a
symptom, and it would be even less satisfactory were it confined
strictly to the matter indicated in its title.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 265. F. 29. 500w.
=Dial.= 44: 250. Ap. 16, ’08. 100w.
“A welcome contribution to the literature of craftsmanship. Its
serviceableness is enhanced by Professor Brown’s introductory essay
and his copious notes, which are both learned and interesting.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 473. F. 27, ’08. 20w.
“The translation and editing of the work have been carried out with
conscientious thoroughness, and additional interest is given to the
volume by the numerous illustrations contained in it.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 33: 252. Ja. ’08. 250w.
+ − =Nation.= 86: 270. Mr. 19, ’08. 80w.
“Its language is technical, of course, but not so technical as to be
too far above the head of the general reader. Its value is manifest
when we consider its comprehensiveness.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 562. Mr. 7, ’08. 450w.
* =Vaughan, Herbert Millingchamp.= Medici popes (Leo X and Clement VII).
**$4. Putnam.
“It is to a study of the personal character of Leo X that he devotes
the greater portion of his book; what he has to say of the other
Medici popes he compresses into a few brief chapters, and the
political relations of the church with the several countries of Europe
during the Medici period, he practically ignores.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“After reading Mr. Vaughan’s book we know better than before what Leo
looked like, what his mind was like, in what his strength consisted,
and the nature of his weakness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 610. O. 24, ’08. 480w.
“Even from the point of view of a personal study the wisdom of his
omissions may be questioned. The undue prominence given to unimportant
details makes the book a perilous one for the uninitiated. Yet it is
obviously intended for the uninitiated. Mr. Vaughan’s particular
outlook may be right enough, but his book gives an entirely false
notion of the renaissance as a whole.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 614. N. 14, ’08. 1050w.
“Mr. Vaughan quotes largely from Benvenuto Cellini, but he has been
unable to bring the glamour and the movement of that astonishing
autobiography into the rest of his book.”
− =Spec.= 101: 839. N. 21, ’08. 160w.
=Vedder, Henry Clay.= Christian epoch-makers: the story of the great
missionary eras in the history of Christianity. **$1.20. Am. Bapt.
8–21632.
A chapter on the philosophy of Christian missions introduces a graphic
account of the great leaders of the missionary epochs of the Christian
church. The seventeen men whose work is outlined are as follows: Paul,
Ulfilas, Patrick, Augustine, Boniface, Aurgar, Vladimir, Raimund Lull,
Francis of Assisi, Xavier, Ziegenbalg, Schwartz, Zinzendorf, Carey,
Martyn, Judson and Livingstone.
* * * * *
“The value of this book lies in the bringing together in a unique
manner of a vast mass of materials, in their lucid interpretation, and
in the really fine generalizations, which are interpolated without
obtrusiveness.” H. P. J. Selinger.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 672. O. ’08. 360w.
“This book should have a wide reading.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 368. N. ’08. 30w.
* =Vedder, Henry Clay.= Our New Testament: how did we get it? **$1. Am.
Bapt.
8–35968.
A historical investigation rather than a work of apologetics in
polemics whose central thought is that in the formal sense of the term
there was no such thing as a closed canon.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 316. Jl. 6, ’08. 90w.
=Venable, William Mayo.= Methods and devices for bacterial treatment
of sewage. $3. Wiley.
8–10451.
“The introductory chapter briefly explains what is meant by the
bacterial treatment of sewage and the second chapter gives a list of
books on the subject and references to similar articles in technical
journals. The aerobic treatment of crude sewage, the mechanical
removal of sludge, the anaerobic treatment of sewage, intermittent
contact systems, automatic discharging devices and percolating filters
are given a chapter each, after which there is a summary of
engineering principles regarding the design of sewage purification
works.” (Engin. Rec.) “The tenth chapter describes in detail the
actual installation of two plants.” (Engin. D.)
* * * * *
“As a guide to the sanitary engineer, it seems to the reviewer that
this book will prove indispensable.” R. W. Hall.
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 525. My. ’08. 380w.
“There is much interesting reading in this book and the author’s idea
as to the importance of intelligent supervision is thoroughly sound.
However, the subjects of comparative efficiencies and costs, size of
filtering material, rates of filtration, depth of beds, etc., are left
in a rather unsatisfactory state.” G: W. Fuller.
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 540. My. 14, ’08. 650w.
=Engin. Rec.= 57: 624. My. 9, ’08. 250w.
=Verschoyle, W. Denham.= Electricity: what is it? *$1. Macmillan.
8–28960.
“The main object of this book is to sustain the contention that
something more than the usually accepted electrical idea is needed if
we would aim at solving the many problems which exist around us....
The author of this book, starting merely with three postulates, (1)
absolute energy, (2) aether, (3) some form of interaction between
them, develops a theory which claims to admit of the main facts of
natural phenomena being arranged ‘in a homogeneous and inter-related
series.’ The fundamental conception of the theory is that of the
_gyron_.... It is not very clear how the author arrives at the
existence of forces emanating from the _gyron_, but by means of them
he is able to discuss the evolution of the atom, the relations of the
elements, heat, light, electricity, dissociation. The ‘mystery of
life’ even is not excluded from the discussion.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“The work can hardly be regarded as a serious contribution to
science.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 131. Ag. 1. 740w.
“He so mixes reliable experimental knowledge with abstruse hypotheses,
which are, to say the least, still disputable, that the reader is left
quite bewildered.”
− =Nation.= 87: 212. S. 3, ’08. 140w.
“We do not agree with him in thinking that the diverse and tentative
views held just now by our leading investigators as to the ultimate
constitution of matter afford a sufficient justification for the
present attempt to explain matter and electricity by an effort of the
imagination.”
− =Nature.= 78: 475. S. 17, ’08. 370w.
“This is a brave attempt by an enquirer devoid of the first essential
requirement—exact knowledge of elementary mechanical laws—to explain
the relation between electrical phenomena and the ether of space.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 369. S. 19, ’08. 800w.
=Viele, Herman Knickerbocker.= Heartbreak Hill. †$1.50. Duffield.
8–26196.
The prospect of a stepfather is an outrage to Mopsie Beatoun, so she
runs away to live with an uncle and aunt. How she throve among her
relatives, breathing all the while the peaceful air of Heartbreak
Hill, is told with charm and fidelity to the things of real life.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 305. D. ’08. ✠
“Sentiment and humor are nicely balanced in its pages, and the
transcript of New England life and character is both truthful and
charming.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 295. N. 1, ’08. 230w.
“A writer of such stories as Mr. Vielé’s earlier ‘Inn of the silver
moon’ and the present book is a public benefactor.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 318. O. 1, ’08. 170w.
“It always is a matter for regret when a good story goes wrong, and in
this instance there is ground for deep and earnest regret, because in
his opening chapters Mr. Viele arouses great expectations.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 480w.
“A love story full of amusing complications.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 618. O. 24, ’08. 20w.
“The introduction of a preposterous plot about a copper mine and the
burlesque attitude of the characters one to another become distinctly
tiresome before the plot draws to a weak-kneed close.”
− =Outlook.= 90: 273. O. 3, ’08. 70w.
=Villari, Pasquale.= Studies historical and critical; tr. by Linda
Villari. *$3.75. Scribner.
7–38555.
Seven essays, most important of which is the critical treatment of “Is
history a science?” “The others are all on Italians of different ages
and different degrees of distinction,—Cavour, Savonarola (on whom
Professor Villari is, of course, the supreme authority), Donatello,
Luigi Settembrini, Francesco de Sanctis, the critic, and Domenico
Morelli, the painter.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“The essay [on ‘Is history a science?’] is an interesting one,
although it contains perhaps little of originality, but the expert
collation and contrast of so many weighty opinions upon a subject that
is in its essence a vital one, renders it a valuable contribution to
the philosophy of history.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 10. O. 12, ’07. 650w.
“The style is excellent but too weighty and scholarly for the ordinary
reader. The translation is well done.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 214. Je. ’08.
“The question, whether history should be a science or an art, is
handled with great wealth of detail, and with large knowledge of
kindred studies; but there is decidedly too much amateur metaphysic in
the essay.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 544. N. 2. 1150w.
“The essay on ‘Savonarola and the present day’ is perhaps the most
suggestive of any and the fullest of Professor Villari’s essential
teaching.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 346. N. 15, ’07. 550w.
“As he is as thoroughgoing as a German pedant in his application of
the scientific method to research, his opinions ought to command a
hearing in quarters where the dry-as-dust theory of historical study
still prevails.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 239. Mr. 12, ’08. 700w.
“[In ‘Is history a science?’] the author swirls about in an eddy of
other men’s opinions, and it might be said of his method, as of an
earlier school of criticism, that it does not conclude.” Christian
Gauss.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 199. Ap. 11, ’08. 900w.
“The whole volume is competently translated, though in its English
dress it has lost distinction.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 433. S. 28, ’07. 1600w.
=Vinogradoff, Paul.= English society in the eleventh century: essays
in English mediaeval history. *$5.20. Oxford.
8–17763.
“The volume is a sort of sequel to ‘Villainage in England.’ ... It is
divided into two essays, one on government and organized society, the
other on the tenure and use of land, the various classes of the
population, and the relations of people and land. Under these general
headings are ranged some fifteen chapters of detailed investigation,
with concrete summaries at the end of each section, and two admirable
chapters stating his general conclusions.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Professor Vinogradoff’s book is, however, much more than a series of
special and important Domesday studies. Its highest value lies in the
fact that it is a reasonable, well-ordered explanation of English
society at an important moment.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 102. O. ’08. 1000w.
“A high level of abstract science is maintained; and in scope and
language the volume is for specialists, and fully intelligible to them
alone. A few criticisms of detail cannot be omitted, especially as the
cardinal limitation of a most scholarly and in all ways remarkable
book is some lack of pains in finishing off the details, and even in
seeing the work through the press.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 753. Je. 20. 2150w.
“The work well fulfills the promise of its title by giving on the
whole much the best account that we possess of the organization and
classes of the English people in the critical eleventh century.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 264. S. 17, ’08. 940w.
“Exhaustive enquiry.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 501. Ap. 18, ’08. 1550w
“It is difficult to give in a review any adequate idea of the value of
this monumental work, which reconstructs in a very wonderful way the
social life of the eleventh century. It is possible at last to feel
that we are in positive touch with the nation that William the
Conqueror subdued and transformed. In accomplishing such a task
Professor Vinogradoff has carried Maitland’s work noticeably forward.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 977. Je. 20, ’08. 2100w.
* =Virgil, Publius Virgilius Maro.= Aeneid; tr. into English verse by
Theodore C. Williams. *$1.50. Houghton.
Moved by the desire for a smooth story-rendering of the Aeneid the
author has produced a translation that will permit of continuous
reading aloud. It is characterized by lucidity, swift, clear movement,
an avoidance of the commonplace, and the preservation of both the
dramatic and argumentative force of the speeches contained in the poem
and the religious suggestiveness.
=Voogt, Gos de.= Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence
and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos de Voogt, by Katharine
P. Wormeley; ed. for America by C: W. Burkett. *$3.50. Ginn.
7–40011.
“This volume is devoted to dogs, cats, horses, asses, sheep, goats,
pigs, cattle, fowl and rabbits, described in an easy popular style,
with abundant photographic illustrations. There are over five hundred
of these, besides seven full-page color plates.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Especially useful in the children’s room for reference use in
connection with the schools.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 50. F. ’08.
“An interesting and profitable book to look over.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1044. My. 7, ’08. 100w.
=Voorhees, Edward Burnett.= Forage crops for soiling, silage, hay
and pasture. (Rural science ser.) **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–31477.
A practical treatment from the cultivator’s and feeder’s standpoint,
prepared by the director of the New Jersey experimental stations. It
deals with the problem of continual forage supply, a matter of
particular interest to dairy farmers near the cities.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 18. Ja. ’08. ✠
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 724. My. ’08. 100w.
“The summaries are perhaps the best part of the book, and will be
appreciated both by the student and the farmer. Certain statements
will want correction in a future edition.” E. J. R.
+ − =Nature.= 77: 388. F. 27, ’08. 750w.
“Although the work is prepared for American readers, there are useful
ideas in it for many English agriculturists.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 130. Ja. 25, ’08. 120w.
=Vorse, Mary Heaton.= Breaking in of a yachtsman’s wife. il. †$1.50.
Houghton.
8–14521.
A delightful book of “maritime miscellany” which records in the main
the experiences of a landlubber who married a nautical man and learned
to love every phase of the happy carefree life. “A voyager on many
seas, and these as various as the differing shores of Venice and Cape
Cod can make them, she and the faithful Stan, yachtsman-in-chief, were
attended by more than one pair of lovers in differing stages of
infection.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“A charming summer book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 224. Je. ’08. ✠
“One may justly pay it a compliment rarely due to fiction of the
episodic sort, of feeling that instead of there being a superfluity of
episodes, there is on the contrary no page that we would willingly
have sacrificed.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 502. Jl. ’08. 220w.
“It is a pleasant book, flavored with more than one kind of salt.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 354. Je. 1, ’08. 250w.
“The writer of this little book has a sense of humor which is apparent
in the first chapter and appears intermittently thruout the story.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1290. Je. 4, ’08. 120w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 398. S. 19, ’08. 170w.
“Human nature under the influence of the boating passion is a study
which Mrs. Vorse has prosecuted thoroughly, humorously, altogether
delightfully.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 515. Je. 4, ’08. 200w.
“The string of stories—for such is the character of the book—may be
recommended even more decidedly to the serious than to the young and
frivolous. As a tonic to depression and an antidote to gloom, it has a
higher mission than even the entertainment of those for whom
presumably it was written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 288. My. 23, ’08. 400w.
“All through the pages there is the amusing give-and-take repartée and
the whole book has a breezy, salty flavor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
W
=Waddell, John A. L.= Specifications and contracts. *$1. Eng. news.
8–983.
Four chapters presenting a “very sound discussion of a number of
typical contracts, embodying comments on many points of trouble or
difficulty, comments drawn from long experience in engineering work.”
(Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“These lectures attracted wide attention at the time of their
delivery, as condensing into small space the essentials of the
subjects treated, and in a form particularly adapted to the
instruction of students. The element of illustration and example
embodied in this book will recommend it to professors in technical
schools, giving as it does the results of the extended experience of
two writers eminent respectively in the engineering and legal
professions.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 3: 70. Ja. ’08. 400w.
“The scanty literature of engineering contracts is measurably enriched
by Waddell & Wait’s new work. A separation into specifications and
contracts is attempted by Mr. Waddell, with not very good success.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 59: 84. Ja. 16, ’08. 1530w.
=Waddington, Mary A.= King. Château and country life in France.
**$2.50. Scribner.
8–28628.
An intimate account of life in the French châteaux written by one “who
knows her subject thoroughly well, for a good portion of her life has
been spent in rural France amid the scenes and among the people she
writes about so charmingly.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“As a whole the book has less interest and charm than her ‘Italian
letters.’”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 299. D. ’08.
“We fear that as little pains have been taken with the writing as with
the revision. It contains many agreeable pages which make the reader
regret that an author who has lived among interesting scenes, and
possesses a real power of description, should not have taken pains to
produce a book worthy of her material and her ability.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 720. D. 5. 1250w.
“It is the human element in Mme. Waddington’s book, rather than her
references to architecture and landscape, that makes it especially
enjoyable.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 413. D. 1. ’08. 260w.
“Thoroughly familiar with the scenes she describes, yet with a certain
freshness of view, due to her American origin, Madame Waddington
paints a picture of rural life in France with a charming directness
and simplicity.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 493. N. 19, ’08. 280w.
“We get some delightful and authoritative impressions from the book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 430w.
“Madame Waddington’s former books have led the reader confidently to
expect from her writing agreeable impressions, large social knowledge,
and charm of manner. The present volume confirms that expectation.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 552. N. 7, ’08. 100w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 760. D. ’08. 150w.
=Wagnalls, Mabel.= Palace of danger. †$1.50. Funk.
8–27097.
A historical novel set in the reign of Louis XV whose ruling spirit is
the fascinating Madame de Pompadour. Across the pages is a shadow of
the Jesuit—Jansenist quarrel, simmered down to strife between church
and parliament; but the story deals principally with Louis, his
favorite, and the love of the Marquise’s protégée for a ruthless
count.
* * * * *
“Though not anything like so strong and compelling as the historical
romances of the elder Dumas, is superior to many of the popular
historical novels of recent years.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 482. N. ’08. 250w.
“The author seems nowhere to have been opprest by the weight of her
historical knowledge. It rather comes to the reader as a direct and
spontaneous creation.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 679. N. 7, ’08. 160w.
“Plenty of rapid action and many interesting and truthful pictures of
the time enliven the course of the story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 655. N. 7, ’08. 230w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 180w.
“It is a thoroughly human tale and so well constructed that the
interest holds one to the end. Perhaps there are too many dramatic
surprises, but they are all of the kind that might really have
happened.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 38: 634. N. ’08. 120w.
=Wagnalls, Mabel.= Stars of the opera; revised and enlarged edition.
**$1.20. Funk.
7–31432.
A new edition revised and enlarged. Personal interviews and life
studies of Sembrich, Eames, Calvé, Nordica, Lehmann, Farrar and Melba
are followed by critical studies of the operas with which their names
are especially associated.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 230. Je. ’08.
+ =Arena.= 38: 682. D. ’07. 140w.
“The book is notable as a trustworthy guide to those who are
unfamiliar with the operatic stage, while as a source of entertaining
reading to others who in these matters are sophisticated, it makes
further distinct claims.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 165. F. 1, ’08. 150w.
“These interviews are all in good taste and authentic, each having
been proof-read by the singer who gave it.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 315. Ap. 2, ’08. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 726. N. 16, ’07. 100w.
=Wagner, Richard.= Rhine-gold: a dramatic poem; freely translated in
poetic narrative form by Oliver Huckel. **75c. Crowell.
7–28637.
As in his “Tannhäuser” and “Parsifal.” Dr. Huckel opens the
“Rhine-gold” with a criticism and description of the story. “Then
comes the magnificent rendition of the great poem. It is a free
translation. The author has striven to present as perfectly as
possible in rhythmic form the ideas and mental pictures as well as the
words of Wagner.” (Arena.)
* * * * *
“The present volume will be regarded as indispensable by lovers of the
music-dramas of Richard Wagner.”
+ =Arena.= 38: 681. D. ’07. 120w.
“The most valuable part of the book is, perhaps, its careful and
interesting foreword.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 49. Ja. 2, ’08. 100w.
=Waineman, Paul.= Summer tour in Finland. **$2.50. Pott.
8–34794.
A tour from Helsingfors to Tornea, at the north of the gulf of
Bothnia, “where only a small river divides Finland from Sweden, and
where one is in the luminous summer nights of the Arctic circle.” The
author gives her impressions of the people tuned slightly to the
personal note, because she herself is a Finn; gives word pictures of
mountains, forests and lakes; takes the reader into peasants’ huts as
well as princes’ abodes; and voices thru the whole a regret for the
downfall of feudalism, “for no other reason than that it was more
picturesque than democracy.”
* * * * *
“The writer has the ‘seeing eye,’ and a gift of describing, in poetic,
and sometimes ultrasentimental, language, a variety of scenery. The
book is a little too long, and the account of the railway journey
southward in western Finland rather lacking in interest.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 539. O. 31. 400w.
“A clever writer’s impression of a delightful country.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 623. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“Quite half the small facts she sets down have no relevance to the
matter in hand, and therefore do not illuminate it.”
− + =Spec.= 101: 368. S. 12, ’08. 1650w.
* =Waldstein, Charles, and Shoobridge, Leonard.= Herculaneum, past,
present, and future. *$5. Macmillan.
An informing work which “brings home to every ‘thoughtful and honest
man who can look further and rise higher than his own immediate
hearthstone’ the high importance of investigating the ruins of these
ancient cities and bringing to light their treasures of art. Referring
to the fact that the work is to be carried on by the Italian
government with the assistance of an international commission, Dr.
Waldstein points out that it is working together ‘on the very soil on
which our common civilization rests to restore the living testimonies
of culture which belong to us all.’”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“It is the most complete and most accessible account in English of the
little that is actually known of Herculaneum in ancient, mediaeval and
modern times. It is when we turn to the latter portion of the
book,—the portion treating of Herculaneum’s future, that we find the
author’s method of exposition not only unconventional, but even
disconcerting in its flights of fancy that at times verge upon the
grotesque.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 507. N. ’08. 1750w.
“Waldstein deals in grand projects. He likes to move before the
footlights of the stage. It seems also wide of the mark to call the
excavations of Olympia and Delphi in ‘the bow and arrow phase.’”
− =Ind.= 65: 1242. N. 26, ’08. 760w.
“An interesting volume—especially interesting, indeed, because of the
scope indicated in its title.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 797. D. 5, ’08. 300w.
“The volume contains a series of valuable appendices.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 757. D. ’08. 400w.
“Part 2 can only be described as the sort of day-dream in which many
people probably indulge, in church or on a solitary walk, but which
they seldom print. Apart from these fantasies, the authors throw
little new light on questions which they must have considered.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 642. N. 21, ’08. 1100w.
=Wales, Hubert.= Old allegiance. $1.50. Kennerley.
8–17994.
The adventures of two Oxford graduates on an island sheltering and
isolating a Jacobite society with whose leader it had become a hobby
to foster the old allegiance. The descendant of the Stuarts was
entertained here periodically. When James VI was expected and
circumstance forbade his coming one of the Oxford men masqueraded as
the Stuart ruler. The adventures of the masquerader including his
clever foiling of a band of dynamiters are of the Anthony Hope order.
* * * * *
“The author is to be congratulated on having made a story of adventure
which, though dealing with familiar topics ... has yet contrived to
get itself invested with a dewy freshness.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 213. S. 3, ’08. 140w.
“His tale is well constructed and well written, with a light touch, a
sufficient realism and a lively fancy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 427. Ag. 1, ’08. 160w.
“When we reviewed this novel in October, 1899, with a due appreciation
of its undoubted merits, it was entitled, ‘Purple and fine linen: a
tale of two centuries, by William Pigott.’”
+ =Spec.= 101: 203. Ag. 8, ’08. 220w.
=Walk, Charles Edmonds.= Silver blade: the true chronicle of a
double mystery. †$1.50. McClurg.
8–9527.
A Spaniard’s vendetta is responsible for the duplex problem of murder
involved in this story. Among an excited group of more or less
unrelated characters, all of whom are well-drawn types, moves a
detective, unagitated, endowed with the impassiveness of an Indian.
His methods are his own and worth studying.
* * * * *
“Mr. Walk has constructed a very complicated puzzle. There may be a
bit of incredulity mixt with our marvel at Captain Converse, but his
ingenuity keeps us entertained, and what more has one the right to ask
from a story of this kind?”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1037. My. 7, ’08. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 100w.
=Outlook.= 89: 313. Je. 6, ’08. 50w.
=Walker, Ernest.= History of music in England. *$2.50. Oxford.
8–12789.
A history whose purpose is to sketch the main features of English
music from its earliest artistic manifestation to the close of the
nineteenth century. “The book has been designed from the standpoint of
a musician rather than from that of an antiquarian; and even then more
for the general music-lover than for the technically erudite.” More
stress is laid upon the art itself than upon biographical minutiæ.
* * * * *
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 202. F. 15. 170w.
“The best and most useful results of research are embodied; and, what
is more, opportunity is afforded the reader, by means of copious
musical illustrations printed in the text, to form his own
conclusions. We know of no chapter on Handel so luminous and unbiased
as Dr. Walker’s.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 157. F. 13, ’08. 730w.
“Dr. Walker has made an original and important contribution to musical
history in this volume.” R: Aldrich.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 289. My. 23, ’08. 1000w.
“As a whole, the book deserves nothing but praise, and it is the only
condensed history of English music which is at once competent,
complete, and unprejudiced.” Arthur Symons.
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 44. Ja. 11, ’08. 1900w.
“Not merely a masterly piece of condensation, based on intimate
first-hand knowledge of the available material, but from beginning to
end it is written with a conviction which commands respect, and with
an incisive energy and felicity of phrase which render its perusal a
most stimulating literary experience.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 338. F. 29, ’08. 750w.
* =Walker, Margaret Coulson.= Bird legend and life. **$1.25. Baker.
Contains “descriptive matter of the kind usually found in such popular
nature books. A few pages of desultory bird lore are as far as the
author has gone in her endeavor ‘to get together the most important
avian legends and superstitions, and also to discover in them
evidences of apparent truth.’”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Contains some good photographs of wild birds.” W. J. Bowdoin.
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1467. D. 17, ’08. 60w.
“Is illustrated in a very satisfactory way. The quotations are apt and
succinct, and there is much information in the text.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 676. D. ’08. 30w.
=Walkley, Arthur Bingham.= Drama and life. *$1.75. Brentano’s.
W 8–65.
The collected studies and appreciations of the dramatic critic of the
London Times. The volume “consists of revised dramatic reviews and
essays taken from the London Times and two longer and more deliberate
papers, the one on modern English and French drama and the other on
selected French and English plays, which were printed originally in
the Edinburgh Review.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“There is a lightness of touch about his pen that makes his notices of
the dullest plays entertaining reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 140. F. 1. 800w.
“There is much entertaining and a considerable proportion of solid and
instructive matter in this volume. With all his brilliancy Mr. Walkley
is not always consistent.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 496. My. 28, ’08. 900w.
“Mr. Walkley’s humor, which we make bold to call his most delightful
attribute, shines on many pages and is the book’s saving grace.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 293. My. 23, ’08. 770w.
“He is not only the shrewdest English-speaking critic of the stage
to-day, but so agreeable a writer that he can be read with pleasure by
people who have little interest in his subject. His ‘Drama and Life’
is like some of the plays he enjoys, but condemns. It has in places
broken the mould of current dramatic criticism. It is the better
reading on that account, and may be commended even to those wise
persons to whom the present English stage is a subject of little
interest.” F. M. Colby.
+ =No. Am.= 187: 777. My. ’08. 1800w.
=Wall, Mary Virginia.= Daughter of Virginia Dare. $1.50. Neale.
8–16952.
A story based upon the supposition that Pocahontas was the daughter of
Virginia Dare.
* * * * *
“A story that will have considerable mild interest for those who have
taken stock in the theory that Pocahontas was a Dare—and no interest
at all to those who turn up their noses at that theory.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 160w.
=Wallace, Edgar.= Angel Esquire. †$1.50. Holt.
8–20673.
An eccentric man bequeaths his millions to the one of four people—a
defenseless girl and three daring criminals—who shall first decipher a
cryptic verse containing the combination of the safe where his gold
reposes. By twos and threes they try to outwit the girl, and finally
one of the three, the most unorthodox of detectives, becomes the
girl’s champion and defends her not only against the other two
possible heirs but also against an evil attorney who takes a hand in
the game.
* * * * *
“A detective story with some novel turns, which can be safely
recommended to connoisseurs.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 20w.
“It is not a detective story, but that much rarer thing, a dime novel
as well written as detective stories have been since Poe and Conan
Doyle showed us how.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 466. N. 12, ’08. 260w.
“Certainly there is no lack of entertainment for the brief time
spent—or squandered—in the perusal of this thoroughly modern story.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 270w.
“Mr. Wallace’s story will certainly make the lover of tales of crime
‘sit up,’ and will also entertain him with its comedy-side—rare in
this class of fiction.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 274. O. 3, ’08. 80w.
=Walling, William English.= Russia’s message: the true world import
of the revolution. **$3. Doubleday.
8–18337.
Setting out to show what Russia can offer us rather than to suggest
what the world can do for Russia, the author, whose sympathies are
with the revolutionists goes beyond the outrageous atrocities and
presents the world import of the revolution. “This volume is first of
all an indictment of the Russian government. It is not too severe; but
that is only because it is not possible to draw a too severe
indictment. The Russian bureaucracy is the worst government now on the
face of the globe, unless that of the Congo surpasses it in atrocity.”
(Outlook.)
* * * * *
“It is indispensable for all who care to study this great upheaval of
modern times.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 243. O. ’08.
“The Russian revolution is a phenomenon so vast that no single mind or
book can possibly compass it, but ‘Russia’s message’ is the best
exposition of it that has yet appeared in our language.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 610. S. 10, ’08. 660w.
“We must credit the author with giving us a great deal of learned
socialistic disquisition, yet the work is dry.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 37: 470. O. 3, ’08. 500w.
“Mr. Walling, though he violates the law of historiography as it is
handed down to us from Germany, has given us by far the most
noteworthy study of the late Russian upheaval that has appeared in
this country, and one of the very few first-rate books on the subject
that have been written anywhere.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 120. Ag. 8, ’08. 1150w.
“Mr. Walling’s work covers the whole ground of the Russian revolution
in a very interesting and instructive way, and though his book is not
likely to convey the same message as his title seems to imply, it will
be indispensable for all who care to study this great upheaval of
modern times.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 409. Jl. 25. ’08. 870w.
“The book is a complete study of the whole situation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 622. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“His passionate devotion to what he regards as the rights of man gives
interest to his book, but also contributes its chief defect. It has
impelled him to make a volume much larger than it need to have been.
It is the work of an avowed partisan.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 764. Ag. 1, ’08. 1250w.
“The struggle now going on in the czar’s empire has a vital
significance for the future of human society, and Mr. Walling’s
clear-cut style drives home this truth with great force.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 254. Ag. ’08. 260w.
=Walpole, Sir Spencer.= Essays, political and biographical; ed. by
Francis Holland. *$3. Dutton.
8–32327.
A volume of biographical and political essays, very many of which
appeared originally in the Edinburgh review. Among them are essays on
George Savile, first Lord Halifax, George Crabbe, Godolphin, The
dining societies of London, and Croker papers.
* * * * *
“Though hardly profound, they are always agreeable.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 208. Ag. 22. 360w.
“All the papers are interesting and readable—excellent specimens of
the author’s genial style.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 255. O. 16, ’08. 250w.
“We heartily commend this posthumous volume. We regret that the titles
of the books which called forth Sir Spencer’s reviews, and the names
of the periodicals in which they first appeared (with dates) have not
been given. The essays themselves abound in interest.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 214. S. 3, ’08. 480w.
“One of the most enjoyable of the essays is a critical appreciation of
George Crabbe, the East Anglian poet.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 458. Ag. 22, ’08. 80w.
“Will add nothing to the historian’s reputation.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 83. Jl. 18, ’08. 220w.
“We have found a chapter of reminiscences by his daughter one of the
most interesting parts of the book.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 166. Ag. 1, ’08. 1300w.
=Walsh, James Joseph.= Popes and science: the history of the papal
relations to science during the middle ages and down to our own
time. *$2. Fordham univ. press.
8–15255.
The “brief of an advocate” which shows that popes are liberal patrons
of science, and that they have encouraged medical research. “He
collects many instances to show physicians in good standing in the
Church did use dissection and make considerable progress in anatomy
and medicine, and argues that the treatment of the sick and insane was
not so heartless and irrational as we have been accustomed to believe.
Finally, he brings forward Crookes, Wallace, Richet Lodge, Lombroso
and the psychical researchers to prove that the tendency of science is
away from materialism and toward the recognition of the spiritualistic
interpretations that it used to sneer at.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“He is occasionally tempted to push the claims of his clients beyond
bounds.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 87: 830. S. ’08. 920w.
“His books are not more partisan than White’s ‘Warfare of science with
theology,’ against which they are chiefly directed, and they should be
read in connection with it by those who want to get both sides.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 613. S. 10, ’08. 200w.
“The book is well worth reading for its extensive learning and the
vigor of its style.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 604. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
“The writer’s unbroken silence on the workings of inquisitors and the
censorship is fatal to his arguments. He has vindicated some
churchmen, but not the Church.”
− =Nation.= 87: 319. O. 1, ’08. 700w.
“He is no mean antagonist in debate, and in this case he comes armed
with a wealth of information beyond the ordinary layman’s reach.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 460. Ag. 22, ’08. 580w.
=Walsh, James Joseph.= Thirteenth greatest of centuries. *$2.50.
Catholic summer school press, 110 W. 74th st., N. Y.
7–26016.
“All the great issues, forces, and institutions of the thirteenth
century are reviewed at generous length—the rise and character, the
curricula and the influences of the early universities; the steps
taken towards popular education, both literary and technical; the
development of letters; the great books and the great writers of the
period; the Latin hymns of the church, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, the
Golden legend, the Romance of the rose, Joceylin of Brakeland, Matthew
Paris, and Vincent of Beauvais; hospitals; famous women; Marco Polo
and the story of geographical exploration; the systematization of law;
and the beginnings of modern commerce.”—Cath. World.
* * * * *
“Dr. Walsh, who is both a student and a popular lecturer, comes
forward in this volume, laden with the results of omnivorous reading,
and lays his treasures, in almost boundless profusion, at the feet of
his audience.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 86: 532. Ja. ’08. 700w.
“We respectfully commend to the open-minded his presentation of that
great epoch.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 207. S. ’08. 80w.
“Dr. Walsh’s book, maintaining that the thirteenth is the greatest
century in human annals, is, of course, not scientific, but
interesting it certainly is, and, because of its abundant information,
it is valuable too.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 639. Mr. 19, ’08. 400w.
“As an interesting and accurate account of medievalism, with its
intensity, its enthusiasm, its devotion, as well as its narrowness and
exclusiveness, this volume may be read with pleasure and profit.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 419. Mr. 21, ’08. 120w.
“This dull, thoughtless and styleless volume contains a mass of
interesting facts, most of which were doubtless novel to the
lecturer’s audience; and if we cannot commend his manner of presenting
them, which resembles, on an elephantine scale, that of our snippet
press, we cannot doubt that in many of his hearers he has started the
train of profitable thought.”
− + =Sat. R.= 105: 175. F. 8, ’08. 1150w.
=Walsh, William Shepard.= International encyclopedia of prose and
poetical quotations. $5. Winston.
8–18548.
“Differs from most books of its class in the kind of quotations
included and in the treatment. It in fact combines with ordinary
collections of ‘elegant extracts’ something of the book of phrase and
fable and something of an author book.” (Nation.) “There are
selections from many languages, but all under one alphabet, and all
thoroughly indexed.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Altogether a cursory inspection of the work gives the impression that
it may be more than ordinarily useful. The indexes are full, the
printing careful except for the occasional Greek passages which show a
sovereign contempt for the rules of accent.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 438. N. 5, ’08. 170w.
“So far as it goes [it] is an excellent book of reference. Its
arrangement is such that it is a very easy matter to find what one is
looking for if the matter is among the quotations included in the
book. It is rather startling to discover that a considerable
percentage of the American and English writers of note of our time are
quite ignored in Mr. Walsh’s compilation.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 549. O. 3, ’08. 240w.
“The volume is a welcome addition to the literature of its class.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 594. N. 14, ’08. 70w.
=Walton, George Lincoln.= Why worry? *$1. Lippincott.
8–16562.
“The author discusses worry and obsession from the standpoint of the
neurologist, devoting most of his attention to how absurd and
dangerous is the mental attitude of those who can’t stop tapping with
the fingers or can’t endure such tapping; who must have the head of
their bed to the north or will not sit with the face to the wall; who
go back three times to see if they locked the door or wash the hands
after touching anything.”-=Outlook.=
* * * * *
“A practical, readable book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 243. O. ’08.
=Ind.= 64: 1352. Je. 11, ’08. 140w.
“From this little volume ... it is quite possible for a reasonably
‘fussy’ person or hypochondriac to extract extremely beneficial
prescriptions.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 380. Jl. 4, ’08. 360w.
=Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.= Though life us do part. †$1.50.
Houghton.
8–26679.
A story which teaches a lesson of inviolable love. Love-making and
marriage under the most promising of circumstances are followed by
disagreement and separation. The husband, a young physician, enlists
in the Cuban war, and after a short period of service is reported
dead. In reality he is not dead, and as a much scarred and wounded
stranger, comes back to his town unrecognized even by his wife, leases
from her his old office, and, thru service, wins her love. Important
also in the negative-lesson sense is the vengeance of a collie upon a
vivisector whose hand on the point of offering a sacrifice to science,
was staid by searchers for the lost dog.
* * * * *
− =Nation.= 87: 415. O. 29, ’08. 400w.
“With the exception of her heroine, she introduces her people to the
reader before she has made intimate acquaintance with them herself.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 556. O. 10, ’08. 400w.
“There is a happy working out of the skillful and original plot.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“A story that will interest, if it does not reform, readers who enjoy
Mrs. Ward’s cleverness.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 502. O. 31, ’08. 90w.
=Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.= Walled in. †$1.50. Harper.
7–33590.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“This author still retains a sweetness of the mind in describing
natural scenery or even garden scenery.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
+ =Ind.= 64: 183. Ja. 23, ’08. 230w.
“If she were a young writer we might be tempted to say of her recent
work that it has shown increased promise. It seems to contain more
sentiment and less sentimentality, less appeal to the sensibilities of
the schoolgirl and the shoplady, than marked the ‘Confessions of a
wife,’ and (in less degree) its successors.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 590. D. 26, ’07. 600w.
“A love story that will not add to its author’s literary reputation or
give its readers a shock of delight.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 61. F. 1, ’08. 350w.
=Ward, John J.= Some nature biographies:
plant—insect—marine—mineral; with upwards of 200 illustrations
reproduced from photographs and photo-micrographs taken by the
author. *$1.50. Lane.
8–12203.
A series of nature studies, originally published in the Strand, Pall
Mall, and other magazines which deal with the observations in the
English woods and field. It “may be regarded as a kind of
kinematograph in book form.” (Nature.) It presents the life history of
certain butterflies and moths, the descriptive material being aided by
some fine photographic work.
* * * * *
“Is one of the best of its class that can be put into the hands of any
boy or girl who loves nature and seeks to be told more about her.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 197. F. 15. 380w.
“Are of interest to American readers, not only because of the
painstaking care with which the author has gathered his facts and his
illustrations, and the pleasing manner in which he has narrated them,
but also because of the fact that some of the chapters ... have no
limitations of locality to circumscribe their interest.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 216. Ap. 1, ’08. 200w.
“Interesting and well written, and give evidence both of a sound
knowledge of the best authorities and considerable independent
observation.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 584. Je. 25, ’08. 130w.
“A better book of its class we have never seen.”
+ + =Nature.= 77: 147. D. 19, ’07. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 70w.
“He writes also in the same pleasant and informing manner on the
development of buds, the decay and fall of leaves, the senses of
insects, and the story of a piece of coal.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 907. D. 7, ’07. 270w.
=Ward, Mary Augusta (Arnold) (Mrs. Thomas Humphry Ward).= Testing of
Diana Mallory. †$1.50. Harper.
8–26683.
In the world of her book Mrs. Ward has once more placed strong men and
weak, and intimately inspects manners and motives, settings and
atmosphere. Her heroine is adorable; her hero, weak of will and an
unconscionable cad. Oliver Marsham confesses his love for Diana
Mallory. He soon learns that she is the daughter of one Janet
Sparling, gambler and murderer. He retreats, leaves the girl to
suffer, pursues his way to parliament, mismanages his campaign, is hit
by an enemy’s missile, and, when failure and death stare him in the
face, turns to Diana, who ministers to him, marries him, and woes him
back to life. Not overcome by the revelation of her mother’s crime,
not resentful when Oliver deserts her, not shrinking when love and
duty send her to Oliver’s bedside, Diana seems to have transcended the
sense of distorted forms to the realities that constitute the life
principle.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 246. O. ’08.
“Marsham must be regarded as the weak point in the story. Neither his
position as a rising politician nor his personal charm and brilliancy
impress us as they are intended to do.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 397. O. 3, 460w.
“Is not a great novel; it is a moving tale.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 149. O. ’08. 1050w.
“It is all so extremely well informed, and so thoroughly well done,
that it is difficult to understand why we should not be more deeply
moved by it and why it should not make a more lasting impression.” W:
M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 454. D. 16, ’08. 500w.
“There is not a thrilling scene in the book, nor a single character of
extraordinary fascination; but it is written with a fineness of
perception, a delicacy of expression, that redeems it from the
commonplace.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 896. O. 15, ’08. 970w.
=Ind.= 65: 1182. N. 19, ’08. 100w.
“To its readers’ deepest and highest human feeling it appeals with the
irresistible power of truth.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 604. O. 24, ’08. 300w.
“Our respect for Diana is put under an almost intolerable strain. Are
such people quite worth presenting to us on so large a canvas?”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 264. S. 17, ’08. 450w.
“Considered as a novel of society, ‘Diana Mallory’ is fascinating and
authoritative; considered as the story of a young woman pathetically
situated, it is moving and satisfying.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 505. S. 19, ’08. 770w.
“A romantic story in Mrs. Ward’s best style.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 220w.
Reviewed by C. L. Rudyard.
+ =No. Am.= 188: 779. N. ’08. 2400w.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 502. O. 31, ’08. 400w.
“Has an assured welcome in the library, and a space already waiting
for it by the side of ‘Lady Rose’s daughter’ and ‘The marriage of
William Ashe.’” Agnes Repplier.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 697 N. 28, 08. 480w.
“It is not a great novel, but Diana is almost a great figure.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 634. N. ’08. 300w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 425. O. 3, ’08. 970w.
“Judged by the test of originality, the book stands on a much higher
plane than any of its three predecessors, while the story, regarded
merely as a story, is at least as engrossing, as well furnished with
incident, and as strong in dramatic interest.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 506. O. 3, ’08. 1300w.
=Ward, Robert De Courcy.= Climate—considered especially in relation
to man. (Science ser., no. 19.) **$2. Putnam.
8–12801.
With the needs of both teacher and student kept in mind the author
co-ordinates and sets forth clearly and systematically the broader
facts of climate. The work is intended to be supplementary to the
first volume of Dr. Julius Hann’s “Handbuch der klimatologie,”
translated into English in 1903.
* * * * *
“The book contains a good deal of interesting historical material as
well as a very clear-cut and informing presentation of the facts of
climate as they are now known.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 524. D. ’08. 80w.
“A fit supplement to Hann’s, presenting clearly and reducing to its
simplest terms a subject over which first-hand knowledge and research
and a cumulative experience in teaching have given him the mastery.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 302. My. 30, ’08. 1000w.
“An important volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 758. Je. ’08. 70w.
“Mr. Ward has succeeded in presenting a well-written volume, suitable
for the classroom, being methodical in arrangement, and clear and
direct in statement.” O. L. F.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 841. D. 11, ’08. 820w.
+ =Spec.= 101: 783. N. 14, ’08. 420w.
=Ware, Richard Darwin.= In the woods and on the shore. $2. Page.
8–17814.
A record of several seasons of hunting and fishing in Newfoundland and
New Brunswick, along the shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the
eastern coast of Massachusetts. “The book has a human side, for there
seems no better way to become acquainted with one’s fellows—not even
the French method, of dividing an inheritance with them—than by
camping out in the wilds with them for a season. On some of his
longest expeditions, Mrs. Ware was a member of the hard-working
company; so that this book, unlike most of its fellows, has a feminine
touch added to its other desirable features.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“The influence of the woods, coupled with the single-mindedness of the
sportsman, has given a simplicity and directness to the style that is
good to meet, and the pages may be aptly described as spacious.”
Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 44: 343. Je. 1, ’08. 230w.
“Written in a pleasant style by a hunter of experience.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 314. O. 1, ’08. 70w.
=Warfield, Rev. Benjamin Breckinridge.= Lord of glory: a study of
the designations of our Lord in the New Testament with especial
reference to his deity. *$1.50. Am. tract.
7–38253.
“An examination of the designations applied to Jesus in the synoptics,
John, Acts, Paul, Hebrews, the Catholic epistles, and the Apocalypse
satisfies Professor Warfield that all the New Testament writers,
beginning with Mark, held His person to be supernatural and divine in
the fullest sense. The result is ‘to throw into prominence the unitary
presupposition by the entire New Testament of the deity of our
Lord.’”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“Throughout the book interpretation is strained, yet it is fair to add
that the author’s purpose, to examine the designations of our Lord in
the New Testament with especial reference to His deity, is useful, and
that he has shown wide acquaintance with the writings of New Testament
commentators.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 666. My. 30. 500w.
“In some matters, one feels that Professor Warfield has been too
easily convinced, e. g., in his treatment of ‘lord,’ and that his
finding is too sweeping in consequence.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 31: 160. F. ’08. 100w.
“The result is the most exhaustive monograph which has appeared in
English on the subject.” I. F. Wood.
+ + =Bib. World.= 32: 75. Jl. ’08. 1050w.
“To one already holding to it, it seems conclusive. To an inquiring
mind, indisposed or unable to scrutinize the argument very closely, it
may carry some conviction.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 42. Ja, 4, ’08. 260w.
=Waring, Eleanor Howard.= White path. $1.50. Neale.
7–41587.
A story with a problem which deals with a man and a woman each of whom
has lived thru the agonies of an unhappy marriage. Their friendship
terminates in love, but their legal ties prevent marriage, so they are
content to walk in a white path of idealism, eliminating entirely all
material relations.
* * * * *
=Lit. D.= 36: 97. Ja. 18, ’08. 70w.
=Warren, Maude Radford.= Land of the living. †$1.50. Harper.
8–20711.
Chicago is the scene of this story of love and city politics. An Irish
political boss, who winks at questionable practices that are
profitable, adopts a sturdy little youngster of the streets, and
attempts to bring him up as a machine. The lad’s genius and goodness
foil the machine methods of the ‘boss,’ no less than the corrupt
agencies of reform thru which a rival hoped to win both a bride and an
election.
* * * * *
“The characters are well conceived and contrasted; there is, however,
a trace of weakness in construction.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 297. S. 12. 160w.
“A book to be cordially commended and read with quiet enjoyment.” F:
T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 145. O. ’08. 280w.
“Into the oft-told tale of ward politics in Chicago the author has
infused some new effects by making it at the same time a study of two
phases of the Celtic nature—the idealizing and the domineering.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 289. S. 24, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 240w.
“The book as a whole, while neither deep nor large, has movement and
variety, so that it is readable in more than an ordinary degree.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 957. Ag. 22, ’08. 70w.
=Warwick, Charles Franklin.= Danton and the French revolution.
**$2.50. Jacobs.
8–15330.
A popular history of the French revolution in the midst of whose war
of ideas the figure of Danton is traced as he rose to sudden power,
was cut off in the heyday of his manhood, and sent to the scaffold in
the thirty-fifth year of his age.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 216. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“A book on a great topic, and worthy of it. In but one respect does
the writer mar his reader’s pleasure—he quotes frequently and
copiously without naming his authority. Clergymen who join socialists
and anarchists in prating of revolution, justifying the latter by
allusion to the French revolution, should read Mr. Warwick’s book.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 374. Jl. 4, ’08. 1600w.
“Mr. Warwick shows no evidence of having made any study of original
materials. He shows no remarkable dramatic insight.”
− =Outlook.= 89: 813. Ag. 8, ’08. 700w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 637. N. ’08. 40w.
=Washburn, Margaret Floy.= Animal mind: a text-book of comparative
psychology. *$1.60. Macmillan.
8–6095.
The facts set forth in this book have been deduced from experimental
work in comparative psychology. The author shows the difficulties
besetting the student who desires to know the contents of minds below
the human level. Knowledge must be obtained by way of inference from
behavior. The questions then confronting the comparative psychologist
are: By what method shall he find out how an animal behaves? and How
shall he interpret the conscious aspect of that behavior? These
questions are answered scientifically thruout the study.
* * * * *
“While the book offers nothing new to the scientist and psychologist,
it is a careful, sane, reliable piece of work.”
− =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 215. Je. ’08.
“Renders accessible to student as well as to the studious layman the
kind of data, the critical interpretation of results, and the source
of the guiding principles, that in the modern view are likely to bring
some systematic understanding of animal psychology.” J. Jastrow.
+ =Dial.= 45: 39. Jl. 16, ’08. 620w.
=Ind.= 64: 758. Ap. 2, ’08. 350w.
“It will be found indispensable to all workers in the subject of
animal behavior, and ought to be read extensively by physiologists.”
S. O. Mast.
+ =J. Philos.= 5: 467. Ag. 13, ’08. 1100w.
“Psychologists will be unanimous in their gratitude to Miss Washburn
for the very thorough way in which she has accomplished her task.” W:
Brown.
+ =Nature.= 78: 269. Jl. 23, ’08. 480w.
“The author does not juggle with facts; she is sternly scientific in
the matter of deductions and conclusions.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 153. Mr. 21, ’08. 650w.
“The strong feature of the work is the systematization and correlation
of facts.” K: T. Waugh.
+ =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 205. Je. 15, ’08. 1650w.
“In the chapter on hearing, the author, while giving a good résumé of
the field, makes the mistake of saying that birds have no cochlea. The
book as a whole is so well done that we venture the opinion that its
usefulness will continue for several years to come.” J: B. Watson.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 28: 275. Ag. 28, ’08. 1050w.
=Washburne, Marion Foster.= Mother’s yearbook: being a practical
application of the results of scientific child-study to the
problems of the first year of childhood. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–16420.
Each month of a baby’s first twelve is carefully followed, the
possible development outlined, and the mother’s preparation and
responsibility dwelt upon; the educational principles of Froebel,
Preyer, and others being applied after a manner that will assure the
most healthful and rational results. The book is a common sense
mother’s book based upon thoroly tested scientific principles.
* * * * *
“For the young mother to whom her new baby is more than merely a
pretty plaything, we have seen no book better than this.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1405. Je. 18, ’08. 40w.
=Washington, Booker Taliaferro.= Negro in business. $1.50. Hertel,
Jenkins & co.
7–37616.
Furnishes some record of the business awakening among the negro people
in the United States. “Part 1 is devoted to accounts of the success
different members of the race have achieved in various lines of
business, the material being mainly biographical in its nature....