the American negro,’ ‘The negro and the labor problem of the south,’
‘The negro and his relation to the south,’ ‘The fruits of industrial
training,’ and ‘The American negro and his economic value,’ are
fruitful in matter and suggestions.” (J. Pol. Econ.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 215. Je. ’08.
“Dr. Washington makes a strong appeal by describing various men and
women. What he has to say should receive careful attention from all
those who feel that the negro is doomed to inevitable failure.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 724. My. ’08. 100w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 643. D. ’07. 200w.
“An informing book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 254. F. ’08. 140w.
=Wasson, George Savary.= Home from sea. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–11079.
The deep sea fisherman as a type is perpetuated in these tales of
Killick Cove. We hear him speak in terms of maritime vernacular, note
how his life’s strength and savor come from the invigorating tang of
the salt, and how, unmindful of progress and fast vanishing
traditions, he remains a primitive New Englander in freedom of fancy,
bold daring, and bred-in-the-bone superstition. The book is
illustrated from the author’s own sketches.
* * * * *
“Original, wholesome in tone, and full of local color.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 246. O. ’08.
“There is a strong flavor of New England, that appears in the dialect,
as well as in the dry humor of the characters.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1351. Je. 11, ’08. 150w.
“The originality of the stories does but add to their credibility.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 492. My. 28, ’08. 150w.
“Mr. Wasson is doing a distinct service in preserving so faithfully a
type of man rapidly disappearing, to be found nowhere else in the
country.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 130w.
“There are good, wholesome stories in the collection.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 761. Je. ’08. 50w.
=Waterbury, Leslie Abram.= Cement laboratory manual. $1. Wiley.
8–27794.
A manual of instructions for the use of students in cement laboratory
practice. “It opens with a brief chapter on the methods used in
laboratory work, and gives instructions regarding the care and use of
apparatus. The second chapter is devoted to illustrated descriptions
of the apparatus employed in cement tests. Following this chapter is
one in which fourteen laboratory problems are set forth.” (Engin. D.)
* * * * *
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 545. N. ’08. 280w.
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 531. N. 7, ’08. 200w.
=Waterbury, Leslie Abram.= Vest-pocket handbook of mathematics for
engineers. *$1. Wiley.
8–17557.
“Intended as a reference work for the use of those who have studied or
are studying the branches of mathematics usually taught in engineering
courses. It contains the basic formulas of algebra, trigonometry,
analytic geometry and calculus, and brief statements of the principal
theorems of statics and dynamics. Thirty pages are devoted to stresses
and the strength of pipes, cylinders, riveted joints, beams, columns,
etc.”—Engin. D.
* * * * *
=Engin. D.= 4: 55. Jl. ’08. 100w.
“Should prove a very desirable addition to the engineer’s equipment.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 82. Jl. 16, ’08. 160w.
“The selection of the formulas has been well done so as to cover the
requirements of most engineers.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 566. N. 14. ’08. 140w.
=Waterfield, Margaret H.= Flower grouping in English, Scotch, and
Irish gardens; notes and fifty-six sketches in color by Margaret
Waterfield; with contributions by E. V. B., S. Arnott and others.
*$6. Dutton.
8–29354.
A garden book whose text and illustrations are full of artistic
instruction and suggestions.
* * * * *
“As a garden-book at once artistic and yet fairly practical, Miss
Waterfield’s leaves little to be desired within its chosen field.” E.
K. Dunton.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 339. Je. 1, ’08. 450w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 224. Mr. 5, ’08. 250w.
“To the lover of gardens, and to the student of gardening, it is of
great interest and full to the brim with informing observations and
lessons from experience and long devotion to the subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 130w.
“The meat of the book is in the illustration, and the meat is
delicious.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 350. Je. 13, ’08. 100w.
Reviewed by A. M. Cecil.
=Sat. R.= 105: 527. Ap. 25, ’08. 700w.
“Miss Waterfield has had the help of able contributors, and has given
garden-lovers not only a book, but an ideal, nay, many ideals.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 70. Ja. 11, ’08. 60w.
=Waters, Robert.= Culture by conversation. **$1.20. Dodd.
7–29842.
“A plea for the resurrection of the old lost art of conversing, which,
says the author of this volume, is as superior to books as living men
and women are to the post mortem stories of their lives.” (R. of Rs.)
Helpful rules and illustrations of conversation are given for
instruction.
* * * * *
“This is a very entertaining book to read because it is full of
anecdote and happy illustration. Mr. Waters has culled quotations by
the score—all of them well worth noting—and if we look at the book as
a series of easygoing essays, it is most commendable. Whether it will
do anything to revive the obsolescent art of conversation, may well be
doubted.”
+ =Bookm.= 26: 674. F. ’08. 820w.
“A few details might call for criticism if space permitted. But these
are trifling blemishes on a good and useful and entertaining book.”
+ + − =Dial.= 44: 19. Ja. 1, ’08. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 52. Ja. 25, ’08. 240w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 118. Ja. ’08. 40w.
* =Watkeys, Frederick W.= Old Edinburgh. (Travel lovers’ lib.) 2v. $3.
Page.
8–32990.
An account of the ancient capital of the kingdom of Scotland,
including its streets, houses, notable inhabitants, and customs in the
olden time. “The outcome, as the author explains in his preface, of a
recent pleasant sojourn in the Scottish capital, his book will be a
welcome companion to other sojourners and of interest to intending
visitors. It makes no claim to being exhaustive, nor does it seek to
supersede older and more learned historical accounts of the famous
city.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Is an attractive and serviceable book of its kind.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 462. D. 16, ’08. 230w.
“The illustrations, printed in brown tone, that are introduced from
rare prints, add greatly to the book’s value.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1460. D. 17, ’08. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 80w.
=Watkins, George Pendleton.= Growth of large fortunes: a study of
economic causes affecting the acquisition and distribution of
property. (Publications of the American economic assn.) $1.
Macmillan.
8–4000.
“The object in the present work is not to discuss the social aspects
of the problem, nor to devise plans for corrective legislation; it is
simply to acquaint the readers with the economic factors which have
operated to bring large fortunes into existence. These, roughly
speaking, are, on his showing, identical with the factors that have
made for economic progress generally—the development of improved
methods of production and distribution, the growth of invention and
discovery, the exploitation of natural resources unutilized by
previous generations, the steady and unprecedented growth of
capital.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The treatise presents a good analysis of the conditions, changes and
general causes underlying the recent development of large fortunes,
and may be considered a valuable contribution to the subject.” E. N.
Tuckey.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 117. Je. ’08. 1300w.
“He does not cover his subject in its entirety, but within its
self-imposed limitations his examination is certainly thorough and
informative.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 324. F. 8, ’08. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 383. Mr. ’08. 30w.
=Watson, Charles R.= In the valley of the Nile: a survey of the
missionary movement in Egypt. **$1. Revell.
8–17702.
A survey of the missionary movement in Egypt from the beginnings of
Christianity in the Nile valley down to the present time. The
peculiarities of the field, the history of the vanguard in entering
it, the gain in power, the outgrowth of the necessity of devising
methods of work, the present need of expanding and extending actual
operations are all enlarged upon out of the fulness of the author’s
own experience.
* * * * *
“His survey of present social and political conditions shows insight
and judgment. It should be read by any one desirous of understanding
modern Egypt.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 782. O. 1, ’08. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 533. Jl. 4, ’08. 440w.
* =Watson, H. B. Marriott.= Devil’s pulpit. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–29000.
A “buried treasure” story. “It carries as reckless and unassorted a
lot of adventurers as ever took ship together from Southampton to an
island in the West Indies. Battle, murder, and sudden death go with
them, and so do all sorts of wild and unexpected happenings. But in
the end they get their treasure, such of them as are still alive.” (N.
Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
“A thoroughly good, rattling, thrilling story it is.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 719. D. 5, ’08. 220w.
=Watson, John.= The philosophical basis of religion: a series of
lectures. *$3. Macmillan.
8–12831.
The author concerns himself with the reconstruction of the history of
religious belief, which he deems necessary in view of “the unrest and
confusion of ideas which have invaded our modern life.” He offers a
philosophy of religion based upon rationality.
* * * * *
“In every part of the book subjects of long-standing debate have been
so treated as to bring out the most recent phases of the controversy
and it is scarcely necessary to add that these lectures will be warmly
welcomed by many earnest students of philosophy and theology.” J. G.
Hume.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 507. Jl. ’08. 700w.
“We do not share the author’s views, or find him particularly
convincing. But his position, both in attack and defence, is well
sustained, and we recall few such well-argued expositions of a
standpoint not easily understood.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 435. O. 10. 200w.
“On the whole—and this is the only serious criticism I should advance
against Dr. Watson—matters are not advanced in a convincing manner
beyond the stage already reached, especially by ... Dr. Edward Caird.
By his present work he has laid both the student of religious
philosophy and those whose main interest lies in the history of the
evolution of dogma under an obligation which is not easily measured;
for he has written a wise book upon a subject whose importance in
these days outrivals all other interests.” H: Jones.
+ + − =Hibbert J.= 6: 676. Ap. ’08. 3000w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 117. Ag. 6, ’08. 260w.
“These lectures eminently deserve the attention of those who agree
with their author that ‘nothing short of a complete revision of
theological ideas can bring permanent satisfaction to our highly
reflective age.’”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 566. Mr. 7, ’08. 350w.
“It is in connection with the main philosophical thesis of the book
that I venture to express the most dissatisfaction.” A. K. Rogers.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 529. S. ’08. 1700w.
=Watson, John (Ian Maclaren, pseud.).= God’s message to the human
soul: the use of the Bible in the light of the new knowledge.
(Cole lectures of Vanderbilt university for 1907.) **$1.25.
Revell.
7–32354.
The lectures which Dr. Watson was to have delivered at Vanderbilt
university in the autumn of 1907. “Dr. Watson welcomes the modern
world, its science, its criticism. He recognizes to the full the
change that has come over our idea of the Bible in these latter days.
The book is itself an evolution; that fact alone will enable us to
understand it, and especially to appreciate the imperfect but
developing ethics of the Old Testament. The purpose of the Bible is
religious, not scientific.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“It does not equal in merit ‘The mind of the Master’ or the Yale
lectures on ‘The cure of souls.’”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 52. Ja. 2, ’08. 110w.
“He presents these sane and sound views in a style that catches the
ear as well as the mind and that often has the charm of epigram.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 57. F. 1, ’08. 380w.
=Watson, John (Ian Maclaren, pseud.).= St. Jude’s. *$1.25. S. S.
times co.
7–21223.
Sketches or studies illustrating the spiritual life of St. Jude’s, a
free church’s congregation in Glasgow.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 54. F. ’08.
“The book, though slight, is worth reading, and leaves a kindly
impression of the writer and the man.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 475. O. 19. 160w.
“The parishioners are every whit as canny, dour and disagreeably
theological as the simpler folk of the Grampian hills but somehow they
are not quite so interesting in the thick and heavy Glasgow
atmosphere.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 825 O. 3 ’07 100w.
“They are all good.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 616. O. 26, ’07. 150w
=Watson, John (Ian Maclaren, pseud.).= Scot of the 18th century: his
religion and his life. *$2. Armstrong.
8–8469.
Ten posthumous sketches eight of which are devoted to the Scot’s
religion and two to his life. “In ‘The Scot in his home’ we have a
brief but comprehensive survey of social conditions, and another
section unfolds the familiar tale of Church discipline. The greater
part of the book is occupied with an interesting account—somewhat
marred by repetition—of the men who governed or rent the Kirk, and of
the literary circle which made Edinburgh famous.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The sketches are unequal in value, and the best of them in our
opinion, is that which traces, with no small insight and humour, the
decline and ritual in the reformed kirk. Historical blunders are
fairly numerous, and sometimes serious. There are few misprints, and
some oddities of style.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 647. N. 23. 1500w.
“Those who have read the late Dean Stanley’s ‘History of the church of
Scotland’ can never forget it. The same may be said of this harvest
from the same rich field.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 47. Ja. 4, ’08. 260w.
“The late ‘Ian Maclaren’ could always write in a genial and
interesting way on anything and everything connected with Scotland.
This posthumous volume is a proof of the fact, and of little else.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 127. Ja. 25, ’08. 320w.
=Watson, Thomas Edward.= Waterloo. *$1.50. Neale.
8–28406.
A vivid account of the battle of Waterloo, to the historical records
concerning which the author brings the aid of a brilliant imagination.
* * * * *
“Worthily serves as an epilog to his life of Napoleon.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1178. N. 19, ’08. 30w.
“The story of a partisan who tries to be just and succeeds fairly well
in the endeavor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 611. O. 24, ’08. 280w.
* =Watt, Lauchlan MacLean.= Attic and Elizabethan tragedy. *$2. Dutton.
“The first half dozen chapters are taken up with a broad general
comparison of the conditions in the two countries under which tragedy
reached its noblest expression, its origins in Greece and in England,
and of the dramatic laws and social customs which governed its writing
and presentation. Then a dozen or more chapters are devoted to the
three great authors of Attic tragedy and their remaining works, and as
many more to the foremost tragedians of the Elizabethan age.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“The author has the gift of dramatic, interesting statement, and his
general discussion of the drama is thoughtful and illuminating.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 673. N. 14, ’08. 200w.
“On the whole he has prepared himself for his task by a course of wide
reading which might certainly have been more up to date, but which
includes many high authorities on his subject. Some of his verse
paraphrases are fair, some very bad indeed. The book is mainly
derivative and presents to us nothing essential that has not been said
before, and often said a good deal better. In short, the book is
obviously suited to students who are anxious for a simple,
comprehensive study of a subject more or less new to them.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 703. D. 5, ’08. 950w.
=Watts, Mary S.= The tenants: an episode of the ’80s. †$1.50.
McClure.
8–11081.
A mansion whose history is the history of a strange group of human
beings furnishes the stage for this kaleidoscopic drama. The builder,
Governor Gwynne, is succeeded by less prosperous and ambitious
generations, who bask for a time in the glory of his name, then allow
the house to pass to a southern broker who plays the town honor false.
The author finds all sorts and conditions of men to portray, and each
sketch in turn is distinct and impressionistic.
* * * * *
“This is almost an invention in stories.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 469. My. 21, ’08. 200w.
“It is a novel of manners rather than startling plot, and the interest
in the depicting of character outweighs the interest in incident.
Perhaps the finest quality of the work is a gentle humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 185. Ap. 4, ’08. 550w.
“We hope to see more books like ‘The tenants.’ It is leisurely but not
lengthy, humorous but not boisterous; and it has a gradually
developing plot-interest which does not degenerate into cheap
sensationalism.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 40. My. 2, ’08. 170w.
=Wayland, John Walter.= Political opinions of Thomas Jefferson: an
essay; with an introd. by R. H. Dabney. $1.25. Neale.
8–1940.
The quintessence of Jefferson’s political views. The discussion falls
under five heads: Concerning government, Concerning the American
states, Concerning the United States government, Concerning the United
States in relation to foreign powers, and Concerning various questions
of importance.
* * * * *
“The opinions quoted are at times, too, selected rather than
interpretive.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 452. S. ’08. 160w.
“Dr. Wayland has certainly made an interesting and useful
classification of Jefferson’s political doctrines.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 382. Mr. ’08. 170w.
=Weale, B. L. Putnam.= Coming struggle in eastern Asia. *$3.50.
Macmillan.
8–11478.
The last of four volumes dealing with the Far Eastern question. It
contains the author’s “careful revaluation of the old forces in the
Far Eastern situation as they displayed themselves during the first
half of the year 1907.” The author believes that it is the oligarchic
Japan which constitutes the new problems in eastern Asia. “Apart from
his political argument the book is of value for the large amount of
information it gives of the present condition and future prospects of
Eastern Siberia and Manchuria and the financial and commercial
statistics of Japan and China.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“The account of the situation in Manchuria is especially valuable;
other parts are somewhat disappointing—not up to his best work—because
some facts and conclusions are to be questioned.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 209. Je. ’08.
“The criticisms are often directly opposed to those commonly passed on
the same subjects in Europe and America, but the conclusions are
reached by an acute observer of Oriental affairs and are based on
statements of fact convincing and often startling, a fact which gives
the arguments more than ordinary weight.” C: L. Jones.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 466. S. ’08. 640w.
“Having called attention to the somewhat dangerous doctrines of the
author, and warned our readers against the exaggeration of many of his
640 closely printed pages, we must not omit to point out that he
supplies an enormous amount of useful information, especially on the
present naval and military preparations of Japan.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 225. F. 22. 1400w.
“Although one may not glean from it a great deal that is really new,
one cannot put his hands upon a more sane, compact, and readable
discussion of the subject in English.” F: A. Ogg.
+ =Dial.= 45: 58. Ag. 1, ’08. 830w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 749. Ap. 2, ’08. 250w.
“While the political conclusions of the volume must be taken account
of everywhere, its real value lies in the wealth of information and
multiplicity of details which it gives regarding Manchuria.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 165. Mr. 28, ’08. 1750w.
=Outlook.= 89: 311. Je. 6, ’08. 700w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 508. Ap. ’08. 350w.
=Weale, William Henry J.= Hubert and John Van Eyck: their life and
work. *$30. Lane.
8–20537.
A work which makes its appeal mainly to the “true connoisseur and the
genuine lover of art for its own sake. Mr. Weale prefaces his work
with a chronological summary of the chief events that affected the
careers of the Van Eycks, and devotes a considerable portion of his
text to the actual transcription, in order of date, of the more
important of the documents from which he has culled his information,
supplementing his quotations by a very complete bibliography of all
the publications that bear even remotely upon the fortunes of the two
famous brothers.” (Int. Studio.)
* * * * *
“In the monumental work before us we have one of the most
authoritative and scholarly works that have been published in any
language for many years. The individuality of the author, his
sincerity and his knowledge, are stamped on every page. Tiresome
little inaccuracies impair the value as a work of reference.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 484. Ap. 18. 2900w.
“Upon its artistic side the book is a notable contribution to the art
works of recent years.” W. C. Larned.
+ =Dial.= 45: 112. S. 1, ’08. 1200w.
“A monumental work ... the value of which to the student of Flemish
painting it is impossible to over-estimate.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 33: 332. F. ’08. 300w.
“His book is a model to all future scientific art-historians; it is a
volume indispensable to all who concern themselves with
connoisseur-ship or the history of art. Here is a compilation from
which fancy is wholly barred out; nothing but absolute facts are
admitted to these stern pages.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 34: sup. 25. Mr. ’08. 1800w.
“In accuracy the work falls far short of the German standard. We
hasten to add that the book as it is is immensely useful. The very
richness and variety of the book forbids us to follow it in detail.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 40. Jl. 9, ’08. 2250w.
+ =Spec.= 100: 303. F. 22, ’08. 420w.
=Webb, Wilfrid Mark.= Heritage of dress; being notes on the history
and evolution of clothes. *$3.50. McClure.
8–12147.
How we came to have articles of dress as common as the modern coat,
shawl, buttons, safety-pins, etc. is set forth “after the method of
the naturalist.” The origin of dress and its development furnish a
most enlightening discussion for the reader who is apt to take things
for granted and not to inquire into descent.
* * * * *
“Interesting account of the origin and evolution of all sorts of
details of dress, containing a considerable amount of conjecture, but
presenting much curious and instructive matter.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 215. Je. ’08.
“Mr. Webb renders an interesting subject somewhat dull by a pedestrian
style. The value of the book is, however, much enhanced by many plates
and figures.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 124. F. 1, 750w.
“If Mr. Webb has not written a scientific treatise on the ‘Heritage of
dress,’ he has given us, within the limits, an interesting and
suggestive book.”
+ − =Nature.= 77: sup. 7. Mr. 5, ’08. 700w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“His stock-in-trade appears to be a habit of theorising from
insufficient data, and a certain amount of genuine knowledge of
natural history not applicable to his present subject.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 177. Ag. 8, ’08. 1500w.
“This important-looking book contains a good deal that is very curious
and instructive.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 102. Ja. 18, ’08. 440w.
=Webster, Henry Kitchell.= Whispering man. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–27494.
The amateur detective who unravels the mystery of a murder that
baffles police and plain clothes men, is not a “Thinking machine” but
a man who knows by instinct when he is looking into the face of a
criminal. He finds the murderer after detectives, professional and
amateur, have done their best to convict various innocent people.
* * * * *
“‘The whispering man’ belongs to the class of the more successful
[detective stories], because of the precision with which the parts of
the plot are fitted together, and the clock-work regularity of the
action.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 457. D. 16, ’08. 200w.
“A clever detective story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 577. O. 17, ’08. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 749. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
=Webster, Hutton.= Primitive secret societies: a study in early
politics and religion. **$2. Macmillan.
8–3955.
“In which the author discusses the significance of the data collected
in recent years by investigators in Australia, Melanesia, Africa, and
North America. Much of this information regarding initiation
ceremonies and other curious rites found among savage and barbarous
communities will be entirely new to those readers who have never had
access to detailed accounts of these recent discoveries.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“A very welcome and important contribution to the study of early
society, and yet it is perhaps as notable for what it has not
attempted as for what it has performed. Within the limits of his
attempt, it seems to me that the author follows a defective method in
assuming that the motives lying behind the organization of secret
societies are everywhere the same.” W: I. Thomas.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 166. O. ’08. 440w.
“Dr. Webster has done all students of social institutions a service by
collecting and interpreting so much evidence to show the significance
and development of the rites by which the boy becomes a citizen with
the responsibilities of the adult.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 724. My. ’08. 120w.
“It is a book that will be of special interest to students of
sociology and anthropology.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 39: 594. My. ’08. 110w.
“It is a comparatively small matter if on the side of theory the book
shows certain shortcomings, notably the tendency we have noticed to
ignore plurality of casual chains of development. As a systematic
arrangement of well-chosen evidence it will take a high place amongst
contemporary aids to anthropological study.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 443. Ap. 11. 1500w.
“Dr. Webster pursues what we consider a deplorable practice in the
matter of quotation.” Frederick Starr.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 248. O. 16, ’08. 1650w.
“As an example of scholarly research, judicious statement and careful
interpretation the book leaves little for criticism. Perhaps an
additional chapter tracing the historical importance of this
succession would have given the book greater completeness as well as
more well-rounded interest.” U. G. Weatherly.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 151. Je. ’08. 720w.
“The work is extremely valuable for any student of human life and
social organizations that tries to see things in their beginnings. In
its field it may be compared with Westermarck’s ‘History of human
marriage’ and such other fundamental treatises on the psychical life
and institutions of mankind.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 767. My. 23, ’08. 450w.
“Portions of the book are filled with curious and interesting details
which lighten Professor Webster’s somewhat wooden treatment with vivid
detail.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 560. Je. 18, ’08. 430w.
“Although the main usefulness of his work will be for those who read
to write, it has its uses for those who read merely to read.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 101. F. 22, ’08. 400w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 640. My. ’08. 70w.
=Weed, Clarence Moores.= Our trees: how to know them; photographs
from nature by Arthur I. Emerson, with a guide to their
recognition at any season of the year and notes on their
characteristics, distribution and culture, by Clarence M. Weed.
**$3. Lippincott.
8–8141.
A book whose text and very fine illustrations unite in teaching the
non-botanical reader how to identify at a glance any unknown tree. In
the descriptive matter special attention has been given to
distinguishing characteristics of the various species, as well as to
the more interesting phases of the yearly cycle of each, and the
special values of each for ornamental planting.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 152. My. ’08. ✠
Reviewed by T: H. Macbride.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 342. Je. 1, ’08. 150w.
“We commend the volume heartily to the amateur and the student.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1149. My. 21, ’08. 100w.
“The text, which is pleasantly written, gives a good account of forest
lore, and of facts relative to the range of the species, together with
a sprinkling of fairly selected verse.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 428. My. 7, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 264. My. 9, ’08. 80w.
“The text and pictures together form a complete method of acquiring an
intimate acquaintance with American trees. The descriptions are
accurate and reasonably full.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 886. Ap. 18, ’08. 80w.
=Weed, Clarence Moores.= Wild flower families. **$1.50. Lippincott.
8–13637.
The haunts, characters and family relationships of the herbaceous wild
flowers are given with suggestions for their identification. “The
treatment is by families, beginning with such flowers as appear
earliest in spring and ending with those that longest defy the frosts
of autumn.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“One of the most helpful of the wild flower books.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 249. O. ’08. ✠
“The book always keeps in view the giving of practical information,
which is admirably blended with literary flavor through apt quotation,
largely from contemporary poets.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 354. Je. 1, ’08. 200w.
“The work is well conceived and executed. We particularly like the
instructions given in the introduction about collecting and preserving
plants. We wish the author were not so afraid of using botanical
names, at least the generic ones.”
+ + − =Ind.= 64: 1298. Je. 4, ’08. 100w.
=Weir, Archibald A. E.= Introduction to the history of modern
Europe. $2. Houghton.
7–42473.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Selected chapters of this little book will make good supplementary
reading and be helpful and stimulating to any person of culture and
wide-reading, or to the student stall-fed on the husks of political
details.” G. S. Ford.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 634. Ap. ’08. 550w.
=Educ. R.= 36: 207. S. ’08. 50w.
“Here and there his statements are overstrained. Its chief value lies
in the clear and suggestive relations which it presents between the
realms of thought and action. Here the author gives many thoughtful
touches which reveal the connexion between politics and culture.” J.
H. Rose.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 170. Ja. ’08. 820w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 321. Ag. 6, ’08. 20w.
“To the reviewer it seems that Mr. Weir has erred in essaying the
impossible and that his work would be far more valuable if he had
centred his attention on one phase of civilization, say, politics,
instead of squandering it upon the whole, vast field.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 18. Ja. 11, ’08. 340w.
=Weiss, Mrs. Susan Archer.= Home life of Poe. $1.50. Broadway pub.
7–42108.
A sketch in which the author presents a “thorougly human likeness. The
failings of the man are not concealed, but they are treated humanly,
with neither the attempt to throw the blame for them on others, as
certain advocates have tried to do, nor the more common gloating over
his weaknesses which has been carried on by most biographers from the
jealousies aroused by Poe among his contemporaries. Possibly there is
a touch of undue animosity shown against Mrs. Clemm and her daughter.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“Her contribution to Poe literature is a permanent and wholesome one.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 206. Jl. 23, ’08. 260w.
“The author makes a distinct contribution to an understanding of Poe
as a man. No future historian of American literature can neglect it or
is likely to do so.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 236. F. 15, ’08. 730w.
“Within its own field, as an intimate portrait of Poe and of those
with whom he lived from childhood to death, we regard it as the sanest
and truest book yet published.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 192. F. 27, ’08. 380w.
“The final biographer of Poe will be guided in his story of the poet’s
childhood and of his later life in Richmond largely by those pictures
of him which appear in this modest little book.” C: M. Graves.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 71. F. 8. ’08. 670w.
=Welch, Catherine.= Little Dauphin. *$1.50. Scribner.
The life of the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette is traced to the
imprisonment of the French royal family in the Temple, and from there
“the author has no definite theory: but, although unwilling to accept
any one of the forty personages who claimed to be the son of Louis
XVI, she does—and in our view, justifiably—express a decided disbelief
in the fact of the death in the Temple, and sets forth substantial
grounds for dissatisfaction with the official proof of it.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Miss Welch’s book amply justifies its existence. The only blunder as
to fact that we have encountered in the book is the calling of Drouet
‘the postmaster of Varennes’ (twice).”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 294. S. 12. 1750w.
“Miss Welch writes with a lively imagination and a warm tenderness of
feeling that make her narrative vivid and appealing. She has a gentle
sense of humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 593. O. 24, ’08. 1050w.
“Is quite a good book to read. The author has some gift of style and a
pleasant vein of exaggeration. Her case is put with impartiality and
at the same time with decision. It is possible to quarrel with her
conclusions, but it is impossible not to respect them.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 271. Ag. 29, ’08. 850w.
=Wells, Carolyn.= Emily Emmins papers, il. †$1.50. Putnams.
7–39016.
“Emily Emmins, spinster” writes characteristically of her first
impressions of London gained and enjoyed without a Baedeker. She
comments upon “week-end house-parties out of town, tea drinking,
shopping experiences in Piccadilly, and that alluring social game
known as ‘going on.’” (Nation).
* * * * *
“The illustrations add to the liveliness of an uncommonly diverting
narrative.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 54. F. ’08. ✠
“An uncommonly lively and readable text.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 568. D. 19, ’07. 360w.
“Her original side-remarks on the peculiarities of British
institutions are full of good humor of the kind that provokes many a
quiet chuckle.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 15. Ja. 11, ’08. 70w.
=Wells, Carolyn=, comp. Vers de societe anthology. **$1.25.
Scribner.
7–37621.
A book of light verse culled from poems all the way from Sir Philip
Sydney’s time to the present. “Her own suggestion [that the title
should be Gentle Verse] strikes us as capital, and we could wish she
had boldly made it the title of her book; it fits well her definition
of the kind as depending for its spirit ‘on an instant perception and
a fine appreciation of values, seen through the medium of a whimsical
kindliness.’” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“One of the best of Miss Wells’ anthologies.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 51. F. ’08.
“An excellent book to read.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 492. N. 28, ’07. 240w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 26. Ja. 18, ’08. 160w.
=Wells, Herbert George.= First and last things: a confession of
faith and a rule of life. **$1.50. Putnam.
8–29004.
It is demanded of all who write concretely of reform that there shall
be some system of belief underlying their schemes. While Mr. Wells
believes that no “trimmed or rounded system of philosophy or religion
is attainable” he does set forth his social faith, and the convictions
and ideas which constitute it, and which have led up to a rule of
life. He turns analyst of his own mind and these pages record the
results.
* * * * *
“A personal testament of this sort must of necessity have an interest,
and, in the case of an intellect such as Mr. Wells’s, a value also.
Fascinating volume.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 712. D. 5. 1900w.
“Although Mr. Wells’ religion and philosophy may not be, and indeed
cannot be, exactly those of any one if his readers, the book is
valuable as the honest attempt of a man of vigorous and wide-ranging
intellect to explain precisely what he believes and what he
disbelieves.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 347. N. 16, ’08. 420w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 658. N. 7, ’08. 2200w.
=Outlook.= 90: 594. N. 14, ’08, 200w.
“Not only has Mr. Wells himself said it all before, but it was never
anything but the stale commonplace of ‘progressive thought.’”
− + =Sat. R.= 106: 700. D. 5, ’08. 850w.
=Wells, Herbert George.= New worlds for old. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–8150.
An intimate and first hand study of the socialist movement.
Acquaintance with its leaders, membership in many of its
organizations, and experiments in socialist politics have enabled the
author to arrive at certain conclusions as to the trend and needs of
social development. These he sets down here. He discusses the spirit
of good will in man, the fundamental idea in socialism, some
generalizations on socialism, some objections to socialism,
revolutionary administrative and constructive socialism, and answers
the questions, Would socialism destroy the home and would it abolish
all property? A final chapter is devoted to the advancement of
socialism.
* * * * *
“A most persuasive plea for socialism, which is at the same time fair,
temperate, open-minded.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 153. My. ’08. ✠
“Not for a long time has the literature of socialism been enriched by
a more reasonable and entertaining book than this. Some of his
difficulties he slurs over instead of meeting them squarely.” H. R.
Mussey.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 467. S. ’08. 470w.
“This book is, in our judgment, the very best popular treatise on
socialism that has appeared.” B. O. Flower.
+ + =Arena.= 39: 586. My. ’08. 3350w.
“We highly commend the defence of moderate non-revolutionary
‘Socialism’ contained in the first and several of the other chapters
of Mr. Wells. The main objection that may be taken to the work of Mr.
Wells is that we took to the last collection of the essays of M.
Jaurès, namely, that the title of the best of those essays applies to
the picture that Mr. Wells and M. Jaurès paint—‘Moonlight.’”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 320. Mr. 14. 340w.
“Forms a very good introduction to socialism. It will attract and
interest those who are not of that faith, and correct those who are.”
T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ =Dial.= 45: 163. S. 16, ’08. 860w.
“This is at once the most readable, the most sensible and the least
socialistic of recent socialist works.” F. A. Fetter.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 53. Ap. ’08. 700w.
“The vogue which the writer enjoys is to us a mystery, for the content
of his books seems to oscillate between the weird and the grotesque,
and to be distinctly tiresome.”
− =Educ. R.= 36: 102. Je. ’08. 120w.
“Mr. Wells has some particularly irritating mannerisms, and his humor
is not always in the best of taste.” James Seth.
− + =Hibbert J.= 6: 910. Jl. ’08. 830w.
“Altogether this [that the state should become the over-parent] is a
most seductive, sane and sober argument. Like all sociological studies
made in Europe, it fails to hit American conditions exactly.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 865. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“His title might with equal truth have been ‘New words for old,’ for
this book does not present an essential project of Utopian socialism
which he has not elaborated before.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 491. My. 28, ’08. 450w.
“For, despite all the praise which is not grudged him, it remains true
that there is more of the Blue book about this document than anything
yet appearing from his pen. The statistics are tremendously
respectable and convincing, but alas! they are caviare to the general,
and not pure literature, however well they enforce a point.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 167. Mr. 28, ’08. 1200w.
“When his analysis of socialism is scrutinized, it is impossible to
share his enthusiasm to any degree.” H. A. Bruce.
− =Outlook.= 89: 388. Je. 20, ’08. 530w.
“In content the book is very valuable indeed.”
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 556. S. ’08. 250w.
“Mr. Wells temporarily forsakes his role of a writer of fantastic
romances and sets forth his idea in his own clear style of what the
future socialistic state is to be.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 640. My. ’08. 50w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 405. Mr. 28, ’08. 1200w.
“Mr. Wells sets out the grounds of our discontent, and pictures for us
reconstructions of society which are alluring, if not convincing to
the sober imagination.”
− =Spec.= 101: sup. 471. O. 3, ’08. 900w.
=Wells, Herbert George.= War in the air. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–30615.
A book in which Mr. Wells takes the reader step by step to the end of
a triumph of “scientific imagination.” It is a prediction fraught with
achievement. A cockney of a scientific turn, who is carried away to
Germany in a balloon, and from there is taken on the flagship of a
German air fleet setting out to attack the United States, furnishes
eyes for the reader to behold the possible development of aerial
navigation, and the use of air ships in future war.
* * * * *
“His story, however, suffers from being less of a story than it ought
to be.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 602. N. 14. 420w.
=Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“The book certainly ‘gives to think,’ and for those who do not like to
think it provides entertainment, with a certain modicum of instruction
perforce and unawares.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 668. N. 14, ’08. 800w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 749. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
“May stand as the best boy’s book of the season if it can stand as a
boy’s book at all.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 110w.
“It is a novel, a romance, a social study and a prophetic anticipation
crushed into one. Its complexity spoils it as a work of art. The book,
indeed, is worth reading for half a dozen reasons; but it would have
been better worth reading had there not been quite so many.”
+ − =Sat. R=, 106: 614. N. 14, ’08. 470w.
=Welsford, Joseph W. W.= Strength of nations: an argument from
history. **$1.75. Longmans.
7–38586.
“Stated briefly, Mr. Welsford’s theme is that the only permanent
source of national strength is national production, and that the
neglect of national production for the sake of temporary advantages,
whether in the shape of tribute from subjects or dividends from
foreign investments, of profits for merchants and capitalists, or
cheap food for the masses, has invariably led to national decay and
disaster.” (Ath.) He uses Rome and Constantinople as his first
illustration of his thesis.
* * * * *
“The argument is plain, and the analogies are good—the historical
lesson all that the most ardent protectionist can desire. There is one
most annoying feature in the book. The authorities, to whom reference
is made in the notes, are indicated by letters only, and further
reference must be made to an index of authorities at the end of the
book.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 741. Ag. 3, ’07. 1200w.
“Mr. Welsford’s book can be recommended to classes which are studying
the pathology of history, and want a morbid specimen for examination;
it can serve no other good purpose.” Clive Day.
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 347. Ja. ’08. 590w.
“While [the author] is successful in collecting his material, he fails
to round it out into a definite system of ideas. In his zeal for
industry, he forgets humanity.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 51. Mr. ’08. 350w.
“The work has been based almost entirely on general histories, and is
loosely reasoned, superficial, and partisan in character.”
− =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 390. Je. ’08. 130w.
“Those who are already in agreement with him will welcome with delight
an exposition so full of novel and suggestive instances. Those whose
point of view differs from Mr. Welsford’s may think his conclusions
exaggerated and may feel annoyed by his frankly controversial tone,
but can hardly fail to be impressed by the facts which he has
adduced.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 219. Jl. 12, ’07. 1700w.
− =Nation.= 87: 444. N. 5, ’08. 900w.
“In spite of the crispness of his style and a somewhat serene
confidence in his ability to discover the real lines of cause and
effect in the labyrinth of the past, the new Orosius of the Tariff
reform league will find at least as many students of history who will
question his synthesis as economists convinced by his arguments. On
the other hand the book does show originality and is decidedly
stimulating.”
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 563. S. ’08. 220w.
=Wendell, Barrett.= Privileged classes. **$1.25. Scribner.
8–28840.
“In the four essays that make up this volume Professor Wendell
discusses the deeper problems of higher education in their relation to
present-day American life. The papers were originally presented as
addresses on literary and educational occasions.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“The great merit of this collection of essays is the brilliancy of the
phrasing. That intellectual courage which enables Mr. Wendell to
expound the unpopular side of the problem of equal rights is not
characteristic of the collegiate or social circles in which he moves.
Therefore it is the more honourable to him.” J: Macy.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 357. D. ’08. 1500w.
“We believe Professor Wendell exaggerates the discontent, but be that
as it may, he certainly misinterprets it if he seriously believes it
is symptomatic of revolution based on conviction that our democracy is
a failure.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 635. O. 31. ’08. 700w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 638. N. ’08. 40w.
=Wernle, Paul.= Sources of our knowledge of the life of Jesus; tr.
by Edward Lummis. *$1. Am. Unitar.
7–31390.
Aims to prepare for the lay reader a path to the knowledge of Jesus,
and to guide him so far forward in the examination of the sources that
he may himself take part in the answer to the question, Who and what
was Jesus? The author discusses Source—material outside the four
gospels. Our four evangelists, The synoptics, and The sources of the
synoptics.
=Wesselhoeft, Elizabeth F. P.= Rover, the farm dog. †$1.25. Little.
A story of child life on a farm, introducing a delightful
step-grandmother and a number of interesting dogs.
* * * * *
Reviewed by K. L. M.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 386. D. ’08. 80w.
“Kindness is the motive behind the adventures in this book.” M. J.
Moses.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1479. D. 17, ’08. 40w.
=West, Jennie Jerome (Lady Randolph Spencer Churchill, afterwards
Mrs. George Cornwallis-West).= Reminiscences of Lady Randolph
Churchill. **$3.50. Century.
8–30607.
With characteristic detachment Mrs. West assembles rambling personal
reminiscences of social and political England during the past thirty
years. To these are added glimpses of court life in Russia and
Germany; impressions and experiences gained from a tour around the
world; knowledge of the Red cross movement gained thru actual service
on the staff of the hospital ship Maine. Her own sprightly description
and comment are interspersed with bits of conversation and excerpt
from letters. The book is handsomely illustrated.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 299. D. ’08.
“Lady Randolph Churchill is a true woman in that her point of view is
always the personal one, which gives an original tang to her anecdotes
of great personages, English and foreign.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1176. N. 19, ’08. 300w.
“A valuable and spritely record of men and women.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 899. D. 12, ’08. 120w.
“There is nothing ill-natured in the book, and apparently nothing
indiscreet.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 462. N. 12, ’08. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 650. N. 7, ’08. 1450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 741. D. 5, ’08. 170w.
“With much good humor sketches the character of friend and opponent,
using sufficient prudence yet making a witty, piquant narrative.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 841. D. 12, ’08. 550w.
“In a volume of this kind the point of view is everything, and it is
that which, to American readers at least, lends a rare charm to these
memoirs.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 761. D. ’08. 220w.
“Mrs. Cornwallis West seems to think that to make a good book it is
enough to throw together, without method, arrangement, or dates, a lot
of hazy recollections about famous and fashionable people. But it is
not enough; and since the appearance of Sir Henry Drummond Wolff’s
memoir we have not experienced so keen a disappointment as in these
pointless and rambling reminiscences.”
− + =Sat. R.= 106: 487. O. 17, ’08. 800w.
“As boldness generally succeeds, so does Mrs. George West succeed in
writing a most entertaining book without giving any one a harder
knock, we should think, than he is able to bear, or causing more
embarrassment to public characters still living than they are
accustomed to.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 589. O. 17, ’08. 2450w.
=West, Max.= Inheritance tax. 2d ed., completely rev. and enl.
(Columbia univ. studies in history, economics and public law, v.
4, no. 2.) *2.50. Longmans.
8–831.
“Includes all the valuable, historical material of the first edition
and reviews the many and extensive changes brought about by the
legislation during the past fourteen years.”’—Econ. Bull.
* * * * *
“The work is an unbiased presentation of the data necessary for a
clear knowledge of the subject.” Carl C. Plehn.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 48. Ap. ’08. 500w.
“We commend his monograph to all interested in the subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 380. F. 15, ’08. 330w.
=Westall, Laura May.= Common-sense view of the mind-cure. **75c.
Funk.
8–27799.
Not a contribution to Christian science but a discussion of the use of
will power in curing or driving away common functional disorders.
* * * * *
“There is not much sentiment, and there is a good deal of logical
practical statement in ‘A common sense view of the mind cure.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 548. O. 3, ’08. 120w.
=Westell, W. Percival.= Insect book. (Country handbooks ser.) *$1.
Lane.
A brief study of the insects of Great Britain. The author “tells about
insects of the garden, of the waterside, of the wood, and, we may say
of the country generally; finally, about insects of the house. Of
course, he is a friend of the insect tribe as a whole; but he concedes
that the cockroach is ‘an unmitigated nuisance’ in many houses. It
came over to this country in the sixteenth century, a heavy ‘per
contra’ when we are reckoning up the benefits of that epoch.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“A delightful little book, easily read at a sitting, and in the main,
accurate. One might also doubt if Mr. Westell has not gone too far in
his aim to be popular and simple, by omitting so generously the
scientific names.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 561. Je. 18, ’08. 200w.
“The volume breathes a certain culture and graciousness refreshing as
the conversation of some learned but withal quite human friend.”
Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 449. Ag. 15, ’08. 170w.
“A very interesting little book on a subject in which he is an
expert.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 545. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.
=Westlake, John.= International law; a treatise. 2v. ea. *$3.
Putnam.
The author “has not attempted an exhaustive and technical treatise,
but rather a general work, which would appeal both to university
students, publicists and that widening circle of the reading public
interested in international questions. The first volume is devoted to
the law of peace; the second volume to the law of war and of
neutrality.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“The distinguishing characteristic of Prof. Westlake’s work is that he
has succeeded in emancipating himself from the insular prepossessions
which have heretofore characterized so many of the British works on
international law. While this work cannot be said to present the
subject from a new point of view, it is in many respects the most
satisfactory summary of the present status of international law
available to English speaking students.” L. S. Rowe.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 468. S. ’08. 300w.
“Perhaps no work has been written on the leading topics of
international law which is more likely to enable its readers to reason
sanely upon the ‘other topics’ of the subject. The only defect
observable in the book, if it be permitted to criticize adversely one
who has demonstrated himself a master, is the somewhat obscure
language in which the thought has at times been expressed.” G. W.
Scott.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 518. S. ’08. 1750w.
=Westrum, Adriaan Schade van.= The devil. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–27363.
A story based on the translations and adaptation made from the
Hungarian by Alex Konta and William Trowbridge Larned. “It is a
picture of erring human nature, but the sophistries of Satan are set
forth with wit and humor and are made the vehicle of satirical flings
at the modern social order.”
* * * * *
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 814. N. 28, ’08. 130w.
“The task of one who runs dramatic materials into the novel mould—much
simpler than the opposite process—is to avoid adding too much. In this
case the adapter has acquitted himself well.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 442. N. 5, ’08. 280w.
=Westrup, Margaret.= Greater mischief. †$1.50. Harper.
8–5583.
A sensitive child at the mercy of a jealous, undemonstrative,
puritanic mother struggles into bloom in the little garden of her
wonderful imagination. A prince charming offers to her when a child of
ten the first real sympathy her hungry little soul has known. She
lives upon the memory of their companionship until in after years he
returns and offers her his love. Their love is changed to grief thru
an ancient grudge which the wooer’s father bears the dead father of
Audrey, and only a heroic sacrifice on the part of the hitherto
uncompromising mother is able to restore happiness.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 224. Je. ’08.
“Speaking generally, the personages of the story (including Euphemia,
a truly comical dog) are realized far more vividly than in the run of
contemporary novels. It is a pity that their effectiveness should be
so often endangered by the coil of a futile and over-ingenious plot.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 237. Mr. 12, ’08. 150w.
“An excellent specimen of English skill in the writing of fiction and
of those points in which it is superior to the American novel.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 266. My. 9, ’08. 200w.
“The problem presented in [this story] is a serious one, and has
tragic possibilities; but the story holds it with firm but skillful
grasp, and surrounds it with so much pleasant humor and charming
suggestion that the reader is never overwhelmed.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 652. Mr. 21, ’08. 150w.
* =Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth.= An English honeymoon. †$1.50.
Lippincott.
8–32322.
Honeymoon happiness casts its effulgence across every page of this
bright narrative of scenes and sights thru England. In a series of
letters the bride reveals how they convert everything from a king’s
highway to an obscure lane into a byway of lovers; comfortable,
unconventionable “honeymooners” they are who describe scenes, haunts
and structures as they perceive them, and assemble bits of historical,
literary and art information for the reader’s enlightenment.
* * * * *
“It is an attractive volume and written in Miss Wharton’s best style.”
+ =Dial.= 45; 462. D. 16, ’08. 170w.
“It is all charmingly told, and as a bit of travel literature the
little volume is strengthened by the excellent illustrations.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 911. D. 12, ’08. 140w.
“The travel narrative is an entertaining mixture of description,
quotation, and anecdote.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 740. D. 5, ’08. 220w.
“The happy traveler writes enthusiastically.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 749. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
=Wharton, Edith.= Hermit and the wild woman. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–27101.
A group of stories dealing “with subtle problems, delicate situations,
the nuances, so to speak, of conduct and temperament.” (Outlook.) “The
title story, ‘The hermit and the wild woman,’ is in the form of an
Italian legend and bears the mark of the author’s familiarity with the
history and literature, the art and faith of Italy. The other stories
are of modern life.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Have all the subtlety and artistry in style and conception that we
associate with Mrs. Wharton.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 305. D. ’08.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 644. N. 21. 160w.
“The stories are, of course, admirably told; we must hope that their
uniformity of key is a coincidence, and that the story-teller’s
buoyancy has not taken itself off altogether.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 525. N. 26, ’08. 400w.
“The stories are unequal in interest, although uniformly delightful in
the felicity of their detail and the trained taste of their
composition.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 541. O. 3, ’08. 600w.
“They are not, however, either so novel in situation or so interesting
as some of their predecessors. They are a little inclined to a certain
form of preciosity from which Mrs. Wharton will do well to deliver
herself.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 362. O. 17, ’08. 150w.
“Is best read by firelight, when the room is still, when the delicate
perfection of the work makes its just appeal to an alert and impartial
reader.” Agnes Repplier.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 702. N. 28, ’08. 330w.
“To begin with, we cannot think that she was altogether well advised
in including in a set of ultra-modern stories the mediaeval
quasi-allegory which gives its name to the book. Apart from that, the
almost invariable recurrence of failure, disappointment, and
disillusionment as the leading motives of each episode makes for
depression as well as monotony.”
− + =Spec.= 101: 886. N. 28, ’08. 750w.
=Wharton, Edith.= Motor-flight through France. **$2. Scribner.
8–30288.
A book for readers familiar with France. Mrs. Wharton’s glances here
and there serve as suggestions to start a description that grows out
of the fulness of her historical understanding of the places visited,
and her shrewd, analytical reflections.
* * * * *
“Readers who enjoy style, readers who are fond of automobile riding,
readers who are interested in rural France, whether for its art, its
architecture, or its landscape, will enjoy Mrs. Wharton’s book.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 409. D. 1, ’08. 250w.
“Is rich with the delicate observation of a keen, well-stored mind,
eager for new impressions.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1180. N. 19, ’08. 260w.
“For anyone contemplating a motor trip thru France it should serve,
moreover, as an excellent guide.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 911. D. 12, ’08. 200w.
“One may say that this is a book to give keen pleasure to all who have
themselves visited the scenes which Mrs. Wharton recalls so surely and
charmingly, but that it is too wide in scope, too crowded with detail,
too hasty in movement, to be very satisfactory to the untravelled.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 469. N. 12, ’08. 830w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 622. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“Those who have been charmed with Mrs. Wharton’s novels will not be
disappointed by her venture into the unfamiliar role of a travel
writer.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 637. O. 31, ’08. 230w.
“Her keenness of observation and delicate descriptive style never fail
her.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 760. D. ’08. 30w.
“A glance at the contents of the book does not suggest anything like
the treasures of novelty to be found within.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 947. D. 5, ’08. 620w.
=Wheeler, H. F. B., and Broadley, A. M.= Napoleon and the invasion
of England. 2v. *$10. Lane.
8–6630.
Newspapers, letters, diaries and broad-sides of the period from 1793
to 1805 have provided a wealth of material upon which this narrative
is based. It describes the various plans which the French considered
during this period for the invasion of the British Isles with Napoleon
as leader. “The authors bring out clearly the importance of Napoleon’s
ignorance of matters nautical, an ignorance which assumes great
importance when we remember that one of the most potent factors in the
overthrow of Napoleon was the sea power of England.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Whether we consider the number of new materials, the wealth of
illustrations, both pictorial and literary (most of them drawn from
Mr. Broadley’s fine collection), the skill with which materials and
illustrative extracts are woven into the narrative or the correctness
of the text, the completeness of the index, and the excellence of the
form, the result must be considered highly satisfactory.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 396. O. 5. 1920w.
“These caricatures, strange to say, though they are of course valuable
for the side-light they throw on public feeling at the time of their
production, are singularly deficient in real humour, and fail
altogether to appeal to modern taste—an incidental proof of the
increase in refinement that has taken place in that taste of late
years. These are all of stirring interest, and bring out more forcibly
than could any description by a later pen the actual feelings aroused
by the gloomy situation.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 33: 250. Ja. ’08. 400w.
“We cannot pretend to think that it altogether sustains the
authoritative character implied in its rather ambitious title. It is,
in our judgment, palpably lacking in a true sense of historical
perspective and is little qualified to sustain the comparison it
suggests with the works of such men as Colomb, Mahan, and Desbriere,
but it is nevertheless full of entertainment and not devoid of
instruction.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 321. O. 25, ’07. 1580w.
“The great value of Messrs. Wheeler and Broadley’s handsome volumes is
that they bring together a great deal of miscellaneous material ...
that paint, as nothing else does, the national psychology of England
at this moment of pressing danger. They fill a gap in English
historical literature and may be heartily recommended. At the same
time it must be said that the authors are more collectors than
historians, enthusiasts than stylists; their own share of the book is
occasionally slipshod and is not marked by the historical sense.”
+ − =Nation.=, 86: 125. F. 6, ’08. 260w.
“Every critic must unhesitatingly commend the wealth of pictorial
material in these two volumes. It has very high historical value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 16. Ja. 11, ’08. 260w.
“There can be little doubt that the authors of this book are right in
their contention that Bonaparte seriously intended the invasion of
England after the breach of Treaty of Amiens, and we do not know where
we can find so living a picture of the preparations which were made to
meet it.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 3. S. 28. ’07. 1600w.
“The present work succeeds in giving us in the compass of a single
book a more convincing picture of a period of panic than we can recall
in any library.”
+ + =Spec.= 99. sup. 899. D. 7, ’07. 2120w.
=Wheeler, Henry.= History and exposition of the twenty-five articles
of religion of the Methodist Episcopal church. *$2. Meth. bk.
8–2747.
“A traditional, ‘confessional,’ treatment of the twenty-five articles
as an exhaustive creedal statement of Methodist doctrine.... The book
contains a brief introduction by Bishop Warren, a preliminary account
of the articles, a parallel presentation of the thirty-nine articles
with Wesley’s abridgment, and as the body of the work, a discussion of
each article verbatim, giving origin, aim, and exposition.”—Am. J.
Theol.
* * * * *
=Am. J. Theol.= 12: 678. O. ’08. 140w.
=Ind.= 65: 46. Jl. 2, ’08. 70w.
=Wheelock, Elizabeth M.= Stories of Wagner operas told for children.
†$1.28. Bobbs.
8–6994.
Stories of seven of the best Wagner operas are here retold for
children: The master singers of Nuremberg, The flying Dutchman,
Lohengrin, The Rhinegold The Walkyries, Siegfried, and The dusk of the
gods.
* * * * *
“Assuredly a contribution to the every-child-should-know literature.”
+ =Dial.= 44. 251. Ap. 16, ’08. 70w.
“The style of the author is too slavishly dependent upon the incidents
to be distinctive.” M. J. Moses.
− =Ind.= 65: 1474. D. 17, ’08. 40w.
“Mrs. Wheelock has been remarkably successful in infusing the real
narrative spirit into these tales, and her book may be placed by the
side of the Grimm and the Andersen fairy tales.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 291. Mr. 26, ’08. 350w.
“Contains very little spontaneous narrative, although the events are
faithfully followed.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 30w.
“They are told here as they were told, not written, and retain a
flavor of the human voice, a certain pleasant intimacy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 221. Ap. 11, ’08. 80w.
=Whetham, Catherine Durning, and Whetham, William C. D.= History of
the life of Colonel Nathaniel Whetham, a forgotten soldier of the
civil wars. *$2.80. Longmans.
The career of a typical soldier of the Commonwealth, including early
life, apprenticeship to a baker, marriage with the baker’s widow,
service for parliament at the outbreak of the civil war in 1642,
governorships, and opposition to the establishment of an hereditary
protectorate. “With the exception of the opening chapter of the book
deals exclusively with Whetham’s public and military life, and a great
part of the work is occupied with explanatory summaries of the state
of parties in England and Scotland and with the causes and course of
the civil war.” (Eng. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“It is only by such work that we may ultimately come to comprehend
such periods as that of the Puritan revolution.” W. C. Abbott.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 121. O. ’08. 440w.
“Rich in illustration, drawn in great measure from original sources,
this book is refreshingly free from superfluous matter; and its style
presents the directness, and restraint regarding the intrusion of
personal sentiments, which belong to true scholarship.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 348. Mr. 21, 2450w.
“The chief interest of the work lies in the account given of the minor
details of the war round Oxford, of Whetham’s defence of Northampton,
and of his later work and difficulties as governor of Portsmouth.” Eva
Scott.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 364. Ap. ’08. 550w.
“A valuable contribution to the history of the seventeenth century.
Generally the book is most interesting. Perhaps its pleasantest pages
are those which describe the rural life of the seventeenth century.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 536. Ap. 25, ’08. 700w.
=Whidden, John D.= Ocean life in the old sailing ship days, from
forecastle to quarter-deck. **$1.50. Little.
8–15164.
Old-time sailing ships, the incidents connected with them, the
captains who commanded them and the departed glamour and romance of
the sea are the items for this autobiographic narrative. It is written
out of the experience of an old sea captain who, an orphan at five, on
shipboard at twelve, exposed to temptation in every port, subjected to
hard usage and strict discipline, rose from service in the forecastle
to the command and part ownership of a sailing craft.
* * * * *
“It is to be noted that in the account of his Eastern voyages Captain
Whidden has repeated the old and all but baseless tradition of
Juggernaut sacrifices. The Captain spins a rattling good yarn, and we
commend it to all lovers of sea stories.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 215. O. 1, ’08. 400w.
“One is constantly led to wish that better use had been made of the
abundant material at the disposal of its author; for occasionally he
essays a literary flight outside his usual record in log-book style,
and those excursions seldom fail to interest, instruct, or amuse. Our
legislators should read these pages written in unconscious support of
the present movement to strike the tariff shackles from American
industries.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 547. D. 3, ’08. 300w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 676. N. 14, ’08. 380w.
“His book not only relates his experiences as a voyager, but gives
remarkable insight into the ships and seafaring methods of a past
generation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 637. N. ’08. 80w.
=Whipple, George Chandler.= Typhoid fever; its causation,
transmission and prevention; introd. by W: T. Sedgwick. *$3.
Wiley.
8–13622.
Aims to furnish to doctors and engineers “a condensed summary of the
most important facts that have been learned regarding typhoid fever,
so far as they relate to the prevention and spread of the disease; to
furnish to the student of sanitary science a group of illustrations of
some of the leading principles of epidemiology; and to give the
general reader a simple and, it is hoped, a clear and correct account
of the causation, transmission and prevention of the disease, and his
own responsibility in helping to bring about such conditions of
cleanliness that typhoid fever shall soon cease to be a national
disgrace.”—Preface.
* * * * *
“It is doubtful if any work in any language presents the side of the
subject of which he treats so concisely and yet so thoroughly as he
has done.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 4: 181. Ag. ’08. 730w.
“Rarely is a book written with such capabilities for good as has this
one. It is to be hoped that the book will have a wide circulation and
careful reading and heeding among engineers, physicians and
lay-members of boards of health, as well as many others who are
interested in the public wealth and health.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 59: 648. Je. 11, ’08. 660w.
“This is the most important work on the subject, in English, since
Curschmann’s monograph was translated and edited by Dr. William Osler
seven years ago.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 417. O. 29, ’08. 940w.
“In the main the work is an admirable one, and worthy of the highest
commendation.” George Blumer.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 28: 733. N. 20, ’08. 470w.
=Whitaker, Walter Claiborne.= Richard Hooker Wilmer, second bishop
of Alabama: a biography. **$2. Jacobs.
7–39218.
A sketch of Bishop Wilmer’s life which renders “simple justice” to his
undaunted courage, self-forgetfulness, and the consecration with which
he discharged his pioneer diocese responsibilities.
* * * * *
“This life of the Alabama clergyman well repays a careful perusal both
from the viewpoint of church history and from that of a lively human
interest.” W: E. Dodd.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 917. Jl. ’08. 500w.
+ =Dial.= 44: 215. Ap. 1, ’08. 550w.
Reviewed by Gaillard Hunt.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 52. Ja. 25, ’08. 1330w.
=Spec.= 100: sup. 649. Ap. 25, ’08. 320w.
=White, Albert Beebe.= Making of the English constitution, 449–1485.
*$2. Putnam.
8–29201.
A brief, up-to-date college text which places the emphasis thruout
upon evolution rather than upon description; whose purpose has been to
furnish a logically satisfying account of the genesis of each
institution as far as present knowledge permits. In arrangement, it is
governed by the requirements of the subject-matter, and does not
attempt to conform to either the chronological or topical order. It
aims to make the student understand the origin and growth of the
English constitution as a many-sided but single evolution.
* * * * *
“The book is admirably arranged and written; it is notable for its
simplicity, lucidity, and directness. Something may be said, too, in
its favor on account of its brevity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 576. O. 17, ’08. 160w.
=White, Fred Merrick.= Five knots. †$1.50. Little.
8–12766.
A tale of crime and mystery in which a vendetta is executed by two
little yellow men from Borneo. An English ship owner’s road to fortune
led from a heinous crime which he committed among some Malays, two of
whom escape, and later arrive in London to execute their vengeance.
The story is full of thrills.
* * * * *
“Mr. White has done better work along these same lines, and it is to
be hoped that he will do so again.” F: T. Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 28: 67. S. ’08. 200w.
“A more absurd story is seldom written.”
− =Nation.= 86: 536. Je. 11, ’08. 250w.
=White, Fred Merrick.= Yellow face. *$1. Fenno.
8–4908.
A mystery story with an arch conspirator who has upon his track the
usual Scotland Yard sleuths and the more resourceful amateur
detectives. “The story hinges upon a surgical mutilation borrowed from
the Aztecs, involves the aid of numerous scientific discoveries and
inventions; in the end the entire cast is arrayed in all its strength
against the villain.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The plot is well conceived and is executed in forcibly interesting
style. There are a number of minor discrepancies and many earmarks of
overhasty composition, but the story never flags in its rapid,
thrilling movement, the very evident work of an old hand at the art.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 100. F. 22, ’08. 200w.
=White, Stewart Edward.= Arizona nights, il. †$1.50. McClure.
7–36101.
A book of scenes and portrayals that flash by the reader as tho
“caught in the films” of a panorama camera. “Mr. White gives a view of
the life on Arizona cattle ranches which is instinct with virility and
love of that out-of-door existence which he knows so well. The stories
run the gamut from ‘The honk honk breed.’ whose humor will delight
every unrepentant nature-fakir, to the last tale ‘The raw-hide,’ a
grim sketch in a vein which will surprise a good many of Mr. White’s
admirers.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“That ... Mr. White’s pages as they stand do not give the impression
of being overcrowded is due to the unusual clearness of his mental
vision and to a terse vigorous style which, without abruptness, often
compacts into a sentence the pith of a paragraph. Of this sort of
writing the present book is an admira example.” Churchill Williams.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 524. Ja. ’08. 980w.
“This volume is largely a catena of campfire stories of cowboys,
rustlers, Indians, remittance men and greasers, including some details
too gross to make pleasant reading.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1473. D. 19, ’07. 80w.
“Shows a hitherto unsuspected ability in character drawing and in the
sensing of dramatic values, which makes of it the most interesting
thing he has written.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 856. D. 21, ’07. 230w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 123 Ja. ’08. 150w.
“Here are some most readable, and at times exciting, yarns of the
Arizona desert.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 993. D. 14, ’07. 280w.
=White, Stewart Edward.= Riverman. †$1.50. McClure.
8–23537.
A story of Michigan rivermen which deals with the fortunes of a
log-driving firm. The hero is a river-boss who is induced by a New
York lawyer, roughing it for his health, to join him in organizing a
company to handle expeditiously all of the logs of the section. The
treachery of the partner is outlined in detail against the sterling
strength of the rugged hero. Local color and atmosphere abound.
* * * * *
“The love story is inferior and detracts somewhat from the merit of
the book.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 246. O. ’08. ✠
“It is to be heartily recommended to any and every one who likes a
tale of action that is American through and through, that has no tinge
of melodrama, an occasional incident excepted, but that has thrills in
plenty, and is pervaded with a buoyant spirit of optimism and rugged
health which is good for mind and body.” Churchill Williams.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 150. O. ’03. 1050w.
“It is a good story if you free Mr. White from observing the usual
canons of literary construction.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1065. N. 5, ’03. 500w.
“The story is good, and we think would be better for a little
abridging of the mass of technicalities relating to logging and to the
financing of lumber companies.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 340. O. 8, ’08. 270w.
“It is certain that a great many people will find it quite possible,
and even exciting, to read Mr. White’s frightfully inartistic but in
parts very stirring narrative.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 482. S. 5, ’08. 660w.
“A powerful companion novel to ‘The blazed trail.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 749. D. 5, ’08. 260w.
“In and out of this good story-material Mr. White has woven a sub-plot
of villainy which is not at all convincing and is essentially
uninteresting.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 278. O. 3, ’08. 120w.
=White, William Frank.= Scrap-book of elementary mathematics; notes,
recreations, essays. *$1. Open ct.
8–3914.
A book of mathematical curiosities. “It deals with more than
D’Israeli’s ‘six follies of science,’ not confining itself to follies
or to impossibilities of the circle-squaring type, but including in
its medley of seventy topics many other points of interest and even
critical importance in modern mathematics, as, for example, linkages
and straight-line motion, and the instruments allowed by Plato in
simple construction.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“His book is decidedly worth having and studying.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 423. Ap. ’08. 60w.
“Though it is inferior in some respects to Schubert’s ‘Mathematical
essays and recreations,’ is yet a miscellany well worth having both on
account of the mathematical curiosities it has brought together out of
a space of more than two thousand years, and on account of its
enlightened comment upon them.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 212. S. 3, ’08. 130w.
=Whitford, Caleb Bailey.= Training the bird dog. *$1.25. Outing pub.
8–21503.
A clear, scientific treatise for dog owners and sportsmen on the
development of the hunting dog, written by an expert dog breaker, one
whose methods have produced a long line of prize winners. In leading
up to the ‘first lessons,’ the author discusses the genius of
breaking, the breaker’s ideal, breaking the breaker, rewards and
punishments, and the best age for breaking.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 454. Ag. 15, ’08. 220w.
=Whitin, Ernest Stagg.= Factory legislation in Maine. (Columbia
univ. studies in history, economics and public law.) *$1.
Longmans.
8–18392.
The first part of this study is historical. “It traces the conditions
of the industrial and the legislative acts from 1821 to 1907. The
second part is equally instructive and deals with administration and
the factory law of 1908. The critique of the child labor law, pp. 130
ff., is especially apt. A complete index of the labor laws of Maine in
force in 1908 is appended to this very valuable little book.” (Am. J.
Soc.)
* * * * *
“Important technological essay.” H. P. J. Sellinger.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 270. S. ’08. 80w.
“Excellent monograph.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 631. N. ’08. 160w.
“Mr. Whitin’s treatise is of chiefly local interest, but it is a part
of the times in which we live, and which are similar in all states.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 439. Ag. 8, ’08. 360w.
=Whiting, Lilian.= Italy, the magic land. *$2.50. Little.
7–37741.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“The book as a whole is sufficiently attractive, aside from its
occasional overload of polysyllabic adjectives.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 510. Ja. ’08. 390w.
=Dial.= 43: 427. D. 16, ’07. 90w.
“A queer hodge-podge.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 523. Mr. 5, ’08. 100w.
“Certain phrases might merit the criticism ‘gushing.’ Notwithstanding
such an occasional limitation, the book contains much genuine Italian
atmosphere.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 876. D. 21. ’07. 150w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 625. F. ’08. 320w.
* =Whiting, Lilian.= Paris the beautiful. **$2. Little.
8–32991.
“A little record of the crystalized enchantment of many springtimes
and early summers” spent in Paris. “Most unique and satisfactory of
all, it pictures Paris in its activity to-day. The work that is being
done by scientists is reported as if from the laboratory, and that of
artists from the Salons of last spring. Men like Rodin, Richet, the
scientist Landor, and many others, are described in connection with
labors now in hand. Miss Whiting’s spirit is that of enthusiastic
admiration of the Parisians, whose chief characteristic she considers
is ‘imaginative intensity:’ and admiration also of the city, whose
atmosphere she finds not one of frivolity and wickedness, but of
‘light and color, of the keenest and most sympathetic human response
in joy or sorrow,—an atmosphere too, that is peopled with lofty
visions and with ideals of loveliness.’”(Dial.)
* * * * *
“It is, in truth, just such a record as actual and would-be lovers of
Paris will welcome, because it shows the city not only in its outward
fairness but in its beauty of intellectual and artistic achievement.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 461. D. 16, ’08. 270w.
“There is no doubt that with this book a pleasant hour may be spent in
a literary companionship, which will be a delight to many.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 699. N. 28, ’08. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 749. D. 5, ’08. 80w.
=Whiting, Robert Rudd.= Ball of yarn: its unwinding. **75c. Elder.
7–31419.
“The ‘Yarns’ are told by several men sitting around the stove in a
hotel office and vary from that of the breath-bound village in which,
on a cold winter’s day, the people all got lost in the frozen fog of
their own breaths to that of the man who had a scheme for beating the
races by telegraphing the list of a day’s winners around the world and
getting it back to New York the day before it started.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1469. D. 19, ’07. 70w.
“A collection of grotesque perversions of possibility somewhat after
the manner of Munchausen tales.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 631. O. 19, ’07. 130w.
=Whitney, Helen Hay.= Gypsy verses. $1.25. Duffield.
7–31381.
Underneath the flaunting of gypsy colors, and the hoaxes of Romany
spells, this verse reveals regret, weariness and longing for the
“Silver and azure of the open day.”
* * * * *
“There is imaginative distinction in these verses.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 64. Ag. 1, ’08. 150w.
=Nation.= 85: 589. D. 26, ’07. 200w.
“There are ... individual lines and epithets that have freshness and
lustre, and once in a while an unhackneyed point of view that gives a
glimpse and promise of something deeper.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 199. Ap. 11, ’08. 300w.
=Whitty, Edward Michael.= St. Stephen’s in the fifties, the session
1852–3, a parliamentary retrospect; with an introd. by Justin
McCarthy, and notes by H. M. Williams. *$3. Wessels.
7–12661.
The gallery letters written by a young Irish journalist to the Leader,
a London paper, reveal two things: viz., that newspaper writing was an
art in those days and that parliament had many an interesting
character to portray. There are Disraeli, Gladstone, John Bright,
Henry Drummond and many another. “It is the story of rises and falls
in great reputations, of disappointments soothed, of foiled intrigues,
of dogged endurance and loyalty repaid.” (Spec.)
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passed into the ranks of permanent literature, and in this portion a
high place must be given to the book before us.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 369. O. 13, ’06. 820w.
“Some of Whitty’s portraits are of singular interest and power, and
well deserve the honour of frequent republication.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 405. O. 6. 450w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 153. F. 13, ’08. 850w.
“Mr. McCarthy’s preface is a work of supererogation from beginning to
end, for it attempts to elucidate nothing but the already obvious, and
cumbers the ground with a deal of personal opinion. The oldest
‘Parliamentary hand’ and the last successful candidate at a
by-election can learn much to his edification and amusement by
studying the conditions at ‘St. Stephen’s in the fifties.’”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 623. O. 27, ’06. 2620w.
=Who’s= who on the stage, 1908; ed. by Walter Browne and E. DeRoy
Koch. il. *$3.50. Dodge, B. W.
The dramatic reference book and biographical dictionary of the
theater, for 1908. It contains careers of actors, actresses, managers
and playwrights of the American stage. A number of illustrations are
included.
=Wide, Anders.= Horne gymnastics on Ling’s system. **50c. Funk.
A little handbook of some seventy pages which outlines the principals
of the Swedish gymnastic system as introduced and developed by Pehr
Henrik Ling. Not only are the physical benefits of the system pointed
out but the ethical and moral as well.
* * * * *
“Is valuable to the man of sedentary occupation, who is anxious to
keep himself in good physical condition.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1044. My. 7. ’08. 70w.
=Wiedersheim, Robert.= Comparative anatomy of vertebrates; adapted
from the German of Dr. Robert Wiedersheim by W. N. Parker. *$3.75.
Macmillan.
8–16426.
The third English edition founded upon the sixth German edition. It
has been prepared chiefly for students whereas former editions have
been used largely by investigators and teachers. The bibliography of
the previous editions has been extended to include six hundred
additional titles of the last German edition.
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“The work is without a rival in any language, and is unsurpassed as a
complete and comprehensive compendium of the more significant facts of
comparative anatomy, an indispensable text for college and university
use, and a valuable work of reference in the general library.”
+ + =Dial.= 44: 249. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.
=Nation.= 86: 156. F. 13, ’08. 500w.
“Notwithstanding deficiencies, the present is the best English
treatise upon vertebrate anatomy, as the original is the best German.
The reviewer sincerely hopes to greet a later faultless edition.” B.
G. Wilder.
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* =Wiggin, Kate Douglas, and Smith, Nora Archibald=, eds. Tales of
laughter. †$1.50. McClure.
A hundred and forty tales of the character that from time immemorial
have entertained the group of listeners about a mother’s knee. They
will prove a mine to little people who like the “huff and puff” of the
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kettle.
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casements,’ to which excellent volumes it is a worthy successor.”
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Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 80w.
“No better editors could be chosen, and they lay tribute upon many
lands and languages.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 751. N. 28, ’08. 120w.
=Wilder, Marshall Pinckney.= Smiling ’round the world. †$1.50. Funk.
8–15165.