A lucid statement of the laws that govern aerial navigation. “The
chapter explaining these truths [the important laws of the ‘stream-line’
form, the concavo-convex form of plane, and the proportion of the width
of the plane to its length] leaves little to be desired, and cannot fail
to excite the interest and wonder of all, for it at once unfolds a
mechanical law of great beauty and simplifies the construction of
aeroplanes. The members of a flying-machine must conform to the same
rule, and a concavo-convex section enables the planes to be constructed
hollow, ensuring the same strength with lightness.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“A very full and painstaking elaborate work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 637. N. ’09. 80w.
“It is with some difficulty that we leave the fascinating subject of the
aeroplane to draw attention to the scarcely less important chapters on
the condition of the atmosphere.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 718. N. 6, ’09. 630w.
=Turner, Claude Allen Porter.=^{[12]} Concrete steel construction, pt.
1, Buildings: a practical treatise for the constructor and those
commercially engaged in the industry. $20. C. A. P. Turner, 816
Phoenix Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn.
9–25657.
A work whose practical helpfulness is emphasized particularly in the
chapters “on economic design, on handling concrete at different
temperatures above and below zero, on placing and protection of pipes in
concrete work, on plastering over reinforced concrete work, on floor
finish, on commercial conditions affecting the safe and rapid
introduction of concrete steel construction, wherein are discussed with
exceptional vigor the conditions exacted by building laws and the
responsibilities incumbent on engineers, contractors and owners.”
(Engin. Rec.)
* * * * *
“This book can be regarded as nothing more than a handbook advertising
and advocating this particular type of construction. Two flagrant
defects in the book should be mentioned. The book lacks an important
essential of any scientific or technical treatise, namely, an index.
Another fault, recently referred to by a writer in ‘Engineering news’ as
all too common in text-books and other technical works, is a want of
clearness of expression, shown not merely in long, involved sentences,
but also in loose and unintelligible language.” R. P. Miller.
− =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 60. D. 16, ’09. 1900w.
“The book is full of exceedingly practical points. In fact the last half
of the book is of a high order of usefulness, which cannot be said,
however, with so much emphasis as to some other sections. The whole book
should be read with a knowledge of the prejudices of the author, and the
reasons given by him in his preface for presenting the book and the
reasons for charging a large price for the work, as set forth near its
end, be considered.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 60: 364. S. 25, ’09. 500w.
=Turquan, Joseph.=^{[7]} Love affairs of Napoleon; tr. from the French
by James L. May. **$5. Lane.
In which new material on the love affairs of Napoleon is generously
interspersed with the old. “Among these is some verse, written to Mme.
de Saint Huberti, and credited to Napoleon. There is also new light
thrown on the attitude of the Emperor towards Josephine immediately
before and after the divorce, which places the former in a pleasanter
position.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1909, 2: 124. Jl. 31. 170w.
“Although there is perhaps nothing unnecessarily offensive in M.
Turquan’s method of handling it, we have ‘chronique scandaleuse’ from
the first page to the last. Eminently readable.”
+ − =Dial.= 47: 104. Ag. 16, ’09. 100w.
“Has not the slightest claim to original research. The work is decidedly
interesting. Several of the anecdotes, and the book is fairly stuffed
with them, will find an excuse for their presentation, in spite of their
sadly unedifying details, in the light they shed, not only on the social
turpitude of the time, but on certain political events.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 38. Jl. 8, ’09. 450w.
“The writer’s French sentimentality runs away with him on occasions. The
book is not precisely a valuable one, but it takes its place as a clever
account of the frivolous side of the great Corsican’s life.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 467. Jl. 31, ’09. 800w.
“Such books as these deserve no attention from any serious reader.
Though there is no grossness, there is an exploiting of sex in these
books which is disagreeable. His wives have their place in his serious
life, but we can dispense with his mistresses treated as a separate
topic at length.”
− =Sat. R.= 107: 634. My. 15, ’09. 100w.
=Turquan, Joseph.= Sisters of Napoleon: Elisa, Pauline and Caroline
Bonaparte; after the testimony of their contemporaries; tr. and ed.
by W. R. H. Trowbridge. *$3.75. Scribner.
9–13598.
A sketch of the lives of Napoleon’s three sisters in which their
difficulties and failures are the important considerations; important
for the reason that they thwart every step of the trio’s advance into
the good graces of the student of history.
* * * * *
“The book was written without knowledge of recent publications which
change the story of the lives of the Grand Duchess Elisa and of Murat’s
Queen.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 718. D. 5. 660w.
“It must be said in praise of the English version, whatever may have
been true of the French original, that the lives of three very
disreputable women are told with good taste, without either prudery or
coarseness.”
+ − =Dial.= 47: 22. Jl. 1, ’09. 320w.
“It is interesting, but makes no serious contribution to scholarship.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 411. Ap. 22, ’09. 110w.
“One is conscious of a certain animosity in the writer’s attitude, and
it wearies one. Possibly their lives will be told more sympathetically
some day. The present volume, at least does not lack interest.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 142. Mr. 13, ’09. 700w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 734. D. 12, ’08. 250w.
“M. Turquan’s volume, adequately translated into English by Mr.
Trowbridge, is a compact and artistic whole, made up of studies of
Napoleon’s sisters, and written throughout with liveliness and skill.
One feels that M. Turquan, when he began to write, knew exactly what he
wanted to do, and that he has done it; his object was to amuse, and he
does amuse, and if at the same time he is somewhat unsympathetic and not
always too careful as to his facts, these are faults which only the most
scrupulous and serious of his readers would wish to remember against
him.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 1100. D. 26, ’08. 580w.
=Two-family= and twin houses; consisting of a variety of designs
contributed by leading architects in all parts of the country;
selected and comp. by the editor of the Architects’ and builders’
magazine. $2. Comstock.
9–3219.
Consists of designs, shows latest ideas in planning this class of houses
in the city, village and suburbs, gives descriptions covering latest
improvements in sanitation, heating, etc., and gives detailed estimates
of cost.
* * * * *
“The book will be found a useful reference to the architect, builder,
contractor and owner, and should suggest methods of improvement which
will furnish better homes to the average family without necessarily
involving larger cost.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 175. F. ’09. 240w.
“The text is a very well considered discussion of the problems presented
by such houses, and describes the designs in some detail.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 679. D. 12, ’08. 130w.
=Tyler, Royall.=^{[11]} Spain: a study of her life and arts. *$3.50.
Kennerley. W9–296.
“To the student of mediæval Spanish architecture the book, with its
detailed descriptions, careful ground plans, and well-chosen
photographs, should prove of immense value. It is from this standpoint
of stern fact, as opposed to romantic tradition, that, when dealing with
the rivalry of north and south, the author devotes but one chapter to
Andalusia, which, according to popular prejudice encouraged by Richard
Ford, has always been considered the most interesting part of
Spain.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“His views are deliberately formed as well as temperately stated, and he
certainly introduces his readers to many out-of-the-way buildings well
worth a visit. Mr. Tyler’s digressions into politics and literature are
less happy. Fortunately they are brief and few.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 499. O. 23. 170w.
“Should not be overlooked in view of a visit to any of the monuments it
describes.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 234. Ag. 21, ’09. 350w.
U
=Under= Petraia with some saunterings; ^{[5]} by the author of “In a
Tuscan garden.” **$1.50. Lane.
9–35804.
“The author, who has made herself most favourably known to many readers
by her earlier book, tells us how she had to quit her ‘Tuscan garden’
through a change of proprietors—the new people were too high and mighty
to have a neighbour—and how after not a little searching she found
another resting-place. She makes this change, and various incidents
following upon it the occasion of much pleasant talk. Gardening is her
chief subject we may say; but she has something to tell us about many
matters, some of them quite serious,—the very serious estimate of
Italian character, for instance.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“Spicy and entertaining, if somewhat desultory chronicles.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 52. O. ’09.
“The volume is frankly unambitious; but if one cares to read in the
writer’s spirit, an hour with its pages will give much quiet enjoyment.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 301. My. 1, ’09. 180w.
“A volume of dreary commonplaces, nay, intolerable, unless you take it
as a revelation of the point of view, taste, and knowledge of that
species which has for half a century packed the cheap ‘pensions’ of the
European continent.”
− =Nation.= 88: 511. My. 20, ’09. 300w.
“Some pleasing pictures of Italian life and scenery, and some rather
entertaining notes of travel are to be found in [this] little volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 486. Ag. 14, ’09. 120w.
“This is a very pleasant book to read. Open it where you will, you will
find something that holds your attention.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 468. Mr. 20, ’09. 140w.
=Unwin, George.=^{[5]} Gilds and companies of London. *$2. Scribner.
9–29581.
“Mr. Unwin’s book abounds with all the ‘curiosities’ of the London trade
companies and their social and religious customs over six or more
centuries.” (Sat. R.) “The plan is clearly influenced by two aims, first
to give a clear account of ‘the continuous organic development of the
gilds and companies of London from the days of Henry Plantagenet to
those of Victoria’ and, second, to bring out ‘the significance which the
gilds and companies as a whole have had for the constitutional history
of the city, and for the social and economic development of the nation
at large.’” (Am. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Unwin has given us a most interesting general account of the
numerous gilds and companies of the great English metropolis and has
supplied a valuable work of reference for students of municipal, social
and industrial history. A very timely and important contribution to
English history.” N. M. Trenholme.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 565. Ap. ’09. 970w.
“Although we may not always see eye to eye with Mr. Unwin, we have no
hesitation in saying that he has produced the best book of its kind that
we have seen, and we heartily commend it to every student of municipal
as well as gild history.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 125. Ja. 30. 1250w.
“Within the limits which his space permits Mr. Unwin has accomplished
his object, though, as is inevitable in so vast a subject, with somewhat
varying degrees of success. The whole of this narrative is a valuable
contribution to London constitutional history.” C. L. Kingsford.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 336. Ap. ’09. 800w.
“Despite blemishes, the general verdict on the book must be favorable.
It is the work of a scholar and teacher of considerable reputation in
his chosen field, who knows the printed literature of his subject ‘au
fond’; it deserves to be taken seriously. Mr. Unwin’s treatment of his
subject is such as to make it far more attractive and human than it is
usually given credit for being, and perhaps also to induce others to
follow in his footsteps.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 254. Mr. 11, ’09. 550w.
“A thoroughly scholarly production, which will prove at the same time
interesting to the general reader.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 561. S. ’09. 220w.
“Mr. Unwin has caught their spirit, and he presents the London gilds in
their broadest and most important aspects; and his book is one of the
best possible introductions to a study which is full of interest to
every intelligent reader and necessary to a student of political and
economic history.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 182. F. 6, ’09. 380w.
“We know of no series in which the purchaser gets better value for his
money than he does in the ‘Antiquary’s books,’ and the volume now before
us is a signal instance. It is an exhaustive study of its subject.”
+ + =Spec.= 102: sup. 643. Ap. 24, ’09. 400w.
=Upham, Alfred Horatio.=^{[8]} French influence in English literature
from the accession of Elizabeth to the restoration. *$2. Macmillan.
8–21953.
In which Dr. Upham has investigated, verified, grouped and interpreted
the influences of French literature and society upon the literature of
England from Elizabeth to the restoration.
* * * * *
“The whole discussion is thoroly lifeless and unreal. It cannot be
denied that Dr. Upham has manipulated his card catalog conscientiously,
but even the elastic card catalog has its limitations.”
− =Ind.= 67: 199. Jl. 22, ’09. 350w.
“The nature of the subject precludes forever a definitive treatment, yet
it is, perhaps, worth while to point out a few places at which this work
would be improved by condensation or amplification. In spite of all
deductions the book is thoroughly interesting, substantial, and of
indispensable value to the student of comparative literature.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 390. O. 22, ’08. 600w.
=Upham, Alfred Horatio.=^{[10]} Old Miami: the Yale of the early West.
$1. Republican pub.
9–20773.
A history written for the centennial celebration of the founding of
Miami. It “gives a series of pictures of the life of the students at
Miami in its early days, of pranks and discipline of societies and
fraternities, of the coming of educational institutions for women to
nestle under Miami’s wings; and closes with chapters on the civil war,
whose conclusion brought the end of the first phase of the university’s
existence.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“An unexpectedly delightful book. Mr. Upham vividly glimpses a page in
the life of the West that has already passed into history.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 711. S. 23, ’09. 180w.
“Though the style of the book is familiar and tinged with slang, and
though the substance is unnecessarily slight, there are not wanting
little flashes of light into the dark background of western culture.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 283. S. 23, ’09. 360w.
“Mr. Upham has done a real service to the history of the young West of
those days.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 522. S. 4, ’09. 150w
=Upton, George Putnam.=^{[9]} Standard concert repertory and other
concert pieces: a handbook of the standard overtures, suites,
symphonic poems, rhapsodies, fantasies, etc., in the modern concert
repertory, for the use of concert goers. $1.75. McClurg.
9–25249.
A handbook containing short sketches of standard overtures, suites,
symphonic poems, rhapsodies, fantasias, etc., which the concert goer
most frequently hears. It is less a book for musicians than for concert
audiences.
* * * * *
“A useful volume, though too slight to satisfy readers having any
considerable knowledge of music.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 87. N. ’09. ✠
“A thoroughly judicious and trustworthy guide for the layman who loves
music.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 290. O. 16, ’09. 80w.
“Is marked by the author’s thoroness and painstaking care in
compilation; is, in short, a useful and handy book of reference.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1045. N. 4, ’09. 100w.
“The works chosen for analysis are selected judiciously and with
catholic taste; the analyses are brief, lucid, and free from technical
jargon or pedantic ‘parsing’; and concert-goers will be able to find
here information regarding most of the concert pieces they are likely to
hear.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 415. O. 28, ’09. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 702. N. 13, ’09. 110w.
=Upward, Allen.= East end of Europe; with a preface by Sir E:
Fitzgerald Law. *$4. Dutton.
9–5987.
Concerns Greece, Constantinople and the Black Sea provinces. With
frankly Hellenistic sympathies the author enlarges upon the race feud
between the Greeks and Bulgarians in their contention for power in
Macedonia.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 128. D. ’09.
“The book is ‘avowedly Greek,’ also refreshingly frank.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 786. D. 19. 300w.
“His book continues to be of value so far as his report on the
complicated situation in Macedonia is concerned. Mr. Upward is a
Philhellene of almost early nineteenth century hue, however, and for
this his readers must make allowance.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 1243. Je. 3, ’09. 260w.
“Mr. Upward’s account of racial and economic conditions in the disputed
region should be of value for a long time to come.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 123. Ag. 5, ’09. 250w.
“Gathering his evidence with the scrupulous care of an attorney
preparing for a trial in court, Mr. Upward holds a brief for Hellenism
and argues from it. Portions of his work seem to be a reply to
‘Macedonia,’ by H. N. Brailsford, a book enlarging on the Bulgar side of
the controversy.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 189. Ap. 3, ’09. 600w.
“Mr. Upward has an excuse for putting his views before us in that his
conclusions differ entirely from those of every writer who has dealt
with the Macedonian imbroglio during recent years.”
− =Sat. R.= 107: 563. My. 1, ’09. 650w.
=Urner, Mabel Herbert.=^{[8]} Journal of a neglected wife. *$1.10.
Dodge, B. W.
9–5215.
“The specific case in the book deals with the particularly tragic and
peculiarly uninviting situation in which the wife has already reached an
unlovely middle age—has lost her art of charming largely by neglecting
it—when she discovers that her husband has found elsewhere what she has
ceased to give.” (N. Y. Times.) “We recommend the book to any tired-out
husband who is fortunate enough to get away from a hysterical wife for a
few days’ peace and recreation.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“The cleverest thing about the book is the ‘dénouement.’”
+ =Ind.= 67: 424. Ag. 19, ’09. 200w.
“A morbidly truthful volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 323. My. 22, ’09. 380w.
V
=Vachell, Horace Annesley.=^{[6]} Drama in sunshine. *$1. Fenno.
A new edition of a dramatic story of love and hate whose scenes are
enacted in southern California.
=Vachell, Horace Annesley.=^{[11]} Paladin as beheld by a woman of
temperament. †$1.50. Dodd.
9–24959.
“Mr. Vachell describes his subject as ‘beheld by a woman of
temperament,’ and she it is who makes the story interesting, for romance
gains little by the reflection of so commonplace a type as that of the
paladin—a young man brought up to believe himself a great deal more than
the stupid good fellow he really is. When an opportunity of playing the
hero occurs, he makes a tolerable success of it, but owing to a fatal
habit of marking time, fails in his legitimate love-suit. Later he
succeeds to the peerage, and is married by a lady of the Jollity
theatre. The marriage turns out a failure, and the wife, becoming
seriously ill, is taken to a nursing home, where she is tended by the
woman of temperament, who, after battling alone in various callings, has
found work as a nurse. A foil to the paladin is provided in the doctor
in attendance on the case, and thus a dramatic situation is created, of
which good use is made.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“While the story on the whole has the reader’s approval, it fails to win
his sympathy.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 135. D. ’09.
“The study of the paladin is admirable, and two pairs of women and men
are vividly contrasted.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 422. O. 9. 190w.
“Altogether the book is an entertaining novel as well as a clever study
of character.” M. K. Ford.
+ =Bookm.= 30: 394. D. ’09. 520w.
“The impression survives that it is not only the Harry Ryes who are
arraigned, but the whole sex, especially such of them as play untimely
golf on honeymoons.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 573. D. 9, ’09. 300w.
“The story is distinctly clever, and Mr. Vachell has drawn the character
with unmistakable lines. Mr. Vachell’s humor is keen and his satire is
clever. The story is well worth reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 607. O. 16, ’09. 380w.
“If George Meredith had never written ‘The egoist’ Mr. Vachell in ‘The
paladin’ would have produced a notable work. As it is, his book suffers
inevitably by comparison, not only because he has chosen the theme of
Meredith’s masterpiece, but because he has adopted—not always very
happily—some of his mannerisms and tricks of style. It is not possible
to say of many pages of the book ‘These might have been written by
George Meredith.’ But it is impossible to avoid detecting the
resemblance in many turns of phrases and ideas.”
− + =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 7. O. 16, ’09. 700w.
“Once, however, the reader has made up his mind to accept Mr. Vachell’s
point of view, he will not be able to help admiring the cleverness with
which it is presented. The story is well and vigorously written, though
the character of Napier, the modern doctor, is perhaps a little
conventional.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 651. O. 23, ’09. 60w.
=Vaile, Mrs. Charlotte M.=^{[11]} Orcutt girls; or, One term at the
academy; new ed. †$1.50. Wilde.
A new and attractive edition of a popular story for girls, relating the
experiences of Bertha and Sue Orcutt thru one term at an old-fashioned
New England academy.
=Vaile, Mrs. Charlotte M.=^{[11]} Sue Orcutt; new ed. †$1.50. Wilde.
The story of Sue, begun in “The Orcutt girls,” is in this second book
brought to a happy ending.
=Vance, Louis Joseph.= Bronze bell. †$1.50. Dodd.
9–7439.
A young American off for a duck hunt on Long Island becomes the hero in
a strangely assorted series of happenings. A babu who mistakes him for a
rajah puts into his hands a bronze box of wonderful Indian
craftsmanship. This hero, “the ant-heap of crowded Indian life, the
Anglo-Indian secret service, native trickery, the mysterious
East—adventure, danger, treachery, mystery, love, bravery, all the old
material, which are the only ones we know, are used with satisfying
success.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“Has no literary merit, but possesses the same qualities that made the
author’s ‘Brass bowl’ and ‘Black bag’ popular.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 189. Je. ’09.
“It is not great art, it does not pretend to be, but it is a rattling
good story.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 762. Ap. 8, ’09. 180w.
“Persons of mature years will sit up to read Mr. Vance’s story and prove
how the heart of man never grows old.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 607. Je. 17, ’09. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 201. Ap. 3, ’09. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 380. Je. 12, ’09. 220w.
“The book is at least picturesque and exciting, though the adventures
are sometimes a little confused.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 101. Jl. 17, ’09. 100w.
=Vance, Wilson J.=^{[10]} Big John Baldwin. †$1.50. Holt.
9–24322.
In the quaint English of the seventeenth century big John Baldwin sets
down from time to time in this journal all that befell him as a youth
busied with his dogs and his sports, and, later, his experiences at the
court of Charles I, and still later at that of the Lord Protector. As an
officer in Cromwell’s army he saw active service and won glory; as a man
he won his lady; and in later life, removing to the new colony of
Virginia, he won much from that new land. It is a tale of a noble
gentleman told in a style which quaintly blends piety and humor.
* * * * *
“A lengthy, leisurely, naïve chronicle that reproduces successfully the
life of the period and furnishes a tale of considerable interest.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 135. D. ’09. ✠
“Mr. Vance has copied the conventional pattern of Roundhead style with
fair success, and invested his book with something of the garb of its
period.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 387. N. 16, ’09. 230w.
“In spite of lavish portions of Presbyterian preaching and of mutual
admiration among kings and commons, the book gives an interesting
picture of the time in old world and new, with more of the domestic than
the military.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 628. D. 23, ’09. 400w.
“It is a novel considerably apart from the ordinary, and Mr. Vance
deserves praise for his faithful presentation of the literary style of
Cromwell’s time and following.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 636. O. 23, ’09. 210w.
=Van Dyke, Henry=, ed.^{[11]} Poetry of nature. **$2.50. Doubleday.
“The sixty ‘Nature poems’ which Dr. Van Dyke has put together in this
volume include, as might be expected, various old favourites.
Wordsworth’s ‘Daffodils,’ Browning’s ‘Oh, to be in England,’ Herrick’s
‘Get up, get up, for shame!’ Shelley’s ‘Ode to the skylark,’ and Lord
Tennyson’s ‘Tears, idle tears,’ are among them. On the other hand, we
have some pieces that will be less familiar to most readers. Dr. Van
Dyke has drawn upon poets of his own country for some of the material.
‘The titmouse,’ by R. W. Emerson; ‘To a water-fowl,’ by W. C. Bryant;
and ‘The marshes of Glynn,’ by Sidney Lanier, are among them.”—Spec.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 684. O. 30, ’09. 80w.
=Sat. R.= 108: 542. O. 30, ’09. 40w.
“The selection is excellent, and there are some good photographic
illustrations.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 566. O. 9, ’09. 130w.
=Van Dyke, Henry.=^{[12]} White bees and other poems. **$1.25.
Scribner.
9–28299.
Dr. Van Dyke “knows his birds and flowers thoroughly, but the secret of
his poetic and graphic celebration of them lies in his love for them.
They do not flutter in his hand, but are content to make their shyness
and wild music his; so it has happened that he has written a little
group of lyrics of convincing fidelity to nature and to art. He is
afraid neither of deep conviction nor of deep emotion, and he has given
his verse that quality which in a somewhat skeptical age, with its
overemphasis of the purely intellectual element in art, is so often
missed.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The group ‘In praise of poets’ has especial interest.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 128. D. ’09.
“A little group of songs which are likely to hover above the horizon of
our workaday American world for many decades.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 651. N. 27, ’09. 130w.
=Van Dyke, John Charles.=^{[9]} New New York; a commentary on the
place and the people. *$4. Macmillan.
9–24461.
New York as an expression of the new civilization; New York with its
life, its vitality, its tremendous energy kept forever in action by
commerce; New York of high bridges, colossal sky-scrapers, huge
factories and enormous waterways; New York as an educational, art and
trade center is the author’s theme. The illustrations in colors and
black and white lend reality to the larger aspect of present day New
York with which the author has chosen to deal.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 87. N. ’09. ✠
“The illustrations are clever but insubstantial. They fail to give us
any feeling of the tremendous force and vitality of the city which is
the keynote of the book.” Algernon Tassin.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 355. D. ’09. 489w.
“But if occasionally ‘The new New York’ strikes the level of mere
information, as a whole it moves on a much higher plane, forming a
significant, if over-weighted, impression of our New World metropolis,
with its unique conception of municipal beauty, realized and to be
realized in years to come—for the New York is still very much in the
making.” E. K. Dunton.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 453. D. 1, ’09. 520w.
“To the interpretation and to the appreciation of New York he has
brought knowledge and understanding, insight and sympathy.” Brander
Matthews.
+ =Forum.= 42: 474. N. ’09. 1000w.
“An extremely interesting and entertaining book. Mr. Pennell’s pictures,
regrettably, are not on a par with the text. They are disappointing.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 821. O. 7, ’09. 900w.
“This book of Professor Van Dyke’s is intensely modern, intensely of
to-day.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 640. O. 16, ’09. 600w.
“Mr. Pennell’s pictures leave no doubt upon the skeptic’s mind that New
York is picturesque, in spite of its rectangularity. Not the least merit
of them is that they invite the reader to seek out the places the
illustrator has shown, and thus discover with his own eyes what formerly
may have escaped him.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1084. D. 11, ’09. 240w.
“Taking the book as a whole, sensible text with its innumerable spirited
suggestions and stimulating criticisms, and the illustrations, charming
portraits of familiar places, it would be difficult to find anything
more appropriate to its subject or more successful in the carrying out
of the thing attempted.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 627. O. 23, ’09. 1050w.
“Mr. Pennell’s etchings have done for the New York of to-day what Mr.
Whistler’s etchings did for the London of twenty years ago. Ought to be
a text-book for the study of Americans who want to discover the New York
of to-day.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 291. O. 9, ’09. 650w.
“Professor Van Dyke’s text is that of a man who thoroughly knows and
loves his subject. As for the Pennell illustrations, they are beyond
praise as an accurate interpretation of the life and architecture of the
city.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 511. O. ’09. 100w.
“The book as a whole will be stimulating to all who are working in any
way at the problems of the city and especially of the city of New York.”
+ =Survey.= 23: 377. D. 18, ’09. 170w.
=Van Dyne, Frederick.=^{[7]} Our foreign service: the “A B C” of
American diplomacy. $2.50. Lawyers’ co-op.
9–3311.
A survey of the diplomatic and consular service by the American consul
at Kingston, Jamaica. An appendix is added containing important
regulations, governing examinations, appointments and promotions, forms
and present members of the service.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 183. Je. ’09.
“In comparison with the space devoted to the text of the book
the prominence given to technical and changing subjects is
disproportionate.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 613. N. ’09. 170w.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 652. N. ’09. 100w.
“The work appears to have been executed in a thorough and painstaking
manner.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 99. Jl. 29, ’09. 60w.
“It is intended for the use of those preparing for our foreign service
as well as to be informing and useful to the general reader.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 510. Ap. ’09. 60w.
=Van Rensselaer, Mariana (Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer).=^{[6]}
History of the city of New York in the seventeenth century. *$5.
Macmillan.
9–14587.
Two volumes of some five hundred pages each of which trace the history
of the settlement planted by the Dutch on the island of Manhattan during
a period of eighty years, from the earliest days until the accession of
William and Mary to the throne of England. It is the author’s intention
to continue the history in two later volumes thru the colonial and
revolutionary periods.
* * * * *
“The author has been unable to avoid one very serious source of error;
this arises from the method she has adopted in prosecuting her
investigations. Mrs. Van Rensselaer is evidently quite fitted to have
taken up her theme ‘de novo’ from the original documents. Relying
instead upon her predecessors of various degrees of merit, she has been
frequently led to incorporate in her work their inaccuracies. Of more
importance are many positively wrong statements which the author has
culled from careless authorities.” J. H. Innes.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 155. O. ’09. 2100w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 52. O. ’09.
“If the volumes to follow fulfil expectations thus created we shall have
indeed a ‘magnum opus.’” F. I. Herriott.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 626. N. ’09. 400w.
“One can hardly point to a longer felt want in historical literature
than that which this volume and its successor supply. It has none of the
portraiture for which one looks, and which she is evidently qualified to
produce.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 57. S. ’09. 1450w.
“The work, so far as it goes in these two volumes, is one of those
authoritative achievements of an enthusiastic yet well-poised
specialist, which must be accepted as it stands, and left for scrutiny
of details to sub-specialists.” A. Schade van Westrum.
+ − =Forum.= 42: 187. Ag. ’09. 3200w.
“The impression left by the work upon the reviewer, is one of sound
historical balance, of well-seen proportions and well-drawn
conclusions.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 143. Jl. 15, ’09. 970w.
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 789. N. 6, ’09. 420w.
“Her pages are never dull. On the contrary, they are frequently
brilliant.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1084. D. 11, ’09. 160w.
“We feel compelled to say that the weakness of Mrs. Van Rensselaer’s
work is its super-abundant detail. Detailed as it is, however, the book
is a notable piece of work, honorable alike to its author and to the
city whose story it authoritatively sets forth.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 120. Ag. 5, ’09. 2000w.
“Now comes Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, delving into greater minutiae
of historical detail than Fiske ever essayed to do with New York.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 545. S. 18, ’09. 1800w.
“A well-compacted, beautifully rounded narrative, attractive and
impressive to all intelligent readers.” Elizabeth Wallace.
+ =Outlook.= 92: 40. S. 4, ’09. 1350w.
“Mrs. Van Rensselaer’s illuminating work should go far to counteract
such misconceptions as have been perpetuated from Irving’s day to this.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 124. Jl. ’09. 200w.
+ − =Spec.= 103: 314. Ag. 28, ’09. 350w.
=Van Vorst, Marie.=^{[11]} In ambush. †$1.50. Lippincott.
9–28121.
A handsome, broad-shouldered young robber, murderer and outlaw in
general is the hero of this tale whose main purpose seems to be one of
proving that even so desperate a character, once under the right
reformatory influence may be regenerated. “The beautiful young
Kentuckian, Helena Desprey, crossed his erratic path on her ‘finishing’
tour, and lo! that Denver bank received back the sum (plus interest)
stolen from it fifteen years before; the states of Colorado and
California, which Flanders had upset a good deal, got two million
dollars between them for local charities, and Tom Moody’s Irish
relatives came into a little fortune. He was a splendid fellow, despite
the warrants out against him, and twice saved Moody’s life, besides
rallying the Lancers in that charge at Omdurman; and the more Helena
learned about his past the more she forgave him.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“There are some good descriptive paragraphs scattered through the pages,
which will please those who like personally conducted novels, while the
various entanglements of the plot are sufficiently exciting.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 771. D. 4, ’09. 280w.
“The book is capital melodrama, ingeniously devised, as we have seen, to
win the vote of that large section of novel-readers every unit in which
believes herself to be the Right Woman for somebody or other.”
− =Sat. R.= 108: 416. O. 2, ’09. 250w.
=Varney, George Reuben.=^{[7]} Out of the depths. **$1.25. Am. Bapt.
9–16444.
A story which deals with the experiences of a young minister who becomes
the pastor of a large church in a city of the Northwest. The author
includes Christian science in the long list of “evils” which his pastor
militant meets and downs.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 380. Je. 12, ’09. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 501. Ag. 21, ’09. 500w.
=Vaughan, Herbert Millingchamp.= Medici popes (Leo X and Clement VII).
**$4. Putnam.
8–37694.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“For any serious estimate of papal statesmanship we look in vain. He
gives on the whole a very fair judgment of Leo, and does not much
extenuate his faults of levity and dissimulation.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 225. F. 20. 130w.
“The biography is, in fact, an excellent piece of characterisation,
pleasantly written from well-known sources, and without any affectation
of research. When writing directly upon Leo, Mr. Vaughan is accurate,
and he evidently has the advantage of familiar knowledge of both Rome
and Florence. In the more general history mistakes are too numerous.” P.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 404. Ap. ’09. 500w.
“This is, above all else, an amiable book. It is written as nearly
without partisan bias as one could ever expect in a work treating of a
subject that involved religious considerations of any sort.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 386. Ap. 15, ’09. 750w.
=Vaughan, Owen (Owen Rhoscomyl).= Vronina. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–22545.
A story of Wales which reflects the “strength and mysticism of the Welsh
hills and moors.” “The author has marked his people by subtle
characteristic touches—the traces of superstition in their minds, the
influence upon them of the sea, and the grandeur of the scenery, their
impatience of pretense, their almost fanatical sense of loyalty, their
freedom from futile, bustling activities. It is an intensive study of a
place with its traditions, its native types of people, its standards of
living, and its habits of thought, and the conflict which is unfolded in
the drama is the natural outcome of these local and racial
characteristics.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The novel suffers from starting out at too high an emotional pitch, and
the style is very rhetorical. Mr. Rhoscomyl has, however, written with
great sincerity about people who are impossibly good, bad, beautiful,
strong and primitive.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 605. D. 17, ’08. 200w.
“There are points in the tale which are disappointing, but, on the
whole, it is an admirable story, written with style and force; the
author’s conception is sure, his hold on the narrative is close and
strong, and the sympathy of the reader is immediate.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 613. O. 24, ’08. 370w.
=Vay de Vaya and Luskod, Count.= Inner life of the United States. *$4.
Dutton.
9–35102.
A book of impressions of America gained by a Hungarian ecclesiastic who
accompanied a band of emigrants.
* * * * *
“The Monsignor’s observations on religious conditions are
disappointingly superficial. If his appreciations are not quite
correct—and this is the case in many instances—the errors arise from
hasty generalizations, in which special conditions in some places, or
among some classes, are taken as typical. In many instances, too, he has
not thoroughly digested his information.”
− + =Cath. World.= 88: 688. F. ’09. 760w.
“One of the fairest and friendliest books on the American people that
has been written in German. So far as it goes it is suggestive and
entertaining. His style is clear and agreeable.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 215. S. 3, ’08. 460w.
“Possibly it is designed for circulation among immigrant circles in the
United States. It is a regret to say that its usefulness will hardly
extend beyond those circles. The book is not bad enough to condemn nor
good enough to praise. On the contrary it is well worthy of a success of
esteem among countrymen of the author.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 690. N. 21, ’08. 370w.
“A readable account of American life for persons who know little about
it. The book is a broad survey: although it always has the impress of a
cultivated and good-tempered observer, it is necessarily superficial.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 184. Ja. 30, ’09. 340w.
=Vedder, Henry Clay=. Church history handbooks. 4v. ea. *40c. Am.
Bapt.
9–6577.
=v. 1.= Early period.
The first of a series of handbooks designed for study classes and
training schools, rapid consultation in the busy pastor’s study, and for
collateral work among Bible students. This little volume discusses the
following subjects: The apostolic age, The anti-Nicene church. The union
of church and state, The age of dogma, The rise of the papacy, The
growth of papal pretensions, The popes supreme in Europe, and The great
schism and the reforming councils.
=v. 4.= Baptist history.
In one hundred and twenty-four pages it gives the essential facts of
Baptist history, and the principles underlying the church belief.
=Veitch, Henry Newton.= Sheffield plate; its history, manufacture, and
art. *$8. Macmillan.
9–35441.
“The author has spared no pains to make his work an exhaustive and
comprehensive treatise on this lost craft. After tracing the historical
and economic conditions which led up to a demand for metal ware which
should be cheaper than solid silver and superior to the ‘treene’ and
pewter vessels and table ware then in common use, he tells us how the
art of Sheffield plating was discovered by Thomas Bolsover in 1742 and
successfully developed by his apprentice, Joseph Hancock.” (Int.
Studio.) “He divides Sheffield plate into two main periods: 1750–90,
before the introduction of the silver mount; and 1790–1840, with a
transitional period indicated from about 1770 to 1790.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Valuable as the first serious attempt at a comprehensive history of
this branch of metal work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 111. Ap. ’09.
“This is a useful and fairly complete account of this typically English
ware. Mr. Veitch is so completely a master of his subject that it is a
pity he felt compelled to prefix an introduction of ill-digested facts.
No collector of Sheffield plate can afford to be without this important
handbook.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 140. Ja. 30. 170w.
“To the scanty literature already in existence dealing with the
Sheffield plate, Mr. Veitch’s book forms an important and very valuable
addition. The book is interesting to the general reader, but will be of
special value to the connoisseur and collector.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36:335. F. ’09. 320w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 632. My. 15, ’09. 680w.
=Vernon, K. Dorothea (Ewart) (Mrs. H. M. Vernon).=^{[8]} Italy from
1494 to 1790. (Cambridge historical ser.) *$1.75. Putnam.
9–8028.
“Comprises two unequal periods, that which ended in 1559, and that which
followed; and to the latter, which is less generally known than any
epoch of modern Italian history except that which began with 1870, the
author has wisely devoted the larger part of her book.”—Eng. Hist. R.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Vernon has produced a useful book. She saw clearly what she wished
to do, and she has done it clearly. In the main the book excels in
perspective. It abounds in thumb-nail portraits, many of which are
striking likenesses.” W: R. Thayer.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 125. O. ’09. 700w.
“The work is accurate, fair, abounds in excellent pen portraits, and
fills a gap in historical manuals for English readers.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 129. D. ’09.
“This book is not up to the high standard of most of the other works in
the series to which it belongs. Of actual errors of fact there are few,
though minor inconsistencies and infelicities in nomenclature abound;
but the work as a whole gives an impression of being patched together,
of lack of unity, and of absence of historic background.” R. B.
Merriman.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 627. N. ’09. 400w.
“An excellent text-book on a difficult and neglected period of Italian
history.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 234. Ag. 28. 200w.
“Considering the great mass of facts involved, the narrative shows
marked skill, and the three chapters of social history are particularly
interesting.” W. Mi.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 614. Jl. ’09. 260w.
“It is authoritative, scholarly, essentially political, and dry.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 303. Ag. 5, ’09. 60w.
“Mrs. Vernon, we think, makes a very common mistake in attempting to
write a purely narrative history in chronological order of the events of
these centuries, with additional chapters on their society, literature,
art and political institutions.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 549. S. 18, ’09. 1000w.
=Verplanck, William E., and Collyer, Moses W.= Sloops of the Hudson:
an historical sketch of the packet and market sloops of the last
century, with a record of their names; together with personal
reminiscences of certain of the notable North river sailing masters.
**$1.50. Putnam.
9–687.
A brief history written to preserve the memory of the inland merchantmen
that were the forerunners of the establishment of the Hudson’s vast
commerce. The author writes out of the fulness of his own experience
covering the following subjects: The sloop as a packet vessel, The sail
in competition with steam and Personal reminiscences of Captain George
D. Woolsey.
* * * * *
“Of some value to students of transportation and of considerable local
interest.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 111. Ap. ’09.
=Ind.= 66: 378. F. 18, ’09. 60w.
“The book contains much that is interesting to the lover of domestic
history of a homely form, and also to the students of transportation
problems of bygone days. There is much in it that is entertaining in the
way of reminiscences, together with considerable valuable information
bearing upon the tides and currents of the Hudson.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 73. F. 6, ’09. 730w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 509. Ap. ’09. 80w.
=Vielé, Herman Knickerbocker.=^{[11]} On the lightship; introd. by T:
A. Janvier. **$1.50. Duffield.
9–24696.
Ten short stories that remained unpublished at the time of the author’s
death.
* * * * *
“Ten delicately humorous and cleverly constructed tales, as fantastic
and whimsical as the author’s previous work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 94. N. ’09.
“Sometimes of an undisguisable slightness, these tales are,
collectively, stamped with the cosmopolitanism of the author no less
than with his good taste.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 628. D. 23, ’09. 330w.
“The tales are of the half satirical, fantastic genre in which Mr. Vielé
excelled.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 645. O. 23, ’09. 380w.
=Virgil, Publius Virgilius Maro.= Aeneid; tr. into English verse by
Theodore C. Williams. *$1.50. Houghton.
8–31831.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 258. My. ’09. 550w.
“Mr. Williams has over Morris the advantage of closer texture and a
style more comfortable to the general ear. We had not supposed a new
Virgil in English could prove so welcome.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 52. Ja. 16, ’09. 470w.
“Tested by a number of well-known passages, the rendering is both
scholarly and of sound literary feeling.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 98. Ja. ’09. 50w.
“We have no fault to find with the care and accuracy with which Mr.
Williams’ version has been executed.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 227. F. 6, ’09. 100w.
“Mr. Williams has attempted the impossible with high success. He has
built the lofty rhyme of blank verse and kept it lofty. His version is
essentially exact; few important meanings are lost, and few intruded.
The quality is poetic throughout, and the movement is sustained. We have
tested the work minutely for important points, and have read large
sections at a stretch; it reads.”
+ + − =Nation.= 88: 201. F. 25, ’09. 750w.
“Very creditable blank verse.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 801. D. 26, ’08. 40w.
“The present writer knows no version which equals it either in
faithfulness to the original or in literary ease. This book is a piece
of literature and no ‘pony.’”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 24. Ja. 2, ’09. 450w.
“Of Mr. Williams’ translation it will be said, ‘This is noble, and it is
Virgil.’” W: C. Collar.
+ =School R.= 17: 439. Je. ’09. 1200w.
=Vogt, Paul L.= Sugar refining industry in the United States: its
development and present condition. (Pub. of the Univ. of Pa. Series
in political economy and public law, no. 21.) $1.50. Pub. for the
Univ. of Pa. by Winston.
8–13956.
“This is a study of the growth of combinations in the cane and beet
sugar refining industry in the United States. The material in most of
the chapters is cast in historical form.” (Ann. Am. Acad.) It gives
revealing information upon competition, combination, tariff influences,
manipulation of price, and the development of a new industry, making
great inroads upon the older type of production.
* * * * *
“As a study of a combination, the results are disappointingly hesitating
and negative. The chief themes for which the reader looks viz., the
evolution of capital instruments, profits of promoting and financing,
effects of the tariff, influence of the combination upon legislation,
prices, and labor, are either not presented at all or else presented
with no definite and forceful conclusions. There is, however, in the
monograph abundance of material upon certain aspects of the subject, and
the purpose, to present a study of an industry, which taken with other
like studies, may provide the basis for a comprehensive policy of
control of combinations, is laudable.” E: D. Jones.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 465. Mr. ’09. 140w.
“The book makes no pretension to being a complete history but it does
set forth in available form the essentials of this phase of our economic
history.” F. L. McVey.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 201. S. ’08. 600w.
“The author has been most successful in the historical part of his
study, which, though not pretending to be complete and intensive, still
does succeed in bringing out quite clearly some of the more fundamental
causes leading to the growth of this trust. But when one comes to the
part discussing capitalization, prices, and profits, one cannot but
question whether some of the conclusions are justified on the basis of
such evidence as is presented.” C. W. W.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 730. D. ’09. 580w.
W
=Wagner, Charles.=^{[7]} Home of the soul; tr. from the French by
Laura Sanford Hoffmann; with an introd. by Lyman Abbott. **$1.20.
Funk.
9–18053.
First messages delivered in the author’s institutional church in Paris,
known as “The home of the soul.” The pastor’s religion as embodied in
these sermons is summed up by Lyman Abbott as follows: “To find God,
study your fellow men: to serve God, serve your fellow men; to teach men
the Fatherhood of God, inspire in them a sense of human brotherhood.”
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 47: 127. S. 1, ’09. 230w.
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 448. S. 18, ’09. 270w.
“The translation is for the most part devoid of literary merit, though
it must be confessed that Pastor Wagner is not himself a literary
artist. His appeal, however, is not strictly to the intellectuality;
rather it is to the emotion of righteousness.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 476. Ag. 7, ’09. 700w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 256. Ag. ’09. 40w.
=Wagner, Richard.=^{[5]} Richard to Minna Wagner: letters to his first
wife; tr. with preface by William Ashton Ellis. 2v. *$7. Scribner.
9–20264.
Letters which reveal the fatal significance of the union of Richard and
Minna Wagner. “Mr. Ellis contributes an introduction of fourteen pages,
in which he discusses various points in the tragic conjugal life of
Richard and Minna Wagner, the most ill-mated couple that were ever
brought together. ‘My marriage—not a soul knows what I have suffered
through that,’ he wrote to his sister in 1866. Now all the world can
read the story. The fact that Minna preserved these letters, containing
so many lamentations and reproaches, is noted by Mr. Ellis as one of her
good traits.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“The world shows a pardonable curiosity to learn as much as possible
about the lives of men who have distinguished themselves. Hence these
letters will be perused with interest.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 446. Ap. 10. 770w.
“The letters of Richard Wagner constitute a history of his intellectual
life astonishing and unique.” L: J. Block.
+ =Dial.= 47: 231. O. 1, ’09. 2200w.
+ =Nation.= 88: 494. My. 13, ’09. 450w.
“Mr. Ellis now gives us these voluminous letters of Wagner to his first
wife as a sort of pendant to the letters of Wagner to Mathilde
Wesendonck; and it may be also, as a sort of ‘pièce justificative’ after
those remarkable outpourings, as a sort of rehabilitation of the
composer. They will indeed serve in that way.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 325. My. 22, ’09. 1050w.
=Wagner, Richard.=^{[9]} Valkyrie; a dramatic poem, freely translated
in poetic narrative form by Oliver Huckel. **75c. Crowell.
9–25250.
Mr. Huckel’s fifth volume of the Wagner music-dramas and the second of
the “Ring” cycle, the first, the “Rhinegold” appearing last year. The
translation of the poem is preceded by one of the author’s illuminating
forewords in which the sources of the drama, the story and its
significance are considered.
* * * * *
“A narrative paraphrase of the drama’s action, dialogue, and setting
that avoids the rawness of the usual libretto and at the same time
conveys more information.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 522. D. 16, ’09. 50w.
=Walden, John W: H:=^{[12]} Universities of ancient Greece. **$1.50.
Scribner.
9–29251.
Lectures delivered at Harvard university in 1904 form the nucleus of
this book which aims to atone for the lack of consideration given to
Greek education of imperial times and to interest students of education
and of philology, also general readers. Beginning with a short account
of Athenian education in pre-Alexandrian times, and of the conditions
which prevailed in Grecian lands in the last three centuries B. C., the
author follows the history of the establishment of universities and
discusses their status, management and achievements, their essential
elements, the teachers and students, the spirit of learning and the
enthusiasm for intellectual ideals.
* * * * *
“Scholarly volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 763. D. ’09. 50w.
=Waldstein, Charles, and Shoobridge, Leonard.= Herculaneum, past,
present, and future. *$5. Macmillan.
8–37672.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“The useful portion of the book comprises the appendices with the
exception of the first, the plates, and part 1, but unfortunately this
last section which should have been made the best and most valuable of
all is marred by so many signs of haste and of being a purely
perfunctory performance, that it is unsatisfactory.” S. B. P.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 376. Ja. ’09. 600w.
“Though written from the archeologic standpoint and containing
considerable matter not of general interest, it warrants notice as an
important work by an authority on a subject having very little adequate
treatment.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 22. Ja. ’09.
“Illustrated by an admirable series of photographs, which alone would
give considerable value to the book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 108. Ja. 23. 750w.
“The narrative is compiled from the best sources and deserves a cordial
welcome.” F. B. Tarbell.
+ − =Class. J.= 4: 142. Ja. ’09. 550w.
“With the main thesis of the book, that Herculaneum should be excavated,
everyone will agree; but in regard to Professor Waldstein’s extremely
positive assertions concerning the richness of the treasure buried
there, and his insistence on the preëminence of this over all other
ancient sites, there will hardly be the same unanimity.” G. J. Laing.
+ − =Dial.= 46: 112. F. 16, ’09. 1400w.
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 224. F. 6, ’09. 450w.
“It is a pity that there is not included a general chapter on the art of
Herculaneum, with a short discussion of the more important pieces found
there.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 97. Ja. 28, ’09. 900w.
=Wales, Hubert.=^{[5]} Hilary Thornton. †$1.50. Estes.
9–4486.
“Let it be said at once that the story has not a ‘happy ending.’ It is
concerned with the love of a man for a woman—a sufficiently old story,
but none the less potent for all that. Thornton is a clerk in a law
office, almost stifled under briefs and abstracts and the habit of
looking at the crises of human lives as so many ‘cases.’ Mrs. Randolph
Wynne is a noted writer, no bas bleu, but a woman first who happens to
be a celebrity afterwards. She raises Thornton to his own level
intellectually, and then raises him above it spiritually.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“One lays down this book with a sense of distaste, despite its
manifestly high ethical intent. It seems to represent the inherent
unwholesomeness of modern introspection, focussed upon the unpleasant
possibilities of marriage; it is a congress of horrible examples.”
− =Nation.= 88: 489. My. 13, ’09. 130w.
“There is nothing banal in the book; it appeals to the intelligence as
well as to the emotions. It is a study in human nature well worth
writing and decidedly well worth reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 161. Mr. 20, ’09. 230w.
=Walford, Lucy Bethia (Mrs. Alfred S. Walford). Leonore Stubbs.=
†$1.50. Longmans.
9–35328.
“Leonore Stubbs is the daughter of a country gentleman, married in her
teens to a business man, who, dying bankrupt three years later, leaves
her with no refuge but her father’s house. Her sufferings in this gloomy
and not over-peaceful environment, and her adventures with the suitors
attracted partly by her reputed wealth and partly by a more romantic
motive, are described with Mrs. Walford’s wonted humour.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“There is some good character delineation.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 93. Mr. ’09.
“The conclusion of the book is out of harmony with the beginning.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 569. N. 7. 130w.
“The characterizing is one of the book’s chief attractions, and includes
a variety of new and not unoriginal actors. The story flows unhindered,
perfectly readable if not soul-stirring.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 632. D. 24, ’08. 270w.
“There is a good deal of clever portraiture of character in the book,
and some skill in the working out of the plot.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 52. Ja. 23, ’09. 220w.
“Pleasant little story.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 616. N. 14, ’08. 160w.
=Walk, Charles Edmonds.=^{[10]} Yellow circle. †$1.50. McClurg.
9–26145.
A mystery story that starts with the dramatic incident of the
interruption of a fashionable wedding by a swarthy looking man who
whispers a word to the bride, drops a bracelet into her hand, and rushes
away followed by the horror-stricken young woman. After thrilling
adventure covering four days it comes to light that the villain’s power
over the girl was the result of a long series of intrigues, begun in a
college secret organization, and planned for the purpose of winning her
and also her father’s fortune.
* * * * *
“Is at once an interesting conundrum and a good detective story. The
mystery, of course, is the thing, and it is not neglected while the
author puts a little flesh-and-blood work into the people concerned in
it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 764. D. 4, ’09. 150w.
=Walker, Margaret Coulson.= Bird legend and life. **$1.25. Baker.
8–31846.
A collection of the most important avian legends and superstitions in
which the author hunts for the evidences of apparent truth. The
legendary sketch in each instance is supplemented by an instructive
sketch of the bird’s life, habits, appearance and influence upon man.
Includes the owl, wren, eagle, swallow, magpie, king fisher, hawk,
vulture, robin, raven, and woodpecker. There are thirty-four full-page
illustrations.
=Walker, Williston.= Great men of the Christian church. *$1.25. Univ.
of Chicago press.
8–37051.
A series of twenty brief biographies designed for the reader or student
without technical training in church history. The sketches show the
conditions of church life and thought in which the various leaders did
their work, and illustrate a great variety of service, life and
experience.
* * * * *
“The chapters are full of life and movement and are well calculated to
quicken interest and arouse readers and students to thought and further
study.” H: F. Cope.
+ =Bib. World.= 33: 353. My. ’09. 350w.
“In every chapter we find some remark to set students thinking. The book
is primarily for them.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 774. Ap. 3, ’09. 370w.
=Wall, J. Charles.=^{[5]} Ancient earthworks. 2s. 6d. Talbot, London.
“One of the series of ‘Antiquaries’ primers,’ which is designed for the
elementary instruction of the layman with antiquarian leanings.” (Spec.)
“The book is indispensable to all who in their journeying over the
countryside desire to have something more trustworthy than local
tradition to explain those curious formations of the ground which serve
better than any history-book to show what a pit of universal strife were
these islands in the centuries before the conquest.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“Mr. Wall is well qualified to write upon this topic.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 764. Je. 26. 150w.
“The volume should not only start many inquiring into the subject, but
should do something to correct the ‘flighty legends’ given in
irresponsible guide-books.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 676. N. 28, ’08. 90w.
“The subject has a fascination that is all its own, and in the hundred
and forty pages of which this booklet is composed ample justice is done
to it by means of careful and intelligible classification, some
excellent plates, and more than sixty illustrations of the formation of
earthworks.”
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 645. Ap. 24, ’09. 200w.
=Wallace, Charles William.= Children of the chapel at Blackfriars,
1597–1603. *$2.50. Charles W. Wallace, Lincoln, Neb.
9–856.
“An issue of the ‘University studies’ of the University of Nebraska. It
is the result of an extensive original investigation of the history of
the Elizabethan children-companies of players, and is only a foretaste
of what is to come, for the writer contemplates extending the work until
it shall fill three large volumes, including the many documents which he
will reprint. Some of these documents are of extreme importance to
Shakespearean students, and are of the author’s own unearthing. They are
merely referred to in the present monograph, but will be published in
full when the complete work is ready.”—Dial.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 46: 55. Ja. 16, ’09. 130w.
“Professor Wallace’s book is the most thorough study we have of an
Elizabethan theatre—to be sure, for a limited period of its existence,
but that the most important. The evidence on the main thesis, we
confess, does not appear to us so conclusive as it does to the author.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 148. F. 11, ’09. 630w.
“The volume in hand is not one which can be classed as eloquent or
particularly readable. The book is cordially recommended to students.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 84. F. 13, ’09. 1450w.
=Wallace, Harold Frank.= Stalks abroad: being some account of the
sport obtained during a two years’ tour of the world. *$3.50.
Longmans.
9–17000.
“‘Stalks abroad’ is a pleasantly written and instructive work on sport
and travel which brings home to one’s mind the extraordinary shrinkage
which has taken place in the size of the world during the last few
decades as a result of rapid transit by steamboat and railway.” (Sat.
R.) The author explored for big game the best hunting grounds of
America, New Zealand, India, Japan, and British and East Africa.
* * * * *
“A pleasant description of the sporting side of a holiday.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 196. F. 13. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 164. Mr. 20, ’09. 280w.
“Is full of observations about animals interesting to all hunters and
animal lovers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 380. Je. 12, ’09. 150w.
“The illustrations are excellent and add considerably to the value of a
very readable book.” F. C. Selous.
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 41. Ja. 9, ’09. 440w.
“Parts of the book are excellently well written. There are a few
trivialities and slang words which might have been omitted.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 861. My. 29, ’09. 250w.
=Wallace, Lew.=^{[10]} Boyhood of Christ; new ed. $1.50. Harper.
A holiday edition of Mr. Lew Wallace’s story of the boyhood of Christ
written in 1888 to fix the impression that Jesus Christ was in all the
stages of his life a human being.
=Wallas, Graham.= Human nature in politics. **$1.50. Houghton.
9–35520.
A thoughtful presentation which claims for a study of human nature in
politics the service of deepening and widening a knowledge of political
institutions and also of opening an unworked mine of political
invention. The chapters are grouped under two heads: The conditions of
the problem, discussing in turn Impulse and instinct in politics,
Political entities, Non-rational inferences in politics, The material of
political reasoning and The method of political reasoning; and The
possibilities of progress, including Political morality, Representative
government, Official thought and Nationality and humanity.
* * * * *
“The work stands alone and has large value for students of politics; it
is heavy reading for the average person.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 145. My. ’09.
“On the whole, his thesis is well worked out, and, considering the mass
of details and variety of side lights which he attempts to throw upon
his subject, his matter is effectively presented.” W. E. Hotchkiss.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 218. Jl. ’09. 280w.
“The volume is by no means so exclusively designed for the instruction
of students as to repel the general reader. The freshest portion lies in
the reflections aroused by the treatment, in the same pages, of various
types of modern socialism, and two types of Catholicism, represented, on
the one hand, by ‘the Pope and his advisers,’ and, on the other, by
‘Modernist’ students of the history of their religion.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 758. D. 12. 450w.
“The book as a whole, is not addressed to men in their private
capacities, but to that far lower order of beings, men about to appear
in public, men on the point of mounting platforms, getting ready to
write leading articles, planning treatises on social science. For that
portion of a man which is ready for publication or may be found at any
time in a political speech such a book may have a special use—if only as
a reminder that there is more of him.” F. M. Colby.
− =Bookm.= 30: 396. D. ’09. 2300w.
“The weakness of Mr. Wallas’s treatment of ‘human nature’ lies in his
failure to appreciate the part which custom and sentiment play in
preserving the stability of a society.” G: E. Vincent.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 7: 932. Jl. ’09. 620w.
“This is a work in a field hitherto untilled and has the merits and
defects of pioneer work.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 481. Ag. 26, ’09. 200w.
“The book is written in a simple, engaging style, giving ample evidence
that together with vision the author has unfailing common sense and
humor.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 75. Jl. 22, ’09. 180w.
“Very lively and edifying volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 400. Je. 26, ’09. 1700w.
“He has not simply applied already worked out psychological doctrines to
a new subject matter: he has enlarged and enriched psychology itself by
his interpretation.” Ernest Talbert.
+ =Psychol. Bull.= 6: 412. D. 15, ’09. 1100w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 127. Jl. ’09. 140w.
“Complete, therefore, as is his practical equipment, Mr. Wallas indulges
in so many divagations on difficult topics, such as the conflict between
inheritance and environment, in so subtle a style that we fear he will
be often unintelligible to his readers, unless they happen to attend
lectures at the London school of economics. A good deal, too, of his
earlier chapters is a repetition, in a less lucid form, of Bagehot’s
‘Physics and politics.’ But the book is well worth the trouble of
reading, for it contains many shrewd and humorous observations, and some
profound reflections.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 45. Ja. 9, ’09. 1800w.
“Mr. Wallas is always readable and very often instructive. He uses, it
may be, the ironical method too much; but he illuminates every subject
with which he deals. And of this illumination not the least valuable
result will be to make us examine a little more closely and faithfully
our own habits of political thought.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 345. F. 27, ’09. 320w.
“Books of this class are rare. Few men have the combination of abundant
knowledge with power of expression required to produce them. Hence they
possess unique value.” H: J. Ford.
+ =Yale R.= 18: 101. My. ’09. 580w.
=Waller, Mary Ella.=^{[6]} Year out of life. †$1.50. Appleton.
9–8571.
A year out of the life of an English girl who decides during a leisurely
tour thru Germany to translate some work into English. She selects a
book of stories, writes to the author for permission to make the
translation, and there begins a correspondence which underlies a
romance. Uncertainty, at the root of which is a vast amount of egotism,
prevents her acceptance of the author’s suit. When she is ready to give
him a favorable answer she learns that he is pledged to another.
* * * * *
“Like a chapter out of real life rather than a tale of the imagination.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 189. Je. ’09. ✠
Reviewed by F: T. Cooper.
=Bookm.= 29: 404. Je. ’09. 230w.
“The book is refreshing, like the home-made ale and nectar that women
sometimes brew.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1344. Je. 17, ’09. 100w.
“From the author of ‘The wood-carver of ’Lympus’ one looks and not in
vain, for originality of plan and grace of manner; for a deep-reaching
insight equally into the constancies and vagaries of human nature; which
makes at times for vagueness; and for a steadfast faith in the
beneficence of the ‘something not ourselves.’”
+ =Nation.= 88: 632. Je. 24, ’09. 320w.
“Miss Waller’s style is agreeable and eminently suited to the topic in
hand. Occasional charming glimpses of German ways and people and places
enliven the volume. If the book is unsatisfactory, it is probably
because the writer’s aim was but too well accomplished. She has drawn a
selfish, cold, and shallow personality to the life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 279. My. 1, ’09. 600w.
=Walsh, William Shepard=, ed.^{[5]} Abraham Lincoln and the London
Punch: cartoons, comments and poems, published in the London
charivari, during the American civil war (1861–1865). **$1. Moffat.
9–8748.
A history of the opposition of the London Punch towards Lincoln, a
reproduction of cartoon jibes and jests, and the amends made in Tom
Taylor’s poem on Lincoln’s assassination.
* * * * *
“Will interest many older readers and is a record that larger libraries
will wish to add to their Lincoln literature.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 146. My. ’09.
“An interesting side-light is thrown on civil war times by this little
book.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 332. My. 16, ’09. 100w.
“It affords a curious glimpse into the humor of a past generation, and
has a certain historical interest besides. Mr. Walsh’s own running
comment on the cartoons and poems will help younger readers to
understand the prejudices and passions of the day.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 384. Ap. 15, ’09. 200w.
“The most interesting of the aftermath, perhaps.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 242. Ap. 17, ’09. 160w.
=Walter, A.=^{[9]} Emperor William First; tr. by G: P. Upton. **60c.
McClurg.
9–23799.
A chronological history of the life of Emperor William First, whose
simplicity, honesty of character, devotion to duty, love of country and
power to act, make his life a study for all youth and all people.
=Walton, George Lincoln.=^{[5]} Practical guide to the wild flowers
and fruits. **$1.50. Lippincott.
9–10974.
A discussion of the more widely distributed herbaceous wild flowers. It
covers their haunts, characteristics and family relationships, with
suggestions for their identification. The arrangement of species has
been planned with reference to a sequence of the blossoming time of the
members of the important families so that the season of flowering may be
followed to a certain extent.
* * * * *
“Not so good a beginner’s book as Mrs. Parsons’ ‘How to know the wild
flowers’ or Mrs. Doubleday’s ‘Nature’s garden,’ but a useful manual
where a more extensive work is desired by persons not accustomed to
botanical keys.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 183. Je. ’09. ✠
“A capital [volume] to be taken into the country.” G: Gladden.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 546. Jl. ’09. 130w.
“Its distinctive features are, first, the treatment of flowers and
fruits in the same volume, and, second, the charts, based on color for
large groups, and, for the smaller ones, on simple obvious distinctions
of leaf and flower arrangement and flower form.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 374. Je. 1, ’09. 140w.
“The characteristic of the present volume is that as much science as can
be hoped for is added, and even an analytical table under each color,
with references to sections.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1245. Je. 3, ’09. 170w.
“The drawings as a rule are not satisfactory, and in one or two
instances are distinctly misleading.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 105. Jl. 29, ’09. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 384. Je. 12, ’09. 120w.
=Walton, George Lincoln.=^{[12]} Those nerves. **$1. Lippincott.
9–28552.
A book whose only object “is to promote such peace of mind as may make
for health as well as for happiness. In other words, like vaccination,
pure milk, and disinfection, it aims to prevent.”
=Warbasse, James Peter.=^{[11]} Medical sociology: a series of
observations touching upon the sociology of health and the relations
of medicine to society. *$2. Appleton.
9–23786.
“A well-written volume intended to popularize medicine so far as relates
to the personal preservation of health.... The work is divided into two
parts. The first is intended to interest the lay reader and deals with
problems as the alcohol and sexual questions, fresh air, Christian
science, eating and talking, an eminently readable and enlightening
series of twenty-five short essays. The second part tells us about
preventive medicine, medical expert witnesses, the future of medicine,
etc.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“Some of these fragments were originally editorial paragraphs in a
medical journal: all may be said to be in the manner of the paragrapher
rather than the essayist. From this cause the book fails of the appeal
which it might have had. Yet it is sincere, and often suggestively
phrased, within its limitations.”
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 652. N. ’09. 140w.
“These thirty-five chapters are really most wise and thoughtful, and lay
and professional alike will enjoy and value the whole work.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 688. O. 23, ’09. 140w.
“There is a certain vigor of style in certain passages which is not
devoid of beauty either in thought or phrase.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 730. N. 20, ’09. 920w.
=Ward, Archibald Robinson.=^{[6]} Pure milk and the public health: a
manual of milk and dairy inspection; with two chapters by Myer
Edward Jaffa. *$2. Taylor & Carpenter.
9–12051.
“The author has here presented in relatively small compass the main
principles and practices essential to the sanitary and economic
supervision of the public milk supply.... It is just what is needed by
members of boards of health, secretaries and health officers, to enable
them to see what should be done to safeguard the milk supply of a
community, and in general how to do it. It will be useful, also, to
chemists and bacteriologists, but it makes no pretense of going into the
details of the technic of milk examination.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Valuable work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 88. N. ’09.
“The book is a very satisfactory one, and it goes without saying that
such a volume should be in every health board library in the land.”
+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 64. My. 13, ’09. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 278. My. 1, ’09. 120w.
=Ward, Bernard.=^{[11]} Dawn of the Catholic revival in England.
1781–1803. 2v. *$7. Longmans.
9–18711.
The history of English Catholicism during the last quarter of the
eighteenth century. “The entire country is covered by the present
writer; but the story of the London district is dealt with in much
greater detail than is that of any other section. The writer traces with
grateful fidelity the great advantages that accrued to the English
church from the coming of the French ‘émigré’ clergy during the
revolution; and follows minutely the grave and threatening divisions
brought about by the controversies concerning the oath. The disputes
between the laity and their hierarchical rulers, and among the rulers
themselves, about the time of the relief act, which in the Midland
district were not settled till the first years of the nineteenth
century, are also set forth.” (Cath. World.)
* * * * *
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 244. My. ’09. 330w.
“Mr. Ward’s book will be of more than historical value if, read by both
Catholics and Protestants, it serves as an influence to weld Englishmen
of every church into one great nation.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 932. O. 21, ’09. 1100w.
=Sat. R.= 108: 601. N. 13, ’09. 1580w.
=Ward, Elizabeth Stuart.=^{[9]} Jonathan and David. **50c. Harper.
9–22180.
The story of a man and dog friendship that will completely capture the
heart of every reader who believes that dog love is immortal. Together
they suffer cold and hunger, together they rejoice when a good divinity
discovers that the dog, under the master’s instruction, can do tricks
that have a money value. Self-respecting, they earn their living—“the
dog who had gained so much of the human, and the lonely man who had
acquired something of the beautiful canine.”
* * * * *
=Nation.= 89: 488. N. 18, ’09. 40w.
“A very pretty story, inspired by sentiments of charity toward men and
true affection for dogs.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 560. S. 18, ’09. 230w.
“An exquisite and touching tale.”
+ =No. Am.= 190: 843. D. ’09. 60w.
“Full of human dignity and pathos.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 635. N. ’09. 20w.
=Ward, Elizabeth Stuart.=^{[11]} Oath of allegiance, and other
stories. **$1.25. Houghton.
9–35852.
Eleven serious short stories. “The sanctity of the marriage-tie with its
attendant duties and sacrifices comes in for extended treatment. The
marital relation as a hard, but by no means unlovely, bond is the idea
emphasized.” (Lit. D.) “The initial story of this volume is based on an
odd incident that appears to be taken from real life, the delivery of a
love letter to a woman fifteen years after it had been written and after
the death of the writer. It is a war-time tale, and throbs with the
passionate heroism and sacrifice of those years.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The characters are well drawn, the situations dramatic and convincingly
set forth.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 94. N. ’09. ✠
“Whatever may be urged against the strain of sadness that pervades them,
or their ofttimes unsatisfying endings, this much must be conceded,—they
reveal a true understanding and interpretation of life.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 686. O. 23, ’09. 240w.
“The material, with its little touches of modern dress, is the old
material.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 487. N. 18, ’09. 300w.
“Mrs. Ward rarely fails to breathe into her people some portion of her
own intense individuality, and in consequence they seem always to be
very much alive—even though she may be writing of them after they are
dead.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 673. O. 30, ’09. 160w.
“These are in the author’s best vein, all showing her shrewd but kindly
psychological insight.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 635. N. ’09. 40w.
=Ward, Florence Gannon H. (Mrs. J. C. Ward).=^{[10]} Under the
northern lights. †$1.50. Wessels.
9–25635.
A well-bred, well-educated New York mining engineer weds in a hasty
moment a cheap young woman with the drug habit. He puts her in a
sanitarium and turns to the great west for the life of action that can
quiet his restless remorse. In an Alaska mining camp he is thrown with a
wealthy New Yorker’s family among whose members is a young woman whom he
learns to love elementally with the big honesty of heart that had been
developed thru the out-of-doors struggle with great northern forces. The
author finds a way to happiness that is logical even tho it is
unpleasant.
* * * * *
“The tale is told with dash and a freshness of touch that make it
readable, notwithstanding an occasional unwise use of English.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 591. O. 9, ’09. 200w.
=Ward, Harry Marshall.=^{[6]} Trees: a handbook of forest-botany for
the woodlands and laboratory. 5v. (Cambridge biological ser.) ea.
*$1.50. Putnam.
=v. 4.= Fruits.
“After a general discussion of the morphology of fruits (part 1, 59
pp.), the second part (94 pp.) gives a key to trees and shrubs, based on
characters derived from fruits, and accompanied by figures of most of
the species.”—Bot. Gaz.
=v. 5.= “This volume dealing with the form of trees is the final one of
its series.... Part 1 deals in a general way with the habit or form of
trees, and, in addition to the text, the form or habit of the tree is
indicated in many instances by illustrations, while the form of the
branch-system is also indicated diagrammatically. A series of Mr. Henry
Irving’s well-known photographs illustrating the outward appearance of
the bark has been included. In part 2 the trees are detailed according
to their form and other external appearances. The system of tabulation
adopted is similar to that employed in the previous volumes. At the end
we have an appendix which contains a classification of trees and shrubs
according to their seedlings.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“Like the other parts of the series, this one will doubtless be useful
in Great Britain, though it cannot be particularly serviceable in this
country. It embodies a good idea, however, which might be applied to the
trees of this continent.”
+ − =Bot. Gaz.= 47: 415. My. ’09. 160w. (Review of v. 4.)
“Will be found of use to the expert and student alike, while the
beginner who has once started to read it will soon find himself becoming
enthusiastic under the inspiring influence of the writer.”
+ =Nature.= 80: 126. Ap. 1, ’09. 200w. (Review of v. 4.)
“It will be admitted on all hands that the late Prof. Marshall Ward has
left behind a monumental work which will long be considered a standard
on trees.”
+ =Nature.= 81: 64. Jl. 15, ’09. 180w. (Review of v. 5.)
“An exceptionally valuable book for the botanical student, either as a
useful aid in the field or in laboratory work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 166. Mr. 20, ’09. 100w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 384. Je. 12, ’09. 140w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Ward, James.=^{[3]} Fresco painting; its art and technique with
special reference to the Buono and spirit fresco methods. *$4.20.
Scribner.