“Mr. Watson, who is Professor of Education in the University college of
Wales, has written a very practical book upon just what grammar school
education in England was during the period from the invention of
printing to the restoration, what subjects it was concerned with, by
what methods it taught them, and what were its practical aims. It is
based largely upon an examination of the school text books, while to
these results he has added such contributory information as can be
gathered from contemporary history and literature.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Prof. Watson’s volume well deserves perusal for the light it throws on
the history of the two centuries closed by the restoration.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 69. Ja. 16. 1150w.
“No serious student of the history of English education will overlook
his ‘English grammar schools to 1660,’ which is really the first
treatment of the subject in anything approaching an accessible volume.”
+ =Educ. R.= 38: 97. Je. ’09. 80w.
“Mr. Watson’s book is a noteworthy addition to the revelations of
English life exactly as it was lived during the Tudor and Stuart
periods.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 122. F. 27, ’09. 360w.
“It must not be supposed that the interest of the subject is
antiquarian. It touches on modern life and practice at many points.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 1108. D. 26, ’08. 350w.
=Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott.=^{[10]} Castle by the sea. †$1.50.
Little.
9–25393.
A bookish young Londoner leases for the summer season a picturesque old
castle on the English coast. He comes here for work and quiet but is
soon involved in a series of strange happenings in which secret
staircases and subterranean caverns play their part. The real owner of
the castle, fleeing from his debts comes here incognito and he, the
bailiffs, some charming young women summering in the village, a painter
who is copying the old masters in the library, and the old servitors
ranged against the men who are scheming for the possession of the castle
and its caves contribute to an interesting story of love and adventure.
* * * * *
“By the exercise of extraordinary dexterity Mr. Marriott Watson
contrives to combine successfully the elements of farce and melodrama in
a story permeated by the fragrance of first love.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 261. S. 4. 170w.
“Mr. Watson’s style is as good as his invention. and the sum total of
the effect is decidedly pleasing.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 385. N. 16. ’09. 260w.
“Is one of the best that he has ever published in deftness and finish of
construction, in the inherent interest of its plot and in the
attractiveness of its scene and characters.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 596. O. 9, ’09. 200w.
“It is entertaining enough. It is an amusing company that Mr. Marriott
Watson has collected, and no one will drop the book halfway through.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 356. S. 18, ’09. 150w.
“A somewhat complicated story which will repay the trouble of
disentangling it.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 693. O. 30, ’09. 10w.
=Watson, John B.=^{[11]} Behavior of noddy and sooty terns. Carnegie
inst.
“The author spent two and a half months on Bird Key, with the object of
observing, as closely as possible, the details of the lives of the two
species of terns found breeding there. Of the noddy terns there were
about 1,400 adults, while the colony of sooties numbered more than
18,800. The food and the feeding habits, the courtship, nest-building,
care, and external development of the young, and the entire daily
activity of both species are minutely described, each phase of study
being subdivided, and an excellent summary given of each.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“This paper of sixty-eight pages forms one of the most important of
recent contributions to ornithology. The author is primarily a
psychologist, and his language in a number of instances is made
unnecessarily technical by the use of such terms as intra-organic
pressure.”
+ + − =Nation.= 89: 104. Jl. 29, ’09. 470w.
“A valuable contribution to ornithological information, as the life
habits of these terns during their nesting season have never been so
thoroughly studied before.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 632. O. 23, ’09. 1200w.
=Watson, William.=^{[12]} New poems. **$1.50. Lane.
9–28538.
“These ‘New poems’ are forty-four in number, of which about thirty are
allowed to occupy a page each, while much the longest of them, that to
‘Miranda,’ consists of seventeen sonnets, and that to ‘America’ has
sixty lines of blank verse. In quantity the volume is not large, and in
quality it would add little to Mr. Watson’s just fame—for the poems are
generally slight—but for one that immediately became the most famous
poem of the year, that which denounces ‘The woman with the serpent’s
tongue.’”—Ind.
* * * * *
“There is not one poem which does not bear marks of the most cunning
craftsmanship. In many of these poems there is a Tennysonian flavour
delightful to scholars who rejoice in the continuity of the poetic
tradition.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 617. N. 20. 2000w.
“Indeed, with a few exceptions, this is a padded volume of trifles. But
the poem that stamps on a woman gives the volume distinction, and the
drinking song is as jolly as Shakespeare.”
− + =Ind.= 67: 1319. D. 9, ’09. 950w.
“These new poems are very beautiful and very forceful, and it is rather
difficult to speak of them with moderation.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1092. D. 11, ’09. 700w.
“If there was nothing else in Mr. Watson’s new volume, it would surely
be worth buying over and over again for one of many beautiful ‘Sonnets
to Miranda.’” Richard Le Gallienne.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 787. D. 11, ’09. 1750w.
“Mr. Watson remains, as in his first promising work, distinctively a
critic of life; that is at once the strength and the limitation of his
poetry.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 651. N. 27, ’09. 160w.
“For ourselves, at any rate, we cannot read these present poems without
some sense of their inadequacy. They are, in a word, innutritious. Any
pleasure they afford is only the moonlike reflection of sensations we
tasted long ago, and more freshly, in the work of the same writer. The
poems in this book please, as well-turned Latin verses please the
scholar; no more.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 6. N. 13, ’09. 1050w.
“Almost everything in this book reaches a high level of poetic
accomplishment; and when the inspiration is adequate to the
craftsmanship the result is noble poetry.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 745. N. 6, ’09. 800w.
=Watt, Sir George.= Commercial products of India; being an abridgment
of the “Dictionary of the economic products of India.” *$5. Dutton.
Agr8–1024.
“A digest of information on the products which are of present or
prospective industrial or commercial importance. It is an abridgment of
the ‘Dictionary of the economic products of India,’ by the same author
published in six volumes in 1885–94, and now out of print. The general
plan of treatment may be indicated by the article on cotton, which
occupies fifty-six pages.... To each section is appended a list of
authorities from which the facts are derived, the statistical returns
being brought down to 1905–6.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“As a book of reference, it ought to be within handy reach of every
student of economic and political conditions in Great Britain’s Eastern
empire.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1401. Je. 24, ’09. 300w.
“Some of the information, we observe, is rather trivial. Moreover, the
usefulness of the work as a book of reference would have been increased
by the addition of tables of measures and values.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 114. F. 4, ’09. 330w.
“Despite blemishes, however, which we trust a more rigorous application
of the blue pencil will cause to disappear in the next edition, there
can be no question of the great value of Sir George Watt’s book. He has
laid a fresh debt of gratitude on all interested in India or its
products.” A. T. Gage.
+ − =Nature.= 79: 184. D. 17, ’08. 820w.
“The work is important both commercially and scientifically.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 150. Mr. 13, ’09. 140w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 252. F. ’09. 90w.
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 1006. Je. 26, ’09. 350w.
=Watt, Henry J.=^{[10]} Economy and training of memory. 50c. Longmans.
A work for teachers and students of psychology who are interested in
memory development and preservation. The author discusses the
experimental investigation of memory, the mechanical memory of
association, the factors that influence memory and how it can be trained
and assisted. The volume closes with twenty-three rules for the economy
and training of the memory.
* * * * *
“Much definite information is given on particular points where the
merely empirical adviser is quite at a loss. Moreover, if the book did
no more than free the ordinary adult from that excessive distrust of his
memory, which is so bad in effect, and is, perhaps, too optimistically
believed by Mr. Watt to be quite ungrounded in fact, it would be
abundantly justified.”
+ =Nature.= 81: 158. Ag. 5, ’09. 230w.
“Though this book reveals no new psychological principle, it contains
suggestions that might be fruitful to the teacher, and some advice as to
methods of memorizing poetry and prose that may help the general
reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 427. Jl. 10, ’09. 250w.
=Watt, Lauchlan MacLean.= Attic and Elizabethan tragedy. *$2. Dutton.
9–9950.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“It is, in fact, a real ‘multum in parvo.’ Occasionally an error drops
in.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 706. Ap. 1, ’09. 430w.
“A highly valuable introduction to study of the tragic drama, ancient
and modern.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 586. Mr. 13, ’09. 350w.
=Way, L. N.=^{[12]} Call of the heart. †$1.50. Dillingham.
9–29505.
The story of a young woman’s love for a married man, her disillusionment
and struggle to forget the horror of her experience. A book whose bold
handling of human passion entirely unfits it for general library use;
altho one agrees with the belief of the author that no woman who has
sinned is justified in relinquishing her claim upon a virtuous future
life.
=Wayfarer= in New York; introd. by E: S. Martin.^{[11]} *$1.25.
Macmillan.
9–35849.
An anthology of descriptions and impressions included under the
following heads: From the Battery to Trinity; Within half a mile of City
hall; Greenwich and Chelsea villages; The Washington square
neighborhood; The East side; From Union square to Madison square; From
Madison square through Central park; Upper Manhattan and Harlem; The
Bronx and beyond; Over the water. It is a guide book of high literary
quality.
* * * * *
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 88. N. ’09.
“A vivid panorama of city life as our novelists, poets, newspaper
reporters, historians, and other ‘wayfarers’ have interpreted it, with
many intentions and in varying mood.” E. K. Dunton.
+ =Dial.= 47: 454. D. 1, ’09. 140w.
“The compilation which Mr. Martin has wittily introduced is only fairly
well done.” Brander Matthews.
+ − =Forum.= 42: 476. N. ’09. 300w.
=Ind.= 67: 1320. D. 9, ’09. 190w.
“A thoroughly readable volume. He could have done even better if he had
not overlooked a number of striking poems and prose extracts.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 361. O. 14, ’09. 150w.
“Very appealing to the sentiment is the little volume as well as
interesting because of its glimpses into the life of other days.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 790. D. 11, ’09. 330w.
=Survey.= 23: 376. D. 18, ’09. 180w.
=Weale, B. L. Putnam.= Forbidden boundary. $1.50. Macmillan.
9–13038.
A group of short stories of life in China and Japan. “They all suggest
the glamour and mystery of the East, though there is an inartistic
gruesome touch about one or two of them.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The two best stories in the volume are skilful in characterization,
strong in movement, and full of atmosphere and colour.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 757. D. 12. 130w.
“Told with a sheer power of graphic narrative, a sense of colour values
in the Orient, that holds you with its suggestion of something strange
and mysterious and evil.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 383. D. ’08. 270w.
“Is not an unqualified success as a storyteller. There is a surfeit of
the dreadful, and what from an artistic point of view is worse, a
profuseness, relevant and irrelevant, that makes of several of the
stories in this volume sheer rigmaroles.”
− + =Nation.= 88: 68. Ja. 21, ’09. 330w.
“Perhaps the volume is what might be called a ‘man’s book.’ The book
should not be missed by those who are not afraid of a shudder or two,
and who care for stories of artistic vitality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 414. Jl. 3, ’09. 720w.
“The literary merit of the stories is uneven, but the side lights thrown
on life in the Far East are valuable indeed.”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 65. Ja. 9, ’09. 140w.
“Very few living writers can put into a short story the mysterious,
haunting atmosphere of the Far East as successfully and subtly as B. L.
Putnam Weale.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 122. Ja. ’09. 140w.
=Weaver, Gertrude (G. Colmore, pseud.).= Priests of progress. $1.50.
Dodge, B. W.
9–7569.
A novel attacking vivisection and the practice of performing surgical
operations for the scientific interest attaching to them rather than for
the benefit to be derived by the patient.
* * * * *
“‘Priests of progress’ is one of the strongest and best novels of the
year. It is more than a powerful and compelling romance: it is a volume
instinct with moral idealism which will make for higher morality.”
+ =Arena.= 41: 601. Ag. ’09. 1350w.
“As a story it is of no interest and as an argument it is of no
importance, for it consists of the usual series of garbled quotations
and misinterpretations on a thread of fiction.”
− =Ind.= 66: 426. F. 25, ’09. 100w.
“The book is powerfully written, and its subject demands attention; but
in saying this we must not be held to be in any shape or form endorsing
its conclusion.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 24. Ja. 2, ’09. 300w.
=Webb, M. de P.= India and the empire: a consideration of the tariff
problem, with an introd. by Sir E. F. Law. *$1.20. Longmans.
8–22575.
“The burden of the present discussion is in effect the perennial
question of British free trade versus preferential tariffs. The author
appears as an ardent supporter of the Chamberlain policy of preferential
tariff as best calculated to promote the general welfare of the empire.
In fact he openly takes the stand that only by a system of preferential
tariffs can Britain avert the inevitable fate of becoming a second or
even third rate power, with the loss of its important colonial
possessions.... Mr. Webb, both in his text and in the appendices,
however, does demonstrate the importance of Indian trade and that so far
as India alone is concerned her best interests would be materially
promoted by the adoption of an imperial commercial policy.”—Ann. Am.
Acad.
* * * * *
“Whether he makes out his whole case depends largely on the personal
leanings of the individual reader toward the tariff issue. In analysing
the tariff problems, the author was led into a very full survey of
India’s commercial relations, a fact which gives the volume decidedly
greater value as a book of general utility.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 205. Ja. ’09. 220w.
=Ath.= 1908, 1: 381. Mr. 28. 300w.
“The author, who has had the advantage of seventeen years’ residence in
India, proceeds to show just how the economic conditions and industrial
resources of that country would fit into such a scheme. Herein lies the
chief value of the book.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 103. F. ’09. 380w.
=Webb, Walter Loring.= Railroad construction: theory and practice: a
text-book for the use of students in colleges and technical schools.
4th ed., rev. and enl. $5. Wiley.
8–28301.
“Such changes as have been made in the last two editions are mostly in
the arrangement and contents of the tables, although in the fourth
edition the chapter on Economics has been brought down to present unit
costs and the earthworks section has been revised for the better,
especially insofar as the cost data are concerned.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 125. Ap. ’09.
“The book is still the best condensed study of railroad construction
available for students and beginners.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 694. D. 17, ’08. 130w.
“A concise and clear statement of all the important features of railway
location and construction.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 139. Ja. 30, ’09. 120w.
=Webb, Walter Loring, and Gibson, W. Herbert.^{[7]}= Masonry and
reinforced concrete. $3. Am. school of correspondence.
9–35100.
“A working manual of approved American practice in the selection,
testing and structural use of building stone, brick, cement, and other
masonry materials, with complete instruction in the various modern
structural applications of concrete steel.” “As a general survey of the
field of masonry construction—including that latest development,
concrete—this book by Messrs. Webb and Gibson is quite satisfactory.”
(Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“It will not replace Baker’s ‘Masonry’ or such works on concrete as Buel
and Hill’s or Taylor and Thompson’s.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 184. Je. ’09.
“It will make very interesting reading for the novice anxious to gain an
idea of the principles of the subject before taking up its serious and
detailed study. But it is not a ‘working manual’ nor does it contain
‘complete instruction in the various modern structural applications of
concrete and concrete steel.’”
+ − =Engin.= N. 61: sup. 3. Ja. 14, ’09. 90w.
=Webster, Henry Kitchell.=^{[6]} King in khaki. †$1.50. Appleton.
9–10037.
A story which tells how “a New York ex-newspaper man who has taken hold
of a big industrial enterprise on a little island in the West Indies,
brought order out of chaos, and put it on a paying basis. A
multi-millionaire who owns a lot of the stock sees a chance to turn a
trick in high finance, and makes ready to squeeze out the original
stockholders and buy in most of the stock himself before it is known
that the property has become a gilt-edged investment. The ex-newspaper
man determines to undermine his scheme, and the two have an exciting
battle of wits and expedients, in which nature also takes a hand with
some spectacular performances suited to a sub-tropical island.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“An interesting, well-told story.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 189. Je. ’09. ✠
“Mr. Webster has a crisp method of story-telling that is very fetching
in a writer who aims at nothing more than entertainment.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 46: 371. Je. 1, ’09. 280w.
“The book just misses being worth while. Judged simply as a story of
adventure, however, it is as good as the next, and filled to the brim
with exciting incident.” J. Marchand.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 415. Je. ’09. 250w.
“Another story of the ‘rattling good’ sort.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 261. Ap. 24, ’09. 230w.
=Webster, Jean.= Much ado about Peter. †$1.50. Doubleday.
9–7143.
Peter, head groom in the Carter stables, chief advisor and assistant to
the children in their Comanche games, peace-maker between parlor maid
and her exacting young mistress, understudy of Lord Kiscadden in private
theatricals, is a loyal servant and a calm philosopher. He achieves his
triumph when he preaches the sermon to his young employer that saves
domestic unhappiness and elicits the comment: “Peter, you may be
elemental, but I half suspect you’re right.”
* * * * *
“Bright, humorous; a good story to read aloud.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 149. My. ’09. ✠
“Miss Webster’s descriptions are good, her insight into human nature is
keen, and her humor is infectious. It is an entertaining book for a
leisurely afternoon.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 199. Jl. 22, ’09. 100w.
“One cannot help feeling that if Miss Webster had kept Peter and his
friends in their places, and had given the children the front of the
stage, she might, with a little attention to plot, have written a fresh
and continuously entertaining story of childlife.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 444. Ap. 29, ’09. 260w.
“There is much crisp dialogue, and a good deal of sunshiny humor
throughout, and if some of the escapades related seem a little less than
realistic, the wholesome preachments to which they act as vehicles are
none the less pertinent and enjoyable. Miss Jean Webster has not made
too much ado about Peter.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 180. Mr. 27, ’09. 220w.
“There is nothing morbid throughout the book—all is bright and happy and
appealing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 380. Je. 12, ’09. 180w.
=Webster, Noah.=^{[12]} Webster’s new international dictionary of the
English language, based on the international dictionary of 1890 and
1900; now completely revised in all departments, including also a
dictionary of geography and biography, being the latest authentic
quarto edition of the Merriam series; W. T. Harris, editor in chief,
F. Sturges Allen, general editor. $10. Merriam.
9–25402.
This edition containing 400,000 words and phrases, is practically a new
dictionary altho it is a revision of Webster’s International dictionary
of 1890 and its supplement of 1900. For convenience each page is divided
into two sections, the lower one in smaller type containing minor words,
foreign words and phrases, and abbreviations. All the lists, except
geographical and biographical names, formerly given in the appendix, are
incorporated in the main alphabet. Following the rule that a dictionary
should record existing usage, simplified spelling forms are not given
unless they have been generally adopted, but words originating in slang
which have passed into common usage are freely introduced. The inclusion
of encyclopedic matter makes the dictionary a storehouse of information
that records the very latest advance in all departments of knowledge.
* * * * *
“The work on synonyms is very thorough and satisfactory.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 150. D. ’09.
“Is by all means the first single-volume dictionary of the English
language for everyday use on the teacher’s desk or in the business man’s
office. It is practical, clear and complete.”
+ + + =Educ. R.= 38: 425. N. ’09. 140w.
+ + − =Nation.= 89: 434. N. 4, ’09. 1000w.
=Wedgwood, Julia.=^{[11]} Nineteenth century teachers and other
essays. *$3. Doran.
“Here we are in the staid British atmosphere; magazine articles on good
old stock subjects covering a period of forty years. Life of Charles
Kingsley, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, A study of Carlyle, The moral
influence of George Eliot, John Ruskin, Henry Thomas Buckle, and so
on.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“The writer of prolegomena, no less than the historian, must, amongst
other things, be detached from the controversies of the century,
unprejudiced, and endowed with exceptional powers of intellect;
wherefore we are unable to discover a justification for the volume
before us. Yet, from the historian’s point of view, the book is at least
suggestive.”
− + =Ath.= 1909, 1: 723. Je. 19. 1650w.
“Good solemn stuff, with nothing paradoxical about it, and as edifying
as a collection of sermons.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 568. My. 1, ’09. 60w.
“Miss Wedgwood’s essays are full of brilliant and illuminating sentences
and paragraphs, but they show a lack of the power of characterisation. A
systematic setting of fault against virtue and defect against quality
produces a neutral effect. The eulogists she despises attain often a
more lifelike result. All the same, the book is well worth reading for
the sake of its digressions, and much of it is memorable in an unusual
degree. Miss Wedgwood’s greatest interest is, of course, in theology.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 58. Jl. 10, ’09. 1100w.
=Weikel, Anna Hamlin.=^{[11]} Betty Baird’s golden year. †$1.50.
Little.
9–25810.
The last volume in the “Betty Baird” series. It rounds out Betty’s
period of preparation for mature usefulness bringing her to the end of
her girlhood.
=Weir, Hugh C.=^{[11]} Conquest of the Isthmus. **$2. Putnam.
9–28051.
“The account of an eye-witness of the work going on at Panama.... He
tells how the men at labor live, work, and amuse themselves. When he
writes of Panama he calls his account a ‘romance of jungle and city.’ He
gives a lively description of scorpions, tarantulas, and alligators, as
he found them. He talks of ‘the disease battle’ of the Isthmus and he
writes enthusiastically of ex-President Roosevelt’s visit to Panama....
Diagrams show us how the work progresses, a crowd of illustrations
brings the place and the work before our eyes and Mr. Weir has no good
words for those who decry the Gatun dam.... In his concluding chapter he
answers the question ‘Is it all worth while?’ which he answers by
showing that the canal is certain to be a financial success.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“His book is by no means lacking in point and vivacity.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 641. O. 16, ’09. 320w.
“It is undeniably superficial and sensational, and its statements are
not to be accepted without caution.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 463. N. 11, ’09. 450w.
“It is a story of heroic achievements he tells.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 598. O. 9, ’09. 290w.
=Weitenkampf, Frank.= How to appreciate prints. **$1.50. Moffat.
8–34261.
“Written for the unqualified beginner. Mr. Weitenkampf, as curator of
prints in the New York public library, knows as no other man the many
interests, mostly non-aesthetic, that centre about a collection of
prints, and, while his own taste is trained, he gives to each popular
motive its due place in his book. For readers moderately well informed
on these matters his manual will seem diffuse and roundabout. But it is
not written for them. The diffuseness is merely that of the patient
mentor who by repetition, illustration, and apt dilution must make his
lesson clear.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Is happily popular in style, technical terms being employed only when
the context renders them easily understood.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 53. F. ’09.
“No one can read this book without taking a more intelligent and
discriminating interest in the arts which find their expression in the
work of the graver.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 144. Mr. 1, ’09. 210w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1460. D. 17, ’08. 130w.
“It is to be feared that it will be read only by those who are already
in sympathy with the writer’s enthusiasms.”
− =Int. Studio.= 38: 328. O. ’09. 150w.
“For its public the book will do good. It will reach many who cannot
grasp such manuals as the late Dr. Lippmann’s. The field is covered
fully, and even the different sorts of process engraving are included.
We could wish the very summary and thin encyclopædic portion had been
reduced in favor of a more extended appreciative treatment of a few
great and typical engravers; also that the inferiority of reproductive
engraving had been more strongly insisted on.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 125. F. 4, ’09. 330w.
“The private owners of fine prints and the custodians of the great
public collections owe Mr. Weitenkampf a debt of thanks for his
admirable chapter on the ‘Care of prints,’ and, indeed, the lover of art
and the believer in the value of its wide dissemination owe him
gratitude for the catholicity of appreciation that directs the mind to
joy in the humblest reproduction of good work of all sorts and
conditions, some of which to-day comes within the reach of nearly every
one.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 197. Ap. 3, ’09. 880w.
“A valuable handbook for the collector of prints or engravings, or for
any one who wants to know how to go about starting a collection.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 385. F. 20, ’09. 200w.
Reviewed by Christian Brinton.
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 620. F. ’09. 100w.
“Like so many books on art of American origin, this work has a curious
superficiality of outlook combined with a large amount of detailed
learning.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: sup. 925. D. 4, ’09. 50w.
=Welch, Alice Kemp=, ed. and tr. Of the tumbler of Our Lady and other
miracles now translated from the middle French; introd. and notes by
Alice Kemp-Welch. (New medieval lib.) *$2. Duffield.
9–14150.
Stories taken from manuscript in the Séminaire at Soissons which forms a
part of the collection of miracles made in the thirteenth century by
Gautier de Coinci, a monk of St. Médard.
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“The tales are excellent, but we are inclined to take serious objection
to the greater part of the notes, which seem to be somewhat antiquated.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 601. My. 16. 170w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 902. D. 12, ’08. 60w.
+ =Nation.= 88: 463. My. 6, ’09. 320w.
+ =Outlook.= 91: 15. Ja. 2, ’09. 970w.
=Weld, Louis D. H.= Private freight cars and American railways.
(Columbia univ. studies in history, economics and public law, v. 31,
no. I.) *$1.50. Longmans.
8–18395.
“The monograph by Dr. Weld on private freight cars deals comprehensively
with a transportation subject of great importance concerning which there
was comparatively little printed information.... The monograph gives a
history of special equipment cars, shows what part those cars have
played in the development of the country, discusses the financial
relations of private car lines and the railroads, also the contracts
between the private car companies and the rail lines, considers the
question of refrigeration charges, analyzes the earnings of private
cars, describes the different forms of discriminations and rebates, and
closes with an outline of proposed remedies.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“A valuable monograph.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 630. N. ’08. 150w.
“We have merely to accept or reject the author’s summary of existing and
familiar evidence. However, the balancing process has been well done.”
F. H. Dixon.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 203. S. ’08. 720w.
=Weller, Charles Frederick.=^{[5]} Neglected neighbors: stories of
life in the alleys, tenements and shanties of the national capital;
with a letter of introd. by Theodore Roosevelt. **$1.50. Winston.
9–3316.
A work of civic import bringing to light the conditions among alley and
tenement dwellers in the city of Washington. The author makes use of
illustrative incidents and typical stories rather than statistical
tables and formal diagrams. He points out the evils that to-day are a
distinct drawback to the development of a model city. His study “will be
helpful in pointing out the evils which block the way and in suggesting
remedial measures.”
* * * * *
“The reading of the book leaves in the mind the impression that the
author is guilty of groundless optimism. The book draws a terrible
picture, and fails to present any adequate method of relieving its
horrors.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 192. Jl. ’09. 170w.
+ =Ind.= 67: 371. Ag. 12, ’09. 220w.
“Were Mr. Weller not a veteran charity worker of established repute, we
should be tempted to suspect that his stories were doctored, and his
photographs invented in a gallery.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 410. Ap. 22, ’09. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 126. Mr. 6, ’09. 350w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 127. Jl. ’09. 180w.
“A welcome and noteworthy contribution to the literature of the slum, as
well as an important addition to the shelf of books and pamphlets
relating to housing which have been issued during the last ten years.”
C: B. Bail.
+ =Survey.= 22: 577. Jl. 24, ’09. 1100w.
=Wells, Carolyn.=^{[11]} The clue. †$1.50. Lippincott.
9–25642.
As the title suggests, this story deals with a mystery—a mystery that
begins with a crime. On the eve of the marriage of Madeline Van Norman,
the descendant of a proud Southern family and heiress to a large estate,
she is found dead beside her library table, having been stabbed to the
heart with a curious dagger that had served as a paper knife. The usual
criminal-hunting method is employed to the extent of suspecting
everybody and proving him guiltless; but there is variation to the
extent that the probable criminal in the case is dismissed with the
innocent ones, then, all of a sudden, is revealed as the real murderer.
=Wells, Carolyn.= Happychaps. †$1.50. Century.
9–12.
The doings, told in rime, of a quaint, funny nimble race of little
people—cousins to elves, gnomes and fairies. They are agile little
creatures and make merry sport for children as they romp thru the pages
of Miss Wells’s book.
* * * * *
Reviewed by K. L. M.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 384. D. ’08. 80w.
“Miss Wells’s verse text is surprisingly good, considering the
quantity.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1470. D. 17, ’08. 40w.
=Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 40w.
“Miss Carolyn Wells writes verses that have a swing to them, and such
vivid descriptions that children can find ‘a laugh on every page’ of
‘The happychaps,’ but she does not work out her story to a climax with
the same art as that with which she describes details, and we doubt if
the children will accept the entire story with particular enthusiasm.”
− + =R. of Rs.= 38: 767. D. ’08. 70w.
=Wells, Charles Jeremiah.= Joseph and his brethren: a dramatic poem;
with introd. by Algernon C: Swinburne and note on Rossetti and Wells
by Theodore Watts-Dunton. (World’s classics.) lea. *75c. Oxford.