A reprint of the 1876 edition. It contains Swinburne’s essay on Wells
and a note by Watts-Dunton enlarging upon the place held by Wells in the
creed of Rossetti and his uncle.
* * * * *
“We do not hesitate to predict that the present generation, whom Mr.
Watts-Duncan accuses of knowing nothing of ‘Joseph and his brethren,’
are going to receive gladly this book.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 189. F. 13. 2450w.
“[Its prefatory] features, to say nothing of the poem itself, certainly
make a sufficiently generous shilling’s worth of the book.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 193. Mr. 16, ’09. 240w.
“A poem noteworthy for its historical associations and highly
interesting in itself.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 224. Mr. 4, ’09. 1500w.
“There can be no doubt at all that ‘Joseph and his brethren’ deserves a
far wider circle of readers than it has hitherto enjoyed. His command of
his medium—dramatic blank verse—is, as Mr. Swinburne himself admits,
defective. His lines tend to be monotonous. Wells could write exquisite
poetry, but it is poetry which is essentially undramatic; its beauty
lies almost entirely in its descriptive qualities.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 420. Mr. 13, ’09. 750w.
=Wells, Herbert George.=^{[11]} Ann Veronica. †$1.50. Harper.
9–28269.
“A modern love story,” in which a restless, English girl, hedged about
by convention, personified by her father and aunt, resolves to learn
what life really means at all hazards. She forsakes her home in order to
study biology in a London laboratory. She tries to make her way unaided
but finds herself financially helpless and discovers how at the mercy of
man a woman really is. This leads her into the suffrage movement and
ultimately to jail. She falls in love with a married man and they go
abroad together, happy in their freedom despite an outraged society. In
the end they are able to marry and reappear once more within the pale of
society.
* * * * *
“The story is astonishingly brilliant, and for sheer vitality of
realization some of its scenes are unsurpassed. The characterization is
always sound, and often more than that.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 456. O. 16. 270w.
“One feels that there is nothing improbable in any of the things that
Ann Veronica does—it is the spirit in which she does them that rings
false.” F: T. Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 30: 383. D. ’09. 900w.
“The novel is certain to create much eager and animated controversy
among its readers, but I venture to think there is one epithet which no
reader whatever is likely to apply to it, and that is the epithet
‘commonplace.’ One of the most attractive and impressive studies Mr.
Wells has yet given to us in his ideal and yet thoroly realistic
fiction.” Justin McCarthy.
+ − =Ind.= 67: 1085. N. 11, ’09. 500w.
− =Ind.= 67: 1314. D. 9, ’09. 1300w.
“The story is surprisingly clever, amazingly daring. Perhaps, even in
this age of college women, clear-eyed, confident, practical—and devoured
with curiosity—Mr. Wells’s delightful story is not quite a safe guide to
proper conduct.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 622. O. 23, ’09. 650w.
“The book has a good deal of scathing social satire and keen
observation. Mr. Wells is no stylist; it is not literature or beauty he
is after, but a plain picture of life, and in giving this he is entirely
successful.”
+ =No. Am.= 190: 837. D. ’09. 320w.
“The unpleasant impression left by this book cannot be entirely
explained away by ascribing it to overdone realism. There is throughout
a vicious insistence upon the material aspect of life, more especially
upon the physical aspect of sex.”
− =Sat. R.= 108: 444. O. 9, ’09. 950w.
“It is a book capable of poisoning the minds of those who read it.”
− =Spec.= 103: 846. N. 20, ’09. 1200w.
=Wells, Herbert George.= Socialism and the family. *50c. Ball pub.
8–16488.
To reintegrate the family, lessen divorces, increase marriages and
promote child-bearing, Mr. Wells offers the remedy of a family subsidy.
He believes that the state should pay for children born legitimately in
the marriage it sanctions; that a woman with healthy and successful
offspring should draw from the state a wage for each child, so long as
he gets on well.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 87. Mr. ’09.
“The ground on which the-outside critic may most profitably enter is
afforded by Mr. Wells’ broader conceptions of socialism and the state.
Mr. Wells’ eye is not single. He has one eye upon the new model of
militant Fabianism, and the other on that far off divine event, his New
Republic.” G: Unwin.
− + =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 523. Jl. ’07. 1000w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 9. Ja. 2, ’09. 80w.
“Mr. Wells is interesting but not convincing. One looks upon his
intellectual acrobatic feats with admiration but is not inclined to
follow him.”
− + =Outlook.= 91: 243. Ja. 30, ’09. 420w.
=Wells, Herbert George.= Tono-Bungay: a novel. †$1.50. Duffield.
9–5520.
The hero of this novel is a young man born of parents who served the
British nobility. Thru hard work he earns a pharmaceutical society
scholarship, goes to London and yields to London influences that warp
and distribute his energies. He joins his uncle in building up a patent
medicine business—the great Tono-Bungay property—“out of human hope and
a credit for bottles and rent and printing.” There are romances, chiefly
unsuccessful ones; there are ideas about socialism, theology and
aesthetics; and there is the inevitable theme of aeronautics.
* * * * *
“Mr. Wells’s style of narrative gets more abrupt and parenthetic, but
there is no denying that if his mannerisms have grown, so also has his
manner, and that has resulted in a very fine novel.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 312. Mr. 13. 450w.
“In spite of a lack of distinction in manner, ‘Tono-Bungay’ the book is
wholsome, whatever the tonic may have been.”
+ − =Atlan.= 103: 705. My. ’09. 850w.
“Is he trying to crush the small dealer by establishing a mammoth
department store novel, in which every one can find everything he needs?
If the mass of material were well organised it might be a great book. It
is not organised; the whole is considerably less than the sum of its
parts.” Ward Clark.
− + =Bookm.= 29: 92. Mr. ’09. 950w.
“‘Tono-Bungay’ has many ‘longueurs,’ but despite them is a vastly
entertaining novel.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 46: 262. Ap. 16, ’09. 360w.
“In spite of humor, imagination, a lucid style, a gift of insight into
the shams and absurdities of society, ‘Tono-Bungay’ is as uninspiring as
a dull, gray day.”
− + =Ind.= 66: 700. Ap. 1, ’09. 260w.
“In general method it is rather frankly modelled on ‘Joseph Vance’; that
is, it is composed with skill, though with some appearance of
inconsecutiveness and even incoherence. The persons in the book are of
more importance than the plot.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 170. F. 13, ’09. 500w.
“An entertaining book with both a story and a moral, and not a dull
page, is a rare achievement for an author nowadays. These results have
been attained in the work before us. It is hardly to be denied that Mr.
Wells makes his point, but he does not seem to see that the point is
made against himself as well as against the system which offends him.
Doubtless, our social affairs are ordered in an apparently futile way,
and most of us make the blunders in our lives which Mr. Wells describes
with a frankness verging close upon Rousseau’s and almost declassing his
book as suitable reading for the young person.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 54. Ja. 30, ’09. 1100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 380. Je. 12, ’09. 180w.
“This is not merely something written merely to exploit theories or
politics; it is not even a mere transcript from life; it is a Book.”
+ =No. Am.= 189: 920. Je. ’09. 110w.
“The love story is painful and not in the best of taste. Altogether the
reader recalls Mr. Wells’s less ambitious ‘Wheels of chance’ and ‘Love
and Mr. Lewisham’—and not to the advantage of ‘Tono-Bungay.’”
− =Outlook.= 91: 534. Mr. 6, ’09. 180w.
“Those who take up ‘Tono-Bungay’ will be quite likely to read it through
and they will find it a vivacious English novel of the familiar type,
dealing with the life of to-day.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 384. Mr. ’09. 150w.
“The book is shrewd, amusing, melancholy, and almost free from that
indefinable quality for which no other word than ‘cheapness’ has yet
been devised.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 309. Mr. 6, ’09. 400w.
“A strong, sincere, but in the main repellent work.”
− + =Spec.= 102: 346. F. 27, ’09. 1150w.
=Welsh, Charles=, comp, and ed.^{[11]} Stories children love: a
collection of stories arranged for children and young people of
various ages. $1.25. Dodge.
9–20134.
Seventy-two stories “chosen from the literature of many times and
several countries. Swift, Goldsmith, Irving, Hawthorne, Defoe, Madame de
Ségur, Hans Christian Andersen, and Robert Southey are among the writers
laid under contribution. He has not confined himself to the older
authors, however, since Edward Eggleston has been drawn upon for a
sketch of an old-time spelling bee, taken from ‘The hoosier
schoolmaster.’”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“The extreme age variance (from three to seventeen years) recommends the
collection for home but makes it somewhat inconvenient for school
purposes or reading in the library.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 97. N. ’09. ✠
“The one mistake lay in over-ambition to include the simplest with the
more complex style; any effort to grade material conscientiously within
the limits of one volume will inevitably result in an inequality, which
is mystifying to the youngest reader and incongruous to the oldest.” M.
J. Moses.
+ − =Ind.= 67: 1359. D. 16, ’09. 80w.
=Lit. D.= 39: 545. O. 2, ’09. 170w.
“Considering his limitations, Mr. Welsh has done well, and his volume
deserves careful consideration.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1025. D. 4, ’09. 100w.
“In one volume, Charles Welsh attempts with a commendable amount of
success to gather together ‘Stories children love,’ guaranteed by
experts who have had opportunity for extensive observation as to
juvenile taste.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 538. D. 2, ’09. 70w.
=Wendell, Barrett.=^{[12]} Mystery of education and other academic
performances. **$1.25. Scribner.
9–26988.
Contains “four essays and a poem delivered before audiences on various
recent academic occasions. The views on college teaching they present
are those of one who finds scholasticism irksome and values such
teaching in proportion as it develops the student’s powers and enlarges
his resources.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Professor Wendell is always entertaining and instructive in his
lectures and essays, and this, his last publication, is no exception to
the rule.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 970. N. 27, ’09. 220w.
+ =Outlook.= 93: 649. N. 27, ’09. 150w.
+ =Outlook.= 93: 876. D. 18, ’09. 150w.
=Wendell, Barrett.= Privileged classes. **$1.25. Scribner.
8–28840.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“The essay-address is suggestive and at times convincing. The other
essays are not more significant than the two already reviewed, being
rather academic and general. The author’s style is most excellent, the
book being very delightful from a literary standpoint. The argument
lacks convincing power, being sometimes overburdened with qualifying
phrases.” T: J. Riley.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 539. Ja. ’09. 400w.
“Stimulating essays, sustaining by able argument the contention that
much of our modern education is a failure.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 22. Ja. ’09.
“Both witty and wise,—at the same time paradoxical and gently ironical,
this latest book of Professor Wendell’s cannot fail to arrest the
attention of any but the unthinking and heedless. He is eminently sane
and conservative in his opinions, and his book is suggestive and
inspiring.” Mary Lloyd.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 478. Mr. ’09. 430w.
“We are frankly of those who hold his criticism to be timely and, on the
whole, much to the point. We commend ‘The privileged classes,’
therefore, as a useful and palatable antidote for national pride and
self-satisfaction.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 69. Ja. 21, ’09. 580w.
“Whatever Professor Wendell, of Harvard, writes is worth reading,
whether one agrees with him or not.”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 150. Ja. 23, ’09. 270w.
=Wenley, Robert Mark.=^{[6]} Modern thought and the crisis in belief.
(Baldwin lectures, 1909.) *$1.50. Macmillan.
9–6087.
“The book is almost equally divided into a destructive criticism of
religious beliefs still current, and philosophical reconstruction; but
one apprehends more clearly what it is that is destroyed than what it is
that is constructed.” (Science.) The chapters are: Sheaves on the
threshing-floor; The waters of Meribah; Breaches of the house;
Humiliation in the midst; The pre-established discord; The adjournment
of well-being; The penumbra of belief; and The valley of blessing.
* * * * *
“The style is too distractingly noticeable to be good.” D. C. Macintosh.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 630. O. ’09. 450w.
“Professor Wenley is not merely a man of wide reading; he is a man of
wide comprehension and sympathy. He has the rare ability to discern the
real significance and bearing of modern movements of thought in very
different fields.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 919. Ap. 29, ’09. 770w.
“Whoever will read this book should read it through from cover to cover.
Otherwise he will do injustice to its conclusion, as well as to the
deeply religious spirit of its author.” E. S. D.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 591. O. 9, ’09. 430w.
“The book is one which may be commended to thoughtful people generally,
but especially to students who have been instructed in the general
principles of philosophical idealism, and are wrestling with the problem
of reconstructing their religious creed. While it is strong food, it is
precisely what is needed for the health of many men.” E. L. Hinman.
+ =Philos. R.= 18: 667. N. ’09. 450w.
“The best, and the longest, division of the book deals with the
religious consequences of historical criticism. One could wish that
Professor Wenley would be persuaded to chasten his style. At its best it
is admirably vigorous and effective; but there are moments in which it
seems a cross between the style of the Delphian oracle and that of Mr.
George Ade.”
+ − =Science=, n.s. 29: 818. My. 21, ’09. 800w.
=Westermarck, Edward Alexander.= Origin and development of the moral
ideas. 2v. v. 2. *$3.50. Macmillan.
6–18579.
=v. 2.= “Treats of the right of property, regard for truth and good
faith, altruistic sentiments, suicide, industry, ascetic practices, the
relations between the sexes, regard for the lower animals and for the
dead, cannibalism, and the relation of gods to morality.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“As a great encyclopedia of facts, it will be a valuable reference work
for large libraries.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 87. Mr. ’09. (Review of v. 2.)
“So far as the reviewer knows this is the most exhaustive comparative
study of human morals ever made.” Carl Kelsey.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 219. Jl. ’09. 460w. (Review of v. 2.)
“By dint of a singular combination of virile qualities—pluck,
resolution, and common sense—Prof. Westermarck has accomplished a
monumental work that places him in the first rank of living
anthropologists.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 399. Ap. 3. 1500w. (Review of v. 2.)
“I trust that even this very inadequate abstract of the contents of Dr.
Westermarck’s work may be sufficient to make evident the value of this
great contribution to learning.” J. E. McTaggart.
+ =Int. J. Ethics.= 20: 94. O. ’09. 2300w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The characteristics of the first volume appear also in the second:
astounding profusion of examples (always with precise references to
authorities), clearness and ease of presentation, broad sympathy,
accuracy of discrimination, and soundness of judgment.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 196. F. 25, ’09. 420w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The present work has, of course, its thesis, but it is one which is,
for the greater part of the time, obscured by the very masses of
detailed fact which are marshalled in support of it.” A. E. Taylor.
+ − =Nature.= 79: 481. F. 25, ’09. 1100w. (Review of v. 2.)
“There has never been any attempt to establish a moral theory on facts
gathered from such a wide range of time and space as Westermarck’s
attempt; and the result is that the work deserves to rank among the
world’s greatest scientific books; in its own branch of science it has
no peer, and is not likely to find one for a long time to come. Rarely
does one find a writer on ethical subjects so free from pre-possessions
as Westermarck is; but at least in one instance it seems to me that he
evinces a strong prejudice which warps his judgment. I may close by
saying that not its least claim to greatness is that the layman can read
it with as much interest and profit as the expert finds in it. It should
have a wide and enduring circulation. No one after this will have a
right to discuss questions of ethical theory who has not made himself
acquainted with its contents.” E. B. McGilvary.
+ + − =Philos. R.= 18: 429. Jl. ’09. 4000w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The work takes its place at once as the standard book on inductive
ethics—a monument of patient and unprejudiced toil that in its
particular line will not easily be superseded.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 107: 465. Ap. 10, ’09. 1400w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Weyman, Stanley John.= Wild geese. †$1.50. Doubleday.
9–4487.
“A pitiful but convincing picture of Ireland in her worst days of
English oppression, hopeless conspiracy, and primitive manners. There is
character interest also, especially in the Colonel who returns from
military service in Sweden—a gentleman of honor and courage, a wonderful
swordsman who will not fight a duel, a resourceful strategist who
checkmates the schemes of the wild plotters who would involve in ruin
his ward, a patriotic Irish girl, ignorant of affairs.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Equal to Mr. Weyman’s best work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 114. Ap. ’09. ✠
“The heroine, like many of Mr. Weyman’s female characters, seems to us
rather unconvincing, and the hero is far from attractive; but the book
abounds in exciting adventures, and the action is swift. Those who enjoy
romantic novels of this kind will seek far before they find a better
romance than ‘The wild geese.’” A. C. Rich.
+ − =Arena.= 41: 608. Ag. ’09. 220w.
“There is no falling-off in vigour and vividness of narration; the local
colour only is perhaps a little doubtful.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 177. Ag. 15. 170w.
“Is one of the best stories he has ever given us.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 47. Jl. 16, ’09. 200w.
“That the tale is full of adventure admirably depicted goes without
saying.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1082. My. 20, ’09. 200w.
“‘The wild geese’ is—the usual thing, only not quite so much so—a
diminished echo of ‘Under the red robe’ and ‘A gentleman of France.’”
− =Nation.= 88: 443. Ap. 29, ’09. 220w.
“Of all his romances of adventure, there is none that excels this in
quality and in interest. He has never created a more interesting and
lovable character than Col. John Sullivan.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 142. Mr. 13, ’09. 160w.
“Throughout, the story has lively action and dramatic suspense.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 813. Ap. 10, ’09. 160w.
“Constructively the story is very well done: the action is not too
breathless, and the alternation in the hero’s fortunes is adequately
managed; but there is little attempt to render the speech or thought of
the Kerry people.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 207. Ag. 15, ’08. 730w.
“We are told of the heroine’s charms, but we only realise her
shrewishness. This is, perhaps, the most serious blemish in a spirited
and wholesome story.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 269. Ag. 22, ’08. 800w.
=Wharton, Edith Newbold.=^{[5]} Artemis to Actæon and other verse.
**$1.25. Scribner.
9–10298.
A slight three part volume of poems, the first in blank verse seeks
themes out of legendary Greece, the second is a group of sonnets, while
the third is composed of lyric poems.
* * * * *
“Too intangible and involved to attract the ordinary reader.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 23. S. ’09.
“Miss Wharton writes excellent blank verse, rhythmical, well balanced,
and melodious. In rhyme the author is less successful.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 178. Ag. 14. 300w.
“She was not born a poet; but this volume shows well how high in poetry
a thoroughly cultured prose artist may attain. It is a noble and worthy
piece of work, of which at least no living poet need be ashamed.” Brian
Hooker.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 367. Je. ’09. 500w.
“In her poems, perhaps more than in her stories, we find great
refinement of feeling, subtlety of thought, and a diction that will bear
close critical scrutiny.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 101. Ag. 16, ’09. 320w.
“Not that Mrs. Wharton has not written some rich and interesting verse;
but it is too precious and curious—it is at times too downright
unnatural to touch the heart very seriously.”
− + =Ind.= 67: 934. O. 21, ’09. 90w.
“It is full of unrest and strain; it itches to allegorize in strange
effective fashions.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 55. Jl. 15, ’09. 150w.
“The academic flavor of these poems is, as it were, of the spirit. They
have beauty, but lack vitality. The outside rather than the inside of
life is what Mrs. Wharton tells of, and therefore it is that she is
particularly happy in painting an impression. The book is a witness of
careful work and polish; it is no outburst of passionate feeling or
desperate need of singing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 300. My. 8, ’09. 720w.
“Edith Wharton is a prose-writer ‘par excellence,’ and while she reaches
the lyric pitch in thought and substance there are moments when, fine
craftsman that she is, diction and cadence halt and move in the measure
of prose.”
+ − =No. Am.= 190: 702. N. ’09. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 123. Jl. ’09. 50w.
“Her poetry, very beautiful and perfect in its way, makes its chief
appeal to the intellect.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 20. Jl. 3, ’09. 330w.
=Wheat, Mrs. Lu.= Ah Moy: the story of a Chinese girl. **$1.50.
Grafton press.
8–20018.
In the sad experiences of Ah Moy, a Chinese girl, are reflected the
habits of thought, customs, and feelings of the Chinese people. Altho
the third daughter, she is not unwelcome; is betrothed at birth; loses
her promised husband in the Boxer rebellion; during a time of reverses
is sold into slavery, taken to San Francisco, where, rather than suffer
the Chinatown shame into which she is forced uses the knife which was
her father’s parting gift to be employed only in so dire an extremity.
* * * * *
“The author of the story has lent herself with a great deal of very wise
sympathy to the Chinese way of thinking.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 324. F. 11, ’09. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 749. D. 5, ’08. 320w.
“It is told with such knowledge, understanding, and sympathy as make it
well worth reading by such as like to see beneath the surface of other
civilizations than our own and to look therein for good.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 5. Ja. 2, ’09. 300w.
=Wheatley, Henry Benjamin.=^{[12]} Hogarth’s London. $4.80. Dutton.
“A series of pen pictures of eighteenth century life in London—the life,
the manners, and customs of the city as Hogarth saw it. As the author
says in his preface, ‘Hogarth was a devoted Londoner, and while
illustrating the manners of Englishmen of his time he drew his subjects
from the inhabitants of London, with whom he was in daily intercourse.
Representations of streets and buildings in all parts of London are to
be found in the collection of his works, and most of these are discussed
in this book.’”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The pictures given in the very excellent reproductions are wisely
selected.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 519. D. 16, ’09. 250w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1350. D. 16, ’09. 80w.
“This book will be a useful companion to the standard life by Austin
Dobson. We have here pretty much all the relevant material, a
considerable amount of which has been added by Mr. Wheatley’s industry.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 609. D. 16, ’09. 310w.
“Interesting and valuable work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 803. D. 18, ’09. 260w.
=Whistler, James A. McNeill.= Ten o’clock. Authorized ed. $1. Ernest
Dressel North, 4 E. 39th st., N. Y.
This reprint limited to 1,000 copies “has the rare distinction of having
been authorized by the author’s literary executor, and is the only
separate edition of the lecture now in print. The Pennell biography and
the reminiscences of Mr. Bacher—which unfortunately Miss Philip did not
authorize,—have revived interest in Whistler’s personality.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“That personality never, surely, had more final expression than in the
crisp, audacious phrases of this heretical gospel of art, which set
London agog and forever severed the friendship between Whistler and
Oscar Wilde.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 118. F. 16, ’09. 130w.
“Is bound to be popular in the growing school of Whistlerites.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1187. N. 19, ’08. 70w.
=Whitaker, Herman.= Planter. †$1.50. Harper.
9–7039.
A vivid picture of life on a Mexican rubber plantation in which are
introduced Yaqui slaves, the brutal planter, a beautiful Mexican girl,
and a young American deluded into managing the interests of a
corporation of swindlers. His hardships and peril involve fighting
against unjust labor conditions, tricksters and a Mexican Legree with
the result that he wins his battle and the heart of the maiden too.
* * * * *
“As a vivid presentation of scenes and characters comparatively
unexploited, this novel makes a strong appeal to the jaded sense, and
may be recommended as a picturesque and intelligent piece of work.” W:
M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 48. Jl. 16, ’09. 220w.
“It is unquestionably a book of great power, stamping in its
sharp-bitten impressions with mighty blows.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 631. Je. 24, ’09. 370w.
“The book is decidedly alive, and has a double interest—as a picture of
a country and people of which we know little, but which abound in
romantic phases, and as a story of action. But it must be added that the
author would do well to restrain the exuberance of his style, and that
there are in his story some errors of taste and sometimes a perfervid
sensationalism in plot.”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 814. Ap. 10, ’09. 210w.
=Whitcomb, Ida Prentice.= Young people’s story of music. $2. Dodd.
8–34154.
“Opening with a chapter on ‘The beginnings of music’ and closing with
one on ‘modern music of other countries’ the author presents to her
readers the growth and development of the art through the centuries. The
book is illustrated with portraits of many noted composers and with
reproductions of some primitive musical instruments.”—Bookm.
* * * * *
“More valuable for reference than for general reading.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 96. Mr. ’09.
Reviewed by K. L. M.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 502. Ja. ’09. 100w.
“An unwieldy book of very uneven interest—more or less of a hodge-podge
of information, some of which is none too accurate.”
− + =Ind.= 67: 308. Ag. 5, ’09. 100w.
“It is to a considerable degree what such a book should not be,
rhapsodical, uncritical, gossipy.”
− =Outlook.= 91: 292. F. 6, ’09. 60w.
“A slipshod piece of work, crude in conception, slovenly in style and
positively bristling with errors.” D. G. Mason.
− =Putnam’s.= 6: 111. Ap. ’09. 200w.
=White, Albert Beebe.= Making of the English constitution, 1449–1485.
*$2. Putnam.
8–29201.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“In view of the marked lack of critical and bibliographical foot-notes
in connection with many controverted questions it would seemingly have
been better to have omitted some of these long quotations and given the
space to critical and bibliographical notes.” N. M. Trenholme.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 395. Ja. ’09. 600w.
“There is no more clear and scholarly treatise on English constitutional
history during the middle ages in existence.” E: P. Cheyney.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 479. Mr. ’09. 900w.
“The early history of the English constitution is traced in the light of
the best authorities on admirably clear and large lines.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 207. F. ’09. 50w.
“The difficulties of selection and compression have been skilfully
overcome, and Mr. White usually shows a knowledge of the latest
literature. We cannot in every case commend his hints for further study;
his bibliography refers to three books which are not yet in existence,
and in his notes he treats with undue respect some works which are
either too speculative, or too much the result of compilation at second
hand, to be of value for the beginner.” H. W. C. D.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 607. Jl. ’09. 140w.
“The result of Prof. White’s labors can hardly be regarded as a
successful textbook, and it adds nothing to our knowledge.”
− + =Nation.= 88: 68. Ja. 21, ’09. 640w.
“His volume is well adapted to its purpose, and is accompanied with a
bibliography and suggestions for collateral reading which will be of
special value to the student.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 110. Ja. 16, ’09. 230w.
“Sets forth the results of the latest and best scholarship pertaining to
the period. It is especially full and satisfactory on the development of
the judicial system.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 175. Mr. ’09. 100w.
=White, Edward Lucas.= Narrative lyrics. **$1.25. Putnam.
8–26401.
Nineteen poems whose themes are borrowed chiefly from ancient Egypt,
Palestine, and the Greece of mythology. “In reality they are most of
them old stories, unravelled and deftly rewoven in metrical patterns.
Among others there is a ‘Benaiah,’ a ‘Rhampsinitos,’ a ‘Shamgar.’ Their
likeness to the lyric consists mainly in the air of personal concern
with which they are related.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“When blank verse is employed, in which he is happiest, the poet’s
powers are at the best. In rime verse he is less successful.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 199. Ja. 28, ’09. 350w.
+ − =Nation.= 88: 41. Ja. 14, ’09. 430w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 102. F. 20, ’09. 150w.
=White, Eliza Orne.=^{[10]} Wares of Edgefield. **$1.25. Houghton.
9–25973.
The little town of Edgefield furnishes the setting for this story with
Boston some miles away to heighten the contrast. The Wares are an old
and respected family and the happenings which go to make up the lives of
two generations of Wares and their friends form the incidents of the
chapters which move quietly along in small town fashion but teach the
lesson that “we live to love, and after a time we seem to others to grow
old, but there is no growing old for ourselves while there are the
younger ones to help and to love.”
* * * * *
“Of very moderate interest on account of the thinness of the plot, which
is stretched to cover three generations.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 94. N. ’09.
“This story leaves one with the impression of real power somehow missed.
Though the writer plainly states her keynote—Sympathy—at the story’s end
we are left disappointed.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 434. N. 4, ’09. 100w.
“It is a clean, wholesome, and interesting little tale, and should
please those who have taken delight in the author’s previous work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 687. N. 6, ’09. 200w.
=White, Fred Merrick.= Crime on canvas. $1.50. Fenno.
9–6574.
“The arch villain is an artist who sets out to revenge himself, for
slights to his vanity, upon a rich English nobleman, whose inordinate
pride of family makes it easy to goad him to desperation by working upon
a family secret. This the young artist does by painting pictures of a
young woman whose relationship the nobleman does not wish to
acknowledge, sending them to him by mail and finally exhibiting in
public a portrait that is so remarkable as a work of art as to attract
wide attention. The plot is quite complicated, has many exciting
situations, and calls for constant alertness and detective cunning on
the part of the several friends who are helping the persecuted old man
to get the better of his enemy.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Barring the verbosity in conversation and the stilted manner of speech
of nearly all the characters, the book is a creditable enough specimen
of its class of fiction.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 210. Ap. 10, ’09. 200w.
=White, Fred Merrick.= Sundial. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
8–31687.
“An old Italian sundial with a fountain playing around it in the garden
of a famous artist is the centre of interest. A man who is a mixture of
scientist, man of the world, and criminal sets up an electrical plant
not far away, and by means of wireless transmission *charges the
fountain. A theft of jewels, which are afterward hidden in the top of
the sundial, the deaths of two persons by contact with the charged
water, and the elopement of the artist’s wife and the criminal are among
the incidents of the story. The mystery is finally unraveled by the
combined efforts of a criminologist and an electrician.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“This is the best mystery story we have read in months. Though there is
here as in most mystery tales the element of improbability, it is not so
obtrusive as in most similar romances.”
+ − =Arena.= 41: 89. Ja. ’09. 340w.
“In conception and portrayal of character, development of plot, and
manner of telling the story is crude and commonplace.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 805. D. 26, ’08. 200w.
=White, Frederick.= Bill, a cheerful dog. **$1. Moffat.
9–2762.
Cheer is the predominant note in this book of children’s verse
humorously illustrated.
* * * * *
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 468. Ja. ’09. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 702. N. 28, ’08. 140w.
=White, Henry Alexander.= Stonewall Jackson. (American crisis
biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.
9–3196.
Material for this concise biography has been drawn from every available
original source. It gives accounts of early life, traces character
development, and follows accurately Jackson’s military operations.
Bibliography and index.
* * * * *
“Will answer the average library need better than the ‘Life and letters’
by Mrs. Jackson, and is much more valuable on the military side.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 87. Mr. ’09.
“Dr. White has given a succinct and well-selected account of the chief
events in General Jackson’s life, and has written a book that will serve
as a good résumé of his military career. We should have liked a fuller
criticism of his generalship.” J. M. Garnett.
+ − =Dial.= 46: 255. Ap. 16, ’09. 1650w.
=White, Horace.= Money and banking, illustrated by American history;
rev. and continued to the year 1908. 3d ed. *$1.80. Ginn.
8–24281.
“The third revision without an increase in size. In chap. 5, of Book 3,
the refutation of Kemmerer’s quantity theory by W. M. Persons is
introduced. The old chap. 6 on the ‘Latin union,’ and the old chap. 7 on
‘International monetary conferences,’ are omitted, and appear briefly in
new chap. 6. Book 2 on ‘Government paper money,’ is left unchanged. In
Book 3, on ‘Banking,’ statistics as late as August, 1907, are introduced
in chap. 14; and the following new chapters are added: 15, ‘State banks
and trust companies’; 17, ‘Recent history’; 18, ‘The panic of 1907’; 19,
‘Present problems’; and 20, ‘The Central bank question.’ Grant’s veto
and the Indianapolis monetary commission are dropped as ancient history,
while the Report of the American banker’s commission and the
Aldrich-Vreeland act take their place in the appendix.”—J. Pol. Econ.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 125. Ap. ’09.
“The chief adverse criticism to be passed upon the volume is the partial
failure to tie the new portions to the old in such a way as to give the
work entire unity of treatment.” H. P. Willis.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 2: 48. Ap. ’09. 280w.
=J. Pol Econ.= 16: 711. D. ’08. 180w.
=White, Marian.=^{[10]} Fuels of the household: their origin,
composition and uses. *75c. Whitcomb & B.
9–28229.
An essay that aims to instruct young housekeepers on the origin,
composition, chemical combustion and uses of solid, semi-solid, liquid
and gaseous fuels. Among its brief chapters is one on “Economy of
fuels.”
* * * * *
“It is the only popular work on the subject and will be valuable for
school and household use.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 52. O. ’09.
=White, Percy.=^{[8]} Rescuer. †$1.50. Dillingham.
From the experiments of a celebrated French physicist Edgar Maitland
believed that he had made the important discovery that the brain in the
process of thinking emits rays which may be photographed. At his
premature death his assistant Percy Athelstan was asked to carry on his
work. How Athelstan used the supposed discovery for the purpose of
living parasitically upon the Maitland widow and daughter and how
Colonel Drayton circumvented his schemes is the subject of this story.
* * * * *
“The man who persists in wading from cover to cover will not get much
more of real story out of the book than the man who puts it aside when
he has read Chapter 1.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 656. O. 23, ’09. 330w.
“Mr. White fills more than three hundred pages at the sacrifice of much
of his old crispness. The end of the story is obvious throughout, while
the characters are not drawn with much subtlety. But one reads to the
end.”
− + =Sat. R.= 107: 20. Ja. 2, ’09. 150w.
“The whole novel, if a little slight, is decidedly entertaining.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 843. N. 21, ’08. 110w.
=White, William Allen.=^{[8]} Certain rich man. $1.50. Macmillan.
9–18720.
A story of Sycamore Ridge, Kansas, which, many claim, is the fulfilment
of a long-standing promise for a great American novel. It traces
leisurely the development of the town from the raw state prior to the
war to its present-day thriving condition. At the center of a deftly
portrayed group of men and women towers the figure of a certain rich man
who from a bare-footed country boy becomes the multi-millionaire
president of the National provisions company. He is a type of the
American capitalist who drowns his conscience with the cry of the Larger
Good, plays his game with Destiny crushing the hopes and tender
sentiments of others that pass in the way of the fulfilment of a greedy
dream, until finally he is touched by the spirit of the awakening
American conscience which expresses activity thru exposure of evil and
the force of enlightened public opinion.
* * * * *
“One of the best novels of the year.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 28. S. ’09. ✠
“In spite of the wearisome atmosphere of Yankee finance, it claims
attention by its painstaking study of the effect of wealth on a
character destined by natural proclivities to amass it.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 424. O. 9. 140w.
“He could learn much from some of the more frivolous American writers in
the matter of the clean, clear-cut stroke. Rather a pity, too, is the
melodramatic end.”
+ − =Atlan.= 104: 682. N. ’09. 140w.
“An exceptionally successful performance. It is a legitimate child of
love and of years.” Stuart Henry.
+ =Bookm.= 30: 60. S. ’09. 700w.
“Mr. White has a message for the American people.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 90: 249. N. ’09. 270w.
“The writer’s knowledge, powers of observation, and pointed style impart
a considerable degree of interest to his story, despite its amorphous
structure.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 180. S. 16, ’09. 500w.
“So long as there is an abundance of neatly bound sermons on the market,
this particular sort of fiction seems not merely superfluous, but not
quite honest. Is it not time to suggest the passage of a pure-food law
for our brain products, requiring a qualitative analysis to be printed
on the covers?” Philip Tillinghast.
− =Forum.= 42: 285. S. ’09. 2300w.
“Mr. White has proved by this that he can run a marathon as well as
sprint. This novel is not merely a short story long drawn out, or a
series of sketches. It has an underlying unity. The chief artistic
defect is in his handling of the transitions back and forth in time.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 547. S. 2, ’09. 750w.
“While the criticism may be urged that the story is inclined to be
rather heavy at times, it is nevertheless a fine bit of work and wi well
repay a careful reading.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 39: 448. S. 18. ’09. 230w.
“It is obvious that the author has listened with interest to the
yearning prophecies of The American novel, and that he has attempted to
end them by fulfilling them. Considering the magnitude of his
undertaking, his success has been remarkable.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 163. Ag. 19, ’09. 550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 380. Je. 12, ’09. 160w.
“The story moves deliberately and stops to reason and to play with
fancies, to look forward and back, as an old man who wrote of those he
had known in a long life would naturally do when he came to set down his
memories. Only in one point will the average reader be inclined to
quarrel with the author and insist that he has gone radically wrong.
That is in the matter of the spirit of Ellen, John Barclay’s early love,
who died young.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 462. Jl. 31, ’09. 900w.
“It is such a big book, one must wish it were actually great.” H. W.
Boynton.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 633. O. 23, ’09. 150w.
“A very powerful and swift-moving novel.”
+ =No. Am.= 190: 565. O. ’09. 300w.
“The test is whether the book moves the heart, whether it entertains,
whether it is a true reflection of life; or whether it bores, preaches,
offends the taste. Judged by this test, Mr. White’s story is eminently
worth while, a refreshing oasis in the unusually arid field of recent
fiction. It is brave, honest, and kindly.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 921. Ag. 21, ’09. 1200w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 636. N. ’09. 30w.
=Whiteing, Richard.= Little people. *$1.50. Cassell.
9–35442.
The “little people” of Mr. Whiteing’s essays are the “nobodies and
failures” of the world. “They are the people of no consequence or
importance in a sense, yet whose types, characteristics, modes of life
and speech and thought, their troubles or amusements and habits, furnish
much and readable ‘copy’ to novelists and journalists. Mr. Whiteing
approaches them as critic, moraliser, commentator upon them, in a
sympathetic but at the same time ironical spirit.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“A book that will have decided charm for educated readers with
sociological interests.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 112. Ap. ’09.
“For its humour and kindliness, combined with an unerring eye for
foibles and follies, the book is one to be read with real interest.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 100. Ja. 23. 200w.
“Philosophy, literary skill, and humour will go a long way toward making
almost any thesis acceptable.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 194. Ap. ’09. 1550w.
“Terseness of phrase and vigor of thought mark this book as they do not
always succeed in marking the author’s novels.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 266. Ap. 16, ’09. 320w.
“If this is not a great book, it is an unusually attractive one by
reason of its unaffected gentleness and optimism.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 489. My. 13, ’09. 500w.
“The most admirable kind of reading for a winter night. There is
something cozy and cheery and warm about each page, a gentle revelation
of commonplace lives that are none the less extremely human.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 137. Mr. 6, ’09. 800w.
“The essays are well written, with a background of socialism for a
theory, which without being obtrusive gives a continuity to them.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 52. Ja. 9, ’09. 200w.
=Whiting, Lilian.= Paris the beautiful. **$2. Little.
8–32991.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“Poor arrangement and lack of an index decrease its value for
reference.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 88. Mr. ’09.
“As rich in information as it is fascinating in its manner of
presentation.”
+ =Arena.= 41: 74. Ja. ’09. 2000w.
“The book, as a whole, is worthy of its great subject.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 824. My. 22, ’09. 170w.
=Whitlock, Brand.= Abraham Lincoln. (Beacon biographies.) **50c.
Small.
9–3043.
A biography of Lincoln condensed to the proportions agreed upon for the
“Beacon biographies.” The main facts in Lincoln’s life are furnished
without embellishment, and the principal forces that operated in
producing a man whose brotherhood ideas were greatly in advance of his
age.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 88. Mr. ’09.
“The biography is written in an engaging style, simple, direct and
calculated to hold the reader’s interest throughout by the charm of the
writer’s directness, sincerity and sympathy in dealing with one of the
greatest and most truly sincere and simple lives known to history.”
+ =Arena.= 41: 392. Mr. ’09. 380w.
“A remarkably complete and satisfactory sketch of Lincoln’s life with
references to the best sources of fuller information.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 264. F. 4, ’09. 40w.
“This little book serves as a valuable introduction to more exhaustive
works on the same subject.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 564. Ap. 3, ’09. 260w.
“Despite one or two lapses in grammar and an occasional straining at
heroics, tells the story of Lincoln’s career concisely and
entertainingly.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 166. F. 18, ’09. 40w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 82. F. 13, ’09. 100w.
=Whitney, Henry Clay.= Life of Lincoln; ed. by Marion Mills Miller.
2v. **$2.50. Baker.
8–36380.
A two-volume life of Lincoln written by a personal friend. The first
deals with Lincoln’s early life; the second, with his political history.
“Perhaps the second volume is the more interesting. It deals with the
anxious years while Lincoln was President, with Mr. Whitney as paymaster
to the army. From his inauguration to his death the President is set
before us as a great soldier. Mr. Whitney contends that up to the time
of Grant, Lincoln was virtually in command of the Federal forces and
every victory they gained was under his direction. This point is well
drawn out in Mr. Whitney’s interesting pages.” (Lit. D.)
* * * * *
“His account of the great President is simple and straightforward,
without literary merit. The value of the work seems rather to be to
corroborate the general idea by a vast accumulation of facts.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 264. F. 4, ’09. 120w.
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 226. F. 6, ’09. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 54. Ja. 30, ’09. 80w.
“Mr. Whitney is himself without special insight and without special
discriminative power. Mr. Whitney would have done better if he had
confined his book to personal impressions of Mr. Lincoln derived from
association with him. These occupy largely the first volume, and
constitute the chief value in the biography as a whole. Even these,
however, do not add much to the popular knowledge of the great
President.”
− + =Outlook.= 91: 245. Ja. 30, ’09. 200w.
=Whittuck, Edward Arthur=, ed. International documents: a collection
of international conventions and declarations of a lawmaking kind;
with notes and introd. *$3.50. Longmans.
8–19741.
Contains all the conventions or treaties made since 1856 at the close of
the Crimean war to those made at the second Peace conference of the
Hague in 1907. The work is in three parts as follows: “Part 1 contains
the Declaration of Paris of 1856, the Geneva convention of 1864, with
the additional articles which were not ratified, and the Declaration of
St. Petersburg of 1868. Part 2 contains the various acts, general and
special, of the first Hague conference. Part 3 contains the acts of the
second Hague conference.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Unless the absence of a clear table of contents and of an index may
fairly be deemed a blemish, no fault can be imputed to this useful work
of reference.” G. B. H.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 207. Ja. ’09. 120w.
“It is very useful to have this quasi code upon the topics covered
brought together and printed so conveniently, with the informing
historical and critical introduction.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 450. Ag. 15, ’08. 400w.
“A useful volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 472. Ag. 29, ’08. 170w.
“If subsequent volumes are issued, a better model could not be wished.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 22. Ja. 2, ’09. 160w.
=Wiggin, Kate Douglas.=^{[10]} Susanna and Sue. **$1.50. Houghton.
9–27270.
When Susanna Hathaway finds life under her husband’s roof unendurable
she takes refuge in a Shaker village which she remembers from a
childhood visit. With her is her little daughter Sue who attempts, with
delightful seriousness, to be a good Shaker and train her tripping
little steps to follow “along the path where saintly feet have trod.”
Apart from the world, in this atmosphere of perfect peace, Susanna’s
bruised heart is healed and when she goes back with new courage to take
up old duties, she finds that the long days in the lone, deserted house
have awakened in her husband a new sense of manhood. Both are ready to
forget and begin life anew.
* * * * *
“Scarcely more than a short story in length and too expensive for the
average library.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 136. D. ’09.
“The simple Shakers are drawn with thorough understanding, and little
Sue is, like all Mrs. Wiggin’s children, a very real and a very lovable
child.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 463. D. 1, ’09. 190w.
“This quaint story of Shaker life is both novel and readable.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 791. N. 6, ’09. 260w.
=Lit. D.= 39: 1085. D. 11, ’09. 130w.
“The good woman who makes generous gifts of ‘pieces of her mind’ is
particularly delicious. We wish there were more of her.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 694. N. 6, ’09. 200w.
“As a story it is not one of the author’s best books.”
+ − =Outlook.= 93: 361. O. 16, ’09. 40w.
“The charm of the book resides in the scenes which are passed in company
with Eldress Abby. Elder Daniel Gray, and especially with Brother
Ansel.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 1003. D. 11, ’09. 110w.
=Wilcox, Walter Dwight.=^{[6]} Rockies of Canada: a rev. and enl. ed.
of “Camping in the Canadian Rockies.” **$5. Putnam.
9–8920.
In addition to a thoroly revised text the illustrations have been
increased to twice the number in the first edition. “Mr. Wilcox was one
of the pioneer pleasure-seekers to explore and photograph the country.
His mountaineering experiences now extend over twenty years, and his
account of them, with the views, gives a comprehensive picture of the
mountains and the mountain lakes, which constitute one of the rarest
beauties of the region.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“An excellent description for intending travelers.”
− =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 197. Je. ’09.
+ =Dial.= 46: 374. Je. 1, ’09. 140w.
“The book deserves its lasting popularity, for it is useful, and a guide
to natural beauties that some day will count their annual pilgrims by
thousands.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1240. Je. 3, ’09. 100w.
“In the end one turns to the illustrations as in many respects the best
part of the book.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 213. S. 2, ’09. 530w.
“All in all, his work has been greatly improved by its revision.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 257. Ap. 24, ’09. 250w.
=Wilkinson, William Cleaver.= Some new literary valuations. **$1.50.
Funk.
9–585.
Includes the following studies: William Dean Howells as man of letters;
Matthew Arnold as critic; Matthew Arnold as poet; Tennyson as artist in
lyric verse; Edmund Clarence Stedman as man of letters; John Morley as
critic of Voltaire and Diderot; and Tolstoy. Appendix—Alexander Smith’s
life drama.
* * * * *
“This volume is one of the few really important works of literary
criticism that have appeared on this side of the Atlantic during the
past six months. To our mind the best essay in the volume is that
devoted to Tolstoi.”
+ − =Arena.= 41: 391. Mr. ’09. 930w.
“He thinks, and so do we, that it is well to have such minute criticism
applied to the work of accepted authors.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 638. Mr. 25, ’09. 240w.
“Exhibits a keen perception of the obvious, a stringent regard for exact
and literal expression. a belief in orthodox Christianity, and an almost
overmastering passion for grammar.”
− + =Nation.= 88: 359. Ap. 8, ’09. 600w.
“If the purpose of the essays were not so didactic and the style were
less difficult, less filled with cumbersome qualifications, the use of
the first person singular, and speciosities of diction, a candid reader
might admit to experiencing in the perusal of the book something of the
pleasure derived from ‘Innocents abroad.’”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 60. Ja. 30, ’09. 480w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 508. Ap. ’09. 40w.
=Willcox. Louise Collier.=^{[10]} Human way. **$1.25. Harper.
9–24687.
A steady optimism pervades these essays which contend that we may make
what we will out of life but that we are under obligation to make of it
something very good and very beautiful. The help we may derive from
books, nature, children, friendship, and human relations is set forth in
various essays followed by papers upon personality, solitude, memorat
memoria, and detachment, each of which carries on the general theme of
the series.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 129. D. ’09.
“A collection of essays written with, at times, an almost startling
insight into the deeper meanings of life.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 288. O. 16, ’09. 370w.
“It is with a sense of richness that the reader completes this volume.
Not one, but many readings, are required to fully grasp its beautiful
truths and make them one’s own. If it be true, as stated in the book,
that the value of the book is to be gaged by its depth of suggestion,
then ‘The human way’ measures up to the highest standard.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 39: 642. O. 16. ’09. 400w.
“She has written with an air of meditation and a note of conviction
which awaken the perceptions of the reader to the finer qualities of his
experience.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 409. O. 28, ’09. 600w.
“These essays will make their strongest appeal to middle-age—fortunately
an elastic term.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 673. O. 30, ’09. 240w.
“She has produced a book that is as winsome and noble as it is
distinguished and exceptional.”
+ =No. Am.= 190: 412. S. ’09. 500w.
“The intellectual quality of her essays is high.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 831. D. 11, ’09. 330w.
=Willett, Herbert Lockwood.= Studies in the first book of Samuel: for
the use of classes in secondary schools and in the secondary
division of the Sunday school. (Constructive Bible studies.) *$1.
Univ. of Chicago press.
9–7565.
A companion volume to the previously published “Studies in the Gospel
according to Mark.” It aims from the intellectual point of view to train
pupils in the proper way of approaching and using a book of the Bible;
and from a religious point of view to tell the story of God’s revelation
of himself to man in terms of human life.
* * * * *
“A double purpose is however served by Dr. Willett’s book on Samuel; the
pupil not only has a fascinating introduction to this book and to its
many exciting events, but he is brought face to face with many of his
own ethical and religious problems through its narratives and is forced
to do his own thinking about these.” H: F. Cope.
+ =Bib. World.= 33: 352. My. ’09. 320w.
=Williams, Archibald.= How it is done; or, Victories of the engineer:
describing in simple language how great engineering achievements in
all parts of the world have been accomplished. $1.25. Nelson.
8–31651.
Deals with “civil” rather than the “mechanical” side of engineering.
“The book takes up the most important feats of recent years in railroad
engineering, ship and bridge building, irrigation, mining and tunneling,
dam building, securing power from water falls, and devotes a chapter to
the Panama canal. The building and launching of the Mauretania, the
making of the Florida Keys railroad, the building of the East River
bridges, the Simplon tunnel work, and the curbing of the Nile are a few
subjects upon which he writes, describing the work with as much detail
as is necessary for its understanding, telling the difficulties that
have to be surmounted and showing how the enterprise is finally carried
to successful completion.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Specially suitable for young people.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 88. Mr. ’09. ✠
“Any boy, or, for the matter of that, any man—for whom human triumph
over the forces of nature possesses attraction will be made happy for
hours with this volume in his hands.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 823. D. 26. 900w.
“Mr. Williams has an excellent faculty for getting hold of the kernel of
things in the methods, processes, and principles of engineering
achievements, while his presentation, aside from being in simple
language, shows a feeling for the dramatic element always present in the
conception and carrying out of these huge enterprises.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 15: 74. F. 6, ’09. 200w.
=Williams, Rt. Rev. Charles David.=^{[10]} Valid Christianity for
to-day. *$1.50. Macmillan.
9–9479.
A volume of eighteen sermons by a Michigan Episcopal bishop “whose
purpose is to present a Christianity that is valid for to-day. The
author insists that such a Christianity must ‘moralize our industrial,
political and commercial life, and humanize our social life.’ It must
cleanse the heart and invigorate our moral life also.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
* * * * *
“Thoroughly modern, constructive and very readable.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 23. S. ’09.
“Bishop Williams has clearly indicated in this volume the trend of
modern Christian thought in dealing with present social conditions.” S.
E. Rupp.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 438. S. ’09. 200w.
“These sermons will not put men to sleep. They will keep them very much
awake, and very closely in contact with the needs and thoughts of the
modern world.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 722. N. 20, ’09. 220w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 761. D. ’09. 80w.
=Williams, Francis Howard.= Burden-bearer: an epic of Lincoln.
**$2.50. Jacobs.
8–33299.
A political epic in which are treated both the military and political
history of the Lincoln period.
* * * * *
“His poem resembles now a rhymed—or at least a metrical—gazette, and
anon a rhymed or metrical newspaper.”
− =Nation.= 88: 166. F. 18, ’09. 180w.
“As pure poetry, little can be said in praise of this epic, whatever
credit be granted the author on the score of patriotism.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 83. F. 13, ’09. 100w.
“It is an excellent and spirited history of the American civil war, and
the verse, though cumbered with many cacophonous American names, is
swift and graceful. Mr. Williams is far below Mr. Noyes as a poet, but
in some respects he tells his story better.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: sup. 152. Ja. 30, ’09. 60w.
=Williams, Gardner Stewart, and Hazen, Allen.= Hydraulic tables: the
elements of gagings and the friction of water flowing in pipes,
aqueducts, sewers, etc. as determined by the Hazen and Williams
formula and the flow of water over sharp-edged and irregular weirs
and the quantity discharged, as determined by Bazin’s formula and
experimental investigations upon large models. 2d ed., rev. and enl.
$1.50. Wiley.
9–601.
For this edition “the changes are confined to that part of the book
devoted to the flow of water over weirs, where some new matter relating
to submerged weirs is presented in the text, and where the table of
discharge by Bazin’s formula has been extended to cover variations of
head by 0.01 ft. from zero to 6 ft., making in all a table of 30 pages
instead of the two pages in the former edition. A table of discharge of
high weirs, 10, 20 and 30 ft., under heads from 6 to 20 ft. has been
added.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
=Engin. N.= 61: sup. 14. F. 18, ’09. 120w.
“The book will be found highly valuable to those who have to compute the
discharge of conduits and the flow over weirs of the forms in common
use.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 195. F. 13, ’09. 150w.
=Williams, Henry Smith.=^{[7]} Alcohol: how it affects the individual,
the community, and the race. **50c. Century.
9–18388.
Based upon three articles which appeared in McClure’s magazine: Alcohol
and the individual; Alcohol and the community; Alcohol and the race. The
original material has been revised and expanded—the new matter including
important tables which summarize the result of various experiments as to
the effect of alcohol on the human system.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 129. D. ’09.
“The case made out by Dr. Williams is a strong one.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 934. O. 21, ’09. 50w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 468. Jl. 31, ’09. 340w.
=Williams, Hugh Noel.=^{[11]} Rose of Savoy: Marie Adelaide of Savoy.
*$3.50. Scribner.
A history of Marie Adelaide of Savoy who, in 1696, a child of eleven
came to Versailles to marry the young Duke de Bourgogne. It is a tale of
her times and the influence that she exercised over the Court and Louis
XIV.
* * * * *
“In the book before us he once more gives evidence of sound judgment in
the handling of his authorities and he does not wander unduly from his
subject. We have encountered a few misprints or slips.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 323. S. 18. 2150w.
=Dial.= 47: 457. D. 1, ’09. 270w.
“The book merits a more extended notice, and it is with regret that we
leave it, for it sparkles with anecdote and quotable incidents.”
Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 634. O. 23, ’09. 500w.
“To us the young Duke is even more interesting than his Duchess, the
chief subject of this book, and its author has done well in placing
their portraits side by side.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 818. N. 20, ’09. 530w.
=Williams, Hugh Noel.= Women Bonapartes. 2v. *$6. Scribner.
9–1981.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 88: 16. Ja. 7, ’09. 260w.
“To Mme. Mère one may accede that Mr. Williams does simple justice. But
in the treatment of Napoleon’s three sisters one feels that the
whitewash brush is too much in evidence.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 798. D. 26, ’08. 930w.
“The two volumes are full of interest, admirably and vivaciously
written, and incidentally disclose an intimate view of life in France
under the great Emperor.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 19. Ja. 2, ’09. 450w.
“We prefer Mr. Trowbridge’s translation to Mr. Noel Williams’
réchauffé.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 734. D. 12, ’08. 250w.
“Mr. Williams seems never to have quite made up his mind whether he was
writing gossip or history, but the merit of his work certainly lies in
the more purely historical portions of it, and in the free use which it
makes of M. Masson’s admirable and important researches in ‘Napoléon et
sa famille.’”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 1100. D. 26, ’08. 540w.
=Williams, J. B.= History of English journalism to the foundation of
the Gazette. *$3. Longmans.
9–7094.
From the crude beginnings of journalism in England Mr. Williams tells
the story to the foundation of the Gazette, and sketches the careers of
the principal newspaper writers. The study is founded “largely on an
examination of the famous Thomason collection, which forms a great part
of the British Museum’s assemblage of seventeenth century journals.” (N.
Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The present study is much the most scholarly account of the beginnings
of English journalism which has yet appeared. It is a mine of
information. Its interest, and to some extent its value, are limited in
certain well defined ways.” W. C. Abbott.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 577. Ap. ’09. 600w.
“If there is a chance of revision he should rearrange and rewrite some
of the chapters, and so make it easier to read his valuable record.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 219. F. 20. 150w.
“His work is a piece of original research throughout. On certain points
the desire of Mr. Williams to be entirely independent in his
conclusions, and to use nothing but first-hand evidence, leads him
unduly to neglect the work of historians who have dealt with some of the
questions discussed in his pages.” C. H. Firth.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 571. Jl. ’09. 1000w.
“Another valuable contribution to the accumulating material that is
awaiting the man who is disposed to write the full and comprehensive
history of the English press for which students of constitutional
history are waiting.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 761. S. 30, ’09. 350w.
“Some of Mr. Williams’s book is of interest only to the antiquary. But
the literary student will find much to his liking in the accounts of the
earliest newspapers, and the allusions to them the historian identifies
in literature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 767. D. 12, ’08. 1550w.
=Williams, Jesse Lynch.=^{[5]} Mr. Cleveland: a personal impression.
**50c. Dodd.
9–7561.
An appreciation by a friend and neighbor of the former president. “To
most people it will seem strange to think of Grover Cleveland as a shy,
sensitive, companionable, warm-hearted man, fond of children and adored
by them. We have come to admire him as a statesman of rugged honesty,
wisdom, high ideals, and splendid fighting qualities; we now see through
the revelations of those who knew the man that he was one to be loved as
well as to be admired.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 184. Je. ’09.
“A charming portrait of the man in his later years.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 301. My. 1, ’09. 90w.
“A useful and an informing little volume.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 985. My. 6, ’09. 30w.
“Attractive volume.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 361. Ap. 8, ’09. 30w.
“It is just such intimate glimpses as this into the private character of
public men that are necessary to the proper understanding of their
actions and careers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 256. Ap. 24, ’09. 400w.
=Williams, M. Atkinson.=^{[6]} Report on the teaching of English in
the United States. 75c. Bardeen. E9–644.
A report of what Miss Williams observed while studying the subject of
the teaching of English in the American schools. “Those who draw up
school programmes in this country, and those who carry them out, may
alike learn much from it.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“Though an unpretentious little volume, contains a good deal of
suggestive comment on American methods in primary and secondary
schools.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 414. Ap. 22, ’09. 170w.
“Represents the work done by her as the holder of a Gilchrist travelling
studentship. And very valuable work it seems to have been.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 303. Ag. 29, ’08. 300w.
=Williams, W. M. J.=^{[5]} King’s revenue: being a handbook to the
taxes and the public revenue. 6s. King, P. S., and son, London.
“This volume, intended as a convenient reference on the sources of the
British revenues, makes no pretense at anything more than a purely
objective statement of the facts. It takes up under separate heads the
customs, excise, and other inland revenues, gives a brief historical
survey of each, explains the present rates and concludes with
statistical tables showing the revenues from each source during recent
years.”—J. Pol. Econ.
* * * * *
“Its wealth of legal citation is conveniently arranged, and the mode of
subject arrangement makes the volume specially valuable as a reference
for students of the problems of national revenue.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 194. Jl. ’09. 140w.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 681. N. 28. 90w.
Reviewed by C. C. P.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 50. Ap. ’09. 520w.
“It is concisely, carefully, and thoughtfully executed and so well
fulfils the purpose for which it was intended that it should prove
useful for the economist as well as the general public.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 167. Mr. ’09. 80w.
“It will prove a serviceable manual.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 190. Mr. ’09. 80w.
“This book will be a valuable addition to the reference library of the
student of public finance, particularly in America, where the material
it contains is not always easily available.”
+ =Yale R.= 18: 108. My. ’09. 200w.
=Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Mrs. Alice Muriel.=^{[7]}
Set in silver. †$1.50. Doubleday.
9–10033.
A story whose scene shifts to suit the course of an automobile trip
along southern and western shores of England, Scotland and Wales. “A
retired Anglo-Indian comes to pick up a girl-ward in Paris, but as the
young lady was engaged in eloping with a Frenchman she persuaded her
dearest friend to impersonate her during the critical period. The story
is told in letters, and the friend in question (believed by the
Anglo-Indian and by Mr. and Mrs. Williamson to be altogether charming)
suggests reflections on the odd blend of minx and sentimentalist in the
modern girl which we have not time to formulate.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“The interwoven love episode seems more intrusive, sentimental and
impossible than in the earlier stories by these authors.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 189. Je. ’09.
=Ind.= 67: 425. Ag. 19, ’09. 80w.
“The authors have added another pleasant story to their list of travel
romances.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 380. Je. 12, ’09. 200w.
“This exploration of ‘wild England’ yields some very attractive
experiences. They are illustrated by plates that reinforce the more or
less vivacious descriptions given by the letter writers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 406. Je. 26, ’09. 230w.
“The thread of story on which these rather conventional pearls are
strung is amusing.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 22. Jl. 3, ’09. 100w.
“An attractive account of a motor-car tour.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 904. Je. 5, ’09. 30w.
=Williamson, James J.=^{[9]} Mosby’s rangers: a record of the
operations of the Forty-third battalion of Virginia cavalry, from
its organization to the surrender. 2d ed. rev. and enl. *$2.50.
Sturgis & Walton.
9–22853.
First hand information that Mr. Williamson has acquired from the rangers
themselves has been used to supplement the text of the first edition.
“In the main, however, the story is unchanged; it remains as it was in
its original form, a straightforward, picturesque story of the exploits
of an organization of fearless, dashing troopers, led by an intrepid,
intelligent, resourceful and daredevil commander.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Very entertaining and important book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 491. Ag. 14, ’09. 170w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 383. S. ’09. 250w.
=Willis, John C.=^{[11]} Agriculture in the tropics: an elementary
treatise. (Cambridge biological ser.) *$2.75. Putnam.
9–28786.
A four-part work containing little of value to the practical man in
connection with actual field work but helpful and thought-stimulating to
the student, the administrator, and the traveler. The divisions of the
subject are: The preliminaries to agriculture; The principal
cultivations of the tropics; Agriculture in the tropics; Agricultural
organization and policy.
* * * * *
“We have nothing but praise for the contents of this survey of tropical
agriculture.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 301. S. 11. 1150w.
+ =Spec.= 103: 210. Ag. 7, ’09. 150w.
=Wilmot-Buxton, Ethel M.=^{[8]} Stories of Norse heroes told by the
Northmen; retold by E. M. Wilmot-Buxton. †$1.50. Crowell.