others will not find it worth while to study it.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p387 Je 17 ’20 420w
=WATSON, E. L. GRANT.= Deliverance. *$2 (2½c) Knopf
20–3264
The author tells us that in this his third novel he has tried to
portray the spiritual emancipation of a woman whose “love for the
increasing light of her own spirit ... becomes more precious than even
the unique love of woman for man.” (Preface) The scene is laid in
contemporary England. The principal characters are Susan Zalesky, who
is brought up in the country by her aunt, Mrs Dorothy Tyler; Paul
Zalesky, Susan’s father, a philanderer, who carries on a secret love
affair with Dorothy; Tom Northover, the “primitive male,” who marries
Susan but makes “no claims upon her soul”; Noel Sarret, a young
painter with whom Tom, who believes that the only test of morality is
“the sincerity of the emotion,” goes to live shortly before the birth
of Susan’s child; and Martin Hyde, a gentle young painter who loves
Susan.
* * * * *
“However one takes it, it is a novel exposition; there is much reality
in these persons, not least in the figure of Susan’s irresponsible and
almost incorrigible father.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:343 My ’20 240w
“If he had nothing else, he would be sure to win recognition for the
sheer beauty of his workmanship. Indeed it is easier to quarrel with
some of the natural results of his process of spiritual emancipation
than with his illustrations of it in characters, or with his manner of
setting it forth.” H. I. Gilchrist
+ =Dial= 68:794 Je ’20 2500w
“His story is not quite as persuasive as his philosophy. His women are
suspiciously fine in fibre and amazingly articulate. Attractive as
they are, they remain a little dim. And the dimmest of all is Susan,
whom Mr Watson adores and through whose words and actions he chiefly
projects his sense of the new moral world that is being created by all
sorts of people in many places today.”
+ − =Nation= 110:373 Mr 20 ’20 600w
“Just what Susan Zalesky emancipates into is a little difficult to
conceive, and sounds, on the whole, much less interesting than the
rather fascinating story of her procedure. Judged more freely,
however, ‘Deliverance’ is interesting and delightful for other
qualities than its processes. It comes in many ways as near the art of
the Russian novelists as any English novel.” R. V. A. S.
+ − =New Repub= 24:128 S 29 ’20 430w
“Each reader will determine for himself whether or no Mr Watson’s
message is worth this unpleasant ragout.”
− =N Y Times= 25:240 My 9 ’20 550w
=WATSON, JOHN BROADUS.= Psychology from the standpoint of a behaviorist.
il *$2.50 Lippincott 150
20–447
“A treatise on the new American methods in psychology known as
behaviourism. The essential feature of this school is that it regards
man purely as a ‘reacting mass,’ and endeavours to determine his
reactions without importing into the observation preconceived ideas,
affecting interpretation. The present author, indeed, does not find it
necessary to use such terms as ‘sensation,’ ‘perception,’ ‘attention,’
‘will,’ ‘image,’ and the like. He states that he does not know what
they mean, and he suggests that no one succeeds in using them
consistently.”—Ath
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p557 Ap 23 ’20 120w
“By consistently disregarding all the essential steps in ‘thinking’ in
which most psychologists (and the world at large) are interested, and
by cavalierly treating the problems in which the behaviorist happens
not to be interested, he produces a ‘psychology’ which is as true as
the railway maps of any one company showing only the towns on its
line, with its own route straight and prominent, and rival systems
indicated if at all by lightly drawn and circuitous detours.” Joseph
Jastrow
− =Nation= 111:15 Jl 3 ’20 850w
“The present writer as he reads the book finds himself in continual
expectation that now he is coming to the end of the physiology and the
beginning of the psychology, but is continually disappointed. This
book may inspire, and will direct, the student to practical researches
of the highest interest to the advance of science. To this extent
every psychologist will welcome it. It is difficult to find anything
in its principle to disagree with, save only its limitation and
negation.” H. W. Carr
+ − =Nature= 105:512 Je 24 ’20 900w
=WATSON, ROBERT.=[2] Stronger than his sea. *$1.90 (2c) Doran
20–18387
Much of the charm of the story lies in the quaint Scotch dialect of
its characters and much of Sandy Porter’s winsomeness in his Scotch
sturdiness. Five when his father died, he began to help his mother
support the family when he was six. He carried milk to the customers
of a dairy night and morning throughout his school years and still
found time for boyish mischief. How he led his schoolmates in a strike
against a superannuated tyrannical master, and other escapades is
amusingly told. In old Doctor Telford he had a wise friend who kept an
eye on him and made things possible without making them too easy for
him. So it was that the penniless boy reached his goal and became a
veterinary surgeon. He also won the old doctor’s daughter, Doreen,
altho there was a rival and Sandy blundered in his impulsiveness. But
his poetry helped.
* * * * *
=Cleveland= p105 D ’20 40w
“The story of the young man Sandy is fully as attractive, if not so
adventurous as that of the child, and both are delightfully told.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 F 9 ’21 190w
“‘Stronger than his sea’ illustrates perfectly the difference between
the novel that is literature and the story that is simon-pure
entertainment. It is good of its kind—‘light fiction’ that scarcely
aspires to the artistic dignity of holding the mirror up to life.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 D 26 ’20 440w
=WATTS, MRS MARY STANBERY.=[2] Noon mark. *$2.50 Macmillan
20–18922
“It is emphatically an American story, full of the flavor of American
life—American life, that is to say, as it is lived in such a small
middle-western city as that one in which the scene of ‘The noon mark’
is laid. As this story progresses, the dominant figure is discovered
to be that of Nettie Stieffel, whose father was in the accounting
department of the Travelers and Traders’ bank. Clean-minded and
clean-hearted, generous, brave, efficient, unimaginative and
consequently a little hard, without an ounce of romance in her
composition, honest and loyal to the core, and incidentally very good
looking, she develops into an easily recognized type of American
business woman, capable, hard-working, intelligent and dependable.
When we leave her she is a married woman who has, as she herself says,
‘everything anybody could want,’ including a motor car—and
happiness.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“It is a story to be placed, by those who respond to this
story-teller’s genial-ironic kind of thing, beside ‘The Boardman
family’ and ‘The rise of Jennie Cushing,’—not a great novel but a real
and solid one.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 52:344 Ja ’21 380w
“It is, indeed, a small fragment of American life that Mrs Watts has
described in ‘The noon mark,’ but it is a very real fragment and an
extremely realistic portrayal of it.” E. F. Edgett
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 17 ’20 1400w
“Mrs Watts’s new novel is more rewarding in transit than in
termination. The conclusion is indefinite in its effect, ending on an
interrogation which does not flow naturally out of the materials with
which the author started.” L. B.
+ − =Freeman= 2:406 Ja 5 ’21 130w
“In the loose-jointed aggregation which is our United States, there
can be, we must conclude, no ‘American’ novel. There can be only
sectional novels, the portraiture of a sort, of a class. Of these Mrs
Watts is a valuable chronicler. She is selective. It is not the light
of imagination that lives in her books, but the steady rays of the
impartial sun.” Alice Brown
+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 D 4 ’20 880w
“The author’s comments on it all are cleverly phrased, with occasional
touches of irony which lend spice to the story. She is a realist,
unspoiled by pessimism.”
+ =N Y Times= p22 N 14 ’20 950w
“In construction and the centralizing of interest in one large
situation the novel is less successful than some of its predecessors.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:690 D 15 ’20 60w
“Her localism, as always, is faultless. But it is in characterization,
the ultimate test, that she achieves most. Her Nettie Stieffel is as
actual and unescapable a person as Dreiser’s Jennie Gerhardt—or her
own Jennie Cushing.” H. W. Boynton
+ |=Review= 3:623 D 22 ’20 440w
“The story is not so organic as Mrs Watts’s best, but will arouse a
considerable degree of interest among readers.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 2 ’21 670w
=WAUGH, ALEC.= Loom of youth; with a preface by Thomas Seccombe. *$1.90
(1½c) Doran
20–8276
This novel of English school life was written some three years ago
when the author was barely past seventeen. It is a boy’s criticism of
the English public school, its emphasis on sports at the expense of
scholarship, its lack of mental discipline, its low standard of
morals, and the dull formalism of its teaching, written while these
matters were fresh in mind. Midway in his school course Gordon
Caruthers accidentally discovers the delights of English poetry and
Byron, Swinburne and Rossetti influence his development. The story is
carried into the first years of the war and the author shows how
school life was affected by outward events. For one thing, the glamor
was stripped from athleticism and school sports.
* * * * *
“He has not ranted. He has not preached. But he has spoken the truth
as it appeared to him, swiftly, unalterably. It must remain, I think,
for a long time, as one of the few remarkable records of school life
which this generation or any generation has furnished.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 1050w
“‘The loom of youth’ is apt to bore American readers because the
viewpoint is annoying, and the action and dialogue not sufficient to
stimulate reading.”
− + =Cath World= 111:693 Ag ’20 380w
“There are very definite signs of youth in the minuteness of detail in
all matters and in the exhaustive descriptions of cricket and football
matches, but the writing on the whole is astonishingly mature.”
+ − =Ind= 104:66 O 9 ’20 280w
“What is fresh in the book is its clear insight into the morality of
the boys, especially in their relations with the masters and its
objective projection of its complex and busy scene.”
+ =Nation= 110:625 My 8 ’20 300w
“A very evident sincerity and an infinite patience in the
transcription of details give a value to this book altogether greater
than that of most of the innumerable books about Harrow, Eton, and
other similar institutions.” S. C. C.
+ =New Repub= 23:94 Je 16 ’20 550w
“The breath of a dogged sincerity, a determination to set down nothing
but the truth, emanates from every page. As a narrative of sustained
power and interest the book holds up well. Mr Waugh’s characters are
broadly drawn but they do give forth an intimate sense of reality. It
is the meticulous eye of Mr Waugh that plays a large part in the
book’s success.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p2 Ap 24 ’20 850w
“The book is one which will probably be of far greater interest to an
English than to an American audience. It would seem to be, take it all
in all, a book of no little promise.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:220 My 2 ’20 600w
“Everything in this really spirited book is sane, equable,
intellectually mature. It may be read either as a narrative of a boy’s
school days or as a treatise on education. Remarkable to relate, it is
about equally instructive and diverting from either point of view.
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 550w
=WEALE, BERTRAM LENOX PUTNAM, pseud. (BERTRAM LENOX SIMPSON).= Wang the
ninth. *$1.75 (3c) Dodd
20–16797
Shrewdness, courage, loyalty, honesty and resourcefulness are this
remarkable Chinese boy’s equipment. Of the poorest peasantry, he is
early an orphan, and in shifting for himself he comes to be a groom in
the household of one of the “foreign devils.” During the Boxer
rebellion he remains with his master, partly from ignorance of what it
is all about, partly from self-interest and an instinct of loyalty. He
is sent on a dangerous mission to the allied army, bearing the message
rolled up in his ear. Reaching the army after a perilous journey he is
given a return message. This is too bulky for his ear, so in a moment
of panic of discovery, he swallows it. Of this he calmly informs his
master, when at last, spent and exhausted, he returns to him, adding,
“and by your blessing I shall now die a natural death.”
* * * * *
“The book is throughout written, at least theoretically, from the
native point of view, and has, in consequence, an unusual and
fascinating quality.”
+ =Ath= p523 O 15 ’20 120w
“There are many dramatic adventures and a rich background of Chinese
life.”
+ =Booklist= 17:74 N ’20
“A good picture of peasant childhood in China as well as a first-rate
adventure story for boys.”
+ |=Cleveland= p107 D ’20 40w
“A highly interesting book, worth while both for its story element and
for the faithful picture of the humble inner life of the great
sleeping empire off in the yellow West.”
+ =N Y Times= p27 S 12 ’20 260w
“The tale is one of adventure and courage, and the character of the
Chinese boy is unusual and decidedly interesting.”
+ =Outlook= 126:238 O 6 ’20 50w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p653 O 7 ’20 80w
=WEAVER, GERTRUDE (RENTON) (MRS HAROLD BAILLIE WEAVER) (G. COLMORE,
pseud.).= Thunderbolt. *$1.90 Seltzer
20–7061
“Mrs Bonham takes her engaged daughter for a trip on the continent. In
Germany Dorrie injures a foot and is sent with her French maid to
Professor Reisen, a famous clinician with whom Mrs Bonham has become
acquainted. Instead of taking the girl to the doctor’s private office,
the blundering maid takes her to a clinic conducted by Dr Reisen for
experimental purposes. Shortly after this a suspicious sore appears on
Dorrie’s arm, followed by a similar one on her lip. Alarmed by the
sores, Mrs Bonham takes her daughter to a specialist in Paris, and is
filled with horror when she learns the name of the disease with which
Dorrie was inoculated in Dr Reisen’s clinic. Back in England Mrs
Bonham tells Dorrie’s fiancé what has happened. The young man promptly
ends the engagement. Dorrie does not learn of her lover’s defection
and is kept ignorant of her disease. The old nurse, who has been sent
for, realizes the truth of Dorrie’s statement that it would kill her
if her fiancé stopped loving her. She determines that Dorrie must
never learn the truth, and, by a noble and tragic sacrifice, keeps it
from her.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
=Dial= 69:210 Ag ’20 80w
“This sorry fable is quite devoid of the melodramatic ‘punch,’ the
thrill of spurious horror which was, obviously, its one attainable
merit. Honestly written, it would have been a rattling shilling
shocker. Aping the sober garb and earnest manners of a modern novel,
it has succeeded in being hailed—for various reasons—as a
masterpiece.”
− =Nation= 110:772 Je 5 ’20 280w
“‘The thunderbolt’ has all the exquisite artistry of Swinnerton at his
best, and a realism as ultimate and magic as Leonard Merrick’s. It is
hard to overpraise this book, and you are unfair to yourself if you do
not acquaint yourself with it.” Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p10 My 9 ’20 1350w
“The two parts of the book might have been written by different
authors in different ages. Absolutely nothing prepares the reader for
the shock he receives when the author launches her thunderbolt. An
ugly story with an undeniable dramatic dénouement.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:198 Ap 18 ’20 550w
“Having once read the book, no competent judge of good craftsmanship
would dare refuse to acknowledge the unfaltering purpose, the patient
insistent building up, the cumulative power of this grim book.” Calvin
Winter
+ =Pub W= 97:994 Mr 20 ’20 380w
=Sat R= 127:484 My 17 ’19 60w
“It might have been, within its limits, a little masterpiece. But in
the groping for tragedy the author fails and the conclusion is merely
shocking. The most captivating human figure is the nurse, Hannah.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 5 ’19 460w
=WEBB, CLEMENT CHARLES JULIAN.= Divine personality and human life.
(Library of philosophy) *$4 (*10s 6d) Macmillan 231
20–12837
“This volume contains the second part of the Gifford lectures,
delivered in the University of Aberdeen in 1918–1919.” (Nation) “In
the first series of these lectures, ‘God and personality,’ it was
argued that by a ‘personal God’ is meant a God with whom a personal
relationship is possible for his worshippers; that such a relationship
is associated with the higher forms of religious experience; that in
Christianity certain difficulties which attach to the conception of
the personality of God are avoided by the assertion that God is not a
single person; and it was claimed, not indeed that this position was
free from difficulties, but that it was attended by fewer and less
serious difficulties than its rivals. In the present course
personality in man is examined in the light of these conclusions; the
various activities in which this human personality expresses
itself—economic, scientific, aesthetic, moral, political, and
religious—being viewed in relation to the supreme spiritual reality
revealed to us in the experience given in religion. The three
concluding lectures consider the rank to be assigned in the kingdom of
reality to the finite individual person.” (Spec)
* * * * *
“A careful reader will very seldom even suspect him of confusion in
ideas; there is hardly a word and—once the sentences have been
construed—hardly an argument to baffle an intelligent schoolboy. Yet,
with all these pitfalls avoided, we are defrauded of a good
philosophical style, the worthy yet popular expression of a valuable
thought, by the elementary failure to construct an unambiguous and
balanced sentence.”
+ − =Ath= p74 Jl 16 ’20 750w
“It belongs to the front ranks of its class. Altogether the reading of
the book is a rich experience, and its comparative freedom from the
jargon of the philosophical schools makes it available for a much
wider circle of readers than is usually the case with this kind of
literature.” R. R.
+ =Nation= 111:sup417 O 13 ’20 880w
“In Mr Webb, terminology is reduced to a minimum. His argument can be
followed by any fairly well read man without difficulty, and this is
no small praise.”
+ =Spec= 124:51 Jl 10 ’20 1400w
“Mr Webb could not, we think, publish a book that did not contain
acute and illuminating pages, but he certainly does not show here
anything like the constructive force, or the lucidity of exposition,
which marked his earlier volume.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p790 D 2 ’20 980w
=WEBB, CLEMENT CHARLES JULIAN.= God and personality; being the Gifford
lectures delivered in the University of Aberdeen in the years 1918–1919.
(Library of philosophy) *$3 Macmillan 231
19–14097
“All students of the philosophy of religion know that Mr C. C. J.
Webb, fellow of Magdalen college, Oxford, has, within the last few
years, won for himself a position in the front rank among
philosophical critics and defenders of religion. Mr Webb’s argument
[in this book] amounts to a philosophical defense of the Christian
conception of and belief in God. Mr Webb’s emphasis falls wholly on
the value of ‘religious experience’ as affording the profoundest clues
to the nature of the world we live in. He holds that religious
experience testifies to the reality of God and of the worshipper’s
personal intercourse with God. More than this, he holds that the
doctrine of the trinity, with its distinction of three persons within
the Godhead, renders in language admittedly metaphorical, a
differentiation within the all-enfolding divine life which is required
for an adequate interpretation of religious experience in its highest,
i.e., Christian form.”—New Repub
* * * * *
“A fine and characteristic specimen of the best type of modern Oxford
philosophy. Unlike so many modern English philosophers, Mr Webb has an
admirably pure and simple vocabulary. It is the more to be regretted
that his syntax is often obscure and even inaccurate.”
+ − =Ath= p333 My 16 ’19 800w
+ =Booklist= 16:221 Ap ’20
“Mr Clement C. J. Webb has written a book on ‘God and personality’
which is a remarkable achievement in more ways than one. He has
managed to discuss a difficult and abstract problem in delightfully
clear and often beautiful language. And in doing so he has shown that
he possesses in considerable degree the quality of which real
philosophers are made. Mr Webb’s answers are interesting, and in the
main we may agree with them, but they are certainly not
incontestable.” Lincoln MacVeagh
+ − =Dial= 68:785 Je ’20 1650w
“From Aristotle to Bergson, from the fathers of the church to
Benedetto Croce, from Dante to H. G. Wells, he moves with equal
mastery, and when he measures swords with Bradley or Bosanquet, the
honors are not all on their side.” R. F. A. H.
+ =New Repub= 22:163 Mr 31 ’20 1650w
=Sat R= 127:584 Je 14 ’19 850w
=WEBB, SIDNEY, and WEBB, BEATRICE (POTTER) (MRS SIDNEY WEBB).=[2]
Constitution for the socialist commonwealth of Great Britain. *$4.25
(*13s 6d) Longmans 335
20–18152
“The volume falls into three parts. The first is a survey of the
existing signs and agencies of collectivism: the democracies of
consumers (cooperative societies, friendly societies, municipalities,
and national services); the democracies of producers (trade unions,
copartnership concerns, and professional associations); and finally
the political democracy of king, lords, and commons. The second part
of the volume deals with the national structure that is to be set up
in the socialist commonwealth. The lords are to be swept away and
there are to be two parliaments—one political and the other social.
Both are to be elected by universal suffrage but the idea of a
vocational or economic soviet is utterly rejected. In the third part
the authors propose to administer nationalized interests through
special committees of the social parliament—one committee for
each.”—Nation
* * * * *
=Ath= p809 D 10 ’20 680w
=Booklist= 17:96 D ’20
“The idea that foreign affairs, the maintenance of order, the
administration of justice, colonies, and defense can be separated from
cities, municipalities, and national services; economics seems utterly
chimerical. The third part of the volume is real, stimulating,
suggestive. It is here that the Webbs have laid all students of
government under a great debt. They do not speculate, but with clear
eyes face the terrible tangle of realities that must make up any order
new or old.” C: A. Beard
+ − =Nation= 111:sup664 D 8 ’20 1250w
“There is no field of social organization they do not enter; and there
is no field where their analysis is not at once amazingly suggestive
and incomparably well-informed. Not indeed, that there is not ample
room for criticism and even criticism of fundamentals. What Mr and Mrs
Webb have done is to cast a light upon the mechanism of government
such as it has not had since Mr Graham Wallas’s ‘Human nature in
politics’ in one field, and Bagehot’s ‘English constitution’ in
another.” H. J. L.
+ =New Repub= 24:198 O 20 ’20 1100w
“It deserves the careful study of every person who desires to see a
better system, and who is anxious that that system be inaugurated with
the maximum of intelligence, the minimum of pain.”
+ =Socialist R= 10:29 Ja ’21 190w
“Lenin would contemptuously sweep the whole thing aside as lackeyism
in the interests of the bourgeoisie. We are not prepared to do that,
but we cannot help arriving at a like degree of condemnation for
entirely different reasons.”
− =Spec= 124:240 Ag 21 ’20 1650w
“What the authors fail to appreciate is that to forbid the social
parliament to interfere with conduct by making it criminal will be of
no effect; the body in control of the price system can enforce
conformity to prescribed economic conduct by methods which, though
subtler, are no less effective than the criminal law—methods by which
the present capitalists exercise their dictatorship. This criticism is
not intended to detract from the merits of an extraordinarily able
work.” R. L. Hale
+ − =Survey= 45:514 Ja 1 ’21 750w
=WEBB, SIDNEY, and WEBB, BEATRICE (POTTER) (MRS SIDNEY WEBB).= History
of trade unionism. rev ed *$7.50 (*21s) Longmans 331.87
20–10724
“‘The history of trade unionism,’ is issued in a revised edition. The
original work, published in 1894, broke off in 1890. The present
edition carries the story on to the beginning of 1920. There is little
alteration in the main part of the book, which describes the origin
and progress of trade unionism in the United Kingdom.”—Springf’d
Republican
* * * * *
Reviewed by J: R. Commons
+ =Am Econ R= 10:834 D ’20 1350w
“They are quite clear in their own minds as to the relative importance
of facts and ideas.”
+ =Ath= p762 Je 11 ’20 320w
“Americans particularly will find this study of value, because the
British labor movement is more like our own than that of any other
country, and its differences from ours are consequently more
significant.” G: Soule
+ =Nation= 110:803 Je 12 ’20 950w
“The new part of the work would be very valuable if it stood alone,
but it gains immensely from coming after the story of the building-up
of the movement.”
+ =Nation [London]= 27:76 Ap 17 ’20 1200w
“In solidity of knowledge, in massiveness of generalization, in the
firm grasp of complex details, Mr and Mrs Webb have certainly no
superiors and possibly no equals. If they lack any single quality, it
is an inability to make the institution reflect the men who build it.”
H. J. L.
+ − =New Repub= 22:359 My 12 ’20 1450w
“The authors unite a thorough knowledge of their subject with a
sympathetic understanding of the struggle of the masses, making a
combination that is rare in historians. A number of appendices and a
good index, together with good binding and paper, make this work
heartily welcome.” James Oneal
+ =N Y Call= p10 Jl 4 ’20 750w
“Mr Webb, like most Fabian Socialists, is cultured, persuasive,
smooth-spoken. In the gentlest words possible he has pronounced the
failure of trade unionism. We can be grateful to him for his exposure
of its vices.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:412 My 1 ’20 900w
“‘The history of trade unionism’ might easily have been a very great
work; even as it stands it possesses high merit; but its partisanship
divests it of authority, and the reader must be continually on his
guard lest he accept its statements without independent evidence of
their truth.”
+ − =Spec= 124:621 My 8 ’20 850w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 My 1 ’20 180w
“I cannot feel that even the Webbs have been able to achieve the same
objectivity in dealing with the almost contemporary records as they
did with earlier data and still it is of more value to have their
original great work brought up to-date than it would be to obtain a
separate narrative covering only recent industrial history.”
+ − =Survey= 44:313 My 29 ’20 480w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p126 F 19 ’20 40w
“It remains unchallenged, after a generation not by any means barren
in books on industrial affairs, as the standard work on the rise and
development of trade unions. It is a pity that the greater part of the
section given to the railway trade unions in the new edition should be
too biased to be historical.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p206 Ap 1 ’20 600w
“A vital change is to be noted in his viewpoint. A quarter of a
century ago he wrote primarily as a scholar, though from a frankly
avowed moderate socialist standpoint. Now he writes, equally frankly,
as an avowed political partisan, as a statesman of the Labor party.
Despite all this Mr Webb’s analysis of the present labor and political
conditions in Great Britain is invaluable. It is not difficult, after
his bias is once known, to allow for his prejudices.” W: E. Walling
+ − =Yale R n s= 10:220 O ’20 800w
=WEBLING, PEGGY.= Saints and their stories. il *$5 (9c) Stokes 922
The stories of saints related in this edition de luxe are: St
Christopher; St Denis; St Helena; St Alban; St George; St Nicholas; St
Ambrose; St Martin; St Augustine of Hippo; St Bride; St Gregory the
Great; St Augustine of Canterbury; St Etheldreda; St Swithin; St
Dunstan; St Hugh of Lincoln; St Zita; St Francis of Assisi; St
Catherine of Siena; St Joan of Arc. There are eight full page
illustrations in color by Cayley Robinson.
* * * * *
“Written particularly for Catholic children, but with much in it to
interest all young lovers of beautiful stories.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p4 N 28 ’20 150w
“The volume’s chief value lies in the narrative of those saints not
well known. The illustrations are beautiful.”
+ =Outlook= 127:32 Ja 5 ’21 50w
=WEBSTER, HENRY KITCHELL.= Mary Wollaston. *$2 (1½c) Bobbs
20–18250
Two emotional situations complicate this novel. One is the triangular
relationship involving Mary, her father, and Paula, her beautiful
stepmother. The other grows out of the fact that Mary, while engaged
in war work in New York, has had a casual love affair with a young
soldier bound for overseas. Once she tries to tell her brother, but he
will not listen. Again she tries to tell her father, but he refuses to
believe, thinking that Mary in her innocence doesn’t know what she is
talking about. Finally she flings the truth in the face of young
Graham Stannard, who in asking her to marry him, persists in treating
her as a whited saint. The situation is saved by Anthony March, who
listens to Mary’s story, understands it and loves her none the less
for it. Anthony also resolves the difficulty in the other situation.
Anthony is a composer of genius and Paula is an opera singer, and
there is much musical talk in the story.
* * * * *
“This will be pronounced immoral by some readers. The analysis of
women’s thoughts and emotions is illuminating; a book that women
rather than men will read.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:75 N ’20
“Mary Wollaston and her Anthony March have discovered that
‘sentimentality is the most cruel thing in the world’; but it would be
difficult to find another word for the atmosphere with which this
story invests its realism of fact. That is why I for one find little
health in it.” H. W. Boynton
− =Bookm= 52:344 Ja ’21 400w
=Cleveland= p106 D ’20 60w
“This novel has both the faults and the merits of its subject-matter,
which is a representative cross-section of American metropolitan life
in the immediate wake of the great war. It has neither faults nor
merits of its own. To apply to it the canons of literary criticism
would be an empty futility, for it has nothing to do with literature.
It is, in three words, a competent realistic novel.” Wilson Follett
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p3 N 27 ’20 1950w
“The most interesting thing about ‘Mary Wollaston’ and the chief
reason for reading it is that it is so accurately contemporary. The
young generation seem to be frightening their elders in these days,
and perhaps this novel will explain the fear without allaying it.” W:
L. Phelps
+ =N Y Times= p8 O 31 ’20 640w
+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 70w
“It is most cleverly compact and as neat as a good play in its action.
But the climax lacks something of convincing the reader. ‘Mary
Wollaston’ is well worth reading. And if read, it demands to be
thought about. If you like stimulating novels, you cannot find a more
satisfying one than Mr Webster’s latest.” E. P. Wyckoff
+ − =Pub W= 98:657 S 18 ’20 350w
“One finds that the title is inappropriate. Indeed, not a few will
conclude that Mary never quite attains a position of first
importance.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 550w
=WEBSTER, NESTA H.= French revolution; a study in democracy. *$8 Dutton
944.04
“‘The siege of the Bastille—the march on Versailles—the two invasions
of the Tuileries—the massacres of September—and finally the reign of
terror—these form the history of the French people throughout the
revolution. The object of this book is, therefore, to relate as
accurately as conflicting evidence permits, the true facts about each
great crisis, to explain the motives that inspired the crowds, the
means employed to rouse their passions; and thereby to throw a truer
light on the role of the people, and ultimately on the revolution as
the great experiment in democracy.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup Jl 24
* * * * *
“The method of the book is as unscientific as the conception of the
problem. It was a pure waste of time to write such a book, and it is
unfortunate that it was ever published, for it is attractively
written, has all the earmarks of a scientific work, and may do much
harm, if it finds its way into public libraries and into the hands of
readers incapable of forming a correct estimate of its value.” F. M.
Fling
− =Am Hist R= 25:714 Jl ’20 600w
“That there is a kernel of truth in each of these factors which
fomented trouble and disorder in France, as there is at the bottom of
every caricature, none will deny; but to magnify them a hundred-fold
as the great cause of the revolution is to caricature, not correct,
history. Mrs Webster’s volume is exceedingly interesting: it may lead
historians to pay more attention to these new factors which she
emphasizes.” S. B. Fay
− + =Am Pol Sci R= 14:732 N ’20 470w
“The book is interesting reading. A good deal of the evidence accepted
by Mrs Webster is very shaky, since it consists of accounts given
after the ending of the terror by men who wished to exculpate
themselves at the expense of their colleagues.” B. R.
+ − =Ath= p943 S 26 ’19 1850w
“It overstates its case in an endeavor to emphasize the dangers and
the downright wickedness of revolutions and revolutionaries. It is,
perhaps, too long. Certainly it is prejudiced. But it is a good piece
of work, and good reading, for all that, and any account of the French
revolution must reckon with it and the material on which it is based.”
W. C. Abbott
+ − =Bookm= 51:570 Jl ’20 1850w
“The style is fascinating, the temper sincere, and the argument
(granting the hypotheses) convincing. But there are faults of method,
prejudices of standpoint, and manipulations of material, which make
the book not only a most biased interpretation of the French
revolution but one of the most mischievous and malicious attacks on
democracy that have come to our notice. The book is called ‘a study in
democracy’; it is a studied insult to democracy from cover to cover.”
D. S. Muzzey
− + =Nation= 111:300 S 11 ’20 2200w
“Allowing for Mrs Webster’s tenderness for that old régime, to which
in other respects she is only just, she deserves our devout thanks for
having shown that the French revolution was not at all a democratic
movement. To a large circle of younger readers who are more and more
getting their knowledge of historical events from text books and
novels, this volume will prove a real delight.” M. F. Egan
+ − =N Y Times= 25:10 Je 27 ’20 2350w
“She has written an interesting and ingenious survey from her own
special angle, but one can not help feeling that the angle is a
somewhat narrow one.”
+ − =Review= 2:653 Je 23 ’20 1300w
“Is there anything left to be said on the subject? Frankly, we thought
not, and the first glance at Mrs Webster’s book seemed to confirm this
opinion. Yet Mrs Webster makes good. The style of the book has no
particular individuality: it is plain, straightforward and devoid of
ornament. But the author is scrupulous in affording ample data for
every statement made.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:386 O 25 ’19 900w
+ =Sat R= 129:29 Ja 10 ’20 950w
“Mrs Webster, by drawing largely on Royalist and Moderate sources,
supplies a much-needed corrective to the many books which glorify even
the wild and wicked excesses of the revolution. Yet she goes too far
in suggesting that the revolution was unnecessary and disastrous.”
+ − =Spec= 123:245 Ag 23 ’19 1700w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p402 Jl 24 ’19 100w
“Mrs Webster’s book is full of vivacious interest, and the lines of
her argument are followed through the mass of detail with an artistic
skill. Her ardour communicates to the reader a desire to get close to
facts. But the facts may not be the same as Mrs Webster’s, for though
she has read extensively and marshalled her authorities, her use, and
often her choice, of them shows how strongly she is bent on proving a
case. So she does not convince us that her book is the one true
history of the revolution.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p443 Ag 21 ’19 1650w
Reviewed by W. C. Abbott
=Yale R= n s 9:879 Jl ’20 1150w
=WEIGALL, ARTHUR EDWARD PEARSE BROME.= Madeline of the desert. *$2 (1½c)
Dodd
20–20189
Madeline had been born beyond the pale of respectable society at Port
Said in Egypt; had grown up in ignorance of conventional morality and
lived in open defiance of it until she was twenty-three. But there had
been growing pains and a crisis came when she must either die or be
reborn. Father Gregory—retired from ecclesiastical honors in England
to a hermitage in the desert—and his nephew, Robin Beechcroft, the
young explorer, help her to a rebirth. The former points her to her
supreme need, Christ, the latter loves and makes her his wife. The
story traces Madeline’s unfoldment as a woman, a thinker and a seer.
She and Robin pass through trials, even tragedies, but it is
Madeline’s fineness and clear-sightedness that at last saves the day
for them both.
* * * * *
“Under its appearance of superficiality there is a quite unusual and
remarkable understanding of the character of Madeline.” K. M.
+ − =Ath= p702 My 28 ’20 580w
“Mr Weigall’s novel grows weaker with the turning of pages, and there
is no marvelous rising above climax after climax. Madeline, vivid at
first, becomes more and more pallid as the tale progresses.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p12 D 8 ’20 310w
“It is impossible to withhold from Mr Weigall a tribute of admiration
for the amazing fluency and fertility of imagination which enable him
to make a long story out of very scant material. Whether the story was
worth making is another question.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 250w
“The author’s vivid pictures of Egyptian life are explained by the
fact that he has lived in Egypt a great deal, and has the faculty of
presenting pleasingly and convincingly that which he sees. On the
whole, he has presented to the world a very readable, as well as
clever, book.”
+ =N Y Times= p22 N 21 ’20 220w
=WEIGLE, LUTHER ALLAN.= Talks to Sunday-school teachers. *$1.25 Doran
268
20–6997
“While much of the subject matter is in essence that contained in ‘The
pupil and the teacher,’ it is given here in the form of delightful
chatty chapters, supplementing the previous work. The book brings the
same pleasure and information that often comes from the question
period following a lecture. The first chapters deal with the pupil and
seem to be repetition of much that has already appeared for the use of
the teacher of religious education, though special mention should be
made of chapter 12, ‘How religion grows.’ The last chapters are most
suggestive, especially ‘Learning by doing’ and the ‘Dramatic method of
teaching.’”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“Professor Weigle is a trained pedagogue who has lost neither his
enthusiasm, his love of youth, nor his sound common sense, and is
excellently fitted to be the teacher of teachers that he proves
himself to be by the test of his last book.”
+ =Bib World= 54:648 N ’20 170w
“Written popularly and made effective for more intensive work by
chapter questions and carefully chosen bibliographies.”
+ =Booklist= 16:301 Je ’20
“The lists for further reading at the end of each chapter are
excellent and quite up to date.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 110w
=WELLES, WINIFRED.= Hesitant heart. *$1 Huebsch 811
20–6983
Poems reprinted from the North American Review, the Century, the
Liberator, Contemporary Verse and other periodicals. Among the titles
are: The hesitant heart; From a Chinese vase; The unfaithful April;
Driftwood; Threnody; Love song from New England; Moonflower; Surf;
Setting for a fairy story.
* * * * *
“Miss Welles’s is an art at times as ingenuous as Emily Dickinson’s
though always classical in its impeccable taste.” R. M. Weaver
+ =Bookm= 51:457 Je ’20 280w
“The mood of the book is April’s mood. The process by which the poems
arrive at bloom is exactly the process by which April arrives at
fulfilment. You can only feel the pulse of it, the subtle and
mysterious thrill in it, and by that realization know without defining
the loveliness of a miracle.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Ap 3 ’20 1800w
“Like a handful of golden pollen scattered on the wind is the little
book of Winifred Welles’ poems, ‘The hesitant heart.’ Simple, fresh,
luminous, of the early morning, they are as whimsical as charm itself,
and as reticent in their cool distinction.”
+ =Freeman= 1:71 Mr 31 ’20 100w
+ =Nation= 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 70w
“Hers is a limited gamut, an obviously restricted range. Yet, within
that range, her voice is pure, the art is skilful and the melodies
exquisite. None of the younger singers has communicated with more
charm her accents of soft delight mingled with a perturbed
wistfulness. Even her more intense affirmations have a timid
tenderness.” L: Untermeyer
+ =New Repub= 23:156 Je 30 ’20 550w
“‘The hesitant heart’ is a lovely collection of fragile lyrics. Miss
Welles has a deft and magical touch all her own, a slight and
restrained magic, but an authentic one.”
+ =N Y Call= p11 Ag 1 ’20 180w
“Miss Welles is no purveyor of novelties. She cannot be called
original, or even inventive. Yet she has a magic of lyrical speech
that gives the reader a sense of new delight and of a new personality
in the world of lyric artists.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:193 Ap 18 ’20 180w
“Her technique is much like that of Miss Millay, although she is not
so mature as an artist. But this is not to say that Miss Welles has
imitated Miss Millay. She is very much herself.”
+ =N Y Times= p15 Ja 9 ’21 220w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 70w
=WELLS, CAROLYN (MRS HADWIN HOUGHTON)=, comp. Book of humorous verse.
*$7.50 Doran 827
20–20663
This volume is intended for everyone of the human race who possesses
the power of laughter. The compiler calls attention to the book as a
compilation, not a collection, as no cover of one book could contain
the latter. The poems are classified under the headings: Banter; The
eternal feminine; Love and courtship; Satire; Cynicism; Epigrams;
Burlesque; Bathos; Parody; Narrative; Tribute; Whimsey; Nonsense;
Natural history; Juniors; Immortal stanzas. The book is indexed for
authors, titles and first lines.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:147 Ja ’21
“As a whole. Miss Wells has done a most excellent piece of work that
should be an addition to the library of every lover and maker of
verse.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 Ja 15 ’21 520w
“Here at last is a collection of humorous lyrics, chosen and set in
order by an expert anthologist, who is also an expert humorist.”
Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= p3 D 12 ’20 1600w
“‘The book of humorous verse’ has done in its province what Burton
Stevenson’s ‘Home book of verse’ has done for all poetry.” E. L.
Pearson
+ =Review= 3:531 D 1 ’20 300w
=WELLS, CAROLYN (MRS HADWIN HOUGHTON).= Raspberry jam. il *$1.60 (2½c)
Lippincott
20–7522
Sanford Embury is found one morning dead in bed. He was an
exceptionally healthy man, and absolutely no reason can at first be
discovered for his death. His proud, hot tempered wife is at once
suspected, for the two had many tiffs about money matters, for
although Embury was rich, it pleased his pride to give his wife no
ready spending money. Detectives are called in, investigations made.
No headway is gained until Fleming Stone and his irresponsible “kid”
helper, Fibsy McGuire, appear on the scene. Then the mystery slowly
clears, through the aid of a “spook,” a trumped up medium, a pot of
raspberry jam and certain information in regard to a “human fly.” Mrs
Embury is acquitted, the real murderer at once arrested, and a long
delayed love comes at last into its own.
* * * * *
=N Y Times= 25:153 Ap 4 ’20 350w
Reviewed by M. A. Hopkins
=Pub W= 97:602 F 21 ’20 240w
=Sat R= 130:262 S 25 ’20 70w
“The story stirs a lively interest in the reader.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 14 ’20 160w
“As is common in detective stories of this type, Miss Wells makes
considerable demands on her readers’ credulity or ignorance.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p426 Jl 1 ’20 160w
=WELLS, HERBERT GEORGE.= Outline of history. 2v il *$10.50 Macmillan 909
20–19599
Mr Wells’ “plain history of life and mankind” (Sub-title) is in two
volumes, composed of nine books, as follows: The making of our world;
The making of man; The dawn of history; Judea, Greece and India; Rise
and collapse of the Roman Empire; Christianity and Islam; The great
Mongol empire of the land ways and the new empires of the sea ways;
The age of the great powers; The next stage in history. The work has
been written with the advice and editorial help of Mr Ernest Barker,
Sir H. H. Johnston, Sir E. Ray Lankester, and Professor Gilbert
Murray. It is illustrated with maps, time diagrams and drawings by J.
F. Horrabin.
* * * * *
“A history of this kind is just what is wanted at the present day.
There are now sufficient scientific and historical data to make the
attempt possible; it is time we had a glimpse of the wood: we have had
innumerable examinations of the separate trees.”
+ =Ath= p1256 N 28 ’19 400w
“In praising so large a work, one must presumably begin with its
arrangement. Arrangement is a negative quality, but a great one: it is
the faculty of not muddling the reader, and Wells possesses it in a
high degree. Selection is of course a more controversial topic, and
here the critics can get going if they think it worth while. A third
merit is the style. The surface of Wells’ English is poor, and he does
not improve its effect when he tints it purple. But it does do its
job. Arrangement, selection, style; so these make up the case for his
‘Outline,’ and it is an overwhelming case.” E. M. F.
+ =Ath= p8 Jl 2 ’20 1100w
“Now for the defects, and the first of them is a serious one. Wells’
lucidity, so satisfying when applied to peoples and periods, is
somehow inadequate when individuals are thrown on to the screen. The
outlines are as clear as ever, but they are not the outlines of living
men. He seldom has created a character who lives and a similar failure
attends his historical evocations.... Such are the defects of the
book; but, as the previous article indicated, they are entirely
outweighed by its great merits.” E. M. F.
+ − =Ath= p42 Jl 9 ’20 1950w
“It has been a great book, finely planned, well arranged, full of
vivid historical sketches and of telling raps upon the knuckles and
noses of the great, but as soon as it starts for the stars its charm
decreases.” E. M. F.
+ − =Ath= p690 N 19 ’20 1500w
=Booklist= 17:110 D ’20
“The great thing which Wells has done—and it is, unqualifiedly, a very
great thing—is to state the evolutionary concept of history as a
continuing, growing entity, in terms readily understandable of the
common man. It is not too much to call it the most potentially
formative book of our day.” H. L. Pangborn
+ =Bookm= 52:358 Ja ’21 950w
“In his entire career Mr Wells has never written a more important book
than this. It is a superlatively fascinating piece of writing, in all
its details and as a whole, and it proves that the best historian is
the man with imagination who has created, or who is capable of
creating, real literature.” E. F. Edgett
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 24 ’20 2850w
“This is the true and lasting value of the work of Wells—that he has
given our world a greatest common historical denominator.” H. W. van
Loon
+ =Dial= 70:202 F ’21 720w
“History as seen through the temperament of Mr Wells is novel,
piquant, and entertaining. Mr Wells has no sense of time, for he
discusses events in the remote past as if they were still happening.
This gives vividness to his story and truthfulness, too.... With the
chapter on Buddhism the ‘Outline’ reaches its high water mark. From
thence on, a startling change is noticeable. And the change is for the
worse. J. S. Schapiro
* + − =Nation= 112:sup224 F 9 ’21 9250w
“There is one criticism that I should like to make. Mr Wells has
written political history and overlooked economic facts.... One cannot
help wishing that Mr Wells had restrained his enthusiasm a little by
omitting Book 1, and thus clipping off several hundred million years
from the period which he was seeking to cover. He might also have
eliminated Book 2 on ‘The making of man.’ I am glad that there was
someone in the English-speaking world brave enough and earnest enough
and with enough leisure time to write it.” Scott Nearing
+ − =N Y Call= p8 N 29 ’20 1500w
“It is eminently readable. Mr Wells could not write dull if he tried
to. The first impression made by his volumes is deepened by their
study. It is that Mr Wells has undertaken a task too great for his
powers and equipment. Mr Wells has, of course, read widely and
industriously. Yet his sources are plainly meagre. They are almost
exclusively English.”
− + =N Y Times= p1 N 14 ’20 2550w
“Certain sections—the early chapters upon the origin of the earth and
of man upon the earth, the part dealing with the rise and spread of
Buddhism, for examples—are excellent when read by themselves.” E. L.
Pearson
+ =Review= 3:558 D 8 ’20 60w
“Most of us think of history only in terms of the records of
particular nations, races or periods. Mr Wells ventures on a far
bolder conception—viewing all human history as one whole. If the work
did nothing more than to fix definitely this new viewpoint it would be
worth while.”
+ =R of Rs= 63:111 Ja ’21 220w
“High-school history teachers and students will read the work with
profit. They certainly come more nearly being world-history than any
previous work in the field.”
+ =School R= 29:155 F ’21 900w
+ =Spec= 122:698 N 22 ’19 190w
“It is good to take a broad view of history, and Mr Wells has done a
real service to his generation by writing this entertaining ‘Outline.’
He has found a talented illustrator in Mr Horrabin, whose numerous
maps and diagrams and reconstructions of extinct mammals are very
attractive and helpful. There are also many photographs, well chosen
and well reproduced.”
+ =Spec= 124:798 Je 12 ’20 300w
“There is room for Mr Wells’s ‘Outline of history,’ for the hand of
the specialist has lain heavy on this branch of scholarship, and the
books which give a bird’s-eye view of world history are few and not
very accessible.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 21 ’19 380w
=Springf’d Republican= p13a F 8 ’20 1000w (Reprinted from
London Nation)
“The ‘History’ is a remarkable one: there should be more books as
readable and provocative and daring.” P. B. McDonald
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 1100w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p693 N 27 ’19 880w
“Magnificent as is the panorama which Mr Wells unfolds, the details of
it are sometimes questionable.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p415 Jl 1 ’20 1050w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p612 S 23 ’20 2000w
“Mr Wells’s work should find its way into all but the most bigoted
sectarian colleges and even into the schools, as supplementary reading
for both teacher and pupil.” J. H. Robinson
+ =Yale R= n s 10:412 Ja ’21 2650w
=WELSH, JAMES C.= Underworld. *$1.75 (1½c) Stokes
20–17082
A story of the British coal industry by the author of “Songs of a
miner.” While yet a mere boy Robert Sinclair sits up long past his bed
time to listen to the talk between his father and Robert Smillie, and
it is the inspiration of that remembered conversation that sends him
far in the growing labor movement. Robert goes into the pit at twelve
years and on that very day there is an accident in the mine that kills
his father and brother and leaves him his mother’s chief support. The
story pictures the hard conditions in a disorganized industry, the
tyranny of the foreman and his control of the private lives of the
men, and the discouraging efforts to form a union. Robert loses the
girl he loves and in the end meets his father’s fate in the mine while
trying to save others. His mother is left desolate and the author’s
final plea is to the men to stand firm together and protect their
women folk from such tragedies.
* * * * *
“James Welsh, the miner, has rough-hewn a rather powerful and readable
tract.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 230w
+ =Sat R= 129:477 My 22 ’20 180w
“As he commands a fluent and forcible pen, complete mastery of the
dialect, and an unflinching realism in the treatment of details, his
work claims attention as well as respect.”
+ =Spec= 124:765 Je 5 ’20 670w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p202 Mr 25 ’20 170w
=WENDELL, BARRETT.= Traditions of European literature, from Homer to
Dante. *$6 Scribner 809
20–20996
This book has developed from lectures given at Harvard between 1904
and 1917. The author says: “Years of dealing with Harvard students had
shown me not only that Americans now know little of the literary
traditions of our ancestral Europe, but also that they are seldom
aware even of the little they know.” (Introd.) He adopts the point of
view of “English-speaking Americans of the twentieth century of the
Christian era” and concerns himself with those traditions of
literature “which, we need not ask why, have chanced among ourselves
to survive the times of their origin.” His task is somewhat simplified
by the fact that during the period covered, from Homer to Dante, the
traditions “originating in the primal European civilisation of Greece,
and extending throughout imperial dominion of Rome, remained for many
centuries a common possession of all Europe.” It has been possible
therefore to treat the subject as a whole. This is done in five books:
The traditions of Greece; The traditions of Rome; The traditions of
Christianity; The traditions of Christendom; The traditions of the
middle ages. Bibliographical suggestions occupy twenty-three pages and
there is an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:147 Ja ’21
“Nothing brings a keener joy to the heart of a conscientious reviewer
than to have in his hands to appraise and to praise a book which seems
to him altogether good—worthy in theme, comprehensive in conception,
shapely in plan and skillful in execution. This joy is mine now that I
have read this admirable example of interpretive scholarship.” Brander
Matthews
+ =N Y Times= p3 D 26 ’20 1750w
=WEST, WILLIS MASON.= Story of modern progress; with a preliminary
survey of earlier progress. (Allyn and Bacon’s ser. of school histories)
il $2 Allyn 940.2
20–7751
This work is a successor to the author’s “The modern world” written
with a redistribution of time to give more space and emphasis to the
period since 1870. The author says, “I have taken glad advantage of
the chance to write a new book, better suited, I hope, to elementary
high-school students; and I have used the treatment in the ‘Modern
world’ only when I have found it simpler and clearer than any change I
could make today.” (Foreword) An unusual amount of space has been
given to English history, while American history, which is sure of
full treatment elsewhere, is omitted “except where the connection of
events demands its introduction.” Contents: Introduction: a survey of
earlier progress; Age of the reformation, 1520–1648; England in the
seventeenth century; The age of Louis XIV and Frederick II, 1648–1789;
The French revolution; Reaction, 1815–1848; England and the industrial
revolution; Continental Europe, 1848–1871; England, 1815–1914; Western
Europe, 1871–1914; Slav Europe to 1914; The war and the new age. There
is a list of books for high schools, followed by an index and
pronouncing vocabulary.
* * * * *
“This present ‘Story of modern progress’ is consoling in a measure,
but also provoking. The writer has some straight views, then again,
the three-hundred-year-old tradition enfolds him.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:824 S ’20 550w
“For a one-year course in modern European history there is possibly no
better text on the market.”
+ =School R= 28:549 S ’20 280w
=WESTERVELT, GEORGE CONRAD, and others.= Triumph of the N.C.’s. il *$3
Doubleday 629.
20–7597
The N.C.’s are flying boats as distinguished from hydroaeroplanes and
the present volume contains the story of their design and building and
of their first achievements. In part 1 Commander G. C. Westervelt
tells “How the flying boats were designed and built”—the immense
number of details that had to be worked out, the numerous tests that
had to be conducted, and the many troublesome features that had to be
corrected. Part 2—The “lame duck” wins—is Lieut.-Commander A. C.
Read’s story of the transatlantic flight of the N. C. 4. Part 3
contains the log of the N. C. 3 by Commander H. C. Richardson, who
also gives an account of previous attempts at transatlantic flight.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:335 Jl ’20
“The story of the crossing is told in lively and readable narrative,
with picturesque details and with unassuming modesty.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:22 Jl 18 ’20 500w
=WESTON, GEORGE.= Mary minds her business. il *$1.75 (2½c) Dodd
20–4960
Of the long line of Josiahs of the firm of Josiah Spencer & son,
successful manufacturers, Mary’s father was the last. His cousin,
Stanley Woodward, had long been figuring on the eventuality of
Josiah’s demise, to get entire control of the business. But he had not
counted on Mary. His first shock came when Mary had herself chosen
president of the corporation and proceeded, with the coaching of a
friendly judge and business councilor to run things for herself. And
run them she did in a most revolutionary manner. She employed women to
such an extent that the factory was finally worked entirely by women
on a greater level of efficiency than ever. Other reforms went hand in
hand—a rest room, nurseries, kindergarten, laundry, an orchestra of
one hundred pieces all played by women. Of course there was fighting
to do, Uncle Stanley to be over-ruled, his son Burdon to be shown his
place. When the scheme was out of the woods and the most pressing
suitor married off, the woman in Mary was alone and aweary and it was
then that Archey Forbes, the construction engineer, came into his own.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:315 Je ’20
“The light story has sometimes, under Mr Weston’s pen, developed a
diaphanous quality, which has made us wonder why it was worth writing
at all. Now in surprising manner Mr Weston has discovered some
ideas—not very new ones perhaps, but nevertheless things of
substance.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 200w
“Brightly written, full of action, and with a love interest kept
discreetly subordinate to that of the extremely efficient Mary’s
management of the factory, this story also has the merit of dealing
with a question which many will think has been thoroughly answered—the
proper sphere of women in this age.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:30 Je 27 ’20 400w
=WEYL, MAURICE.= Happy woman. *$1.75 (2c) Kennerley
20–6129
The distinctive feature of this story is its character drawing. There
is Henry Hardwick, a man of decided ability but with just that grain
of iron lacking in his make-up that would make him a success in his
enterprises and the master of his domestic circumstance. Fred
Pemberton’s efficiency, on the other hand, verges on hardness and
almost wrecks his love-life, deep and true though it is. The two
leading women of the tale are likewise opposites, but both in the end
can claim the title. Ruth Bernstein, proud, reticent, an unusually
able business woman, but feminine in the best sense when off guard, is
happy when she yields to her love for Fred Pemberton. Dowdy, voluble,
irresponsible Mrs Hardwick is happy when she discovers that her “gift
of gab” can be put to good use in swaying and winning admiration from
an audience.
* * * * *
“‘The happy woman’ is that rather unusual thing—a genuinely realistic
novel.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:1 Mr 7 ’20 850w
+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 50w
=WHALE, GEORGE.= British airships: past, present and future. il *$2 (4c)
Lane 629.1
20–9651
Without attempting a lengthy and highly technical dissertation on
aerostatics the book briefly describes the main principles underlying
airship construction. It then gives a general history of the
development of the airship to the present day before taking up the
British airship, which had been practically neglected prior to the
twentieth century. The contents, with many illustrations and charts
are: Early airships and their development to the present day; British
airships built by private firms; British army airships; Early days of
the naval airship section—Parseval airships, Astratorres type, etc.;
Naval airships: the nonrigids; Naval airships: the rigids; The work of
the airship in the world war; The future of airships.
* * * * *
“A useful account, well illustrated.”
+ =Ath= p353 Mr 12 ’20 40w
“It is a pity that the usefulness of the book is hampered by the
absence of an index.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p717 D 4 ’19 80w
=WHARTON, ANNE HOLLINGSWORTH.=[2] In old Pennsylvania towns. il *$5 (6c)
Lippincott 974.8
21–155
The author describes a motor trip thru Pennsylvania, on which
Lancaster, Lebanon, Gettysburg, Carlisle, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh,
Wilkes-Barré, Bethlehem and other towns were visited. Philadelphia and
Germantown are omitted, as too well known, for it is the author’s
purpose to call attention to the quaint and unusual. The pictures show
many of the interesting old Pennsylvania houses.
* * * * *
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 D 29 ’20 460w
“The illustrations will delight all who are interested in early
American architecture.” M. K. Reely
+ =Pub W= 98:1891 D 18 ’20 300w
=WHARTON, MRS EDITH NEWBOLD (JONES).= Age of innocence. *$2 (1½c)
Appleton
20–18615
The milieu of the story is New York “society” in the early seventies.
It describes the old aristocracy who took life “without effusion of
blood,” who “dreaded scandal more than disease,” who “placed decency
above courage” and who considered “nothing more ill-bred than
‘scenes.’” Newland Archer was one of the few whose vision penetrated
this crust of conventionality and he fell in love with the one
off-color member of the tribe just as he had engaged himself to its
most perfect product. Ellen Olenska, wife of a profligate European
count, had left her husband and returned to America at this critical
moment and Archer hastens his marriage to May Welland before he
becomes too deeply involved with Ellen. Ellen’s fine sense of honor
and of human kindliness, on the other hand, holds him to his compact
and puts the ocean between herself and Archer by returning to Europe.
Almost thirty years later, Archer has the satisfaction of seeing his
own children step out freely and joyously on the road that had been
closed to him.
* * * * *
“The time and the scene together suit Mrs Wharton’s talent to a
nicety.” K. M.
+ − =Ath= p810 D 10 ’20 620w
=Booklist= 17:161 Ja ’21
“On the book’s enduring quality it is idle to speculate. The slight
theme beaten out with delicate care is the fashion of the day, and the
best examples will no doubt remain. What is certain, however, is that
a multitude of readers today will read with a well-justified delight
this picture of New York in the ‘seventies.’” A. E. W. Mason
+ =Bookm= 52:360 D ’20 780w
“As a matter of fact, the author of ‘The age of innocence’ is not the
Mrs Wharton of ‘The valley of decision,’ ‘The house of mirth,’ ‘Ethan
Frome’ or of any one of the several volumes of short stories with
which her reputation was made. She is the Mrs Wharton—with some of her
skill and much of her knowledge of life remaining—of a new era that
demands yellow pages in its fiction as well as yellow newspapers in
its journalism. Until she becomes again the Mrs Wharton of a decade
ago, she certainly cannot maintain her once high place among the
novelists of today.” E. F. Edgett
− + =Boston Transcript= p4 O 23 ’20 1200w
“One must occasionally be grateful in a day devoted, on the one hand,
to detail, and on the other to a futuristic sketchiness, for a
literary gift as serene as Mrs Wharton’s. Her new novel, ‘The age of
innocence,’ is the perfect fruit of an austere and disciplined art.”
L. M. R.
+ =Freeman= 2:358 D 22 ’20 240w
“The interest of the story lies, not with the doings of the rather
wooden characters of the book, but with the picture it purports to
give of New York some fifty years ago. Here the author is clearly at
fault in portraying a society of such portentous dullness and also in
representing the town as devoid of anything else. The book is full of
anachronisms which are sure to be noticed by old New-Yorkers.”
− =Lit D= p52 F 5 ’21 880w
“‘The age of innocence’ is a masterly achievement. In lonely contrast
to almost all the novelists who write about fashionable New York, she
knows her world. In lonely contrast to the many who write about what
they know without understanding it or interpreting it, she brings a
superbly critical disposition to arrange her knowledge in significant
forms.” C. V. D.
+ =Nation= 111:510 N 3 ’20 580w
“Someone told me that ‘The age of innocence’ was ‘a dull book about
New York society in the seventies.’ This is amusing. It is,
undoubtedly, a quiet book, and quietness is dullness to the
jazz-minded. It is really a book of unsparing perception and essential
passionateness, full of necessary reserve, but at the same time full
of verity.” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 24:301 N 17 ’20 1450w
“Mrs Wharton’s story-telling method is precise and neat, and it is her
own. What surprises us, however, in ‘The age of innocence’ is the
pervasive glint of oblique criticism that dazzles our eyes from almost
every page. And that criticism is no wise lessened because it happens
to be leveled against New York society of the ’70s. Is New York, or
America, so different in the year 1920?” Pierre Loving
+ =N Y Call= p10 D 12 ’20 1100w
“A fine novel, beautifully written, ‘big’ in the best sense, which has
nothing to do with size, a credit to American literature—for if its
author is cosmopolitan, her novel, as much as ‘Ethan Frome,’ is a
fruit of our soil.” H: S. Canby
+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 N 6 ’20 1100w
“By the side of the absolute mastery of plot, character and style
displayed in her latest novel, ‘The house of mirth’ seems almost
crude. Edith Wharton is a writer who brings glory on the name America,
and this is her best book. It is one of the best novels of the
twentieth century and looks like a permanent addition to literature.”
W: L. Phelps
+ =N Y Times= p1 O 17 ’20 1950w
“Mrs Wharton’s new novel is in workmanship equal to her very best
previous work. In its adequate dealing with a large motif this is a
book of far more than ephemeral value.” R. D. Townsend
+ =Outlook= 126:653 D 8 ’20 620w
“The plot is unobvious, delicately developed, with a fine finale that
exquisitely satisfies one’s sense of fitness, and as always with Mrs
Wharton, the drama of character is greater than that of event. One
revels recognizingly in her clean-cut distinction of style, the
inerrant aptness of adjectives, the vivisective phrase.” Katharine
Perry
+ =Pub W= 98:1195 O 16 ’20 520w
“The limitations of the present note on Mrs Wharton’s new story may be
revealed by the confession that the annotator’s delight in it as a
picture is greatly tempered by his distrust of its leading male
figure. I don’t much like this Newland Archer, and I don’t quite
believe in his existence; and this doubt curdles my faith in the
integrity of the story as a whole.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Review= 3:476 N 17 ’20 1100w
“From a literary point of view, this story is on a level with Mrs
Wharton’s best work. As a retrospect of the early ‘seventies, it is
less satisfactory, being marred by numerous historical lapses.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:458 D 4 ’20 360w
“The picture is so finished, so convincing, and withal so
entertaining, that the study of these pages is recommended to all
students of manners.”
+ =Spec= 126:55 Ja 8 ’21 720w
“The greatest defect in the book is that of the character of Ellen,
whom her creator constantly asserts to be charming, but who does not
in the least produce that effect on the reader.” Lilian Whiting
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 720w
“Altogether Mrs Wharton has accomplished one of the best pieces of her
work so far. As for her picture of the times, how is any of us over
here to criticize it, beyond saying that it is full of vivacity and of
character and of colour, and that there is not a point in it which
seems to be false?”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p775 N 25 ’20 1200w
“This theme, the contrast of times and manners, dealt with in some of
her short stories, is one Mrs Wharton handles with skill.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:239 D ’20 90w
=WHARTON, MRS EDITH NEWBOLD (JONES).= In Morocco. il *$4 Scribner 916.4
20–17098
“In 1918 Mrs Wharton, under the guidance of a French military mission,
in a French army motor, spent a month traveling in Morocco. Her
account of her travels in a country without a guide book is for the
benefit of the travelers who she feels sure will flood the land when
the war is over. All the properties of an Arabian Nights tale are
here.” (Nation) “In the space of one month a military automobile
carried her from Tangier to Marrakech, from Rabat to Fez. She entered
the sacred city of Moulay Idriss, the surviving stronghold of the
Idrissite rule; she walked the streets of ancient Salé, the
‘Phoenician counting house and breeder of Barbary pirates’; she
examined the ruins of Volubilis, the African outpost of the Roman
legions; and she enjoyed the hospitality of his Majesty the Sultan
Moulay Youssef and his favorites in ‘the happiest harem in Morocco.’”
(N Y Times)
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:68 N ’20
“Edith Wharton’s ‘In Morocco’ is a model of restrained and rounded
prose, as well as a vivid picture of oriental richness.” Margaret
Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:344 D ’20 60w
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 22 ’20 920w
“‘In Morocco’ adds another swiftly-told, graceful, vivid, and yet
informative travel book to Mrs Wharton’s globe-trotting shelf.”
+ =Dial= 70:231 F ’21 50w
“The best thing a returned traveler can do is to give you not facts
but atmosphere. Edith Wharton in ‘In Morocco’ does this for you
excellently well, partly because she is so impersonal, never intruding
her own reactions, simply bringing up the scene around you with all
its blinding sunlight, desert heat and vivid colors.”
+ =Ind= 104:242 N 13 ’20 170w
Reviewed by Irita Van Doren
=Nation= 111:479 O 27 ’20 680w
“The combination of authenticated facts and illuminating comment makes
her book fascinating.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p18 N 13 ’20 150w
“The publication of ‘In Morocco,’ by Mrs Wharton, is practically
simultaneous with that of her most recent novel, ‘The age of
innocence.’ Both of these books add security to their author’s
position as one of the foremost contemporary writers of English prose.
Never before has Mrs Wharton enjoyed so ideal an opportunity to
display her gifts of colorful description as she does in this volume.”
B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Times= p9 O 31 ’20 980w
“Nothing seen by her sensitive, unsparing eye is omitted, and her
nervous style never fails to convey the effect at which she aims.”
+ =Sat R= 130:339 O 23 ’20 360w
+ =Spec= 125:541 O 23 ’20 200w
“The duration of her visit—one month—was fortunately too short for her
to carry out her intention of writing a guide-book. One writes
‘fortunately,’ for her book would have lost in broad suggestiveness
far more than it would have gained from precision in detail. With her
knowledge of other countries and peoples, her sensitiveness, her gift
of vivid description, and her unobtruded skill in ordered
presentation, she does more than one would have thought possible to
convey what was suddenly revealed to her eyes to those who will never
see it with their own.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p649 O 7 ’20 1200w
=WHEAT, GEORGE SEAY=, ed.[2] Municipal landing fields and air ports. il
*$1.75 Putnam 629.1
20–22004
The book is a compilation with chapters by the chief of the army air
service, General Menoher, the director of naval aviation Captain
Craven and their officers in charge of landing field operations. The
most acute and immediate problem now facing commercial aeronautics is
the need for flying routes and landing fields. It is the object of the
book to present all that this involves in concrete form. Besides
illustrations, diagrams, a map and an appendix containing a list of
landing fields on file in the office of the chief of air service, the
contents are: The need for landing fields; The present plight of
flight; How to construct a field; Aircraft hangers; Aerial routes;
Naval air ports; Airplanes and seaplanes.
=WHEELER, EVERETT PEPPERRELL.= Lawyer’s study of the Bible; its answer
to the questions of today. *$1.50 Revell
19–19947
“Mr Wheeler’s book is really a study of life, and he uses the Bible in
interpreting life. His chapter titles indicate this characteristic of
his volume: they are such as The presence of God in the soul of man;
Prayer; Socialism; War; Labor, capital, and strikes; Immortality.
Incidentally he asks what light does the Bible throw on these
problems?”—Outlook
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p6 D 24 ’19 550w
=Outlook= 124:119 Ja 21 ’20 220w
“Perhaps the most important feature for the average reader is the
adaptation of legal procedure into rules for the study of the Bible.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 18 ’20 180w
=WHIBLEY, CHARLES.= Literary studies. *$3 Macmillan 820.4
20–1521
“Five of these eight studies are from the ‘Cambridge history of
English literature.’ They deal with phases of literature in the
sixteenth, seventeenth, and early eighteenth centuries. The others are
on Rogues and vagabonds of Shakespeare’s time (a chapter in
‘Shakespeare’s England,’ 1916), Sir Walter Raleigh (from Blackwood’s),
and Jonathan Swift, a Leslie Stephen lecture at Cambridge, 1917.”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup N 13 ’19
* * * * *
“Mr Whibley is as readable as ever.”
+ =Ath= p1241 N 21 ’19 70w
“He has the first requisite of a critic: interest in his subject, and
ability to communicate an interest in it. His defects are both of
intellect and feeling. He has no dissociative faculty. There were very
definite vices and definite shortcomings and immaturities in the
literature he admires; and as he is not the person to tell us of the
vices and shortcomings, he is not the person to lay before us the work
of absolutely the finest quality.” T. S. E.
+ − =Ath= p1332 D 12 ’19 1350w
Reviewed by Augustine Birrell
+ =Nation= 111:159 Ag 7 ’20 20w
“Mr Whibley, by being included among the journalists, dignifies
journalism. His way is not that of the headline, nor are his literary
manners those of the siren in a fog—a not unfair description of much
that appears in the journal to which he is a weekly contributor it?)
acquired the habit of writing for the sake of filling a column.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:61 Ja 17 ’20 650w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p653 N 13 ’19 60w
“It is very convenient to have these essays detached from the larger
volumes in which they first appeared. Here they express the author’s
own mind, they support and answer one another, not dressed and drilled
by an editor in company not of their own choice. Here there is harmony
among them.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p691 N 27 ’19 2000w
=WHIPPLE, GUY MONTROSE.= Classes for gifted children. (School and home
education monographs) $1.25 Public-school 371.9
19–14686
Detailed account of an experiment successfully carried out in the year
1917 in the public school of Urbana, Illinois, consisting of selecting
and training especially gifted, or super-average children. Fifteen
pupils from the fifth grade, also fifteen from the sixth, constituted
the special class. Of these thirty, it was found eight had been
wrongly selected as gifted. The remaining twenty-two completed a two
years’ course in one, without forcing or fatigue, in addition to
gaining certain cultural advantages. Through tests applied, and
results observed, a more reliable standard of selecting children than
that of teachers’ marks was evolved. The book includes an analytical
study of talent in drawing, with an annotated bibliography, and it
closes with a partial bibliography on gifted children and education.
Dr Whipple, formerly professor of education, University of Illinois,
is at present professor of applied psychology, Carnegie institute of
technology.
=WHITAKER, ALBERT CONSER.= Foreign exchange. *$5 (2c) Appleton 332.4
20–1958
The book, the author suggests, will serve the double purpose of a
practical business manual, and a treatise in economics. “Stated
briefly, the subjects of study in this volume are the methods or
proceedings and the forms or documents of foreign-trade settlement,
banking, and financing. Belonging with these, the international
movement of gold and the measures taken to influence it are examined
at length.” (Preface) A partial list of the contents is: Means of
payment and commercial paper; The negotiability of commercial paper;
Discount and interest; Commercial banking; The rates of exchange; The
bank credit and letter of credit; Foreign money market factors;
Speculation in exchange; The mint price and the market price of gold;
Standard money; Monetary systems of the leading nations; Specie
shipments; Addendum and index.
* * * * *
“This volume is probably in many ways the most satisfactory that has
appeared up to the present time on foreign exchange.” M. J. Shugrue
+ =Am Econ R= 10:370 Je ’20 450w
=R of Rs= 61:447 Ap ’20 120w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 80w
=WHITAKER, CHARLES HARRIS.= Joke about housing. *$2 Jones, Marshall
331.83
20–6282
Housing is here treated as a problem of land values. The remedy for
present conditions is “for the state to put an end to the frightful
waste involved in our present riotous development of land, and thus
make the house a stable element of our national life, free from the
destructive effects of speculation in land which forces speculation in
building and which always brings communal disaster in its train.” The
subject is discussed in seven chapters: Why do we have houses? The
house and the home—a world program; Houses and wages; The employer and
the housing question; The two plants; What are the possible ways out
of the dilemma in housing? The general problem of land control. In the
appendixes two prize essays on the solution of the housing problem are
reprinted. The author is editor of the Journal of the American
Institute of Architects.
* * * * *
“The style in which the book is written should make this book one of
the most popular works on housing. Like all books devoted to the
presentation and emphasis of one fundamental idea the work suffers
from lack of perspective in so far as its use as a work upon which a
thoroughly constructive housing program could be built.” Carol
Aronovici
+ − =Am J Soc= 26:244 S ’20 370w
=Booklist= 16:301 Je ’20
Reviewed by L: Mumford
+ =Freeman= 1:501 Ag 4 ’20 440w
“Some will no doubt assert that he lays too much stress upon the idea
that the solution hangs upon the disallowance of speculation in land.
Possibly this single subject is over stressed. But relative emphasis
is a matter of little importance. What is of importance is that the
subject of land and profit and speculative adventuring has been
intimately connected with housing in the sense of cause and effect.
The importance of this change of base, so to speak, in approaching the
problem can not be overrated.” F. L. A.
+ =J Am Inst of Architects= 8:342 S ’20 1050w
=N Y Times= 25:268 My 23 ’20 1000w
“The book is written from a full heart and with sympathetic
understanding for the aspirations of common folks; it is one of the
most readable tracts from the ‘left wing’ of the housing movement that
we have seen.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 44:253 My 15 ’20 360w
=WHITE, BENJAMIN.=[2] Gold, its place in the economy of mankind. il $1
Pitman 669.2
20–21980
In the volume of the Common commodities and industries series devoted
to gold, chapters take up: Its appreciation—ancient and modern; Its
properties and distribution; The production of early times; The
production of the nineteenth century; Present production and
prospects; The evolution of British coinage; The mintage of the world;
The gold standard; The movements of gold; Stocks; Industrial use; Gold
and the great war. There are illustrations, tables, an index and a
brief list of works consulted.
* * * * *
“The tables should be of interest to students of commercial geography
and economics.”
+ =Nature= 105:774 Ag 19 ’20 80w
=WHITE, BENJAMIN.= Silver, its intimate association with the daily life
of man. il $1 Pitman 669.2
(Eng ed 18–801)
In this volume of Pitman’s common commodities and industries the
author treats his subject under three heads; Production; Industrial
consumption; Utility as money, past and future. There are several
illustrations and tables and two folding charts. Some of the tables
are based on the annual reports of the director of the United States
mint. There is an index.
* * * * *
“Contains much of service to teachers and students.”
+ =Nature= 105:774 Ag 19 ’20 60w
=WHITE, MRS GRACE (MILLER).= Storm country Polly. il *$1.75 (2c) Little
20–8242
The scene of the story is a squatter colony on the shores of Lake
Cayuga. The colony is known as Silent City and Jeremiah Hopkins is its
unofficial mayor. His daughter Polly is the story’s heroine. Polly,
the one person in Evelyn Robertson’s confidence, knows the story of
Evelyn’s secret marriage to Oscar Bennett. Evelyn desires release, for
she is now in love with Marc MacKenzie, the man making war on the
squatters, and Bennett will grant it only on condition that Polly
agrees to marry him. And Evelyn, who might intercede with MacKenzie,
promises to do so if Polly will pay the price, but Polly cannot, for
she is in love with Robert Percival, Evelyn’s cousin. Marc carries out
his threats. Daddy Hopkins is sent to jail, wee Jerry is torn from
Polly’s arms and her love is turned to hate. But not for long and love
triumphs all round in the end.
* * * * *
“A more apt title for the book would have been ‘Storm country
Pollyanna,’ for the leading figure in the novel is so good that it
almost hurts to think of her. In spite of the archaic construction and
material of the story, it manages to sustain a certain amount of
interest.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:252 My 16 ’20 200w
=WHITE, SAMUEL ALEXANDER.= Ambush. il *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday
20–11893
In the days when the Hudson’s Bay company, north of Lake Superior, is
fighting two rival fur trading companies, Paul Carlisle is factor of
one of their most important posts. In addition to his never-ending
disturbances with the Free traders and the Northwest Fur company, his
position is further complicated by the fact that he is in love with
Joan Wayne, daughter of the Free trader’s chief. And as if being his
business rival were not enough, Ralph Wayne is in addition Paul’s
bitter personal enemy, for a reason which Paul at first can not
understand. But the cause of this enmity is made clear to him
presently by Richelieu, the third party in this three-cornered
rivalry, the manager of the Northwest Fur company, and also in love
with Joan. Eventually Paul wins out both in business and love, after a
series of exciting and dramatic events.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:75 N ’20
=WHITE, SAMUEL ALEXANDER.= Foaming fore shore. il *$1.50 (2½c) Doubleday
20–16344
A tale of the sea. Cap’n Walter Taylor is a fisherman in Newfoundland
waters, but becomes a fugitive as the result of breaking some of the
fishing regulations. He takes refuge in the Magdalen Islands and there
finds Madeline Boucher, with whom he speedily falls in love. But
Jacques Beauport, his hereditary enemy, as his father before him had
hated him, has been on the field first, and considers Madeline engaged
to him. He seeks Taylor out to return him to justice, but Taylor has
no idea of tamely submitting to this, and the chase grows exciting
before its finish. Finally a decision of the Hague tribunal puts
Taylor in the right, but not before Beauport has lost his life in his
spiteful attempt to make Taylor suffer. The story is full of
descriptions of fishing and sailing in the turbulent northern waters.
=WHITE, STEWART EDWARD.= Killer. il *$1.75 (1c) Doubleday
20–9477
“The killer,” which opens this collection, is a story of novelette
length. It is a story of the old West with a central character whose
malignity and propensity for killing extends even to birds and
insects. He never kills men, but has only to nod to one of his Mexican
servitors and the desired deed is accomplished. How a reckless young
cowboy took a dare and asked for a night’s lodging at his ranch and
what followed form the substance of the story. Two shorter tales, The
road agent and The tide, come next and the remainder of the book is
taken up with three descriptive essays reminiscent of Mr White’s
earlier work in “The forest.” The titles are: Climbing for goats;
Moisture, a trace; The ranch.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:351 Jl ’20
“‘The killer,’ the first story in Stewart Edward White’s new book, is
crammed with action, exciting, unexpected, mysterious; in the last
story, ‘The ranch,’ nothing happens at all and yet the chances are
that you will read them both with interest and joy. The moral of which
of course is that the important thing about a tale is the way you tell
it.”
+ =Ind= 104:66 O 9 ’20 150w
“The essays in the volume are entirely delightful.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:237 My 9 ’20 550w
“Mr White knows the old land of the cowboys, desert, ranches, and
border raiding settlements as do few writers of the present day.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 380w
“Mr White belongs to the school of American literature which has been
more popular than any other in this country principally because we
ourselves have nothing similar to it. From the point of view of
construction his stories are, as he himself allows, irregular, but for
sheer gustiness they are hard to equal.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p586 S 9 ’20 360w
=WHITE, STEWART EDWARD.= Rose dawn. *$1.90 (1c) Doubleday
20–21290
This novel follows “Gold” and “The grey dawn” and completes Mr White’s
California trilogy. It is a story of the transition period of the
eighties when the great ranchos of the cattle era began to give place
to irrigation and the small fruit farm, and pictures the land boom
that heralded the change. It opens with a fiesta at Corona del Monte,
the rancho of Colonel Peyton, an old time Californian, who with his
wife, Allie, dispenses hospitality to all comers with the high-handed
manners of the old days. Other characters are Brainerd, the easterner
who experiments with irrigation on a small scale, foreseeing the
future of the country from a scientific point of view, and Patrick
Boyd, who recognizes its financial future. The romance of the story
develops between Daphne Brainerd and Kenneth Boyd, and the plot turns
on the rallying of all the colonel’s friends, including Sing Toy, his
cook, to save Corona del Monte. The story ran as a serial in the
Saturday Evening Post.
* * * * *
“Mr White has always written good books, but he has never written as
good a novel as ‘The rose dawn.’ Incidentally it is by far the best of
his California trilogy.” G. M. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 13 ’20 440w
“The book is written by one who loves to write. We have the leisurely
style of the Victorians. The writer goes into byways of description
and character drawing, forcing us to his mood. In the art of
description he is unusually gifted. One could not imagine this book
dramatized, the action is of so little importance. The story,
nevertheless, is delightful.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 300w
“In this sequel to ‘Gold’ and ‘The grey dawn,’ there is all the charm,
scenic coloring and clean-cut delineation of character which
distinguished the earlier works.”
+ =N Y Times= p23 O 31 ’20 380w
“With much to commend it as narrative and as descriptive of
California, ‘The rose dawn’ is an addition to the White novels that
many readers will welcome.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 150w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:239 D ’20 90w
=WHITE, WILLIAM ALANSON.= Thoughts of a psychiatrist on the war and
after. $1.75 Hoeber 940.3
19–15865
“The author sees in the social upheavals incident to the war and after
merely a reflection on a huge and unprecedented scale of the phenomena
which the psychiatrist encounters daily in frustrated individual
lives. It is because of this that he endeavors to apply some of the
psychological principles which have been found to be of help in
adjusting individual lives for the purpose of a better understanding
of the changes that have come with the war and as an aid to their
adjustment.”—Survey
* * * * *
“The brevity of the book will make it difficult for readers
unacquainted with psychoanalytic literature. If it leads some of these
into the more extended discussions of the psychology of war it will
accomplish what doubtless was the purpose of the author.” E. R. Groves
+ − =Am J Soc= 26:238 S ’20 150w
Reviewed by A. R. Hale
+ − =Freeman= 2:333 D 15 ’20 650w
“The psychiatrist adds his hope to the hopes of the advocates of a
league of nations that shall make it possible to outgrow war, as men
in socialized communities have outgrown their older, cruder ways. Such
a confirmation of our political hopes by scientific analysis is
encouraging; and Dr White maintains his thesis with skill and
interest.”
+ =Nation= 110:114 Ja 24 ’20 650w
“The book is an interesting contribution to individual and social
psychology and is written with the lucidity characteristic of the
author. It ought to prove of considerable help to those interested in
the problems of individual and social maladjustment.” Bernard Glueck
+ =Survey= 44:307 My 29 ’20 360w
=WHITE, WILLIAM PATTERSON.= Hidden trails. il *$1.90 (1½c) Doubleday
20–12058
This tale starts merrily with two wild west killings before the
twentieth page, and whiskey and shots follow one another briskly
thruout the book. Johnny Ramsay, “an impulsive young man of uncertain
temper,” is the hero. He undertakes to earn the reward offered for the
capture of the bandits who are making the life of Sunset county
exciting at the time. He has two pals in partnership with him in his
private detective work, Racey Dawson and Telescope Laguerre, but to
Johnny belongs most of the credit. The bandits prove to be a large
band, and it is no easy job to round them all up, but Johnny very
nearly accomplishes it. His life is not always safe; once he comes
perilously near being lynched, but thanks to a girl, he is spared. The
tale is certainly not lacking in adventure, with a dash of romance
added.
* * * * *
“There is a clever, though somewhat involved plot which keeps the
reader guessing. The dialect and style seem crude in spots. On the
order of ‘The Virginian,’ though not so well done.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:161 Ja ’21
“Though the story possesses a definite human appeal, is entertaining,
and contains several suggestive bits of landscape description, it is
not done with deftness or a sure touch.” L. B.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p10 D 8 ’20 430w
“It shows so firm a touch, such sure and skillful handling of
materials and so good an eye for local color that it bespeaks for Mr
White a cordial welcome to the realms of authorship and gives hopeful
promise of his future work.”
+ =N Y Times= p23 Ag 8 ’20 300w
=WHITE, WILLIAM PATTERSON.= Lynch lawyers. il *$1.75 (1½c) Little
20–625
A story of the wild West opening with a stage coach robbery. The
occurrence is one of a chain of daring deeds and, much to the
discomfort of Red Kane, the evidence seems to point to a recently
arrived “nester,” Ben Lorimer. At first sight Red had fallen
hopelessly in love with Lorimer’s daughter Dot and he knows that a man
who takes a stand against her father will have no chance with the
girl. He protects the father from a lynching mob, is shot and nursed
back to health by the girl. Eventually after much action and many
complications the mystery of Lorimer’s past is cleared away and all
ends well.
* * * * *
“The story as a whole is a masterpiece of remarkable conversation, and
excellent descriptions.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 250w
“Written along thoroughly familiar lines, the story is considerably
longer and very much slower in movement than are the majority of such
tales. The book contains a fair amount of bloodshed, and gunplay
enough to satisfy the most exacting.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:22 Ja 18 ’20 300w
“A cowboy story with wild excitement in every chapter and a strong
touch of romance to offset the sensationalism.”
+ =Outlook= 124:249 F 11 ’20 20w
=WHITE, WILLIAM PATTERSON.=[2] Paradise Bend. il *$1.90 (2c) Doubleday
20–18297
A story with all the features of the western thriller. Tom Loudon is
in love with Kate Saltoun, his employer’s daughter and when he learns
that she is engaged to Sam Blakely he throws up his job and leaves. He
had long suspected that Blakely is responsible for the frequent
disappearances of cattle, but “Old Salt” had refused to believe his
neighbor guilty and Kate sides with her father. With Tom’s departure
for Paradise Bend Blakely manages to throw the blame on him and he
narrowly escapes arrest and lynching. Sudden death lies in wait and is
averted in countless other forms before the story closes, with the
villains receiving their just deserts and the lovers happy.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:161 Ja ’21
“Nothing in this book distinguishes it from the crops of mediocre
western novels which glut the market year after year and which all
seem to be made according to a standard recipe.”
− =N Y Evening Post= p21 O 23 ’20 120w
“What ‘Paradise Bend’ lacks in literary finish and pretensions to
intellectual pabulum it replaces with a plenitude of skill in
construction and dialogue.”
+ − =N Y Times= p20 D 5 ’20 430w
=WHITEHOUSE, VIRA (BOARMAN) (MRS NORMAN DE R. WHITEHOUSE).= Year as a
government agent. il *$3 (4c) Harper 940.48
20–2700
When our country entered the war Mrs Whitehouse was appointed by
George Creel as representative for Switzerland of the Committee on
public information. Her duties were to give every possible publicity
to American news through the press, through special articles and
pamphlets and motion-picture reels. The book is an accurate, honest
account of her experiences, throwing interesting sidelights on
diplomacy open and otherwise. Not until the difficulties she
encountered in the American legation at Berne drove her to abandon her
undertaking and return to America, did she in her second attempt
succeed in breaking through the diplomatic armor plate and in gaining
a foothold for her work. The contents are: My appointment; Diplomatic
methods; The vanishing news service; Apparent defeat; To America and
back; At work; Success under difficulties; One thing after another;
Swiss problems; The approaching end; Grief and adventure; Strife and
confusion; The end of the year. There are illustrations and appendices
containing the correspondence and cablegrams between Washington and
the American legation on the one hand and Mrs Whitehouse on the other.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 13 ’20 460w
“She writes of important international work from an agreeably personal
angle.”
+ =Ind= 104:244 N 13 ’20 220w
“Our conviction that her story is essentially true is not only because
of her own definiteness and of the evidence the older diplomatic
tradition gives about itself in the appendix, but also because of our
general experience throughout the reign of war psychology. Mrs
Whitehouse has the gift of taking the reader along with her in her
adventure.” Edith Borie
+ =New Repub= 23:67 Je 9 ’20 1100w
“Aside from its historical interest, the book has fascination as a
narrative, for Mrs Whitehouse possesses the very great gift of
unconsciousness. The story runs as simply as though she were telling
it over a table, and there is a delightful, if somewhat caustic, vein
of humor that gives color to the whole.” G: Creel
+ =N Y Times= 25:1 F 22 ’20 1700w
“A reading of her book, interesting as it is, leaves one in doubt as
to whether it is an apologia or a suffrage tract. Further, it exposes
again the error of creating an extra-legal government department, the
Committee on public information, with authority to act abroad in
matters of foreign policy independently of the Department of state.”
+ − =Review= 2:208 F 28 ’20 380w
=R of Rs= 61:445 Ap ’20 50w
“Besides being a woman of invincible courage and executive ability, as
her work in Switzerland proved, Mrs Whitehouse shows in her book that
she has a sense of humor and pleasing ability as a writer.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 8 ’20 300w
“In a delightfully straightforward style Mrs Whitehouse has told the
story of her work in Switzerland.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:120 Je ’20 80w
=WHITELEY, OPAL STANLEY.= Story of Opal (Eng title, Diary of Opal
Whiteley). il $2 (2c) Atlantic monthly press
20–19873
This “Journal of an understanding heart” (Sub-title) is the diary of
an orphan, brought up in a lumber camp, and is ascribed to the end of
her sixth and to her seventh year. Before her adoption by strange
people she evidently had a careful bringing up and careful instruction
from a loving mother, as the outpourings of her childish heart and
bits of her history reveal. The records are remarkable for the deep
and loving insight into nature and the child’s communion with animal
and plant life, which they reveal. Parts of the diary have appeared in
the Atlantic Monthly.
* * * * *
“We have no space to pursue our analysis into details. An amateur
Sherlock Holmes will find much of interest in this volume. For
instance, is the vocabulary consistent? Is the idiom consistent? Is
the ignorance consistent? For the rest, and in spite of Earl Grey’s
‘sheer delight’ in the book, we find it flat, dreary, utterly
uninteresting, a reductio ad absurdum of, as we have hinted, the
American sentimental novel.” J. W. N. S.
− =Ath= p372 S 17 ’20 1400w
“Nature lovers and lovers of childhood especially will be delighted by
it.”
+ =Booklist= 17:69 N ’20
“The truest thing about the journal to my own mind is its truth of
emotion—it is the absolute record of a child’s emotion.” A. C. Moore
+ =Bookm= 52:258 N ’20 740w
“Completely delightful book.” C. H. O.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 29 ’20 2200w
“That it is a beautiful and touching and piercingly honest revelation
of an imaginative child’s spirit seems to me evident beyond cavil.”
Christopher Morley
+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 N 13 ’20 1200w
“The question asked with regard to ‘The young visiters’ is being
repeated in connection with the present book—‘Could a child really
write it?’ Only a child could have written ‘The story of Opal.’ No
adult could put into language such innocent and spontaneous grace
combined with such freshness of perception.” Marguerite Wilkinson
+ =N Y Times= p14 O 3 ’20 1900w
“If ever the word unique is appropriate to a literary production,
certainly it is here. The reader sometimes tires of the singular
manner and strange expressions in the diary, but he never fails to
feel the genuine fineness and charm of Opal’s love for animals and
trees and all of out-of-doors, and her sweetness and affection toward
the few human beings who responded to her appeal.”
+ =Outlook= 126:201 S 29 ’20 1150w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ − =Review= 3:269 S 29 ’20 120w
“The book is so incessantly sentimental as to be very tiresome reading
to most English people—Americans seem to have stronger stomachs.
Again, the inverted style is tedious—almost perhaps as tedious as the
humour.”
− =Spec= 125:504 O 16 ’20 750w
“The style of the diary is irresistible. Full of quaint phrases,
unconscious humor, the profound philosophies of childhood, the
sentences move along in solemn, yet sparkling procession.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 720w
“It is not safe to dogmatize upon the limits of precocity, but the
hand at work in many passages is prima facie not that of the
six-year-old, but of the more mature professional humorist. Whatever
be the solution, the main interest of the book is its vitality of
imagination and its pregnancy of issues bearing upon child life
remains unaffected.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 N 13 ’20 230w (Reprinted from London
Observer)
“We may say without absurdity that the child has a style. And it
reaches, particularly towards the end of the diary, a rare poetic
suggestiveness. We hope that Opal Whiteley will write the other books
she planned in childhood, but we do not expect them to be like this
book; it is one of those inspirations which can seldom be repeated.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p593 S 16 ’20 2500w
=WHITHAM, G. I.= St John of Honeylea. *$1.75 (1½c) Lane
20–7526
When Evelyn St John was ten he was left an orphan in the keeping of a
hard aunt. Of his father’s family he knew nothing. By force of
character and personal charm he holds his own, makes friends and
achieves a sheep farm at the Cape, when at the age of thirty he falls
heir to the ancestral estate of the St John’s, Honeylea, in the south
of England. In reality he had inherited much more: dark mysteries, a
curse and the hatred and suspicions of a neighborhood. Honeylea had
once been abbey land, had been wrested from the monks, who still
haunted the woods where they had been murdered and had cursed the
place. What became the banqueting hall of Honeylea had once been a
church and all the St Johns had come to grief—the curse and their own
pride being their undoing. The modern skepticism and moral courage of
the present St John struggles bravely against the atmosphere and
hidden malignity of the place which he loves for its beauty. Not until
he has learned to pray as a last refuge from despair and the house is
burned, is the curse lifted and fortune in love returns to a St John.
* * * * *
=Ath= p1354 D 12 ’19 40w
“A very good bit of character work, an intensely absorbing story, this
will appeal equally to those who love realistic tales of today, and to
the fortunate folk who are made happy by medieval legends of days of
old. For the book has both.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 9 ’20 480w
“Those who read ‘Mr Manley’ will not need to be told that G. I.
Whitham knows how to write an interesting story. And ‘St John of
Honeylea’ is an improvement on her earlier book, more convincing and
better written, to say nothing of its possession of an unusually
romantic and picturesque atmosphere.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:236 My 9 ’20 600w
“It is a good book, and many interesting people are to be met in it;
not the least of whom are two who live only in the descriptions of the
neighbours who have known them, ‘Uncle Charles,’ and his nephew and
successor Cecil, the two last owners of the house. They are perhaps
more distinctly drawn than any of the actual characters of the story.”
+ =Sat R= 128:590 D 20 ’19 480w
“The subject sounds familiar, but Mr Whitham has treated it in an
original way.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p694 N 27 ’19 450w
=WHITIN, CORA BERRY.= Wounded words. *$1 Four seas co. 793
20–1007
A little book of rhymed charades designed by the author for the
entertainment of convalescent soldiers. At the end a key is provided
by which answers may be tested.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p10 Ap 17 ’20 140w
=Cath World= 111:554 Jl ’20 70w
“Mrs Whitin has been more concerned with ingenuity of expression than
with Tennysonian polish of her verses.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 2 ’20 120w
=WHITING, GERTRUDE.= Lace guide for makers and collectors. il *$15
Dutton 746
20–2109
“While this is a book which few people would enjoy for leisure
reading, it represents the work of years of careful study of a subject
which is nearest and dearest to the author’s heart. The work was
produced, with the cooperation of lace experts of the Metropolitan
museum for the guidance of students, makers, collectors and
classifiers of bobbin laces. The author explains in detail the general
rules for making various laces. These rules are expanded to include
all variations from the simple grounds to the most complex stitches of
many patterns of laces.” (Springf’d Republican) “The book is profusely
illustrated with plates giving key designs, with accompanying
directions to show students of lace how certain meshes are woven, to
aid those planning to produce lace, and to assist classifiers and
collectors in identifying laces. The book also contains a bibliography
and lace nomenclature in five languages.” (Nation)
* * * * *
“There is an increasing interest in lacemaking and lace collecting in
this country, and Miss Whiting’s thorough technical knowledge as
imparted in this book will do much to foster the movement.”
+ =Nation= 110:773 Je 5 ’20 280w
“The author has undertaken an arduous task, which she accomplishes
with seeming ease. The explanations are made yet more valuable by the
excellent photographs.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 26 ’20 380w
=WHITING, JOHN D.= Practical illustration; a guide for artists. il *$3
Harper 741
20–21999
The book deals with the problems peculiar to the work of the
illustrator and the commercial designer and proposes to acquaint him
with actual conditions in the publishing world. It is offered as a
textbook for the teacher of “applied art” and a guide to the student.
It is indexed and profusely illustrated—many of the plates in
color—and the contents are: Looking over the field; Pictorial art for
reproduction; Concerning illustrations; Concerning cover designs;
Concerning commercial designs; Filling “rush orders”; Mechanical
reproduction; Processes in color; Some concrete examples; The
published art of tomorrow.
=WHITLATCH, MARSHALL.= Golf; for beginners—and others. il *$2 (4c)
Macmillan 796
The author had disdained golf as a mollycoddle game but when he tried
it, it hit him hard. He spent much time—wasted it—copying the style of
professional experts, till he came to the conclusion that—barring a
few fundamentals—it is an individual game for which each player must
develop his own method. The object of the book is to call attention to
the fundamental principles that must be observed under every form or
method. The book is well illustrated and some of the chapter headings
are: Balance the foundation of golf; Getting the power into the ball;
Accuracy—not distance; Making the swing; Ease rather than effort; The
part the body plays; On the putting green.
* * * * *
“There is little advice in it which may not be found in other books of
its kind, but Mr Whitlatch has suited his instructions particularly to
the man who takes up golf in middle age with the handicap that his
years force upon him. The illustrations are rather more radical than
the text.”
+ =N Y Times= p28 Ag 1 ’20 390w
=WHITMAN, ROGER BRADBURY.=[2] Tractor principles. il *$2 Appleton 621.14
20–17311
Tractors are far from being as standardized as automobiles and there
are almost as many types and designs as there are tractor makers. A
man competent to handle and care for one type may be at a loss as to
how to handle another. The purpose of the book is to describe and
explain all the mechanisms in common use so that anyone may be able to
identify and understand the parts of any make. The contents are:
Tractor principles; Engine principles; Engine parts; Fuels and
carburetion; Carbureters; Ignition; Battery ignition systems;
Transmission; Tractor arrangement; Lubrication; Tractor operation;
Engine maintenance; Locating trouble; Causes of trouble. The book is
indexed and carefully illustrated.
=WHITMAN, WALT.=[2] Gathering of the forces. il 2v *$15 Putnam 814
The books contain the editorials, essays, literary and dramatic
reviews and other material written by Walt Whitman as editor of the
Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 1846 and 1847. The editors of the collection
are Cleveland Rodgers and John Black, the latter contributing a
foreword, inspired by the spirit of Whitman, and the former a sketch
of Whitman’s life and work. The contents fall into seven parts with
classification of the articles as follows: Part 1—Democracy: American
democracy; Europe and America; Government; Patriotism. Part
2—Humanity: Hanging, prison reform, unfortunates; Education, children;
Labor, female labor; Emigrants; England’s oppression of Ireland. Part
3—Slavery and the Mexican war: The extension of slavery; The union of
states; War with Mexico; The Oregon boundary dispute. Part 4—Politics;
Political controversies; Two local political campaigns; Civic
interests; Free trade and the currency system. Part 5—Essays,
personalities, short editorials; General essays; Personalities of the
time; “The art of health”; Short editorials; Whitman as a paragrapher.
Part 6—Literature, book reviews, drama, etc. Part 7—Two short stories
not included in Whitman’s published works: The love of Eris; A legend
of life and love. The books are illustrated and indexed.
* * * * *
Reviewed by E. F. Edgett
=Boston Transcript= p4 D 24 ’20 1550w
“To those who knew him only by his great and minor poems or by the
stories of his vanities and eccentricities, these volumes will be a
revelation. They reveal his soul as it grew; and nothing will be more
surprising than their conventional form, their respect for the current
conventions of morality, and their unforced and clear style.” M. F.
Egan
+ =N Y Times= p2 Ja 2 ’21 3000w
“It is a human document, a great side-light on Whitman’s poems, and
incidentally, a mine of information on a host of matters of temporary
and local interest.” F: T. Cooper
+ =Pub W= 99:168 Ja 15 ’21 600w
=WHO= was who. *$6.50 Macmillan 920
(Eng ed 20–14622)
“This book fills the gap between the standard biographical
dictionaries and the current Who’s who. It contains the notices,
reprinted from former volumes of Who’s who, of those more or less
well-known persons who died between 1897 and 1916, with the dates of
their deaths. It runs to nearly eight hundred pages of small
type.”—Spec
* * * * *
“There is no reason why ‘Who was who’ should not be a democratic work
instead of what it is now. There is even no reason why it should not
be readable. Accidental exclusion must always occur; deliberate ought
never. We commend to the editors the ‘Modern English biography’ of
Frederic Boase, as a model of hard fact, of brevity, and yet of
amplitude. At the same time, we recognize the greatness of their task
and the great usefulness (in the right quarter) of their volume.”
+ − =Ath= p79 Jl 16 ’20 280w
Reviewed by Ralph Bergengren
=Boston Transcript= p4 S 22 ’20 2250w
+ − =Sat R= 130:40 Jl 10 ’20 370w
“As a work of reference it will be found exceedingly useful, all the
more because many of the persons named will never figure in the
‘Dictionary of national biography’ if, as we hope, that great work
should be continued.”
+ =Spec= 124:88 Jl 17 ’20 90w
“Apart from its utility as an indispensable book of reference for the
man of affairs, ‘Who was who’ will remain as a permanent store house
of information about the personalities of one of the most important
and critical epochs of British history.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p458 Jl 15 ’20 220w