(3½c) Harcourt
20–773
Omitting all the rose-garden atmosphere of her novels, Margaret
Widdemer has written a series of short stories about boys and girls of
high school age. The scene is one of the summer resort towns along the
Atlantic coast during the months of the year when the boardwalk
belongs to the young people who live there the year round. The titles
are: Changeling; Rosabel Paradise; Don Andrews’ girl; Black magic; The
congregation; The fairyland heart; Good times; Oh, Mr Dreamman;
Devil’s hall.
* * * * *
“Clear cut, interesting little sketches into which the same people
step again and again until one knows quite the whole village.”
+ =Booklist= 16:173 F ’20
“We must admit of them all that they piece together with their small
tragedies and happinesses into what seems a very truthful
representation of an American town. Whether or not these stories meet
with the immediate popularity of ‘The rose garden husband,’ it must be
conceded that Miss Widdemer has done a more difficult thing and
revealed a more mature and a surer art.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 21 ’20 850w
“It is a sordid, tawdry, unwholesome atmosphere, the sort of
atmosphere that one would shun if the ideas back of the stories and
their psychology, for they are primarily stories of character, were
not really interesting. Is the skill with which it is done a
sufficient excuse for painting dead fish and tinsel?”
− + =Ind= 102:374 Je 12 ’20 190w
“Her delving into the substrata of inarticulate being is sometimes
faltering, and her presentation of the less obvious springs of human
emotion is not always convincing, but her distinct penchant for
transferring to paper the elusive quality of personality is
undeniable.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:145 Mr 28 ’20 650w
“On the whole, it is a strong and searching collection.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 7 ’20 420w
=WIDDEMER, MARGARET (MRS ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER)=, comp. Haunted hour.
*$1.75 Harcourt 821.08
20–5609
The little volume presents an anthology of ghost-poems and contains
only such poems as treat of the return of spirits to earth. Even so no
attempt has been made at inclusiveness, but the selections range from
the earliest ballads to the present time. With an opening poem by Nora
Hopper Chesson: “The far away country,” the poems are arranged under
the headings: “The nicht atween the sancts an’ souls”; “All the little
sighing souls”; Shadowy heroes; “Rank on rank of ghostly soldiers”;
Sea ghosts; Cheerful spirits; Haunted places; “You know the old, while
I know the new”; “My love that was so true”; Shapes of doom; Legends
and ballads of the dead. There is an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:272 My ’20
+ =Nation= 111:278 S 4 ’20 70w
“A most unusual anthology of real merit and charm.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 29 ’20 120w
=WIDDEMER, MARGARET (MRS ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER).= I’ve married
Marjorie. *$1.75 (3c) Harcourt
20–13699
Married in haste, Marjorie Ellison has had ample leisure to repent
while her soldier husband has been away in France. Now on the eve of
his return she is badly upset at the thought of the reunion. When
Francis comes, it is as bad as she had feared. With the best
intentions on both sides, he frightens her, and she hurts him. Hot
tempers and strained nerves almost complete a tragedy of separation.
But Francis is really in love with Marjorie and so he ventures on an
experiment before giving her up entirely. In a delightful spot in the
Canadian woods, his scheme is tried out, a scheme which leads through
storm and stress to final joy and happiness for both.
* * * * *
“This will be liked by young girls and many women, though some readers
will find it light and sentimental.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:75 N ’20
“Her theme in ‘I’ve married Marjorie’ is cut from the sheerest
gossamer material. Also it possesses all the old essential ingredients
of cuteness, wistful humor and the necessary serious touch that brings
the theme to a sweet conclusion. But there is a sparkling sanity about
it.”
+ =N Y Times= p27 Ag 22 ’20 550w
“A lively and amusing tale. Not a big book nor a provable story, but
agreeable ‘summer reading.’”
+ =Outlook= 126:67 S 8 ’20 80w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:196 N ’20 70w
=WIENER, LEO.= Africa and the discovery of America. 2v ea $5 Innes &
sons 970
20–7013
The book is archaeological and etymological, showing how many of the
plants believed to have been indigenous to America, and how much of
the language and customs of the Indians, have an African origin.
Besides a long list of the sources quoted, illustrations, a word and a
subject index, the book contains: The journal of the first voyage and
the first letter of Columbus; The second voyage; Tobacco; The bread
roots.
* * * * *
“It is unfortunate that one so well trained in this field of study
should not have undertaken to present his material in a more logical
and readable manner. He is not always convincing, and is often
dogmatic.” E. L. Stevenson
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:102 O ’20 550w
“It is not to be expected that a work like this can pass unchallenged,
and the soundest of criticism and the most profound of scholarship
should be invoked before an exact estimate can be made of its value.
But the erudition displayed in this volume is enough to make us wait
with impatience Professor Wiener’s second volume.” G. H. S.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 13 ’20 1050w
“Worthless as a scholarly contribution, the book provides the
psychologist with a valuable example of distorted erudition and
methodological incompetence.”
− =Dial= 69:213 Ag ’20 90w
“His book indicates the widest scholarship.” W. E. B. Du Bois
+ =Nation= 111:350 S 25 ’20 390w
=WIGMORE, JOHN HENRY.= Problems of law; its past, present, and future.
*$1.50 Scribner 340
20–26999
“Professor Wigmore discusses the law’s evolution, its mechanism in
America, and its problems as they relate to world legislation and
America’s share therein. These lectures constituted one series of the
Barbour-Page foundation lectures at the University of Virginia.” (N Y
Evening Post) “It is assumed by Dean Wigmore that a new age is at
hand, for which a considerable amount of new legislation will be
required, and in view of this fact he urges that our legislators must
be made experts ‘(1) by reducing their numbers, (2) by giving them
longer terms, (3) by paying them enough to justify it [that is,
apparently, the work of legislation] as a career for men of talent,
(4) by making their sessions continuous.’” (Review)
* * * * *
“Three clarifying lectures for the thoughtful layman.”
+ =Booklist= 17:96 D ’20
“Dean Wigmore demonstrates anew the wide range of his intellectual
rummaging and the queer quirks of his marvelous mind. The second
lecture on ‘Methods of law making’ is intelligible and sensible.”
+ − =Nation= 111:568 N 17 ’20 500w
+ =N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 90w
Reviewed by E: S. Corwin
=Review= 3:449 N 10 ’20 250w
=WILDE, OSCAR FINGALL O’FLAHERTIE WILLS.= Critic in Pall Mall. *$1.50
Putnam 824
(Eng ed A20–616)
A selection from the reviews and miscellaneous writings of Oscar Wilde
made by E. V. Lucas. The papers were contributed to the Irish Monthly,
Pall Mall Gazette, Woman’s World and other journals and date from 1877
to 1890. At the end under the heading Sententiæ Mr Lucas has grouped a
number of briefer extracts from other reviews.
* * * * *
“The extent to which Wilde was a deliberate poseur is made very clear
by this book, for here there is very little pose. In these reviews,
chiefly from the Pall Mall Gazette, we see Wilde as a critic with
strong common sense, general good taste and with an outlook on life
and literature sufficiently ordinary to be indistinguishable from that
of half-a-hundred other critics of his time and of ours.”
+ − =Ath= p1258 N 28 ’19 600w
“It has all his delights and all his superficialities and all his
faults.”
+ − =Dial= 69:212 Ag ’20 110w
“There is nothing especially characteristic about the collection
except, perhaps, a lightness of touch that distinguishes its contents
from the ordinary book-review, and while they reveal the delicacy of
Wilde’s taste and the sincerity of his delight in art and letters they
reveal his limitations, also, and the shallowness of his intellectual
draught.”
+ − =Freeman= 1:430 Jl 14 ’20 250w
“There is certainly no adequate reason why these forgotten writings of
Oscar Wilde should be sought out and set in order, and sent forth in a
seemly little tome of two hundred pages. Their resurrection does not
add anything to his reputation, nor does it detract anything. It does
not enlarge our knowledge of the writer or cast any new light upon the
character of the man.” Brander Matthews
− + =N Y Times= 25:69 F 8 ’20 3400w
“These modest criticisms impress one collectively as good-natured,
orthodox, and sensible. Its art vibrates between distinction and
mediocrity—which is another way of saying that it is undistinguished.”
+ − =Review= 3:152 Ag 18 ’20 330w
“Collections of this kind usually do no honour to their author. But in
this case the result is a contribution to literature; in the first
place, because the selection has been made by Mr E. V. Lucas, and in
the second place, because it illustrates not only Wilde’s gift for
perverse banter, but also his genuine scholarship and his ability to
perform plain, downright work in an honest, craftsmanlike way.”
+ =Spec= 124:492 Ap 10 ’20 1450w
“These chapters are slight, but they are models of literary criticism
of the less formal and serious type. Apart from style their
superiority over the contemporary causerie lies chiefly, perhaps, in
the cultivated background that they denote in the writer and
presuppose in the reader.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 10 ’20 800w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p605 O 30 ’19 1350w
=WILDMAN, EDWIN.= Famous leaders of industry. il *$2 (3c) Page 926
20–3587
This is a book for boys about boys who have gained success, wealth,
honor, and prestige in the business world. It contains more than
twenty-six sketches of successful men, among them: Philip Danforth
Armour—California pioneer and Chicago packing king; P. T. Barnum—the
world’s greatest showman; Alexander Graham Bell—immortal telephone
inventor, and humanitarian; James Buchanan Duke—American tobacco and
cigarette king; Henry Ford—the Aladdin of the automobile industry;
Hudson Maxim—poet, philosopher, and wizard of high explosives; John
Davison Rockefeller,—oil king and world’s greatest industrial leader;
John Wanamaker—America’s foremost retail merchant and originator of
the department store; Orville and Wilbur Wright—who achieved immortal
fame as airship inventors. A portrait accompanies each sketch.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:317 Je ’20
“In these conventionally laudatory portraits of a group of American
inventors and business men there is no departure from the old Sunday
school type of ‘helpful’ stories for the young except in a decided
journalistic snappiness of style.” E. S.
+ =Survey= 44:323 My 29 ’20 140w
=WILKINSON, MRS MARGUERITE OGDEN (BIGELOW).= Bluestone. *$1.50 Macmillan
811
20–11184
A volume of lyrics. In her preface the author touches on the relation
of lyric poetry to music as she employs it in the composition of her
poems. Contents: Bluestone; Songs from beside swift rivers; Songs of
poverty; Preferences; Love songs; Songs of an empty house; Songs of
laughter and tears; Whims for poets; California poems; The pageant.
* * * * *
“Songs with a wide appeal because they are mostly ‘themes of the
folk.’ The appreciation of nature and outdoor feeling are keen.”
+ =Booklist= 17:63 N ’20
“There is an undoubted poetic element in these poems of Mrs Wilkinson,
but it is dew rather than flame. And being excellently even in
craftsmanship, there is no poem that fails to satisfy the reader’s
interest in being what it is.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 31 ’20 1050w
“Marguerite Wilkinson has decided moral and metrical spring without
conspicuous originality; though she is deeply touching here in Songs
of an empty house, on the childless state.” M. V. D.
+ − =Nation= 111:248 Ag 28 ’20 70w
“Mrs Wilkinson undoubtedly possesses a deal of talent; it is evident
throughout her work, cropping out in felicitous stanzas here and
rhythmical lines there, but she allows an occasional triteness to
retard the success of the book as a whole.”
+ − =N Y Times= p16 N 7 ’20 590w
=Spec= 125:280 Ag 28 ’20 560w
=WILLARD, FLORENCE, and GILLETT, LUCY HOLCOMB.=[2] Dietetics for high
schools. il *$1.32 Macmillan 613.2
20–12948
“Home economics teachers will be interested to learn that a much
needed textbook of dietetics has recently appeared. The content of the
book is especially significant in view of the experience of both
authors as teachers of the subject and of one of them as worker with
actual problems of malnutrition and of family feeding on low incomes
in the Association for improving the condition of the poor. The book
starts with a comparison of the weights and heights of the girls in
the class with the standards for their ages. Following this is a study
of food values as to fuel, protein, mineral, vitamines, and the
requirements of a good diet. Following the general study of the basis
for planning meals, the authors make an interesting and concrete
section of the book by selecting a family containing children of
various ages and discussing the marketing problems of this family. The
high-school girl thus makes application of her earlier nutrition study
to actual food purchase for the family’s need.”—School R
* * * * *
“This book is a distinct contribution to the very small group of
elementary textbooks in nutrition. The work is accurate and
up-to-date. The points are supported and illustrated by suitable
tables and charts in such number as to constitute a unique feature of
a beginner’s book in nutrition. One specially commendable feature is
the fact that it may be used quite as appropriately as a textbook for
boys as for girls.” M. S. Rose
+ =J Home Econ= 12:513 N ’20 300w
“A splendid and thoroughly scientific body of material makes the book
a well-rounded and teachable text.”
+ =School R= 28:798 D ’20 360w
=WILLIAMS, ARIADNA TYRKOVA- (MRS HAROLD WILLIAMS).= From liberty to
Brest-Litovsk. *$6 Macmillan 947
19–18461
“This is a narrative of events from the first uprisings of the
revolution in March, 1917, to the ratification of the peace with
Germany a year later. Herself a member of the Petrograd municipal
council and the Moscow conference, Mrs Williams has described in
detail the cabinet crises and political vicissitudes of the
provisional government and the steady trend of the socialist center
toward bolshevism. Less complete is her account of the first months of
the bolshevist régime and its negotiations with Germany at
Brest-Litovsk.”—Survey
* * * * *
=Ath= p1275 N 28 ’19 220w
“Although the book is emotionally coloured with righteous anger and
hatred towards the Bolsheviks, we cannot but welcome it as an honest
attempt to narrate the history of the first year of the Russian
revolution.” S. K.
+ − =Ath= p1367 D 19 ’19 1100w
“The facts here recorded will be most impressive to all who keep even
an approximately open mind on the Russian question.”
+ − =Ind= 102:66 Ap 10 ’20 150w
“She might have made her book a skilful and telling arraignment of her
political opponents if she could have restrained her quite
intelligible hatred and indignation. She betrays her prejudice and
weakens her case most seriously in loading on the Bolsheviki the blame
for all that Russia has suffered since the beginning of the
revolution.” Jacob Zeitlin
− + =Nation= 110:399 Mr 27 ’20 360w
“When we had finished this long book of Mrs Harold Williams, we asked
ourselves why it left us with the taste of the dust of Dead Sea
apples. The answer is, we believe, that nothing is so barren as
perpetual denunciation. Only a political controversialist could be
quite so self-blind as Mrs Williams.”
− =Nation [London]= 26:402 D 13 ’19 700w
“This book may be recommended as a storehouse of facts, and it is to
be hoped that the author will in due course produce another volume,
bringing the story down from Brest-Litovsk to the present day.”
+ =Sat R= 129:62 Ja 17 ’20 540w
“She shows an intimate knowledge of the political convulsions of 1917,
and she describes them in a clear and forcible style. The dominant
note of the book is amazement that the Russian people, with their many
good qualities, could have allowed themselves to be dominated by a
gang of scoundrels.”
+ =Spec= 123:579 N 1 ’19 1450w
“Partisan and patriot Mrs Williams is, and the reader will not find in
her description of the storm-tossed waters of the revolution any clear
perception of its deeper currents. But the reader will find in her
book a useful chronicle of events and an interesting and vivid
representation of the political kaleidoscope and of the opinion of no
small part of the Russian intelligentsia during that momentous year.”
Reed Lewis
+ − =Survey= 44:48 Ap 3 ’20 200w
“A connected account of the first phase of the Russian revolution has
been badly needed. Mrs Williams has a clear picture in her own mind of
what led to Bolshevism, and her main theme is easy to trace throughout
the book. In these days, when many English liberals join in the
foolish denunciation of nearly all Russian liberals as
counter-revolutionaries without examining the positive side of their
policy, it is useful to see the aims and policy of the provisional
government clearly and sympathetically restated.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p618 N 6 ’19 1000w
=WILLIAMS, BEN AMES.= Great accident. *$2 (1½c) Macmillan
20–5226
This is a story of American provincial politics and of education gone
wrong. The way Winthrop Chase, junior, had been brought up by a well
meaning father and mother had brought out strongly the negative side
of his character. He always did the thing he was told not to do and
was fast becoming a drunkard. Shrewd old Ames Caretall, congressman,
returns from Washington just as a mayoral election is coming on. He
resolves to take a gambler’s chance with young Wint and uses his
influence to have him elected mayor over the head of Wint’s own
father. How the “joke” does the trick, knocks manhood into Wint, and
develops him into a sober, unusually decent, honorable and lovable
character is the burden of the story.
* * * * *
“This town and its inhabitants stand out with remarkable clearness,
and it is well worth while for English men and women to read of it.
They will see for themselves how different is their country from that
huge one which speaks the same language.” O. W.
+ =Ath= p16 Ja 7 ’21 1300w
+ =Booklist= 16:315 Je ’20
“This is a capital story. There are a number of well-drawn subsidiary
personages, making the life of the small town vivid and often amusing.
Its atmosphere is distinctive and typical.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 4 ’20 650w
=Dial= 69:211 Ag ’20 110w
“It is a perfectly good idea and the characters are interesting
enough, but the author seems to be a little bit tired; it all needs to
be keyed up to a higher pitch.”
+ − =Ind= 103:53 Jl 10 ’20 110w
“It will go far toward dispelling in the average reader’s mind the
illusion that a realistic presentation of American life must
necessarily be dull, morbid and unduly sophisticated.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 My 1 ’20 600w
“The merit of the tale lies in its portrayal of small town life, of
the men who control or try to control the political destinies of the
friendly little town of Hardiston, and in an easy and agreeable
style.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:163 Ap 11 ’20 400w
“Two romances and a broad vein of humor balance the political
narrative, making an entertaining if rather unlifelike American tale.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 420w
=WILLIAMS, GAIL.= Fear not the crossing. $1.25 (9c) Clode, E. J. 134
20–1895
A series of spirit communications given to the author through
automatic handwriting by the spirit of a man who had but recently
died, and who found it at first very difficult to adjust himself to
conditions on the other side. The messages are given from day to day,
and describe the life beyond death, its great beauty, satisfying joy,
its boundless service for others, and its superiority to our
flesh-bound existence. Advice is given too for our greater serenity of
the spirit while still in the flesh. Think of God, pray to Him, in
order that His power may radiate through you, and enable you to do the
tasks assigned to you, is the advice frequently repeated by this
spirit control. He speaks often of love as the most beautiful earthly
force. A new note in this book is its description of the temporary
agony of the soul newly awakening “on the other side of death.”
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 350w
“The just complaint that most spirit revelations are of such trivial
and childish nature, finds no grounds here, as the matters treated are
all of large and worthy import.” Katharine Perry
+ =Pub W= 97:610 F 21 ’20 360w
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow
=Review= 3:42 Jl 14 ’20 90w
=WILLIAMS, HENRY SMITH.= Witness of the sun. il *$1.90 (3c) Doubleday.
20–16495
When John Theobold is killed in his office, some one has to be found
to fasten the murder to, as is usual in such cases. The guilty man
seems to be Señor Cortez, a fiery Brazilian, jealous of Theobold’s
interest in his wife, with Frank Crosby, the murdered man’s private
secretary, as his accomplice. The case comes to trial, and the counsel
for the defense springs a surprise. With the aid of Jack Henley, a
bright office boy with an interest in photography, he presents proof,
substantiated by actual pictures taken on the spot, showing that
Cortez and Crosby could not have committed the crime, and who did and
why. But all surprises are not yet over: the counsel for the defense
learns that no amount of circumstantial evidence ever proves anything,
it only shows that things might have happened in a certain way, but
they might also have happened in some other way, and in this case they
did.
* * * * *
=N Y Times= p24 O 31 ’20 130w
“The plot and its solution evince striking ingenuity on the part of Mr
Williams.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 200w
=WILLIAMS, JAMES MICKEL.=[2] Foundations of social science. *$6 Knopf
301
The book is an analysis of the psychological aspects of the social
sciences and emphasizes the vital relation of social psychology to the
other social sciences, pointing out how the advancement of the latter
is dependent on the development of the former. Although the
assumptions of social science are in their last analysis, all resting
on human nature, they have relied too much on the traditional social
relations and have failed to discriminate between “a motive that is
essential in traditional political relations, or in traditional
economic relations and one that is essential in human nature.” Also
they have allowed mass phenomena to obscure the individual and have
lost sight of the fact that only through the operation of certain
instinctive dispositions of individuals do they act as groups. The
volume falls into four parts: Social psychology and political science;
Social psychology and jurisprudence; Social psychology as related to
economics, history and sociology; The field and methods of social
psychology. Appended is a partial list of the books, documents and
articles referred to in the text, and an index of subjects.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p3 D 4 ’20 840w
=WILLIAMS, JENNIE B.= Us two cook book, rev and enl ed *$1.50 Harper
641.5
In this cook book “every recipe has been carefully estimated and
tested—the ingredients reduced so as to supply the requirements of
two.” (Preface) Contents: Soups; Fish; Meats; Poultry and game;
Entrees; Vegetables; Eggs; Beverages; Breads, cakes, etc.; Desserts;
Fruits, pickles and sauces; Miscellaneous. Tables for cooking and
measuring come at the end. There is no index. The book was copyrighted
in Canada in 1916.
=WILLIAMS, LLEWELLYN W.= Making of modern Wales. *$2.25 Macmillan 942.9
“The recorder of Cardiff, in this well-organized, well-documented, and
well-indexed treatise, studies the processes, legal, political, and
social, by which mediæval was transformed into modern Wales. He
devotes much space to the story of Catholicism in Wales after the
reformation, and to an account of the Courts of great session—subjects
on which far less has been written than on the council of the Marches,
the history of Welsh nonconformity, and other main topics. His last
chapter deals with the bilingual problem.”—Ath
* * * * *
=Ath= p1210 N 14 ’19 90w
=Nation= 111:304 S 11 ’20 280w
“The author’s chapter on the Great sessions, which were abolished in
1830, is the best account of them that has yet been written.”
+ =Spec= 122:48 Ja 10 ’20 1400w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p613 O 30 ’19 70w
“The solid value of Mr Williams’s researches arouses gratitude and
deep respect. We should, however, describe his work as research of the
second—the organizing stage, chiefly—rather than of the first stage.
The chapter on the reformation is extremely interesting. The chapter
on the Welsh Catholics is the most picturesque and attractive in the
book, and probably contains the most generally unfamiliar information.
The most workmanlike and most original chapter is that on the king’s
Court of great sessions.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p625 N 6 ’19 1400w
=WILLIAMS, SIDNEY CLARK.= Unconscious crusader. *$1.75 (2c) Small
20–4708
This is a story of present-day journalism and of James Radbourne, who
started as reporter on a daily paper and ended as proprietor of one.
All the ups and downs of a newspaper career, all the rivalries and
jealousies between staff and managers of different papers come out in
the story and how James Radbourne took the straight course until he
won out and made himself a name for honest journalism. He did not know
that some one was watching this course, but when she was satisfied
that it was the right one she came and asked for a job. It was
“Miladi.”
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:351 Jl ’20
“When we turn from the world of business and politics to that of
romance the atmosphere is clean and fresh. The setting for the romance
is deliciously funny.” G. L. E.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 400w
“‘An unconscious crusader’ will hardly set the world aflame, yet it is
readable and affords a glimpse of the inside workings of a newspaper
office.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:329 Je 20 ’20 420w
“An attempt, not wholly successful, is made to weave in a love story,
or rather an alleged one. It detracts from the interest of the story,
rather than adds to it.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 340w
=WILLIAMS, WAYLAND WELLS.= Goshen street. *$1.90 (1½c) Stokes
20–17177
Goshen street is a New England country road. David Galt, who is born
on a Goshen street farm, is given an education thru the benevolence of
a millionaire who makes a hobby of sending poor and promising boys to
college. He goes into journalism afterwards and rises high in his
profession, but Goshen street always remains an influence in his life.
It is Sylvia Thornton who first brings David to her father’s attention
and as he continues to make his way up in the world David holds to the
intention of marrying Sylvia, but instead he marries Naomi Fiske. The
war comes, David is first a correspondent, then a soldier. Naomi dies
of influenza while nursing in France and after the war David and
Sylvia again meet in Goshen street.
* * * * *
“Interesting, well written, a truthful picture of Connecticut farm
people.”
+ =Booklist= 17:161 Ja ’21
“Although the scenes in New York are interesting, and although David’s
wife Sylvia is an artistic triumph, particularly because she is so
difficult, it is Goshen street itself, David’s ancestral home, and his
father, mother and brother, to which my memory returns most fondly.
The descriptions of the street are admirable examples of English
style. This book has such fine quality that it sharpens one’s appetite
for the next.” W: L. Phelps
+ =N Y Times= p8 O 31 ’20 330w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:196 N ’20 130w
=WILLIAMS, WHITING.= What’s on the worker’s mind. il *$2.50 Scribner
331.8
20–17086
“Mr Williams was a prominent official in a large steel fabricating
concern. He wished to fit himself for the position of employment
manager, and thought it a part of his preparation to find out what it
was like to be a workman. Therefore he left home with a few dollars in
his pocket and looked for a job. This is the story of his adventures
in a basic steel plant, a rolling mill, a coal mine, an oil refinery,
a shipyard, and other resorts of toil.”—Nation
* * * * *
“Reveals without bitterness or antagonizing radicalism the
unsatisfactory lives of the workers. Vivid and worth while, but will
not be popular.”
+ =Booklist= 17:96 D ’20
Reviewed by Harold Waldo
+ =Bookm= 52:556 F ’21 640w
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 22 ’21 390w
“An unusual and interesting book.”
+ =Cleveland= p111 D ’20 30w
“As a first-hand account of actual working and living-conditions in
the great basic industries, Mr Williams’s ‘What’s on the worker’s
mind’ is of considerable value for the author is an excellent
reporter. But as an analysis of what the worker is actually thinking
and doing about his problems, and in so far as it proposes solution
for these problems, the book falls far short of its mark.” W: Z.
Foster
+ − =Freeman= 2:404 Ja 5 ’21 880w
“The narrative of his adventures is of extraordinary interest and his
conclusions are worth attention.”
+ =Ind= 105:170 F 12 ’21 100w
Reviewed by G: Soule
=Nation= 111:533 N 10 ’20 650w
“Short as the book’s economic perspective is, its central contribution
remains intact; its psychological analysis is penetrating and
original. Its educational value can be literally tremendous.” Ordway
Tead
+ − =New Repub= 25:266 Ja 26 ’21 1500w
+ =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 90w
“Not only are the observations obviously timely, but they have a force
that results from their having been derived from actual experience.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 2 ’21 1150w
=WILLIAMS-ELLIS, CLOUGH, and WILLIAMS-ELLIS, A.= Tank corps; with an
introd. by H. J. Elles. il *$5 (4½c) Doran 940.4
20–3588
Major-General Ellis commander of the tank corps, in his introduction
to the volume, calls attention to the “difficulties of dealing
concisely, even by comment, with the kaleidoscopic events of two and a
half crowded years—with the questions of organisation, training,
personnel, design, supply, fighting, reorganisation, workshops,
experiments, salvage, transportation, maintenance.” This states in a
nutshell the enormous problem solved by the tank in its rapid and
forced evolution while the war was in process. The first chapter is
intended for the civilian who, thanks to the censorship, “has had no
opportunity of making himself familiar with the tactical opportunities
and problems that the use of tanks has introduced or with the
conditions under which tank crews fight.” It contains several plans
and diagrams showing the general arrangement and construction of this
formidable machine. There are other illustrations and an index.
* * * * *
=Ath= p64 Ja 9 ’20 90w
“Excellent and well illustrated book.”
+ =Review= 3:712 Jl 7 ’20 630w
“The tank corps was one of the miracles of the war, and its history
was bound to be one of the best romances. It is good to have the full
story told so soon and by such competent chroniclers. The authors give
us all the technical information that is needed, and at the same time
they fit the achievement of the tank corps into the great movements of
the campaign. The style is never for a moment ponderous or dull.” J:
Buchan
+ =Spec= 123:691 N 22 ’19 2100w
“A vivid military treatise.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 30 ’20 600w
“A confused collection of details instead of a coherent story. The
confusion is not helped by the absence of maps. The book is a
disappointment; but no mistakes can entirely rob of their interest the
first full accounts that have been published of the terrible struggles
of the tanks in the Flanders mud during the third battle of Ypres.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p660 N 20 ’19 850w
=WILLIAMSON, CHARLES NORRIS, and WILLIAMSON, ALICE MURIEL (LIVINGSTON)
(MRS CHARLES NORRIS WILLIAMSON).= Second latchkey. il *$1.60 (2c)
Doubleday
20–7290
Annesley Grayle meets the man who calls himself Nelson Smith under
romantic circumstances and marries him without knowing his real name
or anything about him. As paid companion to a crabbed old lady she has
found life dreary and colorless. He brings love and joy into it and
she adores him and asks no questions. Shortly after it becomes
apparent to the reader that the man is a very clever jewel thief. The
heroine however is slower witted and when the truth is forced home to
her she is crushed and believes her love dead. There follows a period
of estrangement and penitence spent on the hero’s ranch in Texas,
followed by reconciliation.
* * * * *
“A tale of plot, whose surprises and thrills are never balked by the
improbable.”
+ =Booklist= 16:315 Je ’20
“The Williamsons have succeeded in concentrating our entire interest
in their plot, and though—as is natural in this type of story—we
should not be likely to read the book a second time, it is equally
likely that we should be inclined to read the next Williamson book
upon the recommendation of this.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 22 ’20 550w
“The authors have not allowed a trifle like probability to stand in
their way, but the tale holds the reader’s interest, and Annesley is a
charming heroine. Smoothly and pleasantly written, ‘The second
latchkey’ is an agreeable and an entertaining romance of things as
they are not.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:219 My 2 ’20 500w
=WILLIS, GEORGE.= Philosophy of speech. *$2.50 Macmillan 404
(Eng ed 20–17996)
“Mr Willis’s book is not so much a connected system of philosophy as a
series of thoughts on various subjects connected with the faculty of
speech. Beginning with a discussion of the origins of speech, he goes
on to show the connection of the history of speech with the history of
thought; he devotes a chapter to metaphor, another to grammar, another
to the question of spelling and spelling reform, others to purism and
correct speech, and a final section to speech and education.”—Ath
* * * * *
=Ath= p383 Mr 19 ’20 130w
“One does not always agree with Mr Willis, but one can never find him
anything but very entertaining and stimulating.”
+ − =Ath= p601 My 7 ’20 600w
“This is, indeed, a strange book. It seems to be a survival from the
linguistic dark ages. The author does not disclose any intimacy with
Anglo-Saxon, with Gothic or with old high English, nor does he show
any scholarship in comparative philology.” Brander Matthews
− =N Y Times= 25:24 Je 27 ’20 2500w
“The present writer has not for years come across a book in which
highly disputable assertions were mixed up with facts with such
complete impartiality. Nothing could be more admirable than the
author’s attack upon the ordinary grammar-books, and his exposition of
the causes which have led to the extraordinary muddle-headedness of
these compilations.”
+ − =Spec= 124:523 Ap 17 ’20 780w
=WILLOUGHBY, D.= About it and about. *$5 Dutton 824
(Eng ed 20–10519)
“These essays, most of which appeared in Everyman, consist of comment
on questions of the day, written from a ‘moderate’ point of view.”
(Ath My 21 ’20) “Roughly speaking, Mr Willoughby touches on all the
burning or still glowing topics of the day, on peace and war, on
housing, on labour, on Ireland, on servants civil and domestic, and
many other more or less immediate doubts and difficulties.” (Ath Je 11
’20)
* * * * *
“Readably and brightly written.”
+ =Ath= p686 My 21 ’20 40w
“The rational good-humor characteristic of the book, a really precious
quality at this time, naturally brims over in laughter, spontaneous
and frequent enough to convey to the reader a feeling of expectant
animation. Occasionally, the easy note of mirth has been forced.” F.
W. S.
+ − =Ath= p764 Je 11 ’20 640w
“A witty, animated, keen-sighted, judicious and mature product of
journalism. Informing and revealing sentences abound.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 1 ’20 660w
“The author is implicit in it—‘his vaunts, his feats.’ He is often
amusing. Mr Willoughby’s detachment is aloofness; from his Olympian
height he scans the depths—or would if the depths were not shallows.
His knowledge, however, does not come of patient observation, but from
the study of the authorities.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p291 My 13 ’20 630w
=WILLOUGHBY, WESTEL WOODBURY.= Foreign rights and interests in China. $6
Johns Hopkins 327
20–8714
“Professor Willoughby, of the Johns Hopkins university, served as
legal adviser to the Chinese republic during the war. He has used his
special knowledge to compile a statement of the rights conferred by
treaties or agreements of an official character upon foreigners and
foreign powers in China. As he says, the situation is ‘complicated in
the extreme,’ for China permits all kinds of extra-territorial rights
and suffers ‘spheres of interest, “special interests,” war zones,
leased territories, treaty ports, concessions, settlements and
legation quarters’ to infringe on her sovereignty, to say nothing of
commercial concessions and revenue services under foreign
control.”—Spec
* * * * *
“As a work of reference the volume may be highly commended.”
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:138 O ’20 500w
“His explanations and comments are thorough-going and illuminating.
They are never wearisome, as legal discussions sometimes are.” E. B.
Drew
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:727 N ’20 500w
“It has a quality that renders it easily read from beginning to end.
This happy issue must be ascribed in due degree to the author’s
admirable style and control of his material; but while the book is a
model of what a thesis should be, it possesses, besides its usefulness
as a work of reference, a human interest that is altogether
compelling.” F: W. Williams
+ =Nation= 111:sup421 O 13 ’20 1100w
+ =Spec= 124:767 Je 5 ’20 210w
“The work is well done and is an addition of permanent value to the
literature on the Far East.” W. R. Wheeler
+ =Yale R= n s 10:431 Ja ’21 340w
=WILSON, CAROLYN CROSBY.=[2] Fir trees and fireflies. *$1.75 Putnam 811
Poems on varied themes. Among the titles are: Mid winter; The
patchwork quilt; Houseless; On the arrogance of lovers; Roads;
December; Two songs for my child; Late March. These miscellaneous
verses are followed by a series of love sonnets. Some of the pieces
are reprinted from Vanity Fair, New Republic, Pagan and Vassar
Miscellany.
* * * * *
“There is a certain nicety of phrasing, evenness and melody of line
that raises them out of the ordinary and yet they are by no means
pallid bits. Throughout, there is upon these poems, some greater, some
less, the unmistakable hallmark of distinction.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Ja 29 ’21 300w
“At its best Miss Wilson’s verse has a tight-lipped irony about it; or
it may even develop into humor that is broad but never blatant. At its
worst her poetry is quite a different matter; without ever being badly
written, it is pompously and conventionally emotional.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p12 D 31 ’20 80w
=WILSON, EDWIN BIDWELL.= Aeronautics. il *$4 Wiley 629.1
20–4713
“The introduction to the book includes the ideas underlying simple
flight and the aerodynamics of aerofoils. In the chapter on ‘Motion in
two dimensions’ are collected with proofs the fundamental theorems in
dynamics. The principles are carried step by step to the consideration
of stability, and are then illustrated by example. The study of motion
in three dimensions is committed to a following chapter. The last
chapter in the section devoted to rigid dynamics applies the equations
developed to the stability of the aeroplane. The rest of the book is
devoted to ‘Fluid mechanics.’”—Nature
* * * * *
“It is very clearly written, and will be particularly valuable to
advanced students of the subject for many reasons. On the other hand,
it will not appeal strongly to the less advanced worker.”
+ =Nature= 106:173 O 7 ’20 600w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p4 Ja ’20 50w
=WILSON, MRS MARY A.= Mrs Wilson’s cook book. *$2.50 Lippincott 641.5
20–17378
According to the title page the author was “formerly Queen Victoria’s
cuisiniere,” as well as instructor in domestic science in the
University of Virginia summer school and for the United States navy.
The present volume contains her best recipes, set forth, as she says,
not in the heavy cook book style, but in a more intimate manner “as if
housewife and author were conversing upon the dish in question.” The
recipes follow one another without arrangement or order but an index
provides a guide to the contents.
* * * * *
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 130w
=WILSON, MAY (ANISON NORTH, pseud.).= Forging of the pikes. *$1.90 (1½c)
Doran
20–4710
The pikes are forged for the rebels of the Upper Canadian rebellion of
1837. The hero Alan’s sympathies are with the rebels the while his
whole being is in the toils of his love for Barry. Barbara Deveril,
the supposed daughter of the tavern-keeper is Indian in appearance and
in her love for the forest and Indian traditions. She is Alan’s
“Oogenebahgooquay”—the wild rose woman. One day, soon after the
appearance of a dazzlingly handsome stranger, an Englishman, she
disappears from the woods and the countryside, leaving Alan with his
grief and his suspicion. While the rebellion and its dangers, and a
brief sojourn in Toronto engage Alan, Barry is living through her
short and sorrowful romance as the Indian-wed wife of the handsome
Englishman. But they were meant for each other and the sick,
disillusioned and widowed Barry finds herself still linked to life by
her love for Alan.
* * * * *
“The description of country life, of the woods and of nature is vivid.
The historical portions, on the other hand, are unsatisfactory.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p16 My 1 ’20 380w
“The story part of the book is an entirely secondary affair,
conventional and not particularly interesting. To the average American
reader the best of the tale will be the picture it gives of Canadian
life at the time.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:270 My 23 ’20 280w
“The style is flowing and simple and has an agreeable if not strictly
synchronous flavor of Pepys.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 2:463 My 1 ’20 160w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 140w
=WILSON, PHILIP WHITWELL.= Irish case before the court of public
opinion. il *$1.25 Revell 941.5
20–12207
“Mr P. Whitwell Wilson, who has more than once written for this Review
and who is now living in the United States as a special correspondent
of the London Dally News, has produced for American readers a little
volume entitled ‘The Irish case before the court of public opinion.’
Mr Wilson was formerly a Liberal member of Parliament and also for a
number of years worked in harmony with men like the late Mr Redmond
and the other nationalist leaders. Mr Wilson, however, is wholly
opposed to the present Sinn Fein movement for a separate Irish
republic, and he undertakes in this book to show how, one after
another, the real grievances of Ireland have been remedied.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“Whether one agrees with Mr Wilson or not, one cannot help admiring
his extremely lucid and convincing defence of Great Britain’s Irish
policy. Partisan it is, but books on the Irish question have a
tendency to be strongly pro-Irish or pro-English, and Mr Wilson sets
forth his case in a very tolerant manner.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 13 ’20 200w
“It is almost unbelievable that any competent journalist who
undertakes to discuss Sinn Fein should be still ignorant of the
meaning of those two words, yet that is the plight of Mr Wilson. Since
he has not yet discovered the meaning of two simple words now
universally familiar to every newspaper reader, it is not surprising
that his references to the financial relations of Ireland and England
teem with incredible misstatements.” E. A. Boyd
− =Freeman= 1:547 Ag 18 ’20 1650w
“A remarkably fair-minded and adequate summary of the reasons for
viewing with distrust the Sinn Fein propaganda.”
+ =Ind= 103:292 S 4 ’20 40w
“Whether or not one agrees with the conclusions presented by Mr P.
Whitwell Wilson, one must appreciate the good temper and moderation
with which he argues.”
+ − =Nation= 111:223 Ag 21 ’20 400w
=N Y Times= p1 Ag 1 ’20 750w
“His book is valuable from the standpoint of its convenient recital of
recent political history in relation to Ireland, and should have a
wide reading.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:110 Jl ’20 240w
=WILSON, THEODORE PERCIVAL CAMERON.=[2] Waste paper philosophy; with an
introd. by Robert Norwood. *$1.50 Doran 821
20–20440
The author of these papers and poems had been a schoolmaster before
his enlistment in 1914. He was killed in 1918. Waste paper philosophy,
part I of the book, is composed of short prose essays written for his
son. Part 2 contains his poems, the first of which, Magpies in
Picardy, was printed in the Literary Digest in February, 1917.
* * * * *
“Among the many poems inspired by the late war, ‘Magpies in Picardy’
has stood out as one of the very best. To every schoolboy in our land
should a copy of ‘Waste paper philosophy’ be given. One closes the
little book tenderly, for here is the record of a rare spirit.” C. K.
H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p2 N 27 ’20 800w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
=Review= 3:648 D 29 ’20 200w
=WILSON, WOODROW.= Hope of the world. *$1 (2c) Harper 353
20–13562
This volume of speeches continues the series that began with “Why we
are at war.” It contains “Messages and addresses delivered by the
president between July 10, 1919, and December 9, 1919, including
selections from his countrywide speeches in behalf of the treaty and
covenant.” In making the selection from the addresses on the peace
treaty and the League of nations the aim has been to avoid repetition
and to present “the more cogent and significant portions of Mr
Wilson’s appeal to the public.” Among the state papers are included
the message on the high cost of living, letter to the national
industrial conference, appeal to the coal miners, and message to the
new Congress.
* * * * *
“Nearly all have in greater or less degree the characteristic merits
with which we have become familiar, and the title chosen for the
collection hits very well the note of earnest, almost wistful,
conviction that gives impressiveness and driving force to practically
everything that President Wilson has said. There is much material here
for reflection, and it is presented with the lucidity and grace that
we have learned to respect.”
+ − =Grinnell R= 15:262 O ’20 150w
=WINDLE, SIR BERTRAM COGHILL ALAN.= Science and morals. *$2.75 Kenedy
215
“Sir Bertram Windle, the distinguished Roman Catholic scientist, now
professor of anthropology in St Michael’s college, Toronto, collects
here (with some revision) nine essays which he has contributed to the
Dublin Review, the Catholic World, America and Studies. Apart from the
title essay he writes on Theophobia and Nemesis; on the narrowness of
the strictly scientific, especially the biological view (Within and
without the system); on the relation of the Roman church to science
(Science in ‘bondage’); Science and the war; Heredity and
‘arrangement’; Special creation; Catholic writers and spontaneous
generation; and he reviews Mr F. H. Osborn’s ‘The origin and evolution
of life.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
=Ath= p126 Ja 23 ’20 50w
“This is worth while and very much worth while. It is worth while as a
readable and popularly rendered contribution to apologetical
literature; it is very much worth while because it is a contribution
from a recognized scientist on a subject of wide scientific
consequence.”
+ =Cath World= 111:253 My ’20 360w
=Int J Ethics= 31:120 O ’20 130w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p158 Mr 4 ’20 100w
=WISE, JENNINGS CROPPER.= Turn of the tide. *$1.50 (3c) Holt 940.373
20–4806
Cantigny, Château Thierry, and the second battle of the Marne are the
three operations in which the American troops made their initial
appearance in battle in the great war and which mark the transition of
the Allies from the defensive to the offensive and the turn of the
tide of victory in their favor. The author was a member of the
Historical section of the General staff of the American expeditionary
force for a number of months after the armistice, had access to the
archives at General headquarters, came in contact with many of the
leaders of the war and visited and made a careful study of every
battlefield of which he writes. The three battles are the subjects of
the three chapters of the book which also has a number of maps and
appendices.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p4 Je 9 ’20 150w
=WISTER, OWEN.= Straight deal; or, The ancient grudge. *$2 (2c)
Macmillan 327
20–7009
The ancient grudge is the American feeling of ill-will toward England.
This anti-English prejudice is explained by the author as a “complex”
founded on false history teaching in childhood and fostered by Great
Britain’s enemies. He reviews the history of our relations with
England from the revolution down and says in conclusion: “In this
many-peopled world England is our nearest relation. From Bonaparte to
the Kaiser, never has she allowed any outsider to harm us. We are her
cub. She has often clawed us, and we have clawed her in return.... Her
good treatment of us has been to her own interest.... If we were so
far-seeing as she is, we also should know that her good will is
equally important to us.”
* * * * *
“Mr Wister’s purpose in his new book commands our sympathies. He has
good intentions, but he is just a shade too friendly. He presses our
hand a little too enthusiastically.”
− + =Ath= p825 Je 25 ’20 730w
=Booklist= 16:332 Jl ’20
“Mr Wister is too good a writer of fiction to be quite satisfactory as
a historian. He relies too much upon imagination and invention; he
deals with historic personages as though they were characters in a
novel, to be managed as the requirements of the plot dictate. The fact
is that this book of Mr Wister’s, like his earlier ‘Pentecost of
calamity,’ is a product of war psychology. It is a case of off with
the old hate, on with the new.” R. L. Schuyler
− =Bookm= 51:566 Jl ’20 1000w
=Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 10 ’20 150w
“Hysterical and rather silly book. To put it bluntly, Mr Wister has
far to go before he recovers from the panic psychology of the war. Mr
Wister is the victim of economic innocence and of a sincere
admiration, which does him credit, for English civilization.” H. S.
− + =Freeman= 1:549 Ag 18 ’20 900w
“Makes many true and effective points, but is a little exclusive in
its attitude towards nations outside the frontiers of Anglo-Saxondom.”
+ − =Ind= 103:292 S 4 ’20 40w
“Mr Wister’s frivolity and fatuity are basic. He has his grip on the
facts of Anglo-American history. In this region he escapes being a
jingo and, what is more, he escapes being a toady, at least nine times
out of ten. But once he tries to grip the facts of the world, outside
Anglo-America, he is dangerously sentimental and at sea.” F. H.
− =New Repub= 22:319 My 5 ’20 1250w
“His is not a calm judicial mind; he is very much a partisan and a
fighter. His vehemence now and then runs to the choler of the elderly
man who dogmatizes angrily from his club window. Apropos of America’s
attitude toward England, we learn the writer’s opinion of Roosevelt,
of Secretary Daniels, of Admiral Sims, and so on. I for one regret his
occasional fling of cynicism.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p13 My 8 ’20 1150w
“Mr Owen Wister has written a good book; and in writing it he has done
a good deed. Mr Wister knows the English at home and abroad; he is an
American of the Americans, but he is a grandson of Fanny Kemble and he
has both relatives and relations in England. He is therefore unusually
well equipped to discuss the social usages and the national
peculiarities of the two countries.” Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= 25:235 My 9 ’20 2300w
“A very readable book. We do not agree with him, or with the
politicians and the press men, in thinking that friendship can be
ensured by books, and speeches, and leading articles.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:404 My 1 ’20 1550w
“Unfortunately, the book will not attain its end. For this Mr Wister
is himself to blame. Much of the work is trivial arguments. It will
not be any better to write our history with deliberate sympathies than
with deliberate antipathies.”
− =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 18 ’20 350w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p263 Ap 29 ’20 550w
=WITHAM, GEORGE STRONG.= Modern pulp and paper making; a practical
treatise. il $6 Chemical catalog co., 1 Madison av., N.Y. 676
20–19275
The author has had thirty-seven years’ practical experience in the
pulp and paper industry. He is now manager of mills for the Union bag
and paper corporation, Hudson Falls, N.Y. His aim in this book has
been “to describe the equipment and processes actually used in pulp
and paper plants on this continent today.... No attempt has been made
to describe every piece of equipment ever used in the industry.
Neither has the author attempted to deal with the historical aspect.
Also, while recognizing the great importance of chemistry in
connection with papermaking, no chemical considerations have been
introduced which would not readily be comprehended by one with no
special knowledge of that science.” (Preface) Contents: Processes by
which pulp is produced; Materials from which pulp is produced;
Varieties of paper; The saw mill; The wood room; The sulphite mill;
The acid plant; The soda process; The sulphate process; The ground
wood mill; Bleaching; The beater room; The machine room; The finishing
room; General design of pulp and paper plants; The power plant;
Testing of paper and paper materials; Paper defects: their cause and
cure; Personnel; Useful data and tables; Index. There are over 200
figures in the text.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:101 D ’20
“This is the first book on the subject of paper-making that we have
ever read that is really worth while; it is a practical treatise on
paper technology that bears the stamp of genuine authority. One
subject, however, in the book which has been somewhat summarily dealt
with is that relating to the dyeing and coloring of paper. In its
typographical makeup the present volume is a credit to its
publishers.”
+ − =Color Trade J= 7:118 O ’20 460w
“For ‘the man on the job’ this is, on the whole, a much more
satisfactory work than that of Cross and Bevan; moreover it deals only
with American practice. The practical aspect of the book should be
emphasized.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p69 Jl ’20 100w
=WITWER, HARRY CHARLES.= Kid Scanlan. *$1.75 (2½c) Small
20–10733
Kid Scanlan, welterweight champion, goes into the movies and this is
the story of his adventures as told by his manager, Johnny Green.
Among the titles of chapters, each of which constitutes a short story,
are: Lay off, Macduff; Pleasure island; Lend me your ears; The unhappy
medium; Life is reel! Hospital stuff.
* * * * *
“This book may be scoffed at by the more intellectual, but the
wideness of its appeal is evident.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:27 Jl 25 ’20 340w
“A humorous mixture of extravagance and slang in Witwer’s happiest
vein.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 110w
=WITWER, HARRY CHARLES.= There’s no base like home. il *$1.75 (3c)
Doubleday
20–9784
A combination of baseball and the movies. Ed Harmon, “the undisputed
monarch of the diamond,” continues the series of letters to his friend
Joe, and tells what happened after he brought his French wife, Jeanne,
to New York. Jeanne not only learns English, she undertakes to teach
that language to her husband. She also goes into the movies, and drags
her reluctant husband with her. Jeanne’s relatives come from France to
pay a surprise visit, but as suddenly return, inspiring their
son-in-law to give three cheers for prohibition. The stories are:
There’s no base like home; She supes to conquer: A fool there wasn’t;
So this is Cincinnati!; The merchant of Venus; The freedom of the
shes; A word to the wives; The nights of Colombus; The league of
relations.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:76 N ’20
“Abounding in picturesque slang, unusual figures of speech and shrewd
comment on present-day tendencies and foibles.”
+ =Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 70w
“In a certain way, Witwer’s stories remind one of Keystone comedies,
although, of course, they are not quite so far-fetched in their
incongruous situations. This kind of patter is handled with skill by
Mr Witwer, who hardly ever descends to a too-obvious cheapness.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:27 Jl 25 ’20 340w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 200w
=WODEHOUSE, PELHAM GRENVILLE.= Little warrior. *$2 (1½c) Doran
20–18298
Jill Mariner is an American girl brought up in England. In her,
cheerfulness and impulsive kindliness are counterbalanced by pride and
quick temper. Between the two she never succumbs to any situation, but
fights her way through. There are abrupt changes in her circumstances.
From possessing a fortune and being engaged to an English peer, she
drops to the position of chorus girl in an American musical comedy.
After a brief but stormy career of a tragi-comical nature—with the
emphasis on the comical—and after being wooed a second time by Sir
Derek, she decides that she loves Wally Mason, her girlhood chum and
now a writer of musical comedy in New York, best.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:162 Ja ’21
“So much of current fiction is touched with glowering realism or
sour-mouthed cleverness that such real spontaneity and good humor as
Mr Wodehouse’s is irresistible.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 52:343 Ja ’21 290w
“The author manages to play upon even such a light-eroded spot as
Forty-second street and Broadway with such piquant and Americanesquely
touch-and-go ironical sparkle, such color and deft comedy tempo, as to
leave with the reader an illusion of freshness and a complex of
winning aftertones.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 6 ’20 200w
“The gay comedy-romance is a top-notcher of its kind. The reader who
doesn’t chuckle over this melange of English and American slang will
have to be determinedly gloomy.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 O 10 ’20 530w
“The tale is capital burlesque with a warm touch of human nature.”
+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 50w
=WOLCOTT, THERESA HUNT=, ed. Book of games and parties for all
occasions. il *$2 Small 793
20–19282
The material for the book has largely been compiled from the
entertainment page of the Ladies’ Home Journal. The contents are
intended to furnish entertainments for home, school and church
parties, beginning with New Year’s Eve, extending throughout the year
and taking in all the holidays of a general and private character,
with invitations, menus for special occasions, appropriate rhymes and
poetry, illustrations and an index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:104 D ’20
=WOOD, CLEMENT.= Jehovah. *$2 Dutton 811
20–8539
A long narrative poem with frequent lyric interludes. The time is 1034
B. C., in the reign of David. David’s forces under Joab, sweeping
south, spoiling and conquering in the name of their God, Jehovah, meet
the resistance of the Kenites, the hill dwellers of Mount Sinai whose
tribal God Jehovah is. Demanding tribute for their king and worship
for their God, the Israelites are faced with the Kenites’ claim for
priority in Jehovah worship, Moses having learned it from his Kenite
father-in-law, Jethro. In the conference that follows two conceptions
of Jehovah are set forth. The tribal god of the Kenites is opposed to
the imperialist god of Israel. By trickery Joab outwits the weaker
forces and falls upon them unawares to slay and exterminate, all for
the glory of Jehovah. Toward the end a new conception of God is
developed, the God of brotherhood as visioned by the prophet Jotham.
The poem was awarded one of the Lyric poetry prizes for 1919.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:148 Ja ’21
“If it won the Lyric prize, it was hardly for its lyrism. Still, the
poem is dramatic, the characterization interesting, and some of the
passages genuinely powerful.”
+ − =Dial= 69:435 O ’20 90w
“When Clement Wood wrote ‘Jehovah’ he took the chance at being dull on
the bigger chance of successfully writing a poem about an evolving
god. He fails, and he is dull; but there is a sort of leaden grandeur
about the attempt.” R. D.
− + =Freeman= 1:382 Jl 7 ’20 120w
“It has, curiously, a flavor of ‘Beowulf’ rather than of the Hebrew
poets and prophets. It is written in a variety of verse forms, many of
them interesting.”
+ − =Ind= 104:246 N 13 ’20 80w
“‘Jehovah’ suffers from a too constant strenuousness of reach and a
too mighty savagery of diction; there is more motion than flow, more
activity than strength. Yet certain of the songs genuinely mount; and
Uz, the wrinkled patriarch, spokesman for the Kenites, is a triumph in
portraiture.” Mark Van Doren
+ − =Nation= 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 120w
“The various songs about Jehovah sung by the two conflicting tribes of
warriors, are replete with beauty that is made more significant and
meaningful because there are depths to the thoughts expressed. There
is an unmistaken classic air about Clement Wood’s ‘Jehovah.’” Alvin
Winston
+ =N Y Call= p10 Jl 18 ’20 430w
“The grim expectancy in the tale is a strong point. There are cases,
unfortunately, in which the vocabulary, not the conception, is
herculean, in which it is only the dictionary that bares its thews.”
O. W. Firkins
+ − =Review= 3:171 Ag 25 ’20 380w
“The poem is a faithful attempt to produce a visualization of men and
events of 3000 years ago. It is hardly distinguished, but it shows
considerable knowledge of the subject.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 210w
=WOOD, CLEMENT.= Mountain. *$2.50 Dutton
20–8518
“Pelham Judson grows up on the mountain, the son of the successful
exploiter of its resources in iron; goes to Yale and absorbs the
conventional social ideals (including an exploit as a strikebreaker);
leads an almost preposterously chaste life, which he compensates for
after his marriage to Jane by a delayed affair with Louise; returning
to Adamsville after graduation, becomes converted to the cause of
labor and socialism and is one of the leaders in the long drawn-out
strike in the mines. The result of the conversion is, of course,
permanent estrangement from his father and mother, the former the
leader of the standpat forces.”—New Repub
* * * * *
“A heterogeneous mass of capital and labour, love and catastrophe. Mr
Wood’s masterful portrayal of the negro race, however, furnishes a
background which puts his high-lights to shame and leaves us the hope
that he will visualize the white race with equal clarity.”
− + =Dial= 69:663 D ’20 60w
“Love, it may be said, Mr Wood presents more convincingly than
economics. The characters of his story, never clearly realized, make
sudden and inexplicable shifts of attitude to meet the necessities of
a somewhat vaguely conceived plot, just as his social theories are
strained to make destructive facts work toward constructive ends.” H.
S. H.
+ − =Freeman= 1:574 Ag 25 ’20 360w
“One looks in vain for a single passage of supreme beauty, for one
arresting phrase; yet there is in the book an undercurrent of power
rare in a first novel.”
+ − =Grinnell R= 15:285 N ’20 620w
“From the point of view of art the mind is unpersuaded and the
imagination a blank. The book is all haste and over-eagerness. The
creative hand has scarcely touched it yet.”
− =Nation= 111:276 S 4 ’20 340w
“This is an uncommonly fine bit of work, for a first novel. The
working class type is a real one, not a caricature. Yet the chief
protagonists, Pelham Judson in particular, do not come into the
reader’s experience with that unerring finality which is always the
mark of sure imaginative creation. They are not inconsistent; they are
plausible; they are unfailingly interesting. But they are mere
sketches, not realities.” H. S.
+ − =New Repub= 23:286 Ag 4 ’20 1250w
“With ‘Mountain’ Clement Wood has added 335 pages to the little heaps
of worthwhile contemporary literature.” A. W. Welch
+ =N Y Call= p10 Ag 15 ’20 600w
− =N Y Times= 25:21 Jl 11 ’20 330w
“The novel reflects truthfully and interestingly an ardent if not
entirely substantial type of temperament.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 300w
=WOOD, ERIC FISHER.= Leonard Wood: conservator of Americanism. il *$2
(3c) Doran
20–3861
The author admires the subject of his biography as the conservator and
champion of Americanism, for his work at Plattsburg, his pleas for
preparedness and his dignified reticence about himself. His flawless
record in the past the author hopes gives just grounds for predicting
a still greater career for him in the future. “He has ever been a true
prophet in all matters pertaining to the political and military
welfare of his native land, its allies and dependencies. He has never
had to make excuses, for although the administrative tasks
successively allotted to him have been vast in scope, he has never in
any one of them fallen short of exceptional success.” (Conclusion)
Contents: Ancestry and boyhood; Personal characteristics; As a
surgeon; The Geronimo campaign; The Spanish-American war; Governor of
Santiago; The Wood method; Appointed governor of Cuba; Governor of
Cuba; Turning their government over to Cubans; The conquest of yellow
fever; The Rathbone case; Governor of the Moro province; Dato Ali; The
military administrator; The conservator of Americanism; The world war;
Illustrations, appendix and index.
* * * * *
=Dial= 68:540 Ap ’20 60w
=R Of Rs= 61:444 Ap ’20 220w
“A most interesting and most readable book.”
+ =Spec= 124:48 Jl 10 ’20 1900w
“Although Lieutenant-Colonel Eric Wood is an indifferent biographer,
his book contains several oases of competent writing. Thus he gives a
graphic sketch of the Geronimo campaign, and his account of the Cuban
operations is soldierly and useful.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p382 Je 17 ’20 850w
=WOOD, FREDERIC JAMES.= Turnpikes of New England and evolution of the
same through England, Virginia and Maryland. il $10 Jones, Marshall 386
20–1059
“A detailed history of each of the many turnpike companies, such as is
here furnished, offers a great deal to interest the engineer, and,
from one point of view, summarizes the economic development of the
country from the close of the revolution to the middle of the
nineteenth century.” (Review) “The author, an engineer, has included
everything—engineering problems, history, finance, management,
vehicles, description.” (Booklist)
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:230 Ap ’20
“It is written in a fascinating style, full of good humor, replete
with stories and historical incidents, and its enthusiastic verve
carries the reader from start to finish.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 28 ’20 1000W
“A handsome volume of which both author and publisher have reason to
be proud.”
+ =Review= 2:311 Mr 27 ’20 300w
=WOOD, IRVING FRANCIS.=[2] Heroes of early Israel. il *$2 Macmillan
220.9
20–17159
“‘Heroes of early Israel’ is one of the Great leaders series. It seeks
to tell in a popular manner the stories of the old Hebrew heroes whose
lives are too often lost for the young in the more difficult portions
of the Bible.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:93 D ’20
“The book is intended especially for use in schools, but many will
like to put it into the hands of their children as an introduction to
Biblical study.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 70w
=WOOD, LEONARD.= Leonard Wood on national issues; comp. by Evan J.
David. pa *$1.25 (8c) Doubleday 308
20–7495
“In compiling this book the object has been to collect representative
statements from the speeches and writings of General Leonard Wood on
national problems.” (Compiler’s introd.) Among the subjects covered
are: How Cuba won self-determination; Capital, labor and the golden
rule; American women—today and tomorrow; War and peace; The league of
nations; The farmer—his rights and wrongs; Teachers, moulders of the
future; Immigration without assimilation: Americanization. In addition
to the compiler’s introduction there is a foreword by Edward S. Van
Zile.
=WOODBERRY, GEORGE EDWARD.= Roamer, and other poems. *$1.75 Harcourt 811
20–7800
The greater part of the book is taken up by “The roamer,” a long poem
in four books symbolizing the soul’s pilgrimage through the ages and
its upward progress. A sonnet sequence, Ideal passion, Poems of the
great war, and a group of Sonnets and lyrics complete the volume.
* * * * *
“For those who like conventional, idealistic poetry.”
+ =Booklist= 16:339 Jl ’20
“Mr Woodberry’s lines are penned with such precision, dignity, and
grace, and express so noble an enterprise, that one feels they should
not be allowed to perish without protest. And yet they fail to stir.
Is it that Mr Woodberry is too much merely the inheritor of Victorian
maladies and philosophies?” L. M. R.
+ − =Freeman= 2:21 S 15 ’20 320w
“As an occasional poet Mr Woodberry is not exciting after the occasion
has passed; in the present period of enforced listlessness toward the
war, his poems on that occasion, at least, seem good work thrown away,
seem good words robbed of their right to ring. Mr Woodberry is more
surely a poet when he is a Platonist, as in ‘Ideal passion,’ on the
whole the most vibrant portion of his recent output.” Mark Van Doren
+ − =Nation= 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 220w
“Professor Woodberry’s book must be accounted one of the genuine
poetical achievements of the year, but it will hardly make a wide
appeal to this generation.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 25 ’20 380w
“‘Ideal passion’ is excellent, while the ‘Roamer’ is valuable only to
specialists in literature or disciples of Mr Woodberry. The shorter
poems in the volume are vastly better than the ‘Roamer,’ but attain no
equality with ‘Ideal passion.’” O. W. Firkins
+ − =Review= 3:170 Ag 25 ’20 800w
=WOODHOUSE, HENRY.= Textbook of applied aeronautic engineering. il *$6
Century 629.1
20–5220
“The bulk of this book is devoted to a description of existing
machines, but in the first chapter the author declares that for
commercial success the aeroplane should be built to carry twenty tons
of useful load, and considers how this can be done. Other chapters
consist largely of reprints of papers and documents, many from
American sources, relating to aeroplane and seaplane engineering in
the U.S.A. navy, the theory of flight, rigging, alinement, maintenance
and repairs, and the value of plywood in fuselage construction.”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 400w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p474 Jl 22 ’20 80w
=WOODHOUSE, THOMAS, and KILGOUR, P.= Cordage and cordage hemp and
fibres. (Pitman’s common commodities and industries ser.) il $1 Pitman
677
20–7601
An introductory chapter suggesting something of the early history of
cordage is followed by: Definition of cordage and sources of fibres;
Classification of fibres; The cultivation of hemp; Retting, breaking
and scutching; The cultivation of plants for hard fibres; The
preparing and spinning machinery for hemp and other soft fibres; The
preparing and spinning machinery for manila and other hard fibres;
Twines, cords and lines; Ropes and rope-making; Yarn numbering;
Marketing. There are 31 illustrations and an index. The authors are
connected with the Dundee technical college and school of art.
* * * * *
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p41 Ap ’20 50w
=WOODS, ARTHUR.= Policeman and public. *$1.35 Yale univ. press 352.2
20–1368
“‘The policeman and public,’ by Lieut.-Col. Arthur Woods, former
police commissioner of New York city, places in book form the author’s
lectures in the Dodge course at Yale on the ‘Responsibilities of
citizenship.’ Points discussed are: The puzzling law; The policeman as
Judge; The people’s advocate; Methods of law enforcement; Esprit de
corps; Reward and punishment; Grafting; Influence; Police leadership;
and The public’s part.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“Throughout the book is a sympathetic discussion of the problems from
the standpoint of the policeman. At the same time Mr Woods appreciates
the reasons for the sometimes hostile attitude of the public toward
the police.” J. L. Gillin
+ =Am J Soc= 25:794 My ’20 600w
Reviewed by G. H. McCaffrey
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:527 Ag ’20 340w
“A popular and interesting presentation of the problems and methods of
the police, and of the ways in which the public may cooperate to add
effectiveness to the service.”
+ =Booklist= 16:190 Mr ’20
“Colonel Woods has done a great service to the policemen of the entire
country by putting their case fairly before the public.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 21 ’20 120w
“The little book is instructive and intensely interesting.”
+ =Cath World= 111:118 Ap ’20 220w
+ =Outlook= 124:203 F 4 ’20 70w
“Entertaining and instructive, not only to those connected with an
important branch of municipal government and to applicants for places
therein but to the public generally.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 30 ’19 300w
“They are made lively reading by a mass of illustrative anecdotes.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p287 My 6 ’20 100w
=WOODS, GLENN H.= Public school orchestras and bands. il $2 Ditson 785
20–9484
In realization of the growing importance of music in our educational
curriculum this book is offered to meet in particular the needs of the
teacher who has no knowledge of instrumental music. It emphasizes
three essentials for the instrumental work in the public school
system: that the instruments for the band and orchestra be supplied to
the children; that the work begin in the lower grades of the
elementary schools and be carried through the high school; and that
the instruction be given by special teachers of instrumental music.
Among the contents are: Importance of instrumental instruction;
Preparation of teachers: How to organize instrumental instruction;
Instruction in the elementary schools; Instruction in the high
schools; Conducting; Suggestions about tuning; How to assemble an
orchestra score; Transposition; List of band and orchestra music, and
instruction books. There is an appendix and numerous illustrations.
* * * * *
“For music leaders who lack professional training this book will be
most helpful. It is practical, concise, and is written by one who has
first-hand knowledge of the problem.”
+ =El School J= 21:318 D ’20 220w
=WOODWORTH, HERBERT G.= In the shadow of Lantern street. *$1.75 (1½c)
Small
20–3063
The hero of this story is a little boy in China when the story opens.
He knows nothing of his parentage and believes himself to be Chinese.
But he really is white and his American father, altho unwilling to
recognize his son, still takes him, at sixteen, back to the United
States and educates him. Most of the story is taken up with the tale
of the young man’s striving to accommodate himself to American ideals,
especially in relation to women. Two women come into his life, Bess
and Barbara. To Bess he found marriage to mean the reversal of the
Chinese idea—her husband was to become her chattel. Fortunately he
found out in time and with Barbara is promised the happiness that
comes with love that means partnership.
* * * * *
“It is apparent that Mr Woodworth knows China well, for he has framed
in these early pages a picture that is very foreign and that contains
a large number of realistic details. If Mr Woodworth had succeeded in
keeping his entire novel as vivid as these early chapters it would
have been no mean achievement.” D. L. M.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p9 My 8 ’20 1000w
“There is some good material in the book, but the treatment lacks
color, and shows no sense either of dramatic values, of style or of
character. Such faint interest as the story has flickers out entirely
as soon as the hero leaves China, which he does on the sixty-third
page.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:4 Mr 7 ’20 300w
“The early portions of the narrative are interesting because of an
atmosphere of adventure and exploration; the later phases are
speculative and analytical.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 250w
=WOOLF, LEONARD SIDNEY.= Empire and commerce in Africa; a study in
economic imperialism. *$7 Macmillan 960
(Eng ed 20–3421)
“Omitting consideration of Egypt, Mr Woolf records in detail the
history of those portions of Africa which fell under the influence of
European imperialism. Separate chapters are devoted to Algeria, Tunis,
Tripoli, Abyssinia, Zanzibar, and the Belgian Congo. In all cases the
sequence of events as disclosed by the narrative is much the same. The
awakening of covetous desire in the hearts of European statesmen; the
entering wedge of commercial or financial enterprize, ostensibly
promoted by private initiative but in reality fostered by the state;
the eventual declaration by the home government of its intention to
guarantee the integrity of the economic advantages thus gained by its
citizens; the marking out of spheres of influence; the friction
aroused between the powers by the crossing of imperialistic purposes,
and the threat of war; the adjustment of these international
differences by the devious methods of diplomacy, and the final
emergence of the victor secure in the possession of the spoils. No
patriotic bias is shown in the record. France, Italy, England,
Germany, and Belgium are accused impartially of sordid motives and
heartless conduct. A generous equipment of maps illustrates the text,
and a reproduction of the necessary documents lends support to the
narrative of diplomatic intrigue.”—Am Econ R
* * * * *
“A high order of merit is shown by the writer in his skillful
disentangling of the strands of intrigue in which the imperialistic
aims of the rival states are involved, and in the accomplishment of
his main intent: to set forth clearly the sequence of events which
discloses the true purpose of Europe in its penetration into Africa.
Even those readers who cannot agree that a single motive actuates the
modern state in its imperial policy will find this study of the
progress of empire in Africa illuminating and suggestive.” E. S.
Furniss
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:575 S ’20 1100w
Reviewed by W. E. B. Du Bois
=Nation= 111:352 S 25 ’20 580w
“This is a book of great value and startling candor. It will remind
some of a Veblen satire, but it is more concrete and human than that.”
W. E. B. Du Bois
+ =Survey= 44:310 My 29 ’20 700w
“The merits of the book are that it bears evidence of much research,
though always on the one side and directed to proving what the author
wants to prove, and that it is not greatly disfigured by
indiscriminate abuse or by anti-patriotic bias.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p75 F 5 ’20 1950w
=WOOLF, VIRGINIA (STEPHEN) (MRS LEONARD WOOLF).= Night and day. *$2.25
Doran
20–19042
A long and slow-moving story dealing with a criss-crossing of love
affairs. Katharine Hilbery, granddaughter of the poet Alardyce, is
engaged with her mother in writing the poet’s life. Her father is
editor of a literary review and all her associations are of a literary
character. In secret however her predilections are for mathematics and
she spends lonely midnight hours with Euclid. She becomes engaged to
William Rodney, author of poetic dramas, altho she feels herself drawn
to Ralph Denham, a masterful young man of no family or position. Ralph
maintains a platonic friendship with Mary Datchet, a suffrage worker,
who loves him and refuses his lukewarm offer of marriage for that
reason. Katharine’s cousin Cassandra comes to town and captivates
William, setting Katharine free to marry Ralph. This leaves everyone
provided for except Mary, who continues to devote her life to causes.
Considerable care is devoted to the delineation of minor characters.
* * * * *
“It is impossible to refrain from comparing ‘Night and day’ with the
novels of Miss Austen. There are moments, indeed, when one is almost
tempted to cry it Miss Austen up-to-date. It is extremely cultivated,
distinguished and brilliant, but above all—deliberate. There is not a
chapter where one is unconscious of the writer, of her personality,
her point of view, and her control of the situation.” K. M.
+ − =Ath= p1227 N 21 ’19 1350w
“The half expressed thought, the interrupted sentences by which the
action of ‘Night and day’ proceeds, are baffling. Carry this sort of
thing a few steps further and you have Maeterlinck. Yet even this
intent study of a fragmentary and delicate thing strikes one as in the
spirit of Tennyson’s ‘flower in the crannied wall’ whose complete
comprehension means comprehension of what God and man is.” R. M.
Underhill
+ − =Bookm= 51:685 Ag ’20 350w
“‘Night and day’ is perhaps less fine than ‘The voyage out’; it is not
quite all of a piece as the other book almost miraculously is, or
perhaps the ancient fact that comedy is less impressive than tragedy
weighs in its effect. But it is an ample book.” C. M. Rourke
+ =New Repub= 22:320 My 5 ’20 350w
“This novel of Mrs Woolf’s is profoundly irritating. She has devoted
such fine ability, such remarkable understanding, to the description
of the doings of people profoundly unimportant and insignificant.”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 200w
“All of the characters are drawn with art; their thoughts and actions
are minutely observed and dissected. In point of literary style the
book is distinctive.”
+ =N Y Times= p20 D 5 ’20 450w
“The narrative moves tardily along, and to the story, as such, one
becomes somewhat indifferent. But in fresh characterization of its
people and in charming pictures of England, especially of London, the
work never fails.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 7 ’20 200w
“Round each scene and round the tale as a whole sound sympathetic
notes, that are not definitely struck, but respond to those which are.
We feel the dignity of a love-story worthily told. We see much more
than we are shown. ‘Night and day’ is a book full of wisdom.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p607 O 30 ’19 1250w
=WOOLF, VIRGINIA (STEPHEN) (MRS LEONARD WOOLF).= Voyage out. *$2.25
(1½c) Doran
20–8627
In this kaleidoscopic picture of real life, people come and go with
all their commonplace attributes. They are natural people and act
naturally without any dramatic high lights to throw them into relief.
To make the events transpire in a little world of their own a
shipboard is chosen and a tourist’s hotel on a South-American mountain
side. Helen Ambrose, wife of a Greek scholar, is put in charge of a
niece, twenty years her junior, who at the age of twenty-four is still
a child in world wisdom and experience. Helen, with rare insight and
good sense, undertakes to initiate her into a larger life. In South
America they meet the tourists—a variety of types compressed into a
miniature world. Here Rachel unfolds and the greatest of experiences,
love, comes her way, and there it all ends. Rachel falls a victim to
the treacherous climate.
* * * * *
“To the reviewer, the opportunity to read about people who are real,
but intelligent, is an unusual delight. These people employ
self-control and common sense, even as you and I, and the plot
proceeds without misunderstanding or murder.” R. M. Underhill
+ =Bookm= 51:685 Ag ’20 350w
“The story is strangely lacking in construction. It has neither
beginning nor end nor single point of view, but it is thoroly
interesting, a distinctly unusual book.”
+ − =Ind= 103:53 Jl 10 ’20 250w
“For all its tragic interest ‘The voyage out’ is not low-keyed; it
even has a slight buoyancy of tone, as if clear perception itself
brought a continual zest to its writer. Mrs Woolf has the diversity of
power which makes the great writer of narrative.” C. M. Rourke
+ =New Repub= 22:320 My 5 ’20 1150w
“This English novel gives promise in its opening chapters of much
entertainment. Later, the reader is disappointed. That the author
knows her London in its most interesting aspects there can be no
doubt. But aside from a certain cleverness—which, being all in one
key, palls on one after going through a hundred pages of it—there is
little in this offering to make it stand out from the ruck of mediocre
novels which make far less literary pretension.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:308 Je 13 ’20 450w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:318 O 13 ’20 620w
“As a first novel, it shows promise but is not well-rounded. Portrayal
of women and scholarly elderly men is keen and well handled; that of
younger and ‘red-blooded’ young men somewhat unsatisfactory.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 380w
=WOOLMAN, MRS MARY (SCHENCK).= Clothing: choice, care, cost.
(Lippincott’s family life ser.) il *$2 Lippincott 646
20–26997
“This book faces the every-day living conditions of the people and
treats clothing in its selection, use, care and cost. It is the result
of many years of personal experience in technical and popular
instruction in textiles and clothing to college students, ... to
women’s clubs, to young wage earners, ... to buyers and managers in
the retail trade, and recently, during the war, as a textile
specialist in the service of the government among home keepers and
extension leaders.” (Preface) Contents: Thrift in clothing; Woolen and
worsted clothing; Cotton clothing; Silk clothing; Linen for clothing
and household; Clothing accessories; Clothing and health; Intelligent
shopping; Serviceable clothing; The clothing budget and the wardrobe;
The care, repair and renovation of clothing; Dyeing, laundry and spot
removal; A clothing information bureau; Planning for clothing
progress; Appendix—made-over garments, with charts, bibliography,
glossary; Illustrations and index.
* * * * *
“Useful to students, housekeepers and retail dealers.”
+ =Booklist= 17:102 D ’20
=WORKS, JOHN DOWNEY.= Juridical reform. *$1.50 (3c) Neale 347
20–1529
“A critical comparison of pleading and practice under the common law
and equity systems of practice, the English judicature acts, and codes
of the several states of this country, with a view to greater
efficiency and economy.” (Sub-title) “This little book is intended not
only to point out some of the changes in the laws of pleading,
practice, and procedure, necessary to mitigate present conditions
resulting in interminable delays and enormous expense in maintaining
the courts and the administration of justice, but also to show that a
large part of the delays, and consequent unnecessary expense of
litigation, is not brought about by defective laws alone but by the
dilatory and faulty administration of the laws we have.” (Preface)
Contents: Courts; Actions; Pleadings; The demurrer; Empaneling juries;
Examination of witnesses; Taking cases under advisement; Briefs;
Written opinions; Findings; Continuances; Appeals; Rules of court;
Reports of decisions; Efficiency; Appendix.
* * * * *
“He writes with an apparent knowledge of his subject and with a high
degree of common sense and authority.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 28 ’20 120w
“There is much in this little volume that entitles it to the attention
of every voter, certainly of every public-spirited lawyer.” E: S.
Corwin
+ =Review= 3:449 N 10 ’20 380w
=WRAY, W. J., and FERGUSON, R. W.=, eds. Day continuation school at
work. *$3 (*8s 6d) Longmans 374.8
20–18400
“The editors have brought together the discussions of twelve
individual contributors, each paper constituting a chapter of the book
and dealing with some more or less specific phase of the writer’s
experience in organizing and conducting the scheme of training
described. The introductory chapter, written by one of the editors, is
a general discussion of the necessity for continued education and the
relation of day continuation schools to the national educational
system. The next chapter is a rather full description of the plan of
administration of a girls’ continuation school, written by the
head-mistress. This is followed by a similar account of a boys’ school
by its head-master. In each case explicit statements are made
concerning the curriculum, grading, discipline, and the usual problems
of administration. The several chapters following, each written by an
instructor in one or the other of these schools, take up such topics
as Problems of class teaching in a boys’ day continuation school, The
teaching of mathematics and science in a day continuation school for
boys, Physical training in a girls’ school, and Arts and crafts. The
last two chapters present the employers’ own statement of their
attitude toward continuation education and their impressions of the
value of the plan here described.”—School R
* * * * *
=School R= 28:714 N ’20 400w
“‘A day continuation school at work’ has particularly interesting
sections dealing with camp and outdoor schools, but it does not
achieve quite the modern spirit.”
+ − =Spec= 125:404 S 25 ’20 100w
Reviewed by M. C. Calkins
+ =Survey= 45:610 Ja 22 ’21 520w
=WRIGHT, GEORGE E.= Practical views on psychic phenomena. *$1.60 (4c)
Harcourt 130
20–27481
There is still much confusion of thought, even among people of
considerable general culture, on the subject of super-normal
phenomena, says the author. In order to help the reader to steer
clear, on the one hand, of illogical skepticism and, on the other, of
unreasoning credulity, the book endeavors to lay down the broad lines
on which an examination of the published records in the chief
departments of psychical research should be carried out, and to
summarize briefly the evidence and put forward the conclusions to
which they have led the author. Contents: Evidence in general;
Telepathy; Physical phenomena; Materialization and spirit photography;
Communication with the disembodied: (1) the methods; (2) the evidence;
Conclusion.
* * * * *
“This sensible and restrained introduction for the layman gives an
unbiased summary of the evidence in the case for psychical research.”
+ =Booklist= 17:138 Ja ’21
+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 30w
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow
=Review= 3:42 Jl 14 ’20 950w
“He approaches the whole subject in a singularly cautious spirit; and
his careful and candid examination of the nature of evidence in
psychical research and of different theories is worth reading.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p175 Mr 11 ’20 160w
=WRIGHT, HENRY PARKS.= Young man and teaching. (Vocational ser.) *$1.50
Macmillan 371
20–2127
“In ‘The young man and teaching,’ by Henry Parks Wright, the author,
who is dean of Yale college, discusses every aspect of the teaching
profession, laying particular emphasis on the psychological
qualifications of the man who would devote his life to teaching. Among
the chapter headings are the following: Teaching as a profession;
Objections to the vocation considered; Personal qualifications;
Educational preparation; Instruction; Government; Rules and penalties;
Teaching in college, and others.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:332 Jl ’20
“His book is thorough and suggestive.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 Ap 3 ’20 130w
+ =Cleveland= p55 My ’20 50w
=N Y Times= 25:296 Je 6 ’20 100w
“Some of the author’s sentiments are tinged with those of the ‘old
school,’ but a majority of his thoughts about teaching are strictly up
to date and unquestionably true.”
+ − =School R= 28:392 My ’20 400w
=WRIGHT, ROWLAND.= Disappearance of Kimball Webb. *$1.75 (3c) Dodd
20–819
Mystery and adventure story centering about a man who disappears as if
by magic the night before his proposed wedding to a beautiful young
heiress. All efforts to find him prove for weeks in vain. Some think
him spirited away by ghosts. Elsie, the heiress, is implored by her
relatives to marry some one else, for if she does not marry soon, by
the conditions of the will, she loses her fortune. But for her there
is no one but Webb. Finally after desperate efforts, and dreadful
adventures, the mystery is solved at last. Webb is brought back in
time to save the fortune, and the “master mind” who has spirited the
bridegroom away and kept him basely hid is one least expected.
* * * * *
“The characters are the mere sketches which pass in most latter-day
mystery fiction. The style is slipshod, the dialogue barren, the
action forced. Mr Wright has a new idea, cleverly developed in its
essential details. With this he stops short.” C. H.
− + =Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 20 ’20 320w
“A somewhat new idea is used as vehicle, showing that modern mystery
fiction can be based on a single unsolved point. But the supporting
material is inferior, in comparison, and causes the story to prove
somewhat disappointing.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 16 ’20 220w
=WYATT, EDWIN M.=[2] Blue print reading. il $1 Bruce pub. co. 744
20–16615
“This book is the result of several years teaching of blueprint
reading in night schools and several years teaching of drafting
preceding it.... Essentially it is a tried text, one that has been
used to teach the reading of drawings to one class of mixed trades,
one class of ship carpenters, two classes of house carpenters, and one
class of machinists. It has been designed to suit as wide a range of
trades as possible. Usually each new principle is illustrated by both
a machine and an architectural example.” (Preface) The book is
illustrated with twenty-nine plates, and questions and problems follow
the chapters.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:104 D ’20
“A valuable addition to the library of manual training teachers and
craftsmen wishing to be fluently versed in the universal language of
mechanical drawing.”
+ =School Arts Magazine= 20:244 D ’20 50w
=WYLD, HENRY CECIL KENNEDY.= History of modern colloquial English. *$8
Dutton 420.9
(Eng ed 20–9723)
“This book may be described, in one way, as a documented history of
English pronunciation from Chaucer to the present day; in another, as
an attempt to show that, ‘during the last two centuries at least, the
modifications which have come about in the spoken language are the
result of the influence not primarily of regional, but of class
dialects,’ the final result being the ‘public school English’ which is
now the normal spoken idiom of the educated classes. In chapter I the
author surveys in broad outline the various problems dealt with in
minute detail later in the book. Chapter II, dealing with ‘Dialect
types in middle English, and their survival in the modern period,’
contains an elaborate phonetic description of the three main
contributory dialects. Chapter IV, on ‘From Henry VIII to James I,’
shows us the English language arriving at the self-conscious period.
With chapter V, ‘Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,’ we are on
modern ground. Chapters VI to IX deal with the phonetic history of the
modern language and the origin of inflections. The final chapter, on
‘Colloquial idiom,’ gives us examples of familiar speech from John
Shillingford (1447) to Miss Austen; and there are some final sections
on the trimmings of speech, such as greetings, epistolary formulas,
expletives, compliments, etc.”—Ath
* * * * *
“Professor Wyld is to be congratulated on the accomplishment of a very
valuable, and evidently laborious, piece of work. We would suggest
that he should so far consider the intelligent layman as to publish an
abridged edition, with a few characteristic examples replacing the
ponderous mass of phonetic detail which concludes each chapter, and,
above all, that he should add an index.” E. W.
+ − =Ath= p669 My 21 ’20 1350w
“It may be well to indicate what strikes one as its only defect—that
he takes the insular attitude not uncommon among British scholars.
This caveat once filed, it is only fair to say that Professor Wyld has
done very well indeed what was well worth doing.” Brander Matthews
+ − =N Y Times= p7 Ag 29 ’20 2250w
“No matter how familiar the outlines of the story, no one can follow
Professor Wyld’s version of it without finding his interest in it
quickened and enlarged on every page.” H. M. Ayres
+ − =Review= 3:386 O 27 ’20 1250w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 20w
“Professor Wyld commands a fluent style, but not of the highest order.
Of minor errors and slips there is too large a number. To end on a
fault-finding note would be to give a false impression of our
appreciation of this notable book. We hasten to set down our tribute
to the author’s courage and enthusiasm.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p415 Jl 1 ’20 2100w
=WYLIE, IDA ALENA ROSS.= Children of storm (Eng title, Brodie and the
deep sea). *$2 (1½c) Lane
20–18388
The story of an unequal marriage. Ursula Seton, daughter of one of
England’s wealthiest families, and Adam Brodie, son of an humble
grocer, are married as the result of a brief wartime romance. After
the war, and Adam’s return, they try to make the necessary
adjustments. The first attempt is made in Ursula’s home. Although her
family mean to be sympathetic and kind, Adam is independent and
sensitive and the experiment fails. A second attempt is tried out in
Adam’s humble circumstances. Here the pettiness of everyday drudgery
wears upon Ursula until she can stand it no longer. The two seem to
have come to a deadlock when a new element enters into their affairs.
Ursula’s grandfather, who has confidence in Adam, leaves him the
management of the steel industry which has brought the family their
wealth. In grappling with the problems which this position brings,
Adam grows and develops in mind and soul until Ursula sees again in
him the man with whom she had fallen in love.
* * * * *
“The domestic scenes revealing their difficulties are perhaps the best
in the book.”
+ =Ath= p80 Jl 16 ’20 110w
+ =Booklist= 17:162 Ja ’21
“Miss Wylie’s straightforward and felicitous style is an unmixed
delight.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 390w
“The author fails signally to answer the question she raises.
‘Children of storm’ contains some dramatic passages and some
character-revealing dialogue, but the author cannot be said to meet
satisfactorily the artistic demands of her self-imposed, ambitious
theme.”
− + =N Y Times= p18 D 5 ’20 560w
“The final reconciliation of husband and wife through the husband’s
endeavour to settle labour troubles is, however, not quite convincing.
The writer obviously has fine but vague ideals at the back of her mind
for the improvement of the life of the workers, but she does not quite
succeed in imparting them to the reader.”
+ − =Spec= 124:53 Jl 10 ’20 110w
“In the first chapters Miss Wylie writes with truth and without
partisanship, so that you see this struggle from every side,
sympathize with every character and feel their inevitable sorrows. It
is ... partly perhaps that Miss Wylie was in a hurry to bring her tale
out of tragedy to a triumphant conclusion, which makes the end of the
book melodrama. It is good melodrama, but by comparison with the first
part of the book superficial and theatrical.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p422 Jl 1 ’20 600w
=WYLIE, IDA ALENA ROSS.= Holy fire, and other stories. *$1.75 (2c) Lane
20–8791
Michael Gregorovitch, of the title story, is a Russian priest. He was
a man of peace, a non-resistant, he loved and prayed for his enemies
and he kept the lamp burning before the altar of the little church—the
light of God that had not gone out for two hundred years. The night
the village was sacked the women implored him to give the signal from
the belfry, to sound the tocsin, for the peasants to break forth from
their hiding and kill the invaders. But the priest standing before the
holy fire remained firm—although his house was burned, his wife and
little grandson killed, he would not countenance killing. When the
ruffians entered the church, he did not resent their insults—they put
out the holy fire that had burned for two hundred years and the priest
escaped to the belfry and gave the signal. The other stories are:
Thirst; The bridge across; “Tinker—tailor—”; Colonel Tibbit comes
home; “‘Melia, no good”; A gift for St Nicholas; John Prettyman’s
fourth dimension; An Episcopal scherzo.
* * * * *
“Most of them are marked by tense emotion, but frequently there are
gleams of humor.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:30 Je 27 ’20 300w
“Miss Wylie’s work is frankly colored with sentiment. She does not
ignore the sensibility of the race which was not ashamed to sob over
Colonel Newcome and even Little Nell.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:253 S 22 ’20 160w
=WYLLARDE, DOLF.= Temperament: a romance of hero-worship. *$2 (½c) Lane
(Eng ed 20–12952)
Joan Delamere, of English parentage, was born in the tropics and had
an exotic temperament. She was a musical genius, imaginative and
romantic to a degree. She dreamt dreams and fashioned them in music.
While still a child the personality of a certain Lord Oswald Lancaster
fired her imagination and became her hero. Chance encounters with him
at long intervals kept the fire burning, but not till the hero was
sixty and Joan thirty did they come to know and love each other. As a
child she had made a vow never to marry and her union with Lord Oswald
remained an illicit one. When an older obligation claimed the latter,
Joan hid herself from him and the world on her native Seychelles
islands where she died a lonely death in giving birth to her son.
* * * * *
“The book is not quite as compact as the theme demands, and this
diffuseness militates a bit against its complete success but in a
large measure the theme, in its ample treatment, is developed in a
surprisingly interesting manner. The reader will find much to satisfy
him in the book by considering Joan as a feat in portraiture.”
+ − =N Y Times= p26 Ag 22 ’20 780w
“As usual with this author, we are attracted, half in our own despite,
by the sheer cleverness often revealed in dialogue, characterisation
and description.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:100 Jl 31 ’20 240w
“Her sentimental adventures are not completely convincing, and Lord
Oswald Lancaster is of so commonplace and unattractive a type that the
reader will have very little sympathy with Joan Delamere’s obsession.”
− =Spec= 125:216 Ag 14 ’20 50w
“The events of the tale are plausible, and the persons behave quite
naturally and credibly. To that extent the book is a skilful and
successful piece of fiction. Yet it is very far indeed from being a
good novel in any more serious sense than that. The reason is that the
persons, though carefully imitated from life, are only lay figures.
They are the product not of an act of creative imagination, but of
skilled and painstaking manufacture.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p426 Jl 1 ’20 360w
Y
=YATES, L. B.= Autobiography of a race horse. *$1.75 (3c) Doran
20–10769
A story of horse racing containing considerable inside information on
racing methods, comparisons of English and American systems of
training and riding, and something of the history of racing in
America. Like the ugly duckling, the horse who is made the narrator of
the story shows little promise in early youth, but the young master
who buys the colt at auction for a paltry thirty dollars is justified
in his judgment. He tells of his training, his stable companions and
his first races, adding also an account of a race into the Cherokee
Strip at the time it was opened for settlement.
* * * * *
“An extremely entertaining romance, filled with authentic gossip of
past eras on the American track. The story has many thrilling moments
that are lightened by a deft humorous touch that makes the book
pleasing to read.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:320 Je 20 ’20 450w
=YATES, RAYMOND FRANCIS.= Boys’ book of model boats. il *$2 Century
623.8
20–17511
This book for boys has chapters on: Why a boat floats; The hull; How
to make simple boats, with and without power drive; Steam and electric
propulsion; An electric launch; A steam launch; An electrically driven
lake freighter; An electric submarine-chaser; Boat fittings; The
design of model steam-engines; A model floating dry-dock; Operation of
flash steam power plants for model boats; Sailing yachts; Two-foot
sailing yacht. There are seven full-page illustrations and 166 figures
in the text. A dictionary of marine terms is given in an appendix.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:79 N ’20
“Would require a good deal of material and of manual dexterity.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 40w
=YEATS-BROWN, FRANCIS CHARLES CLAYPON.= Caught by the Turks. il *$2 (4c)
Macmillan 940.47
20–997
In his preface to the story Owen Wister assures the reader that the
tale is true. This is well for it is as strange as fiction. A young
soldier in an aeroplane was captured with his pilot by the Turks near
Baghdad. He is a prisoner of war for nearly three years; escapes, is
recaptured and escapes again. He adopts various disguises, once as a
woman, once as a Hungarian mechanic, and his adventures and
experiences are altogether unusual and romantic. Life in a Turkish
prison camp is likewise very different from the prison camp of the
western front.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:239 Ap ’20
“A war book that is readable on every page.”
+ =Outlook= 124:337 F 25 ’20 40w
“The narrative is lively and humorous, and the author writes an easy
style. We ought to know more about the Turk’s character and habits
than we do: and the book before us will help our education and
stimulate our interest in the Ottoman barbarian.”
+ =Sat R= 128:614 D 27 ’19 260w
“The author tells the story in a straightforward conversational
manner. Humor is not the least of his characteristics, and he shows
ability to distinguish between the important and the nonessential.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a My 2 ’20 300w
“A vividly told tale.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p698 N 27 ’19 30w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p707 D 4 ’19 440w
=YERKES, ROBERT MEARNS=, ed. New world of science, il *$3 Century 509
20–18328
The book is one of the Century New world series and its object is to
show the impetus given to research in the various branches of science
by the war. The various chapters are written by specialists in the
subjects under discussion and the contents fall into groups according
to the role in the war of each science. The contributors to the
respective groups are: Physical science, Robert A. Millikan, Augustus
Trowbridge, Herbert E. Ives; Chemistry, Arthur A. Noyes, Charles E.
Munroe, Clarence J. West; The earth sciences (geography and geology),
Douglas W. Johnson; Engineering, A. D. Kennelly, Henry M. Howe;
Biology and medicine, Vernon Kellogg, Frederick F. Russell, John W.
Hanner, Victor C. Vaughan; Psychology, Robert M. Yerkes. The relations
of the war to progress in science is treated by George Ellery Hale and
James R. Angell. The book is illustrated and indexed.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:144 Ja ’21
“It is excellently illustrated; a record of great value and interest.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p7 O 23 ’20 270w
=YEZIERSKA, ANZIA, pseud.= Hungry hearts. *$1.90 (3c) Houghton
20–18936
The Russian immigrant in the ghetto, reaching out with hungry heart to
higher things, is the subject of this collection of sketches. There is
something fierce and savage and to our sober self-control almost
unreasonable in this cry for beauty, life and freedom that rings from
the heart of this oppressed race in the voice of one of their number.
The sketches are: Wings; Hunger; The lost “beautifulness”; The free
vacation house; The miracle; Where lovers dream; Soap and water; “The
fat of the land”; My own people; How I found America.
* * * * *
“Very intense, with a touch of sadness or bitterness here and there,
but vivid and appealing.”
+ =Booklist= 17:162 Ja ’21
+ =Bookm= 52:551 F ’21 120w
“The characters in these ten stories of imaginative squalor are truly
conceived as portraits, but their speech is too often falsely poetic,
Miss Yezierska has a firm command over her subject-matter; when she
restrains herself she is artistic.” E. P.
+ − =Dial= 70:106 Ja ’21 60w
“It is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant books produced by an
adopted American.” E. A. S.
+ =Grinnell R= 16:310 D ’20 150w
“When she leaves the East side neighborhood to which her art is native
she never quite has the look of reality. And yet she has struck one or
two notes that our literature can never again be without, and she
deserves the high credit of being one of the earliest to put those
notes into engaging fiction.” C. V. D.
+ − =Nation= 112:122 Ja 26 ’21 230w