the ages, harmoniously blended, not set down in the cyclopaedic
manner; the fear of the sea, and the love of it, its terror and its
beauty, the creatures that dwell in it, and the other creatures that
float upon it in boats; its mystery, its never failing charm.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
“It is not technical; it is not scientific; it is not a popular
description; and it is not a rhapsody.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 241. S. 1. 180w.
“You cannot read it without feeling cool and clean and invigorated as
from a dip into the ocean itself.”
+ + =Critic.= 49: 118. Ag. ’06. 330w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 1371. Je. 7, ’06. 1180w.
“Many readers of these essays will be encouraged to undertake a more
precise study of the physical geography of the sea from formal
treatises.”
+ =Nature.= 74: 269. Jl. 19, ’06. 70w.
“His point of view shifts from the scientific to the poetical with no
loss of balance. ‘The opal sea’ is, indeed, a fascinating book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 180. Mr. 24, ’06. 230w.
“Written in an unostentatious yet brilliant manner, the least to be
said of this latest work of Professor Van Dyke’s is that it forms an
invaluable addition to the treasures of the bookshelf.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 410. Mr. 31, ’06. 310w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 60w.
“This is certainly a book to be read.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 238. Ag. 18, ’06. 280w.
=Van Dyke, Paul.= Renascence portraits. **$2. Scribner.
“These papers belong to a delightful class of historical writing and
illustrate the opportunities it affords to those who combine ideas
with scholarship. The few slips we have noticed are of no great
moment.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 651. Ap. ’06. 940w.
“Interesting volume.” Edward Fuller.
+ =Critic.= 48: 213. Mr. ’06. 680w.
“Of American historians, Professor Van Dyke has given us the most
important contribution to the literature of the Renascence. What in
his earlier work he did for the general reader, he has done in these
‘Renascence portraits’ for the student.” L. E. Robinson.
+ + + =Dial.= 41: 13. Jl. 1, ’06. 2290w.
“In his general reflections upon the period Mr. Van Dyke is not
particularly happy, but he has made a clever use of the letters of
Aretino, in whom his book will help to create a living interest.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 239. Jl. 6, ’06. 900w.
“He has read widely and well in the period. His style is pleasant if
without distinction. Yet the book as a whole is not convincing. It
betrays too clearly its publicistic origin.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 165. F. 22, ’06. 530w.
“The book is picturesque and interesting.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 403. S. 22, ’06. 1720w.
=Van Millingen, Alexander.= Constantinople: painted by Warwick Goble.
*$6. Macmillan.
“Such a subject makes exceptional demands upon both painter and
describer, and it says much for Mr. Warwick Goble and Professor van
Millingen that they have risen to their great occasion.... We have
seldom seen views which were more successful in imparting the subtle
secret of the scenery beloved by every one who has enjoyed the
unspeakable privilege of feasting his eyes on the Bosporus and the
Seven hills.... Prof. van Millingen ... best known as a learned and
authoritative archaeologist ... has contrived to present a sketch of
the history and life of the city suggestive of the imagination, not
too crowded with facts, yet sufficiently full to embody the impression
created by the pictures.... His account of the modern inhabitants is
... both sympathetic and life-like, besides being decidedly
readable.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The virtue of the book lies more often in suggestion and stimulation
than in finality.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 693. Je. 9. 1860w.
“In spite of an evidently conscientious desire on the part of the
collaborators to do justice to the world-famous capital of the Ottoman
Empire ... it can scarcely be claimed that the result is a complete
success, either from the artistic or the literary point of view.”
– =Int. Studio.= 29: 182. Ag. ’06. 270w.
“Such care has been taken to connect the pictures and the text, that
one scarcely knows whether the text was made to fit the pictures or
the pictures to fit the text, but whichever it be the harmony is
remarkable.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 104. Ag. 2, ’06. 1180w.
“The print, the pictures, and the text vie with each other for
commendation. Dr. van Millingen enriches the real importance of his
descriptions by a readable and limpid style of writing, showing sane,
individual judgment, competent study, and sympathetic interest.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 530. Je. 30, ’06. 110w.
“The distinguished feature is the writing, the pictures are merely
accessories, and too often not highly serviceable even in that
capacity.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 120. Jl. 28. ’06. 320w.
“A volume which it is a pleasure both to read and to look at. The
pictures are all good; some are quite excellent.”
+ + – =Spec.= 96: 912. Je. 9, ’06. 290w.
=Van Norden, Charles.= Jesus: an unfinished portrait. *$1. Funk.
Thirty-five years of study and reflection on the career of Jesus are
summed up in these pages. It is the aim of the author to present the
real Man from the standpoint of scientific accuracy. Following the
introduction are the following subdivisions: The author’s point of
view, How Jesus discovered his mission, What Jesus taught, The
Master’s method and personality and Reflection.
* * * * *
=Outlook.= 82: 810. Ap. 7, ’06. 320w.
=Van Vorst, Marie.= Amanda of the mill: a novel. †$1.50. Dodd.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
=Atlan.= 97: 51. Ja. ’06. 30w.
=Van Vorst, Marie.= Miss Desmond: an impression. †$1.50. Macmillan.
It was Balzac who created the heroine of thirty, and Marie Van Vorst
has perpetuated the creation in her present fiction study. Miss
Desmond is of the Puritan type, and after burying thirty-two years in
her shut-away New England garden, finds herself unexpectedly expanding
under the influence of the new life at a Swiss resort while
chaperoning the daughter of her handsome and much talked-of sister.
The threads of the story begin to tangle when the increasingly radiant
Miss Desmond becomes her sister’s rival, and yields to the enchantment
in spite of the fact that Robert Bedford has not an unblemished
reputation.
* * * * *
+ – =Acad.= 70: 40. Ja. 13, ’06. 340w.
“Neither the plot nor the characters are strikingly original.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 42. Ja. 13. 310w
“The development of the theme is dramatic, though at times a little
unsure; and the characterization is uncommonly delicate and
significant.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 19. Ja. 1, ’06. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 18. Ja. 13, ’06. 250w.
“Her ‘study’ of Miss Desmond’s transformation is accomplished
brilliantly, with a few bold strokes.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 26. Ja. 6, ’06. 90w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 40w.
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 786. D. 16, ’05. 240w.
“There are, indeed one or two faults of taste in the book, which will
not recommend it to the fastidious reader. But the analysis of
character is well if rather pitilessly done, and the descriptions of
the Swiss scenery amidst which the action passes are decidedly
attractive. The book, however, is by no means on the same level as
‘Amanda of the mill.’”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 64. Ja. 13, ’06. 240w.
=Van Vorst, Marie.= Sin of George Warrener. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“The worthless wife of the virtuous poor man, who is corrupted by a
wealthy lover and ruins her meritorious husband” (Spec.) is the
central figure in this story which “recognizes the influence of petty,
sordid, every-day details upon the great mass of mediocre, plodding,
average human lives.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“It is a repulsive theme, and we cannot feel that anything in this
author’s treatment justifies its revival.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 1: 792. Je. 30. 150w.
“Is ... entitled to serious recognition, virile in its frankness, but
very feminine in its subtle discernment.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 643. Ag. ’06. 530w.
“The chief fault of the book is that the psychological element has so
far dominated all the other elements of the novel that were that part
of it to be removed there would practically be nothing else.”
+ – =Critic.= 49: 288. S. ’06. 210w.
“This unflinching realism, combined with a certain forcefulness of
presentation, impels a reluctant sort of admiration for the book,
despite a diction that is slovenly to the point of exasperation.” Wm.
M. Payne.
– + =Dial.= 41: 114. S. 1, ’06. 80w.
“This story is well conceived and ably written, but it is not
elevating.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 820. O. 4, ’06. 370w.
“The story, though always readable, had been almost a failure, had not
the character of Mrs. Warrener, developed from some quality of will
from shallow stupidity to an almost triumphant independence, held and
mastered the interest throughout.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 249. Jl. 13, ’06. 540w.
“The very evident literary force and skill that have gone into the
writing of ‘The sin of George Warrener’ only make one the more
regretful that Miss Van Vorst should use her talents in behalf of such
a sordid, unpleasant group of beings as are there depicted.
Incidentally it may be mentioned that Miss Van Vorst is exceedingly
fond of split infinitives and is far from avoiding other inaccuracies
and inelegancies of style.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 461. Jl. 21, ’06. 510w.
“The book will neither corrupt the morals nor engage the mind of any
reader who knows how these subjects are treated by great writers.”
– =Sat. R.= 102: 211. Ag. 18, ’06. 180w.
“There are many faults of construction in the book: there are many
faults of style, for at times the writing is painfully slipshod; but
for the working out of the conception we have nothing but praise.”
+ – =Spec.= 97: 135. Jl. 28, ’06. 950w.
=Vaughan, Rev. John.= Wild flowers of Selborne, and other papers.
**$1.50. Lane.
“A book which deserves a place beside Gilbert White’s “Natural history
of Selborne” written over a century ago. There is in Rector Vaughan’s
book a happy mingling of plants and people. Following a chapter on
“The wild flowers of Selborne” is a chatty sketch of White himself;
and then follow in succession the chapters on the use of Simples,
Pot-herbs, Wild fruits, Wall-flowers, Poisonous plants, and so on,
until we come to the essays on Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick, Izaak
Walton at Droxford, and French prisoners at Portchester.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“The literary charm of the book is marked, and it is altogether a work
of distinction and value.” Sara Andrew Shafer.
+ =Dial.= 40: 359. Je. 1, ’06. 530w.
“Whoever obtains this volume as an accession to his library of
Whiteana may possibly be disappointed, but nevertheless will get his
money’s worth in cheerful gossip about matters that certainly would
have interested Gilbert White.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 415. My. 17, ’06. 880w.
“This is in truth a delightful book, set apart and above so much of
the rural reporting of the day, by keen observation, a clearness of
narrative, and distinct literary quality.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 406. Je. 23, ’06. 300w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 128. O. ’06. 90w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 584. Ap. 14, ’06. 250w.
=Vaux, Patrick.= Shock of battle, †$1.50. Putnam.
“A war between Great Britain and Germany, supposed to take place after
the opening of the Panama canal, serves as an opportunity to develop
the horrible scenes of a twentieth century conflict. Political causes
are merely touched upon and the author confines himself to the
presentation of the actual battles, in which even the trained and
scientific fighters of this century fall back to a certain degree upon
their primal instincts. This record of a naval battle bounds in
pictures so revolting and at the same time so realistic that it brings
home once more the terrible discrepancy between the methods of modern
warfare and the ideals of our civilization.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“He writes with animation and vividness. As a piece of imaginative
journalism the book may rank about with Mr. Well’s prophetic flights.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 228. S. 13, ’06. 190w.
“There is very little plot, however, and what power there is in the
book lies in the descriptions of the fights between the battleships.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 595. S. 29, ’06. 250w.
“The writer has produced not only a successful narrative, but a number
of vigorous descriptions, excellent in themselves and contributing to
the tensity of the situations.”
+ |=Outlook.= 84: 92. S. 8, ’06. 150w.
=Vay de Vaya and Luskod, Count.= Empires and emperors of Russia, China,
Korea, and Japan, notes and recollections. **$4. Dutton.
“Count Vay de Vaya ... early in life devoted himself to the work of
the Roman Catholic church. A study of its missions and various
organizations has taken him into all parts of the world and his unique
experiences are told with unusual simplicity and charm.... The main
part of the present volume was written on the eve of the
Russo-Japanese war, and apart from the descriptions of the
‘traditions, quaint customs, and picturesque features of the land’ (of
which he has the artistic perception) Count Vay de Vaya interprets the
more fundamental social, political, and religious conditions existing
in the Far East, which are of special interest just at this
period.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 61: 641. S. 13, ’06. 120w.
“Few of the author’s statements go above the level of those of the
average hasty traveller who accepts uncritically any story which is
interesting. Yet, despite these criticisms, the style of the author is
easy and his text entertaining. The average reader will surely be
delighted with these experiences of a gentleman of kindly heart who
adds to a pleasing style the graces of a cosmopolitan traveller.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 350. O. 25, ’06. 330w.
“He hardly provides much that is new, striking or significant. On the
other hand he does provide much that is interesting though he is
sometimes extraordinarily dull, and the hasty manner in which his
notes have been thrown together leads to tedious repetitions.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 581. S. 22. ’06. 1010w.
“Interesting and valuable studies.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 238. S. 22, ’06. 250w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 511. O. ’06. 140w.
“The merit of this book lies in the author’s faculties of observation
and brilliant description. He is an artist by temperament.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 102: 461. O. 13, ’06. 1240w.
=Vedder, Henry Clay.= Balthasar Hubmaier. **$1.35. Putnam.
The latest addition to the “Heroes of the reformation” series gives
the history of Hübmaier’s life, his devotion to the Anabaptist cause,
his doctrines, and his martyr death. The material has been gathered
from Hübmaier’s own writings and a German life by Dr. Johann Loserth.
* * * * *
“Dr. Vedder’s treatment in the book under review is sympathetic, but
with conscientious regard for the facts, which are stated with
clearness, candor, and accuracy.” Albert J. Ramaker.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 746. O. ’06. 500w.
“With its numerous illustrations the book gives an interesting picture
of certain phases of the great protestant reformation not to be found
elsewhere.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 267. Ap. 16, ’06. 320w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 904. D. 16, ’05. 400w.
=Venable, William Mayo.= Garbage crematories in America. $2. Wiley.
While the main portion of Mr. Venable’s treatment has to do with the
subject of incineration, he deals briefly with quantities of refuse to
be handled and with systems of the collection of city wastes. “As a
whole, Mr. Venable’s book presents some of the fundamental principles
governing, or which should govern, garbage and refuse furnaces, and
outlines in a useful manner the various types of American furnaces.”
(Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“On the sanitary phases of refuse disposal Mr. Venable is quite
unsatisfactory. As a whole Mr. Venable’s book presents some of the
fundamental principles governing, or which should govern, garbage and
refuse furnaces, and outlines in a useful manner the various types of
American furnaces.”
+ – =Engin. N.= 55: 558. My. 17, ’06. 720w.
+ + =Nature.= 74: 631. O. 25, ’06. 460w.
=Ver Beck, Frank (William Francis).= Ver Beck’s book of bears; some of
the lines were thought out by Hanna Rion, others by Hayden Carruth, the
worst ones by Frank Ver Beck, the best ones by the bear himself. †$1.50.
Lippincott.
A “bear” book in which the spirited illustrations put a whole bear
family, if not through Jiu Jitsu, at least thru acrobatic and
pugilistic performances which are marvelous as to expertness.
* * * * *
“Is chiefly pictorial in its appeal, for the comment in verse and
prose is not half so telling as the illustrations which it
accompanies.”
+ – =Dial.= 41: 397. D. 1, ’06. 60w.
“The child will be hard to please indeed who cannot find hours of
delight in the volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 50w.
=Verrall, Arthur Woolgar.= Essays on four plays of Euripides:
Andromache, Helen, Heracles, Orestes. *$2.25. Macmillan.
“In ‘Euripides the rationalist’ Dr. Verrall dealt with his author on
broad lines; here he takes four of his plays, veritable puzzles, and
after showing the absurdity of the common interpretations of them,
offers new ones of his own, based on the general view of the poet’s
genius which he has formed. He claims to have found for these four
plays interpretations reasonable and consistent, in place of the only
possible alternative, the assumption that as dramas they are complete
failures.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The notes are of the characteristic Verrallian type, brilliant and
scholarly in the highest degree, but fantastic and unconvincing.” R.
Y. Tyrrell.
+ – =Acad.= 69: 1283. D. 9, ’05. 1750w.
“We must offer our congratulations to Dr. Verrall on the admirable
clearness with which he states and analyzes the intricate plots.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 192. F. 17. 1640w.
“By a chance, fortunate for Euripides and his readers, we have ... a
second instalment ... of Dr. Verrall’s prose studies of the poet. That
amounts to saying that the brightest and most ingenious exponent of
the ‘true inwardness’ of Euripides as poet and dramatist and the most
poetical of living translators have simultaneously helped forward a
now winning cause—the rehabilitation of Euripides.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 63. F. 23. ’06. 1650w.
“The new volume is written with the acuteness and scholarship, the
excessive ingenuity, the sensational manner of the old. Dr. Verrall is
a thorough scholar, and no one can read him without profit. It is his
method, not his knowledge that is at fault.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 302. Ap. 12, ’06. 2060w.
“One may not always agree with his conclusions, some of them are very
daring, one must give them consideration for the sake of the ability,
sincerity and enthusiasm which he displays in arriving at them.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 100: 820. D. 22, ’05. 600w.
“[Dr. Verrall] is so ingeniously intricate in his arguments, he weaves
into them so many curious facts and acute observations, he so
intertwines exact details with fine-spun fancies, that to put even
some of his conclusions simply is no easy task, while any close
criticism of his reasoning would need not an article but a volume.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 586. Ap. 14. ’06. 1500w.
=Vesey, Arthur Henry.= Castle of lies. †$1.50. Appleton.
A young man branded a coward because he did not risk his life to
rescue a friend who had fallen over a precipice is the hero of a
stormy tale rife with intrigue and hair-breadth escapes. He is led to
believe that he may retrieve his former self respect by saving a life
for the life lost. “The story is around the love of an American for an
English girl. The title of the book is from the castle owned by the
villain of the story, a countess, who, for political reasons, spirits
away an ambassador, the brother of the heroine, and kidnaps the hero.”
(N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The whole thing is a tissue of glaring improbabilities strung
together with no regard for sequence.”
– =Critic.= 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 242. Ap. 14, ’06. 260w.
– =Outlook.= 82: 907. Ap. 21, ’06. 70w.
=Vetch, Robert Hamilton=, ed. Life of Lt.-Gen. the Hon. Sir Andrew
Clarke; with a pref. by Sir G. S. Clarke. **$4. Dutton.
Sir Andrew Clarke of “the shrewd eye for capable men” deserves a
biography “if only as an example of how the servants of the empire are
made.” “To have played a part in the early struggles of two of the
Australasian colonies, to have undertaken engineering works on a large
scale, to have settled complex native problems in the Straits
settlements and to have served on the Viceroy’s Council would have
been enough for most men; but Sir Andrew Clarke was a man of such
unceasing activity that these achievements were but a part of his
career, and the training which he obtained in thus serving his country
abroad only fitted him the better for becoming at home Commandant of
the School of military engineering and Inspector-General of
fortifications.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 70: 60. Ja. 20, ’06. 600w.
“The volume in which this story is told is judiciously edited.”
+ =Ath.= 1906. 1: 197. F. 17. 320w.
=Critic.= 48: 285. Mr. ’06. 80w.
=Ind.= 60: 629. Mr. 15, ’06. 400w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 455. D. 22, ’05. 660w.
“The book, which contains some interesting portraits, illustrations,
and maps, is full of information as to persons, places, and events;
but it is wanting in individual human interest. It is rather a record
than a well-digested biography.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 365. My. 3, ’06. 250w.
“The life of this civilian in the army is admirably told by Col.
Vetch.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 3. Ja. 6, ’06. 930w.
“A very able and judicious biographer he is. Colonel Vetch’s lucidly
written, informing, and detailed biography deserves to be, and
doubtless will be, considered an authority on the matter in, and the
system by, which the British Empire was extended and consolidated in
the nineteenth century.”
+ + + =Spec.= 96: sup. 121. Ja. 27, ’06. 430w.
=Villari, Luigi=, ed. Balkan question. *$3. Dutton.
+ =Spec.= 96: 227. F. 10. ’06. 170w.
=Vincent, Leon Henry.= American literary masters. **$2. Houghton.
Each of the nineteen chapters in this volume treats of the life and
works of some American author of the period 1809–1860. The writers
considered are: Irving, Bryant, Cooper, Longfellow, Poe, Bancroft,
Prescott, Hawthorne, Whittier, Holmes, Motley, Emerson, Thoreau,
Taylor, Mitchell, Curtis, Lowell, Whitman and Parkman.
* * * * *
+ – =Acad.= 71: 572. D. 8, ’06. 1090w.
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 971. Jl. ’06. 30w.
“Mr. Vincent is clear, concise and definite, without being dry.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 91. Jl. ’06. 80w.
“The work is pleasing in style, and provides much
systematically-ordered information.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 43. Jl. 16, ’06. 50w.
“He writes to instruct, but has the happy inspiration of retaining all
the graces which he displays for the fastidious.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 167. Mr. 17, ’06. 210w.
“Among recent works of its kind we have seen none likely to be more
useful.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 180. Mr. 24, ’06. 150w.
“But he has done his work conservatively and well.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 510. Ap. 31, ’06. 110w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 498. O. 6, ’06. 150w.
=Vinogradoff, Paul.= Growth of the manor. *$2.50. Macmillan.
“To the special student of the period.... The book is indispensable;
while, on account of its breadth of treatment and its suggestive
quality, it ought also to be welcomed by a far wider circle. The book
is by no means conclusive. So little evidence is adduced in support of
large generalizations that the author often fails to convince.”
Frances G. Davenport.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 361. Ja. ’06. 1710w.
“In spite of these criticisms we cannot but admire the comprehensive
knowledge of the history of the land tenure shown in this book,
covering, as it does, a period of over a thousand years, and dealing
with systems so different as those of the Romans, the Celts, the
Saxons, and the Normans. English historical students must acknowledge
their indebtedness to Professor Vinogradoff for the labour he has
spent on the elucidation of the ancient institutions of our country.”
F. G. M. Beck.
+ + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 764. O. ’06. 1500w.
Reviewed by Charles Beard.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 165. Mr. ’06. 1120w.
“A book which is, without question, the most important treatise now
available for students and scholars who seek a knowledge of the
subject. The style is simple and clear, and except for the arrangement
of paragraphs, which run unbroken sometimes for three pages or more,
no criticism can be passed on the construction of the book.” C. D.
+ + + =Yale R.= 14: 429. F. ’06. 1610w.
=Vizetelly, Francis (Frank) Horace.= Deskbook of errors in English.
*75c. Funk.
The author’s object is to correct careless diction and to point out
common errors and vulgarisms that have crept into our language so that
his readers may acquire refined speech by learning what to avoid. To
this end he has arranged those words which are most often incorrectly
used in alphabetical order, including slang and colloquialisms, and
has given each a concise note in explaining its use and misuse.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 61: 252. Ag. 2, ’06. 40w.
“As an interesting, convenient, and not in the least academic desk
manual, the book will go far to show the busy men the value of a ready
precise use of good words in neat, unmistakable relations.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 451. Jl. 14. ’06. 400w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 671. Jl. 21, ’06. 210w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 60w.
=Vizetelly, Francis (Frank) Horace.= Preparation of manuscripts for the
printer. *75c. Funk.
“This is a work that should be possessed by all persons with literary
aspirations. It is also a treatise that will materially aid the
practical culture of the general reader.”
+ + =Arena.= 35: 105. Ja. ’06. 500w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 60w.
=Vries, Hugo de.= Species and varieties: their origin by mutation:
lectures delivered at the University of California; ed. by Daniel
Trembly MacDougal. *$5. Open ct.
+ + =Nation.= 82: 496. Je. 14, ’06. 990w.
“Ranks with the most important on its subject which have thus far
appeared.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 83: 45. My. 3, ’06. 490w.
=Vye, J. A.= Farm accounts: a manual for farmers and those desiring a
simple method of keeping accounts. $1.25. J. A. Vye. St. Anthony Park,
St. Paul.
A manual prepared for the classes of the School of agriculture of the
Minnesota university, and adapted to the needs of high schools and
business colleges.
W
=Wack, Henry Wellington.= In Thamesland being a gossiping record of
rambles thru England from the source of the Thames to the sea, with
casual studies of the English people, their histories, literary and
romantic shrines. The whole forming a complete guide to the Thames
valley. **$3. Putnam.
Mr. Wack and a friend voyaged down the Thames “from near its obscure
source to Kingston-upon-Thames, a short distance above London, where
tidewater is met with. Mr. Wack has quite a faculty for accumulating
facts, and his ‘Thamesland’ is a veritable mine of history,
interspersed with much observation of scenery and occasionally a
facetious remark at the expense of the natives with whom they came in
contact. The book, which is admirably illustrated and has a good map,
will serve as a very useful and interesting guide to those who wish to
take a similar voyage down the historic Thames or spend the days in
wandering among the towns on its banks.”-Ind.
* * * * *
“This volume so frequently fails in accuracy that the reader who knows
the river must be moved to impatience.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 2: 212. Ag. 25. 1070w.
Reviewed by Anna Benneson McMahan.
=Dial.= 41: 200. O. 1, ’06. 990w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 638. S. 13, ’06. 300w.
“He writes agreeably and has been careful in collecting his
information.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 430. S. 29, ’06. 90w.
“The book is, in fact, one to make an Englishman shudder, and to
depress even more the American who has been over the same ground.”
– =Nation.= 83: 350. O. 25, ’06. 280w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 15, ’06. 100w.
“We know of none at once so entertaining, so beautiful, and so
comprehensive in its scope as this.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 450. Jl. 14, ’06. 230w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 254. N. ’06. 240w.
“High-class guide-book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 255. Ag. ’06. 70w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 271. Ag. 25, ’06. 220w.
=Wack, Henry Wellington.= Story of the Congo Free State. **$3.50.
Putnam.
– =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 196. Ja. ’06. 350w.
“The present volume, in its controversial part, is useful in
presenting the other side, as against Dilke, Fox-Bourne and their
supporters. Its elaborate collection of data not especially bearing on
the ‘Congo question’ is the more immediately valuable to the student.”
A. G. K.
– + =Yale R.= 14: 434. F. ’06. 680w.
=Waddell, Charles Carey.= Van Suyden sapphires. † $1.50. Dodd.
“Is decidedly one of the best stories of this class that has been put
out in many a day.”
+ + =Reader.= 7: 562. Ap. ’06. 160w.
=Waddell, Laurence Austine.= Lhasa and its mysteries: with a record of
the expedition of 1903–1905. *$3. Dutton.
“This is a new and cheaper edition of Colonel Waddell’s account of our
recent expedition into Tibet. In its more expensive shape it passed
through two editions, and the present one is a marvel of cheapness.
Not very many of the illustrations of last year are omitted in this
year’s reprint, and the type is the same.”-Nature.
* * * * *
“A volume which is almost, if not quite as handsome and complete as
the expensive first and second editions.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 487. My. 19, ’06. 290w.
“Colonel Waddell’s book ... now appears in a cheaper edition, $3.00,
which for most persons and libraries will be as satisfactory.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 883. O. 1, ’06. 80w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 474. O. 6, ’06. 100w.
+ =Nature.= 74: 518. S. 20, ’06. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 757. N. 17, ’06. 270w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 630. N. 10, ’06. 350w.
=Waddington, Mary Alsop King.= Italian letters of a diplomat’s wife.
**$2.50. Scribner.
“For readers of whatever experience the letters are at their best when
they have to do with the two latest occupants of the Quirinal, their
queens, and their three contemporaries in the Vatican.” M. A. De Wolfe
Howe.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 113. Ja. ’06. 260w.
=Wade, Blanche Elizabeth.= Garden in pink. **$1.75. McClurg.
“Is an exquisite and perfect bit of bookmaking but having said this it
is difficult to add anything in praise of the book’s literary
substance.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 168. Mr. 17, ’06. 430w.
=Wade, Blanche Elizabeth.= Stained glass lady: an idyl; with
frontispiece and other drawings by Blanche Ostertag. †$2.50. McClurg.
Imaginative “Little boy” after “counting things” to keep awake during
the big people’s sermon spies a beautiful young woman outlined against
the stained glass window. In his youthful fancy she is fit to wear the
crown suspended in the glass above her head. He calls her the
“Stained-glass lady,” and there springs up between the two an idyllic
friendship which is characterized by the child’s susceptibility to the
poetic graces of the woman, and to the flower and sunlight atmosphere
of her surroundings.
* * * * *
“A vivid descriptive touch, a whimsical humor, and a highly
imaginative appreciation of nature combine to produce a unique and
decided charm, which a slight affectation of style rather increases
than diminishes.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 394. D. ’06. 220w.
“Such children as are blessed with imagination and a love of the
beautiful will delight in ‘The stained glass lady.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 100w.
=Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton (Blanchard).= Indian fairy tales, as told to
the children of the wigwam. $1. Wilde.
The folk-lore of the red people as it was handed down from generation
to generation is found in this little volume for young readers who
cannot but feel the charm of the mythical red heroes and of the things
of the water, the air, and the stars themselves which figure in these
stories of: The daughter of the stars, White Feather and the six
giants, The magic moccasins, Hiawatha, Lex, Gloaskap, Manabozho, The
fire plume and all the others.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
=Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton (Blanchard).= Old colony days: stories of the
first settlers and how the country grew, with il. by Sears Gallagher.
[+]75c. Wilde.
The second volume in “Uncle Sam’s old-time stories.” Uncle Sam is the
story-teller and follows the principal events of colonial days,
showing with what courage, in spite of hardships and dangers, the
settlers struggled for free homes. It is a juvenile book adapted to
class-room needs.
* * * * *
“Would have been much more effective had the first settlers and the
country’s growth been followed in a direct manner.”
– =Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
=Waggaman, Mary T., and others.= Juvenile round table, third series. $1.
Benziger.
A group of interesting stories with Catholic teaching.
=Wagnalls, Mabel.= Miserere. **40c. Funk.
A sad tale with a musical setting in which a young prima donna is the
central spirit.
* * * * *
“A charming little story of music and music-lovers.” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 36: 686. D. ’06. 70w.
=Wagner, Charles.= Justice; tr. from the French by Mary Louise Hendee.
**$1. McClure.
=Critic.= 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 70w.
+ =Reader.= 7: 225. Ja. ’06. 240w.
=Wagner, Charles.= My impressions of America; tr. from the French by
Mary Louise Hendee. **$1. McClure.
“The author of ‘The simple life’ has made a record of his personal
experiences rather than a formal study of American institutions. His
attitude is one of sympathy and appreciation, seldom running into
criticism. The book is not without passages of the reflective and
serious kind, but they are thrown in here and there as breaks in the
narrative.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“From a literary point of view, it is about nil; as also from the
point of view of the American who desires to see his country more
clearly through the eyes of a stranger.”
+ – =Dial.= 41: 286. N. 1, ’06. 190w.
=Ind.= 61: 825. O. 4, ’06. 100w.
“Mr. Wagner has offered to Americans a graceful and interesting
souvenir of his recent visit.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 474. O. 6, ’06. 70w.
“Dr. Wagner is above all a keen observer. He notices little things as
well as those of great dimensions, and writes of them simply and
charmingly.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 633. O. 6, ’06. 450w.
“It is the spontaneous expression of a man who is wholly delightful as
a companion and who writes as simply and as freely and in as friendly
a fashion as he talks.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 795. N. 24, ’06. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 512. O. ’06. 50w.
=Wagner, Richard.= Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck; tr. by W.
Ashton Ellis. $4. Scribner.
“Our author dwells at too great length on Wagner’s virtues and Minna’s
failings.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 711. Je. 9. 800w.
=Wagner, (Wilhelm) Richard.= Tannhäuser; a dramatic poem freely
translated in poetic narrative form by Oliver Huckel. **75c. Crowell.
A companion volume to Mr. Huckel’s “Parsifal” and “Lohengrin.” This
parable of the redemptive power of a pure and unselfish love loses
neither dignity nor strength in the translation.
* * * * *
“This essay alone is worth more than the price of the work to lovers
of the greatest musical genius of the nineteenth century.”
+ + =Arena.= 36: 685. D. ’06. 190w.
“There is a prose introduction, which is both historical and critical
and the verse is smooth and flowing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 724. N. 3, ’06. 90w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 377. D. ’06. 90w.
=Wagstaff, Henry McGilbert.= State rights and political parties in North
Carolina, 1776–1861. 50c. Johns Hopkins.
A monograph setting forth the political tendencies of North
Carolinians between the war of independence and the war of secession.
=Walcott, Earle Ashley.= Blindfolded. $1.50. Bobbs.
San Francisco with its Chinatown and its water front, its wild life
and its desperadoes, is the scene of this adventurous tale of two dual
personalities. A young stranger arrives at the Golden Gate just in
time to take up, blindfolded, the work of his murdered friend and
double, and he is further blinded because of the strange resemblance
which his friend’s benefactor bears to his friend’s enemy. Thru
murders, brawls, wild scenes in the stock exchange, and strange
adventurous missions he gropes courageously in the dark towards light,
wealth and happiness.
* * * * *
“This is a mystery-romance displaying considerable ability on the part
of the author in construction, plot and counterplot. It is fairly well
written and is, we think, the best story of the kind that has appeared
in recent months.”
+ + =Arena.= 36: 571. N. ’06. 350w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 646. N. 3, ’06. 80w.
“In spite of the triteness of both fiction and machinery, it cannot be
denied that the book holds our attention from start to finish by means
of an interest born of suspense.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 656. O. 6, ’06. 350w.
– =Outlook.= 84: 839. D. 1, ’06. 30w.
=World To-Day.= 11: 1222. N. ’06. 80w.
=Walker, Alice Morehouse.= Historic Hadley: a story of the making of a
famous Massachusetts town. **$1. Grafton press.
In this sketch of historic Hadley “truth has not been sacrificed to
style. Painstaking effort has been made to search the town records, to
scrutinize every historical document, and to weigh carefully famous
traditions. The old dwellings, the highways and byways, the mountains,
the river and the meadows, the ancient elms, heirlooms and antique
relics have been questioned and they have broken their silence of
centuries and told the story of by-gone days.”
=Walker, James.= Analytical theory of light. *$5. Macmillan.
“Not a text-book of physical optics, but of the analytical theory of
light.... It is a book to which students who desire to know how far
the mathematical side of the wave theory has been carried, what are
its limitations, and in what directions advances are possible will
usefully turn.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“Mr. Walker has added to the literature of the subject a book of real
value.”
+ + – =Nature.= 73: 241. Ja. 11, ’06. 1290w.
“Is, perhaps, the most complete treatment of the subject so far
attempted from the standpoint of the general wave theory.” C. E. M.
+ + – =Science=, n.s. 23: 385. Mr. 9, ’06. 220w.
=Walker, Williston.= John Calvin, the organizer of reformed
Protestantism, 1509–1564. **$1.35. Putnam.
Uniform with the “Heroes of the Reformation.” The volume “lays special
stress on Calvin’s training, spiritual development, and constructive
work, giving secondary place to the details of his Genevan contests,
or of his relations to the spread of the Reformation in the different
countries to which his influence extended. Calvin, as Mr. Walker
points out at the very beginning of his book, was of the second
generation of reformers.” (Putnam’s.)
* * * * *
“It is an excellent piece of work. While by no means light reading,
the book is clear and straightforward, and it makes the real man
Calvin live before us his strange life, so far-reaching in its
influence.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 286. N. 1, ’06. 140w.
“It contains about all that the average scholar needs to care for. It
is free from exaggerations of either praise or blame. The bias on the
whole is for Calvin. Will be useful to any student of history, no
matter what others he may have on the same topic; and it is competent
by itself to meet the requirements of most of us. It gives the
essential facts in a straightforward, unambitious style. And it has a
very good index.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 775. N. 24, ’06. 1120w.
“The present biography is critical as well as sympathetic, carefully
citing authorities, and candidly exhibiting both the lights and the
shadows of a masterful character and career.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 384. O. 13. ’06. 150w.
=Putnam’s.= 1: 383. D. ’06. 210w.
“A well-balanced, temperate historical character sketch.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 758. D. ’06. 90w.
=Wallace, Alfred Russel.= My life: a record of events and opinion. *$6.
Dodd.
“It dwells in a somewhat too extended manner on unimportant personal
details and facts relating to the family and friends of the author.
This fault, however, is insignificant in comparison with the general
excellence of the life story, which merits the widest reading.”
+ – =Arena.= 36: 202. Ag. ’06. 10,400w.
“The narrative has very little literary charm, ingenious or other. The
annalist’s expression is often incorrect, and invariably clumsy. He
has no organic mode of speech, and words are but rough counters with
him.” H. W. Boynton.
+ – =Atlan.= 98: 279. Ag. ’06. 860w.
“Like one of his disembodied spirits, able to get outside of himself
and write an autobiography as interesting as it is disinterested.” I.
Woodbridge Riley.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 626. F. ’06. 1670w.
“The record is planned on too large a scale. The reader who knows how
to skip will find these volumes deeply interesting.”
+ + – =Contemporary R.= 88: 899. D. ’05. 2220w.
“In the past year which has been prolific of biographies and
autobiographies there has been nothing more important or more
entertaining than the autobiography of Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace.”
Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ + =Critic.= 48: 352. Ap. ’06. 1410w.
“There is a good deal of matter in the book which does not strike one
as being particularly valuable or important; but on the other hand,
the variety of subjects discussed, and the wide human interests of the
author, cause it to appeal to a far larger circle than the usual
biography of a man engaged in the investigation of technical matters.”
T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 11. Ja. 1, ’06. 1710w.
“This autobiography is as self-revealing as Pepys’s or Rousseau’s.”
+ + + =Ind.= 60: 280. F. 1, ’06. 950w.
“This is certainly a very entertaining book, highly instructive in
several distinct ways.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 160. F. 22, ’06. 2960w.
Reviewed by J. A. T.
+ + + =Nature.= 73: 145. D. 14, ’05. 1890w.
Reviewed by Joseph Jacobs.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 13. Ja. 13. ’06. 1700w.
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 371. F. 17, ’06. 2140w.
“His autobiography is a welcome and worthy record of an honourable and
strenuous career.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 61. Ja. 13. ’06. 1500w.
=Wallace, Sir Donald Mackenzie.= Russia. $5. Holt.
“The additions to the book will be of primary interest to the student
of contemporaneous political, social, and economic conditions rather
than to the historian.” F. G. D.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 440. Ja. ’06. 320w.
+ + + =Outlook.= 83: 137. My. 19, ’06. 630w.
+ + =Quarterly R.= 204: 249. Ja. ’06. 3570w.
“The book continues to be, as it has been for nearly a generation, the
best English book on Russia.” C. D.
+ + + =Yale R.= 15: 331. N. ’06. 330w.
=Wallace, Lew (Lewis), general.= Lew Wallace: an autobiography. 2v.
**$5. Harper.
At the time of General Lew Wallace’s death his autobiography was
practically complete. It is written with the personal note
individualizing and vitalizing a career which tho it began in
uneventful commonplaces grew to distinction in letters, politics, war
and diplomacy. A certain simplicity of life and creed pervades the
sketch and a magnificent sense of justice. Wallace’s boyhood and
youth, in which are set forth the struggles to find himself, his young
manhood, full of patriotism and his maturity in which the lawyer and
politician figure, all attest to a devotion to life for the purpose of
finding working principles.
* * * * *
“No more frank and informal record of personal experience has ever
been written. In a way, no higher compliment can be paid to his story
than to say that it is one of those grownup books which a boy would
read with understanding and enjoyment.”
+ + + =Harper’s Weekly.= 50: 1866. D. 22, ’06. 1590w.
“An intimate and entertaining narrative.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 120w.
“Is interesting both for the career ... and for the light which it
throws upon the conditions which made the writing of the first best
seller possible.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 800. D. 1, ’06. 230w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 889. D. 22, ’06. 1330w.
“General Wallace’s war experiences were full of romance, adventure and
inspiration. He has not failed to let his kindly, mellow sense of
humor play over his narrative.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 757. D. ’06. 150w.
=Waller, Mary Ella.= Through the gates of the Netherlands; with 24
photogravure pl. after Lanne, and others by A. A. Montferrand,
reproduced in photogravure. **$3. Little.
An intimate sketch of Holland and its people which purports to be
written by an architect’s wife during a sojourn with her husband in
this land of dunes and dykes. It is a record, accompanied by various
illustrations, of the essentials that have gone to make up the beauty,
the glory, the struggle and the toil of this “brave little land.”
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 41: 452. D. 16, ’06. 220w.
“The results of much close observation may be found in her account of
the manner in which the Hollanders live, their habits of body and of
thought, the picturesque details of the country, and the rest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 120w.
“An attractive book which in graphic and readable qualities is
decidedly above the average of such works.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 940. D. 15, ’06. 120w.
=Wallis, Louis.= Egoism: a study in the social premises of religion. $1.
Univ. of Chicago press.
Reviewed by A. W. Small and Charles Rufus Brown.
=Am. J. Soc.= 11: 848. My. ’06. 1400w.
“The line of argument is interesting and stimulating, and calls for
more thorough work before we can feel quite satisfied that the case is
proved.” Ira Maurice Price and John M. P. Smith.
+ – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 326. Ap. ’06. 250w.
“It is a sociological study of considerable value, the chief defect of
which is the tendency to make assumed sociological conditions account
for so much as to leave little for the religious genius of Israel to
do.”
+ + – =Bib. World.= 27: 159. F. ’06. 60w.
“The best part of the book is the terse rapid survey of Israel’s
internal development; and the writer does good service in calling
attention again to sociological facts conditioning prophetic teaching.
However, his generalizations are too sweeping; but this fact may be
due to the brevity of the book.” Milton G. Evans.
+ – =Bib. World.= 28: 288. O. ’06. 240w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 55. Ja. 13, ’06. 900w.
=Walpole, Horace.= Letters chronologically arranged and ed. with notes
and indices, by Mrs. Paget Toynbee. 16v. ea. *$2; set, *$32. Oxford.
“In accuracy of text and diligence of annotation this edition
satisfies a close criticism.”
+ + + =Acad.= 69: 1310. D. 16, ’05. 260w. (Review of v. 13–15.)
“As she began she went on, and the conclusion maintains her high level
of editorial efficiency. It is certainly to be deplored that so
important and laborious a work has not been crowned by a complete
index. That supplied cannot be regarded as worthy of a great scheme.
These volumes are his rosemary, and we cannot conceive that the world
will ever forget them.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 69. Ja. 20. 1860w. (Review of v. 13–16.)
“Mrs. Toynbee has done her author good service in other ways besides
the collection of new letters. She has made many alterations in the
chronology of Cunningham’s arrangement. She has also much amended the
text. From every point of view Mrs. Paget Toynbee has done a
monumental piece of work, creditable in the highest degree for
accuracy and thoroughness.” Gamaliel Bradford, jr.
+ + + =Atlan.= 97: 330. Mr. ’06. 5560w.
“On the whole, her text would seem to be more accurate and more nearly
intact than any of its predecessors.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 320. My. 16, ’06. 1330w. (Review of v. 1–16.)
“This edition can scarcely be said to add anything of importance to
our knowledge of Horace Walpole or of his times. Nor is the editorial
work, though well done, by any means remarkable. Further, as
completeness seems to have been the special object of the edition, its
appearance has been premature.” William Hunt.
+ + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 386. Ap. ’06. 1040w. (Review of v. 13–16.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 898. D. 16, ’05. 170w. (Review of v. 13–15.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 66. F. 3, ’06. 460w. (Review of v. 16.)
“Fully as interesting, in some respects indeed almost more
interesting, than any of those which preceded them. Indices compiled
even by the very competent assistants called in at the eleventh hour
cannot produce the same accurate minuteness as that which undoubtedly
Mrs. Toynbee would have given her readers.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 110. Ja. 27, ’06. 2190w. (Review of v. 12–16.)
=Walsh, Walter.= Moral damage of war. *75c. Ginn.
An “unsparing, detailed and specific arraignment of the war system.”
The book is almost exclusively a résumé of the crimes and
demoralization caused by the Boer war.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 41: 330. N. 16, ’06. 130w.
=Walters, F. Ruffenacht.= Sanatoria for consumptives. *$5. Dutton.
An unofficial descriptive catalog of sanatoria in various countries
for the open-air treatment of consumption.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 82: 300. Ap. 12, ’06. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 552. Ag. 19, ’05. 230w.
“The information has been carefully and intelligently compiled.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 529. O. 28, ’05. 40w.
=Walters, Henry Beauchamp.= Art of the Greeks. $6. Macmillan.
An informing treatment of all phases of Greek art including
architecture, sculpture, painting, pottery, coins, gems, gold and
silverware, presented in the light of recent archaeological discovery.
* * * * *
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 742. D. 8. 380w.
“The tale is well told and loaded with additions that recent years
have brought. The excellent form and the well-nigh perfect and
abundant illustrations will make the book extremely popular. One rises
from a reading of the book with wonder that so much has been put into
such little space. One might almost say ‘Infinite riches in a little
room.’”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1289. N. 29, ’06. 1160w.
“Recommends itself among books on art subjects at this season of gifts
by its substantial worth and its attractive make-up.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 52. D. ’06. 340w.
+ – =Nation.= 83: 518. D. 13, ’06. 1070w.
“The book is written in a broad, dignified, and authoritative style,
with a fine sense of suppression, which makes adverse criticism
dangerous.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 837. D. 1, ’06. 350w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 704. N. 24, ’06. 200w.
“An exhaustive handbook.”
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 377. D. ’06. 130w.
=Walters, Henry Beauchamp.= History of ancient pottery, Greek, Etruscan,
and Roman; based on the work of Samuel Birch. 2v. *$15. Scribner.
“This is a difficult book to estimate justly. Such a work was much
needed; and this has great merits, and will probably be read and
valued widely. But it has bad defects, both of plan and of
workmanship.”
+ + – =Acad.= 70: 55. Ja. 20, ’06. 2210w.
“Gives us after long waiting an adequate history of ancient pottery,
of which vases are the chief item.” Rufus B. Richardson.
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 41. Ja. 4, ’06. 1770w.
=Waltz, Elizabeth Cherry.= Ancient landmark. †$1.50. McClure.
“The prologue to this entertaining story is a mistake.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 140. F. 10, ’06. 280w.
“On the whole, we find variety in the types depicted, sordid and
unpleasing as they mostly are.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 194. F. 17. 130w.
“As a ‘problem novel’ the book has no claim to originality, but the
delicacy with which the subject is handled is unusual and refreshing.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 178. F. 10, ’06. 220w.
Wampum library of American literature; ed. by Brander Matthews. **$1.40.
Longmans.
“Dr. Payne’s choice of critics and of critical work is admirable, and
his characterization of our American contribution to criticism is, on
the whole, exceptionally good.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 215. Jl. 27, ’05. (Review of v. 2.)
War in the Far East, 1904–1905, by the military correspondent of the
London Times; with 34 maps especially prepared by Percy Fisher. **$5.
Dutton.
This book is a compilation of the comments printed in The London Times
from day to day during the war between Russia and Japan, contributed
by its able military correspondent, Mr. Emery. “The military expert of
the Times holds a high position in Europe as a critic and student of
war, and his comments, criticisms, predictions on events, the lessons
he drew from them, were read the world over with close attention. The
republication of the daily comments, with certain purely personal
remarks omitted, is then very acceptable to other students both of
history and of the science of war, though the volume is not, and does
not pretend to be, a history of war in the ordinary sense.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
“The maps are more complete than those in almost any book of military
history.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 606. N. 4. 1590w.
“This book is magnificent, but it is not a story. Read it for what it
purports to express and actually is, and it will be found to have
hardly a peer in its class of literature, and probably will have no
equal or successor for many years.” William Eliot Griffis.
+ + + =Dial.= 40: 194. Mr. 16, ’06. 1440w.
“Taken for what it professes to be, this book is of eminent value, but
since each chapter was written within a short time after the battle it
narrates ... the historian of the future, with the official records at
his command, will doubtless find in it many errors of detail.”
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 516. Mr. 1, ’06. 300w.
“As a contribution to the literature of scientific warfare the volume
is of high value. We cannot commend it as a narrative of the
particular war under review, for it retains altogether too much of the
speculative comment of the original, so interesting at the time, but
so tedious after the event.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 172. F. 3, ’06. 90w.
“Embellished as they now are by an admirable series of maps, they form
by far the most scientific study of the war that has yet been
published. It is, however, unfortunate that the spelling of names in
the letterpress should not have been brought into accord with that
adopted by the map maker.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 353. O. 27, ’05. 2880w.
“This book contains many remarks on matters of strategy and military
science that are of permanent value.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 79. Ja. 25, ’06. 130w.
“Apart from its technical interest, it is noteworthy as showing how
well its author could prophesy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 890. D. 16, ’06. 410w.
“Whoever he may be, the ‘Times’ critic is a master of the art of
warfare, and the possessor of a singularly vigorous and happy style,
and his work is undoubtedly one of the most suggestive and
illuminating battle-books in print.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 81: 943. D. 16, ’05. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 114. Ja. ’06. 130w.
“Where military questions only are concerned fully bears out the
expectations which other works of a similar nature would lead us to
expect. And yet there is a good deal too much advertisement about it.
We would add too that the comments on the military operations are in
their broad features often excellent.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 100: 686. N. 25, ’05. 2030w.
“It is a remarkable feat to have given us contemporary accounts of the
battles themselves so accurate that when read in conjunction with the
maps which show us each phase of these battles ... they may fitly
serve as the best general introduction to closer and more detailed
study. Even more remarkable still are the ‘appreciations’ which show
us the workings of a mind wise before and not after the event.”
+ + + =Spec.= 96: 221. F. 10, ’06. 1110w.
=Ward, Elizabeth Stuart (Phelps) (Mrs. Herbert D. Ward).= Man in the
case; il. by H: J. Peck. †$1.50. Houghton.
Joan Dare past the first flush of youth withdraws her promise to marry
Douglas Ray the day following her betrothal. She enters upon a period
of martyrdom which involves the mystery of the tale. “There is nothing
sensational about the book but its title, although its theme is a
village sensation. It contains some credible new New England
villagers, and one old woman who is more than credible. It is,
moreover, free from religious or erotic sentimentality.” (Nation).
* * * * *
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1116. N. 8, ’06. 380w.
“The love-story in her new novel is told with such perfect art that it
recalls the great ones of literature: yet the materials and the
setting are of the simplest and the interest is dependent upon the
writer’s art alone.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 646. N. 3, ’06. 230w.
“Mrs. Ward is to be congratulated upon having, in this little tale,
escaped from the morbidness and mawkishness which have made much of
her work, especially her recent work, a thing popular and to be
abhorred by the judicious.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 287. O. 4, ’06. 80w.
“The book is written with Mrs. Ward’s usual elevation of feeling and
dignity of manner. It shows the same tense quality of imagination,
sometimes becoming almost exaggeration, which have always marked her
work. There is perhaps less of care and detail in the drawing of her
characters, which affect one like unfinished sketches, than one used
to find in her work.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 619. O. 6, ’06. 300w.
“She has never been more out of key with a wholesome way of dealing
with life than in this story of a heroic and self-sacrificing woman.”
– =Outlook.= 84: 708. N. 24, ’06. 120w.
“Her best work next to ‘A singular life.’”
+ + – =World To-Day.= 11: 1221. N. ’06. 140w.
=Ward, H. Snowden.= Canterbury pilgrimages. *$1.75. Lippincott.
+ =Dial.= 40: 268. Ap. 16, ’06. 160w.
“From the point of view of the historian, Mr. Ward has written a very
minute and interesting description of the life and death of Thomas à
Becket and of the cult of St. Thomas.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 525. D. 28, ’05. 490w.
=Ward, Josephine Mary Hope-Scott (Mrs. Wilfrid Philip Ward).= Out of due
time. $1.50. Longmans.
“The present novel is not of the sort likely to satisfy the ordinary
appetite for fiction, but it is well thought out, and represents the
mental and religious struggle of a strong mind. Two women sacrificed
themselves to a man who, as his sister said, did not pray—he only
thought. The inroads of scientific knowledge upon such a soul can be
imagined from the Catholic standpoint. The story is one of contest
between theological fervor and emotionless intellect; the effect is
somber, and the style somewhat ponderous.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Here is the simple, direct style—the outcome of natural distinction
under fine culture—the serene, benignant attitude towards matters of
controversy; the loftiness of thought that marked her former work. The
book is on a high plane.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 382. Ap. 21, ’06. 440w.
=Ath.= 1906, 1: 542. My. 5. 220w.
“As one is about to assign to this doubly fascinating volume a
permanent place on the book shelf, embarrassment arises. We think its
proper place is [in the useful apologetic literature of the day].”
James J. Fox, D. D.
+ =Cath. World.= 83: 382. Je. ’06. 4720w.
“[We] have regretted that a book with such excellent and penetrating
work in it should drop from the high level on which it begins.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 125. Ap. 6, ’06. 500w.
“The book is hampered by its argument, but it is, nevertheless, so
full of humanity, of beauty, of literary value that to miss it would
be to miss such a feast as does not come every day.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 338. My. 26, ’06. 1220w.
“In spite of her special motive, the author handles her material with
tact and delicacy.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 286. Je. 2, ’06. 100w.
“The intense spirituality of the conception and the grace of the style
render the book memorable.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 760. Je. 16, ’06. 440w.
“The main interest of the book has nothing to do with fiction.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 676. Ap. 28, ’06. 330w.
=Ward, Lester Frank.= Applied sociology: a treatise on the conscious
improvement of society by society. *$2.50. Ginn.
The central thought of this discussion is that of a true science of
society, capable, in the measure that it approaches completeness, of
being turned to the profit of mankind. Movement, Achievement, and
Improvement are the three subdivisions of the treatment.
* * * * *
“Right or wrong in its main contentions, the ‘Applied sociology’ is,
together with the appropriate parts of the ‘Pure sociology,’ the most
impressive treatment of the general principles of education since
Spencer’s. Those who, like the writer, are puzzled to fit the facts to
its doctrines and those who heartily accept it will equally enjoy it
and equally admire it as a further example of the author’s great gifts
as a thinker and as a writer.” Edward L. Thorndike.
+ + – =Bookm.= 24: 290. N. ’06. 3690w.
“The clearness, brilliancy and vigorous defense of some pronounced
doctrine which we have learned to expect from Professor Ward are
characteristics of this book. It concerns real facts, not verbal
distinctions; it delights by its cleverness of thought and style. The
one failure in clearness of this volume is its failure to distinguish
between absolute and relative achievement and to assign the proper
social value to each.” Edward L. Thorndike.
+ + – =Science=, n.s. 24: 299. S. 7, ’06. 1130w.
=Ward, Mary Augusta Arnold (Mrs. Thomas Humphry Ward).= Fenwick’s
career; il. by Albert E. Sterner. *$1.50. Harper.
Mrs. Ward’s latest novel is based upon the story of the painter George
Romney, whose thirty years’ separation from his wife for the sake of
his art is reduced to twelve in the present story. The hero, John
Fenwick, from the Westmorland hills, possesses a great uncouth,
untrained genius for painting which longs for expression. In
satisfying his ambition to go to London he subordinates wife, child,
all heart things to his one great art passion. Out of his hesitation
to admit the existence of a wife to his uncertain London friends and
patrons grows an estrangement which is unconsciously aided by Eugenie
de Pastourelles, the Eleanor of the story, a woman of great strength,
but unfortunate in her marriage. As Mrs. Ward’s art demands the
shifting of moral and ethical values to the right focus, with sure
steady touch she extricates and arrays in order the confused forces.
* * * * *
“The criticism that one is almost compelled to pass upon the book
is that the characters are somewhat wanting in life and
full-bloodedness.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 422. My. 5, ’06. 1470w.
“As to Fenwick himself the portrait lacks outline. It is thoroughly
enjoyable, with charm as well as an idea of its own.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 572. My. 11. 1330w.
“You read her latest volume with a wish that, having conceived so
vital and typical a character as Fenwick, she might have been inspired
to treat him less conventionally.” Mary Moss.
+ + – =Bookm.= 23: 533. Jl. ’06. 2890w.
“Mrs. Ward has certainly forgotten for the moment one of the prime
principles of literary artistry—that sympathy can hardly be excited in
the reader’s mind for unsympathetic characters.”
+ – =Critic.= 49: 50. Jl. ’06. 580w.
“Another positive merit of this novel is found in its comparative
freedom from the prolixity that lies like a dead weight on most of its
predecessors.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 36. Jl. 16, ’06. 710w.
“If there is any fault to be found with the book it is the emphasis
which the author places upon refinement, sensibility and the society
which these elements create.”
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 1432. Je. 14, ’06. 1020w.
– + =Ind.= 61: 1161. N. 15, ’06. 90w.
“The book is justified by the artistic and well-rounded-out finale.”
+ + – =Lit. D.= 33: 123. Jl. 28, ’06. 850w.
“It shows all the old thoroughness, knowledge, good sense: a little
more than the old tenderness and sympathy. It does not hit hard; it
does not carry the reader on in a fever. It never surprises.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 158. My. 4, ’06. 1070w.
“It is only in construction that ‘Fenwick’s career’ seems to us better
than the preceding novel.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 15. Jl. 5, ’06. 630w.
“While ‘Fenwick’s career’ may fail of an instant appeal to ‘the
general,’ we think it attains a height hitherto unreached by its
author. She has poured into it her deepest thought, her ripest wisdom,
and it stands to-day the noblest expression of her genius.” M. Gordon
Pryor. Rice.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. My. 5, ’06. 2330w.
“Mrs. Ward handles each delicate situation with her characteristic
skill.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 150w.
“Is full of talent, but stops short of being a work of genius.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 501. Je. 30, ’06. 240w.
+ + – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 660. My. 26, 06. 1380w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 762. Je. ’06. 70w.
“They should be set down as fundamentally inartistic and unedifying.”
– =Sat. R.= 101: 725. Je. 9, ’06. 1500w.
+ + =Spec.= 96: 757. My. 12, ’06. 1370w.
“It is a piece of sincere writing, gripping the reader without appeal
to literary tricks or falsetto sentiment.”
+ + =World To-Day.= 11: 765. Jl. ’06. 120w.
=Ward, Mary Augusta Arnold (Mrs. Thomas Humphry Ward).= Marriage of
William Ashe. †$1.50. Harper.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 55. Ja. ’06. 230w.
=Warden, Florence, pseud. (Mrs Florence Alice Price James).= House by
the river. $1. Ogilvie.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 150w.
“The lovers of sensational fiction ... no doubt will not be troubled
by the utter improbability of the incidents and characters, nor
annoyed by vulgarities of style, and crudities of description, and
will be quite satisfied with the fare supplied by the ingenious
author.”
– =Sat. R.= 100: 345. S. 9. ’05. 130w.
=Wardman, Ervin.= Princess Olga, †$1.50. Harper.
The invincible hero of Mr. Wardman’s story is an American who had
received his hardy training in a Mexican mining district. He is sent
by his New York company to further its interest in the Italian kingdom
of Crevonia where plots and counterplots, conspiracies and
assassinations, mark the riotous settlement of a disputed succession.
Among the spies is Princess Olga whose charms the defiant American
cannot resist. Her sense of duty to kingdom and her love for a bold
man fight for mastery, with the world-old result that can eliminate
the importance of kingdoms and courts.
* * * * *
“The story is compact of intrigue, adventure, and general nervous
excitement; it is a capital production of its sort.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 366. Je. 1, ’06. 240w.
“For a first novel, his is a finished and striking production.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 808. My. 26, ’06. 610w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 270. Ap. 28, ’06. 520w.
=Warman, Cy.= Last spike, and other railroad stories. †$1.25. Scribner.
“These short stories, by a well-known popular magazine writer, tell of
adventures on railroad surveys, in railway locomotives and cars and
elsewhere. Some of the best of the stories have the Canadian Northwest
as their scene of action.” (Engin. N.).
* * * * *
+ =Engin. N.= 55: 313. Mr. 15, ’06. 40w.
“Many of them are good of their kind, and all of them have a certain
stamp of mechanic strength.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 133. Mr. 3, ’06. 280w.
“The stories are readable and entertaining, but they lack that
something which, for want of a better name is called ‘the literary
touch.’”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 909. Ap. 21, ’06. 100w.
“Breezy and realistic stories. Mr. Warman not only knows the language
of railroading but he has also caught the spirit.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 315. Mr. 10, ’06. 150w.
=Warne, Frank Julien.= Coal-mine workers: a study in labor organization.
**$1. Longmans.
This little volume is the direct outgrowth of Dr. Warne’s sympathetic
study of the coal-miners’ situation in periods of peace as well as in
times of strikes. It is a “treatise on the anatomy of the trade
union.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Dr. Warne has done a valuable service in placing in compact and
readable form a study of the United mine workers of America, one of
the strongest labor unions in the world.” E. S. Meade.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 354. S. ’06. 550w.
“It might also be described as a miniature encyclopedia, so full of
information is it and so readily does it answer the questions that
occur to one regarding the miners and their employers.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 930. Ap. 19. ’06. 200w.
“The author’s attitude is sympathetic, but not partisan, and he has
made a distinct contribution to the knowledge of the controversy which
once convulsed the nation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 65. F. 3, ’06. 450w.
“In our judgment, this book deserves to be characterized as an
authority, and, as far as we know, as the best authority, in the
limited field of which it treats.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 82: 275. F. 3, ’06. 150w.
“The book is written in a scientific spirit, if one excepts a tendency
at times to condone violence on the part of the union against nonunion
men.”
+ – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 567. S. ’06. 160w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 83: 254. F. ’06. 240w.
=Warner, Beverley Ellison.= Famous introductions to Shakespeare’s plays
by the notable editors of the eighteenth century, ed. with a critical
introd., biographical and explanatory notes. **$2.50. Dodd.
A compilation of the best known introductions including those
contributed by Rowe, Pope, Theobald, Hamner, Warburton, Johnson,
Stevens, Capell, Reed and Malone. A biographical sketch of each author
prefaces his work, and the work is handsomely illustrated.
* * * * *
“Dr. Warner’s idea though a good one, has been anticipated, and his
labor is largely wasted.” William Allen Neilson.
+ – =Atlan.= 97: 701. My. ’06. 420w.
“We note a few misprints.”
+ + – =Critic.= 48: 471. My. ’06. 200w.
“His own editorial matter is not of great value and there is no index.
The English, too, is not always irreproachable.”
+ – =Dial.= 40: 332. My. 16, ’06. 420w.
“On the whole the make-up of the book leaves something to be desired.
The matter is not very clearly distinguished for easy reference.”
– =Nation.= 83: 183. Ag. 30, ’06. 430w.
“Without Dr. Warner’s own lucid and learned introductions, and his
invaluable footnotes, the new book would have been esteemed a
veritable treasure. Dr. Warner’s editorial work makes it only the more
valuable.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 180. Mr. 24, ’06. 520w.
“A very useful compilation.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 42. My. 3, ’06. 210w.
=Warner, George H.= Jewish spectre. **$1.50. Doubleday.
“A remarkably brilliant book which will have decided influence upon
all open-minded readers. In literary skill the author stands
comparison with his better known brother, Charles Dudley Warner.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 241. Ja. ’06. 170w.
=Warren, F. D.= Handbook on reinforced concrete for architects,
engineers and contractors. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
A handbook “treating upon a general form of design rather than upon
any one particular or patented system.... The book is divided into
four parts: Part I gives a general but concise resume of the subject
from a practical standpoint, bringing out some of the difficulties met
with in practice, and suggesting remedies. Under Part II is compiled a
series of tests justifying the use of various constants and
coefficients in preparing the tables under Part III, as well as
bearing out the theory of elasticity. Part III contains a series of
tables from which it is hoped the designer may obtain all necessary
information to meet the more common cases in practice. Part IV treats
of the design of trussed roofs from a practical standpoint.”
* * * * *
“The reviewer regrets that it is his duty to give his opinion that
this book is fundamentally in error in so many ways that it is not
worthy of a place in the working library of an engineer.” Arthur N.
Talbot.
– – =Engin. N.= 55: 311. Mr. 15, ’06. 1780w.
=Washington, Booker Taliaferro.= Putting the most into life. **75c.
Crowell.
A recent series of Sunday evening talks has been recast and enlarged
for the general public. The discussion includes the physical, mental,
spiritual and racial aspects of the case.
=Washington, Booker Taliaferro.= Tuskegee and its people: their ideals
and achievements. *$2. Appleton.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 254. F. ’06. 250w.
=Washington, George.= Letters and recollections of George Washington;
being letters to Tobias Lear and others between 1790 and 1799, showing
the first American in the management of his estate and domestic affairs
with a diary of Washington’s last days, kept by Mr. Lear; il. from rare
old portraits, photographs, and engravings. **$2.50. Doubleday.
Washington is portrayed in the light of a “domestic man managing his
own affairs; as a planter looking over crops, cattle, and overseers;
and as a business man driving bargains, suing for bad debts,
collecting rents, and making investments.” (Dial.)
+ =Acad.= 71: 416. O. 27, ’06. 1660w.
* * * * *
“The chief attraction of the present volume is manifestly meant to be
Lear’s account of Washington’s death.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 434. O. 13. 1850w.
“Of editing there is practically none; and to the lack of it, as well
as to careless proofreading, is due the perpetuation of the copyist’s
misreadings of Washington’s spelling. The reviewer has been unable to
find anything in the book that will justify the word ‘Recollections’
in the title. There is no index.” Walter L. Fleming.
– + =Dial.= 41: 237. O. 16, ’06. 1300w.
“They are valuable historically as showing the genius for detail which
must have formed one of the strongest characteristics of Washington.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 284. S. 1, ’06. 220w.
“On the whole, then, these letters, though telling us little that is
new, are full of interest, as any letters unfolding for us the
intimate thoughts and workaday occupations of such a man must be.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 374. N. 9, ’06. 1440w.
“The work could have been rendered more readable by a few explanatory
foot-notes, and more useful to the student by brief introductions
stating where the originals of other than the Lear letters are to be
found, and how far they have been used before.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 285. O. 4, ’06. 1200w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 512. O. ’06. 70w.
=Washington, George.= Washington and the West. **$2. Century.
+ + =Critic.= 48: 94. Ja. ’06. 70w.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 93. F. 1, ’06. 480w.
=Watanna, Onoto (Mrs. Winnifred Eaton Babcock) (Mrs. Bertrand Babcock).=
Japanese blossom. **$2. Harper.
The dainty marginal drawings upon each page of this volume add much to
the Japanese effect of the story of the strangely assorted family of
Mr. Kurukawa. To retrieve his shattered fortunes this descendant of
the Samurai goes to America leaving behind him four children and his
wife, to whom shortly after his departure a baby boy is born. Later
his wife dies and her father and mother care for the children while
Mr. Kurukawa marries an American widow with two children and, after
the birth of another baby, brings his new family back to Japan to
unite it with his old family. The difficulties are easily seen but all
are surmounted. The eldest son has rebelled against his new mother and
joined the Japanese army, the father follows him, wins glory in the
war and all ends happily.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 41: 398. D. 1, ’06. 130w.
=Ind.= 61: 1400. D. 13, ’06. 30w.
“A charming idyl of Japanese home life in war times.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 728. N. 17, ’06. 50w.
“This story is a particularly pleasing one, with certain elements of
novelty.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
=Outlook.= 84: 678. N. 17, ’06. 70w.
=Waters, N. McGee.= Young man’s religion and his father’s faith. **90c.
Crowell.
“This book, written with the eloquence of the man who is speaking
instead of writing, will unquestionably help many readers over
perplexities that now stand in the way of a practical application of
religion to life.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 523. Mr. 3, ’06. 180w.
“These topics are handled without any trace of cant or bias.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 126. Ja. ’06. 60w.
=Watson, Edward Willard.= Old lamps and new, and other verse; also, By
Gaza’s gate, a cantata. $1. Fisher.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
=Dial.= 40: 127. F. 16, ’06. 160w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 152. Mr. 10, ’06. 330w.
=Watson, Esther.= All the year in the garden: a nature calendar. $1.
Crowell.
An apt quotation for every day in the year selected from out of door
sentiments of our great poets and teachers.
=Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott.= Midsummer day’s dream. †$1.50.
Appleton.
“A delightful bit of romantic foolery.... The sketch is a record of
certain amorous adventures contingent upon an out-of-doors amateur
rendering of the ‘Midsummer night’s dream.’ The principal motive is a
mystery connected with the finding and trailing of a woman’s shoe. In
the course of his search the hero is constrained to make love
pleasantly if somewhat indiscriminately; and there is plenty of chance
in ‘Titania’s glade’ for comfortable philandering. Titania is married
and therefore immune from his attentions, which wander among Hermia,
Helena, and several of the fairies.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The whimsical tone of the book is so well maintained that all its
absurdities of situation and incident take on an amiable glamour.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 228. S. 13, ’06. 210w.
“In addition to being amusing and cleverly done, the story is written
very gracefully, with a touch of poetic imagination, that, like
everything else in the book is not more than half serious.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 579. S. 22, ’06. 460w.
“The chief criticism that one is inclined to make is that the
situation is dwelt upon a little too long and that the story would
have left a better impression if it had been considerably shortened.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 337. O. 6, ’06. 100w.
=Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott.= Twisted eglantine. †$1.50. Appleton.
“Whatever its success may be, this book puts him in the front rank of
living romancers.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 330. S. 9. 590w.
“Mr. Marriott Watson has never given us a finer character-study than
this of Sir Piers.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 17. Ja. 1, ’06. 300w.
=Watson, John (Ian Maclaren, pseud.).= Inspiration of our faith:
sermons. **$1.25. Armstrong.
“Somewhat of the same idea, that of ascending in personal Christ-like
life to fellowship with the Father, and thence deriving the help
necessary for the fulfillment of duty, runs thru a series of
twenty-nine sermons by the Rev. John Watson, better known as ‘Ian
Maclaren.’ Each sermon breathes that practical Christianity which has
characterized Ian Maclaren’s fiction and theological writings
alike.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“They have the supreme merit (rare in sermons) of being interesting.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 297. Mr. 10. 90w.
“Strikingly beautiful as the language is, the volume will be prized by
those who desire inspiring and helpful words for their devotional
reading.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 223. Ja. 25, ’06. 80w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 370. Mr. 10, ’06. 1060w.
“Here the ethical and the inspirational are happily blended, as
elsewhere in his writings.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1040. D. 23, ’05. 190w.
=Watson, William.= Poems; ed. by J. A. Spender. 2v. *$2.50. Lane.
“It constitutes, for the present at least, a definitive edition of Mr.
Watson’s work.”
+ + + =Dial.= 40: 24. Ja. 1, ’06. 60w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ + + =North American.= 182: 756. My. ’06. 290w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 121. Ja. ’06. 80w.
=Wayne, Charles Stokes.= Prince to order. †$1.50. Lane.
“To fiction readers, who do not care for the element of probability,
and to whom artificiality is not objectionable, this book will be
enjoyable as it is bright and full of action and excitement if one can
become deeply interested in a story that is wanting in the important
element of probability.”
+ – =Arena.= 35: 331. Mr. ’06. 630w.
=Weale, B. L. Putnam.= Re-shaping of the Far East; with numerous il.
from photographs. 2v. **$6. Macmillan.
The author “tells us just as much of the history of the subject as we
need to know, sketching the annals of China in particular from the
earliest times, and then describing in greater detail the commercial
relations of Europe and America not only with China, but also with
Korea and Japan. Relations of journeys into the interior and along the
coasts give a picturesque glimpse of present Far Eastern conditions.
We are shown Sir Robert Hart’s Service at work, the Germans
introducing their characteristic methods at Kiao-chau, Dr. Morrison
watching the Legations through a glass door at Peking, and the Marconi
mast standing ready to signal for help to Ta-ku. There follows a
fairly elaborate history of the Russo-Japanese war, and a severe
criticism of its operations; and we are told finally what the Chinese
are thinking and intending, what Mr. Weale expects the future to bring
forth, and what policy seems to him most likely to serve British
interests. In fact, we have an embarrassing choice of topics which
equally invite discussion.”—Lond. Times.
* * * * *
“Despite some loose history, exaggerated statements, and rather wild
speculations, the work is the best account of twentieth-century China
in existence, and affords useful, though far from infallible hints as
to the possibilities of the next decade in the Far East.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 193. F. 17. 1070w.
“One of the most readable and valuable books which have appeared in
recent years.” John W. Foster.
+ + =Atlan.= 97: 543. Ap. ’06. 180w.
“For a work of undoubted weight, in the sense that it shows throughout
a remarkably intimate acquaintance with the affairs of the East ...
the style is a delight, though style is altogether too big a word to
describe the absolutely nonchalant, personal, pungent way of the
author with his book.” S. S. Trunsky.
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 656. Ag. ’06. 1120w.
“Is by no means a perfect work of its kind, but its indisputable
merits far outweigh the faults which even the most captious critic
could ascribe to it.” Frederick Austin Ogg.
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 317. My. 16, ’06. 2600w.
“Thruout, he shows a lamentable ignorance of American history and
policy.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 400. F. 15, ’06. 840w.
“Mr. Putnam Weale’s new book is hardly so interesting as his ‘Manchu
and Muscovite.’ It is burdened by a belated account of the early
months of the Russo-Japanese war, is somewhat discursive and would ...
be improved by elimination and condensation.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 623. Ap. 21, ’06. 640w.
“The author, combining the knowledge of the student with the knowledge
of the man on the spot, presents the Far Eastern question exhaustively
in almost every imaginable aspect. In spite of the manner in which the
Russian ‘débâcle’ has upset some of his calculations, his book is the
most valuable of recent contributions to the elucidation of Far
Eastern problems.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 438. D. 15, ’05. 1640w.
“In other words, Mr. Weale approaches the Chinese question from a
strictly insular point of view. Yet his books may be highly
recommended. All reserves made, there is nothing better on the Far
Eastern question as it stands at this moment.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 79. Ja. 25, ’06. 1180w.
“Comprehensive and luminous discussion of the development of Far
Eastern affairs.” George R. Bishop.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 80. F. 10, ’06. 3230w.
=Outlook.= 84: 40. S. 1, ’06. 310w.
“Mr. Weale has given a complete and yet concise survey of the
situation. His introduction is a historical prologue giving in a few
score pages one of the best ideas of Chinese history that has ever
been presented.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 123. Ja. 27, ’06. 670w.
“By far the most valuable book that has appeared on the East for a
number of years. Nowhere else can so much valuable information be
found in so compact a form.”
+ + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 126. O. ’06. 270w.
“An absorbingly interesting work, including both description and
history.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 253. F. ’06. 240w.
“Mr. Weale has unquestionably collected and marshalled a mass of
information with ability and lucidity, and the result is a
comprehensive survey of the situation outlined with a vigorous but
light, albeit sharply-pointed, pen.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 174. F. 10, ’06. 2020w.
=Webster, Jean.= Wheat princess. †$1.50. Century.
“The conversations are realistic, and the characters individual.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 60w.
=Wedmore, Frederick.= National gallery, London: the Flemish school.
*$1.25. Warne.
This is the initial volume of a new series to be called the “Art
galleries of Europe.” Mr. Wedmore gives a brief sketch of Flemish art,
and emphasizes its two phases: the Mediæval phase dominated by Jan Van
Eyck and Hans Menlinc, the Renaissance phase, by Rubens and Vandyke.
There are fifty-five reproductions from Haufstaengl photographs.
* * * * *
+ + =Acad.= 70: 557. Je. 9, ’06. 90w.
“Mr. Wedmore’s introduction is not an altogether favourable specimen
of his power as a writer on art. True, it contains some very apposite
criticisms, but these are interspersed with somewhat captious
digressions.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 707. Je. 9. 370w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 943. O. 18, ’06. 110w.
=Int. Studio.= 29: sup. 83. S. ’06. 240w.
“Taken all in all, however, Mr. Wedmore’s paper is not a coherent
dissertation on the Flemish school; it is too itemized, too scrappy,
and too diversified to be of much value as a serious study. As a
collection of notes, however, appended to artists’ names, it will save
the student of the National gallery with Flemish proclivities much
toil and trouble among art encyclopædias.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 508. Ag. 18, ’06. 350w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 671. Jl. 31, ’06. 50w.
=Wedmore, Frederick.= Whistler and others. *$1.50. Scribner.
Mr. Wedmore’s volume of essays is prefaced by a chapter entitled “A
candid word to the English reader” in which he makes serious charge
against the Englishman as an art critic. Some observations on Venetian
art, Goya, Richard Wilson, Romney, Laurence, Watts, Etty, and others
may be passed over to find the real worth of the book in the papers on
Whistler, Fantin and Boudin, English watercolour, The print collector.
Constable’s English landscapes, and The Norwich school.
* * * * *
“His critical method is not exhaustive but suggestive, and no
inventory of qualities could so stimulate the imagination as one of
his pregnant summaries.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 31. Jl. 14, ’06. 970w.
“The essays and fragments that make up the volume are in part
reprinted from various periodicals. Some of them seem hardly of
sufficient importance to warrant the more permanent form.”
+ – =Dial.= 41: 285. N. 1, ’06. 180w.
“Perhaps the best piece in the book is the study of Fantin and Boudin.
We wish that some of the other articles had been undertaken in a like
spirit of respect for his subject and respect for his reader.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 202. Je. 1, ’06. 1000w.
“It was, however, an error of taste to pad the volume out with
trifling notes which may have served well enough to introduce a
temporary exhibition or to characterize a single painting.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 99. Ag. 2, ’06. 220w.
“The critic’s survey is characteristically candid and suggestive.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 706. N. 24, ’06. 60w.
“If you want the final word upon Whistler, Wedmore has not said it or
thought it.”
– + =Putnam’s.= 1: 226. N. ’06. 670w.
=Weeden, William Babcock.= War government: federal and state, in
Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Indiana, 1861–1865. **$2.50.
Houghton.
Using Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania. and Indiana as typical
states, this study of the civil war period shows that “war government,
federal and state, accomplished most potent and far-reaching results
in the readjustment of the relations between states and nation, and
between the people and the governing body.”
* * * * *
“The style, sometimes eccentric and inclined to digression, is always
keen, pungent and fearless. The characterization of Lincoln is
refreshingly free from conventionality either in praise or blame, and,
with all its partisanship, the book has distinct value.” Theodore
Clarke Smith.
+ – =Atlan.= 98: 705. N. ’06. 380w.
“With his conclusions many will disagree. In some places a
rearrangement of the material might have made the book easier reading;
but the vigorous style and independent judgment of the author are
calculated to enlist one’s interest to the end.”
+ – =Critic.= 49: 189. Ag. ’06. 240w.
“The author’s dislike of those on the other side and his failure to
appreciate their position, his inability to recognize and understand
the principle of evolution in human affairs, and his twentieth century
criticism of nineteenth century deeds, are defects that mar a work
which otherwise might have been of considerable interest and value.”
– + =Dial.= 41: 167. S. 16. ’06. 530w.
“It is entertainingly written, and only the most ‘blasé’ of readers of
Civil war matters can fall to find an engaging interest in its pages.
It reveals moreover, a vast deal of research. But it can hardly be
called a critical study of the relation of federal to state government
during the Civil war.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 639. S. 13. ’06. 210w.
“The subject is one deserving exhaustive exploration and it is
therefore the more to be regretted that Mr. Weeden has not treated it
with a firmer grasp and an unprejudiced mind.”
– + =Lit. D.= 33: 123. Jl. 28, ’06. 150w.
“The narrative, well fortified by references, is marred by a good deal
of feeble and confused rhetoric.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 511. Je. 21, ’06. 280w.
“It is an interesting and able work.” Wm. E. Dodd.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 505. Ag. 18, ’06. 1320w.
“He has undertaken a most interesting task; but his spirit is so
partisan and his style so turgid, discursive, and inaccurate that his
book is of only very limited value.”
– + =Outlook.= 83: 288. Je. 2, ’06. 210w.
“Mr. Weeden’s book should do much to put needed emphasis on a somewhat
neglected aspect of the war.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 280w.
=Weedon, L. L.= Child characters from Dickens. $2.50. Dutton.
There are eighteen stories in this group, including many of the
children’s favorites, among them are those of Harvey and Norah, of
“The holly tree,” Paul Dombey, Johnny and the Boofer Lady, Little
Nell, the Marchioness, Polly, Little Dorrit, etc. Six colored plates
and seventy half-tones “tell their part of the story so well that
every character in the book can be told offhand.” (N. Y. Times.) “His
illustrator, Mr. A. A. Dixon, has distributed good looks to everybody
with the facility of a fairy of the olden time at a christening.”
(Ath.)
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1905, 2: 796. D. 9. 60w.
– =Nation.= 81: 489. D. 14, ’05. 250w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 911. D. 23, ’05. 180w.
“This is a charming book. The tales are skillfully managed. A better
introduction to Dickens could not be.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 1091. D. 23, ’05. 50w.
=Weikel, Anna Hamlin.= Betty Baird: a boarding-school story; il. †$1.50.
Little.
Betty Baird is the daughter of a scholarly Presbyterian minister who
had trained his daughter thru her fourteen years on rather
oldfashioned but thoro lines. Betty is sent to boarding school and,
bright, nimble witted tho she is, she has many trying experiences
among her snobbish, fashionable mates. The story follows her thru her
three years of victories terminating in first honor at graduation.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 700. O. 27, ’06. 120w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 767. D. ’06. 50w.
=Weinel, Heinrich.= St. Paul, the man and his work; tr. by Rev. G. A.
Bienemann and ed. by Rev. W. D. Morrison. *$2.50. Putnam.
Professor Weinel of the University of Jena says in his preface: “This
book forms a necessary supplement to my ‘Jesus in the nineteenth
century,’ for it shows how the Gospel came to make that concordat with
the ‘world’ i. e., with the ancient state and its religion and
morality, which we call ‘church.’ I have tried to show how necessary,
and how solitary this compromise was, by what pure motives it was
animated, but also with what dangers it was pregnant for the Gospel
itself.” Further the author says: “I have wanted to make our people
understand and love Paul.”
* * * * *
“He is a scholar who does not intrude his scholarship but is competent
to speak on St. Paul.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 154. Ag. 11. 840w.
“It is a work of careful thought and thoro scholarship.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 1433. Je. 14, ’06. 1050w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1165. N. 15, ’06. 140w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 618. Ap. 21, ’06. 890w.
“His translator, the Rev. G. A. Bienemann, has rendered him into lucid
and finished English form.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 1005. Ap. 28, ’06. 400w.
“His biography does not add very much to our knowledge of the apostle
and his time; it is vigorously written. fairly interesting, drastic in
its criticism, and very anti-Catholic.”
– + =Sat. R.= 102: 372. S. 22, ’06. 400w.
=Weininger, Otto.= Sex and character; authorized tr. from the 6th Germ.
ed. *$3. Putnam.
Six editions in the German are to the credit of this volume. There is
a two-fold treatment of the subject, the first dealing with the
physical phase, the second with the psychological. “In his view woman
‘is merely non-moral. She is characterized by shamelessness and
heartlessness.’ Only man has a ‘share, in ontological reality.’ ‘Women
have no existence; and no essence; they are not, they are nothing.’ It
does not surprise us to be told that such a philosopher died by his
own hand at the age of twenty three.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“There is exhibited the most acute and subtle mental play throughout,
but the whole argument is characterized by downright unreasonableness.
There are parts so poor, obscure, illogical, and stupid that they
would not be accepted in a college boy’s essay, and other parts worthy
of Kant or Schopenhauer.” W. I. Thomas.
– – + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 843. My. ’06. 1250w.
“Never before in all our literature has the ultra-masculine view of
woman been so logically carried out, so unsparingly forced to its
conclusion.” Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
– – + =Critic.= 48: 414. My. ’06. 3030w.
– =Lond. Times.= 5: 54. F. 16, ’06. 270w.
“Preposterous charlatanry.”
– =Outlook.= 82: 764. Mr. 31, ’06. 220w.
“It is thus ... as a human document, one unconsciously illustrating
the pathology of adolescent sex and character, even more than
consciously investigating their nature, that this tragic book will
survive, if at all.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 557. My. 5, ’06. 1830w.
=Weir, Irene.= Greek painters’ art. *$3. Ginn.
– =Ath.= 1906. 2: 743. D. 8. 160w.
“Unpretending but most interesting little volume.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 27: 373. F. ’06. 150w.
=Weiss, Bernhard.= Commentary on the New Testament; tr. by George H.
Schodde, and Epiphanius Wilson; with an introd. by James S. Riggs. 4v.
ea. *$3. Funk.
In these four volumes we have the results of the work of a great
scholar, who has spent over half a century in a study of his subject
which while scientific was tempered by true spiritual insight. The
work is intended not only for students but for those who have not time
for study and desire a better understanding of the scriptures as they
read them. Volume 1, contains the commentary upon Matthew and Mark;
Volume 2, Luke, John and The Acts; Vol. 3, Romans, Corinthians,
Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians; Volume 4,
Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrew, James, Peter, John,
Jude and Revelation.
* * * * *
“Professor Weiss’s concise commentary exhibits his well-known
learning, thoroughness, and conservatism. It is unfortunate that its
English dress was not more carefully prepared.”
+ + – =Bib. World.= 28: 160. Ag. ’06. 20w.
=Weiss, Bernhard.= Religion of the New Testament; tr. from the Germ. by
G: H. Schodde. *$2. Funk.
“It must, however, be said with frankness that the work of translation
has not been well done. The book is a very clear presentation of the
general idea which is represented in Harnack’s ‘What is Christianity?’
and, in more extreme form, by Wernle’s ‘Beginnings of Christianity.’”
Irving F. Wood.
+ – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 130. Jl. ’06. 490w.
=Wells, Amos R.= Tuxedo avenue to Water street: the story of a
transplanted church. $1. Funk.
The author calls his story a parable, and also, the story of a
possibility, which the united action of God and the people may make a
reality. He tells of a fashionable church which was mysteriously
transplanted in a single night and set up stone on stone among the
poor of Water street. He depicts most vividly the scorn with which the
fashionable members of the old church regard the poor with whom they
are thus brought in contact, and he shows the great good which came of
it all. It is a story so true to human nature that it makes one pause
to think. The author’s character drawing is excellent and he has
softened his moral by introducing into his parable the love story of
the young minister and Irene, the flower of his flock.
* * * * *
+ =Arena.= 36: 222. Ag. ’06. 310w.
“His little book is of more than passing interest as a well-developed
piece of fiction, and it is profoundly significant as a Parable and an
indictment.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 158. Ag. 4, ’06. 160w.
“The little book is effective in its way.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 817. Ag. 4, ’06. 150w.
=Wells, Amos Russel.= Donald Barton and the doings of the Ajax club.
†$1.50. Little.
The “Ajax club” is composed of lusty boys who meet in “The glen” and
plan adventures worthy of their honored Greek hero. They do battle
against a band of disreputable village boys and win the commendation
of the townspeople.
* * * * *
“Though there is the highest intent in this, the author has somehow
missed the mark.”
– =Nation.= 83: 484. D. 6, ’06. 170w.
=Wells, Carolyn.= At the sign of the sphinx. $1. Duffield.
Miss Wells’ fancy-juggling has produced one hundred and twenty rhymed
riddles to which are appended answers.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 41: 287. N. 1, ’06. 30w.
“Is marked by the same cleverness that is always characteristic of
this writer.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1399. D. 13, ’06. 210w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 440. N. 22, ’06. 90w.
“Generally her mood is playful and her ingenuity is always equal to
the task she sets for it. As a general thing, her touch is becomingly
light and she treats her syllables with respect. Sometimes the enigma
is still a bit enigmatical after one knows the answer.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 692. O. 20, ’06. 190w.
=Wells, Carolyn.= Dorrance doings; il. †$1.50. Wilde.
Another chapter in the lives of the wide-awake Dorrances which is
really a sequel to the “Dorrance domain.” The inventive ability of the
quartette and their energy in executing have suffered no diminution
since they first made their bow to young readers.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 711. O. 27, ’06. 120w.
“Written in a rather perfunctory manner—lacking in charm and
freshness.”
– + =Outlook.= 84: 792. N. 24, ’06. 50w.
=Wells, Carolyn.= Whimsey anthology. **$1.25. Scribner.
“A whimsey, Miss Wells explains, is ‘a whim, a freak, a capricious
notion, an odd device.’ Her new book contains nearly 300 selections
from the poets old and new.... Here we have famous wheezes touching
the eccentricities of the English language, typographical frenzies in
which the compositor shapes the poem as nearly as possible like the
object it treats of.... Alphabetical nonsense ... acrostics and
lipograms, alliterative efforts, enigmas and charades, macaronic
poetry, travesties, certomes, (which are made up of assorted lines
from divers poems,) and palindromes are here in rich profusion.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 61: 756. S. 27, ’06. 410w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 580. S. 22, ’06. 740w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, 06. 140w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 338. O. 6. ’06. 50w.
=World To-Day.= 11: 1221. N. ’06. 50w.
=Wells, Herbert George.= Future in America: a search after realities.
**$2. Harper.
America’s social, economic, and material phases furnish conditions for
objective scrutiny which any American would do well to observe. Mr.
Wells finds the note of a “fatal, gigantic, economic development, of
large prevision and enormous pressures” uppermost and invincible. His
range of observations is broad, covering the main representative
cities of America, his insight ready to cope with the peculiarly
American conditions, and his comments virile and convincing.
* * * * *
“‘When the sleeper wakes,’ for example, is an astonishing caricature
of the inordinate individualism of the American sort. ‘The future in
America,’ a sober study of the same subject, is, we think, below it in
insight as well as in effectiveness. Mr. Wells’s book is written
rather in a mood of despondency.”
– =Acad.= 71: 544. D. 1, ’06. 1360w.
“His lucid and discriminating description of the present in America is
probably worth more than his intended prophecy of the future of
America would have been, had he ventured to write it.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 614. N. 17. 370w.
“His is a book which will be criticised, but it will be read, and no
reader will fail to gain from it a broader view of the great
world-power with its vast opportunities and inequalities, its
contradictions and aspirations, its towering wealth, and its
suffering, which Mr. Wells has analyzed in this book.” James Wellman.
+ – =Harper’s Weekly.= 50: 1898. D. 29, ’06. 1810w.
“He has brought to the study of the social, economical, and material
problems now confronting us an insight rarely found in an Englishman,
and has given lucid expressions to certain ideas concerning the future
which have been vaguely stirring in the national consciousness.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 814. D. 1, ’06. 240w.
“A volume, that more than any other book I know of picks out and
co-ordinates the tendencies and conditions that are really shaping the
American future, disencumbers them from the misleading obstruction of
detail, and displays them with that spaciousness, that fervent
clarity, which Mr. Wells commands so easily.” Sidney Brooks.
+ + =Living Age.= 251: 565. D. 1, ’06. 2590w.
“He has struck some nails on the head that have, perhaps, never been
struck before—at least with so emphatic a hammer.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 537. D. 20. ’06. 1540w.
“To us, Mr. Wells’s hasty observations of American life seem only
dull. It is frequently interesting. It is generally disparaging. It is
often inaccurate.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 758. N. 17, ’06. 150w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 760. D. ’06. 140w.
“The prophesying is hedging, vague, indeterminate. Probably a fairer
book about America has never been written.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 581. N. 10, ’06. 1630w.
“The book is illuminating in the fullest sense, a criticism not only
of America, but of all civilised society, and it is written in a style
which is always attractive and rises now and then to uncommon beauty
and power. Though we endorse his demand for reform in many directions,
we are bound to condemn his frequent exaggerations, the shrillness,
nay feverishness, of his criticism, and his want of a sense of
proportion. He says many true things about the United States, but his
picture as a whole is false.”
+ – =Spec.= 97: 683. N. 3, ’06. 2320w.
=Wells, Herbert George.= In the days of the comet. †$1.50. Century.
A young middle-class Englishman loves a girl who elopes with the son
of a landed proprietor. The outraged suitor pursues the couple, bent
upon murder and suicide. Then the comet intervenes. It strikes the
earth and diffuses a trance-producing vapor. When the world wakens
there are no longer passions and rivalries. At this point the author
works out a state of socialistic reform characterized by brotherhood
principles. The hero finds love an impersonal thing with none of the
old proprietary limitations. Woman to him becomes the “shape and color
of the divine principle that lights the world,” and whether wife or
friend he may love her without reproach.
* * * * *
“An earnest and exceedingly interesting book.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 266. S. 15, ’06. 180w.
“Is far more than an interesting romance written in the fine literary
style that marks the works of this popular imaginative novelist.”
+ =Arena.= 36: 683. D. ’06. 380w.
“It remains as a whole a fine testimony to the imagination and
intellect of one of the most original thinkers of the day.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 362. S. 29. 640w.
=Current Literature.= 41: 700. D. 06. 880w.
“Regarded as an argument for socialism ... it is a very weak one.”
– =Ind.= 61: 1053. N. 1, ’06. 1080w.
“Perhaps it is not the best book Mr. Wells has written. It is in
reality no more than a brilliant piece of descriptive writing. But no
reader can fail to be touched by the picture of the glorious life that
awaits mankind after some great change.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 220w.
=Lond. Times.= 5: 314. S. 14, ’06. 580w.
+ =Nature.= 75: 124. D. 6, ’06. 440w.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 719. N. 3, ’06. 200w.
“As a story pure and simple, it falls far below his ‘War of the
worlds.’”
– =Outlook.= 84: 582. N. 3, ’06. 230w.
=Sat. R.= 102: 365. S. 22, ’06. 1560w.
+ – =Spec.= 97: 496. O. 6, ’06. 1230w.
=Wells, Herbert George.= Kipps: the story of a simple soul. †$1.50.
Scribner.
“Displaying an almost Dickens-like gift for the portrayal of eccentric
traits and types of character.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 17. Ja. 1. ’06, 350w.
=Edinburgh R.= 203: 66. Ja. ’06. 2920w.
=Living Age.= 248: 726. Mr. 24, ’06. 2920w. (Reprinted from
Edinburgh R.)
=Wells, Herbert George.= Modern Utopia. *$1.50. Scribner.
“Culling over the literature of 1905, I should place at the head of
works of the first-class ‘A modern utopia.’” Winthrop More Daniels.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 840. Je. ’06. 710w.
Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 296. My. 1, ’06. 250w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 581. N. ’06. 270w.
=Wendell, Barrett.= Temper of the 17th century in English literature.
**$1.50. Scribner.
“We must thank Professor Wendell for the pleasant, if slightly exotic,
prose of this thoughtful and inspiring volume. The fly in the amber is
the continual use of the word ‘elder.’”