=Wertheimer, Edward de.= Duke of Reichstadt. **$5. Lane.
“The general reader, for whom this handsome volume is evidently
intended, will find that the events and persons in the life of this
son of Napoleon stand out sharp, clear, and interesting. Some errors
have slipped into the translation. This book with its good index and
illustrations is the best on the subject.” Sidney B. Fay.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 662. Ap. ’06. 860w.
=Critic.= 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 120w.
“Is essentially an historical study, not a mere collection of gossip
and rumor.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 21. Ja. ’06. 360w.
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 113. Ja. 27, ’06. 1150w.
=Wesselhoeft, Mrs. Elizabeth Foster (Pope) (Lily F.).= Ready, the
reliable. †$1.50. Little.
Thru the influence of a little child a wealthy, crusty, bachelor uncle
learns the great lesson of love and opens his heart to the needs of an
overworked mother and her three responsible little ones. Ready, a
befriended street dog, is so important a factor in the tale that he
has appropriated the title.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 90w.
“When it comes to one part of a story dealing with humans and the
other part giving us the thoughts and conversations of cats and dogs
... we think a literary license is taken that is not warranted by the
results obtained.”
– =R. of Rs.= 34: 764. D. ’06. 50w.
=Westermarck, Edward Alexander.= Origin and development of the moral
ideas. 2v. v. 1. *$3.50. Macmillan.
“A multitude of curious facts concerning the crude institutions of
early times and savage tribes awaits the general reader of these
pages. About one-fourth of the volume is concerned with homicide, both
in general and in its varying forms down to feticide. The philosophic
student finds what he has a right to expect from such an investigator
... acute insight and discriminating judgment in tracing the evolution
of moral ideas.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“We have drawn attention to a few points in which Dr. Westermarck has
seemed to us unconvincing. We have intended this only as the criticism
which makes appreciation significant. And for the book as a whole—for
its learning, its open-mindedness, its catholicity, of interest—we
have the warmest appreciation.”
+ + – =Acad.= 70: 521, Je. 2, ’06. 2520w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Westermarck’s great strength ... consists in his ability to assemble
materials, and if he has a weakness, it is on the psychological side.”
W. I. Thomas.
+ + – =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 127. Jl. ’06. 330w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Even suppose, however, certain shortcomings on the side of pure
theory, this book remains an achievement unsurpassed in its own kind,
a perpetual monument of the courage, the versatility, and the amazing
industry of its author.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 692. Je. 9. 1820w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It may be partly owing to this special study, but largely no doubt
also to a remarkably sympathetic and candid turn of mind that Dr.
Westermarck presents this heterogeneous mass of evidence with so much
understanding, and avoids those hasty generalizations and those
uncomprehending judgments of alien races that so frequently
characterize many writers, even among those who have dwelt long among
the people they describe.”
+ + – =Ind.= 61: 997. O. 25, ’06. 1170w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The mass of information included in these chapters is wonderful. The
use which Dr Westermarck makes of it, I have no pretensions to
criticise. At any rate, everyone who reads this volume will look
forward with impatience to the next.” J. Ellis McTaggart.
+ + – =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 125. O. ’06. 1140w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Exceptionally wide reading and a faculty of lucid arrangement in
dealing with masses of detail are the necessary equipment for such a
task, and to these Dr. Westermarck adds a four years’ residence among
the country population of Morocco.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 250. Jl. 13, ’06. 740w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + – =Nature.= 74: 377. Ag. 16, ’06. 1320w. (Review of v. 1.)
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 180. Mr. 24, ’06. 250w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
“Although this massive work is elaborately analytical and critical, it
is none the less interesting.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 1005. Ap. 28, 06. 250w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Sat. R.= 101: 821. Je. 30, ’06. 1260w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Westrup, Margaret.= Young O’Briens. †$1.50. Lane.
“A family of undisciplined young people from the wilds of Ireland,
thrust for many months upon the society of a Scotch spinster aunt in a
squalid little house in London, suggests a situation which might well
draw tears from a stone.” (Ath.) “The transplanting is a hard trial
for all of them, and not less trying at times to the aunt. The humor
of some of the episodes is delightful.” (Critic.)
* * * * *
“Makes an enjoyable afternoon’s reading, but from a literary point of
view does not begin to compare with ‘Helen Alliston’” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 36: 218. Ag. ’06. 330w.
“The narrative ... is told with much humor and not a little pathos,
but at too great length.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 792. Je. 30. 180w.
“Both young and old will enjoy this entertaining account of the doings
of four Irish young folk.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 190. Ag. ’06. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 375. Je. 9, ’06. 830w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 170w.
“The book is too long, but the high spirits of the family carry the
reader on.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 243. Ag. 25, ’06. 290w.
=Weyman, Stanley John.= Chippinge Borough. †$1.50. McClure.
“Mr. Weyman’s latest romance has for its background the passing of the
Reform bill of 1832. No novelist is more conscientious in his
treatment of historical events, and the picture he presents of the
fierce struggle between the old governing class and the advocates of
the ‘People’s bill’ is singularly faithful and vivid.... Into this
political struggle he has successfully woven a romantic story.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“It is wholesome, mediocre work, and will delight Mr. Stanley Weyman’s
immense number of readers.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 421. O. 27, ’06. 130w.
“Is to be numbered among the best of Mr. Weyman’s books.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 613. N. 17. 180w.
“Novels that urge you along with them as ‘Chippinge’ does are not so
common that you can afford to quarrel with the means by which they do
it.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 377. N. 9, ’06. 440w.
“The chief defect of the book is its length. Good as it all is, the
temptation to skip, soon becomes overpowering.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 835. D. 1, ’06. 640w.
“Rarely does one find a semi-historical subject treated so
dramatically and with such intense personal interest.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 711. N. 2, ’06. 150w.
“It is not for its tale however that the book may be commended. The
interest of the book is in its atmosphere. It renders admirably the
spirit and sentiment.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 585. N. 10, ’06. 440w.
“A most enjoyable story as well as a deeply interesting study of a
great struggle.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 731. N. 10, ’06. 790w.
=Weyman, Stanley John.= Starvecrow farm. †$1.50. Longmans.
“This is by no means the best of Mr. Weyman’s novels, but it has a
considerable interest nevertheless.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 17. Ja. 1, ’06. 170w.
“Mr. Weyman’s atmosphere is charmingly true; the story that he has to
tell is more than ordinarily worth telling.”
+ =Reader.= 7: 563. Ap. ’06. 210w.
=Wharton, Edith Newbold (Jones).= House of mirth. †$1.50. Scribner.
“For all its brilliancy, ‘The house of mirth’ has a certain
shallowness; it is thin. At best, Lily can only inspire interest and
curiosity.” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 52. Ja. ’06. 630w.
“It is Mrs. Wharton’s great achievement, in a book where all is fine,
that she makes us see and sympathize with the true distinction in a
woman who on the surface has little else than beauty and charm.” E. E.
Hale, jr.
+ + + =Bookm.= 22: 364. D. ’05. 1190w.
=Critic.= 48: 463. My. ’06. 260w.
“It is a story elaborated in every detail to a high degree of
refinement, and evidently a product of the artistic conscience. Having
paid this deserved tribute to its finer characteristics, we are bound
to add that it is deficient in interest.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 15. Ja. 1, ’06. 720w.
Reviewed by Charles Waldstein.
=North American.= 182: 840. Je. ’06 and 183: 125. Jl. ’06. 5670
+ 4890w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ + =North American.= 182: 922. Je. ’06. 400w.
“The book is one of the few novels which can claim to rank as
literature.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 101: 209. F. 17, ’06. 400w.
=Wharton, Henry Marvin.= White blood; a story of the South. $1.50.
Neale.
The natural ingratitude and inability of the negro to rise to the
level of the white man forms the motif of this story written for the
purpose of proving that “white blood must rule.” A love story with a
southern setting imparts an interest to the much mooted question.
What would one have?: a woman’s confession. *$1. West, J. H.
“An essentially New England temperament is revealed in this
‘confession.’ ... The supposed author is a plain woman of the middle
class, brought up on a farm with few opportunities. She has so many
sorrows and by them she learns what seems to her the meaning of
life.”—Critic.
* * * * *
“The tone of the book is strongly religious; it is at least free from
the morbid taint usually to be found in revelations of a similar
character, and doubtless it will make a strong appeal to persons of a
type of mind similar to that of the ‘woman’ supposed to make the
‘confession.’”
+ =Critic.= 49: 190. Ag. ’06. 130w.
“There are doubtless countless readers who will find some sort of
spiritual consolation in the book, and mental edification, too, in its
appreciation of easily accessible literature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 340. My. 26, ’06. 180w.
“Is manifestly genuine and written with an earnest desire to help
others.”
– =R. of Rs.= 34: 127. Jl. ’06. 90w.
=Whates, H. R.= Canada, the new nation. **$1.50. Dutton.
“Mr. Whates ... went to Canada as a steerage passenger, posed as an
emigrant, and made actual trial of the difficulties which confront an
actual settler. In this way he met Canadians of every type and class
and had every chance of learning their real views. He travelled over
much of the continent, selected a homestead area in the wheatlands of
the North-west, and returned after five well-spent months with a
knowledge of the land which few could acquire in as many years. The
result is a book which is partly a record of travel, partly a most
practical guide to the intending settler, and partly a careful and
sympathetic study of Canadian political thought.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“Mr. Whates is a little wild in his emigration scheme, and appears in
some passages to upset himself.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906. 1: 699. Je. 9. 740w.
Reviewed by Lawrence J. Burpee.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 278. N. 1, ’06. 690w.
“The French element in Canadian life receives somewhat less attention
than it deserves.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 313. O. 11, ’06. 450w.
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 606. S. 29, ’06. 690w.
“He has performed his task with a singularly open mind, utterly free
from the bias which so often renders valueless the observations of
traveling Englishmen.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 436. D. 15, ’06. 1200w.
“An admirable book which we have read with keen enjoyment. Mr. Whates
writes with grace and distinction, he has keen powers of observation,
and the tolerant humorous outlook of the true traveller.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 95. Jl. 21, ’06. 1460w.
=Wheat, Mrs. Lu.= Third daughter: a story of Chinese home life. $1.50.
Mrs. Lu Wheat, 910 W. 8th st., Los Angeles, Cal.
“Ah Moy, the third daughter of a good family, is the central figure in
an idyllic picture of a Chinese home. This is at length broken up by
the dire calamities, which give occasion for the display of high
qualities of character, but bring Ah Moy to a tragic end. Chinese
customs, the position of women, foot-binding, sex-morality, the
Boxers, the traffic in slave-girls, their importation hither, and the
efforts of missionaries to thwart it, make up the rapidly shifting
scene.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“An extremely interesting and well-written picture of Chinese
home-life in a high-caste family.” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 36: 218. Ag. ’06. 250w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 477. My. ’06. 80w.
“Writes in large sympathy with whatever she has seen that is
attractive and worthy. Concerning Christian missionaries there she has
not taken equal pains to inform herself correctly.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 619. Mr. 17, ’06. 130w.
=Wheeler, Everett Pepperell.= Daniel Webster, the expounder of the
Constitution. **$1.50. Putnam.
“A convenient manual for any one who wishes to get in a small compass
a view of Webster’s career as expounder.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 55. Ja. 18, ’06. 340w.
=Wheeler, W. H.= Practical manual of tides and waves. *$2.80. Longmans.
The principal part of Mr. Wheeler’s work is devoted to “as practical
an account as possible, free from all mathematical demonstration of
the action of the sun and moon in producing the tides: and of the
physical causes by which the tides are affected after their
generation, and of their propagation throughout the tidal waters of
the earth.” (Nature.) He further deals with wave phenomena in a manner
to be useful to practising engineers.
* * * * *
“A perusal of this work will convince any reader that the entire
discussion of tides and tidal phenomena has been undertaken by one
familiar with the subject, both practically and theoretically, and
influenced by genuine love for the work. As a result the author has
produced a valuable practical manual of tides and waves which should
be found in the library of every one interested in these subjects.” D.
D. Gaillard.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 56: 49. Jl. 12, ’06. 1620w.
“On the whole, Mr. Wheeler has succeeded in the object he had in view,
and has ‘produced a handbook that will be of interest and practical
service to those who have neither the time nor the opportunity of
investigating the subject for themselves.’”
+ + =Nature.= 74: 218. Jl. 5, ’06. 1400w.
=Whelpley, James Davenport.= Problem of the immigrant. *$3. Dutton.
“A most convenient handbook for reference, supplying the student with
a mass of materials not elsewhere available in one language or in any
sort of connected form.” Frederic Austin Ogg.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 259. Ap. 16, ’06. 570w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 577. Jl. 7, ’06. 400w.
=Whiffen, Edwin T.= Samson marrying, Samson at Timnah, Samson Hybistes,
Samson blinded: four dramatic poems. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
“The poetic impulse is hardly sufficient in the dialogue to overcome
its tedious length and there are few beautiful or splendid passages to
break the monotony of the diction.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 18. Ja. 13. ’06. 210w.
=Whitcomb, Selden Lincoln.= Study of a novel. $1.25. Heath.
It is not with the science of the novel but with certain fixed values
of material and of form that Mr. Whitcomb’s analysis deals. He shows
the laudable and practical work of novel dissection to be a necessary
part of the teaching of literature. He discusses external structure,
consecutive structure, plot, the settings, the “dramatis personae,”
characterization, subject-matter, style, the process of composition,
the shaping of forces, influence of a novel, comparative rhetoric and
æsthetics, and general aesthetic interest.
* * * * *
“As an attempt to break ground in a comparatively uncultivated field
the book is commendable. The writer has got together a good deal of
material where it can be found when wanted.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 252. Ag. 2, ’06. 150w.
“In its own chosen field this book is exceedingly thorough and
instructive.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 910. Ap. 21, ’06. 110w.
“Is really a dissection, diagrammatically set forth, of a number of
the great novels in English.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 60w.
=White, Frederick M.= Slave of silence. †$1.50. Little.
The Royal Palace hotel, London, is in this complicated story made the
center of a series of strange happenings which begin when Sir Charles,
who is marrying his daughter to a rich brute to save his own financial
honor, is found dead in his bed at the close of the ceremony. Then
follows the disappearance of his body, and the series of adventures
which his daughter, her old lover, and their friend Perington
encounter when they trace the thieves to a house in Audley place which
is full of electrical surprises. Diamonds of fabulous value and
certain ruby mine concessions in Burmah complicate the plot, but at
last Sir Charles reappears alive, his daughter is left a widow at an
auspicious moment for her lover, and the slave of silence is released
from allegiance to the crippled villain who is her brother, and
marries the faithful Perrington.
* * * * *
“There is a suggestion of occultism from the East, which, serving no
purpose in the plot, seems a little superfluous, but for genuine
entertainment one cannot do better than to read this book.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 825. D. 1, ’06. 150w.
=White, Frederick M.= Weight of the crown. $1.50. Fenno.
A story in which plots and counter plots run their brisk course as
Russia makes a tool of the dissipated crowned head of Asturia and
tries to force an abdication. There are two sets of doubles in the
story introduced on the one hand to facilitate, on the other hand to
retard and complicate the movement towards the dramatic climax.
* * * * *
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 110. F. 24, ’06. 220w.
=White, Stewart Edward.= The Pass. *$1.25. Outing pub.
In which Mr. White tells the story of a journey across the high
Sierras made by an explorer, his wife, his guide, their two dogs and
four horses.
* * * * *
“It is the triumph of Mr. White’s enthusiasm and of his ability to put
his facts and his impressions into the right words that what was
encountered and what was seen on the trip is almost as plain on the
printed page as it would have been to you or me had we taken the trip
with him.” Churchill Williams.
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 376. D. ’06. 1270w.
“It is told simply in a style as crisp as mountain air.” May Estelle
Cook.
+ =Dial.= 41: 387. D. 1, ’06. 180w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1234. N. 22, ’06. 160w.
“Like most of Mr. White’s books ‘The Pass’ is very agreeable reading
indeed, soothing, but not exciting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 685. O. 20, ’06. 770w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 532. O. 27, ’06. 80w.
=White, William Allen.= In our town. †$1.50. McClure.
Thirteen stories made up from happenings observed by the editor of a
Western newspaper. “He draws humorously convincing portraits of the
people of the town, the town millionaire and the town drunkard, the
smart set and those who try to be smart, the literary crowd that
laughs at them and envies them for their superior culture. But it is
not all humorous. The trail of Jim Nevison, the black sheep and
‘desert scorpion,’ is followed to the end and the career of Sampson, a
good fellow ‘and yet a fool,’ is graphically outlined by Colonel
Alphabetical Morrison.” (Pub. Opin.)
* * * * *
“Read at intervals it will be found quite entertaining, but it
decidedly is not a book for steady perusal.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 83: 124. Jl. 28, ’06. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.
“A good and wholesome book ... that may serve its best purpose in
showing the American people themselves just what they are in this very
hour.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 450. Jl. 14, ’06. 250w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 91. My. 12, ’06. 120w.
“He may not have made great stories but he has put into his sketches
the stuff out of which great stories are made.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 604. My. 12, ’06. 200w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 756. Je. ’06. 60w.
“Every newspaper man has his recollections, but few of them can give
them with such an artistic blending of pathos and humor as he has.”
+ + =World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 170w.
=Whiteing, Richard.= Ring in the new. †$1.50. Century.
London and its awful problems of labor and poverty is the theme of
this bitterly real study of “the other half,” thru which there ever
runs a note of hope. Prue at twenty, penniless, unskilled, tho gently
born and bred, casts herself into the maelstrom of London in a pitiful
attempt to earn a living, and there realizes her own helplessness and
all but goes down before the overwhelming fear of it, clinging for
comfort to the mongrel dog she can ill afford to keep. The people whom
she meets in the course of her plucky career as an incompetent working
girl. Sarah the charwoman, Laura, a gem engraver, Leonard the young
editor of The branding-iron, a journal of the back streets, and all
the others, interest us not so much as individuals as parts of a
struggling whole.
* * * * *
“This is the most important romance of recent months dealing with
social progress. The author is a finished writer, a scholar skillful
with the use of words. This is a work that we can heartily recommend
to all lovers of human progress and social advance.”
+ + =Arena.= 36: 682. D. ’06. 950w.
“The darker side of the picture, as seen by his heroine during her
terrible initiation into the struggle for existence, is presented with
power, but also with commendable sobriety and restraint.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 633. My. 26. 280w.
“He is earnestly, even angrily intense with the sincerity of his
motive. And his motive the noblest of all, is the brotherhood of man.”
Richard Duffy.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 276. N. ’06. 670w.
“The style is somewhat Meredithian—brilliant, suggestive, prismatic,
but oftentimes blinding through an excess of nervous energy that
entices its possessor from a consistent point of view. As a
performance in fiction this book hardly ranks with the same author’s
‘No. 5 John street.’”
+ – =Lit. D.= 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 270w.
“A story that flashes with wit, glows with indignation, and beams with
the steady light of an unshakable hope.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 158. My. 4, ’06. 390w.
“‘Ring in the new’ cannot but compel the absorbed interest of its
readers, but more than this, it is worthy the writing and the reading,
because it is a voice for the voiceless, because it needs must have
its share in bringing about a social condition wherein at least no
‘evil is wrought by want of thought.’ Such a book deserves to be held
high above the flood of ordinary fiction, in that its appeal is not to
anything less than the noblest elements of character.” M. Gordon Pryor
Rice.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 596. S. 29, ’06. 1930w.
“The most vivid individual in the book is Sarah, the charwoman. The
weakest parts of the story are the extracts from ‘The branding iron.’”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 533. O. 27, ’06. 210w.
“The charm of Mr. Whiteing’s narrative is greatly enhanced by his
mastery of the art of presentation. He writes with a most engaging
ease, preserving a happy mean between pedantry and looseness,—indeed,
the impression created is curiously like that of listening to a
brilliant talker.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 717. My. 5, ’06. 880w.
=Whiting, Lilian.= Florence of Landor. **$2.50. Little.
“In this fascinating work Lillian Whiting is seen at her best.”
+ + =Arena.= 35: 444. Ap. ’06. 600w.
“So far as Landor is concerned, the more valuable parts of Miss
Whiting’s volume are those containing the reminiscences of his young
American friend Miss Kate Field, who saw a good deal of him during the
last four or five years of his long life.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 886. D. 30. 1120w.
“It contains some new and interesting anecdotes and a few good
illustrations.”
+ – =Atlan.= 97: 558. Ap. ’06. 370w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 456. F. 22, ’06. 420w.
“It is not, to be sure, one of those that invite perusal at a single
sitting. On the contrary, the best enjoyment will be derived through
desultory browsing.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 171, F. 3, ’06. 270w.
“Without giving any but the barest details of the poet’s life, Miss
Whiting brings vividly before us the brilliant circle of choice
intellects, so attached to Landor and to Florence, who ministered to
his later years.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 527. D. 28, ’05. 1820w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 110w.
=Whiting, Lilian.= From dream to vision of life. *$1. Little.
“Optimistic papers in which scientific knowledge and religious fervor
are combined, compose this volume. They are entitled; Thine eyes shall
behold the King in his beauty, The key of the secret, Live in harmony
with the new forces, The incalculable power of the spirit, The
spiritual illumination, All’s love and all’s law, The rose and flame
of life, The glory of summers that are not yet, and To whom the
eternal world speaks.”
=Whiting, Lilian.= Joy that no man taketh from you. **50c. Little.
“It will appeal with special force to those saddened, discouraged,
disappointed ones from which riches have taken wings, or who have been
overcome by still greater calamities.”
+ =Arena.= 35: 103. Ja. ’06. 980w.
=Whiting, Lilian.= Land of enchantment: from Pike’s Peak to the Pacific.
**$2.50. Little.
The grandeur and scenic marvels of the great Southwest with its
resources and development of life fill Miss Whiting’s volume. The
wonders of Colorado, both in the Pike’s Peak region and in Denver “the
beautiful,” the surprises of New Mexico with its ruins, traditions and
mines, the magic of Arizona with its petrified forest, and Grand
cañon, and southern California, mild in its sunshine, all compel the
reader to traverse the way under the spell of enchantment.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 41: 453. D. 16, ’06. 210w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 60w.
“She makes proper copy of excellent material for such a purpose.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 150w.
“The author has gone over well-known ground quite thoroughly, and has
discovered much that is new and picturesque.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 940. D. 15, ’06. 70w.
=Whitney, Caspar.= Jungle trails and jungle people; travel, adventure
and observation in the Far East. **$3. Scribner.
“The style, instead of being halting, has the rapid stride of an
expert American journalist, and, in spite of occasional
disfigurements, the author has produced a work of considerable
interest to the general reader, and painted some pictures of Eastern
manners and character unfamiliar to those who live in the smaller
world of the West.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 669. Je. 2. 1180w.
“What he saw and what he did are pleasantly set down with many
illustrations in this handsome volume.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1536. D. 28, ’05. 270w.
“Mr. Whitney conveys to the reader a good deal of the pleasure and
excitement which he himself experienced.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 1128. D. 30, ’05. 500w.
=Whitney, Helen Hay.= Sonnets and songs. **$1.20. Harper.
“Gifted young debutante.” Edith M. Thomas.
+ =Critic.= 48: 271. Mr. ’06. 610w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 30w.
=Whitson, John H.= Justin Wingate, ranchman. †$1.50. Little.
“It is a capital story of the West and well worth the reading.”
+ =Arena.= 35: 334. Mr. ’06. 220w.
=Whittier, John Greenleaf.= Poems; with a biographical sketch by Nathan
Haskell Dole. $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper poets” this volume becomes a student’s
textbook thru its introduction and notes.
Who’s Who, 1906. *$2. Macmillan.
The 1906 volume contains two thousand more biographies than its
predecessor. It contains also the number of a man’s sons and
daughters, his telegraphic address and telephone number and the
registered number of his motor-car.
* * * * *
“The book seems to us to have entirely changed its character since its
inception; but in its present form it is exceedingly useful as a book
of reference.”
– + + =Acad.= 69: 1341. D. 23, ’05. 70w.
“The new detail tends to promote self-advertisement rather than public
utility.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1905. 2: 863. D. 23. 40w.
“The selection of American names is as capricious as ever.”
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 161. Mr. 1, ’06. 60w.
– – – =Ind.= 60: 287. F. 1, ’06. 50w.
+ + + =Int. Studio.= 28: 181. Ap. ’06. 40w.
+ + + =Nation.= 82: 117. F. 8, ’06. 60w.
+ + + =Outlook.= 82: 327. F. 10, ’06. 270w.
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 822. D. 23, ’05. 80w.
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 1092. D. 23. ’05. 100w.
=Whyte, Rev. Alexander.= Walk, conversation and character of Jesus
Christ our Lord. $1.50. Revell.
“Permeated with this moral purpose, these addresses may be classified
as devotional reflections upon the life of Jesus.” Llewellyn Phillips.
+ =Bib. World.= 27: 78. Ja. ’06. 240w.
=Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith) (Mrs. G. C. Riggs).= Rose o’ the river.
†$1.25. Houghton.
“The vivid glimpses of life among the lumbermen are the best features
of the book which surely must have made its way on the strength of its
predecessor, ‘Rebecca,’ rather than on its own merits.” Frederic Taber
Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 22: 494. Ja. ’06. 200w.
“Is as spontaneous and fascinating in its way as was her ‘Rebecca’ in
another.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 711. N. 25, ’05. 50w.
+ =Reader.= 7: 227. Ja. ’06. 190w.
=Wilcox, Henry S.= Foibles of the bench. $1. Legal literature co.,
Chicago
The various types found upon the bench in all lands and ages and here
personified and analyzed under such chapter headings as; Egotism,
Courtesy, Concentration, Courage, Decision, Vain display, Corruption,
etc.; in which appear Judge Knowall, Judge Wasp, Judge Doall, Judge
Fearful, Judge Wobbler, Judge Wind, Judge Graft and others, who are
classed under the virtues which they fail to represent. The whole is
breezy and amusing.
* * * * *
“It is excellent work of this character that makes one regret the
carelessness and lack of skill that have ruined what might otherwise
have been a valuable criticism of the Bench.” Frederick Trevor Hill.
+ – =Bookm.= 24: 54. S. ’06. 810w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 877. D. 15, ’06. 150w.
=Wilde, Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills.= De profundis. **$1.25. Putnam.
“This last work of Oscar Wilde’s may be read with deep interest from
many points of view; but it is perhaps most truly remarkable as a
piece of introspective psychology.” Rafford Pyke.
+ =Bookm.= 22: 628. F. ’06. 600w.
“Fantastic his utterances often are, but they are always shrewd,
penetrating, suggestive.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 222. Mr. 15, ’06. 200w.
=Wilde, Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Willis.= Picture of Dorian Gray.
**$1.50. Brentano’s.
A new edition of Oscar Wilde’s “psychological masterpiece”, containing
chapters that have never before appeared in any American edition.
Dorian Gray of the beautiful face and black soul presents just the
antithesis of character that fascinated the author’s mind. Love, joy,
sorrow all exist in the vesture of life—so they can be donned or
doffed at pleasure.
* * * * *
“The book is more effective now than when first published because we
know now how true it is.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 219. Jl. 26, ’06. 400w.
=Wildman, Murray Shipley.= Money inflation in the United States: a study
in social pathology. **$1.50. Putnam.
A sociological study which “has nothing to do with individual morals,
but is an attempt to explain certain incidents in our National life to
which as a people we cannot point with pride. We are a people with a
financial ‘past,’ and Mr. Wildman sets out to rehabilitate us by
connecting financial vagaries little different from immoralities, with
facts in our National history which show that we were not naturally
bad, but yielded to stress of circumstances and most naturally.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“Is well worthy of commendation to the inquiring student.” Frank L.
McVey.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 165. S. 16, ’06. 410w.
“No one has hitherto treated with such detail the economic conditions
underlying the successive movements in favor of cheap money.”
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 399. F. 15, ’06. 150w.
“Although the book is far from controversial in its tone, its reading
will certainly do much to create harmony of opinion on the subject of
sound money. As a study of the formation of opinion on one question it
is very suggestive.” Caroline M. Hill.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 188. Mr. ’06. 760w.
“Mr. Wildman has written a most ingenious and suggestive apologia for
our financial heresies of the period he selected.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 78. F. 10. ’06. 660w.
“Both his method and his reasoning are ingenious, and although it
seems to us that he presses a hypothesis to an extreme, we have found
his little treatise singularly stimulating.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 616. Mr. 17. ’06. 430w.
=Wiley, Sara King.= Alcestis and other poems. **75c. Macmillan.
+ =Ind.= 60: 49. Ja. 4, ’06. 150w.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 7. Ja. 6, ’06. 360w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ + =North American.= 182: 753. My. ’06. 270w.
=Wilkins, William Henry.= Mrs. Fitzherbert and George IV. **$5.
Longmans.
“There is no great addition to historical knowledge in Mr. Wilkins’s
story of Mrs. Fitzherbert and George IV.” A. G. Porritt.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 659. Ap. ’06. 510w.
+ =Cath. World.= 82: 694. F. ’06. 2480w.
“He is just to George IV., and gives besides an excellent picture of
the period.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 380. Ap. ’06. 140w.
+ =Dial.= 40: 202. Mr. 16, ’06. 300w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 223. Ja. 25, ’06. 640w.
“It must be said that Mr. Wilkins, though a conscientious searcher and
worker, is here rather an apologist than an historian.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 350. Ap. 26, ’06. 1510w.
“Mr. Wilkins is too much of an advocate to be a wholly convincing
historian and there are signs that he has written in some haste. He
deserves full credit for the tact, sensibility, and good taste with
which he has performed it.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 81: 1084. D. 30, ’05. 310w.
=Wilkinson, Florence.= Far country: poems. **$1. McClure.
“Miss Wilkinson ... is before all, a romanticist, the narrative and
ballad are her predestined forms, and she handles them with all the
freedom of a native gift.... In phrasing and imagery ‘The far country’
... shows a freshness and imaginative vision that bespeak the poet’s
hand and eye, and above all a joy in the art.... Miss Wilkinson is not
a sonneteer ... but to show that she knows wherein her strength lies,
there are few sonnets in the volume. It is chiefly the human riddle
which haunts her eager, questioning mind.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“A tendency toward forced forms of expression and an indulgence in
mere emotional ejaculation appear to be the most noticeable fault of
what is, on the whole, a volume of quite exceptional richness and
strength.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 68. Ag. 1, ’06. 470w.
“A volume of uneven, but on the whole, singularly poetic verse. A
little sharper discrimination between profusion and diffusion, a
little sterner renunciation of unreal and extraneous adornment, a
little firmer grasp of organic structure, and Miss Wilkinson will be a
poet to reckon with.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 145. Ag. 16, ’06. 230w.
“Miss Wilkinson is so rarely unsure in metre, has indeed such command
of herself in the most intricate forms, that when one comes upon a
jarring line he knows it to be willful heresy rather than unconscious
error.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 396. Je. 16, ’06. 1230w.
“An occasional bit of self-consciousness, an evident effort, mar some
verses otherwise most pleasing.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 83: 284. Je. 2, ’06. 90w.
=Williams, C. F. Abdy.= Story of organ music. *$1.25. Scribner.
“A recent volume in the “Music story series.” The author has outlined
a history of the rise and development of organ music, in which the
works of the leading composers are described. He is of the opinion
that the history of organ music revolves around one gigantic
personality, that of Bach, and that no organ composer of any eminence
has existed who has not been largely influenced by him. The author has
drawn considerably on Ritter’s ‘Geschichte des orgelspiels,’ and on
the collections of Comer and others.” (Dial.) The book contains a
number of musical illustrations including the whole of a toccata by
Pasquini.
* * * * *
“Mr. William’s treatise is scholarly, clear, concise, and
elucidative.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 395. Je. 16, ’06. 200w.
“Interesting as well as scholarly the book is one of the best in a
series that has varied noticeably in merit.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 942. O. 18, ’06. 320w.
“Cannot be commended too highly to all organists.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 474. Je. 7, ’06. 130w.
“His book is brief but scholarly, and is the work of a man that knows
his subject and knows how to present it interestingly—even the more
abstruse historical portions of it. The book is one of the best of a
series that has varied greatly in merit.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 237. Ap. 14, ’06. 660w.
=Williams, Egerton Ryerson, jr.= Ridolfo, the coming of the dawn, a tale
of the Renaissance. †$1.50. McClurg.
Perugia, harassed as it was in the hundred and fifty years or more
that the Baglioni ruled it by violence, is the scene of this story of
Gismonda, the Florentine bride of Ridolfo Baglioni, then signore of
Perugia. He marries her for her dowry and leaves her on her wedding
day a prisoner in his castle to continue his career of crime and
oppression; but she, by her faithfulness, her goodness, and her
beauty, finally succeeds in awakening the soul of Ridolfo to a
realization of his sins. He forthwith repents of his black deeds,
inaugurates a new era for down-trodden Perugia and makes of himself a
man worthy of his wife’s love.
* * * * *
“It leaves a strong and even valuable impression of an age which it is
well to look back at, not only when modern puzzles seem petty, but
when modern civilization seems defective.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 353. O. 25, ’06. 390w.
“The book is eminently readable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 721. N. 3. ’06. 190w.
“The story is full of action and dramatic situations.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 796. D. ’06. 140w.
=Williams, Hugh Noel.= Five fair sisters: an Italian episode at the
court of Louis XIV. **$3.50. Putnam.
The five sisters of this historical biography are Laure, Olympe,
Marie, Hortense, and Marianne Mancini, the nieces of Cardinal Mazarin.
All were taken from Rome to France as children and made brilliant
marriages. With the exception of Laure, they all lived long and had
romantic careers. Had not Mazarin been so obstinate, Marie Mancini
would have been consort of Louis XIV. of France. Olympe became the
Comtesse de Soissons; Marianne, Duchesse de Bouillon, who was
implicated in the poison trials of 1680; Hortense the Duchesse de
Mazarin, fled from her jealous, bigoted husband, and became a reigning
beauty at the Court of Charles II. of England.
* * * * *
“He does not affect to have made any additions to historical
knowledge, and shows no great fondness for discussing problems or
unravelling mysteries; but the facts are stated fairly, and, as a
rule, fully enough for the general reader.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 787. Je. 30. 2050w.
Reviewed by Percy F. Bicknell.
=Dial.= 41: 386. D. 1, ’06. 180w.
“His volume looks well; his illustrations are interesting: his style,
though it smacks a good deal too much of translation, is readable; his
subject could hardly have been better chosen.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 288. O. 4. ’06. 800w.
“The present author has put the facts together in a very satisfactory
fashion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 565. S. 15, ’06. 1010w.
“Both entertaining and of interest as throwing light on the life of
this great period in French history.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 238. S. 22, ’06. 210w.
“Mr. Williams, however, has made a readable story out of material only
too abundant. His book is quite as much a study of times and manners
as a regular biography: with so many leading figures this was a
foregone conclusion.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 465. O. 6, ’06. 1700w.
=Williams, Hugh Noel.= Later queens of the French stage. Scribner.
A less distinctive work for stage art has been wrought by the six
women in this group than by the women who were sketched in the first
book of the series, “Queens of the French stage.” This latter group
includes Sophie Arnould, Mlle. Guimard, Mlle. Raucourt, Mme. Dugazon,
Mlle. Contat, and Mme. Saint-Huberty, and “they were rather reapers
than sowers and left few traces on their art.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“To anyone who likes gossip, amusing stories, vivid descriptions of a
very brilliant and heartless state of society, just before it toppled
to its fall, we recommend Mr. Williams’s handsomely published book. He
has spared no little trouble in research, and is thoroughly well up in
his subject; and his book makes most agreeable reading.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 472. My. 19, ’06. 1200w.
“Mr. Williams’s new book has all the faults of his ‘Queens of the
French stage,’ and has them in an aggravated degree. His style is
still more slovenly, his grammar still more faulty, his accuracy still
more blemished ... his proofs still more carelessly read.”
– – =Lond. Times.= 5: 171. My. 11, ’06. 930w.
“It is a record of scandals.”
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 359. Je. 2, ’06. 870w.
=Williams, Hugh Noel.= Queens of the French stage. *$2.50. Scribner.
“He tells his stories very well, and has a wide knowledge of the
memoirs, letters, the epigrams and so forth which illustrate his
subjects, and quotes them freely on his handsome pages.”
+ =Acad.= 70. 112. F. 3, ’06. 1500w.
=Spec.= 95: 533. O. 7, ’05. 160w.
=Williams, Jesse Lynch.= Day-dreamer. †$1.50. Scribner.
An unabridged rendering of “News and the man,” an amplified version of
“The stolen story.” “There is a general stir in this novel which
successfully stimulates the rush of a daily newspaper office when the
presses are in motion and the ‘stories’ are coming in from every
quarter. The reporter’s slang, which is a kind of dialect known only
to the initiated, is freely used and the narrative bristles with
expert knowledge of reportorial ways and speech.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“A very plausible story and a splendid picture of newspaper life and
newspaper men.” Stephen Chalmers.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 181. Mr. 24, ’06. 70w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ – =North American.= 182: 927. Je. ’06. 110w.
“Among the entertaining stories of the season a first place must be
given to ... ‘The day dreamer.’”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 759. Mr. 31, ’06. 90w.
“But in spite of the well-seasoned character of the plot and the
persons, ‘The day-dreamer’ is nevertheless a neatly articulated and
very readable tale.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 127. O. ’06. 140w.
=Williams, Leonard.= Granada: memories, adventures, studies and
impressions. **$2.50. Lippincott.
“Here is a book that gives only one chapter to the Alhambra. ‘The
Alhambra by moonlight,’ all the rest being devoted to pilgrimages
within easy reach of the City of Granada.... Some lead into the snows
of the splendid Sierra Nevada, but most of them are within the power
of any one.” (N. Y. Times.) “To the systematic frauds connected with
the famous sacred mountain, he devotes several chapters, in which he
tells the whole story of the exploitation of the caves—‘a longish
story,’ he says, ‘full of interest, social, national and
psychological, the story of the most astounding, amazing and
protracted swindle the world has ever heard of.’” (Int. Studio.)
* * * * *
“The chapters which make up this volume are much too disconnected in
subject, and the author has not the art of interesting us in ...
commonplace experiences.”
– + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 542. My. 5. 470w.
“It is unfortunate that a book so full of varied charm should not have
better illustrations. The want of an index is also a considerable
drawback to the value of the work.”
+ – =Int. Studio.= 29: 181. Ag. ’06. 290w.
=Williams, Neil Wynn.= Electric theft. †$1.50. Small.
An unusual story with plenty of plot, action and romance has its
setting in Athens, with the scene shifting to London. A young
engineer, who is also an inventor, is sent to Athens to discover the
cause of the theft of electricity from the Athenian electric power
company. The closely guarded villainy is operated by a band of
anarchists whose leader becomes the hero’s rival in affairs of heart
as well as schemes in which cunning and skill abound.
=Williams, Rebecca R. (“Riddell,” pseud.).= Fireside fancies. *75c.
Jenkins.
A poem in which the author’s fancy recalls a sequence of brave deeds
long past and weaves them into verse at his own fireside.
=Williams, Sarah Stone (Hester E. Shipley).= Man from London town.
$1.50. Neale.
There was a man from London town, and in this modern version of the
old rhyme, having scratched out both his eyes as the result of an
unfortunate love affair he becomes a cynic, is bored with life and
loving. But at last he realizes that his eyes are out thru the
influence of a young widow of high ideals and a charming personality,
and she is the cause of his jumping once more into the bramble bush
and scratching them in again. Unfortunately the man has become so
embittered and, is so lacking in fine feeling that he handles too
roughly the thing which gave him light. He is the type of a man whose
vision is permanently distorted and even love could not make him see.
=Williams, Theodore C.= Elegies of Tibullus. $1.25. Badger, R. G.
“Of this work the judgment must be that it is a paraphrase rather than
a translation, and the frequent felicities in the rendering add to
one’s regret at its defects.”
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 338. My. ’06. 760w.
=Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Mrs. Alice Muriel
(Livingston).= Lady Betty across the water. †$1.50. McClure.
Lady Betty, the naive young sister of an impoverished duke, comes over
from England to visit a Mrs. Stuyvesant-Knox at Newport. The plans of
her hostess for securing the sister of a duke as her brother’s wife
are frustrated, and the plans of Betty’s mother of securing an
American fortune seem, for a time, endangered by a young man who
crosses in the steerage of Betty’s ship and who wins her young
affection by heroic deeds before she discovers him to be a millionaire
in disguise. The story is light and breezy and is full of social
satire.
* * * * *
“The interest is smartly whipped up, and kept spinning and humming
gaily to the last page.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 550. Je. 9, ’06. 380w.
“A little more of the handsome Californian, and a little less violet
teas and cat lunches would have made it a better balanced book.”
Frederick Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 540. Jl. ’06. 310w.
“A frothy sort of cleverness is the chief attribute of the story, but
its thin vein of wit is exhausted long before the end is reached, and
nothing more substantial is found to take its place.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 41: 37. Jl. 16, ’06. 240w.
“The intent is to present a friendly picture of real American life, to
hold up the mirror to ‘society’, and to provide a sort of guide book
of America’s typical institutions; but it’s all done British visitors
must be warned not to take it upon such meagre knowledge of the facts
that seriously.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 319. My. 19, ’06. 690w.
“It is a pleasantly written narrative, very frothy.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 190w.
“A lively and entertaining tale.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 863. Ag. 11, ’06. 50w.
“A readable and entertaining story.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 826. Je. 30, ’06. 80w.
=Spec.= 97: 23. Jl. 7, ’06. 190w.
=Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Mrs. Alice Muriel.= My
friend the chauffeur. †$1.50. McClure.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 10: 154. Mr. 1, 06. 290w.
“The tale is amusing enough, but on the whole less good than other
stories by the clever authors.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 254. N. ’06. 60w.
=Willis, Henry Parker.= Our Philippine problem: a study of American
colonial policy. $1.50. Holt.
Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.
=Atlan.= 97: 848. Je. ’06. 470w.
“So, while there is much in this book ... which is of very
considerable import, it is so intermixed with errors, half-truths,
misinformation of one sort and another, and political insinuation, as
to make the book an altogether unsafe guide for him who is not already
expert in Philippine matters.”
+ – – =Ind.= 59: 1538. D. 28, ’05. 1210w.
Reviewed by Hugh Clifford.
=Living Age.= 251: 515. D. 1, ’06. 5630w.
=Willoughby, William Franklin.= Territories and dependencies of the
United States: their government and administration. *$1.25. Century.
Reviewed by F. J. Goodnow.
+ – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 136. Mr. ’06. 1010w.
=Wilson, Alice.= Actaeon’s defense and other poems. $1. Badger, R: G.
Half a hundred nature poems, love sonnets and lyrics.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 41: 208. O. 1, ’06. 200w.
=Wilson, Rev. C. T.= Peasant life in the Holy Land. *$3.50. Putnam.
“Peasant life in Palestine was cast in stereotype plates centuries
ago, long before the Christian era, and the present life is printed
from the old plates. Therefore to see how peasants live and what
they think and feel now is to understand how they lived and what
they thought in the time of Christ, not to say in the time of
Abraham. That fact gives to a portrait of modern life by one who has
been a long-time resident of the Holy Land value as well as
interest.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“It is only when he quits his own subject to indulge in speculations
or a general view that he stumbles.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 449. Ap. 14. 400w.
“This interesting book is not so much, as the author claims, a
contribution to the folklore of Palestine, altho some stories are
given, as a description of the peasant life.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 941. O. 18, ’06. 200w.
“It gives a picture of the better side of peasant life, and
incidentally is of considerable value to the student of Oriental and
Biblical archaeology, folklore, and religion.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 129. Ag. 9, ’06. 640w.
“The value of the book lies in a wealth of detail about the daily
lives of the fellahin. This sharp definition of detail lends a special
worth to Mr. Wilson’s work.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 649. O. 6, ’06. 940w.
“It contains not a great deal which will be fresh to one who is
familiar with Dr. Thomson’s ‘Land and the book’ or Professor Curtiss’s
‘Primitive Semitic religion to-day.’”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 482. Je. 23, ’06. 160w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 211. Ag. 18, ’06. 810w.
“Mr. Wilson’s book is full of interesting details about Palestinian
life. He has extended his observations to natural objects, and has
much that is curious to tell us.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 588. Ap. 14, ’06. 290w.
=Wilson, Calvin Dill.= Making the most of ourselves. **$1. McClurg.
“For young men and women who are at a groping and impressionable age
and who have not had ‘advantages,’ this book ought to be of far
greater value than most of its kind.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 569. Je. ’06. 60w.
=Wilson, Floyd Baker.= Through silence to realization; or, The human
awakening. $1. Fenno.
Self-mastery is the keynote of this volume. Practical suggestions for
the achievement of it along metaphysical lines are made by one who has
proved that “thoughts are things,” and as entities can be implanted
into consciousness and vitalized there.
=Wilson, Francis.= Joseph Jefferson. **$2. Scribner.
A sketch of Mr. Jefferson by a close friend and fellow actor which
pictures “what will be of inestimable value to future generations of
playgoers—the personality of Joseph Jefferson.” (Ind.) “New light is
thrown on the best qualities of Jefferson, his amiability, his genial
humor, his sound artistry. The illustrations include reproductions of
photographs of the actors, and some of Jefferson’s paintings.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
“Those who knew Mr. Jefferson personally and those who knew him only
on the stage will be sorry to see him so belittled by an account
which, meaning to exalt, succeeds only in debasing.”
– =Acad.= 71: 370. O. 13, ’06. 380w.
Reviewed by Louise Closser Hale.
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 532. Jl. ’06. 930w.
+ + =Critic.= 48: 570. Je. ’06. 410w.
“A pleasing and worthy portrait.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 316. My. 16, ’06. 1770w.
“His analysis of many of the elements of Jefferson’s success—as in
“Rip Van Winkle”—is a good one, and the chief impressions are
agreeable.” Wm. T. Brewster.
+ + =Forum.= 38: 96. Jl. ’06. 770w.
+ + =Ind.= 60: 987. Ap. 26, ’06. 560w.
“There are few such nuggets in the book, and they can be found only by
sifting a vast amount of rubbish.”
– + =Nation.= 82: 516. Je. 21, ’06. 1160w.
“The sketches of personalities are intimate and charmingly done.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 244. Ap. 14, ’06. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.
“A book as true to nature as it is entertaining.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 92. My. 12, ’06. 280w.
“Mr. Wilson has done a careful piece of work in bringing together his
reminiscences, and there is none of the feeling that he is holding
something back to use later on.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 710. Je. 9, ’06. 930w.
“Is packed full of story, incident, and picturesque description.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 766. Je. ’06. 210w.
=Winchester, Caleb Thomas.= Life of John Wesley. **$1.50. Macmillan.
Professor Winchester “points out that Wesley was the child of his age
in his distrust of enthusiasm. He laid great stress upon an
intelligent faith, and endeavored himself to be clear, candid, and
logical. That he could have carried on his especial work within the
Anglican church, had the bishops of his day held more statesmanlike
ideas as to their duty is plain enough; in fact, he never abandoned
that church nor did he desire his followers to do so. Yet the logic of
events made the organization of a distinctive Methodist body
inevitable.”—Critic.
* * * * *
Reviewed by H W. Boynton.
+ =Atlan.= 98: 278. Ag. ’06. 690w.
“He brings out the character and personality of the man better, on the
whole, than any of Wesley’s previous biographers have done.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 473. My. ’06. 150w.
“The last chapter on ‘John Wesley the man’ is an especially clear and
satisfactory presentation of the great preacher’s mind and
personality.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 42. Jl. 16, ’06. 300w.
“It is written in excellent style, and is marked by thoroness of
information, fairness of judgment, and that sanity and balance, which
come only with extensive knowledge.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 1162. My. 17, ’06. 440w.
“It is compact, bright, clear-sighted, a book in which an American
writer seems to have achieved something of the lucidity, combined with
accurate knowledge, of the best French work. There are a few slips
here and there in it.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 247. Jl. 13, ’06. 1490w.
“This writer has given us, in brief space, probably the clearest view
of his hero.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 537. Je. 28, ’06. 940w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
“He writes in a style which is luminous without being rhetorical, warm
without being emotional, and simple without being commonplace.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 625. Jl. 14, ’06. 1750w.
“Professor Winchester has dealt fairly with his subject, showing the
dark as well as the light sides.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 378. Mr. 24, ’06. 370w.
“Is not primarily a Methodist tribute to the founder of his church; it
is the seasoned judgment of a man of literature and an historian of
philosophic mind concerning a great divine.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 507. Ap. ’06. 140w.
“He is neither a worshipper nor an iconoclast.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 718: My. 5, ’06. 160w.
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 764. Jl. ’06. 160w.
=Winslow, Helen Maria.= Woman of tomorrow. *$1. Pott.
“The author points out the weak spots in the woman of to-day, and
tells her what to do in order to become a more able woman of
to-morrow.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The writer has made no attempt, in these discreet articles, to treat
her subject profoundly or from an original point of view.”
+ – =Critic.= 47: 573. D. ’05. 120w.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 3. Ja. 6, ’06. 540w.
=Winter, Alice Ames.= Jewel weed. †$1.50. Bobbs.
In the foreground of this story with a middle west setting is a
quartette of young people composed of Dick Percival of substantial
family connections, his college friend Ellery Norris who is striving
to make good his heralded efficiency, Madeline Elton, a finely bred
young woman, and Lena Quincy whose gilded vulgarity finds fit
expression in the jewel weed. The “jewel weed” becomes Dick’s protege,
later his wife, and as such a foreign element in the refined
atmosphere of his mother’s home. In contrast to her selfishness which
menaces her husband’s social, financial and political career is the
fine loyalty of Madeline, which champions everybody’s cause—Ellery
Norris more than all others.
* * * * *
“Though not a great novel, this is an excellent love-story written in
a bright and pleasing style and very rich in human interest. More than
this, it is for the most part true to the life it depicts.”
+ =Arena.= 36: 687. D. ’05. 300w.
=Wise, John Sergeant.= Recollections of thirteen presidents. **$2.50.
Doubleday.
From the political atmosphere surrounding him in boyhood, the author
absorbed the personalities of the presidents of his father’s day,
Tyler, Pierce and Buchanan; and of the men following down to the
present day he is able to write out of the fulness of his intimate
knowledge of them. The author is a Southerner, fought with the
confederacy, and does not neglect to make prominent the just position
from which to view the work of Jefferson Davis.
* * * * *
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 210. O. ’06. 50w.
“The taste displayed is often a bit more questionable. and there are
many signs of hasty and ill-considered writing. It can, however, never
be called a dull book, or one lacking in a fine sense of patriotism.”
+ – =Dial.= 41: 117. S. 1, ’06. 780w.
“Some wonderfully fresh and striking pen portraits.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 983. Je. 30, ’06. 1180w.
“The book is confessedly partisan rather than judicial in its tone. It
is an interesting series of political sketches from a personal point
of view, and the intelligent reader will have no trouble in
recognizing the point of view and making all necessary allowances. We
have noticed few slips of fact.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 103. Ag. 2, ’06. 1020w.
“His estimates of the public men he discusses in his book are to a
rather remarkable degree free from partisan, even though not always
from personal bias. They are both interesting and entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 333. My. 26, ’06. 1250w.
“His estimates of these historical characters, expressed with the
utmost frankness and evident sincerity, make ‘readable footnotes to
history.’”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 250w.
=Wise, John Sergeant.= Treatise on American citizenship. $3. Thompson.
A book dealing with the primary rights, duties, and privileges of the
American citizen and analyzing the peculiar dual system—federal and
state—under which he lives. There are seven parts to the treatise: Of
citizenship generally; How American citizenship may be acquired; Of
the obligations and duties of the citizens to the nation and the
state; Of the rights, privileges and immunities of the citizen;
Privileges and immunities under the war amendments; Of the protection
of citizens abroad; Of expatriation, aliens and who may not become
citizens.
* * * * *
“While Mr. Wise has given us here a useful and valuable work, it must
be said that it leaves much to be desired and that there is still room
for a comprehensive text on the law of citizenship.” Frank Hamsher.
+ – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 356. S. ’06. 670w.
“As a popular summary of the more important features of our system,
the book will be found useful. It is marked by great fairness and
freedom from bias of any kind.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 451. My. 31, ’06. 310w.
“It is a very useful book, showing a great deal of patient industry,
and a clear and sound judgment in dealing with authorities.” Edward
Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 93. F. 17, ’06. 1150w.
“He has made no use of treaty stipulations, diplomatic correspondence,
rulings of the Department of state or decisions of arbitration
commissions. He does not seem to have examined the excellent works of
Van Dyne and Howard or the less valuable ones of Morse and Webster,
from all of which he could have gained useful information both as to
the law of citizenship and methods of treatment. Notwithstanding all
that has been said above in criticism of Mr. Wise’s book as a treatise
on the law of citizenship, it is a useful and interesting work. To the
idea of state citizenship he makes a distinct contribution and his
discussion of civil rights under the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments contains many original and valuable suggestions.” James
Wilford Garner.
+ – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 558. S. ’06. 1300w.
=Wishart, Alfred Wesley.= Primary facts in religious thought. *75c.
Univ. of Chicago press.
“Dr. Wishart is a careful reasoner and the volume, on the whole, is an
admirable work of the kind. As is so frequently the case in didactic
theological works, however, the author, it seems to us, sometimes
presumes too much, and therefore his premises are open to criticism.”
+ – =Arena.= 36: 440. O. ’06. 860w.
+ =Bib. World.= 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 50w.
=Wister, Owen.= Lady Baltimore. †$1.50. Macmillan.
This story might be called the “Love affairs of a bachelor” in the
objective sense of Lilian Bell’s “Love affairs of an old maid.” For
the hero finds real life and other people’s matrimonial projects more
fascinating than musty genealogical records that sufficiently searched
will prove the blood of kings in his veins and admit him to the
“Selected salic scions.” The setting is typically Southern and among
the characters are a charming dispenser of cakes at a Woman’s
exchange, a young man whose approaching marriage to a brilliant siren
furnishes cause for a vast expenditure of the hero’s quixotic
chivalry, and numerous old ladies of King’s Port. It would divulge too
much of the whimsically clever story to reveal the meaning of so high
sounding a title as “Lady Baltimore.”
* * * * *
“The story is one of love, prettily conceived and executed, but it is,
perhaps, a little longwinded and slow of development.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906. 1: 603. My. 19. 280w.
“But it is not merely for its adherence to an academic formula that
‘Lady Baltimore’ is to be praised. It is good to read because of its
characterisation, its geniality and its ideas.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ + – =Bookm.= 23: 296. My. ’06. 1180w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 509. Je. ’06. 980w.
“Like Mr. Owen Wister’s other fiction, is defective on the side of
construction, but the defect is atoned for by the author’s powers of
characterization and his narrative charm.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 365. Je. 1, ’06. 410w.
“It is doubtful if any other author has so accurately touched the
keynote of the real South, or contrasted it so shrewdly with that of
the North.”
+ + + =Ind.= 60: 1159. My. 17, ’06. 950w.
“He has given us the most courteous, intelligent and veracious
interpretation of Southern life ever published without losing a single
man by violence out of the tale.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 50w.
“Mr. Wister brings to this new environment all the fine play and parry
of style, all the insight, all the certainty of coloring, that carried
the West before his compelling pen.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 158. Ag. 4, ’06. 420w.
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
“‘The Virginian’ can no longer be held to be the work of an
impassioned tiro by any one who observes how in ‘Lady Baltimore’ the
story is informed by the idea, how light and delicate the humour is
for all the urgency of the pleading, how fragrant is that atmosphere
of lavender which the whole story breathes.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 142. Ap. 20, ’06. 530w.
“Is marked by all the author’s cleverness and power of observation.
What Mr. Wister has written might be called extravaganza with a
purpose.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 390. My. 10, ’06. 430w.
“The attraction of the book is in its hitting off things and people in
little illuminating phrases which flash this and that characteristic
home to you.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 254. Ap. 21, ’06. 680w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 250w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ + – =North American.= 182: 928. Je. ’06. 100w.
“It is a true American novel in subject, spirit, and atmosphere.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 83: 111. My. 19, ’06. 1490w.
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 707. N. 24, ’06. 100w.
“There is little success in striking the deeper chords that might be
set vibrating by a stronger hand and one less preoccupied with its own
rather capable cleverness and its stylistic ingenuity.”
+ – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 572. My. 5, ’06. 710w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 756. Je. ’06. 70w.
“Owen Wister displays as before the delicacy of touch, the clear
precise treatment of ideas, the felicity and grace of expression which
make his writing distinguished and admirable, but his material is this
time too scanty, and his dissertations seem tedious and complicated to
the point of mystification.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 794. Je. 23, ’06. 250w.
“Is a many-sided book, in which plot and incident, ingenious though
they are, are of subsidiary importance, and serve the ulterior purpose
of enabling the writer to liberate his mind on a number of burning
questions. His satire is inspired not by malice, but by a genuine
desire of reform.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 675. Ap. 28, ’06. 820w.
=Witt, Robert Clermont.= How to look at pictures. **$1.40. Putnam.
America finds this book published five years ago in England of such
value that it deems it worth while to reprint it even tho there have
appeared a number of works akin to it—books whose purpose is identical
with it, viz. to direct laymen how to judge first class works of art,
“Mr Witt speaks of the personal point of view, the point of view of
the subject the picture represents, that of the artist, how to look at
a portrait, a historical painting, a colored picture, a genre
painting, a landscape and a drawing; how to note the light and shade
in a painting, the composition of the picture, the treatment of the
subject by the artist, and the methods and materials of a painter.”
(N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Several helpful books dealing with the general subject of looking at
pictures have been published within the last year, but none of these
has the breadth or scope of this admirable book by Mr Witt.”
+ + =Critic.= 49: 90. Jl. ’06. 180w.
+ =Dial.= 41: 120. S. 1, ’06. 310w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 518. Ag. 30, ’06. 270w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 832. Je. 2, ’06. 1120w.
“Its contents are marked by tranquil common sense. There is nothing in
it which is not true, and nothing, perhaps, which may not still be
novel to some part of the great public.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 468. Je. 7, ’06. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 376. Je. 9, ’06. 440w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 671. Jl. 21, ’06. 80w.
=Wolfenstein, Martha.= Renegade, and other tales. $1.25. Jewish pub.
“‘A renegade’ presents to us a number of Gentile sinners and Jewish
saints in the setting of far-away Bohemia.” (Nation.) This story “is
tragical, of course, and there are ten others. The prevailing
atmospheric effect is gray, a dull sad gray, and there is always a
sense of what may be called the joy of suffering, a sort of reveling
in the luxury of woe.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“We need not quarrel with the characterization if the stories were
only interesting; but they are not.”
– =Nation.= 82: 182. Mr. 1, ’06. 110w.
“Many of them show a considerable dramatic power.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 113. F. 24, ’06. 430w.
“Full of local color, race peculiarities treated with knowledge and
skill, and withal broad human sympathy and delicate humor.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1087. D. 30, ’05. 70w.
=Wood, Eugene.= Back home. †$1.50. McClure.
“The book itself is very like an apple: juicy, ripe and red with
garnered sunshine. It is altogether wholesome and sweet to the core.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1345. D. 7, ’05. 230w.
=Wood, Henry.= Life more abundant: scriptural truth in modern
application. **$1.20. Lothrop.
“It is an important contribution to the constructive religious thought
of the day.”
+ + =Arena.= 35: 100. Ja. ’06. 370w.
=Wood, Theodore.= Natural history for young people. $2.50. Dutton.
A survey of the animal world so copiously and realistically
illustrated that it furnishes “zoological garden in a book.” “The
writer has given a few original observations. Beyond a general
classification, he has not attempted scientific methods of treatment.
He has selected, from the various groups, the most interesting
species, and has written about them with much entertaining detail.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“On account of its sumptuous format, is for the library rather than
for field and forest.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1390. D. 14, ’05. 30w.
+ =Nation.= 81: 503. D. 21, ’05. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 761. N. 11, ’05. 60w.
“The text is written simply and clearly and is kept free from
super-scientific terminology. Decidedly a commendable work.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 683. N. 18, ’06. 50w.
=Wood, Walter Birbeck, and Edmonds, James Edward.= History of the Civil
war in the United States, 1861–1865. *$3.50. Putnam.
“There is no lack of intelligent comprehension of the events
described, and the presentment is simple and direct. Though one may
here and there find fault with the work of Messrs. Wood and Edmonds,
the book is nevertheless a good military account of our Civil
war—impartial, painstaking, intelligent.” J. K. Hosmer.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 699. Ap. ’06. 1060w.
“It is a useful condensation of the best military histories and is
illuminated by much judicious comment.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 264. Ap. 16, ’06. 550w.
“It is characterized by understanding, by impartial attitude and by
thoroness of treatment.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 341. F. 8, ’06. 260w.
“It is readily admitted that for succinctness of statement, for
saneness of judgment, for fairness of conclusion there is scarce a
volume anywhere in all our war literature which equals this one.”
William E. Dodd.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 34. Ja. 20, ’06. 1670w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 90w.
=Wood, William.= Fight for Canada; a sketch from the history of the
great Imperial war. *$2.50. Little.
This history of England’s fight for Canada has been prepared in the
light of recently discovered sources of original information and has
been treated from a point of view both naval and military. Chapters
are devoted to: Pitt’s imperial war; New France and New England;
Vandreuil and Bigot; Montcalm; Anson and Saunders; Wolfe; The siege of
Quebec; The Battle of the plains; The fall of Quebec; and The fall of
New France. The text is both scholarly and interesting, the notes,
bibliography, and index are full and satisfactory, and there are
portraits and colored maps.
* * * * *
“Mr Wood has not Mr. Parkman’s command of resonant prose, but in
simple language details the events hour by hour, describing the
character of the ground as one familiar with every foot of it, and the
movements of the men of each side as if at a review.” James Bain.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 398. Ja. ’05. 660w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 260. Mr. 29, ’06. 80w.
“An interesting and praiseworthy book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 248. Ap. 14, ’06. 280w.
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 807. Ap. 7, ’06. 140w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 50w.
=Sat. R.= 99: 814. Je. 17, ’05. 70w.
=Woodberry, George Edward.= Swinburne. **75c. McClure.
A recent volume in the “Contemporary men of letters series.” The
sketch is not a biography but “a subtle and subjective study not so
much of Swinburne’s poetry as of his poetic impulses.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=Critic.= 48: 459. My. ’06. 320w.
+ + =Nation.= 82: 58. Ja. 18, ’06. 1080w.
“The book is important not so much because of the accident of its
being perhaps the first on the subject to be published in this country
as because of an uncommon qualification of the author for his task. It
is true that he has broad perspective and intimate knowledge, but of
greater significance is the affinity of spirit between the poet and
his critic.” Lewis N. Chase.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 889. D. 16, ’05. 2110w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 30w.
=Woodberry, George Edward.= Torch: eight lectures on race power in
literature, delivered before the Lowell institute of Boston. **$1.20.
McClure.
Thru “The torch” “one increasing purpose runs. This purpose is the
thought that there is a race-mind which slowly, unfalteringly,
grandly, approaches through the centuries its final summation (if
finality in this connection be conceivable) through a variety of
channels, but chiefly through the treasure-stores of great
literature.” (Reader.) “The work of the race-mind in literature, as it
seems to Mr. Woodberry’s optimistic idealism, is not so much mere
self-expression as self-conquest, liberation, racial euthanasia.”
(Nation.) The title of the lectures are: Man and the race, The
language of all the world, The Titan myth, Spenser, Milton, Wordsworth
and Shelley.
* * * * *
“There is no question of the author’s sincerity, and if but as a
narrative of personal faith, the book possesses both charm and force.”
H. B. Alexander.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 194. Ap. ’06. 1410w.
“Mr. Woodberry has possibly read into the poets, ancient and modern,
more than they intended to say. In dealing with the four ... he shows
his finely critical sense, although some of his dicta are open to
disagreement.” Edward Fuller.
+ – =Critic.= 48: 212. Mr. ’06. 620w.
“The high note of idealism thus sounded at the outset is maintained to
the last.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 236. Ap. 1, ’06. 350w.
“Our author’s thought is less convincing in the retrospect than in the
reading. It is clear that his choice of typical literature has been
very strictly selective, and (though there is much admirable criticism
by the way) poetically rather than critically selective. No writer in
recent years has presented the cause of the Platonist with greater
eloquence and devotion, or has made a more telling synthesis of old
poetry and new science.”
+ – =Nation.= 81: 365. N. 2, ’05. 1220w.
“When Prof. Woodberry leaves the field of theory, or, rather, when he
imports into that field specific appreciation and criticism, he is
often extremely instructive, and what is more important if he will
pardon us for saying so, he is stimulating, satisfying, and quite
delightful. It is a pleasure to acknowledge the sincerity, the
pure-mindedness, the whole-hearted love of the best that shine in
Prof. Woodberry’s pages.” E. C.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 721. O. 25, ’05. 640w.
“The philosophy of these lectures—a product of the author’s studies in
comparative literature—is profound, and in one aspect, despairing,
since it is vitally and essentially sacrificial, and the very
death-warrant to all personal egoism.”
+ =Reader.= 7: 225, Ja. ’06. 680w.
=Woodhull, Alfred Alexander.= Personal hygiene; designed for
undergraduates. *$1. Wiley.
This treatise “embodies in the first place a short but practical and
sufficient account of the anatomy and physiology of the different
organs and functions of the body, and then considers one by one, the
reasons that should guide us in exercise, in food, in bathing, in our
choice of clothing, and in reference to stimulants and
narcotics.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“On the whole, the book is admirable.”
+ =Engin. N.= 55: 560. My. 17, ’06. 130w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 280. Ap. 5. ’06. 130w.
+ + =Nature.= 74: 78. My. 24, ’06. 460w.
“We think that its wide circulation would be a good thing for all
concerned.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 228. Ap. 7, ’06. 170w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 70w.
=Woodruff, Anna Helena.= Pond in the marshy meadow. $1.50. Saalfield.
A book to open the eyes of children. An “ordinary pond in an ordinary
field, belonging to an ordinary farmer” furnishes the objects for
lessons of observation and the author is guide and teacher.
* * * * *
“A book with plenty of entertainment in it and considerable
instruction put so pleasantly as to be entertaining too.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 140w.
“Has the indefinable touch which will commend it to the minds of
children, but the little folks to whom it is dedicated will have to
share their pleasure with every one who can remember brooks and
pasture-lands, and all the sweet, lazy experiences of childhood in the
country.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 532. O. 27, ’06. 210w.
=Woods, David Walker, jr.= John Witherspoon. **$1.50. Revell.
The great-grandson of John Witherspoon has written the first story of
that able Scotsman, Presbyterian and American ever published, in which
is given a full account of the part he played in the struggle for
popular rights in the Church of Scotland, his administration as
president of Princeton college, his work in the organization of the
American Presbyterian church, and as an active man in the conduct of
the revolution and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
* * * * *
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 209. O. ’06. 60w.
“A biography which will appeal to Princeton men and to students of
church history, as well as to those interested in the Revolutionary
period of our national life.”
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 70. Ag. 1, ’06. 380w.
“Dr. Witherspoon’s career does not lend itself to lively narrative,
and Mr. Woods is a dull biographer at best.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 482. Ag. 4, ’06. 550w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 908. Ap. 21, ’06. 190w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 80w.
=Woods, Frederick Adams.= Mental and moral heredity in royalty: a
statistical study in history and psychology. **$3. Holt.
A scientific inquiry into the characteristics of royalty based upon a
large and well chosen bibliography to which detailed references are
given. The study of 832 characters forms the main body of the work,
altho 3,312 distinct persons are mentioned. The members of the ruling
families of England, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain,
Portugal, Austria, Italy, Russia, Denmark, and Sweden are considered,
each individual being graded mentally and morally according to a
standard of 1 to 10, the period covered extending in general back to
the 16th century. The object of the work is to give a fair estimate of
the mental and moral status of royalty as compared with the world in
general, and to throw light upon the old question of relative
importance of environment and heredity. 104 portraits illustrate the
text.
* * * * *
“The author has done his work with skill and good judgment and his
book will be specially profitable for reproof and instruction to
political doctrinaires of every school.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 110. O. ’06. 800w.
“In arrangement and presentation the author has been very successful.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 180. Jl. ’06. 380w.
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
=Atlan.= 98: 423. S. ’06. 450w.
“It would be easy to show the flaws in his system by which such
extreme conclusions as his would be weakened.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 480. My. ’06. 290w.
“Dr. Woods rarely goes much beyond the statistical warrant of his
evidence, and has at all events presented his case more strongly and
more judicially, as well as scientifically, than any other
contribution to this particular problem.”
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 299. My. 1, ’06. 430w.
“There will be certain objections made by specialists to both the
methods of measurement and the inferences of Dr. Woods. But every one
should admire his zeal and fairmindedness and appreciate the
importance of the investigation.”
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 1103. My. 10, ’06. 580w.
“The choice of materials is singularly fortunate, and the method of
treatment as far as possible fair and impersonal.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 308. Ap. 12. ’06. 1240w.
“The book would be the better for a good index.” I.
+ + – =Nature.= 74: 97. My. 31, ’06. 1230w.
“The volume is well planned and well worked out.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 143. Mr. 10, ’06. 840w.
“Is a work of the first class in its department of research.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 763. Mr. 31, ’06. 340w.
=Pub. Opin.= 40: 480. Ap. 14, ’06. 80w.
“Dr. Woods’s work is an important contribution to psychology and a
most admirable lesson to show that history may become a natural
science.” Edward L. Thorndike.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 23: 693. My. 4, ’06. 840w.
“Dr. Woods cannot be said to have produced a very readable book. The
pageant of Regality is lost in mathematical formulae, in ‘grading by
intellect’, and ‘in grading by virtue.’”
+ – =Spec.= 97: sup. 652. N. 3, ’06. 2170w.
=Woods, Margaret Louisa.= King’s revoke: an episode in the life of
Patrick Dillon. †$1.50. Dutton.
“Patrick Dillon, Irishman as he was, served the King of Spain de jure
during the usurpation of Joseph Bonaparte. Dillon, in combination with
others and with the co-operation of England, designed to rescue
Ferdinand VII. from his prison in Valencay, and this is the story of
their failure. They failed because of the incredible cowardice of the
King, who to curry favor with Napoleon, denounced his own
partisans.... The story abounds with episode, and is a very taking
piece of intrigue and adventure.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Woods has evidently taken the greatest pains to draw a true
picture of Ferdinand, the last of those old-world Spanish monarchs.”
+ =Acad.= 69: 1229. N. 25, ’05. 510w.
“It is, for all that, a sound, painstaking piece of work, deserving of
high praise.”
+ =Ath.= 1905. 2: 793. D. 9. 320w.
“We expect work of very high character from Mrs. Margaret Woods, and
‘The king’s revoke’ does not disappoint us.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 41: 241. O. 16, ’06. 280w.
+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 407. N. 24, ’05. 350w.
“If the narrative paragraphs move ponderously, honorable amends are
made in the ingenious conversation.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 188. Ag. 30, ’06. 240w.
“She has written a well-considered, carefully wrought novel, but alas,
it is undeniably heavy, and among its many good features intrudes the
unalluring one of skipability.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 471. Jl. 28. ’06. 190w.
“The theme strikes us as of too rough-and-tumble a character for Mrs.
Woods’ delicate talent. The workmanship is skilful, but smugglers,
brigands, and the like are a little beyond her control, though the
several women of the drama are excellent. As a novel of incident, ‘The
king’s revoke’ falls below ‘Sons of the sword.’”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 22. Ja. 6, ’06. 220w.
“In spite, therefore, of sundry misprints and a frequently faulty
punctuation, the book is a delight to read for the charm of its
characterisation, for its fine historic sense of the glory and
weakness of Spain, and for a genuine distinction of style unsurpassed
by contemporary writers of this class of fiction.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 1129. D. 30, ’05. 630w.
=Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey (Susan Coolidge, pseud.).= Last verses; with an
introd. by her sister, Mrs. Daniel C. Gilman. *$1. Little.
Mrs. Gilman has collected her sister’s poems which had not appeared in
book form and has added some hitherto unpublished in magazines,
prefacing the volume with a short sketch of Susan Coolidge’s life and
literary work. It is uniform with “Verses” and “More Verses” by the
same author.
* * * * *
“The easily-won, temperamental optimism, the gentle if somewhat thin
piety, which marked the poetic work of Susan Coolidge and won many
readers, is the most notable trait in her ‘Last verses.’”
+ =Nation.= 83: 395. N. 8, ’06. 300w.
=Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey (Susan Coolidge, pseud.).= Sheaf of stories;
il. by J. W. F. Kennedy. †$1.25. Little.
The author who delighted the children of the past generation with her
“What Katy did,” “What Katy did at school” and other stories, offers
here twelve sketches of child character which teach happy, wholesome,
livable lessons.
* * * * *
“Full of the habitual good sense and good English of that lamented
writer.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’08. 20w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 533. O. 27, ’06. 50w.
=Woolson, Grace A.= Ferns and how to grow them. **$1. Doubleday.
The second volume in the “Garden Library.” It is a practical cultural
guide to fern-growing with a definite botanical atmosphere.
* * * * *
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 575. Mr. 8, ’06. 230w.
“The volume is practical without being dull.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 406. Je. 23, ’06. 430w.
=Wordsworth, William.= Literary criticism; ed. with an introd. by Nowell
C. Smith. *90c. Oxford.
A volume which “contains all of his prose writings of a critical
nature, his prefaces, his essays upon epitaphs, certain familiar
letters touching on literary matters, and his ‘opinions expressed in
conversation with his nephew and biographer.’” (Nation.)
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 70: 29. Ja. 15, ’06. 1570w.
“Admirably lucid introduction.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 326. Mr. 17. 570w.
=Lond. Times.= 5: 110. Mr. 30, ’06. 900w.
“The selections are interesting, as showing a subtlety as well as a
shrewdness of critical faculty. Read consecutively, they convey a
peculiar impression of independence, fresh air, and wholesomeness.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 74. Ja. 25, ’06. 80w.
“Of the two dozen pieces of which the volume is made up there is not
one that is not worth reading by interested students of the subject,
which, in various phases, is always essentially the same—that of
literary and specifically of poetical criticism, and no other readers
are likely to be attracted by the volume.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 29. Ja. 20, ’06. 670w.
“Mr. Nowell Smith has collected from the prefaces and appendices to
Wordsworth’s poems a good deal of interesting critical matter.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 852. D. 30, ’05. 200w.
=Wordsworth, William.= Poems and extracts; chosen by W. Wordsworth for
an album presented to Lady Mary Lowther. Christmas, 1819; printed
literally from the original album with facsimiles. *90c. Oxford.
The contributors to this album are Anne, Countess of Winchelsea, and
about twenty-three other poets ranging from Webster to William Mickle,
and from Shakespeare to Lætitia Pilkington.
* * * * *
“Lovers of Wordsworth all the world over must be grateful to Mr. John
Rogers Rees for his generosity in sharing with them this long-hidden
treasure, and to Prof. Littledale for enriching the gift with his
scholarly introduction and accurate notes.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 325. Mr. 17, 990w.
“Diverse as the sources are, the poems are homogeneous in a certain
intensity of moral inspiration: and in their choice and arrangement a
very sensitive taste is displayed.”
– =Nation.= 82: 74. Ja. 25, ’06. 120w.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 29. Ja. 20, ’06. 510w.
=Wright, Carroll Davidson.= Battles of labor: being the William Levi
Bull lectures for the year 1906. **$1. Jacobs.
Four lectures which show that industrial, social and political
problems can be met only with a new application of religion, a new
political economy “which looks first ‘to the care and culture of
men,’” and with Drummond’s “other selfishness.” The lectures are The
background, In mediæval and modern industry, Great modern battles, and
How modern battles of labor are treated.
* * * * *
“Interesting and well worth reading.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 55: 675. Je. 14, ’06. 180w.
“The chief merit of these four lectures is that accuracy, especially
in statistical presentation, which Mr. Wright always attains. But they
contain nothing new either in fact or philosophy.”
+ =Ind.= 51: 758. S. 27, ’06. 330w.
“‘Battles of labor’ gives evidence, not of scientific research
extended, but rather of fulness of experience, reminiscence, and
common knowledge regarding labor troubles of all times.” J. C.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 577. N. ’06. 360w.
“The style of the book is colloquial, for reasons sufficiently
indicated above, and it conveys not a little information to the credit
of the recent generations which have ameliorated the condition of
labor.” Edward A. Bradford.
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 505. Ag. 18, ’06. 1120w.
+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 89. S. 8, ’06. 480w.
– =R. of Rs.= 34: 383. S. ’06. 90w.
=Wright, Mabel Osgood. (Mrs. James Osborne Wright) (Barbara, pseud.).=
The Garden, you and I. †$1.50. Macmillan.
The reappearance of some of the most delightful members of Mrs.
Wright’s gardening fraternity gives an old-friend atmosphere to her
new book. The story is mainly in the form of letters. “The purpose of
the correspondence is to afford opportunity for the experienced
Barbara to give of her more abundant knowledge to Mary Penrose, who
with her husband is having a ‘garden vacation,’ camping in an old open
barn in their own grounds.... A thread of romance runs through the
letters, and the same spirit of sympathy with nature that has informed
the writer’s other volumes is evident in the present one. For the sake
of the garden-lover who reads to learn, it should be said that there
are several excellent and suggestive lists of perennials, annuals, and
roses, with explanatory notes: but there is no index.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“A book from Mrs. Wright’s pen is always welcome, for her really
reliable information about gardens is sure to be interwoven with the
thread of a story which, however slight, has both interest and charm.”
Mary K. Ford.
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 631. Ag. ’06. 770w.
“Somewhat is lacking of the freshness and spontaneity of Barbara’s
first appearance.”
+ – =Dial.= 41: 70. Ag. 1, ’06. 500w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 1379. Je. 7, ’06. 100w.
“Her book is an intensely practical one.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 357. S. 15, ’06. 260w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 389. Je. 16, ’06. 1770w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 110. O. ’06. 340w.
“Those who read Barbara’s earlier book and perhaps wished for more
specific guidance on many subjects should not fall to consult this new
and attractive epitome of garden knowledge.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 127. Jl. ’06. 90w.
“We have also quiet humor in the way of putting things, and some
pleasant sketches of character.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 337. S. 15, ’06. 210w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 99. Jl. 21, ’06. 70w.
=Wright, Mary Tappan (Mrs. John Henry Wright).= Tower: a novel. †$1.50.
Scribner.
In her story of the faculty side of college life, Mrs. Wright presents
a “masterful president and bishop, several young professors, a few
pathetically overworked and underpaid old ones with their wives,
children and personal friends.” (Ind.) Eighteen years separate Silvia
Langdon, the bishop’s daughter and her lover who parted without
pledging of vows. Upon his return to the faculty temporarily he finds
her “young and fascinating” at thirty-eight. There is a pathetic side
to the renewed love-making which, however, ends triumphantly.
* * * * *
“There is obvious merit in ‘The tower’, but its plot is extremely
slight, and lacks movement and interest.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906. 1: 695. Je. 9. 130w.
“In these final pages Mrs. Wright has cleared herself of the charge of
being incapable of creating real human beings.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 628. Ag. ’06. 1080w.
“There is plenty of clever characterization in the book, and the
people are sufficiently differentiated to be interesting. They
invariably talk well.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 1223. My. 24. ’06. 390w.
“The author has somewhat of the insight and delicacy of touch that
might have turned out a bit of Cranford-like description of the
dullness and narrowness of faculty life in a small college town; but
the many pages of uninteresting detail and conversation rob the book
of real charm.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 286. My. 5, ’06. 500w.
“If the characters were only a little more real and the motives for
their action a little more obvious, the book would be something to be
reckoned with.”
– =World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 110w.
=Wright, Thomas.= Life of Sir Richard Burton. 2v. *$6.50. Putnam.
“The life of Sir Richard Burton leaves the reader in a kind of a
stupor; the record is almost incredibly romantic. He was a soldier, a
traveler, an explorer, a linguist, an anthropologist an ethnologist,
an official. His published works extend to over a hundred volumes. He
was a kind of amiable demon; he was a born romancer and boaster, a
superstitious atheist; he thanked God that he had committed every sin
in the Decalogue, and there seems to be little reason to doubt it; yet
he was tender-hearted, loyal, a philanthropist, a devoted friend, a
lover of liberty.... As for Mr. Thomas Wright’s book it does more
credit to his industry than his literary skill. He has worked in the
Boswellian manner, and has amassed a rich harvest of detail, anecdotes
and gossip.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 70: 277. Mr. 24, ’06. 2290w.
+ =Acad.= 70: 303. Mr. 31, ’06. 1120w.
“Mr. Wright’s ideas of taste differ so widely from our own that we
cannot view his work with pleasure.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 1: 420. Ap. 7. 210w.
=Current Literature.= 41: 638. D. ’06. 860w.
“Self-confidence and self-praise, notwithstanding, the author has
turned out a creditable piece of book-making.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 29. Jl. 16, ’06. 1870w.
“He is so incredibly rude to Sir Richard and Lady Burton that one
wonders why he should have concerned himself at all with persons of
whom he has, in spite of intermittent adulation, so bad an opinion.”
– – =Ind.= 61: 98. Jl. 12, ’06. 880w.
“The most interesting and by far the best done part of the present
‘Life’ is concerned with Burton’s work as a translator.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 82. Mr. 9, ’06. 3090w.
“Of all the five preceding books about Burton, its only real rival is
that of Mr. Wilkins, which dealt with Burton only indirectly.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 205. S. 6, ’06. 2380w.
“Mr. Wright has ... achieved an extremely well-balanced, candid, and
fully detailed biography of Burton, just in its estimate alike of the
man and his works and leaving us finally with a strong and vivid
impression of that extraordinary character and a definite idea of his
remarkable adventures.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 408. Je. 23, ’06. 2310w.
“The present biography, while everywhere interesting and certainly
good, is assuredly not supremely good. The author writes well, in an
easy, racy, idiomatic, and humorously allusive style, that makes the
book extremely good reading.” Horatio S. Krans.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 84. S. 8, ’06. 2580w.
“Would be very useful to anyone who undertook to write a life of
Burton; but there is no attempt at portraiture, and no artistic
selection of material.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 429. Ap. 7, ’06. 1690w.
“His manner is always that of the curiosity hunter, to whom Burton is
primarily material for anecdotes.”
– + =Spec.= 96: 833. My. 26, ’06. 1520w.
=Wright, William Burnet.= Cities of Paul: beacons of the past rekindled
for the present. **$1.10. Houghton.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 414. Mr. ’06. 160w.
“The reader may learn something from Mr. Wright, who sees many things
in the books which he studies—sometimes more than there really are—and
has a way of putting them forcibly.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 677. Ap. 28, ’06. 250w.
=Wylie, Edna Edwards.= Ward of the sewing-circle. †$1. Little.
“This is no book for grown-ups, who have lost the ability to get the
child’s point of view, for herein lies its real charm.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1541. D. 28, ’05. 350w.
=Wyllie, William Lionel.= J. M. W. Turner. $3. Macmillan.
“This volume is illustrated in tint and color, with reproductions of
most of Turner’s well-known paintings. The author has tried, he says,
to look at Turner’s life and work from a non-literary point of view,
‘as they appear to a fellow-painter traveling, however remotely, along
the same road.’”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“An artist’s history of an artist’s life and work, which is
interesting and informing on every page.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 617. Je. 30, ’06. 310w.
“Mr. Wyllie’s style is somewhat crude, and there may be even an
occasional lapse in grammar, but he succeeds in sketching graphically
the course of Turner’s artistic development.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 817. O. 4, ’06. 280w.
“Marked throughout by the insight of true sympathy. The numerous
illustrations form a very practical commentary on the fascinating
text.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 28: 277. My. ’06. 70w.
“The book as a whole is rambling, ill-constructed, and inconsequent.”
– =Nation.= 81: 500. D. 21, ’05. 210w.
“However sympathetic Mr. Wyllie’s attitude, he may well envy the
literary man’s style.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 94. Ja. 13, ’06. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 70w.
=Wyllie, William Lionel, and Wyllie, M. A.= London to the Nore; painted
and described by W. L. and M. A. Wyllie. *$6. Macmillan.
“The narrative seems to have been written for the most part ‘on the
spot,’ and it is no injustice to say that it smells very little of the
lamp. There is, of course, a considerable historical spice. After all
the pictures are the thing.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 335. Mr. 17. 520w.
Y
=Young, Alexander Bell Filson.= Sands of pleasure. †$1.50. Estes.
A young engineer is the hero of this tale, busy in the first part with
constructing a light house on the Cornish coast. The scene shifts to
Paris when the reaction after work is of the pleasure seeking sort and
deadly. The third part of the book presents the hero back from the
scene of infatuations hard at work, effacing stains and memories.
* * * * *
“He is a photographer, not a painter, and his photographs will be
merely unpleasant to some of his readers and frankly disappointing to
others.”
– =Acad.= 69: 1263. D. 2, ’05. 430w.
“Mr. Filson Young has a better sense of style than sense of life. His
work bears the hallmark of youth and inexperience.”
– =Ath.= 1905, 2: 794. D. 9. 330w.
“A book that from first to last is stamped by a rare sanity and subtle
wisdom. The scene of their dramatic parting and its petty, sordid
cause is ... one of those little miracles of intuition which are the
hallmarks of genius.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + – =Bookm.= 34: 385. D. ’06. 710w.
“It is not a book for the young to read, but it is one that will work
no harm to mature and balanced minds.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 41: 241. O. 16, ’06. 340w.
“In our opinion, his book—lacking any moral idea or the forcible
enunciation of any moral idea—is by no means suitable for mixed
reading, and should be kept strictly to adults.”
– =Lond. Times.= 4: 421. D. 1, 05. 560w.
“All through the book there is somehow a sense of strain, of tension,
as if the author were trying to materialise some inspiration that kept
ever evading him. Some of the descriptions are excellent and the book
abounds in happy phrases. But the final impression is disappointment.”
– + =Sat. R.= 101: 22. Ja. 6, ’06. 1000w.
=Young, Egerton Ryerson.= Hector my dog. $1.50. Wilde.
“Is that rare thing, a book about dogs with which even those who love
and understand dog nature will find no fault.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 17. Ja. 13, ’06. 630w.
=Yulee, C. Wickliffe.= Awakening: a Washington novel. $1.25. Neale.
Here is a picture of Washington projected on a screen, with the
city,—its ideals, its types, and its institutions,—as a background.
Well to the fore are the intrigues, political and social, which are
intended to prevent the Honorable Arthur Montresor from securing a
charming American wife whose “character had that froufrou which is
inevitable with gay vivacity or fashion, but about which there was
nothing tawdry—it was as graceful and refined as some exquisite lace.”
* * * * *
+ =Critic.= 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 60w.
“The local color of the Capital of a few years ago is well given.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 336. My. 26, ’06. 210w.
Z
=Zacher, Albert.= Rome as an art city. *$1. Scribner.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 927. D. 30, ’05. 90w.
=Zedtwitz, Baroness von.= Double doctrine of the church of Rome. 35c.
Revell.
The author has prepared this repudiation of the two-fold system of the
Romish church with a view of proclaiming her final renunciation of
papacy.
* * * * *
=Arena.= 36: 442. O. ’06. 1430w.
=Ind.= 60: 1227. My. 24, ’06. 100w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 765. Je. ’06. 110w.
=Ziémssen, Ludwig.= Johann Sebastian Bach; tr. from the German by George
P. Upton. *60c. McClurg.
“While it is in the main accurate as to the facts it is not entirely
so.” Richard Aldrich.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 336. My. 26, ’06. 230w.
=Zilliacus, Konni.= Russian revolutionary movement: a history of the
various uprisings from the beginning. *$2.50. Dutton.
“With the exception of occasional slips, very few in number, the
translation is entirely adequate.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 411. My. 17, ’06. 2840w.
“M. Zilliacus merely repeats what has already been given in some dozen
books during the last few months. The one merit of the book is the
author’s confession of bias.”
– =Sat. R.= 100: 219. Ag. 12, ’05. 140w.
=Zimmern, Alice.= Old tales from Rome. †$1.25. McClurg.
A three part story book whose tales are founded upon legends and
fables of Rome as related by Virgil. Part I. gives the story of Aeneas
and his comrades from the fall of Troy to the founding of Lavinium;
part II. carries the date thru the early years of Rome to the period
when fable is merged in history; part III. consists of a group of
stories partly Italian in origin, partly Greek, yet “essentially are
Latin in spirit and treatment.”
* * * * *
+ =Critic.= 49: 96. Jl. ’06. 100w.
=Dial.= 40: 302. My. 1, ’06. 50w.
“The author would have done better, we think, to have kept her book
free from any dependence upon the previous reading of her ‘Old tales
from Greece.’”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 365. My. 3, ’06. 170w.
“If a comparison were to be made between Alice Zimmern and other
authors who have been moved to do similar things, it is that the
former is conspicuous for the tactful respect she pays juvenile
intelligence.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 341. My. 26, ’06. 330w.
“It would not be easy to conceive of a better or more gracefully
written book of the kind, which is in every respect an admirable
companion volume to ‘Tales of old Greece.’”
+ + =Spec.= 95: sup. 907. D. 2, ’05. 90w.
=Zueblin, Charles.= Decade of civic development. *$1.25. Univ. of
Chicago press.
A sketch of the “civic renascence” in America “is not merely a
chronicle of civic development for the last decade. Its tone is
hortatory and also prophetic.” (School R.) Under the following chapter
headings, there is material for teachers to use in awakening the
“civic consciousness” in pupils: The new civic spirit, The training of
the citizen, The making of the city, “The White city” and after,
Metropolitan Boston, Greater New York, The Harrisburg plan,
Washington, old and new, The return to nature.
* * * * *
“The well-founded optimism of the book, the attractive record of fact,
the revelation of correlation and co-ordination, and the fascinating
glimpses of realizable possibility give this little volume a place of
unusual value.” E. G. Routzahn.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 188. Jl. ’06. 290w.
“The book is optimistic in tone, and is well worth the perusal of
those who have bewailed the failure of American municipal government.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 424. Mr. ’06. 110w.
“Refreshingly interesting.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 200. Mr. 16, ’06. 370w.
“In mechanical execution and in subject-matter the book is exceedingly
attractive. It is a book for the student of society, the teacher, and
the general reader.” Nathaniel Butler.
+ + =School R.= 14: 67. Ja. ’06. 370w.
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
1. P. 32, changed “experiences in contain” to “experiences and
contain”.
2. P. 79, changed “Socialpolitik” to “Sozialpolitik”.
3. P. 120, “The style is excellent, the spirit earnest, the” was
truncated in source.
4. P. 138, “This is a compilation of explicit and prac-” was truncated
in source.
5. P. 183, “criticism of three current conceptions of” was truncated in
source.
6. P. 243, changed “Instituto Italiano d’arts grafichi” to “Istituto
Italiano d’arts grafiche”.
7. P. 253, “to Cardinal Newman, with his re-” was truncated in source.
8. P. 332, “day for him against the deep treachery that a” was
truncated in source.
9. 336, “and fascinating—he gives a most at-” was truncated in source.
10. Table of Contents added by transcriber.
11. Please note that the publisher split hyphenated surnames. The
portion after the hyphen was listed before the forename. The
portion before the split was listed after the forenames with a
hyphen. E.g. E. Burton-Brown was listed as =Brown, E. Burton-.=
12. Removed the bold markup from book titles with no author listed. This
is to be consistent with book titles with authors listed. Also the
publisher was inconsistent in the book title markup—usually only
the first word but sometimes the entire title.
13. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
14. Retained anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as
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15. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.
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