of their own and it is written in that pleasant, tranquil narrative
style which is destined to flourish and charm long after the present
morbid and neurotic school shall have disappeared.” Mary K. Ford.
− + =Bookm.= 26: 278. N. ’07. 600w.
“He has the credit of elaborating what is probably a new situation in
the old triangular plot, and earns gratitude thereby, even if the
characters, especially the actress and the journalist, suggest only
the properties of his art.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 118. Ap. 12, ’07. 300w.
“No doubt the action turns upon sentiment; but, as readers of the ‘The
hill’ well recall, Mr. Vachell’s sentiment is not of the watery kind.
It consorts very well with sensible thinking and a plain and sturdy
way of speech.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 420w.
“Is an unusual novel and will be deeply relished by those who think
and feel. There is enough of a problem in it to arouse warm
discussion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 644. O. 19. ’07. 670w.
“A highly dramatic and human story by one of the five best writers in
England.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
“The book goes beneath the surface in its study of motive and
character and although it sometimes touches on delicate ground, it
holds up a high standard of honor, faithfulness, and nobility of
purpose.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 80w.
“We readily admit that the novel is well written, that the dialogue is
bright, and the narrative well handled. But viewed as a whole the
story stands or falls with the character of Dorothy Fairfax ... and we
fear that a good many readers, instead of regarding her, with Lady
Curragh, as ‘a heavenly fool,’ will be tempted to pronounce her an
unearthly idiot.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 721. My. 4, ’07. 1000w.
=Vambery, Arminius.= Western culture in eastern lands: a comparison of
the methods adopted by England and Russia in the Middle East. *$3.50.
Dutton.
6–25742.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“However frequently one may be disposed to take issue with Prof.
Vambéry in his assumptions and conclusions, the scholarly merits of
his work must be recognized at every turn. He occasionally falls into
a panegyrical strain which is ill advised.... But these lapses are not
frequent, and they probably flow from the author’s vivacity of style
rather than from any inherent faults in his thought.” Frederic Austin
Ogg.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 309. My. 16, ’07. 2400w.
* =Vance, Rev. James Isaac.= Eternal in man. **$1. Revell.
7–13923.
An appeal to higher living based on the conviction that man is a
citizen of the eternal world.
* * * * *
“A vigorous and rhetorically effective appeal to higher living.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 716. O. ’07. 20w.
“Such regrettable extravagance, akin to the ‘mother of God’ doctrine
of the fourth century, is offset, but not atoned for, by many an
excellent statement of moral and religious verities.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 838. Ag. 17, ’07. 150w.
=Vance, Louis Joseph.= Brass bowl. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–12274.
A charming young New York girl who assumes the role of a burglar for
the purpose of securing papers that will bring comfort to a grief
stricken father; a real burglar, as dangerous as he is clever; and a
young millionaire who is an exact counterpart of the burglar are the
chief actors in this drama, whose exciting situations grow out of the
resemblance of the two men.
* * * * *
“A more amusing and ingenious ‘shocker’ than this we have seldom read.
Can be recommended for railway journeys and for all who wish to be
amused without being made to think; incidentally it gives interesting
glimpses into American life.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 193. N. 30, ’07. 220w.
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 137. My. ’07.
“Will hold the breathless interest of the reader who is seeking only
to be amused, as the action is rapid and the dialogue well written.”
Amy C. Rich.
+ − =Arena.= 38: 217. Ag. ’07. 150w.
“A reader may protest, may resent the undue strain upon his sense of
probability, but he will be tolerably sure to follow the story to its
end.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 229. Ap. 6, ’07. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 280w.
=Vanderlip, Frank Arthur.= Business and education. **$1.50. Duffield.
7–17640.
A collection of Mr. Vanderlip’s addresses and speeches dealing
authoritatively with financial, industrial and educational questions.
The author is vice-president of the National city bank, New York, and
writes out of the fulness of a long commercial experience, made
valuable by a broad knowledge of his fellow-man and a soundness of
business judgment.
* * * * *
Reviewed by J. C.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 440. Jl. ’07. 470w.
“We would not gainsay the right of successful business men to their
literary diversions, but will venture the delicate suggestion that not
every article contributed to popular magazines needs to be reproduced
in more permanent form.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 21. Jl. 4, ’07. 240w.
“Mr. Vanderlip’s book is a good qualification for his doctorate in
finance.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 316. My. 18, ’07. 1250w.
“Mr. Vanderlip’s conclusions are well thought out and clearly stated.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 758. Je. ’07. 160w.
* =Van Dresser, Mrs. Jesmine Stone.= How to find Happyland: a book of
children’s stories. il. **$2. Putnam.
7–16944.
A book of fairy tales written by a mother for her son.
* * * * *
“Charmingly written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12. ’07. 70w.
“A pretty wholesome fairy book, sufficiently mysterious to awaken
interest in the children, yet very gracefully written, and having nice
little morals tucked craftily away within its pages. The writer has
the true gift of story-telling for little folks, and the pictures by
Florence E. Storer quite suit the text.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 60w.
=Van Dyke, Henry.= Americanism of Washington. 50c. Harper.
6–34847.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Dr. van Dyke’s practised and graceful pen has made a book by no means
without literary charm. If, from the literary point of view, one were
to criticise this volume, such criticism would surely involve a
discounting of the effectiveness of the peroration, which is more
smoke than flame, and never rises beyond the mere rhetoric of
patriotism and moral enthusiasm.” Horatio S. Krans.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 110. Ap. ’07. 720w.
=Van Dyke, Henry.= Battle of life. **30c. Crowell.
7–20955.
This sermon, preached from the text, “Overcome evil with good” appears
uniform with the “What is worth while series.”
=Van Dyke, Henry.= Days off, and other digressions. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–33932.
Uniform with “Fisherman’s luck” and “Little rivers.” The “days off”
are “more or less occupied with fishing, with now and then a bit of
hunting, one long drive over the glorious English roads among the
Quantock hills, one woodland excursion between the lupin and the
laurel with no record of killing, and one or two chats on bookish
subjects.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Van Dyke writes of these jaunts with a taking measure of
fancifulness, and a flavour of bookishness which is agreeably
elusive.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 687. N. 30. 130w.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 380. D. 1, ’07. 250w.
“It is mighty pleasant to take a ‘day off’ with the parson.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14. ’07. 70w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 762. N. 2, ’07. 260w.
“One does not need to read far in ‘Days off’ before he comes upon the
secret of its vitality and interest; it is revealed in a phrase—‘no
vacation is perfect without a holiday in it.’”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 765. D. 7, ’07. 720w.
“Altogether, this is a readable book, but it would have been more
prudent not to invite, as on p. 37, a comparison with Charles Lamb.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 874. N. 30, ’07. 120w.
=Van Dyke, Henry.= Good old way. **30c. Crowell.
7–20954.
An addition to the “What is worth while series.” The good old way is
the path of faith and duty which runs amid the tangle of sensuality,
avarice, social ambition, intellectual pride, moral indifference,
hypocrisy and indecision.
* =Van Dyke, Henry.= Music lover. **$1. Moffat.
7–35629.
“Dr. van Dyke describes the emotions of the true lover of music, as he
sits in his chosen place and hears a great orchestra render a great
symphony. Generous margins appropriately decorated in color, and a
colored frontispiece by Sigismund de Ivanowski, whose work has lately
attracted much attention, are the decorative features.”—Dial.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 43: 431. D. 16, ’07. 90w.
“A beautiful prose poem.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
* =Van Dyke, Henry.= Story of the other wise man. $5. Harper.
A special holiday edition containing a new preface by the author. “He
tells us that he had studied and loved the curious tales of the three
wise men of the East as told in the Golden legend of Jacobus de
Voragine and other mediæval books; but of the fourth wise man he had
never heard until the long, lonely night when the story came to him.”
(Outlook.)
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 647. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
“Particularly well printed and illustrated.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 619. N. 23, ’07. 120w.
=Van Dyke, John Charles.= Opal sea. *$1.25. Scribner.
6–8871.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Since Ruskin no more charming guide to the beauties of nature has put
himself at our disposition than Professor Van Dyke.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 408. Je. ’07. 400w.
=Van Dyke, John C.= Studies in pictures: an introduction to the famous
galleries. **$1.25. Scribner.
7–9576.
The service which Mr. Van Dyke renders is that of aiding the student
of painting in seeing truly, comprehending adequately, and judging
justly. There are ten chapters as follows: Old masters out of place;
Pictures ruined, restored and repainted; False attributions, copies,
forgeries; Themes of the masters; Workmanship of the old masters;
Figure painting; Portrait painting; Genre painting; The animal in art;
Landscape and painting.
* * * * *
“To his credit be it said he is never irrelevant, he relates
historical facts which have bearings on certain cases, he makes
suggestive comparisons, but ultimately when he wishes to explain
beauty of a certain piece of drawing, of a harmony of color, or of a
composition of masses, he perforce refers his reader to the picture
itself.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 726. Jl. 27, ’07. 930w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 132. My. ’07. S.
+ =Dial.= 43: 95. Ag. 16, ’07. 250w.
“Professor Van Dyke is a helpful cicerone, for he does not overpower
the reader with his theories, or force upon him his tastes, or crush
him with the weight of his learning, but talks clearly and sensibly
about what pictures are painted for and how we can get the most out of
them.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 736. Mr. 28, ’07. 230w.
“The passenger who expects to take a look at the famous galleries will
take a far more sensible, comprehending look if he has scanned these
brief, chatty pages; the passenger who, picking up a friend’s copy,
had planned to waste no time poking about under European skylights
will probably conceive some curiosity for the art treasures abroad.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 31: sup. 52. Ap. ’07. 440w.
“Mr. Van Dyke is a most trustworthy guide, who knows what he is
talking about, with a knowledge rare indeed even amongst those who
enjoy a great reputation as critics.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 32: 252. S. ’07. 150w.
“Not only useful to the unsophisticated, to whom it is admirably
adapted, but valuable to those who have a tendency to lose themselves
in technicalities. The treatment is popular, almost casual [and] is
based on a sympathetic attitude toward ignorance, which is rare in the
writing of a specialist and a mark of mental breadth.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 300. My. 11, ’07. 940w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 280w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 383. S. ’07. 50w.
“Is just the kind of work that is wanted to put the uninstructed lover
of pictures on the right track.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 1007. Je. 29, ’07. 250w.
=Van Eps, Frank S., and Van Eps, Marion B.= Rejoice always: or,
Happiness is for you. $1. Frank S. Van Eps, 144 W. 123 st., N. Y.
7–514.
A little book which preaches the gospel of happiness, sets forth its
value and explains how it may be attained. Its chapter headings show
its scope and trend of argument; Rejoice, The consciousness of God, No
anxiety, Prayer and supplication, Thanksgiving, and The peace of God.
* * * * *
“Very optimistic little book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 80w.
“Its fundamental positions are true psychologically and ethically, as
well as in the mystical religious life. It may be heartily commended
to all who would reach the high levels of ‘the life that is life
indeed,’ where no cloud or storm is that the sun does not quickly
dissipate.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 45. Ja. 5, ’07. 80w.
=Van Norden, Charles.= Yoland of Idle Isle. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–29008.
Idle isle is one of the Bermudas whither a New England college
president and his granddaughter go to live in seclusion. The
adventures that befall the heroine who is being reared away from the
wicked world and the madding crowds suggest those of Miranda before
Ferdinand awakens her.
* * * * *
“The one extraordinary thing in the book is the language in which its
characters converse and soliloquize. It is surely the strongest
mixture of grandiloquence and nonsense ever put down in sober print
and attributed to people in their right minds. He promises quite
plainly that there are further ‘annals yet to be written.’ It is to be
hoped that he will think better of it and continue his ‘leisure.’”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 564. S. 21, ’07. 900w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
=Van Norman, Louis Edwin.= Poland, the knight among nations; with an
introd. by Helena Modjeska. **$1.50. Revell.
7–32871.
“Because of his intimate relations with Poles of the best class, Mr.
Van Norman’s opportunities for studying both town and country life in
all sections of the tripartite kingdom were exceptional, and his
comments on Polish music and art, the national psychology and
political and social problems are well worth considering; but his
account of his pilgrimages to the scenes of Sienkewicz’s three great
historical novels, and his picture of the great interpreter of Poland
himself in his home among the Carpathian mountains are perhaps of the
greatest interest to readers of contemporary literature.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“If Madame Modjeska has briefly prepared the reader for much, Mr. Van
Norman has made himself admirably accessory after the fact, by telling
the whole story in a vivid, impressive and scholarly manner.” Dolores
Bacon.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 414. D. ’07. 590w.
“A sympathetic, first-hand study of a noble race of vigorous virtues
and lovable faults.” Arthur Guiterman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 632. O. 19, ’07. 1820w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“Mr. Van Norman has had unusual opportunities of studying Poland at
first hand, and his sympathies for the people are naturally keen, as
he married a Pole. On every page of the present volume we are
conscious of that knowledge and sympathy.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 747. N. 30, ’07. 640w.
“It is in the portrayal of modern Polish activities and
accomplishments that Mr. Van Norman’s book performs its most distinct
service.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 637. N. ’07. 270w.
=Van Sommer, Annie, and Zwemer, Samuel M.=, eds. Our Moslem sisters: a
cry of need from lands of darkness interpreted by those who heard it.
**$1.25. Revell.
7–16363.
“In this book is collected a mass of testimony and undoubted facts
that merely lift the edge of the sad truth as to the lives of women in
Mohammedan communities.... The universality and ease of divorce, the
absolute freedom of the husband, and the utter helplessness of the
wife, are revelations to many. A mere sentence, repeated three times,
is irrevocable, and the wife is cast out to a life of sorrow, shame,
and poverty very often.... Egypt, all Africa, Palestine, Turkey,
Bulgaria, Persia, India, Java, and all Malaysia are darkened by this
unholy revelation to Mohammed.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The conditions of women in Turkey, Arabia, Persia, Northern Africa,
India, and Southeastern Asia are described forcibly and clearly.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 301. Je. 8, ’07. 320w.
=Spec.= 99: 205. Ag. 10, ’07. 200w.
=Van Vorst, Bessie.= Letters to women in love. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–36049.
Four groups of advisory letters written to four American women
“occupying quite different places in the historical development of
love.” Mrs. Van Vorst “thinks that the thing which counts about a
woman more than anything else, from beginning to end, is her age.” She
spends half her life “not being old enough and the rest in being too
old.” And she tempers her advice accordingly. For example, “if a woman
is over thirty-eight she must have patience in dealing with the man
she loves; if she is less than twenty-five she may risk defiance in
order to bring him to terms.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“Few women will like the book, it is so pertinent, but most of them
over thirty years of age could profit by Mrs. Van Vorst’s suggestions
without injuring society.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 101. Ja. 10, ’07. 280w.
“There was abundant material here for the making of an interesting
book. Mrs. Van Vorst has done little with it beyond discovering its
possibilities. The cases she presents are not lacking in human
interest, but the deeper note is lacking.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 375. N. 1, ’06. 290w.
“Her conscientious efforts to be ‘guide, philosopher, and friend’
result admirably—in the book—but in real life we fear her
dissertations would be relegated to the same high shelf whither every
guide, philosopher, and friend has retired from time immemorial.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 583. N. 3, ’06. 90w.
=Van Vorst, Marie.= Amanda of the mill: a novel. †$1.50. Dodd.
5–8736.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 27. Ja. ’07.
=Van Vorst, Marie.= Sin of George Warrener. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–20363.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“As the excellent study of a thoroughly vain, vapid, and at the same
time utterly unscrupulous creature, Mrs. Warrener stands out
distinctly among this year’s novelistic figures. ‘The sin of George
Warrener’ is executed with distinguished artistic feeling.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 124. Ja. ’07. 240w.
=Vasari, Giorgio.= Stories of the Italian artists; collected and
arranged by E. L. Seeley. *$3. Dutton.
W 6–323.
A collection of extracts from Vasari’s monumental work dealing chiefly
with anecdote and biography, and designed evidently, for young
readers. The volume is illustrated with 25 half tone reproductions in
sepia and 8 colored plates.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 42: 318. My. 16, ’07. 320w.
“A digest of Vasari’s biographies, which is amply sufficient for
artist and critic and intensely interesting for the general lover of
Italian art history. The editor and translator manages the subject
with consummate skill. What is of notorious inaccuracy is deftly
suppressed, and what is of permanent value in the lives of the artists
or in the surroundings in which they worked is quite as skillfully
emphasized. The style, too, has a touch of the archaic, which while
everywhere intelligible, gives a charming illusion of antiquity.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 301. My. 11, ’07. 560w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 76. My. 11, ’07. 60w.
=Vaughan, Charles Edwyn.= Romantic revolt. (Periods of European
literature.) *$1.50. Scribner.
7–32815.
A monograph which treats of the rise and progress of the Romantic
revolt against classicism in Great Britain; of a group of German
writers, including Lessing, Herder, Kant, Schiller and Goethe; of the
romantic movement in France and Italy; and of the history of
romanticism in Spain, the Netherlands, the Slav countries,
Scandinavia, Bohemia, Poland and Russia.
* * * * *
=Acad.= 72: 181. F. 23, ’07. 1520w.
“The book is exceptionally readable.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 319. My. 16, ’07. 110w.
=Nation.= 85: 103. Ag. 1, ’07. 730w.
“It is unusual to find so large an amount of important literary
history and of sound literary criticism within the compass of a book
which may be read within a comparatively short time.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 261. Ap. 20, ’07. 440w.
=Vaughan, Herbert M.= Last of the royal Stuarts. 2d ed. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–28488.
“A footnote to history” which is conceded to be one of the most
interesting of recent contributions to the literature of Jacobitism.
“Henry Stuart was born in 1725, became a wealthy Cardinal-Bishop, had
to flee from Napoleon, accepted, in his need, a pension from George
III., and died in 1807.” (Lond. Times.) “A good account is given of
the cardinal’s place as an historical figure. Genius is not claimed
for him, but his piety, bounty, and kindness are pointed out, and the
author perhaps wisely omits to quote the ill-natured gossip of Henry
Swinburne.” (Eng. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“It is doubtful if any more interesting record of the life of the
Prince Cardinal has ever been produced.” W. F. Dennehy.
+ + =Am. Cath. Q.= 32: 1. Ja. ’07. 8000w.
“That the Duke scarcely deserved a biography is our opinion; while the
biography is written without much research, and with rather inadequate
references.”
− + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 471. O. 20. 1090w.
“The author has put together whatever is worth knowing about the
rather uneventful career of Henry IX.” A. F. S.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 201. Ja. ’07. 380w.
“Much good and careful work has gone into Mr. Vaughan’s history of the
Cardinal Duke of York, and the book is of value as rounding out the
literature of the Stuart family. The references in Mr. Vaughan’s
footnotes are curiously indefinite, and consequently lose much of
their value and usefulness.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 943. O. 17, ’07. 450w.
“A life of Cardinal York, though it could not be a work of great
historical import, was yet worth writing, and Mr. Vaughan has written
it well.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 320. S. 21, ’06. 1210w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 599. S. 29, ’06. 1210w. (Reprinted from
Lond. Times.)
“This life of the Cardinal Duke is one of the most interesting of
recent contributions to the literature of Jacobitism.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 286. Mr. 30, ’07. 430w.
“Interesting and carefully prepared book.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 327. S. 7, ’07. 1350w.
=Vaughan, Herbert Millingchamp.= The Naples Riviera. il. $2. Stokes.
W 7–197.
“Mr. Vaughan gives a generous interpretation to the Naples Riviera,
including the Islands of the Blessed that float in a pellucid
atmosphere in the enchanting bay. Everywhere he is resuscitating a
dead past, from Herculaneum submerged in volcanic mud, and Pompeii
long buried in a shroud of ashes, to Salerno of the once famous
medical schools, to Pæstum with the temples that were dilapidated when
S. Paul landed at Puteoli, and to Amalfi which was for a time supreme
at sea till the now moribund Pisa contested the supremacy.” (Sat. R.)
“The reader of these pages, therefore, will collect, with a minimum of
effort, a little history, a little folk-lore, a little biography, a
little literary reminiscence, and a little appreciation of the places
which interest him in these parts.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“‘The Naples Riviera’ is a paradise of colour. It is therefore an
ideal subject for a colour-book, and an artist so conspicuously clever
in seizing and reproducing an effect as Mr. Maurice Greiffenhagen
could be trusted to make the most of such an opportunity.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 573. My. 11. 380w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“This is an agreeable book upon a well-worn theme.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 732. N. 16, ’07. 110w.
“Altogether the book, though written with verve and sympathy, is
somewhat melancholy reading. We are disappointed in Mr.
Greiffenhagen’s drawings. They show evident traces of haste, and in
some is a sad lack of perspective.”
− + =Sat. R.= 103: 434. Ap. 6, ’07. 240w.
=Vedder, Henry Clay.= Balthasar Hubmaier. **$1.35. Putnam.
5–37146.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“If much of the material were relegated to foot-notes or appendixes,
the reader would feel more directly the charm, the tragedy and the
great significance of the career to which Dr. Vedder has devoted so
much sympathetic study.” William Walker Rockwell.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 364. Ja. ’07. 1160w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 1154. My. 16, ’07. 60w.
=Velvin, Ellen.= Behind the scenes with wild animals. **$2. Moffat.
6–40578.
“Interesting talks about the ways of animals, wild and tame, the
perils behind the scenes in animal shows, the curiosities of animal
life, the methods of animal trainers, and other kindred
topics.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 15. Ja. ’07. S.
“The disjointed way in which anecdote follows anecdote, and the lack
of coherence between chapters and parts of chapters leave in the
reader’s mind only a blur of disconnected facts. The single thing that
approaches lasting value is the list of various species of mammals
which have been bred in captivity.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 83. Ja. 24, ’07. 140w.
“She writes with animation and directness, and her narrative is
enlivened by many capital photographs.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 895. D. 8, ’06. 80w.
* =Velvin, Ellen.= Wild animal celebrities. **$1 Moffat.
7–31196.
Here are told the life stories of celebrated animals in which “the
author has sketched for us the events befalling the lions, bears, and
elephants, from their wild days to the time of their captivity; and
besides that, she has given us good insight into the dangers
encountered by the men who are responsible for the animals on
exhibition.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Such a book ought to be read by every one who visits collections of
wild animals.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1001. O. 24, ’07. 120w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 110w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 671. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 740. N. 16, ’07. 150w.
=Vernon, Ambrose White.= Religious value of the Old Testament in the
light of modern scholarship. **90c. Crowell.
7–10032.
A comparison of the earlier attitude toward the Old Testament with the
present view of modern scholarship. While in sympathy with the higher
criticism, the author holds to the belief that the Bible, every word
of it, is true, and that it is the inspired word.
* * * * *
“Those who agree with the author will thank him for setting forth what
they feel, with such eloquence. To those who are hesitating between
the older and newer views the book will make a strong appeal through
its spiritual earnestness and suggestiveness. But what will its effect
be upon those who love the old wine of the ‘Infallible word?’ To them
many of his epigrammatic expressions will appear irritating.” Kemper
Fullerton.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 666. O. ’07. 280w.
“The discussion is concise, clear, and interesting, and should be read
by every minister and Bible student.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 29: 399. My. ’07. 90w.
“Mr. Vernon ... has studied the problems of the Old Testament with
conscientious thoroness, with painstaking use of the best literature,
and with a singular faculty of discerning salient and significant
facts and assembling details into a consistent picture.”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 1032. My. 2, ’07. 1520w.
=Ind.= 63: 1235. N. 21, ’07. 70w.
“Professor Vernon writes with eagerness, with evident sincerity and
intensity of conviction, and there is a certain tension and activity
in his style, which, while it may not leave his sentences always
smooth, keeps one’s interest alert.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 549. Je. 13, ’07. 750w.
“The aim of this little book is so admirable and the spirit is so
praiseworthy that we regret to speak of it in criticism rather than in
commendation. But it appears to us to be inadequate in its treatment
of a theme where inadequacy is tantamount to error.”
− + =Outlook.= 86: 300. Je. 5, ’07. 340w.
=Vianney, Joseph.= Blessed John Vianney. (Saints ser.) *$1. Benziger.
“In the life of the Curé d’Ars we have a story of devotion and
self-sacrifice, of magic influence over others, of shrewd common-sense
and humour, so wonderful as to be almost past belief.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“A well-written and interesting sketch. It is clear, however, that the
narrative is not free from exaggeration.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 150. F. 9, ’07. 240w.
“The admirable life of the Curé of Ars, written by his nephew, has
been translated into English so idiomatic that one would scarcely
suspect that the version is not an original.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 84: 555. Ja. ’07. 230w.
=Sat. R.= 103: 212. F. 16, ’07. 230w.
=Spec.= 97: 580. O. 20, ’06. 170w.
=Victoria, queen of Great Britain.= Letters of Queen Victoria: a
selection from Her majesty’s correspondence between the years 1837 and
1861; ed. by Arthur C. Benson and Viscount Esher. 3v. **$15. Longmans.
7–36986.
While there is to be found political history in plenty in these
letters, they constitute, in the main, a document “whose chief
importance consists in revelation of character.... Even in her
prejudices the queen commands admiration, while proof appears on every
page of her innate rectitude; the masculine discernment which kept her
feminine susceptibilities under control, her knowledge of business,
which neither excused slackness nor pardoned obscurity, and her grasp
of detail are all emphasized.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The general editing is worthy of the documents which it elucidates,
though in the third volume Mr. Benson and Lord Esher lead their
readers into one or two blind alleys, whence foot-notes might have
extricated them.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 509. O. 26. 1820w.
“The care and skill shown in editing and annotating this great
quantity of miscellaneous matter are all that could be desired. Dr.
Eugene Oswald has done good work in translation.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 368. D. 1, ’07. 1870w.
“If it were not for the greatest interest that attaches to the
letters, their reading would be somewhat wearisome and would give
little enjoyment.”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 1366. D. 5, ’07. 1950w.
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 150w.
“There is, therefore, no use in denying that the interest of these
volumes lies rather in the substance than in form. They do not give us
quite the vivid and brilliant picture of the times, as they appeared
when seen from the Throne, which a ‘Life’ might and probably would
have given us. The book is, in fact, pre-eminently ‘a book for
students of political history;’ it is a mass of material for the
future historian of the reign.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 313. O. 18, ’07. 5420w.
“It is, accordingly, the public aspect of the Queen which alone can
give much interest to these volumes of her letters.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 422. N. 7, ’07. 1600w.
“It is absorbing as history; it is, if possible, more absorbing as a
revelation of the inner life of the great family of sovereigns.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 673. O. 26, ’07. 3320w.
“It is in reality a human document of unusual value.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 608. N. 23, ’07. 940w.
“Those who only know Queen Victoria’s gifts as a writer through her
Highland journals will be astonished when they read these volumes. To
say that the book is of absorbing interest does it scant justice, for
it is one of the great books of the century.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 36: 703. D. ’07. 2180w.
“Despite the suppressions, enough has been left in the correspondence
to render it not only interesting, but piquant and amusing. Mr. Benson
and Lord Esher have received very efficient assistance. The
introductory notes to the chapter, giving an historical summary of
each year, are models of compression and accuracy.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 514. O. 26, ’07. 1800w.
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 545. N. 2. ’07. 2370w.
“Besides providing an intimate portrait of the Queen’s mind, it gives
a fascinating picture of her times, and incidentally of the chief
figures of the Victorian epoch. In our opinion, not a little of the
success of the book—and from the historical and literary point of view
it is a very great success—is due to the fact that the documents are
as a rule quoted entire, and we are not put off with scrappy extracts
and excerpts from letters.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 611. O. 26, ’07. 2540w.
+ + =Spec.= 99: 667. N. 2, ’07. 3500w.
=Viereck, George Sylvester.= Game at love and other plays. †$1.25.
Brentano’s.
6–28417.
“A series of short prose dramatic studies.... Of the six subjects
treated, four are ... suggestive ... of a contempt for all the
restrictions which prevent human society from relapsing into barbaric
animalism.... The last two pieces, grouped under the single title,
‘The butterfly,’ are cast in the shape of the old moralities.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The volume is remarkable not only for its promise but also for its
accomplishment.”
+ =Bookm.= 25: 426. Je. ’07. 320w.
“They may be dismissed at once as naught.”
− =Ind.= 63: 158. Jl. 18, ’07. 550w.
“What Mr. Viereck may achieve in the future, if ever his rankly
luxuriant boyish fancies acquire the ballast of solid learning and
common sense, it would be hazardous to predict. At present, he is
devoting precious gifts to futile and unworthy ends.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 541. D. 20, ’06. 370w.
“It is this collection that has now come to us ... as the first
adequate representation in our tongue of a poet who has been compared
with Shelley and Keats and Swinburne, Baudelaire and Heine.” Wm.
Aspenwall Bradley.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 407. Je. 22, ’07. 920w.
“These little plays, cynically catching life at some unnatural angle,
as they do, and cleverly, even brilliantly, done as they are, scarcely
amount to a raison d’etre.” Richard Le Gallienne.
+ − =No. Am.= 184: 421. F. 15, ’07. 1060w.
“Quite evidently not the result of experience but due to a somewhat
decadent outlook upon life.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 253. F. ’07. 180w.
=Viereck, George Sylvester.= House of the vampire. †$1.25. Moffat.
7–28969.
“His vampire is a personage of immense literary distinction, who moves
among his contemporaries like a god, yet all of whose works are
actually the product of others whose minds he enters, whose mental
creations he steals, and whose vigor he saps.” (N. Y. Times.) Every
note of originality which he discovers in any one he appropriates,
reproduces as his own, justifying himself with this: “I carry the
essence of what is cosmic ... of what is divine.... I am Homer ...
Goethe ... Shakespeare.... I am an embodiment of the same force of
which Alexander, Cæsar, Confucius, and the Christos were also
embodiments.”
* * * * *
“Only in a few pages does Mr. Viereck succeed in producing the effects
he strives for; the rest of it is crude and commonplace.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 1006. O. 24, ’07. 200w.
“The difficulty with Mr. Viereck’s treatment lies in purely
melodramatic conception of character, an utter lack of subtlety in
dealing with the whole situation, and a distressing congestion of
large words.”
− =Nation.= 85: 307. O. 3, ’07. 350w.
“Except in the final scene, where its extravagances are in keeping
with the subject, the style of the book is quite impossible. ‘The
house of the vampire’ may be described as a tale of horror, keyed from
the first word to the last in the highest pitch of tragic emotion.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 594. O. 5, ’07. 400w.
=Viereck, George Sylvester.= Nineveh and other poems. **$1.25. Moffat.
7–17378.
“In this volume of verse the author’s theme is, for the most part, the
anguish and the joy of adolescence. Some of the best poems are
glorious riots of purely sensuous passion; others are despairing cries
to some solidity of stay amid the turbulence of sense. The poet and
the immoralist are at war in many verses, but the poems are sane
because the poet is the stronger.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“We have spoken unkindly of Mr. Viereck, because we feel that he has
fine poetic possibilities; and all his self-confidence fails to
convince us that he is not wrong in adopting the now too conventional
part of defiant Titan.”
− + =Acad.= 73: 58. O 26, ’07. 230w.
“Perhaps no poet now writing is more proficient in the loud
symphonious lay, and the quality of Mr. Viereck’s vigorous, if
unhealthy imagination is of a sort to be expressed very perfectly in
his reverberating verse.” Ferris Greenslet.
+ − =Atlan.= 100: 845. D. ’07. 500w.
“Mr. Viereck owes something to the world. His recent volume proves him
to be indisputably a poet. It also indicates the lines along which he
must develop in order to fulfil his promise. As yet his genius is
greater than his talent. His verse has spontaneity, but not perfected
art; and it behooves him to study carefully the master poets and grow
to greater sureness of technical effect.” Clayton Hamilton.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 426. Je. ’07. 520w.
“Despite the note of sensuality only too apparent in these
compositions, they are remarkable productions, and we trust that their
licentiousness illustrates what will prove but a passing phase of
their writer’s expression.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Ind.= 43: 91. Ag. 16, ’07. 600w.
“At times he is amazingly clever; tho, like clever children, he pays
up for it by periods of dire fatuity.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 158. Jl. 18, ’07. 250w.
“With the exception of the amazing cleverness of this youthful verse
there seems little promise in it.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 30w.
“Even Mr. Viereck’s sustained energy of phrase and the fine orotund
music of his verse hardly avails against this vicious monotony of
subject. The subject, however, is fortunately taken not so much from
life as from a rather narrow segment of poetic literature.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 36. Jl. 11, ’07. 330w.
Reviewed by Wm. Aspenwall Bradley.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 407. Je. 22, ’07. 920w.
“He speaks in spontaneous and eloquent verse, melodious with the
memories of the recurrent haunting harmonies of Poe, the sea-surge of
Mr. Swinburne and the plangent tenderness of Oscar Wilde, and ringing
also with a certain hammer-blow of passion which is entirely his own.
He speaks with authority of the half-sensuous and half-religious
hysteria of adolescence. Mr. Viereck is as yet only a possibility; but
his possibility is glorious.” Clayton Hamilton.
+ + − =No. Am.= 185: 556. Jl. 5, ’07. 1180w.
“It will never set the poetic world on fire by its originality, for
the writer has but a note and a half at best, and follows closely
certain poets whom he obviously admires with extravagance. Mr. Viereck
has as yet accomplished only a fair imitation of the real thing. A
near-poet of twenty-two has still so much to learn.”
− =Putnam’s.= 3: 111. O. ’07. 220w.
“He has not developed the ‘rhythmic effects’ he talks of by any device
more essential than ingenious systems of indentation, which gives the
printed pages a resemblance to parts of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ or a
long-division sum. Similar affectations spoil his sense as well as his
form.”
− + =Sat. R.= 104. sup. 5. S. 28, ’07. 280w.
* =Villani, Giovanni.= Villani’s chronicle; being selections from the
first nine books of the Chronicle Florentine of Giovanni Villani; tr. by
Rose E. Selfe and ed. by P. H. Wicksteed. *$2. Dutton.
“Within the compass of twenty pages the author retells the tangled
tale of Florentine political history, from the days of the Countess
Matilda to those of Cosmo Pater Patriæ, handling his subject in a
fashion which leaves the reader better informed as to the real forces
at work throughout that troubled period than the perusal of many bulky
volumes is likely to make him.” (Ath.) It throws light upon the
historical allusions in the “Divine comedy.”
* * * * *
“Of the translation we can speak in terms of high praise, not only for
its fidelity, but also for the admirable manner in which it reflects
the garrulous grace and lively movement of the original.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 604. My. 18. 500w.
“Like Rambaldi’s Latin commentary on the ‘Commedia,’ Villani’s
chronicle is a perfect mine of information in regard to the thirteenth
and fourteenth centuries in Tuscany, although less personal and not so
anecdotal as the work of the Imola professor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 758. N. 30, ’07. 310w.
“Mr. Wicksteed’s introduction shows all the qualities that might be
expected from one of the most widely read of English Dantists. In a
few pages he manages to throw a really searching light on the confused
struggle of Florentine politics.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 340. S. 14, ’07. 230w.
=Villari, Luigi.= Fire and sword in the Caucasus. **$3.50. Pott.
7–7543.
“A vivid picture of the revolutionary outbreaks and the racial strife
that have made many a scene of horror in parts of the Caucasus within
the past year and a half.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“By his new book he will add considerably to his reputation.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 8. Jl. 7, ’06. 1140w.
“Mr. Villari tells his story well. In his present volume the author
makes few mistakes.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 699. Je. 9. 1050w.
“We have no hesitation in commending it to all who seek a competent
guide with whose assistance they may penetrate behind the veil of
silence or exaggeration which hides or distorts the truth as regards
the situation in Russia.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 230. Je. 29, ’06. 530w.
“The numerous reproductions of the author’s photographs are
interesting, and add substantially to his narrative.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 488. D. 6, ’06. 650w.
“It is of permanent value because it is a careful study of the chief
races living there—a study that was necessary to make some aspects of
the political situation clear.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 570w.
“Unlike the generality of writers upon Russia in the present day,
however, he displays no animus against either government or people.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 303. D. 8, ’06. 520w.
“He has a facile pen, and is a master of the special correspondent’s
variety of the ‘graphic’ style.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 471. O. 6, ’06. 430w.
=Vincent, Charles John=, ed. Fifty Shakespeare songs. (Musicians’ lib.,
v. 21.) $2.50. Ditson.
6–37861.
The Shakespeare songs to which this volume is devoted are grouped as
follows: Songs mentioned by Shakespeare in his plays, Songs possibly
sung in the original performances, Settings composed since
Shakespeare’s time to the middle of the nineteenth century, and Recent
settings.
* * * * *
“Many of the selections are practically unobtainable for the average
seeker in any other form.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 214. N. ’06.
“The editor has furnished excellent historical and critical notes on
the songs.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 235. F. 23. 140w.
=Dial.= 41: 330. N. 16, ’06. 110w.
=Nation.= 83: 491. D. 6, ’06. 140w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 114. Ja. ’07. 40w.
=Vincent, James Edmund.= Highways and byways in Berkshire; with il. by
Frederick L. Griggs. $2. Macmillan.
W 7–45.
Nothing of guide book order and inclusiveness is found in Mr.
Vincent’s description. He goes out of the beaten path, in fact, and
“the reader is introduced to many an old country house not magnificent
enough to be mentioned in the ordinary guide-books, but adorned each
with its own legends and private tragedies.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“His style is weighed down with mannerisms; and there is in the book
too much about Mr. Vincent, with the result that Berkshire often comes
off second best.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 642. D. 22, ’06. 260w.
“A volume of less than five hundred pages is bound to be an imperfect
record of a county; but Mr. Vincent, who is an engaging guide as far
as he goes, leaves too large a tract of the county out of his
itinerary for this commonplace to do him service.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 347. Mr. 23. 710w.
“Berkshire has found in her new biographer a most sympathetic
interpreter, one who knows how to read the meaning of the most trivial
everyday incidents, and to trace their connection with those of days
gone by.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: 365. F. ’07. 200w.
“The work is well designed for those who wish to know, but do not
already know, this country of meadows and downs and dapper woods. But
the Berkshire man will miss much, especially he who has had commerce
with the southern and eastern sides.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 36. F. 1, ’07. 1030w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 133. F. 7, ’07. 410w.
“The style of production, the illustrations and the spirit of the
author will together insure the volume a wide popularity. Mr. Vincent
is never dull.”
+ + =Nature.= 75: 149. D. 13, ’06. 150w.
“The illustrations by Frederick L. Griggs are quaintly attractive, and
the artist has caught the spirit of the text in a most happy manner.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 68. F. 2, ’07. 130w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 574. Mr. 9, ’07. 200w.
“On the whole he is a good and pleasant general guide, and his book
one of the most thorough and interesting in the series.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 305. Mr. 9, ’07. 280w.
“Mr. Vincent informs all that he sees with his own joyous temper, and
gossips of men and things in a spirit so frank and candid, yet so free
withal from malice, that he would be a dull soul indeed who failed to
catch the infection of his gaiety. Besides the light-heartedness to
which he confesses in his preface, the writer brings to his task,
literary acquirements of no mean order, a genuine love for the county
of his adoption, an eye for the larger effects of nature, and a happy
ease of style.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 502. Mr. 30, ’07. 1640w.
=Vinci, Leonardo da.= Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, with critical
introd. by Charles L. Hind. (Drawings of great masters.) *$2.50.
Scribner.
“As Mr. Hind remarks, Leonardo da Vinci found in drawing the readiest
and most stimulating way of self-expression. One welcomes with
pleasure the extremely clear and fine renderings of some fifty of the
drawings in this volume. The critical study by Mr. Hind is
discriminating and sympathetic.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 42: 231. Ap. 1, ’07. 40w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 53. D. ’06. 130w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 837. D. 1, ’06. 250w.
=Outlook.= 84: 141. S. 15, ’06. 50w.
=Outlook.= 84: 705. N. 24, ’06. 30w.
=Vinci, Leonardo da.= Note-books; arranged and rendered into English,
with introd. by Edward McCurdy. *$3.50. Scribner.
7–15913.
An anthology of Leonardo’s work in literature comprising the record
and results of his studies in the theory of art together with
fragments of literary composition of a philosophical or imaginative
character, and much personal and biographical matter.
* * * * *
“His translation is always lucid, when the original permits it to be
so.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 360. O. 26, ’06. 1630w.
“We have observed only two errors In Mr. McCurdy’s contributions to
the volume.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 67. Ja. 17. ’07. 610w.
“The collection of the great Italian’s notes should be put into the
hands of every young artist—indeed, one might say of every man.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 705. N. 24, ’06. 210w.
+ =Spec.= 98: 92. Ja. 19, ’07. 1530w.
* =Voorhees, Irving Wilson.= Teachings of Thomas Henry Huxley. $1.
Broadway pub.
7–30873.
“After recounting with brevity the influences of heredity and
environment which acted upon Huxley’s early years, the author sets
forth and discusses his teachings in biology, theology, education,
morals, and psychology, and concerning individual rights and the
gospel of work. He believes that two main forces were at work
throughout Huxley’s life—‘the one that of the scientific investigator,
full of enthusiasm, dominant, persevering, toiling arduously day by
day.... The other that of the polemical philosopher, fond of
arguments, combative ... fighting ... partly for victory, partly for
the upholding of what he deemed a principle of ideal.’”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“A sympathetic interpretation.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1438. D. 12, ’07. 60w.
“The book is written impartially, recognizing fully the philosopher’s
great services to scientific advancement, but discussing freely the
flaws in his theories.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 718. N. 9, ’07. 170w.
=Vries, Hugo de.= Plant breeding: comments on the experiments of Nilsson
and Burbank. *$1.50. Open ct.
7–19453.
“After a general survey of the historical material, Professor De Vries
examines the work of these two men in the light of recent discoveries
in heredity and hybridization, and uses their results to test the
Darwinian theory and the mutation theory, and finds all the data in
favor of the latter.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“Can be heartily commended to the practical farmer and gardener as
well as to the scientific student.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 198. N. ’07.
“The book is one that can be confidently commended to the notice of
the practical plantbreeder as well as to the students of science.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 242. Ag. 31. 1730w.
“It is a compact and popular presentation of the recent wonderful
development in methods of plant breeding, and a clear statement of the
bearing of all this vast experimental work upon the author’s theory of
mutation. Altogether, the book is full of pregnant suggestions, and
should do much toward clearing up some of the evident confusion
concerning the views of the distinguished author.” J. M. C.
+ + =Bot. Gaz.= 44: 47. Ag. ’07. 2250w.
“The volume is clearly and pleasantly written, and as the forms of
plant-life discussed are those in which there is much general
interest,—such as wheat, oats, corn, and various fruits,—it may be
read with satisfaction and profit by all.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 43. Jl. 16, ’07. 320w.
“The chapter on the association of characters—correlation biologists
usually call it—is simply rich in its array of facts and its
suggestiveness, and the keen analysis of the methods and results of
plant amelioration is equally admirable. The whole book is perfectly
comprehensible by the general reader.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 694. S. 19, ’07. 220w.
“This book is one of the most valuable contributions to botanical
science that has appeared in recent years. It will be widely read
because of the clear scientific discussion of the principles that
underlie plant breeding.” Carlton C. Curtis.
+ + + =J. Philos.= 4: 606. O. 24, ’07. 2260w.
“The book is full of valuable information for the live farmer, the
gardener, nurseryman, or seed-grower, as well as for the student of
evolution and the lover of plants.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 61. Jl. 13, ’07. 270w.
“The volume can be heartily recommended as an interesting and safe
guide to amateurs who desire to examine more closely the variant
plants around them.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 238. S. 12, ’07. 760w.
=Vries, Hugo de.= Species and varieties; their origin by imitations; ed.
by Daniel T. MacDougal. 2d ed. *$5. Open ct.
“Very few changes are to be seen in the new edition.... The few errors
of the first edition have been corrected, and some alterations have
been made for the sake of clearness.”—Bot. Gaz.
* * * * *
“The most important new feature is an explanatory note on variations
in ‘Oenothera biennis.’” H. C. Cowles.
+ + =Bot. Gaz.= 43: 140. F. ’07. 150w.
“All the misprints that we pointed out in our review of the first
edition have been corrected; and even our suggestion that uniformity
in the termination of the adjectives derived from such terms as
physiology was desirable has been adopted. But, curiously enough, the
uniformity is intra-verbal and not inter-verbal. There is no need to
commend the book. It is indispensable, inasmuch as it is the only
available account of Prof, de Vries’s work in English, so far.” A. D.
D.
+ + − =Nature.= 75: 268. F. 17, ’07. 230w.
W
=Waddell, Laurence Austine.= Lhasa and its mysteries: with a record of
the expedition of 1903–1904. 3d ed. *$3. Dutton.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 42: 43. Ja. 16, ’07. 460w.
=Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton.= Building the nation: stories of how our
fathers lived, and what they did to make our country a united one. †75c.
Wilde.
7–26964.
The third volume in the “Uncle Sam’s old-time story” series. This
portion of the history deals with the revolution and is a well taught
lesson in American patriotism.
=Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton.= Ten Indian hunters: stories of famous Indian
hunters. il. †$1. Wilde.
7–26965.
The fourth volume in Mrs. Wade’s Indian series tells of ten hunters
who gained prowess among their several tribes for their cunning and
ability to trap game. Aside from their successful efforts, daring
adventure and marvelous skill, the stories picture the various tribes
and their manner of living.
=Wagner, Charles.= My impressions of America; tr. from the French by
Mary Louise Hendee. **$1. McClure.
6–33643.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Sweet-tempered and simple-minded little book.” James F. Muirhead.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 558. O. ’07. 100w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 638. F. ’07. 330w.
=Wagner, (Wilhelm) Richard.= Tannhauser; a dramatic poem freely
translated in poetic narrative form by Oliver Huckel. **75c. Crowell.
6–32851.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Worthy of a place in any library where there is sufficient interest
in musical drama.”
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 50. F. ’07. S.
+ =Ind.= 62: 498. F. 28, ’07. 150w.
“Is a rather languid performance.”
− =Nation.= 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 30w.
=Walcott, Earle Ashley.= Apple of discord. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–31209.
A tale of San Francisco during the days of the “Sand-lot” riots and
the attempted Chinese expulsion. There is a double love story running
thru the stress and storm, the more unique of which concerns “Big
Sam,” the king of Chinatown and little Moon Ying, the contested
possession of two rival tongs.
* * * * *
“For those who find diversion in excitement, this story will furnish
marked satisfaction.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 740. N. 16, ’07. 230w.
=Walford, Lucy Bethia.= Enlightenment of Olivia. $1.50. Longmans.
7–31230.
The study of a female egotist. “The character of the heroine seems on
the whole original, and is drawn with much humour. The Oxford
professor who, unconsciously to himself, becomes the instrument of her
reformation, can scarcely be taken seriously, and it seems to us that
the author did not at first intend him for the monstrosity into which
he developes. Olivia’s husband, on the other hand, is an admirable
specimen of the middle-class British Philistine at his very
best—manly, honorable, and chivalrous to the finger-tips, but alas!
somewhat of a bore.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“A book which at least will not offend through lack of taste or
carelessness of style. There is never anything complex about either
her plots or her characters, but she tells her tale simply in good
plain English and, as a result, her books are eminently readable.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 682. Jl. 13, ’07. 240w.
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 723. Je. 15. 120w.
“Mrs. Walford’s tales are reminiscent of Mrs. Oliphant’s peaceful
stories of English country life, calm and uneventful, but nevertheless
full of pleasant interest and restful to a weary mind on a hot
summer’s day.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 140w.
“It is not art, and being artless no limit can be set anywhere to its
mischief nor in England to its circulation.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 21. Jl. 6, ’07. 480w.
=Walker, Alice Morehouse.= Historic Hadley: a story of the making of a
famous Massachusetts town. **$1. Grafton press.
6–30490.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The little book too, is accurate, never sacrificing the facts to
readability or picturesqueness. Has value both literary and historic,
and considerable narrative charm.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 110. Ja. 31, ’07. 550w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 756. N. 17, ’06. 250w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 110. Ja. ’07. 100w.
=Walker, Dawson.= Gift of tongues and other essays. *$1.75. Scribner.
“A series of able and scholarly essays on certain New Testament
problems; the speaking with tongues in the apostolic church, the legal
phraseology in the Epistle to the Galatians, the visit to Jerusalem
recorded in the second chapter of that epistle and its relation to the
fifteenth chapter of the Acts, and the date of the Acts and the third
gospel.”—Sat R.
* * * * *
“Though none of these essays makes any notable contribution to the
subject, and the conclusions of the first and last are distinctly
improbable, all are worthy of attention.”
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 182. Ja. ’07. 170w.
“The book will have little influence on the trend of opinion.” Wm. R.
Shoemaker.
− =Bib. World.= 30: 76. Jl. ’07. 420w.
“All would do well to read Dr. Walker’s essays; he arranges his facts
well, writes clearly, and is always interesting; his essay on the gift
of tongues is the best we have ever read on that puzzling problem.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 372. S. 22, ’06. 180w.
=Walker, Ernest.= Beethoven. $1. Brentano’s. W 5–8.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A thoughtful little book.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 840. D. 29. 170w.
=Walker, Margaret Coulson.= Lady Hollyhock and her friends: a book of
nature dolls and others; drawings by Mary Isabel Hunt. †$1.25. Baker.
6–39448.
A happy thought for little people which will provide busy work the
year round. Cucumber, radish, and corn dolls, pansy, hollyhock and
poppy maids, apple, peanut and acorn children—and pictures to show how
they are made.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 253. D. ’06.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1411. D. 22, ’06. 30w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 30w.
“An interesting book for all little folks ... for it will give them no
end of the sort of employment that all children like.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 90w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 766. D. ’06. 50w.
=Walker, Rev. William Lowe.= Christian theism and a spiritual monism:
God, freedom and immortality in view of monistic evolution. *$3.
Scribner.
7–12986.
“The work aims to show what ground there is for Christian theism in
the spiritual monism toward which science and philosophy now
preponderate. Its author ... endeavors to ‘set forth that spiritual
interpretation of the universe on the basis of Mr. Spencer’s system of
philosophy which he himself affirmed to be possible.’... The argument
is mainly objective, in an inductive method, and designed for ‘the
plain man.’”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Nowhere have we seen this thesis more lucidly and convincingly
handled than by this able writer.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 521. N. 24, ’06. 1190w.
“A very readable book. Mr. Walker shows wide reading in science and
philosophy, and states his position with clearness and force.” W. C.
Kierstead.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 548. Jl. ’07. 490w.
“Though the work falls short of its aim in some central questions, it
is, on the whole, a stimulating contribution to further discussions,
and a strong presentation of the harmony of science and religion.”
+ − =Outlook.= 83: 1006. Ag. 25, ’06. 610w.
“However valuable this line of thought may be, it requires a deeper
treatment to make it convincing.”
− + =Sat. R.= 103: 592. My. 11, ’07. 1820w.
=Walker, Williston.= John Calvin, the organizer of reformed
Protestantism, 1509–1564. **$1.35. Putnam.
6–34268.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 50. F. ’07. S.
“There are no errors of vital importance. The reviewer would dissent
from a few conclusions, which must, however, remain largely matters of
opinion. The amount to criticise is small; there is much to praise. To
say that the book is the best biography written in English is not
enough. No other equally brief life has so well assimilated the vast
amount of material or summed up Calvin’s character and career with so
much insight; and no other life of Calvin preserves throughout so
judicial a tone. It is a book whose scholarship will appeal to both
the church historian and the general historical reader.” Herbert
Darling Foster.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 366. Ja. ’07. 1210w.
“We accept what is given, and return thanks for a very good book.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 131. F. 2. 280w.
“A fairly objective account from a sympathetic point of view.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 250. My. ’07. 70w.
“With a difficult subject, Professor Walker has taken particular pains
to be impartial and just, both to his hero’s greatness and his
failings, and he has succeeded well.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1154. My. 16, ’07. 100w.
“For its scope and purpose Prof. Williston Walker’s biography of ‘John
Calvin’ is a model.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1236. N. 21, ’07. 30w.
“The picture which emerges from the pages of Professor Walker is
luminous.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 15. Ja. 3, ’07. 1690w.
“His book is admirable in every way.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 990. D. 15, ’06. 230w.
=Wallace, Dillon.= Long Labrador trail. *$1.50. Outing.
7–17002.
This “glorious record of American ‘do and dare’” follows the
wilderness adventure of one who besides being lured by the
irresistible call of the wild is fulfilling the command to accomplish
the work of exploration undertaken by his fallen leader, Leonidas
Hubbard, viz., to penetrate the Labrador peninsula from Groswater bay
to Lake Michikamau, thence thru the lake and northward over the
divide, where he hoped to locate the headwaters of the George river.
* * * * *
“It is a record of privation and heroism, well-told, full of the
irresistible charm of real exploration.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 173. O. ’07. S.
“It is to be doubted if he has added greatly to our knowledge of this
region; but he has certainly written an interesting book, wholly
independent of literary charm.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 442. O. 12. 460w.
“Somehow, the very lack of rhetorical polish seems appropriate in the
description of an undertaking which bespeaks essentially grim
determination, and offers little occasion for the play of the finer
feelings or of the imagination.” George Gladden.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 615. Ag. ’07. 840w.
“None can fail to enjoy the author’s account of his expedition.” H. E.
Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 42: 374. Je. 16, ’07. 320w.
“A thoroughly interesting account of a country which, in desolation
may be said to rival the ‘Far north.’”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 300w.
“Mr. Wallace takes himself and his achievement a trifle too
seriously.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 100. Ag. 1, ’07. 370w.
“It is an interesting story that Mr. Wallace has recounted of perils
ignored and hardships welcomed, of grim and desolate wilds, and of the
strength, the courage, and the goodness of human nature rising always
above its environment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 362. Je. 8, ’07. 720w.
“The details of the travelling supply an attractive narrative.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 438. S. 28, ’07. 170w.
=Wallace, Dillon.= Ungava Bob: a winter’s tale. †$1.50. Revell.
7–29093.
These experiences of a young fur trapper in the frozen interior of
Labrador are the sort that will put a lad in the corner and keep him
there until the last page is reached. There are encounters with wolves
on the fur trails, intimate portrayals of the life and humanity of the
Nascaupee Indians who capture and protect the hero, and stirring
accounts of dangerous adventures among the ice-packs of the Labrador
country.
* * * * *
“The story is told with the greatest simplicity and naturalness.
Characters and incidents all have the touch of verity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 581. S. 28, ’07. 290w.
“Bob is a plucky young trapper, and his adventures are exciting
enough, but the chief merit of the book lies in the pictures of life
in the remote regions of Labrador and among the Indians and Eskimos of
that frozen country.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 312. O. 12, ’07. 160w.
=Wallace, Helen.= Coming of Isobel. $1.50. Cassell.
A story whose plot is founded upon coincidences. “When one young girl
is lost we are expected to believe that another exactly like her is
found; that this latter has lost her memory, and consequently acts as
an innocent substitute; and finally that the foundling is no other
than the half-sister of the lost girl.... Other detached coincidences
roughly hew the destinies of the family of whose fortunes this book is
a record.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“It is very feminine work in all its aspects, and carries with it
unnecessary tragedies and heartburnings. Problems such as are here
presented offer comparatively little difficulty in real life.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 297. S. 14. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Wallace, Helen.= Sons of the Seigneur. $1.50. Outing pub.
7–20711.
A romance of the days of Cromwell with its scene laid in the Island of
Guernsey. A Royalist maid is the heroine and is loved by two brothers
one of whom is cruel and selfish while the other runs the round of
chance and peril to serve and protect her. The visit of King Charles
II. to the island in disguise is made the turning point in the story
which is full of action and feeling.
* * * * *
“On the whole, it is what may fairly be called a brave story of the
type it represents.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 82. S. ’07. 290w.
− =Ind.= 63: 575. S. 5, ’07. 430w.
“The book is especially noteworthy for the fascinating character of
the heroine and the daintiness and charm of its love interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 170w.
“Notable constructive ability, fertility of invention, dramatic
imagination and good taste in the management of these various
faculties are all evident. The author has not succeeded, however, in
creating a historical atmosphere—the illusion of time and place.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 479. Ag. 3, ’07. 300w.
=Wallace, Lew (Lewis), general.= Lew Wallace: an autobiography. 2v.
**$5. Harper.
6–38539.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Current Literature.= 42: 178. F. ’07. 1800w.
“The book is excellent reading. Errors of haste or negligence,
including even lapses in grammar, and other more deliberate faults,
can be found by the critical; but their enumeration would be a
thankless task.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 34. Ja. 16, ’07. 2180w.
“Quite equal in vividness to his fiction is the dramatic interest with
which General Wallace manages to invest the story of his life in some
of its vital facts.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1093. My. 9, ’07. 670w.
“While it is, as a whole, entertaining, there is a diffuseness, an
over-elaboration of small points, and a too frequent triviality which
suggests lack of proper editorial revision. Literary merit aside, the
value of these volumes as a contribution to American history is not
inconsiderable.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 87. Ja. 24, ’07. 710w.
“Nothing I have read, except, perhaps, ‘Ben-Hur,’ has so filled my
heart and mind and thrilled me as this autobiography of General Lew
Wallace.” Oliver Otis Howard.
+ + + =No. Am.= 183: 1294. D. 21, ’06. 1940w.
Reviewed by Horatio S. Krans.
+ + − =Outlook.= 84: 1079. D. 29, ’06. 470w.
=Wallace, W. G.= Locomotive breakdown questions answered and
illustrated; indexed for quick reference. $1.50. Drake, F. J.
7–21741.
Questions and answers just as they appeared in the Fireman’s magazine.
“All of us who have shared in those informal discussions around and
about the steel horse know their attraction, though realizing their
casual, undecisive or disconnected nature.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“This collection might, with rearrangement, excision and addition,
serve a far more useful purpose in systematic education of the men
whose very business is system to a degree, and who deserve and are
always anxious to learn from those best qualified to teach them the
principles of mechanical science related to their duties.” H. Wade
Hibbard.
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 293. S. 12, ’07. 560w.
=Waller, Mary Ella.= Through the gates of the Netherlands; with il.
after Lalanne and others by A. A. Montferrand, reproduced in
photogravure. **$3. Little.
6–42908.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 75. Mr. ’07.
“Tho her knowledge of history is not particularly striking, her
insight into human nature is quick and deep.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 912. Ap. 18, ’07. 290w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 269. Mr. 21, ’07. 680w.
“The illustrations in this volume are excellent, and the text is full
of conviction and enthusiasm.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 109. Ja. ’07. 60w.
=Walling, Robert A. J.= Sea-dog of Devon: a life of Sir John Hawkins.
**$1.75. Lane.
A popular biography of Hawkins which “vindicates the hero from the
charge of having inaugurated the British slave trade.”
* * * * *
“We are bound to say that it is not a biography in the received sense
of the word; that it is not the first; and that it is a poor réchauffé
of uncritical stuff.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 13. Jl. 6. 180w.
“Mr. Walling’s book is a good, an interesting, and a useful piece of
work.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 215. O. 1, ’07. 300w.
“While it can hardly be called exhaustive, it is certainly readable
and animated.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 272. O. 5, ’07. 190w.
“Till a full biography appears, however, we shall do very well with
this book, which is a thoroughly workmanlike narrative with fairly
judicious comment. It has a strong flavour of hero-worship to be sure,
but we do not wish it to be without that, even though a hero
worshipper can scarcely be the best of judges.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 718. My. 4, ’07. 1250w.
=Wallington, Nellie Urner.= Historic churches of America; with an
introd. by E: E. Hale. **$2. Duffield.
7–31235.
Mrs. Wallington has made her study cover nearly seventy historic
churches of America. It traces “in some detail the first steps which
were taken in different parts of the nation by persons of distinct
religious motive who had exiled themselves from Europe and who meant
to maintain their allegiance to a living God.” The book is finely
illustrated.
* * * * *
“Brief but entertaining sketches.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 427. D. 16, ’07. 90w.
“The descriptions are picturesquely given and through the whole book
there is traced in detail the growth of the various religious
movements which took their starting point from the days of the
colonies and have found their outward expression in many notable
edifices thruout the country.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“There is not as much information as one expects in a work of this
kind.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 758. N. 30, ’07. 140w.
=Walpole, Sir Spencer.= Studies in biography. *$4. Dutton.
7–29124.
Biographical essays upon celebrated men; including Peel, Cobden,
Disraeli, Gibbon, Lord Dufferin, Lord Shaftesbury, Bismarck, and
Napoleon III. A chapter upon “Some decisive marriages in history,”
concludes the volume.
* * * * *
“They deserve to be read for their balance of judgment and orderly
presentment of fact.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 288. Mr. 9. 720w.
“It should be added that the reader receives from all these essays an
impression as stimulating as if he had had a quiet and illuminating
conversation with a man of wide observation and fruitful reflection.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 254. O. 16, ’07. 470w.
“The essays in the present volume are all readable, and have to a high
degree the human interest which differentiates biography from general
history.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 226. Jl. 25, ’07. 230w.
“In the main, here as elsewhere, Sir Spencer Walpole is a writer who
will not dip his pen into the ink until he is quite sure of the
accuracy of the assertion he is going to make. The road he takes us by
may not afford many romantic prospects but at least the guide knows
every inch of it.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 20. Ja. 18, ’07. 1510w.
“We welcome these essays ... not only for their intrinsic merits, but
because they are a sign of that trend toward biography which is needed
for the enriching of historical studies in general.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 340. Ap. 11, ’07. 1040w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 68. F. 2, ’07. 300w.
“These studies are notable for a temperate and judicial spirit. They
are uniformly edifying; and though they do not sway the mind by high
eloquence they never descend to dullness or commonplace, but win
sympathetic assent by their workmanlike thoroughness and their
manifest frankness.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 132. Mr. 2, ’07. 750w.
“Sir Spencer Walpole’s volume is characterized by profound erudition
and real literary distinction as well as by critical acumen and
breadth of view.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 335. Je. 15, ’07. 1220w.
Reviewed by W. Roy Smith.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 360. Je. ’07. 1000w.
“The whole book is well worth reading, if only that we may have our
vague knowledge of political history arranged and corrected by a
writer who rarely suffers the informing instinct to oust the critical
faculty.”
+ + − =Spec.= 98: 371. Mr. 9, ’07. 1390w.
=Walsh, James Joseph.= Catholic churchmen in science: sketches of the
lives of Catholic ecclesiastics who were among the great founders in
science. *$1. Dolphin press.
6–38910.
In order to refute the charge that the Roman Catholic church is the
enemy of science, the author has prepared brief biographies of some
Catholic ecclesiastics who have made important contributions to
physical science. They include: Copernicus, Basil Valentine, Linacre,
Father Kircher, Bishop Stenson, Abbé Haüy, and Abbot Mendel.
* * * * *
“The doctor has enhanced the value of this welcome little book by
prefixing a short, forcible answer to the claim that science and
religion are in conflict.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 548. Ja. ’07. 260w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 333. F. 7, ’07. 170w.
=Walsh, James Joseph.= Makers of modern medicine. *$2. Fordham
university press.
7–7512.
The volume “is not simply a series of biographies of men who have in
the past two hundred years or so helped in building up the modern
science of healing, written with no other view than the setting forth
of their discoveries and their title of fame. It has an ulterior
motive, and this motive is to show that among these men were a dozen
at least who were content to accept the teachings of the Christian
religion, and in particular those of the Roman Catholic branch of that
religion.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Dr. Walsh has drawn from many sources, not always judiciously
(certainly not judicially). These sources are often so insufficiently
indicated that it is not easy to verify the statements that flow
freely from his facile, sometimes almost too facile pen. The list of
‘makers’ will hardly satisfy all readers.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 526. Je. 6, ’07. 320w.
“The book, though interesting and informing in itself, is not so much
designed as a contribution to medical history as it is to overthrow
the notion expressed in the old saying that where there are three
doctors there will be two atheists.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 372. Je. 8, ’07. 670w.
“For the purpose for which they are aimed, the general instruction of
the public in matters pertaining to medical history, they are, like
the similar essays of Richardson, extremely entertaining and useful.”
W. G. MacCallum.
+ =Science=, n.s. 26: 251. Ag. 23, ’07. 450w.
=Walsh, Walter.= Moral damage of war. *75c. Ginn.
6–37868.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a rhetorical and aggressive, but it is also in its way a
useful, arraignment of the war system.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 768. Mr. 30, ’07. 330w.
=Walters, Henry Beauchamp.= Art of the Greeks. $6. Macmillan.
7–35229.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 145. My. ’07.
“The publishers have produced such a charming book in all external
respects that it seems a pity it should not be equally satisfying to
the mind of the classical scholar.”
− + =Dial.= 42: 147. Mr. 1, 07. 380w.
“As a whole the book is written with singular lucidity and charm, and
is evidently the flower of deep and painstaking scholarship.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 334. O. ’07. 260w.
“Contains a mass of information intelligently grouped but not
commented on.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 145. F. 2, ’07. 1300w.
* =Waltham, T. Ernest=, ed. Tangerine: a child’s letters from Morocco.
$1.50. Macmillan.
The impressions of a little English girl during a short visit to the
chief coast town of Morocco. “The human interest is predominant, of
course, and it is illustrated by some good photographs of the
Tangerines with the wonderful backgrounds of Moorish architecture.”
(Spec.)
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“To [children] ‘Tangerine’ ought to be a charming picture-book, and a
gift-book with a somewhat unusual interest attaching to it.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 748. N. 16, ’07. 90w.
=Walton, Mrs. Octavius Frank.= Doctor Forester. $1.25. Union press.
A hidden treasure, a secret stairway, strange footsteps heard at night
in an old tower, all help to make the summer vacation of Dr. Forester
a notable one. His love story, so hopelessly interwoven with that of
his best friend, also adds excitement to his time of rest and
recreation, but his reward more than repays his worry and distress.
=Ward, Cyrennus Osborne.= The ancient lowly: a story of the ancient
working people from the earliest known period to the adoption of
Christianity by Constantine. 2v. ea. $2. Kerr.
In which the author traces the early history of modern socialism. “Its
conspicuous merit is the light which it throws on the seamy side of
life in the pre-Christian era, as revealed by the fragmentary writings
of ancient historians and by the inscriptional discoveries of modern
archæology. Its conspicuous defect is the strained interpretation
given to the facts with which it is concerned, and the violent, even
incendiary spirit in which these facts are discussed. It is, indeed, a
work admirably calculated to inflame the already lamentably intense
feeling of class hatred.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“This is manifestly not the appropriate place for the discussion of a
purely controversial work of this kind. Mr. Ward does not write in
English conspicuous for clearness or for grace, and his positiveness
of statement is not reassuring and fails to inspire confidence.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 306. My. 11, ’07. 400w.
“Undoubtedly containing much of value to the discriminating student of
history, and obviously the result of years of arduous research, it is
nevertheless for the general public a book of pernicious influence,
contributing nothing to the solution of actual present-day problems
and making for greater discontent and bitterness. One is almost
tempted to declare that the historical method of investigation has
seldom been more sadly misapplied.”
− + =Outlook.= 87: 538. N. 9, ’07. 740w.
=Ward, Elizabeth Stuart (Phelps) (Mrs. Herbert D. Ward).= Man in the
case; il. by H: J. Peck. †$1.50. Houghton.
6–32116.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is rather surprising to find a veteran like the author employing a
plot so worn and transparent as the plot of ‘The man in the case;’ but
she certainly managed to make her story attractive.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 797. D. 22. 130w.
“A good story, full of emotion and suspense, without any recourse at
all to sensational methods.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 125. Ja. ’07. 180w.
“The book is inadequate as a psychological study.”
− + =Sat. R.= 103: 56. Ja. 12, ’07. 200w.
=Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.= Walled in. †$1.50. Harper.
7–33590.
A story of a college town. Professor Ferris, a singularly strong man,
is “walled in” by a terrible automobile accident. His months of
convalescence reveal his enduring qualities which are contrasted with
the impatience and frivolity of his butterfly wife. The story follows
the love of this man for two women, one whose waywardness is her own
undoing and one whose strength and beauty of character bring their own
reward.
* * * * *
“Told in somewhat long-drawn-out fashion.”
− =Outlook.= 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 150w.
=Ward, Lester Frank.= Applied sociology: a treatise on the conscious
improvement of society by society. *$2.50. Ginn.
6–23549.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is an epoch making work. Not only is it a contribution to social
science of first-rate value; but it is also of fundamental practical
interest to education. No other book has done so much to reveal the
true function of knowledge.” George Elliott Howard.
+ + + =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 854. My. ’07. 1830w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 76. Mr. ’07.
“Whether one agrees with all Dr. Ward’s thesis or not, he will profit
by a careful study of this book. In correctness of statement, and in
rigorous application of scientific methods, it is to be commended to
all who have occasion to write upon matters social.” Carl Kelsey.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 487. N. ’06. 990w.
“While exhibiting some of the characteristic defects of its class, Mr.
Ward’s work is always marked by vigorous thinking and seldom, fails to
prove interesting and suggestive.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 502. D. 27, ’06. 650w.
“This great book is a noble crown to the author’s philosophy. No
writer has presented so powerfully the claims of education as a
conscious social policy. No one has so vindicated the worth of the
teacher’s work.” Edward Alsworth Ross.
+ + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 356. Je. ’07. 960w.
=Wardle, Jens.= Artistic temperament. †$1.50. McClure.
7–21364.
“Mr. Stephen Cartmel is a painter. He is engaged to a young woman with
a rich father, and all the qualities which serve best to steady a man
with the artistic tendency to flit from flower to flower. She is not
beautiful, but she is serious, womanly, and staying and she loves him
protectingly. Then Mr. Stephen Cartmel journeys by cab into Tooting to
call upon a neglected school friend.... And he meets the friend’s
pretty wife—who began by being his typist, and has been starving all
her life for art, romance, and beauty. Delia Blaicklock sits to Mr.
Cartmel for her portrait—and the artistic temperament gets in its
work.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“This novel is quite as tiresome as its title would lead us to
expect.”
− =Acad.= 72: 295. My. 23, ’07. 480w.
“There is not a dull page in it. Like many English novels which ought
to sell better in this country than they do, it strikes deep, keeping
a firm hold on elemental things in human nature.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 208. Ag. 10, ’07. 380w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 122. Ag. 8, ’07. 550w.
“Miss Wardle manages the theme admirably—with insight, humor,
comprehension, sympa-
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 476. Ag. 3, ’07. 660w.
=Waring, Henry F.= Christianity and its Bible: a text-book for private
reading. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–19773.
Addresses the audience of “clear-eyed middle-men between the
specialists and the ordinary readers.” It surveys the whole religious
field in a practical trustworthy manner, “gives pigeon-holes,” as the
author says, “in which to put the valuable results of all future
hearing, reading. and study concerning religious themes.”
* * * * *
“The task is well done, and the book will be of great value to all who
are thoughtfully interested in its theme.”
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 479. Je. ’07. 80w.
“It is both a trustworthy and a useful book, well adapted to increase
religious intelligence in a period of mingled joy and faith.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 790. Ag. 10, ’07. 140w.
=Waring, Luther Hess.= Law and the gospel of labor. *$1. Neale.
7–29710.
A two part study, whose aim is to present, first, the law of the land,
and, secondly, the highest law known to man,—the gospel of Jesus
Christ.
=Warner, Beverley Ellison.= Famous introductions to Shakespeare’s plays
by the notable editors of the eighteenth century, ed. with a critical
introd., biographical and explanatory notes. **$2.50. Dodd.
6–9259.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 76. Mr. ’07.
=Warner, Horace Everett.= Cricket’s song and other melodies. **$1.
Lippincott.
7–31376.
Two score and ten poems which are concerned with life, here and
hereafter, with mother love, Indian legend, the roar of the weird and
thunder of man made things.
=Warren, Ina Russelle=, comp. Under the holly bough: a collection of
Christmas poems. $1.50. Jacobs.
7–36928.
An anthology of Christmas verse from writers old and new which
presents the subject in a variety of phases, “from the holy sound of
the Christmas chimes, heralding the Day of days, to the merry laugh of
the little child over its toys.”
* * * * *
“A particularly attractive Christmas anthology.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 382. D. 1, ’07. 90w.
=Warren, Thomas Herbert.= Magdalen college, Oxford. (College
monographs.) *75c. Dutton.
A history of Magdalen college by its present Head and Vice-Chancellor,
from its foundation in the dawn of the renaissance to the present.
* * * * *
“It contains as much local history as the general public is likely to
desire, and some interesting notes on the customs and worthies of
Magdalen.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 120. Ag. 8, ’07. 180w.
Reviewed by Goldwin Smith.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 78. S. 14, ’07. 1450w.
“Mr. Warren has given us a most interesting account of his college.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 804. My. 18, ’07. 260w.
=Warren, Waldo Pondray.= Thoughts on business. $1.25. Forbes.
7–33622.
A collection of more than two hundred editorials which have been
contributed to leading newspapers and have been called good by
prominent business men the country over. The general captions under
which the short talks are grouped are: Starting points,
Self-improvement, About methods, Developing the workers, With the
manager, Buying and selling, Words by the way, and Gleanings.
=Washburne, Marion Foster.= Family secrets. †$1.25. Macmillan.
7–14264.
Monologues which reveal the secrets of the inner sanctuary of the true
home. The revelator is a woman who when reverses come goes with her
husband to a little farm on the edge of a manufacturing town. She
lives for life’s sake, learns its values and the competence of love,
and believes that when women discover their social unequals, and
cherish them till they grow into social equals, then we shall begin to
get at the real secrets of that family which is the human race. She
says: “We must recognize that the brotherhood of man presupposes not
only the Fatherhood of God. but also the Motherhood of essential
woman.”
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 274. Ap. 27. ’07. 50w.
“A slender but not unpleasing narrative gives a certain coherence to
what is essentially a series of lay sermons upon many important
problems of domestic and social life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 365. Je. 8, ’07. 400w.
“It is a kind of informal philosophy of the family life, very
pleasantly written, with a good deal of shrewdness and humor, and in a
wholesome attitude toward the trials, vexations, and tragedies of life
and character.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 255. Je. 1, ’07. 280w.
=Washington, Booker T.= Frederick Douglass. (American crisis
biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.
7–8512.
A sympathetic study of a career which was identified with the race
problem in the period of revolution and liberation. The sketch reveals
Douglass as the personification of the historical events that marked
the transition from slavery to citizenship.
* * * * *
“It will interest both the student of history, and the student of
life—the ordinary reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 173. O. ’07. S.
“The book is exceedingly clear and simple in its style.” R. R. Wright,
jr.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 623. N. ’07. 320w.
“The book deserves a better index.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 397. O. 5. 1620w.
“The story is well told, with enthusiasm and admiration of the hero,
but with self-repression, dignity, and a high degree of ability as a
biographer.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 345. Je. 1. ’07. 280w.
“A tale at once moving and picturesque.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 251. Ap. 20, ’07. 1000w.
“It is remarkable because it gives with great frankness, great
impartiality, and an entire absence of bitterness of spirit, the views
of both men respecting slavery, reconstruction, the political rights
and duties of the negro, and the relations between the races.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 76. My. 11. ’07. 280w.
“The old story of the growth of the movement for abolition, and of
Douglass’s concern with it, was well worthy of being told again. It is
told in these pages simply, clearly and as fully as the limits of such
a biography admitted—better told, one is inclined to say than in
Douglass’s own version.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 105. O. ’07. 290w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 635. My. ’07. 140w.
“He has found an eminently worthy biographer.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 437. S. 28. ’07. 510w.
=Washington, Booker T., and Du Bois, W: E. Burghardt.= Negro in the
South: his economic progress in relation to his moral and religious
development; being the William Levi Bull lectures for the year 1907.
**$1. Jacobs.
7–21310.
An objective study of the influence of slavery including two lectures
by Mr. Washington and two by Mr. Du Bois, as follows: The economic
development of the negro race in slavery; The economic development of
the negro race since its emancipation; The economic revolution in the
South; and Religion in the South.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 174. O. ’07.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 502. O. ’07. 230w.
“Du Bois is a dreamer, a rhapsodist, a sort of embodied consciousness
of the doom of his race. He writes always with tragic intensity and
drifts infallibly from facts and arguments to impassioned upbraidings.
anathemas, panegyrics. Booker Washington, a practical man and no
dreamer or poet, writes otherwise. He cannot see the tragic end. His
eye is fixed upon the present and the immediate future. He is made an
optimist by the good things he sees his race has already got and is
getting. He strives practically and sensibly to enable that race to
get as much as possible without alarming the other race.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 429. Jl. 6, ’07. 2070w.
“They contain an excellent summing up from the negro’s point of view
of the conditions, both adverse and favorable, under which the
Southern negro is gradually working out his own salvation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 640. N. ’07. 90w.
=Washington, George.= Letters and recollections of George Washington;
being letters to Tobias Lear and others between 1790 and 1799, showing
the first American in the management of his estate and domestic affairs
with a diary of Washington’s last days, kept by Mr. Lear; il. from rare
old portraits, photographs and engravings. **$2.50. Doubleday.
6–25624.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“With more skilful editing and arrangement, and with a boldly applied
pruning hook, they would supply material for a vivid and sympathetic
sketch of Washington in the rôle of Cincinnatus.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 652. Ap. 27, ’07. 360w.
=Watanna, Onoto, pseud. (Mrs. Winnifred Eaton Babcock) (Mrs. Bertrand
Babcock).= Diary of Delia: being a veracious chronicle of the kitchen
with some side-lights on the parlour. †$1.25. Doubleday.
7–18102.
“Delia is the maid-of-all-work for a ‘family of six,’ and so well is
she rendered that one gets an unaccustomed serious glimpse at many
things perhaps before unseen, through reading her diary, the humor of
which also exists independently of its simplified spelling à la
Irlandais. From that phrase it follows that Delia’s heart is in the
right place, so we know at once where her sympathies will be in her
young mistress’s love affair, and divine with equal certainty and
pleasure her ultimate possession of a sweetheart of her own.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“It is a pity that the author did not elect to tell the history of her
heroine in some other language intelligible to human beings. To say
that the book is lacking in any vestige of humor is not derogatory,
for no one expects humor in Yahoo or Tibetan.”
− =Lit. D.= 35: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 290w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.
“The comedy is good enough to inspire an occasional laugh, especially
when it runs into farce, and there are now and then some touches of
self-revelation of character by Delia and her friend Minnie that are
done rather deftly.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 418. Je. 29, ’07. 230w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 90w.
=Waterman, Nixon.= Boy wanted: a book of cheerful counsel. $1.25.
Forbes.
6–46363.
Advice and incentive are happily united for the enterprising boy. The
keynote of the book is sounded in the following:
Ask no favors of “luck,”—win your way like a man;
Be active and earnest and plucky;
Then your work will come out just about as you plan
And the world will exclaim, “Oh how lucky.”
=Waters, N. McGee.= Heroes and heroism in common life: an appreciation
of the things of every day life. **$1.25. Crowell.
7–29737.
A group of essays which turn back to the waysides and neglected places
where have dwelt masters of plain living and high thinking. A book to
be added to the simple-life literature of the library.
* * * * *
“The papers ... are quietly and pleasantly written, and while much of
their thought is commonplace, there are many passages of tender
feeling and vivid description which show appreciation of all that is
most beautiful in both nature and mankind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 180w.
=Watson, Gilbert.= Caddie of St. Andrew’s. †$1.50. Holt.
The caddies of St. Andrew’s golf course were a pathetic group of
Scotch failures—fishermen who, worn out by their strenuous calling,
had drifted to the links. The particular caddie who gives the book its
title is Skipper, a cheerful old philosopher and toper whose rigid
daughter is the dread of his easy-going existence. His view of life
and the things to which it brings him form the story, which, though
full of Scotch humor, is nevertheless a tragedy.
=Watson, Gilbert.= Voice of the South. *$2.50. Dutton.
“While descriptive of some travels in southern Algeria, the book is a
narrative dealing with the return of an Arab to his desert home....
Athman, the hero in the book, is a poet, musician, and guide.... The
traveler was taken to many beautiful oases, including Sidi Okba, until
one day ... the guide and his employer, Sidi, as he called him, went
into an Arab café and there saw a desert woman dance.... She danced to
desert music the dance of the desert—the South—and Athman’s homeland.
Athman fell in love with her. The Sidi tried to buy her away from him,
but Athman drove away one dark night and was never heard of or seen
again.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“We would recommend ‘The voice of the South’ to all who have a taste
for good prose. To define or describe a good style is always
difficult; but in this particular case it is chiefly apparent in the
simple and adequate narrative, and in the descriptive passages, which
without being either pre-Raphaelite or impressionist, make us see
sufficiently all the important detail, and at the same time realise
the effect of the whole.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 379. Ap. 21, ’06. 870w.
“A chatty, descriptive narrative.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 133. F. 3. 150w.
“The clear, suggestive and beautiful pictures of people, places, and
especially camels, bring you back to geographic reality from a
placeless world of fancy.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 405. N. 24, ’06. 380w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 612. S. 29, ’06. 310w.
=Watson, Helen H.= Andrew Goodfellow: a tale of 1805. $1.50. Macmillan.
The author’s first story which has its setting in the town of Plymouth
Dock during the time of Nelson. Its chief interest is concerned with
the sea.
* * * * *
“This lack of artistic treatment is to be regretted, as the author has
made an interesting choice of characters.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 612. D. 15, ’06. 130w.
“We think it prettily handled and successfully rendered.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 826. D. 29. 210w.
“There is nothing original, nothing, indeed, remarkable. It is a happy
example of a simple thing done well.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 417. D. 14, ’06. 240w.
“It must be classed as better than the average of novels. It cannot be
said that the author succeeds in creating much historical atmosphere.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 66. F. 2, ’07. 410w.
“The story is told in a frank, open-hearted way, with no subtlety and
without much literary art.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 41. Ja. 5, ’07. 30w.
“The book is ably written and the plot well constructed, though the
only character that the author has carefully worked out is that of the
hero, Andrew Goodfellow.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 1084. D. 29, ’06. 190w.
=Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott.= Midsummer day’s dream. †$1.50.
Appleton.
6–31656.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is not often that a story which is written with such buoyancy is
also written with such care as Mr. Marriott Watson invariably bestows
upon his work.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 143. F. 9, ’07. 290w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 52. F. ’07. ✠
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 129. F. 2. 440w.
“The vein of light and fanciful comedy in which this story is written
makes of it a charming piece of work.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 226. Ap. 1, ’07. 230w.
“As a provocative of clean and wholesome gayety, ‘A midsummer day’s
dream’ would be hard to beat.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + =Forum.= 38: 552. Ap. ’07. 270w.
“It never palls, because the author’s spirits never lag, and his
inventiveness never grows stale. Mr. Watson is a master of dialog that
sparkles and amuses; he turns it, gives it grace and charm, yet never
twists it violently for the sake of effect.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1035. My. 2, ’07. 160w.
“It is a delicious book.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 37. F. 1, ’07. 550w.
“Unfortunately the story drags: Mr. Watson’s hand is not quite light
enough for a successful soufflé.”
− + =Sat. R.= 103: 305. Mr. 9, ’07. 200w.
=Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott.= Privateers. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–2061.
A young English girl, who unknown to herself, is the possessor of a
block of valuable railroad stock is pursued by two unscrupulous
American speculators. “There are 395 pages in Mr. Watson’s story and
it is certainly no exaggeration to say that there is at least one
hair-disturbing sensation for every third page, exclusive of the
numerous illustrations, which are designed to furnish little extra
shudders of their own.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The story is well-planned and ably engineered, but there is too much
of every thing; if the author has been less generous, the reader could
follow these extraordinary happenings with equal pleasure and
considerably less fatigue.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 872. S. 7, ’07. 360w.
“He belongs ... to the select body which we once called the ‘Higher
sensationalists,’ and of which Stevenson is the master.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 232. Ag. 31. 230w.
“We cannot say very much for Mr. Watson’s Americans. Their acts and
their words are reflections of an Englishman’s fertile imagination
rather than products of observation.” Wm. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 226. Ap. 1, ’07. 160w.
“It is a fast and furious melodrama written for the special delight of
the gallery gods.”
− =Ind.= 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 320w.
“Flesh and blood are essential to stir the emotions, and these men and
women are solid wax.”
− =Lit. D.= 34: 386. Mr. 9, ’07. 160w.
“Having not a moment to enter into poor Sylvia’s feelings, he has left
her a mere figurehead.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 278. S. 13, ’07. 440w.
“A toy-house of slang, not without surface glitter and iridescence,
though of no substance.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 85. Ja. 24, ’07. 380w.
“Strikes one as nearing the limit of laboriously ingenious
sensationalism. One is forced to assume that Mr. Watson dwells in some
particularly remote and inaccessible part of the British Isles to
which Americans of flesh and blood never have penetrated.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 56. Ja. 26, ’07. 630w.
“A crude piece of preposterous sensationalism.”
− =Outlook.= 85: 378. F. 16, ’07. 70w.
=Watson, John (Ian Maclaren, pseud).= Graham of Claverhouse; il. by
Frank T. Merrill. 50c. Authors and newspapers assn.
7–14589.
“A tale of love, adventure, intrigues, and swagger, of incomparable
Scottish knights and beautiful Highland maidens. The protagonist of
the highly exciting drama is a brilliant and picturesque figure, well
known to Scottish traditions, the hitherto almost neglected by writers
of romance. John Graham, of the famous house of Claverhouse and
kinsman of the great Montrose, is almost ideally adapted for the hero
of what has come to be called a historical novel. Beautiful as
Antinoüs, and a veritable Mars for valor, he completely dominates the
lively chronicle.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“There is no trace of unfairness in this presentment of the cavalier
by the Presbyterian, and the portrait is attractive.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1153. My. 16, ’07. 330w.
“It is a highly colored and on the whole a satisfactory picture of
Scottish chivalry that Dr. Watson has given us.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 842. My. 25, ’07. 280w.
=Watson, John (Ian Maclaren, pseud.).= Inspiration of our faith:
sermons. **$1.25. Armstrong.
5–41620.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“These twenty-nine sermons may indeed be called a contribution to
sermonic literature. Here is rare spiritual insight, winning appeal,
poetic beauty of expression.” T. G. S.
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 76. Ja. ’07. 160w.
=Watson, W. Petrie.= Future of Japan; with a survey of present
conditions. *$3.50. Dutton.
Mr. Watson “aims to predict the trend of Japan’s development, but he
does so by analyzing and reasoning about the Japan of to-day, its
tendencies, conditions, ‘atmosphere,’ and aspirations. The book is not
so much one which records achievements or glances at historical
perspectives as one which takes up basic aspects of character and
derives by philosophical induction a knowledge of what is to be
expected.” (Outlook.) Mr. Watson’s conclusion is “that Japanese
development will not materially influence the civilization of the
west; that as a universal fact Japan is almost negligible; that she
will try to carry out her destiny without the aid of religion, yet
that so far as she will attain success, it will be more and more upon
Western lines.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Yet, though one may dissent from Mr. Watson’s conclusions (perhaps on
account of a bias as purely personal as his own) full justice should
be rendered to the absorbing and stimulating qualities of his book. In
it the salient characteristics of Japanese life and mentality are
admirably brought out.” Osman Edwards.
+ − =Acad.= 72: 477. My. 18, ’07. 1540w.
“We would, however, willingly exchange much of his philosophy for more
of his information.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 38. Jl. 13. 450w.
“If the author has learned from original sources the actual workings
of the Japanese mind, and if he were more familiar with ... the great
transforming forces evident in the press, the literature, and the life
of the nation, especially since the outbreak of the war with
Russia,—his opinions might have been quite different.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 284. N. 1, ’07. 900w.
“Entirely too subjective in attitude and overloaded with references to
things occidental, the text shows slight acquaintance with real
Japanese thought or origins.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 759. S. 26, ’07. 430w.
“No falling off in the author’s latest contribution to the study of
the various aspects of Japanese life.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 179. Je. 7, ’07. 1240w.
“Mr. Watson, to be a true prophet, ought not only to have become
familiar with the results of research and the facts of actual history,
but he ought to have known far more than his pages would lead us to
suppose he does know about the actual state of Christianity in Japan
and the real mind of the leaders of the nation.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 309. O. 3, ’07. 1120w.
Reviewed by George R. Bishop.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 556. S. 14, ’07. 2700w.
“Extremely valuable book.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 791. Ag. 10, ’07. 410w.
“Mr. Watson takes himself very seriously, and has evidently devoted an
immense amount of thought and study to the production of this book,
which on some heads is full of interesting facts; but his facts are so
inextricably tangled up with his theories that the process of
disentanglement is a greater task than human nature cares to
undertake.”
− + =Sat. R.= 104: 19. Jl. 6, ’07. 1180w.
=Watson, William.= Text-book of practical physics. *$3. Longmans.
“A treatise on physical measurements, or experimental physics; no
description of phenomena or laws is included.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The descriptions are throughout clear and detailed, but the author
has perhaps erred by sometimes giving unnecessarily minute directions
as to points of minor importance.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 137. F. 2. 750w.
“Both the arrangement of the text and its style are excellent.”
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 193. F. 14, ’07. 90w.
“The diagrams are very clear, and serve their purpose of elucidating
the text better than elaborate pictures of apparatus.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 314. S. 14, ’06. 280w.
“Schoolmasters should have a copy for reference and for their higher
work.” S. S.
+ =Nature.= 76: 99. My. 30, ’07. 780w.
“Any student specializing in physics ought to be acquainted with the
contents of the book.” K. E. Guthe.
+ =Science=, n.s. 26: 341. S. 13, ’07. 260w.
* =Wayne, Charles Stokes.= Marriage of Mrs. Merlin. †$1.25. Dillingham.
7–26961.
The unique situations growing out of a wealthy young widow’s purchase
of a husband constitute the fabric of this tale. Mrs. Merlin seeks out
a good looking, broad-shouldered young Englishman, offers him the sum
of twenty thousand pounds to marry her and protect her during a year
of travel; at the end of which time either may end the contract.
Shadows out of the past flit across the path of each which are
dissipated by the growing faith in each other. The year’s end brings
to them an earldom and proves that their trial marriage has been
successful enough to endure.
* * * * *
“It is all very foolish and a little improper, but peculiarly
ingenious and interesting withal.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 200w.
=Weale, B. L. Putnam=, ed. Indiscreet letters from Peking; being the
notes of an eye-witness, which set forth in some detail, from day to
day, the real story of the siege and sack of a distressed capital in
1900—the year of the great tribulation. **$2. Dodd.
7–14591.
“This volume is really the story, not the history, of the siege of the
legations in Peking, of the relief of the besieged, and of the sack of
the city. Interesting sidelights are cast upon the actions of the
diplomatic representatives of allied Europe and America, and ...
[there are] comments upon the way the different international troops
behaved during the siege.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“These letters bear the hall-mark of truth and raise the wish that it
had not been necessary to edit them as ruthlessly as they are said to
have been edited. Though his style is vivid he lays no undue emphasis
on horrors for their own sake. He writes with that kind of restraint
which is convincing, and which goes to make these letters one of the
most remarkable documents we have ever read.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 235. Mr. 9. ’07. 1350w.
“This ‘catch penny’ title is descriptive of the contents of the
volume.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 635. My. 25. 360w.
“One cannot easily recall a more vivid picture of what a siege really
is. The value of [the chapter, ‘How I saw the relief,’] as fiction is
doubtful. As history its interest is great, but more than any other
portion of the book it requires the support of authority. If it is to
stand as authentic history, it constitutes a chapter that will be
willingly forgotten by every one save the student of mob psychology.”
Edward Clark Marsh.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 288. My. ’07. 1620w.
“The reader cannot help feeling that the narrative is colored, that
the real facts cannot have been quite so lurid or the characters of
the men and women quite so mean as they are here portrayed. But after
all deductions are made, the story here given, of the warning, the
siege, and sack, is remarkably interesting, even tho it is full of
horrors.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 67. Ag. 1, ’07. 310w.
“Vivid and remarkably good reading the account is, almost throughout,
although too often the author or editor strives too patently after his
effect.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 570. Je. 20, ’07. 480w.
“They are certainly indiscreet, for they are frank and outspoken in
regard to the blindness of the British government, and they are full
of spirit and picturesqueness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 144. Mr. 9, ’07. 230w.
“The note of high tension, so high that it is almost hysterical, runs
through all the pages.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 284. My. 4, ’07. 660w.
“He writes with the pen of a scandalmonger; he sees the events as they
happen around him with the eye of the yellow journalist.”
− =Outlook.= 86: 36. My. 4, ’07. 280w.
“For vivid descriptive writing this story ... has seldom been equaled
in our experience.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 636. My. ’07. 140w.
“The accounts given of many incidents of the siege are Zolaesque in
their grimness of detail and, to give Mr. Weale credit, his word
pictures are well drawn. He tells blood-curdling stories with a gusto
which may appeal to the morbid fancy of a certain class of readers,
but there are many who will want to put down his book, with the
feeling that they wish to read no more.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 240. F. 23, ’07. 1100w.
“The letters are strong and lurid, brutal in realism, often brutal in
cynicism, and invariably clever.”
+ − =Spec.= 37: 256. F. 16, ’07. 1700w.
=Weale, B. L. Putnam.= Truce in the East and its aftermath: being the
sequel to “The reshaping of the Far East.” **$3.50. Macmillan.
7–12875.
A frank analysis and discussion of the factors that go to make what is
known as the “Far Eastern problem.” The study resolves itself into
three parts: Japan and the new position. China and the Chinese, and
The powers and their influence. The author warns his reader against
over confidence in the ten years’ truce now in operation, yet he does
believe that it will be one of the greatest constructive victories of
diplomacy, if, during nine years of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, a
permanent Far Eastern peace is evolved. There are nearly two hundred
pages of appendices including documents peculiarly pertinent to the
subject-matter of the political chapters.
* * * * *
“With his presentment of facts it would be difficult to quarrel, but
with the conclusions ... it is not easy to agree.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 673. Jl. 13, ’07. 950w.
“The book is an admirable presentation of the impressions of one of
the closest observers of Oriental politics.” Chester Lloyd Jones.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 189. Jl. ’07. 870w.
“His book is not convincing. It is too confident in statement, too
dramatic in expression, and knows more of the future of half of Asia
than it is possible for any one even to guess at—above all, any
European. Mr. Weale is always lucid, and even when we are least
convinced by his conclusions, we feel that they have been honestly
formed upon a fairly wide basis of knowledge, experience, and
thought.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 433. Ap. 13. 1520w.
“A genuine pupil of such men as Sir Harry Parkes and other devotees of
a diplomatic policy increasingly absolute, he takes himself entirely
too seriously.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 758. S. 26, ’07. 350w.
“An interesting contribution to the discussion.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 113. Ap. 12, ’07. 660w.
=Nation.= 84: 571. Je. 20, ’07. 350w.
Reviewed by George R. Bishop.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 348. Je. 1, ’07. 1980w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 436. Je. 22, ’07. 90w.
“His penetrating insight and shrewdness of observation in combination
with a broad and minute knowledge, give, a firmness of touch that
inspires a strong feeling of confidence in the author’s opinions.” G:
Louis Beer.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 746. S. ’07. 910w.
“Few writers on the Far East can be as vivid, entertaining, and at the
same time as accurate and informing.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 636. My. ’07. 280w.
“The student of the Far Eastern politics will appreciate the clear
grouping of topics, and the ordinary reader will find himself in a
position to estimate more clearly the play of forces that have—for
good or evil—been set in motion.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 784. Je. 22, ’07. 1910w.
=Weatherford, W. D.= Fundamental religious principles in Browning’s
poetry. $1. Pub: House M. E. ch. So.
7–23628.
“Mr. Weatherford has made a thorough study of Browning’s works, has
gathered up his views on the great fundamentals, has arranged them in
systematic order, and has put them in plain and lucid prose. Browning
interpreted nature, man and life; and Mr. Weatherford has interpreted
Browning’s interpretation.”
=Webb, Sidney, and Webb, Beatrice.= English local government, from the
revolution to the municipal corporations act; the parish and the county.
*$4. Longmans.
6–40962.
The first volume of five or six to be devoted to the history of local
government in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
It covers the government of the parish and the country, and reveals
methods of great accuracy in the use of material.
* * * * *
“This book is epoch-making. The completed work, as planned by the
authors, will constitute a veritable magnum opus both in scope and in
quality, to judge by this splendid installment.” George Elliott
Howard.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 631. Ap. ’07. 1050w.
“Altogether it may be said that every student of English local history
or administration will now have to read this book with care, and every
such student is to be congratulated on having such a key to his
subject.” Edward P. Cheyney.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 191. Jl. ’07. 580w.
“If we may venture to offer a suggestion in face of the immense
industry this book reveals, the authors do not seem to have made much
use of a most important source—the Privy council registers. There is
little to correct in the authors’ work, and that only on minor
points.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1997, 1: 95. Ja. 26. 2390w.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 58. Ja. ’07. 210w.
“The editors have shown throughout a restrained and judicial
temperament.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 366. N. 2. ’06. 960w.
“The nature of the work precludes any attempt at literary finish; but
the narrative flows easily, and, as new light is thrown at every turn
on old and hitherto unexplored institutions, no student of English
government will assert that the subject has been too exhaustively
handled.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 135. F. 7, ’07. 1200w.
“The whole shows through grasp of the subject, in principle and
detail, lucidity of explanation and facility of expression, infinite
care, laborious research and skill in marshalling facts and
innumerable details. It is a book of great value to the thinking
public and local government administrators and students, and worthy of
its authors, who have spent years on it. No part of the book will be
skipped by those really interested in local government.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 102: 616. N. 17, ’06. 1530w.
“The method seems to us as good as possible. The authors are never
lost amid the multitude of their detail, but disentangle the lines of
growth with masterly precision. It is a work which in its way should
become a classic.”
+ + + =Spec.= 98: 424. Mr. 16, ’07. 470w.
“A wholly new contribution to the history of England—a contribution
which is invaluable on account of its thoroughness of research, the
fulness of the authorities quoted for every important statement, and
not least for the excellence of its arrangement and indexing.” Annie
G. Porritt.
+ + + =Yale R.= 15: 460. F. ’07. 1420w.
=Webb, Walter Loring.= Economics of railroad construction. $2.50. Wiley.
6–35441.
“It is designed as a manual of instruction for those engaged in the
practical problems of railroad engineering, but it aims at the same
time to give an insight into the problems of railroad management and
control. With this in mind, Part 1 is devoted to the ‘Financial and
legal elements of the problem,’ in which an excellent summary is given
of railroad statistics, organization capitalization and valuation, and
a chapter on methods of estimating volume of traffic. Part 2 concerns
the ‘Operating elements of the problem,’ including motive power, car
construction and operation, track economics, and train resistance.