diagrams are in terms of metric tons, others in terms of long tons,
while United States statistics are given in pounds. This disparity in
units does not facilitate off-hand comparisons by the reader.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 296. S. 12, ’07. 430w.
=Weeden, William Babcock.= War government: federal and state, in
Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Indiana, 1861–1865. **$2.50.
Houghton.
6–13925.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Many of Mr. Weeden’s characterizations and criticisms are shrewd and
to the point, showing real insight into the problems of that troublous
time and independence of thought in his estimates of men and measures.
His judgments, however, are usually impressionistic, and not based on
ordered evidence and argument.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 408. Ja. ’07. 820w.
“The style, sometimes eccentric and inclined to digression, is always
keen, pungent, and fearless. The characterization of Lincoln is
refreshingly free from conventionality either in praise or blame, and,
with all its partisanship, the book has distinct value.” Theodore
Clarke Smith.
+ − =Atlan.= 98: 705. N. ’06. 380w.
* =Wegmann, Edward.= Design and construction of dams. 5th ed., rev. and
enl. $6. Wiley.
7–31985.
A revised and enlarged edition of Mr. Wegmann’s work including
masonry, earth, rockfill, timber and steel structures also the
principal types of movable dams. It has been carefully brought up to
date.
* * * * *
“A thorough and satisfactory revision.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 539. N. 14, ’07. 550w.
+ =Technical Literature.= 2: 459. N. ’07. 460w.
=Weikel, Anna Hamlin.= Betty Baird: a boarding-school story; il. †$1.50.
Little.
6–29775.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 23. Ja. ’07. ✠
=Weikel, Anna Hamlin.= Betty Baird’s ventures. il. †$1.50. Little.
7–31479.
Friends of Betty Baird will be glad to follow her on a round of
activity that begins the fulfilment of her dream to do something in
the world. The simple things that lie nearest to her, house work,
pickling, preserving were none too prosaic rounds for her ascent. She
is a girl whose very enthusiasm is contagious, and whose cheer alone
is worth any young girl’s emulation.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
“Altogether it is a very good book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 30w.
=Weingartner, (Paul) Felix.= Post-Beethoven symphonists: symphony
writers since Beethoven; tr. from the German by Arthur Bles. *$1.75.
Scribner.
7–18586.
An essay which treats of the contributions which Schumann, Brahms,
Bruckner, Strauss, Schubert, Dvorak, Saint-Saëns, Berlioz and Liszt
have made to orchestral music.
* * * * *
“The English translation by Arthur Bles is serviceable, without being
a model.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 42. Ja. 10, ’07. 720w.
“It is not the work of a skillful translator. It is full of awkward
and unfortunate paraphrases of the original. It also shows none too
great familiarity with German.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 28. Ja. 19. ’07. 410w.
=Weininger, Otto.= Sex and character; authorized tr. from the 6th Germ.
ed. *$3. Putnam.
6–9695.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is brilliantly written, and contains at once profound reflections
and almost laughably unfounded statements of fact. It is at times
stimulating and suggestive, but, nevertheless, often irritating,
because the central idea seems rather an obsession of a brilliant but
inexperienced mind than a conception to which the writer has been
driven by carefully considered facts.” L. A.
+ − =Nature.= 75: 481. Mr. 21, ’07. 1340w.
* =Weir, Archibald.= Introduction to the history of modern Europe. $2.
Houghton.
The author reviews in their logical connection the chief groups of
events which formed the groundwork of European history in the
nineteenth century. The period covered is approximately that between
1720 and 1820. “It treats of the political and social reforms
introduced in the several monarchies, beginning with the opening of
the eighteenth century; the changes brought about by the French
revolution and by the Napoleonic despotism; the growth of personal
liberty and political solidarity in the various countries of
continental Europe after the downfall of Napoleon; the industrial
revolution in England; the development of machinery and its influence
on economics; and the advance in science; philosophy, and literature.”
* * * * *
“A somewhat unsafe guide to the unwary reader. When all has been said
by the way of criticism, however, there is much in this work which
makes it a most useful text-book for teachers. It does not pretend to
be sufficient in itself; and, while they will be able to modify some
of its conclusions by their wider reading, it will open up many lines
of study not accessible in the usual text-books.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 263. Ag. 30, ’07. 1100w.
=Weiss, Bernhard.= Commentary on the New Testament; tr. by George H.
Schodde, and Epiphanius Wilson; with an introd. by James S. Riggs. 4v.
ea. *$3. Funk.
6–17019.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is by no means representative of the best work now being done by
German scholars. Professor Weiss is an able exegete, and he has
studied the text with astounding diligence. He is fitted also by deep
religious sympathies to be a commentator of the New Testament. The
meaning of a particular verse he often states with surprising
clearness. But insight into the historical processes which gave rise
to the New Testament writings is lacking, and one who studies these
works of evangelist and apostles in order to trace the life and growth
of which they were a part will find little help in this commentary.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 331. F. 7, ’07. 300w.
=Weiss, Bernhard.= Religion of the New Testament; tr. from the Germ. by
G: H. Schodde. *$2. Funk.
5–3717.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“It does, indeed, show wide research and much painstaking toil of the
true German type, but it is wholly unpractical and unnecessary.”
Robert E. Bisbee.
+ − =Arena.= 37: 218. F. ’07. 80w.
=Wells, Carolyn.= Patty’s summer days. †$1.25. Dodd.
6–30458.
“With this volume the “Patty series” is swelled to four, and we have
that attractive young person brought down, or rather up, to the sweet
girl graduate stage, with just enough of more advanced festivities
thrown in to serve as a suitable excuse for the next ... phase of her
career.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“As delightful as its predecessors.”
+ =Bookm.= 24: 524. Ja. ’07. 30w.
“Without seeming to lecture, Miss Wells has buried some very good
advice for city schoolgirls in this little story of Patty’s senior
year at the Oliphant school.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 721. N. 3, ’06. 370w.
* =Wells, Carolyn.= Rainy day diversions. *$1. Moffat.
7–28641.
The “diversions” are grouped as follows: Uncle Bob’s astonishing
tricks, consisting of tricks, puzzles and games, told in story form;
Holiday amusements, full of suggestions for holiday celebrations;
Children’s plays, giving two Christmas plays.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 210. N. ’07.
=Ind.= 63: 1007. O. 24, ’07. 60w.
“Offers too much mental exercise, and too little actual
entertainment.”
− =Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 40w.
=Wells, David Dwight.= Parlous times. $1.50. Holt.
Love and diplomacy play at cross purposes in Mr. Wells’ story. The
trend of the logic of the book would tend to prove the triteness of
the saying that “everything is fair in love and war;” the sense of
justice, however, rules, and the woman, married to one man, but
playing a desperate diplomatic game while attempting to win the love
of another is no more harshly dealt with than to be brought to an
understanding of right and of her sense of duty.
=Wells, Edward L.= Hampton and reconstruction. $1.50. State co.
7–17887.
“Mainly an account of the nomination and election in 1876 of General
Wade Hampton as governor of South Carolina on the ‘straightout’
Democratic platform. Introductory chapters give an account of
Hampton’s ancestry, his early life and training, an appreciation of
his character, and a sketch of his service as a Confederate general in
the civil war. In the last chapter the author speaks briefly of the
later years of Hampton as United States senator and as retired
citizen.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“The work is interestingly written, with perhaps too much moralizing,
and contains an abundant store of good anecdotes.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 170. S. 16, ’07. 250w.
“The narrative is often rambling and disjointed; and the tone, while
sincere is too partisan for the purpose of history.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 946. O. 17, ’07. 230w.
=Wells, Herbert George.= Future in America: a search after realities.
**$2. Harper.
6–40259.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“His consideration of our economic, social, and material phases, shows
considerable insight and sympathy. Exaggerations may easily be picked
out, and palpable errors, not a few, but in spite of them, the
American reader will gain a broader view, and some food for thought.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 50. F. ’07. S.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 226. Ja. ’07. 440w.
“It is surely impossible to class him with the critics of jaundiced
eye, even though he quits us in a state of wistful bewilderment rather
than in one of confident hope.” James F. Muirhead.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 563. O. ’07. 1970w.
“Mr. Wells’s ‘Future in America’ is but the present that to-morrow
will be the past. We had a right to expect from him a more
philosophical, a more scientific, a farther-seeing book.” A. Schade
van Westrum.
+ − =Bookm.= 24: 482. Ja. ’07. 1390w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 78. Ja. ’07. 2240w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 404. Ap. ’07. 1490w.
“Appears to us to deserve, instead of praise, sharp censure for its
superficiality, bad English and its frivolousness.”
− =Educ. R.= 34: 105. Je. ’07. 20w.
“Tho a few of the pages might have been modified had the writer
prolonged his visit none the less they are worth perusal, not alone
for the criticisms themselves, but also for the charm of the literary
art with which they are expressed.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 731. Mr. 28, ’07. 640w.
Reviewed by Garrett Droppers.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 174. Mr. ’07. 1410w.
“Mr. Wells is acute in observation, he is well informed on English
social problems, and he reasons carefully. Never was an outside critic
more kindly and sympathetic than Mr. Wells, and we have no doubt that
during the next twenty years this book will be referred to and quoted
from by every good writer on social problems, which, after all, are
not peculiar to America.” John Perry.
+ =Nature.= 75: 265. F. 17, ’07. 1550w.
“The book is full of quotable sentences, and nothing could prove the
actual maturity of the American people better than the interest and
good nature we feel in just such inadequate representations of our
country as this is.”
− + =Outlook.= 85: 526. Mr. 2, ’07. 390w.
=Wells, Herbert George.= In the days of the comet. †$1.50. Century.
6–34685.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The volume is scarcely to be considered as the portrayal of an ideal
commonwealth; nor as a serious study of social conditions, while as a
love story it is pretty weak.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 470. N. ’06. 80w.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
=Atlan.= 99: 115. Ja. ’07. 170w.
Reviewed by Madeleine Z. Doty.
=Charities.= 17: 487. D. 15, ’06. 490w.
“He used to spin capital yarns after an improved Jules Verne fashion,
but his reconstructions of society are neither exciting nor plausible.
He has deceived us by false pretenses, and we shall hereafter regard
his books with justifiable suspicion.” Wm. M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 42: 14. Ja. 1, ’07. 160w.
− + =R. of Rs.= 35: 126. Ja. ’07. 100w.
=Wells, Herbert George.= Time machine; an invention. †$1. Holt.
Instead of a comet to lead up to a new regime, Mr. Wells invents in
his present story a time machine which flies with the narrator thru
the future to a golden age in which the dreams of to-day, speculations
upon the destiny of our race have become projects deliberately put in
hand and carried forward. Among them communism, disappearance of
disease, subjugation of Nature, warring of physical force, and the
close resemblance of the sexes.
=Welsh, Charles=, ed. Golden treasury of Irish songs and lyrics. 2v.
$2.50. Dodge.
7–11574.
“The present anthology ... undertakes to present the best examples of
Irish lyrical literature, the songs of the bards of old, the
folksongs, the street ballads, the patriotic, pathetic, and romantic
songs of the people so far as they have been preserved, the humorous
and convivial verse, in which also the literature of the country
abounds. Mr. Welsh has included as well poems of the current Irish
revival, of which Mr. Yeats and Mr. Hyde are the prophets.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“Mr. Welsh has given us in such generous measure all that he promised,
that it would be ungracious to grumble because he has thrown a lot of
odds and ends into the bargain.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 86: 120. O. ’07. 450w.
=Nation.= 84: 570. Je. 20, ’07. 1270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 220w.
“Mr. Welsh’s anthology is more complete than any former collection of
Irish poetry and necessarily admits some work that does not commend
itself to all, but this may be pardoned more readily than the omission
of Moira O’Neill whose verse, almost more than that of its fellows, is
fashioned of the iridescent web of smiles and tears we have learned to
call the Celtic temperament.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ + − =Putnam’s.= 3: 364. D. ’07. 160w.
=Wendell, Barrett.= France of to-day. **$1.50. Scribner.
7–29424.
“Professor Barrett Wendell aims to interpret, not one Frenchman, but
the French people. He undertakes to portray their character, to
explain what to the Anglo-Saxon appear to be strange contradictions in
their conduct, to interpret their life, to a people whose temperament
is antagonistic and whose point of view is widely different.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The book is delightfully entertaining, and makes for a better
understanding of the French people, their life and their ideals.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 199. N. ’07.
“The early chapters are full of illuminating passages. But when the
author ceases to deal with things which he has seen, he gets out of
his depth, and is less valuable. The book suffers a little ... from
having been composed for American consumption, but on the whole it is
both interesting and informing.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 686. N. 30. 1320w.
“The work is delightfully written with a leisurely air of personal
reminiscences and full of those secure generalities which can be made
only as a result of genuine experience.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 876. D. 7, ’07. 380w.
“Professor Wendell’s book is both entertaining and profitable, and can
be recommended as an introduction to the study of the French
character.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 498. N. 28, ’07. 940w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
“I greatly admire the book, it is full of excellent things; the author
combines acumen with sympathy. He knows how to praise and he knows
also how to blame, a much rarer art.” J. A. J. Jusserand.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 742. N. 23, ’07. 110w.
“He is appreciative without being eulogistic, discriminating without
being critical. In general his catholic spirit is wholly admirable,
his insight keen, his conceptions clear, and his style felicitous. The
book is a valuable contribution to an understanding of the French.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 499. N. 2, ’07. 340w.
“It is a rather keen study of the highly complex French temperament
which Professor Wendell gives.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 639. N. ’07. 110w.
“Whether the reader knows or does not know France, he will learn very
much from this thoughtful book.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 822. N. 23, ’07. 1780w.
=Wendell, Barrett.= Liberty, union, and democracy: the national ideals
of America. **$1.25. Scribner.
6–36883.
From its beginning, back to the days of the Declaration of
independence and the Constitution, Professor Wendell traces
Americanism historically.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 76. Mr. ’07.
“This is in many respects a remarkable book. Even those who disagree
fundamentally with the brilliant generalizations of the author cannot
deny the bristling suggestiveness on every page. The breadth of view
and acuteness of analysis which characterize this book give it an
unique place in our political literature.” L. S. Rowe.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 624. N. ’07. 500w.
“It is difficult to comprehend how a man who for a generation and more
has been in a position of vantage from which to observe the currents
of American political, social and intellectual life, should have had
his provincialism so little disturbed by the almost universal
intellectual unrest that marks contemporary America.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 213. Ja. 24, ’06. 770w.
=Lit. D.= 34: 178. F. 2, ’07. 250w.
“With sober yet unconventional reflection, keen and matured insight,
pervading reasonableness and good sense, and uncommon grace of speech,
he has made clear some of the ideals which have made America great.
The book should be widely read.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 444. N. 22, ’06. 1390w.
“The weakness of Mr. Wendell’s expository methods [is], having evolved
a brilliant theory, ... he bends all facts to fit it.” H. W. Boynton.
+ − =No. Am.= 183: 1182. D. 7, ’07. 1250w.
“To my mind the most satisfactory recent defence of the fundamental
elements of American character is to be found in Barrett Wendell’s
‘Liberty, union, and democracy.’”
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 639. F. ’07. 430w.
Reviewed by Horatio S. Krans.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 107. Ap. ’07. 1970w.
“His writings on political subjects are suggestive and his
interpretation of the American, in the main, sound and sane.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 760. D. ’06. 70w.
=Werder, Karl.= Heart of Hamlet’s mystery; tr. from the German by
Elizabeth Wilder; with introd. by W. J. Rolfe. **$1.50. Putnam.
7–6156.
Some of the lectures delivered by Professor Werder in Berlin 1859–60,
which graphically present his theory that Hamlet was obliged by
circumstances to delay his revenge in order to unmask and convict the
king. They also contain a critical summary of the whole drama and
discussions upon other disputed points.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Edward Fuller.
=Bookm.= 26: 158. O. ’07. 360w.
=Ind.= 63: 155. Jl. 18, ’07. 290w.
=Nation.= 84: 390. Ap. 25, ’07. 560w.
“Werder is an intensely matter-of-fact critic—all prose. The beauty of
the book is that Werder has a firm grip on his argument, and
coherently analyzes the play in its light. It is therefore, for most
readers, a new and intelligible study of ‘Hamlet,’ and as such it will
be welcomed.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 73. F. 9, ’07. 800w.
“The argument is presented with great clearness and force.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 436. Je. 22, ’07. 290w.
=Wesley, John.= John Wesley’s journal. Abridged. *50c. West. Meth. bk.
A handy one-volume edition in which the more interesting features of
the two volume work are brought into condensed form. The main facts
that illustrate the rise and progress of Methodism have been preserved
in a continuous narrative.
* * * * *
“The condensation is considerable but the most characteristic and
valuable features of this intensely interesting human document are
preserved, and no liberties (except of omission) have been taken with
Wesley’s text.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 179. Mr. 16, ’07. 40w.
=Wesselhoeft, Mrs. Elizabeth F. P.= Diamond king and the little man in
gray. il. †$1.50. Little.
7–30454.
A child’s Christmas dream in which she wanders among the elves, gnomes
and giants of the diamond king’s realm. It is a pretty fairy tale as
well as wholesome.
* * * * *
“A new kind of fairy tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 150w.
=West, Andrew Fleming.= Short papers on American liberal education.
**75c. Scribner.
7–8568.
“How to combine the advantages of a large university with the peculiar
benefits of the small college, is one of the problems of our higher
education. Dr. Andrew Fleming West, dean of the graduate school of
Princeton, answers it in his book ‘American liberal education,’ by the
tutorial system now in force at Princeton, and he presents some good
arguments in its favor, if the teachers and the taught are to know
each other at all.”—Ind.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 133. My. ’07.
Reviewed by Edward O. Sisson.
=Dial.= 43: 286. N. 1, ’07. 440w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 742. Mr. 28, ’07. 70w.
“The only fault reasonably to be found with the volume is that it is a
collection of occasional papers and addresses, having much in common,
but not dealing adequately with the highly important subject to which
they relate. Sanity is the distinguishing quality of Prof. West’s
little volume.” E. C.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 153. Mr. 16, ’07. 1180w.
“Should be read by all college alumni who would keep pace with
advancing change.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 764. Mr. 30, ’07. 230w.
=Westcott, Rt. Rev. Brooke Foss.= St. Paul’s epistle to the Ephesians:
the Greek text with notes and addenda. *$2.50. Macmillan.
“The late bishop of Durham, left an all but finished commentary, which
is here presented with an introduction and appendix to which friends
and co-workers have supplied the larger part. The text is that of the
last edition of Westcott and Hort’s ‘New Testament.’ Added to it are
the Vulgate (Latin) version of the fourth century and the versions of
Wicliff and Tyndale.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 366. N. 2, ’06. 1130w.
=Nation.= 83: 482. D. 6, ’06. 120w.
=Outlook.= 84: 681. N. 17. ’06. 70w.
“In his last, and unhappily almost fragmentary, commentary on
Ephesians we find no failure. So far as we have Westcott, it is
Westcott at his best.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 242. F. 23, ’07. 830w.
=Westcott, Rt. Rev. Brooke Foss.= Village sermons. $1.75. Macmillan.
Forty sermons preached upon various occasions from 1852 to 1881 while
the late Bishop of Durham was rector of a rural church.
* * * * *
“When the simplicity of their form and expression is considered, as
well as the regretted personality of their author, we look to these
sermons at once to enrich and to clarify the teaching of those who
stand to-day in similar pulpits.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 30. Ja. 25, ’07. 480w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 12. Ja. 5, ’07. 300w.
=Outlook.= 85: 576. Mr. 9, ’07. 70w.
“They are for the most part direct, simple, suggestive sermons, full
of fact and thought rather than of exhortation.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 26. Ja. 5, ’07. 190w.
=Westell, W. Percival.= British bird life: being popular sketches of
every species of bird now regularly nesting in the British Isles. $1.25.
Wessels.
One hundred and seventy-seven species are included in this volume
which is profusely illustrated by photographs and drawings. “Each bird
is treated under a separate head.... Each sketch includes a brief
description of the bird and of its eggs and nest, together with some
comment on its habits and haunts.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Another of the cheap illustrated books which are now so much in
vogue. Signs of weakness are perceptible with regard to unfamiliar
species and especially respecting migrants.”
− =Ath.= 1905, 2: 213. Ag. 12. 400w.
− =Nature.= 72: 196. Je. 29, ’05. 580w.
“When treating of disputed matters Mr. Westell digresses from the more
stereotyped form into very interesting narration of personal
experiences.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 59. F. 2, ’07. 300w.
“The work is done very carefully and with scientific accuracy, but
ready-made knowledge has its deficiencies; it is especially apt to
fail in style.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 99: 601. My. 6, ’05. 100w.
“The title is misleading, since only birds which regularly nest in the
British Isles are included; and the alphabetical order is
inconvenient. The information in the text is unreliable, and grammar
as well as sense are frequently disregarded by the writer.”
− =Spec.= 94: 752. My. 20, ’05. 110w.
=Westermarck, Edward Alexander.= Origin and development of the moral
ideas. 2v. v. 1. *$3.50. Macmillan.
6–18579.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The citations are accurate and from so many writers that this volume
at once becomes a source book of great value. The style is compact,
but very readable. Only in a few of the first chapters did the
reviewer have any sense of an attempt at hair-splitting. On the whole,
the volume is a masterly discussion of great moral questions and
leaves one anxious to see the second.” Carl Kelsey.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 489. N. ’06. 760w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Dr. Westermarck’s book makes good reading for all who are interested
in the evolution of human ideas and human institutions, from the
tariff to woman suffrage, and from capital punishment to the elective
system in colleges and universities.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 545. Je. 13, ’07. 1470w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The interpretation of these facts may here and there be questioned,
but the important thing is to have the facts collected so as to be
within easy reach. Ethical theorists should find the work invaluable,
as thus furnishing them with concrete facts to rest their theories on
or to test their theories by. The sociologist will find illuminating
discussion of many customs, while the general reader if interested in
matters of universal human concern, cannot fail to get pleasure and
instruction from the reading of the book. Altogether it is perhaps
safe to say that the work is the most important contribution to
ethical literature within recent years.” Evander Bradley McGilvary.
+ + − =Philos. R.= 16: 70. Ja. ’07. 3830w. (Review of v. 1.)
Western frontier stories, retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical
stories.) *65c. Century.
7–29581.
Sixteen stories for young readers of early frontier life which teem
with such adventure as only western made grit can cope with. Indians,
desperadoes, wolves and storms give the stout-hearted and quick of
action plenty of opportunity to show their courage.
=Weston, Thomas.= History of the town of Middleboro, Mass. **$5.
Houghton.
6–23056.
“This volume not only gives the dry facts of history and genealogy
very fully, but also tells of the social customs of the eighteenth
century, and supplies many pictures of and scenes in King Philip’s war
and the French war.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“This is an unusually interesting history of a class which ought to be
very large, for every town should have an official historian.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1234. N. 22, ’06. 280w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 58. Ja. 17, ’07. 430w.
“Does credit to all concerned in its publication.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 841. D. 1, ’06. 230w.
=Weyman, Stanley John.= Chippinge Borough. †$1.50. McClure.
6–37198.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 19. Ja. ’07.
“There is, perhaps, nothing better in the book than the sense of
tension everywhere prevailing on the eve of an election.” Frederic
Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 24: 488. Ja. ’07. 400w.
“On the whole, we must congratulate the author upon what is very
nearly if not quite the best of all his novels.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 144. Mr. 1. ’07. 290w.
“Stanley J. Weyman has come to that place as a novelist where he can
afford to amuse himself when he writes whether he entertains the
reader or not.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 674. Mr. 21, ’07 70w.
=Weyman, Stanley John.= Laid up in lavender. †$1.50. Longmans.
7–32320.
“A venerable arch-deacon is entreated by a lady whom he knew in his
youth to visit her in her illness. She is an actress, and has a
daughter who is a well-known and beautiful actress; and he finds it
rather embarrassing when he is asked to undertake the charge of the
latter in the event of her mother’s death. When he does find his ward
on his hands, he takes counsel of his son, a barrister, who gives him
advice in the hypothetical case put to him. Of course the father,
hoping to marry off the awkward ward to the man he has heard she
loves, discovers this to be his own son under his writing name.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“They are all good stories, and each of them causes something of that
feeling of excitement which Mr. Weyman knows so well how to produce.”
+ =Acad.= 73: sup. 115. N. 9, ’07. 420w.
“[The stories] are uninspired and take the author’s reputation no
further. Indeed, they ‘drop’ it.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 516. O. 26. 250w.
“Slight as they are, these early sketches leave the impression that
Mr. Weyman understood contemporary life so well that a very promising
disciple of Trollope was lost when he turned aside to don the sword
and buskin.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 410. D. ’07. 350w.
“The variety of the provender supplied in the group makes a wholesome
and digestible banquet from nourishing soup through seasoned entrée to
contenting coffee.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 447. N. 14, ’07. 150w.
“None of the twelve tales has anything to raise it above the level of
ordinary magazine fiction, and two or three of them are positively
dull.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 711. N. 9, ’07. 100w.
“Most of the other tales bear internal evidence of having been written
some time ago, and the author would have been best advised to have
kept them still laid up in lavender.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 641. N. 23, ’07. 520w.
=Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth.= Italian days and ways. **$1.50.
Lippincott.
6–41526.
The amusing experiences of “three women—one young, the others
uncertainly older—who land at Genoa and travel through the highways of
Italy à la American tourist.” (Nation.) The record of the travels is
in the form of letters written by one of the older women to a friend
at home.
* * * * *
“Lacks the humor and buoyancy of Mrs. Wiggin’s Penelope stories but
has much human interest and reflects considerable culture and
appreciation of Italian sights and scenes.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 15. Ja. ’07. S.
“Something of the unfading charm of Italy is caught in the pages of
Miss Wharton’s ‘Italian days and ways.’”
+ =Dial.= 41: 452. D. 16, ’06. 170w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 80w.
“There is a tendency to enlarge upon trifling incidents, which
produces the effect of padding; but the spirit of enthusiastic
enjoyment gives a fresh view to old scenes.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 153. F. 14, ’07. 210w.
“Her accounts of life in the various towns of Italy are as unhackneyed
as they are simple and unaffected.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 574. Mr. 9, ’07. 50w.
=Wharton, Edith.= Fruit of the tree. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–32842.
The interest of the first part of this story centers in the efforts of
young John Amherst, who occupies a subordinate position in the
management of the Westmore mills, to solve some of the industrial
problems there presented, particularly in providing for the health and
safety of the employes. His opportunity to carry out his cherished
plans seems to be at hand when he gains the sympathy and interest and
finally the love of the beautiful young widow who owns the mills. The
marriage follows, and a little later there befalls a terrible accident
in which the wife is hopelessly injured and to put her out of her
pain, Justine, friend and nurse, administers an overdose of morphine.
Justine marries Amherst who thru the blackmailing scheme of a young
physician learns of Justine’s act and for a time is overwhelmed with
her technical responsibility of Bessie’s death while his reason tells
him that she is innocent.
* * * * *
“A novel of extraordinary power and intense interest, interpreting
American life of the present day, done with Mrs. Wharton’s usual
subtlety, ease and precision.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 204. N. ’07. ✠
“Though a better book than its predecessor, is not likely to provoke
an equal amount of that heated and emotional public discussion which
is the true sign of popularity.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 273. N. ’07. 1300w.
“Besides its accomplished artistry, Mrs. Wharton’s work always gives
us the sense of ethical responsibility.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 317. N. 16, ’07. 580w.
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 330w.
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1436. D. 12, ’07. 910w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14, ’07. 140w.
“Again Mrs. Wharton has done a difficult thing with ease and
precision.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 352. O. 17, ’07. 970w.
“The astonishing thing is that we close the book with the feeling
that, after all, the execution is superior to the idea; the story is
better told than such a story deserves to be. We admire, but we are a
little chilled; Mrs. Wharton sits at her desk like a disembodied
intelligence; acute and critical and entirely unsympathetic; she is as
detached as a scientific student viewing bacilli under a microscope.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 637. O. 19, ’07. 1000w.
“Even better than ‘The house of mirth.’”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“Is not a bringer of joy, but it is penetrating in analysis, and
evades none of the issues it raises. It lacks humor and contrast of
character. The luxury and frivolity of a certain set of society people
are almost too insistently driven home.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 621. N. 23, ’07. 210w.
=Wharton, Edith.= Madame de Treymes. †$1. Scribner.
7–8219.
Mrs. Wharton’s stage is occupied by two women—one French by birth, the
other by marriage—and an American who at forty is dabbling in the
rather unsafe business of aiding one of them in divorce proceedings in
order to attain his belated happiness. In transferring her point of
observation from a New York to a Paris drawing room, Mrs. Wharton has
made the enamel of convention only a little more brilliant, and in
suffering it to crack to reveal a shrivelled up heart, only shows that
underneath such gloss, life has ceased to ring true to any standards
of spontaneity. Family, society, and the church are inexorable Molochs
to whom must be sacrificed infant joy, freedom, hope and even courage.
* * * * *
“Now there is much that is admirable and subtle in the story and its
treatment. The different points of view of two types of character are
set forth with great clearness. The story, however, loses its
poignancy owing to the fact that these types are not individualized.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 465. My. 11, ’07. 470w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 137. My. ’07.
“The writing is distinguished by that blend of strength and grace
which is characteristic of Mrs. Wharton.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 535. My. 4. 170w.
“Whether or not in her most recently published novelette Mrs. Wharton
gives a just evaluation to the ideals of another race, there can be no
two opinions of the story’s literary merits.” Harry James Smith.
+ + =Atlan.= 100: 131. Jl. ’07. 550w.
“Although a miracle of condensation, in matter, in form, and by an
unimpeachable distinction of style, Mrs. Wharton has written a short
story which stands entirely above criticism.” Mary Moss.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 303. My. ’07. 1000w.
“The author’s ideas are evaporated into Henry James subtleties, and so
it is merely a little pamphlet of elegant discriminations.”
− =Ind.= 62: 1528. Je. 27, ’07. 220w.
“Mrs. Wharton’s little story is as thin as her astral shape and should
not be mentioned except to call attention to the fact that she has
learned to begin where Henry James leaves off.”
− =Ind.= 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 30w.
“Her pages exhale the undefinable atmosphere and aroma of aristocratic
French life of the present day—a phase of life almost incomprehensible
to the foreigner. The author’s style is full of distinction and is
marked by those exquisite reserves that characterize the born artist.
Slight as the volume is, it reveals artistic possibilities hitherto
undiscerned.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 640. Ap. 20, ’07. 350w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 313. Ap. 4, ’07. 710w.
“She succeeds in painting her gray picture not so subtly that we
forget her art, but exquisitely enough for us to recognize how fine
that art is.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 137. Mr. 9, ’07. 1400w.
“The precision of her technique ... the sensitiveness and significance
of her observation, her feeling for the harmonious sentence and the
suggestive phrase ... must always stamp her work as superior to that
of many writers of wider sympathy and more spontaneous talent.” Olivia
Howard Dunbar.
+ + =No. Am.= 185: 218. My. 17, ’07. 1200w.
“A characteristic piece of work from an extremely careful and artistic
writer.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 255. Je. 1, ’07. 150w.
“An absolutely flawless and satisfying piece of workmanship.” Vernon
Atwood.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 616. Ag. ’07. 700w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 764. Je. ’07. 320w.
“The great force of the French family as an organization has never
been better treated by a foreign pen, and the little book is written
with all the author’s usual delicacy and distinction of style.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 764. My. 11, ’07. 90w.
=Whates, H. R.= Canada, the new nation. **$1.50. Dutton.
6–43469.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 133. My. ’07. S.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 109. Ja. ’07. 150w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 53. Jl. 14, ’06. 380w.
=Wheeler, W. H.= Practical manual of tides and waves. *$2.80. Longmans.
6–33569.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 252. Ap. 14, ’06. 200w.
=Whelpley, James Davenport.= Problem of the immigrant. *$3. Dutton.
5–11644.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“Mr. Whelpley’s conclusions are forcefully stated even though it is
impossible to follow him in all of them.” Arthur B. Reeve.
+ − =Charities.= 17: 506. D. 15, ’06. 930w.
=Wherry, Elwood Morris.= Islam and Christianity in India and the Far
East. (The student lectures on missions at Princeton theological
seminary for 1906–’07.) **$1.25. Revell.
7–17908.
In which the author “recounts and describes the various methods of
conquest by which Islamism established itself in these several
countries, how it has been modified by Hinduism, Buddhism, and
Confucianism, and, finally, what Christianity is doing for the
conversion of the Mohammedans of these various countries, and what
success is attending its efforts.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“There is evident throughout the book a thorough knowledge of the
history of Islamism, and also of present-day social and moral
conditions in Mohammedan countries.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 200w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 46. S. 7, ’07. 140w.
=Whinery, Samuel.= Specifications for street roadway pavements. *50c.
Eng. news.
“After a discussion of the theory of specifications, the general
features of specifications are considered, such as those providing for
inspection, public convenience and safety, extra work etc. Foundations
are then taken up, concrete, old paving stone and broken stone being
included. Under the heading ‘Bituminous pavements’ are found asphalt,
block asphalt and rock asphalt. The various ingredients of these
pavements are treated in detail, and the best methods for laying each
pavement are specified. Granite, brick and woodblock pavements are
given ample attention, and in the closing pages paragraphs of a
general nature, relating to all pavements, are given, including
payments, specifications for experimental and untried pavements,
etc.”—Technical Literature.
* * * * *
“The pamphlet is a valuable contribution to the literature upon the
proper construction of pavements, and will undoubtedly have much
influence in standardizing, so far as local conditions will permit,
specifications for this kind of work.” Edwin A. Fisher.
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 179. Ag. 15, ’07. 1750w.
=Technical Literature.= 2: 97. Ag. ’07. 220w.
=Whipple, George Chandler.= Value of pure water. $1. Wiley.
7–8249.
Here “an attempt is made from valuable data to establish formulae
which may be employed to calculate the allowable depreciation due to
sanitary quality, physical characteristics (colour, odour, etc.),
hardness, etc., of a water supply.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“This little book is planned on novel lines and deserves recognition.
The book is suggestive and stimulating reading, the various tables add
to its value, and we heartily commend it to the sanitarian and water
engineer.”
+ + =Nature.= 76: 245. Jl. 11, ’07. 450w.
“The book is well worth its price and should be found in every water
library.” W. P. Mason.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 25: 787. My. 17, ’07. 400w.
=Whistler, Charles W.= Gerald the sheriff: a story of the sea in the
days of William Rufus. †$1.50. Warne.
A story of life in England in the twelfth century. “It tells of the
outlawing of a young Saxon thane, who joined wits and grievances with
a displaced Cornish sheriff and, gathering together a hand of Saxon
malcontents, hatched a plot for driving out the hated Norman king and
seating in his place a Saxon heir to the throne. The tale is told in
the first person and merely recounts the adventures which befell the
young man and his friend as they followed their forlorn hope. But the
adventures are perilous and exciting, and they follow close upon one
another, until finally the chief actors win back to place and lands
and safety.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The author has made an interesting tale of swift action and high
motives, and has told it with a simplicity and dignity of style worthy
of a higher grade of work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 37. Ja. 19, ’07. 410w.
=Whitaker, Herman.= Settler. †$1.50 Harper.
7–32564.
Manitoba in its primeval loneliness is the scene of his story. A
gently reared girl enters the wilderness to care for her brother in
his last illness. After his death she marries a rough, crude,
strong-hearted settler, then permits her regret for the step to drive
the pride-hurt man from her. The situations which grow out of the
separation and final reunion are all intensified by the savagery of
the wild surroundings.
* * * * *
“A rapid, active tale of adventure.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 474. N. 21, ’07. 190w.
“Much information may be gleaned from ‘The settler’ relating to lumber
camps and farming lands of the Canadian Northwest and to the effects
on its industrial conditions of the scheming of railway monopolists.
We submit that the attempted realism here, especially in the freedom
of speech employed by the women, is, in any case, unnecessarily
offensive.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 828. D. 14, ’07. 150w.
=Whitcomb, Ida Prentice.= Young people’s story of art. $2. Dodd.
6–38344.
A concise and interesting sketch of the Egyptian, Grecian, Roman,
Italian, Spanish, German, Flemish, Dutch, English, and French schools
of art into which are woven stories and legends of the artists and
their works.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 23. Ja. ’07.
“It is interesting and instructive and will be read quite as eagerly
and with as much profit by the older folks.”
+ − =Bookm.= 24: 526. Ja. ’07. 90w.
“The accounts are full, biographically, historically and in a literary
way, while the illustrations are in themselves of distinct value.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1406. D. 13, ’06. 80w.
“A sympathetically written text, interpolated with most carefully
selected pictures. No child who has any sense of the beautiful will
find this book dull. Its inspiration to visit museums and see with his
own eyes the pictures described is undoubted.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 836. D. 1, ’06. 440w.
* =White, Frederick M.= Nether millstone. †$1.50. Little.
7–36980.
A fine old English estate is the scene of most that happens in this
tale. Ralph Darnley, the lost heir, returns to find Sir George
Dashwood the next of kin in possession, but with only his grandmother
and an old butler in his confidence Darnley plans to conceal his
identity until he teaches the girl he loves, the daughter of Sir
George, the futility of her Dashwood pride which stands in the way of
accepting his suit. He aids a false claimant to a nominal control of
the property, which renders Sir George and his daughter penniless. The
daughter is thrown upon the world and when she has learned its lessons
and discovered what true worthiness is Darnley reveals his identity
and carries her back to Dashwood hall.
=White, Frederick M.= Slave of silence. †$1.50. Little.
6–24582.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“We are glad to notice in [this novel] the evidence of more care in
its production than the last one or two from his pen had led us to
expect.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 162. F. 9. 100w.
=White, Stewart Edward.= Camp and trail. *$1.25. Outing.
7–31474.
A practical experience book for the wilderness traveler. The author
tells in detail how to select what is necessary and to reject what is
unnecessary for camp convenience and comfort.
* * * * *
“Certainly with the drawings, and even the names of firms that furnish
the desirable articles, the way of it all is as ‘plain as plum
porridge,’ so that the westward-faring man, tho a tenderfoot, cannot
err therein.” May Estelle Cook.
+ =Dial.= 43: 419. D. 16, ’07. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The humors of life in the open air are happily touched upon, and make
the book something more than a manual.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 769. N. 30, ’07. 140w.
=White, Stewart Edward.= The pass. *$1.25. Outing pub.
6–325827.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“He impresses one as being more true than Mr. Jack London, with a
measurably broader outlook than Mr. Thompson Seton, and more vigorous,
more actual than Dr. van Dyke. There are times when one cannot help
wishing that he would be a shade less conscientiously breezy in his
language.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 386. Ap. 20, ’07. 580w.
=White, Stewart Edward, and Adams, Samuel Hopkins.= Mystery; il. by Will
Crawford. †$1.50. McClure.
7–2060.
“The plot turns upon the mysterious and wonderful happenings that
occurred on a volcanic island in the Pacific and upon equally strange
and uncanny encounters on the high seas. A long series of happenings
follow. More astonishing than anything that ever occurred to the
imagination of Stevenson or Marryat.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“The book is a happy mixture of R. L. Stevenson and Mr. H. G. Wells.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 441. My. 4, ’07. 360w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 79. Mr. ’07. ✠
“The authors indulge in more slang and technical detail of a marine
sort than the ordinary reader can readily grasp.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 572. My. 11. 90w.
“A well-rounded romance.” Richard Hughes Remsen.
+ + − =Bookm.= 25: 84. Mr. ’07. 720w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 970. Ap. 25, ’07. 130w.
“The story is well told in a lively style, and the characters are
strongly portrayed. Perhaps there is in the dialog a dash too much of
smartness. The credibility of the reader is at times overstrained. But
the novel has real merit and is a notable contribution to the
‘thrillers’ of the sea.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 218. F. 9, ’07. 160w.
“The narrative sags badly amidships, but the faith of the romancer
serves to keep us afloat till we reach port.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 61. Ja. 17, ’07. 180w.
“Even ‘Treasure island’ has need to look to its laurels when books
like the ‘Mystery’ are being written, though the former’s claims are
safe as long as Mr. White and Mr. Adams are compelled to adopt such a
theatrical device for their wonder worker as the precious substance
which the chest on board the Laughing Lass was supposed to contain.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 29. Ja. 19, ’07. 1050w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 170w.
“In a certain way it is very well done; but it is a tour-de-force, not
a piece of real writing.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 377. F. 16, ’07. 210w.
=White, William Allen.= In our town. †$1.50. McClure.
6–12564.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a clever and a wholesome book about people large and small who
live in a little city.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1035. My. 2, ’07. 270w.
=Whitehouse, Henry Remsen.= Revolutionary princess; Christina Belgiojoso
Trivulzio, her life and times, 1808–1871. *$3. Dutton.
A biography which gives in detail the story of the devoted Milanese,
her exile in Paris, her revolutionary plots, her travels, her writings
and the remarkable characteristics which make the princess a
conspicuous figure of her time.
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1907, 1: 250. Mr. 2. 1320w.
“Mr. Whitehouse has given the English reader an interesting account of
a romantic personality.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 698. S. 19, ’07. 310w.
“Though his book cannot rank very high either as literature or
history, it will do well enough to introduce to the subject those who
cannot read Italian.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 366. Ap. 18, ’07. 450w.
“It is a pity that the publishers of the life of the Princess
Belgiojoso did not select a biographer more in sympathy with the
subject.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 98. F. 16, ’07. 440w.
“Mr. Whitehouse has given us not only an interesting biography but a
vivacious history of the first three-quarters of the past century in
leading to one of the greatest achievements of that century, the
unification and liberation of Italy.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 860. Ap. 13, ’07. 370w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 507. Ap. ’07.
=Spec.= 98: 577. Ap. 13, ’07. 1620w.
=Whiteing, Richard.= Ring in the new. †$1.50. Century.
6–34801.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 27. Ja. ’07.
“Mr. Whiteing knows the difficulties of the great city for the
untrained bread-winner, but his present attempt to give this knowledge
literary form is a pretty flat failure.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 470. N. ’06. 80w.
“Is clever, readable, and not to be taken too seriously.” Mary Moss.
+ − =Atlan.= 99: 114. Ja. ’07. 110w.
“Mr. Whiteing has a big social purpose and he makes you feel it, but
the book as a story is not sufficiently interesting and vital to hold
popular attention.” Madeleine Z. Doty.
− + =Charities.= 17: 485. D. 15, ’06. 690w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 119. Ja. ’07. 70w.
* =Whiting, Lilian.= Italy, the magic land. **$2.50. Little.
7–37741.
A companion to Miss Whiting’s “Florence of Landor.” It is a panoramic
view of the comparatively modern part of Rome “which, opening with the
period of Canova and Thorwaldsen, proceeds to the contemporary Rome of
Vedder and Franklin Simmons, in which the author depicts the Rome of
the Hawthornes and the Brownings, and of that intense artistic life
attracted by the stupendous works of Michael Angelo and the galleries
of the Vatican.” The chapter headings are: The period of modern art in
Rome, Social life in the Eternal city, Day-dreams in Naples, Amalfi,
and Capri, A page de conti from Ischia, Voices of St. Francis of
Assisi, The glory of a Venetian June, and The magic land.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
=Whiting, Lilian.= Land of enchantment: from Pike’s Peak to the Pacific.
**$2.50. Little.
6–42359.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 15. Ja. ’07.
“The historian or he who would present economic and political
conditions from a democratic view-point must be fundamental in his
investigations and fearlessly impartial in weighing and presenting all
the facts as they exist. Any failure to do this impairs the work as a
valuable contribution to historic or economic and social literature.
And just here, it seems to us, is found the one weak point in Miss
Whiting’s otherwise charmingly instructive and valuable work.”
+ + − =Arena.= 37: 211. F. ’07. 2190w.
“It makes a poor showing in comparison with Mr. James’s thoro and
original study.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 43. Ja. 3, ’07. 180w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 119. Ap. ’07. 30w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 256. F. ’07. 40w.
=Whitlock, Brand.= Turn of the balance. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–10046.
An arraignment of the law as it is administered in our commonwealth
to-day. Pitted against the big machine of the law is human justice
which attempts to overthrow the merciless momentum of legal
incompetence, and fails. The force of the story lies along the line of
a plea for human sympathy and improved conditions.
* * * * *
“The book is as strong and purposeful as ‘The jungle,’ and as
literature it is a more finished creation. It is a distinctly great
novel, presenting a vivid and effective picture of the miserables of
our social order.”
+ + =Arena.= 86: 664. Je. ’07. 2870w.
“From beginning to end there is not one scene that is forced or
unnatural or out of place or out of proportion or improbable or
inadequate; there is not one sentence or phrase that is overdone or
written for effect; of all the characters there is not one that fails
to be convincing.” Charles Edward Russell.
+ + =Arena.= 38: 209. Ag. ’07. 1450w.
“It is a particularly sordid story of criminal life, unredeemed by any
special skill in the telling, and lacking the breadth of treatment
which alone can make such a subject impressive.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 400. O. 5. 130w.
“Grim as his story is, it must claim attention both for its passionate
devotion to an idea of mercy and charity, and for its profound
recognition of the organic and indestructible unity of human life.”
Harry James Smith.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 130. Jl. ’07. 750w.
“Is chiefly remarkable as an exhibit of the criminal under-world, its
viewpoint, its customs, and its speech.” Wm. M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 42: 314. My. 16, ’07. 200w.
“A serious book this, convincing even while one looks for the other
side of the picture—one of the most striking of the many indictments
of society of recent years.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1031. My. 2, ’07. 340w.
“The author has an eye for details that give many passages of
description a distinctive virtue; but all the virtues are overborne by
the pulpit utterance, and swamped in a crowd of people who are all
very good or very bad as the illustration of the thesis demands.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 366. N. 29, ’07. 430w.
“Contains many revelations of our own city life. It is fascinating to
read and—worth reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 170. Mr. 23, ’07. 640w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.
“Profoundly depressing is the effect of this story, yet the author
surely must have been moved by the desire to better the conditions he
describes with great power.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 812. Ap. 6, ’07. 180w.
=Whitlock, William Wallace.= When kings go forth to battle. †$1.50.
Lippincott.
7–28962.
A small German principality is the seat of exciting warfare. An
unscrupulous king and a conniving “minister of interior improvements”
find their match in two invincible Americans who keep the secret of a
young prince’s hiding place, and with characteristic American energy
join in a revolutionary plot to unseat the reigning monarch and place
the prince upon the throne.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 619. O. 12, ’07. 160w.
=Whitmore, C. S.= Harmony flats: the gifts of a tenement-house fairy.
85c. Benziger.
7–22914.
All about some little neglected children whose squalor and suffering
in a New York tenement house are relieved by a kind benefactor, who
turns out to be the very irascible old gentleman whom the children had
greatly feared.
* =Whitney, Helen Hay.= Bed-time book; with pictures by Jessie Willcox
Smith. †$1.50. Duffield.
7–25151.
A bed-time book for children even to the little nightgown-clad people
surrounding the text on every page marching off with their candles to
bed.
* * * * *
+ − =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 40w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 200w.
“The most attractive picture-book of the year. There is a strain of
seriousness, we might almost say sadness, underlying the expression of
Miss Smith’s characters, that the young folks may not find attractive,
though they may not penetrate deep enough into the philosophy of art
to know the cause. But artistically these pictures would be hard to
equal.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 766. D. ’07. 100w.
=Whitney, Rev. James Pounder.= Reformation: being an outline of the
history of the church from A. D. 1503 to A. D. 1648. (Church universal
ser., v. 6.) *$1.50. Macmillan.
7–37538.
A complete handbook of the reformation belonging to the series known
as “The church universal” which deals with the history of the
Christian church as a historic body.
* * * * *
“His effort ‘to be fair to all schools of thought and to all men to
the time’ has, in the opinion of the reviewer, met with indifferent
success. Chapters 7–9 (141 pages) are devoted to the Council of Trent.
Here we at once become aware that the author is treading on firmer
ground. He no longer deals in vague generalities or manifests the
‘possession’ on his part of vast supplies of ignorance and
misinformation, but he shows interest in the minutest details and the
possession of a creditable amount of authentic knowledge. These
chapters constitute the only really valuable part of the work and
justify its publication.” Albert Henry Newman.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 876. Jl. ’07. 820w.
“The treatment of the very large subject is brief and summary, the
point of view is Anglican, and the spirit non-partisan.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 763. S. 26, ’07. 50w.
“He has to do his work his own way, and he has done it admirably. But
we are sorry to say that he has sometimes been hasty, and has allowed
ill-shapen sentences and sometimes errors of fact to escape his
notice.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 104: 244. Ag. 24, ’07. 440w.
=Whitson, John Harvey.= Castle of doubt. †$1.50. Little.
7–16940.
A novel in which a young man tells his own strange story. While
enjoying a spring-time stroll in Central Park he is suddenly
confronted by an up-to-date carriage containing two pretty women, one
of whom declares she is his wife. Despite his remonstrance he is
thrust into the carriage by the foot-man, embraced, welcomed and
carried off to a luxurious house where he is told that he is Julian
Randolph, a young millionaire whose sudden disappearance was a matter
of national comment two years before. So far the story differs little
from other novels of mistaken identity, but the concluding chapters,
which establish the right of the hero to the love and the position he
has come to covet, are unusual, unexpected, and well handled.
* * * * *
“Belongs [to] the class of books written for that optimistic age that
still can believe, if only for twenty-four hours, that the book last
read is the best book ever written.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 600. Ag. ’07. 550w.
“Is an interesting story, not without many instances in real life to
prove its plausibility.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 574. S. 5, ’07. 230w.
“The tale is as puzzling as a detective story, and the denouement is
as much a surprise to the hero as to the reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
“The story is well told, and modern New York is graphically pictured.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 100w.
* =Whittier, John Greenleaf.= John Greenleaf Whittier: a sketch of his
life, by Bliss Perry, with selected poems. **75c. Houghton.
7–36386.
A short sketch of Whittier which leaves out the non-essentials and
presents the chief formative influences which made the character and
career of the poet. The poems chosen illustrate the trend of his
boyhood imagination, the political and social struggle of his mature
years, and the peace of the resting and waiting in which his life was
brought to a close.
Whys and wherefores of the automobile. il. 50c. Automobile Institute,
Cleveland, O.
A simple explanation of the elements of the gasoline motor car,
prepared for the non-technical reader.
=Whyte, Christina Gowans.= Adventures of Merrywink. $2. Crowell.
A fresh, wholesome fairy tale which won the prize of £100 which the
Bookman of London offered for the best story submitted in a recent
competition.
* * * * *
“The illustrations are unequal, and though some are very feeble,
others are exceptionally good.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 584. D. 8, ’06. 50w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 140w.
“The story is delightful, merry, and well written, certain to please
children.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 50w.
“A very fair specimen of the modern fairy tale.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 60w.
=Whyte, Christina Gowans.= Nina’s career. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–32567.
The doings of a group of wholesome English young folk are chronicled
in this story. The girl who was granddaughter to a Liberal peer, the
once-a-year friend who had to have an artistic career, a delightful
family of brothers and sisters, all help to make a pleasing tale of
youth, its amusements, ambitions, and achievements.
* * * * *
“A cheerful story, full of life and movement, and by no means lacking
in humour.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 652. N. 23. 110w.
=Whyte, Christina Gowans.= Story book girls. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–41715.
“A group of English girls attempt to conduct their lives according to
story-book ideals. The difficulties in the way are innumerable, but
the faith is great, the rewards are many.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 71: 643. D. 22, ’06. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 50w.
“A very interestingly planned and well-executed book, with a
delightfully fresh plot.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 120w.
=Widney, Joseph Pomeroy.= Race-life of the Aryan peoples. 2v. **$4.
Funk.
7–23307.
=v. 1. The old world.= Beginning with the Asiatic period in the race
life of the Aryan people, their various emigrations are here traced
chronologically into India and South and West Europe. The whole is an
unfolding of “The race epic which the Aryan peoples have lived.”
=v. 2. The new world.= In this volume the author carries his “race
epic” over seas and follows the westward march of the Aryan people
from ocean to ocean in America, discussing also present day conditions
and problems.
* * * * *
“It is what would be called in its own language a ‘live’ book, and for
that we are thankful. It is not to be expected that we should
sympathise wholly with American ideals and aspirations, or even those
of the best Americans, but we can pay Dr. Widney no higher compliment
than to wish that he had been born an Englishman, so that he might
have written this book from an English point of view.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 161. N. 23, ’07. 990w.
“It is a pity that Mr. Widney, many of whose observations are
extremely shrewd, should have allowed a book that has evidently cost
him much labour to degenerate into a political pamphlet.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 484. O. 19. 970w.
“The best that can be said of the work is that it has swing and style
and may afford material for patriotic addresses. As for the scientific
value, it has none.”
− =Ind.= 63: 1375. D. 5, ’07. 410w.
“His book is not a compilation, nor is it a new statement of a theme
already set forth at length by other writers, but an original
conception worked out through fine research, carefully coordinated and
written in a clear and attractive style.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 208 Ag. 10, ’07. 420w.
“Though Widney’s book is instructive when read aright, that is, with a
clear conception of who the Aryan is and whence he came, yet it is
misleading, and very much so, if the reader ignores scientific
ethnology and anthropology as much as does the author.” Charles E.
Woodruff.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 497. Ag. 17, ’07. 2380w.
“His style is animated and energetic; he is philosophic, discursive,
poetic; he is quick to trace analogies and mark contrasts, fond of
generalization and prone to turn history into prophecy. The total
impression of his work is realistic and picturesque. His national and
international forecasts, with one prominent exception are the least
satisfactory portion of his work.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 973. Ag. 31, ’07. 400w.
“Not only the latest result of scholarship in ethnology, but an
unusually absorbing narrative.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 382. S. ’07. 270w.
“A highly interesting and suggestive book.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 645. N. 2, ’07. 330w.
=Wieland, George Reber.= American fossil cycads. $6.25. Carnegie inst.
6–34020.
“This contribution to American paleo-botany is richly illustrated with
fifty plates and 138 text figures. It is an account of the American
collections of fossil cycads—plants allied to the fern—so far as they
have been studied, and the results of the author’s investigations on
the vegetative anatomy and reproductive organs, followed by a
comparison of these with similar structures in living cycads, and a
discussion of relationships.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The monograph is creditable to American botany and the presswork of
the Carnegie institution.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 471. N. 29, ’06. 220w.
“A flood of light has been thrown on the morphology of an extinct
group of Mesozoic gymnosperms, which it is possible to study with a
precision and thoroughness hardly to be surpassed in the case of
recent plants.”
+ =Nature.= 75: 329. Ja. 31, ’07. 1760w.
“Marks a very important forward step in our knowledge of the
cycadales, while it also throws a great deal of light upon the general
problem of the phylogeny of the gymnosperms and their supposed
relation to filicinean ancestors.” D. P. Penhallow.
+ + =Science=, n. s. 25: 856. My. 31, ’07. 1530w.
=Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith) (Mrs. George C. Riggs).= New chronicles of
Rebecca. †$1.25. Houghton.
7–11587.
Eleven more quaintly amusing chronicles which carry Rebecca thru
various stages of girlhood and bring her to her eighteenth birthday.
They are entitled: Jack o’lantern. Daughters of Zion, Rebecca’s
thought-book, A tragedy in millinery, The saving of the colors, The
state o’ Maine girl, The little prophet, Abner Simpson’s new leaf, The
green isle, Rebecca’s reminiscences, Abijah the brave and fair
Emmajane.
* * * * *
“Written with the quiet humour which is her characteristic.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 848. Ag. 31, ’07. 160w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 138. My. ’07. ✠
“The pathos is kept commendably in check, however, and there is plenty
of humour in the chronicle.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 179. Ag. 17. 210w.
“The stories are brimming with mirth and kindly sentiment.” Harry
James Smith.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 133. Jl. ’07. 80w.
Reviewed by Mary K. Ford.
=Bookm.= 25: 304. My. ’07. 800w.
“The story, abounding in touches of genuine humor and pathos, comes as
a delightful treat to both the older and younger reader.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 693. Ag. ’07. 120w.
“Conscious invention has taken the place of intuition. It is inferior
to its predecessor.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 574. S. 5, ’07. 240w.
“There are here the same quaintness, pathos, and humor found in her
former books, the same understanding of the abysses of childhood, the
same realism and fidelity to nature. The pictures by F. C. Yohn are in
perfect tune with the story and a model of what novel illustrations
should be.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 640. Ap. 20, ’07. 290w.
=Nation.= 84: 362. Ap. 18, ’07. 200w.
“This volume is not quite up to the level of its predecessor.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 233. Ap. 13, ’07. 940w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
“‘New chronicles of Rebecca’ have ... freshness of sentiment and
humor.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 115. My. 18, ’07. 190w.
“Those who did not make the acquaintance of Rebecca at Sunnybrook farm
are recommended not to miss the present opportunity.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 86. Jl. 20, ’07. 200w.
“Worthily maintain the reputation of a writer who has done for the
present generation of American and English readers much what Miss
Alcott did for its predecessor.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 1037. Je. 29. ’07. 990w.
=Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith) (Mrs. George C. Riggs).= Old Peabody pew;
a Christmas romance of a country church. il. †$1.50. Houghton.
7–32837.
A Christmas story of a “certain handful of dear New England women of
names unknown, dwelling in a certain quiet village, alike unknown.” A
new carpet, pews washed in lieu of paint, and cushions mended with
care told on Christmas eve the story of days of hard work by the
Dorcas society. Among the number had been Nancy Wentworth who, quiet
and apart from the rest, had lavished her strength on the Peabody pew,
sacred to her early romance, where Christmas eve finds her alone
taking the last stitch in the worn-out cushion. To this spot comes
Justin Peabody the wanderer lover who, weary as the prodigal son,
seeks the comfort and love of Nancy.
* * * * *
“One of the prettiest novelettes of this season, as well as one of the
most delightful from a literary point of view.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 380. D. 1, ’07. 200w.
“It is withal so sweet and wholesome that we wish more books like it
might be written to take the place of the so-called ‘problem novels’
of the day.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14, ’07. 100w.
“Many pathetic and humorous touches.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
“Notwithstanding the slightness of the plot, there are all the
elements of humor and pathos and love that go to make up a story of
much sweetness, the kind one feels better for reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 716. N. 9, ’07. 100w.
“A characteristically bright tale of a New England life full of
sentiment and humor.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 30w.
=Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith) (Mrs. G. C. Riggs), and Smith, Nora
Archibald.= Fairy ring. **$1.50. McClure.
6–42427.
Sixty-five fairy tales gathered from every nation. They include some
well known stories and some recently discovered ones.
* * * * *
“A choice collection.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 23. Ja. ’07. ✠
“Less hackneyed than those of the Cinderella kind. For that reason
they will read strangely, yet entertainingly to modern ears.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 784. N. 24, ’06. 170w.
“Most readable fairy tales.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 93. Ja. 12, ’07. 70w.
* =Wiggin, Mrs. Kate Douglas, and Smith, Nora Archibald=, eds. Pinafore
and palace. †$1.50. McClure.
7–30444.
“This volume of jingles is judiciously divided, somewhat like Charles
Welsh’s edition of ‘Mother Goose,’ to accord with the physical
activities and dawning mental appreciation of small folk. There is a
diversity of selection, ranging from ‘Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, where have
you been?’ to Tennyson’s least childlike and most stilted poem,
‘Minnie and Winnie.’”—Nation.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 211. N. ’07. ✠
“Taken in a set, these three volumes of verse represent an agreeable
progress from classic jingle to rarest poetry.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 495. N. 28, ’07. 130w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 90w.
=Wigram, Edgar T. A.= Northern Spain; painted and described by Edgar T.
A. Wigram. *$6. Macmillan.
“The kind of description which lies halfway between the guide-book and
the book of atmosphere.” (Outlook.) “The author made his tour as a
bicyclist. He journeyed with observing eyes, and very little in Spain
that was really worth while escaped him.” (Ind.) “Besides ‘hamlets’
and small towns, the traveler stopped at the larger cities, including
Covadonga and Asturias, Leon, Galicia, Benavente, Zamora, Toro,
Salamanca, Bejar, Avila, Toledo, Segovia, Burgos, Navarre, and
others.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“One cannot open these pages anywhere without being struck by our
author’s capacity for presenting a scene in words at once fit and
few.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 9. Ja. 5. 1360w.
“As we read what he has written we see Spanish types with a new
significance, and we lay down the volume with a better and a clearer
understanding of Spain and the Spaniards.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1398. D. 22, ’06. 150w.
“It is greatly to be regretted that Mr. Wigram ... was not accompanied
on his journey through Northern Spain by a professional painter who
would have been able to supplement his eloquent descriptions of the
scenes he visited by aesthetic presentments of them in colour. Gifted,
moreover, with a vivid imagination and a keen sense of humor, Mr.
Wigram manages to hit off in a few telling sentences the
idiosyncrasies not only of the men and women, but of the animals he
met.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 35: 167. Ap. ’07. 340w.
“Mr. Wigram has well caught in his pictures the varied colors of
Spain, which seem at first glance so inharmonious when viewed by
essentially Occidental eyes. But they are true, and the artist is to
be congratulated that he has dared to depict the truth and to account
for it so entertainingly in a most attractively written text.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 770. N. 24, ’06. 620w.
“The author not only describes the country through which he rode or
walked, but also tells anecdotes, gives bits of the history of certain
places, and provides other interesting information.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 830. D. 1, ’06. 360w.
“An altogether unworthy successor to Ford and Borrow is Mr. Wigram who
possesses one faculty denied to those worthies—namely, the facility of
describing by picture as well as by pen.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 703. N. 24, ’06. 100w.
“As a writer he harps too much upon merely pictorial effects, which
were doubtless attractive to an artist but suffer through vain
repetition. Though we may not claim him as guide or philosopher, he is
certainly well met as a soothing friend.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103:372. Mr. 23, ’07. 230w.
=Wilberforce, Wilfrid, and Gilbert, Mrs. A. R.= Her faith against the
world. *$l. Benziger.
A young barrister asks the aristocratic Sir Richard Forrester for the
hand of his daughter, Gertrude and is refused because he lacks
position. Later he gets into Parliament on assuring his constituents
that he is not a Roman Catholic. Sir Richard then welcomes him, but
Gertrude, who has joined the Roman church, refuses to marry a
Protestant, and is turned out of her father’s house. The solution of
this complication is the burden of this political-religious novel.
* * * * *
“The book is written from the point of view of a Roman Catholic, but
without bitterness and intolerance.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 553. D. 1, ’06. 140w.
“An entertaining novel, although it is somewhat sketchy in both action
and character, and although it does carry a moral instruction.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 84: 701. F. ’07. 260w.
=Wilcox, Earley Vernon.= Farm animals: horses, cows, sheep, swine,
goats, poultry, etc. **$2. Doubleday.
6–35959.
A practical book giving general information about the breeding and
care of farm animals.
* * * * *
“A good, popular guide.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 106. Ap. 16, ’07.
“It is rather an excellent compend of general information. The chapter
on dairy stock is the best in the book, but every chapter is good. The
illustrations have the advantage of being well related to the
subject.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 402. N. 8, ’06. 140w.
=Wilde, Oscar.= Decorative art in America: a lecture, together with
letters, reviews, and interviews; ed. with an introd. by Richard B.
Glaenzer. **$1.50. Brentano’s.
6–39452.
Mr. Glaenzer in his introduction sets forth the characteristics
chiefly as they pertain to art, of “the most pitiful dreamer, the
wittiest cynic and the most brilliant wit of his century.” The
nineteen essays or groups of letters which this volume includes strike
the dominant art notes of Oscar Wilde’s nature. Among the
personalities touched up by the “verbal colourist” are Mrs. Langtry,
Sarah Bernhardt, Whistler, Keats, and Kipling.
=Wilde, Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills.= Ballad of Reading gaol;
drawings by Latimer J. Wilson. *$1. Buckles.
7–16474.
In this new edition of the well-known ballad the spirit of the
gruesome revelation of a soul in torment is marred by the
illustrations which, lacking any subtle suggestion of the horrors of
the hangman and the terrors of death, are commonplace and repellant.
=Wiley, Harvey Washington.= Foods and their adulteration. Il. *$4.
Blakiston.
7–19428.
This book, descriptive in character, reaches a large audience,
including the consumer, the manufacturer and the scientific as well as
the general reader. It treats of the origin, manufacture and
composition of food products; the description of common adulterations,
food standards and national food laws and regulations. The information
contained in this manual appeals especially to the intelligent and
scientific cook.
* * * * *
“The book is invaluable to the manufacturer and the consumer, to the
scientist and the layman; it is indispensable to even a small
collection on this subject of wide, present-day interest.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 199. N. ’07.
“This is the most authoritative and comprehensive book that has
appeared on this important subject, and there is no other man in
America who is better fitted to handle it from both the scientific and
the legislative sides than the author.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 834. O. 3, ’07. 360w.
“This is not the book of a crank, and Dr. Wiley’s views regarding the
future of the American food-supply are in general optimistic.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 213. S. 5, ’07. 750w.
“The information furnished by Dr. Wiley arms the public with
knowledge—knowledge of the conditions and of its own rights.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 404. Je. 22, ’07. 1370w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 384. S. ’07. 120w.
“Amid a large mass of confusing and often exaggerated newspaper
articles dealing with the subject, it is a comfort to find a book
covering the field so completely, so sanely and withal in so
interesting a way.”
+ + =Science=, n.s. 26: 714. N. 22, ’07. 880w.
=Wiley, Sara King.= Alcestis and other poems. **75c. Macmillan.
5–32655.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 573. Mr. 9, ’07. 380w.
=Wiley, Sara King.= Coming of Philibert. **$1.25. Macmillan.
7–18078.
A tragic poem-drama of three acts in which Prince Philibert, who has
been reared in the forest and kept unconscious of his heritage,
according to the wish of his dead father, is brought to the court of
Artacia by his twin brother, the young king who feels that he has been
unjustly dealt with. Here the world is opened to him, all his latent
emotions awake, and unwittingly, he usurps his brother’s place in the
hearts of his people, and comes to wear his crown and marry his
Clementia.
* * * * *
“It will bear reading. But, in the acting, it would appear lamentably
monotonous and wanting in almost every essential of a play, notably
characterization, contrast and ‘suspense.’”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 571. S. 5, ’07. 330w.
“Is an interesting bit of dramatic blank verse which just misses
distinction.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 35. Jl. 11, ’07. 210w.
“As a play there is much good exposition but little vital action. The
verse is always correct, and occasionally there are flashes of fine
poetry.” Christian Gauss.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 100w.
“Mrs. Drummond is an essentially feminine poet of fine insight and
delicate sensibility. The chief gain in ‘The coming of Philibert’ is
the dramatic action and force.” Louise Collier Willcox.
+ =No. Am.= 186: 97. S. ’07. 270w.
=Wilkinson, Florence.= Silent door. †$1.50. McClure.
7–10292.
A village story ... “which revolves about Justinian Penrith, incarnate
genius of austerity, and a little child left ... upon his doorstep.
Given a beautiful daughter who had fled from home some years previous
for an affaire d’amour and whose whereabouts had baffled all
search—and you have the key to ‘The silent door.’” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“In Miss Wilkinson’s novel ... one recognizes the promise rather than
the achievement. The story taken as a whole is unimpressive. The plot
is mildly preposterous, and none of the characters, not even little
Rue herself, seems ever quite detachable from the printed page. But
the details of Miss Wilkinson’s work are a constant delight.” Harry
James Smith.
+ − =Atlan.= 100: 132. Jl. ’07. 450w.
“The chief charm about Miss Wilkinson’s style is its absolute lack of
hurry. It is seldom that one encounters such genuine charm in a volume
constructed upon a plan so simple.”
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 284. My. ’07. 480w.
“There are some fine pages of description. The humor is abundant and
genuine.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 98. Jl. 20, ’07. 330w.
“It has a pervasive, though not obtrusive, spiritual quality, and
leaves upon one an impression of sweetness and light.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 170. Mr. 23, ’07. 970w.
“In her first novel, she has accomplished something also rare, and
certainly thoroughly delightful.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 254. Je. 1, ’07. 210w.
=Wilkinson, Rt. Rev. Thomas Edward.= Twenty years of continental work
and travel. *$3 50. Longmans.
“The record of an Anglican bishop’s experience in north and central
Europe among British colonies, factories, and communities, comprising
an area eight times the size of Great Britain.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“Bishop Wilkinson has great power of observation and much skill in
expressing that observation in words. There is in the volume a good
deal of padding which, should have been omitted.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 580. N. 10. 1360w.
“An interesting panorama of Europe, with a fine historic perspective.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 264. F. 16, ’07. 190w.
+ − =Spec.= 98: 121. Ja. 26, ’07. 380w.
=Willcocks, M. P.= Wingless victory. $1.50. Lane.
7–35625.
Devonshire furnishes the setting of this story. “The plot centres
about the winning of an unloving and pretty nearly unfaithful wife
by her husband.... The husband is a physician, a curious mixture
of strength and weakness, heroism and failure, and altogether a
very human and lovable person. The wife is not so comprehensible a
type, but still real enough in her feminine perversity and
unreasonableness.... Johanna is of another type, and she, too,
makes one see deep down into the reality of things. The whole book
is alive with human passion, powerfully portrayed, and with the
vigor and freshness of the open air.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Talent such as hers was not and never could be acquired in any of the
ready-made schools of fiction. It bears the stamp of originality.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 319. Mr. 30, ’07. 550w.
“The author has certainly produced a notable as well as a good story.
It seems to us somewhat clogged by over elaboration of style and
metaphor.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 659. Je. 1. 250w.
“The book is the work of one who has thought much. Scattered through
it are gnomic sayings that stick in the memory. These and an intimate
sense of natural forces, are perhaps the striking external features of
the book.” Ward Clark.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 523. Jl. ’07. 450w.
“The book has strength ... although not in this plot with its dubious
ethical implications. It is the strength of keen analysis, vivid
descriptive power, and a characterization of the rustic population of
Devon and Dartmoor fairly comparable with the work of Mr. Phillpotts
and other disciples of the school of Thomas Hardy.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + − =Dial.= 43: 62. Ag. 1, ’07. 340w.
“An Ibsen plot set in a Thomas Hardy environment. The combination is,
on the whole, an effective one, for the author has undoubted talent.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1312. N. 28, ’07. 400w.
“In the case of Miss Willcock’s book ... we have need of some emphatic
word that shall signify a book that is not a season’s masterpiece or a
giant among pigmies, but, as we conceive, one that takes its place, if
not among the highest, still among books where rules of measurement
seem a little out of place.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 110. Ap. 5, ’07. 540w.
“Rises high above the level of common day fiction. In Miss Willcock’s
elaborate descriptions we discern a certain scraping of stage scenery
being shifted. In the same way there is unnecessary harping on such
indefinable elements as ‘race-processes’ and ‘electric forces of the
ages’ unnecessary reductions of action and feeling to terms of biology
and prehistoric anthropology.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 79. Jl. 25, ’07. 570w.
“A helpful and heartening story, not because any of its characters are
particularly high or heroic in their accomplishment, but because it
conveys that life itself in its simple, homely, everyday guise is a
thing worth while.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 365. Je. 8, ’07. 990w.
“A very remarkable piece of work, and not less interesting than
remarkable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 190w.
=Sat. R.= 103: 433. Ap. 6, ’07. 210w.
“No one except the serious-minded reader who loves a problem novel
should embark upon ‘The wingless victory.’”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 679. Ap. 27, ’07. 210w.
=Williams, Archibald.= How it works: dealing in simple language with
steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and
their application to apparatus in common use. $1.25. Nelson.
7–29122.
“Here the reader will find explained in a concise, straightforward
manner the working of everything from a locomotive or a motorcar to a
Bunsen burner or a Westinghouse brake. The book is profusely
illustrated with helpful diagrams, and we are glad to note that an
index has been provided.”—Acad.
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+ =Acad.= 71: 607. D. 15, ’06. 100w.
“Hardly any other volume will answer as many of the questions that a
bright boy asks and ought to ask about the things he sees and uses. It
should head the list of books to be bought for school libraries.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 737. Mr. 28, ’07. 150w.
“The volume furnishes much that is practical and lucid.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 80w.
=Williams, Archibald.= Romance of early exploration, with descriptions
of interesting discoveries, thrilling adventures, and wonderful bravery
of the early explorers. *$1.50. Lippincott.
6–39449.
“The present book brings exploration down to A. D. 1600 beginning with
its infancy 200 years before Herodotus. Pictures and maps add
desirabilty to the book.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The writer’s own manner is one of manly straightforwardness, as free
from dulness as from misplaced embellishment.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 70w.
Reviewed by Cyrus C. Adams.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 120w.
“An intelligent boy could hardly have a book which would give him more
entertainment and more instruction.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 760. N. 17, ’06. 300w.
=Williams, Egerton Ryerson, jr.= Ridolfo, the coming of the dawn, a tale
of the Renaissance. †$1.50. McClurg.
6–36880.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
− =Ind.= 62: 673. Mr. 21, ’07. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 575. Mr. 9, ’07. 280w.
“One thing is certain about Mr. Williams’ first attempt to write a
novel; he has succeeded.”
=R. of Rs.= 36: 126. Jl. ’07. 40w.
=Williams, Elizabeth Otis.= Sojourning, shopping and studying in Paris,
a handbook particularly for women. **$1. McClurg.
7–18307.
An excellent little book into which has been compressed a wealth of
valuable information for the woman who is traveling alone in France.
It contains the addresses of suitable hotels, boarding houses, schools
of art, places of amusement, and shops in Paris, it tells what
charges, fees, etc. are just, it explains customs and conventions,
tells where one may go without an escort, what one may bring home
without duty, how to arrange one’s finances, and appends a classified
vocabulary which contains all the words and phrases essential to a
shopping tour or an excursion.
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