+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 175. O. ’07.
+ =Dial.= 42: 381. Je. 16, ’07. 40w.
“Just the sort of information needed by American ladies in Paris. And,
altho written for women, we fancy that men will find it almost as
valuable.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1357. Je. 6, ’07. 70w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 126. Jl. ’07. 40w.
=Williams, Henry Llewellyn, jr.=, comp. Lincoln story book. **$1.50.
Dillingham.
7–8232.
It is the story-telling Lincoln shorn of platform oratory who is
revealed in this generous collection of anecdotes. There are over four
hundred of them and in the retelling nothing of the humor, or of the
tone of the classics has been sacrificed.
=Williams, Hugh Noel.= Madame Recamier and her friends. *$2. Scribner.
The details of the long salon-reign of Mme. Récamier are carefully set
forth here. “With no commanding ability such as in itself might draw a
group about her, yet, in wealth and in poverty, in court favor and
banishment, in youth and in age, Mme. Récamier was ever the center of
a great circle, and ever herself simple, contented, generous,
unspoiled by attention from all the famous people of her time.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“Granting the ‘raison d’etre’ of the biography, it may be said that
the author has conscientiously studied the life of his heroine,
together with those of her friends as they affected hers, and presents
the results in a pleasant, easy manner, which makes the book an
entertaining one.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 44. Jl. 16, ’07. 260w.
“A most satisfactory story of an extraordinary career.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 342. Ag. 8, ’07. 170w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
=Putnam’s.= 2: 475. Jl. ’07. 150w.
=Williams, Hugh Noel.= Queen Margot, wife of Henry IV. of France.
*$7.50. Scribner.
7–25144.
Daughter of Catherine de Medici, wife of Henry of Navarre, the
brilliant La Reine Margot is revealed in both an attractive and
forbidding light. She figures thruout the sketch as a being mightily
swayed by emotions yet capable of detaching herself from them as in
the case of her “debonair equanimity of mind” when divorced from her
husband, and called upon to mingle with his new queen and their
children.
* * * * *
“On the whole, the author has succeeded in his endeavour to give a
full and impartial account of her life, and has acquitted himself
satisfactorily of his secondary aim—that of sketching the historical
events ‘in which she was more or less directly concerned.’”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1. 68. Ja. 19. 2090w.
“Despite this special diligence and an adequate knowledge of sixteenth
century memoirs, we have found this book enriched by little
illuminating criticism.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 17. Jl. 4, ’07. 430w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 83. F. 2, ’07. 720w.
=Williams, James Mickel.= An American town: a sociological study. Priv.
ptd.
6–46255.
“The author, formerly a fellow in sociology in Columbia university,
has in connection with his graduate work, made this sociological study
of a small town of rural New York.... He has given us a little bit of
the social history of the town and community, dividing it into two
periods—from the settlement to 1875 and from 1875 on.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“It is a painstaking, intelligent, and extremely suggestive piece of
scholarly work. On the whole Mr. Williams is to be heartily
congratulated on a piece of work which opens up new possibilities in
the intensive study of localities, and proves that monographic work of
this kind is to be of prime importance to sociology.” George E.
Vincent.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 421. N. ’06. 850w.
“This volume is valuable because it is an illustration of careful,
conscientious field work, even if occasionally the conclusions seem
unwarranted.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 471. N. ’06. 190w.
=Williams, John E. H.= Life of Sir George Williams, founder of the Young
men’s Christian association. **$1.25. Armstrong.
6–42910.
Written at the request of Sir George Williams’ family by “one who has
had intimate access to all the sources of information and who writes
with keen sympathy and appreciation.... Beginning as a poor young
clerk and without other resources than his own strength of character
and an indomitable will, the subject of the present work rose to be
one of the most considerable men in England.” (Lit. D.)
* * * * *
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 342. Mr. 2. ’07. 240w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 403. N. 30, ’06. 750w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 450w.
“Is a contribution to the literature of power.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 942. D. 15, ’06. 160w.
=Williams, Leonard.= Granada: memories, adventures, studies and
impressions. **$2.50. Lippincott.
6–35342.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 76. Mr. ’07.
Reviewed by Wallace Rice.
=Dial.= 41: 392. D. 1, ’06. 170w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 39. Ja. 10, ’07. 180w.
=Williams, T. Rhondda.= Evangel of the new theology. *$1.50. Scribner.
“The basal question of religion, as he observes, is the relation of
God to the living world. The theology now being outgrown conceived of
God and man as external to each other, beings apart, and out of this
fallacious dualism the Unitarian controversy grew. But ‘the gist of
the new theology’ is the oneness of the spiritual nature in God and
man, so that humanity itself is ‘an incarnation of the divine
life.’”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“In one way or another the whole realm of modern religious thought is
touched upon with profound discrimination. The book will prove
exceedingly helpful to all who desire a clear and sane statement on
vital matters from the modern point of view. As a group of sermons,
however, it would seem that the book gives undue emphasis to intellect
and does not sufficiently appeal to the deeper things of the heart.
Also, the use of Scripture is not large.” E. A. Hanley.
+ − =Bib. World.= 29: 475. Je. ’07. 220w.
“It is marked by warmth as well as freshness and force, and by
intentness on the realities of religious faith.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 617. Mr. 17, ’06. 260w.
=Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Alice Muriel.= Car of
destiny. †$1.50. McClure.
7–30841.
“This is a description of several of the more interesting Spanish
cities, strung on the thin threads of an automobile trip and a love
story. The hero and the heroine fall in love—of course at first
sight—at Biarritz. The heroine and her mother are whisked off through
Spain in an automobile by the wicked Spanish duke whom this scheming
mother wishes the daughter to marry. The hero follows in his
automobile. The account of the roads, the country, and the towns is
broken by the incidents of the chase—some of them highly
melodramatic.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Frankly, the book contains every one of the elements which ought to
annoy a reader of critical taste. And yet, paradoxically, instead of
annoying, it furnishes a very genuine, even though not enduring,
enjoyment.”
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 267. N. ’07. 740w.
“So unconvincing is the characterization, that marriage as well as
misadventure leaves the reader cold.”
− =Nation.= 85: 329. O. 10, ’07. 180w.
“Splendid descriptions of Spanish life and scenes abound.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
“It is a penny-in-the-slot romance, as mechanical as if it were turned
out of a factory, marketable like calico, and of about as much
distinction.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 685. O. 26, ’07. 450w.
=Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Alice Muriel Livingston.=
Princess Virginia. †$1.50. McClure.
7–15121.
This story “provides a lovely princess with American blood in her
veins and ... a pretty will of her own. Also a proper American
romantic idea of falling in love with whom she pleases and marrying to
suit. But the safety of Europe depends upon her marrying the young
Emperor of Rhaetia. What is to be done?... The impressionable Princess
Virginia must happen upon the handsome Emperor when she does not know
who he is, and he does not know who she is. They will, of course, both
of them fall in love at sight. It is always thus. No sooner said than
done.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The most one can say for it is that it is harmless.”
− =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 181. O. ’07.
=Lit. D.= 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 210w.
“No motors in this, but a manner so glib and facile that it resembles
nothing so much as the swift revolutions of a new front wheel, when
the salesman turns the bicycle upside down and gives a twirl to prove
the smooth perfection of its ball-bearings. There is the same near
approach to perpetual motion, and the same lack of arriving.”
− =Nation.= 84: 568. Je. 20, ’07. 190w.
“The Williamsons have produced another fine, galloping romance of the
most approved rose-color order.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 260w.
=Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Alice Muriel.= Rosemary in
search of a father. †$1.50. McClure.
6–40214.
“The five-year old Rosemary at Monte Carlo, seeing that her mother is
sad, sets out to find a lost father, and meets with such extraordinary
good luck that we can only suspect the intervention of Christmas
fairies. They send Rosemary a wonderful father, far more attractive
than the real one, and just the man her mother most desired to meet
again. So with the help of an old love-affair, an American
millionaire, a pretty French adventuress, a profusion of jewels, and
costly raiment such as might haunt the delirious dreams of a
milliner’s girl, the tale runs on to a happy conclusion.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“It is a brisk, highly coloured story, of the lightest possible
construction.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 638. D. 22, ’06. 150w.
“This little novel has distinction, a literary aroma.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 60w.
“When this has been described as a ‘pretty’ tale of the whipped cream
and bonbon box type, there is not much more to say about it.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 464. N. 29, ’06. 160w.
“All this is highly melodramatic, but Rosemary is a quaint little
creature, and adds a large redeeming feature to an otherwise
impossible picture.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 888. D. 22, ’06. 370w.
“An agreeable little short story.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 942. D. 15, ’06. 8w.
=Willys, A. A.= Swiss heroes, an historical romance of the time of
Charles the Bold; tr. from the German by George P. Upton. (Life stories
for young people.) **60c. McClure.
7–31242.
The careers of Hans Vögeli, Heinrich Vögeli and Walter Irmy. three
Swiss heroes, are followed in their relations with Charles the Bold,
whose oppressive measures they avenged for the safety of their people.
=Wilson, Mrs. Augusta J. E.= Devota; il. by Stuart Travis. †$1.50.
Dillingham.
7–21224.
“‘Devota’ is the story of a tragedy in the lives of two persons, a man
of sterling character, and a proud woman—does it not sound
familiar?—who are separated by a misunderstanding and kept apart by
the woman’s obstinacy. But after many years they are reconciled.
Surely Mrs. Wilson has filled her ink bottle from the spring of
eternal youth!”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Without having read ‘St. Elmo,’ one may safely assert that not even
an ornamental border on every page, and illustrations of preternatural
loveliness will quite bring ‘Devota’ the vogue of its predecessor.”
− =Nation.= 85: 188. Ag. 29, ’07. 180w.
“Although it is hardly more than a novelette, has the self same
characteristics of style, thought, conception, viewpoint, which marked
Mrs. Wilson’s novels of the long ago and which will carry back to his
youth the memories of many a gray-haired reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 180w.
* =Wilson, David Henry.= George Morland. *$1.25. Scribner.
The growing popularity of the Morland paintings seems to be reason
enough for producing this biography which covers all of the phases of
his artistic career and besides records a good many impressions of the
seamy side of man’s life.
* * * * *
“Mr. Wilson does not exhibit, in his pleasant little volume, any
special qualification for his task. He moralizes too much on Morland’s
career. He seems to fail when he has an opportunity of adding a useful
chapter to his book.”
− − + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 625. N. 16. 910w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 536. S. 7, ’07. 700w.
* =Wilson, Harry Leon.= Ewing’s lady. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–38598.
The story of a young Westerner with genius for painting who is both
the protégé of a young New York widow and the object of diabolical
revenge on the part of the man whom his mother ran away from to marry
his father. Apart from the melodramatic fury of the story a group of
minor characters is drawn including “the cowboy in the clear, heady
Colorado air, the genial freemasonry of the studio, Clarence, the
lovable convert from civilization, dyspepsia and predigested food, and
Ben Crider, fit associate for Billy Brue.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“A generation ago such a story would have been branded as the rankest
and frankest of shockers. But Mr. Wilson keeps a strong literary grip
on his plot. His characters are admirably drawn, consistent and
lifelike. There is plenty of real humour in the book, and some
excellent pictures of manners, Eastern and Western.” Burton Blass.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 415. D. ’07. 960w.
“It is the drawing of the minor characters and their environment that
gives the book its charm.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 545. D. 12, ’07. 190w.
=Wilson, James Harrison.= Life of Charles A. Dana. **$3. Harper.
7–19056.
This volume has grown out of the biographer’s intimate acquaintance
and immense admiration for a man who during fifty years and more of
the past century helped to make the history of our nation. Chapters on
his education and early battle with poverty, association with Greeley
on the New York Tribune, his telling service to the Federal government
during the civil war have been written from letters, documents and
clippings bearing upon public and private life.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 174. O. ’07. S.
Reviewed by M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
+ + =Atlan.= 100: 419. S. ’07. 1210w.
“The whole narrative is very interesting. One could wish that General
Wilson would have given us as minute a study of Dana the editor as of
Dana the commissioner and the Assistant Secretary of War.” Richard W.
Kemp.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 612. Ag. ’07. 800w.
“His long and intimate acquaintance with an admiration for the man
have qualified him to write understandingly without dependence on such
outside aid.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 32. Jl. 16, ’07. 1490w.
“While in the main it is laudatory, it is not laudatory in a fulsome
sense.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 132. Jl. 27, ’07. 950w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 548. Je. 13, ’07. 860w.
“The facts of his life have been diligently assembled, and they are
set forth authentically in good chronological order.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 337. My. 25, ’07. 1700w.
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 586. N. 16, ’07. 1250w.
“Taken as a whole, General Wilson’s book is excellent in so far as it
relates to Dana’s early years and to the civil war. For the rest, it
lacks that fulness of information which is necessary to a complete
survey of a remarkable career.” Harry Thurston Peck.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 518. S. ’07. 1120w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Putnam’s.= 3: 108. O. ’07. 1100w.
“While a journalist might perhaps have written a biography of Dana
more interesting to journalists, it is doubtful whether any of Mr.
Dana’s newspaper acquaintances could have put into the book more of a
personal history of the past generation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 124. Jl. ’07. 200w.
=Wilson, James Southall.= Alexander Wilson, poet-naturalist: a study of
his life with selected poems. $2. Neale.
7–410.
A sketch of the life of America’s first ornithologist, and poet of
somewhat indifferent fame. Alexander Wilson came to America from
Scotland in 1794 to be free from the turmoil of revolution. The life
story includes Jefferson’s letters about birds, a study of the
Scotland of Wilson’s and Burns’s time, and a careful analysis of
Wilson’s character.
* * * * *
“The one serious mistake of the author is reflected in the title. He
undertakes to rescue from oblivion not only the man and the bird
fancier, but the poet.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 63. F. 2, ’07. 630w.
“An interesting memoir.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 380. Mr. ’07. 110w.
=Wilson, May (Anison North, pseud.).= Carmichael. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–12002.
“A pretty story of Canadian rural life. The heroine tells the tale,
and we see her loving, helpful ministry to family and neighbors, yet
sharing her father’s feud and trying to keep it up after his death.
But justice and love are too strong for her filial theories, and the
houses of Mallory and Carmichael are reconciled. The illustrations and
marginal decorations do not add especially to the simple
narrative.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 353. Je. 15, ’07. 80w.
“A story with a distinct moral lesson—which lesson is well to the
front in the author’s mind. Yet it is a very pleasant and readable
story also—one which will recommend itself particularly to
old-fashioned maiden ladies but need not necessarily on that account
be scorned by younger and wiser persons.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 476. Ag. 3, ’07. 630w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 476. Je. 29, ’07. 80w.
=Winckler, Hugo.= History of Babylonia and Assyria; tr. and ed. by James
A. Craig; rev. by the author. **$1.50. Scribner.
7–29420.
“What a few decades of spade-work have revealed of more than three
thousand years of civilization is presented here, with the caution not
to expect any connected history of it until future excavators shall
have done the work awaiting them.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Outlook.= 87: 311. O. 12, ’07. 300w.
=Winslow, Helen Maria.= President of Quex: a woman’s club story. †$1.25.
Lothrop.
6–36041.
A novel whose heroine, the president of Quex, “is led out of the
useless life of a sorrowing recluse by her work as president of the
club, which she makes a factor of consequence in the social,
industrial, and political life of her state.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 675. O. 13, ’06. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 744. N. 10, ’06. 260w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 90w.
“We close the little book with a smile compounded of amusement and
skepticism.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 683. N. 17, ’06. 100w.
=Winter, Alice Ames.= Jewel weed. †$1.50. Bobbs.
6–36042.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is too full of reflected culture, and lacking in realism and
vitality. It is weak fiction.”
− =Outlook.= 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 40w.
=Winter, Nevin Otto.= Mexico and her people of to-day. $3. Page.
7–34163.
An account of the customs, characteristics, amusements, history and
advancement of the Mexicans, and the development and resources of
their country illustrated from original photographs. The author bases
his book upon both travel and study and presents it in the hope that
it may help Americans to a better understanding of their neighbors
across the line.
* * * * *
“A book of up-to-date information of a miscellaneous sort about a
nation concerning which, though she stands at our very doors, most of
us know very little.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 378. D. 1, ’07. 240w.
=Winterburn, Mrs. Rosa V.= Methods in teaching. *$1.25. Macmillan.
7–20690.
“This book is made up of a series of monographs explaining the methods
employed in the elementary school of Stockton, California. The English
teacher will find much here that is obvious, but the monograph on the
teaching of English deserves attention.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The monographs are very thorough, but also, for the most part very
dull.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 93. Jl. 27. 130w.
“It is a record of experience, of the deductions made by a body of
practical teachers working together for a considerable period. As such
it is valuable—of greater value perhaps to many teachers than a more
profound statement of theoretical pedagogy.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 234. S. 12, ’07. 180w.
=Wister, Owen.= How doth the simple spelling bee. *50c. Macmillan.
7–8533.
An extravaganza on reform spelling, in which the reformer “at the age
of seventy-five, with uncounted millions, and ten United States
Senators, and a fourth young wife all in his pocket, proposed to hand
his name to Immortality by simplifying the spelling of English all
over the earth.” The sketch is worthy a Dickens up to date, and
exposes humorously the unrelated scraps in the “rag-bag of
lawlessness” which Mr. Wister chooses to denominate English spelling.
* * * * *
“The author has mist his aim and is badly mixt in his ideas.”
− =Ind.= 62: 741. Mr. 28, ’07. 50w.
“A witty satire.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 243. Mr. 14, ’07. 30w.
“Were well worth preserving, for a time at least.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 144. Mr. 9, ’07. 150w.
“This fantastic skit is immensely amusing at its outset, but becomes a
little tedious before the end.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 40w.
=Wister, Owen.= Lady Baltimore. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–10312.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The first serious and patriotic American story which candidly has the
courage to uphold the aristocratic ideal.” Mary Moss.
+ + =Atlan.= 99: 121. Ja. ’07. 620w.
* =Wister, Owen.= Mother. †$1.25. Dodd.
7–32323.
“Love and speculation in copper stocks are the themes of the
novelette, which Mr. Wister blithely dedicates ‘To my favorite broker,
with the earnest assurance that Mr. Beverly is not meant for
him.’”—Dial.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 43: 421. D. 16, ’07. 80w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
* =Wister, Owen.= Seven ages of Washington: a biography. **$2.
Macmillan.
7–38230.
An elaboration of a Washington address by the author. It is “a
full-length portrait of Washington with enough of his times to see him
clearly against.” Mr. Wister shows how the unfreezing of Washington
began by Irving, but that he went at it gingerly; “to-day,” he says
“we can see the live and human Washington full length. He does not
lose an inch of it, and we gain a progenitor of flesh and blood. The
seven ages are Ancestry, The boy, The young man. The married man. The
commander, The president, and Immortality.”
* * * * *
“His portrait is thoroughly convincing.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 424. D. 16, ’07. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Witt, Robert Clermont.= How to look at pictures. **$1.40. Putnam.
3–15103.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“There is no better book of the kind.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3:86. Mr. ’07.
=Wolfe, Albert Benedict.= Lodging-house problem in Boston: published
from the income of the W. H. Baldwin, jr., 1885 fund. (Harvard economic
studies, v. 2.) **$1.50. Houghton.
6–45064.
While for two years holding the South End house fellowship Dr. Wolfe
collected the material which he has presented here. His treatise
“deals with the class of dwellings that are known in many cities as
rooming-houses or furnished-room houses, and with the mercantile
employees and skilled mechanics who are sheltered in these houses.
Oddly enough, it appears that there has never been, heretofore,
anything like an adequate investigation of lodging-house conditions in
any of our great cities.” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
“Societies which aim to promote the wellbeing of young people of this
class will find here materials and methods of investigation of highest
value.” C. R. Henderson.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 275. S. ’07. 100w.
“The author has made an important contribution to our knowledge of
home (?) life of the great class in our communities, and his volume,
and its suggestions, should be carefully studied.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 227. Ja. ’07. 450w.
“The author is disappointing in not being more convincing and
conclusive in some of the salient points he has raised; he has left
vital issues related to the subject for others to investigate and
develop.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 399. Ag. 15, ’07. 420w.
“Taking the volume as a whole, the student of social conditions will
find in it much to interest him, and he will certainly credit the
author with much conscientious industry. At the same time, he will
hardly avoid the conclusion that valuable time and energy have been
sacrificed to microscopic detail of trivial importance and leading to
nowhere in particular.” E. R. Dewsnup.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 179. Mr. ’07. 590w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 105. Ja. 31, ’07. 320w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 72. F. 2, ’07. 250w.
“While somewhat academic, Dr. Wolfe’s discussion of immediate and
ultimate means for the betterment of lodging-house conditions is
written broadly and judicially.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 569. S. ’07. 330w.
“Dr. Wolfe has gone into the subject very thoroughly.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 180w.
=Wood, Robert Williams.= Physical optics. *$3.50. Macmillan.
6–5702.
“While the book hardly claims, perhaps, to be a complete treatise, it
covers a great deal of ground, and in particular deals with a number
of matters, such as the laws of radiation, dispersion, fluorescence,
and the optics of moving media, which are not so fully treated in some
other recent works. A student commencing the study of optics would
perhaps hardly begin with this book; he would find, however, in its
pages when he came to read them some most instructive views of the
subject.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“It is full of instruction clearly conveyed, is instinct with
intelligence and is uncommonly interesting, because it is largely
about the author’s own work. Some day we shall have a better
proportioned book, but that it will be a more serviceable one is not
so certain.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 99. Ag. 2, ’06. 170w.
“The theoretical treatment of the matter is perhaps less
satisfactory.”
+ + − =Nature.= 74: 509. S. 20, ’06. 1150w.
“It would be difficult to collect a more instructive and interesting
group of experiments in optics than that presented. In quite a number
of places the notation does not agree with the figures. Apart from
these slight defects the book is an inspiration to students and
teachers and will be a great aid in rescuing physical optics from the
absurd mathematical symbolism which sometimes seems to throttle
progress in this fruitful field of investigation.” J. S. Shearer.
+ + − =Phys. R.= 25: 303. O. ’07. 240w.
=Wood, Walter Birbeck, and Edmonds, James Edward.= History of the Civil
war in the United States, 1861–1865. *$3.50. Putnam.
5–35776.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“It is enough to say that the book can be read with pleasure, but we
have to read slowly and closely.” J. E. Morris.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 386. Ap. ’07. 1560w.
=Wood, William.= Fight for Canada; a sketch from the history of the
great imperial war. Definitive ed. $2.50. Little.
6–15420.
A new edition which includes revisions and additional notes. The
author gives much detail concerning the personnel and technical
equipment of the army and of the navy, and emphasizes particularly the
part played by the naval forces in the campaign against Quebec.
* * * * *
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 973. Jl. ’06. 100w.
“The author writes with clearness and force. His characterizations are
often presented with succinct and epigrammatic phrase. One defect in
the author’s treatment is that all men are either black or white; none
are, to use Professor Morse Stephen’s illuminating phrase, pale gray.
The author’s strong convictions on present-day subjects ... show a
lack of judicial restraint.” S. J. McLean.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 438. Mr. ’07. 680w.
=Wood, William Wallace.= Walschaert locomotive valve gear. $1.50.
Henley.
6–46770.
A practical treatise on the locomotive valve actuating mechanism,
originally invented by Egide Walschaert, with the history of the
development by American and European engine designers, and its
evolution into the mechanically correct locomotive valve gear of the
present day.
* * * * *
“The work is clear and explicit in the manner of handling the subject,
and it should give any careful reader an excellent idea of the
principles and application of the Walschaert gear, together with much
important relative information of practical value to the engineman and
master mechanic.” Arthur M. Waitt.
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 307. Mr. 14, ’07. 440w.
* =Woodberry, George Edward.= Great writers. **$1.20. McClure.
7–33931.
Essays of a critical nature upon three prose writers and three poets:
Cervantes, Scott, Montaigne; Virgil, Milton and Shakespeare.
* * * * *
“The peculiar critical genius of G. E. Woodberry is seen to
exceptional advantage. He approaches high matters with a subtle
simplicity that lends a dignity to the texture of his prose, and
reinforces his humane imagination with a singularly concrete and vivid
sense of the individuality of historical periods. The essays upon the
prose writers are perhaps a little more interesting and satisfactory
than those upon the poets.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 498. N. 28, ’07. 550w.
“Carefully wrought and singularly beautiful, Mr. Woodberry is so much
of a poet in temperament that his prose sometimes exchanges simplicity
and clear definition for a vagueness which gives the atmosphere of the
critic’s mind rather than the fullness of his ideas.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 766. D. 7, ’07. 470w.
=Woodberry, George Edward.= Ralph Waldo Emerson. **75c. Macmillan.
7–3927.
The life of Emerson written for the “English men of letters” series.
“‘The process of a soul in matter’ was his biography,” says Mr.
Woodberry. The life is sketched thru the following chapters: The voice
obeyed at prime, “Nature,” and its corollaries, “The hypocritic days.”
The essays, The poems, and Terminus.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 106. Ap. 16, ’07. S.
=Current Literature.= 42: 288. Mr. ’07. 1410w.
“The volume is charmingly written—the style so distinctive, the ideas
so often luminous and so generally fascinating.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 548. Ap. 6, ’07. 180w.
“In our opinion this is the best of the American volumes that have so
far appeared in the series, and it is about the best work of its
author. But if the book as a whole deserves high praise, there are
still grave reservations to be made. There is altogether too much
repetition; certain ideas, such as Emerson’s relation to the clergy
and the pulpit, come up with needless frequency. And again, there are
a few apparent contradictions that call for reconciliation, such as
the varying portraiture of Emerson now as practical and now as
unpractical. Graver than these are the lapses in scholarship.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 179. F. 21, ’07. 950w.
“It is a book by which we may be content to have our Emerson and his
critics judged on the other side of the Atlantic.” Edward Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 90. F. 16, ’07. 1260w.
“More serviceable to the student than any previous biography or
criticism, because it expounds Emerson from the inside out instead of
from the outside in. Professor Woodberry’s study is a triumph of sweet
reasonableness; but it is planned without abandonment and executed
without ecstacy.” Clayton Hamilton.
+ + =No. Am.= 185: 83. My. 3, ’07. 1040w.
“It is altogether the best among recent additions to the ‘English men
of letters series’—indeed, quite the most satisfying interpretation of
Emerson which has been offered.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 3: 107. O. ’07. 1050w.
“Professor Woodberry’s treatment of Emerson is adequate and
dignified.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 756. Je. ’07. 40w.
=Woodburn, James Albert, and Moran, Thomas Francis.= American history
and government: a text-book for grammar schools on the history and civil
government of the United States. *$1. Longmans.
6–9273.
An attempt “to combine in a single grammarschool text-book the related
subjects of American history and civil government.... The combination
consists of ... the interpolation, just after the account of the
adoption of the constitution, of seven chapters descriptive of the
skeleton of national and state governmental forms.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The style of the historical chapters is not attractive; the
subject-matter is too condensed to be interesting. In the main the
spirit of the book is eminently fair and judicial.” Archibald Freeman.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 196. O. ’07. 690w.
=Dial.= 42: 118. F. 16, ’07. 60w.
“The historical narrative, while devoid of literacy merit, is, as a
whole, accurate and well proportioned, and shows skill in selecting
important incidents.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 411. My. 2, ’07. 320w.
− =Spec.= 97: 207. Ag. 11, ’06. 190w.
“The author is admirably successful in bringing his subject down to
the level of those for whom he writes. The style is simple and
picturesque. In a few instances, however, he seems to forget that he
is writing a condensed, general account.” E. D. Fite.
+ − =Yale R.= 16: 101. My. ’07. 310w.
=Woodrow, Nancy Mann Waddel (Mrs. Wilson Woodrow).= Bird of time: being
conversations with Egeria. **$1. McClure.
7–15323.
“Contains a series of essaylike conversations on the subject of the
many-sided phases and attractions of the typical person who came to be
generally known a dozen years ago as ‘the new woman.’” (N. Y. Times.)
“Sitting with Egeria and her friends in her ‘sweet, sedate, secluded’
garden, or around her birchwood fires, the reader may hear much good
talk on subjects as old as the story of Joseph and as new as the
balefulness of woman’s economic dependence.... A pretty wisp of story
binds all the parts together.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 138. My. ’07.
“Short crisp chapters of conversational give and take.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 345. Je. 1, ’07. 290w.
“These conversations of Egeria and her friends are thoroughly
delightful. The pages sparkle. Epigram is kept within bounds, and the
style is natural and pure. The book is of the sort that makes waste
paper of whole shelves full of ‘smart-set’ fiction.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 640. Ap. 20, ’07. 280w.
“A book by a woman largely about ‘us women’ naturally contains a good
deal about ‘you men.’ But never does it fall into the humor-lacking
acridities of its class. The proof-reading leaves very much to be
desired.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 292. Mr. 28, ’07. 380w.
“A series of clever conversations.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 173. Mr. 23, ’07, 470w.
=Outlook.= 86: 258. Je. 1, ’07. 90w.
=Woodrow, Nancy Mann.= New missioner. il. †$1.50. McClure.
7–33209.
“In this story the central figure is Frances Benton, a missionary to
the mining camp of Zenith, and around her is woven a story of much
originality and some force. Here, if we are not mistaken, blackmail as
a missionary’s weapon is introduced into fiction for the first time.
Miss Benson’s advent is not welcomed by the feminine population of
Zenith, and her existence there is not an enviable one.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The author’s delineation of character is clean cut and sympathetic,
and her restraint in the use of thrilling situations, in which most
western stories are too prolific, is commendable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 711. N. 9, ’07. 260w.
“It is an unusual piece of fiction, and more than once really touches
the heart.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 50w.
=Woods, Francis Henry.= For faith and science. *$1.20. Longmans.
7–29070.
“The author’s purpose ... is to indicate how science as a whole is
actually influencing Christian faith and the attitude of intelligent
minds towards Christian faith.... There is a good discussion on the
limitations of the Bible as the standard of faith and morality.... The
main interest is in the third part of the book, which discusses such
problems as ‘Is evolution consistent with the Bible?’ ‘Has science any
valid ground of objection against miracles?’ and so forth.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“We confess that, amid much that is scholarly and sound, we find a
certain lameness in apologetic works of this class.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 696. D. 1. 850w.
=Ind.= 62: 505. F. 28, ’07. 20w.
* =Woods, James Houghton.= Practice and science of religion: a study of
method in comparative religion. (Paddock lectures, 1905–1906.) *80c.
Longmans.
6–22299.
Mr. Woods “classifies religious faiths according as the judgments they
imply are individual, collective, or universal and normative. Under
the first division he considers primitive beliefs not strictly
religious, under the second ancestral systems, and in the third he
includes various forms of mysticism, of the Vedânta system and
Buddhism as well as Christianity.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“For the [embodiment of a method and system for solving religious]
problems its data are too scant and its touch too light. Moreover, the
employment of logical, ethical and metaphysical categories is so
frequent and so apparently a priori as almost to belie the author’s
initial appeal to the standards of inductive inquiry. There is present
also a lack of clearness and incisiveness in the concepts which are
described as involved in religious experience. The reader feels
himself sometimes on shifting sand when he looks to deal with a
clearly developed dialectic.” E. L. Norton.
* * * * *
− + =J. Philos.= 4: 580. O. 10, ’07. 1170w.
=Nation.= 83: 304. O. 11, ’06. 210w.
“When describing the history of primitive beliefs and customs he is
clear and interesting. But we must confess that his philosophy of
religion is not so good; there he seems to us wordy and pretentious,
without making any solid contributions to the subject.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 212. F. 16, ’07. 150w.
=Woods, Margaret Louisa (Bradley).= Invader. †$1.50. Harper.
7–17049.
Sedate Oxford is made the setting for this astonishing tale of a dual
personality, of the young Don who marries Milly, the quiet and
adoring, and who loves Mildred the reckless, deceitful and
captivating. These two natures struggle for mastery in the body of his
young wife until after a series of strange happenings, Milly
heroically sacrifices all in order that the rival within her, the
invader whom she has come to hate and fear, may not embitter her
husband’s future or ruin the life of the child, really Milly’s child,
who has already felt the strange alternating maternal influences that
play over him.
* * * * *
“It is a pity that a certain inability to rouse the sympathy and
interest of the reader should make a dull book of what might be, at
worst, an ingenious one.”
− + =Acad.= 72: 516. My. 25, ’07. 230w.
“The author writes crisply, and with a skilful command of her chosen
medium. Decidedly a creditable venture.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 630. My. 25. 150w.
Reviewed by Mary K. Ford.
=Bookm.= 25: 522. Jl. ’07. 580w.
“The interest of this fantastic tale is but moderate, which is chiefly
due to the fact that the author takes her subject over-seriously,
instead of frankly abandoning herself to its possibilities of comedy
and dramatic effect.” Wm. M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 43: 64. Ag. 1, ’07. 440w.
“Distinctly repulsive ending.”
− =Ind.= 63: 574. S. 5, ’07. 90w.
“It has in fact, a hundred good qualities, which make it well worth
reading. It has one defect which, in our opinion, prevents it from
taking its place beside the ‘Village tragedy,’ or the best of modern
fiction. Our objections to Mr. Woods’s book (against so able a book we
have no scruples about urging objections) is that it falls between the
two stools of fact and fancy.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 149. My. 10, ’07. 680w.
“A sufficiently readable novel.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 501. My. 30, ’07. 260w.
“The story can be commended as readable, and its picture of life in
Oxford is interesting. The background is very well filled in, and the
author has some humor, plenty of sentiment, and appreciable feeling
for inanimate nature.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 298. My. 11, ’07. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 210w.
“The story is disagreeable and at times offensive to good taste, if
not to good morals.”
− =Outlook.= 86: 339. Je. 15, ’07. 80w.
“Mrs. Woods succeeds better with her female than with her male
characters, which are rather shadowy.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 241. Ag. 24, ’07. 400w.
“It is impossible to deny that the narrative has a certain engrossing
quality, but personally we have no hesitation in expressing our regret
that so much talent should have been lavished on a theme which makes
neither for health nor happiness.”
− + =Spec.= 98: 983. Je. 22, ’07. 1390w.
=Woods, Margaret Louisa.= King’s revoke: an episode in the life of
Patrick Dillon. †$1.50. Dutton.
W 6–298.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The narrative is clogged with details and embarrassed by the
introduction of too many characters, but it is a careful study of the
types and is written with unusual fulness of information.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 673. Mr. 21, ’07. 130w.
=Woodworth, Joseph V.= Punches, dies and tools for manufacturing in
presses. $4. Henley.
7–8248.
“The author has aimed to give to the practical man as much useful
information as possible on the working of sheet metals, the design and
construction of punches and dies and the manufacture of repetition
parts and articles in presses. The book is a broader and more
comprehensive view of the subject than that given in the author’s
previous work.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“There is probably no other one place where so much valuable data on
this specialty can be found.” W. W. Bird.
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 194. F. 14, ’07. 150w.
=Worcester, Dean C.= Non-Christian tribes of northern Luzon. Bureau of
ptg., Manila.
“Professor Worcester, a secretary of the interior in the Philippine
government, has charge both of the ethnological study and the
government of the wild peoples. He has made many trips, some of them
heartbreaking ‘hikes,’ on occasions also incurring serious danger in
regions previously unexplored.... He points out our lack as yet of
detailed studies of these various mountain communities, and publishes
his views only to help ‘awaken interest’ and to stimulate thus the
study needed either to verify or to correct such conclusions as he has
ventured.”—Nation.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 63: 631. S. 12, ’07. 960w.
“This is the latest, and to date the most authoritative, discussion of
the mountain people of Northern Luzon as a whole.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 228. Mr. 7, ’07. 570w.
=Wordsworth, William.= Poems; selected with introd. by Stopford A.
Brooke. *$3. McClure.
Mr. Brooke’s introduction “dwells on the poet’s life at Grasmere, the
effects of the scenery on his genius and moral being, and his
interpretation of that scenery and those effects in his verse.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“For one who has never yet come under the spell of Wordsworth no
fitter passkey could be imagined than is found in [this book].”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 67. Jl. 20. 630w.
“In this well-got-up volume literature and art are happily
associated.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 32: 85. Jl. ’07. 140w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 228. Jl. 19, ’07. 900w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 521. D. 5, ’07. 50w.
“Mr. Stopford Brooke is always an agreeable literary companion, and in
his introduction to these selections from Wordsworth he is
particularly happy. Several of his touches give us a very human and
intimate knowledge of the poet.” Bliss Carman.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 701. N. 2, ’07. 430w.
=Workman, Herbert B.= Persecution in the early church: a chapter in the
history of renunciation. *$1.50. West. Meth. bk.
7–26456.
A discussion of persecution in the early church based upon all the
actors both in the inner life and outer environment to which it was
due. The treatment covers the “legal, historical, ecclesiastical and
experiential aspects.”
* * * * *
“Mr. Workman’s book is a valuable contribution to the ecclesiastical
and political history of the first three centuries of Christianity,
and an authoritative study of a very interesting but partially known
subject.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 68. Ag. 1, ’07. 410w.
“The volume covers much the same ground as Mr. Allard’s recently
published work on Martyrdom, though with differences characteristic of
the two writers. It may be said at once, without any offence to Dr.
Workman, that his writing lacks the charm of style which seems almost
inevitable in a Frenchman: where, however, critical questions are
involved the advantage rests with the English scholar, whose sound
judgment removes him as far from M. Allard’s excessive adherence to
tradition as from the scepticism of Père Delehaye.” P. V. M. Benecke.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 328. Ap. ’07. 3160w.
“This is a really valuable book.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 732. N. 10, ’06. 250w.
=Worsfold, Basil.= Lord Milner’s work in South Africa. *$4.50. Dutton.
7–15501.
An intimate view of the official labors of Lord Milner in South
Africa. “Mr. Worsfold has written a straightforward, connected account
of events that are nowhere else so compactly and coherently set forth;
he not only knows his subject thoroughly, but has evidently had
opportunities of gathering much personal information directly from
Lord Milner himself and from other leading actors in the South African
drama; his analysis of the moral and material factors at work is, in
the main, to our mind at least, just and convincing.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“It is neither journalism nor history, and it has the air of being
hopelessly out of date. Mr. Worsfold, then, has a twice-told tale to
tell, and he tells it with becoming gravity. He does full justice to a
great public servant.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 650. D. 29, ’06. 890w.
“A large part of Mr. Worsfold’s volume seems to us wide of his
subject.”
− + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 689. D. 1. 1350w.
“Mr. Worsfold is frankly a partisan, and a thick-and-thin partisan, of
Lord Milner; and is unsparing in his condemnation of the Liberal
leaders who showed any sympathy with the Boer republics.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 400. Ag. 15, ’07. 390w.
“His thought and his style alike lack that distinction which so
strikingly characterizes the extracts from Lord Milner’s own
despatches and speeches which make no small portion of the present
volume. He may not have given us ‘a possession forever,’ but he has
compiled a volume which no one who professes to take an intelligent
interest in Imperial politics can well afford to leave unread at this
present juncture.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 390. N. 23, ’06. 2570w.
“The book is on a high level, but it is all admiration of Lord
Milner.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 342. Ap. 11, ’07. 800w.
=Outlook.= 85: 903. Ap. 20, ’07. 180w.
“A valuable footnote to the history of the South African war and the
reconstruction period immediately following.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 50w.
“What he does not know at first hand he has been at great pains to
verify by the documentary evidence of blue-books. His story is
consecutive, and the sense of perspective is not wanting. His style is
clear and occasionally dramatic if somewhat diffuse and iterative.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 102: 710. D. 8, ’06. 1770w.
=Wright, Sir Almroth Edward.= Principles of microscopy: being a handbook
to the microscope. *$6.50. Macmillan.
7–25539.
“A scientific treatise on the optical technique of the
microscope, exclusive of actual microscopic work and study. The
theme is illustrated at every step by an exhaustive series of
experiments.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“An exhaustive index leaves the critic with nothing but praise for the
thoroughness which marks every step in the treatment of the subject.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 206. F. 28, ’07. 150w.
Reviewed by Thomas H. Blakesley.
+ − =Nature.= 75: 386. F. 21, ’07. 1420w.
=Wright, Carroll Davidson.= Battles of labor: being the William Levi
Bull lectures for the year 1906. **$1. Jacobs.
6–14781.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Colonel Wright, in this latest book, takes a historical point of view
which lends special interest to his discussion.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 228. Ja. ’07. 190w.
Reviewed by W. B. Guthrie.
+ + =Charities.= 17: 468. D. 15, ’06. 350w.
“With good sense, wide learning, and ripe experience the eminent
statistician opens to young theologians that world of conflict in
which ethical and religious principles are put to severest strain.”
Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 287. My. 1, ’07. 140w.
“Especially interesting are the last two lectures, which are based
largely on the personal experience and observation of the author.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 181. Mr. ’07. 110w.
=Wright, George Frederick.= Scientific confirmations of Old Testament
history. *$2. Bibliotheca sacra co., Oberlin. O.
7–2423.
“This volume embodies the results of his latest investigations besides
those found in the authors former writings. They show, what other
investigators have held that certain occurrences recorded in the Old
Testament as miracles—the deluge, the destruction of Sodom, the
Hebrews’ fording of the Red sea and the Jordan, the overthrow of
Jericho—belong to the history of the natural operation of geological
causes. These causes however, Dr. Wright holds to have been touched
off by the direct act of God to meet the occasions, as really as the
hunter fires his gun.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 590w.
“Is one of the most thorough books of its kind, in a popular form,
lately published. The author’s unabating enthusiasm, his obvious
sincerity, and simple and forcible manner make the book interesting.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 48. Ja. 26, ’07. 170w.
“Whether in the Old Testament or in the New, Dr. Wright is
uncompromisingly opposed to the conclusions adopted by the majority of
Biblical scholars. Geology is his forte, and the value of the present
volume comes from his researches in that field.”
− + =Outlook.= 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 210w.
=Wright, Hamilton M.= Handbook of the Philippines. **$1.40. McClurg.
7–32869.
A book for the student or traveler which is the outgrowth of
investigations made in the Philippines in order to furnish a complete
report to the Manufacturers and producers association of San
Francisco. It is a practical reference book recording interesting
facts about commerce, productions, industries and prospects. The
illustrations are numerous and suggestive.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 199. N. ’07.
“Not only is it written with the roseate optimism of promotors’
literature but as a compilation of facts it has been carelessly
prepared, from inadequate study of sources and hasty observations, and
is far from being either accurate or complete.”
− =Ind.= 63: 1371. D. 5, ’07. 580w.
“In which is compactly set forth a great amount of information
concerning the islands and their peoples.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 716. N. 9, ’07. 320w.
“It is, as an indication of Philippine industrial conditions that the
book has chief value. It is emphatically a reference book, not only
for the tourist but in a greater measure for the business man, the
promoter, the industrialist, the capitalist.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 541. N. 9, ’07. 1060w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 638. N. ’07. 180w.
=Wright, Harold Bell.= Shepherd of the hills. $1.50. Book supply co.
7–26339.
The crude mountaineers of the Ozarks are the people of this story, and
those of them who were not really born to this wild life have come to
it satiated with the ways of men in the world outside and have here
been born anew. It is a strange tale of love, of hate, of deception
and retribution but, although it deals with tough folk and their rough
ways, about it is cast the glamour of the everlasting hills. These men
are men of action and their brawn and muscle when exerted in a good
cause, have all the force of oratory.
* * * * *
“There are many bits of excellent description, in the course of the
story, and an atmosphere as fresh and sweet and free from modern grime
as one would breathe on the Ozark trails themselves.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 250w.
“Both in the more melodramatic and the more sentimental parts of his
tale he is apt to overdo the thing. With all its crudeness, however,
the story does appeal to one’s admiration of pluck and honesty.”
− + =Outlook.= 87: 269. O. 5, ’07. 120w.
=Wright, Mabel Osgood.= Birdcraft. 7th ed. **$2. Macmillan.
A new edition of a book whose “especial value lies in the way in which
the principal facts concerning a bird—length, color, song, season,
distribution, nest and eggs—are set off in distinct paragraphs, making
reference easy and direct. The only change from the old editions is
the absence of the badly colored plates of minute figures of birds and
the substitution of eighty uncolored plates by Fuertes, including some
of this artist’s best work.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 62: 1353. Je. 6, ’07. 80w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 295. Mr. 28, ’07. 90w.
“The bird is, so to speak, a guide to the realm of bird-land, well
composed and arranged.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 227. Ap. 6, ’07. 150w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 763. Mr. 30, ’07. 70w.
* =Wright, Mabel Osgood.= Gray Lady and the birds: stories of the bird
year for home and school, il. **$1.75. Macmillan.
7–38237.
Children and birds are brought into close sympathy here. The author
does not give detailed descriptions and tabulated facts, but a record
“of the doings of some children who were eager to know; together with
a few hints upon the migrations, winter feeding, and protection of
some of our common birds and the stories of their lives, that may lead
both teacher and pupil to more detailed study when opportunity
offers.”
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Wright, Thomas.= Life of Walter Pater. 2v. *$6.50. Putnam.
7–25136.
“In the main, it avoids the proportion of literary exposition,
criticism, and general biography already so thoroughly dealt with in
the biographies of Pater written by A. C. Benson and Ferris Greenslet
and strives to be familiarly subjective rather than personally and
intimately objective. Much of the material employed has been derived
from school-fellows, pupils, and colleagues, some of whom speak with
questionable freedom.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“What evil angel—what bat—inspired him to choose a man whose mind and
character he was totally incapable of understanding, and then to
patronise him?”
− − =Acad.= 72: 263. Mr. 16, ’67. 1900w.
“The book contains a good deal of new material, especially in the
account given of the literary relations between Pater and Oscar Wilde.
Mr. Benson’s ‘Walter Pater’ ... was more satisfactory to Pater’s
friends than is the present venture.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 353. Mr. 23. 100w.
“This is the most absurd of his absurdities; the chief, and let us
hope, the last of his biographical ineptitudes.” H. W. Boynton.
− − =Bookm.= 25: 420. Je. ’07. 1880w.
“If his workmanlike methods are not exactly those of previous writers
who have rhapsodized on the life and genius of Pater, the difference
is not altogether one to be regretted. The richness of illustrative
and sometimes not too closely relevant matter more than once comes
very near to being padding. The footnotes are superfluously and
tiresomely numerous.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 280. My. 1, ’07. 2220w.
“It is equally distinguished for failure to penetrate the character of
the man and pitiful in capacity to appreciate the excellence of his
work.” Edward Clark Marsh.
− − =Forum.= 39: 106. Jl. ’07. 1130w.
“This is pretty nearly everything a self-respecting biography ought
not to be.”
− − =Ind.= 63: 762. S. 26, ’07. 150w.
“Mr. Benson and Mr. Greenslet are at any rate critics of taste and
culture: and not all the mass of new facts accumulated by Mr. Wright
can make up for his entire lack which he here displays of the
interpretative gift and of any distinction either in thought or in
style.”
− =Lond. Times.= 6: 94. Mr. 22, ’07. 370w.
“It is, in short the failure of the ‘Boswellian’ method in biography
when applied by a man who is not a Boswell to a subject not a
Johnson.”
− =Nation.= 84: 312. Ap. 4, ’07. 1810w.
“Mr. Wright’s book is, in all respects, for the multitude of readers,
a straightforward, unimaginative narrative of facts, big and little,
and chronicle of gossip concerning a remarkable man about whom the
multitude of readers has, hitherto, known very little.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 192. Mr. 30, ’07. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 284. My. 4, ’07. 1400w.
“The biographer places too great a reliance upon the cumulative effect
of unimportant conversations and recollections, and his anxiety to see
Pater through the eyes of certain of his early friends promotes a
sense of uneasiness in the reader lest there should be another side to
many of these stories.” Thomas Walsh.
− =No. Am.= 185: 552. Jl. 5, ’07. 1910w.
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 75. My. 11, ’07. 260w.
“Some services he has undoubtedly rendered.” A. I. du P. Coleman.
− + =Putnam’s.= 2: 614. Ag. ’07. 160w.
“If we took his work seriously at all, we should have to say much
harder things about it. As it is, he is just an irritation. We want
him out of the way.”
− − =Sat. R.= 103: 590. My. 11, ’07. 1610w.
=Wright, Wilmer Cave.= Short history of Greek literature from Homer to
Julian. *$1.50. Am. bk.
7–32173.
A book for the reader who believes that he cannot appreciate
literature unless he can relate the masterpieces to the types set,
once for all, by the Greeks; and also for the student who in the
second or third year at college desires a rapid survey of the whole
field of Greek literature.
=Wrixon, Sir Henry John.= Pattern nation. *$1. Macmillan.
7–11013.
The factors in the problem which Sir Henry Wrixon discusses are stated
in the following: “The problem [of the day] is, What will the poor do
with the rich? It arises when on the political side of life, lawful
government of the majority of the people becomes an established fact
in vindication of the principle that men are equal; while the
industrial and social side of life is still left to be controlled by
methods that have for their foundation the fact that men are unequal
and that their rewards in life are to be unequal also.” His book
answers the question raised in this statement.
* * * * *
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 170. Jl. ’07. 400w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 187. Mr. ’07. 280w.
“The facts and arguments adduced by Sir Henry Wrixon are weighty. They
are presented with an earnestness which commands attention.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 354. O. 19, ’06. 680w.
“The true merit of a volume which in its 172 pages contains more
thought and more wisdom than is often to be found in books of tenfold
its size, is that it suggests ideas which ought to arrest the
attention of the whole English people, whether living in the United
Kingdom, or in the United States.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 223. Mr. 7, ’07. 1950w.
“The essay is valuable as a reflection of a phase of opinion in
England, if not very convincing as an argument.”
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 555. S. ’07. 180w.
“Is a little book of great merit.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 937. D. 15, ’06. 1540w.
=Wyld, Henry Cecil Kennedy.= Historical study of the mother tongue: an
introduction to philological method. *$2. Dutton.
7–15482.
A purely technical work designed as a textbook for students of
philology. “It contains a large amount of information on the history
of the language, the facts of comparative grammar bearing on its
external relations, and the nature of the causes that operate in the
development of language in general.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“To many teachers of the classics it will be a matter of great regret
that an introduction as clear, accurate, scientific, and complete as
this has not yet been written for the young student of the classical
languages.” A. L. Mayhew.
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 134. F. 9, ’07. 1050w.
“One great merit of the work consists in the fullness and lucidity
with which it explains the reasons for conclusions that are too often
presented dogmatically. Although on some points we consider Prof.
Wyld’s views rather one-sided, we have no hesitation in cordially
recommending his book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 504. Ap. 27. 1130w.
“A book such as has long been needed by teachers both in Great Britain
and in America. The indexes, prepared by Miss Irene Williams, are
admirably thorough and full.”
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 344. Je. 1, ’07. 400w.
“It is full of specific fact and observation, drawn from the stores of
a wide and sound scholarship. It is, however, in the theories and
principles set forth in the book ... that its main interest lies. The
reader will not always agree with the author, but his own opinions are
pretty certain to undergo some modifications before he has heard him
thru.” George Philip Krapp.
+ + − =Educ. R.= 34: 525. D. ’07. 2200w.
“This is an excellent work for post-graduate students in the Germanic
languages—especially, of course, English—to supplement the usual
courses in historical grammar.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 17. Jl. 4, ’07. 660w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 17. Ja. 12, ’07. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 268. Ap. 27, ’07. 190w.
“Mr. Wyld has added an excellent bibliography and an equally good
index.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 648. Ap. 27, ’07. 540w.
=Wyllarde, Dolf.= As ye have sown. †$1.50. Lane.
The author’s thesis “seems to be that the British aristocracy has been
bred in idleness and nursed in vice for generations until its men are
gamblers and roués by instinct, its women unspeakable things clad in
scale-like sequins and triply armed with brazen conceit, lewdness and
loudness. In contrast, she draws a flattering portrait of the ‘Great
middle class’ of England.... A beautiful young woman, Patricia
Mornington, wanders into the story and into the fast society, where
she finds herself about as much at home as an angel in Tophet or an
ascension lily in a foundry furnace.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“This is a brilliant and convincing picture of society life among the
members of the British aristocracy.”
+ =Arena.= 38: 215. Ag. ’07. 160w.
“She shows a less sure touch, in depicting the routine of English
suburban homes than in her former vivid sketches of military and
colonial life; and she has not succeeded in the task—a difficult one,
admittedly—of endowing virtue in the person of her heroine with
fascinations exceeding those proper to vice.”
− =Ath.= 1906, 2: 730. D. 8. 180w.
“We must confess to a doubt concerning the open indecency of the talk
at the dinner tables in ‘As ye have sown.’”
− =Ind.= 63: 573. S. 5, ’07. 380w.
“The intention of the novel is no doubt good, but why does the author
forget this wholesome tenet, and insist that her reader shall ‘know of
the bad?’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 432. Jl. 6, ’07. 250w.
=Wyllie, M. A.= Norway and its fjords. *$2. Pott.
A “thirty-day scheduled, beaten-track survey of the Norwegian coast”
described by Mrs. Wyllie and pictured by W. L. Wyllie.
* * * * *
“As a monthly tourists’ log, the book is good enough to make the
reader disappointed that it is not better.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 967. O. 5, ’07. 950w.
“It is a pity that the book has not been revised—and abridged—by a
competent hand; for when its author steps down from the lecturer’s
chair, she relates the incidents of travel with spirit, and shows
excellent taste in her description of scenery.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 441. O. 12. 400w.
“This is one of the literary guide-books which in recent years have
been prepared by persons of culture and observative powers to
supplement the mechanical information contained in the Baedeker series
and their like.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 919. D. 14, ’07. 70w.
“What with the chatty intimate style, the excellent descriptions, and
the numerous illustrations of this book, one feels on reading it
almost as though he had been to Norway.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 210w.
=Wymore, Mary Isabel.= Adrienne, and other poems. $1. Badger, R. G.
7–7474.
“Adrienne,” a tale of the sea, is the first of a group of poems which
are arranged in the order in which they were written, “thus making,”
the author says, “an unbroken chain in the development of an idea.”
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 147. Mr. 9, ’07. 40w.
=Wyndham, George.= Ronsard and La Pleiade: with selections from their
poetry and some translations in original metres. $2. Macmillan.
An introductory essay tells the story of Ronsard and the Pleiad and
shows how French and English literature were influenced by the school;
then come the “selections,” which contain the best of Ronsard, Du
Bellay and lesser folk; the volume concludes with sixty pages of
translations of lyric poetry and sonnets in original metres.
* * * * *
“Mr. Wyndham is well fitted for the task. He has caught the spirit of
Elizabethan England, and written admirably and with insight of its
greatest poetry. The necessary compression of treatment leaves us in
some hesitation as to whether the author has not assumed a great many
things on very questionable authority.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 648. N. 24. 1500w.
“Mr. Wyndham has felt, not only the importance but especially the
grace of Ronsard and his school; and he shows, with delicacy of
sentiment, how that grace pervaded their lives no less than their
works.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 381. D. 16, ’06. 2470w.
“His translations are faithful.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 57. Ja. 17, ’07. 280w.
“He shows us the astonishing fact that it is possible to be a
politician and yet to have the instinct, much even of the craft, of
the poet. Mr. Wyndham writes sharply and emphatically, not lingering
by the way, and often flashing a rapid illumination as he goes. Here
and there his lines creak or cloud.” Arthur Symons.
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 543. N. 3, ’06. 1870w.
“The selection is admirably done; the introduction is adequate, though
we are always a little uneasy in reading Mr. Wyndham’s prose. He is
apt to be too luscious for human nature’s daily food, and he has a
wearing habit of using no substantive without several epithets
attached.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 930. D. 8, ’06. 510w.
Y
=Yardley, Maud H.= Sinless. *$1. Fenno.
An emotional story growing out of the almost inconceivable situation
of an unconscious exchange of wives. Two men return to England and
their wives after ten years residence in India. That the wife of one
should greet the husband of the other, be accepted in turn as his wife
and neither find out the mistake for sometime seems a little short of
impossible. The confusion is aided by the fact that both women
responded to “Nell,” and both men were named “Kenyon.”
* * * * *
“Miss Yardley nurses her material with such skill and keeps her secret
so well that the close of the chapter, where she allows the truth to
burst on us, is a triumph of dramatic effect.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 399. O. 20, ’06. 150w.
“The improbability is redeemed by the very delicate way in which the
consequent tragedy is handled.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 439. O. 13. 110w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 498. Ag. 17, ’07. 120w.
“After [the first twenty-five pages] the story flows languidly in a
stream of verbosity.”
− =Sat. R.= 102: 434. O. 6. ’06. 150w.
=Yeats, William Butler.= Poetical works. 2v. v. 1. **$1.75. Macmillan.
6–43534.
This is a volume of Mr. Yeats’ lyrical poems, and will be followed in
the spring by a second containing his dramas. Here are to be found
“Ballads and lyrics,” “The wanderings of Oisin,” “The rose,” “The wind
among the reeds,” “In seven woods,” “The old age of Queen Meave,” and
“Baile and Aillinn.”
* * * * *
“Not all Mr. Yeats’s gifts of music and Celtic magic avail to make the
volume other than a little tedious.” Ferris Greenslet.
+ − =Atlan.= 100: 850. D. ’07. 350w.
“It seems doubtful whether in the mass Mr. Yeats’ lyrical poetry can
be appreciated save by a cult or will be remembered save by the
curious. Yet there are fine things in the volume.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 34. Ja. 10, ’07. 430w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The fact that he is occasionally carried away by his love for the old
fairy legends of his native land must not be held against him. It is
only occasionally that he transcends common sense and loses sight of
reason in a fog of mysticism.” Bliss Carman.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 68. F. 2, ’07. 1770w.
“Foremost—indeed, as far as permanent value goes, entirely alone—in
this year’s output stands the volume of Mr. Yeats’s collected dramas.”
Louise Collier Willcox.
+ + =No. Am.= 186: 92. S. ’07. 840w.
=Outlook.= 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 80w. (Review of v. 1.)
“For Mr. Yeats’s poetry I have more respectful sympathy than liking. I
wish I liked it better. I feel quite sure that it deserves affection.
Often in phrases and occasionally in whole lyrics it is exquisite. And
it is always admirable in intention, but, somehow, it lacks something.
It does not give the thrill. It is wanting in the pull on the heart.”
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 118. Ap. ’07. 770w.
“Here the intangible, the illusive and elusive weave their shadowy
world, and one knows not when he returns from it what shapes he has
met; but he knows that he has been in an enchanted place and that his
spirit was stirred.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 363. D. ’07. 590w.
=Yost, Casper S.= Making of a successful husband: letters of a happily
married man to his son. **$1. Dillingham.
7–24184.
“The book is in the form of letters from a father who has found
marriage a success to his son. They begin with the young man’s
announcement of his engagement, and are carried on through indefinite
intervals of time as the young husband makes known one and other
problems of married life. The letters consider the questions of
boarding or keeping house, the wife’s allowance, the bride’s
relations, should women work, and other practical and sentimental
matters.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“They are all written in an easy, natural style, enlivened with
anecdotes, and show much common sense of an up-to-date variety.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 517. Ag. 24. ’07. 180w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 759. D. ’07. 30w.
* =Yost, Casper S.= Making of a successful wife. **$1. Dillingham.
7–36141.
The letters of a father to his daughter give some interesting advice,
plenty of humor and a good deal of marital philosophy. “In the first
letter John Sneed gives his consent to the marriage of his daughter,
and in those ensuing he advises her on his problems of married life.”
(N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The tenth [letter] deals with [the problem] of raising a family, and
presents homely truths in a pleasant fashion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 713. N. 9. ’07. 90w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 759. D. ’07. 30w.
=Young, Alexander Bell Filson.= Christopher Columbus and the New world
of his discovery. 2v. *$6.50. Lippincott.
7–3929.
“The central object of Mr. Young’s work is to reveal to the reader
what he conceives to be the personality of Columbus. He has tried to
discover, from a reverent examination of monographs, histories,
essays, memoirs, and controversies, what Columbus did and what he was.
In order that his portrait might not lack reality, he has endeavored
to bring out even his hero’s defects.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“It is picturesquely, vivaciously and vigorously written, with here
and there a touch reminiscent of Carlyle. He does not, however, strike
us as an infallible witness, and ‘modern historical research,’ which
may dispose of Washington Irving, is not perhaps always on the side of
Mr. Filson Young.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 627. D. 22, ’06. 1150w.
“The most serious deficiency in Mr. Young’s work is not its occasional
errors, but its great lack of the true historical spirit of
interpretation. It is the work of a clear and versatile writer, but
not of a historical scholar. It will amuse and interest the general
reader and not seriously mislead him as to the career of Columbus, but
from it he will gain little instruction in historical interpretation.”
E. G. B.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 656. Ap. ’07. 630w.
“Is deserving of high praise, and upon the whole it is trustworthy,
notwithstanding the conjectural details which are introduced in order
to impart life and colour to the little that is known of the early
days of Columbus.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 576. N. 10. 1390w.
“The one great and glaring defect of Mr. Young’s work lies in the
spirit of levity that more or less pervades it.” Anna Heloise Abel.
− + =Dial.= 42: 342. Je. 1, ’07. 1000w.
“The knowledge of motives and mental processes of Columbus which
Filson Young displays in his new two-volume life of the navigator is
enough to make the world of Columbian scholarship stand aghast.”
− =Ind.= 62: 1154. My. 16, ’07. 340w.
=Lit. D.= 34: 218. F. 9, ’07. 230w.
“Mr. Young can tell a story tersely, rapidly and vividly when he
chooses. But he seldom chooses so to tell it. He is too prone to
listen to that demonic whisper which bids him tell it with abundance
of florid embroidery; so that where we look for Columbus and his
deeds, adventures, and sufferings, we too often find Mr. Filson Young
and his words, conjectures, and fond inventions.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 5: 392. N. 23, ’06. 1730w.
“The defects of his own work illustrate the inevitable weakness of
history written by one who has not saturated himself with its
materials. No student of the Columbus narratives will fail to find in
[the Earl of Dunraven’s] valuable essay an explanation of many things
left partly or wholly in the dark by the editors of Columbus’s
writings.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 271. Mr. 21, ’07. 1180w.
“Nothing has come from the presses recently which is able to give a
deeper insight into the character of the discoverer of America than
the two-volumed work of Filson Young just issued.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12:26. Ja. 19, ’07. 360w.
“It is our opinion that he has pressed the theories of the picturesque
school to a dangerous extreme, and he could have attained his purpose
with even greater surety, and without any sacrifice of the dramatic
elements of the story, by writing with more restraint.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 855. Ap. 13, ’07. 1330w.
“The book, take it for all in all, is interesting although badly
written, and its unflinching, almost infernal honesty of purpose
places it far above the too-abundant crop of ‘Memoirs,’ ‘Lifes’ and
‘Notes’ about the doings of quite unimportant men, which literally
stuff the libraries.” R. B. Cunninghame Graham.
+ + − =Sat. R.= 102: 576. N. 10, ’06. 1750w.
=Young, Alexander Bell Filson.= Mastersingers. *$1.25. Lippincott.
“A republication, with some additions, of a series of essays on
musical subjects which appeared several years ago and which has
therefore won something more than ephemeral recognition in England and
America.... Some of the essays are ‘programme’ interpretations of
great symphonies like Beethoven’s Pastoral and Tschaikowsky’s
Pathetic; ‘Tristan and and Isolde’ is a more objective description of
Wagner’s great drama of love and death; and ‘The spirit of the piano’
is a very just appreciation of Chopin’s genius.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“As the work of so youthful a writer ... these papers display a
remarkable maturity of thought and even world wisdom; and the fervid
intensity of many passages is intelligible and excusable.” Josiah
Renick Smith.
+ =Dial.= 42: 224. Ap. 1, ’07. 170w.
“They are agreeable and somewhat highly wrought examples of the
‘subjective,’ literary criticism.” Richard Aldrich.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 763. N. 17, ’06. 320w.
=Young, Alexander Bell Filson.= Wagner stories **$1.30. McClure.
The stories of the Wagner operas from “Flying Dutchman” to “Parsifal”
are told “for the benefit of those idle people who go to the opera
without having taken the trouble to read the poem on which the music
is founded. They are the larger proportion of audiences, and this
handy guide to knowledge ought to help them. They will get not only a
very good idea of the stories themselves, but a fairly definite idea,
in Mr. Eric Maclagan’s metrical translations of detached passages, of
that curious amalgam which Wagner constructed out of partly poetical
and partly musical elements.”—(Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“Both useful and attractive.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 615. My. 18. 140w.
=Nation.= 85: 404. O. 31, ’07. 150w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“A serious book for young people but the old tales are well told in a
manner that older people will find interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 50w.
“The writing of Mr. Young’s book is done with fluency, and is best
when it tries least to ‘be inspired with some breadth of the emotional
atmosphere which it is the peculiar quality of Wagner’s music to
produce.’”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 788. Je. 22, ’07. 270w.
=Young, Egerton Ryerson.= Battle of the bears. †$1.50. Wilde.
7–27029.
Mr. Young’s stories of life in the northland all aim to catch and hold
aspects of life which are fast disappearing as civilization penetrates
the wilderness haunts of wolves and bears. “His pictures of nature as
he saw it in that frozen world are remarkable, while the makeshifts to
which he was forced to resort, the privations which he had to endure,
give to the reader an insight into life in this north country such as
has never been before portrayed.”
=Young, Rida Johnson, and Coleman, Gilbert P.= Brown of Harvard. †$1.50.
Putnam.
7–18595.
“The quite simple story of Brown, who is wrongfully suspected by his
sweetheart and her mother, suffers in silence to shield the quite
stereotyped villain, who would have been much more wisely dealt with
if his weakness had had the tonic of publicity, and who inevitably
wins the boat race.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The lively plot, full of ingenious and surprising incidents, and the
very striking dénouement make the reader unwilling to lay down the
book until he has finished it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 397. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.
Z
=Zangwill, Israel.= Ghetto comedies. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–15120.
Fourteen stories of the Jew. Some are little comedies but in some the
comedy element is pathetically lacking. The model of sorrows,
Anglicization, The Jewish Trinity, The Sabbath question in Sudminster,
The red mark, The bearer of burdens. The Luftmensch, The tug of love,
The Yiddish Hamlet, The converts, Holy wedlock, Elijah’s goblet, The
hirelings, and Samooborona.
* * * * *
“Strong, artistic, short stories of the Jew.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 181. O. ’07.
“We are grateful to him for a book of interesting stories, which give
his readers problems to ponder—and some, maybe, also reason for
despair.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 788. Je. 29. 390w.
“Never has he proved more plainly that a special theme in no way
hampers an artist, if only the artist be sufficiently strong and
fecund to resist over-specialization and to remain alive and sentient
within his chosen field.” Mary Moss.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 430. Je. ’07. 1120w.
“The reader feels as tho he has been wandering in a land of
grotesques. More than a touch of exaggeration mars some of his best
tales.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 694. S. 19, ’07. 360w.
“Although in one way the book may be taken as an ironical open letter
to the Christian nations, showing them what their centuries of
oppression have done to debase their victim, it is also a work rich in
understanding and humor, a very quick and true sympathy, and that
fearless satirical directness which, when it comes (as it does so very
infrequently) from one of this race, is always so telling.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 158. My. 17, ’07. 670w.
“In reading these stories (fourteen in all) it is impossible not to
feel that merely as a writer of fiction Mr. Zangwill has gained
greatly in the past decade. Moreover, his point of view has broadened,
and while his sympathies and enthusiasms are as distinctively national
as ever, while he still loves so tenderly that he can find fault, or
even laugh, he never falls into that partisan sentimentalism which
would rob his Jewish pictures of their unflinching sincerity.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 478. My. 23, ’07. 420w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 272. Ap. 27, ’07. 70w.
“They have all the realism, the almost grim impartiality of their
predecessors.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 284. My. 4, ’07. 660w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
“They have the compelling force of reality.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 90w.
“When a writer of fiction sets out to defend or attack some system of
religion or philosophy or politics or social economy, he must beware
of producing a lecture instead of a tale. Mr. Zangwill, an
enthusiastic Zionist, has frequently yielded to this weakness, and his
‘Ghetto comedies’ show that he is not done with it yet.”
− + =R. of Rs.= 35: 762. Je. ’07. 280w.
“What one is perhaps most conscious of when reading Mr. Zangwill is
the sureness of his level. His stories are not all of the same value
but one is sure when beginning each of them that it will lead
somewhere.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 624. My. 18, ’07. 540w.
“Alike in matter and manner this is a book of singular and engrossing
interest.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 677. Ap. 27, ’07. 1470w.
=Zartman, Lester William.= Investments of life insurance companies.
**$1.25. Holt.
7–451.
A book which does not attempt to reflect any of the agitation
attending the recent official investigation of life insurance
companies, but undertakes the “more congenial task of tracing the
beneficent influences which life insurance accumulations have
exercised upon the economic development of the country and the
relation of those accumulations to social welfare.”
* * * * *
“Will interest readers of thoughtful mind, although it is somewhat
restricted in scope, and does not consider many of the most
interesting aspects of insurance. Extremely well done.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 107. Ap. ’07.
“The author’s conclusions appeal to the reader as thoroughly sane and
the recommendations as wise and salutary.” H. J. Davenport.
+ + − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 184. Mr. ’07. 220w.
“His method is rigorously scientific, and the result is a most useful
contribution to the subject.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 164. F. 14, ’07. 380w.
Reviewed by Edward A. Bradford.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 180. Mr. 23, ’07. 2020w.
“There is much information in his book concerning the character and
cost of insurance investments.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 120w.
“This little hand-book should be of much interest and value to those
who are responsible for the safe and profitable investment of trust or
other funds, and to the policy-holder, now somewhat alive to insurance
problems who desires to know how his savings are being cared for.” J.
M. Gaines.
+ =Yale R.= 16: 213. Ag. ’07. 490w.
=Zimmern, Helen.= Italy of the Italians. *$1.50. Scribner.
7–6779.
“Her aim is not so much to describe the Italy of the past as actual
conditions in the peninsula. In that description she is thoroughgoing,
she dips beneath the surface. She has interesting things to say about
the court, artists, authors, archæologists, scientists, inventors.
dramatists, and journalists. But, what is more striking, she seems
equally at home whether putting such a poet as Ada Negri or such an
archæologist as Giacomo Boni in their proper places, or in discussing
agrarian and fiscal conditions. Her treatment of those conditions
should commend it to students of economics.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 133. My. ’07. S.
“Miss Zimmern’s facts appear to be almost wholly drawn from her
knowledge of the northern and central districts of the peninsula, with
the result that the peculiar difficulties of administration with which
the government is confronted in the South and in Sicily are passed
over in silence. The book bears signs of having been written in a
hurry, and evidences of careless proof reading abound. This
indifference to style is particularly to be regretted in the case of
an author who can write well when she pleases. A word of commendation
must be given to the unusually complete index.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 194. F. 16. 840w.
“Her equipment as a scholar and writer on many subjects, artistic,
philosophic, and literary, has given her a power of condensed
generalization.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 187. Mr. 16, ’07. 510w.
“The least successful chapters are those on art and literature. Where
facts are concerned. Miss Zimmern is instructive; where personal bias
filters through, her position is radical, anti-church.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 412. D. 13, ’06. 290w.
“An interesting and valuable book on Italy.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 574. Mr. 9, ’07. 150w.
“The whole volume is one of remarkable interest.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 892. D. 1, ’06. 280w.
=Zueblin, Charles.= Decade of civic development. *$1.25. Univ. of
Chicago press.
6–674.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Lewis E. Palmer.
=Charities.= 17: 508. D. 15, ’06. 770w.
=Zuylen van Nyevelt, Suzette van, barones.= Court life in the Dutch
republic, 1638–1689. *$4. Dutton.
7–11547.
A history of Holland from 1638–1689 in which “we have family life in
the upper classes, religious influences, literature and art, society
and diplomacy! The bitterness between the Orangeists and
anti-Orangeists, the strife of parties, the cumbrousness of the Dutch
system of government, are all sympathetically explained.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Baroness van Zuylen van Nyevelt pilots the reader ably through the
complicated genealogy of the house of Nassau. Her grasp of her subject
and her wide sympathy both for the ill-fated and lovable Stuarts and
the harder-headed and somewhat uncompromising Princes of Orange, would
make a less dramatic period interesting.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 545. D. 1, ’06. 910w.
“The book fills a gap in the popular historical library, and is
excellently written. It should be widely read.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907. 1: 379. Mr. 30. 700w.
“On the whole this is an admirable historical study.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 912. Ap. 18, ’07. 580w.
“The real value of this excellent book, illustrated and indexed as it
is, consists in its descriptions, rich in coloring, of the social life
of the period, the Dutch golden era.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 137. F. 7, ’07. 540w.
“Though the Baroness van Nyevelt writes in strained and dignified
style, the picturesqueness of her subject matter gives vividness to
every page of her interesting narrative.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 844. D. 1, ’06. 210w.
“The baroness’ book is a painstaking and readable contribution to the
understanding of the great age of the Dutch republic. If we compare
Mr. Barker and the Baroness van Zuylen van Nyevelt when they cover the
same ground, it seems fairly clear not merely that the baroness is
better acquainted with the best literature of the subject, but is more
accurate, more fair and more critical in the proper sense of that
term.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 525. Ap. 27, ’07. 750w.
=Zwemer, Samuel Marinus, Wherry, Elwood Morris, and Barton, James Levi=,
eds. Mohammedan world of to-day: being papers read at the first
missionary conference on behalf of the Mohammedan world held at Cairo,
April 4th–9th, 1906. **$1.50. Revell.
6–41773.
“These papers exhibit the actual state of things both for better and
for worse, as seen by eye-witnesses long conversant with the facts.
They report both the difficulties in the way of betterment and the
encouraging successes here and there achieved. For an understanding
merely of the problems in world-politics which grow out of
Mohammedanism these papers are valuable, much more for those which
appeal to humanitarian and Christian sympathy. They effectually
dissipate the allusion that Mohammedanism is on the whole, a
beneficent religion, suited to the character of its adherents.
Statistics, maps, and illustrations enrich the volume.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“As in all books of this character the essays vary greatly in merit.
Especial mention should be made of those treating Arabia and India,
which are excellent.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 631. My. ’07. 610w.
“The book has many serious blemishes: it omits North Africa from the
field of view; its index is of little use; and its illustrations, good
enough in their way, are hastily collected from the stock in general
circulation. But its defects do not destroy its interest nor its
profound importance as a careful exhibit of the practical results of
Islam upon the races that have committed themselves to its guidance.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 801. Ap. 4, ’07. 830w.
“They correct some widely current misinformation.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 150w.
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
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