Wack, Henry Wellington.In Thamesland being a gossiping record of rambles thru England from the source of the Thames to the sea, with casual studies of the English people, their histories, literary and romantic shrines. The whole forming a complete guide to the Thames valley. **$3. Putnam.
Mr. Wack and a friend voyaged down theThames “from near its obscure source to Kingston-upon-Thames, a short distance above London, where tidewater is met with. Mr. Wack has quite a faculty for accumulating facts, and his ‘Thamesland’ is a veritable mine of history, interspersed with much observation of scenery and occasionally a facetious remark at the expense of the natives with whom they came in contact. The book, which is admirably illustrated and has a good map, will serve as a very useful and interesting guide to those who wish to take a similar voyage down the historic Thames or spend the days in wandering among the towns on its banks.”-Ind.
“This volume so frequently fails in accuracy that the reader who knows the river must be moved to impatience.”
Reviewed by Anna Benneson McMahan.
“He writes agreeably and has been careful in collecting his information.”
“The book is, in fact, one to make an Englishman shudder, and to depress even more the American who has been over the same ground.”
“We know of none at once so entertaining, so beautiful, and so comprehensive in its scope as this.”
“High-class guide-book.”
Wack, Henry Wellington.Story of the Congo Free State. **$3.50. Putnam.
“The present volume, in its controversial part, is useful in presenting the other side, as against Dilke, Fox-Bourne and their supporters. Its elaborate collection of data not especially bearing on the ‘Congo question’ is the more immediately valuable to the student.” A. G. K.
Waddell, Charles Carey.Van Suyden sapphires. † $1.50. Dodd.
“Is decidedly one of the best stories of this class that has been put out in many a day.”
Waddell, Laurence Austine.Lhasa and its mysteries: with a record of the expedition of 1903–1905. *$3. Dutton.
“This is a new and cheaper edition of Colonel Waddell’s account of our recent expedition into Tibet. In its more expensive shape it passed through two editions, and the present one is a marvel of cheapness. Not very many of the illustrations of last year are omitted in this year’s reprint, and the type is the same.”-Nature.
“A volume which is almost, if not quite as handsome and complete as the expensive first and second editions.”
“Colonel Waddell’s book ... now appears in a cheaper edition, $3.00, which for most persons and libraries will be as satisfactory.”
Waddington, Mary Alsop King.Italian letters of a diplomat’s wife.**$2.50. Scribner.
“For readers of whatever experience the letters are at their best when they have to do with the two latest occupants of the Quirinal, their queens, and their three contemporaries in the Vatican.” M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
Wade, Blanche Elizabeth.Garden in pink. **$1.75. McClurg.
“Is an exquisite and perfect bit of bookmaking but having said this it is difficult to add anything in praise of the book’s literary substance.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
Wade, Blanche Elizabeth.Stained glass lady: an idyl; with frontispiece and other drawings by Blanche Ostertag. †$2.50. McClurg.
Imaginative “Little boy” after “counting things” to keep awake during the big people’s sermon spies a beautiful young woman outlined against the stained glass window. In his youthful fancy she is fit to wear the crown suspended in the glass above her head. He calls her the “Stained-glass lady,” and there springs up between the two an idyllic friendship which is characterized by the child’s susceptibility to the poetic graces of the woman, and to the flower and sunlight atmosphere of her surroundings.
“A vivid descriptive touch, a whimsical humor, and a highly imaginative appreciation of nature combine to produce a unique and decided charm, which a slight affectation of style rather increases than diminishes.”
“Such children as are blessed with imagination and a love of the beautiful will delight in ‘The stained glass lady.’”
Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton (Blanchard).Indian fairy tales, as told to the children of the wigwam. $1. Wilde.
The folk-lore of the red people as it was handed down from generation to generation is found in this little volume for young readers who cannot but feel the charm of the mythical red heroes and of the things of the water, the air, and the stars themselves which figure in these stories of: The daughter of the stars, White Feather and the six giants, The magic moccasins, Hiawatha, Lex, Gloaskap, Manabozho, The fire plume and all the others.
Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton (Blanchard).Old colony days: stories of the first settlers and how the country grew, with il. by Sears Gallagher. [+]75c. Wilde.
The second volume in “Uncle Sam’s old-time stories.” Uncle Sam is the story-teller and follows the principal events of colonial days, showing with what courage, in spite of hardships and dangers, the settlers struggled for free homes. It is a juvenile book adapted to class-room needs.
“Would have been much more effective had the first settlers and the country’s growth been followed in a direct manner.”
Waggaman, Mary T., and others.Juvenile round table, third series. $1. Benziger.
A group of interesting stories with Catholic teaching.
Wagnalls, Mabel.Miserere. **40c. Funk.
A sad tale with a musical setting in which a young prima donna is the central spirit.
“A charming little story of music and music-lovers.” Amy C. Rich.
Wagner, Charles.Justice; tr. from the French by Mary Louise Hendee. **$1. McClure.
Wagner, Charles.My impressions of America; tr. from the French by Mary Louise Hendee. **$1. McClure.
“The author of ‘The simple life’ has made a record of his personal experiences rather than a formal study of American institutions. His attitude is one of sympathy and appreciation, seldom running into criticism. The book is not without passages of the reflective and serious kind, but they are thrown in here and there as breaks in the narrative.”—Lit. D.
“From a literary point of view, it is about nil; as also from the point of view of the American who desires to see his country more clearly through the eyes of a stranger.”
“Mr. Wagner has offered to Americans a graceful and interesting souvenir of his recent visit.”
“Dr. Wagner is above all a keen observer. He notices little things as well as those of great dimensions, and writes of them simply and charmingly.”
“It is the spontaneous expression of a man who is wholly delightful as a companion and who writes as simply and as freely and in as friendly a fashion as he talks.”
Wagner, Richard.Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck; tr. by W. Ashton Ellis. $4. Scribner.
“Our author dwells at too great length on Wagner’s virtues and Minna’s failings.”
Wagner, (Wilhelm) Richard.Tannhäuser; a dramatic poem freely translated in poetic narrative form by Oliver Huckel. **75c. Crowell.
A companion volume to Mr. Huckel’s “Parsifal” and “Lohengrin.” This parable of the redemptive power of a pure and unselfish love loses neither dignity nor strength in the translation.
“This essay alone is worth more than the price of the work to lovers of the greatest musical genius of the nineteenth century.”
“There is a prose introduction, which is both historical and critical and the verse is smooth and flowing.”
Wagstaff, Henry McGilbert.State rights and political parties in North Carolina, 1776–1861. 50c. Johns Hopkins.
A monograph setting forth the political tendencies of North Carolinians between the war of independence and the war of secession.
Walcott, Earle Ashley.Blindfolded.$1.50. Bobbs.
San Francisco with its Chinatown and its water front, its wild life and its desperadoes, is the scene of this adventurous tale of two dual personalities. A young stranger arrives at the Golden Gate just in time to take up, blindfolded, the work of his murdered friend and double, and he is further blinded because of the strange resemblance which his friend’s benefactor bears to his friend’s enemy. Thru murders, brawls, wild scenes in the stock exchange, and strange adventurous missions he gropes courageously in the dark towards light, wealth and happiness.
“This is a mystery-romance displaying considerable ability on the part of the author in construction, plot and counterplot. It is fairly well written and is, we think, the best story of the kind that has appeared in recent months.”
“In spite of the triteness of both fiction and machinery, it cannot be denied that the book holds our attention from start to finish by means of an interest born of suspense.”
Walker, Alice Morehouse.Historic Hadley: a story of the making of a famous Massachusetts town. **$1. Grafton press.
In this sketch of historic Hadley “truth has not been sacrificed to style. Painstaking effort has been made to search the town records, to scrutinize every historical document, and to weigh carefully famous traditions. The old dwellings, the highways and byways, the mountains, the river and the meadows, the ancient elms, heirlooms and antique relics have been questioned and they have broken their silence of centuries and told the story of by-gone days.”
Walker, James.Analytical theory of light. *$5. Macmillan.
“Not a text-book of physical optics, but of the analytical theory of light.... It is a book to which students who desire to know how far the mathematical side of the wave theory has been carried, what are its limitations, and in what directions advances are possible will usefully turn.”—Nature.
“Mr. Walker has added to the literature of the subject a book of real value.”
“Is, perhaps, the most complete treatment of the subject so far attempted from the standpoint of the general wave theory.” C. E. M.
Walker, Williston.John Calvin, the organizer of reformed Protestantism, 1509–1564. **$1.35. Putnam.
Uniform with the “Heroes of the Reformation.” The volume “lays special stress on Calvin’s training, spiritual development, and constructive work, giving secondary place to the details of his Genevan contests, or of his relations to the spread of the Reformation in the different countries to which his influence extended. Calvin, as Mr. Walker points out at the very beginning of his book, was of the second generation of reformers.” (Putnam’s.)
“It is an excellent piece of work. While by no means light reading, the book is clear and straightforward, and it makes the real man Calvin live before us his strange life, so far-reaching in its influence.”
“It contains about all that the average scholar needs to care for. It is free from exaggerations of either praise or blame. The bias on the whole is for Calvin. Will be useful to any student of history, no matter what others he may have on the same topic; and it is competent by itself to meet the requirements of most of us. It gives the essential facts in a straightforward, unambitious style. And it has a very good index.”
“The present biography is critical as well as sympathetic, carefully citing authorities, and candidly exhibiting both the lights and the shadows of a masterful character and career.”
“A well-balanced, temperate historical character sketch.”
Wallace, Alfred Russel.My life: a record of events and opinion. *$6. Dodd.
“It dwells in a somewhat too extended manner on unimportant personal details and facts relating to the family and friends of the author. This fault, however, is insignificant in comparison with the general excellence of the life story, which merits the widest reading.”
“The narrative has very little literary charm, ingenious or other. The annalist’s expression is often incorrect, and invariably clumsy. He has no organic mode of speech, and words are but rough counters with him.” H. W. Boynton.
“Like one of his disembodied spirits, able to get outside of himself and write an autobiography as interesting as it is disinterested.” I. Woodbridge Riley.
“The record is planned on too large a scale. The reader who knows how to skip will find these volumes deeply interesting.”
“In the past year which has been prolific of biographies and autobiographies there has been nothing more important or more entertaining than the autobiography of Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
“There is a good deal of matter in the book which does not strike one as being particularly valuable or important; but on the other hand, the variety of subjects discussed, and the wide human interests of the author, cause it to appeal to a far larger circle than the usual biography of a man engaged in the investigation of technical matters.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
“This autobiography is as self-revealing as Pepys’s or Rousseau’s.”
“This is certainly a very entertaining book, highly instructive in several distinct ways.”
Reviewed by J. A. T.
Reviewed by Joseph Jacobs.
“His autobiography is a welcome and worthy record of an honourable and strenuous career.”
Wallace, Sir Donald Mackenzie.Russia.$5. Holt.
“The additions to the book will be of primary interest to the student of contemporaneous political, social, and economic conditions rather than to the historian.” F. G. D.
“The book continues to be, as it has been for nearly a generation, the best English book on Russia.” C. D.
Wallace, Lew (Lewis), general.Lew Wallace: an autobiography. 2v. **$5. Harper.
At the time of General Lew Wallace’s death his autobiography was practically complete. It is written with the personal note individualizing and vitalizing a career which tho it began in uneventful commonplaces grew to distinction in letters, politics, war and diplomacy. A certain simplicity of life and creed pervades the sketch and a magnificent sense of justice. Wallace’s boyhood and youth, in which are set forth the struggles to find himself, his young manhood, full of patriotism and his maturity in which the lawyer and politician figure, all attest to a devotion to life for the purpose of finding working principles.
“No more frank and informal record of personal experience has ever been written. In a way, no higher compliment can be paid to his story than to say that it is one of those grownup books which a boy would read with understanding and enjoyment.”
“An intimate and entertaining narrative.”
“Is interesting both for the career ... and for the light which it throws upon the conditions which made the writing of the first best seller possible.”
“General Wallace’s war experiences were full of romance, adventure and inspiration. He has not failed to let his kindly, mellow sense of humor play over his narrative.”
Waller, Mary Ella.Through the gates of the Netherlands; with 24 photogravure pl. after Lanne, and others by A. A. Montferrand, reproduced in photogravure. **$3. Little.
An intimate sketch of Holland and its people which purports to be written by an architect’s wife during a sojourn with her husband in this land of dunes and dykes. It is a record, accompanied by various illustrations, of the essentials that have gone to make up the beauty, the glory, the struggle and the toil of this “brave little land.”
“The results of much close observation may be found in her account of the manner in which the Hollanders live, their habits of body and of thought, the picturesque details of the country, and the rest.”
“An attractive book which in graphic and readable qualities is decidedly above the average of such works.”
Wallis, Louis.Egoism: a study in the social premises of religion. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
Reviewed by A. W. Small and Charles Rufus Brown.
“The line of argument is interesting and stimulating, and calls for more thorough work before we can feel quite satisfied that the case is proved.” Ira Maurice Price and John M. P. Smith.
“It is a sociological study of considerable value, the chief defect of which is the tendency to make assumed sociological conditions accountfor so much as to leave little for the religious genius of Israel to do.”
“The best part of the book is the terse rapid survey of Israel’s internal development; and the writer does good service in calling attention again to sociological facts conditioning prophetic teaching. However, his generalizations are too sweeping; but this fact may be due to the brevity of the book.” Milton G. Evans.
Walpole, Horace.Letters chronologically arranged and ed. with notes and indices, by Mrs. Paget Toynbee. 16v. ea. *$2; set, *$32. Oxford.
“In accuracy of text and diligence of annotation this edition satisfies a close criticism.”
“As she began she went on, and the conclusion maintains her high level of editorial efficiency. It is certainly to be deplored that so important and laborious a work has not been crowned by a complete index. That supplied cannot be regarded as worthy of a great scheme. These volumes are his rosemary, and we cannot conceive that the world will ever forget them.”
“Mrs. Toynbee has done her author good service in other ways besides the collection of new letters. She has made many alterations in the chronology of Cunningham’s arrangement. She has also much amended the text. From every point of view Mrs. Paget Toynbee has done a monumental piece of work, creditable in the highest degree for accuracy and thoroughness.” Gamaliel Bradford, jr.
“On the whole, her text would seem to be more accurate and more nearly intact than any of its predecessors.” H. W. Boynton.
“This edition can scarcely be said to add anything of importance to our knowledge of Horace Walpole or of his times. Nor is the editorial work, though well done, by any means remarkable. Further, as completeness seems to have been the special object of the edition, its appearance has been premature.” William Hunt.
“Fully as interesting, in some respects indeed almost more interesting, than any of those which preceded them. Indices compiled even by the very competent assistants called in at the eleventh hour cannot produce the same accurate minuteness as that which undoubtedly Mrs. Toynbee would have given her readers.”
Walsh, Walter.Moral damage of war. *75c. Ginn.
An “unsparing, detailed and specific arraignment of the war system.” The book is almost exclusively a résumé of the crimes and demoralization caused by the Boer war.
Walters, F. Ruffenacht.Sanatoria for consumptives. *$5. Dutton.
An unofficial descriptive catalog of sanatoria in various countries for the open-air treatment of consumption.
“The information has been carefully and intelligently compiled.”
Walters, Henry Beauchamp.Art of the Greeks. $6. Macmillan.
An informing treatment of all phases of Greek art including architecture, sculpture, painting, pottery, coins, gems, gold and silverware, presented in the light of recent archaeological discovery.
“The tale is well told and loaded with additions that recent years have brought. The excellent form and the well-nigh perfect and abundant illustrations will make the book extremely popular. One rises from a reading of the book with wonder that so much has been put into such little space. One might almost say ‘Infinite riches in a little room.’”
“Recommends itself among books on art subjects at this season of gifts by its substantial worth and its attractive make-up.”
“The book is written in a broad, dignified, and authoritative style, with a fine sense of suppression, which makes adverse criticism dangerous.”
“An exhaustive handbook.”
Walters, Henry Beauchamp.History of ancient pottery, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman; based on the work of Samuel Birch. 2v. *$15. Scribner.
“This is a difficult book to estimate justly. Such a work was much needed; and this has great merits, and will probably be read and valued widely. But it has bad defects, both of plan and of workmanship.”
“Gives us after long waiting an adequate history of ancient pottery, of which vases are the chief item.” Rufus B. Richardson.
Waltz, Elizabeth Cherry.Ancient landmark. †$1.50. McClure.
“The prologue to this entertaining story is a mistake.”
“On the whole, we find variety in the types depicted, sordid and unpleasing as they mostly are.”
“As a ‘problem novel’ the book has no claim to originality, but the delicacy with which the subject is handled is unusual and refreshing.”
Wampum library of American literature; ed. by Brander Matthews. **$1.40. Longmans.
“Dr. Payne’s choice of critics and of critical work is admirable, and his characterization of our American contribution to criticism is, on the whole, exceptionally good.”
War in the Far East, 1904–1905, by the military correspondent of the London Times; with 34 maps especially prepared by Percy Fisher. **$5. Dutton.
This book is a compilation of the comments printed in The London Times from day to day during the war between Russia and Japan, contributed by its able military correspondent, Mr. Emery. “The military expert of the Times holds a high position in Europe as a critic andstudent of war, and his comments, criticisms, predictions on events, the lessons he drew from them, were read the world over with close attention. The republication of the daily comments, with certain purely personal remarks omitted, is then very acceptable to other students both of history and of the science of war, though the volume is not, and does not pretend to be, a history of war in the ordinary sense.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The maps are more complete than those in almost any book of military history.”
“This book is magnificent, but it is not a story. Read it for what it purports to express and actually is, and it will be found to have hardly a peer in its class of literature, and probably will have no equal or successor for many years.” William Eliot Griffis.
“Taken for what it professes to be, this book is of eminent value, but since each chapter was written within a short time after the battle it narrates ... the historian of the future, with the official records at his command, will doubtless find in it many errors of detail.”
“As a contribution to the literature of scientific warfare the volume is of high value. We cannot commend it as a narrative of the particular war under review, for it retains altogether too much of the speculative comment of the original, so interesting at the time, but so tedious after the event.”
“Embellished as they now are by an admirable series of maps, they form by far the most scientific study of the war that has yet been published. It is, however, unfortunate that the spelling of names in the letterpress should not have been brought into accord with that adopted by the map maker.”
“This book contains many remarks on matters of strategy and military science that are of permanent value.”
“Apart from its technical interest, it is noteworthy as showing how well its author could prophesy.”
“Whoever he may be, the ‘Times’ critic is a master of the art of warfare, and the possessor of a singularly vigorous and happy style, and his work is undoubtedly one of the most suggestive and illuminating battle-books in print.”
“Where military questions only are concerned fully bears out the expectations which other works of a similar nature would lead us to expect. And yet there is a good deal too much advertisement about it. We would add too that the comments on the military operations are in their broad features often excellent.”
“It is a remarkable feat to have given us contemporary accounts of the battles themselves so accurate that when read in conjunction with the maps which show us each phase of these battles ... they may fitly serve as the best general introduction to closer and more detailed study. Even more remarkable still are the ‘appreciations’ which show us the workings of a mind wise before and not after the event.”
Ward, Elizabeth Stuart (Phelps) (Mrs. Herbert D. Ward).Man in the case; il. by H: J. Peck. †$1.50. Houghton.
Joan Dare past the first flush of youth withdraws her promise to marry Douglas Ray the day following her betrothal. She enters upon a period of martyrdom which involves the mystery of the tale. “There is nothing sensational about the book but its title, although its theme is a village sensation. It contains some credible new New England villagers, and one old woman who is more than credible. It is, moreover, free from religious or erotic sentimentality.” (Nation).
“The love-story in her new novel is told with such perfect art that it recalls the great ones of literature: yet the materials and the setting are of the simplest and the interest is dependent upon the writer’s art alone.”
“Mrs. Ward is to be congratulated upon having, in this little tale, escaped from the morbidness and mawkishness which have made much of her work, especially her recent work, a thing popular and to be abhorred by the judicious.”
“The book is written with Mrs. Ward’s usual elevation of feeling and dignity of manner. It shows the same tense quality of imagination, sometimes becoming almost exaggeration, which have always marked her work. There is perhaps less of care and detail in the drawing of her characters, which affect one like unfinished sketches, than one used to find in her work.”
“She has never been more out of key with a wholesome way of dealing with life than in this story of a heroic and self-sacrificing woman.”
“Her best work next to ‘A singular life.’”
Ward, H. Snowden.Canterbury pilgrimages. *$1.75. Lippincott.
“From the point of view of the historian, Mr. Ward has written a very minute and interesting description of the life and death of Thomas à Becket and of the cult of St. Thomas.”
Ward, Josephine Mary Hope-Scott (Mrs. Wilfrid Philip Ward).Out of due time. $1.50. Longmans.
“The present novel is not of the sort likely to satisfy the ordinary appetite for fiction, but it is well thought out, and represents the mental and religious struggle of a strong mind. Two women sacrificed themselves to a man who, as his sister said, did not pray—he only thought. The inroads of scientific knowledge upon such a soul can be imagined from the Catholic standpoint. The story is one of contest between theological fervor and emotionless intellect; the effect is somber, and the style somewhat ponderous.”—Outlook.
“Here is the simple, direct style—the outcome of natural distinction under fine culture—the serene, benignant attitude towards matters of controversy; the loftiness of thought that marked her former work. The book is on a high plane.”
“As one is about to assign to this doubly fascinating volume a permanent place on the book shelf, embarrassment arises. We think its proper place is [in the useful apologetic literature of the day].” James J. Fox, D. D.
“[We] have regretted that a book with such excellent and penetrating work in it should drop from the high level on which it begins.”
“The book is hampered by its argument, but it is, nevertheless, so full of humanity, of beauty, of literary value that to miss it would be to miss such a feast as does not come every day.”
“In spite of her special motive, the author handles her material with tact and delicacy.”
“The intense spirituality of the conception and the grace of the style render the book memorable.”
“The main interest of the book has nothing to do with fiction.”
Ward, Lester Frank.Applied sociology: a treatise on the conscious improvement of society by society. *$2.50. Ginn.
The central thought of this discussion is that of a true science of society, capable, in the measure that it approaches completeness, of being turned to the profit of mankind. Movement, Achievement, and Improvement are the three subdivisions of the treatment.
“Right or wrong in its main contentions, the ‘Applied sociology’ is, together with the appropriate parts of the ‘Pure sociology,’ the most impressive treatment of the general principles of education since Spencer’s. Those who, like the writer, are puzzled to fit the facts to its doctrines and those who heartily accept it will equally enjoy it and equally admire it as a further example of the author’s great gifts as a thinker and as a writer.” Edward L. Thorndike.
“The clearness, brilliancy and vigorous defense of some pronounced doctrine which we have learned to expect from Professor Ward are characteristics of this book. It concerns real facts, not verbal distinctions; it delights by its cleverness of thought and style. The one failure in clearness of this volume is its failure to distinguish between absolute and relative achievement and to assign the proper social value to each.” Edward L. Thorndike.
Ward, Mary Augusta Arnold (Mrs. Thomas Humphry Ward).Fenwick’s career; il. by Albert E. Sterner. *$1.50. Harper.
Mrs. Ward’s latest novel is based upon the story of the painter George Romney, whose thirty years’ separation from his wife for the sake of his art is reduced to twelve in the present story. The hero, John Fenwick, from the Westmorland hills, possesses a great uncouth, untrained genius for painting which longs for expression. In satisfying his ambition to go to London he subordinates wife, child, all heart things to his one great art passion. Out of his hesitation to admit the existence of a wife to his uncertain London friends and patrons grows an estrangement which is unconsciously aided by Eugenie de Pastourelles, the Eleanor of the story, a woman of great strength, but unfortunate in her marriage. As Mrs. Ward’s art demands the shifting of moral and ethical values to the right focus, with sure steady touch she extricates and arrays in order the confused forces.
“The criticism that one is almost compelled to pass upon the book is that the characters are somewhat wanting in life and full-bloodedness.”
“As to Fenwick himself the portrait lacks outline. It is thoroughly enjoyable, with charm as well as an idea of its own.”
“You read her latest volume with a wish that, having conceived so vital and typical a character as Fenwick, she might have been inspired to treat him less conventionally.” Mary Moss.
“Mrs. Ward has certainly forgotten for the moment one of the prime principles of literary artistry—that sympathy can hardly be excited in the reader’s mind for unsympathetic characters.”
“Another positive merit of this novel is found in its comparative freedom from the prolixity that lies like a dead weight on most of its predecessors.” Wm. M. Payne.
“If there is any fault to be found with the book it is the emphasis which the author places upon refinement, sensibility and the society which these elements create.”
“The book is justified by the artistic and well-rounded-out finale.”
“It shows all the old thoroughness, knowledge, good sense: a little more than the old tenderness and sympathy. It does not hit hard; it does not carry the reader on in a fever. It never surprises.”
“It is only in construction that ‘Fenwick’s career’ seems to us better than the preceding novel.”
“While ‘Fenwick’s career’ may fail of an instant appeal to ‘the general,’ we think it attains a height hitherto unreached by its author. She has poured into it her deepest thought, her ripest wisdom, and it stands to-day the noblest expression of her genius.” M. Gordon Pryor. Rice.
“Mrs. Ward handles each delicate situation with her characteristic skill.”
“Is full of talent, but stops short of being a work of genius.”
“They should be set down as fundamentally inartistic and unedifying.”
“It is a piece of sincere writing, gripping the reader without appeal to literary tricks or falsetto sentiment.”
Ward, Mary Augusta Arnold (Mrs. Thomas Humphry Ward).Marriage of William Ashe. †$1.50. Harper.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
Warden, Florence, pseud. (Mrs Florence Alice Price James).House by the river. $1. Ogilvie.
“The lovers of sensational fiction ... no doubt will not be troubled by the utter improbability of the incidents and characters, nor annoyed by vulgarities of style, and crudities of description, and will be quite satisfied with the fare supplied by the ingenious author.”
Wardman, Ervin.Princess Olga, †$1.50. Harper.
The invincible hero of Mr. Wardman’s story is an American who had received his hardy training in a Mexican mining district. He is sent by his New York company to further its interest in the Italian kingdom of Crevonia where plots and counterplots, conspiracies and assassinations, mark the riotous settlement of a disputed succession. Among the spies isPrincess Olga whose charms the defiant American cannot resist. Her sense of duty to kingdom and her love for a bold man fight for mastery, with the world-old result that can eliminate the importance of kingdoms and courts.
“The story is compact of intrigue, adventure, and general nervous excitement; it is a capital production of its sort.” Wm. M. Payne.
“For a first novel, his is a finished and striking production.”
Warman, Cy.Last spike, and other railroad stories. †$1.25. Scribner.
“These short stories, by a well-known popular magazine writer, tell of adventures on railroad surveys, in railway locomotives and cars and elsewhere. Some of the best of the stories have the Canadian Northwest as their scene of action.” (Engin. N.).
“Many of them are good of their kind, and all of them have a certain stamp of mechanic strength.”
“The stories are readable and entertaining, but they lack that something which, for want of a better name is called ‘the literary touch.’”
“Breezy and realistic stories. Mr. Warman not only knows the language of railroading but he has also caught the spirit.”
Warne, Frank Julien.Coal-mine workers: a study in labor organization. **$1. Longmans.
This little volume is the direct outgrowth of Dr. Warne’s sympathetic study of the coal-miners’ situation in periods of peace as well as in times of strikes. It is a “treatise on the anatomy of the trade union.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Dr. Warne has done a valuable service in placing in compact and readable form a study of the United mine workers of America, one of the strongest labor unions in the world.” E. S. Meade.
“It might also be described as a miniature encyclopedia, so full of information is it and so readily does it answer the questions that occur to one regarding the miners and their employers.”
“The author’s attitude is sympathetic, but not partisan, and he has made a distinct contribution to the knowledge of the controversy which once convulsed the nation.”
“In our judgment, this book deserves to be characterized as an authority, and, as far as we know, as the best authority, in the limited field of which it treats.”
“The book is written in a scientific spirit, if one excepts a tendency at times to condone violence on the part of the union against nonunion men.”
Warner, Beverley Ellison.Famous introductions to Shakespeare’s plays by the notable editors of the eighteenth century, ed. with a critical introd., biographical and explanatory notes. **$2.50. Dodd.
A compilation of the best known introductions including those contributed by Rowe, Pope, Theobald, Hamner, Warburton, Johnson, Stevens, Capell, Reed and Malone. A biographical sketch of each author prefaces his work, and the work is handsomely illustrated.
“Dr. Warner’s idea though a good one, has been anticipated, and his labor is largely wasted.” William Allen Neilson.
“We note a few misprints.”
“His own editorial matter is not of great value and there is no index. The English, too, is not always irreproachable.”
“On the whole the make-up of the book leaves something to be desired. The matter is not very clearly distinguished for easy reference.”
“Without Dr. Warner’s own lucid and learned introductions, and his invaluable footnotes, the new book would have been esteemed a veritable treasure. Dr. Warner’s editorial work makes it only the more valuable.”
“A very useful compilation.”
Warner, George H.Jewish spectre. **$1.50. Doubleday.
“A remarkably brilliant book which will have decided influence upon all open-minded readers. In literary skill the author stands comparison with his better known brother, Charles Dudley Warner.”
Warren, F. D.Handbook on reinforced concrete for architects, engineers and contractors. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
A handbook “treating upon a general form of design rather than upon any one particular or patented system.... The book is divided into four parts: Part I gives a general but concise resume of the subject from a practical standpoint, bringing out some of the difficulties met with in practice, and suggesting remedies. Under Part II is compiled a series of tests justifying the use of various constants and coefficients in preparing the tables under Part III, as well as bearing out the theory of elasticity. Part III contains a series of tables from which it is hoped the designer may obtain all necessary information to meet the more common cases in practice. Part IV treats of the design of trussed roofs from a practical standpoint.”
“The reviewer regrets that it is his duty to give his opinion that this book is fundamentally in error in so many ways that it is not worthy of a place in the working library of an engineer.” Arthur N. Talbot.
Washington, Booker Taliaferro.Putting the most into life. **75c. Crowell.
A recent series of Sunday evening talks has been recast and enlarged for the general public. The discussion includes the physical, mental, spiritual and racial aspects of the case.
Washington, Booker Taliaferro.Tuskegee and its people: their ideals and achievements.*$2. Appleton.
Washington, George.Letters and recollections of George Washington; being letters to Tobias Lear and others between 1790 and 1799, showing the first American in the management of his estate and domestic affairs with a diary ofWashington’s last days, kept by Mr. Lear; il. from rare old portraits, photographs, and engravings. **$2.50. Doubleday.
Washington is portrayed in the light of a “domestic man managing his own affairs; as a planter looking over crops, cattle, and overseers; and as a business man driving bargains, suing for bad debts, collecting rents, and making investments.” (Dial.)
“The chief attraction of the present volume is manifestly meant to be Lear’s account of Washington’s death.”
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“They are valuable historically as showing the genius for detail which must have formed one of the strongest characteristics of Washington.”
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“The work could have been rendered more readable by a few explanatory foot-notes, and more useful to the student by brief introductions stating where the originals of other than the Lear letters are to be found, and how far they have been used before.”
Washington, George.Washington and the West. **$2. Century.
Watanna, Onoto (Mrs. Winnifred Eaton Babcock) (Mrs. Bertrand Babcock).Japanese blossom. **$2. Harper.
The dainty marginal drawings upon each page of this volume add much to the Japanese effect of the story of the strangely assorted family of Mr. Kurukawa. To retrieve his shattered fortunes this descendant of the Samurai goes to America leaving behind him four children and his wife, to whom shortly after his departure a baby boy is born. Later his wife dies and her father and mother care for the children while Mr. Kurukawa marries an American widow with two children and, after the birth of another baby, brings his new family back to Japan to unite it with his old family. The difficulties are easily seen but all are surmounted. The eldest son has rebelled against his new mother and joined the Japanese army, the father follows him, wins glory in the war and all ends happily.
“A charming idyl of Japanese home life in war times.”
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Waters, N. McGee.Young man’s religion and his father’s faith. **90c. Crowell.
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Watson, Edward Willard.Old lamps and new, and other verse; also, By Gaza’s gate, a cantata. $1. Fisher.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
Watson, Esther.All the year in the garden: a nature calendar. $1. Crowell.
An apt quotation for every day in the year selected from out of door sentiments of our great poets and teachers.
Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott.Midsummer day’s dream. †$1.50. Appleton.
“A delightful bit of romantic foolery.... The sketch is a record of certain amorous adventures contingent upon an out-of-doors amateur rendering of the ‘Midsummer night’s dream.’ The principal motive is a mystery connected with the finding and trailing of a woman’s shoe. In the course of his search the hero is constrained to make love pleasantly if somewhat indiscriminately; and there is plenty of chance in ‘Titania’s glade’ for comfortable philandering. Titania is married and therefore immune from his attentions, which wander among Hermia, Helena, and several of the fairies.”—Nation.