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In order to refute the charge that the Roman Catholic church is the enemy of science, the author has prepared brief biographies of some Catholic ecclesiastics who have made important contributions to physical science. They include: Copernicus, Basil Valentine, Linacre, Father Kircher, Bishop Stenson, Abbé Haüy, and Abbot Mendel.
“The doctor has enhanced the value of this welcome little book by prefixing a short, forcible answer to the claim that science and religion are in conflict.”
Walsh, James Joseph.Makers of modern medicine.*$2. Fordham university press.
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The volume “is not simply a series of biographies of men who have in the past two hundred years or so helped in building up the modern science of healing, written with no other view than the setting forth of their discoveries and their title of fame. It has an ulterior motive, and this motive is to show that among these men were a dozen at least who were content to accept the teachings of the Christian religion, and in particular those of the Roman Catholic branch of that religion.”—N. Y. Times.
“Dr. Walsh has drawn from many sources, not always judiciously (certainly not judicially). These sources are often so insufficiently indicated that it is not easy to verify the statements that flow freely from his facile, sometimes almost too facile pen. The list of ‘makers’ will hardly satisfy all readers.”
“The book, though interesting and informing in itself, is not so much designed as a contribution to medical history as it is to overthrow the notion expressed in the old saying that where there are three doctors there will be two atheists.”
“For the purpose for which they are aimed, the general instruction of the public in matters pertaining to medical history, they are, like the similar essays of Richardson, extremely entertaining and useful.” W. G. MacCallum.
Walsh, Walter.Moral damage of war. *75c. Ginn.
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“It is a rhetorical and aggressive, but it is also in its way a useful, arraignment of the war system.”
Walters, Henry Beauchamp.Art of the Greeks. $6. Macmillan.
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“The publishers have produced such a charming book in all external respects that it seems a pity it should not be equally satisfying to the mind of the classical scholar.”
“As a whole the book is written with singular lucidity and charm, and is evidently the flower of deep and painstaking scholarship.”
“Contains a mass of information intelligently grouped but not commented on.”
*Waltham, T. Ernest, ed. Tangerine: a child’s letters from Morocco. $1.50. Macmillan.
The impressions of a little English girl during a short visit to the chief coast town of Morocco. “The human interest is predominant, of course, and it is illustrated by some good photographs of the Tangerines with the wonderful backgrounds of Moorish architecture.” (Spec.)
“To [children] ‘Tangerine’ ought to be a charming picture-book, and a gift-book with a somewhat unusual interest attaching to it.”
Walton, Mrs. Octavius Frank.Doctor Forester. $1.25. Union press.
A hidden treasure, a secret stairway, strange footsteps heard at night in an old tower, allhelp to make the summer vacation of Dr. Forester a notable one. His love story, so hopelessly interwoven with that of his best friend, also adds excitement to his time of rest and recreation, but his reward more than repays his worry and distress.
Ward, Cyrennus Osborne.The ancient lowly: a story of the ancient working people from the earliest known period to the adoption of Christianity by Constantine. 2v. ea. $2. Kerr.
In which the author traces the early history of modern socialism. “Its conspicuous merit is the light which it throws on the seamy side of life in the pre-Christian era, as revealed by the fragmentary writings of ancient historians and by the inscriptional discoveries of modern archæology. Its conspicuous defect is the strained interpretation given to the facts with which it is concerned, and the violent, even incendiary spirit in which these facts are discussed. It is, indeed, a work admirably calculated to inflame the already lamentably intense feeling of class hatred.” (Outlook.)
“This is manifestly not the appropriate place for the discussion of a purely controversial work of this kind. Mr. Ward does not write in English conspicuous for clearness or for grace, and his positiveness of statement is not reassuring and fails to inspire confidence.”
“Undoubtedly containing much of value to the discriminating student of history, and obviously the result of years of arduous research, it is nevertheless for the general public a book of pernicious influence, contributing nothing to the solution of actual present-day problems and making for greater discontent and bitterness. One is almost tempted to declare that the historical method of investigation has seldom been more sadly misapplied.”
Ward, Elizabeth Stuart (Phelps) (Mrs. Herbert D. Ward).Man in the case; il. by H: J. Peck. †$1.50. Houghton.
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“It is rather surprising to find a veteran like the author employing a plot so worn and transparent as the plot of ‘The man in the case;’ but she certainly managed to make her story attractive.”
“A good story, full of emotion and suspense, without any recourse at all to sensational methods.”
“The book is inadequate as a psychological study.”
Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.Walled in. †$1.50. Harper.
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A story of a college town. Professor Ferris, a singularly strong man, is “walled in” by a terrible automobile accident. His months of convalescence reveal his enduring qualities which are contrasted with the impatience and frivolity of his butterfly wife. The story follows the love of this man for two women, one whose waywardness is her own undoing and one whose strength and beauty of character bring their own reward.
“Told in somewhat long-drawn-out fashion.”
Ward, Lester Frank.Applied sociology: a treatise on the conscious improvement of society by society. *$2.50. Ginn.
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“It is an epoch making work. Not only is it a contribution to social science of first-rate value; but it is also of fundamental practical interest to education. No other book has done so much to reveal the true function of knowledge.” George Elliott Howard.
“Whether one agrees with all Dr. Ward’s thesis or not, he will profit by a careful study of this book. In correctness of statement, and in rigorous application of scientific methods, it is to be commended to all who have occasion to write upon matters social.” Carl Kelsey.
“While exhibiting some of the characteristic defects of its class, Mr. Ward’s work is always marked by vigorous thinking and seldom, fails to prove interesting and suggestive.”
“This great book is a noble crown to the author’s philosophy. No writer has presented so powerfully the claims of education as a conscious social policy. No one has so vindicated the worth of the teacher’s work.” Edward Alsworth Ross.
Wardle, Jens.Artistic temperament. †$1.50. McClure.
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“Mr. Stephen Cartmel is a painter. He is engaged to a young woman with a rich father, and all the qualities which serve best to steady a man with the artistic tendency to flit from flower to flower. She is not beautiful, but she is serious, womanly, and staying and she loves him protectingly. Then Mr. Stephen Cartmel journeys by cab into Tooting to call upon a neglected school friend.... And he meets the friend’s pretty wife—who began by being his typist, and has been starving all her life for art, romance, and beauty. Delia Blaicklock sits to Mr. Cartmel for her portrait—and the artistic temperament gets in its work.”—N. Y. Times.
“This novel is quite as tiresome as its title would lead us to expect.”
“There is not a dull page in it. Like many English novels which ought to sell better in this country than they do, it strikes deep, keeping a firm hold on elemental things in human nature.”
“Miss Wardle manages the theme admirably—with insight, humor, comprehension, sympa-
Waring, Henry F.Christianity and its Bible: a text-book for private reading. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
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Addresses the audience of “clear-eyed middle-men between the specialists and the ordinary readers.” It surveys the whole religious field in a practical trustworthy manner, “gives pigeon-holes,” as the author says, “in which to put the valuable results of all future hearing, reading. and study concerning religious themes.”
“The task is well done, and the book will be of great value to all who are thoughtfully interested in its theme.”
“It is both a trustworthy and a useful book, well adapted to increase religious intelligence in a period of mingled joy and faith.”
Waring, Luther Hess.Law and the gospel of labor. *$1. Neale.
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A two part study, whose aim is to present, first, the law of the land, and, secondly, the highest law known to man,—the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Warner, Beverley Ellison.Famous introductions to Shakespeare’s plays by the notable editors of the eighteenth century, ed. with a critical introd., biographical and explanatory notes. **$2.50. Dodd.
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Warner, Horace Everett.Cricket’s song and other melodies. **$1. Lippincott.
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Two score and ten poems which are concerned with life, here and hereafter, with mother love, Indian legend, the roar of the weird and thunder of man made things.
Warren, Ina Russelle, comp. Under the holly bough: a collection of Christmas poems. $1.50. Jacobs.
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An anthology of Christmas verse from writers old and new which presents the subject in a variety of phases, “from the holy sound of the Christmas chimes, heralding the Day of days, to the merry laugh of the little child over its toys.”
“A particularly attractive Christmas anthology.”
Warren, Thomas Herbert.Magdalen college, Oxford. (College monographs.) *75c. Dutton.
A history of Magdalen college by its present Head and Vice-Chancellor, from its foundation in the dawn of the renaissance to the present.
“It contains as much local history as the general public is likely to desire, and some interesting notes on the customs and worthies of Magdalen.”
Reviewed by Goldwin Smith.
“Mr. Warren has given us a most interesting account of his college.”
Warren, Waldo Pondray.Thoughts on business. $1.25. Forbes.
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A collection of more than two hundred editorials which have been contributed to leading newspapers and have been called good by prominent business men the country over. The general captions under which the short talks are grouped are: Starting points, Self-improvement, About methods, Developing the workers, With the manager, Buying and selling, Words by the way, and Gleanings.
Washburne, Marion Foster.Family secrets. †$1.25. Macmillan.
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Monologues which reveal the secrets of the inner sanctuary of the true home. The revelator is a woman who when reverses come goes with her husband to a little farm on the edge of a manufacturing town. She lives for life’s sake, learns its values and the competence of love, and believes that when women discover their social unequals, and cherish them till they grow into social equals, then we shall begin to get at the real secrets of that family which is the human race. She says: “We must recognize that the brotherhood of man presupposes not only the Fatherhood of God. but also the Motherhood of essential woman.”
“A slender but not unpleasing narrative gives a certain coherence to what is essentially a series of lay sermons upon many important problems of domestic and social life.”
“It is a kind of informal philosophy of the family life, very pleasantly written, with a good deal of shrewdness and humor, and in a wholesome attitude toward the trials, vexations, and tragedies of life and character.”
Washington, Booker T.Frederick Douglass. (American crisis biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.
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A sympathetic study of a career which was identified with the race problem in the period of revolution and liberation. The sketch reveals Douglass as the personification of the historical events that marked the transition from slavery to citizenship.
“It will interest both the student of history, and the student of life—the ordinary reader.”
“The book is exceedingly clear and simple in its style.” R. R. Wright, jr.
“The book deserves a better index.”
“The story is well told, with enthusiasm and admiration of the hero, but with self-repression, dignity, and a high degree of ability as a biographer.”
“A tale at once moving and picturesque.”
“It is remarkable because it gives with great frankness, great impartiality, and an entire absence of bitterness of spirit, the views of both men respecting slavery, reconstruction, the political rights and duties of the negro, and the relations between the races.”
“The old story of the growth of the movement for abolition, and of Douglass’s concern with it, was well worthy of being told again. It is told in these pages simply, clearly and as fully as the limits of such a biography admitted—better told, one is inclined to say than in Douglass’s own version.” Montgomery Schuyler.
“He has found an eminently worthy biographer.”
Washington, Booker T., and Du Bois, W: E. Burghardt.Negro in the South: his economic progress in relation to his moral and religious development; being the William Levi Bull lectures for the year 1907. **$1. Jacobs.
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An objective study of the influence of slavery including two lectures by Mr. Washington and two by Mr. Du Bois, as follows: The economic development of the negro race in slavery; The economic development of the negro race since its emancipation; The economic revolution in the South; and Religion in the South.
“Du Bois is a dreamer, a rhapsodist, a sort of embodied consciousness of the doom of his race. He writes always with tragic intensity and drifts infallibly from facts and arguments to impassioned upbraidings. anathemas, panegyrics. Booker Washington, a practical man and no dreamer or poet, writes otherwise. He cannot see the tragic end. His eye is fixed upon the present and the immediate future. He is made an optimist by the good things he sees his race has already got and is getting. He strives practically and sensibly to enable that race to get as much as possible without alarming the other race.”
“They contain an excellent summing up from the negro’s point of view of the conditions, both adverse and favorable, under which the Southern negro is gradually working out his own salvation.”
Washington, George.Letters and recollections of George Washington; being letters to Tobias Lear and others between 1790 and 1799, showing the first American in the management of his estate and domestic affairs with a diary of Washington’s last days, kept by Mr. Lear; il. from rare old portraits, photographs and engravings. **$2.50. Doubleday.
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“With more skilful editing and arrangement, and with a boldly applied pruning hook, they would supply material for a vivid and sympathetic sketch of Washington in the rôle of Cincinnatus.”
Watanna, Onoto, pseud. (Mrs. Winnifred Eaton Babcock) (Mrs. Bertrand Babcock).Diary of Delia: being a veracious chronicle of the kitchen with some side-lights on the parlour.†$1.25. Doubleday.
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“Delia is the maid-of-all-work for a ‘family of six,’ and so well is she rendered that one gets an unaccustomed serious glimpse at many things perhaps before unseen, through reading her diary, the humor of which also exists independently of its simplified spelling à la Irlandais. From that phrase it follows that Delia’s heart is in the right place, so we know at once where her sympathies will be in her young mistress’s love affair, and divine with equal certainty and pleasure her ultimate possession of a sweetheart of her own.”—Outlook.
“It is a pity that the author did not elect to tell the history of her heroine in some other language intelligible to human beings. To say that the book is lacking in any vestige of humor is not derogatory, for no one expects humor in Yahoo or Tibetan.”
“The comedy is good enough to inspire an occasional laugh, especially when it runs into farce, and there are now and then some touches of self-revelation of character by Delia and her friend Minnie that are done rather deftly.”
Waterman, Nixon.Boy wanted: a book of cheerful counsel.$1.25. Forbes.
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Advice and incentive are happily united for the enterprising boy. The keynote of the book is sounded in the following:
Ask no favors of “luck,”—win your way like a man;Be active and earnest and plucky;Then your work will come out just about as you planAnd the world will exclaim, “Oh how lucky.”
Ask no favors of “luck,”—win your way like a man;Be active and earnest and plucky;Then your work will come out just about as you planAnd the world will exclaim, “Oh how lucky.”
Ask no favors of “luck,”—win your way like a man;Be active and earnest and plucky;Then your work will come out just about as you planAnd the world will exclaim, “Oh how lucky.”
Ask no favors of “luck,”—win your way like a man;
Be active and earnest and plucky;
Then your work will come out just about as you plan
And the world will exclaim, “Oh how lucky.”
Waters, N. McGee.Heroes and heroism in common life: an appreciation of the things of every day life. **$1.25. Crowell.
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A group of essays which turn back to the waysides and neglected places where have dwelt masters of plain living and high thinking. A book to be added to the simple-life literature of the library.
“The papers ... are quietly and pleasantly written, and while much of their thought is commonplace, there are many passages of tender feeling and vivid description which show appreciation of all that is most beautiful in both nature and mankind.”
Watson, Gilbert.Caddie of St. Andrew’s. †$1.50. Holt.
The caddies of St. Andrew’s golf course were a pathetic group of Scotch failures—fishermen who, worn out by their strenuous calling, had drifted to the links. The particular caddie who gives the book its title is Skipper, a cheerful old philosopher and toper whose rigid daughter is the dread of his easy-going existence. His view of life and the things to which it brings him form the story, which, though full of Scotch humor, is nevertheless a tragedy.
Watson, Gilbert.Voice of the South. *$2.50. Dutton.
“While descriptive of some travels in southern Algeria, the book is a narrative dealing with the return of an Arab to his desert home.... Athman, the hero in the book, is a poet, musician, and guide.... The traveler was taken to many beautiful oases, including Sidi Okba, until one day ... the guide and his employer, Sidi, as he called him, went into an Arab café and there saw a desert woman dance.... She danced to desert music the dance of the desert—the South—and Athman’s homeland. Athman fell in love with her. The Sidi tried to buy her away from him, but Athman drove away one dark night and was never heard of or seen again.”—N. Y. Times.
“We would recommend ‘The voice of the South’ to all who have a taste for good prose. To define or describe a good style is always difficult; but in this particular case it is chiefly apparent in the simple and adequate narrative, and in the descriptive passages, which without being either pre-Raphaelite or impressionist, make us see sufficiently all the important detail, and at the same time realise the effect of the whole.”
“A chatty, descriptive narrative.”
“The clear, suggestive and beautiful pictures of people, places, and especially camels, bring you back to geographic reality from a placeless world of fancy.”
Watson, Helen H.Andrew Goodfellow: a tale of 1805. $1.50. Macmillan.
The author’s first story which has its setting in the town of Plymouth Dock during the time of Nelson. Its chief interest is concerned with the sea.
“This lack of artistic treatment is to be regretted, as the author has made an interesting choice of characters.”
“We think it prettily handled and successfully rendered.”
“There is nothing original, nothing, indeed, remarkable. It is a happy example of a simple thing done well.”
“It must be classed as better than the average of novels. It cannot be said that the author succeeds in creating much historical atmosphere.”
“The story is told in a frank, open-hearted way, with no subtlety and without much literary art.”
“The book is ably written and the plot well constructed, though the only character that the author has carefully worked out is that of the hero, Andrew Goodfellow.”
Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott.Midsummer day’s dream. †$1.50. Appleton.