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“Many of Mr. Weeden’s characterizations and criticisms are shrewd and to the point, showing real insight into the problems of that troublous time and independence of thought in his estimates of men and measures. His judgments, however, are usually impressionistic, and not based on ordered evidence and argument.”
“The style, sometimes eccentric and inclined to digression, is always keen, pungent, and fearless. The characterization of Lincoln is refreshingly free from conventionality either in praise or blame, and, with all its partisanship, the book has distinct value.” Theodore Clarke Smith.
*Wegmann, Edward.Design and construction of dams. 5th ed., rev. and enl. $6. Wiley.
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A revised and enlarged edition of Mr. Wegmann’s work including masonry, earth, rockfill, timber and steel structures also the principal types of movable dams. It has been carefully brought up to date.
“A thorough and satisfactory revision.”
Weikel, Anna Hamlin.Betty Baird: a boarding-school story; il. †$1.50. Little.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Weikel, Anna Hamlin.Betty Baird’s ventures. il. †$1.50. Little.
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Friends of Betty Baird will be glad to follow her on a round of activity that begins the fulfilment of her dream to do something in the world. The simple things that lie nearest to her, house work, pickling, preserving were none too prosaic rounds for her ascent. She is a girl whose very enthusiasm is contagious, and whose cheer alone is worth any young girl’s emulation.
“Altogether it is a very good book.”
Weingartner, (Paul) Felix.Post-Beethoven symphonists: symphony writers since Beethoven; tr. from the German by Arthur Bles. *$1.75. Scribner.
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An essay which treats of the contributions which Schumann, Brahms, Bruckner, Strauss, Schubert, Dvorak, Saint-Saëns, Berlioz and Liszt have made to orchestral music.
“The English translation by Arthur Bles is serviceable, without being a model.”
“It is not the work of a skillful translator. It is full of awkward and unfortunate paraphrases of the original. It also shows none too great familiarity with German.”
Weininger, Otto.Sex and character; authorized tr. from the 6th Germ. ed. *$3. Putnam.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is brilliantly written, and contains at once profound reflections and almost laughably unfounded statements of fact. It is at times stimulating and suggestive, but, nevertheless, often irritating, because the central idea seems rather an obsession of a brilliant but inexperienced mind than a conception to which the writer has been driven by carefully considered facts.” L. A.
*Weir, Archibald.Introduction to the history of modern Europe. $2. Houghton.
The author reviews in their logical connection the chief groups of events which formed the groundwork of European history in the nineteenth century. The period covered is approximately that between 1720 and 1820. “It treats of the political and social reforms introduced in the several monarchies, beginning with the opening of the eighteenth century; the changes brought about by the French revolution and by the Napoleonic despotism; the growth of personal liberty and political solidarity in the various countries of continental Europe after the downfall of Napoleon; the industrial revolution in England; the development of machinery and its influence on economics; and the advance in science; philosophy, and literature.”
“A somewhat unsafe guide to the unwary reader. When all has been said by the way of criticism, however, there is much in this work which makes it a most useful text-book for teachers. It does not pretend to be sufficient in itself; and, while they will be able to modify some of its conclusions by their wider reading, it will open up many lines of study not accessible in the usual text-books.”
Weiss, Bernhard.Commentary on the New Testament; tr. by George H. Schodde, and Epiphanius Wilson; with an introd. by James S. Riggs. 4v. ea. *$3. Funk.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is by no means representative of the best work now being done by German scholars. Professor Weiss is an able exegete, and he has studied the text with astounding diligence. He is fitted also by deep religious sympathies to be a commentator of the New Testament. The meaning of a particular verse he often states with surprising clearness. But insight into the historical processes which gave rise to the New Testament writings is lacking, and one who studies these works of evangelist and apostles in order to trace the life and growth of which they were a part will find little help in this commentary.”
Weiss, Bernhard.Religion of the New Testament; tr. from the Germ. by G: H. Schodde. *$2. Funk.
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Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“It does, indeed, show wide research and much painstaking toil of the true German type, but it is wholly unpractical and unnecessary.” Robert E. Bisbee.
Wells, Carolyn.Patty’s summer days.†$1.25. Dodd.
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“With this volume the “Patty series” is swelled to four, and we have that attractive young person brought down, or rather up, to the sweet girl graduate stage, with just enough of more advanced festivities thrown in to serve as a suitable excuse for the next ... phase of her career.”—N. Y. Times.
“As delightful as its predecessors.”
“Without seeming to lecture, Miss Wells has buried some very good advice for city schoolgirls in this little story of Patty’s senior year at the Oliphant school.”
*Wells, Carolyn.Rainy day diversions. *$1. Moffat.
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The “diversions” are grouped as follows: Uncle Bob’s astonishing tricks, consisting of tricks, puzzles and games, told in story form; Holiday amusements, full of suggestions for holiday celebrations; Children’s plays, giving two Christmas plays.
“Offers too much mental exercise, and too little actual entertainment.”
Wells, David Dwight.Parlous times.$1.50. Holt.
Love and diplomacy play at cross purposes in Mr. Wells’ story. The trend of the logic of the book would tend to prove the triteness of the saying that “everything is fair in love and war;” the sense of justice, however, rules, and the woman, married to one man, but playing a desperate diplomatic game while attempting to win the love of another is no more harshly dealt with than to be brought to an understanding of right and of her sense of duty.
Wells, Edward L.Hampton and reconstruction. $1.50. State co.
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“Mainly an account of the nomination and election in 1876 of General Wade Hampton as governor of South Carolina on the ‘straightout’ Democratic platform. Introductory chapters give an account of Hampton’s ancestry, his early life and training, an appreciation of his character, and a sketch of his service as a Confederate general in the civil war. In the last chapter the author speaks briefly of the later years of Hampton as United States senator and as retired citizen.”—Dial.
“The work is interestingly written, with perhaps too much moralizing, and contains an abundant store of good anecdotes.”
“The narrative is often rambling and disjointed; and the tone, while sincere is too partisan for the purpose of history.”
Wells, Herbert George.Future in America: a search after realities.**$2. Harper.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“His consideration of our economic, social, and material phases, shows considerable insight and sympathy. Exaggerations may easily be picked out, and palpable errors, not a few, but in spite of them, the American reader will gain a broader view, and some food for thought.”
“It is surely impossible to class him with the critics of jaundiced eye, even though he quits us in a state of wistful bewilderment rather than in one of confident hope.” James F. Muirhead.
“Mr. Wells’s ‘Future in America’ is but the present that to-morrow will be the past. We had a right to expect from him a more philosophical, a more scientific, a farther-seeing book.” A. Schade van Westrum.
“Appears to us to deserve, instead of praise, sharp censure for its superficiality, bad English and its frivolousness.”
“Tho a few of the pages might have been modified had the writer prolonged his visit none the less they are worth perusal, not alone for the criticisms themselves, but also for the charm of the literary art with which they are expressed.”
Reviewed by Garrett Droppers.
“Mr. Wells is acute in observation, he is well informed on English social problems, and he reasons carefully. Never was an outside critic more kindly and sympathetic than Mr. Wells, and we have no doubt that during the next twenty years this book will be referred to and quoted from by every good writer on social problems, which, after all, are not peculiar to America.” John Perry.
“The book is full of quotable sentences, and nothing could prove the actual maturity of the American people better than the interest and good nature we feel in just such inadequate representations of our country as this is.”
Wells, Herbert George.In the days of the comet.†$1.50. Century.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The volume is scarcely to be considered as the portrayal of an ideal commonwealth; nor as a serious study of social conditions, while as a love story it is pretty weak.”
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
Reviewed by Madeleine Z. Doty.
“He used to spin capital yarns after an improved Jules Verne fashion, but his reconstructions of society are neither exciting nor plausible. He has deceived us by false pretenses, and we shall hereafter regard his books with justifiable suspicion.” Wm. M. Payne.
Wells, Herbert George.Time machine; an invention. †$1. Holt.
Instead of a comet to lead up to a new regime, Mr. Wells invents in his present story a time machine which flies with the narrator thru the future to a golden age in which the dreams of to-day, speculations upon the destiny of our race have become projects deliberately put in hand and carried forward. Among them communism, disappearance of disease, subjugation of Nature, warring of physical force, and the close resemblance of the sexes.
Welsh, Charles, ed. Golden treasury of Irish songs and lyrics. 2v. $2.50. Dodge.
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“The present anthology ... undertakes to present the best examples of Irish lyrical literature, the songs of the bards of old, the folksongs, the street ballads, the patriotic, pathetic, and romantic songs of the people so far as they have been preserved, the humorous and convivial verse, in which also the literature of the country abounds. Mr. Welsh has included as well poems of the current Irish revival, of which Mr. Yeats and Mr. Hyde are the prophets.”—N. Y. Times.
“Mr. Welsh has given us in such generous measure all that he promised, that it would be ungracious to grumble because he has thrown a lot of odds and ends into the bargain.”
“Mr. Welsh’s anthology is more complete than any former collection of Irish poetry and necessarily admits some work that does not commend itself to all, but this may be pardoned more readily than the omission of Moira O’Neill whose verse, almost more than that of its fellows, is fashioned of the iridescent web of smiles and tears we have learned to call the Celtic temperament.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
Wendell, Barrett.France of to-day. **$1.50. Scribner.
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“Professor Barrett Wendell aims to interpret, not one Frenchman, but the French people. He undertakes to portray their character, to explain what to the Anglo-Saxon appear to be strange contradictions in their conduct, to interpret their life, to a people whose temperament is antagonistic and whose point of view is widely different.”—Outlook.
“The book is delightfully entertaining, and makes for a better understanding of the French people, their life and their ideals.”
“The early chapters are full of illuminating passages. But when the author ceases to deal with things which he has seen, he gets out of his depth, and is less valuable. The book suffers a little ... from having been composed for American consumption, but on the whole it is both interesting and informing.”
“The work is delightfully written with a leisurely air of personal reminiscences and full of those secure generalities which can be made only as a result of genuine experience.”
“Professor Wendell’s book is both entertaining and profitable, and can be recommended as an introduction to the study of the French character.”
“I greatly admire the book, it is full of excellent things; the author combines acumen with sympathy. He knows how to praise and he knows also how to blame, a much rarer art.” J. A. J. Jusserand.
“He is appreciative without being eulogistic, discriminating without being critical. In general his catholic spirit is wholly admirable, his insight keen, his conceptions clear, and his style felicitous. The book is a valuable contribution to an understanding of the French.”
“It is a rather keen study of the highly complex French temperament which Professor Wendell gives.”
“Whether the reader knows or does not know France, he will learn very much from this thoughtful book.”
Wendell, Barrett.Liberty, union, and democracy: the national ideals of America. **$1.25. Scribner.
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From its beginning, back to the days of the Declaration of independence and the Constitution, Professor Wendell traces Americanism historically.
“This is in many respects a remarkable book. Even those who disagree fundamentally with the brilliant generalizations of the author cannot deny the bristling suggestiveness on every page. The breadth of view and acuteness of analysis which characterize this book give it an unique place in our political literature.” L. S. Rowe.
“It is difficult to comprehend how a man who for a generation and more has been in a position of vantage from which to observe the currents of American political, social and intellectual life, should have had his provincialism so little disturbed by the almost universal intellectual unrest that marks contemporary America.”
“With sober yet unconventional reflection, keen and matured insight, pervading reasonableness and good sense, and uncommon graceof speech, he has made clear some of the ideals which have made America great. The book should be widely read.”
“The weakness of Mr. Wendell’s expository methods [is], having evolved a brilliant theory, ... he bends all facts to fit it.” H. W. Boynton.
“To my mind the most satisfactory recent defence of the fundamental elements of American character is to be found in Barrett Wendell’s ‘Liberty, union, and democracy.’”
Reviewed by Horatio S. Krans.
“His writings on political subjects are suggestive and his interpretation of the American, in the main, sound and sane.”
Werder, Karl.Heart of Hamlet’s mystery; tr. from the German by Elizabeth Wilder; with introd. by W. J. Rolfe. **$1.50. Putnam.
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Some of the lectures delivered by Professor Werder in Berlin 1859–60, which graphically present his theory that Hamlet was obliged by circumstances to delay his revenge in order to unmask and convict the king. They also contain a critical summary of the whole drama and discussions upon other disputed points.
Reviewed by Edward Fuller.
“Werder is an intensely matter-of-fact critic—all prose. The beauty of the book is that Werder has a firm grip on his argument, and coherently analyzes the play in its light. It is therefore, for most readers, a new and intelligible study of ‘Hamlet,’ and as such it will be welcomed.”
“The argument is presented with great clearness and force.”
Wesley, John.John Wesley’s journal. Abridged. *50c. West. Meth. bk.
A handy one-volume edition in which the more interesting features of the two volume work are brought into condensed form. The main facts that illustrate the rise and progress of Methodism have been preserved in a continuous narrative.
“The condensation is considerable but the most characteristic and valuable features of this intensely interesting human document are preserved, and no liberties (except of omission) have been taken with Wesley’s text.”
Wesselhoeft, Mrs. Elizabeth F. P.Diamond king and the little man in gray. il. †$1.50. Little.
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A child’s Christmas dream in which she wanders among the elves, gnomes and giants of the diamond king’s realm. It is a pretty fairy tale as well as wholesome.
“A new kind of fairy tale.”
West, Andrew Fleming.Short papers on American liberal education. **75c. Scribner.
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“How to combine the advantages of a large university with the peculiar benefits of the small college, is one of the problems of our higher education. Dr. Andrew Fleming West, dean of the graduate school of Princeton, answers it in his book ‘American liberal education,’ by the tutorial system now in force at Princeton, and he presents some good arguments in its favor, if the teachers and the taught are to know each other at all.”—Ind.
Reviewed by Edward O. Sisson.
“The only fault reasonably to be found with the volume is that it is a collection of occasional papers and addresses, having much in common, but not dealing adequately with the highly important subject to which they relate. Sanity is the distinguishing quality of Prof. West’s little volume.” E. C.
“Should be read by all college alumni who would keep pace with advancing change.”
Westcott, Rt. Rev. Brooke Foss.St. Paul’s epistle to the Ephesians: the Greek text with notes and addenda. *$2.50. Macmillan.
“The late bishop of Durham, left an all but finished commentary, which is here presented with an introduction and appendix to which friends and co-workers have supplied the larger part. The text is that of the last edition of Westcott and Hort’s ‘New Testament.’ Added to it are the Vulgate (Latin) version of the fourth century and the versions of Wicliff and Tyndale.”—Outlook.
“In his last, and unhappily almost fragmentary, commentary on Ephesians we find no failure. So far as we have Westcott, it is Westcott at his best.”
Westcott, Rt. Rev. Brooke Foss.Village sermons. $1.75. Macmillan.
Forty sermons preached upon various occasions from 1852 to 1881 while the late Bishop of Durham was rector of a rural church.
“When the simplicity of their form and expression is considered, as well as the regretted personality of their author, we look to these sermons at once to enrich and to clarify the teaching of those who stand to-day in similar pulpits.”
“They are for the most part direct, simple, suggestive sermons, full of fact and thought rather than of exhortation.”
Westell, W. Percival.British bird life: being popular sketches of every species of bird now regularly nesting in the British Isles. $1.25. Wessels.
One hundred and seventy-seven species are included in this volume which is profusely illustrated by photographs and drawings. “Each bird is treated under a separate head.... Each sketch includes a brief description of the bird and of its eggs and nest, together with some comment on its habits and haunts.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Another of the cheap illustrated books which are now so much in vogue. Signs of weakness are perceptible with regard to unfamiliar species and especially respecting migrants.”
“When treating of disputed matters Mr. Westell digresses from the more stereotyped form into very interesting narration of personal experiences.”
“The work is done very carefully and with scientific accuracy, but ready-made knowledge has its deficiencies; it is especially apt to fail in style.”
“The title is misleading, since only birds which regularly nest in the British Isles are included; and the alphabetical order is inconvenient. The information in the text is unreliable, and grammar as well as sense are frequently disregarded by the writer.”
Westermarck, Edward Alexander.Origin and development of the moral ideas.2v. v. 1. *$3.50. Macmillan.