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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a clever and a wholesome book about people large and small who live in a little city.”
Whitehouse, Henry Remsen.Revolutionary princess; Christina Belgiojoso Trivulzio, her life and times, 1808–1871. *$3. Dutton.
A biography which gives in detail the story of the devoted Milanese, her exile in Paris, her revolutionary plots, her travels, her writings and the remarkable characteristics which make the princess a conspicuous figure of her time.
“Mr. Whitehouse has given the English reader an interesting account of a romantic personality.”
“Though his book cannot rank very high either as literature or history, it will do well enough to introduce to the subject those who cannot read Italian.”
“It is a pity that the publishers of the life of the Princess Belgiojoso did not select a biographer more in sympathy with the subject.”
“Mr. Whitehouse has given us not only an interesting biography but a vivacious history of the first three-quarters of the past century in leading to one of the greatest achievements of that century, the unification and liberation of Italy.”
Whiteing, Richard.Ring in the new. †$1.50. Century.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Whiteing knows the difficulties of the great city for the untrained bread-winner, but his present attempt to give this knowledge literary form is a pretty flat failure.”
“Is clever, readable, and not to be taken too seriously.” Mary Moss.
“Mr. Whiteing has a big social purpose and he makes you feel it, but the book as a story is not sufficiently interesting and vital to hold popular attention.” Madeleine Z. Doty.
*Whiting, Lilian.Italy, the magic land.**$2.50. Little.
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A companion to Miss Whiting’s “Florence of Landor.” It is a panoramic view of the comparatively modern part of Rome “which, opening with the period of Canova and Thorwaldsen, proceeds to the contemporary Rome of Vedder and Franklin Simmons, in which the author depicts the Rome of the Hawthornes and the Brownings, and of that intense artisticlife attracted by the stupendous works of Michael Angelo and the galleries of the Vatican.” The chapter headings are: The period of modern art in Rome, Social life in the Eternal city, Day-dreams in Naples, Amalfi, and Capri, A page de conti from Ischia, Voices of St. Francis of Assisi, The glory of a Venetian June, and The magic land.
Whiting, Lilian.Land of enchantment: from Pike’s Peak to the Pacific.**$2.50. Little.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The historian or he who would present economic and political conditions from a democratic view-point must be fundamental in his investigations and fearlessly impartial in weighing and presenting all the facts as they exist. Any failure to do this impairs the work as a valuable contribution to historic or economic and social literature. And just here, it seems to us, is found the one weak point in Miss Whiting’s otherwise charmingly instructive and valuable work.”
“It makes a poor showing in comparison with Mr. James’s thoro and original study.”
Whitlock, Brand.Turn of the balance.†$1.50. Bobbs.
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An arraignment of the law as it is administered in our commonwealth to-day. Pitted against the big machine of the law is human justice which attempts to overthrow the merciless momentum of legal incompetence, and fails. The force of the story lies along the line of a plea for human sympathy and improved conditions.
“The book is as strong and purposeful as ‘The jungle,’ and as literature it is a more finished creation. It is a distinctly great novel, presenting a vivid and effective picture of the miserables of our social order.”
“From beginning to end there is not one scene that is forced or unnatural or out of place or out of proportion or improbable or inadequate; there is not one sentence or phrase that is overdone or written for effect; of all the characters there is not one that fails to be convincing.” Charles Edward Russell.
“It is a particularly sordid story of criminal life, unredeemed by any special skill in the telling, and lacking the breadth of treatment which alone can make such a subject impressive.”
“Grim as his story is, it must claim attention both for its passionate devotion to an idea of mercy and charity, and for its profound recognition of the organic and indestructible unity of human life.” Harry James Smith.
“Is chiefly remarkable as an exhibit of the criminal under-world, its viewpoint, its customs, and its speech.” Wm. M. Payne.
“A serious book this, convincing even while one looks for the other side of the picture—one of the most striking of the many indictments of society of recent years.”
“The author has an eye for details that give many passages of description a distinctive virtue; but all the virtues are overborne by the pulpit utterance, and swamped in a crowd of people who are all very good or very bad as the illustration of the thesis demands.”
“Contains many revelations of our own city life. It is fascinating to read and—worth reading.”
“Profoundly depressing is the effect of this story, yet the author surely must have been moved by the desire to better the conditions he describes with great power.”
Whitlock, William Wallace.When kings go forth to battle. †$1.50. Lippincott.
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A small German principality is the seat of exciting warfare. An unscrupulous king and a conniving “minister of interior improvements” find their match in two invincible Americans who keep the secret of a young prince’s hiding place, and with characteristic American energy join in a revolutionary plot to unseat the reigning monarch and place the prince upon the throne.
Whitmore, C. S.Harmony flats: the gifts of a tenement-house fairy. 85c. Benziger.
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All about some little neglected children whose squalor and suffering in a New York tenement house are relieved by a kind benefactor, who turns out to be the very irascible old gentleman whom the children had greatly feared.
*Whitney, Helen Hay.Bed-time book; with pictures by Jessie Willcox Smith. †$1.50. Duffield.
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A bed-time book for children even to the little nightgown-clad people surrounding the text on every page marching off with their candles to bed.
“The most attractive picture-book of the year. There is a strain of seriousness, we might almost say sadness, underlying the expression of Miss Smith’s characters, that the young folks may not find attractive, though they may not penetrate deep enough into the philosophy of art to know the cause. But artistically these pictures would be hard to equal.”
Whitney, Rev. James Pounder.Reformation: being an outline of the history of the church from A. D. 1503 to A. D. 1648. (Church universal ser., v. 6.) *$1.50. Macmillan.
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A complete handbook of the reformation belonging to the series known as “The church universal” which deals with the history of the Christian church as a historic body.
“His effort ‘to be fair to all schools of thought and to all men to the time’ has, in the opinion of the reviewer, met with indifferent success. Chapters 7–9 (141 pages) are devoted to the Council of Trent. Here we at once become aware that the author is treading on firmer ground. He no longer deals in vague generalities or manifests the ‘possession’ on his part of vast supplies of ignorance and misinformation, but he shows interest in the minutest details and the possession of a creditable amount of authentic knowledge. These chapters constitute the only really valuable part of the work and justify its publication.” Albert Henry Newman.
“The treatment of the very large subject is brief and summary, the point of view is Anglican, and the spirit non-partisan.”
“He has to do his work his own way, and he has done it admirably. But we are sorry to say that he has sometimes been hasty, and has allowed ill-shapen sentences and sometimes errors of fact to escape his notice.”
Whitson, John Harvey.Castle of doubt. †$1.50. Little.
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A novel in which a young man tells his own strange story. While enjoying a spring-time stroll in Central Park he is suddenly confronted by an up-to-date carriage containing two pretty women, one of whom declares she is his wife. Despite his remonstrance he is thrust into the carriage by the foot-man, embraced, welcomed and carried off to a luxurious house where he is told that he is Julian Randolph, a young millionaire whose sudden disappearance was a matter of national comment two years before. So far the story differs little from other novels of mistaken identity, but the concluding chapters, which establish the right of the hero to the love and the position he has come to covet, are unusual, unexpected, and well handled.
“Belongs [to] the class of books written for that optimistic age that still can believe, if only for twenty-four hours, that the book last read is the best book ever written.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“Is an interesting story, not without many instances in real life to prove its plausibility.”
“The tale is as puzzling as a detective story, and the denouement is as much a surprise to the hero as to the reader.”
“The story is well told, and modern New York is graphically pictured.”
*Whittier, John Greenleaf.John Greenleaf Whittier: a sketch of his life, by Bliss Perry, with selected poems. **75c. Houghton.
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A short sketch of Whittier which leaves out the non-essentials and presents the chief formative influences which made the character and career of the poet. The poems chosen illustrate the trend of his boyhood imagination, the political and social struggle of his mature years, and the peace of the resting and waiting in which his life was brought to a close.
Whys and wherefores of the automobile. il. 50c. Automobile Institute, Cleveland, O.
A simple explanation of the elements of the gasoline motor car, prepared for the non-technical reader.
Whyte, Christina Gowans.Adventures of Merrywink. $2. Crowell.
A fresh, wholesome fairy tale which won the prize of £100 which the Bookman of London offered for the best story submitted in a recent competition.
“The illustrations are unequal, and though some are very feeble, others are exceptionally good.”
“The story is delightful, merry, and well written, certain to please children.”
“A very fair specimen of the modern fairy tale.”
Whyte, Christina Gowans.Nina’s career. †$1.50. Macmillan.
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The doings of a group of wholesome English young folk are chronicled in this story. The girl who was granddaughter to a Liberal peer, the once-a-year friend who had to have an artistic career, a delightful family of brothers and sisters, all help to make a pleasing tale of youth, its amusements, ambitions, and achievements.
“A cheerful story, full of life and movement, and by no means lacking in humour.”
Whyte, Christina Gowans.Story book girls.†$1.50. Macmillan.
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“A group of English girls attempt to conduct their lives according to story-book ideals. The difficulties in the way are innumerable, but the faith is great, the rewards are many.”—Outlook.
“A very interestingly planned and well-executed book, with a delightfully fresh plot.”
Widney, Joseph Pomeroy.Race-life of the Aryan peoples. 2v. **$4. Funk.
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v. 1. The old world.Beginning with the Asiatic period in the race life of the Aryan people, their various emigrations are here traced chronologically into India and South and West Europe. The whole is an unfolding of “The race epic which the Aryan peoples have lived.”
v. 2. The new world.In this volume the author carries his “race epic” over seas and follows the westward march of the Aryan people from ocean to ocean in America, discussing also present day conditions and problems.
“It is what would be called in its own language a ‘live’ book, and for that we are thankful. It is not to be expected that we should sympathise wholly with American ideals and aspirations, or even those of the best Americans, but we can pay Dr. Widney no higher compliment than to wish that he had been born an Englishman, so that he might have written this book from an English point of view.”
“It is a pity that Mr. Widney, many of whose observations are extremely shrewd, should have allowed a book that has evidently cost him much labour to degenerate into a political pamphlet.”
“The best that can be said of the work is that it has swing and style and may afford material for patriotic addresses. As for the scientific value, it has none.”
“His book is not a compilation, nor is it a new statement of a theme already set forth at length by other writers, but an original conception worked out through fine research, carefully coordinated and written in a clear and attractive style.”
“Though Widney’s book is instructive when read aright, that is, with a clear conception of who the Aryan is and whence he came, yet it is misleading, and very much so, if the reader ignores scientific ethnology and anthropology as much as does the author.” Charles E. Woodruff.
“His style is animated and energetic; he is philosophic, discursive, poetic; he is quick to trace analogies and mark contrasts, fond of generalization and prone to turn history into prophecy. The total impression of his work is realistic and picturesque. His national and international forecasts, with one prominent exception are the least satisfactory portion of his work.”
“Not only the latest result of scholarship in ethnology, but an unusually absorbing narrative.”
“A highly interesting and suggestive book.”
Wieland, George Reber.American fossil cycads. $6.25. Carnegie inst.
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“This contribution to American paleo-botany is richly illustrated with fifty plates and 138 text figures. It is an account of the American collections of fossil cycads—plants allied to the fern—so far as they have been studied, and the results of the author’s investigations on the vegetative anatomy and reproductive organs, followed by a comparison of these with similar structures in living cycads, and a discussion of relationships.”—Nation.
“The monograph is creditable to American botany and the presswork of the Carnegie institution.”
“A flood of light has been thrown on the morphology of an extinct group of Mesozoic gymnosperms, which it is possible to study with a precision and thoroughness hardly to be surpassed in the case of recent plants.”
“Marks a very important forward step in our knowledge of the cycadales, while it also throws a great deal of light upon the general problem of the phylogeny of the gymnosperms and their supposed relation to filicinean ancestors.” D. P. Penhallow.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith) (Mrs. George C. Riggs).New chronicles of Rebecca.†$1.25. Houghton.
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Eleven more quaintly amusing chronicles which carry Rebecca thru various stages of girlhood and bring her to her eighteenth birthday. They are entitled: Jack o’lantern. Daughters of Zion, Rebecca’s thought-book, A tragedy in millinery, The saving of the colors, The state o’ Maine girl, The little prophet, Abner Simpson’s new leaf, The green isle, Rebecca’s reminiscences, Abijah the brave and fair Emmajane.
“Written with the quiet humour which is her characteristic.”
“The pathos is kept commendably in check, however, and there is plenty of humour in the chronicle.”
“The stories are brimming with mirth and kindly sentiment.” Harry James Smith.
Reviewed by Mary K. Ford.
“The story, abounding in touches of genuine humor and pathos, comes as a delightful treat to both the older and younger reader.”
“Conscious invention has taken the place of intuition. It is inferior to its predecessor.”
“There are here the same quaintness, pathos, and humor found in her former books, the same understanding of the abysses of childhood, the same realism and fidelity to nature. The pictures by F. C. Yohn are in perfect tune with the story and a model of what novel illustrations should be.”
“This volume is not quite up to the level of its predecessor.”
“‘New chronicles of Rebecca’ have ... freshness of sentiment and humor.”
“Those who did not make the acquaintance of Rebecca at Sunnybrook farm are recommended not to miss the present opportunity.”
“Worthily maintain the reputation of a writer who has done for the present generation of American and English readers much what Miss Alcott did for its predecessor.”
Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith) (Mrs. George C. Riggs).Old Peabody pew; a Christmas romance of a country church. il. †$1.50. Houghton.
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A Christmas story of a “certain handful of dear New England women of names unknown, dwelling in a certain quiet village, alike unknown.” A new carpet, pews washed in lieu of paint, and cushions mended with care told on Christmas eve the story of days of hard work by the Dorcas society. Among the number had been Nancy Wentworth who, quiet and apart from the rest, had lavished her strength on the Peabody pew, sacred to her early romance, where Christmas eve finds her alone taking the last stitch in the worn-out cushion. To this spot comes Justin Peabody the wanderer lover who, weary as the prodigal son, seeks the comfort and love of Nancy.
“One of the prettiest novelettes of this season, as well as one of the most delightful from a literary point of view.”
“It is withal so sweet and wholesome that we wish more books like it might be written to take the place of the so-called ‘problem novels’ of the day.”
“Many pathetic and humorous touches.”
“Notwithstanding the slightness of the plot, there are all the elements of humor and pathos and love that go to make up a story of much sweetness, the kind one feels better for reading.”
“A characteristically bright tale of a New England life full of sentiment and humor.”
Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith) (Mrs. G. C. Riggs), and Smith, Nora Archibald.Fairy ring.**$1.50. McClure.
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Sixty-five fairy tales gathered from every nation. They include some well known stories and some recently discovered ones.
“A choice collection.”
“Less hackneyed than those of the Cinderella kind. For that reason they will read strangely, yet entertainingly to modern ears.”
“Most readable fairy tales.”
*Wiggin, Mrs. Kate Douglas, and Smith, Nora Archibald, eds.Pinafore and palace.†$1.50. McClure.