“There is also a very useful and exhaustive index at the end of the book.”
Ward, H. Snowden.Canterbury pilgrimages.*$1.75. Lippincott.
“The interest of the book centers around two great tragedies: the fall of Thomas the archbishop, and the fall of Thomas the martyr. These are bound up with a part of a still greater tragedy: the collapse of a grand religious movement, which, with all its human imperfections and short-comings, had done a noble work for those who had needed it most, the poor, the weak, the suffering.” The text has been improved by many illustrations of churches, shrines and relics, and sketches of the “pilgrims’ way.”
“Altogether it is an interesting excursion through historical lore for the illustration of a significant feature of mediaeval English life that Chaucer has kept in permanent remembrance.”
Ward, John.Our Sudan: its pyramids and progress.*$8.40. Scribner.
The author gives his reader the privilege of skipping the letterpress and looking at his seven hundred illustrations. This picture book of Soudanese snap-shots is accompanied by chapters “which give interesting if not exactly novel, accounts of events and sundry episodes in the story of the African continent during the last fifty centuries, combined with details of explorations and military expeditions to remote spots during the last fifty years.” (Sat. R.)
“There can be no doubt of its interest or its future popularity.”
“It is pieced together in so haphazard a manner and with such contempt for all sense of proportion that it can hardly be viewed as a serious guide to anybody. Mr. Ward makes many needless mistakes.”
Ward, Mary Augusta Arnold (Mrs. Thomas Humphry Ward).Marriage of William Ashe.†$1.50. Harper.
A novel presenting the political and social order existing in London a hundred years ago. William Ashe, a rising young statesman of English solidity and force, falls in love with Lady Kitty, beautiful, eighteen, just released from a French convent, and neglected by a mother of doubtful reputation. He marries her and she leads him gayly from one scandal to another, ridiculing his influential friends, making enemies of the prime minister, Lord Parham and his wife, and capping all by writing a bitterly real satire upon the social set in which her marriage has placed her. A fragile, captivating creature of varying moods, with an hereditary moral madness in her blood, she holds our interest, excites our pity, and dominates the book. But there are other characters; William’s mother, the strong aristocratic Englishwoman, Mary Lyster, cold, narrow, and selfishly hard, and Geoffrey Cliffe—a villain with a dash of genius, whose power over Kitty began with her desire to penetrate the secret history of a man whose poems filled her with a thrilling sense of feeling and passion beyond her ken.
“It is one of the best that Mrs. Humphry Ward has written, the chief fault of it being the wearisome middle. The work is not organically built up, and though the interest revives towards the end we still feel that the book is imperfect. One can well understand that it would have been twice as good if Mrs. Humphry Ward possessed the saving gift of humour, but she takes many things in life and particularly her own sex much too seriously.”
“It is not in any real sense a remarkable book. There is little or nothing in it that has not been given before both by the writer herself and by others. The hand of the experienced literary artist is visible—too visible in fact.”
“Considered not as a problem, but simply as a study in incompatibility, ‘The marriage of William Ashe’ is a piece of subtle and delicate workmanship.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“In spite of its lack of humor the book is never dull.” C. Harwood.
“The interest of the work is sustained, rising to an effective dramatic climax, and subsiding into the pathos of a closing scene of deathbed repentance and forgiveness.” William Morton Payne.
“The first and most obvious complaint is against the strange and confusing method with which Mrs. Ward uses the motive of her story.” Herbert W. Horwill.
“It must be admitted that ‘The marriage of William Ashe,’ which is her latest, is likewise her strongest book. As usual in Mrs. Ward’s stories, as the end approaches, the interest proportionally deepens. The outcome is unpredictable. Never was the advantage of Mrs. Ward’s method of composition more fully demonstrated than in ‘The marriage of William Ashe.’ The crisis is balanced with absolute nicety: the weight of a hair will turn the scales. The minor characters of Mrs. Ward’s story are drawn with subtlety and power. All in all, ‘The marriage of William Ashe’ is to be regarded as an achievement of consummate art.” C. H. Gaines.
“It is in the adequate presentation and interpretation of Lady Kitty that the author has achieved probably her greatest success as a literary artist.”
*“Is the most notable book of the year, and will perhaps be the only one to survive.”
“Like a rich personality ‘The marriage of William Ashe’ yields itself more and more, as one knows it better. It reveals new depth and beauty with each reading; one appreciates how superbly the author has triumphed over unusual difficulties of situation and of character; and with what noble conclusions she has charged a story which might easily have sunk into a moral morass. Its place is with the books that do not die. Its author stands among the few living writers of fiction to whom the Immortals have passed the torch.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.
“One of those solid, thorough, able and workmanlike novels in which Mrs. Ward has dealt with some of the most serious matters of experience and has proved her right to claim a first position among the novelists of the day. The story needs condensation in the closing chapters, and suffers from lack of humor.”
“The book expresses, doubtless, the flower of her talent. It is full of sweet flavors. It has literary beauty of a high order. ‘The marriage of William Ashe’ is not a great story or a vigorous one. It is an absorbing one.”
“Is one of the few stories of which a measure, at least, of endurance may be predicted.”
“The book, in short, has the drawbacks not only of aroman à clef, but of a composite photograph. The most attractive and brilliant of all of Mrs. Humphry Ward’s novels. The fine literary quality of her work remains, the reader is once more charmed by the restrained eloquence of her descriptions, and impressed by the penetrating analysis of characters so essentially complex as those of Lady Kitty and Geoffrey Cliffe. But along with these familiar excellencies one notes a marked improvement in technique, a livelier movement in the handling of incident and dialogue,—in short, a greater ease, skill, and charm in presentation.”
Ward, Wilfrid Philip.Aubrey de Vere.*$4.60. Longmans.
A memoir, based on his unpublished diaries and correspondence of Aubrey de Vere by his literary executor. The story of a long and rather uneventful life is told largely by the Irish poet himself, revealing his own mind and temperament, and giving graphic descriptions of contemporary great men, Gladstone, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Newman, Browning. His gradual change of religious belief which brought him from the English church to Rome, his work during the famine of 1846-7, and the service done for Ireland by his voice and pen, are given in detail.
“The editor has based his work on diaries and letters, and has spread a feast for the lover of literature where no crude surfeit reigns.”
“Sufficient to give a true picture of the man himself. Yet not the least of the reader’s reward comes from his more intimate knowledge of a pure and unselfish life, lived largely in the service of his fellows; a poet who here reveals himself most fully as the patriot and friend.” Clark S. Northrup.
“The literary workmanship is all that could be desired.”
“Quite sustains his reputation as a master in the difficult and delicate art of the biographer.”
Warden, Florence.House by the river, $1. Ogilvie.
A thrilling story of mystery and intrigue which turns on the theft of curios and paintings from a valuable collection. The owner himself is in the conspiracy to defraud an insurance company.
Ware, William.Aurelian, a tale of the Roman empire in the Third century.$1.50. Crowell.
The Luxembourg library offers in single volume edition, handsomely bound and fully illustrated, some notable work of fiction that ranks among the world’s masterpieces. “Aurelian” is one of the four late additions to this series.
Warner, Anne.SeeFrench, A. W.
Warner, Charles Dudley.Complete writings;*ed. by Thomas R. Lounsbury. 15v. ea. $2. Am. pub. co., Hartford, Conn.
The complete works of Charles Dudley Warner, with a biographical sketch appear in this handsome “Backlog” edition. “The volumes are of the right size, simply bound, the paper and the typography expressing the high quality of the work which this set of books preserves in permanent form.” (Outlook.)
*“Everything has been done by the publishers of this edition to give Mr. Warner’s work the dignity and refinement of form which it deserves. Professor Lounsbury contributes to the series a biography which is characteristically clear, vivacious, and illuminating.”
Warner, George H.Jewish spectre.**$1.50. Doubleday.
The author strips himself entirely of race prejudice and almost whimsically creates from myth, from history, from literature and present day tendencies a composite Israel stamped with characteristics of imagination and fact. “The reader does not at once find out what the ‘spectre’ is. At first it seems to be a spectral fear that the Jew is to crowd out all competitors in the struggle for existence.... Later it comes out that the really troublesome ‘spectre’ in the writer’s mind is the domain of religious speculation.” (Outlook.)
*“Mr. Warner negatives too much and constructs too little.” Edith J. Rich.
“The merit of the book is that it sincerely attempts to put into a single volume a literary view of a very difficult subject.”
“A sort of hotch-potch of anecdote and quotation, legend and fact, held together by a strain of comment, now ironical, now impassioned, which is not likely to convince, but is generally diverting.”
“The book is cleverly written, and makes many good hits at shining marks of folly; but that it is, as announced, ‘an extraordinary’ book, except in wrongheadedness, does not appear.”
“Yet with all it is a strangely suggestive book, reassuring to any man who feels that America is becoming the New Jerusalem, full of careful study and hasty deduction, full of leads which the author does not work to a conclusion, full of surprises and odds and ends of valuable information—and full of contempt.”
Warner, Horace Everett.Ethics of force. 50c. Pub. for the International Union by Ginn.
This little volume contains, in revised form, a series of five papers read before the Ethical Club of Washington, D. C., just prior to and after the Spanish war. The titles of the papers are The ethics of heroism, The ethics of patriotism, Can war be defended on the authority of Christ? Can war be defended on grounds of reason? and Some objections.
“Although the book is somewhat academic in tone, it is worth reading.”
“This is the sort of a thoughtful volume on the subject that should be placed on the reading-lists of our public schools.”
Warwick, Charles Franklin.Mirabeau and the French revolution.**$2.50. Lippincott.
“This is the well-written story of the most extraordinary character of the most extraordinary scene in the drama of modern history, the storm-center of that scene till his death.”—Outlook.
“It has all the failings and the qualities of the writing of the enthusiastic amateur.”
“It is neither a satisfactory biography of Mirabeau, nor a clear, sound and well connected synthesis of the early Revolution.” Fred Morrow Fling.
“Considered as reading matter, the book offers nothing new.”
“We learn nothing new about Mirabeau or the French revolution; the style is sometimes absurd.”
“Has neither scholarship nor style to recommend it. The style of the book is melodramatic.”
“It would be a mistake, however to dismiss it as of slight worth. It has some very positive merits. The task of exploring the voluminous literature treating of the French revolution is no light one, and Mr. Warwick must be credited with having considerably facilitated the exploration in respect to the period he reviews.”
“Apart from a certain number of verdicts upon individual characters, his text contains little that is distinctive. On the other hand it is of much higher quality than most of the illustrations which accompany it. The book is undeniably amateurish.”
“There is no great distinction in his style, little compelling fire in his accounts of people and events; not much subtlety in his judgments. He is sometimes prolix and sometimes repeats himself. Clarity and intelligibility are the merits of the book; and they are valuable qualities.”
“Mr. Warwick has made effective use of the best authorities in his account both of the tragic scene and of the masterful actor.”
“Mr. Warwick faces his subject fairly.”
“It has the distinctive merit of being at once a biography and a history,—a graphic narrative of events not less than a just, adequate and exceptionally suggestive estimate of a great historical figure.”
“An incisive study of the part played by Mirabeau in the French revolution.”
“Mr. Warwick’s book on Mirabeau is passable enough. But it contains absolutely nothing new in fact so far as we have observed, and it is certainly not distinguished for form or point of view or imagination.”
Washburn, William Tucker.First stone, and other stories. $1. Fenno.
These seventeen short stories are as varied in tone as in subject. One is a dramatic scene in the rooms of a danseuse, another is a story of Madagascar, a third treats of Mormonism, and a fourth concerns a most unfaithful wife.
Washington, Booker Taliaferro.Tuskegee and its people: their ideals and achievements.*$2. Appleton.
A volume prepared by the officers and former students of the normal and industrial institute at Tuskegee, Ala., under the editorial direction of Booker T. Washington, who writes an introduction. The problem of negro education is treated from the inside by the intelligent negro. Seventeen autobiographical sketches are furnished by Tuskegee graduates who are now following various occupations.
“It is an unanswerable argument against the critics of the Tuskegee movement in particular and of the education of the negro in general.”
“If the stories are marked by a complacency pardonable under the circumstances, and if they fail to prove quite all their authors think they do prove for negro progress, yet they are not uninstructive.”
“The writing is unpretentious and therefore the more forcible.”
*Washington, George.Washington: principal state papers, $1. Century.
This volume in the “Thumb nail” series “is uniform with the early copies of this series which is a small vest-pocket edition richly bound in embossed leather. This volume contains W. E. H. Lecky’s famous essay on ‘The character of Washington’ taken from his ‘History of England in the eighteenth century,’ ‘Washington’s farewell address to the people of the United States,’ his ‘Address to the officers in 1783,’ his ‘Circular letter addressed to the governors of all the states on disbanding the army,’ his ‘Farewell orders to the armies of the United States,’ and his ‘Inaugural address to both houses of congress.’”—Arena.
*“Excellent in point of literary discrimination and value.”
Washington, George.Washington and the West.**$2. Century.
A volume which contains the diary kept by Washington in September, 1784, during his journey into the Ohio basin in the interest of a commercial union between the Great lakes and the Potomac river. Mr. Hulbert’s commentary shows Washington to be an active, wide-awake practical man of affairs which is a little-known and less-appreciated phase of his character.
*“It is a valuable addition to the literature dealing with Washington, the man and the statesman.”
*“An interesting and valuable book, somewhat too strongly colored by certain prejudices which affected the editor from the beginning of his task.”
“Mr. Hulbert’s notes, therefore, are as interesting to read as the diary.”
“This is a valuable portrait of Washington in an aspect comparatively disregarded hitherto, a portrait drawn by himself.”
*Wasson, George Savary.Green shay.†$1.50. Houghton.
“The scene of action ... is almost entirely on the shore and in the harbor, though the strenuous life of the open sea is always in the background exerting its powerful influence on the actors and the drama. The author is attempting to show the evil ways into which many of the fishing communities have fallen, and their need of moral and spiritual help.”—Outlook.
*“The thread of the story is not very distinct. The humor of the book is good, however, though here and there a little underdone, in seasoning and overdone in cooking.”
*“As a tract the book makes a strong appeal; as a story it limps a little and lacks freshness of conception and treatment; as a portrayal of character it is delightfully quaint and humorous.”
Waters, N. McGee.Young man’s religion and his father’s faith.**90c. Crowell.
Eight practical talks which endeavor to reconcile the old thought and the new. On the ground that altho our conception of the Bible has changed and broadened the book itself is the same, the author declares that the young man who believes in the theory of evolution and questions the infallibility of the Bible differsfrom the faith of his fathers only in nonessentials and that altho our creeds may be new they seek to define the ways of the same loving God.
*Waters, Thomas Franklin.Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay colony; with seven appendices.*$5. Ipswich historical soc., Ipswich, Mass.
The author states in his preface: “I have tried to tell accurately but in readable fashion the story of the builders of our town; their homes and home life, their employments, their Sabbath keeping, their love of learning, their administration of town affairs, their stern delusions, their heroism in war, and in resistance to tyranny.” Ipswich was a typical New England town founded in 1623, and this detailed history has been prepared largely from original town documents, facsimiles of several of which are given.
*“Takes its place in the front rank of its class, and can hardly be praised too highly for diligent research, candor, taste, style, and construction.”
*“An interesting history of an interesting New England town.”
*Watkinson, William L.Inspiration in common life.*35c. Meth. bk.
A series of helpful suggestions which prove that every man’s possible happiness is the direct outgrowth of the appreciation and development of his hidden worthiness. The volume is uniform with the “Freedom of faith” series.
Watson, Edward Willard.Old lamps and new, and other verses; also, By Gaza’s gate, a cantata, $1. Fisher.
Under the divisions, Old lamps and new, and A forgotten idyl, the author gives us dainty verses, nearly all of which sing of love; some of the gladness of it, some of its pathos. By Gaza’s gate—a cantata, closes the volume. It is sung by Samson, Delilah, and a chorus; the words are based on the text of the Polychrome Bible.
Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott.Hurricane island.$1.50. Doubleday.
A young English doctor tells the story of his experiences on the yacht of a German prince. The prince, accompanied by his sister, is eloping with a French actress; they all bear assumed names, but the crew discover the truth, realize that there is great treasure stored in the hold, and mutiny, bloodshed and murder follow. The whole account is exciting, but hardly cheerful, save for the love story of the doctor and the princess.
“The thing is done with such an air of assurance, the characters are so carefully developed and sustained, that we accept it all, in a spirit of meek credulity, and even after a period of sober second thought admit that it is one of the best sustained stories of rattling adventure that has appeared in many a month.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“This is a very stirring story, and is almost as good as Robert Louis Stevenson could have made it.” William Morton Payne.
“Has skilfully combined all the ingredients that go to make what boys pronounce a ‘rattling good story.’”
“For literary qualities it is vastly inferior to Mr. Watson’s ‘Galloping Dick,’ but as a lively story of action it is exciting even if improbable.”
“It is ridiculous, impossible, and altogether unallied to anything that any of us is acquainted with in this severely practical world; probably it is for that reason that it is so absorbedly interesting for a quiet evening.”
“Is a capital romance of love and piracy ... and delightfully related.”
*Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott.Twisted eglantine.†$1.50. Appleton.
“A fascinating story of the time when George IV. was Prince of Wales. The leading man character is another Beau Brummel, quite well drawn; the freshness, beauty, and grace of the heroine are deftly impressed upon the reader.” (Outlook.) “Sir Piers had no scruples in asking Barbara Garraway, the Hampshire squire’s daughter, to be his mistress; when he found that he had misread her character, he had no scruples in carrying his efforts to make her his wife to the point of abducting her to his country seat.” (Lond. Times.)
*“The Beau is the book, and our interest in the book ceases when the Beau begins to prance like any sensational hero.”
*“The book thus falls somewhere between the mere romance and the novel of character. The period is well realized; the story is interesting and exciting; but this painful sounding of a shallow type delays its movements, and forbids the happy surrender of judgment which is the condition of enjoying a romance.”
*“Mr. Marriott Watson has put his best work into ‘Twisted eglantine,’ and has scored a distinct triumph in Sir Piers Blakiston—an achievement, we should imagine, of no small difficulty.”
*“It has passages which may be distasteful to some readers.”
Watson, Thomas Edward.Bethany: a story of the old South. $1.50. Appleton.
Bethany, a village in middle Georgia, is the scene of a novel which describes southern life during the period immediately preceding and during the earlier years of the Civil war. The author is a well-known writer of both biography and history and his present work is almost an autobiography, for he tells of the old South as he knew it in his boyhood. The greater part of the book is taken up with the comparison of Toombs and Stephens, their characters and the issues for which they stood. The slavery question is discussed freely, but while showing a burning loyalty to the South, there is no bitterness toward the North.
“A novel of a rambling sort, although the element of truth is much larger than the element of invention. The fire-eating southerner has not often been exhibited, in either history or fiction, more truthfully and vividly than in the present work. We fear that Mr. Watson is still sadly in need of reconstruction.” W. M. Payne.
“Is scarcely a novel at all. It is history localized and presented from the deliberately provincial point of view. Is probably more nearly veracious than any picture of southern life ever given by a southern author. It is a brilliant interpretation, based upon impressions received with the vividness of adoring youth, and written out with the restraint and judgment of a mature mind. Mr. Watson’s literary style is not always good, is often too insolently local in phrasing, but it is always graphic and honest.”
Watson, William.Poems; ed. by J. A. Spender. 2v.*$2.50. Lane.
In this new edition of his works, the author “has made several alterations, even in his greater poems, changes which tend undoubtedly to perfect the original. The two volumes before us are not large, though they contain agood many poems not to be found in the ‘Collected works.’” (Spec.) The poems are critical, philosophical, and political.
*“This is such an edition of a poet’s work as one usually waits for till the author has ceased to be, or at least to write.”
*“An edition that is nearly all that could be wished.”
“We would make but one censorious comment. The political verses should have been kept out.”
*Watson, William.Prayer,*35c. Meth. bk.
In this little volume uniform with the “Freedom of faith” series, the author discusses the nature, purpose, conditions, difficulties, and gain of prayer.
*Way, Thomas R. and Dennis, G. R.Art of James McNeill Whistler: an appreciation. $2. Macmillan.
A third and cheaper edition of a book which “contains chapters on Whistler’s various styles and subjects, with many illustrations, some of them in color, and a single chapter on the artist as a writer. It is not a life of Whistler; it is an appreciation merely.”—N. Y. Times.
*“The new edition is an excellent compact little book, not differing except in outward details from its predecessors.”
*“Their method is rather eulogistic than critical.”
Wayne, Charles Stokes.Prince to order.†$1.50. Lane.
A young Wall street broker, Carey Grey, wakes up one morning to find himself in Paris with a new name, new friends, and his black hair and beard bleached yellow. It develops that he has come under the power of an old phrenologist and chemist who is passing him off as the crown prince of the small kingdom of Budaria, whose king is dying. Grey has come to himself because the old scientist’s power is weakened by a fatal illness, but he keeps up the delusion in order to trap the other conspirators. The complications are many; Grey learns that he has been forced to embezzle from his own New York firm while under this strange influence and his friends believe him dead and dishonored; it is only after many adventures that he vindicates his honor, and re-wins his American fiancée.
“Its treatment lacks distinction, but the tale has one or two features of originality. It is not a bad specimen of its class: lively, entertaining and tolerably ingenious.”
“Here we have still another modification of the Zenda story and one which shows ingenuity.”
“The colors in which this comedy are dressed are over strong, but the comedy itself is fairly consistent and interesting.”
“The initial idea in this story is quite promising. The book is amusing.”
*Webster, Jean.Wheat princess.†$1.50, Century.
The wheat princess, an American girl whose father has cornered the wheat market, is living with her aunt and her uncle, who is a philanthropist, in an old villa on the outskirts of Rome. The wheat famine tells heavily upon the Italian peasants; the newspapers blazon her father’s name, the peasants rise in hot indignation, with cries of “Wheat! wheat!” and her uncle, who has given so much for them, is besieged in his luxurious villa. In the end the Americans, their altruistic plans laid low, return to America, but the troublous times among the poor of Italy have brought to the big hearted wheat princess the love of her uncle’s friend, the man who has shared his unselfish dreams.
*“An entertaining and well-written story upon somewhat novel lines.”
*“Strong, graphic, truthful.”
Webster, John.White devil and The duchess of Malfy; ed. by Martin W. Sampson.*60c. Heath.
A volume of the Belles-lettres series. The play-wright’s two masterpieces, “The white devil,” and “The duchess of Malfy,” in critical text with the original spelling. An introduction and critical notes are included among the editorial helps.
Weingartner, (Paul) Felix.Symphony since Beethoven; tr. by Maude Barrows Dutton. $1. Ditson.
This book about modern symphonies, by the conductor of the Berlin royal symphony concerts, and of the Kaim orchestra, is in its second German edition. “He holds that no other symphonies comparable to those of Beethoven in lofty grandeur, deep significance and perfection of beauty, have ever been composed.... He has small praise for the successors of the god of his idolatry in the symphony: a kindly word for Schubert, Mendelssohn, Bruckner; condemnation for Schumann and Brahms; mere cursory mention of Tschaikoffsky, Dvorak, Rubinstein, Borodin, Raff, Goldmark, Saint-Saens, César Franck and Sinding ... Favoring criticism on Berlioz and Liszt for their symphonic poems.... Discussion of Richard Strauss, whose earlier tone-poems the author says he admires, but whose later, and greater works he cannot appreciate.” (Ind.)
“An interesting and stimulating essay, albeit so short as to be fragmentary in parts. The translation of this essay into English was worth while, but one regrets that it was not more skilfully done.”
“A sympathetic study.”
Weir, Irene.Greek painters’ art.*$3. Ginn.
“This book aims to bring together as much information as possible from ancient and modern literature, from the reports of archæologists, and from the study of specimens in museums and elsewhere, in regard to all that relates to color as used by the Greek painters of old. The book is amply illustrated.”—Outlook.
“Miss Weir possesses a delightful enthusiasm for the Greek painters’ art, supported by knowledge of ancient and modern archæological writings as well as familiarity with art works.”
“A decidedly interesting if somewhat formal story of the least generally comprehended of the arts of Greece.”
“A curiously offhand and chatty book upon one of the most difficult subjects known to the archæologist.”
“It is a most important addition to the popular literature of the subject. Its scheme is asoriginal as it is entertaining.”
“Miss Irene Weir has ... rendered art students an incalculable service in giving them the advantage of the new light which modern discoveries have thrown upon the lost art of Greek painting.”
“Although we have to recognize how little we know, we are able to find an account of that little in the present volume.”
Weiss, Bernard.Religion of the New Testament; tr. from the Germ. by G: H. Schodde.*$2. Funk.
The object of the book is “to give a ‘brief but clear’ answer to the question, what is the religion of the New Testament?... The book is divided into three parts. In partI, Dr. Weiss describes the suppositions or conditions of the redemption described in the New Testament. In part II, he discusses the redemption in Christ proper. Here the subjects discussed are the redemptive acts of God. In the third part he treats of the realization of redemption in the individual and in the congregation, in the present and in the world to come.”—N. Y. Times.
“With all his splendid exegetical and critical qualities, Professor Weiss does not write in the spirit of the historian. But this is the only serious general criticism one feels compelled to pass upon what is, in fact, a remarkably able work.” S. M.
“As an exegete Dr. Weiss excels. Men of all schools will find something to learn from it.”
“His treatment of the subject is thoroughly objective, and strongly conservative. A somewhat less close adherence to the style of the original would have made many sentences of this translation easier reading for the unlearned, for whom the author intended it.”
Wells, Amos Russell.That they all may be one.**75c. Funk.
A plea that Christ’s wish that “His followers might be kept from schism, and that His church might be maintained in perfect unity,” may be realized in the unification of denominations. To this end the author advocates union Bible schools and pastorates, and under such chapter headings as, Working together; The search for truth; Churches and men; Church union and patriotism, he finally arrives at, The united church of Christ.
“It is not so incoherent as its typographical form would indicate.”
Wells, Carolyn.Dorrance domain; a story.†$1.50. Wilde.
Four energetic Dorrances left to the care of their Grandmother Dorrance once wealthy, now skilfully supporting a large family on a small annuity, bemoan their boarding house existence which seems an unbearable hardship after the free life in their Fifty-eighth street home. A part of the Grandfather’s legacy was the Dorrance domain, a rambling summer hotel, which was not easily disposed of and which these daring children propose opening and running for a season. The success of their scheme and the enjoyment which the novel experiment afforded them are told in Miss Wells’ usual sprightly and humorous manner.
*“Miss Wells is just the writer to make it the kind worth reading.”