Wells, Carolyn.Patty in the city.†$1.25. Dodd.
The friends of “Patty at home” will find her quite as delightful to know amid the conditions of New York life, where “she resides in an apartment overlooking Central park, attends a fashionable school, makes new friends, and keeps her old ones.” (Outlook.)
*Wells, Carolyn.Satire anthology.**$1.25. Scribner.
“Beginning with the ancients (Aristophanes, Horace, and Juvenal) ... the selections work down to such very modern exemplars of the species as Mr. Owen Seaman and Mr. Gelett Burgess. Sprinkled through the list of authors we note such out-of-the-way names as those of Ruteboeuf, Abraham à Sancta Clara, Villon, and Béranger. The collection is, however, mainly one of English verse, from the Elizabethans on.”—Dial.
*“The selections, from innumerable authors, have been made with skill; but certain of the pieces from very minor modern authors might have been spared in favor of some omitted bits from Lowell and Holmes, both of whom are rather inadequately represented.”
*“May safely be depended upon to provide both amusement and instruction.”
*“It is ungracious to find fault where there is so much of good. We are glad to get the anthology as it stands.”
*“Contains most of the representative and well-known bits of this sort of literature.”
Wells, Carolyn, and Taber, Harry Persons.Matrimonial bureau.†$1.50. Houghton.
The story of a girl who, weary of “waiting for the prince,” sees her maid happily married thru the agency of a matrimonial bureau, and decides to start one of her own. She invites a cousin, who invites a friend, who invites another friend, and they all stay all summer. Everybody falls in love at cross purposes, a beautiful stranger arrives to confuse confusion, and it is all very complicated and amusing, but is untangled in the end.
“The efforts of a New England spinster to be a machine god are amusing and some of the conversations hang together well.”
“We have never read a more improbable tale, and not often one that so completely failed to amuse.”
“The small volume is packed with jokes of the kind visible without a glass.”
“Here and there are some love scenes very human, very delicately wrought. Briefly, ‘The matrimonial bureau’ is like the ‘Summer girl,’ passing fair, fair but passing.”
“It is an excellent book for summer reading, being as light as air.”
“A book of the slightest sort, hardly comedy, more accurately described perhaps as a summer farce.”
“As a literarysoufflé, light, well-flavored and well-browned, this little story will be a tasty addition to the midsummer feast of reading.”
Wells, Herbert George.Kipps: a monograph.†$1.50. Scribner.
“An uneducated, awkward, and uncultivated clerk in a London draper’s establishment suddenlyhas a large fortune left him, attempts to get into high society, is made use of and swindled right and left, but finally has the courage to break away, to marry the girl of his choice, even though she be a servant girl, and to live his own life. In the end fortune smiles on him a second time, but now in moderation, and he is left a happy, contented husband and father; and, by a twist of Mr. Wells’ whimsical fancy, is made the proprietor of a bookshop which he manages on the theory that ‘one book is about as good as another.’”—Outlook.
“The book, in fact, has a purpose, but that purpose is not allowed to interfere with its vivacity; and ‘Kipps’ is, indeed, the most amusing book and at the same time the tenderest book that Mr. Wells has ever written.”
*“He has set aside the speculations of scientific imagination, and deals with warm human life to-day. This is the work which was designed for him in the end, and we cannot doubt that he will continue to devote himself to it.”
“Deals with his subject in a strong, broad manner, intensified by his understanding of such detail of life as the minor incidents of retail trade.”
“The merit of the novel, however, is not in the story, but in the observation. He never, for a single page, fails to be amusing.”
“Is a humorous story, but it is not a trifling one, and though it deals largely with humble folk, it has to do, in a broad and forceful way, with much of the seriousness of life.”
“The story in its substance is rather sordid and dull.”
“Kipps, indeed, carries a social question to be long pondered, and the author’s side-talks are an important contribution to the old but never-ended discussion.”
*“Is another triumph in the art of presenting character.”
*“Mr. Wells, as usual, writes cleverly, brilliantly, wittily.”
*“We have found Kipps in many ways the most human and sympathetic of Mr. Wells’s stories.”
Wells, Herbert George.Modern Utopia.*$1.50. Scribner.
Mr. Wells departs from the Utopia-makers of the past in that his Utopia is a world-state using a universal language. The author deals “with strictly modern and current conditions, and imagines a new state of society, whose social basis has been improved and whose social problems have been settled.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Seems to us to mark an advance even on the high level of excellence which Mr. Wells had before attained.”
*“We can discover nothing in this sample, however, that goes beyond good-natured satire of conditions which none would be so poor as to defend.” A. W. S.
“There has been no work of this importance published for the last thirty years.”
“The form he has chosen for ‘A modern Utopia’ is exceedingly unfortunate. The essay appended ... is a contribution of real value to the theory of thinking and written in a style as witty and original as that of Professor James.”
“Mr. Wells meant this work as a very serious one. Many readers of it will find its perusal trying, and will fail to realize, as proper compensation for the task of reading the same, whatever grist it offers for the mind.”
“Mr. Wells’s Utopia is far the most interesting, imaginative, and possible of all the Utopias written since the inventions and discoveries of science began to colour our conceptions of the future.”
“In the present book Mr. Wells has become still more moderate and practicable and hopeful, without in the least derogating from his ingenuity and originality.” F. C. S. S.
“It is carefully thought out and reasoned, and holds together much better than the ideal commonwealths imagined by his predecessors.”
“The method of presentation adopted is exceedingly happy.”
“It is an admirable piece of literature and a book of unlimited suggestiveness. As literature and as philosophy, ‘A modern Utopia’ is Mr. Wells’ masterpiece.”
“The book, both in matter and in form, has been carefully studied and thought out. Mr. Wells’s book seems hardly likely to rank as, or to remain, a classic Utopia.”
Wells, Herbert George.Twelve stories and a dream.†$1.50. Scribner.
In this volume of stories Mr. Wells “has but rarely any prophetic or scientific axe to grind. His stories deal with the marvelous under many aspects, but always in the light of his half-joyous, half-whimsical humor.” (R. of Rs.)
“None of them is equal to the best of his former tales, but there are some that are very amusing and some quite gruesome.”
“Enough have surely been mentioned to show the varied entertainment which Mr. Wells offers and to indicate our opinion that he has never offered any better.”
“In at least half of these stories Mr. Wells is seen at his best.”
“‘Twelve stories and a dream’ will not lower Mr. Wells’ reputation as an imaginative writer, which his previous volumes probably did.”
Welsh, Charles, ed. See Famous battles of the Nineteenth century.
Wendell, Barrett.Temper of the 17th century in English literature.**$1.50. Scribner.
“Prof. Barrett Wendell, of the English department at Harvard university, has gathered his lectures on English literature, delivered on the Clark foundation at Trinity college, Cambridge (1902-‘03), into a volume.... These are the first regular lectures concerning English literature ever given by an American at an English university. Together, they are practically a literary study of the age of Dryden. The purpose in these lectures was, he declares, to indicate the manner in which the national temper of England, as revealed in seventeenth-century literature, ‘changed from a temper ancestrally common to modern England, and to modern America, and became, before the century closed, something which later time mustrecognize as distinctly, specifically, English.”—R. of Rs.
“Prof. Wendell is always interesting, whether we agree with him or not, and the Clark lectures ... have much good matter in them, with perhaps as much that is by no means so good.”
“Smoothness of style ... Though this volume is of such high merit that it will take a place at once as one of the recognized authorities on its subject, it is not likely that all its positions will be accepted without a demur.” Herbert W. Horwill.
“The title of this book is more philosophical than the contents warrant; instead of obtaining one final impression, we remember the separate remarks—often wise, suggestive and illuminating—on separate authors.”
“Its author seems wholly destitute of any pretension to critical discernment. The diction and style, as might be expected, are on a par with the rest of the book. It is scandalous that a great university like Cambridge should tolerate such standards of information and criticism as this volume exhibits.”
Wertheimer, Edward von.Duke of Reichstadt.**$5. Lane.
Dr. Wertheimer’s monograph on the Duke of Reichstadt makes use of a vast deal of new biographical material. The study covers the political setting of the life in detail, painstakingly going over the whole piece of statecraft involved in Napoleon’s Austrian marriage, dwelling at length upon the influence which the alliance exerted upon the policy of Napoleon and of his opponents. The short uneventful life of Napoleon’s son is of less interest than the stirring history which the father tried to shape for the glory of a permanent kingdom. “It is to the fact that he was his father’s son that the fame of the Duke of Reichstadt is due ... the shadow of a great name surrounds him, and historical writers record and discuss his every act as if he had been a real king, instead of merely the If, Yes, and Perhaps of Modern European history.” (N. Y. Times.)
“As a rule, however, the narrative runs easily—perhaps more so than is the case with most translations.”
*“The translation, on the whole, is very satisfactory, though there are occasional lapses into awkwardness or obscurity. Here and there one may question the justice of Dr. Wertheimer’s remarks. But these and a few other blemishes do not detract from the value of a most careful and interesting work, which presents the first complete and authoritative account of the life of this unfortunate prince.”
“Mr. de Wertheimer’s book is a valuable contribution to historical knowledge. The author’s style, however, is somewhat confused, and his judgment is far from critical.”
“He has scraped everything together, sorted it out, sifted it, and arranged it in what must be acknowledged to be an interesting story. The matter is not important, however. The English translation of Mr. de Wertheimer’s book is good.”
*“It is as interesting as it is valuable as a contribution to a strangely neglected period of European history.”
*“Dr. Wertheimer has chosen wisely to present the details of a sad career with the fulness, the accuracy, and the impartiality of a scholar.”
West, George Stephen.Treatise on the British freshwater algae.*$3.50. Macmillan.
“Certainly there is no book upon any phase of cryptogamic botany for which there has been so much need, and for which the demand in recent years, has been so great, as one dealing comprehensively with the freshwater algæ.... A good general discussion of the methods of multiplication and reproduction in algæ, together with a reference to the question of polymorphism and a rather full exposition of the particular theories of the author regarding phylogeny, precedes the specific treatment of the six classes, Rhodophyceæ, Phaeophyceæ, Chlorophyceæ, Heterokonteæ, Bacillarieæ, and Myxophyceæ.... The book is fully illustrated and too much cannot be said for the successful effort to secure new and accurate drawings of not only the more recently described genera, but for the older forms as well.”—Science.
“The work has been thoroughly done throughout, and its value is greatly increased by an exhaustive index. The plates are sufficiently characteristic for most identifications, and the descriptions and keys are good.”
“Is particularly well qualified to write such a book. The need of a treatise upon the freshwater algæ has been referred to; that this book will come as near to filling such a need as one of its scope, written by one man, could possibly be expected, is all that is necessary to say regarding its worth.” George T. Moore.
West, W. K.George Frederick Watts. $1.25. Warne.
A biographical sketch of Watts by W. K. West, with an essay on his art, and an outline of the sixty-five pictures reproduced in the book, by Romualdo Pantini.
Westcott, Rev. Frank Nash.Church and the good Samaritan; mission addresses to men.**$1. Whittaker.
A series of Lent addresses to men. They include The lawyer’s question, The Jericho road, The priest and the Samaritan, The Samaritan and the Jew, The wayside inn, The two pence.
*Westcott, Frank N.Heart of catholicity. $1. Young churchman.
A defence of the conception of the church which is held by the “high church” party of the Anglican communion. It regards the church as a divine institution let down from above, the dispenser of truth and salvation as against the view held by the members of that communion in common with other protestants that the church is a historic growth which has developed out of human needs and which is seeking truth and salvation. The author means by “catholicity” the former conception of the church, but the term ought to be big enough to include both views.
Westrup, Margaret.Coming of Billy. $1.25. Harper.
“Billy’s coming will be a pleasure to readers of all ages, for Billy is a delightful addition to the real small boys of fiction. His parents send him from India to Rose Cottage, England, where he is a source of continual surprises, not always agreeable to his maiden aunts. He takes a hand in the love affairs of the ‘youngest and prettiest’ Miss Primrose.”—Outlook.
“The reviewer fancies that the whole book is much more likely to interest mature, and even elderly readers, than children.”
“A delightfully humorous story that is told with a wholly charming grace and simplicity.”
Weyman, Stanley John.Starvecrow farm.†$1.50. Longmans.
“The story is placed in the early part of the last century; the heroine, engaged to one man, elopes with another, on whose head there is a price. The couple are captured the day of their flight from the girl’s home, but the man escapes, leaving the girl in the hands of the law. The world thinks her an accomplice, and as her family repudiates her, she has to fight her battle alone.”—Pub. Opin.
“A novel that is likely to be read with delight on a wet day in a country house or on a railway journey.”
“It is as good as any of those which have preceded it from the same pen, and to say this is to pay it a high compliment.”
“Its structure is rather flabby. Looking back over the book, we feel that we ought to have been more excited over it than we were; but the truth is that Mr. Weyman is both wordy and a little uncertain.”
“It goes—goes a-cantering and takes you along with it.”
*“Like the others, a thoroughly readable story.”
“In ‘Starvecrow farm’ there are the same easy flow of narrative, the lively dialogue, the dramatic sense, and the well-developed plot which characterize all that this author does.”
“As a vigorous, wholesome, and well-constructed tale it deserves to win wide acceptance.”
Whall, C. W.Stained-glass work.**$1.50. Appleton.
A simple text-book, which the author has written “in a gossipy style, using very few technical terms and explaining every seemingly difficult passage, just as though he were giving oral instruction.” (N. Y. Times.) There are photographic reproductions of windows in English churches, and many diagrams.
Wharton, Edith Newbold (Jones).House of mirth.†$1.50. Scribner.
A society novel, cruel in its reality. Lily Bart, beautiful and twenty-nine, the orphaned child of a New York merchant, feels her whole being calling for the stamp of permanent possession upon the luxury which she has always enjoyed at the hands of her friends. Relentlessly the author enmeshes her in the toils of debt incurred at bridge; in scandal, the price of a trip upon a friend’s yacht; and, almost in a loveless marriage,—only the wealthy Rosedale himself recoils from it when society no longer smiles upon Miss Bart. She is dropped from stage to stage of society, the unhappy victim of circumstance and environment, but holding the reader’s full sympathy thru an innate nobility which is submerged but never eliminated. The end is hard—but could it all have ended otherwise?
“Mrs. Wharton has done many good things—she has never done anything better than this. Her dialogue is clever, fresh and sparkling; she has a fine discrimination—a natural, unstudied discrimination—in the use of words; and her style is graceful and fluent.”
*“It is a pitiful story, told with restraint and insight and not a little subtlety.”
*“As a piece of artistic creation, it falls short of supreme excellence.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
“She still has a fine manner, but it is like the fine gowns of her heroines, a fashion of the times for interpreting decadent symptoms in human nature. What she says will not last, because it is simply the fashionable drawing of ephemeral types and still more ephemeral sentiments.”
*“Miss Bart is a blend of Becky Sharp and Gwendolen Harleth. She is not as compellingly human as the one, nor as inspiring as the other. Frankly, Mrs. Wharton has surpassed George Eliot in this theme. Not only is Lily Bart more congenial and better, as a human variation, than Gwendolen or Becky, but Mrs. Wharton’s style is more plastic and seductive than that of Mrs. Lewes.”
*“A dozen other novels of the year are good; but this book is really good. What Mrs. Wharton appears to lack is in a word the creative gift at its fullest. She sees with certainty and her hand is as sure as her eye. But with the richest imaginations something takes place beyond this.”
*“A feeling for fair play obliges us to protest Mrs. Wharton’s picture as a prejudiced one, yet it is not consciously unveracious. Though depressing, it is not wholly unprofitable.”
“The story is the product of the most carefully calculated, the most skilfully handled, artistic values and effects; but the workmanship is the manner, not the substance of the novel. A story of such integrity of insight and of workmanship is an achievement of high importance in American life.”
*“It is by all odds the greatest novel of recent years.”
*“We have touched only the main theme, which like the whole story, is worked out in a manner to stamp the writer a genius, and give her name a place in the history of American literature.”
“Her reputation will certainly not suffer any decline by the publication of her new novel.”
Wharton, Edith Newbold (Jones).Italian backgrounds; il. by E. C. Peixotto.**$2.50. Scribner.
Mrs. Wharton says, “As with the study of Italian pictures, so it is with Italy herself. The country is divided not inpartes tres, but in two; a foreground and a background. The foreground is the property of the guidebook and of its product, the mechanical sightseers; the background, that of the dawdler, the dreamer, and the serious student of Italy.” The nine chapters are—An Alpine posting inn, A midsummer week’s dream, The sanctuaries of the Pennine Alps, What the hermits saw, A Tuscan shrine,Sub umbra liliorum. March in Italy, Picturesque Milan, and Italian backgrounds: then there are twelve illustrations reproduced from Peixotto pictures.
“The book is written with genuine knowledge, with large and generous sympathy, and in excellent English.”
“Her style is extraordinarily good, but her thought is pedantic and inhuman.” G. R. Carpenter.
“Has an air of spontaneity, as well as of competence, an irresistible grace, countless descriptive felicities, and the fervent glow of a genuine enthusiasm.”
“Through this traveller’s story runs a fine thread of scholarship, ofsavoir faire, of cosmopolitanism, not easily to be matched in travel-literature. The book has what we call distinction of style, as impossible to resist as to define.” Anna Benneson McMahan.
“When Mrs. Wharton leaves the countryside and speaks of pictures and sculpture, she is apt to be less satisfactory. She is almost too impartial in her appreciation.”
“Mrs. Wharton has many unusual qualifications for writing on the art of Italy in its many phases, among others a brilliant style, historic research and a catholicity of taste.”
“Like the text, they [the illustrations] press the ‘culture’ of elusive expression very near to the vanishing point.” Walter Littlefield.
“This attractive quarto shows the combination of thorough knowledge based on original research, ability to enter into and value different aspects of life and different forms of art, and a finished and suggestive style.”
“The book is full of exquisite impressions concerning matters not to be found in the guide books.”
“An intimate acquaintance with Italian art and nature, an insight into southern life, and an exquisite literary style,—all of which belong to this writer—are necessary for such a study.”
“A great deal of charming description is scattered through this volume.”
Wharton, Edith.Italian villas and their gardens; il. with pictures by Maxfield Parrish, and by photographs.**$6. Century.
To come so absolutely under the spell of Italy’s garden-magic as is possible thru Mrs. Wharton’s word exposition and Mr. Parrish’s color interpretation, is almost as rare a privilege for the traveler who has visited those haunts as for the stay-at-home tourist. Magic which in its first supernatural impression defies analysis, often yields to laws of formation in the sober moments of consideration. Thus does Mrs. Wharton show that the seemingly spontaneous glory of Italian gardens is, after all, the result of garden-craft which the architects of the Renaissance resolved into a three-fold problem: adaptation of the garden to the architectural lines of the house it adjoins; adaptation to the requirements of the inmates of a house, in the sense of providing shady walks, sunny bowling-greens, parterres and orchards, all conveniently accessible; and, lastly, adaptation to the landscape around. There are fifty illustrations, in color and in black and white by Maxfield Parrish. Months of close observation and sympathetic study have been devoted to the large undertaking and the harmony with the subject matter which the De Vinne press has wrought into the book workmanship is exquisite.
“Mr. Parrish has performed his part of the task in a delightful and satisfactory way. The impression, the atmosphere, created by the illustrations, is not sustained in the text.”
“The text is well written and contains much information concerning the villas and gardens selected for treatment.”
“This is a notable volume, all the more so from the archæological and historical associations which it recalls.”
Wheeler, Candace Thurber (Mrs. Thomas M.).Doubledarling and the dream spinner.†$1.50. Fox.
Doubledarling is a little girl “twice as good and twice as beautiful as other children.” When she tells her father how her little discarded red shoes led her in the night to the land where the old shoes go, he promises her a dream machine which will tell her wonderful stories all night long; and on Christmas morning her dream spinner hangs on a peg by her bed ticking out story after story to her. The book tells about these dreams and also of Doubledarling’s waking hours, her friends and her pets. One regrets the commonplace realism which lets an ordinary burglar finally make away with the dream spinner. Dora Wheeler Keith has illustrated the volume.
Wheeler, Everett Pepperell.Daniel Webster, the expounder of the constitution.**$1.50. Putnam.
“This is at once a tribute to the genius of Daniel Webster and a handy manual to the decisions which, following Webster’s arguments before the United States Supreme court, have molded the constitution to make it adequate to our needs. While Mr. Wheeler’s chief concern is with the constitutional questions laid before the court, he is not unmindful of the senatorial side of Webster’s career from the constitutional standpoint, and chapters are given over to the replies of Calhoun and Hayne, involving the nature of the republic, and to the famous ‘Seventh of March’ speech, which brought such disappointment to the enemies of slavery.... Interest is heightened by the inclusion of hitherto unpublished accounts of several of the more important cases, and by an appreciative study of Webster as a lawyer.”—Outlook.
“Its manifest position as a special pleader for Mr. Webster’s memory. Is particularly desirable as giving us new light on old subjects through its first publication of many facts which aid to a clearer view of the principles of the constitution.”
Whelpley, James Davenport.Problem of the immigrant.*$3. Dutton.
A brief discussion, with a summary of conditions, laws and regulations governing the movement of population to and from the British empire, the United States, France, Germany, Belgium, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, and Scandinavia.
*“Such data is not easily accessible to the average student or legislator, and the volume will be of great service.”
“A useful work of reference. Such frantic statements as these are a serious disfigurement in a book professing claims to accuracy.”
“This hasty ‘book of the hour,’ for such it evidently is, interests in parts, particularly in its emphasis upon emigration as a matter ofinternational concern.”
“His summaries seem excellent and correct. The observations and brief discussions withwhich he accompanies them are illuminating and to the point.”
“The book is more useful than any other bearing on the same subject.”
“Mr. Whelpley’s careful study of the general problem of emigration and immigration throughout Europe, our colonies, and the United States will be found a particularly useful addition to a class of recent books that is now somewhat extensive.”
“Mr. Whelpley’s ideas are worthy of respect, and the materials which he has provided should be invaluable to the political student.”
*Where the road led and other stories. $1.25. Benziger.
Twenty-eight Roman Catholic stories written by fourteen Roman Catholic authors. The stories are love stories, but some are of filial love, some of maternal love, and some of the love of religion. The authors include Anna T. Sadlier; Mary T. Waggaman; Magdalen G. Rock; Mary E. Mannix; and Mary G. Bonesteel.
Whibley, Charles.Literary portraits.*$2.50. Scribner.
Essays on Rabelais, Phillippe de Comines, Philemon, Holland, Montaigne, The library of an old scholar (the poet William Drummond), Robert Burton, and Jacques Casanova.
“The appreciation is clear and just, and the author is to be congratulated on the decision and delicacy of his touch and the simplicity of his style. The average of the volume is fully up to that high standard of culture which is evident in all Mr. Whibley’s published works.” Frank Schloesser.
“The level of performance here is singularly even and singularly high.”
“There is perhaps little art in the various portraits, and there is certainly no pretence at originality; but there is sympathetic understanding, and thorough and conscientious labor.”
“‘Literary portraits’ shows marked ability and is to be classed among the books of criticism of the higher standard.”
“Mr. Whibley has finished these portraits with a skillful and graceful pen. Readers in a critical mood and readers for entertainment will both find his work attractive.”
“We miss the illuminating phrase. The fresh judgment and the historical setting is often wholly omitted. Mr. Whibley has ‘the practiced hand,’ and is apt to be content with that amount of accomplishment.”
“This seems to us the best of Mr. Whibley’s volumes of essays, the most mature in style and thought, and the most attractive in subject-matter. He has studied each of his writers with a minute care and has read deeply in contemporary literature, so that they are presented to us in the true setting of their age. His judgments have now the sanity which can only come from a full experience and a full enjoyment of a wide field of literature. His style ... has acquired a body and force which it did not always possess, and his essays are admirable, if for nothing else, for their mastery of clear, graceful, and vigorous prose. Sometimes his comment is a little over-strained.”
Whibley, Leonard, ed. SeeCompanionto Greek studies.
Whiffen, Edwin T.Samson marrying, Samson at Timnah, Samson Hybristes, Samson blinded: four dramatic poems. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
These four dramatic poems deal with four dramatic incidents in the life of Samson. The first tells of Samson’s revenge upon the Philistine youths who, at his wedding-feast, illtreat his father and win from his bride the solution to a certain riddle. The second tells of further revenge upon the Philistines and includes the setting of foxes and fire brands among their corn and vineyards. In the third drama Samson is tried before the elders of Judah, and his mother reveals to him his divinely appointed mission—to free his people. In the fourth the action centers about the effort of Delilah to discover the secret of his strength and closes with Samson blind and a captive.
Whitaker, Herman.Probationer, and other stories.†$1.25. Harper.
Thirteen short stories of life in northwestern Canada. “Most of them deal with the days when the factors and commissioners of the Hudson bay company were the lords of the land, and ruled with an iron hand. The history of the great fur company is full of romance, and there is a peculiar fascination about life in those northern regions.” (Outlook.)
“Some of his stories are thrilling, some humorous, some tame. In narrative Mr. Whittaker has a good deal of manner—too much, and not always his own.”