“‘The greatest contribution since Darwin’ is the universal testimony.” H. C. Cowles.
“The book is, considering its bulk, very free from misprints.” A. D.
“Evidently the work of de Vries may well prove to be an epoch-making contribution to the advance of knowledge.” Edward G. Spaulding.
“The great service of de Vries’s work is that, being founded on experimentation, it challenges to experimentation as the only judge of its merits. As to the literary qualities of the book, one has first to praise the general method of exposition. It is quite a model.” C. B. Davenport.
Wack, Henry Wellington.Romance of Victor Hugo and Juliette Drouet.**$1.50. Putnam.
A bundle of letters written to Hugo by Madame Drouet in 1851 and discovered by Mr. Wack on a ramble thru the island of Guernsey, forms the basis of this book. An introduction by M. François Coppée, the story of the relations of the poet and Juliette for fifty years and of the poet’s life at Hauteville house by Mr. Wack, and many illustrations complete the volume.
Reviewed by Jeannette L. Gilder.
“His book is quite without adequate raison d’etre.”
“The introduction by François Coppée is especially interesting not only on account of the view that it furnishes of Hugo as seen by an enthusiastic young poet, but because of its literary excellence and the charming delicacy with which he has related his experiences.”
“One more superfluous example of literary indiscretion.”
“The literary value of this book lies in the charming introduction by François Coppée; the human interest, in the conscientious work of the author, who, however, is sometimes in danger of beating his gold leaf out too thin.”
“Mr. Wellington Wack proves such a pretty apologist that we can easily persuade ourselves that we are not reading scandal at all, but a ‘worthy literary record.’”
Wack, Henry Wellington.Story of the Congo Free State.**$3.50. Putnam.
“Social, political, and economic aspects of the Belgian system of government in central Africa. After personal research among the documents in the administration office, to which he was given free access by the king of the Belgians, the author presents this volume as a true and complete history of the affairs of the Congo Free State. The work is profusely illustrated with characteristic sketches.”—Bookm.
“His refutation of the British charges is so violent that, considering the sources of his information, the argument is not convincing.”
“But apart from its value as a plea for the equity and wisdom of King Leopold’s administration, the book has an interest which makes a strong appeal to the general reader.”
“We heartily thank the author for the abundant documents, pictures, statistics, appendices, and index even more than for his narrative, which, while liable for discount as a statement of truth, is rich in facts.”
“As a polemic it is plain that ... Mr. Wack writes from a prejudiced, anti-British standpoint.”
“The most interesting as well as the most trustworthy feature of the book is its profuse photographic illustration.”
“Mr. Wack’s book, however, seems to be ‘thereal thing,’ and is the most complete work on the subject that has yet appeared.” James Gustavus Whiteley.
“He makes it evident at the very outset that he did not approach his task with an altogether unbiased mind. If his monograph fails as a refutation, it is not, however without value as contributing useful information in regard to the history and resources of the Free State.”
Waddell, Charles Carey.Van Suyden sapphires.†$1.50. Dodd.
Miss Gwendolen Bramblestone, one of the guests, at Mrs. Van Suyden’s country place for a week-end house party, becomes implicated in a mysterious jewel robbery. The story follows her efforts to establish her innocence and to recover the gems. Her Scotch lover, the “gentleman burglar,” and an ex-jockey detective add to the plot and to the character interest.
“Exceedingly interesting tale in spite of its thinning out toward the end.”
“An absorbing story from start to finish.”
“The plot is most ingenious.”
Waddell, Laurence Austine.Lhasa and its mysteries; with a record of the expedition of 1903-4.*$6. Dutton.
This detailed account of the expedition to Lhasa is written by the chief medical officer of the military escort which accompanied Sir Francis Younghusband. There is an historical introduction, and there are diagrams, plans, maps, and illustrations from photographs taken by the author.
“His book is decidedly interesting. It contains a great deal of new matter regarding the country. The author has seen a great deal, but he does not impress us as a man of a scholarly, independent, and broadly cultivated mind.”
“In the matter of authoritative backgrounds, at all events, Col. Waddell’s book on the Lhasa mission and its antecedents is the most complete which has so far appeared.”
“Inferior in literary quality to both Mr. Landon’s ‘The opening of Tibet’ and Mr. Candler’s ‘The unveiling of Lhasa,’ it deals with the subject more broadly and intimately than either.”
“We may therefore accept the statement made in ‘Lhasa and its mysteries’ as an authoritative description, so far as opportunity allowed, of the inner life of the people.”
“He writes with clearness and grace, he has an eye for the picturesque and curious, and he provides a variety of information in which every type of reader may find something to his taste. The only blemish is an occasional tendency to egotism.”
Waddington, Mary Alsop King.Italian letters of a diplomat’s wife.**$2.50. Scribner.
The first part of the book gives an account of a visit to Italy in 1880, just after Monsieur Waddington had resigned the premiership of France, while part 2, Italy revisited, depicts Rome twenty years later, after Monsieur Waddington’s death, and describes a new pope and a new king and queen. The letters give glimpses of society and notables, of state and social functions, of Italian skies and gardens.
“We feel we cannot have too many books like this—the expression of a cultivated, well-bred, cosmopolitan, and always kindly and good-natured mind.”
“The present volume of Madame Waddington’s letters makes a most interesting and intimate history of social life in Italy during the past quarter of a century.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
“The book as a whole, though entertaining, hardly equals its predecessor in interest.”
“They are just such letters as one would like to get if he had a friend at court, personal, chatty and unaffected.”
“The book has its defects. But, after all, what we absolutely demand in a book of this kind is that it shall be interesting; and interesting the book is, and full of the atmosphere of Italy.”
“Mme. Waddington in Italy is not perhaps Mme. Waddington at her best.”
“What the later volume lacks in unity it amply makes up in variety. Madame Waddington writes familiarly, but her books are singularly free from trivialities and gossip, and one looks in vain for anything like malice or scandal.”
“Mme. Waddington’s book is among neither the best nor the worst of its class.”
“The stream of pleasant babble flows along so easily and briskly and vividly that only a veritable churl could refuse to be vastly entertained.”
*Wade, Blanche Elizabeth.Garden in pink.**$1.75. McClurg.
“Best of All” was blessed not only with a fertile imagination but with a husband, “The Other One,” who entered delightedly into all her schemes, and together they turned an old fashioned Italian garden into a pink garden filling it with all the things that bloom pink and gazing at it thru rose colored glasses. Here they and Best of All’s sister, called “The Prevaricator,” because she wrote stories, whiled away much of a happy summer. A dozen garden photographs printed on thin paper and mounted on separate pages, also various border designs drawn by Lucy Fitch Perkins, and printed in pink and green, create a real pink garden atmosphere.
*“A novelty in garden books.”
*“A charming volume.”
Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton (Blanchard).Coming of the white men: stories of how our country was discovered.†75c. Wilde.
This is the first volume in a series known as “Uncle Sam’s old-time stories.” It aims to interest young readers in the beginnings of American history, and to arouse patriotism. The present narrative covers the period from the time when the Norsemen set foot upon our soil down to the establishing of the Maryland colony.
Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton (Blanchard).Ten big Indians.†$1. Wilde.
A companion volume of “Ten little Indians.” This sketch includes the chiefs and leaders of the tribes from which the ten little Indians were drawn. The qualities of the red men and thedifferent periods of American history and different sections of the country are represented while the author shows that thru such means as bravery, oratory, cunning and in a few instances kindness, these braves won power and prominence.
Wagner, Charles.Busy life; or, The conquest of energy; tr. from the French by G: Moorhead. 60c. Ogilvie.
A book of moral teaching intended to instill into the minds of the readers the desire for the real things of life, among which there is none comparable to energy, which is virtue itself, stimulating in us and in others, life, joy, and hope.
*Wagner, Charles.Justice; tr. from the French by Mary Louise Hendee.**$1. McClure.
“‘A disposition to unfairness, bad faith, and evil speaking, is abroad in every field,’ says the author in his preface, ‘and a matter over which men do not contend at daggers drawn, is hard to find.’ To counteract this evil, the little book teaches the lesson of sweet reasonableness and Christian charity.” (Dial.) The contents include: The birth of righteousness; Dominion and voluntary service; Mine and thine; Science and faith; The love of country—Humanity; The churches—The church—Religious justice; Society and the individual social justice; The religious conception of work.
*“Fluent and apparently careful translation. These new chapters contain little that is essentially new to those familiar with the volumes that have preceded.”
Wagner, Charles.My appeal to America; being my first address to an American audience.**50c. McClure.
An appeal for active goodness and the “simple life,” with an introduction by Dr. Lyman Abbott, and notes and appendices. The profits of the book are to go to a fund to furnish a site for a church of which Mr. Wagner is to be the pastor.
“In remarkably lucid English, occasionally quaint, and always naïvely serious, even when expressive of a saving sense of humor.”
Wagner, Charles.On life’s threshold: talks to young people on character and conduct; tr. by Edna St. John.**$1. McClure.
“In talking to young people ... is it necessary to ... be genuine, direct and simple. In this respect these talks are excellent, and can profitably be studied as models by many of our preachers and teachers. The ethical instruction is developed by a process of reasoning instead of being based on dogma and authority, and is not even very definitely Christian, so there ought not to be any objection to the use of the book in the public school of any locality.”—Ind.
“Pastor Wagner’s power lies in the fact that he is not ashamed to put commonplaces in plain language.”
“The volume is a careful guidebook to everyday life.”
“Another little volume of thought-provoking, cheerful philosophy.”
Wagner, Richard.Selections from the music dramas of Richard Wagner; arranged for the piano by Otto Singer. $1.50. Ditson.
A late addition to the “Musician’s library.” The excerpts are not difficult for the amateur and include representative parts of eleven operas from “Rienzi” to “Parsifal.”
“The Wagner book is altogether the most satisfactory collection of excerpts from the works of that musical Titan that we have ever seen. The selection is wise and comprehensive. Mr. Aldrich’s preface is all that such a foreword should be.”
Wagner, Richard.Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck; tr. by W. Ashton Ellis. $4. Scribner.
“The world is indebted to Mathilde Wesendonck for two great achievements—she inspired the composition of ‘Tristan and Isolde,’ and she thereby forced the composer to defer the completion of the ‘Ring des Nibelungen’ until his powers were in their full maturity. This remarkable collection of letters, first published after the death of the lady, which took place in 1902, is another fruit of their relationship. What the nature or that relationship was, we do not propose to discuss.... Its only importance for us consists in its artistic results.”—Lond. Times.
“No lover of the greatest modern master of music should fail to read them.” Jeanette L. Gilder.
“If the work has been performed conscientiously,—that is, if there has been no improper discrimination in the selection from private correspondence, nothing omitted which would tend to develop the real character of the man,—the plan is unobjectionable, even admirable, as it brings the man himself very near to the reader.”
“To Mr. Ashton Ellis’s fashion of translating we cannot altogether reconcile ourselves. The translator, however, deserves the greatest praise for the careful way in which he has annotated the letters and for the interesting dissertations which he has prefixed and appended to them.”
“The peculiarities of Wagner’s style are to a considerable extent reflected in the English version.”
[Mr. Ellis] “produces English prose that is as gnarled as Wagner’s German. It is not often that the inner workings of genius have been so illumined.”
Wakefield, Frank H.Marriage—limited. $1.50. Neale.
The setting of this story is in a future time when a seven year marriage contract is in vogue. This contract may be renewed at its expiration, or the parties to it may form new contracts. No one may marry more than five times, and all children are brought up and educated by the state. The plot concerns a murder and a robbery and some clever detective work, but these things seem commonplace, and it is the unique state of society that is exciting.
Walker, Ernest.Beethoven. $1. Brentano’s.
The third volume in “The music of the masters” series is a Beethoven handbook which gives a sketch, with suggestive motives, of his principal compositions, including choral music, vocal music, stage music, orchestral works,solo instrument music, chamber music, and piano-forte music. The closing chapter gives a composite view of his music as a whole, showing both his creative genius and reflected qualities.
“The author has confined himself to criticism which is often of a very striking and suggestive kind.”
“On the whole one must admit him to be a sane and safe guide and suggestive withal.”
“On the whole, Mr. Walker’s analyses and discussions are enlightened and sympathetic.”
Wallace, Alfred Russel.My life: a record of events and opinion.*$6. Dodd.
“No one would guess this to be the work of an octogenarian.... There is no sign of diminished vigour, whether in the earlier part, which is written almost entirely from memory, or in the latter, which is largely devoted to a trenchant defence of socialism, spiritualism, and other darling fads of his old age. The book may be divided into four sections, which will doubtless appeal with varying force to different readers. First we have boyhood and adolescence—the student; then the famous expeditions to South America and the Malay archipelago—the naturalist and collector; thirdly, the scientific and literary work at home, the intercourse and correspondence with eminent contemporaries—the evolutionist; lastly, the struggle with economic problems of modern life—the socialist and reformer.”—Lond. Times.
“Dr. Wallace has been his own recording angel, and those who peruse the record cannot but pronounce it well and truly written.” W. P. Pycraft.
*“Mr. Wallace’s narrative in other words, can hardly be called a model of conciseness. Still its wonderful candour wins ample forgiveness for its prolixity.”
“He writes with the crystalline simplicity that belongs to a sincere and candid mind, that invests even trivial things with interest, and continues to charm when wit and fancy, unless they be of a very high order, seem faded or forced.”
“While we fully recognize the very extensive variety and importance in many respects of Dr. Wallace’s career we cannot but think he has followed an undesirable precedent in rivalling Spencer’s self-expansiveness. We cannot imagine any reader who will not find the greater part of it worth the reading.”
Wallace, Dillon.Lure of the Labrador wild.**$1.50. Revell.
The account of an exploring expedition into the unknown wilds of Labrador in the summer of 1903. The trip was undertaken by Leonidas Hubbard, jr., who perished from hunger and exhaustion, the author and a half-breed Cree Indian as guide. The story is a pitiful one of hardship and disappointment. The party set out with inadequate provisions, and an insufficient knowledge of the country, and having caught but a glimpse of Lake Michikaman, ragged and starving they were forced to turn back; winter closed in upon them, Hubbard succumbed, and Wallace barely escaped with his life. The story is told simply and graphically, and the author while depicting its horrors admits that he still feels the lure of the wild saying: “The smoke of the camp-fire is in my blood. The fragrance of the forest is in my nostrils. Perhaps it is God’s will that I finish the work of exploration that Hubbard began.” There are a number of illustrations from photographs and three original and accurate maps.
“It is one of the most interesting accounts of exploration we have seen.”
“Seldom has a story of hardship bravely endured been told so movingly.” J. B. G.
“It is a homely and pitiful story of enterprise, disappointment, and starvation. Its manifest moral is that it does not do to start wrong if you would go exploring.”
“It is a wonderfully interesting record, told in a simple and straightforward manner.”
“Presents, in a graphic, literary style, the tragic story.”
“It is a vivid, painful, and admirably written account of an exploring expedition into that inhospitable wilderness.”
Wallace, Sir Donald Mackenzie.Russia.$5. Holt.
An entirely new and much enlarged edition of a work first published in 1877. It has been revised and in great part rewritten, bringing the history of Russia and her people down to May 1905. The noblesse, and the policy of the central government receive adequate treatment, while the story of the lower classes, the traders, parish priests, peasants, burghers, cossacks, and serfs, their life, customs, local government, religion, and the great national movements which affect them, is told in detail and in the light of a full knowledge derived from long residence among them.
“The book has thus been brought up to date, without sacrificing any of its wisdom, or the political insight and the sane and temperate views which have continued for a quarter of a century to give it a leading value.”
“The most important part of the new book consists in the account of the revolutionary movement and in the general considerations contained in the last chapter. Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace writes with real information, and is, alone among the hosts of writers on Russia whose books are just now coming out, to be trusted as a man of authority.”
“It covers a much broader field than M. Ular even thinks of attempting.”
“As a masterly attempt to facilitate one nation’s understanding of another, ‘Russia’ stands in the same class as Mr. Bodley’s ‘France’ and Mr. Bryce’s ‘American commonwealth.’”
“A book of extreme value on a remarkably difficult subject has been rendered invaluable nay, indispensable—for those who wish clearly to understand present conditions and future possibilities in the realm of the Tsar.”
“Almost every subject is treated of in a method in keeping with its nature.”
“Is the finished product of a man who in every respect is competent to deal in a masterly manner with his subject.”
“The work is a large and exhaustive one. It is regarded by many Russians as the best work about their country ever written by a foreigner.”
“Sir Donald Wallace writes of modern parties with a serene impartiality, and a clearness and fulness which are only too rare in works on the subject. We may differ from the author’s conclusions, but we are compelled to respect them; and since he gives his data frankly and fairly, he provides the reader, ifhe be mistaken, with materials for an independent judgment.”
Waller, Mary Ella.Daughter of the rich.†$1.50. Little.
A favorite among young readers whose popularity demands a new edition to which Ellen Bernard Thompson has contributed six full-page illustrations.
Waller, Mary Ella.Sanna.†$1.50. Harper.
“The heroine is the center of an admiring circle of homely Nantucket folk, one of the vivid blossoms that glow in the fresh salt breezes. Each character in the story is distinctly individualized, and humor and pathos mingle in their shrewd talk. Somewhat apart, but always sympathetic with the village people, are the members of the Torrence family, within whose bounds are found the seeds that ripen into tragedy and give a dramatic touch to the well-managed plot.”—Outlook.
“The author’s art falls below her invention. Nevertheless, ‘Sanna’ is a well-written, wholesome, breezy tale.”
“Altogether this is a novel quite above the average in construction and sustained interest.”
*Wallis, Louis.Egoism: a study in the social premises of religion, $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
The author discusses the proposition that “egoism is the only ‘force’ propelling the social machine,” which thesis he demonstrates by evidence drawn from biblical history; he further maintains that the historical criticism of the Bible must be made in the light of sociology; finally, he shows the practical bearing of this on the present social problems.
Walpole, Horace.Letters chronologically arranged and ed. with notes and indices, by Mrs. Paget Toynbee. 16v. ea.*$2; set,*$32. Oxford.
Twelve of these sixteen volumes have been published to date. They contain the letters in as complete form as possible, giving four hundred letters not included in the “Latest edition of collected letters,” and which have never before been printed. There is additional annotation and an exhaustive index. The edition is illustrated by fifty portraits in photogravure, and three facsimiles of original letters.
“It is sufficient to say that there is no indication that the editor has become weary in her work, for the foot-notes still contain ample information and represent much labor.”
“The value of Mrs. Toynbee’s work ... does not lie in fresh discoveries so much as in the patient devotion with which she has sifted and sorted the whole correspondence. The notes ... are unobtrusive, and admirable in clarity and conciseness, and, as editing goes, this collection of letters could not be bettered.”
“It is superfluous to repeat how eminently Mrs. Toynbee’s edition of Walpole overtops all others. To render it supremely enduring it needs but one addition ... a companion volume of annotations. Mrs. Toynbee’s too chary annotation is always pertinent.”
“This edition of Mrs. Paget Toynbee’s is as complete as possible, and otherwise as pleasing and attractive as an edition can be made.”
“If these letters, then, have not all the airy volatility and gay sparkle of Walpole’s earlier days, it is still astonishing how he retains his freshness and wit, and these volumes yield to none in their interest.”
Walpole, Spencer Horatio.History of twenty-five years, 1855-1881. 2v. $10. Longmans.
The author, who held official positions in the war and post-office departments from 1858 to 1899, is the only English writer who has had the advantage of being in active service in Downing street while engaged in historical research. “The better acquainted a student is with the other histories of the middle years of the nineteenth century the greater is his indebtedness to Sir Spencer Walpole for the many little asides in which he introduces new material, based not on books, official or non-official, but on his own personal experience, and on information which he acquired first hand during his long and distinguished career in the British civil service.... His history covers Europe, and to a large extent the United States, as well as the United Kingdom and the over-sea possessions of Great Britain. He cites an authority for every statement he makes; and his authorities, appended as foot-notes, show that there are few sources—British, American or European—on which he has not drawn.... The first hundred pages in the second volume are devoted to the War of the rebellion and to the attitude of England to the Federal and Confederate governments.” (Ind.)
“The style is commonplace and diffuse. At times it is wordy in the extreme. The marshaling of all this material has been excellently managed.”
*Walters, Henry Beauchamp.History of ancient pottery, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman; based on the work of Samuel Birch. 2v.*$15. Scribner.
“The first adequate treatment the history of ancient pottery received was in the two volumes of Dr. Samuel Birch, published in 1857.... Since Birch’s death, in 1885, so much new material has been gathered that a further revision of his work has been demanded.... The results of this revision and extension of Dr. Birch’s work are two sumptuous volumes of considerably more than five hundred pages each, well provided with indexes, and bibliographies.” (Dial). “We have ... in the two volumes seventeen chapters devoted to Greek vases and their decoration, and one chapter devoted to ‘Etruscan and South Italian pottery’; five chapters on Roman pottery, by which is meant the pottery of Italy under the Roman rule; and, finally, brief mention of earthenware found in Britain, Gaul, and Germany, but evidently of the Roman Imperial epoch.... There are sixty-nine plates and many are in color.... There are, moreover, two hundred and fifty text illustrations.”—Nation.
*“Mr. Walters has provided us with an instalment which is likely for many years to prove a most valuable work of reference for those branches of the subject which he includes in his survey. Almost every page attests the care and thoroughness with which published authorities have been consulted.”
Reviewed by Arthur Howard Noll.
*“The new publication is practically a complete summary of everything now known of classic ceramic art, no source of information, English or foreign, having been neglected.”
*“Other and more expensive volumes havesurpassed it in beauty of illustrations; none in its exhaustive and logical treatment of ancient pottery and the true and complete meaning of the fragments which have come down to us.”
*“The defects in these volumes arise principally from the narrow outlook with which they are written. Upon the whole, it is perhaps surprising that the attempt to condense so vast an accumulation of material into the form of a handbook has been so nearly crowned with success; especially as it has been made at a moment when the questions of the early history of the art are yet in solution and cannot be summarised without danger.”
Waltz, Elizabeth Cherry.Ancient landmark.†$1.50. McClure.
A romance of Kentucky which deals with the question of divorce. There is a much-abused heroine, the object of a husband’s violence when the drug habit is upon him, into whose head never entered the idea of divorce. “But Lucien Beardsley arose upon the horizon. A Virginian by birth, a cosmopolitan by education, a man of modern ideas.... Lucien found in the unhappy Dulcie a cousin many times removed, and undertook to champion her cause, to upset the ancient landmark, to establish the new custom of divorce, and to launch the grief-stricken Dulcinea upon a new and glittering sea of happiness.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Mrs. Waltz is a born writer of sensational fiction, and carries her reader triumphantly through scenes that would be intolerable from a less vigorous hand.”
“Many of the personages are drawn with vitality.”
“An exciting story from start to finish.”
Wampum library of American literature; ed. by Brander Matthews.**$1.40. Longmans.
These three volumes form the beginning of a series which when completed will illustrate the development of the various forms of American literature. Each volume treats of a single species, tracing the evolution of this definite form and presenting in chronological sequence typical examples chosen from the writings of American authors born prior to 1850. Volume I, “American short stories,” edited by Charles Sears Baldwin, contains a comprehensive introduction, and selected stories which he divides into two periods, the “tentative” and the “new form.” Under the former are selections from Irving, Austin, Hall, and Pike; under the latter, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Poe, Willis, Kirkland, O’Brien, Hart, Webster, Taylor, Bunner, and Frederic. Volume II, “American literary criticism,” edited by William Morton Payne, deals with the development of the critical spirit in American literature. The introduction shows literary insight and critical ability and ranks with the essays which follow. The essays selected are entirely upon literary themes, and include selections from Dana, Ripley, Emerson, Poe, Ossoli, Lowell, Whitman, Whipple, Stedman, Howells, Lanier, and James. Volume III, “American familiar verse,” edited by Brander Matthews, who is also editing the edition as a whole, contains a, lengthy introduction which defines Familiar verse as—“the lyric of commingled sentiment and playfulness, which is more generally and more carelessly calledvers de société.” A rather catholic choice of authors follows—Freneau, J. Q. Adams, Moore, Irving, Bryant, Halleck, Drake, Whittier, Longfellow, Holmes, Saxe, Lowell, Stoddard, Stedman, Aldrich, and many others.
“Two compilations, which are fitted to serve a good purpose in advance English classes.”
“If the succeeding volumes are as capably edited as the three now published, the series will prove of great value in the historical study of our literature. From the character of these three volumes it is evident that the series when complete will place in their proper proportions the successive steps in the evolution of these distinct literary forms. The one unfortunate feature in the general plan of the library is the arbitrary restriction which prohibits a selection from anylivingAmerican writers whose birth has occurred since December 31, 1850.” W. E. Simonds.
“Thegenreof familiar verse is so well adapted to this particular purpose, and Mr. Matthews has shown such skill in selection, that his own volume will probably bear the test of time as the standard anthology. The value of the illustrative material in the others is more doubtful.” G. R. Carpenter.
Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Mrs. Herbert D. Ward).Trixy. $1.50. Houghton.
This story, which is a dramatic argument against vivisection, has for its heroine Trixy, a performing French poodle, who, barely escaping death on the dissecting table, confronts the accused physician in court. The human interest centers about this young scientist who loses the affections of the woman he loves, and eventually his own life, by his experiments. A young lawyer, an active defender of little dogs and kittens, wins the hand of the girl who could not trust herself to the vivisectionist.
“Clever artist as she is, we are not prepared to say that she has avoided many an ignominious descent into the pathetic.”
“We do not propose to consider it as a story, but as a tract, for that is what it is chiefly in the author’s mind. In this case ... we question whether the charity which she gives to beasts does not make her forget the charity due to human beings. But Mrs. Ward goes so far as to make a superstitious use of natural scenery to enforce her warning against vivisection.”
Ward, H. Marshall.Trees: a handbook of forest botany for the woodlands and the laboratory. 6 vol. ea.*$1.50. Macmillan.
The author has prepared this series as a text-book for all who need a guide to their studies. The text is clear and simple and each volume is provided with diagnostic tables devised for use in the field. The series includes, Birds and twigs; Leaves; Flowers and inflorescences: Fruits and seeds; Seedlings; and The habit and conformation of the tree as a whole.
“The book has evidently been compiled with great care. Its value, then, to the student, forester or other, is beyond question.”
“The book is not only an excellent text-book In forest botany, but is a capital study in pedagogy as well.”
“Is, like the earlier volumes in the series, thoroughly interesting and accurate.”
“The work will be found indispensable to those students who wish to make an expert study of forest botany. At the same time it is expressed in language so clear and devoid of technicalities that the amateur who wishes to know something about our trees and shrubswill find this one of the most useful guides to which he can turn.”