Chapter III: of the book deals with ‘The working child.’ It is probably (6)

=Watson, Edward Willard.= Old lamps and new, and other verse; also, By Gaza’s gate, a cantata. $1. Fisher.

Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

=Dial.= 40: 127. F. 16, ’06. 160w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 152. Mr. 10, ’06. 330w.

=Watson, Esther.= All the year in the garden: a nature calendar. $1. Crowell.

An apt quotation for every day in the year selected from out of door
sentiments of our great poets and teachers.

=Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott.= Midsummer day’s dream. †$1.50. Appleton.

“A delightful bit of romantic foolery.... The sketch is a record of
certain amorous adventures contingent upon an out-of-doors amateur
rendering of the ‘Midsummer night’s dream.’ The principal motive is a
mystery connected with the finding and trailing of a woman’s shoe. In
the course of his search the hero is constrained to make love
pleasantly if somewhat indiscriminately; and there is plenty of chance
in ‘Titania’s glade’ for comfortable philandering. Titania is married
and therefore immune from his attentions, which wander among Hermia,
Helena, and several of the fairies.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“The whimsical tone of the book is so well maintained that all its
absurdities of situation and incident take on an amiable glamour.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 228. S. 13, ’06. 210w.

“In addition to being amusing and cleverly done, the story is written
very gracefully, with a touch of poetic imagination, that, like
everything else in the book is not more than half serious.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 579. S. 22, ’06. 460w.

“The chief criticism that one is inclined to make is that the
situation is dwelt upon a little too long and that the story would
have left a better impression if it had been considerably shortened.”

+ – =Outlook.= 84: 337. O. 6, ’06. 100w.

=Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott.= Twisted eglantine. †$1.50. Appleton.

“Whatever its success may be, this book puts him in the front rank of
living romancers.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 330. S. 9. 590w.

“Mr. Marriott Watson has never given us a finer character-study than
this of Sir Piers.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 40: 17. Ja. 1, ’06. 300w.

=Watson, John (Ian Maclaren, pseud.).= Inspiration of our faith: sermons. **$1.25. Armstrong.

“Somewhat of the same idea, that of ascending in personal Christ-like
life to fellowship with the Father, and thence deriving the help
necessary for the fulfillment of duty, runs thru a series of
twenty-nine sermons by the Rev. John Watson, better known as ‘Ian
Maclaren.’ Each sermon breathes that practical Christianity which has
characterized Ian Maclaren’s fiction and theological writings
alike.”—Ind.

* * * * *

“They have the supreme merit (rare in sermons) of being interesting.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 297. Mr. 10. 90w.

“Strikingly beautiful as the language is, the volume will be prized by
those who desire inspiring and helpful words for their devotional
reading.”

+ =Ind.= 60: 223. Ja. 25, ’06. 80w.

=Lit. D.= 32: 370. Mr. 10, ’06. 1060w.

“Here the ethical and the inspirational are happily blended, as
elsewhere in his writings.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 1040. D. 23, ’05. 190w.

=Watson, William.= Poems; ed. by J. A. Spender. 2v. *$2.50. Lane.

“It constitutes, for the present at least, a definitive edition of Mr.
Watson’s work.”

+ + + =Dial.= 40: 24. Ja. 1, ’06. 60w.

Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

+ + + =North American.= 182: 756. My. ’06. 290w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 121. Ja. ’06. 80w.

=Wayne, Charles Stokes.= Prince to order. †$1.50. Lane.

“To fiction readers, who do not care for the element of probability,
and to whom artificiality is not objectionable, this book will be
enjoyable as it is bright and full of action and excitement if one can
become deeply interested in a story that is wanting in the important
element of probability.”

+ – =Arena.= 35: 331. Mr. ’06. 630w.

=Weale, B. L. Putnam.= Re-shaping of the Far East; with numerous il. from photographs. 2v. **$6. Macmillan.

The author “tells us just as much of the history of the subject as we
need to know, sketching the annals of China in particular from the
earliest times, and then describing in greater detail the commercial
relations of Europe and America not only with China, but also with
Korea and Japan. Relations of journeys into the interior and along the
coasts give a picturesque glimpse of present Far Eastern conditions.
We are shown Sir Robert Hart’s Service at work, the Germans
introducing their characteristic methods at Kiao-chau, Dr. Morrison
watching the Legations through a glass door at Peking, and the Marconi
mast standing ready to signal for help to Ta-ku. There follows a
fairly elaborate history of the Russo-Japanese war, and a severe
criticism of its operations; and we are told finally what the Chinese
are thinking and intending, what Mr. Weale expects the future to bring
forth, and what policy seems to him most likely to serve British
interests. In fact, we have an embarrassing choice of topics which
equally invite discussion.”—Lond. Times.

* * * * *

“Despite some loose history, exaggerated statements, and rather wild
speculations, the work is the best account of twentieth-century China
in existence, and affords useful, though far from infallible hints as
to the possibilities of the next decade in the Far East.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 193. F. 17. 1070w.

“One of the most readable and valuable books which have appeared in
recent years.” John W. Foster.

+ + =Atlan.= 97: 543. Ap. ’06. 180w.

“For a work of undoubted weight, in the sense that it shows throughout
a remarkably intimate acquaintance with the affairs of the East ...
the style is a delight, though style is altogether too big a word to
describe the absolutely nonchalant, personal, pungent way of the
author with his book.” S. S. Trunsky.

+ + =Bookm.= 23: 656. Ag. ’06. 1120w.

“Is by no means a perfect work of its kind, but its indisputable
merits far outweigh the faults which even the most captious critic
could ascribe to it.” Frederick Austin Ogg.

+ + – =Dial.= 40: 317. My. 16, ’06. 2600w.

“Thruout, he shows a lamentable ignorance of American history and
policy.”

+ – =Ind.= 60: 400. F. 15, ’06. 840w.

“Mr. Putnam Weale’s new book is hardly so interesting as his ‘Manchu
and Muscovite.’ It is burdened by a belated account of the early
months of the Russo-Japanese war, is somewhat discursive and would ...
be improved by elimination and condensation.”

+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 623. Ap. 21, ’06. 640w.

“The author, combining the knowledge of the student with the knowledge
of the man on the spot, presents the Far Eastern question exhaustively
in almost every imaginable aspect. In spite of the manner in which the
Russian ‘débâcle’ has upset some of his calculations, his book is the
most valuable of recent contributions to the elucidation of Far
Eastern problems.”

+ + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 438. D. 15, ’05. 1640w.

“In other words, Mr. Weale approaches the Chinese question from a
strictly insular point of view. Yet his books may be highly
recommended. All reserves made, there is nothing better on the Far
Eastern question as it stands at this moment.”

+ + – =Nation.= 82: 79. Ja. 25, ’06. 1180w.

“Comprehensive and luminous discussion of the development of Far
Eastern affairs.” George R. Bishop.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 80. F. 10, ’06. 3230w.

=Outlook.= 84: 40. S. 1, ’06. 310w.

“Mr. Weale has given a complete and yet concise survey of the
situation. His introduction is a historical prologue giving in a few
score pages one of the best ideas of Chinese history that has ever
been presented.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 123. Ja. 27, ’06. 670w.

“By far the most valuable book that has appeared on the East for a
number of years. Nowhere else can so much valuable information be
found in so compact a form.”

+ + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 126. O. ’06. 270w.

“An absorbingly interesting work, including both description and
history.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 253. F. ’06. 240w.

“Mr. Weale has unquestionably collected and marshalled a mass of
information with ability and lucidity, and the result is a
comprehensive survey of the situation outlined with a vigorous but
light, albeit sharply-pointed, pen.”

+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 174. F. 10, ’06. 2020w.

=Webster, Jean.= Wheat princess. †$1.50. Century.

“The conversations are realistic, and the characters individual.”

+ =Critic.= 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 60w.

=Wedmore, Frederick.= National gallery, London: the Flemish school. *$1.25. Warne.

This is the initial volume of a new series to be called the “Art
galleries of Europe.” Mr. Wedmore gives a brief sketch of Flemish art,
and emphasizes its two phases: the Mediæval phase dominated by Jan Van
Eyck and Hans Menlinc, the Renaissance phase, by Rubens and Vandyke.
There are fifty-five reproductions from Haufstaengl photographs.

* * * * *

+ + =Acad.= 70: 557. Je. 9, ’06. 90w.

“Mr. Wedmore’s introduction is not an altogether favourable specimen
of his power as a writer on art. True, it contains some very apposite
criticisms, but these are interspersed with somewhat captious
digressions.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 707. Je. 9. 370w.

+ =Ind.= 61: 943. O. 18, ’06. 110w.

=Int. Studio.= 29: sup. 83. S. ’06. 240w.

“Taken all in all, however, Mr. Wedmore’s paper is not a coherent
dissertation on the Flemish school; it is too itemized, too scrappy,
and too diversified to be of much value as a serious study. As a
collection of notes, however, appended to artists’ names, it will save
the student of the National gallery with Flemish proclivities much
toil and trouble among art encyclopædias.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 508. Ag. 18, ’06. 350w.

+ =Outlook.= 83: 671. Jl. 31, ’06. 50w.

=Wedmore, Frederick.= Whistler and others. *$1.50. Scribner.

Mr. Wedmore’s volume of essays is prefaced by a chapter entitled “A
candid word to the English reader” in which he makes serious charge
against the Englishman as an art critic. Some observations on Venetian
art, Goya, Richard Wilson, Romney, Laurence, Watts, Etty, and others
may be passed over to find the real worth of the book in the papers on
Whistler, Fantin and Boudin, English watercolour, The print collector.
Constable’s English landscapes, and The Norwich school.

* * * * *

“His critical method is not exhaustive but suggestive, and no
inventory of qualities could so stimulate the imagination as one of
his pregnant summaries.”

+ + =Acad.= 71: 31. Jl. 14, ’06. 970w.

“The essays and fragments that make up the volume are in part
reprinted from various periodicals. Some of them seem hardly of
sufficient importance to warrant the more permanent form.”

+ – =Dial.= 41: 285. N. 1, ’06. 180w.

“Perhaps the best piece in the book is the study of Fantin and Boudin.
We wish that some of the other articles had been undertaken in a like
spirit of respect for his subject and respect for his reader.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 202. Je. 1, ’06. 1000w.

“It was, however, an error of taste to pad the volume out with
trifling notes which may have served well enough to introduce a
temporary exhibition or to characterize a single painting.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 99. Ag. 2, ’06. 220w.

“The critic’s survey is characteristically candid and suggestive.”

+ + =Outlook.= 84: 706. N. 24, ’06. 60w.

“If you want the final word upon Whistler, Wedmore has not said it or
thought it.”

– + =Putnam’s.= 1: 226. N. ’06. 670w.

=Weeden, William Babcock.= War government: federal and state, in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Indiana, 1861–1865. **$2.50. Houghton.

Using Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania. and Indiana as typical
states, this study of the civil war period shows that “war government,
federal and state, accomplished most potent and far-reaching results
in the readjustment of the relations between states and nation, and
between the people and the governing body.”

* * * * *

“The style, sometimes eccentric and inclined to digression, is always
keen, pungent and fearless. The characterization of Lincoln is
refreshingly free from conventionality either in praise or blame, and,
with all its partisanship, the book has distinct value.” Theodore
Clarke Smith.

+ – =Atlan.= 98: 705. N. ’06. 380w.

“With his conclusions many will disagree. In some places a
rearrangement of the material might have made the book easier reading;
but the vigorous style and independent judgment of the author are
calculated to enlist one’s interest to the end.”

+ – =Critic.= 49: 189. Ag. ’06. 240w.

“The author’s dislike of those on the other side and his failure to
appreciate their position, his inability to recognize and understand
the principle of evolution in human affairs, and his twentieth century
criticism of nineteenth century deeds, are defects that mar a work
which otherwise might have been of considerable interest and value.”

– + =Dial.= 41: 167. S. 16. ’06. 530w.

“It is entertainingly written, and only the most ‘blasé’ of readers of
Civil war matters can fall to find an engaging interest in its pages.
It reveals moreover, a vast deal of research. But it can hardly be
called a critical study of the relation of federal to state government
during the Civil war.”

+ – =Ind.= 61: 639. S. 13. ’06. 210w.

“The subject is one deserving exhaustive exploration and it is
therefore the more to be regretted that Mr. Weeden has not treated it
with a firmer grasp and an unprejudiced mind.”

– + =Lit. D.= 33: 123. Jl. 28, ’06. 150w.

“The narrative, well fortified by references, is marred by a good deal
of feeble and confused rhetoric.”

+ – =Nation.= 82: 511. Je. 21, ’06. 280w.

“It is an interesting and able work.” Wm. E. Dodd.

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 505. Ag. 18, ’06. 1320w.

“He has undertaken a most interesting task; but his spirit is so
partisan and his style so turgid, discursive, and inaccurate that his
book is of only very limited value.”

– + =Outlook.= 83: 288. Je. 2, ’06. 210w.

“Mr. Weeden’s book should do much to put needed emphasis on a somewhat
neglected aspect of the war.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 280w.

=Weedon, L. L.= Child characters from Dickens. $2.50. Dutton.

There are eighteen stories in this group, including many of the
children’s favorites, among them are those of Harvey and Norah, of
“The holly tree,” Paul Dombey, Johnny and the Boofer Lady, Little
Nell, the Marchioness, Polly, Little Dorrit, etc. Six colored plates
and seventy half-tones “tell their part of the story so well that
every character in the book can be told offhand.” (N. Y. Times.) “His
illustrator, Mr. A. A. Dixon, has distributed good looks to everybody
with the facility of a fairy of the olden time at a christening.”
(Ath.)

* * * * *

=Ath.= 1905, 2: 796. D. 9. 60w.

– =Nation.= 81: 489. D. 14, ’05. 250w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 911. D. 23, ’05. 180w.

“This is a charming book. The tales are skillfully managed. A better
introduction to Dickens could not be.”

+ + =Spec.= 95: 1091. D. 23, ’05. 50w.

=Weikel, Anna Hamlin.= Betty Baird: a boarding-school story; il. †$1.50. Little.

Betty Baird is the daughter of a scholarly Presbyterian minister who
had trained his daughter thru her fourteen years on rather
oldfashioned but thoro lines. Betty is sent to boarding school and,
bright, nimble witted tho she is, she has many trying experiences
among her snobbish, fashionable mates. The story follows her thru her
three years of victories terminating in first honor at graduation.

* * * * *

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 700. O. 27, ’06. 120w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 767. D. ’06. 50w.

=Weinel, Heinrich.= St. Paul, the man and his work; tr. by Rev. G. A. Bienemann and ed. by Rev. W. D. Morrison. *$2.50. Putnam.

Professor Weinel of the University of Jena says in his preface: “This
book forms a necessary supplement to my ‘Jesus in the nineteenth
century,’ for it shows how the Gospel came to make that concordat with
the ‘world’ i. e., with the ancient state and its religion and
morality, which we call ‘church.’ I have tried to show how necessary,
and how solitary this compromise was, by what pure motives it was
animated, but also with what dangers it was pregnant for the Gospel
itself.” Further the author says: “I have wanted to make our people
understand and love Paul.”

* * * * *

“He is a scholar who does not intrude his scholarship but is competent
to speak on St. Paul.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 154. Ag. 11. 840w.

“It is a work of careful thought and thoro scholarship.”

+ + =Ind.= 60: 1433. Je. 14, ’06. 1050w.

+ =Ind.= 61: 1165. N. 15, ’06. 140w.

=Lit. D.= 32: 618. Ap. 21, ’06. 890w.

“His translator, the Rev. G. A. Bienemann, has rendered him into lucid
and finished English form.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 1005. Ap. 28, ’06. 400w.

“His biography does not add very much to our knowledge of the apostle
and his time; it is vigorously written. fairly interesting, drastic in
its criticism, and very anti-Catholic.”

– + =Sat. R.= 102: 372. S. 22, ’06. 400w.

=Weininger, Otto.= Sex and character; authorized tr. from the 6th Germ. ed. *$3. Putnam.

Six editions in the German are to the credit of this volume. There is
a two-fold treatment of the subject, the first dealing with the
physical phase, the second with the psychological. “In his view woman
‘is merely non-moral. She is characterized by shamelessness and
heartlessness.’ Only man has a ‘share, in ontological reality.’ ‘Women
have no existence; and no essence; they are not, they are nothing.’ It
does not surprise us to be told that such a philosopher died by his
own hand at the age of twenty three.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“There is exhibited the most acute and subtle mental play throughout,
but the whole argument is characterized by downright unreasonableness.
There are parts so poor, obscure, illogical, and stupid that they
would not be accepted in a college boy’s essay, and other parts worthy
of Kant or Schopenhauer.” W. I. Thomas.

– – + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 843. My. ’06. 1250w.

“Never before in all our literature has the ultra-masculine view of
woman been so logically carried out, so unsparingly forced to its
conclusion.” Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

– – + =Critic.= 48: 414. My. ’06. 3030w.

– =Lond. Times.= 5: 54. F. 16, ’06. 270w.

“Preposterous charlatanry.”

– =Outlook.= 82: 764. Mr. 31, ’06. 220w.

“It is thus ... as a human document, one unconsciously illustrating
the pathology of adolescent sex and character, even more than
consciously investigating their nature, that this tragic book will
survive, if at all.”

+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 557. My. 5, ’06. 1830w.

=Weir, Irene.= Greek painters’ art. *$3. Ginn.

– =Ath.= 1906. 2: 743. D. 8. 160w.

“Unpretending but most interesting little volume.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 27: 373. F. ’06. 150w.

=Weiss, Bernhard.= Commentary on the New Testament; tr. by George H. Schodde, and Epiphanius Wilson; with an introd. by James S. Riggs. 4v. ea. *$3. Funk.

In these four volumes we have the results of the work of a great
scholar, who has spent over half a century in a study of his subject
which while scientific was tempered by true spiritual insight. The
work is intended not only for students but for those who have not time
for study and desire a better understanding of the scriptures as they
read them. Volume 1, contains the commentary upon Matthew and Mark;
Volume 2, Luke, John and The Acts; Vol. 3, Romans, Corinthians,
Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians; Volume 4,
Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrew, James, Peter, John,
Jude and Revelation.

* * * * *

“Professor Weiss’s concise commentary exhibits his well-known
learning, thoroughness, and conservatism. It is unfortunate that its
English dress was not more carefully prepared.”

+ + – =Bib. World.= 28: 160. Ag. ’06. 20w.

=Weiss, Bernhard.= Religion of the New Testament; tr. from the Germ. by G: H. Schodde. *$2. Funk.

“It must, however, be said with frankness that the work of translation
has not been well done. The book is a very clear presentation of the
general idea which is represented in Harnack’s ‘What is Christianity?’
and, in more extreme form, by Wernle’s ‘Beginnings of Christianity.’”
Irving F. Wood.

+ – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 130. Jl. ’06. 490w.

=Wells, Amos R.= Tuxedo avenue to Water street: the story of a transplanted church. $1. Funk.

The author calls his story a parable, and also, the story of a
possibility, which the united action of God and the people may make a
reality. He tells of a fashionable church which was mysteriously
transplanted in a single night and set up stone on stone among the
poor of Water street. He depicts most vividly the scorn with which the
fashionable members of the old church regard the poor with whom they
are thus brought in contact, and he shows the great good which came of
it all. It is a story so true to human nature that it makes one pause
to think. The author’s character drawing is excellent and he has
softened his moral by introducing into his parable the love story of
the young minister and Irene, the flower of his flock.

* * * * *

+ =Arena.= 36: 222. Ag. ’06. 310w.

“His little book is of more than passing interest as a well-developed
piece of fiction, and it is profoundly significant as a Parable and an
indictment.”

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 158. Ag. 4, ’06. 160w.

“The little book is effective in its way.”

+ – =Outlook.= 83: 817. Ag. 4, ’06. 150w.

=Wells, Amos Russel.= Donald Barton and the doings of the Ajax club. †$1.50. Little.

The “Ajax club” is composed of lusty boys who meet in “The glen” and
plan adventures worthy of their honored Greek hero. They do battle
against a band of disreputable village boys and win the commendation
of the townspeople.

* * * * *

“Though there is the highest intent in this, the author has somehow
missed the mark.”

– =Nation.= 83: 484. D. 6, ’06. 170w.

=Wells, Carolyn.= At the sign of the sphinx. $1. Duffield.

Miss Wells’ fancy-juggling has produced one hundred and twenty rhymed
riddles to which are appended answers.

* * * * *

=Dial.= 41: 287. N. 1, ’06. 30w.

“Is marked by the same cleverness that is always characteristic of
this writer.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 1399. D. 13, ’06. 210w.

+ =Nation.= 83: 440. N. 22, ’06. 90w.

“Generally her mood is playful and her ingenuity is always equal to
the task she sets for it. As a general thing, her touch is becomingly
light and she treats her syllables with respect. Sometimes the enigma
is still a bit enigmatical after one knows the answer.”

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 692. O. 20, ’06. 190w.

=Wells, Carolyn.= Dorrance doings; il. †$1.50. Wilde.

Another chapter in the lives of the wide-awake Dorrances which is
really a sequel to the “Dorrance domain.” The inventive ability of the
quartette and their energy in executing have suffered no diminution
since they first made their bow to young readers.

* * * * *

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 711. O. 27, ’06. 120w.

“Written in a rather perfunctory manner—lacking in charm and
freshness.”

– + =Outlook.= 84: 792. N. 24, ’06. 50w.

=Wells, Carolyn.= Whimsey anthology. **$1.25. Scribner.

“A whimsey, Miss Wells explains, is ‘a whim, a freak, a capricious
notion, an odd device.’ Her new book contains nearly 300 selections
from the poets old and new.... Here we have famous wheezes touching
the eccentricities of the English language, typographical frenzies in
which the compositor shapes the poem as nearly as possible like the
object it treats of.... Alphabetical nonsense ... acrostics and
lipograms, alliterative efforts, enigmas and charades, macaronic
poetry, travesties, certomes, (which are made up of assorted lines
from divers poems,) and palindromes are here in rich profusion.”—N. Y.
Times.

* * * * *

+ =Ind.= 61: 756. S. 27, ’06. 410w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 580. S. 22, ’06. 740w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, 06. 140w.

+ =Outlook.= 84: 338. O. 6. ’06. 50w.

=World To-Day.= 11: 1221. N. ’06. 50w.

=Wells, Herbert George.= Future in America: a search after realities. **$2. Harper.

America’s social, economic, and material phases furnish conditions for
objective scrutiny which any American would do well to observe. Mr.
Wells finds the note of a “fatal, gigantic, economic development, of
large prevision and enormous pressures” uppermost and invincible. His
range of observations is broad, covering the main representative
cities of America, his insight ready to cope with the peculiarly
American conditions, and his comments virile and convincing.

* * * * *

“‘When the sleeper wakes,’ for example, is an astonishing caricature
of the inordinate individualism of the American sort. ‘The future in
America,’ a sober study of the same subject, is, we think, below it in
insight as well as in effectiveness. Mr. Wells’s book is written
rather in a mood of despondency.”

– =Acad.= 71: 544. D. 1, ’06. 1360w.

“His lucid and discriminating description of the present in America is
probably worth more than his intended prophecy of the future of
America would have been, had he ventured to write it.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 614. N. 17. 370w.

“His is a book which will be criticised, but it will be read, and no
reader will fail to gain from it a broader view of the great
world-power with its vast opportunities and inequalities, its
contradictions and aspirations, its towering wealth, and its
suffering, which Mr. Wells has analyzed in this book.” James Wellman.

+ – =Harper’s Weekly.= 50: 1898. D. 29, ’06. 1810w.

“He has brought to the study of the social, economical, and material
problems now confronting us an insight rarely found in an Englishman,
and has given lucid expressions to certain ideas concerning the future
which have been vaguely stirring in the national consciousness.”

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 814. D. 1, ’06. 240w.

“A volume, that more than any other book I know of picks out and
co-ordinates the tendencies and conditions that are really shaping the
American future, disencumbers them from the misleading obstruction of
detail, and displays them with that spaciousness, that fervent
clarity, which Mr. Wells commands so easily.” Sidney Brooks.

+ + =Living Age.= 251: 565. D. 1, ’06. 2590w.

“He has struck some nails on the head that have, perhaps, never been
struck before—at least with so emphatic a hammer.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 537. D. 20. ’06. 1540w.

“To us, Mr. Wells’s hasty observations of American life seem only
dull. It is frequently interesting. It is generally disparaging. It is
often inaccurate.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 758. N. 17, ’06. 150w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 760. D. ’06. 140w.

“The prophesying is hedging, vague, indeterminate. Probably a fairer
book about America has never been written.”

+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 581. N. 10, ’06. 1630w.

“The book is illuminating in the fullest sense, a criticism not only
of America, but of all civilised society, and it is written in a style
which is always attractive and rises now and then to uncommon beauty
and power. Though we endorse his demand for reform in many directions,
we are bound to condemn his frequent exaggerations, the shrillness,
nay feverishness, of his criticism, and his want of a sense of
proportion. He says many true things about the United States, but his
picture as a whole is false.”

+ – =Spec.= 97: 683. N. 3, ’06. 2320w.

=Wells, Herbert George.= In the days of the comet. †$1.50. Century.

A young middle-class Englishman loves a girl who elopes with the son
of a landed proprietor. The outraged suitor pursues the couple, bent
upon murder and suicide. Then the comet intervenes. It strikes the
earth and diffuses a trance-producing vapor. When the world wakens
there are no longer passions and rivalries. At this point the author
works out a state of socialistic reform characterized by brotherhood
principles. The hero finds love an impersonal thing with none of the
old proprietary limitations. Woman to him becomes the “shape and color
of the divine principle that lights the world,” and whether wife or
friend he may love her without reproach.

* * * * *

“An earnest and exceedingly interesting book.”

+ =Acad.= 71: 266. S. 15, ’06. 180w.

“Is far more than an interesting romance written in the fine literary
style that marks the works of this popular imaginative novelist.”

+ =Arena.= 36: 683. D. ’06. 380w.

“It remains as a whole a fine testimony to the imagination and
intellect of one of the most original thinkers of the day.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 362. S. 29. 640w.

=Current Literature.= 41: 700. D. 06. 880w.

“Regarded as an argument for socialism ... it is a very weak one.”

– =Ind.= 61: 1053. N. 1, ’06. 1080w.

“Perhaps it is not the best book Mr. Wells has written. It is in
reality no more than a brilliant piece of descriptive writing. But no
reader can fail to be touched by the picture of the glorious life that
awaits mankind after some great change.”

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 220w.

=Lond. Times.= 5: 314. S. 14, ’06. 580w.

+ =Nature.= 75: 124. D. 6, ’06. 440w.

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 719. N. 3, ’06. 200w.

“As a story pure and simple, it falls far below his ‘War of the
worlds.’”

– =Outlook.= 84: 582. N. 3, ’06. 230w.

=Sat. R.= 102: 365. S. 22, ’06. 1560w.

+ – =Spec.= 97: 496. O. 6, ’06. 1230w.

=Wells, Herbert George.= Kipps: the story of a simple soul. †$1.50. Scribner.

“Displaying an almost Dickens-like gift for the portrayal of eccentric
traits and types of character.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 40: 17. Ja. 1. ’06, 350w.

=Edinburgh R.= 203: 66. Ja. ’06. 2920w.

=Living Age.= 248: 726. Mr. 24, ’06. 2920w. (Reprinted from
Edinburgh R.)

=Wells, Herbert George.= Modern Utopia. *$1.50. Scribner.

“Culling over the literature of 1905, I should place at the head of
works of the first-class ‘A modern utopia.’” Winthrop More Daniels.

+ =Atlan.= 97: 840. Je. ’06. 710w.

Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.

+ – =Dial.= 40: 296. My. 1, ’06. 250w.

=J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 581. N. ’06. 270w.

=Wendell, Barrett.= Temper of the 17th century in English literature. **$1.50. Scribner.

“We must thank Professor Wendell for the pleasant, if slightly exotic,
prose of this thoughtful and inspiring volume. The fly in the amber is
the continual use of the word ‘elder.’”

+ – =Spec.= 97: sup. 468. O. 6, ’06. 860w.

=Wertheimer, Edward de.= Duke of Reichstadt. **$5. Lane.

“The general reader, for whom this handsome volume is evidently
intended, will find that the events and persons in the life of this
son of Napoleon stand out sharp, clear, and interesting. Some errors
have slipped into the translation. This book with its good index and
illustrations is the best on the subject.” Sidney B. Fay.

+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 662. Ap. ’06. 860w.

=Critic.= 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 120w.

“Is essentially an historical study, not a mere collection of gossip
and rumor.”

+ =Dial.= 40: 21. Ja. ’06. 360w.

+ =Sat. R.= 101: 113. Ja. 27, ’06. 1150w.

=Wesselhoeft, Mrs. Elizabeth Foster (Pope) (Lily F.).= Ready, the reliable. †$1.50. Little.

Thru the influence of a little child a wealthy, crusty, bachelor uncle
learns the great lesson of love and opens his heart to the needs of an
overworked mother and her three responsible little ones. Ready, a
befriended street dog, is so important a factor in the tale that he
has appropriated the title.

* * * * *

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 90w.

“When it comes to one part of a story dealing with humans and the
other part giving us the thoughts and conversations of cats and dogs
... we think a literary license is taken that is not warranted by the
results obtained.”

– =R. of Rs.= 34: 764. D. ’06. 50w.

=Westermarck, Edward Alexander.= Origin and development of the moral ideas. 2v. v. 1. *$3.50. Macmillan.

“A multitude of curious facts concerning the crude institutions of
early times and savage tribes awaits the general reader of these
pages. About one-fourth of the volume is concerned with homicide, both
in general and in its varying forms down to feticide. The philosophic
student finds what he has a right to expect from such an investigator
... acute insight and discriminating judgment in tracing the evolution
of moral ideas.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“We have drawn attention to a few points in which Dr. Westermarck has
seemed to us unconvincing. We have intended this only as the criticism
which makes appreciation significant. And for the book as a whole—for
its learning, its open-mindedness, its catholicity, of interest—we
have the warmest appreciation.”

+ + – =Acad.= 70: 521, Je. 2, ’06. 2520w. (Review of v. 1.)

“Westermarck’s great strength ... consists in his ability to assemble
materials, and if he has a weakness, it is on the psychological side.”
W. I. Thomas.

+ + – =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 127. Jl. ’06. 330w. (Review of v. 1.)

“Even suppose, however, certain shortcomings on the side of pure
theory, this book remains an achievement unsurpassed in its own kind,
a perpetual monument of the courage, the versatility, and the amazing
industry of its author.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 692. Je. 9. 1820w. (Review of v. 1.)

“It may be partly owing to this special study, but largely no doubt
also to a remarkably sympathetic and candid turn of mind that Dr.
Westermarck presents this heterogeneous mass of evidence with so much
understanding, and avoids those hasty generalizations and those
uncomprehending judgments of alien races that so frequently
characterize many writers, even among those who have dwelt long among
the people they describe.”

+ + – =Ind.= 61: 997. O. 25, ’06. 1170w. (Review of v. 1.)

“The mass of information included in these chapters is wonderful. The
use which Dr Westermarck makes of it, I have no pretensions to
criticise. At any rate, everyone who reads this volume will look
forward with impatience to the next.” J. Ellis McTaggart.

+ + – =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 125. O. ’06. 1140w. (Review of v. 1.)

“Exceptionally wide reading and a faculty of lucid arrangement in
dealing with masses of detail are the necessary equipment for such a
task, and to these Dr. Westermarck adds a four years’ residence among
the country population of Morocco.”

+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 250. Jl. 13, ’06. 740w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ + – =Nature.= 74: 377. Ag. 16, ’06. 1320w. (Review of v. 1.)

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 180. Mr. 24, ’06. 250w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)

“Although this massive work is elaborately analytical and critical, it
is none the less interesting.”

+ + =Outlook.= 82: 1005. Ap. 28, 06. 250w. (Review of v. 1.)

=Sat. R.= 101: 821. Je. 30, ’06. 1260w. (Review of v. 1.)

=Westrup, Margaret.= Young O’Briens. †$1.50. Lane.

“A family of undisciplined young people from the wilds of Ireland,
thrust for many months upon the society of a Scotch spinster aunt in a
squalid little house in London, suggests a situation which might well
draw tears from a stone.” (Ath.) “The transplanting is a hard trial
for all of them, and not less trying at times to the aunt. The humor
of some of the episodes is delightful.” (Critic.)

* * * * *

“Makes an enjoyable afternoon’s reading, but from a literary point of
view does not begin to compare with ‘Helen Alliston’” Amy C. Rich.

+ =Arena.= 36: 218. Ag. ’06. 330w.

“The narrative ... is told with much humor and not a little pathos,
but at too great length.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 792. Je. 30. 180w.

“Both young and old will enjoy this entertaining account of the doings
of four Irish young folk.”

+ =Critic.= 49: 190. Ag. ’06. 100w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 375. Je. 9, ’06. 830w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 170w.

“The book is too long, but the high spirits of the family carry the
reader on.”

+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 243. Ag. 25, ’06. 290w.

=Weyman, Stanley John.= Chippinge Borough. †$1.50. McClure.

“Mr. Weyman’s latest romance has for its background the passing of the
Reform bill of 1832. No novelist is more conscientious in his
treatment of historical events, and the picture he presents of the
fierce struggle between the old governing class and the advocates of
the ‘People’s bill’ is singularly faithful and vivid.... Into this
political struggle he has successfully woven a romantic story.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“It is wholesome, mediocre work, and will delight Mr. Stanley Weyman’s
immense number of readers.”

+ =Acad.= 71: 421. O. 27, ’06. 130w.

“Is to be numbered among the best of Mr. Weyman’s books.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 613. N. 17. 180w.

“Novels that urge you along with them as ‘Chippinge’ does are not so
common that you can afford to quarrel with the means by which they do
it.”

+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 377. N. 9, ’06. 440w.

“The chief defect of the book is its length. Good as it all is, the
temptation to skip, soon becomes overpowering.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 835. D. 1, ’06. 640w.

“Rarely does one find a semi-historical subject treated so
dramatically and with such intense personal interest.”

+ + =Outlook.= 84: 711. N. 2, ’06. 150w.

“It is not for its tale however that the book may be commended. The
interest of the book is in its atmosphere. It renders admirably the
spirit and sentiment.”

+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 585. N. 10, ’06. 440w.

“A most enjoyable story as well as a deeply interesting study of a
great struggle.”

+ + =Spec.= 97: 731. N. 10, ’06. 790w.

=Weyman, Stanley John.= Starvecrow farm. †$1.50. Longmans.

“This is by no means the best of Mr. Weyman’s novels, but it has a
considerable interest nevertheless.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 40: 17. Ja. 1, ’06. 170w.

“Mr. Weyman’s atmosphere is charmingly true; the story that he has to
tell is more than ordinarily worth telling.”

+ =Reader.= 7: 563. Ap. ’06. 210w.

=Wharton, Edith Newbold (Jones).= House of mirth. †$1.50. Scribner.

“For all its brilliancy, ‘The house of mirth’ has a certain
shallowness; it is thin. At best, Lily can only inspire interest and
curiosity.” Mary Moss.

+ =Atlan.= 97: 52. Ja. ’06. 630w.

“It is Mrs. Wharton’s great achievement, in a book where all is fine,
that she makes us see and sympathize with the true distinction in a
woman who on the surface has little else than beauty and charm.” E. E.
Hale, jr.

+ + + =Bookm.= 22: 364. D. ’05. 1190w.

=Critic.= 48: 463. My. ’06. 260w.

“It is a story elaborated in every detail to a high degree of
refinement, and evidently a product of the artistic conscience. Having
paid this deserved tribute to its finer characteristics, we are bound
to add that it is deficient in interest.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ – =Dial.= 40: 15. Ja. 1, ’06. 720w.

Reviewed by Charles Waldstein.

=North American.= 182: 840. Je. ’06 and 183: 125. Jl. ’06. 5670
+ 4890w.

Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

+ + =North American.= 182: 922. Je. ’06. 400w.

“The book is one of the few novels which can claim to rank as
literature.”

+ + + =Sat. R.= 101: 209. F. 17, ’06. 400w.

=Wharton, Henry Marvin.= White blood; a story of the South. $1.50. Neale.

The natural ingratitude and inability of the negro to rise to the
level of the white man forms the motif of this story written for the
purpose of proving that “white blood must rule.” A love story with a
southern setting imparts an interest to the much mooted question.

What would one have?: a woman’s confession. *$1. West, J. H.

“An essentially New England temperament is revealed in this
‘confession.’ ... The supposed author is a plain woman of the middle
class, brought up on a farm with few opportunities. She has so many
sorrows and by them she learns what seems to her the meaning of
life.”—Critic.

* * * * *

“The tone of the book is strongly religious; it is at least free from
the morbid taint usually to be found in revelations of a similar
character, and doubtless it will make a strong appeal to persons of a
type of mind similar to that of the ‘woman’ supposed to make the
‘confession.’”

+ =Critic.= 49: 190. Ag. ’06. 130w.

“There are doubtless countless readers who will find some sort of
spiritual consolation in the book, and mental edification, too, in its
appreciation of easily accessible literature.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 340. My. 26, ’06. 180w.

“Is manifestly genuine and written with an earnest desire to help
others.”

– =R. of Rs.= 34: 127. Jl. ’06. 90w.

=Whates, H. R.= Canada, the new nation. **$1.50. Dutton.

“Mr. Whates ... went to Canada as a steerage passenger, posed as an
emigrant, and made actual trial of the difficulties which confront an
actual settler. In this way he met Canadians of every type and class
and had every chance of learning their real views. He travelled over
much of the continent, selected a homestead area in the wheatlands of
the North-west, and returned after five well-spent months with a
knowledge of the land which few could acquire in as many years. The
result is a book which is partly a record of travel, partly a most
practical guide to the intending settler, and partly a careful and
sympathetic study of Canadian political thought.”—Spec.

* * * * *

“Mr. Whates is a little wild in his emigration scheme, and appears in
some passages to upset himself.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906. 1: 699. Je. 9. 740w.

Reviewed by Lawrence J. Burpee.

+ + =Dial.= 41: 278. N. 1, ’06. 690w.

“The French element in Canadian life receives somewhat less attention
than it deserves.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 313. O. 11, ’06. 450w.

– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 606. S. 29, ’06. 690w.

“He has performed his task with a singularly open mind, utterly free
from the bias which so often renders valueless the observations of
traveling Englishmen.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 436. D. 15, ’06. 1200w.

“An admirable book which we have read with keen enjoyment. Mr. Whates
writes with grace and distinction, he has keen powers of observation,
and the tolerant humorous outlook of the true traveller.”

+ + =Spec.= 97: 95. Jl. 21, ’06. 1460w.

=Wheat, Mrs. Lu.= Third daughter: a story of Chinese home life. $1.50. Mrs. Lu Wheat, 910 W. 8th st., Los Angeles, Cal.

“Ah Moy, the third daughter of a good family, is the central figure in
an idyllic picture of a Chinese home. This is at length broken up by
the dire calamities, which give occasion for the display of high
qualities of character, but bring Ah Moy to a tragic end. Chinese
customs, the position of women, foot-binding, sex-morality, the
Boxers, the traffic in slave-girls, their importation hither, and the
efforts of missionaries to thwart it, make up the rapidly shifting
scene.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“An extremely interesting and well-written picture of Chinese
home-life in a high-caste family.” Amy C. Rich.

+ =Arena.= 36: 218. Ag. ’06. 250w.

+ =Critic.= 48: 477. My. ’06. 80w.

“Writes in large sympathy with whatever she has seen that is
attractive and worthy. Concerning Christian missionaries there she has
not taken equal pains to inform herself correctly.”

+ – =Outlook.= 82: 619. Mr. 17, ’06. 130w.

=Wheeler, Everett Pepperell.= Daniel Webster, the expounder of the Constitution. **$1.50. Putnam.

“A convenient manual for any one who wishes to get in a small compass
a view of Webster’s career as expounder.”

+ =Nation.= 82: 55. Ja. 18, ’06. 340w.

=Wheeler, W. H.= Practical manual of tides and waves. *$2.80. Longmans.

The principal part of Mr. Wheeler’s work is devoted to “as practical
an account as possible, free from all mathematical demonstration of
the action of the sun and moon in producing the tides: and of the
physical causes by which the tides are affected after their
generation, and of their propagation throughout the tidal waters of
the earth.” (Nature.) He further deals with wave phenomena in a manner
to be useful to practising engineers.

* * * * *

“A perusal of this work will convince any reader that the entire
discussion of tides and tidal phenomena has been undertaken by one
familiar with the subject, both practically and theoretically, and
influenced by genuine love for the work. As a result the author has
produced a valuable practical manual of tides and waves which should
be found in the library of every one interested in these subjects.” D.
D. Gaillard.

+ + + =Engin. N.= 56: 49. Jl. 12, ’06. 1620w.

“On the whole, Mr. Wheeler has succeeded in the object he had in view,
and has ‘produced a handbook that will be of interest and practical
service to those who have neither the time nor the opportunity of
investigating the subject for themselves.’”

+ + =Nature.= 74: 218. Jl. 5, ’06. 1400w.

=Whelpley, James Davenport.= Problem of the immigrant. *$3. Dutton.

“A most convenient handbook for reference, supplying the student with
a mass of materials not elsewhere available in one language or in any
sort of connected form.” Frederic Austin Ogg.

+ + =Dial.= 40: 259. Ap. 16, ’06. 570w.

+ =Outlook.= 83: 577. Jl. 7, ’06. 400w.

=Whiffen, Edwin T.= Samson marrying, Samson at Timnah, Samson Hybistes, Samson blinded: four dramatic poems. $1.50. Badger, R: G.

“The poetic impulse is hardly sufficient in the dialogue to overcome
its tedious length and there are few beautiful or splendid passages to
break the monotony of the diction.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 18. Ja. 13. ’06. 210w.

=Whitcomb, Selden Lincoln.= Study of a novel. $1.25. Heath.

It is not with the science of the novel but with certain fixed values
of material and of form that Mr. Whitcomb’s analysis deals. He shows
the laudable and practical work of novel dissection to be a necessary
part of the teaching of literature. He discusses external structure,
consecutive structure, plot, the settings, the “dramatis personae,”
characterization, subject-matter, style, the process of composition,
the shaping of forces, influence of a novel, comparative rhetoric and
æsthetics, and general aesthetic interest.

* * * * *

“As an attempt to break ground in a comparatively uncultivated field
the book is commendable. The writer has got together a good deal of
material where it can be found when wanted.”

+ – =Ind.= 61: 252. Ag. 2, ’06. 150w.

“In its own chosen field this book is exceedingly thorough and
instructive.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 910. Ap. 21, ’06. 110w.

“Is really a dissection, diagrammatically set forth, of a number of
the great novels in English.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 60w.

=White, Frederick M.= Slave of silence. †$1.50. Little.

The Royal Palace hotel, London, is in this complicated story made the
center of a series of strange happenings which begin when Sir Charles,
who is marrying his daughter to a rich brute to save his own financial
honor, is found dead in his bed at the close of the ceremony. Then
follows the disappearance of his body, and the series of adventures
which his daughter, her old lover, and their friend Perington
encounter when they trace the thieves to a house in Audley place which
is full of electrical surprises. Diamonds of fabulous value and
certain ruby mine concessions in Burmah complicate the plot, but at
last Sir Charles reappears alive, his daughter is left a widow at an
auspicious moment for her lover, and the slave of silence is released
from allegiance to the crippled villain who is her brother, and
marries the faithful Perrington.

* * * * *

“There is a suggestion of occultism from the East, which, serving no
purpose in the plot, seems a little superfluous, but for genuine
entertainment one cannot do better than to read this book.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 825. D. 1, ’06. 150w.

=White, Frederick M.= Weight of the crown. $1.50. Fenno.

A story in which plots and counter plots run their brisk course as
Russia makes a tool of the dissipated crowned head of Asturia and
tries to force an abdication. There are two sets of doubles in the
story introduced on the one hand to facilitate, on the other hand to
retard and complicate the movement towards the dramatic climax.

* * * * *

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 110. F. 24, ’06. 220w.

=White, Stewart Edward.= The Pass. *$1.25. Outing pub.

In which Mr. White tells the story of a journey across the high
Sierras made by an explorer, his wife, his guide, their two dogs and
four horses.

* * * * *

“It is the triumph of Mr. White’s enthusiasm and of his ability to put
his facts and his impressions into the right words that what was
encountered and what was seen on the trip is almost as plain on the
printed page as it would have been to you or me had we taken the trip
with him.” Churchill Williams.

+ + =Bookm.= 24: 376. D. ’06. 1270w.

“It is told simply in a style as crisp as mountain air.” May Estelle
Cook.

+ =Dial.= 41: 387. D. 1, ’06. 180w.

+ =Ind.= 61: 1234. N. 22, ’06. 160w.

“Like most of Mr. White’s books ‘The Pass’ is very agreeable reading
indeed, soothing, but not exciting.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 685. O. 20, ’06. 770w.

+ =Outlook.= 84: 532. O. 27, ’06. 80w.

=White, William Allen.= In our town. †$1.50. McClure.

Thirteen stories made up from happenings observed by the editor of a
Western newspaper. “He draws humorously convincing portraits of the
people of the town, the town millionaire and the town drunkard, the
smart set and those who try to be smart, the literary crowd that
laughs at them and envies them for their superior culture. But it is
not all humorous. The trail of Jim Nevison, the black sheep and
‘desert scorpion,’ is followed to the end and the career of Sampson, a
good fellow ‘and yet a fool,’ is graphically outlined by Colonel
Alphabetical Morrison.” (Pub. Opin.)

* * * * *

“Read at intervals it will be found quite entertaining, but it
decidedly is not a book for steady perusal.”

+ – =Lit. D.= 83: 124. Jl. 28, ’06. 90w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.

“A good and wholesome book ... that may serve its best purpose in
showing the American people themselves just what they are in this very
hour.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 450. Jl. 14, ’06. 250w.

+ =Outlook.= 83: 91. My. 12, ’06. 120w.

“He may not have made great stories but he has put into his sketches
the stuff out of which great stories are made.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 604. My. 12, ’06. 200w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 756. Je. ’06. 60w.

“Every newspaper man has his recollections, but few of them can give
them with such an artistic blending of pathos and humor as he has.”

+ + =World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 170w.

=Whiteing, Richard.= Ring in the new. †$1.50. Century.

London and its awful problems of labor and poverty is the theme of
this bitterly real study of “the other half,” thru which there ever
runs a note of hope. Prue at twenty, penniless, unskilled, tho gently
born and bred, casts herself into the maelstrom of London in a pitiful
attempt to earn a living, and there realizes her own helplessness and
all but goes down before the overwhelming fear of it, clinging for
comfort to the mongrel dog she can ill afford to keep. The people whom
she meets in the course of her plucky career as an incompetent working
girl. Sarah the charwoman, Laura, a gem engraver, Leonard the young
editor of The branding-iron, a journal of the back streets, and all
the others, interest us not so much as individuals as parts of a
struggling whole.

* * * * *

“This is the most important romance of recent months dealing with
social progress. The author is a finished writer, a scholar skillful
with the use of words. This is a work that we can heartily recommend
to all lovers of human progress and social advance.”

+ + =Arena.= 36: 682. D. ’06. 950w.

“The darker side of the picture, as seen by his heroine during her
terrible initiation into the struggle for existence, is presented with
power, but also with commendable sobriety and restraint.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 633. My. 26. 280w.

“He is earnestly, even angrily intense with the sincerity of his
motive. And his motive the noblest of all, is the brotherhood of man.”
Richard Duffy.

+ =Bookm.= 24: 276. N. ’06. 670w.

“The style is somewhat Meredithian—brilliant, suggestive, prismatic,
but oftentimes blinding through an excess of nervous energy that
entices its possessor from a consistent point of view. As a
performance in fiction this book hardly ranks with the same author’s
‘No. 5 John street.’”

+ – =Lit. D.= 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 270w.