Chapter III: of the book deals with ‘The working child.’ It is probably (7)

“A story that flashes with wit, glows with indignation, and beams with
the steady light of an unshakable hope.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 158. My. 4, ’06. 390w.

“‘Ring in the new’ cannot but compel the absorbed interest of its
readers, but more than this, it is worthy the writing and the reading,
because it is a voice for the voiceless, because it needs must have
its share in bringing about a social condition wherein at least no
‘evil is wrought by want of thought.’ Such a book deserves to be held
high above the flood of ordinary fiction, in that its appeal is not to
anything less than the noblest elements of character.” M. Gordon Pryor
Rice.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 596. S. 29, ’06. 1930w.

“The most vivid individual in the book is Sarah, the charwoman. The
weakest parts of the story are the extracts from ‘The branding iron.’”

+ – =Outlook.= 84: 533. O. 27, ’06. 210w.

“The charm of Mr. Whiteing’s narrative is greatly enhanced by his
mastery of the art of presentation. He writes with a most engaging
ease, preserving a happy mean between pedantry and looseness,—indeed,
the impression created is curiously like that of listening to a
brilliant talker.”

+ =Spec.= 96: 717. My. 5, ’06. 880w.

=Whiting, Lilian.= Florence of Landor. **$2.50. Little.

“In this fascinating work Lillian Whiting is seen at her best.”

+ + =Arena.= 35: 444. Ap. ’06. 600w.

“So far as Landor is concerned, the more valuable parts of Miss
Whiting’s volume are those containing the reminiscences of his young
American friend Miss Kate Field, who saw a good deal of him during the
last four or five years of his long life.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 886. D. 30. 1120w.

“It contains some new and interesting anecdotes and a few good
illustrations.”

+ – =Atlan.= 97: 558. Ap. ’06. 370w.

+ =Ind.= 60: 456. F. 22, ’06. 420w.

“It is not, to be sure, one of those that invite perusal at a single
sitting. On the contrary, the best enjoyment will be derived through
desultory browsing.”

+ =Lit. D.= 32: 171, F. 3, ’06. 270w.

“Without giving any but the barest details of the poet’s life, Miss
Whiting brings vividly before us the brilliant circle of choice
intellects, so attached to Landor and to Florence, who ministered to
his later years.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 527. D. 28, ’05. 1820w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 110w.

=Whiting, Lilian.= From dream to vision of life. *$1. Little.

“Optimistic papers in which scientific knowledge and religious fervor
are combined, compose this volume. They are entitled; Thine eyes shall
behold the King in his beauty, The key of the secret, Live in harmony
with the new forces, The incalculable power of the spirit, The
spiritual illumination, All’s love and all’s law, The rose and flame
of life, The glory of summers that are not yet, and To whom the
eternal world speaks.”

=Whiting, Lilian.= Joy that no man taketh from you. **50c. Little.

“It will appeal with special force to those saddened, discouraged,
disappointed ones from which riches have taken wings, or who have been
overcome by still greater calamities.”

+ =Arena.= 35: 103. Ja. ’06. 980w.

=Whiting, Lilian.= Land of enchantment: from Pike’s Peak to the Pacific. **$2.50. Little.

The grandeur and scenic marvels of the great Southwest with its
resources and development of life fill Miss Whiting’s volume. The
wonders of Colorado, both in the Pike’s Peak region and in Denver “the
beautiful,” the surprises of New Mexico with its ruins, traditions and
mines, the magic of Arizona with its petrified forest, and Grand
cañon, and southern California, mild in its sunshine, all compel the
reader to traverse the way under the spell of enchantment.

* * * * *

+ =Dial.= 41: 453. D. 16, ’06. 210w.

=Lit. D.= 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 60w.

“She makes proper copy of excellent material for such a purpose.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 150w.

“The author has gone over well-known ground quite thoroughly, and has
discovered much that is new and picturesque.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 940. D. 15, ’06. 70w.

=Whitney, Caspar.= Jungle trails and jungle people; travel, adventure and observation in the Far East. **$3. Scribner.

“The style, instead of being halting, has the rapid stride of an
expert American journalist, and, in spite of occasional
disfigurements, the author has produced a work of considerable
interest to the general reader, and painted some pictures of Eastern
manners and character unfamiliar to those who live in the smaller
world of the West.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 669. Je. 2. 1180w.

“What he saw and what he did are pleasantly set down with many
illustrations in this handsome volume.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1536. D. 28, ’05. 270w.

“Mr. Whitney conveys to the reader a good deal of the pleasure and
excitement which he himself experienced.”

+ =Spec.= 95: 1128. D. 30, ’05. 500w.

=Whitney, Helen Hay.= Sonnets and songs. **$1.20. Harper.

“Gifted young debutante.” Edith M. Thomas.

+ =Critic.= 48: 271. Mr. ’06. 610w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 30w.

=Whitson, John H.= Justin Wingate, ranchman. †$1.50. Little.

“It is a capital story of the West and well worth the reading.”

+ =Arena.= 35: 334. Mr. ’06. 220w.

=Whittier, John Greenleaf.= Poems; with a biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. $1.25. Crowell.

Uniform with the “Thin paper poets” this volume becomes a student’s
textbook thru its introduction and notes.

Who’s Who, 1906. *$2. Macmillan.

The 1906 volume contains two thousand more biographies than its
predecessor. It contains also the number of a man’s sons and
daughters, his telegraphic address and telephone number and the
registered number of his motor-car.

* * * * *

“The book seems to us to have entirely changed its character since its
inception; but in its present form it is exceedingly useful as a book
of reference.”

– + + =Acad.= 69: 1341. D. 23, ’05. 70w.

“The new detail tends to promote self-advertisement rather than public
utility.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1905. 2: 863. D. 23. 40w.

“The selection of American names is as capricious as ever.”

+ + – =Dial.= 40: 161. Mr. 1, ’06. 60w.

– – – =Ind.= 60: 287. F. 1, ’06. 50w.

+ + + =Int. Studio.= 28: 181. Ap. ’06. 40w.

+ + + =Nation.= 82: 117. F. 8, ’06. 60w.

+ + + =Outlook.= 82: 327. F. 10, ’06. 270w.

+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 822. D. 23, ’05. 80w.

+ + + =Spec.= 95: 1092. D. 23. ’05. 100w.

=Whyte, Rev. Alexander.= Walk, conversation and character of Jesus Christ our Lord. $1.50. Revell.

“Permeated with this moral purpose, these addresses may be classified
as devotional reflections upon the life of Jesus.” Llewellyn Phillips.

+ =Bib. World.= 27: 78. Ja. ’06. 240w.

=Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith) (Mrs. G. C. Riggs).= Rose o’ the river. †$1.25. Houghton.

“The vivid glimpses of life among the lumbermen are the best features
of the book which surely must have made its way on the strength of its
predecessor, ‘Rebecca,’ rather than on its own merits.” Frederic Taber
Cooper.

+ – =Bookm.= 22: 494. Ja. ’06. 200w.

“Is as spontaneous and fascinating in its way as was her ‘Rebecca’ in
another.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 711. N. 25, ’05. 50w.

+ =Reader.= 7: 227. Ja. ’06. 190w.

=Wilcox, Henry S.= Foibles of the bench. $1. Legal literature co., Chicago

The various types found upon the bench in all lands and ages and here
personified and analyzed under such chapter headings as; Egotism,
Courtesy, Concentration, Courage, Decision, Vain display, Corruption,
etc.; in which appear Judge Knowall, Judge Wasp, Judge Doall, Judge
Fearful, Judge Wobbler, Judge Wind, Judge Graft and others, who are
classed under the virtues which they fail to represent. The whole is
breezy and amusing.

* * * * *

“It is excellent work of this character that makes one regret the
carelessness and lack of skill that have ruined what might otherwise
have been a valuable criticism of the Bench.” Frederick Trevor Hill.

+ – =Bookm.= 24: 54. S. ’06. 810w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 877. D. 15, ’06. 150w.

=Wilde, Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills.= De profundis. **$1.25. Putnam.

“This last work of Oscar Wilde’s may be read with deep interest from
many points of view; but it is perhaps most truly remarkable as a
piece of introspective psychology.” Rafford Pyke.

+ =Bookm.= 22: 628. F. ’06. 600w.

“Fantastic his utterances often are, but they are always shrewd,
penetrating, suggestive.”

+ =Nation.= 82: 222. Mr. 15, ’06. 200w.

=Wilde, Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Willis.= Picture of Dorian Gray. **$1.50. Brentano’s.

A new edition of Oscar Wilde’s “psychological masterpiece”, containing
chapters that have never before appeared in any American edition.
Dorian Gray of the beautiful face and black soul presents just the
antithesis of character that fascinated the author’s mind. Love, joy,
sorrow all exist in the vesture of life—so they can be donned or
doffed at pleasure.

* * * * *

“The book is more effective now than when first published because we
know now how true it is.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 219. Jl. 26, ’06. 400w.

=Wildman, Murray Shipley.= Money inflation in the United States: a study in social pathology. **$1.50. Putnam.

A sociological study which “has nothing to do with individual morals,
but is an attempt to explain certain incidents in our National life to
which as a people we cannot point with pride. We are a people with a
financial ‘past,’ and Mr. Wildman sets out to rehabilitate us by
connecting financial vagaries little different from immoralities, with
facts in our National history which show that we were not naturally
bad, but yielded to stress of circumstances and most naturally.”—N. Y.
Times.

* * * * *

“Is well worthy of commendation to the inquiring student.” Frank L.
McVey.

+ + =Dial.= 41: 165. S. 16, ’06. 410w.

“No one has hitherto treated with such detail the economic conditions
underlying the successive movements in favor of cheap money.”

+ + – =Ind.= 60: 399. F. 15, ’06. 150w.

“Although the book is far from controversial in its tone, its reading
will certainly do much to create harmony of opinion on the subject of
sound money. As a study of the formation of opinion on one question it
is very suggestive.” Caroline M. Hill.

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 188. Mr. ’06. 760w.

“Mr. Wildman has written a most ingenious and suggestive apologia for
our financial heresies of the period he selected.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 78. F. 10. ’06. 660w.

“Both his method and his reasoning are ingenious, and although it
seems to us that he presses a hypothesis to an extreme, we have found
his little treatise singularly stimulating.”

+ – =Outlook.= 82: 616. Mr. 17. ’06. 430w.

=Wiley, Sara King.= Alcestis and other poems. **75c. Macmillan.

+ =Ind.= 60: 49. Ja. 4, ’06. 150w.

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 7. Ja. 6, ’06. 360w.

Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

+ + =North American.= 182: 753. My. ’06. 270w.

=Wilkins, William Henry.= Mrs. Fitzherbert and George IV. **$5. Longmans.

“There is no great addition to historical knowledge in Mr. Wilkins’s
story of Mrs. Fitzherbert and George IV.” A. G. Porritt.

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 659. Ap. ’06. 510w.

+ =Cath. World.= 82: 694. F. ’06. 2480w.

“He is just to George IV., and gives besides an excellent picture of
the period.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 380. Ap. ’06. 140w.

+ =Dial.= 40: 202. Mr. 16, ’06. 300w.

+ =Ind.= 60: 223. Ja. 25, ’06. 640w.

“It must be said that Mr. Wilkins, though a conscientious searcher and
worker, is here rather an apologist than an historian.”

+ – =Nation.= 82: 350. Ap. 26, ’06. 1510w.

“Mr. Wilkins is too much of an advocate to be a wholly convincing
historian and there are signs that he has written in some haste. He
deserves full credit for the tact, sensibility, and good taste with
which he has performed it.”

+ + – =Outlook.= 81: 1084. D. 30, ’05. 310w.

=Wilkinson, Florence.= Far country: poems. **$1. McClure.

“Miss Wilkinson ... is before all, a romanticist, the narrative and
ballad are her predestined forms, and she handles them with all the
freedom of a native gift.... In phrasing and imagery ‘The far country’
... shows a freshness and imaginative vision that bespeak the poet’s
hand and eye, and above all a joy in the art.... Miss Wilkinson is not
a sonneteer ... but to show that she knows wherein her strength lies,
there are few sonnets in the volume. It is chiefly the human riddle
which haunts her eager, questioning mind.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“A tendency toward forced forms of expression and an indulgence in
mere emotional ejaculation appear to be the most noticeable fault of
what is, on the whole, a volume of quite exceptional richness and
strength.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ + – =Dial.= 41: 68. Ag. 1, ’06. 470w.

“A volume of uneven, but on the whole, singularly poetic verse. A
little sharper discrimination between profusion and diffusion, a
little sterner renunciation of unreal and extraneous adornment, a
little firmer grasp of organic structure, and Miss Wilkinson will be a
poet to reckon with.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 145. Ag. 16, ’06. 230w.

“Miss Wilkinson is so rarely unsure in metre, has indeed such command
of herself in the most intricate forms, that when one comes upon a
jarring line he knows it to be willful heresy rather than unconscious
error.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 396. Je. 16, ’06. 1230w.

“An occasional bit of self-consciousness, an evident effort, mar some
verses otherwise most pleasing.”

+ + – =Outlook.= 83: 284. Je. 2, ’06. 90w.

=Williams, C. F. Abdy.= Story of organ music. *$1.25. Scribner.

“A recent volume in the “Music story series.” The author has outlined
a history of the rise and development of organ music, in which the
works of the leading composers are described. He is of the opinion
that the history of organ music revolves around one gigantic
personality, that of Bach, and that no organ composer of any eminence
has existed who has not been largely influenced by him. The author has
drawn considerably on Ritter’s ‘Geschichte des orgelspiels,’ and on
the collections of Comer and others.” (Dial.) The book contains a
number of musical illustrations including the whole of a toccata by
Pasquini.

* * * * *

“Mr. William’s treatise is scholarly, clear, concise, and
elucidative.”

+ + =Dial.= 40: 395. Je. 16, ’06. 200w.

“Interesting as well as scholarly the book is one of the best in a
series that has varied noticeably in merit.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 942. O. 18, ’06. 320w.

“Cannot be commended too highly to all organists.”

+ + =Nation.= 82: 474. Je. 7, ’06. 130w.

“His book is brief but scholarly, and is the work of a man that knows
his subject and knows how to present it interestingly—even the more
abstruse historical portions of it. The book is one of the best of a
series that has varied greatly in merit.” Richard Aldrich.

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 237. Ap. 14, ’06. 660w.

=Williams, Egerton Ryerson, jr.= Ridolfo, the coming of the dawn, a tale of the Renaissance. †$1.50. McClurg.

Perugia, harassed as it was in the hundred and fifty years or more
that the Baglioni ruled it by violence, is the scene of this story of
Gismonda, the Florentine bride of Ridolfo Baglioni, then signore of
Perugia. He marries her for her dowry and leaves her on her wedding
day a prisoner in his castle to continue his career of crime and
oppression; but she, by her faithfulness, her goodness, and her
beauty, finally succeeds in awakening the soul of Ridolfo to a
realization of his sins. He forthwith repents of his black deeds,
inaugurates a new era for down-trodden Perugia and makes of himself a
man worthy of his wife’s love.

* * * * *

“It leaves a strong and even valuable impression of an age which it is
well to look back at, not only when modern puzzles seem petty, but
when modern civilization seems defective.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 353. O. 25, ’06. 390w.

“The book is eminently readable.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 721. N. 3. ’06. 190w.

“The story is full of action and dramatic situations.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 796. D. ’06. 140w.

=Williams, Hugh Noel.= Five fair sisters: an Italian episode at the court of Louis XIV. **$3.50. Putnam.

The five sisters of this historical biography are Laure, Olympe,
Marie, Hortense, and Marianne Mancini, the nieces of Cardinal Mazarin.
All were taken from Rome to France as children and made brilliant
marriages. With the exception of Laure, they all lived long and had
romantic careers. Had not Mazarin been so obstinate, Marie Mancini
would have been consort of Louis XIV. of France. Olympe became the
Comtesse de Soissons; Marianne, Duchesse de Bouillon, who was
implicated in the poison trials of 1680; Hortense the Duchesse de
Mazarin, fled from her jealous, bigoted husband, and became a reigning
beauty at the Court of Charles II. of England.

* * * * *

“He does not affect to have made any additions to historical
knowledge, and shows no great fondness for discussing problems or
unravelling mysteries; but the facts are stated fairly, and, as a
rule, fully enough for the general reader.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 787. Je. 30. 2050w.

Reviewed by Percy F. Bicknell.

=Dial.= 41: 386. D. 1, ’06. 180w.

“His volume looks well; his illustrations are interesting: his style,
though it smacks a good deal too much of translation, is readable; his
subject could hardly have been better chosen.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 288. O. 4. ’06. 800w.

“The present author has put the facts together in a very satisfactory
fashion.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 565. S. 15, ’06. 1010w.

“Both entertaining and of interest as throwing light on the life of
this great period in French history.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 238. S. 22, ’06. 210w.

“Mr. Williams, however, has made a readable story out of material only
too abundant. His book is quite as much a study of times and manners
as a regular biography: with so many leading figures this was a
foregone conclusion.”

+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 465. O. 6, ’06. 1700w.

=Williams, Hugh Noel.= Later queens of the French stage. Scribner.

A less distinctive work for stage art has been wrought by the six
women in this group than by the women who were sketched in the first
book of the series, “Queens of the French stage.” This latter group
includes Sophie Arnould, Mlle. Guimard, Mlle. Raucourt, Mme. Dugazon,
Mlle. Contat, and Mme. Saint-Huberty, and “they were rather reapers
than sowers and left few traces on their art.” (Lond. Times.)

* * * * *

“To anyone who likes gossip, amusing stories, vivid descriptions of a
very brilliant and heartless state of society, just before it toppled
to its fall, we recommend Mr. Williams’s handsomely published book. He
has spared no little trouble in research, and is thoroughly well up in
his subject; and his book makes most agreeable reading.”

+ =Acad.= 70: 472. My. 19, ’06. 1200w.

“Mr. Williams’s new book has all the faults of his ‘Queens of the
French stage,’ and has them in an aggravated degree. His style is
still more slovenly, his grammar still more faulty, his accuracy still
more blemished ... his proofs still more carelessly read.”

– – =Lond. Times.= 5: 171. My. 11, ’06. 930w.

“It is a record of scandals.”

– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 359. Je. 2, ’06. 870w.

=Williams, Hugh Noel.= Queens of the French stage. *$2.50. Scribner.

“He tells his stories very well, and has a wide knowledge of the
memoirs, letters, the epigrams and so forth which illustrate his
subjects, and quotes them freely on his handsome pages.”

+ =Acad.= 70. 112. F. 3, ’06. 1500w.

=Spec.= 95: 533. O. 7, ’05. 160w.

=Williams, Jesse Lynch.= Day-dreamer. †$1.50. Scribner.

An unabridged rendering of “News and the man,” an amplified version of
“The stolen story.” “There is a general stir in this novel which
successfully stimulates the rush of a daily newspaper office when the
presses are in motion and the ‘stories’ are coming in from every
quarter. The reporter’s slang, which is a kind of dialect known only
to the initiated, is freely used and the narrative bristles with
expert knowledge of reportorial ways and speech.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“A very plausible story and a splendid picture of newspaper life and
newspaper men.” Stephen Chalmers.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 181. Mr. 24, ’06. 70w.

Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

+ – =North American.= 182: 927. Je. ’06. 110w.

“Among the entertaining stories of the season a first place must be
given to ... ‘The day dreamer.’”

+ + =Outlook.= 82: 759. Mr. 31, ’06. 90w.

“But in spite of the well-seasoned character of the plot and the
persons, ‘The day-dreamer’ is nevertheless a neatly articulated and
very readable tale.”

+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 127. O. ’06. 140w.

=Williams, Leonard.= Granada: memories, adventures, studies and impressions. **$2.50. Lippincott.

“Here is a book that gives only one chapter to the Alhambra. ‘The
Alhambra by moonlight,’ all the rest being devoted to pilgrimages
within easy reach of the City of Granada.... Some lead into the snows
of the splendid Sierra Nevada, but most of them are within the power
of any one.” (N. Y. Times.) “To the systematic frauds connected with
the famous sacred mountain, he devotes several chapters, in which he
tells the whole story of the exploitation of the caves—‘a longish
story,’ he says, ‘full of interest, social, national and
psychological, the story of the most astounding, amazing and
protracted swindle the world has ever heard of.’” (Int. Studio.)

* * * * *

“The chapters which make up this volume are much too disconnected in
subject, and the author has not the art of interesting us in ...
commonplace experiences.”

– + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 542. My. 5. 470w.

“It is unfortunate that a book so full of varied charm should not have
better illustrations. The want of an index is also a considerable
drawback to the value of the work.”

+ – =Int. Studio.= 29: 181. Ag. ’06. 290w.

=Williams, Neil Wynn.= Electric theft. †$1.50. Small.

An unusual story with plenty of plot, action and romance has its
setting in Athens, with the scene shifting to London. A young
engineer, who is also an inventor, is sent to Athens to discover the
cause of the theft of electricity from the Athenian electric power
company. The closely guarded villainy is operated by a band of
anarchists whose leader becomes the hero’s rival in affairs of heart
as well as schemes in which cunning and skill abound.

=Williams, Rebecca R. (“Riddell,” pseud.).= Fireside fancies. *75c. Jenkins.

A poem in which the author’s fancy recalls a sequence of brave deeds
long past and weaves them into verse at his own fireside.

=Williams, Sarah Stone (Hester E. Shipley).= Man from London town. $1.50. Neale.

There was a man from London town, and in this modern version of the
old rhyme, having scratched out both his eyes as the result of an
unfortunate love affair he becomes a cynic, is bored with life and
loving. But at last he realizes that his eyes are out thru the
influence of a young widow of high ideals and a charming personality,
and she is the cause of his jumping once more into the bramble bush
and scratching them in again. Unfortunately the man has become so
embittered and, is so lacking in fine feeling that he handles too
roughly the thing which gave him light. He is the type of a man whose
vision is permanently distorted and even love could not make him see.

=Williams, Theodore C.= Elegies of Tibullus. $1.25. Badger, R. G.

“Of this work the judgment must be that it is a paraphrase rather than
a translation, and the frequent felicities in the rendering add to
one’s regret at its defects.”

+ – =Bookm.= 23: 338. My. ’06. 760w.

=Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Mrs. Alice Muriel (Livingston).= Lady Betty across the water. †$1.50. McClure.

Lady Betty, the naive young sister of an impoverished duke, comes over
from England to visit a Mrs. Stuyvesant-Knox at Newport. The plans of
her hostess for securing the sister of a duke as her brother’s wife
are frustrated, and the plans of Betty’s mother of securing an
American fortune seem, for a time, endangered by a young man who
crosses in the steerage of Betty’s ship and who wins her young
affection by heroic deeds before she discovers him to be a millionaire
in disguise. The story is light and breezy and is full of social
satire.

* * * * *

“The interest is smartly whipped up, and kept spinning and humming
gaily to the last page.”

+ =Acad.= 70: 550. Je. 9, ’06. 380w.

“A little more of the handsome Californian, and a little less violet
teas and cat lunches would have made it a better balanced book.”
Frederick Taber Cooper.

+ – =Bookm.= 23: 540. Jl. ’06. 310w.

“A frothy sort of cleverness is the chief attribute of the story, but
its thin vein of wit is exhausted long before the end is reached, and
nothing more substantial is found to take its place.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ – =Dial.= 41: 37. Jl. 16, ’06. 240w.

“The intent is to present a friendly picture of real American life, to
hold up the mirror to ‘society’, and to provide a sort of guide book
of America’s typical institutions; but it’s all done British visitors
must be warned not to take it upon such meagre knowledge of the facts
that seriously.”

– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 319. My. 19, ’06. 690w.

“It is a pleasantly written narrative, very frothy.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 190w.

“A lively and entertaining tale.”

+ =Outlook.= 83: 863. Ag. 11, ’06. 50w.

“A readable and entertaining story.”

+ =Sat. R.= 101: 826. Je. 30, ’06. 80w.

=Spec.= 97: 23. Jl. 7, ’06. 190w.

=Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Mrs. Alice Muriel.= My friend the chauffeur. †$1.50. McClure.

Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 10: 154. Mr. 1, 06. 290w.

“The tale is amusing enough, but on the whole less good than other
stories by the clever authors.”

+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 254. N. ’06. 60w.

=Willis, Henry Parker.= Our Philippine problem: a study of American colonial policy. $1.50. Holt.

Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.

=Atlan.= 97: 848. Je. ’06. 470w.

“So, while there is much in this book ... which is of very
considerable import, it is so intermixed with errors, half-truths,
misinformation of one sort and another, and political insinuation, as
to make the book an altogether unsafe guide for him who is not already
expert in Philippine matters.”

+ – – =Ind.= 59: 1538. D. 28, ’05. 1210w.

Reviewed by Hugh Clifford.

=Living Age.= 251: 515. D. 1, ’06. 5630w.

=Willoughby, William Franklin.= Territories and dependencies of the United States: their government and administration. *$1.25. Century.

Reviewed by F. J. Goodnow.

+ – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 136. Mr. ’06. 1010w.

=Wilson, Alice.= Actaeon’s defense and other poems. $1. Badger, R: G.

Half a hundred nature poems, love sonnets and lyrics.

* * * * *

Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

+ – =Dial.= 41: 208. O. 1, ’06. 200w.

=Wilson, Rev. C. T.= Peasant life in the Holy Land. *$3.50. Putnam.

“Peasant life in Palestine was cast in stereotype plates centuries
ago, long before the Christian era, and the present life is printed
from the old plates. Therefore to see how peasants live and what
they think and feel now is to understand how they lived and what
they thought in the time of Christ, not to say in the time of
Abraham. That fact gives to a portrait of modern life by one who has
been a long-time resident of the Holy Land value as well as
interest.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“It is only when he quits his own subject to indulge in speculations
or a general view that he stumbles.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 449. Ap. 14. 400w.

“This interesting book is not so much, as the author claims, a
contribution to the folklore of Palestine, altho some stories are
given, as a description of the peasant life.”

+ – =Ind.= 61: 941. O. 18, ’06. 200w.

“It gives a picture of the better side of peasant life, and
incidentally is of considerable value to the student of Oriental and
Biblical archaeology, folklore, and religion.”

+ + =Nation.= 83: 129. Ag. 9, ’06. 640w.

“The value of the book lies in a wealth of detail about the daily
lives of the fellahin. This sharp definition of detail lends a special
worth to Mr. Wilson’s work.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 649. O. 6, ’06. 940w.

“It contains not a great deal which will be fresh to one who is
familiar with Dr. Thomson’s ‘Land and the book’ or Professor Curtiss’s
‘Primitive Semitic religion to-day.’”

+ – =Outlook.= 83: 482. Je. 23, ’06. 160w.

+ =Sat. R.= 102: 211. Ag. 18, ’06. 810w.

“Mr. Wilson’s book is full of interesting details about Palestinian
life. He has extended his observations to natural objects, and has
much that is curious to tell us.”

+ =Spec.= 96: 588. Ap. 14, ’06. 290w.

=Wilson, Calvin Dill.= Making the most of ourselves. **$1. McClurg.

“For young men and women who are at a groping and impressionable age
and who have not had ‘advantages,’ this book ought to be of far
greater value than most of its kind.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 569. Je. ’06. 60w.

=Wilson, Floyd Baker.= Through silence to realization; or, The human awakening. $1. Fenno.

Self-mastery is the keynote of this volume. Practical suggestions for
the achievement of it along metaphysical lines are made by one who has
proved that “thoughts are things,” and as entities can be implanted
into consciousness and vitalized there.

=Wilson, Francis.= Joseph Jefferson. **$2. Scribner.

A sketch of Mr. Jefferson by a close friend and fellow actor which
pictures “what will be of inestimable value to future generations of
playgoers—the personality of Joseph Jefferson.” (Ind.) “New light is
thrown on the best qualities of Jefferson, his amiability, his genial
humor, his sound artistry. The illustrations include reproductions of
photographs of the actors, and some of Jefferson’s paintings.” (N. Y.
Times.)

* * * * *

“Those who knew Mr. Jefferson personally and those who knew him only
on the stage will be sorry to see him so belittled by an account
which, meaning to exalt, succeeds only in debasing.”

– =Acad.= 71: 370. O. 13, ’06. 380w.

Reviewed by Louise Closser Hale.

+ + =Bookm.= 23: 532. Jl. ’06. 930w.

+ + =Critic.= 48: 570. Je. ’06. 410w.

“A pleasing and worthy portrait.” Percy F. Bicknell.

+ + =Dial.= 40: 316. My. 16, ’06. 1770w.

“His analysis of many of the elements of Jefferson’s success—as in
“Rip Van Winkle”—is a good one, and the chief impressions are
agreeable.” Wm. T. Brewster.

+ + =Forum.= 38: 96. Jl. ’06. 770w.

+ + =Ind.= 60: 987. Ap. 26, ’06. 560w.

“There are few such nuggets in the book, and they can be found only by
sifting a vast amount of rubbish.”

– + =Nation.= 82: 516. Je. 21, ’06. 1160w.

“The sketches of personalities are intimate and charmingly done.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 244. Ap. 14, ’06. 170w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.

“A book as true to nature as it is entertaining.”

+ + =Outlook.= 83: 92. My. 12, ’06. 280w.

“Mr. Wilson has done a careful piece of work in bringing together his
reminiscences, and there is none of the feeling that he is holding
something back to use later on.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 710. Je. 9, ’06. 930w.

“Is packed full of story, incident, and picturesque description.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 766. Je. ’06. 210w.

=Winchester, Caleb Thomas.= Life of John Wesley. **$1.50. Macmillan.

Professor Winchester “points out that Wesley was the child of his age
in his distrust of enthusiasm. He laid great stress upon an
intelligent faith, and endeavored himself to be clear, candid, and
logical. That he could have carried on his especial work within the
Anglican church, had the bishops of his day held more statesmanlike
ideas as to their duty is plain enough; in fact, he never abandoned
that church nor did he desire his followers to do so. Yet the logic of
events made the organization of a distinctive Methodist body
inevitable.”—Critic.

* * * * *

Reviewed by H W. Boynton.

+ =Atlan.= 98: 278. Ag. ’06. 690w.

“He brings out the character and personality of the man better, on the
whole, than any of Wesley’s previous biographers have done.”

+ + =Critic.= 48: 473. My. ’06. 150w.

“The last chapter on ‘John Wesley the man’ is an especially clear and
satisfactory presentation of the great preacher’s mind and
personality.”

+ + =Dial.= 41: 42. Jl. 16, ’06. 300w.

“It is written in excellent style, and is marked by thoroness of
information, fairness of judgment, and that sanity and balance, which
come only with extensive knowledge.”

+ + =Ind.= 60: 1162. My. 17, ’06. 440w.

“It is compact, bright, clear-sighted, a book in which an American
writer seems to have achieved something of the lucidity, combined with
accurate knowledge, of the best French work. There are a few slips
here and there in it.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 247. Jl. 13, ’06. 1490w.

“This writer has given us, in brief space, probably the clearest view
of his hero.”

+ + =Nation.= 82: 537. Je. 28, ’06. 940w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.

“He writes in a style which is luminous without being rhetorical, warm
without being emotional, and simple without being commonplace.”

+ + =Outlook.= 83: 625. Jl. 14, ’06. 1750w.

“Professor Winchester has dealt fairly with his subject, showing the
dark as well as the light sides.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 378. Mr. 24, ’06. 370w.

“Is not primarily a Methodist tribute to the founder of his church; it
is the seasoned judgment of a man of literature and an historian of
philosophic mind concerning a great divine.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 507. Ap. ’06. 140w.

“He is neither a worshipper nor an iconoclast.”

+ =Spec.= 96: 718: My. 5, ’06. 160w.

+ =World To-Day.= 11: 764. Jl. ’06. 160w.

=Winslow, Helen Maria.= Woman of tomorrow. *$1. Pott.

“The author points out the weak spots in the woman of to-day, and
tells her what to do in order to become a more able woman of
to-morrow.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“The writer has made no attempt, in these discreet articles, to treat
her subject profoundly or from an original point of view.”

+ – =Critic.= 47: 573. D. ’05. 120w.

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 3. Ja. 6, ’06. 540w.

=Winter, Alice Ames.= Jewel weed. †$1.50. Bobbs.

In the foreground of this story with a middle west setting is a
quartette of young people composed of Dick Percival of substantial
family connections, his college friend Ellery Norris who is striving
to make good his heralded efficiency, Madeline Elton, a finely bred
young woman, and Lena Quincy whose gilded vulgarity finds fit
expression in the jewel weed. The “jewel weed” becomes Dick’s protege,
later his wife, and as such a foreign element in the refined
atmosphere of his mother’s home. In contrast to her selfishness which
menaces her husband’s social, financial and political career is the
fine loyalty of Madeline, which champions everybody’s cause—Ellery
Norris more than all others.

* * * * *

“Though not a great novel, this is an excellent love-story written in
a bright and pleasing style and very rich in human interest. More than
this, it is for the most part true to the life it depicts.”

+ =Arena.= 36: 687. D. ’05. 300w.

=Wise, John Sergeant.= Recollections of thirteen presidents. **$2.50. Doubleday.

From the political atmosphere surrounding him in boyhood, the author
absorbed the personalities of the presidents of his father’s day,
Tyler, Pierce and Buchanan; and of the men following down to the
present day he is able to write out of the fulness of his intimate
knowledge of them. The author is a Southerner, fought with the
confederacy, and does not neglect to make prominent the just position
from which to view the work of Jefferson Davis.

* * * * *

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 210. O. ’06. 50w.

“The taste displayed is often a bit more questionable. and there are
many signs of hasty and ill-considered writing. It can, however, never
be called a dull book, or one lacking in a fine sense of patriotism.”

+ – =Dial.= 41: 117. S. 1, ’06. 780w.

“Some wonderfully fresh and striking pen portraits.”

+ =Lit. D.= 32: 983. Je. 30, ’06. 1180w.

“The book is confessedly partisan rather than judicial in its tone. It
is an interesting series of political sketches from a personal point
of view, and the intelligent reader will have no trouble in
recognizing the point of view and making all necessary allowances. We
have noticed few slips of fact.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 103. Ag. 2, ’06. 1020w.

“His estimates of the public men he discusses in his book are to a
rather remarkable degree free from partisan, even though not always
from personal bias. They are both interesting and entertaining.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 333. My. 26, ’06. 1250w.

“His estimates of these historical characters, expressed with the
utmost frankness and evident sincerity, make ‘readable footnotes to
history.’”

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 250w.

=Wise, John Sergeant.= Treatise on American citizenship. $3. Thompson.

A book dealing with the primary rights, duties, and privileges of the
American citizen and analyzing the peculiar dual system—federal and
state—under which he lives. There are seven parts to the treatise: Of
citizenship generally; How American citizenship may be acquired; Of
the obligations and duties of the citizens to the nation and the
state; Of the rights, privileges and immunities of the citizen;
Privileges and immunities under the war amendments; Of the protection
of citizens abroad; Of expatriation, aliens and who may not become
citizens.

* * * * *

“While Mr. Wise has given us here a useful and valuable work, it must
be said that it leaves much to be desired and that there is still room
for a comprehensive text on the law of citizenship.” Frank Hamsher.

+ – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 356. S. ’06. 670w.

“As a popular summary of the more important features of our system,
the book will be found useful. It is marked by great fairness and
freedom from bias of any kind.”

+ + =Nation.= 82: 451. My. 31, ’06. 310w.

“It is a very useful book, showing a great deal of patient industry,
and a clear and sound judgment in dealing with authorities.” Edward
Cary.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 93. F. 17, ’06. 1150w.

“He has made no use of treaty stipulations, diplomatic correspondence,
rulings of the Department of state or decisions of arbitration
commissions. He does not seem to have examined the excellent works of
Van Dyne and Howard or the less valuable ones of Morse and Webster,
from all of which he could have gained useful information both as to
the law of citizenship and methods of treatment. Notwithstanding all
that has been said above in criticism of Mr. Wise’s book as a treatise
on the law of citizenship, it is a useful and interesting work. To the
idea of state citizenship he makes a distinct contribution and his
discussion of civil rights under the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments contains many original and valuable suggestions.” James
Wilford Garner.

+ – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 558. S. ’06. 1300w.

=Wishart, Alfred Wesley.= Primary facts in religious thought. *75c. Univ. of Chicago press.

“Dr. Wishart is a careful reasoner and the volume, on the whole, is an
admirable work of the kind. As is so frequently the case in didactic
theological works, however, the author, it seems to us, sometimes
presumes too much, and therefore his premises are open to criticism.”

+ – =Arena.= 36: 440. O. ’06. 860w.

+ =Bib. World.= 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 50w.

=Wister, Owen.= Lady Baltimore. †$1.50. Macmillan.

This story might be called the “Love affairs of a bachelor” in the
objective sense of Lilian Bell’s “Love affairs of an old maid.” For
the hero finds real life and other people’s matrimonial projects more
fascinating than musty genealogical records that sufficiently searched
will prove the blood of kings in his veins and admit him to the
“Selected salic scions.” The setting is typically Southern and among
the characters are a charming dispenser of cakes at a Woman’s
exchange, a young man whose approaching marriage to a brilliant siren
furnishes cause for a vast expenditure of the hero’s quixotic
chivalry, and numerous old ladies of King’s Port. It would divulge too
much of the whimsically clever story to reveal the meaning of so high
sounding a title as “Lady Baltimore.”

* * * * *

“The story is one of love, prettily conceived and executed, but it is,
perhaps, a little longwinded and slow of development.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906. 1: 603. My. 19. 280w.

“But it is not merely for its adherence to an academic formula that
‘Lady Baltimore’ is to be praised. It is good to read because of its
characterisation, its geniality and its ideas.” Edward Clark Marsh.

+ + – =Bookm.= 23: 296. My. ’06. 1180w.

+ =Critic.= 48: 509. Je. ’06. 980w.

“Like Mr. Owen Wister’s other fiction, is defective on the side of
construction, but the defect is atoned for by the author’s powers of
characterization and his narrative charm.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ – =Dial.= 40: 365. Je. 1, ’06. 410w.

“It is doubtful if any other author has so accurately touched the
keynote of the real South, or contrasted it so shrewdly with that of
the North.”

+ + + =Ind.= 60: 1159. My. 17, ’06. 950w.

“He has given us the most courteous, intelligent and veracious
interpretation of Southern life ever published without losing a single
man by violence out of the tale.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 50w.

“Mr. Wister brings to this new environment all the fine play and parry
of style, all the insight, all the certainty of coloring, that carried
the West before his compelling pen.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 158. Ag. 4, ’06. 420w.

+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 70w.

“‘The Virginian’ can no longer be held to be the work of an
impassioned tiro by any one who observes how in ‘Lady Baltimore’ the
story is informed by the idea, how light and delicate the humour is
for all the urgency of the pleading, how fragrant is that atmosphere
of lavender which the whole story breathes.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 142. Ap. 20, ’06. 530w.

“Is marked by all the author’s cleverness and power of observation.
What Mr. Wister has written might be called extravaganza with a
purpose.”

+ =Nation.= 82: 390. My. 10, ’06. 430w.

“The attraction of the book is in its hitting off things and people in
little illuminating phrases which flash this and that characteristic
home to you.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 254. Ap. 21, ’06. 680w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 250w.

Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

+ + – =North American.= 182: 928. Je. ’06. 100w.

“It is a true American novel in subject, spirit, and atmosphere.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 83: 111. My. 19, ’06. 1490w.

+ + =Outlook.= 84: 707. N. 24, ’06. 100w.

“There is little success in striking the deeper chords that might be
set vibrating by a stronger hand and one less preoccupied with its own
rather capable cleverness and its stylistic ingenuity.”

+ – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 572. My. 5, ’06. 710w.

+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 756. Je. ’06. 70w.

“Owen Wister displays as before the delicacy of touch, the clear
precise treatment of ideas, the felicity and grace of expression which
make his writing distinguished and admirable, but his material is this
time too scanty, and his dissertations seem tedious and complicated to
the point of mystification.”

+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 794. Je. 23, ’06. 250w.

“Is a many-sided book, in which plot and incident, ingenious though
they are, are of subsidiary importance, and serve the ulterior purpose
of enabling the writer to liberate his mind on a number of burning
questions. His satire is inspired not by malice, but by a genuine
desire of reform.”

+ + =Spec.= 96: 675. Ap. 28, ’06. 820w.

=Witt, Robert Clermont.= How to look at pictures. **$1.40. Putnam.

America finds this book published five years ago in England of such
value that it deems it worth while to reprint it even tho there have
appeared a number of works akin to it—books whose purpose is identical
with it, viz. to direct laymen how to judge first class works of art,
“Mr Witt speaks of the personal point of view, the point of view of
the subject the picture represents, that of the artist, how to look at
a portrait, a historical painting, a colored picture, a genre
painting, a landscape and a drawing; how to note the light and shade
in a painting, the composition of the picture, the treatment of the
subject by the artist, and the methods and materials of a painter.”
(N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Several helpful books dealing with the general subject of looking at
pictures have been published within the last year, but none of these
has the breadth or scope of this admirable book by Mr Witt.”

+ + =Critic.= 49: 90. Jl. ’06. 180w.

+ =Dial.= 41: 120. S. 1, ’06. 310w.

+ =Ind.= 61: 518. Ag. 30, ’06. 270w.

=Lit. D.= 32: 832. Je. 2, ’06. 1120w.

“Its contents are marked by tranquil common sense. There is nothing in
it which is not true, and nothing, perhaps, which may not still be
novel to some part of the great public.”

+ + =Nation.= 82: 468. Je. 7, ’06. 100w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 376. Je. 9, ’06. 440w.

+ =Outlook.= 83: 671. Jl. 21, ’06. 80w.

=Wolfenstein, Martha.= Renegade, and other tales. $1.25. Jewish pub.

“‘A renegade’ presents to us a number of Gentile sinners and Jewish
saints in the setting of far-away Bohemia.” (Nation.) This story “is
tragical, of course, and there are ten others. The prevailing
atmospheric effect is gray, a dull sad gray, and there is always a
sense of what may be called the joy of suffering, a sort of reveling
in the luxury of woe.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“We need not quarrel with the characterization if the stories were
only interesting; but they are not.”

– =Nation.= 82: 182. Mr. 1, ’06. 110w.

“Many of them show a considerable dramatic power.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 113. F. 24, ’06. 430w.

“Full of local color, race peculiarities treated with knowledge and
skill, and withal broad human sympathy and delicate humor.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 1087. D. 30, ’05. 70w.

=Wood, Eugene.= Back home. †$1.50. McClure.

“The book itself is very like an apple: juicy, ripe and red with
garnered sunshine. It is altogether wholesome and sweet to the core.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1345. D. 7, ’05. 230w.

=Wood, Henry.= Life more abundant: scriptural truth in modern application. **$1.20. Lothrop.

“It is an important contribution to the constructive religious thought
of the day.”

+ + =Arena.= 35: 100. Ja. ’06. 370w.

=Wood, Theodore.= Natural history for young people. $2.50. Dutton.

A survey of the animal world so copiously and realistically
illustrated that it furnishes “zoological garden in a book.” “The
writer has given a few original observations. Beyond a general
classification, he has not attempted scientific methods of treatment.
He has selected, from the various groups, the most interesting
species, and has written about them with much entertaining detail.”
(Nation.)

* * * * *

“On account of its sumptuous format, is for the library rather than
for field and forest.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1390. D. 14, ’05. 30w.

+ =Nation.= 81: 503. D. 21, ’05. 60w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 761. N. 11, ’05. 60w.

“The text is written simply and clearly and is kept free from
super-scientific terminology. Decidedly a commendable work.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 683. N. 18, ’06. 50w.

=Wood, Walter Birbeck, and Edmonds, James Edward.= History of the Civil war in the United States, 1861–1865. *$3.50. Putnam.

“There is no lack of intelligent comprehension of the events
described, and the presentment is simple and direct. Though one may
here and there find fault with the work of Messrs. Wood and Edmonds,
the book is nevertheless a good military account of our Civil
war—impartial, painstaking, intelligent.” J. K. Hosmer.

+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 699. Ap. ’06. 1060w.

“It is a useful condensation of the best military histories and is
illuminated by much judicious comment.”

+ =Dial.= 40: 264. Ap. 16, ’06. 550w.

“It is characterized by understanding, by impartial attitude and by
thoroness of treatment.”

+ + =Ind.= 60: 341. F. 8, ’06. 260w.

“It is readily admitted that for succinctness of statement, for
saneness of judgment, for fairness of conclusion there is scarce a
volume anywhere in all our war literature which equals this one.”
William E. Dodd.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 34. Ja. 20, ’06. 1670w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 90w.

=Wood, William.= Fight for Canada; a sketch from the history of the great Imperial war. *$2.50. Little.

This history of England’s fight for Canada has been prepared in the
light of recently discovered sources of original information and has
been treated from a point of view both naval and military. Chapters
are devoted to: Pitt’s imperial war; New France and New England;
Vandreuil and Bigot; Montcalm; Anson and Saunders; Wolfe; The siege of
Quebec; The Battle of the plains; The fall of Quebec; and The fall of
New France. The text is both scholarly and interesting, the notes,
bibliography, and index are full and satisfactory, and there are
portraits and colored maps.

* * * * *

“Mr Wood has not Mr. Parkman’s command of resonant prose, but in
simple language details the events hour by hour, describing the
character of the ground as one familiar with every foot of it, and the
movements of the men of each side as if at a review.” James Bain.

+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 398. Ja. ’05. 660w.

+ =Nation.= 82: 260. Mr. 29, ’06. 80w.

“An interesting and praiseworthy book.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 248. Ap. 14, ’06. 280w.

+ + =Outlook.= 82: 807. Ap. 7, ’06. 140w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 50w.

=Sat. R.= 99: 814. Je. 17, ’05. 70w.

=Woodberry, George Edward.= Swinburne. **75c. McClure.

A recent volume in the “Contemporary men of letters series.” The
sketch is not a biography but “a subtle and subjective study not so
much of Swinburne’s poetry as of his poetic impulses.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

=Critic.= 48: 459. My. ’06. 320w.

+ + =Nation.= 82: 58. Ja. 18, ’06. 1080w.

“The book is important not so much because of the accident of its
being perhaps the first on the subject to be published in this country
as because of an uncommon qualification of the author for his task. It
is true that he has broad perspective and intimate knowledge, but of
greater significance is the affinity of spirit between the poet and
his critic.” Lewis N. Chase.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 889. D. 16, ’05. 2110w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 30w.

=Woodberry, George Edward.= Torch: eight lectures on race power in literature, delivered before the Lowell institute of Boston. **$1.20. McClure.

Thru “The torch” “one increasing purpose runs. This purpose is the
thought that there is a race-mind which slowly, unfalteringly,
grandly, approaches through the centuries its final summation (if
finality in this connection be conceivable) through a variety of
channels, but chiefly through the treasure-stores of great
literature.” (Reader.) “The work of the race-mind in literature, as it
seems to Mr. Woodberry’s optimistic idealism, is not so much mere
self-expression as self-conquest, liberation, racial euthanasia.”
(Nation.) The title of the lectures are: Man and the race, The
language of all the world, The Titan myth, Spenser, Milton, Wordsworth
and Shelley.

* * * * *

“There is no question of the author’s sincerity, and if but as a
narrative of personal faith, the book possesses both charm and force.”
H. B. Alexander.

+ =Bookm.= 23: 194. Ap. ’06. 1410w.

“Mr. Woodberry has possibly read into the poets, ancient and modern,
more than they intended to say. In dealing with the four ... he shows
his finely critical sense, although some of his dicta are open to
disagreement.” Edward Fuller.

+ – =Critic.= 48: 212. Mr. ’06. 620w.

“The high note of idealism thus sounded at the outset is maintained to
the last.”

+ =Dial.= 40: 236. Ap. 1, ’06. 350w.