Chapter III: of the book deals with ‘The working child.’ It is probably (8)

“Our author’s thought is less convincing in the retrospect than in the
reading. It is clear that his choice of typical literature has been
very strictly selective, and (though there is much admirable criticism
by the way) poetically rather than critically selective. No writer in
recent years has presented the cause of the Platonist with greater
eloquence and devotion, or has made a more telling synthesis of old
poetry and new science.”

+ – =Nation.= 81: 365. N. 2, ’05. 1220w.

“When Prof. Woodberry leaves the field of theory, or, rather, when he
imports into that field specific appreciation and criticism, he is
often extremely instructive, and what is more important if he will
pardon us for saying so, he is stimulating, satisfying, and quite
delightful. It is a pleasure to acknowledge the sincerity, the
pure-mindedness, the whole-hearted love of the best that shine in
Prof. Woodberry’s pages.” E. C.

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 721. O. 25, ’05. 640w.

“The philosophy of these lectures—a product of the author’s studies in
comparative literature—is profound, and in one aspect, despairing,
since it is vitally and essentially sacrificial, and the very
death-warrant to all personal egoism.”

+ =Reader.= 7: 225, Ja. ’06. 680w.

=Woodhull, Alfred Alexander.= Personal hygiene; designed for undergraduates. *$1. Wiley.

This treatise “embodies in the first place a short but practical and
sufficient account of the anatomy and physiology of the different
organs and functions of the body, and then considers one by one, the
reasons that should guide us in exercise, in food, in bathing, in our
choice of clothing, and in reference to stimulants and
narcotics.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“On the whole, the book is admirable.”

+ =Engin. N.= 55: 560. My. 17, ’06. 130w.

+ =Nation.= 82: 280. Ap. 5. ’06. 130w.

+ + =Nature.= 74: 78. My. 24, ’06. 460w.

“We think that its wide circulation would be a good thing for all
concerned.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 228. Ap. 7, ’06. 170w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 70w.

=Woodruff, Anna Helena.= Pond in the marshy meadow. $1.50. Saalfield.

A book to open the eyes of children. An “ordinary pond in an ordinary
field, belonging to an ordinary farmer” furnishes the objects for
lessons of observation and the author is guide and teacher.

* * * * *

“A book with plenty of entertainment in it and considerable
instruction put so pleasantly as to be entertaining too.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 140w.

“Has the indefinable touch which will commend it to the minds of
children, but the little folks to whom it is dedicated will have to
share their pleasure with every one who can remember brooks and
pasture-lands, and all the sweet, lazy experiences of childhood in the
country.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 532. O. 27, ’06. 210w.

=Woods, David Walker, jr.= John Witherspoon. **$1.50. Revell.

The great-grandson of John Witherspoon has written the first story of
that able Scotsman, Presbyterian and American ever published, in which
is given a full account of the part he played in the struggle for
popular rights in the Church of Scotland, his administration as
president of Princeton college, his work in the organization of the
American Presbyterian church, and as an active man in the conduct of
the revolution and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

* * * * *

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 209. O. ’06. 60w.

“A biography which will appeal to Princeton men and to students of
church history, as well as to those interested in the Revolutionary
period of our national life.”

+ + – =Dial.= 41: 70. Ag. 1, ’06. 380w.

“Dr. Witherspoon’s career does not lend itself to lively narrative,
and Mr. Woods is a dull biographer at best.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 482. Ag. 4, ’06. 550w.

+ =Outlook.= 82: 908. Ap. 21, ’06. 190w.

=R. of Rs.= 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 80w.

=Woods, Frederick Adams.= Mental and moral heredity in royalty: a statistical study in history and psychology. **$3. Holt.

A scientific inquiry into the characteristics of royalty based upon a
large and well chosen bibliography to which detailed references are
given. The study of 832 characters forms the main body of the work,
altho 3,312 distinct persons are mentioned. The members of the ruling
families of England, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain,
Portugal, Austria, Italy, Russia, Denmark, and Sweden are considered,
each individual being graded mentally and morally according to a
standard of 1 to 10, the period covered extending in general back to
the 16th century. The object of the work is to give a fair estimate of
the mental and moral status of royalty as compared with the world in
general, and to throw light upon the old question of relative
importance of environment and heredity. 104 portraits illustrate the
text.

* * * * *

“The author has done his work with skill and good judgment and his
book will be specially profitable for reproof and instruction to
political doctrinaires of every school.”

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 110. O. ’06. 800w.

“In arrangement and presentation the author has been very successful.”

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 180. Jl. ’06. 380w.

Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.

=Atlan.= 98: 423. S. ’06. 450w.

“It would be easy to show the flaws in his system by which such
extreme conclusions as his would be weakened.”

+ – =Critic.= 48: 480. My. ’06. 290w.

“Dr. Woods rarely goes much beyond the statistical warrant of his
evidence, and has at all events presented his case more strongly and
more judicially, as well as scientifically, than any other
contribution to this particular problem.”

+ + – =Dial.= 40: 299. My. 1, ’06. 430w.

“There will be certain objections made by specialists to both the
methods of measurement and the inferences of Dr. Woods. But every one
should admire his zeal and fairmindedness and appreciate the
importance of the investigation.”

+ + – =Ind.= 60: 1103. My. 10, ’06. 580w.

“The choice of materials is singularly fortunate, and the method of
treatment as far as possible fair and impersonal.”

+ + =Nation.= 82: 308. Ap. 12. ’06. 1240w.

“The book would be the better for a good index.” I.

+ + – =Nature.= 74: 97. My. 31, ’06. 1230w.

“The volume is well planned and well worked out.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 143. Mr. 10, ’06. 840w.

“Is a work of the first class in its department of research.”

+ + =Outlook.= 82: 763. Mr. 31, ’06. 340w.

=Pub. Opin.= 40: 480. Ap. 14, ’06. 80w.

“Dr. Woods’s work is an important contribution to psychology and a
most admirable lesson to show that history may become a natural
science.” Edward L. Thorndike.

+ + =Science=, n.s. 23: 693. My. 4, ’06. 840w.

“Dr. Woods cannot be said to have produced a very readable book. The
pageant of Regality is lost in mathematical formulae, in ‘grading by
intellect’, and ‘in grading by virtue.’”

+ – =Spec.= 97: sup. 652. N. 3, ’06. 2170w.

=Woods, Margaret Louisa.= King’s revoke: an episode in the life of Patrick Dillon. †$1.50. Dutton.

“Patrick Dillon, Irishman as he was, served the King of Spain de jure
during the usurpation of Joseph Bonaparte. Dillon, in combination with
others and with the co-operation of England, designed to rescue
Ferdinand VII. from his prison in Valencay, and this is the story of
their failure. They failed because of the incredible cowardice of the
King, who to curry favor with Napoleon, denounced his own
partisans.... The story abounds with episode, and is a very taking
piece of intrigue and adventure.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“Mrs. Woods has evidently taken the greatest pains to draw a true
picture of Ferdinand, the last of those old-world Spanish monarchs.”

+ =Acad.= 69: 1229. N. 25, ’05. 510w.

“It is, for all that, a sound, painstaking piece of work, deserving of
high praise.”

+ =Ath.= 1905. 2: 793. D. 9. 320w.

“We expect work of very high character from Mrs. Margaret Woods, and
‘The king’s revoke’ does not disappoint us.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 41: 241. O. 16, ’06. 280w.

+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 407. N. 24, ’05. 350w.

“If the narrative paragraphs move ponderously, honorable amends are
made in the ingenious conversation.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 188. Ag. 30, ’06. 240w.

“She has written a well-considered, carefully wrought novel, but alas,
it is undeniably heavy, and among its many good features intrudes the
unalluring one of skipability.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 471. Jl. 28. ’06. 190w.

“The theme strikes us as of too rough-and-tumble a character for Mrs.
Woods’ delicate talent. The workmanship is skilful, but smugglers,
brigands, and the like are a little beyond her control, though the
several women of the drama are excellent. As a novel of incident, ‘The
king’s revoke’ falls below ‘Sons of the sword.’”

+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 22. Ja. 6, ’06. 220w.

“In spite, therefore, of sundry misprints and a frequently faulty
punctuation, the book is a delight to read for the charm of its
characterisation, for its fine historic sense of the glory and
weakness of Spain, and for a genuine distinction of style unsurpassed
by contemporary writers of this class of fiction.”

+ =Spec.= 95: 1129. D. 30, ’05. 630w.

=Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey (Susan Coolidge, pseud.).= Last verses; with an introd. by her sister, Mrs. Daniel C. Gilman. *$1. Little.

Mrs. Gilman has collected her sister’s poems which had not appeared in
book form and has added some hitherto unpublished in magazines,
prefacing the volume with a short sketch of Susan Coolidge’s life and
literary work. It is uniform with “Verses” and “More Verses” by the
same author.

* * * * *

“The easily-won, temperamental optimism, the gentle if somewhat thin
piety, which marked the poetic work of Susan Coolidge and won many
readers, is the most notable trait in her ‘Last verses.’”

+ =Nation.= 83: 395. N. 8, ’06. 300w.

=Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey (Susan Coolidge, pseud.).= Sheaf of stories; il. by J. W. F. Kennedy. †$1.25. Little.

The author who delighted the children of the past generation with her
“What Katy did,” “What Katy did at school” and other stories, offers
here twelve sketches of child character which teach happy, wholesome,
livable lessons.

* * * * *

“Full of the habitual good sense and good English of that lamented
writer.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’08. 20w.

+ =Outlook.= 84: 533. O. 27, ’06. 50w.

=Woolson, Grace A.= Ferns and how to grow them. **$1. Doubleday.

The second volume in the “Garden Library.” It is a practical cultural
guide to fern-growing with a definite botanical atmosphere.

* * * * *

+ + – =Ind.= 60: 575. Mr. 8, ’06. 230w.

“The volume is practical without being dull.” Mabel Osgood Wright.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 406. Je. 23, ’06. 430w.

=Wordsworth, William.= Literary criticism; ed. with an introd. by Nowell C. Smith. *90c. Oxford.

A volume which “contains all of his prose writings of a critical
nature, his prefaces, his essays upon epitaphs, certain familiar
letters touching on literary matters, and his ‘opinions expressed in
conversation with his nephew and biographer.’” (Nation.)

* * * * *

+ =Acad.= 70: 29. Ja. 15, ’06. 1570w.

“Admirably lucid introduction.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 326. Mr. 17. 570w.

=Lond. Times.= 5: 110. Mr. 30, ’06. 900w.

“The selections are interesting, as showing a subtlety as well as a
shrewdness of critical faculty. Read consecutively, they convey a
peculiar impression of independence, fresh air, and wholesomeness.”

+ =Nation.= 82: 74. Ja. 25, ’06. 80w.

“Of the two dozen pieces of which the volume is made up there is not
one that is not worth reading by interested students of the subject,
which, in various phases, is always essentially the same—that of
literary and specifically of poetical criticism, and no other readers
are likely to be attracted by the volume.” Montgomery Schuyler.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 29. Ja. 20, ’06. 670w.

“Mr. Nowell Smith has collected from the prefaces and appendices to
Wordsworth’s poems a good deal of interesting critical matter.”

+ =Sat. R.= 100: 852. D. 30, ’05. 200w.

=Wordsworth, William.= Poems and extracts; chosen by W. Wordsworth for an album presented to Lady Mary Lowther. Christmas, 1819; printed literally from the original album with facsimiles. *90c. Oxford.

The contributors to this album are Anne, Countess of Winchelsea, and
about twenty-three other poets ranging from Webster to William Mickle,
and from Shakespeare to Lætitia Pilkington.

* * * * *

“Lovers of Wordsworth all the world over must be grateful to Mr. John
Rogers Rees for his generosity in sharing with them this long-hidden
treasure, and to Prof. Littledale for enriching the gift with his
scholarly introduction and accurate notes.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 325. Mr. 17, 990w.

“Diverse as the sources are, the poems are homogeneous in a certain
intensity of moral inspiration: and in their choice and arrangement a
very sensitive taste is displayed.”

– =Nation.= 82: 74. Ja. 25, ’06. 120w.

Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.

– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 29. Ja. 20, ’06. 510w.

=Wright, Carroll Davidson.= Battles of labor: being the William Levi Bull lectures for the year 1906. **$1. Jacobs.

Four lectures which show that industrial, social and political
problems can be met only with a new application of religion, a new
political economy “which looks first ‘to the care and culture of
men,’” and with Drummond’s “other selfishness.” The lectures are The
background, In mediæval and modern industry, Great modern battles, and
How modern battles of labor are treated.

* * * * *

“Interesting and well worth reading.”

+ + =Engin. N.= 55: 675. Je. 14, ’06. 180w.

“The chief merit of these four lectures is that accuracy, especially
in statistical presentation, which Mr. Wright always attains. But they
contain nothing new either in fact or philosophy.”

+ =Ind.= 51: 758. S. 27, ’06. 330w.

“‘Battles of labor’ gives evidence, not of scientific research
extended, but rather of fulness of experience, reminiscence, and
common knowledge regarding labor troubles of all times.” J. C.

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 577. N. ’06. 360w.

“The style of the book is colloquial, for reasons sufficiently
indicated above, and it conveys not a little information to the credit
of the recent generations which have ameliorated the condition of
labor.” Edward A. Bradford.

– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 505. Ag. 18, ’06. 1120w.

+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 89. S. 8, ’06. 480w.

– =R. of Rs.= 34: 383. S. ’06. 90w.

=Wright, Mabel Osgood. (Mrs. James Osborne Wright) (Barbara, pseud.).= The Garden, you and I. †$1.50. Macmillan.

The reappearance of some of the most delightful members of Mrs.
Wright’s gardening fraternity gives an old-friend atmosphere to her
new book. The story is mainly in the form of letters. “The purpose of
the correspondence is to afford opportunity for the experienced
Barbara to give of her more abundant knowledge to Mary Penrose, who
with her husband is having a ‘garden vacation,’ camping in an old open
barn in their own grounds.... A thread of romance runs through the
letters, and the same spirit of sympathy with nature that has informed
the writer’s other volumes is evident in the present one. For the sake
of the garden-lover who reads to learn, it should be said that there
are several excellent and suggestive lists of perennials, annuals, and
roses, with explanatory notes: but there is no index.” (Dial.)

* * * * *

“A book from Mrs. Wright’s pen is always welcome, for her really
reliable information about gardens is sure to be interwoven with the
thread of a story which, however slight, has both interest and charm.”
Mary K. Ford.

+ + =Bookm.= 23: 631. Ag. ’06. 770w.

“Somewhat is lacking of the freshness and spontaneity of Barbara’s
first appearance.”

+ – =Dial.= 41: 70. Ag. 1, ’06. 500w.

+ =Ind.= 60: 1379. Je. 7, ’06. 100w.

“Her book is an intensely practical one.”

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 357. S. 15, ’06. 260w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 389. Je. 16, ’06. 1770w.

+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 110. O. ’06. 340w.

“Those who read Barbara’s earlier book and perhaps wished for more
specific guidance on many subjects should not fall to consult this new
and attractive epitome of garden knowledge.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 127. Jl. ’06. 90w.

“We have also quiet humor in the way of putting things, and some
pleasant sketches of character.”

+ =Sat. R.= 102: 337. S. 15, ’06. 210w.

+ =Spec.= 97: 99. Jl. 21, ’06. 70w.

=Wright, Mary Tappan (Mrs. John Henry Wright).= Tower: a novel. †$1.50. Scribner.

In her story of the faculty side of college life, Mrs. Wright presents
a “masterful president and bishop, several young professors, a few
pathetically overworked and underpaid old ones with their wives,
children and personal friends.” (Ind.) Eighteen years separate Silvia
Langdon, the bishop’s daughter and her lover who parted without
pledging of vows. Upon his return to the faculty temporarily he finds
her “young and fascinating” at thirty-eight. There is a pathetic side
to the renewed love-making which, however, ends triumphantly.

* * * * *

“There is obvious merit in ‘The tower’, but its plot is extremely
slight, and lacks movement and interest.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906. 1: 695. Je. 9. 130w.

“In these final pages Mrs. Wright has cleared herself of the charge of
being incapable of creating real human beings.” Edward Clark Marsh.

+ – =Bookm.= 23: 628. Ag. ’06. 1080w.

“There is plenty of clever characterization in the book, and the
people are sufficiently differentiated to be interesting. They
invariably talk well.”

+ =Ind.= 60: 1223. My. 24. ’06. 390w.

“The author has somewhat of the insight and delicacy of touch that
might have turned out a bit of Cranford-like description of the
dullness and narrowness of faculty life in a small college town; but
the many pages of uninteresting detail and conversation rob the book
of real charm.”

– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 286. My. 5, ’06. 500w.

“If the characters were only a little more real and the motives for
their action a little more obvious, the book would be something to be
reckoned with.”

– =World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 110w.

=Wright, Thomas.= Life of Sir Richard Burton. 2v. *$6.50. Putnam.

“The life of Sir Richard Burton leaves the reader in a kind of a
stupor; the record is almost incredibly romantic. He was a soldier, a
traveler, an explorer, a linguist, an anthropologist an ethnologist,
an official. His published works extend to over a hundred volumes. He
was a kind of amiable demon; he was a born romancer and boaster, a
superstitious atheist; he thanked God that he had committed every sin
in the Decalogue, and there seems to be little reason to doubt it; yet
he was tender-hearted, loyal, a philanthropist, a devoted friend, a
lover of liberty.... As for Mr. Thomas Wright’s book it does more
credit to his industry than his literary skill. He has worked in the
Boswellian manner, and has amassed a rich harvest of detail, anecdotes
and gossip.”—Sat. R.

* * * * *

+ =Acad.= 70: 277. Mr. 24, ’06. 2290w.

+ =Acad.= 70: 303. Mr. 31, ’06. 1120w.

“Mr. Wright’s ideas of taste differ so widely from our own that we
cannot view his work with pleasure.”

– =Ath.= 1906, 1: 420. Ap. 7. 210w.

=Current Literature.= 41: 638. D. ’06. 860w.

“Self-confidence and self-praise, notwithstanding, the author has
turned out a creditable piece of book-making.” Percy F. Bicknell.

+ + – =Dial.= 41: 29. Jl. 16, ’06. 1870w.

“He is so incredibly rude to Sir Richard and Lady Burton that one
wonders why he should have concerned himself at all with persons of
whom he has, in spite of intermittent adulation, so bad an opinion.”

– – =Ind.= 61: 98. Jl. 12, ’06. 880w.

“The most interesting and by far the best done part of the present
‘Life’ is concerned with Burton’s work as a translator.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 82. Mr. 9, ’06. 3090w.

“Of all the five preceding books about Burton, its only real rival is
that of Mr. Wilkins, which dealt with Burton only indirectly.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 205. S. 6, ’06. 2380w.

“Mr. Wright has ... achieved an extremely well-balanced, candid, and
fully detailed biography of Burton, just in its estimate alike of the
man and his works and leaving us finally with a strong and vivid
impression of that extraordinary character and a definite idea of his
remarkable adventures.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 408. Je. 23, ’06. 2310w.

“The present biography, while everywhere interesting and certainly
good, is assuredly not supremely good. The author writes well, in an
easy, racy, idiomatic, and humorously allusive style, that makes the
book extremely good reading.” Horatio S. Krans.

+ =Outlook.= 84: 84. S. 8, ’06. 2580w.

“Would be very useful to anyone who undertook to write a life of
Burton; but there is no attempt at portraiture, and no artistic
selection of material.”

+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 429. Ap. 7, ’06. 1690w.

“His manner is always that of the curiosity hunter, to whom Burton is
primarily material for anecdotes.”

– + =Spec.= 96: 833. My. 26, ’06. 1520w.

=Wright, William Burnet.= Cities of Paul: beacons of the past rekindled for the present. **$1.10. Houghton.

Reviewed by George Hodges.

+ =Atlan.= 97: 414. Mr. ’06. 160w.

“The reader may learn something from Mr. Wright, who sees many things
in the books which he studies—sometimes more than there really are—and
has a way of putting them forcibly.”

+ – =Spec.= 96: 677. Ap. 28, ’06. 250w.

=Wylie, Edna Edwards.= Ward of the sewing-circle. †$1. Little.

“This is no book for grown-ups, who have lost the ability to get the
child’s point of view, for herein lies its real charm.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1541. D. 28, ’05. 350w.

=Wyllie, William Lionel.= J. M. W. Turner. $3. Macmillan.

“This volume is illustrated in tint and color, with reproductions of
most of Turner’s well-known paintings. The author has tried, he says,
to look at Turner’s life and work from a non-literary point of view,
‘as they appear to a fellow-painter traveling, however remotely, along
the same road.’”—R. of Rs.

* * * * *

“An artist’s history of an artist’s life and work, which is
interesting and informing on every page.”

+ =Acad.= 70: 617. Je. 30, ’06. 310w.

“Mr. Wyllie’s style is somewhat crude, and there may be even an
occasional lapse in grammar, but he succeeds in sketching graphically
the course of Turner’s artistic development.”

+ – =Ind.= 61: 817. O. 4, ’06. 280w.

“Marked throughout by the insight of true sympathy. The numerous
illustrations form a very practical commentary on the fascinating
text.”

+ + =Int. Studio.= 28: 277. My. ’06. 70w.

“The book as a whole is rambling, ill-constructed, and inconsequent.”

– =Nation.= 81: 500. D. 21, ’05. 210w.

“However sympathetic Mr. Wyllie’s attitude, he may well envy the
literary man’s style.”

+ – =Outlook.= 82: 94. Ja. 13, ’06. 150w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 70w.

=Wyllie, William Lionel, and Wyllie, M. A.= London to the Nore; painted and described by W. L. and M. A. Wyllie. *$6. Macmillan.

“The narrative seems to have been written for the most part ‘on the
spot,’ and it is no injustice to say that it smells very little of the
lamp. There is, of course, a considerable historical spice. After all
the pictures are the thing.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 335. Mr. 17. 520w.

Y

=Young, Alexander Bell Filson.= Sands of pleasure. †$1.50. Estes.

A young engineer is the hero of this tale, busy in the first part with
constructing a light house on the Cornish coast. The scene shifts to
Paris when the reaction after work is of the pleasure seeking sort and
deadly. The third part of the book presents the hero back from the
scene of infatuations hard at work, effacing stains and memories.

* * * * *

“He is a photographer, not a painter, and his photographs will be
merely unpleasant to some of his readers and frankly disappointing to
others.”

– =Acad.= 69: 1263. D. 2, ’05. 430w.

“Mr. Filson Young has a better sense of style than sense of life. His
work bears the hallmark of youth and inexperience.”

– =Ath.= 1905, 2: 794. D. 9. 330w.

“A book that from first to last is stamped by a rare sanity and subtle
wisdom. The scene of their dramatic parting and its petty, sordid
cause is ... one of those little miracles of intuition which are the
hallmarks of genius.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ + – =Bookm.= 34: 385. D. ’06. 710w.

“It is not a book for the young to read, but it is one that will work
no harm to mature and balanced minds.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 41: 241. O. 16, ’06. 340w.

“In our opinion, his book—lacking any moral idea or the forcible
enunciation of any moral idea—is by no means suitable for mixed
reading, and should be kept strictly to adults.”

– =Lond. Times.= 4: 421. D. 1, 05. 560w.

“All through the book there is somehow a sense of strain, of tension,
as if the author were trying to materialise some inspiration that kept
ever evading him. Some of the descriptions are excellent and the book
abounds in happy phrases. But the final impression is disappointment.”

– + =Sat. R.= 101: 22. Ja. 6, ’06. 1000w.

=Young, Egerton Ryerson.= Hector my dog. $1.50. Wilde.

“Is that rare thing, a book about dogs with which even those who love
and understand dog nature will find no fault.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 17. Ja. 13, ’06. 630w.

=Yulee, C. Wickliffe.= Awakening: a Washington novel. $1.25. Neale.

Here is a picture of Washington projected on a screen, with the
city,—its ideals, its types, and its institutions,—as a background.
Well to the fore are the intrigues, political and social, which are
intended to prevent the Honorable Arthur Montresor from securing a
charming American wife whose “character had that froufrou which is
inevitable with gay vivacity or fashion, but about which there was
nothing tawdry—it was as graceful and refined as some exquisite lace.”

* * * * *

+ =Critic.= 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 60w.

“The local color of the Capital of a few years ago is well given.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 336. My. 26, ’06. 210w.

Z

=Zacher, Albert.= Rome as an art city. *$1. Scribner.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 927. D. 30, ’05. 90w.

=Zedtwitz, Baroness von.= Double doctrine of the church of Rome. 35c. Revell.

The author has prepared this repudiation of the two-fold system of the
Romish church with a view of proclaiming her final renunciation of
papacy.

* * * * *

=Arena.= 36: 442. O. ’06. 1430w.

=Ind.= 60: 1227. My. 24, ’06. 100w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 765. Je. ’06. 110w.

=Ziémssen, Ludwig.= Johann Sebastian Bach; tr. from the German by George P. Upton. *60c. McClurg.

“While it is in the main accurate as to the facts it is not entirely
so.” Richard Aldrich.

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 336. My. 26, ’06. 230w.

=Zilliacus, Konni.= Russian revolutionary movement: a history of the various uprisings from the beginning. *$2.50. Dutton.

“With the exception of occasional slips, very few in number, the
translation is entirely adequate.”

+ + – =Nation.= 82: 411. My. 17, ’06. 2840w.

“M. Zilliacus merely repeats what has already been given in some dozen
books during the last few months. The one merit of the book is the
author’s confession of bias.”

– =Sat. R.= 100: 219. Ag. 12, ’05. 140w.

=Zimmern, Alice.= Old tales from Rome. †$1.25. McClurg.

A three part story book whose tales are founded upon legends and
fables of Rome as related by Virgil. Part I. gives the story of Aeneas
and his comrades from the fall of Troy to the founding of Lavinium;
part II. carries the date thru the early years of Rome to the period
when fable is merged in history; part III. consists of a group of
stories partly Italian in origin, partly Greek, yet “essentially are
Latin in spirit and treatment.”

* * * * *

+ =Critic.= 49: 96. Jl. ’06. 100w.

=Dial.= 40: 302. My. 1, ’06. 50w.

“The author would have done better, we think, to have kept her book
free from any dependence upon the previous reading of her ‘Old tales
from Greece.’”

+ – =Nation.= 82: 365. My. 3, ’06. 170w.

“If a comparison were to be made between Alice Zimmern and other
authors who have been moved to do similar things, it is that the
former is conspicuous for the tactful respect she pays juvenile
intelligence.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 341. My. 26, ’06. 330w.

“It would not be easy to conceive of a better or more gracefully
written book of the kind, which is in every respect an admirable
companion volume to ‘Tales of old Greece.’”

+ + =Spec.= 95: sup. 907. D. 2, ’05. 90w.

=Zueblin, Charles.= Decade of civic development. *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.

A sketch of the “civic renascence” in America “is not merely a
chronicle of civic development for the last decade. Its tone is
hortatory and also prophetic.” (School R.) Under the following chapter
headings, there is material for teachers to use in awakening the
“civic consciousness” in pupils: The new civic spirit, The training of
the citizen, The making of the city, “The White city” and after,
Metropolitan Boston, Greater New York, The Harrisburg plan,
Washington, old and new, The return to nature.

* * * * *

“The well-founded optimism of the book, the attractive record of fact,
the revelation of correlation and co-ordination, and the fascinating
glimpses of realizable possibility give this little volume a place of
unusual value.” E. G. Routzahn.

+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 188. Jl. ’06. 290w.

“The book is optimistic in tone, and is well worth the perusal of
those who have bewailed the failure of American municipal government.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 424. Mr. ’06. 110w.

“Refreshingly interesting.”

+ =Dial.= 40: 200. Mr. 16, ’06. 370w.

“In mechanical execution and in subject-matter the book is exceedingly
attractive. It is a book for the student of society, the teacher, and
the general reader.” Nathaniel Butler.

+ + =School R.= 14: 67. Ja. ’06. 370w.

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

1. P. 32, changed “experiences in contain” to “experiences and contain”. 2. P. 79, changed “Socialpolitik” to “Sozialpolitik”. 3. P. 120, “The style is excellent, the spirit earnest, the” was truncated in source. 4. P. 138, “This is a compilation of explicit and prac-” was truncated in source. 5. P. 183, “criticism of three current conceptions of” was truncated in source. 6. P. 243, changed “Instituto Italiano d’arts grafichi” to “Istituto Italiano d’arts grafiche”. 7. P. 253, “to Cardinal Newman, with his re-” was truncated in source. 8. P. 332, “day for him against the deep treachery that a” was truncated in source. 9. 336, “and fascinating—he gives a most at-” was truncated in source. 10. Table of Contents added by transcriber. 11. Please note that the publisher split hyphenated surnames. The portion after the hyphen was listed before the forename. The portion before the split was listed after the forenames with a hyphen. E.g. E. Burton-Brown was listed as =Brown, E. Burton-.= 12. Removed the bold markup from book titles with no author listed. This is to be consistent with book titles with authors listed. Also the publisher was inconsistent in the book title markup—usually only the first word but sometimes the entire title. 13. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling. 14. Retained anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed. 15. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. 16. Enclosed bold font in =equals=. 17. Did not use a hanging indent in book description in text version. This is to aid with electronic processing.

End of Project Gutenberg's The Book Review Digest, Volume II, 1906, by Various