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“Berkshire has found in her new biographer a most sympathetic
interpreter, one who knows how to read the meaning of the most trivial
everyday incidents, and to trace their connection with those of days
gone by.”

+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: 365. F. ’07. 200w.

“The work is well designed for those who wish to know, but do not
already know, this country of meadows and downs and dapper woods. But
the Berkshire man will miss much, especially he who has had commerce
with the southern and eastern sides.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 36. F. 1, ’07. 1030w.

+ =Nation.= 84: 133. F. 7, ’07. 410w.

“The style of production, the illustrations and the spirit of the
author will together insure the volume a wide popularity. Mr. Vincent
is never dull.”

+ + =Nature.= 75: 149. D. 13, ’06. 150w.

“The illustrations by Frederick L. Griggs are quaintly attractive, and
the artist has caught the spirit of the text in a most happy manner.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 68. F. 2, ’07. 130w.

+ =Outlook.= 85: 574. Mr. 9, ’07. 200w.

“On the whole he is a good and pleasant general guide, and his book
one of the most thorough and interesting in the series.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 305. Mr. 9, ’07. 280w.

“Mr. Vincent informs all that he sees with his own joyous temper, and
gossips of men and things in a spirit so frank and candid, yet so free
withal from malice, that he would be a dull soul indeed who failed to
catch the infection of his gaiety. Besides the light-heartedness to
which he confesses in his preface, the writer brings to his task,
literary acquirements of no mean order, a genuine love for the county
of his adoption, an eye for the larger effects of nature, and a happy
ease of style.”

+ =Spec.= 98: 502. Mr. 30, ’07. 1640w.

=Vinci, Leonardo da.= Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, with critical introd. by Charles L. Hind. (Drawings of great masters.) *$2.50. Scribner.

“As Mr. Hind remarks, Leonardo da Vinci found in drawing the readiest
and most stimulating way of self-expression. One welcomes with
pleasure the extremely clear and fine renderings of some fifty of the
drawings in this volume. The critical study by Mr. Hind is
discriminating and sympathetic.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

+ =Dial.= 42: 231. Ap. 1, ’07. 40w.

+ =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 53. D. ’06. 130w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 837. D. 1, ’06. 250w.

=Outlook.= 84: 141. S. 15, ’06. 50w.

=Outlook.= 84: 705. N. 24, ’06. 30w.

=Vinci, Leonardo da.= Note-books; arranged and rendered into English, with introd. by Edward McCurdy. *$3.50. Scribner.

7–15913.

An anthology of Leonardo’s work in literature comprising the record
and results of his studies in the theory of art together with
fragments of literary composition of a philosophical or imaginative
character, and much personal and biographical matter.

* * * * *

“His translation is always lucid, when the original permits it to be
so.”

+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 360. O. 26, ’06. 1630w.

“We have observed only two errors In Mr. McCurdy’s contributions to
the volume.”

+ + − =Nation.= 84: 67. Ja. 17. ’07. 610w.

“The collection of the great Italian’s notes should be put into the
hands of every young artist—indeed, one might say of every man.”

+ + =Outlook.= 84: 705. N. 24, ’06. 210w.

+ =Spec.= 98: 92. Ja. 19, ’07. 1530w.

* =Voorhees, Irving Wilson.= Teachings of Thomas Henry Huxley. $1. Broadway pub.

7–30873.

“After recounting with brevity the influences of heredity and
environment which acted upon Huxley’s early years, the author sets
forth and discusses his teachings in biology, theology, education,
morals, and psychology, and concerning individual rights and the
gospel of work. He believes that two main forces were at work
throughout Huxley’s life—‘the one that of the scientific investigator,
full of enthusiasm, dominant, persevering, toiling arduously day by
day.... The other that of the polemical philosopher, fond of
arguments, combative ... fighting ... partly for victory, partly for
the upholding of what he deemed a principle of ideal.’”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“A sympathetic interpretation.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 1438. D. 12, ’07. 60w.

“The book is written impartially, recognizing fully the philosopher’s
great services to scientific advancement, but discussing freely the
flaws in his theories.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 718. N. 9, ’07. 170w.

=Vries, Hugo de.= Plant breeding: comments on the experiments of Nilsson and Burbank. *$1.50. Open ct.

7–19453.

“After a general survey of the historical material, Professor De Vries
examines the work of these two men in the light of recent discoveries
in heredity and hybridization, and uses their results to test the
Darwinian theory and the mutation theory, and finds all the data in
favor of the latter.”—Lit. D.

* * * * *

“Can be heartily commended to the practical farmer and gardener as
well as to the scientific student.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 198. N. ’07.

“The book is one that can be confidently commended to the notice of
the practical plantbreeder as well as to the students of science.”

+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 242. Ag. 31. 1730w.

“It is a compact and popular presentation of the recent wonderful
development in methods of plant breeding, and a clear statement of the
bearing of all this vast experimental work upon the author’s theory of
mutation. Altogether, the book is full of pregnant suggestions, and
should do much toward clearing up some of the evident confusion
concerning the views of the distinguished author.” J. M. C.

+ + =Bot. Gaz.= 44: 47. Ag. ’07. 2250w.

“The volume is clearly and pleasantly written, and as the forms of
plant-life discussed are those in which there is much general
interest,—such as wheat, oats, corn, and various fruits,—it may be
read with satisfaction and profit by all.”

+ + =Dial.= 43: 43. Jl. 16, ’07. 320w.

“The chapter on the association of characters—correlation biologists
usually call it—is simply rich in its array of facts and its
suggestiveness, and the keen analysis of the methods and results of
plant amelioration is equally admirable. The whole book is perfectly
comprehensible by the general reader.”

+ + =Ind.= 63: 694. S. 19, ’07. 220w.

“This book is one of the most valuable contributions to botanical
science that has appeared in recent years. It will be widely read
because of the clear scientific discussion of the principles that
underlie plant breeding.” Carlton C. Curtis.

+ + + =J. Philos.= 4: 606. O. 24, ’07. 2260w.

“The book is full of valuable information for the live farmer, the
gardener, nurseryman, or seed-grower, as well as for the student of
evolution and the lover of plants.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 61. Jl. 13, ’07. 270w.

“The volume can be heartily recommended as an interesting and safe
guide to amateurs who desire to examine more closely the variant
plants around them.”

+ + =Nation.= 85: 238. S. 12, ’07. 760w.

=Vries, Hugo de.= Species and varieties; their origin by imitations; ed. by Daniel T. MacDougal. 2d ed. *$5. Open ct.

“Very few changes are to be seen in the new edition.... The few errors
of the first edition have been corrected, and some alterations have
been made for the sake of clearness.”—Bot. Gaz.

* * * * *

“The most important new feature is an explanatory note on variations
in ‘Oenothera biennis.’” H. C. Cowles.

+ + =Bot. Gaz.= 43: 140. F. ’07. 150w.

“All the misprints that we pointed out in our review of the first
edition have been corrected; and even our suggestion that uniformity
in the termination of the adjectives derived from such terms as
physiology was desirable has been adopted. But, curiously enough, the
uniformity is intra-verbal and not inter-verbal. There is no need to
commend the book. It is indispensable, inasmuch as it is the only
available account of Prof, de Vries’s work in English, so far.” A. D.
D.

+ + − =Nature.= 75: 268. F. 17, ’07. 230w.

W

=Waddell, Laurence Austine.= Lhasa and its mysteries: with a record of the expedition of 1903–1904. 3d ed. *$3. Dutton.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

Reviewed by H. E. Coblentz.

+ =Dial.= 42: 43. Ja. 16, ’07. 460w.

=Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton.= Building the nation: stories of how our fathers lived, and what they did to make our country a united one. †75c. Wilde.

7–26964.

The third volume in the “Uncle Sam’s old-time story” series. This
portion of the history deals with the revolution and is a well taught
lesson in American patriotism.

=Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton.= Ten Indian hunters: stories of famous Indian hunters. il. †$1. Wilde.

7–26965.

The fourth volume in Mrs. Wade’s Indian series tells of ten hunters
who gained prowess among their several tribes for their cunning and
ability to trap game. Aside from their successful efforts, daring
adventure and marvelous skill, the stories picture the various tribes
and their manner of living.

=Wagner, Charles.= My impressions of America; tr. from the French by Mary Louise Hendee. **$1. McClure.

6–33643.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Sweet-tempered and simple-minded little book.” James F. Muirhead.

+ =Atlan.= 100: 558. O. ’07. 100w.

+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 638. F. ’07. 330w.

=Wagner, (Wilhelm) Richard.= Tannhauser; a dramatic poem freely translated in poetic narrative form by Oliver Huckel. **75c. Crowell.

6–32851.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Worthy of a place in any library where there is sufficient interest
in musical drama.”

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 50. F. ’07. S.

+ =Ind.= 62: 498. F. 28, ’07. 150w.

“Is a rather languid performance.”

− =Nation.= 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 30w.

=Walcott, Earle Ashley.= Apple of discord. †$1.50. Bobbs.

7–31209.

A tale of San Francisco during the days of the “Sand-lot” riots and
the attempted Chinese expulsion. There is a double love story running
thru the stress and storm, the more unique of which concerns “Big
Sam,” the king of Chinatown and little Moon Ying, the contested
possession of two rival tongs.

* * * * *

“For those who find diversion in excitement, this story will furnish
marked satisfaction.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 740. N. 16, ’07. 230w.

=Walford, Lucy Bethia.= Enlightenment of Olivia. $1.50. Longmans.

7–31230.

The study of a female egotist. “The character of the heroine seems on
the whole original, and is drawn with much humour. The Oxford
professor who, unconsciously to himself, becomes the instrument of her
reformation, can scarcely be taken seriously, and it seems to us that
the author did not at first intend him for the monstrosity into which
he developes. Olivia’s husband, on the other hand, is an admirable
specimen of the middle-class British Philistine at his very
best—manly, honorable, and chivalrous to the finger-tips, but alas!
somewhat of a bore.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“A book which at least will not offend through lack of taste or
carelessness of style. There is never anything complex about either
her plots or her characters, but she tells her tale simply in good
plain English and, as a result, her books are eminently readable.”

+ =Acad.= 73: 682. Jl. 13, ’07. 240w.

+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 723. Je. 15. 120w.

“Mrs. Walford’s tales are reminiscent of Mrs. Oliphant’s peaceful
stories of English country life, calm and uneventful, but nevertheless
full of pleasant interest and restful to a weary mind on a hot
summer’s day.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 140w.

“It is not art, and being artless no limit can be set anywhere to its
mischief nor in England to its circulation.”

− =Sat. R.= 104: 21. Jl. 6, ’07. 480w.

=Walker, Alice Morehouse.= Historic Hadley: a story of the making of a famous Massachusetts town. **$1. Grafton press.

6–30490.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The little book too, is accurate, never sacrificing the facts to
readability or picturesqueness. Has value both literary and historic,
and considerable narrative charm.”

+ + =Nation.= 84: 110. Ja. 31, ’07. 550w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 756. N. 17, ’06. 250w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 110. Ja. ’07. 100w.

=Walker, Dawson.= Gift of tongues and other essays. *$1.75. Scribner.

“A series of able and scholarly essays on certain New Testament
problems; the speaking with tongues in the apostolic church, the legal
phraseology in the Epistle to the Galatians, the visit to Jerusalem
recorded in the second chapter of that epistle and its relation to the
fifteenth chapter of the Acts, and the date of the Acts and the third
gospel.”—Sat R.

* * * * *

“Though none of these essays makes any notable contribution to the
subject, and the conclusions of the first and last are distinctly
improbable, all are worthy of attention.”

+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 182. Ja. ’07. 170w.

“The book will have little influence on the trend of opinion.” Wm. R.
Shoemaker.

− =Bib. World.= 30: 76. Jl. ’07. 420w.

“All would do well to read Dr. Walker’s essays; he arranges his facts
well, writes clearly, and is always interesting; his essay on the gift
of tongues is the best we have ever read on that puzzling problem.”

+ =Sat. R.= 102: 372. S. 22, ’06. 180w.

=Walker, Ernest.= Beethoven. $1. Brentano’s. W 5–8.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“A thoughtful little book.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 840. D. 29. 170w.

=Walker, Margaret Coulson.= Lady Hollyhock and her friends: a book of nature dolls and others; drawings by Mary Isabel Hunt. †$1.25. Baker.

6–39448.

A happy thought for little people which will provide busy work the
year round. Cucumber, radish, and corn dolls, pansy, hollyhock and
poppy maids, apple, peanut and acorn children—and pictures to show how
they are made.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 253. D. ’06.

+ =Ind.= 61: 1411. D. 22, ’06. 30w.

+ =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 30w.

“An interesting book for all little folks ... for it will give them no
end of the sort of employment that all children like.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 90w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 766. D. ’06. 50w.

=Walker, Rev. William Lowe.= Christian theism and a spiritual monism: God, freedom and immortality in view of monistic evolution. *$3. Scribner.

7–12986.

“The work aims to show what ground there is for Christian theism in
the spiritual monism toward which science and philosophy now
preponderate. Its author ... endeavors to ‘set forth that spiritual
interpretation of the universe on the basis of Mr. Spencer’s system of
philosophy which he himself affirmed to be possible.’... The argument
is mainly objective, in an inductive method, and designed for ‘the
plain man.’”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“Nowhere have we seen this thesis more lucidly and convincingly
handled than by this able writer.”

+ =Acad.= 71: 521. N. 24, ’06. 1190w.

“A very readable book. Mr. Walker shows wide reading in science and
philosophy, and states his position with clearness and force.” W. C.
Kierstead.

+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 548. Jl. ’07. 490w.

“Though the work falls short of its aim in some central questions, it
is, on the whole, a stimulating contribution to further discussions,
and a strong presentation of the harmony of science and religion.”

+ − =Outlook.= 83: 1006. Ag. 25, ’06. 610w.

“However valuable this line of thought may be, it requires a deeper
treatment to make it convincing.”

− + =Sat. R.= 103: 592. My. 11, ’07. 1820w.

=Walker, Williston.= John Calvin, the organizer of reformed Protestantism, 1509–1564. **$1.35. Putnam.

6–34268.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 50. F. ’07. S.

“There are no errors of vital importance. The reviewer would dissent
from a few conclusions, which must, however, remain largely matters of
opinion. The amount to criticise is small; there is much to praise. To
say that the book is the best biography written in English is not
enough. No other equally brief life has so well assimilated the vast
amount of material or summed up Calvin’s character and career with so
much insight; and no other life of Calvin preserves throughout so
judicial a tone. It is a book whose scholarship will appeal to both
the church historian and the general historical reader.” Herbert
Darling Foster.

+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 366. Ja. ’07. 1210w.

“We accept what is given, and return thanks for a very good book.”

+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 131. F. 2. 280w.

“A fairly objective account from a sympathetic point of view.”

+ =Cath. World.= 85: 250. My. ’07. 70w.

“With a difficult subject, Professor Walker has taken particular pains
to be impartial and just, both to his hero’s greatness and his
failings, and he has succeeded well.”

+ =Ind.= 62: 1154. My. 16, ’07. 100w.

“For its scope and purpose Prof. Williston Walker’s biography of ‘John
Calvin’ is a model.”

+ + =Ind.= 63: 1236. N. 21, ’07. 30w.

“The picture which emerges from the pages of Professor Walker is
luminous.”

+ + =Nation.= 84: 15. Ja. 3, ’07. 1690w.

“His book is admirable in every way.”

+ + =Spec.= 97: 990. D. 15, ’06. 230w.

=Wallace, Dillon.= Long Labrador trail. *$1.50. Outing.

7–17002.

This “glorious record of American ‘do and dare’” follows the
wilderness adventure of one who besides being lured by the
irresistible call of the wild is fulfilling the command to accomplish
the work of exploration undertaken by his fallen leader, Leonidas
Hubbard, viz., to penetrate the Labrador peninsula from Groswater bay
to Lake Michikamau, thence thru the lake and northward over the
divide, where he hoped to locate the headwaters of the George river.

* * * * *

“It is a record of privation and heroism, well-told, full of the
irresistible charm of real exploration.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 173. O. ’07. S.

“It is to be doubted if he has added greatly to our knowledge of this
region; but he has certainly written an interesting book, wholly
independent of literary charm.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 442. O. 12. 460w.

“Somehow, the very lack of rhetorical polish seems appropriate in the
description of an undertaking which bespeaks essentially grim
determination, and offers little occasion for the play of the finer
feelings or of the imagination.” George Gladden.

+ =Bookm.= 25: 615. Ag. ’07. 840w.

“None can fail to enjoy the author’s account of his expedition.” H. E.
Coblentz.

+ =Dial.= 42: 374. Je. 16, ’07. 320w.

“A thoroughly interesting account of a country which, in desolation
may be said to rival the ‘Far north.’”

+ =Lit. D.= 35: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 300w.

“Mr. Wallace takes himself and his achievement a trifle too
seriously.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 100. Ag. 1, ’07. 370w.

“It is an interesting story that Mr. Wallace has recounted of perils
ignored and hardships welcomed, of grim and desolate wilds, and of the
strength, the courage, and the goodness of human nature rising always
above its environment.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 362. Je. 8, ’07. 720w.

“The details of the travelling supply an attractive narrative.”

+ =Spec.= 99: 438. S. 28, ’07. 170w.

=Wallace, Dillon.= Ungava Bob: a winter’s tale. †$1.50. Revell.

7–29093.

These experiences of a young fur trapper in the frozen interior of
Labrador are the sort that will put a lad in the corner and keep him
there until the last page is reached. There are encounters with wolves
on the fur trails, intimate portrayals of the life and humanity of the
Nascaupee Indians who capture and protect the hero, and stirring
accounts of dangerous adventures among the ice-packs of the Labrador
country.

* * * * *

“The story is told with the greatest simplicity and naturalness.
Characters and incidents all have the touch of verity.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 581. S. 28, ’07. 290w.

“Bob is a plucky young trapper, and his adventures are exciting
enough, but the chief merit of the book lies in the pictures of life
in the remote regions of Labrador and among the Indians and Eskimos of
that frozen country.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 312. O. 12, ’07. 160w.

=Wallace, Helen.= Coming of Isobel. $1.50. Cassell.

A story whose plot is founded upon coincidences. “When one young girl
is lost we are expected to believe that another exactly like her is
found; that this latter has lost her memory, and consequently acts as
an innocent substitute; and finally that the foundling is no other
than the half-sister of the lost girl.... Other detached coincidences
roughly hew the destinies of the family of whose fortunes this book is
a record.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“It is very feminine work in all its aspects, and carries with it
unnecessary tragedies and heartburnings. Problems such as are here
presented offer comparatively little difficulty in real life.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 297. S. 14. 150w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

=Wallace, Helen.= Sons of the Seigneur. $1.50. Outing pub.

7–20711.

A romance of the days of Cromwell with its scene laid in the Island of
Guernsey. A Royalist maid is the heroine and is loved by two brothers
one of whom is cruel and selfish while the other runs the round of
chance and peril to serve and protect her. The visit of King Charles
II. to the island in disguise is made the turning point in the story
which is full of action and feeling.

* * * * *

“On the whole, it is what may fairly be called a brave story of the
type it represents.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 26: 82. S. ’07. 290w.

− =Ind.= 63: 575. S. 5, ’07. 430w.

“The book is especially noteworthy for the fascinating character of
the heroine and the daintiness and charm of its love interest.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 170w.

“Notable constructive ability, fertility of invention, dramatic
imagination and good taste in the management of these various
faculties are all evident. The author has not succeeded, however, in
creating a historical atmosphere—the illusion of time and place.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 479. Ag. 3, ’07. 300w.

=Wallace, Lew (Lewis), general.= Lew Wallace: an autobiography. 2v. **$5. Harper.

6–38539.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=Current Literature.= 42: 178. F. ’07. 1800w.

“The book is excellent reading. Errors of haste or negligence,
including even lapses in grammar, and other more deliberate faults,
can be found by the critical; but their enumeration would be a
thankless task.” Percy F. Bicknell.

+ + − =Dial.= 42: 34. Ja. 16, ’07. 2180w.

“Quite equal in vividness to his fiction is the dramatic interest with
which General Wallace manages to invest the story of his life in some
of its vital facts.”

+ =Ind.= 62: 1093. My. 9, ’07. 670w.

“While it is, as a whole, entertaining, there is a diffuseness, an
over-elaboration of small points, and a too frequent triviality which
suggests lack of proper editorial revision. Literary merit aside, the
value of these volumes as a contribution to American history is not
inconsiderable.”

+ + − =Nation.= 84: 87. Ja. 24, ’07. 710w.

“Nothing I have read, except, perhaps, ‘Ben-Hur,’ has so filled my
heart and mind and thrilled me as this autobiography of General Lew
Wallace.” Oliver Otis Howard.

+ + + =No. Am.= 183: 1294. D. 21, ’06. 1940w.

Reviewed by Horatio S. Krans.

+ + − =Outlook.= 84: 1079. D. 29, ’06. 470w.

=Wallace, W. G.= Locomotive breakdown questions answered and illustrated; indexed for quick reference. $1.50. Drake, F. J.

7–21741.

Questions and answers just as they appeared in the Fireman’s magazine.
“All of us who have shared in those informal discussions around and
about the steel horse know their attraction, though realizing their
casual, undecisive or disconnected nature.” (Engin. N.)

* * * * *

“This collection might, with rearrangement, excision and addition,
serve a far more useful purpose in systematic education of the men
whose very business is system to a degree, and who deserve and are
always anxious to learn from those best qualified to teach them the
principles of mechanical science related to their duties.” H. Wade
Hibbard.

+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 293. S. 12, ’07. 560w.

=Waller, Mary Ella.= Through the gates of the Netherlands; with il. after Lalanne and others by A. A. Montferrand, reproduced in photogravure. **$3. Little.

6–42908.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 75. Mr. ’07.

“Tho her knowledge of history is not particularly striking, her
insight into human nature is quick and deep.”

+ − =Ind.= 62: 912. Ap. 18, ’07. 290w.

+ =Nation.= 84: 269. Mr. 21, ’07. 680w.

“The illustrations in this volume are excellent, and the text is full
of conviction and enthusiasm.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 109. Ja. ’07. 60w.

=Walling, Robert A. J.= Sea-dog of Devon: a life of Sir John Hawkins. **$1.75. Lane.

A popular biography of Hawkins which “vindicates the hero from the
charge of having inaugurated the British slave trade.”

* * * * *

“We are bound to say that it is not a biography in the received sense
of the word; that it is not the first; and that it is a poor réchauffé
of uncritical stuff.”

− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 13. Jl. 6. 180w.

“Mr. Walling’s book is a good, an interesting, and a useful piece of
work.”

+ =Dial.= 43: 215. O. 1, ’07. 300w.

“While it can hardly be called exhaustive, it is certainly readable
and animated.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 272. O. 5, ’07. 190w.

“Till a full biography appears, however, we shall do very well with
this book, which is a thoroughly workmanlike narrative with fairly
judicious comment. It has a strong flavour of hero-worship to be sure,
but we do not wish it to be without that, even though a hero
worshipper can scarcely be the best of judges.”

+ − =Spec.= 98: 718. My. 4, ’07. 1250w.

=Wallington, Nellie Urner.= Historic churches of America; with an introd. by E: E. Hale. **$2. Duffield.

7–31235.

Mrs. Wallington has made her study cover nearly seventy historic
churches of America. It traces “in some detail the first steps which
were taken in different parts of the nation by persons of distinct
religious motive who had exiled themselves from Europe and who meant
to maintain their allegiance to a living God.” The book is finely
illustrated.

* * * * *

“Brief but entertaining sketches.”

+ =Dial.= 43: 427. D. 16, ’07. 90w.

“The descriptions are picturesquely given and through the whole book
there is traced in detail the growth of the various religious
movements which took their starting point from the days of the
colonies and have found their outward expression in many notable
edifices thruout the country.”

+ =Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 100w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

“There is not as much information as one expects in a work of this
kind.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 758. N. 30, ’07. 140w.

=Walpole, Sir Spencer.= Studies in biography. *$4. Dutton.

7–29124.

Biographical essays upon celebrated men; including Peel, Cobden,
Disraeli, Gibbon, Lord Dufferin, Lord Shaftesbury, Bismarck, and
Napoleon III. A chapter upon “Some decisive marriages in history,”
concludes the volume.

* * * * *

“They deserve to be read for their balance of judgment and orderly
presentment of fact.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 288. Mr. 9. 720w.

“It should be added that the reader receives from all these essays an
impression as stimulating as if he had had a quiet and illuminating
conversation with a man of wide observation and fruitful reflection.”

+ =Dial.= 43: 254. O. 16, ’07. 470w.

“The essays in the present volume are all readable, and have to a high
degree the human interest which differentiates biography from general
history.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 226. Jl. 25, ’07. 230w.

“In the main, here as elsewhere, Sir Spencer Walpole is a writer who
will not dip his pen into the ink until he is quite sure of the
accuracy of the assertion he is going to make. The road he takes us by
may not afford many romantic prospects but at least the guide knows
every inch of it.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 20. Ja. 18, ’07. 1510w.

“We welcome these essays ... not only for their intrinsic merits, but
because they are a sign of that trend toward biography which is needed
for the enriching of historical studies in general.”

+ =Nation.= 84: 340. Ap. 11, ’07. 1040w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 68. F. 2, ’07. 300w.

“These studies are notable for a temperate and judicial spirit. They
are uniformly edifying; and though they do not sway the mind by high
eloquence they never descend to dullness or commonplace, but win
sympathetic assent by their workmanlike thoroughness and their
manifest frankness.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 132. Mr. 2, ’07. 750w.

“Sir Spencer Walpole’s volume is characterized by profound erudition
and real literary distinction as well as by critical acumen and
breadth of view.”

+ + =Outlook.= 86: 335. Je. 15, ’07. 1220w.

Reviewed by W. Roy Smith.

+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 360. Je. ’07. 1000w.

“The whole book is well worth reading, if only that we may have our
vague knowledge of political history arranged and corrected by a
writer who rarely suffers the informing instinct to oust the critical
faculty.”

+ + − =Spec.= 98: 371. Mr. 9, ’07. 1390w.

=Walsh, James Joseph.= Catholic churchmen in science: sketches of the lives of Catholic ecclesiastics who were among the great founders in science. *$1. Dolphin press.

6–38910.

In order to refute the charge that the Roman Catholic church is the
enemy of science, the author has prepared brief biographies of some
Catholic ecclesiastics who have made important contributions to
physical science. They include: Copernicus, Basil Valentine, Linacre,
Father Kircher, Bishop Stenson, Abbé Haüy, and Abbot Mendel.

* * * * *

“The doctor has enhanced the value of this welcome little book by
prefixing a short, forcible answer to the claim that science and
religion are in conflict.”

+ =Cath. World.= 84: 548. Ja. ’07. 260w.

+ =Ind.= 62: 333. F. 7, ’07. 170w.

=Walsh, James Joseph.= Makers of modern medicine. *$2. Fordham university press.

7–7512.

The volume “is not simply a series of biographies of men who have in
the past two hundred years or so helped in building up the modern
science of healing, written with no other view than the setting forth
of their discoveries and their title of fame. It has an ulterior
motive, and this motive is to show that among these men were a dozen
at least who were content to accept the teachings of the Christian
religion, and in particular those of the Roman Catholic branch of that
religion.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“Dr. Walsh has drawn from many sources, not always judiciously
(certainly not judicially). These sources are often so insufficiently
indicated that it is not easy to verify the statements that flow
freely from his facile, sometimes almost too facile pen. The list of
‘makers’ will hardly satisfy all readers.”

− + =Nation.= 84: 526. Je. 6, ’07. 320w.

“The book, though interesting and informing in itself, is not so much
designed as a contribution to medical history as it is to overthrow
the notion expressed in the old saying that where there are three
doctors there will be two atheists.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 372. Je. 8, ’07. 670w.

“For the purpose for which they are aimed, the general instruction of
the public in matters pertaining to medical history, they are, like
the similar essays of Richardson, extremely entertaining and useful.”
W. G. MacCallum.

+ =Science=, n.s. 26: 251. Ag. 23, ’07. 450w.

=Walsh, Walter.= Moral damage of war. *75c. Ginn.

6–37868.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“It is a rhetorical and aggressive, but it is also in its way a
useful, arraignment of the war system.”

+ =Outlook.= 85: 768. Mr. 30, ’07. 330w.

=Walters, Henry Beauchamp.= Art of the Greeks. $6. Macmillan.

7–35229.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 145. My. ’07.

“The publishers have produced such a charming book in all external
respects that it seems a pity it should not be equally satisfying to
the mind of the classical scholar.”

− + =Dial.= 42: 147. Mr. 1, 07. 380w.

“As a whole the book is written with singular lucidity and charm, and
is evidently the flower of deep and painstaking scholarship.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 334. O. ’07. 260w.

“Contains a mass of information intelligently grouped but not
commented on.”

+ =Sat. R.= 103: 145. F. 2, ’07. 1300w.

* =Waltham, T. Ernest=, ed. Tangerine: a child’s letters from Morocco. $1.50. Macmillan.

The impressions of a little English girl during a short visit to the
chief coast town of Morocco. “The human interest is predominant, of
course, and it is illustrated by some good photographs of the
Tangerines with the wonderful backgrounds of Moorish architecture.”
(Spec.)

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

“To [children] ‘Tangerine’ ought to be a charming picture-book, and a
gift-book with a somewhat unusual interest attaching to it.”

+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 748. N. 16, ’07. 90w.

=Walton, Mrs. Octavius Frank.= Doctor Forester. $1.25. Union press.

A hidden treasure, a secret stairway, strange footsteps heard at night
in an old tower, all help to make the summer vacation of Dr. Forester
a notable one. His love story, so hopelessly interwoven with that of
his best friend, also adds excitement to his time of rest and
recreation, but his reward more than repays his worry and distress.

=Ward, Cyrennus Osborne.= The ancient lowly: a story of the ancient working people from the earliest known period to the adoption of Christianity by Constantine. 2v. ea. $2. Kerr.

In which the author traces the early history of modern socialism. “Its
conspicuous merit is the light which it throws on the seamy side of
life in the pre-Christian era, as revealed by the fragmentary writings
of ancient historians and by the inscriptional discoveries of modern
archæology. Its conspicuous defect is the strained interpretation
given to the facts with which it is concerned, and the violent, even
incendiary spirit in which these facts are discussed. It is, indeed, a
work admirably calculated to inflame the already lamentably intense
feeling of class hatred.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“This is manifestly not the appropriate place for the discussion of a
purely controversial work of this kind. Mr. Ward does not write in
English conspicuous for clearness or for grace, and his positiveness
of statement is not reassuring and fails to inspire confidence.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 306. My. 11, ’07. 400w.

“Undoubtedly containing much of value to the discriminating student of
history, and obviously the result of years of arduous research, it is
nevertheless for the general public a book of pernicious influence,
contributing nothing to the solution of actual present-day problems
and making for greater discontent and bitterness. One is almost
tempted to declare that the historical method of investigation has
seldom been more sadly misapplied.”

− + =Outlook.= 87: 538. N. 9, ’07. 740w.

=Ward, Elizabeth Stuart (Phelps) (Mrs. Herbert D. Ward).= Man in the case; il. by H: J. Peck. †$1.50. Houghton.

6–32116.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“It is rather surprising to find a veteran like the author employing a
plot so worn and transparent as the plot of ‘The man in the case;’ but
she certainly managed to make her story attractive.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 797. D. 22. 130w.

“A good story, full of emotion and suspense, without any recourse at
all to sensational methods.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 125. Ja. ’07. 180w.

“The book is inadequate as a psychological study.”

− + =Sat. R.= 103: 56. Ja. 12, ’07. 200w.

=Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.= Walled in. †$1.50. Harper.

7–33590.

A story of a college town. Professor Ferris, a singularly strong man,
is “walled in” by a terrible automobile accident. His months of
convalescence reveal his enduring qualities which are contrasted with
the impatience and frivolity of his butterfly wife. The story follows
the love of this man for two women, one whose waywardness is her own
undoing and one whose strength and beauty of character bring their own
reward.

* * * * *

“Told in somewhat long-drawn-out fashion.”

− =Outlook.= 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 150w.

=Ward, Lester Frank.= Applied sociology: a treatise on the conscious improvement of society by society. *$2.50. Ginn.

6–23549.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“It is an epoch making work. Not only is it a contribution to social
science of first-rate value; but it is also of fundamental practical
interest to education. No other book has done so much to reveal the
true function of knowledge.” George Elliott Howard.

+ + + =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 854. My. ’07. 1830w.

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 76. Mr. ’07.

“Whether one agrees with all Dr. Ward’s thesis or not, he will profit
by a careful study of this book. In correctness of statement, and in
rigorous application of scientific methods, it is to be commended to
all who have occasion to write upon matters social.” Carl Kelsey.

+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 487. N. ’06. 990w.

“While exhibiting some of the characteristic defects of its class, Mr.
Ward’s work is always marked by vigorous thinking and seldom, fails to
prove interesting and suggestive.”

+ + − =Nation.= 83: 502. D. 27, ’06. 650w.

“This great book is a noble crown to the author’s philosophy. No
writer has presented so powerfully the claims of education as a
conscious social policy. No one has so vindicated the worth of the
teacher’s work.” Edward Alsworth Ross.

+ + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 356. Je. ’07. 960w.

=Wardle, Jens.= Artistic temperament. †$1.50. McClure.

7–21364.

“Mr. Stephen Cartmel is a painter. He is engaged to a young woman with
a rich father, and all the qualities which serve best to steady a man
with the artistic tendency to flit from flower to flower. She is not
beautiful, but she is serious, womanly, and staying and she loves him
protectingly. Then Mr. Stephen Cartmel journeys by cab into Tooting to
call upon a neglected school friend.... And he meets the friend’s
pretty wife—who began by being his typist, and has been starving all
her life for art, romance, and beauty. Delia Blaicklock sits to Mr.
Cartmel for her portrait—and the artistic temperament gets in its
work.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“This novel is quite as tiresome as its title would lead us to
expect.”

− =Acad.= 72: 295. My. 23, ’07. 480w.

“There is not a dull page in it. Like many English novels which ought
to sell better in this country than they do, it strikes deep, keeping
a firm hold on elemental things in human nature.”

+ =Lit. D.= 35: 208. Ag. 10, ’07. 380w.

+ =Nation.= 85: 122. Ag. 8, ’07. 550w.

“Miss Wardle manages the theme admirably—with insight, humor,
comprehension, sympa-

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 476. Ag. 3, ’07. 660w.

=Waring, Henry F.= Christianity and its Bible: a text-book for private reading. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.

7–19773.

Addresses the audience of “clear-eyed middle-men between the
specialists and the ordinary readers.” It surveys the whole religious
field in a practical trustworthy manner, “gives pigeon-holes,” as the
author says, “in which to put the valuable results of all future
hearing, reading. and study concerning religious themes.”

* * * * *

“The task is well done, and the book will be of great value to all who
are thoughtfully interested in its theme.”

+ =Bib. World.= 29: 479. Je. ’07. 80w.

“It is both a trustworthy and a useful book, well adapted to increase
religious intelligence in a period of mingled joy and faith.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 790. Ag. 10, ’07. 140w.

=Waring, Luther Hess.= Law and the gospel of labor. *$1. Neale.

7–29710.

A two part study, whose aim is to present, first, the law of the land,
and, secondly, the highest law known to man,—the gospel of Jesus
Christ.

=Warner, Beverley Ellison.= Famous introductions to Shakespeare’s plays by the notable editors of the eighteenth century, ed. with a critical introd., biographical and explanatory notes. **$2.50. Dodd.

6–9259.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 76. Mr. ’07.

=Warner, Horace Everett.= Cricket’s song and other melodies. **$1. Lippincott.

7–31376.

Two score and ten poems which are concerned with life, here and
hereafter, with mother love, Indian legend, the roar of the weird and
thunder of man made things.

=Warren, Ina Russelle=, comp. Under the holly bough: a collection of Christmas poems. $1.50. Jacobs.

7–36928.

An anthology of Christmas verse from writers old and new which
presents the subject in a variety of phases, “from the holy sound of
the Christmas chimes, heralding the Day of days, to the merry laugh of
the little child over its toys.”

* * * * *

“A particularly attractive Christmas anthology.”

+ =Dial.= 43: 382. D. 1, ’07. 90w.

=Warren, Thomas Herbert.= Magdalen college, Oxford. (College monographs.) *75c. Dutton.

A history of Magdalen college by its present Head and Vice-Chancellor,
from its foundation in the dawn of the renaissance to the present.

* * * * *

“It contains as much local history as the general public is likely to
desire, and some interesting notes on the customs and worthies of
Magdalen.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 120. Ag. 8, ’07. 180w.

Reviewed by Goldwin Smith.

+ =Outlook.= 87: 78. S. 14, ’07. 1450w.

“Mr. Warren has given us a most interesting account of his college.”

+ =Spec.= 98: 804. My. 18, ’07. 260w.

=Warren, Waldo Pondray.= Thoughts on business. $1.25. Forbes.

7–33622.

A collection of more than two hundred editorials which have been
contributed to leading newspapers and have been called good by
prominent business men the country over. The general captions under
which the short talks are grouped are: Starting points,
Self-improvement, About methods, Developing the workers, With the
manager, Buying and selling, Words by the way, and Gleanings.

=Washburne, Marion Foster.= Family secrets. †$1.25. Macmillan.

7–14264.

Monologues which reveal the secrets of the inner sanctuary of the true
home. The revelator is a woman who when reverses come goes with her
husband to a little farm on the edge of a manufacturing town. She
lives for life’s sake, learns its values and the competence of love,
and believes that when women discover their social unequals, and
cherish them till they grow into social equals, then we shall begin to
get at the real secrets of that family which is the human race. She
says: “We must recognize that the brotherhood of man presupposes not
only the Fatherhood of God. but also the Motherhood of essential
woman.”

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 274. Ap. 27. ’07. 50w.

“A slender but not unpleasing narrative gives a certain coherence to
what is essentially a series of lay sermons upon many important
problems of domestic and social life.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 365. Je. 8, ’07. 400w.

“It is a kind of informal philosophy of the family life, very
pleasantly written, with a good deal of shrewdness and humor, and in a
wholesome attitude toward the trials, vexations, and tragedies of life
and character.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 255. Je. 1, ’07. 280w.

=Washington, Booker T.= Frederick Douglass. (American crisis biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.

7–8512.

A sympathetic study of a career which was identified with the race
problem in the period of revolution and liberation. The sketch reveals
Douglass as the personification of the historical events that marked
the transition from slavery to citizenship.

* * * * *

“It will interest both the student of history, and the student of
life—the ordinary reader.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 173. O. ’07. S.

“The book is exceedingly clear and simple in its style.” R. R. Wright,
jr.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 623. N. ’07. 320w.

“The book deserves a better index.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 397. O. 5. 1620w.

“The story is well told, with enthusiasm and admiration of the hero,
but with self-repression, dignity, and a high degree of ability as a
biographer.”

+ =Dial.= 42: 345. Je. 1. ’07. 280w.

“A tale at once moving and picturesque.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 251. Ap. 20, ’07. 1000w.

“It is remarkable because it gives with great frankness, great
impartiality, and an entire absence of bitterness of spirit, the views
of both men respecting slavery, reconstruction, the political rights
and duties of the negro, and the relations between the races.”

+ + =Outlook.= 86: 76. My. 11. ’07. 280w.

“The old story of the growth of the movement for abolition, and of
Douglass’s concern with it, was well worthy of being told again. It is
told in these pages simply, clearly and as fully as the limits of such
a biography admitted—better told, one is inclined to say than in
Douglass’s own version.” Montgomery Schuyler.

+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 105. O. ’07. 290w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 635. My. ’07. 140w.

“He has found an eminently worthy biographer.”

+ =Spec.= 99: 437. S. 28. ’07. 510w.

=Washington, Booker T., and Du Bois, W: E. Burghardt.= Negro in the South: his economic progress in relation to his moral and religious development; being the William Levi Bull lectures for the year 1907. **$1. Jacobs.

7–21310.

An objective study of the influence of slavery including two lectures
by Mr. Washington and two by Mr. Du Bois, as follows: The economic
development of the negro race in slavery; The economic development of
the negro race since its emancipation; The economic revolution in the
South; and Religion in the South.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 174. O. ’07.

=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 502. O. ’07. 230w.

“Du Bois is a dreamer, a rhapsodist, a sort of embodied consciousness
of the doom of his race. He writes always with tragic intensity and
drifts infallibly from facts and arguments to impassioned upbraidings.
anathemas, panegyrics. Booker Washington, a practical man and no
dreamer or poet, writes otherwise. He cannot see the tragic end. His
eye is fixed upon the present and the immediate future. He is made an
optimist by the good things he sees his race has already got and is
getting. He strives practically and sensibly to enable that race to
get as much as possible without alarming the other race.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 429. Jl. 6, ’07. 2070w.

“They contain an excellent summing up from the negro’s point of view
of the conditions, both adverse and favorable, under which the
Southern negro is gradually working out his own salvation.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 640. N. ’07. 90w.

=Washington, George.= Letters and recollections of George Washington; being letters to Tobias Lear and others between 1790 and 1799, showing the first American in the management of his estate and domestic affairs with a diary of Washington’s last days, kept by Mr. Lear; il. from rare old portraits, photographs and engravings. **$2.50. Doubleday.

6–25624.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“With more skilful editing and arrangement, and with a boldly applied
pruning hook, they would supply material for a vivid and sympathetic
sketch of Washington in the rôle of Cincinnatus.”

+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 652. Ap. 27, ’07. 360w.

=Watanna, Onoto, pseud. (Mrs. Winnifred Eaton Babcock) (Mrs. Bertrand Babcock).= Diary of Delia: being a veracious chronicle of the kitchen with some side-lights on the parlour. †$1.25. Doubleday.

7–18102.

“Delia is the maid-of-all-work for a ‘family of six,’ and so well is
she rendered that one gets an unaccustomed serious glimpse at many
things perhaps before unseen, through reading her diary, the humor of
which also exists independently of its simplified spelling à la
Irlandais. From that phrase it follows that Delia’s heart is in the
right place, so we know at once where her sympathies will be in her
young mistress’s love affair, and divine with equal certainty and
pleasure her ultimate possession of a sweetheart of her own.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“It is a pity that the author did not elect to tell the history of her
heroine in some other language intelligible to human beings. To say
that the book is lacking in any vestige of humor is not derogatory,
for no one expects humor in Yahoo or Tibetan.”

− =Lit. D.= 35: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 290w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.

“The comedy is good enough to inspire an occasional laugh, especially
when it runs into farce, and there are now and then some touches of
self-revelation of character by Delia and her friend Minnie that are
done rather deftly.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 418. Je. 29, ’07. 230w.

+ =Outlook.= 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 90w.

=Waterman, Nixon.= Boy wanted: a book of cheerful counsel. $1.25. Forbes.

6–46363.

Advice and incentive are happily united for the enterprising boy. The
keynote of the book is sounded in the following:

Ask no favors of “luck,”—win your way like a man;
Be active and earnest and plucky;
Then your work will come out just about as you plan
And the world will exclaim, “Oh how lucky.”

=Waters, N. McGee.= Heroes and heroism in common life: an appreciation of the things of every day life. **$1.25. Crowell.

7–29737.

A group of essays which turn back to the waysides and neglected places
where have dwelt masters of plain living and high thinking. A book to
be added to the simple-life literature of the library.

* * * * *

“The papers ... are quietly and pleasantly written, and while much of
their thought is commonplace, there are many passages of tender
feeling and vivid description which show appreciation of all that is
most beautiful in both nature and mankind.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 180w.

=Watson, Gilbert.= Caddie of St. Andrew’s. †$1.50. Holt.

The caddies of St. Andrew’s golf course were a pathetic group of
Scotch failures—fishermen who, worn out by their strenuous calling,
had drifted to the links. The particular caddie who gives the book its
title is Skipper, a cheerful old philosopher and toper whose rigid
daughter is the dread of his easy-going existence. His view of life
and the things to which it brings him form the story, which, though
full of Scotch humor, is nevertheless a tragedy.

=Watson, Gilbert.= Voice of the South. *$2.50. Dutton.

“While descriptive of some travels in southern Algeria, the book is a
narrative dealing with the return of an Arab to his desert home....
Athman, the hero in the book, is a poet, musician, and guide.... The
traveler was taken to many beautiful oases, including Sidi Okba, until
one day ... the guide and his employer, Sidi, as he called him, went
into an Arab café and there saw a desert woman dance.... She danced to
desert music the dance of the desert—the South—and Athman’s homeland.
Athman fell in love with her. The Sidi tried to buy her away from him,
but Athman drove away one dark night and was never heard of or seen
again.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“We would recommend ‘The voice of the South’ to all who have a taste
for good prose. To define or describe a good style is always
difficult; but in this particular case it is chiefly apparent in the
simple and adequate narrative, and in the descriptive passages, which
without being either pre-Raphaelite or impressionist, make us see
sufficiently all the important detail, and at the same time realise
the effect of the whole.”

+ + =Acad.= 70: 379. Ap. 21, ’06. 870w.

“A chatty, descriptive narrative.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 133. F. 3. 150w.

“The clear, suggestive and beautiful pictures of people, places, and
especially camels, bring you back to geographic reality from a
placeless world of fancy.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 405. N. 24, ’06. 380w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 612. S. 29, ’06. 310w.

=Watson, Helen H.= Andrew Goodfellow: a tale of 1805. $1.50. Macmillan.

The author’s first story which has its setting in the town of Plymouth
Dock during the time of Nelson. Its chief interest is concerned with
the sea.

* * * * *

“This lack of artistic treatment is to be regretted, as the author has
made an interesting choice of characters.”

+ − =Acad.= 71: 612. D. 15, ’06. 130w.

“We think it prettily handled and successfully rendered.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 826. D. 29. 210w.

“There is nothing original, nothing, indeed, remarkable. It is a happy
example of a simple thing done well.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 417. D. 14, ’06. 240w.

“It must be classed as better than the average of novels. It cannot be
said that the author succeeds in creating much historical atmosphere.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 66. F. 2, ’07. 410w.

“The story is told in a frank, open-hearted way, with no subtlety and
without much literary art.”

+ − =Outlook.= 85: 41. Ja. 5, ’07. 30w.

“The book is ably written and the plot well constructed, though the
only character that the author has carefully worked out is that of the
hero, Andrew Goodfellow.”

+ =Spec.= 97: 1084. D. 29, ’06. 190w.

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

6–31656.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“It is not often that a story which is written with such buoyancy is
also written with such care as Mr. Marriott Watson invariably bestows
upon his work.”

+ =Acad.= 72: 143. F. 9, ’07. 290w.

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 52. F. ’07. ✠

+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 129. F. 2. 440w.