Chapter 2: , on ‘Production,’ some of the world’s production tables and (2)

− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 400. O. 5. 130w.

“Grim as his story is, it must claim attention both for its passionate
devotion to an idea of mercy and charity, and for its profound
recognition of the organic and indestructible unity of human life.”
Harry James Smith.

+ =Atlan.= 100: 130. Jl. ’07. 750w.

“Is chiefly remarkable as an exhibit of the criminal under-world, its
viewpoint, its customs, and its speech.” Wm. M. Payne.

− =Dial.= 42: 314. My. 16, ’07. 200w.

“A serious book this, convincing even while one looks for the other
side of the picture—one of the most striking of the many indictments
of society of recent years.”

+ =Ind.= 62: 1031. My. 2, ’07. 340w.

“The author has an eye for details that give many passages of
description a distinctive virtue; but all the virtues are overborne by
the pulpit utterance, and swamped in a crowd of people who are all
very good or very bad as the illustration of the thesis demands.”

− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 366. N. 29, ’07. 430w.

“Contains many revelations of our own city life. It is fascinating to
read and—worth reading.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 170. Mr. 23, ’07. 640w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.

“Profoundly depressing is the effect of this story, yet the author
surely must have been moved by the desire to better the conditions he
describes with great power.”

+ − =Outlook.= 85: 812. Ap. 6, ’07. 180w.

=Whitlock, William Wallace.= When kings go forth to battle. †$1.50. Lippincott.

7–28962.

A small German principality is the seat of exciting warfare. An
unscrupulous king and a conniving “minister of interior improvements”
find their match in two invincible Americans who keep the secret of a
young prince’s hiding place, and with characteristic American energy
join in a revolutionary plot to unseat the reigning monarch and place
the prince upon the throne.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 619. O. 12, ’07. 160w.

=Whitmore, C. S.= Harmony flats: the gifts of a tenement-house fairy. 85c. Benziger.

7–22914.

All about some little neglected children whose squalor and suffering
in a New York tenement house are relieved by a kind benefactor, who
turns out to be the very irascible old gentleman whom the children had
greatly feared.

* =Whitney, Helen Hay.= Bed-time book; with pictures by Jessie Willcox Smith. †$1.50. Duffield.

7–25151.

A bed-time book for children even to the little nightgown-clad people
surrounding the text on every page marching off with their candles to
bed.

* * * * *

+ − =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 40w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 200w.

“The most attractive picture-book of the year. There is a strain of
seriousness, we might almost say sadness, underlying the expression of
Miss Smith’s characters, that the young folks may not find attractive,
though they may not penetrate deep enough into the philosophy of art
to know the cause. But artistically these pictures would be hard to
equal.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 766. D. ’07. 100w.

=Whitney, Rev. James Pounder.= Reformation: being an outline of the history of the church from A. D. 1503 to A. D. 1648. (Church universal ser., v. 6.) *$1.50. Macmillan.

7–37538.

A complete handbook of the reformation belonging to the series known
as “The church universal” which deals with the history of the
Christian church as a historic body.

* * * * *

“His effort ‘to be fair to all schools of thought and to all men to
the time’ has, in the opinion of the reviewer, met with indifferent
success. Chapters 7–9 (141 pages) are devoted to the Council of Trent.
Here we at once become aware that the author is treading on firmer
ground. He no longer deals in vague generalities or manifests the
‘possession’ on his part of vast supplies of ignorance and
misinformation, but he shows interest in the minutest details and the
possession of a creditable amount of authentic knowledge. These
chapters constitute the only really valuable part of the work and
justify its publication.” Albert Henry Newman.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 876. Jl. ’07. 820w.

“The treatment of the very large subject is brief and summary, the
point of view is Anglican, and the spirit non-partisan.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 763. S. 26, ’07. 50w.

“He has to do his work his own way, and he has done it admirably. But
we are sorry to say that he has sometimes been hasty, and has allowed
ill-shapen sentences and sometimes errors of fact to escape his
notice.”

+ + − =Sat. R.= 104: 244. Ag. 24, ’07. 440w.

=Whitson, John Harvey.= Castle of doubt. †$1.50. Little.

7–16940.

A novel in which a young man tells his own strange story. While
enjoying a spring-time stroll in Central Park he is suddenly
confronted by an up-to-date carriage containing two pretty women, one
of whom declares she is his wife. Despite his remonstrance he is
thrust into the carriage by the foot-man, embraced, welcomed and
carried off to a luxurious house where he is told that he is Julian
Randolph, a young millionaire whose sudden disappearance was a matter
of national comment two years before. So far the story differs little
from other novels of mistaken identity, but the concluding chapters,
which establish the right of the hero to the love and the position he
has come to covet, are unusual, unexpected, and well handled.

* * * * *

“Belongs [to] the class of books written for that optimistic age that
still can believe, if only for twenty-four hours, that the book last
read is the best book ever written.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 25: 600. Ag. ’07. 550w.

“Is an interesting story, not without many instances in real life to
prove its plausibility.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 574. S. 5, ’07. 230w.

“The tale is as puzzling as a detective story, and the denouement is
as much a surprise to the hero as to the reader.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.

“The story is well told, and modern New York is graphically pictured.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 100w.

* =Whittier, John Greenleaf.= John Greenleaf Whittier: a sketch of his life, by Bliss Perry, with selected poems. **75c. Houghton.

7–36386.

A short sketch of Whittier which leaves out the non-essentials and
presents the chief formative influences which made the character and
career of the poet. The poems chosen illustrate the trend of his
boyhood imagination, the political and social struggle of his mature
years, and the peace of the resting and waiting in which his life was
brought to a close.

Whys and wherefores of the automobile. il. 50c. Automobile Institute, Cleveland, O.

A simple explanation of the elements of the gasoline motor car,
prepared for the non-technical reader.

=Whyte, Christina Gowans.= Adventures of Merrywink. $2. Crowell.

A fresh, wholesome fairy tale which won the prize of £100 which the
Bookman of London offered for the best story submitted in a recent
competition.

* * * * *

“The illustrations are unequal, and though some are very feeble,
others are exceptionally good.”

+ − =Acad.= 71: 584. D. 8, ’06. 50w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 140w.

“The story is delightful, merry, and well written, certain to please
children.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 50w.

“A very fair specimen of the modern fairy tale.”

+ =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 60w.

=Whyte, Christina Gowans.= Nina’s career. †$1.50. Macmillan.

7–32567.

The doings of a group of wholesome English young folk are chronicled
in this story. The girl who was granddaughter to a Liberal peer, the
once-a-year friend who had to have an artistic career, a delightful
family of brothers and sisters, all help to make a pleasing tale of
youth, its amusements, ambitions, and achievements.

* * * * *

“A cheerful story, full of life and movement, and by no means lacking
in humour.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 652. N. 23. 110w.

=Whyte, Christina Gowans.= Story book girls. †$1.50. Macmillan.

6–41715.

“A group of English girls attempt to conduct their lives according to
story-book ideals. The difficulties in the way are innumerable, but
the faith is great, the rewards are many.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

+ =Acad.= 71: 643. D. 22, ’06. 90w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 50w.

“A very interestingly planned and well-executed book, with a
delightfully fresh plot.”

+ =Outlook.= 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 120w.

=Widney, Joseph Pomeroy.= Race-life of the Aryan peoples. 2v. **$4. Funk.

7–23307.

=v. 1. The old world.= Beginning with the Asiatic period in the race
life of the Aryan people, their various emigrations are here traced
chronologically into India and South and West Europe. The whole is an
unfolding of “The race epic which the Aryan peoples have lived.”

=v. 2. The new world.= In this volume the author carries his “race
epic” over seas and follows the westward march of the Aryan people
from ocean to ocean in America, discussing also present day conditions
and problems.

* * * * *

“It is what would be called in its own language a ‘live’ book, and for
that we are thankful. It is not to be expected that we should
sympathise wholly with American ideals and aspirations, or even those
of the best Americans, but we can pay Dr. Widney no higher compliment
than to wish that he had been born an Englishman, so that he might
have written this book from an English point of view.”

+ − =Acad.= 73: 161. N. 23, ’07. 990w.

“It is a pity that Mr. Widney, many of whose observations are
extremely shrewd, should have allowed a book that has evidently cost
him much labour to degenerate into a political pamphlet.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 484. O. 19. 970w.

“The best that can be said of the work is that it has swing and style
and may afford material for patriotic addresses. As for the scientific
value, it has none.”

− =Ind.= 63: 1375. D. 5, ’07. 410w.

“His book is not a compilation, nor is it a new statement of a theme
already set forth at length by other writers, but an original
conception worked out through fine research, carefully coordinated and
written in a clear and attractive style.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 208 Ag. 10, ’07. 420w.

“Though Widney’s book is instructive when read aright, that is, with a
clear conception of who the Aryan is and whence he came, yet it is
misleading, and very much so, if the reader ignores scientific
ethnology and anthropology as much as does the author.” Charles E.
Woodruff.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 497. Ag. 17, ’07. 2380w.

“His style is animated and energetic; he is philosophic, discursive,
poetic; he is quick to trace analogies and mark contrasts, fond of
generalization and prone to turn history into prophecy. The total
impression of his work is realistic and picturesque. His national and
international forecasts, with one prominent exception are the least
satisfactory portion of his work.”

+ − =Outlook.= 86: 973. Ag. 31, ’07. 400w.

“Not only the latest result of scholarship in ethnology, but an
unusually absorbing narrative.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 382. S. ’07. 270w.

“A highly interesting and suggestive book.”

+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 645. N. 2, ’07. 330w.

=Wieland, George Reber.= American fossil cycads. $6.25. Carnegie inst.

6–34020.

“This contribution to American paleo-botany is richly illustrated with
fifty plates and 138 text figures. It is an account of the American
collections of fossil cycads—plants allied to the fern—so far as they
have been studied, and the results of the author’s investigations on
the vegetative anatomy and reproductive organs, followed by a
comparison of these with similar structures in living cycads, and a
discussion of relationships.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“The monograph is creditable to American botany and the presswork of
the Carnegie institution.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 471. N. 29, ’06. 220w.

“A flood of light has been thrown on the morphology of an extinct
group of Mesozoic gymnosperms, which it is possible to study with a
precision and thoroughness hardly to be surpassed in the case of
recent plants.”

+ =Nature.= 75: 329. Ja. 31, ’07. 1760w.

“Marks a very important forward step in our knowledge of the
cycadales, while it also throws a great deal of light upon the general
problem of the phylogeny of the gymnosperms and their supposed
relation to filicinean ancestors.” D. P. Penhallow.

+ + =Science=, n. s. 25: 856. My. 31, ’07. 1530w.

=Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith) (Mrs. George C. Riggs).= New chronicles of Rebecca. †$1.25. Houghton.

7–11587.

Eleven more quaintly amusing chronicles which carry Rebecca thru
various stages of girlhood and bring her to her eighteenth birthday.
They are entitled: Jack o’lantern. Daughters of Zion, Rebecca’s
thought-book, A tragedy in millinery, The saving of the colors, The
state o’ Maine girl, The little prophet, Abner Simpson’s new leaf, The
green isle, Rebecca’s reminiscences, Abijah the brave and fair
Emmajane.

* * * * *

“Written with the quiet humour which is her characteristic.”

+ =Acad.= 73: 848. Ag. 31, ’07. 160w.

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 138. My. ’07. ✠

“The pathos is kept commendably in check, however, and there is plenty
of humour in the chronicle.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 179. Ag. 17. 210w.

“The stories are brimming with mirth and kindly sentiment.” Harry
James Smith.

+ =Atlan.= 100: 133. Jl. ’07. 80w.

Reviewed by Mary K. Ford.

=Bookm.= 25: 304. My. ’07. 800w.

“The story, abounding in touches of genuine humor and pathos, comes as
a delightful treat to both the older and younger reader.”

+ =Cath. World.= 85: 693. Ag. ’07. 120w.

“Conscious invention has taken the place of intuition. It is inferior
to its predecessor.”

+ − =Ind.= 63: 574. S. 5, ’07. 240w.

“There are here the same quaintness, pathos, and humor found in her
former books, the same understanding of the abysses of childhood, the
same realism and fidelity to nature. The pictures by F. C. Yohn are in
perfect tune with the story and a model of what novel illustrations
should be.”

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 640. Ap. 20, ’07. 290w.

=Nation.= 84: 362. Ap. 18, ’07. 200w.

“This volume is not quite up to the level of its predecessor.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 233. Ap. 13, ’07. 940w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.

“‘New chronicles of Rebecca’ have ... freshness of sentiment and
humor.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 115. My. 18, ’07. 190w.

“Those who did not make the acquaintance of Rebecca at Sunnybrook farm
are recommended not to miss the present opportunity.”

+ =Sat. R.= 104: 86. Jl. 20, ’07. 200w.

“Worthily maintain the reputation of a writer who has done for the
present generation of American and English readers much what Miss
Alcott did for its predecessor.”

+ =Spec.= 98: 1037. Je. 29. ’07. 990w.

=Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith) (Mrs. George C. Riggs).= Old Peabody pew; a Christmas romance of a country church. il. †$1.50. Houghton.

7–32837.

A Christmas story of a “certain handful of dear New England women of
names unknown, dwelling in a certain quiet village, alike unknown.” A
new carpet, pews washed in lieu of paint, and cushions mended with
care told on Christmas eve the story of days of hard work by the
Dorcas society. Among the number had been Nancy Wentworth who, quiet
and apart from the rest, had lavished her strength on the Peabody pew,
sacred to her early romance, where Christmas eve finds her alone
taking the last stitch in the worn-out cushion. To this spot comes
Justin Peabody the wanderer lover who, weary as the prodigal son,
seeks the comfort and love of Nancy.

* * * * *

“One of the prettiest novelettes of this season, as well as one of the
most delightful from a literary point of view.”

+ =Dial.= 43: 380. D. 1, ’07. 200w.

“It is withal so sweet and wholesome that we wish more books like it
might be written to take the place of the so-called ‘problem novels’
of the day.”

+ =Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14, ’07. 100w.

“Many pathetic and humorous touches.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 10w.

“Notwithstanding the slightness of the plot, there are all the
elements of humor and pathos and love that go to make up a story of
much sweetness, the kind one feels better for reading.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 716. N. 9, ’07. 100w.

“A characteristically bright tale of a New England life full of
sentiment and humor.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 30w.

=Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith) (Mrs. G. C. Riggs), and Smith, Nora Archibald.= Fairy ring. **$1.50. McClure.

6–42427.

Sixty-five fairy tales gathered from every nation. They include some
well known stories and some recently discovered ones.

* * * * *

“A choice collection.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 23. Ja. ’07. ✠

“Less hackneyed than those of the Cinderella kind. For that reason
they will read strangely, yet entertainingly to modern ears.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 13, ’06. 40w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 784. N. 24, ’06. 170w.

“Most readable fairy tales.”

+ =Outlook.= 85: 93. Ja. 12, ’07. 70w.

* =Wiggin, Mrs. Kate Douglas, and Smith, Nora Archibald=, eds. Pinafore and palace. †$1.50. McClure.

7–30444.

“This volume of jingles is judiciously divided, somewhat like Charles
Welsh’s edition of ‘Mother Goose,’ to accord with the physical
activities and dawning mental appreciation of small folk. There is a
diversity of selection, ranging from ‘Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, where have
you been?’ to Tennyson’s least childlike and most stilted poem,
‘Minnie and Winnie.’”—Nation.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 211. N. ’07. ✠

“Taken in a set, these three volumes of verse represent an agreeable
progress from classic jingle to rarest poetry.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 495. N. 28, ’07. 130w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 90w.

=Wigram, Edgar T. A.= Northern Spain; painted and described by Edgar T. A. Wigram. *$6. Macmillan.

“The kind of description which lies halfway between the guide-book and
the book of atmosphere.” (Outlook.) “The author made his tour as a
bicyclist. He journeyed with observing eyes, and very little in Spain
that was really worth while escaped him.” (Ind.) “Besides ‘hamlets’
and small towns, the traveler stopped at the larger cities, including
Covadonga and Asturias, Leon, Galicia, Benavente, Zamora, Toro,
Salamanca, Bejar, Avila, Toledo, Segovia, Burgos, Navarre, and
others.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“One cannot open these pages anywhere without being struck by our
author’s capacity for presenting a scene in words at once fit and
few.”

+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 9. Ja. 5. 1360w.

“As we read what he has written we see Spanish types with a new
significance, and we lay down the volume with a better and a clearer
understanding of Spain and the Spaniards.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 1398. D. 22, ’06. 150w.

“It is greatly to be regretted that Mr. Wigram ... was not accompanied
on his journey through Northern Spain by a professional painter who
would have been able to supplement his eloquent descriptions of the
scenes he visited by aesthetic presentments of them in colour. Gifted,
moreover, with a vivid imagination and a keen sense of humor, Mr.
Wigram manages to hit off in a few telling sentences the
idiosyncrasies not only of the men and women, but of the animals he
met.”

+ − =Int. Studio.= 35: 167. Ap. ’07. 340w.

“Mr. Wigram has well caught in his pictures the varied colors of
Spain, which seem at first glance so inharmonious when viewed by
essentially Occidental eyes. But they are true, and the artist is to
be congratulated that he has dared to depict the truth and to account
for it so entertainingly in a most attractively written text.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 770. N. 24, ’06. 620w.

“The author not only describes the country through which he rode or
walked, but also tells anecdotes, gives bits of the history of certain
places, and provides other interesting information.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 830. D. 1, ’06. 360w.

“An altogether unworthy successor to Ford and Borrow is Mr. Wigram who
possesses one faculty denied to those worthies—namely, the facility of
describing by picture as well as by pen.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 703. N. 24, ’06. 100w.

“As a writer he harps too much upon merely pictorial effects, which
were doubtless attractive to an artist but suffer through vain
repetition. Though we may not claim him as guide or philosopher, he is
certainly well met as a soothing friend.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 103:372. Mr. 23, ’07. 230w.

=Wilberforce, Wilfrid, and Gilbert, Mrs. A. R.= Her faith against the world. *$l. Benziger.

A young barrister asks the aristocratic Sir Richard Forrester for the
hand of his daughter, Gertrude and is refused because he lacks
position. Later he gets into Parliament on assuring his constituents
that he is not a Roman Catholic. Sir Richard then welcomes him, but
Gertrude, who has joined the Roman church, refuses to marry a
Protestant, and is turned out of her father’s house. The solution of
this complication is the burden of this political-religious novel.

* * * * *

“The book is written from the point of view of a Roman Catholic, but
without bitterness and intolerance.”

+ =Acad.= 71: 553. D. 1, ’06. 140w.

“An entertaining novel, although it is somewhat sketchy in both action
and character, and although it does carry a moral instruction.”

+ − =Cath. World.= 84: 701. F. ’07. 260w.

=Wilcox, Earley Vernon.= Farm animals: horses, cows, sheep, swine, goats, poultry, etc. **$2. Doubleday.

6–35959.

A practical book giving general information about the breeding and
care of farm animals.

* * * * *

“A good, popular guide.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 106. Ap. 16, ’07.

“It is rather an excellent compend of general information. The chapter
on dairy stock is the best in the book, but every chapter is good. The
illustrations have the advantage of being well related to the
subject.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 402. N. 8, ’06. 140w.

=Wilde, Oscar.= Decorative art in America: a lecture, together with letters, reviews, and interviews; ed. with an introd. by Richard B. Glaenzer. **$1.50. Brentano’s.

6–39452.

Mr. Glaenzer in his introduction sets forth the characteristics
chiefly as they pertain to art, of “the most pitiful dreamer, the
wittiest cynic and the most brilliant wit of his century.” The
nineteen essays or groups of letters which this volume includes strike
the dominant art notes of Oscar Wilde’s nature. Among the
personalities touched up by the “verbal colourist” are Mrs. Langtry,
Sarah Bernhardt, Whistler, Keats, and Kipling.

=Wilde, Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills.= Ballad of Reading gaol; drawings by Latimer J. Wilson. *$1. Buckles.

7–16474.

In this new edition of the well-known ballad the spirit of the
gruesome revelation of a soul in torment is marred by the
illustrations which, lacking any subtle suggestion of the horrors of
the hangman and the terrors of death, are commonplace and repellant.

=Wiley, Harvey Washington.= Foods and their adulteration. Il. *$4. Blakiston.

7–19428.

This book, descriptive in character, reaches a large audience,
including the consumer, the manufacturer and the scientific as well as
the general reader. It treats of the origin, manufacture and
composition of food products; the description of common adulterations,
food standards and national food laws and regulations. The information
contained in this manual appeals especially to the intelligent and
scientific cook.

* * * * *

“The book is invaluable to the manufacturer and the consumer, to the
scientist and the layman; it is indispensable to even a small
collection on this subject of wide, present-day interest.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 199. N. ’07.

“This is the most authoritative and comprehensive book that has
appeared on this important subject, and there is no other man in
America who is better fitted to handle it from both the scientific and
the legislative sides than the author.”

+ + =Ind.= 63: 834. O. 3, ’07. 360w.

“This is not the book of a crank, and Dr. Wiley’s views regarding the
future of the American food-supply are in general optimistic.”

+ + =Nation.= 85: 213. S. 5, ’07. 750w.

“The information furnished by Dr. Wiley arms the public with
knowledge—knowledge of the conditions and of its own rights.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 404. Je. 22, ’07. 1370w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 384. S. ’07. 120w.

“Amid a large mass of confusing and often exaggerated newspaper
articles dealing with the subject, it is a comfort to find a book
covering the field so completely, so sanely and withal in so
interesting a way.”

+ + =Science=, n.s. 26: 714. N. 22, ’07. 880w.

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

5–32655.

Descriptive note in December, 1905.

+ =Outlook.= 85: 573. Mr. 9, ’07. 380w.

=Wiley, Sara King.= Coming of Philibert. **$1.25. Macmillan.

7–18078.

A tragic poem-drama of three acts in which Prince Philibert, who has
been reared in the forest and kept unconscious of his heritage,
according to the wish of his dead father, is brought to the court of
Artacia by his twin brother, the young king who feels that he has been
unjustly dealt with. Here the world is opened to him, all his latent
emotions awake, and unwittingly, he usurps his brother’s place in the
hearts of his people, and comes to wear his crown and marry his
Clementia.

* * * * *

“It will bear reading. But, in the acting, it would appear lamentably
monotonous and wanting in almost every essential of a play, notably
characterization, contrast and ‘suspense.’”

+ − =Ind.= 63: 571. S. 5, ’07. 330w.

“Is an interesting bit of dramatic blank verse which just misses
distinction.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 35. Jl. 11, ’07. 210w.

“As a play there is much good exposition but little vital action. The
verse is always correct, and occasionally there are flashes of fine
poetry.” Christian Gauss.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 100w.

“Mrs. Drummond is an essentially feminine poet of fine insight and
delicate sensibility. The chief gain in ‘The coming of Philibert’ is
the dramatic action and force.” Louise Collier Willcox.

+ =No. Am.= 186: 97. S. ’07. 270w.

=Wilkinson, Florence.= Silent door. †$1.50. McClure.

7–10292.

A village story ... “which revolves about Justinian Penrith, incarnate
genius of austerity, and a little child left ... upon his doorstep.
Given a beautiful daughter who had fled from home some years previous
for an affaire d’amour and whose whereabouts had baffled all
search—and you have the key to ‘The silent door.’” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“In Miss Wilkinson’s novel ... one recognizes the promise rather than
the achievement. The story taken as a whole is unimpressive. The plot
is mildly preposterous, and none of the characters, not even little
Rue herself, seems ever quite detachable from the printed page. But
the details of Miss Wilkinson’s work are a constant delight.” Harry
James Smith.

+ − =Atlan.= 100: 132. Jl. ’07. 450w.

“The chief charm about Miss Wilkinson’s style is its absolute lack of
hurry. It is seldom that one encounters such genuine charm in a volume
constructed upon a plan so simple.”

+ + =Bookm.= 25: 284. My. ’07. 480w.

“There are some fine pages of description. The humor is abundant and
genuine.”

+ =Lit. D.= 35: 98. Jl. 20, ’07. 330w.

“It has a pervasive, though not obtrusive, spiritual quality, and
leaves upon one an impression of sweetness and light.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 170. Mr. 23, ’07. 970w.

“In her first novel, she has accomplished something also rare, and
certainly thoroughly delightful.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 254. Je. 1, ’07. 210w.

=Wilkinson, Rt. Rev. Thomas Edward.= Twenty years of continental work and travel. *$3 50. Longmans.

“The record of an Anglican bishop’s experience in north and central
Europe among British colonies, factories, and communities, comprising
an area eight times the size of Great Britain.”—Lit. D.

* * * * *

“Bishop Wilkinson has great power of observation and much skill in
expressing that observation in words. There is in the volume a good
deal of padding which, should have been omitted.”

+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 580. N. 10. 1360w.

“An interesting panorama of Europe, with a fine historic perspective.”

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 264. F. 16, ’07. 190w.

+ − =Spec.= 98: 121. Ja. 26, ’07. 380w.

=Willcocks, M. P.= Wingless victory. $1.50. Lane.

7–35625.

Devonshire furnishes the setting of this story. “The plot centres
about the winning of an unloving and pretty nearly unfaithful wife
by her husband.... The husband is a physician, a curious mixture
of strength and weakness, heroism and failure, and altogether a
very human and lovable person. The wife is not so comprehensible a
type, but still real enough in her feminine perversity and
unreasonableness.... Johanna is of another type, and she, too,
makes one see deep down into the reality of things. The whole book
is alive with human passion, powerfully portrayed, and with the
vigor and freshness of the open air.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Talent such as hers was not and never could be acquired in any of the
ready-made schools of fiction. It bears the stamp of originality.”

+ + =Acad.= 72: 319. Mr. 30, ’07. 550w.

“The author has certainly produced a notable as well as a good story.
It seems to us somewhat clogged by over elaboration of style and
metaphor.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 659. Je. 1. 250w.

“The book is the work of one who has thought much. Scattered through
it are gnomic sayings that stick in the memory. These and an intimate
sense of natural forces, are perhaps the striking external features of
the book.” Ward Clark.

+ =Bookm.= 25: 523. Jl. ’07. 450w.

“The book has strength ... although not in this plot with its dubious
ethical implications. It is the strength of keen analysis, vivid
descriptive power, and a characterization of the rustic population of
Devon and Dartmoor fairly comparable with the work of Mr. Phillpotts
and other disciples of the school of Thomas Hardy.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ + − =Dial.= 43: 62. Ag. 1, ’07. 340w.

“An Ibsen plot set in a Thomas Hardy environment. The combination is,
on the whole, an effective one, for the author has undoubted talent.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 1312. N. 28, ’07. 400w.

“In the case of Miss Willcock’s book ... we have need of some emphatic
word that shall signify a book that is not a season’s masterpiece or a
giant among pigmies, but, as we conceive, one that takes its place, if
not among the highest, still among books where rules of measurement
seem a little out of place.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 110. Ap. 5, ’07. 540w.

“Rises high above the level of common day fiction. In Miss Willcock’s
elaborate descriptions we discern a certain scraping of stage scenery
being shifted. In the same way there is unnecessary harping on such
indefinable elements as ‘race-processes’ and ‘electric forces of the
ages’ unnecessary reductions of action and feeling to terms of biology
and prehistoric anthropology.”

+ + − =Nation.= 85: 79. Jl. 25, ’07. 570w.

“A helpful and heartening story, not because any of its characters are
particularly high or heroic in their accomplishment, but because it
conveys that life itself in its simple, homely, everyday guise is a
thing worth while.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 365. Je. 8, ’07. 990w.

“A very remarkable piece of work, and not less interesting than
remarkable.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 190w.

=Sat. R.= 103: 433. Ap. 6, ’07. 210w.

“No one except the serious-minded reader who loves a problem novel
should embark upon ‘The wingless victory.’”

+ − =Spec.= 98: 679. Ap. 27, ’07. 210w.

=Williams, Archibald.= How it works: dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and their application to apparatus in common use. $1.25. Nelson.

7–29122.

“Here the reader will find explained in a concise, straightforward
manner the working of everything from a locomotive or a motorcar to a
Bunsen burner or a Westinghouse brake. The book is profusely
illustrated with helpful diagrams, and we are glad to note that an
index has been provided.”—Acad.

* * * * *

+ =Acad.= 71: 607. D. 15, ’06. 100w.

“Hardly any other volume will answer as many of the questions that a
bright boy asks and ought to ask about the things he sees and uses. It
should head the list of books to be bought for school libraries.”

+ + =Ind.= 62: 737. Mr. 28, ’07. 150w.

“The volume furnishes much that is practical and lucid.”

+ =Outlook.= 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 80w.

=Williams, Archibald.= Romance of early exploration, with descriptions of interesting discoveries, thrilling adventures, and wonderful bravery of the early explorers. *$1.50. Lippincott.

6–39449.

“The present book brings exploration down to A. D. 1600 beginning with
its infancy 200 years before Herodotus. Pictures and maps add
desirabilty to the book.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“The writer’s own manner is one of manly straightforwardness, as free
from dulness as from misplaced embellishment.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 70w.

Reviewed by Cyrus C. Adams.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 120w.

“An intelligent boy could hardly have a book which would give him more
entertainment and more instruction.”

+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 760. N. 17, ’06. 300w.

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

6–36880.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

− =Ind.= 62: 673. Mr. 21, ’07. 100w.

+ =Outlook.= 85: 575. Mr. 9, ’07. 280w.

“One thing is certain about Mr. Williams’ first attempt to write a
novel; he has succeeded.”

=R. of Rs.= 36: 126. Jl. ’07. 40w.

=Williams, Elizabeth Otis.= Sojourning, shopping and studying in Paris, a handbook particularly for women. **$1. McClurg.

7–18307.

An excellent little book into which has been compressed a wealth of
valuable information for the woman who is traveling alone in France.
It contains the addresses of suitable hotels, boarding houses, schools
of art, places of amusement, and shops in Paris, it tells what
charges, fees, etc. are just, it explains customs and conventions,
tells where one may go without an escort, what one may bring home
without duty, how to arrange one’s finances, and appends a classified
vocabulary which contains all the words and phrases essential to a
shopping tour or an excursion.

* * * * *

“A suggestive, helpful little handbook.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 175. O. ’07.

+ =Dial.= 42: 381. Je. 16, ’07. 40w.

“Just the sort of information needed by American ladies in Paris. And,
altho written for women, we fancy that men will find it almost as
valuable.”

+ =Ind.= 62: 1357. Je. 6, ’07. 70w.

=R. of Rs.= 36: 126. Jl. ’07. 40w.

=Williams, Henry Llewellyn, jr.=, comp. Lincoln story book. **$1.50. Dillingham.

7–8232.

It is the story-telling Lincoln shorn of platform oratory who is
revealed in this generous collection of anecdotes. There are over four
hundred of them and in the retelling nothing of the humor, or of the
tone of the classics has been sacrificed.

=Williams, Hugh Noel.= Madame Recamier and her friends. *$2. Scribner.

The details of the long salon-reign of Mme. Récamier are carefully set
forth here. “With no commanding ability such as in itself might draw a
group about her, yet, in wealth and in poverty, in court favor and
banishment, in youth and in age, Mme. Récamier was ever the center of
a great circle, and ever herself simple, contented, generous,
unspoiled by attention from all the famous people of her time.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

“Granting the ‘raison d’etre’ of the biography, it may be said that
the author has conscientiously studied the life of his heroine,
together with those of her friends as they affected hers, and presents
the results in a pleasant, easy manner, which makes the book an
entertaining one.”

+ =Dial.= 43: 44. Jl. 16, ’07. 260w.

“A most satisfactory story of an extraordinary career.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 342. Ag. 8, ’07. 170w.

Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.

=Putnam’s.= 2: 475. Jl. ’07. 150w.

=Williams, Hugh Noel.= Queen Margot, wife of Henry IV. of France. *$7.50. Scribner.

7–25144.

Daughter of Catherine de Medici, wife of Henry of Navarre, the
brilliant La Reine Margot is revealed in both an attractive and
forbidding light. She figures thruout the sketch as a being mightily
swayed by emotions yet capable of detaching herself from them as in
the case of her “debonair equanimity of mind” when divorced from her
husband, and called upon to mingle with his new queen and their
children.

* * * * *

“On the whole, the author has succeeded in his endeavour to give a
full and impartial account of her life, and has acquitted himself
satisfactorily of his secondary aim—that of sketching the historical
events ‘in which she was more or less directly concerned.’”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1. 68. Ja. 19. 2090w.

“Despite this special diligence and an adequate knowledge of sixteenth
century memoirs, we have found this book enriched by little
illuminating criticism.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 17. Jl. 4, ’07. 430w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 83. F. 2, ’07. 720w.

=Williams, James Mickel.= An American town: a sociological study. Priv. ptd.

6–46255.

“The author, formerly a fellow in sociology in Columbia university,
has in connection with his graduate work, made this sociological study
of a small town of rural New York.... He has given us a little bit of
the social history of the town and community, dividing it into two
periods—from the settlement to 1875 and from 1875 on.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

* * * * *

“It is a painstaking, intelligent, and extremely suggestive piece of
scholarly work. On the whole Mr. Williams is to be heartily
congratulated on a piece of work which opens up new possibilities in
the intensive study of localities, and proves that monographic work of
this kind is to be of prime importance to sociology.” George E.
Vincent.

+ =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 421. N. ’06. 850w.

“This volume is valuable because it is an illustration of careful,
conscientious field work, even if occasionally the conclusions seem
unwarranted.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 471. N. ’06. 190w.

=Williams, John E. H.= Life of Sir George Williams, founder of the Young men’s Christian association. **$1.25. Armstrong.

6–42910.

Written at the request of Sir George Williams’ family by “one who has
had intimate access to all the sources of information and who writes
with keen sympathy and appreciation.... Beginning as a poor young
clerk and without other resources than his own strength of character
and an indomitable will, the subject of the present work rose to be
one of the most considerable men in England.” (Lit. D.)

* * * * *

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 342. Mr. 2. ’07. 240w.

+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 403. N. 30, ’06. 750w.

+ =Nation.= 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 450w.

“Is a contribution to the literature of power.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 942. D. 15, ’06. 160w.

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

6–35342.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 76. Mr. ’07.

Reviewed by Wallace Rice.

=Dial.= 41: 392. D. 1, ’06. 170w.

+ =Nation.= 84: 39. Ja. 10, ’07. 180w.

=Williams, T. Rhondda.= Evangel of the new theology. *$1.50. Scribner.

“The basal question of religion, as he observes, is the relation of
God to the living world. The theology now being outgrown conceived of
God and man as external to each other, beings apart, and out of this
fallacious dualism the Unitarian controversy grew. But ‘the gist of
the new theology’ is the oneness of the spiritual nature in God and
man, so that humanity itself is ‘an incarnation of the divine
life.’”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“In one way or another the whole realm of modern religious thought is
touched upon with profound discrimination. The book will prove
exceedingly helpful to all who desire a clear and sane statement on
vital matters from the modern point of view. As a group of sermons,
however, it would seem that the book gives undue emphasis to intellect
and does not sufficiently appeal to the deeper things of the heart.
Also, the use of Scripture is not large.” E. A. Hanley.

+ − =Bib. World.= 29: 475. Je. ’07. 220w.

“It is marked by warmth as well as freshness and force, and by
intentness on the realities of religious faith.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 617. Mr. 17, ’06. 260w.

=Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Alice Muriel.= Car of destiny. †$1.50. McClure.

7–30841.

“This is a description of several of the more interesting Spanish
cities, strung on the thin threads of an automobile trip and a love
story. The hero and the heroine fall in love—of course at first
sight—at Biarritz. The heroine and her mother are whisked off through
Spain in an automobile by the wicked Spanish duke whom this scheming
mother wishes the daughter to marry. The hero follows in his
automobile. The account of the roads, the country, and the towns is
broken by the incidents of the chase—some of them highly
melodramatic.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“Frankly, the book contains every one of the elements which ought to
annoy a reader of critical taste. And yet, paradoxically, instead of
annoying, it furnishes a very genuine, even though not enduring,
enjoyment.”

+ − =Bookm.= 26: 267. N. ’07. 740w.

“So unconvincing is the characterization, that marriage as well as
misadventure leaves the reader cold.”

− =Nation.= 85: 329. O. 10, ’07. 180w.

“Splendid descriptions of Spanish life and scenes abound.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 70w.

“It is a penny-in-the-slot romance, as mechanical as if it were turned
out of a factory, marketable like calico, and of about as much
distinction.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 685. O. 26, ’07. 450w.

=Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Alice Muriel Livingston.= Princess Virginia. †$1.50. McClure.

7–15121.

This story “provides a lovely princess with American blood in her
veins and ... a pretty will of her own. Also a proper American
romantic idea of falling in love with whom she pleases and marrying to
suit. But the safety of Europe depends upon her marrying the young
Emperor of Rhaetia. What is to be done?... The impressionable Princess
Virginia must happen upon the handsome Emperor when she does not know
who he is, and he does not know who she is. They will, of course, both
of them fall in love at sight. It is always thus. No sooner said than
done.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“The most one can say for it is that it is harmless.”

− =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 181. O. ’07.

=Lit. D.= 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 210w.

“No motors in this, but a manner so glib and facile that it resembles
nothing so much as the swift revolutions of a new front wheel, when
the salesman turns the bicycle upside down and gives a twirl to prove
the smooth perfection of its ball-bearings. There is the same near
approach to perpetual motion, and the same lack of arriving.”

− =Nation.= 84: 568. Je. 20, ’07. 190w.

“The Williamsons have produced another fine, galloping romance of the
most approved rose-color order.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 320w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 260w.

=Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Alice Muriel.= Rosemary in search of a father. †$1.50. McClure.

6–40214.

“The five-year old Rosemary at Monte Carlo, seeing that her mother is
sad, sets out to find a lost father, and meets with such extraordinary
good luck that we can only suspect the intervention of Christmas
fairies. They send Rosemary a wonderful father, far more attractive
than the real one, and just the man her mother most desired to meet
again. So with the help of an old love-affair, an American
millionaire, a pretty French adventuress, a profusion of jewels, and
costly raiment such as might haunt the delirious dreams of a
milliner’s girl, the tale runs on to a happy conclusion.”—Acad.

* * * * *

“It is a brisk, highly coloured story, of the lightest possible
construction.”

+ − =Acad.= 71: 638. D. 22, ’06. 150w.

“This little novel has distinction, a literary aroma.”

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 60w.

“When this has been described as a ‘pretty’ tale of the whipped cream
and bonbon box type, there is not much more to say about it.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 464. N. 29, ’06. 160w.

“All this is highly melodramatic, but Rosemary is a quaint little
creature, and adds a large redeeming feature to an otherwise
impossible picture.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 888. D. 22, ’06. 370w.

“An agreeable little short story.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 942. D. 15, ’06. 8w.

=Willys, A. A.= Swiss heroes, an historical romance of the time of Charles the Bold; tr. from the German by George P. Upton. (Life stories for young people.) **60c. McClure.

7–31242.

The careers of Hans Vögeli, Heinrich Vögeli and Walter Irmy. three
Swiss heroes, are followed in their relations with Charles the Bold,
whose oppressive measures they avenged for the safety of their people.

=Wilson, Mrs. Augusta J. E.= Devota; il. by Stuart Travis. †$1.50. Dillingham.

7–21224.

“‘Devota’ is the story of a tragedy in the lives of two persons, a man
of sterling character, and a proud woman—does it not sound
familiar?—who are separated by a misunderstanding and kept apart by
the woman’s obstinacy. But after many years they are reconciled.
Surely Mrs. Wilson has filled her ink bottle from the spring of
eternal youth!”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“Without having read ‘St. Elmo,’ one may safely assert that not even
an ornamental border on every page, and illustrations of preternatural
loveliness will quite bring ‘Devota’ the vogue of its predecessor.”

− =Nation.= 85: 188. Ag. 29, ’07. 180w.

“Although it is hardly more than a novelette, has the self same
characteristics of style, thought, conception, viewpoint, which marked
Mrs. Wilson’s novels of the long ago and which will carry back to his
youth the memories of many a gray-haired reader.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 180w.

* =Wilson, David Henry.= George Morland. *$1.25. Scribner.

The growing popularity of the Morland paintings seems to be reason
enough for producing this biography which covers all of the phases of
his artistic career and besides records a good many impressions of the
seamy side of man’s life.

* * * * *

“Mr. Wilson does not exhibit, in his pleasant little volume, any
special qualification for his task. He moralizes too much on Morland’s
career. He seems to fail when he has an opportunity of adding a useful
chapter to his book.”

− − + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 625. N. 16. 910w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 536. S. 7, ’07. 700w.

* =Wilson, Harry Leon.= Ewing’s lady. †$1.50. Appleton.

7–38598.

The story of a young Westerner with genius for painting who is both
the protégé of a young New York widow and the object of diabolical
revenge on the part of the man whom his mother ran away from to marry
his father. Apart from the melodramatic fury of the story a group of
minor characters is drawn including “the cowboy in the clear, heady
Colorado air, the genial freemasonry of the studio, Clarence, the
lovable convert from civilization, dyspepsia and predigested food, and
Ben Crider, fit associate for Billy Brue.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“A generation ago such a story would have been branded as the rankest
and frankest of shockers. But Mr. Wilson keeps a strong literary grip
on his plot. His characters are admirably drawn, consistent and
lifelike. There is plenty of real humour in the book, and some
excellent pictures of manners, Eastern and Western.” Burton Blass.

+ − =Bookm.= 26: 415. D. ’07. 960w.

“It is the drawing of the minor characters and their environment that
gives the book its charm.”

+ + − =Nation.= 85: 545. D. 12, ’07. 190w.

=Wilson, James Harrison.= Life of Charles A. Dana. **$3. Harper.

7–19056.

This volume has grown out of the biographer’s intimate acquaintance
and immense admiration for a man who during fifty years and more of
the past century helped to make the history of our nation. Chapters on
his education and early battle with poverty, association with Greeley
on the New York Tribune, his telling service to the Federal government
during the civil war have been written from letters, documents and
clippings bearing upon public and private life.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 174. O. ’07. S.

Reviewed by M. A. De Wolfe Howe.

+ + =Atlan.= 100: 419. S. ’07. 1210w.

“The whole narrative is very interesting. One could wish that General
Wilson would have given us as minute a study of Dana the editor as of
Dana the commissioner and the Assistant Secretary of War.” Richard W.
Kemp.

+ − =Bookm.= 25: 612. Ag. ’07. 800w.

“His long and intimate acquaintance with an admiration for the man
have qualified him to write understandingly without dependence on such
outside aid.” Percy F. Bicknell.

+ + =Dial.= 43: 32. Jl. 16, ’07. 1490w.

“While in the main it is laudatory, it is not laudatory in a fulsome
sense.”

+ =Lit. D.= 35: 132. Jl. 27, ’07. 950w.

+ =Nation.= 84: 548. Je. 13, ’07. 860w.

“The facts of his life have been diligently assembled, and they are
set forth authentically in good chronological order.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 337. My. 25, ’07. 1700w.

+ − =Outlook.= 87: 586. N. 16, ’07. 1250w.

“Taken as a whole, General Wilson’s book is excellent in so far as it
relates to Dana’s early years and to the civil war. For the rest, it
lacks that fulness of information which is necessary to a complete
survey of a remarkable career.” Harry Thurston Peck.

+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 518. S. ’07. 1120w.

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.

=Putnam’s.= 3: 108. O. ’07. 1100w.

“While a journalist might perhaps have written a biography of Dana
more interesting to journalists, it is doubtful whether any of Mr.
Dana’s newspaper acquaintances could have put into the book more of a
personal history of the past generation.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 124. Jl. ’07. 200w.

=Wilson, James Southall.= Alexander Wilson, poet-naturalist: a study of his life with selected poems. $2. Neale.

7–410.

A sketch of the life of America’s first ornithologist, and poet of
somewhat indifferent fame. Alexander Wilson came to America from
Scotland in 1794 to be free from the turmoil of revolution. The life
story includes Jefferson’s letters about birds, a study of the
Scotland of Wilson’s and Burns’s time, and a careful analysis of
Wilson’s character.

* * * * *

“The one serious mistake of the author is reflected in the title. He
undertakes to rescue from oblivion not only the man and the bird
fancier, but the poet.”

+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 63. F. 2, ’07. 630w.

“An interesting memoir.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 380. Mr. ’07. 110w.

=Wilson, May (Anison North, pseud.).= Carmichael. †$1.50. Doubleday.

7–12002.

“A pretty story of Canadian rural life. The heroine tells the tale,
and we see her loving, helpful ministry to family and neighbors, yet
sharing her father’s feud and trying to keep it up after his death.
But justice and love are too strong for her filial theories, and the
houses of Mallory and Carmichael are reconciled. The illustrations and
marginal decorations do not add especially to the simple
narrative.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 353. Je. 15, ’07. 80w.

“A story with a distinct moral lesson—which lesson is well to the
front in the author’s mind. Yet it is a very pleasant and readable
story also—one which will recommend itself particularly to
old-fashioned maiden ladies but need not necessarily on that account
be scorned by younger and wiser persons.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 476. Ag. 3, ’07. 630w.

+ =Outlook.= 86: 476. Je. 29, ’07. 80w.

=Winckler, Hugo.= History of Babylonia and Assyria; tr. and ed. by James A. Craig; rev. by the author. **$1.50. Scribner.

7–29420.

“What a few decades of spade-work have revealed of more than three
thousand years of civilization is presented here, with the caution not
to expect any connected history of it until future excavators shall
have done the work awaiting them.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

=Outlook.= 87: 311. O. 12, ’07. 300w.

=Winslow, Helen Maria.= President of Quex: a woman’s club story. †$1.25. Lothrop.

6–36041.

A novel whose heroine, the president of Quex, “is led out of the
useless life of a sorrowing recluse by her work as president of the
club, which she makes a factor of consequence in the social,
industrial, and political life of her state.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 675. O. 13, ’06. 160w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 744. N. 10, ’06. 260w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 90w.

“We close the little book with a smile compounded of amusement and
skepticism.”

+ − =Outlook.= 84: 683. N. 17, ’06. 100w.