Chapter LI: Book 1: , The heavenly bodies; Book 2, The constellations; Book 3, Times (16)

* * * * *

“His descriptions of these long-loved places are at once refreshing
and reverent.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 408. D. 1, ’08. 270w.

=Ind.= 65: 1181. N. 19, ’08. 40w.

Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.

=Ind.= 65: 1465. D. 17, ’08. 140w.

“The work will be welcomed as a rare gift-book, and the sixteen
full-page colored illustrations are no mean addition to its claim on
general popularity.”

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 909. D. 12, ’08. 160w.

“There is nothing new in it, and yet the author has added to the
literature of the Holy Land something worth having in the record of
impressions made by the land itself, its people, and its pilgrims on a
devout and poetic soul.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 548. D. 3, ’08. 400w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 140w.

“The book is exactly what might be expected from a traveler whose
eyes, like Dr. Van Dyke’s, are ever open to the beautiful and whose
pen is so well able to set forth what he sees.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 754. D. 5, ’08. 430w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 757. D. ’08. 50w.

=Van Dyke, John Charles.= Money god: chapters of heresy and dissent
concerning business methods and mercenary ideals in American life.
**$1. Scribner.

8–14734.

“Devoted to the exposure of money-madness as the great American
epidemic. This afflicts millions of ‘little rascals’ as well as the
comparatively few ‘wealthy malefactors.’ It ‘has journalism by the
throat,’ depraves the drama, and taints all business life. It despoils
the land by waste; it demoralizes our national life, and gives us ill
fame throughout the world. ‘The trail of the dollar is over it
all.’”—Outlook.

* * * * *

Reviewed by I. A. Loos.

=Econ. Bull.= 1: 150. Je. ’08. 380w.

“Finely wrought chapters.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 842. O. 8, ’08. 100w.

“Mr. Vandyke ... has no remedy to suggest for the social troubles
which he describes. In that case the description hardly seems worth
while unless better done than by Mr. Vandyke. What Mr. Vandyke
deserves most credit for is his chapter showing the folly of
legislation as a remedy for faults which lie deep in human nature.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 287. My. 23, ’08. 440w.

“It is a tremendous indictment of the degrading materialism now
menacing both democracy and religion. As such it should be read by all
who have at heart the need of a moral revival. Exception, however,
must be taken to an occasional savor of race prejudice.”

+ − =Outlook.= 89: 389. Je. 20, ’08. 160w.

“He has brought to his task that directness of vision and statement
which have so well served him in the treatment of subjects of a very
different nature.” H. W. Boynton.

+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 110. O. ’08. 450w.

=Van Dyne, Frederick.= Treatise on the law of naturalization of the
United States. *$5. Lawyers’ co-op.

7–23477.

“Mr. Van Dyne brings together all the laws still in force dealing with
the acquisition of citizenship by foreigners. The historical
development of our present regulations is traced, as are also the
judicial decisions and the opinions and rulings of the executive and
international claims commissions.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

* * * * *

“The book will be found to be of great value to those having
jurisdiction in naturalization proceedings, to lawyers who desire to
advise clients who are seeking naturalization or to establish rights
of citizenship and, in general, to every student and citizen who has
an interest in solving those problems arising from the assimilation by
the nation of the hundreds of thousands of aliens coming to our shores
every year.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 451. S. ’08. 250w.

“The book is essentially complete as a textbook, and, if its 500 pages
are slightly padded, it is with interesting matter.”

+ − =Ind.= 64: 1150. My. 21, ’08. 140w.

“The book may be adversely criticised for its somewhat defective
organization, the long quotations from documents and cases and the
failure to give a list of the cases cited.” H: B. Armes.

− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 522. S. ’08. 580w.

“A new legal work of more than ordinary importance.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 255. F. ’08. 100w.

=Van Vorst, Bessie (Mrs. John Van Vorst).= Cry of the children: a
study of child-labor; with introd. by Hon. Albert J. Beveridge.
**$1.25. Moffat.

8–4342.

A first-hand study based upon an investigation conducted in the cotton
mills of Alabama, Georgia, Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
Mrs. Van Vorst’s aim has been to get at the human side of the
child-labor question without making her interest sensational. She
talked and walked with the children, visited their homes and their
schools, questioned them and drew conclusions. “Without doubt her
series of impressionistic pictures will give to most readers an idea
more vivid and intelligible of conditions in the mill towns than would
any other method of presentation.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Sympathetically but not sensationally told, save as the facts
themselves are sensational.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 151. My. ’08. ✠

“Nothing is gained by over-statement and hysterics. Mrs. Van Vorst
would do better to confine herself strictly to describing what she
saw, for her strong point is not in drawing inferences.”

− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 451. S. ’08. 300w.

=Ind.= 65: 267. Jl. 30, ’08. 400w.

“Interestingly told narrative.”

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 246. Ap. ’08. 100w.

“Her treatment of the subject is popular and impressionistic. Her book
is a straightforward account of what she herself saw and heard.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 70. F. 8, ’08. 600w.

=Outlook.= 88: 610. Mr. 14, ’08. 400w.

=Van Vorst, Marie.= Sentimental adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode. il.
†$1.50. Scribner.

8–10276.

Adventures of a wealthy bachelor during ten years of devotion to a
married woman. Everywhere “the kind fates give him glimpses of the
woman who has a husband, and to her his conduct is the essence of
propriety, delicacy, and devotion combined and double distilled.” (N.
Y. Times.) Finally his faithfulness is rewarded.

* * * * *

“He is really not a bad fellow, and his adventures make sufficiently
agreeable reading.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 473. Ap. 18. 150w.

“There is more sentiment than adventure in the concoction, and more
words than either.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 230w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 211. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.

+ − =R. of Rs.= 37: 761. Je. ’08. 100w.

=Vasari, Giorgio.= Vasari on technique; translated by Louisa S.
Maclehose; edited with introduction and notes by G. Baldwin Brown.
*$4. Dutton.

8–12590.

This treatise, translated for the first time, constitutes the
introduction to Vasari’s “Lives of the most excellent painters,
sculptors and architects.” “So far as the art-worker is concerned,
this preliminary exposition of the various processes and materials
employed by the artists and craftsmen of his day is of far greater
interest than the biographical details constituting the bulk of the
work.” (Int. Studio.) “In the province of painting, for instance,
Vasari tells us not only concerning the different methods of executing
drawings and cartoons, and then of the subsequent mural painting, or
of the oil painting on panel or canvas; he also informs us concerning
permanent decorative painting for façades, he tells us about gilding,
about glass or marble mosaics, about tarsia, or wood inlays, about
stained glass, and about methods of enameling.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“The book, interesting as it is, is only to a limited degree
calculated to satisfy the curiosity of which it is so welcome a
symptom, and it would be even less satisfactory were it confined
strictly to the matter indicated in its title.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 265. F. 29. 500w.

=Dial.= 44: 250. Ap. 16, ’08. 100w.

“A welcome contribution to the literature of craftsmanship. Its
serviceableness is enhanced by Professor Brown’s introductory essay
and his copious notes, which are both learned and interesting.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 473. F. 27, ’08. 20w.

“The translation and editing of the work have been carried out with
conscientious thoroughness, and additional interest is given to the
volume by the numerous illustrations contained in it.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 33: 252. Ja. ’08. 250w.

+ − =Nation.= 86: 270. Mr. 19, ’08. 80w.

“Its language is technical, of course, but not so technical as to be
too far above the head of the general reader. Its value is manifest
when we consider its comprehensiveness.”

+ − =Outlook.= 88: 562. Mr. 7, ’08. 450w.

* =Vaughan, Herbert Millingchamp.= Medici popes (Leo X and Clement VII). **$4. Putnam.

“It is to a study of the personal character of Leo X that he devotes
the greater portion of his book; what he has to say of the other
Medici popes he compresses into a few brief chapters, and the
political relations of the church with the several countries of Europe
during the Medici period, he practically ignores.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“After reading Mr. Vaughan’s book we know better than before what Leo
looked like, what his mind was like, in what his strength consisted,
and the nature of his weakness.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 610. O. 24, ’08. 480w.

“Even from the point of view of a personal study the wisdom of his
omissions may be questioned. The undue prominence given to unimportant
details makes the book a perilous one for the uninitiated. Yet it is
obviously intended for the uninitiated. Mr. Vaughan’s particular
outlook may be right enough, but his book gives an entirely false
notion of the renaissance as a whole.”

− =Sat. R.= 106: 614. N. 14, ’08. 1050w.

“Mr. Vaughan quotes largely from Benvenuto Cellini, but he has been
unable to bring the glamour and the movement of that astonishing
autobiography into the rest of his book.”

− =Spec.= 101: 839. N. 21, ’08. 160w.

=Vedder, Henry Clay.= Christian epoch-makers: the story of the great
missionary eras in the history of Christianity. **$1.20. Am. Bapt.

8–21632.

A chapter on the philosophy of Christian missions introduces a graphic
account of the great leaders of the missionary epochs of the Christian
church. The seventeen men whose work is outlined are as follows: Paul,
Ulfilas, Patrick, Augustine, Boniface, Aurgar, Vladimir, Raimund Lull,
Francis of Assisi, Xavier, Ziegenbalg, Schwartz, Zinzendorf, Carey,
Martyn, Judson and Livingstone.

* * * * *

“The value of this book lies in the bringing together in a unique
manner of a vast mass of materials, in their lucid interpretation, and
in the really fine generalizations, which are interpolated without
obtrusiveness.” H. P. J. Selinger.

+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 672. O. ’08. 360w.

“This book should have a wide reading.”

+ =Bib. World.= 32: 368. N. ’08. 30w.

* =Vedder, Henry Clay.= Our New Testament: how did we get it? **$1. Am. Bapt.

8–35968.

A historical investigation rather than a work of apologetics in
polemics whose central thought is that in the formal sense of the term
there was no such thing as a closed canon.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 316. Jl. 6, ’08. 90w.

=Venable, William Mayo.= Methods and devices for bacterial treatment
of sewage. $3. Wiley.

8–10451.

“The introductory chapter briefly explains what is meant by the
bacterial treatment of sewage and the second chapter gives a list of
books on the subject and references to similar articles in technical
journals. The aerobic treatment of crude sewage, the mechanical
removal of sludge, the anaerobic treatment of sewage, intermittent
contact systems, automatic discharging devices and percolating filters
are given a chapter each, after which there is a summary of
engineering principles regarding the design of sewage purification
works.” (Engin. Rec.) “The tenth chapter describes in detail the
actual installation of two plants.” (Engin. D.)

* * * * *

“As a guide to the sanitary engineer, it seems to the reviewer that
this book will prove indispensable.” R. W. Hall.

+ =Engin. D.= 3: 525. My. ’08. 380w.

“There is much interesting reading in this book and the author’s idea
as to the importance of intelligent supervision is thoroughly sound.
However, the subjects of comparative efficiencies and costs, size of
filtering material, rates of filtration, depth of beds, etc., are left
in a rather unsatisfactory state.” G: W. Fuller.

+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 540. My. 14, ’08. 650w.

=Engin. Rec.= 57: 624. My. 9, ’08. 250w.

=Verschoyle, W. Denham.= Electricity: what is it? *$1. Macmillan.

8–28960.

“The main object of this book is to sustain the contention that
something more than the usually accepted electrical idea is needed if
we would aim at solving the many problems which exist around us....
The author of this book, starting merely with three postulates, (1)
absolute energy, (2) aether, (3) some form of interaction between
them, develops a theory which claims to admit of the main facts of
natural phenomena being arranged ‘in a homogeneous and inter-related
series.’ The fundamental conception of the theory is that of the
_gyron_.... It is not very clear how the author arrives at the
existence of forces emanating from the _gyron_, but by means of them
he is able to discuss the evolution of the atom, the relations of the
elements, heat, light, electricity, dissociation. The ‘mystery of
life’ even is not excluded from the discussion.”—Nature.

* * * * *

“The work can hardly be regarded as a serious contribution to
science.”

− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 131. Ag. 1. 740w.

“He so mixes reliable experimental knowledge with abstruse hypotheses,
which are, to say the least, still disputable, that the reader is left
quite bewildered.”

− =Nation.= 87: 212. S. 3, ’08. 140w.

“We do not agree with him in thinking that the diverse and tentative
views held just now by our leading investigators as to the ultimate
constitution of matter afford a sufficient justification for the
present attempt to explain matter and electricity by an effort of the
imagination.”

− =Nature.= 78: 475. S. 17, ’08. 370w.

“This is a brave attempt by an enquirer devoid of the first essential
requirement—exact knowledge of elementary mechanical laws—to explain
the relation between electrical phenomena and the ether of space.”

− =Sat. R.= 106: 369. S. 19, ’08. 800w.

=Viele, Herman Knickerbocker.= Heartbreak Hill. †$1.50. Duffield.

8–26196.

The prospect of a stepfather is an outrage to Mopsie Beatoun, so she
runs away to live with an uncle and aunt. How she throve among her
relatives, breathing all the while the peaceful air of Heartbreak
Hill, is told with charm and fidelity to the things of real life.

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 305. D. ’08. ✠

“Sentiment and humor are nicely balanced in its pages, and the
transcript of New England life and character is both truthful and
charming.” W: M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 45: 295. N. 1, ’08. 230w.

“A writer of such stories as Mr. Vielé’s earlier ‘Inn of the silver
moon’ and the present book is a public benefactor.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 318. O. 1, ’08. 170w.

“It always is a matter for regret when a good story goes wrong, and in
this instance there is ground for deep and earnest regret, because in
his opening chapters Mr. Viele arouses great expectations.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 480w.

“A love story full of amusing complications.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 618. O. 24, ’08. 20w.

“The introduction of a preposterous plot about a copper mine and the
burlesque attitude of the characters one to another become distinctly
tiresome before the plot draws to a weak-kneed close.”

− =Outlook.= 90: 273. O. 3, ’08. 70w.

=Villari, Pasquale.= Studies historical and critical; tr. by Linda
Villari. *$3.75. Scribner.

7–38555.

Seven essays, most important of which is the critical treatment of “Is
history a science?” “The others are all on Italians of different ages
and different degrees of distinction,—Cavour, Savonarola (on whom
Professor Villari is, of course, the supreme authority), Donatello,
Luigi Settembrini, Francesco de Sanctis, the critic, and Domenico
Morelli, the painter.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

“The essay [on ‘Is history a science?’] is an interesting one,
although it contains perhaps little of originality, but the expert
collation and contrast of so many weighty opinions upon a subject that
is in its essence a vital one, renders it a valuable contribution to
the philosophy of history.”

+ =Acad.= 73: 10. O. 12, ’07. 650w.

“The style is excellent but too weighty and scholarly for the ordinary
reader. The translation is well done.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 214. Je. ’08.

“The question, whether history should be a science or an art, is
handled with great wealth of detail, and with large knowledge of
kindred studies; but there is decidedly too much amateur metaphysic in
the essay.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 544. N. 2. 1150w.

“The essay on ‘Savonarola and the present day’ is perhaps the most
suggestive of any and the fullest of Professor Villari’s essential
teaching.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 346. N. 15, ’07. 550w.

“As he is as thoroughgoing as a German pedant in his application of
the scientific method to research, his opinions ought to command a
hearing in quarters where the dry-as-dust theory of historical study
still prevails.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 239. Mr. 12, ’08. 700w.

“[In ‘Is history a science?’] the author swirls about in an eddy of
other men’s opinions, and it might be said of his method, as of an
earlier school of criticism, that it does not conclude.” Christian
Gauss.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 199. Ap. 11, ’08. 900w.

“The whole volume is competently translated, though in its English
dress it has lost distinction.”

+ =Spec.= 99: 433. S. 28, ’07. 1600w.

=Vinogradoff, Paul.= English society in the eleventh century: essays
in English mediaeval history. *$5.20. Oxford.

8–17763.

“The volume is a sort of sequel to ‘Villainage in England.’ ... It is
divided into two essays, one on government and organized society, the
other on the tenure and use of land, the various classes of the
population, and the relations of people and land. Under these general
headings are ranged some fifteen chapters of detailed investigation,
with concrete summaries at the end of each section, and two admirable
chapters stating his general conclusions.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“Professor Vinogradoff’s book is, however, much more than a series of
special and important Domesday studies. Its highest value lies in the
fact that it is a reasonable, well-ordered explanation of English
society at an important moment.”

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 102. O. ’08. 1000w.

“A high level of abstract science is maintained; and in scope and
language the volume is for specialists, and fully intelligible to them
alone. A few criticisms of detail cannot be omitted, especially as the
cardinal limitation of a most scholarly and in all ways remarkable
book is some lack of pains in finishing off the details, and even in
seeing the work through the press.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 753. Je. 20. 2150w.

“The work well fulfills the promise of its title by giving on the
whole much the best account that we possess of the organization and
classes of the English people in the critical eleventh century.”

+ + =Nation.= 87: 264. S. 17, ’08. 940w.

“Exhaustive enquiry.”

+ =Sat. R.= 105: 501. Ap. 18, ’08. 1550w

“It is difficult to give in a review any adequate idea of the value of
this monumental work, which reconstructs in a very wonderful way the
social life of the eleventh century. It is possible at last to feel
that we are in positive touch with the nation that William the
Conqueror subdued and transformed. In accomplishing such a task
Professor Vinogradoff has carried Maitland’s work noticeably forward.”

+ + =Spec.= 100: 977. Je. 20, ’08. 2100w.

* =Virgil, Publius Virgilius Maro.= Aeneid; tr. into English verse by Theodore C. Williams. *$1.50. Houghton.

Moved by the desire for a smooth story-rendering of the Aeneid the
author has produced a translation that will permit of continuous
reading aloud. It is characterized by lucidity, swift, clear movement,
an avoidance of the commonplace, and the preservation of both the
dramatic and argumentative force of the speeches contained in the poem
and the religious suggestiveness.

=Voogt, Gos de.= Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence
and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos de Voogt, by Katharine
P. Wormeley; ed. for America by C: W. Burkett. *$3.50. Ginn.

7–40011.

“This volume is devoted to dogs, cats, horses, asses, sheep, goats,
pigs, cattle, fowl and rabbits, described in an easy popular style,
with abundant photographic illustrations. There are over five hundred
of these, besides seven full-page color plates.”—Ind.

* * * * *

“Especially useful in the children’s room for reference use in
connection with the schools.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 50. F. ’08.

“An interesting and profitable book to look over.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 1044. My. 7, ’08. 100w.

=Voorhees, Edward Burnett.= Forage crops for soiling, silage, hay
and pasture. (Rural science ser.) **$1.50. Macmillan.

7–31477.

A practical treatment from the cultivator’s and feeder’s standpoint,
prepared by the director of the New Jersey experimental stations. It
deals with the problem of continual forage supply, a matter of
particular interest to dairy farmers near the cities.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 18. Ja. ’08. ✠

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 724. My. ’08. 100w.

“The summaries are perhaps the best part of the book, and will be
appreciated both by the student and the farmer. Certain statements
will want correction in a future edition.” E. J. R.

+ − =Nature.= 77: 388. F. 27, ’08. 750w.

“Although the work is prepared for American readers, there are useful
ideas in it for many English agriculturists.”

+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 130. Ja. 25, ’08. 120w.

=Vorse, Mary Heaton.= Breaking in of a yachtsman’s wife. il. †$1.50.
Houghton.

8–14521.

A delightful book of “maritime miscellany” which records in the main
the experiences of a landlubber who married a nautical man and learned
to love every phase of the happy carefree life. “A voyager on many
seas, and these as various as the differing shores of Venice and Cape
Cod can make them, she and the faithful Stan, yachtsman-in-chief, were
attended by more than one pair of lovers in differing stages of
infection.” (Dial.)

* * * * *

“A charming summer book.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 224. Je. ’08. ✠

“One may justly pay it a compliment rarely due to fiction of the
episodic sort, of feeling that instead of there being a superfluity of
episodes, there is on the contrary no page that we would willingly
have sacrificed.” F: T. Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 27: 502. Jl. ’08. 220w.

“It is a pleasant book, flavored with more than one kind of salt.”

+ =Dial.= 44: 354. Je. 1, ’08. 250w.

“The writer of this little book has a sense of humor which is apparent
in the first chapter and appears intermittently thruout the story.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 1290. Je. 4, ’08. 120w.

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 398. S. 19, ’08. 170w.

“Human nature under the influence of the boating passion is a study
which Mrs. Vorse has prosecuted thoroughly, humorously, altogether
delightfully.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 515. Je. 4, ’08. 200w.

“The string of stories—for such is the character of the book—may be
recommended even more decidedly to the serious than to the young and
frivolous. As a tonic to depression and an antidote to gloom, it has a
higher mission than even the entertainment of those for whom
presumably it was written.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 288. My. 23, ’08. 400w.

“All through the pages there is the amusing give-and-take repartée and
the whole book has a breezy, salty flavor.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.

W

=Waddell, John A. L.= Specifications and contracts. *$1. Eng. news.

8–983.

Four chapters presenting a “very sound discussion of a number of
typical contracts, embodying comments on many points of trouble or
difficulty, comments drawn from long experience in engineering work.”
(Engin. N.)

* * * * *

“These lectures attracted wide attention at the time of their
delivery, as condensing into small space the essentials of the
subjects treated, and in a form particularly adapted to the
instruction of students. The element of illustration and example
embodied in this book will recommend it to professors in technical
schools, giving as it does the results of the extended experience of
two writers eminent respectively in the engineering and legal
professions.”

+ + =Engin. D.= 3: 70. Ja. ’08. 400w.

“The scanty literature of engineering contracts is measurably enriched
by Waddell & Wait’s new work. A separation into specifications and
contracts is attempted by Mr. Waddell, with not very good success.”

+ + − =Engin. N.= 59: 84. Ja. 16, ’08. 1530w.

=Waddington, Mary A.= King. Château and country life in France.
**$2.50. Scribner.

8–28628.

An intimate account of life in the French châteaux written by one “who
knows her subject thoroughly well, for a good portion of her life has
been spent in rural France amid the scenes and among the people she
writes about so charmingly.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“As a whole the book has less interest and charm than her ‘Italian
letters.’”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 299. D. ’08.

“We fear that as little pains have been taken with the writing as with
the revision. It contains many agreeable pages which make the reader
regret that an author who has lived among interesting scenes, and
possesses a real power of description, should not have taken pains to
produce a book worthy of her material and her ability.”

− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 720. D. 5. 1250w.

“It is the human element in Mme. Waddington’s book, rather than her
references to architecture and landscape, that makes it especially
enjoyable.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 413. D. 1. ’08. 260w.

“Thoroughly familiar with the scenes she describes, yet with a certain
freshness of view, due to her American origin, Madame Waddington
paints a picture of rural life in France with a charming directness
and simplicity.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 493. N. 19, ’08. 280w.

“We get some delightful and authoritative impressions from the book.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 430w.

“Madame Waddington’s former books have led the reader confidently to
expect from her writing agreeable impressions, large social knowledge,
and charm of manner. The present volume confirms that expectation.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 552. N. 7, ’08. 100w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 760. D. ’08. 150w.

=Wagnalls, Mabel.= Palace of danger. †$1.50. Funk.

8–27097.

A historical novel set in the reign of Louis XV whose ruling spirit is
the fascinating Madame de Pompadour. Across the pages is a shadow of
the Jesuit—Jansenist quarrel, simmered down to strife between church
and parliament; but the story deals principally with Louis, his
favorite, and the love of the Marquise’s protégée for a ruthless
count.

* * * * *

“Though not anything like so strong and compelling as the historical
romances of the elder Dumas, is superior to many of the popular
historical novels of recent years.”

+ =Arena.= 40: 482. N. ’08. 250w.

“The author seems nowhere to have been opprest by the weight of her
historical knowledge. It rather comes to the reader as a direct and
spontaneous creation.”

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 679. N. 7, ’08. 160w.

“Plenty of rapid action and many interesting and truthful pictures of
the time enliven the course of the story.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 655. N. 7, ’08. 230w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 180w.

“It is a thoroughly human tale and so well constructed that the
interest holds one to the end. Perhaps there are too many dramatic
surprises, but they are all of the kind that might really have
happened.”

+ − =R. of Rs.= 38: 634. N. ’08. 120w.

=Wagnalls, Mabel.= Stars of the opera; revised and enlarged edition.
**$1.20. Funk.

7–31432.

A new edition revised and enlarged. Personal interviews and life
studies of Sembrich, Eames, Calvé, Nordica, Lehmann, Farrar and Melba
are followed by critical studies of the operas with which their names
are especially associated.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 230. Je. ’08.

+ =Arena.= 38: 682. D. ’07. 140w.

“The book is notable as a trustworthy guide to those who are
unfamiliar with the operatic stage, while as a source of entertaining
reading to others who in these matters are sophisticated, it makes
further distinct claims.”

+ =Lit. D.= 36: 165. F. 1, ’08. 150w.

“These interviews are all in good taste and authentic, each having
been proof-read by the singer who gave it.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 315. Ap. 2, ’08. 350w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 726. N. 16, ’07. 100w.

=Wagner, Richard.= Rhine-gold: a dramatic poem; freely translated in
poetic narrative form by Oliver Huckel. **75c. Crowell.

7–28637.

As in his “Tannhäuser” and “Parsifal.” Dr. Huckel opens the
“Rhine-gold” with a criticism and description of the story. “Then
comes the magnificent rendition of the great poem. It is a free
translation. The author has striven to present as perfectly as
possible in rhythmic form the ideas and mental pictures as well as the
words of Wagner.” (Arena.)

* * * * *

“The present volume will be regarded as indispensable by lovers of the
music-dramas of Richard Wagner.”

+ =Arena.= 38: 681. D. ’07. 120w.

“The most valuable part of the book is, perhaps, its careful and
interesting foreword.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 49. Ja. 2, ’08. 100w.

=Waineman, Paul.= Summer tour in Finland. **$2.50. Pott.

8–34794.

A tour from Helsingfors to Tornea, at the north of the gulf of
Bothnia, “where only a small river divides Finland from Sweden, and
where one is in the luminous summer nights of the Arctic circle.” The
author gives her impressions of the people tuned slightly to the
personal note, because she herself is a Finn; gives word pictures of
mountains, forests and lakes; takes the reader into peasants’ huts as
well as princes’ abodes; and voices thru the whole a regret for the
downfall of feudalism, “for no other reason than that it was more
picturesque than democracy.”

* * * * *

“The writer has the ‘seeing eye,’ and a gift of describing, in poetic,
and sometimes ultrasentimental, language, a variety of scenery. The
book is a little too long, and the account of the railway journey
southward in western Finland rather lacking in interest.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 539. O. 31. 400w.

“A clever writer’s impression of a delightful country.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 160w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 623. O. 24, ’08. 30w.

“Quite half the small facts she sets down have no relevance to the
matter in hand, and therefore do not illuminate it.”

− + =Spec.= 101: 368. S. 12, ’08. 1650w.

* =Waldstein, Charles, and Shoobridge, Leonard.= Herculaneum, past, present, and future. *$5. Macmillan.

An informing work which “brings home to every ‘thoughtful and honest
man who can look further and rise higher than his own immediate
hearthstone’ the high importance of investigating the ruins of these
ancient cities and bringing to light their treasures of art. Referring
to the fact that the work is to be carried on by the Italian
government with the assistance of an international commission, Dr.
Waldstein points out that it is working together ‘on the very soil on
which our common civilization rests to restore the living testimonies
of culture which belong to us all.’”—R. of Rs.

* * * * *

“It is the most complete and most accessible account in English of the
little that is actually known of Herculaneum in ancient, mediaeval and
modern times. It is when we turn to the latter portion of the
book,—the portion treating of Herculaneum’s future, that we find the
author’s method of exposition not only unconventional, but even
disconcerting in its flights of fancy that at times verge upon the
grotesque.” F: T. Cooper.

+ − =Forum.= 40: 507. N. ’08. 1750w.

“Waldstein deals in grand projects. He likes to move before the
footlights of the stage. It seems also wide of the mark to call the
excavations of Olympia and Delphi in ‘the bow and arrow phase.’”

− =Ind.= 65: 1242. N. 26, ’08. 760w.

“An interesting volume—especially interesting, indeed, because of the
scope indicated in its title.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 797. D. 5, ’08. 300w.

“The volume contains a series of valuable appendices.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 757. D. ’08. 400w.

“Part 2 can only be described as the sort of day-dream in which many
people probably indulge, in church or on a solitary walk, but which
they seldom print. Apart from these fantasies, the authors throw
little new light on questions which they must have considered.”

− =Sat. R.= 106: 642. N. 21, ’08. 1100w.

=Wales, Hubert.= Old allegiance. $1.50. Kennerley.

8–17994.

The adventures of two Oxford graduates on an island sheltering and
isolating a Jacobite society with whose leader it had become a hobby
to foster the old allegiance. The descendant of the Stuarts was
entertained here periodically. When James VI was expected and
circumstance forbade his coming one of the Oxford men masqueraded as
the Stuart ruler. The adventures of the masquerader including his
clever foiling of a band of dynamiters are of the Anthony Hope order.

* * * * *

“The author is to be congratulated on having made a story of adventure
which, though dealing with familiar topics ... has yet contrived to
get itself invested with a dewy freshness.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 213. S. 3, ’08. 140w.

“His tale is well constructed and well written, with a light touch, a
sufficient realism and a lively fancy.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 427. Ag. 1, ’08. 160w.

“When we reviewed this novel in October, 1899, with a due appreciation
of its undoubted merits, it was entitled, ‘Purple and fine linen: a
tale of two centuries, by William Pigott.’”

+ =Spec.= 101: 203. Ag. 8, ’08. 220w.

=Walk, Charles Edmonds.= Silver blade: the true chronicle of a
double mystery. †$1.50. McClurg.

8–9527.

A Spaniard’s vendetta is responsible for the duplex problem of murder
involved in this story. Among an excited group of more or less
unrelated characters, all of whom are well-drawn types, moves a
detective, unagitated, endowed with the impassiveness of an Indian.
His methods are his own and worth studying.

* * * * *

“Mr. Walk has constructed a very complicated puzzle. There may be a
bit of incredulity mixt with our marvel at Captain Converse, but his
ingenuity keeps us entertained, and what more has one the right to ask
from a story of this kind?”

+ =Ind.= 64: 1037. My. 7, ’08. 200w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 100w.

=Outlook.= 89: 313. Je. 6, ’08. 50w.

=Walker, Ernest.= History of music in England. *$2.50. Oxford.

8–12789.

A history whose purpose is to sketch the main features of English
music from its earliest artistic manifestation to the close of the
nineteenth century. “The book has been designed from the standpoint of
a musician rather than from that of an antiquarian; and even then more
for the general music-lover than for the technically erudite.” More
stress is laid upon the art itself than upon biographical minutiæ.

* * * * *

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 202. F. 15. 170w.

“The best and most useful results of research are embodied; and, what
is more, opportunity is afforded the reader, by means of copious
musical illustrations printed in the text, to form his own
conclusions. We know of no chapter on Handel so luminous and unbiased
as Dr. Walker’s.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 157. F. 13, ’08. 730w.

“Dr. Walker has made an original and important contribution to musical
history in this volume.” R: Aldrich.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 289. My. 23, ’08. 1000w.

“As a whole, the book deserves nothing but praise, and it is the only
condensed history of English music which is at once competent,
complete, and unprejudiced.” Arthur Symons.

+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 44. Ja. 11, ’08. 1900w.

“Not merely a masterly piece of condensation, based on intimate
first-hand knowledge of the available material, but from beginning to
end it is written with a conviction which commands respect, and with
an incisive energy and felicity of phrase which render its perusal a
most stimulating literary experience.”

+ + =Spec.= 100: 338. F. 29, ’08. 750w.

* =Walker, Margaret Coulson.= Bird legend and life. **$1.25. Baker.

Contains “descriptive matter of the kind usually found in such popular
nature books. A few pages of desultory bird lore are as far as the
author has gone in her endeavor ‘to get together the most important
avian legends and superstitions, and also to discover in them
evidences of apparent truth.’”—Ind.

* * * * *

“Contains some good photographs of wild birds.” W. J. Bowdoin.

+ − =Ind.= 65: 1467. D. 17, ’08. 60w.

“Is illustrated in a very satisfactory way. The quotations are apt and
succinct, and there is much information in the text.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 676. D. ’08. 30w.

=Walkley, Arthur Bingham.= Drama and life. *$1.75. Brentano’s.

W 8–65.

The collected studies and appreciations of the dramatic critic of the
London Times. The volume “consists of revised dramatic reviews and
essays taken from the London Times and two longer and more deliberate
papers, the one on modern English and French drama and the other on
selected French and English plays, which were printed originally in
the Edinburgh Review.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“There is a lightness of touch about his pen that makes his notices of
the dullest plays entertaining reading.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 140. F. 1. 800w.

“There is much entertaining and a considerable proportion of solid and
instructive matter in this volume. With all his brilliancy Mr. Walkley
is not always consistent.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 496. My. 28, ’08. 900w.

“Mr. Walkley’s humor, which we make bold to call his most delightful
attribute, shines on many pages and is the book’s saving grace.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 293. My. 23, ’08. 770w.

“He is not only the shrewdest English-speaking critic of the stage
to-day, but so agreeable a writer that he can be read with pleasure by
people who have little interest in his subject. His ‘Drama and Life’
is like some of the plays he enjoys, but condemns. It has in places
broken the mould of current dramatic criticism. It is the better
reading on that account, and may be commended even to those wise
persons to whom the present English stage is a subject of little
interest.” F. M. Colby.

+ =No. Am.= 187: 777. My. ’08. 1800w.

=Wall, Mary Virginia.= Daughter of Virginia Dare. $1.50. Neale.

8–16952.

A story based upon the supposition that Pocahontas was the daughter of
Virginia Dare.

* * * * *

“A story that will have considerable mild interest for those who have
taken stock in the theory that Pocahontas was a Dare—and no interest
at all to those who turn up their noses at that theory.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 160w.

=Wallace, Edgar.= Angel Esquire. †$1.50. Holt.

8–20673.

An eccentric man bequeaths his millions to the one of four people—a
defenseless girl and three daring criminals—who shall first decipher a
cryptic verse containing the combination of the safe where his gold
reposes. By twos and threes they try to outwit the girl, and finally
one of the three, the most unorthodox of detectives, becomes the
girl’s champion and defends her not only against the other two
possible heirs but also against an evil attorney who takes a hand in
the game.

* * * * *

“A detective story with some novel turns, which can be safely
recommended to connoisseurs.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 20w.

“It is not a detective story, but that much rarer thing, a dime novel
as well written as detective stories have been since Poe and Conan
Doyle showed us how.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 466. N. 12, ’08. 260w.

“Certainly there is no lack of entertainment for the brief time
spent—or squandered—in the perusal of this thoroughly modern story.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 270w.

“Mr. Wallace’s story will certainly make the lover of tales of crime
‘sit up,’ and will also entertain him with its comedy-side—rare in
this class of fiction.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 274. O. 3, ’08. 80w.

=Walling, William English.= Russia’s message: the true world import
of the revolution. **$3. Doubleday.

8–18337.

Setting out to show what Russia can offer us rather than to suggest
what the world can do for Russia, the author, whose sympathies are
with the revolutionists goes beyond the outrageous atrocities and
presents the world import of the revolution. “This volume is first of
all an indictment of the Russian government. It is not too severe; but
that is only because it is not possible to draw a too severe
indictment. The Russian bureaucracy is the worst government now on the
face of the globe, unless that of the Congo surpasses it in atrocity.”
(Outlook.)

* * * * *

“It is indispensable for all who care to study this great upheaval of
modern times.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 243. O. ’08.

“The Russian revolution is a phenomenon so vast that no single mind or
book can possibly compass it, but ‘Russia’s message’ is the best
exposition of it that has yet appeared in our language.”

+ + =Ind.= 65: 610. S. 10, ’08. 660w.

“We must credit the author with giving us a great deal of learned
socialistic disquisition, yet the work is dry.”

+ − =Lit. D.= 37: 470. O. 3, ’08. 500w.

“Mr. Walling, though he violates the law of historiography as it is
handed down to us from Germany, has given us by far the most
noteworthy study of the late Russian upheaval that has appeared in
this country, and one of the very few first-rate books on the subject
that have been written anywhere.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 120. Ag. 8, ’08. 1150w.

“Mr. Walling’s work covers the whole ground of the Russian revolution
in a very interesting and instructive way, and though his book is not
likely to convey the same message as his title seems to imply, it will
be indispensable for all who care to study this great upheaval of
modern times.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 409. Jl. 25. ’08. 870w.

“The book is a complete study of the whole situation.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 622. O. 24, ’08. 40w.

“His passionate devotion to what he regards as the rights of man gives
interest to his book, but also contributes its chief defect. It has
impelled him to make a volume much larger than it need to have been.
It is the work of an avowed partisan.”

− + =Outlook.= 89: 764. Ag. 1, ’08. 1250w.

“The struggle now going on in the czar’s empire has a vital
significance for the future of human society, and Mr. Walling’s
clear-cut style drives home this truth with great force.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 254. Ag. ’08. 260w.

=Walpole, Sir Spencer.= Essays, political and biographical; ed. by
Francis Holland. *$3. Dutton.

8–32327.

A volume of biographical and political essays, very many of which
appeared originally in the Edinburgh review. Among them are essays on
George Savile, first Lord Halifax, George Crabbe, Godolphin, The
dining societies of London, and Croker papers.

* * * * *

“Though hardly profound, they are always agreeable.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 208. Ag. 22. 360w.

“All the papers are interesting and readable—excellent specimens of
the author’s genial style.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 255. O. 16, ’08. 250w.

“We heartily commend this posthumous volume. We regret that the titles
of the books which called forth Sir Spencer’s reviews, and the names
of the periodicals in which they first appeared (with dates) have not
been given. The essays themselves abound in interest.”

+ + − =Nation.= 87: 214. S. 3, ’08. 480w.

“One of the most enjoyable of the essays is a critical appreciation of
George Crabbe, the East Anglian poet.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 458. Ag. 22, ’08. 80w.

“Will add nothing to the historian’s reputation.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 83. Jl. 18, ’08. 220w.

“We have found a chapter of reminiscences by his daughter one of the
most interesting parts of the book.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 166. Ag. 1, ’08. 1300w.

=Walsh, James Joseph.= Popes and science: the history of the papal
relations to science during the middle ages and down to our own
time. *$2. Fordham univ. press.

8–15255.

The “brief of an advocate” which shows that popes are liberal patrons
of science, and that they have encouraged medical research. “He
collects many instances to show physicians in good standing in the
Church did use dissection and make considerable progress in anatomy
and medicine, and argues that the treatment of the sick and insane was
not so heartless and irrational as we have been accustomed to believe.
Finally, he brings forward Crookes, Wallace, Richet Lodge, Lombroso
and the psychical researchers to prove that the tendency of science is
away from materialism and toward the recognition of the spiritualistic
interpretations that it used to sneer at.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

“He is occasionally tempted to push the claims of his clients beyond
bounds.”

+ − =Cath. World.= 87: 830. S. ’08. 920w.

“His books are not more partisan than White’s ‘Warfare of science with
theology,’ against which they are chiefly directed, and they should be
read in connection with it by those who want to get both sides.”

+ − =Ind.= 65: 613. S. 10, ’08. 200w.

“The book is well worth reading for its extensive learning and the
vigor of its style.”

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 604. O. 24, ’08. 200w.

“The writer’s unbroken silence on the workings of inquisitors and the
censorship is fatal to his arguments. He has vindicated some
churchmen, but not the Church.”

− =Nation.= 87: 319. O. 1, ’08. 700w.

“He is no mean antagonist in debate, and in this case he comes armed
with a wealth of information beyond the ordinary layman’s reach.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 460. Ag. 22, ’08. 580w.

=Walsh, James Joseph.= Thirteenth greatest of centuries. *$2.50.
Catholic summer school press, 110 W. 74th st., N. Y.

7–26016.

“All the great issues, forces, and institutions of the thirteenth
century are reviewed at generous length—the rise and character, the
curricula and the influences of the early universities; the steps
taken towards popular education, both literary and technical; the
development of letters; the great books and the great writers of the
period; the Latin hymns of the church, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, the
Golden legend, the Romance of the rose, Joceylin of Brakeland, Matthew
Paris, and Vincent of Beauvais; hospitals; famous women; Marco Polo
and the story of geographical exploration; the systematization of law;
and the beginnings of modern commerce.”—Cath. World.

* * * * *

“Dr. Walsh, who is both a student and a popular lecturer, comes
forward in this volume, laden with the results of omnivorous reading,
and lays his treasures, in almost boundless profusion, at the feet of
his audience.”

+ + =Cath. World.= 86: 532. Ja. ’08. 700w.

“We respectfully commend to the open-minded his presentation of that
great epoch.”

+ =Educ. R.= 36: 207. S. ’08. 80w.

“Dr. Walsh’s book, maintaining that the thirteenth is the greatest
century in human annals, is, of course, not scientific, but
interesting it certainly is, and, because of its abundant information,
it is valuable too.”

+ − =Ind.= 64: 639. Mr. 19, ’08. 400w.

“As an interesting and accurate account of medievalism, with its
intensity, its enthusiasm, its devotion, as well as its narrowness and
exclusiveness, this volume may be read with pleasure and profit.”

+ =Lit. D.= 36: 419. Mr. 21, ’08. 120w.

“This dull, thoughtless and styleless volume contains a mass of
interesting facts, most of which were doubtless novel to the
lecturer’s audience; and if we cannot commend his manner of presenting
them, which resembles, on an elephantine scale, that of our snippet
press, we cannot doubt that in many of his hearers he has started the
train of profitable thought.”

− + =Sat. R.= 105: 175. F. 8, ’08. 1150w.

=Walsh, William Shepard.= International encyclopedia of prose and
poetical quotations. $5. Winston.

8–18548.

“Differs from most books of its class in the kind of quotations
included and in the treatment. It in fact combines with ordinary
collections of ‘elegant extracts’ something of the book of phrase and
fable and something of an author book.” (Nation.) “There are
selections from many languages, but all under one alphabet, and all
thoroughly indexed.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“Altogether a cursory inspection of the work gives the impression that
it may be more than ordinarily useful. The indexes are full, the
printing careful except for the occasional Greek passages which show a
sovereign contempt for the rules of accent.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 438. N. 5, ’08. 170w.

“So far as it goes [it] is an excellent book of reference. Its
arrangement is such that it is a very easy matter to find what one is
looking for if the matter is among the quotations included in the
book. It is rather startling to discover that a considerable
percentage of the American and English writers of note of our time are
quite ignored in Mr. Walsh’s compilation.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 549. O. 3, ’08. 240w.

“The volume is a welcome addition to the literature of its class.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 594. N. 14, ’08. 70w.

=Walton, George Lincoln.= Why worry? *$1. Lippincott.

8–16562.

“The author discusses worry and obsession from the standpoint of the
neurologist, devoting most of his attention to how absurd and
dangerous is the mental attitude of those who can’t stop tapping with
the fingers or can’t endure such tapping; who must have the head of
their bed to the north or will not sit with the face to the wall; who
go back three times to see if they locked the door or wash the hands
after touching anything.”-=Outlook.=

* * * * *

“A practical, readable book.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 243. O. ’08.

=Ind.= 64: 1352. Je. 11, ’08. 140w.

“From this little volume ... it is quite possible for a reasonably
‘fussy’ person or hypochondriac to extract extremely beneficial
prescriptions.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 380. Jl. 4, ’08. 360w.

=Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.= Though life us do part. †$1.50.
Houghton.

8–26679.

A story which teaches a lesson of inviolable love. Love-making and
marriage under the most promising of circumstances are followed by
disagreement and separation. The husband, a young physician, enlists
in the Cuban war, and after a short period of service is reported
dead. In reality he is not dead, and as a much scarred and wounded
stranger, comes back to his town unrecognized even by his wife, leases
from her his old office, and, thru service, wins her love. Important
also in the negative-lesson sense is the vengeance of a collie upon a
vivisector whose hand on the point of offering a sacrifice to science,
was staid by searchers for the lost dog.

* * * * *

− =Nation.= 87: 415. O. 29, ’08. 400w.

“With the exception of her heroine, she introduces her people to the
reader before she has made intimate acquaintance with them herself.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 556. O. 10, ’08. 400w.

“There is a happy working out of the skillful and original plot.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 50w.

“A story that will interest, if it does not reform, readers who enjoy
Mrs. Ward’s cleverness.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 502. O. 31, ’08. 90w.

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

7–33590.

Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.

* * * * *

“This author still retains a sweetness of the mind in describing
natural scenery or even garden scenery.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.

+ =Ind.= 64: 183. Ja. 23, ’08. 230w.

“If she were a young writer we might be tempted to say of her recent
work that it has shown increased promise. It seems to contain more
sentiment and less sentimentality, less appeal to the sensibilities of
the schoolgirl and the shoplady, than marked the ‘Confessions of a
wife,’ and (in less degree) its successors.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 590. D. 26, ’07. 600w.

“A love story that will not add to its author’s literary reputation or
give its readers a shock of delight.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 61. F. 1, ’08. 350w.

=Ward, John J.= Some nature biographies:
plant—insect—marine—mineral; with upwards of 200 illustrations
reproduced from photographs and photo-micrographs taken by the
author. *$1.50. Lane.

8–12203.

A series of nature studies, originally published in the Strand, Pall
Mall, and other magazines which deal with the observations in the
English woods and field. It “may be regarded as a kind of
kinematograph in book form.” (Nature.) It presents the life history of
certain butterflies and moths, the descriptive material being aided by
some fine photographic work.

* * * * *

“Is one of the best of its class that can be put into the hands of any
boy or girl who loves nature and seeks to be told more about her.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 197. F. 15. 380w.