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“Are of interest to American readers, not only because of the
painstaking care with which the author has gathered his facts and his
illustrations, and the pleasing manner in which he has narrated them,
but also because of the fact that some of the chapters ... have no
limitations of locality to circumscribe their interest.”

+ =Dial.= 44: 216. Ap. 1, ’08. 200w.

“Interesting and well written, and give evidence both of a sound
knowledge of the best authorities and considerable independent
observation.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 584. Je. 25, ’08. 130w.

“A better book of its class we have never seen.”

+ + =Nature.= 77: 147. D. 19, ’07. 330w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 70w.

“He writes also in the same pleasant and informing manner on the
development of buds, the decay and fall of leaves, the senses of
insects, and the story of a piece of coal.”

+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 907. D. 7, ’07. 270w.

=Ward, Mary Augusta (Arnold) (Mrs. Thomas Humphry Ward).= Testing of
Diana Mallory. †$1.50. Harper.

8–26683.

In the world of her book Mrs. Ward has once more placed strong men and
weak, and intimately inspects manners and motives, settings and
atmosphere. Her heroine is adorable; her hero, weak of will and an
unconscionable cad. Oliver Marsham confesses his love for Diana
Mallory. He soon learns that she is the daughter of one Janet
Sparling, gambler and murderer. He retreats, leaves the girl to
suffer, pursues his way to parliament, mismanages his campaign, is hit
by an enemy’s missile, and, when failure and death stare him in the
face, turns to Diana, who ministers to him, marries him, and woes him
back to life. Not overcome by the revelation of her mother’s crime,
not resentful when Oliver deserts her, not shrinking when love and
duty send her to Oliver’s bedside, Diana seems to have transcended the
sense of distorted forms to the realities that constitute the life
principle.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 246. O. ’08.

“Marsham must be regarded as the weak point in the story. Neither his
position as a rising politician nor his personal charm and brilliancy
impress us as they are intended to do.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 397. O. 3, 460w.

“Is not a great novel; it is a moving tale.” H. W. Boynton.

+ =Bookm.= 28: 149. O. ’08. 1050w.

“It is all so extremely well informed, and so thoroughly well done,
that it is difficult to understand why we should not be more deeply
moved by it and why it should not make a more lasting impression.” W:
M. Payne.

+ − =Dial.= 45: 454. D. 16, ’08. 500w.

“There is not a thrilling scene in the book, nor a single character of
extraordinary fascination; but it is written with a fineness of
perception, a delicacy of expression, that redeems it from the
commonplace.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 896. O. 15, ’08. 970w.

=Ind.= 65: 1182. N. 19, ’08. 100w.

“To its readers’ deepest and highest human feeling it appeals with the
irresistible power of truth.”

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 604. O. 24, ’08. 300w.

“Our respect for Diana is put under an almost intolerable strain. Are
such people quite worth presenting to us on so large a canvas?”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 264. S. 17, ’08. 450w.

“Considered as a novel of society, ‘Diana Mallory’ is fascinating and
authoritative; considered as the story of a young woman pathetically
situated, it is moving and satisfying.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 505. S. 19, ’08. 770w.

“A romantic story in Mrs. Ward’s best style.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 70w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 220w.

Reviewed by C. L. Rudyard.

+ =No. Am.= 188: 779. N. ’08. 2400w.

+ =Outlook.= 90: 502. O. 31, ’08. 400w.

“Has an assured welcome in the library, and a space already waiting
for it by the side of ‘Lady Rose’s daughter’ and ‘The marriage of
William Ashe.’” Agnes Repplier.

+ =Outlook.= 90: 697 N. 28, 08. 480w.

“It is not a great novel, but Diana is almost a great figure.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 634. N. ’08. 300w.

+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 425. O. 3, ’08. 970w.

“Judged by the test of originality, the book stands on a much higher
plane than any of its three predecessors, while the story, regarded
merely as a story, is at least as engrossing, as well furnished with
incident, and as strong in dramatic interest.”

+ + =Spec.= 101: 506. O. 3, ’08. 1300w.

=Ward, Robert De Courcy.= Climate—considered especially in relation
to man. (Science ser., no. 19.) **$2. Putnam.

8–12801.

With the needs of both teacher and student kept in mind the author
co-ordinates and sets forth clearly and systematically the broader
facts of climate. The work is intended to be supplementary to the
first volume of Dr. Julius Hann’s “Handbuch der klimatologie,”
translated into English in 1903.

* * * * *

“The book contains a good deal of interesting historical material as
well as a very clear-cut and informing presentation of the facts of
climate as they are now known.”

+ =Educ. R.= 36: 524. D. ’08. 80w.

“A fit supplement to Hann’s, presenting clearly and reducing to its
simplest terms a subject over which first-hand knowledge and research
and a cumulative experience in teaching have given him the mastery.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 302. My. 30, ’08. 1000w.

“An important volume.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 758. Je. ’08. 70w.

“Mr. Ward has succeeded in presenting a well-written volume, suitable
for the classroom, being methodical in arrangement, and clear and
direct in statement.” O. L. F.

+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 841. D. 11, ’08. 820w.

+ =Spec.= 101: 783. N. 14, ’08. 420w.

=Ware, Richard Darwin.= In the woods and on the shore. $2. Page.

8–17814.

A record of several seasons of hunting and fishing in Newfoundland and
New Brunswick, along the shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the
eastern coast of Massachusetts. “The book has a human side, for there
seems no better way to become acquainted with one’s fellows—not even
the French method, of dividing an inheritance with them—than by
camping out in the wilds with them for a season. On some of his
longest expeditions, Mrs. Ware was a member of the hard-working
company; so that this book, unlike most of its fellows, has a feminine
touch added to its other desirable features.” (Dial.)

* * * * *

“The influence of the woods, coupled with the single-mindedness of the
sportsman, has given a simplicity and directness to the style that is
good to meet, and the pages may be aptly described as spacious.”
Wallace Rice.

+ =Dial.= 44: 343. Je. 1, ’08. 230w.

“Written in a pleasant style by a hunter of experience.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 314. O. 1, ’08. 70w.

=Warfield, Rev. Benjamin Breckinridge.= Lord of glory: a study of
the designations of our Lord in the New Testament with especial
reference to his deity. *$1.50. Am. tract.

7–38253.

“An examination of the designations applied to Jesus in the synoptics,
John, Acts, Paul, Hebrews, the Catholic epistles, and the Apocalypse
satisfies Professor Warfield that all the New Testament writers,
beginning with Mark, held His person to be supernatural and divine in
the fullest sense. The result is ‘to throw into prominence the unitary
presupposition by the entire New Testament of the deity of our
Lord.’”—Bib. World.

* * * * *

“Throughout the book interpretation is strained, yet it is fair to add
that the author’s purpose, to examine the designations of our Lord in
the New Testament with especial reference to His deity, is useful, and
that he has shown wide acquaintance with the writings of New Testament
commentators.”

− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 666. My. 30. 500w.

“In some matters, one feels that Professor Warfield has been too
easily convinced, e. g., in his treatment of ‘lord,’ and that his
finding is too sweeping in consequence.”

+ − =Bib. World.= 31: 160. F. ’08. 100w.

“The result is the most exhaustive monograph which has appeared in
English on the subject.” I. F. Wood.

+ + =Bib. World.= 32: 75. Jl. ’08. 1050w.

“To one already holding to it, it seems conclusive. To an inquiring
mind, indisposed or unable to scrutinize the argument very closely, it
may carry some conviction.”

+ =Outlook.= 88: 42. Ja, 4, ’08. 260w.

=Waring, Eleanor Howard.= White path. $1.50. Neale.

7–41587.

A story with a problem which deals with a man and a woman each of whom
has lived thru the agonies of an unhappy marriage. Their friendship
terminates in love, but their legal ties prevent marriage, so they are
content to walk in a white path of idealism, eliminating entirely all
material relations.

* * * * *

=Lit. D.= 36: 97. Ja. 18, ’08. 70w.

=Warren, Maude Radford.= Land of the living. †$1.50. Harper.

8–20711.

Chicago is the scene of this story of love and city politics. An Irish
political boss, who winks at questionable practices that are
profitable, adopts a sturdy little youngster of the streets, and
attempts to bring him up as a machine. The lad’s genius and goodness
foil the machine methods of the ‘boss,’ no less than the corrupt
agencies of reform thru which a rival hoped to win both a bride and an
election.

* * * * *

“The characters are well conceived and contrasted; there is, however,
a trace of weakness in construction.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 297. S. 12. 160w.

“A book to be cordially commended and read with quiet enjoyment.” F:
T. Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 28: 145. O. ’08. 280w.

“Into the oft-told tale of ward politics in Chicago the author has
infused some new effects by making it at the same time a study of two
phases of the Celtic nature—the idealizing and the domineering.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 289. S. 24, ’08. 200w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 240w.

“The book as a whole, while neither deep nor large, has movement and
variety, so that it is readable in more than an ordinary degree.”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 957. Ag. 22, ’08. 70w.

=Warwick, Charles Franklin.= Danton and the French revolution.
**$2.50. Jacobs.

8–15330.

A popular history of the French revolution in the midst of whose war
of ideas the figure of Danton is traced as he rose to sudden power,
was cut off in the heyday of his manhood, and sent to the scaffold in
the thirty-fifth year of his age.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 216. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.

“A book on a great topic, and worthy of it. In but one respect does
the writer mar his reader’s pleasure—he quotes frequently and
copiously without naming his authority. Clergymen who join socialists
and anarchists in prating of revolution, justifying the latter by
allusion to the French revolution, should read Mr. Warwick’s book.”

+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 374. Jl. 4, ’08. 1600w.

“Mr. Warwick shows no evidence of having made any study of original
materials. He shows no remarkable dramatic insight.”

− =Outlook.= 89: 813. Ag. 8, ’08. 700w.

=R. of Rs.= 38: 637. N. ’08. 40w.

=Washburn, Margaret Floy.= Animal mind: a text-book of comparative
psychology. *$1.60. Macmillan.

8–6095.

The facts set forth in this book have been deduced from experimental
work in comparative psychology. The author shows the difficulties
besetting the student who desires to know the contents of minds below
the human level. Knowledge must be obtained by way of inference from
behavior. The questions then confronting the comparative psychologist
are: By what method shall he find out how an animal behaves? and How
shall he interpret the conscious aspect of that behavior? These
questions are answered scientifically thruout the study.

* * * * *

“While the book offers nothing new to the scientist and psychologist,
it is a careful, sane, reliable piece of work.”

− =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 215. Je. ’08.

“Renders accessible to student as well as to the studious layman the
kind of data, the critical interpretation of results, and the source
of the guiding principles, that in the modern view are likely to bring
some systematic understanding of animal psychology.” J. Jastrow.

+ =Dial.= 45: 39. Jl. 16, ’08. 620w.

=Ind.= 64: 758. Ap. 2, ’08. 350w.

“It will be found indispensable to all workers in the subject of
animal behavior, and ought to be read extensively by physiologists.”
S. O. Mast.

+ =J. Philos.= 5: 467. Ag. 13, ’08. 1100w.

“Psychologists will be unanimous in their gratitude to Miss Washburn
for the very thorough way in which she has accomplished her task.” W:
Brown.

+ =Nature.= 78: 269. Jl. 23, ’08. 480w.

“The author does not juggle with facts; she is sternly scientific in
the matter of deductions and conclusions.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 153. Mr. 21, ’08. 650w.

“The strong feature of the work is the systematization and correlation
of facts.” K: T. Waugh.

+ =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 205. Je. 15, ’08. 1650w.

“In the chapter on hearing, the author, while giving a good résumé of
the field, makes the mistake of saying that birds have no cochlea. The
book as a whole is so well done that we venture the opinion that its
usefulness will continue for several years to come.” J: B. Watson.

+ − =Science=, n.s. 28: 275. Ag. 28, ’08. 1050w.

=Washburne, Marion Foster.= Mother’s yearbook: being a practical
application of the results of scientific child-study to the
problems of the first year of childhood. *$1.25. Macmillan.

8–16420.

Each month of a baby’s first twelve is carefully followed, the
possible development outlined, and the mother’s preparation and
responsibility dwelt upon; the educational principles of Froebel,
Preyer, and others being applied after a manner that will assure the
most healthful and rational results. The book is a common sense
mother’s book based upon thoroly tested scientific principles.

* * * * *

“For the young mother to whom her new baby is more than merely a
pretty plaything, we have seen no book better than this.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 1405. Je. 18, ’08. 40w.

=Washington, Booker Taliaferro.= Negro in business. $1.50. Hertel,
Jenkins & co.

7–37616.

Furnishes some record of the business awakening among the negro people
in the United States. “Part 1 is devoted to accounts of the success
different members of the race have achieved in various lines of
business, the material being mainly biographical in its nature....