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“Translations in poetic prose of the author’s ‘Heures claires’ and
‘Les heures aprés midi,’ poems of serene and spiritualized beauty,
picturing the joys of wedded love against the background of a
beautiful garden. They have also appeared in the more satisfactory
verse translations of Charles R. Murphy as ‘The sunlit hours’ and
‘Afternoon.’”

+ — =Cleveland= p105 S ‘17 50w

“These poems are exquisite—not only in the sense of a fair jeweled
loveliness, but in a tenderness, a depth, a universal beauty and
reality that make the most-sought-for words about them seem but
trivial things. How much music of phrasing may be lost in [the prose]
translation, those of us who read them only in English cannot know;
but the beauty of their expression, in word and in image, of deep and
exquisite human feeling, is here in the English version.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:335 S 9 ‘17 1000w

+ =St Louis= 15:335 S ‘17 20w

=VERRILL, ALPHEUS HYATT.= Book of camping. il *$1 (2c) Knopf 796 17-18605

Contents: Camps and camping; How and where to camp; Camp housekeeping;
Trailing and tramping; How to trap and why; Emergency hints. The
illustrations show forms of blazes, how to make moccasins, camp
furniture, etc.

“Aims to supply the beginner’s need for a primer in woodcraft, and in
the main it succeeds in its purpose. Especially valuable for its
practical hints about camp sites, camp housekeeping, cooking, and
accidents. To [the old woodsman] the directions for homemade traps and
moccasins are reminiscent of the days when he really believed all that
was set forth in Dan Beard’s ‘American boy’s handy book.’ This
fault—the fault of telling how to make clumsy things that can better
be bought—often gets into ‘how-to’ books.”

+ — =Dial= 63:116 Ag 16 ‘17 170w

+ =Ind= 91:297 Ag 25 ‘17 60w

“Up-to-date, practical book based on a wide knowledge of camping.
Contains almost everything a camper would want to know.”

=N J Lib Bul= p7 Ap ‘17 19w

=St Louis= 15:372 O ‘17 40w

=Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 13 ‘18 50w

=VERRILL, ALPHEUS HYATT.=[2] Book of the West Indies. il *$2.50 Dutton 917.29 17-29601

“Mr Verrill in his ‘Book of the West Indies’ has a chapter upon our
lately acquired Virgin Islands. He is enthusiastic over the beauty and
the fascination of these islands, their possibilities as health
resorts and their future as producers of sugar cane and bay rum, and
in commerce. His volume of nearly 500 pages is appropriately named
‘The book of the West Indies,’ for no such comprehensive and
thoroughgoing account of the archipelago has hitherto been attempted.
The author carries you from island to island, big and little alike,
and describes the scenes, the people, the manners and customs, the
climate, sandwiches in an outline of the history, tells of the
commercial and industrial possibilities.”—N Y Times

Reviewed by A. M. Chase

+ =Bookm= 46:335 N ‘17 70w

“It is a book that a traveler can use as a guide book, a man of
business as a source of information and a general reader for the pure
pleasure of its colorful and informative narrative.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:579 D 30 ‘17 260w

“The book is well worth while.”

+ =Outlook= 117:575 D 5 ‘17 40w

“A good description of the Islands, with so much of history as is
requisite to meet an intelligent traveler’s demands for information.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:219 F 18 ‘20w

=VICKERS, LESLIE.= Training for the trenches; a practical handbook based upon personal experience during the first two years of the war in France. il *$1 (4c) Doran 355 17-17549

Captain Vickers is lecturer on trench warfare, Department of military
service, Columbia university and late lieutenant of the Seaforth
Highlanders. He states that he “intends this little book primarily for
the use of those who are civilians in the process of becoming
soldiers.” It includes chapters on: Health; Disease; Vermin;
Protection of trenches: Artillery fire; Gas and liquid fire; The
attack; Equipment for the field, etc. There are helpful full-page
illustrations.

=Cleveland= p103 S ‘17 40w

“The book ought to be read by every American soldier, present and
prospective, who crosses the ocean to fight for liberty. No man in
preparation for that duty could be given a more useful gift or one
that, provided its advice be heeded, would be more likely to increase
his value as an efficient soldier.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:264 Jl 15 ‘17 130w

=Pittsburgh= 22:697 O ‘17 60w

=St Louis= 15:359 O ‘17 20w

“A practical manual based upon personal experiences of the first two
years of the war. Capt. Vickers devotes considerable space to the
all-important question of health.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 5 ‘17 100w

=VINOGRADOV, PAVEL GAVRILOVICH.= Self government in Russia. *$1.25 Dutton 947 (Eng ed 16-12746)

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

“The author, a Russian professor at Oxford, exiled for his liberal
views, is an eminent authority on Russian institutions, and these
lectures take on an added significance in view of recent events.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:348 My ‘17

“Had we more generally known the facts given in this book, we should
have understood how the revolution came about and why it was so
orderly and effective.” S: N. Harper

+ =Dial= 63:23 Je 28 ‘17 1050w

“No living man has a firmer grasp upon the political history of the
Russian people or could display greater skill in making it clear,
within such brief compass, to English readers.”

+ =Nation= 104:194 F 15 ‘17 370w

“The announcement of a book, on Russia, by the versatile Russian
scholar, who is also our leading authority on English legal and social
history, may raise more expectation than it can well fulfil. For it is
not a thorough treatise that the author of ‘Villainage in England’ has
here attempted, but rather a few popular lectures aiming to give us a
general outline of the great changes in the legal status of the
Russian masses.”

+ =New Repub= 10:276 Mr 31 ‘17 380w

=VIVIAN, HERBERT.= Italy at war. il *$2.50 Dutton 940.91 17-21932

“Mr Vivian is an English traveller who happened to be in France on the
Italian border at the outbreak of the war.” (Boston Transcript) “His
book is a collection of thumbnail sketches of the Italian people in
relation to the war, not an account of the campaigns of the Italian
army. Thus he relates experiences before Italy decided to throw in her
lot with the Allies; gives brief descriptions of the King, General
Cadorna, and prominent politicians; and devotes short sections to the
special qualities of the various kinds of troops in the Italian army,
and incidents in some of the battles. The illustrations enable the
reader to appreciate the enormous difficulties overcome by the
Italians in their mountain offensive.” (Ath)

=Ath= p368 Jl ‘17 100w

“The chapter entitled, ‘The preliminary war’ is an account of the work
of the German spy system in Italy in the years of peace preceding the
war. ... The author knows how to tell his story. Nothing worth while
escapes him. His sense of humor is always in evidence when needed. He
senses the significant things and describes them in an interesting
way.” F. W. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ‘17 670w

“This is a different sort of book from Mr Alexander Powell’s volume of
the same name and approximately the same date of publication. The
Italian people’s attitude to the great issues of the day is presented
with the insight and the accuracy of one familiar with the ways of the
common folk and speaking their language. Noteworthy is the author’s
emphasis upon the too little suspected perpetration of Austrian
atrocities. Frightfulness he shows to be not exclusively a Prussian
product.”

+ =Dial= 63:399 O 25 ‘17 190w

“This volume of impressions has little in common with Mr Powell’s
‘Italy at war.’ Mr Vivian is noticeably lacking in the perspective of
the war critic; but he is an earnest observer of the beauty and life
of the new Italy. ... There is some justification for the
uncomfortable feeling the author betrays of having chronicled too many
trivialities.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:345 S 16 ‘17 600w

=Outlook= 117:26 S 5 ‘17 70w

“His work is quite different from that of such observers of the
conflict as Mr Julius Price and Mr Sidney Low. It conveys less
information on great matters, but it is more intimate in tone, and
also more amusing and the records of conversations with people of no
importance are really convincing and entertaining. The picture of the
thrilling days immediately preceding Italy’s entrance into the war is
especially graphic.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p278 Je 14 ‘17 850w

=VIZETELLY, FRANK HORACE.= Desk-book of twenty-five thousand words frequently mispronounced. (Standard desk-book ser.) $1.60 Funk 421 17-10175

“The title of this volume by the managing editor of the New standard
dictionary ... is obviously taken from Phyfe’s earlier book in the
same field. It is somewhat misleading, as the vocabulary includes many
words that are not mispronounced, but differently pronounced. ... The
publishers’ advertisement states that the book indicates the correct
pronunciation of English words, foreign terms, Bible names, personal
names (Vizetelly is included), geographical names, and proper names of
all kinds current in literature, science and the arts. Words which are
likely to prove stumblingblocks are also included. A unique and
valuable feature is the appending in many cases of orthoepic and
historical notes or of quotations illustrating usage.” (Springf’d
Republican) “In an entertaining preface the doctor pays respect in
truly Shavian style to the self-satisfied class, both here and abroad,
who know ‘that the pronunciation they have is the best which exists.’”
(Lit D)

“A useful dictionary, presenting some original features. So far as our
tests permit us to judge, the pronunciations indicated are, for the
most part, such as would generally be accepted by English orthoepic
authorities. ... In a deskbook, such as this, we doubt the usefulness
of many of the references to obsolete forms of pronunciation adopted
by Walker and other early lexicographers; and the employment of two
keys to pronunciation is, we think, unnecessary and confusing. ... We
disagree with some of the remarks in Dr Vizetelly’s introduction.”

+ =Ath= p306 Je ‘17 200w

+ =Ind= 90:353 My 19 ‘17 40w

“A careful study of his work should do much toward the standardizing
of modern English pronunciation.”

+ =Lit D= 54:1268 Ap 28 ‘17 520w

“In the pronunciation, the preference of the leading dictionaries for
nearly two hundred years are given. An indispensable addition to the
slender collection of reference books which must be kept within easy
reach. There is brief definition of hundreds of words but recently
come into use in science and the arts. Dr Vizetelly has for many years
been a foremost authority in English orthoepy.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:461 N 11 ‘17 460w

“Examination of the work will quickly prove its great value. The
introductory material might well be printed and cast broadside in
pamphlet form as an aid to the correction of the habit of slovenly
speech.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:331 S ‘17 90w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 17 ‘17 500w

=VOGT, PAUL LEROY.= Introduction to rural sociology. il *$2.50 Appleton 630 17-18829

The author was formerly professor of rural economics and sociology in
the Ohio state university, and is now superintendent of the department
of rural work of the Methodist Episcopal church, and editor of “The
church and country life.” Because over half of our rural population
live in communities of less than 2,500, because the village is the
“natural center of rural life,” because conditions in the country must
be understood if the drift to the cities is to be adequately
controlled, and because “the relation of the small community to the
growth and ideals of the urban community makes an understanding of
rural life and ideals imperative to the one responsible for leadership
in urban life,” Mr Vogt has written this book. The field chosen covers
rural life in the United States, and “particularly those conditions to
be found in the great agricultural sections of the Central valley,”
because in this area are to be found both the system of diversified
agriculture and the intensive culture resulting from the increase of
population. Six of the twenty-eight chapters are on the village, two
on the rural church, two on rural health, two on farmers’
organizations, and one on the county fair. Questions, references, and
topics for research have been added at the close of each chapter.

“We have here sociological materials, typical data, suggestively rich
fields for further exploration—leads rather than actual veins;
indications rather than fixed conclusions. Some of these data are
original and thought-provoking as, for example, the chapters on
Population movement and Rural morality. Some are not sufficient for
generalization; notably, those dealing with the land question, tenancy
and farmers’ organizations. The chapters on the village are a distinct
contribution to sociological literature. The book is well written with
a fresh, virile, optimistic pen. Because of its basis of fact, its
general freedom from dogmatic statement, its constructive intent, its
modest claims and its virility, this is the most valuable book dealing
with rural sociology the reviewer has read.” A. E. Cance

+ =Am Econ R= 7:843 D ‘17 730w

“A real contribution to the literature on rural life. The author
places the emphasis on the fundamental problems. The chapter on ‘Rural
morality’ is a valuable contribution because it is based upon the
author’s research studies. His data refute the generalized statements
that have been made by writers who are not hampered by facts. His
studies show that the open country is still morally cleaner than the
village or city.” E. L. Holton

+ =Am J Soc= 23:417 N ‘17 430w

“Though based upon a thorough knowledge of rural life and problems,
its chief value lies in its organization of material.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:117 Ja ‘18

“Professor Vogt has attacked the problem from an angle not as yet
popular in the study of the American farm. He has presented it as a
series of relations and reactions influencing our entire national
existence. It is important to the nation as well as to the farm that a
high rural civilization be maintained, and that we understand the
forces operative within it. Professor Vogt has set himself the task of
meeting his subject in a purely scientific spirit. His appeal is
almost defiantly to the brain alone.”

+ =Ind= 92:487 D 8 ‘17 310w

+ =Nation= 105:271 S 6 ‘17 520w

“Furnishes an enlightening array of information upon the improvement
of farming methods, the labor question, the tenancy question, health,
morality, politics, education, religion, and the general social
structure of rural communities.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:831 D ‘17 60w

“The author has been at great pains to make his work as accurate and
comprehensive as possible. In both respects he has succeeded
admirably, and that, too, without becoming tedious. A feature of the
book especially worthy of notice is the thorough discussion of the
relation of the village to the life of the open country. The most
important omission is the failure to discuss the eugenic problems of
the rural population and to give more attention to the natural
movements of population due to the varying birth rates and death rates
in different groups and in different sections of the nation.” W. S.
Thompson

+ — =Science= n s 46:24 Ja 4 ‘18 390w

“A somewhat laborious study of conditions in the rural communities of
the West. ... Its generalizations outweigh its store of information,
though one should add that its conclusions are sound enough.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 100w

“Professor Vogt has laid the foundation of a study of the village for
which we have been waiting. ‘Rural sociology’ presents two methods of
study of the material—analysis and idealization. Under the former
method, for which the writer displays uncommon ability, is the
treatment of the Land question, Means of communication, Farmers’ labor
income, Health-physical, Health-mental, and the Church. ... The method
of idealization is not so satisfactory. There are two final chapters,
the first of which contains rare and new material on Rural morality
and Social organization. ... The writer is a man with an open mind, a
fine hand for details, a capacity of delicate weighing of evidence and
the ability to present his conclusions without dogmatism and in
inspiring completeness.” W. H. Wilson

+ + — =Survey= 38:533 S 15 ‘17 500w

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=WADDINGTON, MARY ALSOP (KING) (MRS WILLIAM HENRY WADDINGTON).= My war diary. il *$1.50 (1½c) Scribner 940.91 17-23949

Mme Waddington is the widow of a French statesman and ambassador, and
author of “Letters of a diplomat’s wife” and other books on France and
Italy. Her diary covers the period from August, 1914, to October,
1916, and tells of her activities during the war, of the German
occupation of her château at Mareuil, etc.

=A L A Bkl= 14:56 N ‘17

“Vast as will be the accumulation of war literature when the great
struggle is over, Madame Waddington’s contribution will occupy by
right a place of distinction, as affording illumination of a unique
character. The book is necessarily personal, yet it is most
attractively free from any touch of self-importance.”

+ =Cath World= 106:697 F ‘18 140w

=Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 70w

“An entertaining account of how the French aristocracy have fared
during the war. The big Frenchmen of the war, the great statesmen and
generals, do not appear to have been on Madame Waddington’s calling
list. These today are of first interest.”

+ — =Ind= 92:342 N 17 ‘17 130w

“A volume which all friends of France as well as all who seek a
knowledge of the inner facts of the war will turn to with eager
interest.”

+ =Lit D= 55:52 D 8 ‘17 130w

“Mme. Waddington’s vantage point of observation, so to speak, is
unusual; and with the charm and sincerity of her literary style we
have had opportunity ere this to become acquainted.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:573 D 23 ‘17 650w

“Her style is at once simple, easy, vivacious. She outlines her
portraits and paints her pictures with appealing directness. ...
Particularly notable are her tributes to Ambassador Herrick.”

+ =Outlook= 117:143 S 26 ‘17 110w

“Mme Waddington by reason of her position in diplomatic life is well
able to form some enlightening opinions as to the real motives of
French statesmen, but her book is singularly free from such
revelations. ... She tells her story with simplicity, and occasionally
repeats, but she is to be thanked for not dwelling on the depressing
side of events. ... Nothing especially new or significant of French
life and thought is contributed by the book.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 17 ‘17 320w

=WADDINGTON, SAMUEL.= Some views respecting a future life. *$1.25 (6½c) Lane 218 17-17191

“In this comely book, which is at once a personal statement and an
anthology of what has been said on the question of immortality by
sages and others, ancient and modern, Mr Waddington has written his
‘Religio poetæ.’ His own position, defined already in many sonnets and
other poems, is the reasoned one of the agnostic.” (Ath) “The greater
part of the book is devoted to a survey of what has been written upon
the subject by modern philosophers, poets, and scientists. Shelley,
Swinburne, Nordau, Haeckel, Huxley, Mill, Darwin, Spencer, Rossetti,
Sir Oliver Lodge, F. W. H. Myers, Clough, Emerson are only a few of
the many from whom he quotes or to whose beliefs he refers.” (N Y
Times)

=Ath= p246 My ‘17 260w

=Ind= 91:514 S 29 ‘17 70w

+ =N Y Times= 22:305 Ag 19 ‘17 580w

Reviewed by Bishop Frodsham

=Sat R= 123:370 Ap 21 ‘17 210w

=WADSLEY, OLIVE.= Conquest. il *$1.40 (1½c) Dodd A17-1640

The hero of the story is a little gamin from Paris who begins his
conquest of London at the age of ten. He passes from one odd job to
another until he is taken on as a helper in a gymnasium. This chance
occupation is the making of Bill Achat. He learns to reverence bodily
perfection, becomes a boxer and finally a prize fighter, white
champion of the world. He is introduced into London society, and the
latter portions of the book are taken up with his love for Alexa
Castlemayne. She is older than he and of a different social world, but
they find their happiness in one another.

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:341 N ‘17 60w

“There are good bits of characterization in ‘Conquest,’ and an
authentic air of sophistication and interest regarding prize-fights
and sporting-events surprising in the work of a woman author—even a
British one.”

+ =Dial= 63:597 D 6 ‘17 90w

“There is keen charm in the portions that show Bill fighting and lying
for a roll, and kissing a maternal demi-mondaine for a franc. ... It
is regrettable that Miss Wadsley does not keep to this pitch
throughout, instead of falling into commonplace.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:388 O 7 ‘17 300w

=WADSLEY, OLIVE.= Possession. il *$1.35 (1c) Dodd 17-6113

An unusual friendship existed between the little girl of eight and the
boy of eighteen. Both were friendless in London. Valérie’s father had
deserted her unceremoniously. Blaise was a stranger, looking for work.
So they adopted one another. This relationship lasted up to the time
Val was seventeen. Then Blaise woke up and found that she was
grown-up, that she was very beautiful, and that he loved her. For his
own sake as well as her own, he sent her away to Paris. The separation
proved disastrous, for Val too began to realize that she was grown-up.
She meets another man, and marries him. The romance is short-lived and
she turns back to Blaise for protection, but since she fails to tell
him the truth, a strained situation results.

“It is rather a headlong tale; that is, told with enough swiftness and
enough high coloring to make it seem, in a day of comparatively
leisurely and detailed novel-writing, an uncommonly near approach to
the good old ‘intense love-story.’ Along the way, Miss Wadsley has
given the novel certain modulations and graciousnesses that will serve
to redeem it, at least in part, for her more discriminating and
experienced readers.” F. I.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 21 ‘17 600w

“The earlier part of the book marks its writer as one of more than
average talent and imagination. ... The novel remains, in spite of
expectations unfulfilled, more than relatively good.”

+ — =Dial= 62:147 F 22 ‘17 250w

“While reading ‘Possession,’ we forget who or what we are, how or when
the book is written, and live wholly in the life of Valérie Sarton.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:89 Mr 11 ‘17 350w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 1 ‘17 350w

=WÄGNER, WILHELM.= Asgard and the gods; adapted by M. W. Macdowall; and ed. by W. S. W. Anson. il *$2 Dutton 293

“A complete English account of the religious beliefs and superstitions
of the old Northmen, myths and stories of the gods, of the creation of
the world, of Odin the father of the gods, of the Ases, the Golden
age, and on through all the splendid legends to Ragnarok, the
‘twilight of the gods.’” (R of Rs) This volume is a reprint of an
edition first published in 1880 and again in 1882. There is an
introduction which deals with what is known of the history of these
legends.

+ =Dial= 64:114 Ja 31 ‘18 200w

=Ind= 92:448 D 1 ‘17 30w

“The digest of Dr Wägner’s original work is so excellent that for the
new generation there is probably nothing better.”

+ =Lit D= 55:41 N 3 ‘17 200w

+ =Outlook= 117:100 S 19 ‘17 50w

=R of Rs= 56:553 N ‘17 90w

=WALDO, FULLERTON LEONARD.=[2] Good housing that pays. il $1 (5c) Harper press, 1012 Chancellor st., Philadelphia 331.8 17-28206

A study of the work of the Octavia Hill association of Philadelphia,
from 1896 to 1917. The foreword says, “The pages that follow describe
the effort of a thoughtful group of Philadelphians to provide cleanly
homes and a healthy environment for families in modest circumstances
or in self-respecting poverty. This effort has outgrown the stage of
experiment, but it never will deny new light nor wholly abandon,
however it may adapt, the ideals that are Octavia Hill’s own spiritual
legacy.” A sketch of the life and work of Octavia Hill constitutes
chapter 1. There are numerous pictures and plans. The by-laws of the
association and various tables are given in an appendix, with the
index following. “The story of the Octavia Hill association of
Philadelphia is almost a history of the housing movement in that city,
and shows the excellent work of women in this field.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:152 F ‘18

“Live and interesting, with practical, frank detail on both the
business and the human side, which will make the book of value to
other workers.” E. W. Dinwiddie

+ =Survey= 39:326 D 15 ‘17 430w

=WALKER, HENRY FRANCIS BELL.= Doctor’s diary in Damaraland. il *$2.10 (4c) Longmans 940.91 (Eng ed 17-28629)

“The author of this book volunteered as a medical officer in General
Botha’s force which, by its dashing strategy and its great physical
endurance, conquered German South-west Africa between March and July,
1915. He does not give a formal history of the campaign, but describes
his own experiences in the rear of the army, with an occasional
illuminating note on the course of the fighting.”—Spec

=Dial= 64:81 Ja 17 ‘18 250w

“All who wish to know the realities of war should read his very
readable book. ... He has a good word for the Germans wherever it is
deserved; and, generally, he extenuates nothing, makes no complaint,
and sets down naught in malice. He deals only with what came under his
own view, the grand tour of his own ambulance, not attempting to
describe military movements or battles. His narrative is relieved by
excellent descriptive touches, which make the God-forsaken country
very real.”

+ =Nation= 105:348 S 27 ‘17 770w

+ =N Y Times= 22:357 S 23 ‘17 430w

=Pittsburgh= 22:827 D ‘17 60w

“Dr Walker is eminently observant and has a keen eye for military
tactics as well as natural history and geology. He has provided a
detailed map of one attack, but a larger one covering the range of
country he went over would have been a useful addition to his
book. ... The book is well printed and has a few good illustrations,
but it ought to have had an index as well.”

+ — =Sat R= 124:110 Ag 11 ‘17 900w

=Spec= 118:616 Je 2 ‘17 180w

“He is coldly fair to the Germans, giving instances of their cruelty,
but allowing them whatever credit may be their due for establishing
well-planned and well-organized towns in places where no one would
want to live.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p207 My 3 ‘17 950w

=WALKER, STUART.= Portmanteau plays. il *$1.50 Stewart & Kidd 812 17-13266

Stuart Walker has been actor, stage manager and general director for
Belasco. In 1914, he conceived the idea of the Portmanteau theater
which has a small stage, simple scenery, and unique lighting effects.
The present volume includes four of the plays given at this theater:
The trimplet; Nevertheless; The medicine show; The six who pass while
the lentils boil. There is a forty page introduction by Edward Hale
Bierstadt, and an appendix giving “The repertory of the Portmanteau
theater in the order of production.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:16 O ‘17

“The little plays lack the beauty in strangeness of Lord Dunsany’s
contributions to the Portmanteau répertoire but they are of distinct
interest as a new art form based on a naïve convention.”

+ =Cleveland= p105 S ‘17 80w

“This book is more than a collection of highly diverting little plays.
It is the record of an astonishing experiment in the American
theatre.” H. K. M.

+ =New Repub= 13:222 D 22 ‘17 1000w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:86 Je ‘17

“Of the four plays, ‘Six who pass while the lentils boil’ is
undoubtedly the most successful from both a literary and a dramatic
point of view.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:444 O ‘17 300w

“Mr Walker’s plays make very pleasant reading, but they do not portend
any romantic renaissance. ... The novel settings that Mr Walker has
devised for his charming playlets have probably much more to do with
his success than any real desire on the part of the public for poetry
and fantasy on the stage.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 1 ‘17 460w

=WALLACE, DAVID DUNCAN.= Government of England; national, local, and imperial. *$2 (2½c) Putnam 342.4 17-25776

The author is professor of history and economics in Wofford college.
He states that his book is intended for the general reader desiring “a
brief, untechnical account of the British government” and for college
classes where the time “is too limited for an extended treatment of so
large a subject.” Prof. Wallace has attempted “to describe the English
government as it is without distracting the reader with a long account
of how it came to be what it is.” (Preface) Book 1 deals with The
central government; book 2 with The local government; book 3 with The
empire and colonies; book 4 with Social and political characteristics.
The author has constantly “kept in mind the resemblances and contrasts
between the government of England and that of our own country.”
(Preface) “In the chapter on ‘Lessons England can teach us,’ the
author dwells upon the greater flexibility of the English
constitutional system. ... Other lessons concern the budget system,
popular regard for law, and a civil service test in character and
ability in addition to the applicant’s ‘immediate preparation.’”
(Bookm) There is a reading-list of two pages and a table (tipped in
before the index) to aid in understanding the court system.

“The chapter on ‘Aristocracy and democracy’ clarifies a subject rather
indistinct to Americans who have not observed English society at close
range. ... In the hands of instructors capable of supplementing it
with an additional fund of historical illustration, this capitally
written treatise should serve as an attractive text for college and
university classes.” L. E. Robinson

+ =Bookm= 46:270 N ‘17 370w

“He certainly does not misinterpret our history, when he declares that
the highest intellectual effort in the United States has been
consumed, not in proving that measures are good or bad, but that they
are constitutional or unconstitutional. He makes a strong argument for
a closer coöperation of the legislative and executive departments.” F.
B. N.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 27 ‘17 670w

=WALLACE, DILLON.= Arctic stowaways. il *$1.25 (2c) McClurg 17-29730

Alfred Knowles and his friend Harry Metford were in danger of arrest
for running a man down while speeding their automobile. Alfred had at
first insisted that they turn about and take their medicine, but had
weakly yielded to Harry’s desire for escape. So it was that they
happened to take temporary refuge on board a schooner, to be carried
out to sea. The vessel is a whaler, one of the last of her line, and
the boys’ pleading and threats and offers of payment are of no avail.
The boat is bound for the Arctic, and they must go with her, working
their passage. Their experiences are not unlike those of Harvey
Cheyne, of “Captains courageous,” and they learn the same lesson. The
biggest of their adventures comes when they are cast adrift on the
ice, to fend for themselves along a barren coast.

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 150w

=WALLACE, EDGAR.= Kate plus 10. il *$1.35 (3½c) Small 17-23650

The author of “The clue of the twisted candle” has here given us
another detective story. It moves around the great strokes planned by
Kate Westhanger, the brains of the criminal gang in Amberscombe
Gardens—a locality known to the London police as “Crime street”—and
the efforts made by Michael Pretherston, the Scotland Yard detective,
to outwit her. Kate had inherited power of strategy and also a
tendency to crime. She had been trained by her uncle to be a thief on
a great scale. Michael, who had great ability and a very pretty wit of
his own, was filling the years in which he awaited his succession to
the peerage in ways in which he could use his natural talents. Both
were in the game for the excitement of it. How Kate used her wit,
charm, and beauty and how Michael faced her at every turn; what the
great coup was and how it ended; with other matters which pertain to
life in English society furnish two hours of entertaining reading.

=A L A Bkl= 14:63 N ‘17

“An unusual combination of light humour and thrilling mystery.” H. W.
Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:342 N ‘17 10w

=Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 60w

=WALLACE, EDNA KINGSLEY.= Feelings and things; verses of childhood. *$1 Dutton 811 16-24229

“One feels in reading these poems that Miss Wallace is writing from
within out; she is not portraying childhood as she sees or remembers
it, but interpreting it as she still feels it. In her choice of
subjects and language, she is always well within the mood and
psychology of her subject. In this slender book are to be found the
vaguely defined imaginings, the sudden sharp impressions, the bubbling
excitement and joyousness of childhood. Even the rhythm of the lines
has the hop-skip-and-jump gaiety, the pause of perplexed wonder, and
the sudden, ecstatic crescendo of discovery.”—Dial

“They are slightly reminiscent of Stevenson and will be even more
appreciated by grownups than by the children themselves.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:408 Je ‘17

“These verses are distinctive and individual, and because of their
authenticity and lyrical quality must take a high place in the
literature of childhood.”

+ =Dial= 62:110 F 8 ‘17 150w

+ — =NY Times= 22:401 O 14 ‘17 90w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 30 ‘17 120w

=WALLACE, WILLIAM KAY.= Greater Italy [1858-1916]. *$2.50 (3c) Scribner 945 17-13590

“I would attempt to trace in this volume the rise of the kingdom of
Italy among nations, with more particular emphasis on the part played
by the people of Italy in the affairs of the world during the past
three decades. ... I have sought to lay particular stress on the
relations of Italy with the Central powers, to trace the course of
Italian policy in its dealings with Vienna and Berlin, and to show how
the ‘mariage forcé’ of Rome and Vienna, brought about by the
arbitrariness of Berlin, could not fail to end in disaster.” (Preface)
Contents: The achievement of unity; Formative forces; The Triple
alliance; The period of retrenchment; The dictatorship of Giolitti;
The Libyan war; Economic development; The Vatican and the Quirinal;
Italy and Germany; The problem of the Adriatic; The days of
neutrality; Italy at war. The author writes of the war from personal
observation. The book is provided with three maps.

=A L A Bkl= 14:21 O ‘17

=Ath= p475 S ‘17 130w

“A businesslike and straightforward book, which is not, strictly
speaking, a history, but a series of studies on the rise of a united
Italy and on an important aspect of Balkan diplomacy. The title of the
book hardly describes its contents. The narration of the peaceful
penetration of Italy by Germany is most remarkable reading, and it
differs from some other recent descriptions of the process in general
by its restraint and balance. The story is perhaps more impressive on
that account.”

+ — =Ath= p511 O ‘17 650w

=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 25 ‘17 250w

“Mr Wallace portrays the Italy of politics, of diplomacy, of war, of
realism. His task has been attempted before, with much success by King
and Okey and by Underwood. But the developments of the past two years
afford excellent opportunity to paint the picture afresh and on a
larger canvas. Mr Wallace has spent some time with the troops on the
various Italian fronts, and he describes in lucid and restrained
manner the difficulties and triumphs of the operations against the
Austrians. His book is well written, although there is an occasional
inexact statement.”

+ — =Dial= 63:30 Ja 28 ‘17 430w

“The book contains a map of what the author conceives to be Italy’s
projected sphere of influence in Asia Minor and in Austria.”

+ =Ind= 92:60 O 6 ‘17 80w

+ =N Y Times= 22:266 Jl 15 ‘17 280w

=Outlook= 116:233 Je 6 ‘17 140w

“The pages that deal with the great problem which is Italy’s problem
alone, the quarrel between the Vatican and the Quirinal, are full of
valuable information. And none of the recent books on the present war
gives a more useful description of the counter-currents of Italy’s
growing national aspirations, Austria’s imperialistic inclinations,
and the Pan-Slav movement, which combined to keep the Balkan region at
a fever-heat of tension for many years and culminated in the present
catastrophe.” G. I. Colbron

+ =Pub W= 91:1324 Ap 21 ‘17 730w

“It is not a profound work; it adds nothing to the equipment of the
advanced student. But it tells simply and clearly the story of Italy’s
rise through immense difficulties to real independence, and shows how
she has come within sight of realizing the greatest of her
ambitions—the rescue of millions of her people in the Trentino and the
Adriatic provinces from the Austrian oppressor. Mr Wallace is an
American who loves Italy.”

+ =Spec= 119:245 S 8 ‘17 1500w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 11 ‘17 550w

“Mr Wallace has thrown together a certain number of documents and has
eked them out with impressions rapidly gleaned and facts carelessly
ascertained. He has made a volume of some 300 pages, but he has not
written a book. His work lacks perspective and cohesion, and is
sometimes positively misleading. He lacks the sense of style that
distinguishes many American war correspondents, to say nothing of the
best American writers. It is only in dealing with the present aspects
of Italian policy and Italy’s war aims that Mr Wallace’s work becomes
tolerably accurate. His last three chapters are fair journalism.”

— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p350 Jl 26 ‘17 1200w

=WALLER, EDITH.= English-Italian phrase book for social workers. pa 75c Edith Waller, Morristown, N.J. 458 16-14779

“This book is intended to help the American social worker, teacher,
physician or nurse, who in daily work find need for a small store of
colloquial Italian.”—Educ R

“The book is exceedingly well done and may be highly commended to
those who are at work in these fields.”

+ =Educ R= 53:199 F ‘17 70w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:152 O ‘16

“Designed to furnish a small store of colloquial Italian, it contains
phrases on buying and preparing food, caring for the sick and infants,
registering pupils and conducting a class. Includes a vocabulary and
the essentials of the Italian grammar.”

=Pittsburgh= 22:536 Je ‘17 40w

=WALLING, WILLIAM ENGLISH.= Russia’s message: the people against the czar. il *$1.50 (3c) Knopf 947 17-13587

This work, first published by Doubleday, Page & Co., in 1908 and
listed in the Digest at that time, is now brought out in a new and
cheaper edition by Alfred A. Knopf. To the new edition Mr Walling has
added an introduction, written at some time during the progress of the
present war but before the recent revolution. In this introduction Mr
Walling discusses the attitude of England, France, and Germany toward
Russian autocracy.

“Of interest now as showing the foundation of the great democratic
movement.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:143 Ja ‘18

“Reissued with some unaccountable omissions and the complete
disappearance of the index, as well as of a number of illustrations.
But in any form, Mr Walling’s book commands attention.” L: S.
Friedland

+ =Dial= 62:429 My 17 ‘17 820w

+ =Ind= 91:30 Jl 7 ‘17 110w

“There are a permanent value and a timeliness in Mr Walling’s book
that make its republication in the climax of the events he
foreshadowed worth noting. The student of recent events in Russia will
find the news dispatches strikingly illuminated by Mr Walling’s
descriptions.”

+ =Lit D= 55:40 O 13 ‘17 280w

“Of particular interest is Mr Walling’s account of the progress of the
waking up of the peasant population a few years ago, and its progress
in enlightenment.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:159 Ap 22 ‘17 570w

“It is in part because Mr Walling so thoroughly and convincingly
analyzes the policy and motives of czardom that his book is not only
informing, but as timely as possible. ... Accurately and in detail, Mr
Walling lays bare an economic system that, but for the clearness and
appositeness of the evidence he submits, would seem incredible. ...
His book is thorough and authoritative—a study of more than transitory
value—but also a book of the hour admirably adapted to enlighten and
influence American opinion.”

+ =No Am= 205:951 Je ‘17 900w

“Written ten years ago after the author had passed the greater part of
two years in close contact with Russian government officials, as well
as with the leaders of revolutionary organizations after the temporary
failure of their uprising in 1905.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:101 Jl ‘17 100w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 15 ‘17 420w

=WALLING, WILLIAM ENGLISH, and LAIDLER, HARRY WELLINGTON=, eds. State socialism pro and con. *$2 (1c) Holt 335.6 17-17731

This book on state socialism or collectivism, which its editors, both
members of the Intercollegiate Socialist society, define as “the
policy of extending the economic functions of the state,” is in no
sense a brief for state socialism, but “primarily a source book of
authoritative selections either written by experts or selected by
experts from official reports.” The editors have not tried to give
arguments, except in the introduction, but simply to provide the
reader with the most important data on which to base a conclusion. The
introduction takes up the relation of state socialism to war
socialism, to the military state, to related government policies, to
democracy, socialism, and nationalism. The excerpts are arranged under
the headings: Finance; Agriculture and the conservation of natural
resources; Transportation and communication; Commerce, industry and
mining; Collectivism and the individual (as citizen, consumer,
producer and taxpayer). A good deal of space, though not the larger
part, is given to the United States. Chapter twenty-nine, on
“Municipal ownership,” is by Evans Clark.

“An interesting exhibit of the world-wide tendency toward broadening
the functions of government.” V: E. Helleberg

+ =Am J Soc= 23:550 Ja ‘18 250w

=A L A Bkl= 14:8 O ‘17

“The con side does not seem to have received quite as much publicity
as the pro side. ... For the man who deplores, no less than for the
man who welcomes, this trend [toward state socialism] the volume will
be found extremely serviceable. In fact, no other book, no other half
dozen books, contain as much information concerning the economic or
collectivistic functions of modern states.”

+ — =Cath World= 106:536 Ja ‘18 550w

“Within the self-imposed limits of their work the editors have
succeeded in presenting a unique and adequate record of the
world-advance of collectivism. A chapter on ‘Municipal ownership’
surveys that field briefly, effectively, and with consistent
impersonality. ‘State socialism pro and con’ is not recommended for
hammock hours. But as a handy reference volume for the serious-minded
it will save many days of searching through technical libraries for
data on collectivism.” D. R. Richberg

+ =Dial= 63:111 Ag 16 ‘17 600w

“An authoritative work of reference.”

+ =Ind= 92:487 D 8 ‘17 100w

“One great value of the present survey by Walling and Laidler is that
it fixes definitely accomplishments up to the period of the war, and
will thus retain its place as an authoritative and important handbook.
Its arrangement is excellent, and no book could be easier for quick
consultation. The chapter on Municipal socialism by Evans Clark is an
unusually capable piece of work.” Frank Macdonald

+ =N Y Call= p14 Ag 19 ‘17 600w

“The book is a storehouse of material which in itself supplies the
argument which the editors refrain from making. They are entitled to
make their own selections, and it is no grievance that they are rather
pro than con. Nevertheless, they have done their work so well that it
would be reassuring to have the other side presented with equal
efficiency.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:263 Jl 15 ‘17 530w

=Outlook= 116:305 Je 20 ‘17 40w

=R of Rs= 56:326 S ‘17 170w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 16 ‘17 850w

=WALPOLE, HUGH.= Green mirror; a quiet story. *$1.50 Doran 17-30042

The second volume of the trilogy of which “The Duchess of Wrexe” was
the first. The novel is also related to “The dark forest,” since Henry
Trenchard, the Englishman of that story, appears here, twelve years
earlier, as a boy. “In the members of the Trenchard family Mr Walpole
has embodied all of those distinctively British characteristics that
have always exasperated the rest of the world. ... Mrs Trenchard is a
personified British matron, inflexible, dominant, a bit stupid,
fiercely maternal, and, altogether, a rather terrible sort of
person. ... But the British matron meets with her Waterloo in this new
novel in which she makes a ruthless, carefully worked out, determined
effort to force submission to her purpose on the part of all her
family. The breath of another dawn has already begun to blow. ... Then
into the circle comes Philip Mark, a young Englishman who has lived
for some years in Russia, whose embryonic imagination has been
developed in that country, who has ideas and feelings and sentiments
that are disconcertingly un-English, that disturbingly suggest a
region where Trenchards are not known. He is resented, considered with
disapproval and dislike. But he and the eldest daughter of the family
fall in love with each other and the drama of the tale grows out of
the determination of Mrs Trenchard that he shall not become one of
them.” (N Y Times)

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:134 Ja ‘18

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:598 Ja ‘18 950w

“What Mr Walpole does in ‘The green mirror,’ as a novelist he does
well. That is, he tells a good story so that its scenes, its action
and its people seem actually to exist. But what he does in ‘The green
mirror’ as a propagandist, he does not well at all, for his
presentation of the case against family solidarity seems merely to be
the typical argument of the social revolutionist.” E. F. E.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 N 21 ‘17 1200w

“What Mr Walpole has so fully and sensitively absorbed in a case that
is perfect of its kind remains essentially undisturbed by storm and
wreck on the surface. The character, the exigencies, of the great
compromise of the family are too permanent to be called unfashionable
because of the war. ... It is a fine novel, grappling bravely with the
great ironies of motherlove.” F. H.

+ — =New Repub= 13:154 D 8 ‘17 1650w

“Without any doubt, when Mr Walpole wrote this novel in those dead
years before the war he was engaged, quite consciously to himself, in
the task of flaying, gently and tenderly and lovingly, it is true, but
still flaying with satire the heart and soul of his native land. And
he has done the task with such neatness and dexterity and
completeness, and also with such tenderness, that the work itself
fills the reader with interest and its artistic performance with
satisfaction.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:474 N 18 ‘17 1350w

“Distinctly it belongs to the class of major English fiction; it is a
story built, as one may say, to last, not to be read and easily
forgotten.”

+ =Outlook= 117:574 D 5 ‘17 210w

=WALSH, JOHN.= Mass and vestments of the Catholic church; liturgical, doctrinal, historical and archeological. il *$1.75 Benziger 265

“Arranged catechetically, this volume is intended to be a help to the
busy clergy, laity, and converts to the Catholic church. The author
has given a clear explanation of the different parts of the mass, the
language, usage, and elements used in its celebration, and the eastern
and western rites. A full description of the altar, linens, sacred
vessels, vestments, and number and kind of lights used at the various
services is also given.”—Boston Transcript

“The laity will find much useful information in very simple and brief
form.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 27 ‘16 130w

“Must be regarded as the best among popular works of reference on the
mass.”

+ =Cath World= 104:695 F ‘17 180w

=Pittsburgh= 22:438 My ‘17

“Told in simple English.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 100w

=WALTERS, HENRY BEAUCHAMP=, ed. Classical dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities, biography, geography, and mythology. il *$6.50 Putnam 913.3 17-4478

“Mr Walters has executed a ‘tour de force’ in compressing within the
limits of a handy volume a summary of the information usually sought
in four dictionaries of two volumes each.” (The Times [London] Lit
Sup) “The merit of Mr Walters’s compendium is that it combines with
Lemprière’s work on proper names the information contained in Dr
Smith’s ‘Dictionary of antiquities.’ ... The book uses material
derived from the ‘Companions to Greek and Latin studies,’ and has
profited by the researches of many predecessors, including those
indefatigable Germans who make no account of time or labour when they
sit down to exhaust a subject.” (Sat R)

“It does not of course compete with fuller works of reference, and
will not satisfy anyone who desires full information on any of its
subjects. And yet it will admirably serve the purpose which it
proposes to serve, and will help the student over the ordinary
antiquarian difficulties which constantly present themselves in the
reading of any Greek or Latin author. The volume is of a convenient
size for frequent and familiar use, is on excellent paper, is well
printed and illustrated.” F. J. Miller

+ =Class J= 63:610 Je ‘17 300w

“Fairly up to date, with the antiquities, biography, geography, and
mythology all in one handy volume. In view of the wide scope of the
work, covering, as it does, the same field as the colossal
Pauly-Wissowa or the combined five volumes of Sir William Smith’s
time-honored dictionaries, it is necessarily brief. But the concise
articles are, in the main, packed with information upon the essential
facts needed by the young student. And the serviceability of the book
is greatly enhanced by the wealth of illustrative material selected
with the judgment and taste that we might expect from the editor, who
is also assistant-keeper of Greek and Roman antiquities in the British
museum.” Walter Miller

+ + — =Class Philol= 12:311 Jl ‘17 250w

“Quantities are marked in various words, and the book is clearly not
for the professed scholar. It is for ‘the upper forms of public
schools,’ also for classical students at the universities. The latter,
we should have thought, would mostly be beyond it. ... With its
sensible single alphabet in the Latin order and its ample indexes, the
book is over 1,100 pages and a weighty affair, which it would have
been unwise to increase.”

+ =Sat R= 122:sup6 O 14 ‘16 650w

“It is very much more discreet, as well as more scholarly, than
Lemprière, dear to our fathers and grandfathers; it contains a great
deal more information than Dr Smith’s familiar work which we used to
read at school.”

+ =Spec= 117:556 N 4 ‘16 110w

“These criticisms are offered in the hope that when the book reaches,
as no doubt it will, a second edition, some necessary revision may
take place. Of its general usefulness there can be no question.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p520 N 2 ‘16 700w

=WALTHER, ANNA HILDA LOUISE.= Pilgrimage with a milliner’s needle. il *$1.50 (3½c) Stokes 17-25140

This book is the personal diary of a young Danish girl, “from
childhood up to fairly mature age, beginning in Copenhagen and ending
in New York city.” (Boston Transcript) She was apprenticed to the
millinery business, and as soon as she had learned her trade, started
out to ply it in different countries, wandering thru Europe, South
Africa and the United States. Her diary tells of more than one love
affair and of her conversion to Christian science. There is a glowing
introduction by Richard Le Gallienne.

“Her narrative is personal and naively frank in giving emotional
details of her own life. It is more readable as autobiography than as
travel.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:126 Ja ‘18

“The interest aroused by Richard Le Gallienne’s highly appreciating
foreword flags in places as the narrative proceeds. ... The finale is
startingly tame and commonplace.”

– + =Boston Transcript= p6 O 10 ‘17 280w

+ =Dial= 63:466 N 8 ‘17 50w

+ =Ind= 93:241 F 9 ‘18 40w

“A series of vivid pictures of places and people. Underlying it all is
a charming personal narrative.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:551 N ‘17 70w

War and the spirit of youth. $1 Atlantic monthly 940.91 17-24228