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“The author frequently succeeds only in being obscure when she
endeavors to be mystical. ... Their abundance of color, their
intellectual quality, and their departure from the commonplace make
the stories quite interesting.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:258 Jl 8 ‘17 250w

=WEBB, A. P.=, comp. Bibliography of the works of Thomas Hardy, 1865-1915. *$2.50 Torch press 016.823 17-5721

“Mr Webb has had in mind chiefly the collector of first editions, and
has not attempted a complete bibliography, ignoring late editions and
American editions, except where the latter rank as first editions. He
includes contributions to books, periodicals, and newspapers, and a
selection of critical notices, &c. The illustrations comprise a fine
photogravure portrait of Mr E. O. Hoppé, and facsimiles of ‘The night
of Trafalgar’ from ‘The dynasts,’ and the war poem ‘Song of the
soldiers.’” (Ath)

=Ath= p425 S ‘16 70w

“Mr Webb, who is now at the front, carried out his work while under
training in camp, which is not the best place for an undertaking the
performance of which necessitates close and constant attendance in
libraries and a liberal expenditure of time. The errors of date and
description in the collations, the want of uniformity in style, and
lack of complete reference, of which complaint has been made, can
easily be remedied in a second edition. Notwithstanding
inconsistencies in typography, the printing has been well done, and
the binding of the book is exceptionally tasteful. The index supplies
much useful information.” A. L. C.

=Library Association Record= 19:75 F 15 ‘17 400w

+ =Spec= 117:419 D 7 ‘16 140w

=WEBB, MARY.= Golden arrow. *$1.50 (2c) Dutton (Eng ed 17-15288)

This is one of those books that are distinctly novels of place. The
Welsh hills that are its setting enter intimately into the story.
Deborah Arden, the farmer’s daughter who has given her great love to
Stephen Southernwood, is at home in the hills. But to Stephen,
town-bred, they are hampering and confining. They become the symbol to
him of the freedom he has renounced. His love for Deborah is not
strong enough to hold him and he goes. But once on the other side of
the world, he finds that it is powerful enough to draw him back. The
half dozen characters of the story, all types from rustic life, are
set forth with a sure hand.

“The author has borrowed largely and more or less superficially from
Hardy, but she knows her country and her characters: she reflects the
moods of that physical nature which has produced superstitions and an
uplifting awe in its people, and she has created a story that is worth
reading even for its own sake.”

+ =Dial= 62:444 My 17 ‘17 130w

+ =Ind= 90:438 Je 2 ‘17 180w

“The novel is at its best in the beginning, for it is one of those
books which seem never quite to get anywhere. ... There are some
interesting pictures of life in the remote Welsh countryside which is
the scene of the entire narrative, quite a number of unusually
well-written passages, and altogether the book is a thoughtful one,
possessed of many commendable qualities.”

+ — =NY Times= 22:183 My 6 ‘17 250w

+ =Outlook= 115:668 Ap 11 ‘17 14w

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p428 S 7 ‘16 1000w

=WEBB, MARY.= Gone to earth. *$1.50 (1½c) Dutton 17-18165

Hazel Woodus, only child of a Welsh harper and of a gipsy mother, is a
passionate lover of nature, and especially of all weak and hunted
things. “Her own close kinship to the little fox which is her great
pet is emphasized early in the story.” (N Y Times) She is very
beautiful, entirely untaught, and wants to be free. But two men,
utterly unlike, love her: Edward Marston, the young minister, who
appeals to her spiritual self, and Jack Reddin of Undern, who appeals
to her physical self. One becomes her husband, the other her lover,
and her life ends in a tragedy.

“There is from the very beginning an almost Æschylean sense of
deepening gloom, and oncoming, unavoidable calamity. Nevertheless,
there are numerous gleams of light. ... The separate individualities
of the principal personages stand out strongly and clearly; and the
author can be complimented upon having produced a notable work of
fiction.”

+ =Ath= p472 S ‘17 110w

“Mary Webb writes of her corner of the Welsh mountains with a very
real understanding of the country folk, and also, alas, with
unmistakable sentimentality.”

+ — =Dial= 63:220 S 13 ‘17 90w

“On the whole, the ‘localism’ of this writer is hardly more than a
garb for her bitter distrust of human nature and society.”

=Nation= 105:317 S 20 ‘17 270w

“Puritans will be shocked by the plain-spoken frankness with which the
author treats questions of sex. ... There is nothing of lewdness even
suggested—nor is sex glorified and surrounded with a halo of
mysticism. It is dealt with simply, as a phase of life which cannot be
ignored. ... Reddin, the brutal squire, is drawn a little too
strongly, while Edward Marston, whom Hazel marries, is too much of an
idealist to be true to life.” D. P. Berenberg

+ — =NY Call= p15 S 9 ‘17 380w

“Like her earlier novel, ‘The golden arrow,’ Mrs Webb’s new romance is
a story of one of the more remote and lonely districts of Wales. ...
Hazel’s character is skillfully analyzed, yet she remains always ‘a
girl in a book,’ a thing of romance and unreality. Edward, whose very
goodness and generosity proved his undoing, and his placid, altogether
conventional mother, however, are real people, while the author shows
throughout a keen sense of life’s ironies. The plot is well worked out
and the final tragedy a clever bit of symbolism. But what one
remembers best in closing the book is the beauty of its descriptions
of the countryside.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:318 Ag 26 ‘17 440w

“The book is notable for the author’s success in conveying to her
readers the impression of free open-air life in very wild country.”

+ =Spec= 119:300 S 22 ‘17 50w

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p416 Ag 30 ‘17 400w

=WEBB, SIDNEY.= Restoration of trade union conditions. pa *50c Huebsch 331.87

“A well known result of the war has been the suspension of trade union
conditions in the British Isles. ... With the war came a demand for an
enormously increased production in British manufacturing plants. In
order to increase the output the government appealed to the labor
unions to suspend their protective network of usages and customs. The
unions, with great patriotism, consented, but only after receiving an
explicit promise from the government that the old rules should be
restored after the war. The suspension continues. ... Mr Webb’s main
contention is that the restoration of the old usages and customs is
impossible.”—Springf’d Republican

=Ann Am Acad= 74:297 N ‘17 130w

Reviewed by H. M. Kallen

* =Dial= 63:333 O 11 ‘17 2750w

=Ind= 92:536 D 15 ‘17 140w

“To disagree with Mr Webb fundamentally, it does not follow at all
that what he writes is negligible.” J. W.

+ — =NY Call= p14 S 23 ‘17 800w

“A clear-minded and courageous analysis of the situation.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 27 ‘17 700w

“This little book of approximately one hundred pages should at the
present time demand the serious attention of every trade-unionist,
employer, and citizen interested in industrial relations; for in it
Sidney Webb discusses one of the serious questions facing the English
nation.” B. M. Selekman

+ =Survey= 38:440 Ag 18 ‘17 850w

=WEBB, SIDNEY.=[2] Works manager to-day. *$1 Longmans 658.7 17-31556

An address prepared for a series of private gatherings of works
managers in Great Britain. Sidney Webb believes that, whatever form
industrial organization may take in the future, whether state control,
private control or government by the workers themselves prevail, the
function of works manager must continue. “In my own opinion,” he says,
“the profession of the manager, under whatever designation, is
destined, with the ever-increasing complication of man’s enterprises,
to develop a steadily increasing technique and a more and more
specialised vocational training of its own; and to secure, like the
vocation of the engineer, the architect, or the chemist, universal
recognition as a specialized brain-working occupation.” Some of the
points touched on are: The function of management; Reducing the cost
of production; Appointments and dismissals; The recognition of trade
unionism.

“The common-sense remarks as to the functions of works managers and
the best way to exercise them may well appeal to those who still
adhere to the principle that, business being business, profits are the
most important thing to be considered.”

+ =Ath= p673 D ‘17 70w

“Had such statements come from any one less fully recognized as a
thorough student of conditions, in all probability they would have
been put down as hysterical. The nature of the gathering, the occasion
of the address and the position of the orator give them a grim
significance.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 80:371 F 21 ‘18 400w

“It would be a good thing if managers of industrial enterprises in
America were required to read ‘The works manager to-day,’ by Sidney
Webb. Not that it is complete or very profound treatise of the science
of management—on the contrary, it is easy fireside reading for a
single evening—but it contains a good deal of very sensible talk to
which industrial managers might well give heed.” J: A. Fitch

+ =Survey= 39:443 Ja 19 ‘18 1000w

=WEBNER, FRANK ERASTUS.= Factory accounting. il $3.30 LaSalle extension univ. 657 17-4009

“This work is intended by the author to be of use to manufacturers and
accountants as well as to students. It endeavors to cover a broader
field than cost accounting; and in working out the factory accounting
technique it deals quite as much with matters of production control as
with accounting. ... Four distinct parts comprise the volume. In the
first a brief descriptive survey of the different types of management
is given. The second deals with the controlling accounts, the general
exhibits and the relation of cost accounts to the general exhibit. It
contains also chapters on specific order and process production, and
on different methods of concentrating their principal characteristics
for effective handling. Some of these schemes deal mainly with the
distribution of manufacturing costs over product, others with planning
and scheduling. The third part is a short chapter describing the
different types of industries, classed according to production
methods. The fourth part describes methods of collecting data
concerning materials, labor, and expense, and of handling these
accounts.”—J Pol Econ

“The present volume is better adapted to its primary use,
correspondence instruction, although providing a fairly satisfactory
text for classroom use. Mr Webner’s broad experience in the field of
practice makes him an authority as to what is needed for preparation
for that line of work. ... Mr Webner’s discussion of the human element
is very good and calls attention to a subject which needs more
attention than it generally receives.” R. B. Kester

+ =Ann Am Acad= 71:226 My ‘17 450w

=Cleveland= p70 My ‘17 30w

“The unique position of the book in the range of accounting texts is
attained by virtue of the fact that, while attempting to set forth a
greater range of matter than comes within the sphere of technical cost
accounting, the author deals carefully and in detail with the devices
and methods of discovering and recording production facts.”

+ =J Pol Econ= 25:637 Je ‘17 400w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:349 Ap ‘17 30w

“‘The sixth volume of the La Salle course in higher accountancy. ...
The clear definitions and statements of the author, supplemented by
charts, graphs and forms, go far toward simplifying a rather complex
subject.’”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:469 My ‘17 30w (Reprinted from Scientific
American p364 Ap 7 ‘17)

=Pratt= p24 Jl ‘17 10w

“Succeeds in presenting a complex subject with simplicity.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 50w

=WEBSTER, HENRY KITCHELL.= Thoroughbred. il *$1.35 (3c) Bobbs 17-3575

Like many other husbands, he kept his business concerns to himself and
he told his wife of the impending crisis only when it had ceased to
impend. He paid his stenographer, ordered the telephone taken from his
office, and then went home to tell his wife that she might now go back
to her mother. This was too much for Celia. She was a girl of spirit
and she promptly flew into a rage. Was that what he thought of her!
Very well, she would show him! And show him she did—in a twelve dollar
a month flat (three rooms and bath, unheated, no closets). This is the
story of Celia’s adventures in house-furnishing and housekeeping. It
is also that rarity, a love story that is simple, honest and
unsentimental.

“Slight, good for reading aloud. Appeared in Everybody’s Magazine.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:268 Mr ‘17

“It contains no episode such as defaces Mr Webster’s ‘The real
adventure.’ ... ‘The thoroughbred’ is a wholesome bit of domestic
romance. ... Mr Webster writes in what may almost be called the
magazine dialect of American-English. It is the Saturday Evening Post
style, a talky style which conveys an impression of being like real
talk, and is very little like it.” H. W. Boynton

+ — =Bookm= 45:207 Ap ‘17 450w

“The ‘Real adventure’ contained rather the promise than the evidence
of literary mastership. Mr Webster’s third novel, ‘The thoroughbred,’
contains neither. Considering the work that has preceded it, it is
extraordinarily disappointing; considering it by itself, the best that
can be said is that it adequately and entertainingly fills a leisure
hour or two.”

=Boston Transcript= p8 F 21 ‘17 200w

“The whole thing seems too easy; there is too much of the superman
about it.” E: E. Hale

– + =Dial= 62:145 P 22 ‘17 550w

“This trivial prettifaction of the commonplace follows an old
formula. ... Mr Webster combines this formula with a style of some
distinction and considerable gayety. In ‘The real adventure’ he wrote
a novel which was rich in performance. ‘The thoroughbred’ is mere
timeserving to the gods of publicity and best-sellerdom.”

— =New Repub= 10:146 Mr 3 ‘17 250w

+ =N Y Times= 22:26 Ja 28 ‘17 550w

“Henry Kitchell Webster certainly understands the ways of women, which
is another way of saying that he understands human nature. ... In some
ways, despite its much smaller scope, ‘The thoroughbred’ is a better
piece of work than ‘The real adventure.’” E. P. Wyckoff

+ =Pub W= 91:204 Ja 20 ‘17 450w

“A diverting tale, not true or important, but the sentiment is
pretty.”

=Springf’d Republican= p15 Mr 4 ‘17 200w

=WEBSTER, HUTTON.= Early European history. il $1.60 Heath 940 17-12510

“Prof. Hutton Webster’s ‘Early European history,’ which begins with
prehistoric man, covers the rise of European civilization down to the
period of the Protestant reformation with which most histories of
modern Europe begin, and it may, therefore, be used conveniently in
conjunction with any standard modern history.” (Ind) “The work is
intended for high schools which do not care to give a whole year to
ancient history alone, but which prefer, in accordance with the recent
recommendations of some educational bodies, to cover the general field
of all history in a two years’ course.” (Nation)

=Ind= 91:266 Ag 18 ‘17 50w

“Mr Webster has kept to the same high level of excellence which he set
for himself four years ago in his ‘Ancient history.’ ... He has
unusually good chapters on the rise and spread of Islam, on the
Mongols and the Turks, on the formation of national languages and
literatures, and on early geographical discovery and colonization. ...
The only unsatisfactory sections are those on feudalism and Germanic
law.”

+ — =Nation= 105:267 S 6 ‘17 580w

“Adds another valuable text to the growing list already in this
field. ... As to maps, illustrations, and plates, the book is well
supplied. The appendix contains a long table of events and dates,
which will be likely to hinder rather than help the inexperienced
teacher.” R. M. Tryon

+ — =School R= 25:686 N ‘17 200w

=WEED, CLARENCE MOORES.= Butterflies worth knowing. (Little nature lib.; Worth knowing ser.) il *$1.60 (2c) Doubleday 595.7 17-13203

The author says, “In this little book an attempt has been made to
discuss the more abundant and widely distributed butterflies of
eastern North America from the point of view of their life histories
and their relations to their surroundings.” Part 1, serving as an
introduction, is given up to a discussion of the structure, color,
life and habits, etc., of the butterfly. Part 2, the largest section
of the book is devoted to descriptions of the true butterflies,
superfamily Papilionoidea; part 3 to the skipper butterflies,
superfamily Hesperioidea. There are over thirty color plates with
additional plates in black and white.

“Brief, interestingly written book for the general reader. There is no
key for the identification of species.”

+ — =Cleveland= p94 Jl ‘17 50w

“A volume that will delight and inform.”

=Lit D= 55:48 Ag 4 ‘17 200w

+ =N Y Times= 22:254 Jl 8 ‘17 80w

=WEEKLEY, ERNEST.= Surnames. *$2.25 Dutton 929.1 (Eng ed 17-10193)

This book, like an earlier one, “Romance of names,” is, the author
says, an “offshoot” of the “Dictionary of English surnames” on which
he has been engaged for some years. He says, “The present volume
treats much more completely, and hence more ponderously, of certain
groups of surnames which I have investigated with some approach to
thoroughness. ... Its relation to the ‘Romance of names’ is that of a
more or less erudite treatise to a primer, matter which in the former
book was dismissed in a paragraph or two being here expanded into a
chapter. ... The index contains some six thousand existing surnames,
including a certain proportion of French and German names and a
sprinkling from other countries.” Among the chapter headings are: The
study of surnames; The Teutonic name-system; Some local surnames; The
corruption of local surnames; Some occupative surnames; Physical
nicknames; Costume nicknames; Vegetable nicknames; Pageant names; The
Shakespeare type of surname.

=A L A Bkl= 13:447 Jl ‘17

“A wonderful book.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 18 ‘17 180w

“This volume and two previous studies by Professor Weekley, ‘The
romance of words’ and ‘The romance of names’ should be in every home
library.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:332 S ‘17 100w

“A professor and the head of a modern language department in one of
our new universities, Mr Weekley may be supposed to know his business
so far as learning goes. The satisfactory thing from the ordinary
reader’s point of view is that he wears his learning lightly, and
infuses some welcome humour into his research. ... We want good
learning popularised, and he has gone the right way to do it.”

+ =Sat R= 122:580 D 16 ‘16 320w

+ =Spec= 118:207 F 17 ‘17 1850w

“This fascinating book has scholarship and humor to recommend it.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Mr 18 ‘17 1850w

“We simply cannot help reading him.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p546 N 16 ‘16 1250w

=WEEKS, ARLAND DEYETT.= Psychology of citizenship. (National social science ser.) *50c (2c) McClurg 304 17-10222

The author says, “This book is a study of the psychology of our
relations to civic affairs and deals with mental traits affecting the
quality of citizenship.” The book is made up of brief chapters on:
Civic demands upon intelligence; Social inertia; The limits of
attention; Forms of distraction; The effect of machinery upon the
mind; The spirit of labor; The control of suggestion; Civic publicity
and the voter; The legal mind; Views of property; A sense of humanity.
In the last chapter the author makes some observations on the
psychology of war. He is professor of education in the North Dakota
agricultural college, and a series of articles contributed to the
American Journal of Sociology has served as a basis for this book.

=Am Econ R= 7:429 Je ‘17 50w

=A L A Bkl= 14:8 O ‘17

“The student of practical politics will find much to interest him in
the book, particularly in the chapter which deals with ‘Civic
publicity and the voter.’”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:160 F ‘18 50w

“There is one excellent and practical chapter on civic publicity. A
book which will rouse not only thought but discussion.”

+ =Cleveland= p77 Je ‘17 70w

“Words of special emphasis would be reserved to commend this small but
unusually able and attractive book. Professor Weeks has succeeded in
carrying a message of vital significance, in phrasing it in an
effective style, and above all in selecting for emphasis the focal
points of interest to the understanding of the mind of the citizen.
This is popular psychology directed with skill to problems of daily
concern.”

+ =Dial= 63:348 O 11 ‘17 220w

=R of Rs= 56:440 O ‘17 30w

=St Louis= 15:169 Je ‘17

“Prof. Weeks’s views, while not all acceptable, should at least
stimulate social thinking.”

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 20 ‘17 320w

=WEEKS, RAYMOND.= Ode to France. *50c Oxford 811 17-9132

“This ode was written during August and September, 1914. The poet
calls upon the world to rescue France, the ‘land whose deeds of old
still burn,’ from the hideous shame forced upon her by the Huns.”—R of
Rs

“This admirably wrought poem is now being read from the public
platform and it has moved thousands to greater affection for
France—affection which has taken practical form in contributions to
French relief.”

+ =Lit D= 54:1787 Je 9 ‘17 400w

=R of Rs= 55:660 Je ‘17 30w

=WELD, LOUIS DWIGHT HARVELL.= Marketing of farm products. *$1.50 Macmillan 338 16-1411

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

“The reviewer regrets saying so much in seeming dispraise of a book he
so greatly approves. But the publication of so comprehensive and
vigorous a study of this important question should be the occasion for
all students of the problem to make frank and searching examination of
their ideas upon the subject. Professor Weld has laid some excellent
foundations. Later writers will be much in his debt and teachers will
find that he has given them an excellent book for class use. If some
of us think he is unduly complacent about the existing organization of
the trade in farm products we may well remember that a large amount of
public sentiment and local prejudice can be depended upon to exert a
strong counter-influence.” E. G. Nourse

+ — =J Pol Econ= 25:204 F ‘17 1800w

=WELLMAN, MABEL THACHER.= Food study. il *$1 Little 641 17-2354

The author, head of the department of home economics in Indiana
university, has planned this work as a text book for high schools. She
says, “The work is an attempt to present a manual of definite
directions which will aid the student in her adventure into the
subject, but it is by no means intended to supersede the teacher or to
furnish material which can be taught by one untrained in the subject.”
In her arrangement of material the author has not followed
conventional lines. For instance, she has placed her lessons on
canning and preserving first, because fall, the opening of the school
year, is the natural time for such work. References for reading and
Questions follow each chapter.

“Includes instruction in table manners and on the etiquette of
entertaining. A distinctive feature is a diagram of a table laid for a
home dinner.”

+ =Cleveland= p112 S ‘17 40w

=Educ R= 53:430 Ap ‘17 30w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:45 Mr ‘17

“The housewife desirous of retrenching her expenses will find aid and
instruction.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:73 Ap 29 ‘17 90w

=Pittsburgh= 22:319 Ap ‘17

=St Louis= 15:175 Je ‘17

“This book seems to have covered the ground pretty thoroughly, and to
be a source of reliable information gathered from standard works and
authorities. The class experiments are clear and definite, the summary
questions and references most comprehensive. But in an attempt to put
the material together for ‘certain advantages in presentation, as the
early introduction of such subjects as meals and serving,’ a most
illogical and confusing plan has been followed.” Catherine Creamer

+ — =School R= 25:300 Ap ‘17 280w

“A distinct addition to the available secondary-school texts on foods.
The most valuable contribution is in the excellent quality of the
subject-matter presented. This material is accurate, well selected,
and clearly and simply written. It includes explanations of the
principals of physics, chemistry, and bacteriology that are
encountered in the preparation of foods as well as general information
about food materials. This text material is not only well selected,
but it is presented in such a sequence that there is a gradual
development of the material adapted to the comprehension and progress
of the students.” A. R. Hanna

+ =School R= 25:614 O ‘17 240w

=WELLS, CAROLYN.= Baubles. il *$1.25 Dodd 817 17-24883

This volume contains most of the poems included in “Idle idyls,”
published by Dodd, Mead & Co. in 1900. Nineteen poems printed in “Idle
idyls” have been dropped from and twenty-two new poems included in
“Baubles.” While the new volume, like the old, is pictured by Oliver
Herford, the thirteen full-page illustrations of “Idle idyls” do not
appear in the new collection.

“The sparkle, the whimsicality of her nonsense, has dulled and
deadened; the satirical lash has become thready, the vigor and snap
gone when it comes into contact with the object.”

— =Boston Transcript= p6 O 10 ‘17 280w

=WELLS, CAROLYN.= Faulkner’s folly. *$1.25 (2½c) Doran

Eric Stannard, the wealthy successful portrait painter, was found
murdered in his studio. His dying cry was heard by his guest, Mrs
Faulkner, as she descended the staircase and at her command the
footman entered and turned up the lights in the darkened room. The
artist was seen seated, stabbed by an etching needle and at either
side of him, fainting with terror and overcome with dread, were his
wife and his model. Who committed the crime? Roberts, the detective,
tried in vain to solve the mystery but Alan Ford succeeded.

“The latest of Carolyn Wells’s detective stories is especially
baffling.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 1 ‘17 320w

“Cleverly contrived and worked out with ingenuity and ample resource.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:413 O 21 ‘17 500w

=WELLS, CAROLYN.= Mark of Cain. il *$1.35 (1½c) Lippincott 17-7931

This is another Fleming Stone detective story. A millionaire is
murdered in Van Cortlandt Park, New York, and circumstances seem to
point to his nephew Kane Landon, as the murderer. The fortune of the
murdered man is left to his niece Avice Trowbridge on condition that
she marry the millionaire’s lawyer and trusted friend, Judge Hoyt. But
Avice loves Landon and she only consents to marry Judge Hoyt on
condition that he obtains the freedom of Landon whether the latter is
innocent or guilty. With the aid of the millionaire’s office boy who
had done some private detective work and as a consequence had been
kidnapped and imprisoned in the home of the lawyer who is the real
murderer, Fleming Stone convicts the lawyer of his guilt, aids thereto
being the dirk cane and the shoes worn at the time of the murder which
he had left as evidence in his house.

“A crude thriller. It is carelessly written, with no skill in
characterization or plot; its ingenuity is not above that inspiring
the Sunday ‘feature story’; its humor is of the same quality as the
‘comic’ sheet and where the author would be exciting she is only
lurid. It is shoddy.”

— =Dial= 62:484 My 31 ‘17 120w

“Although the solution of the mystery is not very plausible, and the
reader who chances to be possessed of any degree of astuteness will
have identified the murderer long before Fleming Stone appears upon
the scene, the story holds one’s attention fairly well, and is not
without ingenuity.”

=N Y Times= 22:74 Mr 4 ‘17 250w

“While the story is conventional of its kind, it is diverting.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 Mr 25 ‘17 130w

=WELLS, CLIFFORD ALMON.= From Montreal to Vimy Ridge and beyond; ed. by O. C: S. Wallace. il *$1.35 (2c) Doran 940.91 17-29626

A series of letters written by a young Canadian officer to his mother
and other members of his family, between November, 1915 and April,
1917. The mother died shortly after receiving news of her son’s death,
so this book, edited by the writer’s stepfather, is a memorial to them
both. The editor says, “To have used a heavy hand upon those letters,
cutting out personal allusions, and the expression of opinion and
criticisms which later might have been modified, would have been to
rob them of much of their piquancy and human quality. That is why they
are published as they were written.”

“There is as little personal animosity toward the enemy as in any of
the accounts from the men who are doing the work. War is accepted, but
it is recognized for what it is, a not very pleasant or glorious
affair. The book is interesting for its revelation of the interests
and the daily life of the soldier in action.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 22 ‘17 260w

“It has the quality of letters written to some one beloved, a touching
and beautiful quality.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:546 D 9 ‘17 220w

=WELLS, FREDERIC DE WITT.= Man in court. *$1.50 (4c) Putnam 347 17-11929

The author is a justice of the municipal court of New York city and in
this book he presents a series of sketches showing the actual
procedure in a court of law. He explains the origin of many customs,
and justifies some of the seeming injustices of court procedure, but,
on the other hand, he shows how unsuited many practices are to modern
conditions. A complete revision of the system is outlined in the final
chapter in the form of a “look backward” from the year 1947.

“The humor is somewhat labored, but the explanations clear.”

+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:114 Ja ‘18

“The author unobtrusively reveals intimate experience with human
beings, depth of psychological insight, broad sympathy, healthful
humor; a desire for, a belief in, and a capability of bringing nearer,
better things to come.” W. S. McNeill

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:592 Ag ‘17 200w

“The present author in knowledge of the subject is well fitted for his
task. Unfortunately for so sincere and sane a work, the style lacks
grace, and the argument drags at times. That the facts are interesting
for all that, is no small tribute to the author.”

+ — =Dial= 63:114 Ag 16 ‘17 230w

+ =Lit D= 55:52 D 1 ‘17 110w

“If the author’s experience as a lawyer and a judge has induced the
belief that our judicial system is a farce, it is easy to understand
why he has published this volume. Such a system deserves the fate
ascribed to it in the closing chapter. A careful study of this
chapter, however, will lead most readers to the conclusion that the
book is intended as a mere burlesque. Were the serious and sensible
parts of the volume separated from the satirical, their publication
would serve a useful purpose.”

– + =Nation= 105:229 Ag 30 ‘17 500w

+ =N Y Br Lib News= 4:87 Je ‘17 60w

+ =N Y Times= 22:201 My 20 ‘17 50w

“It would be well if more men of experience in responsible positions
would write as frankly and good-humoredly concerning what they know
best as Judge Wells has written about the courts. A book so tolerant
and witty as this should have no little effect in promoting that good
understanding between all parties that is most favorable to wise
reform.”

+ =No Am= 205:807 My ‘17 750w

=Outlook= 115:761 Ap 25 ‘17 30w

“The business man sees great extravagance and waste of time in our
courts of justice. Judge Wells admits the force of the criticism. In
fact, he makes a better statement of the case than the business man
himself could make, because he is in closer touch with the facts. At
the same time the practising lawyer’s viewpoint is clearly understood
by Judge Wells, and throughout the book he takes pains to present the
lawyer’s side intelligently and sympathetically.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:669 Je ‘17 300w

“While the book is intended for the uninitiated, it is mighty useful
reading for the average social worker, even those who are familiar
with court procedure.” R. N. Baldwin

+ =Survey= 38:361 Jl 21 ‘17 170w

=WELLS, FREDERIC LYMAN.= Mental adjustments. il *$2.50 Appleton 130 17-16338

“Believing dynamic psychology, describing the conduct of mind from the
standpoint of its adjustment to the world we live in, to be ‘the most
truly cultural study,’ Frederic Lyman Wells of McLean hospital,
Waverley, Mass., presents a large series of observations from normal
psychology, psychopathology and anthropology. ... The preliminary
discussion of mental adaptation is followed by chapters on use and
waste in thought and conduct, symbolic association, the continuity of
emotion, types of dissociation, mechanisms in dissociated ideas,
experimental approaches and balancing factors. ... Dr Wells’s book is
the fourth in the Conduct of mind series edited by Prof. Joseph
Jastrow of the University of Wisconsin, who provides an introduction
to the present volume.”—Springf’d Republican

“Any added insight into individual behavior clarifies social
phenomena. Economic unrest, the rebellion of women against their
‘place,’ divorce, crime, prostitution, and insanity are all more fully
comprehensible by reason of this book. On this basis it is permissible
to classify the volume among the significant contributions to social
psychology.” L. S. Hollingworth

+ =Am J Soc= 23:545 Ja ‘18 450w

“Dr Wells’s scheme is simple, though the details are far from
clear. ... To speak of human motives in terms of physical forces has
doubtless a pragmatic value; it is one of those devices common in
supposedly scientific psychology. ... As applied to obsessions of the
neurotic and insane it has a certain plausibility. But ... it is
surely too much to ask that all of our views of life be based upon the
external observation of minds confused and darkened.”

— =Nation= 105:154 Ag 9 ‘17 470w

“The discussion of ‘Types of dissociation’ is more clearly systematic
than most of the rest of the book and is a valuable survey for the
student, although perhaps somewhat heavily loaded with varieties and
subvarieties for those readers who have but little concrete
experience. ... Wells does, however, make it clear that the normal and
the abnormal are made of much the same material, and his book, with
its softened rendering of Freudian conceptions, will be a stimulus and
a help along sane and useful lines.” Adolf Meyer

+ — =Science= n s 46:587 D 14 ‘17 1000w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 26 ‘17 430w

=WELLS, HERBERT GEORGE.= God, the invisible king. *$1.25 (3c) Macmillan 201 17-13406

The conception of God outlined in this book is essentially Wellsian.
Yet Mr Wells writes in the belief that a new religion has already
dawned on the world and that its followers are many, and without doubt
there will be numbers of men and women outside the orthodox faiths who
will find in his analysis much that corresponds to their own half
formulated creeds. This new religion has no prophet or founder. It has
no theory of the creation of the universe. It is purely empirical.
“Modern religion bases its knowledge of God and its account of God
entirely upon experience. It has encountered God. ... To find God is
but the beginning of wisdom, because then for all our days we have to
learn his purpose with us and to live our lives with him.” Mr Wells’s
religion bears no relation to Christianity. It seems to be the
negation of Christianity. “We of the new faith repudiate the teaching
of non-resistance. We are the militant followers of and participators
in a militant God. We can appreciate and admire the greatness of
Christ, this gentle being upon whose nobility the theologians trade.
But submission is the remotest quality of all from our God, and a
moribund figure is the completest inversion of his likeness as we know
him.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:426 Jl ‘17

=Ath= p303 Je ‘17 100w

“‘God, the invisible king,’ may be poor theology—it is—but it is real
religion. Anybody can make fun out of the design of the vase in which
this chrism of testimony is conveyed. But it seems to us that there
should be joy among the angels of God for this novelist doing
reverence to the ultimate reality.”

+ — =Ath= p346 Jl ‘17 230w

“Mr Wells rambles on and on, offering us always something to
entertain, but scarcely anything to convince us of the certainties of
religion. He blunders now and then, as when he speaks of atheism and
agnosticism as synonymous, and he leaves us at the end exactly where
we were at the beginning.” E. F. E.

– + =Boston Transcript= p6 My 16 ‘17 1550w

“When one has finished reading this vague philosophy, one wonders if
this feeble attempt of the perplexed, harassed Wells may prove a
stepping-stone to true religion.”

— =Cath World= 105:832 S ‘17 250w

“Not only does Wells fail to content me with this report of the
thoughts and things of my generation, but he seems to be ignorant of
thoughts that were commonplace a generation ago. Oddly enough, he is
not in the forefront of thought but is behind the times.” J: Macy

— =Dial= 63:13 Je 28 ‘17 2250w

“So far as Mr Wells confines himself to relating his own religious
experience I treat every word he says with the profoundest respect,
for I am certain that he is sincere. As a personal confession his book
is a religious document of great value. But when the modern religion
begins, through its mouthpiece, Mr Wells, to relate things about other
religions, we have the right to be on our guard. The modern religion
will have to be more correct, as well as more polite, in relating
things about other religions, before the world will be willing to give
due weight to what it relates about itself. Mr Wells has written a
very provocative book about the least provocative of subjects—God. It
is a tremendous theme, and the time is ripe for its reception.” L. P.
Jacks

+ — =Hibbert J= 15:683 Jl ‘17 4400w

“Surely if the faith of Mr Wells is somewhat too narrow, if it
includes too few articles of belief, it is exceptionally clear and
profound in regard to what he does hold true.”

+ =Ind= 90:434 Je 2 ‘17 700w

“There is not a grain of humility in this new apostle. Standing in the
midst of ‘Mars’ hill,’ he offers us now a copy of ‘God the invisible
king,’ saying in effect: ‘Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him
declare I unto you.’ ... The fine and sound things in this book we
have not much emphasized: exhortations to repentance, consecration,
self-sacrifice, labor for the kingdom of God on earth. Mr Wells’s
impression that they are new is as ‘curious’ as the modernity of
Christ. They may be heard in any orthodox pulpit in the course of a
month’s sermons—with due credit given for their origination. It is
better for Mr Wells to think of them as of his own confection than for
him not to think of them at all; but as a matter of fact the chief
contributive element in his testament is his peculiarly sanguine and
mellifluous, egotism and insolence. Why can he not occasionally
acknowledge that an idea may be true and useful even though it has
always been recognized as such?”

– + =Nation= 104:710 Je 14 ‘17 1400w

“Mr Wells’ God suffers inevitably from the limitations (manifest and
obscure) of its creator. The God invented by him is in reality a
sublimated and delicately disembodied, a finely spiritualized Mr
Wells.” Sam Schmalhausen

— =N Y Call= p15 S 2 ‘17 1700w

“A sane, thoughtful, reasonable expression of a religion of the
future, so different from the religions of the past that in many
instances, it is difficult to find the points of contact of the new
and the old.” Blanche Watson

+ — =N Y Call= p14 S 16 ‘17 1350w

Reviewed by Sam Schmalhausen

— =N Y Call= p15 S 23 ‘17 800w

“Written with the sincerity and simplicity of utter conviction. ... In
precision of idea and clarity of statement, in keenness of insight and
closely argued presentation it shows Mr Wells at his best.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:185 My 13 ‘17 2500w

Reviewed by Lawrence Gilman

=No Am= 206:123 Jl ‘17 3100w

“Mr Wells writes too much. He is not always sane in his judgments. He
sometimes gives an impression of sensationalism. But he is always
frank and, we believe, always sincere. ... The value of his book lies,
not in its solution of religious problems, but in its recognition of
the reality of religious problems and in its provocation to real and
untrammeled religious thinking.”

=Outlook= 116:305 Je 20 ‘17 100w

Reviewed by Lyman Abbott

=Outlook= 116:398 Jl 11 ‘17 2600w

=Pratt= p8 O ‘17 40w

“With much iconoclastic fury he denounces Christianity and all its
doctrines, revelling especially in those bitter asperities which have
been the unfortunate accompaniment of religious controversy in all
ages, but with an added modern vulgarity that is all his own.”

— =Sat R= 123:sup3 My 19 ‘17 1250w

“He has felt obliged to devote the greater part of his space to an
attack upon other explorers in the same region; and here defect of
knowledge and defect of sympathy have resulted in much unintentional
false-witness and many deplorable lapses into bad taste. This we
regret, because what Mr Wells has to say about his own religious
experience might reach and profit many persons who are prejudiced
against the writings of professional divines; but such people
instinctively flee from theological hatred. It is specially to be
hoped that before the next book comes out, Mr Wells will make himself
acquainted with the view of the Old Testament held to-day in the
Christian church.”

– + =Spec= 118:674 Je 16 ‘17 1450w

“The book delivers its message through the medium of a violent polemic
against the Christian creed. The polemic is so inaccurate in
historical statement that it helps rather than demolishes the things
it attacks. Although the book is hastily and crudely done, it is not
without significance. It is the record of experience, whether real or
imaginary, an unfolding of how one who ardently disliked Christianity
and all its teachings came, through the mind’s shifting to a deeper
level to accept most of its tenets under a different name and in
different terms.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 3 ‘17 450w

“The great interest of his book consists in the reality and intensity
of his effort to combine his own religious experience with a
consistently biological conception of the universe. The effort fails,
we think, but in its reality and intensity it reveals truth.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p229 My 17 ‘17 4400W

=WELLS, HERBERT GEORGE.= Italy, France and Britain at war. *$1.50 (2½c) Macmillan 940.91 17-5137

“One of the minor peculiarities of this unprecedented war is the tour
of the front,” says Mr. Wells. His own taste of the experience came in
1916, after repeated refusals. Mr Wells didn’t want to go, but having
gone he writes of the experience with characteristic frankness. He had
been seeing the war as “something purposeful and epic.” He came back
from the front with a revised view. “If I were to be tied down to one
word for my impression of this war, I should say that this war is
‘Queer.’ It is not like anything in a really waking world, but like
something in a dream. It hasn’t exactly that clearness of light
against darkness or good against ill. But it has the quality of
wholesome instinct struggling under a nightmare.” The book consists of
three parts: The war in Italy (August, 1916): The western war
(September, 1916); How people think about the war.

“Sane, philosophic and practical.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:310 Ap ‘17

Reviewed by F. F. Kelly

+ =Bookm= 45:184 Ap ‘17 500w

=Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 7 ‘17 1000w

“For the rest, Mr Wells exhibits the old passionateness and the old
incapacity to understand anybody who holds opinions different from his
present ones. Particularly blind is his discussion of the yielding
pacifist and the conscientious objector, and particularly
unintelligent his discussion of the ‘religious revival.’”

+ — =Dial= 62:445 My 17 ‘17 300w

+ =Ind= 90:35 Ap 2 ‘17 370w

“We find the first half of his story, dealing with actualities on the
Italian and French fronts, in its remarkable exhibition of a gift for
observation and vivid portrayal much more convincing than his comments
on the psychological reactions of the belligerent nations to the war,
or his own generalizations from the specific facts of modern combat.”

=Nation= 104:661 My 31 ‘17 350w

“No man, I think, has actually gone to the war, looked it so honestly
in the face and brought back so much insight and wide-ranging
practical speculation. ... The real genius of this book is that the
immensity of what Mr Wells saw on his visit to the front set his mind
working instead of striking it dumb. ... There is a phrase in this
book which represents a piece of very great perception. Mr Wells
speaks of the demilitarization of war. Some of us had already grasped
the fact vaguely that there must be industrial back of military
preparedness. We visualized it as ‘back of.’ But what the war on the
west front seems to show is an irresistible industrialization of army
management itself.” W. L.

+ =New Repub= 10:201 Mr 17 ‘17 850w

“Toward the end of the volume Mr Wells discusses the relation of this
country to the war with, in some parts of it, keener insight and
understanding than one often finds in any utterance from the other
side of the Atlantic. But even he only dimly comprehends the purpose
and meaning of the American policy.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:45 F 11 ‘17 700w

“The author gives us such pictures of the mountain warfare waged by
the Italians and of the actual conditions of trench fighting in
France, as we have had from no other source.”

+ =No Am= 205:627 Ap ‘17 800w

“We need not agree with all this to be interested by it. We wish we
had room to quote the very remarkable analysis of the evolution of
methods of attack. ... This analysis comes in the chapter called ‘The
grades of war,’ and is the most acute thing we have read on the
subject.”

+ =Spec= 118:302 Mr 10 ‘17 1200w

“The most valuable part of the book is probably the third section,
‘How people think about the war.’”

=Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 17 ‘17 700w

“Stimulating as his views are, they would have carried more weight had
there been some more recognizable relation underlying them. ... He
carries us with him in many of his generalizations; but we part
company with him when he affirms that the military expert is ‘a man
trained to think of war as essentially an affair of cavalry, infantry
in formation, and field guns,’ the implication being that it is only
the civilian who understands modern strategy and its mechanical
problems. ... If we understand Mr Wells rightly, the materials we
should build with are laymen, democracy, and individual initiative;
for his binding material he seems to be looking to mysticism.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p89 F 22 ‘17 1150w

=WELLS, HERBERT GEORGE.= Soul of a bishop. il *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 17-24100

We are introduced to the Bishop of Princhester, who has led a happy
married life and whose London incumbency has brought nothing to
disturb his conventional faith, just as he had settled in the
industrial town of Princhester and, for the first time in his life, is
“really in doubt about himself, about his way of living, about all his
persuasions.” He realizes that the world is “extravagantly out of
hand,” and that the church is “a tolerated thing”—a failure. This
reacts upon him physically until he develops insomnia. The outbreak of
the war steadies him temporarily, but he soon grows worse and goes to
Dr Dale, who gives him a drug not in the pharmacopœia, the effect of
which is to make him feel braced and uplifted, and to view life
differently. Then comes his first vision when he talks with an angel
and sees God. A second draught of the tonic brings a second vision, in
which the angel shows him “certain signs of the coming of God.”
Meantime, after a confirmation service where he speaks of his new
faith, which is essentially that developed in “God, the invisible
king,” he leaves the church and goes, with his family, into cramped
quarters in London. Lady Sunderbund, an impossible American, tries to
build him a temple, but he has come to feel that there can be “no
specialized ministers of the one true God” and though tempted for a
while to take, for the sake of his family, the salary offered by Lady
Sunderbund, a third vision shows him that he must put God before his
wife and children, and he decides that he cannot be “a professional
religious man,” but must “write and talk as he can” of his [to him]
new creed: “I believe in God, I believe in the immediate presence of
God in every human life, I believe that our lives have to serve the
kingdom of God.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:99 D ‘17

“The lucidity of style characteristic of the creator of ‘Mr Britling’
is displayed to the full in the present story.”

+ =Ath= p529 O ‘17 140w

“However ineffectual his bishop may be, however vague and egotistical
the Wellsian programme for a reborn world, we cannot doubt the sincere
impulse of faith behind it.” H. W. Boynton

+ — =Bookm= 46:338 N ‘17 70w

“Mr Wells’s new consciousness of a spiritual force working in and for
humanity is touchingly sincere; his belief that it is a new force is
touchingly ingenuous. What he does not suspect, probably, is that his
latest story is only a modification of all his other stories of
protest, that his organised religion is only another convention to be
done for; that his Bishop Scrope is merely another amiable little Mr
Polly, born anew, this time, in the throes of a spiritual instead of a
bodily indigestion; and that his new deity is simply an apotheosis of
that eager, searching, dogmatic, well-disposed and unpractical
personality, Mr H. G. Wells.” H. W. Boynton

– + =Bookm= 46:353 N ‘17 1150w

“Mr Wells’s descriptions of the bishop’s home and family lure the
reader onward over his dreary passages of topsy-turvy Christianity,
but he fails entirely when he offers us page after page of
conversation in which Lady Sunderbund talks the most arrant nonsense
and mangles the English language by omitting the letter r from every
word she utters. ... We doubt if ‘The soul of a bishop’ will convince
anybody, for it will disappoint both those who seek in it a novel and
those who are looking for a sensible outlook into modern religion.” E.
F. E.

— =Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 1350w

“Mr Wells falls into the special error of his time and his school of
thought—he identifies the mental with the spiritual. It is the
workings of Scrope’s mind, not his soul, that we follow.”

— =Cath World= 106:695 F ‘18 350w

“Mr Wells has not only delivered a message of high inspiration, but
has striven painstakingly to make the value of that message clear to
all minds not sealed in with stupidity or intellectual arrogance.”

+ — =Dial= 63:402 O 25 ‘17 700w

“So far as its ideas are concerned, one would date it at about 1889,
the year following the publication of ‘Robert Elsmere’; Mr Wells, one
would say, is beginning to catch up with his ‘Victorians.’ Taken in
connection with its two popular predecessors, however, it has still
some contemporary reference.”

— =Nation= 105:401 O 11 ‘17 1300w

“‘The soul of a bishop,’ interesting as an exhibit, is of little
account as a novel because it has nothing to do with a bishop or a
soul. It merely presents the lively spectacle of a Mr Polly, or a Mr
Britling, or a Mr Wells (what’s in a name?) waking to find himself
attired in apron and gaiters, and making haste to get rid of them.” H.
W. Boynton

— =Nation= 105:599 N 29 ‘17 200w

“The theme is handled by Mr Wells like a virtuoso. ... The bishop is a
bleak creature, largely because Mr Wells invented him to fulfil a
fictional purpose. Characterized with amazing cleverness, he is still
essentially a bobbin on whom the religious thread is wound. The
cordiality, the rushing sympathy and kindness and fellowship that
religious men in Russian novels express in every relation, have no
place in this egoist’s religious escape from neurasthenia.” F. H.

– + =New Repub= 12:223 S 22 ‘17 3150w

“Wells’ invariable craftsmanship is evident here, which gives life to
an otherwise heavy theme. His conclusion can only be regarded by
followers of the mental catalysis of this novelist as a further
reaction.” Clement Wood

– + =N Y Call= p15 D 29 ‘17 260w